Salinas Municipal Code Div. 4 Stopping, Standing or Parking Restricted or Prohibited on Certain Streets

(a) The City Engineer is authorized to place and maintain parking signs to indicate parking or standing time limitations.

(b) When signs, parking meters or curb markings are in place on any municipal street or any portion thereof giving notice of any parking time limitation, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle except Sundays or holidays, in two or more spaces, which have been designated as limited time spaces, which spaces are less than one hundred eighty feet distant from each other, for a cumulative period of time in excess of the posted time limits. For purposes of this section, the distance between spaces shall be determined by measuring along the curb facing the closest point of one space to the closest point of the other space.

(c) Intention and Purpose. In establishing parking limit zones, it is the intention and purpose of the city council to provide short-term parking for customers and business visitors, and to prohibit the use of such parking spaces for a total cumulative period of time longer than the posted time.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

(a) The City Engineer is authorized to place, and maintain parking signs to indicate parking or standing prohibitions, the city engineer shall designate such streets or portions thereof by appropriate signs placed at the first and last point where the legal requirement is effective, and at intervals not greater than two hundred fifty feet.

(b) When appropriate signs are in place giving notice thereof, no person shall stop, stand, or park any vehicle contrary to the posted regulation on any such streets or portions thereof.

(c) Council may, by resolution, prohibit certain types of vehicles or commercial truck trailers from stopping, standing, or parking on any street or portion thereof within the city.

(d) In zones where vehicles can be towed for violating the posted prohibition restriction, the "Tow-Away," message or symbol shall be used. Where the "Tow-Away" symbol is used in a 12-inch width format, it shall be as shown in the California Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices R26K(CA) sign.

(e) The chief of police is hereby authorized and directed to cause the removal from the street of any vehicle parked or left standing in violation of this section in the manner and subject to the requirements of the Vehicle Code; provided, however, that this authorization to remove shall only be exercised when signs referred to in this section clearly state that vehicles will be so removed.

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)

The Traffic and Transportation Commission authority is per Chapter 3, Article I of the Salinas Municipal Code. With respect to parking zones, the Traffic and Transportation Commission shall have the authority and responsibilities described and illustrated in Article VI of Chapter 20 (Stopping, Standing and Parking. *) Municipal Code. The Traffic and Transportation Commission's primary functions are to:

(a) Review certain applications and forward recommendations to the city council;

(b) Hear and decide appeals to the city engineer decisions;

(c) In certain instances, the Traffic and Transportation Commission has the authority to approve, approve with conditions or modifications, or deny certain applications as identified in Article VI of Chapter 20 (Stopping, Standing and Parking. *)

(Ord. No. 2670(NCS), § 2, 9-12-2023)