Walnut Creek Municipal Code Art. 11 Stopping, Standing and Parking Restricted or Prohibited on Certain Streets

a. The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to direct the establishment of all no stopping zones, no parking areas and restricted parking areas, as defined and described in this article.

b. No prohibition or restriction relating to stopping, standing or parking imposed under this article shall be effective unless appropriate signs or markings required by the Vehicle Code are in place.

c. It shall be unlawful for any operator of a vehicle to disobey the provisions of this article when appropriate signs or markings are in place.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

When authorized signs or parking meters have been determined by the City Transportation Engineer to be necessary and are in place, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle between the hours indicated on the meter or sign for a period longer than designated on the sign or meter.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978; § 4, Ord. 2121, eff. 1/16/2014)

No person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the roadway when it is practicable to stop, park or leave the vehicle off such portion of the street, but in every event an unobstructed width of the street opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of the stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of two hundred feet in each direction upon the street. The provisions of this section shall not apply upon a street where the roadway is bounded by adjacent curbs.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

a. Whenever any regulation of the City designates and describes any street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the City Transportation Engineer shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at which vehicles shall be parked.

b. When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking as provided in this section, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of such allotted space, with the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of the curb.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to direct the installation of parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted.

When such parking space markings are placed in the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parking other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3-5.1101(b), no person shall stop, stand or park a commercial vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or more on any street in a residential district except when the commercial vehicle is making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the restricted street or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon the restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

a. The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to designate on-street special parking spaces for the exclusive use by disabled persons and disabled veterans.

b. The special parking spaces shall be indicated as specified in the Vehicle Code.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978; § 1, Ord. 2012, eff. May 1, 2003)

a. The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to establish a vision safety parking zone in any on-street parking area adjacent to a driveway or intersecting street where unobstructed visibility is required for the safe movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Once established, all vision safety parking zones shall be identified by appropriate signs. The signs shall advise that no vehicle in excess of five (5) feet in height may park in the vision safety parking zone.

b. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a vehicle in excess of five (5) feet in height in any vision safety parking zone established in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978, as amended by§§ 1, Ord. 1547, eff. October 7, 1982)

The City Transportation Engineer is authorized to prohibit parking during specified hours by all or specified types of vehicles on designated streets or portions thereof.

(§ , Ord. 1996, eff. June 6, 2002)