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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 86 of 2005
(Emergency Parking Permit Procedures)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 12.64.020, SALT LAKE CITY
CODE, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS REGARDING CITY PARKING PERMIT
PROGRAM, AND ENACTING SECTION 12.64.175, SALT LAKE CITY CODE,
RELATING TO EMERGENCY PROCEDURES - TEMPORARY PARKING PERMIT
AREA.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 12.64.020, Salt Lake City Code, pertaining to
definitions regarding the City parking permit program be, and the same hereby is,
amended to read as follows:
12.64.020 Definitions:
A. As used in this Chapter:
"Address" means the street number and applicable apartment/condominium
number for each dwelling unit, business, or other use. Each apartment or commercial unit
is regarded as a unique address.
"Area" refers, irrespective of zoning, to a geographical region, not necessarily
contiguous, where residents dwell and businesses may operate.
"Area business" means any professional establishment or nonresident property
owner whose business property is located within a City parking permit area.
"Area permittee" means an area resident or an area business which has received
from the Transportation Division an authorized area regular permit or an authorized
seasonal City permit.
"Area regular permit" or "regular permit decal" means the permanent adhesive
decal issued by the parking permit coordinator for assignment to vehicles under the legal
control of area residents and businesses.
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"Area resident" means any person who dwells or resides within a parking permit
area.
"Area seasonal permit" means a permanent adhesive decal issued by the parking
permit coordinator for assignment to vehicles under the legal control of area residents and
businesses of a seasonal City permit area.
"Area vehicle" means a vehicle that originates from inside a permit area and is
under the control of area residents or area business owners and includes automobiles,
trucks, motorcycles, or other motor-driven forms of transportation. It does not include
boats and trailers.
"City permit area" or "parking permit area" means any officially designated
permit parking area within the corporate limits of Salt Lake City wherein motor vehicles
displaying a valid permit as described herein shall be exempt from parking regulations or
restrictions solely applicable to commuter vehicles.
"City permit program" means Salt Lake City's permit parking program, as a
whole, administered by the Transportation Engineer and operated by the parking permit
coordinator pursuant to the provisions and regulations of this Chapter.
"Commuter vehicle" means a motor vehicle parked in a City permit parking area
that: 1) is not under the control of an area resident, business owner or property owner,
and 2) does not bear a permit for the designated area.
"Declaration" is the final action taken by the Transportation Engineer setting the
conditions for either approval or denial of the proposed City permit area.
"Director" or "Transportation Director" or"Transportation Engineer" means the
Director of the Transportation Division of the City.
"Dwelling" means a building, or portion thereof, which is designated for
residential purposes. Such dwelling must bear an address assigned by the City Engineer.
The number of independent dwelling units recognized therein shall not exceed the
number authorized under permit for zoning.
"Emergency parking situation" means a parking situation that, in the reasonable
opinion of the Director, causes a threat to the tranquility, safety, health or welfare of
inhabitants of a City neighborhood that will be addressed by implementing temporary
permit parking procedures. An emergency situation may include, but is not limited to,
the use of a facility within or adjoining a neighborhood that in the reasonable opinion of
the director: (1) is likely to result in the neighborhood qualifying as a City parking permit
area or a Seasonal City parking permit area, whether such use is governmental or
otherwise, (2) which use appears to the director to be inimical to one or more of the
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objectives of the City permit parking program as set forth in Section 12.64.010 B or its
successor, and (3) where such use can be identified, forecast and is repetitive.
"Guest permit" means the portable card stock placard issued by the parking permit
coordinator to area residents and area businesses for use on vehicles under the legal
control of guests, customers and/or clients during periods when persons operating said
vehicles are actually visiting or engaged in business at the permittee's address not to
exceed two (2) days per visit.
"Lease" means that a person pays rent or other remuneration for use of a parcel of
real property as such person's residence or place of business.
"Owns" means that a person has at least one-quarter (1/4) of the fee or equitable
interest in a parcel of real property within a City permit parking area.
"Permit parking coordinator" refers to the person designated by the Transportation
Engineer to operate and manage the permit parking program, including the
implementation and operation of permit parking areas, on a routine, daily basis.
"Permit vehicle" refers to any vehicle properly displaying area regular, area
seasonal, guest, or temporary visitor permit, issued by the parking permit coordinator for
authorized use on such vehicles.
"Permit year" refers to the twelve (12) month period set for the administration of a
City permit area, including the expiration and renewal of permit area regular and guest
permits.
"Program" means and shall refer to the process of designation, administration and
enforcement of all City parking permit areas and regulations established by the
Transportation Engineer pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
"Regular peiniit decals" means the permanent adhesive decal issued by the
parking permit coordinator for assignment to vehicles under the legal control of area
residents and area businesses.
"Resident" means a person who resides in the City parking permit area on a
regular basis.
"Seasonal City permit area" or "Seasonal City parking permit area" means an area
which meets the criteria for a City permit area as set forth in Section 12.64.040 of this
Chapter except that the twenty five percent (25%) or higher occupancy by commuter
vehicles is the result of special events occurring continually over a period of less than
nine (9) months and more than two (2) months each year.
"Temporary City parking permit area" means a City parking permit area
established on a temporary basis pursuant to Section 12.64.175 or its successor.
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"Temporary visitor permit" means the temporary disposable paper permit issued
for a predetermined length of time, not to exceed forty five (45) days, to area residents
and area businesses for use on vehicles under the legal control of service persons,
operators of construction vehicles or equipment, and long-term visitors at the area
permittee's address.
B. The masculine form, as used in this Chapter, if applicable as shown by the context
thereof, shall also apply to a female person.
SECTION 2. That Section 12.64.175, Salt Lake City Code, pertaining to
emergency procedures —temporary parking permit area be, and the same hereby is,
enacted to read as follows:
12.64.175 Emergency Procedures —Temporary Parking Permit Area.
In the event the transportation director determines that an emergency parking
situation exists, the director may implement procedures for the establishment of a
Temporary City peiiiiit parking area. Such procedures shall, at a minimum, include:
A. Conducting an informal public meeting as soon as is practicable after the
determination of the emergency situation. The purposes of the meeting are to allow the
director an opportunity to announce to the public the director's determination of the
emergency situation and of the details of the director's proposal regarding the
establishment of a Temporary City permit parking area and of temporary regulations
pertaining thereto and to allow verbal public comment at said meeting and continuing
written comment thereafter regarding said determination and proposals. The director
shall give whatever infoinial notice of said meeting to the residents, business owners and
property owners of the proposed Temporary City parking permit area the director deems
appropriate under the circumstances. Such notice may include the distribution of flyers
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throughout the said area. The formal notice requirements of Section 12.64.050 or its
successor shall not apply to this informal meeting.
B. Following the informal meeting and receiving the comments from those in
attendance, the director shall make whatever further review and modifications of the
proposed Temporary City parking permit area and proposed temporary regulations the
director may deem appropriate or the director may abandon the proposal. If the director
determines to proceed with the proposal after such further review, the director shall
reduce such decision to writing in the form of a report that shall be filed with the City
Recorder and made available to any interested party upon request. Said report shall
include:
1. Significant subjects and concerns raised at the informal meeting
conducted;
2. Preliminary findings and conclusions justifying the implementation of
the Temporary City parking permit area and temporary regulations and a declaration of
the emergency parking situation;
3. The boundaries of the Temporary City parking permit area;
4. The parking regulations, including administrative provisions for issuing
permits; and
5. An implementation schedule indicating when the Temporary city
parking permit area will become effective.
C. No such Temporary City parking permit area or temporary regulations shall
remain in effect for more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
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D. No later than ninety (90) days following the effective date of implementing
the Temporary City parking permit area, the director shall put into place procedures for
the possible designation of a regularly approved City parking permit area as provided in
this chapter, to take the place of the Temporary City parking permit area.
E. The director shall have discretion to make adjustments as the director may
deem appropriate to the boundaries of the Temporary city parking permit area and to the
temporary parking regulations during the period that the Temporary City parking permit
area and temporary regulations are in effect. The director shall reduce such adjustments
to writing in the faun of amendments to the previously issued report, which amendments
shall be filed with the City Recorder and made available to any interested party upon
request.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon the date of its
first publication.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah this 13 day of
December , 2005.
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Transmitted to Mayor on December 13, 2005
Mayor's Action: Approved. Vetoed.
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Bill No. 86 of 2005.
Published: December 23,. 2005.
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