§ 14-453. Residential streets may be posted.

(a)

Survey required.

(1)

When 67 percent of the households of an affected street sign a petition requesting that said street be designated "Resident Parking Only: Permit Required," the Transportation Commission may authorize a survey of the affected street.

(2)

If a survey taken by the Transportation Commission pursuant to this article for two consecutive hours over two to three weekdays discloses that the number of legally and illegally parked vehicles is greater than or equal to 70 percent of the legal capacity of a street and if, during that highest two-hour period, a license plate check shows that 30 percent or more of the parked vehicles are from outside the neighborhood and are therefore presumably using the facilities of the Business District or the Commercial District or the school, college or university, or of a mass transit facility located within one-half mile of such street, the block may be posted for "Resident Parking Only: Permit Required." Such posting shall state the hours of the day and days of the week when the permit requirement shall apply.

(b)

Exceptions to survey requirement. When 67 percent of the households of an affected street sign a petition requesting that said street be designated "Resident Parking Only: Permit Required," the Transportation Commission may designate the block in question for resident permit parking without benefit of a parking survey only when:

(1)

The block in question is presently posted in such a manner as to prohibit all parking whatsoever during times of day for which residential permit parking is proposed to be established; or

(2)

Upon the prior written report and affirmative recommendation of both the Chief of Police and the Village Engineer, the Transportation Commission finds by a two-thirds majority of all its members that the need to establish the residential permit parking area in question is manifest from the evidence available to the commission and that delaying action to conduct a survey would result in the creation of a substantial and unusual hardship to the households on the affected street.

(c)

Residents of a single side of a block on a major street defined by section 14-114(c) that has a 24-hour parking restriction and that experience a parking hardship created by a street designated as resident permit parking under this section may petition the Transportation Commission for an exception to this section. The exception will allow residents of the major street to park on the street designated resident permit parking, if the following conditions are met:

(1)

The petition shall be signed by 67 percent of the households on one side of the major street requesting an exception for resident permit parking. The petition shall clearly reference the block in which they are seeking permit parking privileges; and

(2)

A Transportation Commission meeting will be scheduled and the neighbors of both the major street and the block with a resident permit parking designation shall be notified at least one week prior to the meeting that the Transportation Commission will be reviewing the petition seeking an exception of this section.

(Code 1993, § 13-8.21.2; Ord. No. 89-0-40, 8-15-1989; Ord. No. 94-O-42, 7-12-1994; Ord. No. 2007-O-20, 3-13-2007; Ord. No. 2008-O-1, 1-22-2008)