Chapter 10.36
STOPPING, STANDING, LOADING, UNLOADING AND PARKING
Sections:
10.36.020 Maintenance of no stopping areas and no parking zones, curb markings and signs.
10.36.030 No parking, no stopping and no standing areas – Generally.
10.36.040 Maintenance of no stopping zones – Indication of prohibited hours and day required.
10.36.050 Standing or parking of vehicles by peddlers or vendors.
10.36.070 Parking space markings.
10.36.090 Firehouse parking lot.
10.36.120 Parking for demonstration.
10.36.140 Removal of vehicles from street – When permitted.
10.36.150 Parking on private property.
10.36.160 Obstruction or interference with police or authorized officers.
10.36.010 Applicability.
A. The provisions of this chapter prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of a vehicle shall apply at all times or at those times specified in this chapter, except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police officer or official traffic-control device.
B. The provisions of this chapter imposing a time limit on standing or parking shall not relieve any person from the duty to observe other and more restrictive provisions of the Vehicle Code or this title prohibiting or limiting the standing or parking of vehicles in specified places or at specified times.
10.36.020 Maintenance of no stopping areas and no parking zones, curb markings and signs.
A. The Director of Public Works is authorized to maintain, by appropriate signs or by paint upon the curb surface, all no stopping zones, no parking areas, and restricted parking areas, as defined and described in this chapter or established by the Council.
B. The Director of Public Works is authorized to place, and when required shall place curb markings to indicate parking or standing regulations.
1. The Director of Public Works when authorized by the Council is authorized to determine and to mark loading and unloading zones as follows:
a. At any place in any business district; or
b. Elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business or in front of any hall or place used for the purpose of public assembly.
In no event shall more than one-half of the total curb length in any block be reserved for loading zone purposes.
2. Said curb markings shall have the meanings as set forth in this section:
a. Red shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by the Vehicle Code, and except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a bus zone.
b. Yellow shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., of any day except Sundays and holidays for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials, providing that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes nor the loading or unloading of materials more than 20 minutes.
c. White shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose other than loading or unloading of passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mail box, which shall not exceed three minutes and such restrictions shall apply between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., of any day except Sundays and holidays and except as follows:
i. When such zone is in front of a hotel or in front of a mailbox the restrictions shall apply at all times.
ii. When such zone is in front of a theater the restrictions shall apply at all times except when such theater is closed.
C. When the Director of Public Works, as authorized under this chapter, has caused curb markings to be placed, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking in violation of any of the provisions of this section.
D. When said curb markings or signs are in place, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park such vehicle adjacent to any such legible curb marking or sign in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
E. No person, unless authorized by the Council, shall paint any street or curb surface.
10.36.030 No parking, no stopping and no standing areas – Generally.
No person shall cause or permit any vehicle registered in that person’s name or operated or controlled by that person to stop, stand, park or lie standing in any of the following places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with traffic or in compliance with the direction of a Police Officer or other authorized Officer or traffic sign or signal:
A. On either side of any street between the projected property lines of any public walk, public steps, street, or thoroughfare terminating at such street, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
B. In any area where the Council determines that the parking or stopping of a vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property, when such area is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
C. In any of the following areas: The western side of Lincoln Avenue from the southern intersection thereof with Wapoo Avenue to the northern intersection of said Lincoln Avenue with said Wapoo Avenue;
D. In any area where the parking or stopping of any vehicle would constitute a traffic hazard or would endanger life or property;
E. On any street or highway where the use of such street or highway or a portion thereof is:
1. Necessary for the cleaning, repair or construction of the street or highway or the installation of underground utilities; or
2. Authorized for a purpose other than the normal flow of traffic; or
3. Necessary for the movement of equipment, articles or structures of unusual size; and
4. The parking of such vehicle would prohibit or interfere with such use or movement. Signs giving notice of such no parking shall be erected or placed at least 24 hours prior to the effective time of such no parking;
F. At any place within 20 feet of a point on the curb immediately opposite the midblock end of a safety zone, when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface;
G. At any place within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection in any business district when such place is indicated by appropriate signs or by red paint upon the curb surface, except that a bus may stop at a designated bus stop; or
H. Within 20 feet of the approach to any traffic signal, stop sign, or official electric-flashing device.
A bus engaged as a common carrier, school bus or a taxicab may stop to load or unload passengers in front of a public or private driveway, or any area designated as a bus zone. (Ord. 249 § 1, 1988; Ord. 308 § 1, 1973; Ord. 292 § 1, 1972; prior code § 15.8-3).
10.36.040 Maintenance of no stopping zones – Indication of prohibited hours and day required.
The Director of Public Works shall designate established no stopping zones by placing and maintaining appropriate signs indicating that stopping of vehicles is prohibited and indicating the hours and day when stopping is prohibited.
10.36.050 Standing or parking of vehicles by peddlers or vendors.
A. The stopping or parking of vehicles for purposes of vending on city streets is prohibited, except in the public right-of-way in the Community Commercial (CC) and Light Industrial (I) zoning districts only, with the operation of all mobile food vending subject to requirements as set forth in Chapter 5.12 CMC, Mobile Food Vendors.
B. The stopping or parking of vehicles for purposes of vending on State Highway 128 or State Highway 29 is prohibited. (Ord. 761 § 3, 2023).
10.36.060 Diagonal parking.
A. Diagonal or angle parking zones may be authorized on any roadway within the City by the Council by resolution.
B. On any of the streets or portions of streets established as diagonal parking zones, when signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it is unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park said vehicle except:
1. At the angle to the curb indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting space to parked vehicles;
2. Entirely within the limits of said allotted space; and
3. With the front wheel nearest the curb within six inches of said curb. (Ord. 352 § 1, 1979; prior code § 15.9-2).
10.36.070 Parking space markings.
A. The Director of Public Works is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking spaces adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted.
B. When such parking space markings are placed on the highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
10.36.080 Time limit parking.
A. The Council may, by resolution, designate certain areas of certain streets within the City as areas where parking or stopping is restricted to a certain time limit. Any areas so designated shall be marked by either a sign or painting on the curb, to the effect that parking is limited to a certain time. Any areas restricting parking to 30 minutes or less shall be marked by the use of both green paint on the curb and a sign. Such resolution shall, if appropriate, also designate the hours of the day and the days of the week during which such restrictions are in effect. Upon any such resolution, after the areas have been duly marked as provided in this section, no operator of any vehicle shall stop, stand or park for a period of time longer than the specified time during the hours of the day designated and on the days designated by any such signs and curb markings.
B. The Chief of Police shall keep an account of and report the location at which any vehicle is parked in violation of the provisions of this section, the date and hour of such violation, the make and State license number of such vehicle and any other facts necessary to an understanding of the circumstances surrounding such violation. The Chief of Police shall attach to such vehicle a notice stating that it has been parked in violation of this section and instructing the owner or operator to report to the court having jurisdiction with respect to such violation. (Ord. 665 § 3, 2010; Ord. 389 § 2, 1983; Ord. 345 § 1, 1978; prior code § 15.10A-1).
10.36.090 Firehouse parking lot.
A. The Chief of Police and the Public Works Director are authorized and directed to establish no more than 11 parking spaces on the City property located generally west of the firehouse as spaces in which parking shall be allowed for a maximum, continuous period of two hours at any time of the day or night.
B. Such spaces so designated shall be appropriately marked in a manner which will give notice of such parking restrictions. (Ord. 389 § 2, 1983; Ord. 329 § 1, 1977).
10.36.100 Use of streets for storage of vehicles prohibited.
Repealed by Ord. 665.
10.36.110 Parking for repair.
A. Except as provided below, it is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing upon any street, highway or other public property any vehicle, as defined by the Vehicle Code, for the principal purpose of greasing, changing oil, rebuilding, dismantling or repairing such vehicle.
B. Subsection (A) of this section shall not apply to emergency repairs that are of a brief and unobtrusive nature necessary to place the vehicle into operation or to remove it from the street, nor to any other repair activity that has been approved by the Council or other governing board responsible for the public property. (Ord. 482, 1992).
10.36.120 Parking for demonstration.
No operator of any vehicle or trailer shall park said vehicle upon any street in this City for the principal purpose of advertising or displaying it for sale, unless authorized by resolution of the Council.
10.36.130 Commercial vehicle and special purpose vehicle parking restricted in residential districts.
A. Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C) of this section, no person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle having a manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight capacity in excess of 8,500 pounds, or any truck, commercial trailer, or bus in any residential district for more than four consecutive hours.
B. During the actual loading and unloading of property or in the actual performance of a service to a property located on the block on which the vehicle is parked, the time limit parking may exceed four hours only by the time necessary to actually complete the loading, unloading or property service activity.
C. Subsection (A) of this section shall not apply to panel delivery trucks and pick-up trucks.
D. Nothing in this section shall relieve the operator of a vehicle from compliance with applicable sections of the California Vehicle Code relative to allowable weight nor shall it relieve the operator from first obtaining the necessary permits from the Department of Public Works as provided in Chapter 10.48 CMC.
10.36.140 Removal of vehicles from street – When permitted.
Any regularly employed and salaried City Police Officer may remove or cause to be removed:
A. Any vehicle that has been parked or left standing on a street or highway for 72 or more consecutive hours;
B. Any vehicle which is parked or left standing in violation of CMC 10.36.030(B) and (E). (Ord. 418 § 1, 1986).
10.36.150 Parking on private property.
It shall be an infraction for any person to park any motor vehicle, trailer, or boat on any private property which has been prominently posted with signs prohibiting such parking without the consent of the owner of such property, provided such signs comply with Vehicle Code Section 22658. (Ord. 389 § 2, 1983; Ord. 329 § 1, 1977; prior code § 15.15-2).
10.36.160 Obstruction or interference with police or authorized officers.
No person shall interfere with or obstruct in any way any police officer or other officer or employee of the City or his enforcement of the provisions of the Municipal Code. The removal, obliteration, or concealment of any chalk mark or other distinguishing mark used by any police officer or other employee or officer of the City in connection with the enforcement of the parking regulations of the Code shall, if done for the purpose of evading the provisions of this Code, constitute such interference or obstruction. (Ord. 665 § 3, 2010).