CHAPTER 9
PERMITS
SECTION:
5-9-1: PERMIT REGULATIONS:
A. Permit Issuance:
1. Permits may be issued by the Garden City clerk’s office as set forth in section 8-4D-8 of this code, Parking District, and adopted by resolution.
2. A priority or temporary permit may be initiated or renewed by filing an application pursuant to this section and paying the applicable fee. A renewal permit application for priority permits shall be reviewed and approved in accordance with this section.
3. Applications and application procedures shall be provided by the city.
4. No permit shall be issued unless the applicable fee has been paid.
B. Permit Requirements:
1. Annual permits shall be valid for the calendar year commencing January 1 through December 31.
2. Permits are issued to a specified motor vehicle.
3. Permits are not prorated and are not transferable.
4. Motor vehicles must be licensed and registered.
5. A parking permit for an adopted parking district shall be valid only for that parking district.
6. Until its expiration, surrender or revocation, a parking permit shall remain valid for the length of time the holder continues to reside at, own, and/or operate a business within the parking district.
C. Priority:
1. Annual Or Monthly Permits:
a. As the number of available parking permits within the parking district may be limited by regulation, permits shall be offered on a priority basis.
b. One (1) permit shall be offered, in priority identified as follows, to:
(1) Properties within the parking district with uses that were legally established prior to the adoption of the parking district and do not contain off-street parking, which shall have highest priority.
(2) Properties within the parking district with uses that were legally established prior to the adoption of the parking district and are adjacent to public right-of-way, which shall have secondary priority.
(3) All other properties within the parking district shall have third priority.
(4) Additional permits for residents, business owners, and employees within the parking district, which shall have fourth priority.
c. Once the priority permits have been offered, any remaining parking permits within a parking district may be offered to the public.
D. Temporary Permits:
1. Temporary parking permits may be available within each parking district for a one (1) time, one (1) day use.
2. Each property within the parking district with a valid Ada County issued address is eligible for twelve (12) temporary permits free of charge each year.
3. Each day permit shall be valid only for the day that is indicated on the permit.
E. Limitations:
1. Issuance of a parking permit does not guarantee or reserve a parking space within a parking district.
2. Temporary permits may not be offered in all parking districts.
F. Exemptions: Garden City owned vehicles are exempt from permit requirements.
G. Violations: A parking permit does not authorize the stopping, standing, or parking of any motor vehicle in any place or during any time when the stopping, standing, or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited or set aside for specified motor vehicle types. The issuance of a permit shall not excuse the holder from compliance with any traffic regulation.
H. Penalties:
1. Whenever the holder of a parking permit is not in compliance with one (1) or more of the applicable provisions of the policy controlling the issuance or renewal of permits, the city may direct the permit holder to surrender the permit.
2. The parking permit of any individual found to have committed three (3) or more violations of this section within any preceding twelve (12) month period shall be revoked. The city shall provide written notification to such person by certified mail, return receipt requested, revoking the permit, and ordering the surrender of such permit to the city. A signed return receipt shall be prima facie evidence of the delivery of the notice to surrender the permit. Failure to surrender a revoked permit when ordered to do so constitutes a separate violation of this section.
3. A person who has had a permit revoked shall not be reissued a permit for a period of two (2) years from the date of revocation. (Ord. 1034-22, 6-12-2023)