(a) Except as provided herein and in Chapter 451, no regulation adopted pursuant to Section 403.03 shall limit the time of parking nor prohibit parking between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. upon streets or parts of streets within the Downtown Parking Area as defined in division (c) of this section. Any regulations that specifically state otherwise are hereby disapproved, and signs evidencing such regulations or otherwise contrary to this section shall be removed.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the Codified Ordinances to the contrary, any parking meter space in the Downtown Parking Area shall be free of charge on New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving Day (“Black Friday”), Christmas Day, and the day after Christmas Day.
(c) As used in this section, “Downtown Parking Area” means the area bounded by Lake Erie from the Cuyahoga River to the easterly line of East 30th Street extended; the easterly lines of East 30th Street connected from Lake Erie to Carnegie Avenue; the southerly line of Carnegie Avenue from East 30th Street to East 9th Street; the easterly line of East 9th Street to Carnegie Avenue; the southerly line of Carnegie Avenue from Broadway to the Cuyahoga River; and the Cuyahoga River from Carnegie Avenue to Lake Erie.
(Ord. No. 817-2023. Passed 9-18-23, eff. 9-21-23)