This chapter is enacted in response to the serious adverse effects caused certain areas and neighborhoods of the City of Cleveland by motor vehicle congestion, particularly the long-term parking of motor vehicles on the streets of such areas and neighborhoods by non- residents thereof, together with a lack of driveways and garages in certain neighborhoods. As set forth in more specific detail in Section 461.02 of this chapter, such long-term parking by non-residents threatens the health, safety and welfare of many of the residents of the City of Cleveland. In order to protect and promote the integrity of these areas and neighborhoods, it is necessary to enact parking regulations, restricting unlimited parking by non-residents therein, while providing the opportunity for residents to park near their homes. Uniform parking regulations restricting residents and non-residents alike would not serve the public interest. Rather, such regulation would contribute to neighborhood decline while ignoring the public transit alternatives to automobile travel available to non-residents. For the reasons set forth in the chapter, a system of preferential resident parking is enacted hereby for the City of Cleveland.
(Ord. No. 942-83. Passed 6-4-84. Renumbered by Ord. No. 1856-84. Passed 10-29-84)