(a) A residential area shall be deemed eligible for consideration as a residential permit parking area if based on surveys and studies prepared at the direction of the Director of the Department of Public Safety, or his or her designee, objective criteria establish that the residential area is overcrowded with commuter vehicles for any extended period during the day or night, or weekends, or during holidays. Such objective criteria shall include a minimum numerical standard for assessing overcrowded parking throughout the City.
(b) In determining whether a residential area identified as eligible for residential permit parking may be designated as a residential permit parking area, the Director of the Department of Public Safety and the Council shall take into account factors which include, but are not limited to the following:
(1) The extent to which legal on-street parking spaces are occupied by motor vehicles during the period proposed for parking restriction;
(2) The extent to which vehicles parking in the area during the period proposed for parking restrictions are commuter vehicles rather than resident vehicles;
(3) The extent to which residents of the residential area cannot obtain adequate curbside parking adjacent to or near their residences because of widespread use of available curbside parking spaces by non-resident motorists;
(4) The extent to which motor vehicles registered to persons resident in the residential area cannot be accommodated by the number of available off-street parking spaces;
(5) The extent of noise, pollution, hazardous conditions and deterioration of the residential environment as a result of traffic congestion and insufficient parking in the area;
(6) The extent to which the designation of a residential permit parking area would be likely to reduce traffic congestion and the other problems referred to in subsection (b)(5);
(7) The extent of need for parking in the residential area for use by the general public; and
(8) The possibility of defraying the administrative costs in connection with the designation of a residential permit parking area.
(Ord. No. 942-83. Passed 6-4-84. Renumbered by Ord. No. 1856-84. Passed 10-29-84)