The purpose of this part is to establish bicycle-share business requirements that achieve the City's goals of encouraging bicycling and providing adequate bicycle parking to meet the needs of shoppers, visitors, and residents while also ensuring public health, safety, and welfare. Accordingly, without limitation, City Council exercises its police powers to govern bicycle-share businesses for the purposes of:
A. Ensuring safe operation of bicycle-share businesses in the City;
B. Reducing the potential for bicycles to block or interfere with pedestrian and emergency service use and access to all streets, sidewalks, paths, driveways, doorways, and other avenues of vehicular and pedestrian traffic;
C. Protecting the public right-of-way from uncontrolled, unmanaged encroachment;
D. Creating clear expectations for bicycle-share management and operations;
E. Establishing responsible parties and processes to address nuisances;
F. Ensuring equitable access and investment in the City;
G. Reducing blight in residential and non-residential neighborhoods; and
H. Reducing the numbers of calls for police or other City services for bicycle-share related business activities. (Ord. 18-47)