(A) The City Council does hereby find and determine that the city is confronted with serious and unique traffic problems.
(B) The city is primarily a residential community, surrounded by other residential, business, manufacturing and recreational centers. This fact, coupled with the presence of large centers of entertainment in the midst of and in close proximity to the city causes vehicular traffic to, from, through and within the city at times to attain dimensions totally disproportionate to the size and population of the city. On frequent occasions thousands of motor vehicles enter or pass through portions of the city within an hour, with the result that abnormal traffic problems result which can not be met or solved by the mere increase in law enforcement personnel. Any hindrance of the flow of such vehicular traffic causes delay, traffic congestion, accidents and imminent peril to both life and property within the city. The sale of any commodity from a vehicle or to a person in a vehicle on any major traffic artery in the city peculiarly adds to the local traffic congestion, delay and hazard to life and property. Strict enforcement of traffic laws alone is insufficient to cope with the situation. It is not possible to employ sufficient police officers adequately to control such unique traffic problems, not only because of the present manpower shortage, but particularly because of the fluctuating volume of such vehicular traffic.
(C) The City Council further finds and determines that there is an increasingly severe problem of litter in public and private parking lots caused by the indiscriminate and uncontrolled distribution of handbills, primarily those affixed to unattended motor vehicles parked in such lots. The litter resulting from such distribution is both unsightly and annoying to adjacent business owners and the general public. Although the Council intends by this chapter to prohibit placement of handbills and other similar materials on unattended vehicles parked in public or private parking lots, the Council finds that there is an abundance of alternative methods of distributing such materials available to those who wish to do so.
(D) It is therefore necessary to remove and prevent, so far as is possible, all factors which contribute to or cause any interference with or retardation of the movement of vast numbers of motor vehicles in the city.
(`83 Code, § 8.32.010) (Ord. 87-23 § 2, 1987)