A. General Criteria: An area shall be deemed eligible for consideration as a city permit parking area if the mayor determines, after evaluation of the surveys and traffic studies prepared at the direction of the parking permit coordinator, that the qualified area is adversely affected by commuter vehicles for any extended period(s) during the day or night, on weekends or holidays.
B. Specific Factors: In determining alleged adverse effects upon an area, the mayor shall analyze and evaluate factors which include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. The extent of the desire and perception of need by the residents for permit parking as evidenced by receipt of verified petitions as required herein;
2. The extent to which legal on street parking spaces are occupied by motor vehicles during any given time period; and
3. The extent to which vehicles parking in the area during the period proposed for parking regulations are commuter vehicles rather than resident vehicles.
C. Threshold Technical Criteria: The mayor may, upon recommendation of the parking permit coordinator, and pursuant to the provisions hereunder, consider for designation as a city permit parking area, an area whose streets (or portions thereof) qualify by satisfying the following eligibility criteria:
1. Seventy percent (70%) or more of the parking capacity is generally occupied;
2. Such occupancy continues for any consecutive four (4) hour period and such occupancy rate occurs at least four (4) days per week during at least a nine (9) month period per year.
3. Twenty five percent (25%) of the vehicles occupying the on street spaces are other than area vehicles; and
4. The parking permit coordinator agrees that implementing the proposed permit area will not, to a significant extent, transfer the commuter vehicle parking problem to a different adjacent area should the area under consideration be designated permit parking.
(Ord. 2004-79, 11-2-2004)