(a) No owner or operator of any vehicle shall park such vehicle on any street within the City, from November 1 of each year through April 15 of the following year, for a period of time longer than three minutes for loading and unloading passengers between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. Emergency and public safety vehicles and vehicles being used by physicians on emergency calls are exempt from the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 49-77. Passed 2-22-77.)
(b) Knollwood Drive and Westview Drive, within the City, are exempt from the provisions of this section because of insufficient off-street parking facilities for the tenants of the Knollwood Apartments and Parmawoods Apartments.
(Ord. 116-88. Passed 5-4-88.)
(c) (1) The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to issue special permits allowing parking during the prohibited time under this section where certain hardships exist. Application must be made by the resident at a given location outlining specifically the make, model and other descriptive features of each vehicle involved, as well as the license number assigned to that vehicle. The applicant shall pay a non-refundable overnight winter parking permit fee for each permit, for the period of November 1 through April 15, as specified in Chapter 185 of these Codified Ordinances, which fee shall be paid at the time the application is submitted. The owner will be required to renew application and pay permit fee for any such permit to cover each separate snow season and such permits can be rescinded upon violation of the procedures or upon change of the circumstances and conditions which created the reason for hardship variance.
(2) The Director of Public Safety shall first notify Council of the reason a permit is issued in case of special medical or physical hardship.
(3) Hardship, as defined in this section, means a situation whereby the occupants of a dwelling, because of the size or shape of the parcel of land upon which the dwelling is situated, are unable to reasonably park their vehicles upon the premises. It also means and includes serious and unusual medical or physical problems affecting an occupant of a dwelling wherein the necessity to move vehicles within the driveway would cause further complications to such condition. A hardship does not include situations where the parking of vehicles upon the residential premises would cause a mere inconvenience of moving vehicles where there are two or more vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the premises.
(Ord. 49-77. Passed 2-22-77.)
(Ord. 256-98. Passed 11-16-98; Ord. 18-07. Passed 3-19-07; Ord. 109-16. Passed 7-11-16.)