This chapter shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "Preferential Parking Code." This chapter is enacted pursuant to authority granted by Sections 22507 and 22507.5 of the California Vehicle Code. Preferential parking zones are necessary to alleviate serious problems in certain residential areas of the City due, in part, to the parking of motor vehicles on streets by nonresidents of the immediate area for extended periods of time and the nonuse of available public transit alternatives to automobile travel by nonresidents which has resulted in neighborhood decline in affected areas because of traffic congestion, noise, air pollution, traffic hazards, and inability of residents to park their vehicles reasonably close to their residences. (Ord. 2897 § 3, 2019)