This chapter is enacted in response to the serious adverse effects caused in certain areas and neighborhoods of the city by motor vehicle congestion, particularly the long-term parking of motor vehicles on the streets of such areas and neighborhoods by nonresidents who do not visit or conduct business with residents. As set forth in more specific detail in Section 10.48.020 of this chapter, such parking by nonresidents threatens the health, safety and welfare of all the residents of the city. In order to protect these areas and neighborhoods, it is necessary to enact parking regulations restricting parking by nonresidents, while providing the opportunity for residents to park near their homes. In these situations, uniform parking regulations restricting residents and nonresidents alike would not serve the public interest. Rather such regulations would contribute to neighborhood decline while ignoring alternatives to automobile travel available to nonresidents who park in these areas. For the reasons set forth in this chapter and pursuant to the authority of Vehicle Code Section 22507, a system of preferential resident parking is enacted for the city. (Ord. 2012-007 § 1; prior code § 25.10.168)