The purpose of this chapter is to establish shared-rideable business requirements that achieve the city's goals of encouraging active transportation and providing adequate shared-rideable parking to meet the needs of shoppers, visitors, and residents while also reducing the potential for shared-rideables to block or interfere with pedestrian and emergency service use and access to all streets, sidewalks, paths, driveways, doorways, and other avenues of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
Some shared-rideables can be self-locked anywhere within the city, making it difficult for the city to ensure that shared rideables are placed safely, upright, and out of the way of pedestrian walkways, bikeways, and roadways. In addition, shared-rideables can become a cause of blight in both residential and nonresidential neighborhoods. Without regulation, shared-rideable businesses pose a threat to the public health, safety, and welfare.
The city council finds that regulations governing shared-rideable businesses are necessary to promote the general health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city by:
A. Ensuring safe operation of shared-rideables in the city;
B. Protecting the public right-of-way from uncontrolled, unmanaged encroachment;
C. Creating clear expectations for shared-rideable management and operations;
D. Establishing responsible parties and processes to address nuisances; and
E. Ensuring equitable access and wide spread investment in the city. (Ord. 2019-0007 § 1; Ord. 2018-0006 § 1)