A. Basis for Regulation. Whenever the city council determines, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, that it is necessary to prohibit stopping, standing or parking of vehicles on certain highways or portion thereof at all or certain hours of the day in order to facilitate the movement of traffic or to eliminate hazardous conditions, the city council shall by resolution direct the city engineer to place appropriate signs or curb markings on such highways or portions thereof.
B. Basis for Lifting Parking Regulations. Whenever the city council, upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation, finds that the conditions because of which it was necessary to prohibit the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles at all or certain hours of the day as provided in subsection A no longer exist, the city council shall by resolution direct the city engineer to remove such signs and curb markings from such highways or portion thereof.
C. Temporary No Parking. Whenever the city engineer determines that traffic congestion or traffic hazard of an emergency nature is likely to result form the operation, stopping, standing or parking of vehicles during the holding of public or private assemblages, gatherings, or functions, or during the construction, alteration, repair or improvement of any highway, or for any other reason, he or she may place or cause to be placed, temporary signs prohibiting the operation, stopping, standing or parking of vehicles during the existence of such emergency.
D. Parking Parallel with Curb—Angle Parking.
1. No person shall stand or park a vehicle in a roadway or street other than parallel with the edge of the roadway headed in the direction of traffic and with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle within eighteen (18) inches of the curb line or edge of the roadway, except that on one-way streets, vehicles may be stopped or parked facing in the same direction as traffic movement, adjacent to the left-hand side of the roadway, but the left-hand wheels of vehicles so stopped or parked must be within eighteen (18) inches of the curb line or edge of roadway. All parking shall be parallel, except upon those streets that have been marked or signed by the city engineer for angle parking upon which streets vehicles shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated by such marks or signs and not otherwise.
2. No person shall disobey instructions of any official traffic sign requiring the manner in which vehicles must be parked, including signs regarding angle parking. (Ord. 317 § 1, 2012; Ord. 212 § 2, 2001)