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COUNCIL ACTION FORM
Item #
Date June 9, 1987
SUBJECT: Parking Ordinance Changes
BACKGROUND:
At the January 27, 1987 meeting, Council approved the Ames Municipal
Parking System master plan and directed that staff initiate implementa-
tion. Inherent in that directive are alterations to the Parking Section
of the Ames Code (Chapter 18) . Proposed revisions to Chapter 18 provi-
sions have been completed and are attached for review. The following
list highlights the specific changes so that Council is able to discern
the impact of the parking system changes upon code provisions:
1. Section 18. 1(6) (new) . Provides a definition of a multiple space
parking station (Tic Fac) and establishes a location within the
vehicle for displaying the parking receipt.
2. Section 18. 1(10) (revised). Includes the installation and opera-
tion of parking stations under the City Manager' s authority.
3. Section 18. 1(11) (new). Authorizes the City Manager to designate
temporary no parking or other parking designations as necessary in
response to construction projects. Each designation will be in
writing to the Council and will include the anticipated date of
expiration.
4. Section 18. 3(1) (revised) . Renames the Depot Parking Lot into
three separate lots for operational purposes.
5. Section 18.3(2) (revised). Adds "in the east parking district".
6. Section 18. 3(3) (revised). Adds "in the east parking district" .
7. Section 18.3(4) (revised). Renames the Library Lot for operational
purposes.
8. Section 18. 3(5) (revised) . Renames the Kellogg Avenue Parking Lots
for operational purposes.
9. Section 18.3(6) (revised). Renames the Central Business District
Parking Lots for operational purposes.
10. Section 18.3(7) (revised). Renames the Chamberlain Parking Lot
Number One for operational purposes.
11. Section 18.3(8) (revised). Renames the Chamberlain Parking Lot
Number Two for operational purposes.
12. Section 18. 3(9) (revised). Renames the Welch Avenue Parking Lot
for operational purposes.
13. Section 18.3(10) (new). Designates the Gilchrist Parking Lot as
municipal parking Lot W for operational purposes.
14. Section 18.4(1) (revised). Includes parking station locations and
rates on the official parking meter map.
15. Section 18.4(3)(a) (revised). Adds "in the east parking district"
and notes "city" holidays.
16. Section 18.4(3)(b) (revised). Adds "in the west parking district"
and notes "city" holidays.
17. Section 18. 5(1) (revised). Includes the issuance of a permit tag
to be placed in each vehicle legally parked in a reserved parking
space. Also deletes impoundment of vehicles from reserved spaces.
18. Section 18. 5(2) (revised). Deletes provisions for meter hoods on
unmetered spaces and provides for signs in lieu of hoods. Also a
two minute duration provision has been deleted.
19. Section 18.7(4) (new). Defines overtime and illegal parking
violations within parking lots supervised by parking stations.
20. Section 18. 17(17) (new). Adds provision for No Parking between
signs.
21. Section 18. 21(13) (revised). Language is cleaned up to be coordi-
nated with Sec. 18.21(10). (New Sections 18. 31(119) and 18.31(108))
22. Section 18.21(34) (revised). Allows on-street parking along the
east side of Clark Avenue between Fifth Street and Sixth Street.
(New Section 18. 31(21))
23. Section 18.21(103) (revised). Deleted since Wallace Road is not a
city street.
24. Section 18.21(105) (revised). Prohibits parking at all times along
Welch Avenue from Lincoln Way to Storm Street except where parking
meters exist. (New Section 18.31(137))
25. Section 18. 22(1). Revised to prohibit parking in the remaining
downtown and campustown business districts between 2: 00 a.m. and 6:
p.m. every day instead of only Mondays. This revision extends
north to Seventh Street in the downtown district. (Included in
New Sections 18.31 (13), (19), (21), (31), (33) , (42) , (55), (66),
(71), (76), (137))
26. Section 18.22(6). Prohibits parking in the Depot Parking Lots
(Lots T, U, and V) and in the eastern most Central Business Dis-
trict Parking Lot (Lot Z) every day between 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.
except by permit. (New Section 18.31(83))
27. Section 18.22(8). Prohibits parking along Main Street between Duff
Avenue and Clark Avenue every day between 2:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.
for maintenance purposes. (New Section 18.31(76))
28. Sec. 18. 24 (new). Gives Police Chief the authority to temporarily
suspend parking regulations during funerals.
29. Section 18.24(3)(a) (revised). Deletes 90 minute parking.
30. Section 18.24(5)(a) (revised) Deleted since parking meters are in
place here.
31. Section 18.24(7)(a) (revised). Deleted since parking meters will
be installed.
32. Section 18.24(7)(b) (revised). Deleted since parking meters will
be installed.
33. Section 18.25. Revised to provide a means of designating official
and authorized vehicles for the use of reserved governmental
parking spaces.
34. Section 18. 30. Provides for residential permit parking. At the
present time staff is not proposing the adoption of a residential
parking program. However, it would be helpful for the section to
be the adopted should residential parking generate citizen concerns
about non-residential land uses.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. Adopt on first reading the ordinance revising Chapter 18.
2. Deny the ordinance.
MANAGER'S RECOMMENDED ACTION:
It is recommended by the City Manager that Council adopt alternative
number 1 above, thereby adopting on first reading the ordinance revising
Chapter 18 of the Ames Code.
COUNCIL ACTION:
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