HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 1888 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 1888 NEW SERIES
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
AMENDING TITLE 11 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING
CHAPTER 11.17 ENTITLED "PARKING MALL."
WHEREAS, there has been a steady decline of business in'
the downtown area, and
WHEREAS, part of this decline has been related to the
lack of availability of parking, and
WHEREAS, a healthy business climate is necessary for the
business welfare of the City of Bakersfield, and
WHEREAS, the City desires to alleviate the parking problem
prior to the holiday shopping season.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City
of Bakersfield as follows:
Sec tion 1.
That Title 11 of the Municipal Code of the City of
Bakersfield is amended by adding Chapter 11.17 "Parking Malls"
as follows:
11.17.010 Definitions. "Parking Mall." Certain streets within
a designated area closed to through traffic by signs' and barricades
and dedicated to parking. Parking malls cannot be established except
in an area of high retail store saturation, which area has little or
no off-street parking and little chance for obtaining off-street
parking.
11.17.020 Boundaries. Central parking mall shall comprise of
19th and 20th Streets from "H" to "L", Eye and "K" Streets from 18th
tO 21st.
11.17.030 Speed Limit. Whenever a street has been designated as
a parking mall street and has been properly posted by barricades and
signs, the speed limit on such street shall be a maximum of-ten miles
per hour.
11.17.040 One-Way Traffic. Streets designated as parking mall
streets shall carry traffic in a one-way pattern. The said direction
of traffic shall be established by the traffic authority.
11.17.050 Angle Parkin8. (a) All parking spaces on streets
designated as a parking mall shall be marked by the traffic authority
for angle 'parking and said angle parking shall be allowed on both
sides of the street at the discretion of the traffic authority.
(b) No person shall park a vehicle other than within a designated
parking space at any location within the parking mall. (c) Where
loading zones are not available in the alleys, commercial vehicles
delivering to businesses within the parking mall may park in the
driving lane leaving room for vehicles to pass for only enough
time to load or unload materials and in no event longer than
twenty minutes.
11.17.060 Parking Limits. (a) When a parking mall has been
established,'a time limit within the parking mall for each vehicle
to be 'parked shall not exceed two hours with the exception of
certain designated spaces within each block which will be posted
for 36-minute parking. Said 36-minute spaces will be evenly
distributed within the block so that no retail business within
the block is further than one-half block from a 36-minute space.
(b) Any person who violates any of the time limits set forth
herein is guilty of a misdemeanor. (c) There shall be no parking
permitted on any street within the parking mall from 1:00 a.m. to
4:00 a.m. (d). The posting of the time limit within the parking
mall shall appear at every entrance to the parking mall and be
at least two signs per block except that each 36-minute space shall
be posted individually. (e) Applications for special parking zones
shall not be considered for individual persons or businesses within
the parking mall, that it shall only be considered Qn the basis
of benefits to the total parking area. (f) Enforcement of time
limit shall be handled by the traffic authority in the same manner
as any other parking zone within the City. ~
11.17.070 Pedestrians. Pedestrians may cross the street at
any mid-block location within the 'parkingmall after having yielded
to traffic traveling down the driving lane. (b) Pedestrians
crossing the intersections within the parking mall shall have all
the rights of a pedestrian crossing at any other crosswalk and
shall be required to obey all controls of traffic at that intersection.
(c) No person shall cross at an angle within any intersection within
the parking mall.
11.17.080 Ail provisions of the California Vehicle Code shall
apply to traffic within the parkingmall except whereby the general
nature of the mall, said laws cannot apply.
Section 2.
This ordinance is declared to be an emergency ordinance
pursuant to Section 24 of the Charter of the City of Bakersfield
and shall become effectiveJmmediately upon its 'passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was
passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at
a regular meeting theredf held on the 5th day of October, 1970,
by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN BLEECKER, HEISEY, REES, RUCKER, STIERN, VEITER, WHITTEMORE
NOES: COUNCILMEN~ ',~~
ABSENT COUNCILMEN.' '~ ~ .
ABSTAINING COUNCILMEN,~
MARIAN S. IRVIN
CITY CLERK and Ex-Officio Clerk of the
Counci% of the City of Bakersfield
~ City Clerk's Assistant
APPROVED this 5th day of October, 1970.
APPROVED:
CITY ATTORNE~
AfFu avit of Iosting ( r inan es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,~
SS,
County of Kern ~
MARIAN S. IRVIN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on..: ............... ..0...c...t...o...b..e~.r.....6.. ............................................ 19..7..0.... she posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ............... _O...c..t...o...b..e...r.....5.. .......................... , 19..7...0..., which ordinance
was' numbered ............ .1...8..8...8. .................. New Series, and entitled:
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAKERS-
FIELD AMENDING TITLE 11 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE
AND ADDING CHAPTER 11.17 ENTITLED "PARKING
MALL,"
MARIAN S. IRVIN
CITY' C~,ERK and Ex-O~ficio 'Cler'k of the
· Counc.il ~f the City of Bakersfield
Cit~' C~erk's Assistant
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
6t..h. ..... d~ of .'OctS~er~"~ ., ~9...7..,0....
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