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ITEM #3 CITY OF COLTON AGENDA REPORT FOR COUNCIL MEETING OF JULY 199 2005 TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: KENNETH RULON, CHIEF OF POLICE bV SUBJECT: CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE ADDING CHAPTER 10.40 TO THE COLTON MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH A PREFERENTIAL PARKING PROGRAM DATE: JULY 79 2005 BACKGROUND: The Police Department has determined that problems exist in the 800 block of Grant Street, Colton. This residential area experiences parking intrusion from San Bernardino Valley College. The proposed Ordinance introduces a procedure by which affected residents and merchants can petition the Police Department to post "no parking" signs on their streets. DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS: The proposed Ordinance calls for establishing parking districts near problem areas based on studies by the Public Services Department and the Police Department. District boundaries will be carefully drawn to anticipate possible parking spillovers and proximity to schools and parks. Tentative districts will be established to expedite previously known problem area "hot spots," and will be presented to the City Council for approval at a later date. The City Council will also be presented with a resolution to set the parking permit fee and the amount of violation penalties. It is expected that final preferential parking districts will be presented to the City Council in October, 2005. Once districts are adopted by the City Council, the Police Department will process "no parking" requests within adopted districts, on a case-by-case basis, upon receiving a petition from at least two-thirds of the residents on a particular street segment. The petition will be accepted after the Public Services and Police Departments have established the validity of the parking problem. "No parking" signs are posted after proper notifications. Each household will be issued one permit for each registered car, plus one guest permit. New cars, commercial deliveries and service vehicles are exempted from this regulation.