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TO Mayor and City Council
FROM City Attorney
SUBJECT AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA AMENDING SECTION 3 08 030 OF THE SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE TO DESIGNATE A PREFERENTIAL PARKING ZONE
BY RESOLUTION
INTRODUCTION
At Its meeting on May 19, 1998, the City Council Introduced for first reading an ordinance
amending Section 308030 to designate a Preferential Parking Zone by Resolution
The ordinance IS now presented to the City Council for adoption
RECOMMENDATION
It IS respectfully recommended that the accompanYing ordmance be adopted
PREPARED BY Marsha Jones Moutne, City Atlorney
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MAY 2 6 1998
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Council Meeting May 26, 1998 Santa MOnica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1914 (CCS)
(City Council Senes)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTION 3 08030
OF THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE TO
AMEND THE PROCESS BY WH ICH A PREFERENTIAL
PARKING ZONE IS ESTABLISHED
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Momca has determined that the processing of
preferential parking requests should be accelerated, and,
WHEREAS, currently preferential parking zones are established by ordinance,
and,
WHEREAS, Section 32 of the General ProVISions of the California Vehicle Code
prOVides that whenever local authontles are given power to take action by ordinance
they also have the power to take that action by resolution, and,
WHEREAS, establishing preferential parking zones by resolution would be more
effiCient and less time consuming,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS
SECTION 1 Section 308030 of the Santa MOnica MUnicipal Code IS amended
to read as follows
Section 3 08 030 DeslRnatlon of a PreferentIal ParklnR Zone
(a) Upon the recommendation of the Parking and Traffic
Engineer, the City Council shall consider areas for designation as
preferential parkIng zones If the Council finds that an area satisfies the
cntena set forth In this Chapter for preferential parkIng zone deSignation,
the CounCIl may adopt a ResolutIon designatIng an area as a preferential
parking zone and authOrize the Parking and TraffiC Engineer to establish
appropriate parkIng restrictions for the zone, or
(b) The City CounCil may, at ItS discretion, adopt a Resolution
designating an area as a preferential parkIng zone and authOrize the
ParkIng and TraffIC Engineer to establish appropriate parking restnctlons
for the zone
SECTION 2 Any proVIsion of the Santa Monica Mumclpal Code or appendIces
thereto InconSIstent WIth the provISIons of this Ordinance, to the extent of such
inCOnsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed or modIfied to that extent
necessary to affect the proVIsions of this OrdInance.
SECTION 3 If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of thIs
OrdInance IS for any reason held to be Invalid or unconstitutional by a deCISion of any
court of any competent JUrisdiction, such deCISIon shall not affect the valIdity of the
remaining portions of thIs OrdInance The City CounCil hereby declares that It would
have passed this Ordinance, and each and every section, subsection, sentence,
clause, or phrase not declared Invalid or unconstitutional Without regard to whether any
portion of the OrdInance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional
SECTION 4 The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage
of this Ordinance The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once In the
offiCial newspaper within 15 days after Its adoption ThiS Ordinance shall become
effectIve after 30 days from ItS adoption
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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MARSHA JON~~~UTRIE
City Attorney
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Robert Holbrook. Mayor
State of Cahforma )
County of Los Angeles) 5S
Cny of Santa MOllIca )
I. Mana M Stewart. Cny Clerk of the Cny of Santa Momca. do hereby certIfy that the foregomg
Ordmance No 1914 (CCS) was mtroduced on May 19. 1998 and adopted on Mav 26.1998 by
the followmg vote
Ayes
Councll members
Ebner. Femstem. Genser, Greenberg. Holbrook. O'Connor
Rosenstem
~oes
CouncIl members
None
Abstam
CouncIl members
None
Absent
CouncIl members
"None
ATTEST
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Mana M Stewart. CIty Clerk