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City Council Meeting July 13, 2004 Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: An Ordinance Of The City Council Of The City Of Santa Monica Deleting
Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 6.12.150 Relating To Downtown
Valet Parking and A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa
Monica Setting Fees for Valet Parking Space Use
Introduction
The attached ordinance is presented for first reading and attached resolution for
adoption.
Background
In February 2001, City Council passed an ordinance regulating valet parking and a
resolution establishing fees for valet parking operators. The fees included a permit fee
of $1,750 per location, per year, and a space use fee of $0.50 per space per hour of
valet operations. In the downtown, valet operators were only charged the space use
fee, in recognition of the impact of transit mall construction in the downtown. This
construction project is complete and the proposed ordinance would require downtown
valet locations to pay the same permit fee as other valet locations in the City.
Discussion
The attached ordinance standardizes fees and most requirements for valet operators in
downtown and other parts of the City because it deletes Municipal Code Section
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6.120.150 which exempts downtown valet operators from provisions of the valet
ordinance (including the permit fee) and requires them, instead, to work out separate
agreements with the City. The change will affect about 15 valet locations in the
downtown. Practically, the only change will be to require the payment of the same
permit fee as locations outside of downtown, because each individual agreement for the
downtown is based on the valet requirements applicable Citywide. All of the specific
requirements and the application are available at the City Of Santa Monica Web site
under Planning and Community Development/Transportation Management/Parking and
Traffic Control. The amount of the fee is based on the cost of reviewing permits and
monitoring them and has been charged to valet operators at other locations in the City
since 2001.
The attached resolution establishes valet Space Use Fees of $1 per hour in Parking
Meter Zone ?A? (downtown) and $0.75 per hour in the rest of the City, so that valet
operators will pay the same rate as other meter parkers in a particular part of the City.
Transportation Management staff provided advance written notice of the fee to the
Bayside District Corporation staff and current valet operators.
Financial/Budget Impact
The budget for revenue account 01415.407180 (Valet Licensing Fee) should be
increased by $22,875 for the additional revenue resulting from ending the exemption in
the Downtown area. The increase in Space Use Fees, which are deposited into
revenue account 01415.400300 (On-Street Meters), is already included in the FY 2004-
05 Adopted Budget.
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Recommendation
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance be introduced
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for first reading, and that the resolution be adopted.
2. Authorize an increase to the budget at account 01415.407180 by $22,875.
PREPARED BY: Suzanne Frick, Director of Planning & Community Development
Lucy Dyke, Transportation Planning Manager
Attachments:
1.
A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica Setting Fees For
(See adopted Resolution No. 9963 (CCS)).
Valet Parking Space Use
2. An Ordinance of the City Council of the City Of Santa Monica Deleting Santa
(See below)
Monica Municipal Code Section 6.12.150 Relating to Valet Parking .
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City Council Meeting 7-13-04 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER _________ (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA DELETING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 6.12.150
RELATING TO DOWNTOWN VALET PARKING
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica allows valet parking as one element of a
coordinated parking system; and
WHEREAS, City staff time is required to review valet operating plans and monitor
compliance with them; and
WHEREAS, the fee for this service in most of the City was set to offset the cost of
reviewing plans and monitoring operations; and
WHEREAS, valet operations in the downtown require operating plan review and
monitoring on the same basis as valet operations in other parts of the City; and
WHEREAS, downtown operators were exempt from this fee during the construction of
the Transit Mall in the downtown, and that project is now completed,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 6.12.150 is hereby deleted
in its entirety as follows:
Deleted:
Section 6.120.150
Requirement for downtown valets.
Deleted:
Notwithstanding any
provision of this Chapter to the
contrary, no valet parking shall be
allowed to operate within the following
boundaries without first having
entered into an agreement with the
City: Ocean Avenue, 5th Street,
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or appendices
Colorado Avenue, and Wilshire
Boulevard. The rules and regulations
governing the operation of such
thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent of such
valets shall be established exclusively
by such agreement and shall not be
otherwise governed by this Chapter.
inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to effect 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 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 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
City Attorney
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