HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 685 ORDINANCE NO.
BEING AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR BOULEVARD PARKtN'~DER CERTAIN
GONDITIONS
THE CITY OF COLUMBIA tiEIG~TS DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. A request may be made before the City Council to allow boulevard parking
on a street for a minimum length of one block. The request may be for a street
bounded by two other streets or bounded by a street and a natural barrier. The
terms "s treet" and "avenues" are us ed intercbangeably.
Section 2. Parking on the boulevard section of the street shall be permitted only after
the following:
a. A petition in the form hereinafter described must be brought before the
City Council.
b. The petition must contain the names of at least two-thirds of the owners,
resident and non-resident, of both improved and unimproved property.
The two-thirds shall refer to front footage on both sides of the street.
The houses facing a street and 'which address is on that street are to be
cons idered only.
c. The petition requesting the Council to authorize boulevard parking must
be in the following form:
"Petition to Allow Boulevard Parking"
We, the undersigned, request the City Council to authorize
boulevard parking on our street. YVe understand that, if this
petition is approved and takes effect, any vehicle, mine or my
neighbors, may be parked anywhere on the boulevard section of
the street.
Name
1.
2.
Street Address
Front Footage
5.
Etc.
-2-
(Notary Statement)
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d. The person circulating the petition shall attest before a notary public
that the person 'whose name appears on the petition did sign the
petition and that that person did sign the petition in front of the person
circulating the petition. Only one (1) name per property is needed.
Section 3. Where at least t~vo-thirds of the property owners by front footage ask ici'
permission to park vehicles on the boulevard section of the street and after the
petition is verified by theGouncil, the Gouncil shall by Resolution allow such
boulevard parking.
The Resolution allowing such parking shall be in force and remain in effect
until at least fifty-one per cent (51%) of the property owners petition the Council
to disallow boulevard parking on that street. The Council after verifying the petition
shall then by Resolution rescind its earlier action.
Section 4. No permit shall be issued for only one side of the street.
Section 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and pubished by a fine of not more than One I~undred Dollars
($100.00) or by imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days for each offense.
Section 6. Should any section, subdivision, clause, or other provision of this Ordinance
be declared by a Gourt of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall
not effect the validity of the Ordinance as a 'whole nor of any part thereof other than
the part so declared to be invalid.
Section 7. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after thirty (30)
days after its passage.
First Reading:
Second Reading:
Offered By:
Seconded By:
Roll Gall: Land and Logacz - Ayes
King, Jeska, Nawrocki - Nayes
Secretary to the Gouncit
November 12, 1968
November 25, 1968
Land
Logacz
Bruce G. Na'wrockf, Mayor
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/~z~hcer ~[./.o~okolowski, City Attorney