HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 867011`7
ORDINANCE N0. 8670
An ordinance providing for exclusive parking at the entrance of each
residence upon application of the otivner or occupant.
~~^~FEAS, an abuse has arisen in the city of Eugene in that the occupants
of many residence properties are excluded from entrance and exit from their own
property by reason of automobiles being parked solidly around their properties,
making it impossible for them to park their cars at the residence entrance.
TriE CITY OF EUGETv~'E DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOZ'µS:
Section 1. Any owner, lessee or occupant of residential property used
as such in the City of Eugene may make application to the City Engineer for an
exclusive parking space in front of the sidewalk entrance to their residence
(other than the driveway}, accompanying said application with a deposit of a Two
Dollar 02.00) fee and such inf ormation as the City Engineer's office requires
for a convenient record.
Section 2. Upon receipt of such application and payment of the fee the
City Engineer shall forthwith cause to be painted•a yellow parking space of con-
venient width and twenty feet in length in the street opposite the sidewalk
entrance to the residence, which parking space may be marked with any convenient
legend, such as "RESERVED" or "NO PARKING", and such parking space shall thence
forth during the calendar year be deemed the exclusive parking space servicing
said residence.
Section 3. The reserved parking space may be renewed from year to year
by the payment of Two Dollars 02.00) for each year's reservation at the office
of the City Engineer, together with any further application or information re-
quired by the Engineer's office.
Section 4. It shall be unlawful within the City of Eugene for any owner
or driver of an automobile to park the same within such reserved residential
parking space without the consent of the owner or lessee.
Section 5. Police officers as far as is reasonably possible shall them-
selves enforce this ordinance and any occupant of a residence may file a complaint
against the owner of the offending automobile.
Section 6. Any person, firm or torpor°ation violating any of the pro- _
visions of this ordinance s~~all, upon conviction thereof before the City Recorder,
be liable to a fine of not less than One Dollar (~p1.00) and not more than
Twenty-f ive ( 25.00 } , and in default of payment th ereof may be imprisoned in the
city jail for one day for each Two dollars 02.00) of the fine unpaid.
Section 7. Whereas, complaints are being made by residents of the city
that they are wholly excluded from their own premises by reason of persons parking
solidly in front of them and-that the situation is such that it constitutes a
menace and element of danger in the use of automobiles in the city,
Therefore, an emergency is declared to exist and it is declared to be
necessary for the immediate preservation of the peace, health and safety of the
City of Eugene that this ordinance take effect immediately upon its passage by the
Common Council and its approval by the Mayor, and it is so ordered.
Passed by the Con~on Council
this 13th day of Januar y, 1941.
C. M. Bryan
City Recorder
Approved by the Mayor this
23rd day of December, 1940
Elisha Lar.~ge
Mayor