[Adopted 3-19-2008 by Ord. No. 426]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided that it amended
Ord. Nos. 326, 348 and 406, which adopted Arts. V, VI and VII, respectively.
The Township finds that:
A.
Certain residential areas in the Township are subjected to commuter
vehicle parking, therefore depriving the residents of those areas
of spaces in which to park their own vehicles;
B.
Those residential streets are also subjected to a high degree of
commuter traffic which substantially reduces the quality of the ambient
air level; and
C.
The establishment of a parking permit program for certain affected
areas should facilitate efficient movement of traffic by providing
for parking preference during certain hours of the day and days of
the week. Therefore, the Township considers it to be in the interest
of the people of the Township to provide for the establishment of
a residential permit parking program to ensure primary access to available
parking spaces by neighborhood residents and also to provide a cleaner
ambient air level.
For the purpose of this article, words and terms listed in this
subsection, as follows, shall have the following meanings:
A motor vehicle parked in a residential area by a person
not a resident of that residential area;
A person who owns or leases real estate within a residential
area of which he is not a resident, but who owns or manages a business
enterprise or professional office maintained at that address; for
the purpose of this article, proprietor shall be entitled to one parking
permit for that business or professional office address;
A person who owns or leases real property within a residential
area and who maintains either a voting residence, or bona fide occupancy,
or both, at that address;
A contiguous area containing public highways or parts of
public highways primarily abutted by residential property or residential
and non-business property (such as schools, parks, places of worship,
hospitals and nursing homes).
The residential areas designated in § 154-45 of this article are those deemed impacted and hence eligible for residential parking on the basis of the following criteria:[1]
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Editor's Note: So in original.
A.
Application for a residential parking permit shall be made to the
Township Manager by the person desiring the permit, who shall be only
the owner or the driver of a motor vehicle who resides on or is a
proprietor of property immediately adjacent to a street or other location
within a residential parking permit area.
B.
Each application shall contain the following information: the name
of the owner or the driver, as the case may be, of the motor vehicle;
the address of the resident or proprietor, as the case may be; the
make, model and registration number of the motor vehicle; and the
driver number as taken from the applicant's current driver's
license. At the discretion of the Township Manager, the applicant
shall be required, at the time of making application, to present his/her
driver's license and the vehicle registration card.
A.
Upon receipt of the application, and determination by the Township
Manager that the information upon the application shows that the applicant
is entitled to a residential parking permit, the Township Manager
shall present the information to the Board of Commissioners for its
approval of the permit. Should the Board of Commissioners conclude
that the safety, health and welfare of the community require the issuance
of the permit and the applicant meet the necessary criteria, the Board
of Commissioners shall issue to the applicant a residential parking
permit.
B.
The permit shall display the serial and registration numbers of the
motor vehicles and the residential parking area number. It shall be
unlawful and a violation of this article for any person to display
other than the current and valid permit while standing or parking
in a residential permit parking area at any time when those permits
are to be displayed.
A.
Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, the
holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted to stand
or park a motor vehicle operated by him/her in any designated residential
parking area during those times when parking of motor vehicles is
permitted in that area. While a vehicle for which a residential parking
permit has been issued is so parked, that permit shall be displayed
so as to be clearly visible through the windshield of the vehicle.
A residential parking permit shall not guarantee or reserve to the
holder a parking space within a designated residential permit parking
area.
B.
A residential parking permit shall not authorize its holder to stand
or park a motor vehicle in any place where or at any time when stopping,
standing or parking of motor vehicles is prohibited or set aside for
other specified types of vehicles; nor shall the permit exempt its
holder from the observance of any traffic or parking regulation other
than residential permit parking regulation or restriction.
C.
No person other than the permit holder whose name appears on the
permit shall use a residential parking permit or display it on a vehicle
operated; any such use or display by a person other than the permit
holder shall constitute a violation of this article by the permit
holder and by the person who so used or displayed the parking permit.
D.
It shall constitute a violation of this article for any person falsely
to represent himself as eligible for a residential parking permit
or to furnish false information in an application to the Township
Manager in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
The Chief of Police and the Rochester Township Police Department
shall have authority to enforce this article and to revoke the residential
parking permit of any permit holder found to be in violation of any
provision of this article. Upon written notification to him/her of
the revocation, the permit holder shall surrender the permit to the
Chief of Police. Failure to do so, when so requested, shall constitute
a violation of this article.
