Wherever a space is marked off on any street for the parking
of an individual vehicle, every vehicle parked there shall be parked
wholly within the lines bounding that space, and it shall be a violation
of this article for any person to park a vehicle or allow it to remain
parked otherwise.
[Amended 11-9-1993, by Ord. No. 929]
Parking shall be prohibited at all times in the following locations:
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Street
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Side
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Between
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Airbrake Avenue
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West
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300 Block
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Card Avenue
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West
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246 Card Avenue
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Card Avenue
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West
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400 Block of Card
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Middle Street
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East
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700 Block to 1000 Block
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Middle Street
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West
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First Street and sign
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Middle Street
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West
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State Street and 116 Middle Street
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Pat Mews Drive
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Both
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Entire length
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St. Joseph Drive
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Both
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Entire length
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Parking shall be prohibited in the following locations at all
times on the days and between the hours indicated in this section,
as follows:
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Street
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Side
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Between
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Days
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Hours
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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(Reserved)
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[Amended 3-4-1992 by Ord. No. 918]
Parking of boats, truck tractors, trailers, any truck over 3/4
ton, tow trucks, motor homes, recreational vehicle campers, mobile
homes on wheels and trucks with campers attached shall be prohibited
on all streets in the Borough, provided that boats, truck tractors,
trailers, any truck over 3/4 ton, tow trucks, motor homes, recreational
vehicle campers, mobile homes on wheels and trucks with campers attached
shall be permitted upon any street for the purpose of making deliveries
to or picking up goods, wares, merchandise or materials from premises
situated upon any such street or alley.
No person shall park a vehicle or allow it to remain parked
for longer than the time indicated in any of the following locations
at any time on the days and between the hours indicated:
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Street
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Side
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Between
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Days
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Hours
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Parking Time Limit
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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(Reserved)
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The following are established as special-purpose-parking zones,
and it shall be unlawful for any person to park a vehicle or to allow
it to remain parked, in any such zone except as specifically provided
for that zone:
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Street
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Side
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Location
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Authorized Purpose or Vehicle
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(Reserved)
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It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, stand or park a
vehicle (other than a pedalcycle) on the roadway side of any vehicle
stopped or parked at the edge or curb of any street, except that standing
or parking for the purpose of loading or unloading persons or property
shall be permitted on the following named streets on Monday through
Saturday, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. and between
the hours of 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., and for no longer than necessary
for the loading or unloading.
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Street
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Side
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Between
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|---|---|---|
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(Reserved)
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A.
Findings and purpose. The Borough of Wilmerding finds that:
(1)
Certain residential areas in the Borough are subjected to commuter
vehicle parking, therefore depriving the residents of those areas
of spaces in which to park their own vehicles;
(2)
Those residential streets are also subjected to a high degree of
commuter traffic which substantially reduces the quality of the ambient
air level; and
(3)
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 Borough considers it to be in the interest
of the people of the Borough of Wilmerding 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.
B.
COMMUTER VEHICLE
PROPRIETOR
RESIDENT
RESIDENTIAL AREA
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, 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 section, a 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 nonbusiness property (such as schools, parks, places of worship,
hospitals and nursing homes).
C.
Criteria. The residential areas designated in Subsection D of this
section are those deemed impacted and hence eligible for residential
parking on the basis of the following criteria:
(1)
During any period between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Monday
through Saturday, except legal holidays, the number of vehicles parked
(or standing), legally or illegally, on the streets in the area is
equal to 70% or more of the legal, on-street parking capacity of the
area. For the purpose of this criterion, a legal parking space shall
be 20 linear feet.
(2)
During the same period as specified in Subsection C(1) directly above,
10% or more of the vehicles parked (or standing) on the streets in
the area are not registered in the name of a person residing in the
area. For the purpose of this criterion, the latest available information
from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Licensing of the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation regarding registration of motor vehicles
shall be used.
(3)
Provided that, in determining that a specific area identified as
impacted and eligible for residential permit parking is designated
as a residential permit parking area, the following factors are taken
into consideration:
(a)
The local and metropolitan needs with respect to clean air and
environment;
(b)
The possibility of a reduction in total vehicle miles driven
in the Borough;
(c)
The likelihood of alleviating traffic congestion, illegal parking
and related health and safety hazards;
(d)
The proximity of public transportation to the residential area;
(e)
The desire and need of the residents for residential permit
parking and their willingness to bear the administrative costs in
connection with it; and
(f)
The need for parking in excess of the residential permit parking
program in proximity to establishments located in the residential
permit parking area and used by the general public for religious,
health or educational purposes.
D.
Designation of residential permit parking areas,
(1)
The following are designated as residential permit parking areas:
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Area
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Bounded By and Including
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Side
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Bluff Street
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Marguerite Street and Commerce Street
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West
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Commerce Street
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Station Street and Bluff Street
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East
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Maple Avenue
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Fourth and Fifth Streets
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East
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Pitcairn Street
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Westinghouse Avenue and Caldwell Avenue
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North
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(2)
Signs shall be erected along the streets in each residential permit
parking area, indicating the days, hours, locations and conditions
under which parking shall be by permit only.
E.
Application for permit. Application for a residential parking permit
shall be made to the Chief of Police 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. A separate
application shall be required for each motor vehicle, and each application
shall be accompanied by a ten-dollar permit fee, which shall be for
the use of the Borough, to be applied to the cost of administering
the residential permit parking program. 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 the 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 Chief of Police, the applicant shall be required, at the time
of making application, to present his driver's license and the
vehicle registration card.
F.
Issuance of permit. Upon receipt of the application and the permit
fee, and determination by him that the information upon the application
shows that the applicant is entitled to a residential parking permit,
the Chief of Police shall issue to the applicant a residential parking
permit, which shall be valid for the remainder of the calendar year.
The permit shall display the serial and registration numbers of the
motor vehicles, the residential parking area number, and the expiration
date. The permit shall be renewable annually before the expiration
date, upon making application for renewal and payment of the ten-dollar
permit fee. It shall be unlawful and a violation of this section 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.
G.
Temporary and exemption parking permits. Temporary parking permits
may be issued by the Chief of Police, upon payment of a fee of $2,
to bona fide visitors of residents of a designated residential permit
parking area, and exemption parking permits may be issued, without
payment of a fee, to handicapped persons.
H.
Responsibility of permit holder:
(1)
Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the
holder of a residential parking permit shall be permitted to stand
or park a motor vehicle operated by him 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.
(2)
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.
(3)
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 section by the permit
holder and by the person who so used or displayed the parking permit.
(4)
It shall constitute a violation of this section for any person falsely
to represent himself as eligible for a residential parking permit
or to furnish false information in an application to the Chief of
Police in order to obtain a residential parking permit.
(a)
Revocation of permits. The Chief of Police shall have authority
to revoke the residential parking permit of any permit holder found
to be in violation of any provision of this section. Upon written
notification to him 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 section, provided that any person
receiving such a notice may, within 10 days after the date of the
notice, appeal to Borough Council for a hearing on the revocation,
and the decision of Borough Council shall be final.
Any person who violates any provision of this article shall,
upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $15 and
costs, provided that it shall be the duty of the police officers and
of parking enforcement personnel of the Borough of Wilmerding to report
to the appropriate official all violations of any provision of this
article, indicating in each case the section violated; the license
number of the vehicle involved in the violation; the location where
the violation took place; and any other facts that might be necessary
in order to secure a clear understanding of the circumstances attending
the violation. The police officer or other person making the report
shall also attach to or place upon every such vehicle a notice stating
that the vehicle was parked in violation of this Article IV. The notice
shall contain instructions to the owner or driver of the vehicle that,
if he will report to the office of the Chief of Police and pay the
sum of $5 within 48 hours after the time of the notice, or if he will
place the sum of $5, enclosed within the envelope provided, in any
of the special parking fine boxes installed at various locations within
the Borough of Wilmerding, that act will save the violator from prosecution
and from payment of the fine and costs prescribed in the first sentence
of this section.
[Added 4-10-1990 by Ord. No. 906; amended 9-13-1994 by Ord. No.
933]
A.
Any person who has been granted a handicapped parking placard from
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who desires a handicapped parking
space in the vicinity of their home shall take a copy of said handicapped
placard or permit to the Borough Secretary and formally request that
a handicapped parking space be provided as close to their residence
as possible.
B.
Once the Borough Secretary has received the request for a handicapped
parking space, he shall forward that request to the Parking Committee
Chairperson.
C.
The Parking Committee Chairperson shall then report to Council with
his recommendation.
D.
Council then shall vote, by motion, on whether or not to grant the
handicapped parking space to the applicant.
E.
Criteria for on-street handicapped parking spaces.
(1)
Where off-street parking is available, a handicapped sign should
not be issued.
(2)
Only under extreme conditions should a sign be issued when the handicapped
person is not the driver of the vehicle.
(3)
If a sign is to be issued, the location should be determined by the
Borough Engineer and should not exceed a length of 20 feet.
(4)
When an official sign is erected, the handicapped space cannot be
reassigned to friends and/or relatives.
(5)
When the space is in use, the handicapped vehicle should be centered
as close as possible within the designated area.
(6)
In May of each year, the issued signs should be reevaluated to be
sure the conditions that allowed for the erection of the sign still
exist.
(7)
Continual abuse of the conditions as outlined may result in the removal
of the privilege of having a handicapped sign.
F.
Application/permit fee.
(1)
Any person who formally requests that an on-street handicap parking
space be established under the provisions of this section for their
benefit must pay an application/permit fee of $50 prior to said request
being forwarded to Council, to defray the costs associated with installation
of the on-street handicap parking space.
(2)
In the event that Council denies the on-street handicap parking space,
said application/permit fee shall be promptly refunded to the applicant.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 941]
The Borough of Wilmerding hereby extends all permitted on-street
parking areas to within 20 feet of any intersection or traffic control
sign or device.
