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ORDINANCE No. 1680
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME
AMENDING TITLE 13 TO CLARIFY AND AFFIRM PARKING REGULATIONS
WITH REGARD TO STREET AND PUBLIC OFF-STREET PARKING
The CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF BURLINGAME does hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. Making parking in on -street and off-street facilities as efficient and pleasant
as possible is a key element to sustaining the vitality of the shopping districts of the City.
Clarification of some of the regulations in title 13 of the Municipal Code would assist in parking
enforcement and ensuring security and upkeep of the parking facilities. This ordinance also affirms
the existing angle parking spaces on streets in the City.
Section 2. Section 13.16.010 is amended to read as follows:
13.16.010 Authority to restrict turning movements.
The city engineer is authorized to determine intersections, driveways, and other entrances
to streets at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or U -tum, and shall cause to be
placed proper signs at such intersections, driveways, or other entrances. The making of such turns
may be prohibited between certain hours of any day and permitted at other hours, in which event
the same shall be plainly indicated on the signs, or the signs may be removed during the hours
when such turns are permitted.
Section 3. Section 13.32.170 is amended to read as follows:
13.32.170 Vehicles of excessive length.
No vehicle, including a track, tractor, trailer, camping vehicle or combination thereof that
exceeds twenty
(20) feet in overall length shall be parked at any time upon a public municipal
parking facility or in an angle street parking space. This prohibition shall not apply to trucks or
delivery vehicles which are stopped or parked temporarily for loading or unloading merchandise
and materials.
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Section 4. Section 13.36.045 is amended to read as follows:
13.36.045 Angle Parking.
(a) The following streets are designated as streets on which the city engineer may place
angle parking:
(1) Burlingame Avenue between California Drive and El Camino Real;
(2) California Drive between Burlingame Avenue and Highland Avenue;
(3) Chapin Avenue between Primrose Road and El Camino Real;
(4) East Lane between North Lane and Burlingame Avenue
(5) The 1800 block of the Frontage Road to El Camino Real;
(6) Howard Avenue from Highland Avenue to Primrose Road;
(7) Magnolia Avenue from Trousdale Drive to Murchison Avenue; and
(8) Oak Grove Avenue from North Carolan Avenue to Linden Avenue.
(b) On any of the streets or portions of streets established as angle parking zones, when
signs or pavement markings are in place indicating such diagonal parking, it shall be unlawful for
the operator of any vehicle to park such vehicle except:
(1) At the an
gle to the curb or wheel stop indicated by signs or pavement markings allotting
space to parked vehicles and entirely within the limits of such allott
ed space;
(2) With the fr
ont wheel nearest the curb or wheel stop within six (6) inches of the curb or
wheel stop.
(c) The provisions of subsection (b)(2) shall not apply when a vehicle is actually engaged
in the process of loading or unloading fr
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(d) Angle parking includes both diagonal and perpendicular parking.
Section 5. Section 13.36.046 is amended to read as follows:
13.36.046 Parking space markings.
(a) Whenever parking space markings are placed on a street or parking lot, subject to other
and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left stan
ding or parked:
(1) So as to impede or block the flow of traffic on the traveled way; nor
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(2) Other than entirely within a single space as defined by the parking space markings.
(b) Whenever parking space markings are placed on a street or parking lot, no more than
one vehicle may be parked within a single space.
Section 6. Section 13.36.047 is amended to provide as follows:
13.36.047 Limited height parking zones.
(a) Limited height parking zones, not in excess of one hundred feet of any intersection, or
on certain streets or highways or portions thereof, maybe established by the city engineer. Limited
height parking zones may also be established bythe city engineer for or anyportion within any city
off-street parking facility.
(b) Itis unlawful for any vehicle, more than six feet in height to park in an area designated
as a limited height parking zone.
(c) The city engineer shall provide for the placement of signs marking such parking zones.
Section 7. Section 13.36.049 is amended to read as follows:
13.36.049 Moving vehicles in municipal parking facilities.
It is unlawful for any person to move a vehicle within a city parking facility so that it
remains therein for a period oftime in violation of Section 13.36.050. Anyvehicle observed at two
or more parking spaces in the parking facilitywithin such a period of time and having an observed
odometer change of less than one-tenth miles shall be presumed to have remained within such lot;
a vehicle observed at two or more parking spaces in the parking facility within such a period of
time and with the odometer obscured from view from without the vehicle shall be rebuttably
presumed to have remained stationary.
Section 8. Section 13.36.050 is amended to read as follows:
13.36.050 Municipal parking facilities.
(a) his
unlawful for any person to park any vehicle on any property owned, possessed or
maintained by the city as a municipal parking facility in violation of time limitations or any other
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regulations which may be fixed or determined by resolution or ordinance of the city council
(b) It is unlawful for any person to park or operate any vehicle on any property owned,
possessed or maintained by the city as a municipal parking facility in violation of any regulations
which may be fixed or determined pursuant to this title.
(c) No such regulation shall be enforceable prior to installation of appropriate signs giving
notice of the provisions of the regulation.
Section 9. Section 13.36.052 is amended to read as follows:
13.36.052 Application of other chapters to municipal parking facilities.
Al] provisions of this title, including but not limited to those regarding parking meters,
stopping, standing, and parking vehicles, insofar as they are applicable, shall apply to public off-
street parking facilities owned or operated by the city.
Section 10. Section 13.38.020 is amended to read as follows:
13.38.020 Signage and curb and pavement markings to indicate stopping and parking
regulations
(a) The city engineer is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this title,
to place, and when required herein shall place, the following curb markings to indicate parking or
standing regulations, and such curb markings shall have the meanings as herein set fort
h:
(1) "Red" shall mean
no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as permitted by
the Vehicle Code or this title, an
d except that a bus may stop in a red zone marked or signed as a
bus stop.
(2) "Yellow" shall mean no stopping, standing or parking at any time between eight a.m.
and six p.m. of an
y day except Sundays and holidays for any purpose other than the loading or
unloading of passengers or freight. The city engineer may apply these restrictions for longer hours
or on Sundays and holidays, or both, for particular yellow zones, and such additional restrictions
shall be effective when signs are posted giving notice of the restrictions.
(3) "White" shall mean no stopping, standing or parking for any purpose
other than loading
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or unloading or passengers, or for the purpose of depositing mail in an adjacent mail box, which
shall not exceed three minutes, and such restrictions shall apply between eight a.m. and six p.m.
of any day except Sundays and holidays and except that when such zone is in front of a hotel,
theater or public building, or in front of a mailbox, the restrictions shall apply at all times.
(4) "Green" shall mean no standing or parking for longer than thirty minutes, unless some
other period of time is indicated, between eight a.m. and six p.m. on any day except Sundays and
holidays. The city engineer may apply these restrictions for longer hours or on Sundays and
holidays, or both, forparticular green zones, and such additional restrictions shall be effective when
signs are posted giving notice of the restrictions.
(5) "Blue" shall mean no stopping standing or parking for any purpose by any vehicle
except those displaying a distinguishing plate or placard issued to disabled persons or disabled
veterans.
(b) The city engineer is authorized to mark the pavement or to post signs, or both, in
addition to or in place of such curb markings as the city engineer may detemune and as provided
by state law and regulations.
(c) The city engineer is authorized to establish zones combining any ofthe above markings
and signage for such hours an
d days as maybe determined.
Section 11. This ordinance shall be published as required bylaw.
'Mayor
I, ANN T. MUSSO, City Clerk ofthe City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 4th day
of Februarv, 2002, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 20th
day of Februarv, 2002, by the following vote:
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AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BAYLOCK, COFFEY, GALLIGAN, JANNEY, O'MAHONY
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NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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ABSENT: COUNCILMEM 3ERS: NONE
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Deputy City Clerk
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