CITY OF MERCED - File #: 16-145

• File #: 16-145
• Version: 1
• Type: Consent Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/7/2016
• In control: City Council/Public Finance and Economic Development Authority/Parking Authority/Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency
• On agenda: 4/18/2016
• Final action: 4/18/2016
• Title: SUBJECT: Consideration of an Ordinance Dealing with Angle Parking, No Parking Zones, Freight and Passenger Loading Zones, and Accessible Passenger Loading Zone on N Street between W. 18th and W. 19th Streets REPORT IN BRIEF Consider introducing ordinance for the removal of angle-parking along a portion of N Street and replacing with a Freight and Passenger Loading Zone and Accessible Passenger Loading Zone as part of UC Merced's Downtown Building Project. RECOMMENDATION City Council - Adopt a Motion introducing Ordinance 2458, an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Merced, California, amending Merced Municipal Code Sections 10.28.090, "Angle Parking Permitted Where," 10.28.230, "No Parking Zone," and 10.32.050, "Freight and Passenger Loading Zones - Locations," and adding Section 10.28.059, "Accessible Passenger Loading Zones," to the Merced Municipal Code.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/18/2016	1	City Council/Public Finance and Economic Development Authority/Parking Authority/Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency	approved	Pass

Report Prepared by: Frank Quintero, Director of Economic Development, Economic Development Department

Title
SUBJECT: Consideration of an Ordinance Dealing with Angle Parking, No Parking Zones, Freight and Passenger Loading Zones, and Accessible Passenger Loading Zone on N Street between W. 18th and W. 19th Streets

REPORT IN BRIEF
Consider introducing ordinance for the removal of angle-parking along a portion of N Street and replacing with a Freight and Passenger Loading Zone and Accessible Passenger Loading Zone as part of UC Merced's Downtown Building Project.

RECOMMENDATION
City Council - Adopt a Motion introducing Ordinance 2458, an Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Merced, California, amending Merced Municipal Code Sections 10.28.090, "Angle Parking Permitted Where," 10.28.230, "No Parking Zone," and 10.32.050, "Freight and Passenger Loading Zones - Locations," and adding Section 10.28.059, "Accessible Passenger Loading Zones," to the Merced Municipal Code.

Body
ALTERNATIVES
1. Approve, as recommended by the Traffic Committee; or,
2. Modify ordinance for introduction; or,
3. Deny

AUTHORITY
The Merced Municipal Code (MMC):

Section 10.28.070 - Angle parking-Markings.
Whenever any provision of this code or other ordinance of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof upon which angle parking shall be permitted, the city engineer shall mark or sign such street indicating the angle at which vehicles shall be parked.

Section 10.28.080 - Angle parking-Method.
When signs or markings are in place indicating angle parking as provided by Section 10.28.070, no person shall park or stand a vehicle other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such signs or markings.

Section 10.28.180 - Curb markings-Generally.
The city engineer is authorized, subject to the provisions and limitations of this chapter to place, and when required shall place, the following curb markin...