AgdaPkt 2016-09-12 Closed and Joint SA PFA

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required parking spaces (driveway and garage). Staff is looking to the Council for guidance on whether additional restrictions should be put in place. · Abandoned Vehicles: The most common request that the Police Department receives are calls for abandoned vehicle or vehicles that have been parked in one place for more than 72 hours. The current code is not sufficient to fully address these requests and requires updating to meet the needs of the community. An updated code will allow for more effective enforcement. · Commercial Vehicle Parking: With the growth of home-based businesses, the Police Department has a hard time determining what is an improper commercial vehicle parked in a neighborhood. For example, the City often receives complaints that small fleets of landscaping trucks are parking in neighborhoods during the evening. The trucks are usually owned by a neighborhood resident, and do not actually qualify as a commercial vehicle under the Vehicle Code. Additional guidance in the code is needed to effectively enforce these vehicles. · Street Sweeping: Street sweeping is also an area that generates concerns from the community. Streets are often heavily parked, limiting street sweepers to the main travel lanes of the road. There has been increased interest from the community to implement no parking periods (as is the case in San Francisco) to help with the street sweeping activities. The working group acknowledged the potential for multiple benefits: allowing streets to be better cleared of debris, improving stormwater quality and forcing vehicles to periodically relocate. However, the main concern for implementing these restrictions is that the Police Department has limited resources and does not currently have the staff available to actively enforce expanded street sweeping restrictions. Effectively implementing these restrictions would require modifications to other services in the Police Department or other departments. · Curb Panting (Red Tipping): Many of the calls from residents involve improperly parked cars. This includes parking in a manner that occupies more than one available parking space or blocking/encroaching on a driveway. Over ten years ago the City of Redwood City would paint small amounts red curb on the sides of driveways (red tipping) to help encourage parkers to provide access to the driveway. This initiative turned out to be large resource drain to maintain all of these red curbs. Currently, the City does not typically install this red curb unless there are safety or other extraordinary concerns involved. Painted red curbs are not required for the Police Department to enforce a car blocking a driveway, but the visual cue of a red curb does discourage drivers from blocking driveways. While it is currently the practice not to install this non-safety related red curb at driveways, the working group sees the preventive benefit of a red- tipping program. For this reason, the working group recommends that the red tipping become an available service for resident at an appropriate fee that will allow the program to sustain itself. Other Bay Area cities provide this service at a fee to support the program. The fee ranges from $120 to $200. 9.A - Page 6