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7.A. - Page 6 of 32 2. Repeal of Section 20.227 and 20.228 of the Municipal Code, which prohibit and penalize sleeping in a vehicle. These sections are currently unenforceable due to a 2014 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision invalidating a similar ordinance that had been in effect in the City of Los Angeles. The Police Department has recently hired two full time parking enforcement officers who are specifically tasked with parking enforcement in residential neighborhoods and business districts outside of downtown Redwood City. They will enforce the abandoned vehicle ordinance, permit parking, and commercial and recreational vehicle violations, among other things. Next Steps Should the City Council approve establishing a the Parking Program and adopt the related parking ordinance amendments, the City will begin immediately accepting applications for Parking Program participants and will tentatively schedule the opening of the off-street safe parking facility at 1402 Maple to open in late September/early October 2020. The parking ordinances will go into effect 30 days (October 14, 2020) after the second reading, tentatively scheduled for the City Council Meeting on Monday, September 14, 2020. City staff plans to have a two --week grace period providing warnings to RV owners between October 14 and October 31, 2020, with enforcement beginning on November 1, 2020. FISCAL IMPACT The total estimated project budget for the RV Safe Parking Program is approximately $1.7 million for two years. This includes approximately $750,000 per year in operational costs, including services provided by LifeMoves, and approximately $200,000 in one-time Parking Site improvement costs. The estimated budget does not include in-kind staff resources. Furthermore, the City Council at its July 13, 2020 meeting approved using $350,000 in state Permanent Local Housing Allocation grant funds for the rapid rehousing of the Temporary Safe Parking Program participants. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW As proposed, the project is categorically exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines pursuant to: • Section 15301 Class 1 "Existing Facilities" as the proposal amounts to a negligible expansion of the current use. • Section 15304 Class 4 "Minor Alterations to Land" including potentially gravel, striping, and temporary facilities. • Section 15061(b)(3) "Common Sense" as there would be no possibility that the proposal will result in significant environmental effects. There will be no significant cumulative impact or significant effect on the environment when considering the totality of the project as the proposal largely maintains current use, alterations are minor, the use is temporary in nature, and it can be it can be seen, with certainty, that the proposal will not have a significant effect on the environment. Page 6 of 7 .AL . City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore 125