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09-1288Substitute 2/24/2010 Council Fite # 09-1288 Green Sheet # 3083436 ORDINANCE CITY OF SAINT PAUL, OT,A a� Presented by �/��`� An Ordinance Amending Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 157 excluding School buses from the City's Commercial Vehicle Parking Restrictions THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN: Section 1 8 Chapter 157 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended as follows: 9 10 Sea 157.04. Miscellaneous parking restrictions and vehicle definitions. 11 '"V�(�So� y� �a ��� 15 ?O1D 12 a. Definitions. The following words when used in this section shall have the following meanings ascribed 13 to them: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Commercial vehicle shall include any bus or commercial truck, as herein defined, [or] any vehicle designed or modified to serve purposes other than the transportation of persons. A commercial vehicle shall not include public utility vehicles, authorized emergency vehicles and/or those vehicles currently owned and operated by federal, state and local governmental subdivisions. Bus means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used far the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle other than a taxicab designed and used for the transportarion of parsons for compensation. The term "bus" does not include a vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers but not more than fourteen (14) passengers and operated far the personal or family use of the owner or operator. School bus shall have the definition found in Minnesota Statutes Chapter 169 Commercial truck sha11 include a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and licensed under the motor carrier laws of the State of Minnesota far the transportation of property but not persons, or a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and used exclusively in the transportation of property in commerce but not for the transportation of persons at any time. A commercial truck shall not include station-wagon- type vehicles, utility class vehicles, pickup trucks, any vehicle in which the cargo space is enlarged by the removal or folding down of seats, vans with more seats than for a driver and helper or any vehicle originally designed as a passenger-type vehicle. b. Overweight vehicle. Any vehicle, with or without load, which weighs more than six thousand (6,000) pounds or is registered for a gross weight of more than nine thousand (9,000) pounds or is greater than twenty- two (22) feet in length and/or seven and one-half (7 1/2) feet in height. This definition includes but is not limited to semi-trailers, tow trucks, buses, limousines, tractors, construction equipment or similar vehicles. This definition excludes licensed, operable recreational vehicles (RV's). No vehicle shall be parked in violation of any of the following provisions: 09-1285 43 (1) No person, firm ar corporation operating any public garage shall park vehicles on the streets or 44 alleys adjacent to or in the vicinity of such public garage for a longer period than ninety (90) minutes. 45 46 (2) No vehicle shall be parked within eighty (80) feet of the point where the property line projected 47 would intersect a street upon which buses are operated, where the comer where such intersection takes 48 place is used as a bus stop. 49 50 (3) No vehicle shall be parked within thirty (30) feet of any arterial stop sign or sign indicating the > 1 direction for travel. 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 (4) No vehicle shall be parked on the approaches to any bridge, nor upon any boulevard, lawn or grass plot; provided, however, that parking on lawn in required side and front yards shall be permitted if such parking occurs within the special overlay zoning district known as "State Fair Parking District," as established by Section 60.711 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code. (5) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley in the congested district, as the term "congested districP' is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading, and then only for the length of time reasonably necessary therefor. (6) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading unless at leasY ten (10) feet of the alley be IeH available for the free movement of traFfic. (7) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing upon the private property of any person without the 67 consent of such property owner. 68 b9 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 (8) No vehicle shall be parked on any street or alley for more than forty-eight (48) hours. (9) No vehicle or combination of vehicles except those registered as recreational vehicles pursuant tQ Minnesota Statutes, Section 168.013, subdivision lg(1988), twenty-two (22) feet or more in length and seven (7) feet or more in width, measured between the two (2) most widely separated points ar proportions on either side of such vehicle ar combination of vehicles, shall be pazked on any street or alley for more than thirty (30) minutes, or for a time longer than reasonably necessary to load or unload such vehicle or combination of vehicles. (10) No vehicle or any part of a vehicle sha11 be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for the purpose of loading and unloading, within five (5) feet of any driveway or garage entrance or on the side of an alley opposite any driveway or garage entrance within twenty (20) feet of said driveway or garage entrance. (11) No person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked or stopped upon any street or alley in the City of Saint Paul within one hundred (100) feet of any place where tree himming is being performed by the division of parks and recreation or a designee; and the director of the division of parks and recreation is hereby authorized to procure signs of such size as to be easily legible indicating that tree trimming work is in progress and that parking is banned within one hundred ( 100) feet of the location of such work; and the director or his/her designee is further authorized to place or cause to be placed a �• :: 89 sufficient number of such sigis in each and every location where tree trimming is being or is about to be 90 carried out so as to inform the public of the parking resh in the area. 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 (12) No vehicle designed, used or maintained for the transportation of garbage or rubbish, whether licensed or unlicensed, shall be parked or left standing on any private property, street or atley in any Class R-1, 2, 3, or 4, RT-1, 2, or RM-1, 2, or 3 District for more than thirty (30) minutes. (13) Commercial vehicles; parking restrictions: No vehicle defined herein as commercial or overweight shall be parked overnight or stored on property zoned residential or occupied exclusively as residential nor shall any such vehicle, excluding a school bus where its driver Qarks the bus at the curb abuttine the driver's residential nronertv or on the driver's residential propertv, said oropertv being the address on the driver's Minnesota driver license, for up to a maafimum four hour period, which is within or abutting, including across a street or alley, from an R-1 through R-4, RT-1, RT-2, or RM-1 through RM-3 Zoning Dish shall be permitted to stop, stand or park on any street, unless such vehicle is actually engaged in the loading or unloading of passengers or materials from the vehicle or is actually engaged in the providing of services at that location, or in compliance with official traffio-control devices or the direction of a police officer. Not withstandin�the above limitations if a resident of a residential zoned area of the cit complains to the city's school liaison uerson, of the disturbance of any parked school bus in their area the citv's liaison person shall submit a written letter of concern to the school district. Section 2 113 This ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its passage, approval and publication. ��' �fAR 15 ?O10 AdopYion Certified by Coun 7 Secretary By: / � /.! Appr ed b or te � D J' t? By: Requested by Department of: B Approved by fhe Office of Financial Services By: Appro ed b ity Attomey By: Approved ayor for Submission to Council By: 09-1288 � Green Sheet Green Sheet Green Sheet Green Sheet Green Sheet Green Sheet DepartrnenUOfficeiCouncit: � Pp Police Department Contact Person ffi Phone: � Chief John Harrinqton 266-5588 Must Be on Councii Agenda by (Date): Doc. Type:ORDINAN -- - Date init{ated: 09 OCT 2009 � 0 t - Assign 2 Number 3 For - Routing ��� a Order 9 6 Green Sheet NO: 3083436 ��� - ---- - ---- -- ----- ---- ---- - Deoartnent Sent To Person Initial/Date Police Departnent � Police Department _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ Potice Depar[ment _ _ _ _ Police Departmen� __, __ _ _ C�ty Attomey _ _ _ C�ty AKOrney _ _ r / _ ___ __ . _ —__ V_ Fi_nancial Services __ _ _ _ _ ', _ _ Directoy FSO_ _ _ __ -_ __- __.- - - _ _ - Mayor's Office, . '' Mey_or _ _ _ _ Council - -- - - - CounciV _ __ _ _ _ __ — __—____ _- _ . ___-___— _ _ . _-_ _ ___ - - _ ., __ . _ _ ___ 'City CIeYk _ _ _ � _ _ CiIYCIerk _ __ _ _- __— -_ __ _ _ _ __ ____ _ __ _' _- _ __ ' _ _ _. _ _ __ ' _ � E-DOCUment Requi[ed: Y 7 Potice Department _ Pohce Department , ____ Document ConWct: Eugene Polyak ' � ConWCt Phone: 266-5516 ' , Total # of Signature Pages �� (Ciip All L� � ocations for Signature) � . _- __ __-_ ___ _____ __ _ __ -_ _- _ . _ _ _ _ __ __ -__ i Action Requested: I Signatures on the attached council resolution ordinance to amend Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 157, General Pazking I Restriction. Recommendafions: Approve (A) or Rejeci (R): � Planning Commission CIB Committee Clvil Service Commission Personal Service Contracts Must Answer the Following Questions � 1. Has this person/firm ever worked under a contract for this department? Yes No 2. Has this personitirtn ever been a city employee? Yes No 3. Does this person/firm possess a skill not normally pos5essed by any curzent city employee� �'� I Yes No � '� : Explain all yes answers on separete sheet and attach to green sheet. � 'I -_ _ _ . - ______ -_ _ _ �_ —_____ __ —___ _ _. _ _ ___— _- ___ _--_- ____ __J . Initiating Probiem, Issues, OppoRunity (Whq What, When, Where, Why): j '�, Authorization needed to amend Saint Paul Legislative Code Chaptex 157, General Pazking Restriction to facilitate an exception for �I school buses. i` - - - - - - - - -- - - --- -- -- - - -- --- - �, AdvanWges If Approved: '� The Saint Paul Legislative Code 157 will include general pazking restrictions to school buses. �I '� ------- ----- �-------- --------- --��----- ------- . __ -_-- -- ; Disadvantages If Approved: I None. i �i L ------- _ . _------ - ------- ----- - ---- -- — ------- ---- --� ----- - -.I : DisadvanWges if Noi Approved: � I ji School buses will not be included in the Saint Paul Legislative Code 157, General Pazking Restricrion. r --- ---- - --- -- - -- — ' Total Amount of �I Trensaction: i i Punding Source: � Financiallnformation: , (Explain) CostlRevenue 6udgeted: Activity Namber. �,_. �; �CT 4 � �Q09 __- - � _ -� __ -��� October 9, 2009 11:03 AM Page 1 Substitute 1/13/2010 Council File # 09-1288 Green Sheet # 3083436 ORDINANCE /�, „ CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA Presented by An Ordinance Amending Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 157 excluding School buses from the City's Commercial Vehicle Parking Restrictions C! 6 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SA1NT PAUL DOES ORDAIN: Section 1 8 Chapter 157 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended as follows: 10 Sea 157.04. Miscellaneous parking restrictions and vehicle definitions. 11 12 a. Definitions. The following words when used in this section shall have the following meanings ascribed 13 to them: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Commercial vehicle shall include any bus or commercial truck, as herein defined, [or] any vehicle designed or modified to serve purposes other than the transportation of persons. A commercial vehicle shall not include public utility vehicles, authorized emergency vehicles and/or those vehicles currently owned and operated by federal, state and local governmental subdivisions. Bus means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle other than a taxicab designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. The term "bus" does not include a vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers but not more than fourteen (14) passengers and operated for the personal or family use of the owner or operator. School bus shall have the definition found in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 169. Commercial truck shall include a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and licensed under the motor carrier laws of the State of Minnesota for the transportation of property but not persons, or a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and used exclusively in the transportation of property in commerce but not for the transportation of persons at any time. A commercial truck shall not include station-wagon- type vehicles, utility class vehicles, pickup trucks, any vehicle in which the cargo space is enlarged by the removal or folding down of seats, vans with more seats than for a driver and helper or any vehicle originally designed as a passenger-type vehicle. b. Overweight vehicle. Any vehicle, with or without load, which weighs more than six thousand (6,000) pounds or is registered for a gross weight of more than nine thousand (4,000) pounds or is greater than twenty- two (22) feet in length and/or seven and one-half (7 1/2) feet in height. This definirion includes but is not limited to semi-trailers, tow trucks, buses, limousines, tractors, construction equipment or similar vehicles. This definition excludes licensed, operable recreational vehicles (RV's). No vehicle shall be parked in violation of any of the following provisions: �• :: 43 (1) No person, firm or corporation operating any public garage shall park vehicles on the streets or 44 alleys adjacent to or in the vicinity of such public garage for a longer period than ninety (90) minutes. 45 46 (2) No vehicle shall be parked within eighty (80) feet of the point where the property line projected 47 would intersect a street upon which buses are operated, where the corner where such intersection takes 48 place is used as a bus stop. 49 50 (3) No vehicle shall be parked within thirty (30) feet of any arterial stop sign or sign indicating the 51 direction for travel. 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 (4) No vehicle shall be parked on the approaches to any bridge, nor upon any boulevazd, lawn or grass plot; provided, however, that parking on lawn in required side and front yards shall be permitted if such parking occurs within the special overlay zoning district laiown as "State Fair Parking District," as established by Secrion 60.711 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code. (5) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley in the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in 5ection 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading, and then only for the length of time reasonably necessary therefor. 62 (6) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested 63 districY' is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading unless at least ten 64 (10) feet of the alley be left available for the free movement of traffic. 65 66 (7) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing upon the private property of any person without the 67 consent of such property owner. 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 (8) No vehicle shall be parked on any street or alley for more than forty-eight (48) hours. (9) No vehicle or combination of vehicles except those registered as recreational vehicles pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Secrion 168.013, subdivision 1g(1988), twenty-two (22) £eet or more in length and seven (7) feet or more in width, measured between the two (2) most widely separated points or proportions on either side of such vehicle or combination of vehicles, shall be parked on any street or alley for more than thirty (30) minutes, ar for a Yime longer than reasonably necessary to load or unload such vehicle or combination of vehicles. (10) No vehicle or any part of a vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except far the purpose of loading and unloading, within five (5) feet of any driveway or garage entrance or on the side of an alley opposite any driveway or garage entrance within twenty (20) feet of said driveway or garage entrance. (11) No person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked or stopped upon any street or alley in the City of Saint Paul within one hundred (100) feet of any place where tree trimming is being performed by the division of parks and recreation or a desigiee; and the director of the division of parks and recreation is hereby authorized to procure signs of such size as to be easily legible indicating that tree trimming work is in progress and that parking is banned within one hundred ( 100) feet of the location of such work, and the director or his/her designee is further authorized to place or cause to be placed a �� 89 sufficient number of such signs in each and every location where tree trimming is being or is about to be 90 carried out so as to inform the public of the parking restriction in the area. 91 92 (12) No vehicle designed, used or maintained for the transportation of garbage or rubbish, whether 93 licensed or unlicensed, shall be parked or left standing on any private property, street or alley in any Class 94 R-1, 2, 3, or 4, RT-1, 2, or RM-1, 2, or 3 District for more than thirty (30) minutes. 95 96 (13) Commercial vehicles; parking restrictions: 97 No vehicle defined herein as commercial or overweight shall be parked overnight or stored on property 98 zoned residential or occupied exclusively as residential nor shall any such vehicle, excludin�a school bus 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 which is within or abutting, including across a street or alley, from an R-1 tlu R-4, RT-1, RT-2, or RM-1 through RM-3 Zoning District, shall be permitted to stop, stand ar park on any street, unless such vehicle is actually engaged in the loading or unloading of passengers or materials from the vehicle or is actually engaged in the providing of services at that location, or in compliance with official traffio-control devices or the direction of a police officer. 106 107 Not withstanding the about limitations if a resident of a residential zoned area of the citv comnlains to the 108 city's school liaison person, of the disturbance of anv parked school bus in their area the citv's liaison 109 person shall submit a written letter of concern to the school district. 110 111 Section 2 112 113 This ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after its passage, approval and publication. Yeas Nays Absent Bostrom Carter Harris Helgen Lanhy Stark Thune Adopted by Council: Date Adoption Certified by Council Secretary By: Approved by Mayor: Date B Requested by Depariment of: � Appioved by the Office of Financial Services By: Appre"ved b ' Attorney By: Approved ayor for Submission to Council By: Council File # 09-1288 Green Sheet #� � ORIlINANCE CITY OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA , � a n s�% —I— Presented by 1 A legislative ordinance to amend Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 157, General Parking Restriction, to 2 facilitate an exception for school buses. 4 THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN: 5 ( Section 1 7 8 Sec. 157.04. Miscellaneous parking restrictions and vehicle de�nitions. 10 a. Definitions. The following words when used in this section shall have the following meanings I 1 ascribed to them: 12 13 CommeYCial vehicle shall include any bus or commercial truck, as herein defined, [or] any vehicle 14 designed or modified to serve purposes other than the transportation of persons. A commercial 15 vehicle shall not include public utility vehicles, authorized emergency vehicles and/or those 16 vehicles currently owned and operated by federal, state and local governmental subdivisions. 17 18 Bus means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for 19 the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle other than a taxicab designed and used for 20 the transportation of persons for compensation. The tetm "bus" does not include a vehicle designed 21 for carrying more than ten (10) passengers but not more than fourteen (14) passengers and operated 22 for the personal or family use of the owner or operator. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 b. 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 School bus shall have tbe definition found in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 169. Commercial truck shall include a motor vehiele designed and registered as a truek and licensed under the motor carrier laws of the State of Minnesota for the transportation of property but not persons, or a motor vehicle designed and registered as a truck and used exclusively in the transportation of property in commerce but not for the transportation of persons at any time. A commercial truck shall not include station-wagon-type vehicles, utility class vehicles, pickup trucks, any vehicle in which the cargo space is enlarged by the removal or folding down of seats, vans with more seats than for a driver and helper or any vehicle originally designed as a passenger- type vehicle. Overweight vehicle. Any vehicle, with or without load, which weighs more than six thousand (6,000) pounds or is registered for a gross weight of more than nine thousand (9,000) pounds or is greater than twenty-two (22) feet in length andlor seven and one-half (7 1/2) feet in height. Tl�is definition includes but is not limited to semi-trailers, tow trucks, buses, limousines, tractors, constnxction equipment or similar vehicles. This definition exciudes licensed, operable recreational vehicles (RV's). No vehicle shall be parked in violation of any of the following provisions: �• :: 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 (I ) No person, firm or corporarion operating any public garage shall park vehicles on the streets or alleys adjacent to or in the vicinity of such public garage for a longer period than ninety (90) minutes. {2) No vehicle shall be parked within eighty (80) feet of the point where the property line projected would intersect a street upon which buses are operated, where the corner where such intersection takes place is used as a bus stop. (3) No vehicle shall be parked within thirty (30) feet of any arterial stop sign or sign indicating the direction for travel. (4) No vehicle shall be parked on the approaches to any bridge, nor upon any boulevard, lawn or grass plot; provided, however, that parking on lawn in required side and front yards shall be permitted if such parking occurs within the special overlay zoning district known as "State Fair Parking District," as established by Section 60.711 of the 5aint Paul Legislative Code. (5) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley in fhe congested district, as the term "congested districY' is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for puzposes of loading and unloading, and then only for the length of time reasonably necessary therefor. (6) No vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Secrion 151.02(5), except for purposes of loading and unloading unless at least ten (10) feet of the alley be left available for the free movement of traffic. (7) No vehicle shall be parked or left standing upon the private property of any person without the consent of such property owner. (8) No vehicle shall be parked on any street or alley for more than forty-eight (48) hours. (9) No vehicle ar combination of vehicles except those registered as recreational vehicles pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Secrion 168A13, subdivision 1 g(1988), twenty-two (22) feet or more in length and seven (7) feet or more in width, measured between the two (2) most widely separated points or proportions on either side of such vehicle or combination of vehicles, shall be parked on any street or a11ey for more than thirty (30) minutes, or for a time longer than reasonably necessary to load or unload such vehicle or combination of vehicles. (10) No vehicle or any part of a vehicle shall be parked in any alley outside the congested district, as the term "congested district" is defined in Section 151.02(5), except for the purpose of loading and unloading, within five (5) feet of any driveway or garage entrance or on the side of an alley opposite any driveway or garage entrance within twenty (20) feet of said driveway or garage entrance. ( I 1) No person shall park any vehicle or allow any vehicle to remain parked or stopped upon any street or alley in the city within one hundred (iQ0) feet of any place where tree trimming is being performed by the deparhnent of parks and recreation or a designee; and the director of parks and recreation is hereby authorized to procure signs of such size as to be easily legible indicating that tree trimming work is in progress and that parking is banned within one hundred (100) feet of the �• :: 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 location of such work; and the director or hisiher designee is further authorized to place or cause to be placed a sufficient number of such signs in each and every location where tree trimming is being or is about to be carried out so as to inform the public of the parking restriction in the area. (12) No vehicle designed, used or maintained for the transportation of gazbage or rubbish, whether licensed or unlicensed, shall be parked or left standing on any private property, street or alley in any Class R-I, 2, 3, or 4, RT-1, 2, or RM-1, 2, or 3 District for more than thirty (30) minutes. (13) Commercial vehicles; parking restrictions: No vehicle defined herein as commerciai or overweight shall be pazked ovemight or stored on proper[y zoned residential or occupied exclusively as residential nor shall any such vehicle, excluding a school bus between the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 n.m., Mondav through Fridav, which is within or abutting, including across a street or alley, from an R-1 through R-4, RT-1, RT-2, or RM-1 through RM-3 Zoning District, shall be permitted to stop, stand or park on any street unless such vehicle is actually engaged in the loading or unloading of passengers or materials from the vehicle or is actually engaged in the providing of services at that location, or in compliance with official traffic-control devices ar the direction of a police officer. Section 2 That this ordinance revision shall take affect and be in force thirty (30) days after its passage, approval and publication. of: Adophon Certified by Council Secretary By: Approved by Mayor: Date F��roved ie c anci 1 Se ' Cs By: �- Approve � C' y Attomey �) By: ` G---�_ Approv d b a or fo ubmi i to Council By: � Adopted by Council: Date