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HomeMy WebLinkAbout010 - 05/29/1947 - AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 017, 1936, REGULATING THE USE OF AND TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS ORDINANCE NO 10 1947 BEING AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO 17, 1936, AS AMENDED, REGULATING THE USE OF AND TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALMS AND SIDEWALKS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF PARKING METERS, REGULATING THE PARKING OF VEHICLES, PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS Section 1 That Section 10 of Ordinance No 17, 1936, of the City of Fort Collins, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows "Section 10 All vehicles shall stop near the curb, except in cases of emergency, for the purpose of allowing an- other vehicle or pedestrians to cross, and no vehicle shall be permitted to park on any street except as follows, to-wit (a) All vehicles shall be parked on the right hand side and parallel with the' curb, not more than twelve inches from the curb, except that vehicles shall be parked at an angle of 45 degrees and against the curb in the following blocks in the City of Fort Collins South College Avenue, 100 and 200 blocks All of North College Avenue All of East Mountain Avenue except 100 block on North side West Mountain Avenue, 100 and 200 blocks East Olive Street, 100 block West Olive Street, 100 block All of Walnut Street All of Pine Street All of Linden Street Laporte Avenue, 100 block All of Jefferson Street West Oak Street, 100 and 200 blocks East Oak Street, 100 block Remington Street, 100 block South Mason Street, 100 block (b) Vehicles may be parked in the center of the 100 block on South College Avenue, 100 block on North College Ave- nue, 100 and 200 blocks on West Mountain Avenue, and from the East side of Linden Street to Peterson Street on East Mountain Avenue at an angle of 45 degrees within the lanes marked there- for, with the nearest point of the vehicle 5 feet 9 inches dis- tant from the nearest rail of the street railway track, and vehicles may be parked in the center ofrthe 200 block on North College Avenue at an angle of 45 degrees within the lanes marked therefor, provided that trucks and cars with trailers as described in Section 12 of said Ordinance No 17, 1936, as amended by Ordinance No 12, 1937, may be parked parallel in the center of said 200 block Vehicles parked in the center of the street shall not back out and in departing from said center parking shall yield the right of way to all vehicles approaching from the right All vehicles parked in the center of the street shall drive into said parking lanes from that portion of the street nearest said parking lanes (c) No vehicles parked at an angle shall back out more than six feet without stopping and giving an audible signal, and all vehicles backing from the curb, whether parked at an angle or parallel with the curb, shall yield the right of way to all other vehicles or pedestrians approaching or passing thereby (d) Parking in the paving districts, except in places where center parking is permitted, is hereby prohibited between 2 the hours of 1 00 A M and 6 00 A M (e) Double parking is hereby prohibited (f) All vehicles shall be parked between the estab- lished parking lanes when such are marked and not otherwise (g) Bicycles shall not be left on the sidewalk, against any building or lying upon the curb, and shall only be parked in such spaces as are provided therefor (h) No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle, except trhen necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or traf- fic control device, in any of the following places On the sidewalk, in front of a public or private driveway, except where lanes are marked, within an intersection, within five (5) feet of a fire hydrant, on a cross walk, between a safety zone and the adjacent curb, within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of the street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy- five (75) feet of said entrance when properly marked, alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when such standing, stopping or parking would obstruct traffic, on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street, on any place where official signs prohibit stopping, on any street railway track except 100 block on North College Avenue in front of any entrance or building where officially designated and marked by appropriate signs (i) No vehicle shall be permitted to remain parked in the center of the street in the same space for more than one hour between the hours of 8 00 A M and 6 00 P M on Monday to Friday, inclusive, and between the hours of 8 00 A M and 9 00 P M on Saturday of each week in any of the following blocks, to-wit 3 J South College Avenue, 100 block North College Avenue 100 block West Mountain Avenue, 100 block East Mountain Avenue 100 block ( j) No vehicle shall be permitted to remain parked in the same space for more than the limited time designated thereat, in any space in the City of Fort Collins marked white by the Commissioner of Works and designating the length of time vehicles may be parked in said space " Section 2 That Ordinance No 17, 1936, of the City of Fort Collins, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto Sections 41 and 42, to read as follows "Section 41 That in order to accelerate the free movement of traffic upon the streets of the City, to promote the safety and convenience and more equitably distribute the privilege of parking vehicles in the more congested areas in the business district, mechanical parking time indicators commonly known as "parking meters" shall be installed at the curb in metered spaces established by the City Manager along the following streets South College Avenue, 100 and 200 blocks North College Avenue, 100 block West Mountain Avenue, 100 block East Mountain Avenue 100 block West Oak Street, 100 block East Oak Street, 100 block Linden Street, 100 and 200 blocks Walnut Street, 200 block (a) Said parking meters shall be firmly fastened to the curb or sidewalk bordering the street, in such a manner as 4 to provide for parallel or angle parking as in this ordinance required, said parking meters shall indicate the limitation of parking and the amount of deposit required to be placed in said meter for parking, which deposit shall consist of one cent for each twelve minutes where a maximum of one or tuo hours parking is permitted, or one cent for fifteen minutes when a maximum of fifteen minutes parking is permitted The City Manager shall fix the length of time said vehicles may be parked on said parking spaces and cause each meter to display thereon the maximum parking limit (b) No person shall permit any vehicle to be parked in any metered space without having made a sufficient deposit in the parking meter for the period said vehicle is parked and no person shall permit any vehicle to remain parked in such metered space after the expiration of the time fixed for such parking as indicated on said meter ( c) The restrictions herein provided upon the park- ing of vehicles in metered spaces shall be in effect between the hour of 9 o'clock A M and the hour of 6 o' clock P M on inclusive Monday to Friday/of each week and between the hour of 9 o'clock A M and 9 o'clock P M on Saturday of each week (d) The City Manager shall provide appropriate metered spaces within said business area and shall provide for the installation of said meters in such manner as will most effec- tively promote the free movement of traffic upon said streets and the public safety and convenience In providing for the installation of said meters the City Manager may provide for proper exits from property areas where no parking is permitted and areas where free limited parking is permitted No parking meters shall be installed in such areas, and such areas shall be appropriately marked to indicate the restrictions upon park- ing therein 5 (e) The City Manager shall provide for the regular collection of all monies deposited in said meters and for the delivery of the same and for the accounting therefor to the City Treasurer of the City of Fort Collins (f) No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any parking meter any slug, device or substitute for any lawful coin of the United States (g) No person shall deface, tamper with, break, destroy or injure any parking meters installed under the provi- sions of this ordinance, and no person, except the duly author- ized agent of the City, shall open or remove the same " "Section 42 Any person who shall violate any provision of Sections 1 or 2 of this ordinance, being Sections 10 and 41 of Ordinance No 17, 1936, as amended by this ordinance, except Subdivisions (f) and (g) of said Section 10 as herein amended, shall be fined one dollar for the first offense and one dollar for the second offense, and on the first or second offense, if such violation is admitted by the person charged therewith, the fine herein specified may be paid at the Police Station to the police officer on desk duty at any time prior to one hour before the time he has been summoned to appear in Municipal Court Such police officer shall account to the City Clerk each day for all fines collected Any person who shall violate said sections more than twice, or shall violate Subdivisions (f) and (g) of said Section 10 as herein amended, upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days or byboth such fine ana such imprisonment 6 Section 3 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed, save and except that all causes of action accrued in favor of the City of Fort Collins by reason of the violation of said ordinances prior to the taking effect of this amendment shall be prosecuted as though no amendment had been made Section 4 That in order to provide parking spaces within the area described within this Ordinance to relieve congested traffic and to provide traffic regulations, in the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the preserva- tion of the public health, peace and safety, and this Ordinance shall take effect upon its passage under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections b and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter Introduced, read at length, and adopted by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council, at a regular meeting of the City Council, held this 29th_ day of May , A D 1947 Mayor Attest City Clerk 7 STATE OF COLORADO ) i ss COUNTY OF LARIMER 1 I, Miles F House, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby certify and declare that the aforesaid ordinance, consisting of four sections, was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council, held on the 29th day of KaY , A D 1947, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper and official newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council, as an Emergency Ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, and thereafter and on, to-wit the 3rd day of June , A D 1947, said Ordinance No 10 was duly published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this 3rd day of June , A D 1947 y7• __ City Clerk