HomeMy WebLinkAbout137 - 01/05/2010 - AMENDING SECTION 24-96 OF THE CITY CODE REGARDING SNOW EMERGENCIES ORDINANCE NO. 137, 2009
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING SECTION 24-96 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
REGARDING SNOW EMERGENCIES
WHEREAS, Section 24-96 of the City Code authorizes the City Engineer to declare the
existence of a snow emergency to ensure that vehicles do not park on streets which have been
designated as snow emergency routes; and
WHEREAS,the coordination of communications among City departments,the public,and
elected officials will be enhanced by authorizing the City Manager instead of the City Engineer to
declare the existence and termination of a snow emergency.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Section 24-96 of the City Code is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 24-96. Snow emergency.
(a) Whenever the City Manager,upon consultation with his or her staff,finds and
so determines that due to falling snow,sleet,freezing rain or a forecast by the United
States Weather Bureau of weather conditions that so warrant, the City Manager is
hereby authorized to declare the existence of a snow emergency.
(b) The City Manager shall provide announcements to local radio and television
stations declaring a snow emergency to exist and to describe the action to be taken
by the City. There shall be included in such announcement the time that parking
prohibitions are to become effective pursuant to this Section. Where feasible, such
announcement shall be disseminated to a newspaper having a general circulation
within the City.
(c) Upon the declaration of the existence of a snow emergency,parking of motor
vehicles shall be prohibited on all streets designated as snow emergency routes. For
the purposes of this Section, snow emergency routes shall consist of those streets or
portions of streets within the City as designated in the Snow Removal Handbook of
the City of Fort Collins. On each street or portion of street upon which parking is
allowed and which is designated as a snow emergency route,the City Engineer shall
post at reasonable intervals special traffic signs indicating by the appropriate symbol
or wording that the street or portion of the street has been designated as a snow
emergency route. There shall be no parking whatsoever on any roadway or
contiguous shoulder of any state highway or connection link within the City during "
the times and at the places where snow removal operations are in progress.
(d) Whenever any vehicle, except an emergency vehicle, is found standing,
attended or unattended,upon a snow emergency route in violation of this Section,the
City Engineer shall without delay and at the owner's expense take action to have the
vehicle towed or otherwise removed from the snow emergency route.
(e) Whenever the City Manager finds that some or all of the conditions which
gave rise to the snow emergency no longer exist,the City Manager may declare the
termination of the emergency, in part or in whole, effective immediately upon
announcement. In the absence of any such announcement, whenever the entire
roadway of any snow emergency route is substantially clear of snow from curb to
curb, the snow emergency shall be deemed to be terminated, and the normally
permitted parking of vehicles shall be automatically authorized.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 15th day of
December, A.D. 2009, and to be presented for final passage on e h day of January,A.D. 10.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 5th day of J A.D. 2010.
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City Clerk