§ 10.33.030. Designation and termination of Temporary Construction Preferential Parking Districts.

A.

Severe parking impacts, defined as more than seventy-five percent (75%) of on-street spaces occupied during the period proposed for parking restriction or prohibition, have been created in any residential area of the City of Long Beach by construction activity. In cases where a time limit parking restriction or parking prohibition is already in place, the City Traffic Engineer shall use reasonable judgment as to whether the demand criteria would likely be met without the restriction or prohibition.

B.

Construction activity must be of a duration of a minimum of two (2) weeks and a maximum of six (6) months. The duration of the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District shall be coterminous with the duration of the construction project and its impacts, and shall be discontinued upon completion of construction and cessation of parking impacts, as determined by the City Traffic Engineer. In the event that the construction impacts are of a longer duration than six (6) months, the Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District may be renewed for two (2) additional six (6) month periods. No Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District shall have a duration of more than eighteen (18) months. If the construction activity lasts for more than eighteen (18) total months, residents must apply for a Preferential Parking District authorized by Long Beach Municipal Code Section 10.32.010 et seq., and conform with the requirements stated therein.

C.

The proposed Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District, alone or in combination with other existing or potential Preferential Parking Districts, constitutes a reasonably self-contained area of parking demand and supply. The City Traffic Engineer shall make the determination of a reasonably self-contained area, utilizing boundaries such as major streets, nonresidential land uses, edges of higher or lower density residential areas, waterbodies and other natural features, and utilizing surveys of existing conditions to determine extent of area impacted by nonresident parking. The proposed Temporary Construction Preferential Parking District shall be of sufficient size to reasonably encompass the problem area and to offer sufficient on-street parking spaces to provide reasonable opportunity for residents to obtain parking.

( ORD-12-0017(Emerg.) , § 1, 2012)