19820112 1982-1ORDINANCE NO. 1982-1
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 13.73 AND 13.75
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA,
PERTAINING TO RESIDENTIAL PERMIT PARKING
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Fairfax,
Virginia, that Sections 13.73 and 13.75 of the Code of the City
of Fairfax, Virginia, be and the same is hereby amended to read
in its entirety as follows:
"Sec. 13.73. Parking in permit parking districts.
Whenever the City Council shall determine that the
streets of a particular residential district are being used
for parking by the operators of motor vehicles who are
nonresidents of that residential district, and the average
number of vehicles, of that kind, parking in such a parti-
cular district is in excess of twenty-five percent (25%)
of the number of parking spaces on such streets, and the
total number of spaces actually occupied by any vehicles
exceeds sixty-five percent (65%) of the number of spaces
on such streets, the City Council may by ordinance prohibit
parking during the hours of 7 A.M. through 8 P.M., Monday
through Friday, and 7 A.M. through 1 P.M. Saturday in
the particular district so surveyed. In such cases the
City Council shall cause appropriate signs giving notice
of the prohibition to be posted on those streets restricting
all parking, except parking by the holders of permits
granted under the following conditions:
(a) For each vehicle, belonging to a person
who resides in the particular district, for which the
person pays personal property taxes to the City of Fairfax
and displays a city sticker on the vehicle, there may be
issued one color-coded permit entitling that vehicle to
park in the restricted district.
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(b) Each residence within a restricted district
shall be issued two visitors permits. Said permits shall
be limited to that particular permit parking district for
a stated period not to exceed one year. One additional
permit for visitors to a particular residence within a
restricted district may be issued for a stated period but
not more than thirty days.
(c) To persons who do business with any resident
of any particular district in which parking is so res-
tricted during the hours of such restriction, limited to
that particular district in which parking is so restricted
and in which any such person so transacts business.
Permits shall be color-coded to identify the permit
parking district in which they shall be valid for parking.
Each permit parking district shall be assigned a different
color or series of colors for permits issued under this
article for the purpose of identifying the districts for
which such permits apply.
Sec. 13.75. Procedure for designating a residential
district as a permit parking district.
(a) In order to determine whether a particular
residential district should be designated as a permit
parking district, the City Manager shall have conducted,
upon submission of a petition signed by more than fifty
percent (50%) of the residents of such district, an engineer-
ing survey to determine whether the criteria described
heretofore establishes the district as one qualified to
become a permit parking district.
To determine whether a particular district qualified to
have restricted parking, the designated district will be
surveyed by the City's Public Works Department at the
City Manager's direction, as follows:
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A block-by-block survey of the affected district
will be taken on a weekday. If more than sixty-five percent
(65%) of the parking spaces are occupied by parked vehicles,
then no further vehicle counts will be made. If sixty-
five percent (65%) of the spaces are not occupied, but it
may be expected that the sixty-five percent (65%) level
may be obtained, then for a reasonable period of time an
additional parked vehicle count shall be made until an
average of sixty-five percent (65%) is found or rejected.
In those residential districts where sixty-five percent (65%)
of the parking spaces are occupied, a study will be made
to determine if the number of vehicles owned by non-
residents of the districts exceeds twenty-five percent (25%).
If more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the parking
spaces are occupied by vehicles of nonresidents, then that
district may be qualified to have restricted parking.
(b) Upon completion of the aforesaid survey, the
results shall be submitted to the City Manager for his
recommendation to the City Council.
(c) In making his recommendation to the City Council
the City Manager should also consider such matters as the
availability of an alternate means of transportation to
and from the proposed restricted district, air pollution
caused by automobile traffic within that district and the
environmental impact of automobile use in the district.
(d) After the City Manager submits his recommendations
to the City Council, Council may adopt an ordinance
designating an area which qualified under the heretofore
described criteria as a permit parking district~
(e) Prior to posting signs restricting an area as a
permit parking district notice must be sent to each
household within that district, stating that the occupants
of that household are required to obtain a permit for each
vehicle parked in the designated district.
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This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon
Lts adoption.
Introduced:
Adopted:
January 5, 1982
January 12, 1982
Mayor