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Approved by City Council on May 21, 2001 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND REORDAINING • CHAPTER 15 (Motor Vehicles And Traffic), DIVISION 3 (Residential Permit Parking Zones And Restricted Parking Blocks) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1990, AS AMENDED BE IT ORDAINED BY THE Council of the City of Charlottesville that Sections 15-201 through 15-211 of Chapter 15 of the Code of the City of Charlottesville, 1990, as amended, are hereby amended and reordained as follows: Sec. 15-201. Purpose and intent of division. The city council hereby finds and declares that this division and its related regulations are and should be enacted to allow imposition of on -street parking restrictions in certain designated areas of the city through the creation of residential parking zones and restricted parking blocks. Such restrictions are needed in order to reduce or prevent congestion and hazardous traffic conditions in residential areas, to protect those areas from polluted air, excessive noise and other adverse environmental impacts of automobile commuting, to protect the residents of these areas from unreasonable burdens in gaining access to their property and to preserve the residential character of such areas and the property values therein. Sec. 15-202. Definitions. For the purposes of this division, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: • Affected household shall mean a single-family dwelling or, where lawful, a two-family dwelling, having an address on a public street within an existing or proposed restricted parking block. It also means a multi- family dwelling (a structure arranged or designed to be occupied three (3) or more families) with an address on a public street within an existing or proposed restricted parking block, where such multifamily dwelling does not have sufficient off street parking spaces to meet the city's minimum off street parking requirements for new construction, as determined by the city's traffic engineer. Block means that portion of a city street between two intersecting streets, or, in the case of a dead end street, between the end of the dead end street and an intersecting street. Commercial vehicle means a vehicle used in a business and clearly marked with the name of the business permanently affixed to the vehicle. Commuter vehicles means those motor vehicles registered to persons who do not live in existing or proposed restricted parking blocks at the time a traffic engineering survey is being conducted. Decal shall, for the purposes of this division, have the same meaning as the term permit, and the terms may be used interchangeably. Director of Neighborhood Development Services means the head of the Department of Neighborhood Development Services or his designee. Family, for the purposes of this division, shall have the meaning set forth within §34-4 of the City Code. Guest means a person who for a short period of time visits the residents of an affected household and who • solely by reason of that visit needs a temporary place to park (including, without limitation a person who is employed and actually at work within such household). A person who falls within this category may not Paget of 9