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Sec. 15-203. Establishing restricted parking blocks. Restricted parking blocks areas may be established in accordance with the following procedure: • (a)The Director of Neighborhood Development Services shall cause an on -street parking survey to be conducted for a proposed restricted parking area block (i) upon the recommendation of the city's traffic engineer, with the concurrence of the City Manager, or (ii) upon receipt of a petition, on a form supplied by the city, which petition is signed by at ]gaster e a3e4p)bcs one representative (an owner or resident) of at least 75% of the affected households eta block within . istiag WAit parking c within the proposed restricted parking area ^ bl^ ra IVICTIUMUM! "SM." (1) Petitions shall be submitted to the Department of Neighborhood Development Services, and shall include (i) the legible name, address, telephone number and dated signature of each thg petitioning resident, one (1) signature per address, and a list of the license plate numbers for each vehicle registered to any person(s) residing at each address; and (ii) list, by street address, of each of the affected households within the proposed restricted parking block, whether or not a member of such households has signed the petition. With respect to a multi -family dwelling, only the owner or a resident manager/agent of the owner shall be eligible to sign the petition. All such petitions received from members of affected households of a proposed restricted parking block shall be advisory in nature, and defects in such petition, if any exist or are alleged, shall not be grounds for invalidating any restricted parking block that may subsequently be established by City Council. • (2) If a partiQular blogk proposed restricted parking area, or any block(s) therein, has been the subject of consideration by Council pursuant to section 15-203(4}, below, within the past year, then the city shall not be required to re -survey any such area or block, or to act on any petition received that includes that proposed restricted parking area or any block(s) therein, unless the Traffic Engineer, with the concurrence of the City Manager, determines that conditions algng such block have substantially changed since the date of consideration by Council. Any petitions received during such one-year period, or which contain signatures dated within such one-year period, shall be rejected and returned to the applicant, except where there has been a determination by the city's traffic engineer of a substantial change of condition. (b) Each on -street parking survey shall consist of counts taken and information gathered on at least three separate days, at time(s) during the hours for which restricted parking is sought. The survey shall seek to determine whether, on each day of the survey: (i) at least 75% of the total number of on -street parking spaces in the proposed restricted parking area block are occupied, and (ii) whether at least 50% of those occupied spaces are occupied by commuter vehicles. (1)Prior to commencing any on -street parking survey for a proposed restricted parking area block, the traffic engineer shall determine the total number of on -street parking spaces for the area Mock in question. The traffic engineer shall determine the total number of on - street parking spaces by dividing the total length (linear footage) of the block by twenty- two (22) feet. The resulting number determined by the traffic engineer shall be the„�„aS}fbQ • utilized in conducting the on -street parking survey-for-that)31eck. (2)Upon request, the owner or resident(s) of an affected household within a proposed