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• conducted, to determine whether parking restrictions should be discontinued with respect to one or more blocks within a restricted parking area bleak: (i) upon the recommendation of the city's traffic engineer, with the concurrence of the City Manager, (ii) upon receipt of a petition, on a form supplied by the city, which petition is signed by at IvQgt one momb at least fifty percent (50%) of the affected households or businesses situated along a-rvrtristed parking block(s) in question. Any such petition shall include the per addregs information specified within city code section 15-203(a)(1). (b) Once initiated by the Director of Neighborhood Development Services pursuant to this section, the on - street parking survey shall consist of counts taken and information gathered on at least three separate days, during restricted parking hours. The survey shall seek to determine whether, on each day of the survey: (i) 50% or more of the total number of on -street parking spaces along the block(s) in question are unoccupied; and (ii) whether the use of property adjacent thereto the cestristed ga,xking-hleek remains primarily (50% or more) residential. The results of such parking survey shall be transmitted to the traffic engineer for review. (1)Prior to commencing any on -street parking survey, the traffic engineer shall determine the total number of on -street parking spaces for the blocker 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 number utilized in conducting the on -street parking survey for thRt hJt hJQQk. (2) Upon request, the owner or resident(s) of an affected household within a restricted parking area (or, in the case of a multi -family dwelling, the owner or resident shall provide the city traffic engineer v h vehicle owned by a resident of such such household ioined in a netitic room, (3)Upon receipt of confirmation that an on -street parking survey shows that fewer than 50% of the total number of on -street parking spaces on one or more blocks within a -king area are occupied, and/or (ii) that the use of within a restricted narking area is less than 50% 1 nager shall certify this fact to the City Council along with any recommendation he or traffic engineer may have as to whether Council should remove parking restrictions with respect to the restricted parking area or block(s) in question, and a date shall be set for Council consideration of the matter. (c)Notice of the date of Council consideration shall be given to residents and businesses situated along the restricted parking area bleak, in the same manner as provided within section 15-203(3) of this division. • (d)In considering whether to remove the parking restrictions from one or more of the blocks within a restricted parking area let, Council shall consider all information it deems relevant to the matter,