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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RE -ORDAINING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1990, AS AMENDED, CHAPTER 15 (MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC), DIVISION 3 (RESIDENTIAL PERMIT PARKING ZONES AND RESTRICTED PARKING BLOCKS) BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that Chapter 15, Division 3 of the Code of the City of Charlottesville, 1990, as amended, is and shall hereby be amended and re - ordained as set forth herein below: 1. Sections 15-202,15-203,15-203.1, 15-204,15-205,15-207,15-208 and 15-210 are amended as follows: See. 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. See. 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: (i) a single-family dwelling having an address on a public street within an existing or proposed restricted parking area, (ii) where lawful, a two-family dwelling having an address on a public street within an existing or proposed restricted parking area, and (iii) a multi -family dwelling (a structure arranged or designed to be occupied by three (3) or more families) having an address on a public street within an existing or proposed restricted parking area, but only if, in the determination of the city's traffic engineer, such multifamily dwelling does not have sufficient off street parking spaces to meet the city's minimum off street parking requirements for new construction. Where any dwelling referenced within (i) --(iii) is situated on a corner lot having street frontage along an existing or proposed restricted parking area, it will be deemed to have an address on such block; however, under no circumstances shall any corner -lot dwelling be eligible to receive parking permit(s) for more than one (1) restricted parking block. A rental unit without a full kitchen, such as a room and bath, shall not qualify as an individual dwelling unit for purposes of determining whether a dwelling is a single-, two- or multi -family dwelling. Block means: (i) that portion of a city street between two intersecting streets. With respect to a standard • Page 1 of 14