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CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE PERMIT PARKING REGULATIONS 1.0 Purpose Last Amended 8/17/98 The purposes of these regulations are 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. 2.0 Definitions 2.1 "Affected Household" means a dwelling unit located in a one or two family structure with an address on a public street within an existing or proposed restricted parking block. It also means a dwelling unit located in a multifamily structure with an address on such a public street when that multifamily structure does not have sufficient off-street parking spaces to meet the city's minimum off-street parking requirements for new construction. • 2.2 "Block" means that portion of a city street between two (2) intersecting streets or, in the case of a dead-end street, between the street's end and an intersecting street. 2.3 "Commuter Vehicles" means those 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. 2.4 "Guest" means either (a) a person who for a relatively short period of time visits the residents of an Affected Household and solely by reason of that visit needs a temporary place to park, or (b) is a tenant or longer term resident of an Affected Household who is assigned a Guest Permit by the owner of such Household. A Guest who falls in category (a) may not use or attempt to use a Guest Permit to park in the Residential Parking Zone where the Affected Household is located while he or she goes to school, college classes, or work in or near that Zone. 2.5 "Permit Parking Zone" means one of those particular residential areas of the city described in Section 15-204 of the City Code as being eligible to have blocks within its boundaries declared restricted parking blocks where on -street parking is restricted. 2.6 "Residential Area" shall mean that portion of any city street running in front of and abutting property contained in any R-1, R-1 A, R-2, or R-3 residential district in the Zoning Ordinance. 2.7 "Restricted Parking Block" means any residential area (one or more blocks) composed of lots