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City Attorney recommending the City Council adopt Ordinance 19-30 pertaining to permitted parking areas and Ordinance 19-31 pertaining to medians.
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Presenter:
Bob Thompson
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Description/Background:
On October 1, 2019 the City Council approved the recodificaiton of the Sandy City Municipal Code. It has recently come to light that sections of the Traffic Code pertaining to residential permit parking programs and pedestrian use of road medians was inadvertently omitted from the recodification.
Ordinance 19-31 readopts the section pertaining to medians. Ordinance 19-30 readopts the sections pertaining to residential permit parking programs with one exception. Until the recodification of the Sandy City Municipal Code on October 1, 2019, certain streets in the vicinity of Alta High School were part of a residential parking permit program. However, after the construction of Corner Canyon High School, administration and enforcement of the permit parking program dissipated. The area still includes "No School Parking" signs that have since been deemed unenforceable if a vehicle is otherwise parked legally on the street despite the driver's destination. It is conceivable that patrons of the new 1,400 seat theater complex at Alta High will utilize on-street parking in the neighborhoods, exacerbating existing concerns of the residents.
In consultation with the Council Chair, Council Office, City Attorney, Public Works and the Police Department in the agenda planning process, due to the Council's consideration of item number 1 on this agenda (File I.D. 19-429), and the plausibility that the Alta High theater complex potentially creates a different set of conditions for the neighborhoods, the residential parking permit program around Alta High as originally established in the Traffic Code is not included in this ordinance. If a residential permit parking program remains the preferred solution after the Council's investigation, staff will p...
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