Ordinance 1885CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. 1885
New Series
AMENDING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA that:
Section 1 . Section 17 -3311, entitled "Parking in Designated
Turn -out Areas," is hereby added to Article 3 of Chapter 3, Title
XVII of the Alameda Municipal Code, to read:
Sec. 17 -3311 Parking in Designated Turn -out Areas
It shall be unlawful for any person to stop, park, or leave
standing, any vehicle unattended in any turn -out area (such
unauthorized vehicles will be removed) per local ordinance
except as listed below:
1. When necessary to avoid injury or damage to
persons or property.
2. When required by law or in obedience to a peace
officer.
3. When actually engaged in maintenance or construc-
tion work within the public right -of -way on roadway property,
or when any employee of a public agency is actually engaged
in the performance of official duties.
4. When automotive or other equipment is needed in
maintenance or construction work within the public right -
of -way.
5. When any vehicle is disabled and it is not feasible
to avoid temporarily stopping or any vehicle which has been
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summoned to render assistance to a vehicle or person includ-
ing a vehicle owned by the donor or free emergency assistance
but such parked or stopped vehicle shall not remain in the
turn -out for a period in excess of four hours.
6. When any person is in process of reporting a traffic
collision or other situation or incident to a peace officer
or any person specified in subdivision (3) either directly
or by means of any emergency telephone or similar device.
7. When the owner or operator of a tow car operating
under an agreement with the City of Alameda for the purpose
of rapid removal of impediments to traffic.
Restrictive parking in designated turn -out areas shall
be in effect at the following locations:
(a) Island Drive, on both sides thereof, and
left -turn pockets from the southerly line of Doolittle
Drive to the northerly line of Mecartney Road.
(b) Mecartney Road, on the north side thereof,
and left -turn pockets from the westerly line of Island
Drive to the westerly line of Fontana Drive.
Section 2 . Section 17 -333 (All Time and Limited No Parking)
of the Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending sub-
section (13) thereof to read as follows:
(13) Island Drive, on both side thereof, from the
southerly line of Doolittle Drive to the northerly line
of Mecartney Road with the exception of turn -out areas
designated for maintenance and emergency vehicles.
Section 3. Section 17 -333 of the Alameda Municipal Code
is hereby amended by adding subsection (79) thereto to read as
follows:
(79) Mecartney Road, on the north side thereof,
from the westerly line of Island Drive to the westerly
line of Fontana Drive extended with the exception of
turn -out areas designated for maintenance and emergency
vehicles.
Section 4 . Section 17 -344.1 (24- Minute Parking Limit)
of the Alameda Municipal Code is hereby amended by repealing
subsection 9(a) thereof.
Section 5 . This ordinance is one of great necessity and
urgency within the meaning of Section 3 -12 of the City Charter,
is introduced and passed at the same Council meeting and shall
become effective on October 5, 1977.
Section 6 . The facts constituting the necessity and
urgency hereof are:
1. That traffic regulations are essential for the orderly
flow and control of traffic within the City.
2. That such regulations should necessarily be immedi-
ately effective on passage to insure that maximum preservation
of public welfare is obtained.
3. That a potential health and safety problem will
exist if such amendments are not immediately effective.
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4. That, in light of such potential health and safety
problems involved, the normal delay between enactment of this
ordinance and its effective date would be injurious.
5. This Council hereby finds, determines and declares
that it is in the best interest and necessity that this
E ordinance be introduced and passed at the regular meeting of
li the City Council held October 4, 1977, and that this ordinance
become and be in full force and effect October 5, 1977.
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< Presiding Officer cf the Council
Attest:
City Clerk J
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
was duly and regularly introduced and passed by the Council of the City
of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 4th day of October, 1977
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Beckam, Sherratt, Tillman and Vice President
Diament, (4).
NOES: None.
ABSENT: President Corica, (1).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of said City this 5th day of October, 1977.
Deputy City Clerk of the Ca y of Alameda