ORDINANCE NO. 4088
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PART OF CHAPTER 36 OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION CODE OF ORDINANCES RELATING TO PARKING
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION THAT:
Chapter 36, Section 17 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Grand Junction, Colorado, is hereby amended to read as follows.
Sec. 36-17. Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
(a) No person, other than a peace officer conducting traffic enforcement in or on a marked patrol vehicle at or along an arterial or collector street or roadway as defined or described in the Grand Valley Circulation Plan, a duly adopted neighborhood plan or street plan, or Transportation Engineering Design Standards, shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
1) On a sidewalk;
2) Within an intersection;
3) On a crosswalk;
4) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the traffic authority indicates a different length by signs or markings;
5) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;
6) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
7) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
8) On any railroad tracks;
9) On any controlled-access highway;
10) In the area between roadways of a divided highway, including crossovers;
11) At any other place where official signs prohibit stopping;
12) Either in whole or in part on a planting strip.
(a) In addition to the restrictions specified in subsection (a) of this section, no person, other than a peace officer conducting traffic enforcement in or on a marked patrol vehicle at or along an arterial or collector street or roadway as defined or described in the Grand Valley Circulation Plan, a duly adopted neighborhood plan or street plan, or Transportation Engineering Design Standards, shall stand or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
1) Within five feet of a public or private driveway;
2) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;
3) Within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;
4) Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing beacon or signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
5) Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station or, on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station, within seventy-five feet of said entrance when properly signposted;
6) At any other place where official signs prohibit standing.
(c) In addition to the restrictions specified in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, no person, other than a peace officer conducting traffic enforcement in or on a marked patrol vehicle at or along an arterial or collector street or roadway as defined or described in the Grand Valley Circulation Plan, a duly adopted neighborhood plan or street plan, or Transportation Engineering Design Standards, shall park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device, in any of the following places:
(1) Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;
(2) At any other place where official signs prohibit parking.
All other provisions of Chapter 36 shall remain in full force and effect.
PASSED for first reading this 16th day of May, 2007.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of June, 2007 on Second Reading.
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James Doody
President of the Council
Attest:
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Stephanie Tuin
City Clerk