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3. Ordinance 1671 - Parking Restriction - Downtown Post Office - 2nd ReadingIm 1 1' Charles A. Harball Office of City Attorney City Attorney 312 First Avenue East P.O. Box 1997 Kalispell, MT 59903-1997 Mayor Pamela B. Kennedy and Kalispell City Council Charles Harball, City Attorney Jane Howington, City Manager Tel 406.758.7708 Fax 406.758.7771 charball@kalispell.com SUBJECT: Ordinance No. 1671- Restricting Parking to 30 minutes in the Three Spaces in Front of Kalispell Post Office on First Avenue West STING DATE: November 2, 2009 - Regular Council Meeting - Second Reading BACKGROUND: Currently the southernmost three parking spaces on the southbound side of lst Avenue West between 2nd Street West and 3rd Street West and adjacent to the Post Office are designated with a 2 hour parking restriction and vehicles parked in those spaces are often left there for up to two hours by individuals not conducting business at the Post Office. The Kalispell Parking Commission brought this to the attention of the city staff and requested that an ordinance be offered to restrict the parking in these three spaces to a maximum of 30 minutes. The reason given is that when these spaces are used by individuals who leave their vehicles there for 2 hours, other people intending to use the Post Office must park further away and walk across streets and through vehicular traffic to access the Post Office. Council passed Ordinance No. 1671 on first reading. RECO E ATION: Staff is recommending that the Council find that it is in the best interest of public safety and the free flow of vehicular traffic that vehicular parking be restricted to a maximum of thirty minute parking in the southernmost three parking spaces on the southbound side of 1st Avenue West between 2nd Street West and 3rd Street West and that the Police Chief be directed to have the appropriate signage placed at the above -described location. FISCAL IMPACTS: No significant impacts. Respectfully submjtted, Charles far ,City Attorney 'Jane Howington, City Mana r ORDINANCE NO. 1671 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 17-54, KALISPELL CITY CODE, RESTRICTING VEHICULAR PARKING TO THIRTY MINUTES IN THE SOUTHERN THREE PARKING SPACES ON THE SOUTHBOUND SIDE OF 1ST AVENUE WEST BETWEEN SECOND STREET WEST AND THIRD STREET WEST AND DIRECTING THE PLACEMENT OF APPROPRIATE SIGNAGE THEREFORE, AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Flathead Station, a US Post Office, is located on 1st Avenue West between 2nd and 3rd Streets West; and WHEREAS, there is limited available parking for people doing business at the Post Office, who are typically parked for short periods of time in the vicinity immediately surrounding the Post Office and must oftentimes walk through traffic to conduct their business at the Post Office; and WHEREAS, currently the southernmost three parking spaces on the southbound side of 1st Avenue West between 2nd Street West and 3rd Street West and adjacent to the Post Office are designated with a 2 hour parking restriction and vehicles parked in those spaces are often left there for up to two hours by individuals not conducting business at the Post Office; and WHEREAS, it is therefore in the best interest of public safety and the free flow of vehicular traffic that vehicular parking be restricted to a maximum of thirty minute parking in the southernmost three parking spaces on the southbound side of 1st Avenue West between 2nd Street West and 3rd Street West. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL AS FOLLOWS: SECTION I. Section 17-54, paragraph AA of the Kalispell City Code is hereby amended to add a paragraph 5 to read as follows: 445. The southernmost three parking spaces on the southbound side of I st Avenue West between Second Street West and Third Street West." SECTION II. The Police Chief is directed to have the appropriate signage placed at the above - described location. SECTION III.All other portions of Section 17-54, Kalispell City Code, shall remain unchanged. SECTION IV.This Ordinance shall take effect from and after 30 days of its passage on second reading by the City Council. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL THIS 2ND DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2009. ATTEST: Theresa White City Clerk Pamela B. Kennedy Mayor