Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
ORDINANCE
ED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 9-64-090 of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
9-64-090 Residential parking permit.
(a) Subject to the approval of the city council, the commissioner of transportation is authorized to erect and maintain signs on any block of any residential street in an R1, R2, R3, R4 or R5 zoning district indicating resident permit parking only when all of the following conditions have been met:
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(f) After consultation with the department of transportation and the applicable alderman, the city clerk shall designate an area adjacent to, and within a 200-number range of street addresses of, a residential parking permit zone, if the city clerk has determined that the zone has created conditions that result in insufficient available parking in the designated area. Any person residing in the designated area shall qualify to acquire a permit to park in the residential parking permit zone. The owner of property with a business address located on either side of a block immediately adjacent to a residential parking permit zone shall qualify to acquire a permit to park in such adjacent zone, and shall be limited to one permit for each qualifying business address. Such designated areas shall be known as "Buffer Zones." The 200-number street address range limitation of this subsection may be expanded to a 700-number range if the affected alderman provides to the citv clerk facts demonstrating that that an area sought to be designated as a Buffer Zone has either a population density that is higher than the Citv of Chicago average, or is an arterial street with mixed commercial and residential use.
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SECTION 2. It is a matter of record that the area bounded by Broadway on the west, Lake Shore Drive on the east, Diversey Parkway on the south and Stratford Place on the north has a population density that is higher than the City of Chicago average. It is also a matter of record that the following arterial street segments have mixed commercial and residential use: (1) Belmont Avenue - Lake Shore Drive to Racine Avenue; (2) Belmont Avenue - Racine Avenue to Ashland Avenue (north side only); (3) Southport Avenue - Belmont Avenue to Grace Street; (4) Ashland Avenue (east side only) - Belmont Avenue to Grace Street; (5) Diversey Parkway (north side only) - Lake Shore Drive to Racine Avenue. It is also a matter of record that the adjacent residential parking permit zones have created conditions that result in insufficient available parking in the above-described area and arterial street segments. Accordingly, this area and these arterial street segments are hereby designated as a Buffer Zone.
SECTION 3. Section 9-68-020 of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the language underscored, as(follows:
9-68-020 Residential parking permits. , _ pvL~
(a)(1) Residential zone parking permit - Ger^rllly^TI1eDCiFyn3feVk,rjr City Clerk's designee shall issue residential zone parking permits to qualifying, residents of any residential parking permit zone ("eligible residents") for use on each^rjo^nl^ angregistered within that permit zone that displays a current city wheel tax license emblerkLStlcn permits may be issued as part of the city wheel tax license emblem. The residential zone parking permit shall not guarantee or reserve any parking space; nor shall it exempt the holder from the observance of any traffic or parking regulation.
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(b)(1) Residential parking daily permits - Generally. Upon application, individual "one-day" residential parking daily permits shall also be issued to eligible residents for their use and for the use of non- residents who are temporary visitors of the residential parking permit zone.
(2) Residential parking daily permits - Issuance - Usage. The sale of residential
parking daily permits in a residential parking permit zone shall be limited to 45 one-day permits
per month per residential address. For the purpose of this subsection, each unit of a multiple-
unit residential dwelling shall be considered as a separate residential address. Physical
residential parking daily permits shall be color-coded by annual period and shall expire at the
end of the annual period for which they are issued. Electronic residential parking daily permits
shall expire one year from the date of purchase. Such permits shall be valid for one day only.
The residential parking daily permit shall be validated either through an electronic application
which will issue an electronic receipt and allow for a specific start date and time ("activation"), or
by printing in indelible ink, legibly and directly on its face in the space provided for this purpose,
the date and time of day a particular residential parking daily permit is in use. An undated,
inactive or expired permit, or a permit that fails to indicate the time of day that the permit is in
use, or a permit that otherwise fails to comply with the requirements of this subsection (b), shall
be invalid.
(3) Every residential parking daily permit shall remain valid for use for a 15-dav grace
period following its expiration date.
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SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be effective upon passage and publication.
Thomaslvl. Tunney (Aldelrnan, 44th Ward February 28, 2018