Record #: O2016-723   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 2/10/2016 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
Final action:
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-64-170 to allow parking of taxicabs on residential streets within 4th Ward and regulating hours on business streets
Sponsors: Burns, William D.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 64 Parking Regulations
Attachments: 1. O2016-723.pdf
Related files: R2019-362
ORDINANCE



BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:



SECTION 1. Section 9-64-170 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language stricken through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
9-64-170 Parking restrictions - Special types of vehicles - Exceptions.
(1) Residential streets - Restrictions. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (a) or in subsection (f)(2) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to park at any time, including overnight, any truck, van, tractor, truck tractor, semi-trailer, trailer, recreational vehicle more than 22 feet in length, self-contained motor home, bus, taxicab, commercial vehicle, limousine (whether for hire or not for hire) or livery vehicle on any residential street within the city.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
(6) Residential streets - Exception for taxicabs — When authorized. In the 4th. 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 15th, 23rd, 25th, 35th, 46th and 50th wards, and on that portion of 108th Place from South Wentworth Avenue on the east to the perpendicular railway line on the west, the prohibition set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection (a) shall not apply to the owner of a taxicab if all of the following requirements are met: (i) the owner of the taxicab has no outstanding debt to the city for parking violations or has satisfied or otherwise resolved any such debt within the meaning of Section 2-32-094, and (ii) the taxicab is not in service, and (iii) the taxicab is lawfully parked at the curb adjacent to the taxicab owner's place of residence in accordance with the general parking requirements of this Code, and (iv) the taxicab bears a valid and current city wheel tax license emblem, and (v) the taxicab bears a valid and current special parking permit issued by the alderman ofthe ward in which the taxicab owner resides, and (vi) the taxicab is in apparent compliance with this subsection and other applicable requirements of this Code.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
(1) Business streets - Restrictions. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (b) or in subsection (f)(2) of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to park at any time, including overnight, any truck, truck tractor, semi-trailer, trailer, self-contained motor home, commercial vehicle, limousine (whether for hire or not for hire) or bus on any business street in the city.|1010|
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

(5) Business streets - Taxicabs. It shall be lawful to park a taxicab on anv
business street in the city between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any taxicab on any business street in the city for a period longer than two hours between the hours of after 2:00 A.M. and before 7 :00 A.M.; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to taxicabs parked on business streets in the 4th ward only on East 47th Street, from St. Lawrence to Lake Park (both sides), on South Indiana, from 26th Street to 31st Street (both sides), and on South Michigan Avenue, from 25th Street to 31st Street (east side); 23rd ward; 40th ward only on the (north side) of North Lincoln Avenue, from North California Avenue to West Peterson Avenue, (south side) of North Lincoln Avenue, from North California Avenue to West Foster Avenue, (both sides) of North Western Avenue, from West Glenlake Avenue to West Peterson Avenue, (east side) of North Western Avenue, from West Balmoral Avenue to West Peterson Avenue and (south side) of West Peterson Avenue, from North Lincoln Avenue to North California Avenue; 46th ward; 49th ward; and in the 50th ward on Devon Avenue between Ridge Boulevard and Hoyne Avenue, and on Western Avenue from Granville Avenue to Pratt Boulevard.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
Alderman William D. Burns, 4tn Ward



SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take full force and effect upon its passage and publication.

















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