Record #: SO2017-128   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 1/25/2017 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
Final action: 2/22/2017
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-64-170(b)5 to modify taxicab parking on portion of W Cornelia Ave and N Knox Ave
Sponsors: Reboyras, Ariel
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 64 Parking Regulations
Attachments: 1. SO2017-128.pdf, 2. O2017-128.pdf

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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.

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

(b)     (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.

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance) (5)     Business streets - Taxicabs.

£i)      Parkins permitted after 7:00 A.M. and before 2:00 A.M. - Exceptions. Taxicabs are allowed to park in a lawful manner on any business street in the city after 7:00 A.M. and before 2:00 A.M., except on: (both sides) of North Knox Avenue, from West Addison Street to West Roscoe Street (30th Ward), and (both sides) of West Cornelia Avenue, from North Knox Avenue to North Kilpatrick Avenue (30th Ward).

(ii)     Parkins restricted to two hours between 2:00 AM and 7:00 A.M. Exceptions. It Except as otherwise provided herein or in item (iii) of this subsection (b)(5). 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 2:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M.; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to taxicabs parked on business streets in the 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

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Ridge Boulevard and Hoyne Avenue, and on Western Avenue from Granville Avenue to Pratt Boulevard.

(iip    Parking prohibited between 2:00 A.M. and 7:00 AM. It shall be unlawful for any person to park any taxicab between 2:00 A.M and 7:00 A.M. on: (both sides) of North Knox Avenue, from West Addison Street to West Roscoe Street (30th Ward), and (both sides) of West Cornelia Avenue, from North Knox Avenue to North Kilpatrick Avenue (30th Ward).

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

 

 

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

Alderman Ariel E. Reboyras, 30 Ward

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CHICAGO, FEBRAURY 22, 2017

 

 

To the President and Members of the City Council:

 

Your Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety to which was referred a Combined Amended Substitute Ordinance Amending Section 9-64-170(b) 5, of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago, to modify Taxicabs parking on: West Cornelia Avenue (both sides) from North Knox Avenue to North Kilpatrick Avenue (both sides) from West Addison Street to West Roscoe Street, begs leave to recommend that Your Honorable Body DO PASS the proposed ordinance transmitted herewith.

 

These recommendations were concurred by all members of the committee present, with no dissenting votes.

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

Walter Burnett, Jr. Chairman,

Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety