Record #: SO2017-8558   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 12/13/2017 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
Final action: 2/28/2018
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-64-090(h) regarding not-for-profit organization one-day residential parking permit program
Sponsors: Valencia, Anna M.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 64 Parking Regulations
Attachments: 1. SO2017-8558.pdf, 2. O2017-8558.pdf

SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE

 

WHEREAS, Section 9-64-090 of the Municipal Code contained an authorization, in subsection (h), for a pilot program providing for one-day residential parking for not-for-profits; and

WHEREAS, That Pilot Program expired of its own accord on December 31, 2017; and

WHEREAS, The aldermanic participants in the Pilot Program deem it useful and appropriate to extend the Pilot Program, with amendments to make it zone-specific, for another year to further gauge its effectiveness and desirability; now, therefore,

Be it Ordained 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 underlined text, as follows:

 

 

9-64-090 Residential parking permit.

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

(h)      A not-for-profit organization "one-day" residential parkiim daily permit pilot program ("pilot program'") is hereby modified and continued as provided in this subsection. Any not-for-profit organization licensed to conduct affairs in the State of Illinois and located within a residential parking permit zone, or on either side of that portion of a business or commercial street that is immediately adjacent to that residential parkiim permit zone, shall qualify to1 purchase not more than 30 residential parking daily permits tor each of up lo live of its employees per month to park in such zone. The City Clerk shall sell residential parkiim daily permits to a not-for-profit organization after confirming that: (i) the organization is duly licensed in Illinois and is eligible based on its location, ( ii) if the organization has vehicles, unless exempted under Section 3-56-140 of this Code, the organization has already purchased a-wheel tax license emblem, and (iii) parking congestion in the immediate area warrants issuanceiof ! permits under this subsection. Such confirmation may be contained in a letter from the alderman of the ward in which the organization is located. Absent such a letter, the City Clerk shall seek confirmation from that alderman that elements (i). (ii) and (iii) are present before issuing .permits under this subsection. The fee for such residential parking daily permits shall he as specified iri Section 9-68-02()(b)(5) of this Code. Any residential parking daily permit issued pursuant to this subsection shall only be used by employees of the not-for-profit organization in the course of ; their employment.

The City Clerk is authorized to adopt such rules as she may deem appropriate for the-proper administration and enforcement of this subsection.

 

 

This subsection shall apply only with regard to the following residential parking permit zones: 102, 143, 168. 383. 827. 1130.

This pilot program shall expire on December 31. 2018.

(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)

 

 

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon passage and approval, and shall be deemed to apply retroactively to January 1,2018.

 

 

 

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Andrea M. Valencia City Clerk

 

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 28, 2018

 

 

To the President and Members of the City Council:

Your Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety, to which was referred a Substitute Ordinance which is an Amendment of Municipal Code Section 9-64-090(h) by maintaining not-for-profit organization one-day residential program, 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.

Walter Burnett, Jr. Chairman,

Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted,