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Home My WebLink About1601 - ORDINANCES - 10/3/2001ORDINANCE NO. 1601 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 5,38.010, 5.38.260 AND ADDING SECTIONS 5.38.270 AND 5.38.280 OF THE PALM SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE, REGULATING SPECIAL EVENT VALET PARKING SERVICES. ' THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA DOES 'ORDAIN as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 5.38.010 of the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby amended to add definitions regarding valet parking services, to read as follows: 5.38.010 Definitions. (a) In this chapter; (1) "Area Meters" means a centralized pay station for patrons of metered lots and metered streets. (2) "Attendant" means a person who performs any service regarding valet parking on a full-time, part-time or contract basis, including an operator or manager of a valet parking operation and a driver of patrons' vehicles. (3) "Business Owner" means the owner of a business for which a valet parking service is being provided. (4) "Employee Parking Permit" means the permit issued by the City allowing an employee of a downtown merchant to park on designated portions of the public right-of-way without regard for the posted time restriction. (5) "Employee Parking Permit Fee" means the fee, as established by the City's Comprehensive Fee Schedule, for an Employee Parking Permit. (6) "Incentive Parking Programs" means a program similar to merchants ' providing parking tokens for the future return trips to their patrons. (7) "Managed Parking" means a comprehensive program of parking restrictions and enforcement; establishment and management of pay parking facilities, including metered lots and metered streets; contractual parking arrangements on private property and valet permitting; and parking construction, rehabilitation and development, (8) "Metered Lots" means the municipal pay parking lots, or privately owned pay parking lots operated under contract by the City, in the downtown. (9) "Metered Street" means a section of public right-of-way specifically designated by resolution of the city council upon which an area parking meter is installed. (10) "Operator" means any person, firm or corporation owning a valet parking company. (11) "Park" or "Parking" means the stopping or standing of a vehicle, whether attended or unattended excepting to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with a peace officer or official traffic control device and excepting temporarily standing same for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers or merchandise. (12) "Preferential Employee Parking" means designated parking areas for downtown employees with a properly issued parking permit. (13) "Property Owner" means the owner of land upon which a valet parking storage operation may occur. 1 13,E Ordinance No. 1601 Page 2 (14) "Public Right -of -Way" means any area dedicated to public use for public street, pedestrian way or other public purposes, or which shall include but not be limited to roadways, parkways, alleys, sidewalks, and pedestrian ways. (15) "Reserved Parking Permit" means the permit issued by the City allowing the owner/manager, or designated representative, of a downtown merchant to park without time restriction, in a parking space designated by the City as "reserved" in a City -owned parking facility. (16) "Reserved Parking Permit Fee" means the fee, as established by the ' City's Comprehensive Fee Schedule, for a Reserved Parking Permit. (17) "Reserved Parking Space" means those spaces in a City -owned parking facility designated by the City as reserved for the exclusive use of those vehicles displaying an authorized Reserved Parking Permit. Such "reserved parking spaces" shall not exceed five percent (5%) of the total parking capacity of said parking facility. (18) "Reserved Valet Parking Space" means those spaces in a City -owned parking facility designated by the City as reserved for the exclusive use of an authorized and permitted valet parking service. Such "reserved valet parking spaces" shall not exceed 10 percent (10%) of the total parking capacity of said parking facility. (19) "Special Event Valet Parking Permit" means the written authorization by the City allowing an Operator to provide valet parking on the public right- of-way on a temporary nonrecurring basis for special events. Prior to actually operating a special event valet service, the Operator must also obtain a Temporary Valet Parking Permit for each specific special event. (20) "Special Event Valet Parking Permit Fee" rneans the fee, as established by the City's Comprehensive Fee Schedule, for a Special Event Valet Parking Permit. (21) "Special Validation" means a program similar to merchants reimbursing the patron for the cost of parking. (22) "Temporary Valet Parking Permit" means the written authorization by the City allowing an Operator to provide valet parking on the public right -of- ' way on a temporary nonrecurring basis at a specific location fora specific event. An Operator must hold a Special Event Valet Parking Permit prior to the issuance of a Temporary Valet Parking Permit. (23) "Temporary Valet Parking Permit Application" means the form that must be completed for each individual special event valet parking operation. (24) "Temporary Valet Parking Permit Processing Fee" means the fee, as established by the City's Comprehensive Fee Schedule, for a Temporary Valet Parking Permit. (25) "Valet" means any person, firm or corporation engaging in the activity of taking possession of, driving, moving, parking or leaving standing, any vehicle that is left at one location to be driven to another location for parking for patrons or guests of a business where such valet is employed by, or is under contract to, the business for which the vehicles are being parked. (26) "Valet Parking Permit" means the written authorization by the City allowing a person, or company, to provide valet parking on the public right-of-way. (27) "Valet Parking Plan" means a written plan describing the location where the valet parking operation will be performed, transportation and access routes, days and hours of operation, number of valets and expected number of guests, the off-street parking location at which vehicles will be parked and the number of parking spaces available and not required for Ordinance No. 1601 Page 3 off-street parking requirements under the Zoning Ordinance. (28) "Vehicle" means a device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (29) "Vehicle Parking Facility" means a metered lot or metered street so designated by city council resolution. (b) Other words used in this Chapter, the meaning of which is or may be defined by the Vehicle Code of the State, shall have the respective meanings thereby ' provided. SECTION 2. Chapter 5.38.260 to the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 5.38.260 Special event valet narking Dermits and temoorary valet oarkina oermits. (1) Special event valet parking permits may be issued to persons or companies that provide valet parking services for nonrecurring special events where valet parking services are required for 30 calendar days or less. (2) Special event valet parking permits are not required for special event valet services entirely on private property. (3) Operators must have a current special event valet parking permit and a temporary valet parking permit specific to each valet parking location to operate a special event valet parking operation in the public right-of-way or on or over public property. (4) Insurance and indemnification requirements for a special event valet parking permit shall be as set forth in sections 5.38.220 and 538.225 respectively. A separate certificate of insurance must be submitted to the city by the sponsor of the special event for each valet parking location and each event. (5) A Temporary valet parking permit application must be submitted for each individual special event and should be filed at least 10 calendar days prior to the time that the valet service is required except that the city manager, at his sole discretion, based on a determination that all public safety issues may be ' adequately addressed, may waive the time requirements of this section. Applications must be accompanied by the temporary valet parking permit processing fee as established by the City's Comprehensive Fee Schedule. (6) Temporary special event valet parking operations shall be exempt from the Valet Parking Privilege Fee. (7) Operators must conform to the temporary valet parking regulations attached to the issued temporary valet parking permit. SECTION 3. Chapter 5.38.270 to the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: 5.38.270 EmDlovee oarkina oermits. Employees of downtown merchants shall be allowed to parking in designated areas of Indian Canyon Drive and Belardo road without regard for posted 2-hour time restrictions. All such areas shall be posted "Except by Permit." Such spaces are not "reserved" for employees only. If the parking space is available, the permitted vehicle shall be exempt from the posted time restriction. Employee parking permits may be issued to those individuals who have submitted a completed "Employee Parking Permit Application" authorized by the owner/operator of a downtown merchant, a facsimile of the current vehicle registration for the vehicle to be permitted and payment of the "Employee Parking Permit Fee." 1 1343 Ordinance No. 1601 Page 4 SECTION 4. Chapter 5.38.280 to the Palm Springs Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: 5.38.280 Reserved oarkino permits. Owner/operators, or the designated representative, of downtown merchants shall be allowed to parking in those areas of City -owned parking facilities without regard for posted time restrictions. All such areas shall be posted "Parking by Permit Only." Reserved parking permits may be issued to those individuals who have submitted a completed 'Reserved Parking Permit Application" authorized by the owner/operator of a downtown merchant, a facsimile of the current vehicle registration for the vehicle to be permitted and payment of the "Reserved Parking Permit Fee." SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after passage. SECTION 6. PUBLICATION. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance, and to cause the same or a summary thereof, or a display advertisement, duly prepared according to law, to be published in accordance with law. ADOPTED this 3rd day of October 2001. AYES: Members Hodges, Jones, Oden, Reller-Spurgin and Mayor Kleindieust NOES: None ABSENT: None City Clerk REVIEWED & APPROVED AS TO FORM TY OF PALM SPRINGS, CA IFORNIA PAM , 1q' ° Mayor I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING Ordinance 1601 was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs, California, in a meeting held on the 3rd day of October 2001, and that same was published in the DESERT SUN, a newspaper of general >circulation on October 11, 2001. YATRICIA A. SANDERS City Clerk