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1. Charter
2. Title 1 General Administration
3. Title 2 Government Organization
4. Title 3 Revenue and Taxation
5. Title 4 Licenses and Permits
1. Chapter 4-1 General Licensing Provisions
2. Chapter 4-2 Beverages License
3. Chapter 4-3 Auctioneer License
4. Chapter 4-4 Building Contractor License
5. Chapter 4-5 Circus, Carnival, and Menagerie License
6. Chapter 4-6 Contractor in the Public Right-of-Way License
7. Chapter 4-7 Dog License
8. Chapter 4-8 Electrical Contractor Registration
9. Chapter 4-9 Food Service Establishment and Food Vending Machine License (Repealed)
10. Chapter 4-10 Itinerant Merchant License
11. Chapter 4-11 Mall Permits and Leases
12. Chapter 4-12 Repealed
13. Chapter 4-13 Mechanical Contractor License
14. Chapter 4-14 Mobile Home Park Permit and Mobile Home Installer's License
15. Chapter 4-15 Plumbing Contractor and Apprentice Plumber License
16. Chapter 4-16 Police Alarm Systems
17. Chapter 4-17 Secondhand Dealer and Pawnbroker License
18. Chapter 4-18 Street, Sidewalk, and Public Property Use Permits
19. Chapter 4-19 Taxi Driver License (Repealed)
20. Chapter 4-20 Fees
21. Chapter 4-21 Sign Contractor License
22. Chapter 4-22 Elevator, Dumbwaiter, Materials Lift, Escalator, and Moving Walk License
23. »Chapter 4-23 Neighborhood Parking Zone Permits
24. Chapter 4-24 Parks and Open Space Parking Permits
25. Chapter 4-25 Fire Contractor License
26. Chapter 4-26 Cemetery Permits
27. Chapter 4-27 News Box Leases and Regulation
6. Title 5 General Offenses
7. Title 6 Health, Safety, and Sanitation
8. Title 7 Regulation of Vehicles, Pedestrians, and Parking
9. Title 8 Parks, Open Space, Streets, and Public Ways
10. Title 9 Land Use Regulation
11. Title 10 Structures
12. Title 11 Utilities and Airport
13. Title 12 Human Rights
14. Title 13 Elections and Campaign Disclosures and Activities
15. Title 14 Arts
16. Index
17. Ordinances Pending Codification

Page Contents

• 4-23-1 Legislative Intent
• 4-23-2 Permit Issuance
• 4-23-3 Guest Permits
• 4-23-4 Temporary Permits
• 4-23-5 Revocation

Chapter 4-23: Neighborhood Parking Zone Permits⁴⁶

4-23-1 Legislative Intent.

The purpose of this chapter is to set the standards for issuance and administration of neighborhood parking zone permits.

4-23-2 Permit Issuance.

(a) Upon designation of a neighborhood permit parking zone pursuant to section 2-2-15, "Neighborhood Permit Parking Zones," B.R.C. 1981, the city manager shall issue parking permits for vehicles owned by or in the custody of and regularly used by residents of such zone, by persons employed by a business located within such zone, and, if provided in the zone, by individual nonresidents upon receipt of a completed application therefor and payment of the fees prescribed in section 4-20-49, "Neighborhood Parking Permit Fee," B.R.C. 1981. The city manager may issue nonresident commuter permits up to December 31, 2012, after which date this permit will no longer be available within neighborhood permit parking zones, unless re-authorized by the city council before that time.

(b) A vehicle displaying a valid permit issued pursuant to this section may be parked in the zone specified in the permit without regard to the time limits prescribed for the zone.

(c) No more than two resident permits shall be in effect at any time for any person. No person shall be deemed a resident of more than one zone, and no more than one permit may be issued for any one vehicle even if persons residing in different zones share ownership or use.

(d) Resident permits issued under this section shall be specific for a single vehicle, shall not be transferred, and shall be displayed thereon only as the manager by regulation may prescribe. The permittee shall remove the permit from the vehicle if the vehicle is sold, leased, or no longer in the custody of the permittee.

(e) "Business," for the purpose of this chapter, includes nonresidential institutions, but does not include home occupations. Three business employee permits may be in effect at any time for any business without regard to number of employees or off-street parking. In the alternative, upon application by the manager of the business, the city manager may issue employee permits to a business according to the following formula: half of the number of full-time equivalent employees minus the number of off-street parking spaces under the control of the business at that location equals the maximum number of employee permits for the business. Full-time equivalent employees of the business are calculated based upon one such employee for every full forty hours worked at that location by employees of the business within the periods of time in a week during which the neighborhood permit parking restrictions are in effect. On its application, the employer shall designate the employee vehicles, not to exceed the number allowed, for which each permit is valid. A business permit is valid only for the vehicles listed thereon, and shall be displayed on the vehicle for which the permit is being used only as the manager by regulation may prescribe.

(f) The manager shall by regulation declare when the permit year shall begin for each neighborhood parking permit zone. Permits issued based on new applications submitted during the last month of a permit year shall also be valid for the succeeding permit year. Otherwise there shall be no proration of the fee.

(g) In considering applications for resident permits, the manager may require proof that the applicant has a legal right to possession of the premises claimed as a residence. If the manager has probable cause to believe that the occupancy limitations of subsection 9-8-5(a), B.R.C. 1981, are being violated, no further permits shall be issued under this section for the residence in question until the occupancy thereof is brought into compliance.

(h) If the permit or the portion of the vehicle to which a resident permit has been affixed is damaged such that it must be replaced, the permittee, upon application therefor, shall be issued a replacement at a prorated cost. The manager may require display of the damaged permit before a new permit is issued.

(i) No person shall use or display any permit issued under this section in violation of any provision of this code.

(j) The maximum number of nonresident permits issued on any given block face within a zone shall be four. In addition, if the manager determines that the average daily percentage of unoccupied neighborhood parking spaces, on block faces where commuter permits have been allocated, drops below twenty-five percent for four consecutive hours between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of any given weekday, then the manager shall reduce the number of commuter permits by a number estimated to maintain an average daily percentage of unoccupied neighborhood parking spaces of twenty-five percent. But for any part of Goss Street or Circle, Grove Street or Circle, or the portions of 16th Street through 23rd Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard, included within any neighborhood parking permit zone, the average daily percentage of unoccupied neighborhood parking spaces which must be maintained without reduction in commuter permits shall be fifteen percent. The manager may also, for this Goss-Grove zone, allocate commuter permits initially to educational institutions and organizations representing postal workers in rough proportion to the needs of these groups. Such groups may renew such permits. Distribution of such permits by such groups to their clientele shall be at a price not to exceed the cost of the permit.

Ordinance Nos. 5271 (1990); 7004 (1999); 7243 (2002); 7247 (2002); 7569 (2007)

4-23-3 Guest Permits.

Residents issued a permit pursuant to this chapter may obtain two two-week permits per year for use by houseguests of the permittee. The permit shall be indelibly marked in the space provided thereon with the date of its first use. The permit shall thereafter be valid only for the succeeding thirteen consecutive days. The manager may by regulation define the circumstances under which additional guest permits may be issued in cases of reasonable need consistent with residential use of the dwelling.

4-23-4 Temporary Permits.

Upon application to the manager, any person licensed or registered as a contractor in the city may obtain at no cost a reasonable number of temporary permits for the vehicles of the contractor and the contractor's employees for the period of time that the contractor is engaged in work within a neighborhood permit parking zone for which a permit has been issued under the provisions of title 10, "Structures," B.R.C. 1981.

4-23-5 Revocation.

The manager, after notice and a hearing as set forth in section 4-1-10, "Revocation of Licenses," B.R.C. 1981, may revoke any permit issued pursuant to this chapter for any of the grounds set forth therein or on the ground that it has been misused. Revocation shall bar the permittee from holding any permit under this chapter for a period of one year thereafter.

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⁴⁶ Adopted by Ordinance No. 4966. Amended by Ordinance No. 5869. Amended by Ordinance No. 7569.

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