I. RECOMMENDATION:
The Coalinga Police Department is asking the City Council to adopt Resolution No. 4008, which would allow the police department to enforce parking restrictions on all State Routes within the City Limits as specifically E. Polk Street/SR33 between Thompson and Garfield.
II. BACKGROUND:
The city as well as the police department have received numerous parking complaints involving a camping trailer parked in the 700 block of E. Polk Street/SR33 which is causing safety concerns for vehicles trying turn onto E. Polk Street from S. Thompson Street.
III. DISCUSSION:
The department has been in talks with Cal-Trans regarding the installation of two street signs prohibiting RV and trailer parking in the 700 block of E. Polk Street between S. Thompson and Garfield Street. This due the city receiving multiple parking complaints in this area over the last year.
When dispatched, the police department would respond to this location to find a full size truck with a large camping trailer behind it. This vehicle would remain parked at this location until the Department would receive a call and have to respond. The owner of the vehicle would be contacted and would move the truck and trailer, only to return to the same place several days later.
To assist the police department in enforcing traffic laws regarding the stopping, standing and parking of vehicles on State Highways per California Vehicle Code Section 22506 - Local authorities may by ordinance or resolution prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on a state highway, in their respective jurisdictions, if the ordinance or resolution is first submitted to and approved in writing by the Department of Transportation, except that where maintenance of any state highway is delegated by the Department of Transportation to a city, the department may also delegate to the city the powers conferred on the department.
The City Council will need to this resolution in order to permit the posting of the street signs. The installation and purchase of the pole and signs will be at the expense of the City.
IV. ALTERNATIVES:
The council can decide not approve this request
V. FISCAL IMPACT:
The cost of this project would be charged to the gas tax street materials account (# 107-422-70130) in the amount of $350.00. The materials would be purchased and installed by the City's of Coalinga's Public Works Department. |