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Ordinance No. 1844 <br />Page Four <br /> <br />If police officers, firefighters and other emergency personnel cannot park <br />their vehicles in designated parking spaces during non-emergency and <br />emergency situations, they may need to park their vehicles in areas that <br />block access to shopping centers or traffic corridors, in fire truck lanes, or <br />in parking stalls that are far from entrances. Parking emergency vehicles in <br />traffic corridors or other areas that block access to shopping centers can <br />create safety risks if access to those areas is needed by other emergency <br />vehicles, such as fire trucks. Furthermore, ifa police officer or firefighter is <br />called to another site due to an emergency, the officer or firefighter needs <br />immediate access to his or her vehicle so the vehicle needs to be parked <br />close to an enWance. There also may be occasions when police, fire and <br />other emergency personnel need to respond to an incident, emergency or <br />non-emergency, in a shopping center and it would not be safe or appropriate <br />to park along the fire lane or traffic corridor. The health and safety of <br />persons at shopping centers could be put at risk if emergency personnel <br />could not quickly park their vehicles. <br /> <br />The ordinance proposed will keep open parking spaces for emergency <br />vehicles so that emergency personnel can quickly respond to urgent <br />situations. <br /> <br />INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of <br />Pleasanton on December 4, 2001 by the following vote: <br /> <br />AYES: <br />NOES: None <br />ABSENT: None <br />ABSTAIN: None <br /> <br />Councilmembers - Ayala, Campbell, Dennis, Michelotti, and Mayor Pico <br /> <br />ATTEST: <br /> <br />TOM PICO, MAYOR <br /> <br />Michael H. Roush, City Attorney <br /> <br /> <br />