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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND Santa Rita Road carries approximately 20,000 vehicles per day adjacent to Amador Community Park. The Amador Community Park is one of the larger and more centralized parks in the City. With its large open grass area, picnic tables, playground equipment and proximity to the Pleasanton Aquatic Center, this park is normally very busy. In June of 2003, Santa Rita Road area residents complained to the Staff Traffic Committee about the increasing number of vehicles for sale adjacent to the Amador Community Park. There was concern that these vehicles were not only an eyesore, but also a traffic hazard. The parking of for-sale vehicles began to spill over into the surrounding community when the City installed four-hour parking on Santa Rita Road to provide parking for residents that wanted to use the recreational facilities. The signs were intended to reduce the visibility of vehicles for sale on Santa Rita Road, with the expectation that the vehicles that were spilling over into the neighborhood would also leave. While the installation of four-hour parking next to Amador Community Park did provide additional parking for park patrons by removing the ability to park cars for sale, it did not eliminate the spillover of vehicles for sale on the frontage road. The residents along Santa Rita Frontage Road have again contacted the Staff Traffic Committee in search of some type of parking restriction to remove the vehicles for sale from their neighborhood. The residents feel the vehicles for sale are unsightly and create additional unwanted vehicular and foot traffic on their street. The Pleasanton Municipal Code does not include an ordinance banning the parking of vehicles on the street that have for sale signs in their windows. The state courts have deemed ordinances banning the parking of vehicles for sale unconstitutional. The Staff Traffic Committee voted to restore the parking availability to the residents by recommending the installation of four-hour parking along Santa Rita Frontage Road. Five of the eight neighbors that will be impacted by the four-hour restriction attended the August, 2005, Staff Traffic Committee meeting. They understand that the four-hour restriction applies to all vehicles, including their own, but would prefer this restriction to the vehicles for sale parked in front of their homes. The four-hour parking will be from 8 AM to 6 PM, seven days a week (excluding holidays). SR:05:248 Page 2 of3