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residents who front on Santa Rita Frontage Road from this parking restriction. The Municipal Code sets forth various limited time parking zones and provides that the City Council, by resolution, may designate a street as a limited time parking zone 0 The Municipal Code also provides City Council with the ability to create Residential Permit Parking Program 0 The Permit Parking Code, ho~ever, was written specifically to address high school students parking in residential neighborhoods and ~ill need to be modified to allo~ for non-school time parking prohibitions 0 The current code only allows for permits to be valid from September to July and sets the time limit from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM Monday through Friday 0 Staff recommends removing the time of day, day of week and time of year elements within the code to allo~ for expanded use of the Permit Parking Program for this particular areao Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND Santa Rita Road carries approximately 20,000 vehicles per day adjacent to Amador Community Park 0 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 0 In June of 2003, Santa Rita Road area residents raised concerns to the Staff Traffic Committee about the increasing number of vehicles for sale adjacent to the Amador Community Parko The Police Department found that not only were these vehicles an eyesore, but they created traffic safety concerns 0 Motorists were stopping in the travel lane adjacent to the vehicles for sale to look at the vehicles and write down the seller's phone numbers 0 Other interested buyers ~ere ~alking around the vehicles for sale out in the southbound travel lane when inspecting the vehicles 0 For these reasons, the Staff Traffic Committee recommended the creation of a 4-hour parking limit adjacent to the park to discourage vehicles for sale ~hile not impacting park userso The 4-hour parking limit was effective in eliminating vehicles for sale and the related traffic problems adjacent to Amador Parko However, the parking of vehicles for sale began to spill over into the surrounding neighborhood 0 The residents along Santa Rita Frontage Road contacted the Staff Traffic Committee in search of some type of parking restriction to remove the vehicles for sale from their neighborhood 0 SR:06:016 Page 2 of4