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The residents feel the vehicles for sale are unsightly and create additional unvvanted vehicular and foot traffic on their streets 0 The Pleasanton Municipal Code does not include an ordinance banning the parking of vehicles on the street that have for sale signs in their vvindo~s 0 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 from Alisal School to Francisco Street. At the November 1, 2005 City Council Meeting, the residents that have homes fronting Santa Rita Frontage Road (located bet~een Alisal School and Alvarado Street) requested that permits be issued to exempt them from the four-hour restrictiono The City Council approved the resolution to install 4-hour parking betvveen Alvarado Street and Francisco Street (the sections of Santa Rita Frontage Road that do not have homes facing the road~ay) at the November 1, 2005 meeting 0 City Council directed staff to meet vvith the residents betvveen Alisal School and Alvarado Street (the homes facing Santa Rita Frontage Road) to determine ~hat length of time parking restriction is most favorable to them and to make the necessary modifications to the existing Residential Permit Parking Program so that it may be used to exempt the residents betvveen Alisal School and Alvarado Street from the time limited parking. Staff met vvith the residents located bet~een Alisal School and Alvarado Street on November 10th, 2005 to determine the most favorable time restrictions as vvell as to discuss the general guidelines for the Residential Permit Parking Program. The residents agreed that the 4-hour parking limit in conjunction vvith the Permit Parking zone vvas the most favorable solution to the parking of vehicles for sale 0 The current Residential Permit Parking Ordinance does not allovv for flexibility in the times of day, days of vveek, or months of year that the permit parking may be usedo The Ordinance as it is currently vvritten, only allovvs 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 The vehicle for sale impact is greatest during the vveekendo The current permit parking time limits do not cover the vveekend and ~ould not provide an effective solution to the parking impacts from the vehicles for sale 0 Staff recommends modification of the current ordinance by adopting the attached resolution that ~ill remove the language that limits the time the time of day, day of ~eek and time of year provisions 0 This vvill allovv for the use of Residential Permit Parking to address the parking concerns on Santa Rita Frontage Roado Staff believes this is an acceptable solution to the "for sale" parking problem experienced by the neighborhoodo SR:06:016 Page 3 of4