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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 raised concerns to the Staff Traffic Committee about the increasing number of vehicles for sale adjacent to the Amador Community Park. The Police Department found that not only were these vehicles an eyesore, but they created traffic safety concerns. 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. Other interested buyers were walking around the vehicles for sale out in the southbound travel lane when inspecting the vehicles. 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 while not impacting park users. The 4- hour parking limit was effective in eliminating vehicles for sale and the related' traffic problems adjacent to Amador Park. However, the parking of vehicles for sale began to spill over into the surrounding neighborhood. 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. The residents feel the vehicles for sale are unsightly and create additional unwanted vehicular and foot traffic on their streets. 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 are 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 AlisaI School to Francisco Street. At the November 1, 2005, City Council meeting, the residents that have homes fronting Santa Rita Frontage Road (located between Alisal School and Alvarado Street), requested that permits be issued to exempt them from the four-hour restriction. The City Council approved the resolution to install 4-hour parking between Alvarado Street and Francisco Street (the sections of Santa Rita Frontage Road that do not have homes facing the roadway) at the November 1, 2005, meeting. City Council directed staff to meet with the residents between Alisal School and Alvarado Street (the homes facing Santa Rita Frontage Road), to determine what length of time parking restriction is most favorable to them and to make SR 06:038 Page 3 of5