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ORDINANCE NO. 2794 I o 5-;;t0-,q~~=----
11 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 18-91 OF THE LUBBOCK CITY CODE
SO AS TO SET UP A PROCEDURE FOR LIMITED TIME PARKING IN COMMER-
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CIAL AREAS AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS ABUTTING AND ADJOINING COMMER-1 I CIAL AREAS: PRESCRIBIN<? A PENALTY, AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION I
AND EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE.
I WHEREAS, the City Commission finds that it would be in the public interest to
revise and/or change the procedure for establishing limited time parking outside
II parking meter zones; NOW THEREFORE:
I BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION I. THAT Section 18-91 of the Lubbock City Code is amended to read
as follows:
"Upon any written request filed with the City Traffic Engineer for
limited time parking from the owners and/or tenants of commercial
property abutting a public street on one side of any block for a minimum
distance of at least 150 feet which are outside of the established Park-
ing Meter areas and such requests represent eighty per cent or more
of the commercial frontage proposed to be placed in a limited time
parking zone, the City Traffic Engineer shall mark., or cause the
marking of such limited time parking zones with appropriate signs,
indicating one-hour or two-hour _parking limits as the case may be7
or if it is determined that a one-hour or two-hour parking limit is
not satisfactory to the affected abutting property owners or tenants,
the application shall be referred to the City Commission for dis-
position. Said parking limits shall be effective between the hours
of 7:00 A.M. to 6! 00 P.M., except Snndays and City holidays. If
residential property abuts or adjoins Commercial property on the
same side of the street and in the same block, the owners and/ or
ten~nts of said residential property may join in an application for
limited time parking with the owners of said commercial property
under the same terms and regulations which control limited time
parking in the commercial property area.
II SECTION 2. Any person, firm or corporation violating the limited time parkin
as established and designated pursuant to the provisions by overparking said
limited time shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not to exceed TWO HUND-
RED {$200. 00) DOLLARS.
~ S~CTION 3. The City Secretary shall cause tlis Ordinance to be published once
I a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper regularly published in the City o
Lubbock and this Ordinance shall become effective ten days after its last publicati •
AND IT IS SO ORDERED 119
Passed by Commission on first reading this 14th day of May , 1cA;8
Passed by Commission on second reading this 28th ~of'ML ~ 195/.
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