Agenda Item Wording:
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Receive staff presentation and provide comment and/or direction on Visalia Municipal Code Chapter 10.16.210 Parking Commercial Vehicles in Residential Districts.
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Deadline for Action: 8/15/2022
Submitting Department: Community Development
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Tracy Robertshaw, Neighborhood Preservation Manager, (559)713-4187, tracy.robertshaw@visalia.city
Paul Bernal, Community Development Director, (559)713-4025, paul.bernal@visalia.city
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the Visalia City Council receive the staff report and presentation of Visalia Municipal Code Section 10.16.210 "Commercial Vehicles in Residential Districts" and provide direction to staff regarding any proposed changes to this ordinance that Council would like to have researched and developed further.
Background Discussion:
Over the past year, Councilmembers and staff received complaints related to the enforcement of commercial vehicles in residential districts. Typically, the complaints entail large scale semi-trucks (with trailer attached) or the cab minus the trailer. Over the past year, several complaints were received regarding large commercial vehicles of a lesser scale than semi-trucks but violating the ordinance none the less. It is the enforcement of these complaints that has generated concerns and questions from property owners found in violation of the ordinance as it currently reads.
Visalia Municipal Code Section 10.16.210 states the following:
No person shall park any commercial vehicle, having an unladen weight exceeding five thousand (5,000) pounds in any residential district except: (a) while loading or unloading property; or (b) when such vehicle is parked in connection with, or in aid of, the performance of a service to or on a property in the block in which such vehicle is parked. A "residence district" shall be determined as per California Vehicle Code, Division 1, Section 240 or Section 515, or as those ...
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