Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

10.44.110 Designation of Angle Parking or Diagonal Parking.
A. The Transportation Engineer shall determine those portions of City streets upon which angle parking or
diagonal parking shall be permitted. The Transportation Engineer is authorized to place pavement markings or signs
within or adjacent to such portions of City streets in which angle parking or diagonal parking shall be permitted,
indicating the angle at which vehicles shall be parked. Angle parking, in accordance with the designation placed by
the Transportation Engineer, shall be permitted within the areas so designated.
B. When signs or pavement markings are in place indicating angle parking as herein provided, no person shall
park or stand a vehicle at that location other than at the angle to the curb or edge of the roadway indicated by such
signs or pavement markings. (Ord. 4887, 1994; Ord. 2713 §1 (part), 1959; prior Code §31.91.)
10.44.120 Parking Parallel with Curb.
(a) Subject to other and more restrictive limitations, a vehicle may be stopped or parked within eighteen inches
(18") of the left-hand curb facing in the direction of traffic movement upon any one-way street unless signs are in
place prohibiting such stopping or standing.
(b) In the event a highway includes two (2) or more separate roadways and traffic is restricted to one (1)
direction upon any such roadway, no person shall stand or park a vehicle upon the left-hand side of such one-way
roadway unless signs are in place permitting such standing or parking.
(c) The Transportation Engineer is authorized to determine when standing or parking may be permitted upon the
left-hand side of any one-way roadway of a street having two (2) or more separate roadways and shall erect signs
giving notice thereof.
(d) The requirement of parallel parking shall not apply in the event any commercial vehicle is actually engaged
in the process of loading or unloading freight or goods, in which case that vehicle may be backed up to the curb,
provided that such vehicle does not extend beyond the centerline of the street and does not block traffic thereby.
However, no such angle parking for loading shall be permitted if the physical features of the area are such that
loading can be accomplished in some other manner. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.92.)
10.44.130 Parking on Hills.
No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle unattended on a street when upon any grade exceeding three
percent (3%) within any business or residential district without blocking the wheels of the vehicle by turning them
against the curb or by other means. (Ord. 2713 §1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.93.)
10.44.140 Parking in Intersections.
An operator may park within an intersection adjacent to the curb if the Transportation Engineer finds, and
determines, pursuant to Section 586(22500(a)) of the California Vehicle Code, that the width of the street and traffic
conditions are such that such parking will not constitute a traffic hazard or impede the free flow of traffic. (Ord. 2713
§1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.94.)
10.44.150 Parking Space Markings.
The Transportation Engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking
spaces adjacent to curbs where authorized parking is permitted, and to indicate parking spaces within parking lots
owned and/or operated by the City, and to indicate those locations wherein the parking of vehicles which are 24 feet
or longer shall be prohibited.
When such parking space markings are placed in the street or in a municipally owned and/or operated parking lot,
subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within
a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
Where signs or markings are installed pursuant to this Chapter to indicate that parking vehicles that are 24 feet or
longer is prohibited, no vehicle which is 24 feet in length, or longer, shall be stopped, left standing or parked contrary
to such prohibition or within an area designated as prohibited. (Ord. 4759, 1992; Ord. 3199 §1, 1967; Ord. 2713
§1(part), 1959; prior Code §31.95.)
10.44.151 Regulation of Traffic Upon Municipally Owned and/or Operated Parking Lots.
Whenever the Transportation Engineer shall determine the necessity of regulations governing the operation and
parking of vehicles upon or the exclusion of vehicles from parking lots owned, operated or controlled by the City, the
Transportation Engineer shall have the power and authority to erect signs or otherwise mark such lots to indicate such
regulations; and when signs or markings authorized by the provisions hereof are in place giving notice thereof, no
person shall operate, stand or park any vehicle upon such parking lot contrary to such regulations or directions of
such signs or markings.
Any person parking a motor vehicle in violation of a curb marking or sign restricting parking to vehicles
displaying a distinguishing license plate or placards issued to disabled persons pursuant to the Vehicle Code shall be
punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00). (Ord. 4759, 1992; Ord. 3913 §1, 1977; Ord. 3199 §2,
1967.)
246 rev. 6/30/09