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Repealing Chapter 164, City - Owned Parking Lots, and amending and renumbering Chapter 168, Residential Permit Parking-Guidelines, as Chapter 164, Traffic Code-Residential Permit Parking-Guidelines and Regulations, of the Saint Paul Legislative Code, to comply with state law changes, to align language with standard operating procedures, and to update or eliminate outdated language.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
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Chapter 164 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 168164.01. Declaration of public policy and purpose.
The council of the City of Saint Paul finds that there are residential areas within the City of Saint Paul which are adjacent to or very near intense nonresidential uses which do not provide adequate off-street parking. The council further finds that persons employed by or using those nonresidential facilities frequently park their vehicles on nearby residential streets, resulting in serious residential problems. This parking ordinance regulating parking in designated residential areas is hereby established in order to protect children and other pedestrians from bodily injury for the safety of the residents and to protect real and personal property from damage by reducing hazardous traffic conditions resulting from the heavy usage of these residential streets by nonresidents or transients; to protect those residential areas from polluted air, excessive noise, and trash and refuse caused by the entry of such vehicles; to promote efficiency in the maintenance of those streets in a clean and safe condition; to preserve the character and integrity of those districts areas as residential districts; to protect the residents of those areas from unreasonable burdens in gaining access to their residences; and to preserve the general health, safety, and welfare and integrity of those residents and residential areas.
Sec. 168164.02. Residential parking permit areas authori...
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