City of Milwaukee - File #: 030092

• File #: 030092
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Placed On File
• File created: 4/15/2003
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 10/14/2003
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to a pilot program granting parking privileges to employes of elementary schools in commuter parking impacted areas.
• Sponsors: ALD. DONOVAN
• Indexes: PARKING, PARKING REGULATIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/14/2003	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PLACED ON FILE	Pass	16:0
10/2/2003	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE	Pass	5:0
9/25/2003	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
5/13/2003	1	COMMON COUNCIL	NOT ACTED ON; Minutes note: RETURN TO COMMITTEE - NOT APPROVED BY CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE	Pass
5/1/2003	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Speaker: Susie Van Rixel, Atlas Preparatory Academy	Pass	4:0
4/28/2003	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
4/24/2003	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/24/2003	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/15/2003	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
030092
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. DONOVAN
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to a pilot program granting parking privileges to employes of elementary schools in commuter parking impacted areas.
Sections
81-83.5 cr
101-27.8 cr
Analysis
This ordinance provides that any permanent, regular employe of an elementary school located in the St. Luke's Hospital commuter parking impacted area shall be eligible to obtain a special parking permit to allow the employe's vehicle to be parked in the commuter parking impacted area in excess of posted time limits. The permit shall only be valid if the vehicle is parked within 600 feet (approximately 2 blocks) of the main entrance to the school at which the permit holder is employed. As with permits for residential daytime parking permits for commuter parking impacted areas, the special privilege permits for school employes shall be issued by the police department, free of charge. Permits shall be issued on a school-year basis, and may be renewed. This pilot program will be in effect from the effective date of the ordinance through July 31, 2004.
Body
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee currently has 19 designated commuter parking impacted areas, in which residents of each area are eligible to obtain permits to allow them to park on area streets in excess of posted time limits; and

Whereas, Many commuter parking impacted areas contain one or more elementary schools; and

Whereas, Staff of these schools often have great difficulty finding parking spaces near their schools, because of both resident permit parking and the large number of “commuter” vehicles parked near the major employer/traffic generator for which the commuter parking impacted area was established; and

Whereas, One potential means to alleviate the parking problems experienced by school staff in commuter parking impacted areas is creation of a program under which school employes would be eligible to obtai...