46.28.030 Stopping, standing or parking prohibited in specified places.
A. Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with the law or the directions of a police officer or official traffic control device or as otherwise posted by the city, no person shall:
1. Stop, stand or park a vehicle:
a. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
b. On a sidewalk or street planting strip;
c. Within an intersection;
d. On a crosswalk;
e. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless official signs or markings indicate a different no-parking area opposite the ends of a safety zone;
f. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
g. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;
h. On or within three feet of any railroad track;
i. In the area between roadways of a divided highway including crossovers;
j. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping;
k. Within any fire exit;
l. At any place where red curb markings are used to designate no-parking zones; or
m. On or in a bicycle lane.
2. Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:
a. In front of a public or private driveway or within five feet of the end of the curb radius leading thereto;
b. Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;
c. Within twenty feet of a crosswalk;
d. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;
e. Within twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five feet of said entrance when properly signed;
f. At any place where official signs prohibited standing; or
g. At any place where city barricades are placed.
3. Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading property or passengers:
a. Within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing; or
b. At any place where official signs prohibit parking.
B. Parking or standing shall be permitted in the manner provided by law at all other places where a time limitation or parking restriction has been imposed.
C. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is prohibited. (Ord. 3219-11 § 2, 2011; Ord. 2826-05 § 2, 2005; Ord. 2180-96 § 3, 1996.)