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On-street Accessible Parking Spaces - Residential
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THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF WINDSOR
POLICY
Service Area: Office of the City Engineer
Policy No.:
ENG-TP-AP-1
Department:
Engineering
Approval Date: September 23, 2013
Division:
Transportation Planning
Approved By:
Council
Effective Date:
September 23, 2013
Subject:
On-Street Accessible Parking
Spaces - Residential
Procedure Ref.: ENG-TP-AP-1A
Pages:
Replaces: Resolution M 83-87
Prepared By:
Jeff Hagan
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Date:
1.
POLICY
1.1 This policy sets out the requirements and process for on-street accessible parking
spaces in residential areas.
2.
PURPOSE
2.1 The goal of this policy is to ensure that on-street accessible parking spaces are
provided for residents of the City of Windsor with restricted mobility whose needs
cannot be accommodated off-street while also accommodating the on-street parking
needs of other residents.
3.
SCOPE
3.1 This policy covers on-street accessible parking spaces in residential areas, including
both new applications and renewals.
3.2 This policy does not cover the following types of accessible parking spaces, which
are governed by separate by-laws, policies, procedures, or other documents:
3.2.1
on-street accessible parking spaces in Business Improvement Areas
intended for the use of customers,
3.2.2
off-street accessible parking spaces on private property, and
3.2.3
on-street accessible parking spaces for commercial properties.
4.
RESPONSIBILITY
4.1 Council is responsible for authorizing by-law changes required to facilitate
installation and removal of on-street accessible parking spaces.
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4.2 Staff are responsible for carrying out this policy as follows:
4.2.1
The City Engineer is the corporate lead for all Transportation and
associated Public Safety programs.
4.2.2
The Senior Manager of Infrastructure and Transportation Planning /
Deputy City Engineer provides strategic oversight and approval authority
for the program.
4.2.3
The Manager of Transportation Planning is responsible for recommending
the installation and removal of on-street accessible parking spaces, and for
recommending revisions to this policy to Council.
4.2.4
The Policy Analyst (Transportation Planning) is responsible for preparing
revisions to this policy.
4.2.5
The Transportation Technologist (Transportation Planning) is responsible
for reviewing new and renewal applications for on-street parking, for
carrying out notifications of residents, for preparing the appropriate
amendments to the Traffic By-law for the addition or removal of related
parking restrictions, and for coordinating with Operations staff for the
installation of on-street accessible parking signs.
4.2.6
The Traffic Operations division is responsible for installing and
maintaining the signs for on-street accessible parking spaces.
5.
GOVERNING RULES AND REGULATIONS
5.1 A residential on-street accessible parking space program has already been in effect
before the date of this policy. The program shall continue in accordance with this
policy and related procedures.
5.2 Accessible parking spaces provided under this program:
5.2.1
are intended to allow accessible parking for residents with restricted
mobility (as evidenced by a permanent Accessible Parking Permit granted
to them by the Government of Ontario) within a reasonable distance of
their residence in cases where they do not have off-street parking
available;
5.2.2
are intended to serve the parking needs of the resident, and therefore shall
not be granted unless a vehicle is registered to the resident's address;
5.2.3
shall not be provided to serve visitors to a property or other non-residents;
and
5.2.4
shall not be provided to facilitate pick-up and drop-off (e.g. by Handi-
Transit);
5.3 The needs of the community as a whole (including on-street parking needs for other
residents) as well as engineering concerns and area parking restrictions shall be
balanced against demand for on-street parking in the administration of the residential
on-street accessible parking space program.
5.4 For each street section, comprising both sides of the street measured from intersection
to intersection, no more than 20% (if not a whole number of spaces, then rounded up
to the nearest whole number) of the available on-street spaces shall be designated as
accessible. New applications will not be considered if they would increase the
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number of on-street accessible spaces for the street section above this maximum. In
the case of streets with alternate side parking, the side with the lower number of
available spaces shall be used for this calculation.
5.5 The residential on-street accessible parking space program, including new
applications, renewals, and removal of spaces, will be administered in accordance
with the procedure On-Street Accessible Parking Spaces - Residential, as amended.
5.6 Use of on-street accessible parking spaces is governed by Parking By-Law 9023.
Nothing in this policy or related procedures shall be interpreted to supersede any
provision of the Parking By-law.
6.
RECORDS, FORMS AND ATTACHMENTS
6.1 Records for this policy shall be prepared and retained in accordance with Records
Retention By-Law 21-2013, as amended.
6.2 Application forms for this policy shall be specified in the procedure On-Street
Accessible Parking Spaces - Residential, as amended.
6.3 Attachments:
6.3.1
Procedure: On-Street Accessible Parking Spaces - Residential