HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity of Tamarac Ordinance O-1980-041Introduced by: CA Temp. # 7 3 0
Rev. 4/9/80
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CITY OF TANJ \RAC, FLORIDA
ORDINANCE NO. 0 Y ?O - S//
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 18-7 OF THE TAMARAC CITY
CODE PERTAINING TO HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACE -REQUIREMENTS
BY MODIFYING THE DEPTH FOR CERTAIN HANDICAPPED PARKING
SPACES, BY REDUCING THE PARKING SPACES REQUIRED FOR
HANDICAPPED PARKING AND BY STATING THAT PARKING REQUIRE-
Tv=FOR HANDICAPPED IS IN ADDITION TO OTHER PARKING
REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN CITY REGULATIONS; PROVIDING FOR
CODIFICATION; PROVIDING REPEALER; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY
OF INVALID PROVISIONS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: Section 18-7 of the Tamarac City Code is amended by
adding the wards, numerals and punctuation underscored and deleting the words,
numerals and punctuation struck through as follows:
Section 18-7. Handicapped parking space -Requirements.
(a) General Requirements. All applicable state and federal
laws and city ordinances relating to parking spaces for certain disabled persons
in all public and private parking areas greater than ten (10) spaces, including
minimum dimensions, requirements, location and posting of signs, shall be adhered
to on all proposed developments and parking facilities which require revisions.
(b) Minimum Standards. The following standards represent
the minimum requirements for any handicapped parking space required pursuant
to this section:
(1) Location. All spaces shall be placed in the
immediate vicinity of the major entrance (s) to the building (s) with
accessibility to curb ramp (minimum of one -foot to twelve --foot
slope) or curb cut, and shall be located so that users will. not.be
,compelled to wheel behind parked vehicles.
(2) Minimum dimension. Jiagonal--or-perpendicular-
Pparking spaces shall be a minimum of twelve (12) feet wide and
twenty (20) feet deep.- for Oo or 900 parking, and twelve (12) feet
wide and eighteen (18) feet deep for diagonal parking.
(3) Striping and signage. Each such space shall be
outlined with a color of paint and posted with a sign of a color
and design approved by the department of transportation with
the internationally accepted wheelchair symbol placed on a post
or wall centered at the back of the parking space at eye level.
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(4) Minimum amount of parking spaces. A minimum of one handicapped
space shall be designated in all parking areas greater than ten (10)-
spaces but less than twenty-one (21)-spaces. One additional space
shall be required for the next
ei h (80) spaces or fraction thereof, and then one (1) space for each
additional hundred spaces or fraction thereof. The kin r irements
for handica ]Rarkipg is in addition to other parking requirements set
forth in regulations of the City.
(5) Vehicles permitted to occupy spaces. Only vehicles with plates
imprinted with designation H.P., DV, or with the internationally
accepted wheelchair symbol may use these spaces.
(6) Failure to comply with section. All parking areas which are not
now in compliance with this section shall, within six (6) months after
notification by the police department, comply with this section. upon
failure, neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions of this
section, the violator shall be subject to the penalties of section
18-8 (e). The cost or expense of installing handicapped parking spaces
shall not be considered as cause for hardship.
SECTION 2: Specific authority is hereby granted to codify this
SECTION 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 4: Should any section or provision of this ordinance or any
portion hereof or any paragraph, sentence or word be declared by a Court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remainder hereof as a whole or any part hereof other than the part declared
to be invalid.
SECTION 5: This ordinance shall become effective upon its final
passage.
PASSED FIRST READING this Jk day of 1980.
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PASSED SECOND READING this__f of ,1980.
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CITY CLERK
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have approved
the form and correctness of this
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