§86.2002 Legislative Findings
(a) General Finding. The City Council finds as a result of public testimony, evidence generated by both professional planning studies and derived from other sources, that the continued vitality of the City of San Diego depends on the preservation of safe, healthy and attractive neighborhoods and other residential areas therein. The Council further finds that the flight of residents and property owners from major metropolitan cities can be traced in part to the deterioration of such cities as attractive and comfortable places in which to reside. The Council further finds that one factor that has contributed to this deterioration is the excessive and burdensome practice of non– residents of certain areas and neighborhoods parking their motor vehicles for extended periods of time therein. Since there is in certain areas of the city at any one time a large surplus of motor vehicles over available on and off–street parking spaces, this condition detracts from a healthy and complete environment. A system of preferential resident parking will serve to reduce a number of strains on residents of the city and thus promote the general public welfare.
(b) Specific Findings. The following specific legislative findings of the City Council in support of preferential resident parking are set forth as illustrations of the need compelling the enactment of this Division. They are intended as illustrations only and do not exhaust the subject of the factual basis supporting its adoption:
(1) The safety, health and welfare of the residents of the city can be greatly enhanced by maintenance of the attractiveness and livability of its neighborhoods and other residential areas;
(2) It is a fact of modern living in the city that a large number of San Diego residents possess automobiles and as a result are daily faced with the need to store these automobiles in or near their residences;
(3) Certain neighborhoods and areas of the city do not have sufficient on or off–street space to accommodate the convenient parking of motor vehicles by residents thereof in the vicinity of their homes;
(4) Such areas as described in (3) above are often further burdened by influxes of motor vehicles owned by non–residents which compete for the inadequate available on–street parking spaces;
(5) There further exist certain parking “attractors” within the City of San Diego, i.e. hospital, university, and industrial complexes, military bases, beaches, and locations convenient for commuter parking, which further aggravate resident parking problems;
(6) Unnecessary vehicle miles, noise, pollution, and strains on inter–personal relationships caused by the conditions set forth herein work unacceptable hardships on residents of these neighborhoods and other residential areas by causing the deterioration of air quality, safety, tranquility, aesthetics and other values available in a residential environment;
(7) If allowed to continue unchecked, these adverse effects on the residents of the city will contribute to a further decline of the living conditions therein, a reduction in the attractiveness of residing within said city and consequent injury to the general public welfare;
(8) A system of preferential residential parking as enacted in this Division will serve to promote the safety, health and welfare of all the residents of the city by reducing unnecessary personal motor vehicle travel, noise and pollution, and by promoting improvements in air quality, the convenience and attractiveness of urban residential living, and the increased use of public mass transit facilities available now and in the future. The public welfare will also be served by ensuring a more stable and valuable property tax base in order to generate the revenues necessary to provide essential public services.
(“Legislative Findings” added 12–14–1977 by O–12236 N.S.)
