33-11 Amend 351.26, Emergency During Heavy Snow Storms

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PLACED ON 1sT READING & REFERRED TO THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE 6/20/11, 2nd 7/5/11, deferred 7/18/11, Referred back 9/19/11) ORDINANCE NO. 33-11 By; Anderson, Bullock, Juris, Madigan, Nowlin, Powers, Smith. AN ORDINANCE to amend Section 351.26 of the Codified Ordinances, Emer- gency During Heavy Snow Storms, for the purpose of increasing the snowfall amount in a 24-hour period that is required to trigger a prohibition against parking on City streets from two inches to four inches. WHEREAS, currently the Lakewood Codified Ordinances provide for a parking ban on City streets where there is a snowfall of two inches or more in a 24-hour period; and WHEREAS, many residents of the City are required to utilize on-street parking at their residence or place of employment; and WHEREAS, City officials have determined that the current threshold of two inches of snow in a 24-hour period is too restrictive on these residents and a more realis- tic snowfall requiring a parking ban is four inches; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Re- vised Code municipalities have the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That Section 351.26 of the Codified Ordinances, Emergency Dur- ing Heavy Snow Storms, currently reading as follows: 351.26 EMERGENCY DURING HEAVY SNOW STORMS. (a) Whenever, during any period of twenty-four hours or less, snow falls in the City or in a section thereof to a depth of two inches or more, an emergency is declazed to exist in that such a heavy snow storm constitutes a serious public hazazd impair- ing transportation, the movement of food and fuel supplies, medical care, fire, health and police protection, and other vital facilities of the City. Such emergency shall continue until an announcement by the Director of Public Safety that snow plowing operations have been completed, which announce- ment shall be made in the same manner as outlined in Secfion 351.27. (b) On streets posted as emergency snow ban streets, an emer- gency shall exist without announcement as specified in Sec- tion 351.27 whenever two or more inches of snow has fallen within atwenty-four hour period and such emergency shall continue until plowing operafions are completed or until twenty-four hours following the cessation of snow fall, which- ever is eazlier.