06-2022 - Amend 351.27 Parking Regulations - Heavy Snowstorms

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Placed on 1st reading & referred to Public Safety 2/22/22; 2nd reading 3/7/22; Substituted by PS 3/28/22 Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Litten, ORDINANCE NO. 06-2022 BY: 0' Malley, Rader, S ha cline r AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least two thirds of the members of Council amending Sections 351.026 Emergency During Heavy Snow Storms and 351.27 Parking Regulations During Emergency of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances to clarify and update those sections. WHEREAS, Northeast Ohio has had several heavy snow events this winter; and WHEREAS, in an effort to clarify automatic snow emergencies and declared snow emergencies changed to the Lakewood Codified Ordinances are necessary; and WHEREAS, portions of the existing snow emergency ordinances are no longer enforced and should be corrected; and WHEREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health, and safety and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that these changes should be effective this snow seasobn; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. That Section 351.26 Emergency During Heavy Snow Storms, of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances 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 four inches or more, an emergency is declared to exist in that such a heavy snow storm constitutes a serious public hazard impairing 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 announcement shall be made in the same manner as outlined in Section 351.27. (b) On streets posted as emergency snow ban streets, an emergency shall exist without announcement as specified in Section 35-1.27 whenever four or more inches of snow has fallen within a twenty-four hour period and such emergency shall continue until plowing operations are completed or until twenty-four hours following the cessation of snow fall, whichever is earlier. (c) On streets posted as 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. emergency streets, an emergency shall exist without announcement as specified in Sections 351.27 whenever