TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY BOARD AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the recommendation to restrict parking in residential districts
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Michael Prousa, Transportation Manager
BACKGROUND:
Naperville’s truck route ordinance was established in 1985 (Title 11 Chapter 3 of the Naperville Municipal Code). This section of the code restricts vehicles in excess of 12,000 pounds (6 tons) to the specific routes identified in Schedule V of section 11-1-5. Vehicles exceeding 6 tons are allowed to operate on non-designated streets using a direct route from the truck route to their destination for the purposes of delivery, pick-up, or services.
The existing truck ordinance is effective for the Police Department (PD) in enforcing vehicles that are operating without a permit and operating on routes not designated as truck routes. It is not effective in writing tickets on overweight vehicles that are parked and vacant. The PD and Code Enforcement team receive complaint calls regarding semi-truck parking overnight in residential areas for extended periods. There has been an increase in these calls in recent years and the areas where this issue has been reported and observed are increasing.
DISCUSSION:
For tickets to be written on parked overweight vehicles, PD must wait for the overnight parking ordinance to be in effect (2:00am - 5:00am). PD currently tickets for overnight parking based on request from the public, this list is about 200 locations long. The high number of requests does not allow for PD to enforce every location every night, this includes truck parking concerns.
The attached ordinance will allow the PD to ticket these large, overweight vehicles that are parking within residential districts at any time of the day and allow our residential districts to continue to function in a residential manner.