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Report regarding an Ordinance adding Chapter 2.81 to the South San Francisco Municipal Code establishing a Traffic Safety Commission. (Sarah Henricks, Management Analyst II)
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RECOMMENDATION
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Staff recommends that the City Council introduce an Ordinance adding Chapter 2.81 to the South San Francisco Municipal Code establishing a Traffic Safety Commission, and waive further reading.
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DISCUSSION
The City of South San Francisco ("City") Municipal Code currently includes a three-member Parking Place Commission (PPC), which provides recommendations to the City Council and staff on the acquisition, administration, maintenance, operation, management and enforcement of the rules governing parking spaces and parking lots located within Parking District No. 1, encompassing most of the downtown business district. The duties of the PPC are set forth in the California Streets and Highway Code, Sections 35100, et seq., also known as the Parking District Law of 1951.
During a recent Boards and Commissions recruitment, the City Council expressed an interest in exploring the possibility of expanding the role of the PPC. At a May 22, 2019 Study Session, the City Attorney presented an analysis of the Parking District Law and pointed out that there is no language in state law that explicitly permits a parking place commission to assume additional duties beyond those specified in the Streets and Highway Code. The City Attorney did however state that the City could provide the members of the PPC with more duties by forming a new commission composed of those commissioners and additional appointees. The new commission would assume any additional duties beyond parking district oversight set forth in the Parking District Law.
Upon direction from the City Council, staff has prepared an Ordinance establishing a five (5) member Traffic Safety Commission (TSC) that will be composed of the three (3) members of the PPC with two (2) additional at-large memb...
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