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Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 5.16 to include the definition of "rental car and vehicle agency" and an article prohibiting parking or storing of these vehicles on public streets. Individuals renting said vehicles shall not be effected by this amendment.
DISCUSSION
Upon taking office last year, I was contacted by a constituent who requested information as to why the City of Long Beach was allowing rental car operators to utilize residential streets near, and on, Wardlow Road and Clark Avenue to park their inventory. In turn, my office contacted the City Manager and his staff regarding this problem, with a request to provide documentation as to how this situation came about.
The City Manager confirmed on or about September 11, 2007 that nothing in the current agreement with these vendors prohibits them from parking on public streets.
The City's Municipal Code 5.16.010 does prohibit the parking of a variety of vehicles, including:
5.16.010 Definitions.
As used in this Chapter 5. 16, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
A. "Auto repair shop" means any shop, building, room, place or space wherein, for compensation, any automobile, other motor vehicle, or any parts thereof, are repaired, remodeled, overhauled, reconditioned, or painted.
B. "Automobile dealer" means and includes any person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling, offering to buy or offering to sell, consigned to be sold or otherwise dealing in new or used motor vehicles, or both, as the term "motor vehicle" is defined in the State Vehicle Code.
C. "Automobile wrecking" means the principal use of any premises for the dismantling, demolition or crushing of any automotive vehicle, or for the storage of abandoned or irreparably damaged vehicles.
D. "Public garage" means and includes a room, building or other structure where automobiles are kept or stor...
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