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CARS FOR SALE ON DESIGNATED CITY STREETS

Press Release from Coronado Police Department

New City Municipal Code Ordinance

Coronado, CA - (December 2, 2009) Beginning December 3, 2009 it will be unlawful to park a vehicle for sale on designated streets within the city of Coronado. However, the police department will provide a 30-day warning period to allow the public to become familiar with this new ordinance. During the 30 day period, warnings will be issued to first time violators, repeat violations will result is citations and or impounding. After the 30 day period, violators will be subject to immediate citation.

Coronado Municipal Code 56.30.250 reads “It is unlawful to park a vehicle on a street designated in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of this section 56.30.250 when, because of a sign or placard on the vehicle, it appears that the primary purpose of parking the vehicle at that location is to display and advertise to the public that the vehicle is for sale….” Vehicles in violation of this section will be issued a citation and a notice listing the designated streets in the ordinance.

Each parking citation issued to a vehicle in violation of this ordinance carries a $50 fine. Vehicles in violation can receive two citations per day if the car is not moved. In addition to a parking citation, cars for sale may be impounded if they are moved to another prohibited street, as long as the car has been cited for the same violation with the last 30 days but not within 24 hours of the first citation.

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Comment by Story R. Vogel on December 16, 2009 at 8:55am: I'm relieved to know that we can go and park our car on other people's streets and leave them there to be advertised.

Clearly the folks on certain streets have less influence than others. How did Margarita etc escape the benificience and wisdom of the Council?

Comment by Tracy Brown Stickel on December 16, 2009 at 9:14am: Two thoughts; 1. Displaying these in an overhead projection using a map of the island with these areas highlighted would be very helpful to those who someday may object to 'Not knowing where the off limits spots begin and end". 2. I was unaware that Story Vogel had moved back to Coronado from his home in Pine Valley! Welcome back if you have returned as a resident once again.

Comment by MIKE GAPP on January 3, 2010 at 8:43pm: From what I have been told over the years, it has been illegal and subject to fines and impoundment for decades to park a vehicle for sale along designated state highways, which Orange, and I believe Third and Fourth Street, all qualify as. - That includes unauthorized advertisement of any kind - this would include all the Realtor signs that pop up littering the parkings whenever there is an open house, for instance ...and signs nailed savagely to our trees for garage sales (which are rarely recovered after the sales).

What community-minded individual would do such a thing?

- Please correct me if I am wrong about the legality aspect that I mentioned had previously existed (and I'd like a link for that please).

I don't know what the level of enforcement was on those existing statutes, or how inhibited the local ticketing authorities were in executing fines in such cases, so perhaps these new rules are necessary.

- Perhaps they are just to make more money in a financial crunch though, real or imagined.

Perhaps both options. - Someone please tell me; I really don't know.

I hope these new moves don't cost the City more than it fixes in the end.

I must admit I like to see the streets getting cleaned up like the town I grew up in here in the Crown City..

If someone gets a ticket for parking their vehicle where they always park it near home or work, which happens to be for sale, I don't see why they can't go in and have the ticket forgiven. Is that not possible?

I'd really like to see all parties treated with dignity on this.

Mike