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SECTION 1640-E
Residential parking system in the Tibbetts Brook Park and Yonkers Raceway/Empire City areas of the city of Yonkers
Vehicle & Traffic (VAT) CHAPTER 71, TITLE 8, ARTICLE 39
* § 1640-e. Residential parking system in the Tibbetts Brook Park and
Yonkers Raceway/Empire City areas of the city of Yonkers. 1.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the city
council of the city of Yonkers may, by adoption of a local law or
ordinance, provide for a residential parking permit system and fix and
require the payment of fees applicable to parking within the area in
which such parking system is in effect in accordance with the provisions
of this section.

2. Such residential parking permit system may only be established
within:

(a) the Tibbetts Brook Park area of the city of Yonkers which shall
mean that area generally bounded by Harrison Avenue proceeding south
from Tibbetts Brook Park to Alan B. Shepard Place; Tibbetts Road
proceeding southerly from Tibbetts Brook Park to Alan B. Shepard Place;
Sedgewick Avenue proceeding southerly from Tibbetts Brook Park to Alan
B. Shepard Place; Jervis Road between Harrison Avenue and Sedgewick
Avenue and from the northern intersection of Sedgewick Avenue proceeding
southerly along Jervis Road to the Alan B. Shepard Place line; and

(b) the Yonkers Raceway/Empire City area of the city of Yonkers
consisting of the following roadways:

(i) Belmont Avenue from Orient Street to Yonkers Avenue;

(ii) Boone Street from Central Park Avenue to Dead End;

(iii) Clark Street from Central Park Avenue to Orient Street;

(iv) Loring Avenue from Central Park Avenue to Orient Street; and

(v) Chamberlain Avenue from Belmont Avenue to Central Park Avenue.

3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no permit shall be required on
streets where the adjacent properties are zoned for commercial/retail
use.

4. The local law or ordinance providing for such residential parking
system shall:

(a) set forth factors necessitating the enactment of such parking
system; and

(b) provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four
hundred four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit
requirement; and

(c) provide the times of the day and days of the week during which
permit requirements shall be in effect; and

(d) make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within the permit
area available to non-residents and shall provide for short-term parking
of not less than ninety minutes in duration in such area; and

(e) provide the schedule of fees to be paid for such permits; and

(f) provide that such fees shall be credited to the general fund of
the city.

5. No ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section until a
public hearing thereon has been had in the same manner as required for
public hearings on a local law pursuant to the municipal home rule law.

* NB There are 2 § 1640-e's