Resolution 2001-01 - DPT Fine Increase

Resolution 2001 - 01

URGING the Board of Supervisors to adopt the Citation Penalty Schedule proposed by the Department of Parking and Traffic, increasing fines for sidewalk obstruction and other accessibility violations.

WHEREAS, the Mayor's Disability Council has heard numerous citizen complaints about parking violations in which vehicles obstruct sidewalks, driveways, and curb ramps in ways that come in conflict with disability accessibility to the public right-of-way; and

WHEREAS, the Council believes that these obstructions create safety and accessibility problems for people with disabilities, including seniors, who may not be able to detect the obstructions or move around them without going into street traffic; and

WHEREAS, the Mayor's Disability Council has communicated these concerns to the Parking and Traffic Commission staff, and the Department has responded by proposing higher fines to deter these violations; and now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the Mayor's Disability Council urges the Board of Supervisors to adopt the Parking and Traffic Commission Citation Penalty Schedule.

July, 2001.