ORDINANCE NO. 2060
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE SAN RAFAEL MUNICIPAL CODE, TO AMEND CHAPTER 5.48 REGARDING
PARKING IN OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES
WHEREAS, the San Rafael Municipal Code (SRMC) at Chapter 5.48 permits the traffic engineer to regulate stopping, standing or parking on certain street; and WHEREAS, the SRMC at Chapter 5.60 regulates parking in off-street parking facilities operated by the city; and
WHEREAS, Section 22519 of the California Vehicle Code allows for local authorities to regulate their off-street parking facilities in the same manner as on street parking facilities; and
WHEREAS, orderly and consistent parking regulation on streets and off-street parking supports the provision of high-quality parking services.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
DIVISION 1. AMENDMENT OF MUNICIPAL CODE
Chapter 5.48 of the San Rafael Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows, with additions shown in underline and deletions shown in strikethrough:
Section 5.48.010 - City traffic engineer to regulate parking The city traffic engineer, shall, from time to time, regulate, restrict or prohibit parking upon specified streets and off-street parking facilities and during specified hours and cause notice of such regulations to be given by the placing of suitable signs or curb markings upon the streets, or portions thereof, affected thereby.
Section 5.48.020 - Compliance with signs or curb markings When authorized signs or curb markings giving notice of parking regulations, restrictions or prohibitions as in this title provided, are in place, no person shall stop, park or leave standing any vehicle upon any street or alley or off-street parking facility, at any time or in any manner forbidden or contrary to said signs or markings.
Section 5.48.030 - Parking space markings
The city traffic engineer is authorized to install and maintain parking space markings to indicate parking space adjacent to curbings where authorized parking is permitted.
When such parking space markings are placed in a highway, subject to other and more restrictive limitations, no vehicle shall be stopped, left standing or parked other than within a single space unless the size or shape of such vehicle makes compliance impossible.
DIVISION 2. Severability
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance. The City Council of the City of San Rafael hereby declares that it would have adopted the Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases shall be declared invalid.
DIVISION 3. CEQA Determination.
The City Council finds that adoption of this Ordinance is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to 14 CCR Section 15378(b)(5), this is a personnel-related action that constitutes organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
DIVISION 4. Publication; Effective Date.
This Ordinance shall be published once, in full or in summary form, before its final passage, in a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of San Rafael and shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its final passage.
If published in summary form, the summary shall also be published within fifteen (15) days after the adoption, together with the names of those Council members voting for or against same, in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of San Rafael, County of Marin, State of California.
Within fifteen (15) days after adoption, the City Clerk shall also post in the office of the City Clerk, a certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance along with the names of those Councilmembers voting for and against the Ordinance.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was first read and introduced at a regular meeting of the San Rafael City Council on the 17th day of February 2026, and was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the San Rafael City Council on the 2nd day of March 2026 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
______________________________
Kate Colin, Mayor
Attest:
_____________________________
LINDSAY LARA, City Clerk
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 2060
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL AMENDING THE SAN RAFAEL MUNICIPAL CODE, TO AMEND CHAPTER 5.48
REGARDING PARKING IN OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES
This Summary concerns a proposed Ordinance of the City Council of the City of San Rafael, designated as Ordinance No. 2060, which will amend Chapter 5.48 of the San Rafael Municipal Code. Ordinance No. 2060 is scheduled for adoption by the San Rafael City Council at its regular meeting of March 2, 2026. The City Clerk has been directed to publish this Summary pursuant to City Charter and California Government Code section 36933(c)(1).
SUMMARY OF AMENDMENT TO MUNICIPAL CODE
This Ordinance would amend Chapter 5.48 of the San Rafael Municipal Code to clarify that the City Traffic Engineer’s authority to regulate stopping, standing, and parking applies to both public streets and off-street parking facilities. The amendment ensures that all City-owned and managed parking facilities are subject to the same enforcement provisions.
For a complete copy of the text of the Ordinance amending the Municipal Code, please contact the City Clerk at [email protected] or (415) 485-3066. Copies of the Ordinance containing this Municipal Code amendment are also available for public review at the San Rafael City Clerk’s office, 1400 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, Room 209, during regular business hours, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
/s/______________________
LINDSAY LARA, City Clerk
San Rafael City Clerk
Dated: February 18, 2026