Police Department
Reference: Permitted and restricted parking areas
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Michael P. Martinez, City Manager
Prepared By: Betsy Westbrook, Deputy Chief
Date Prepared: November 21, 2023
PURPOSE
To inform, update, and solicit the council's direction related to possible changes to parking around Brighton High School.
BACKGROUND
In March of 2023, Commander Imfeld and Chief Domenico presented to the Council regarding the issue of permitted parking around Brighton High School. At that time the city had signage in place restricting parking around Brighton High School and the US Post Office to residents with a parking permit. The program was established in the Brighton Police Department policy manual, policy 318 with an effective date of December 20, 1993. The program allowed parking by permit only on the residential streets in vicinity of Brighton High School between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm on school days and at the US Post Office by permit only. It's presumed this was put into place due to students parking in the area and not allowing residents unrestricted parking in front of their residences during school hours and postal service customers parking in front of residences.
In order to obtain a parking permit the resident had to come to the police department and show proof of residency and show proof a vehicle is registered to them. If they were able to provide this information they would be issued two resident parking passes and two guest parking passes. The guest passes could be handed out by the resident for visitors, contractors, homecare, etc. at their discretion. The last full scale enforcement and update to the permitting procedures occurred in May 2008.
Challenges with the past permitting procedures included; people claiming residency were unable to show proof, if more than two residents requested a pass only two were issued (rental homes), residents lost passes and never obtained new ones and subsequently w...
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