To submit a parking complaint, please email parking@sylvapolice.org. Make sure to provide the location of the vehicle and a description of the vehicle (Color / Make / Model). If possible, please attached a photo of the vehicle and a photo of the license plate.

(a) Definitions.

Performing his duties shall mean being present at a place of the person’s employment during its normal hours of operation.

Park shall include the act of parking a vehicle, the act of allowing a vehicle to remain parked, and the act of failing to promptly remove such vehicle within 30 minutes or upon request by an on-duty police officer for the Town of Sylva.

Vehicle shall be defined in G.S. 20-4.01(49) and shall include all such vehicles regardless of ownership.

Downtown Business District shall mean the entire B-1 Business District (as designated on the current Zoning Map of the Town of Sylva) and E. Jackson Street from the corner of Spring and E. Jackson Street extending east to the corner of Evalina and E. Jackson Street.

Downtown Business District employee or tenant shall mean a person who works full or part-time for a business, profession, or organization that conducts its business at a location either wholly or partially within the Downtown Business District, or a principal/owner of such business, or an independent contractor with such owner, or a business associate who regularly conducts business there, or an occupant of a residential apartment or condominium within the B-1 Business District.

Employee-restricted parking areas shall mean all parking spaces in the B-1 District for the length of the one-way portions of Main Street and Mill Street and shall further include the town’s public parking lots on the east end of the B-1 District known as the Old Ritz Theater Parking Lot (489 W. Main St.) as well as the parking spaces on E. Jackson Street from the corner of Spring and E. Jackson Street extending east to the corner of Evalina and E. Jackson Street.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for a Downtown Business District employee or tenant to park a vehicle within the employee-restricted parking areas while such person is performing his duties as defined herein.

(c)

The provisions of this section shall be effective between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

(d)

The provisions of this section shall not apply to operations of vehicles displaying valid handicapped license plates or dashboard placards and parked in spaces reserved for the handicapped.

(e)

A Downtown Business District employee or tenant is encouraged to park in the Bridge Park Parking Lot (76 Railroad Ave.) and may do so free of charge. Downtown Business District employees and tenants are likewise encouraged to park in the Cogdill Parking Lot for so long as the town has leased the same.

(f)

The penalty for violating this section shall be $50.00 in accordance with section 1-7 of the Sylva Code of Ordinances.

(Ord. of 11-18-2010, § 18-132)