§ 1640-m. Residential parking permit system in the city of Albany. 1.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the city of
Albany 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 certain areas of the city or as
delineated by the common council of the city of Albany in accordance
with the provisions of this section.

2. Such residential parking permit system may only be established
within the areas of the city of Albany described as follows: an area
within a one mile radius of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State
Plaza. The permitted streets within this area shall be described in a
local law or ordinance adopted by the common council of the city of
Albany pursuant to this section.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, no permit shall be
required on streets where the adjacent properties are zoned for
commercial, office and/or retail use.

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

a. Set forth the specific factors which necessitate the implementation
of said system and shall include, but not be limited to, findings of
facts as to the existence of such traffic hazards, congestion and air
and noise pollution within any such areas;

b. Provide that motor vehicles registered pursuant to section four
hundred four-a of this chapter shall be exempt from any permit
requirement;

c. Provide the times of the day and the days of the week during which
permit requirements shall be in effect;

d. Make not less than twenty percent of all spaces within the permit
area or areas available to nonresidents which shall provide short-term
parking of not less than ninety minutes in duration in such area or
areas;

e. Make not more than three thousand five hundred of the approximately
nine thousand residential spaces within the permit area or areas
available for residential parking by permit;

f. Provide the schedule of fees to be paid for residential permits;
and

g. Provide that such fees shall be credited to the general fund of the
city of Albany.

5. No local law or ordinance shall be adopted pursuant to this section
until a public hearing thereon has been held by the common council of
the city of Albany concerning the designation of the certain area or
areas in which said parking permit system is to be implemented.