Permits stop being counted per driver and start being counted per dwelling.
Ordinance 2026-114 amends Chapter 12, Article IV of the Calder Bay Municipal Code. It is 31 pages with four exhibits, and the part that changes what a household pays and how many cars it can keep on the street sits in the definitions and in Exhibit B.
Under the current code a residential parking permit belongs to a licensed driver. Three adults at one address get three permits, at $25 each, and nobody counts the address. This ordinance moves the entitlement to the address itself: two permits per household unit, a third only by exception and at $310, nothing after that.
The phrase doing the work is "household unit", and it is defined in the definitions section rather than in the part of the ordinance anyone reads. A household unit is a dwelling unit as the County Assessor has it recorded. Not a mailing address, not a lease, not a family. Whatever is on the roll.
| Aspect | Current code | Ordinance 2026-114 |
|---|---|---|
| Who the permit attaches to | Each licensed driver residing at the address | The household unit, as recorded with the County Assessor |
| How many per address | No stated limit | Two, plus a third by exception |
| First permit, per year | $25.00 | $45.00 |
| Second permit, per year | $25.00 | $90.00 |
| Third permit, per year | $25.00 | $310.00, and only where no off-street space is of record |
| Visitor passes | Hangtags issued on request, no charge, no annual limit | Twelve single-day passes a year, $15.00 per book of four |
| Changing the fees later | Council resolution | Director, each July 1, indexed to the regional CPI |
What this brief could not check
- Section 9-101 supplies the definition of "dwelling unit" that the household-unit definition rests on. It is in a different chapter of the code and was not included with the agenda materials, so the outer boundary of the cap could not be checked.
- Exhibit A, the district boundary maps, is referenced in Section 6(a) and listed on the cover sheet, but pages 15 through 20 of the posted packet are blank. Which streets fall inside Districts C and D, the two on the earlier date, could not be determined.
- The 2025 vehicle registration study cited on page 2 as the basis for the two-permit figure is not in the packet and was not read.
- This brief was written by hand as a design fixture. It is modelled on real work, but no model read a diff to produce it, and its claims should not be relied on.