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AGENDA
Planning & Development Committee Regular Meeting
5:30 PM - Monday, April 15, 2019
Council Conference Room, 7th Floor, City Hall – 1055 S. Grady Way
1. Shopping Carts
a) Issue Paper
2. Emerging Issues in CED
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY
& ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
M E M O R A N D U M
DATE:April 15, 2019
TO:Ed Prince, Planning & Development Committee Chair
Members of Council’s Planning & Development Committee
CC:Denis Law, Mayor
Robert Harrison, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM:C. E. “Chip” Vincent, CED Administrator
STAFF CONTACT:Paul Hintz, Senior Planner
SUBJECT:Increasing Allowed Shopping Cart Deferrals
In 2005 the City Council adopted an ordinance that declared shopping carts located on
any property other than that of the cart’s owner to be a public nuisance. Regulations
were developed in response to shopping carts being left in public right-of-ways and
upon private property, which created obstructions for motorists, bicyclists, and
pedestrians, as well as contributing to visual blight. The regulations reduced the
nuisance of blight upon the community, but only nominally.
In early 2016, more stringent regulations were adopted. The revisions to RMC enabled
City staff to immediately impound any lost, stolen, or abandoned carts and issue a $100
fine for each impounded cart. Weekly shopping cart collections began in mid-April of
2016; however, in order to provide stores substantial notice, fines were not issued until
early July. The blight of stray shopping carts was significantly reduced as a result of the
more stringent regulations.
On June 12, 2017, amendments to the regulations were adopted to allow up to three (3)
fine deferrals in any given month if the store has implemented at least one approved
security measure (e.g., electronically-activated self-braking wheels, utilization of a cart
recovery service, etc.) and has affixed the required identification sign to each of their
carts. If a business meeting these criteria “loses” four (4) or more carts in a month, fines
are issued for all carts lost in that month.
A representative of several stores recently requested the City to expand the fine
deferral program to allow up to ten (10) shopping carts to be “lost” within a month
before fines are issued. City staff is not supportive of such a high threshold; however,
staff is supportive of increasing the threshold. Staff proposes to allow up to eight (8)
carts of any store to be collected by the City each month before fines will be issued.
On the following page are the number of carts the City collected for each month of
2018.
AGENDA ITEM #1. a)
AGENDA ITEM #1. a)
SHOPPING CARTS COLLECTED BY CITY STAFF IN 2018
Store JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC AVG Total
DK Market 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1.3 10
Dollar Tree 4600 1 1 1 1.0 3
Dollar Tree 7340 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1.3 9
Fred Meyer 459 1 4 1 4 13 6 8 5 6 7 6 3 5.3 64
Fry's Electronics 1 1 2 1.3 4
Lowes 1 1 1.0 2
Marshall's 1 1.0 1
McLendon Hardware 1 1 1 2 2 1 1.3 8
Petsmart 2 2 1 2 1.8 7
Rite Aid 05201
Ross Dress For Less
Safeway 1563 3 3 2 6 8 6 6 4 3 9 6 3 4.9 59
Staples
Target 2 2 1 2 4 2 2 2 3 2.2 20
Uwajimaya 3 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 1.8 16
Walgreens 04627 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1.3 9
Walmart 5 2 6 3 6 12 12 4 7 10 4 7 6.5 78
World Market 1 1 1.0 2
Albertsons 1 2 1 2 1 2 1.5 9
Bartell Drugs 1 1.0 1
Big Lots 1 1.0 1
Cost Plus 1 1.0 1
Dick's Sporting Goods 1 1.0 1
Dollar Tree 2563 2 1 1 1 1 1 1.2 7
Fred Meyer 031 6 5 2 2 6 2 2 5 1 3 5 3.5 39
Goodwill 1 1 2 3 1 3 1 1.7 12
Grocery Outlet 1 1 1.0 2
Highlands Ace Hardware 1 1.0 1
JoAnn Fabric & Craft
Petco
QFC 1 2 1 1.3 4
Rite Aid 05203 1 1 1.0 2
Saar's 3 2 2 1 2 2.0 10
Safeway 0366 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1.4 10
Safeway 3319 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.0 7
Sam's Club
St. Vincent dePaul 1 1.0 1
Viet-Wah 1 3 1 1 2 1 2 1.6 11
Walgreens 07355 1 1 1.0 2
Walgreens 12497
Monthly Average 2.0 2.1 2.1 1.9 3.0 3.8 3.1 1.9 2.3 2.8 2.5 2.3
Monthly Totals 32 27 23 27 42 45 43 29 32 45 32 36
AGENDA ITEM #1. a)