Measure 02-88 Explained

If Measure 02-88 passes, Ordinance 2014-05 will go into effect.  The ordinance will establish seven parking districts in the red-shaded area encompassing about 15% of the Corvallis business and residential core outlined in blue.  (You can review the official City map for more detail.)  By comparison OSU encompasses about 21% of the Corvallis business and residential core.

The primary rules for parking districts in Ordinance 2014-05 are:

1. Residents and businesses can buy a limited number of parking permits.
2. A resident permit is issued for a specific vehicle and cannot be used on another vehicle.
3. A parking permit can only used in the district in which the resident or business is located. 
4. Only a resident with a permit will be allowed to purchase one visitor permit.
5. Residents on a few streets that do not allow 2 hour parking can purchase two visitor permits.
6. A resident who doesn't own a car cannot buy a resident or a visitor permit.
7. Other visitors are subject to the same parking rules as any other person without a permit.
8. From 8AM to 5PM, non-permit-holders can only park for 2 hours once per day in a district.
9. Non-permit-holders can park once each day in each district.
10. In some districts there are designated streets on which only permit holders can park.

The ordinance does not limit the number of permits that can be sold to the number of parking spaces in the district.

The ordinance provides (Sec. 6.15.030, p.2) that parking districts may be expanded beyond the area initially specified in the ordinance as shown on the official City map.  Until Sept. 1, 2017 proposed districts in the Corvallis Collaboration Project study area, about 35% of the Corvallis business and economic core, will be granted an exemption to the rules governing expansion.  City Council has not provided specific information about how soon or under what rules they will honor requests to expand parking districts in the exempted areas.

Contrary to claims made in the Voter's Pamphlet, the ordinance does NOT require the City Council to review operations of the parking district system after one year.


This map and explanation were created with information and the two maps provided by the city of Corvallis along with the text of the ordinance to which the post links. We have done our best to insure accuracy. Unfortunately, many of the maps previously circulated by the city have been found to not match the ordinance language.  This has caused confusion for neighbors attempting to determine where their properties fall into the parking scheme.  While we believe our map to be accurate, the boundary description in the ordinance is very complicated and therefore errors could possibly exist in our mapping. It is not our intention to mislead anyone.