Police present major cleanup of parking, towing and impound code; staff to return with final draft

Commanding officer Holly presented a multi-section cleanup of the city's parking, towing and impoundment code that consolidates enforcement language, adopts state law (RCW) references where possible, and modernizes procedures the Police Department uses in practice.

Holly told the Committee of the Whole the existing code was drawn from several disparate sections and contained language dating to the 1970s and 1980s. She said the department worked with city prosecutor Beth Ford and parking enforcement staff to combine the towing, impoundment and parking enforcement rules into a single city code section and to "adopt RCWs by reference where available, so that way we don't have to come back and clean up when state law changes." She said the goal was to make enforcement clear and workable…