The Warren City Council approved a series of changes to the city’s traffic and vehicle code that will impact where you can park and what you’ll get fined for violations.

City staff reviewed that section of the city code and brought a total of five recommendations to council for consideration on Monday.

First was an adjustment to the timing for the prohibition of right hand turns during school hours from Third Ave. onto Conewango Ave.

The current restriction is 7:30-8:30 a.m. and 3-4 p.m. and those times are both going to slide back 15 minutes to 7:15 a.m. and 2:45 p.m., respectively.

The changes also struck several streets that are currently governed by seasonal alternate side parking regulations.

Those streets include Biddle St. between Main Ave. and Crescent Park; East St. between Pennsylvania Ave. and Fourth Ave.; Morrison St. between Pennsylvania Ave. and Fourth Ave. and Wayne St. between Cayuga Ave. and Crescent Park.

Department of Public Works Director Mike Holtz said the streets were part of a pilot program 15 years ago to determine if alternate parking improved leaf collection and snow plowing.

“That wasn’t a very well received idea,” he said. “We just felt that the benefits probably didn’t outweigh the detriment. In those areas, there weren’t a lot of driveways. People were parking the street. (It was) very inconvenient for them.”

There are, however, many other streets in the city where the alternate parking regulations remain.

With parking fines in the city at $15, the other offenses addressed on Monday bring fines in line with that.

Language was added to the code to include the violation of “parking facing against the direction of traffic.”

Staff indicated in a memo that the fine for that offense was “excessive for the area.”

Sproveri said there was never a fine in the ordinance and would, as a result, revert to the state vehicle code.

“Suffice it to say we want to lower the fine,” City Manager Nancy Freenock said.

Council increased the fine for the offense of vehicles to be parked within marked spaces from $10 to $15.

“That’s only if someone eats up two spots,” Police Chief Joe Sproveri said. “(We’re) not too nitpicky with that.”

Some of the other changes were simple — the ordinance hadn’t been updated since Pool St. was named Peach St. and there were “Meals on Wheels” delivery spaces in the city. The fines for those spaces were struck.