Curb markings and colored-curb paint on Apex public streets are installed only by the Town, under the coordination of the Apex Traffic Engineering Manager working with Police, Fire, and Public Works. Residents and adjacent property owners may not paint, alter, or add markings to a public curb. Where paint is faded or absent, the state-law distance restrictions in NCGS 20-162 still apply by default: no parking in front of a private driveway, within 15 feet in either direction of a fire hydrant or fire station entrance, or within 25 feet from the intersection of curb lines. Local authorities may by ordinance decrease the distance within which a vehicle may park in either direction of a fire hydrant.
Apex follows the standard North Carolina practice that all official curb markings, signage, and pavement markings on public streets - red (no parking / fire lane), yellow (loading zone), green (time-limited parking), white (passenger loading), and blue (accessible parking) - are placed by Town staff under federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) standards. Apex Public Works installs and maintains these markings. The Traffic Engineering Manager (Sajid Hassan, PE, sajid.hassan@apexnc.org, 919-372-7360) 'coordinates with other departments including Police, Fire, and Public Works to recommend appropriate traffic control measures, where parking may or may not be appropriate and how to properly designate parking restrictions.' Residents seeking new or additional parking restrictions or curb markings follow a documented request flowchart and request form on the Town's Traffic Control & Parking Ordinances page. Residents and adjacent property owners may not paint, repaint, or alter a public curb on their own; unauthorized painting of a public curb is unauthorized work in the public right-of-way. Even where curb paint is faded or unmarked, NCGS 20-162(a) applies citywide: 'No person shall park a vehicle or permit it to stand, whether attended or unattended, upon a highway in front of a private driveway or within 15 feet in either direction of a fire hydrant or the entrance to a fire station, nor within 25 feet from the intersection of curb lines or if none, then within 15 feet of the intersection of property lines at an intersection of highways; provided, that local authorities may by ordinance decrease the distance within which a vehicle may park in either direction of a fire hydrant.' To report missing or faded markings or to request a new parking restriction, contact the Apex Traffic Engineering Manager; to report a blocked driveway or hydrant in real time, call Apex Police non-emergency at (919) 362-8661 or use the Town's Report a Concern online form.
Painting, repainting, or altering a public curb in Apex without Town authorization is unauthorized work in the public right-of-way and may require restoration at the property owner's expense. Parking in front of a private driveway, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant or fire station entrance, or within 25 feet of a curb-line intersection violates NCGS 20-162 regardless of whether the curb is painted, and is citable by Apex Police patrol officers. The Town does not have personnel dedicated exclusively to parking enforcement; patrol officers handle citations among other duties.
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