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City Council Meeting 5-9-89 Santa Monica, california
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STAFF REPORT
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: city Attorney
SUBJECT: Ordinance Adding Section 3359 to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to Codify with Amendments Provisions
Relating to Truck Routes contained in ordinance
Number 709 (CCS)
At its meeting on April 25, 1989, the city Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance deleting certain
streets froIn the City's designated truck routes. The ordinance
is now presented to the City Council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, City Attorney
Joseph Lawrence, Assistant City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 5-9-89 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER -
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION 3359 TO THE SANTA
MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE TO CODIFY WITH AMENDMENTS
PROVISIONS RELATING TO TRUCK ROUTES CONTAINED IN
ORDINANCE NUMBER 709 (CCS)
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3359 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION 3359. Requlation of
Operation of Vehicles Over A certain Size.
(a) Weight Limitations. It shall
be unlawful for any vehicle having a gross
weight, including load, in excess of three
(3) tons to be operated on any street
within this City except those streets
defined in subsections (b) and (c) as
primary or secondary truck routes, except
when necessary for the purpose of making
pickups or deliveries of goods, wares, and
merchandise from or to any building or
structure located on the restricted street
or for the purpose of delivering materials
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. to be used in the actual and bona fide
repair, alteration, remodeling, or
construction of any building or structure
upon the restricted street for which a
building permit has previously been
obtained.
(b) P~imary Truck Route. The
primary truck route is to be used for all
inter-City and interstate truck traffic
and shall be as follows:
(1) The Santa Monica Freeway.
(2) Olympic Boulevard.
(3) The Pacific Coast
Highway.
(4) Lincoln Boulevard, from
Olympic Boulevard to the southerly city
limits.
(c) Secondary Truck Routes. The
secondary truck routes are to be used by
trucks transporting merchandise,
materials, or equipment having an origin
or destination within the City limits and
are as follows:
(1) Montana Avenue, from
Seventh Street to Twenty-Sixth Street.
(2) Santa Monica Boulevard.
(3) Colorado Avenue.
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(4) Broadway, from Ocean
Avenue to Twenty-sixth Street.
(5) Exposition Boulevard.
( 6) Pico Boulevard, from
Ocean Avenue to the easterly city limits.
(7) Ocean Park Boulevard,
from Lincoln Boulevard to the easterly
City limits.
(8) Ocean Avenue, from Santa
Monica BOUlevard to pico Boulevard.
(9) Neilson Way.
( 10) Main street, from Pico
Boulevard to the southerly city limits.
( 11) Lincoln Boulevard, from
Montana Avenue to Olympic Boulevard.
(12) Eleventh Street, from
pico Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard.
(13) Fourteenth Street, from
Ocean Park Boulevard to Montana Avenue.
(14) Seventeenth Street, from
Pico Boulevard to Santa Monica Boulevard.
(15) Twentieth Street, from
Pico Boulevard to Montana Avenue.
( 16) Cloverfield Boulevard
except between pico Boulevard and Ocean
Park Boulevard.
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(17) Twenty-sixth street
except between Montana Avenue and the
northerly city limits.
(18) Twenty-Eighth street.
(19) Stewart street.
(d) Deviation from Established
Routes. When it becomes necessary for any
vehicle to deviate from the primary or
secondary truck routes as permitted by
subdivision (a) , such deviation shall be
made by way of the shortest possible route
or routes between the destination on the
restricted street and the nearest streets
described in sUbdivisions (b) and (c) .
(e) Exemptions for Governmental
Vehicles and City Licensed Private
Vehicles. This section shall not apply to
vehicles owned or operated by any federal,
state I county I or local governmental
agency while such vehicles are being used
in the performance of their duties.
( f) Codification. This Section,
insofar as it designates truck routes, is
a codification of Ordinance Number 709
( CCS) .
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
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this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The city Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The city Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS f)
City Attorney
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