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O2574City Council Meeting: May 22, 2018 ORDINANCE NUMBER Santa Monica, California 2-5`14 (CCS) (City Council Series) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 10.08.560 TO UPDATE VEHICLE WEIGHT RESTRICTION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL PIER AND THE NEWCOMB PIER WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica ("City") regulates vehicle weight restrictions forthe Newcomb Pier ("Newcomb Pier"), and the Santa Monica Municipal Pier ("Municipal Pier") but the vehicle weight restrictions for only the Municipal Pier are currently codified in the Santa Monica Municipal Code; and WHEREAS, in 2008, the City conducted an engineering study to review the weight limitations of the Newcomb Pier; and WHEREAS, City staff researched plans and records for past upgrade and maintenance projects for the Newcomb Pier to determine updated weight limitations; and WHEREAS, City staff further researched plans and records for past upgrade and maintenance projects for the Municipal Pier to determine weight limitations; and WHEREAS, the 2008 study and staff's subsequent research concluded that the Newcomb Pier could sustain a maximum vehicular gross weight of 3 tons; and WHEREAS, Staff's research concluded that the Municipal Pier could sustain a maximum vehicular gross weight of 15 tons. 1 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 10.08.560 is hereby amended to read as follows: 10.08.560 Municipal Pier and Newcomb Pier — Vehicle weight restrictions. (a) The City Engineer is authorized to determine the maximum vehicle gross weight authorized on the Municipal Pier and the Newcomb Pier, based on a pier infrastructure assessment study which analyzes the Pier's design, construction, age and maintenance. Such maximum weight limitations shall be conspicuously posted at the start of each respective Pier. (b) No person shall drive, operate, tow, or otherwise propel on or onto the Municipal Pier or the Newcomb Pier any vehicle the gross weight of which exceeds the posted weight limit. (c) The term "gross weight" shall include the combined weight of the vehicle and any load thereon. (d) A validly issued community events permit issued pursuant Chapter 4.68 of this Code may provide an exemption from the requirements of this Section. Any vehicle that has obtained an exemption pursuant to a Community Events Permit and this subsection shall display the Community Events Permit in the windshield of the vehicle at all times while the vehicle is on the Municipal Pier or the Newcomb Pier. 2 Section 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to effect 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 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 days from its adoption. APPROVED AS TO FORM: LANE DILG City Attorney 3 This Ordinance shall become effective 30 Approved and adopted this 22nd day of May, 2018. Ted Winterer, Mayor State of California ) County of Los Angeles ) ss. City of Santa Monica ) I, Esterlina Lugo, Acting Senior Deputy City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2574 (CCS) had its introduction on May 8, 2018, and was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on May 22, 2018, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Himmplrich, O'Day, Vazquez Mayor Pro Tem Davis, Mayor Winterer NOES: None ABSENT: Councilmembers McKeown, O'Connor I_1 Esterlina (oI iZ",l4oI's City Clerk Date A summary of Ordinance No. 2574 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to California Government Code Section 40806.