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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Esterlina
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City Clerk Date
A summary of Ordinance No. 2574 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to
California Government Code Section 40806.