ITEM 8-G

City Council Meeting 11-22-94           Santa Monica, California

TO:       Mayor and City Council

FROM:     City Attorney

SUBJECT:  AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
          MONICA AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 3.12.680
          DELETING 28TH STREET FROM THE LIST OF SECONDARY TRUCK
          ROUTES IN THE CITY

At its meeting on October 5, 1994, the City Council directed the
City Attorney to draft an ordinance to eliminate the truck route
designation for 28th Street.  The ordinance is now presented to
the City Council for introduction and first reading.

RECOMMENDATION

It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance be
introduced for first reading.

PREPARED BY:   Marsha Jones Moutrie, City Attorney
               Mary H. Strobel, Deputy City Attorney


                        ORDINANCE NUMBER ____

                        (City Council Series)

              AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
                OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING MUNICIPAL CODE
               SECTION 3.12.680 DELETING 28TH STREET FROM
            THE LIST OF SECONDARY TRUCK ROUTES IN THE CITY

     THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

     SECTION 1.  Municipal Code Section 3.12.680 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
          3.12.680.  Regulation 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 purposes 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 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)  Primary 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.
               (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.
               (17)  Twenty-Sixth Street, except between
     Montana Avenue and the northerly City limits.
               (18)  28th Street
               (19) (18)  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, county, 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 this
Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further,
are 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 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, 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:

________________________
MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
City Attorney