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:
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MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
City Attorney