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HomeMy WebLinkAbout373 - OrdinancesORDINANCE NO. 373 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCliO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, MODIFYING CHAPTER 10.56 OF TITLE 10 OF THE RANCliO CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE DESIGNATION OF UNRESTRICTED TRUCK ROUTES, RESTRICTED TRUCK ROUTES, COMMERCIAL AND CERTAIN OTHER VEHICLES PROHIBITED FROM U SING CERTAIN CITY STREETS, AND DE SIGNATION OF TERMINAL ACCESS ROUTES FOR EXTRA-LARGE TRUCKS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCliO OUCAMONGA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOL LOW S: SECTION ~: Chapter 10.56 of Title 10 of the Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code is hereby repealed. A new Chapter 10.56 is hereby added to said Code to read, in words and figures, as follows: "Chapter 10.56 "TRUCK ROUTES AND RESTRICTIONS "Sections: "10.56.010 "10.56.020 "10.56.030 "10.56.040 "10.56.050 Unrestricted truck routes. Restricted truck routes. Terminal access routes for extra large trucks. Penalties. Civil remedies available. "10.56.010 Unrestricted truck routes. "A. Except as hereinafter provided, or as otherwise provided by law, commercial vehicles and vehicle combinations described in Sections 35400 and 35401 of the California Vehicle Code, or their successor provisions, and vehicles which exceed a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons, may be operated only on streets designated as "unrestricted truck routes". Unrestricted truck routes in the City include: "1. All streets within the area defined by the City Industrial Area Specific Plan as the "Industrial District". limits. "2. Highland Avenue from Haven Avenue to the east City "3. Base Line Road from the west City limits to the east City limits. Ordinance No. 373 Page 2 "4. Foothill Boulevard from the west City limits to the east City limits. limits. "5. Arrow Route from Cucamonga Creek to the east City Avenue. "6. Eighth Street from the west City limits to Vineyard "7. Fourth Street from the west City limits to the east City limits. "8. Grove Avenue from 8th Street to Foothill Boulevard. "9. Vineyard Avenue from 8th Street to Foothill Boulevard. "10. Archibald Avenue from 4th Street to Foothill Boulevard. "11. Haven Avenue from 4th Street to State Route 30. "12. Milliken Avenue from 4th Street to State Route 30. "13. Day Creek Boulevard from Rochester Avenue to State Route 30. "14. Etiwanda Avenue from 4th Street to Foothill Boulevard. "15. East Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to State Route 15. "B. The provisions of this section may be enforced when and where the City Traffic Engineer has provided signing designating unrestricted truck routes. "C. Extra-large trucks, as defined in Section 10.56.030, may operate only on the routes designated in said section. "D. Exceptions. "1. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the ingress and egress from a designated unrestricted truck route by vehicles and vehicle combinations described herein onto a City street when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on a City 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 uDon a City street for which a building permit has previously been obtained. Ordinance No. 373 Page 3 "2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a passenger bus under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission or any public entity, or which is owned by a bus company licensed by the City, or to any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility, or to any vehicle owned by the City, or a City contractor, while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of or on City property. "3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any City licensed refuse hauling vehicles while picking up refuse, waste or garbage pursuant to such license. "10.56.020 Restricted truck routes. "A. Section 35401(d) of the California Vehicle Code allows any city, upon finding that certain streets cannot safely sustain the operation of trailers or semi-trailers having the maximum kingpin to rearmost axle distance permitted under Section 35400 of said Code, to restrict the use of such streets by trailers or semi-trailers having a maximum kingpin distance as determined. Certain City streets have been determined to be able to safely accommodate a maximum such distance of thirty-eight (38) feet. Except as otherwise provided by law, trailers and semi-trailers having a klngpin to rearmost axle distance in excess of thirty-eight (38) feet are prohibited from using the aforedescribed streets. The streets described in this section shall be known as "restricted truck routes". Restricted truck routes in the City include: "1. 19th Street from the west City limit to Haven Avenue. Street. Vineyard Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to Carnelian 30. Carnelian Street from Vineyard Avenue to State Route 30. "4. Archibald Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to State Route "B. The provisions of this section may be enforced when and where the City Traffic Engineer has provided signing designating restricted truck routes. "10.56.030 Terminal access routes for extra-large trucks. "A. Except as otherwise provided by law, truck-tractors and semi-tractors, and truck-tractors, semi-trailers and trailers, which exceed any of the size limitations set forth in Sections 35400 and 35401 of the California Vehicle Code or their successor provisions, Ordinance No. 373 Page 4 and which are exempted from such limitations pursuant to Section 35401.5(a) cf said Code, may be operated only on streets designated as "terminal access routes". Such tractor-trailer combinations may be operated on terminal access routes only for the purpose of accessing facilities where freight is consolidated to be shipped or where full load consignments may be off-loaded or at which the vehicle combinations are regularly maintained, stored or manufactured. "City streets designated as terminal access routes are: "1. All streets within the Industrial District. "2. Foothill Boulevard from the west City limits to the east City limits. "3. Fourth Street form the west City limits to the east City limits. Route. Archibald Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to Arrow "B. The provisions of this section may be enforced where the City Traffic Engineer has provided signing designating terminal access routes." 10.56.040 Penalties. "It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this Chapter. Any person, firm, partnership, or corporation violating any provision of this Chapter or failing to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of an infraction and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as follows: "A. A fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for a first violation; ' -- "B. A fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for a second violation occuring within'o'~e (1) year; "C. A fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each additional violation occuring wi~hin one (1) year. "Each such person, firm, partnership, or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or any portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm, partnership, or corporation, and shall be deemed punishable therefore as provided in this Chapter. Ordinance No. 373 Page 5 "The provisions of this Chapter shall not be construed as permitting conduct not prescribed herein and shall not affect the enforceability of any other applicable provision of law. "10.56.050 Civil remedies available. "A violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter shall constitute a nuisance and may be abated by the City through civil process, by means of restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, or in any other manner provided by law for the abatement of such nuisance." SECTION 2. The City Council declares that, should any provision, section, paragraph, sentence or word of this Ordinance be rendered or declared invalid by any final court action in a court of competent jurisdiction, or by reason of any preemptlye legislation, the remaining provisions, sections, paragraphs, sentences, and words of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION_~: The 'Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall cause the same to be published within fifteen (15) days after its passage at least once in The Daily Report, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California. PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 21st day of September, 1988. Brown, Buquet, Stout, King, Wright AYES: NOES: None ABSENT: None Dennis L. Stout, Mayor ATTEST: Ordinance No. 373 Page 6 I, BEVERLY A. AUTHELET, CITY CLERK of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 7th day of September, 1988, and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 21st day of September, 1988. Executed this 22nd day of September, 1988 at Rancho Cucamonga, California. 'ever y ~th;~;t, 'City Clerk"