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Home My WebLink About1014 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 1014 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 10.56.010, 10.56.020, AND 10.56.30 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ALTER TRUCK ROUTES, MAKING FINDINGS IN SUPPORT THEREOF, AND MAKING A DETERMINATION THAT THE ORDINANCE IS EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT I. Recitals. A. The City of Rancho Cucamonga ("City") is authorized by Article XI, Section 7 of the State Constitution to exercise the police power of the Slate by adopting regulations to promote public health, safety, and welfare. B. The City has authority pursuant to Sections 21101 and 35700 of the California Vehicle Code to prohibit the use of particular highways by certain vehicles, including by weight, subject to certain exceptions. C. This Ordinance is adopted pursuant to the above referenced authorities in order to modify the existing truck routes within the City. II. Findings. A. This City Council hereby finds and concludes that this Ordinance is consistent with the General Plan's goals, policies, and implementation programs. The City's General Plan identifies the allowable truck routes throughout the City in Figure M-9 of Chapter 4 "Mobility and Access" of Volume 2 of the General Plan. These identified truck routes and truck routes with a 38-foot kingpin limit are reflected in the updates to the identified truck routes and 38-foot kingpin limit truck routes of Municipal Code Sections 10.56.010, 10.56.020, and 10.56.030 of this Ordinance. The updates to the Municipal Code that Sections 10.56.010, and 10.56.020, and 10.56.30 contained herein reflect changes to street names and freeways that have occurred in the City since 2000 and mirror the truck routes identified in the General Plan. B. Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act("CEQA")and the City's local CEQA Guidelines, the City Council finds that adoption of this Ordinance is covered by general rule that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. The City Council finds that there is no possible significant effect directly related to adoption of this Ordinance, therefore no further action is required under CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the State CEQA Guidelines If CCR § 15061(b)(3)). This is because the number of trips by heavy vehicles on City streets by heavy vehicles on City streets will not be affected and neither will levels of traffic, noise and air pollution. Furthermore, the truck routes included within this Ordinance were environmentally reviewed in the EIR for the General Plan. III. Ordinance. The City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 10.56.010 (Unrestricted Truck Routes)of Chapter 10.56(Truck Routes and Restrictions) is amended as follows: Ordinance No. 1014— Page 1 of 5 "10.56.010 Unrestricted truck routes. A. Except as hereinafter provided, or as otherwise provided by law, commercial vehicles and vehicle combinations described in Vehicle Code §§ 35400 and 35401, or their successor provisions, and vehicles which exceed a maximum gross weight of three tons, may be operated only on streets designated as "unrestricted truck routes." Unrestricted truck routes in the city include: 1. Base Line Road from the west city limits to the east city limits; 2. Foothill Boulevard from the west city limits to the east city limits; 3. Arrow Route from Vineyard Avenue to the east city limits; 4. Eighth Street from the west city limits to Vineyard Avenue; 5. Sixth Street from Archibald Avenue to Etiwanda Avenue; 6. Fourth Street from the west city limits to the east city limits; 7. Grove Avenue from 8th Street to Foothill Boulevard; 8. Vineyard Avenue from 8lh Street to Foothill Boulevard; 9. Archibald Avenue from 4th Street to Foothill Boulevard; 10. Haven Avenue from 4th Street to State Route 210; 11. Milliken Avenue from 4th Street to State Route 210; 12. Rochester Avenue from 6th Street to Foothill Boulevard; 13. Day Creek Boulevard from Foothill Boulevard to State Route 210; 14. Etwanda Avenue from 4th Street to Foothill Boulevard; 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 Ordinance No. 1014— Page 2 of 5 or construction of any building or structure upon a city street for which a building permit has previously been obtained. 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." SECTION 2. Section 10.56.020 (Restricted Truck Routes) of Chapter 10.56 (Truck Routes and Restrictions) is amended as follows: "10.56.020 Restricted truck routes. A. Vehicle Code § 35401(d) allows any city, upon finding that certain streets cannot safely sustain the operation of trailers or semitrailers having the maximum kingpin to rearmost axle distance permitted under Vehicle Code § 35400, to restrict the use of such streets by trailers or semitrailers having a maximum kingpin distance as determined. Certain city streets have been determined to be able to safely accommodate a maximum such distance of 38 feet. Except as otherwise provided by law, trailers and semitrailers having a kingpin to rearmost axle distance in excess of 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. Vineyard Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to Carnelian Street; 2. Carnelian Street from Vineyard Avenue to State Route 210; 3. Archibald Avenue from Foothill Boulevard to State Route 210. B. The provisions of this section may be enforced when and where the city traffic engineer has provided signing designating restricted truck routes." SECTION 3. Section 10,56.030 (Terminal Access routes for extra large trucks) of Chapter 10.56 (Truck routes and Restrictions) is amended as follows: "10.56.030 Terminal access routes for extra large trucks. A. Except as otherwise provided by law, truck-tractors and semitrailers, and truck-tractors, semitrailers and trailers, which exceed any of the size limitations set forth in Vehicle Code §§ 35400 and 35401, or their successor provisions, and which are exempted from such limitations pursuant to Vehicle Code § 35401.5(a), 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. Ordinance No. 1014— Page 3 of 5 B. City streets designated as terminal access routes are: 1. Foothill Boulevard from the west city limits to the east city limits; 2. Fourth Street from the west city limits to the east city limits; 3. Archibald Avenue from 4th Street to Foothill Boulevard; 4. Milliken Avenue from 4th Street to Foothill Boulevard. C. The provisions of this section may be enforced where the city traffic engineer has provided signing designating terminal access routes. (Code 1980, § 10.56,030; Ord. No. 373, § 1, 1988; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014) SECTION 4. The City Council declares that, should any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance for any reason be held invalid or unconstitutional by the 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 adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 5. Neither the adoption of this Ordinance nor the repeal of any other Ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof. SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause it to be published in the manner required by law. Ordinance No. 1014— Page 4 of 5 PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this W day of January, 2023. L. ichael, Mayor ATTEST: J ice C. Reynolds, Cler6 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO ) ss CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA ) I, JANICE C. REYNOLDS, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at an Adjourned Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 11" day of January 2023, and was passed at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 18" day of January 2023. AYES: Hutchison, Kennedy, Michael, Scott, Stickler NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAINED: None Executed this 19'" day of January 2023, at Rancho Cucamonga, California. J eice C. Reynolds, CIEK Ordinance No. 1014— Page 5 of 5