HomeMy Public PortalAbout69-81 ORDINANCE NO. 69-81
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CARSON ESTABLISHING
ROUTES THROUGH THE CITY FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
OR VEHICLES EXCEEDING 6000 POUNDS GROSS WEIGHT,
DESIGNATING THOSE STREETS UPON WHICH SAID VEHICULAR
TRAFFIC IS PERMITTED AND AMENDING THE CARSON
MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section I . The Carson Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding to
Chapter 2 of Article III a Part B thereof to read as follows:
"B. Commercial and Other Vehicle Routes, Restrictions.
3250. Prohibition of Commercial Vehicles or Vehicles Exceeding
6000 Pounds Gross Weight Except on Designated Routes. Any Commercial
Vehicle or any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of 6000 pounds is hereby prohibited
from using any street in the City of Carson other than those Fisted in Section 3251, except as
provided in Section 3252 of this code. All streets in the City not designated in Section 3251
shall be restricted streets for the purposes of this Part B.
3251 . Designated Routes. Commercial vehicles or any vehicles exceeding
the maximum gross weight limit of 6000 pounds may use the following streets or portions of streets
within the city limits of the City of Carson:
(a) Alameda Street (j) Lomita Boulevard
(b) Alondra Boulevard (k) Main Street
(c) Artesia Boulevard (1) Sepulveda Boulevard
(d) Avalon Boulevard (m) Torrance Boulevard between
(e) Broadway Main Street & Westerly
(f) Carson Street City Limits
(g) Del Amo Boulevard (n) Victoria Street
(h) Figueroa Street (o) Wilmington Avenue
(i) San Diego Freeway (p) 223rd Street
3252. Exceptions. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part B,
nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit any vehicle coming from an unrestricted street having
ingress or egress by direct route to and from a restricted 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 the restricted street or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in
the actual and bona bide repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building or
structure upon the restricted street for which a building permit has previously been obtained,
nor shall any provision of this Part B apply to any vehicle owned by a public utility or licensed
contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public
utility, or to any vehicle (passenger stage) subject to the provisions of Section 1031 to 1036,
inclusive, of the California Public Utilities Code.
3253. Signs. The City Council of the City of Carson hereby determines
that the erection of appropriate signs on those streets designated in Section 3251 will best serve
to give notice of this Part B.
This Part B shall not be effective until such time as said signs have been erected.
Section 2. The City Engineer is hereby directed and authorized to effect the
erection of appropriate signs in accordance with Section 3253 on those streets specified in
Section 3251 .
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Carson
this 21st day of April, 1969. -f-) i
ATTEST: MA OR
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF CARSON )
I, MARILYN R. CORTINA, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do hereby
certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
ordinance, being Ordinance No. 69-81, passed first reading on April 14, 1969, was duly and
regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and
regularly held on the 21st day of April, 1969, and that the same was so passed and adopted
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Yamamoto, Smith, Marbut, Clark and Junk.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None.
C T LERK, ity of Caison, California