HomeMy WebLinkAbout101-86 BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DANVILLE
In the matter of:
Restricting the Use of City
Streets by Commercial Vehicles
Exceeding a Maximum Gross Weight
Limit of 14,000 Pounds, Providing ORDINANCE NO. 101
Penalties for Violation, and
Declaring the Ordinance to be
an Urgency Measure
The City Council of the City of Danville DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
Chapter 7 consisting of Sections 12-701 through 12-705 is added
to Title 12 of the Danville Municipal Code to read as follows:
Chapter 7
Truck Routes
Section 12-701. Prohibition of Use of Certain Streets.
No person may drive or park or permit a commercial vehicle
exceeding a gross maximum weight of 14,000 pounds to be
driven or parked on any street within the City.
Section 12-702. Exceptions.
Section 12-701 does not apply to a vehicle which is subject
to sections 1031 to 1036 of the Public Utilities Code.
Section 12-703. Pickups and Deliveries Permitted.
A commercial vehicle coming from an unrestricted street
having ingress and egress by direct route to and from a
restricted street may enter and leave by direct route to and
from a restricted street when necessary for the purpose of
making a pickup or delivery of goods, wares, and merchandise
from or to a building or structure located on a restricted
street or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used
in the repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of a
building or structure upon the restricted street.
Section 12-704. Exclusion of Vehicles Originating in the
City.
The prohibition of the use o~ mt~t~ $~t ~Q~th in ~G$iQn
12-701 does not apply to a vehicle described in section
12-701 which has its point of origin on a restricted street.
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Section 12-705. Posting of Streets with Appropriate Siqns.
Under the authority of Vehicle Code Section 35701 (b) the
City Council determines that the posting of signs indicating
the streets affected by sections 12-701 through 12-704 will
best serve to give notice of these provisions. Sections
12-701 through 12-704 are effective when appropriate signs
are erected as indicated.
Section 2. Penalty
A person who violates this ordinance shall be punished by a fine
of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than six
months, or both. Each violation and each day during any portion
of which this ordinance is violated is a separate offense.
Section 3. Declaration of Urgency and Effective Date
This ordinance is declared to be an urgency measure for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and
welfare. The facts constituting the urgency are as follows:
Sycamore Valley Road and Camino Tassajara, E1 Cerro Boulevard,
and Diablo Road, all of which are located in the City, provide
through truck traffic to land use developments located east of
and outside of the City limits. Camino Tassajara from its
intersection with 1-580 in Alameda County and its extension
northerly into Contra Costa County has also provided access to
trucks serving those same land use developments. Prior to
incorporation on July 1, 1982, the Board of Supervisors had
designated Sycamore Valley Road and Camino Tassajara as a truck
route. Although it purported to prohibit truck access on Camino
Tassajara from the 1-580 intersection in 1979, trucks have
continued to use both that access route as well as the Sycamore
Valley Road-Camino Tassajara access routes. Recently, in
reaction to complaints from residents on Camino Tassajara the
Board of Supervisors reconfirmed its action of 1979 prohibiting
truck access on Camino Tassajara to the extent that Camino
Tassajara is located in unincorporated territory and directed
strict enforcement of this prohibition. The affect of this
action is to force all truck traffic onto Danville City
streets. Through truck traffic from one point located outside
the City to another point located outside the City of a
magnitude created by the land developments east of the City
boundary is a threat to the health and safety of the travelling
public. Because the County's action deprives trucks of an
alternate route, all through truck traffic would have to use
Danville Streets. Many of the streets are residential, streets
of narrow width, which do not have safety pathways or sidewalks
for pedestrians.
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Other streets are overcrowded shopping area streets. There are
elementary schools located on or near residential streets
without safe walkways. Sycamore Valley Road from its
intersection with Interstate 680 and Camino Tassajara from its
intersection with Sycamore Valley Road continuing in an easterly
direction are adequate to handle some but not all of the truck
traffic requiring access to land development east of Danville.
Additionally, there are major school crossings on these through
roads.
This ordinance goes into effect immediately but its provisions
are operative when appropriate signs are errected in accordance
with Vehicle Code section 35701(b) and section 12-705 of the
Municipal Code.
Section 4. Publication
The foregoing ordinance was introduced, adopted and ordered
published at a meeting of the City Council of the City of
Danville held on September 22, 1986, by the following vote:
AYES: Kennett, Lane, McNeely, Offenhartz
NOES:
ABSENT: Schlendorf
MAYOR