Chapter 10.20
RESTRICTED USES
Sections:
10.20.010 Certain vehicles prohibited in central traffic district.
10.20.020 Horse-drawn vehicles.
10.20.040 Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets.
10.20.010 Certain vehicles prohibited in central traffic district.
A. No person shall operate any of the following vehicles in the central traffic district between the hours of seven a.m. and six p.m. of any day:
1. Any freight vehicle more than eight and one-half feet in width, with load, or any freight vehicle so loaded that any part of its load extends more than twenty (20) feet to the front or rear of the vehicle;
2. Any vehicle carrying building material that has not been loaded, or is not to be unloaded, at some point within the central traffic district;
3. Any vehicle conveying refuse, rubbish, garbage or dirt.
B. Provided that the superintendent may by written permit authorize the operation of any such vehicle for the purpose of making necessary emergency deliveries to or from points within the central traffic district. (Prior code § 4-1.1301)
10.20.020 Horse-drawn vehicles.
No person shall drive any animal drawn vehicle into or within the central traffic district:
A. Between the hours of four thirty p.m. and six p.m. of any day;
B. During the morning rush hour;
C. An exception to the above is during parades, holidays or weekends;
D. Each operator of a horse-drawn vehicle shall install and properly maintain an effective device to catch feces before it falls to the ground and shall ensure that any feces or other waste deposited on the public right-of-way or any private property within the city is cleaned up immediately after such deposit. (Ord. 2003-21 § 3: prior code § 4-1.1301)
10.20.030 Truck routes.
A. Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons, the superintendent of public works is authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons.
B. When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets 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 such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.
C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
1. Passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or
2. Any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.
D. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons. (Prior code § 4-1.1305)
10.20.040 Commercial vehicles prohibited from using certain streets.
A. Whenever any resolution of this city designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the superintendent of public works shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such ordinance.
B. Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the council are declared to be streets, the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission.
C. No person shall operate any motor vehicle except school buses, emergency vehicles and public utility vehicles on Anderson Street west of a point beginning seven hundred twenty-one (721) feet west of the center line of Hemenway Street. The superintendent of public works is authorized to grant written permission to operate motor vehicles on said street during said hours to real property owners and local residents having no other means of access to their property or residence. (Prior code § 4-1.1305)
10.20.050 Truck parking.
A. Purpose. The purpose of this regu1ation is to improve the appearance of the residential neighborhoods of the city and to make them a more quiet, peaceful and safe place in which to live by eliminating the uses specified herein below which are deemed to be uses which are uncharacteristic to and incompatible with residential uses within the city’s residential zones.
B. No person shall park or leave standing any truck, truck tractor, truck trailer, semitrailer, any other commercial trailer, or any other commercial vehicle having a manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand (10,000) pounds or more, on any street or any portion of any real property, be it public or private, in any residential (“R”) zone within the city, unless parked within an enclosed garage or a fenced back yard, six foot solid fencing, on the property. The garage shall be in addition to, and not be counted toward, off-street parking requirements for residential developments as set forth in the city municipal ordinances as amended from time to time.
C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to authorized emergency vehicles, vehicles owned by a public utility, municipal or county government, or special district, licensed contractor while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of a public utility, or to any commercial vehicle actually being used to provide services or for the delivery of goods, wares or merchandise, or for the pick-up or delivery of materials to be used in the repair, alteration, remodeling, or construction of any building.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to pick-up trucks; vans with a carrying capacity of one ton or less, pick-up trucks with attached campers; trailer house cars, trailer coach, boat trailers or camping trailers.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to properties which remain in agricultural use in an undeveloped condition until such time as site development for residential construction commences, to the extent the equipment banned by subsection B is of the type and quantity normally a part of agricultural use on agricultural property.
D. For the purpose of this section, the phrases “commercial vehicle,” “vehicle,” “trailer,” or “semitrailer,” “trailer coach,” “authorized emergency vehicle,” “house car,” “truck trailer,” “camping trailer,” and “manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating,” are defined as set forth in the California Vehicle Code. The phrase “R zoned property” is any area of the city which is classified as residential under the provisions of the zoning regulations of the city, as amended from time to time.
E. This section will include a period of amortization of three full calendar months, following its date of enactment to allow for the removal of all commercial vehicles and trailers prohibited hereby from all residential zones within the city, without criminal penalty. Upon expiration of the amortization period, this section shall be fully operative. (Ord. 88-05 § 2: prior code § 4-1.1306)