ORDINANCE NO. 846
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
REDUCING THE PERMISSIBLE VEHICLE
WEIGHT
IN THE COMMUNITY OF
The
Board of Supervisors of the
Section 1. Weight
Prohibition
Pursuant to
California Vehicle Code Section 35712, any commercial vehicle exceeding a
manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000 pounds is prohibited from
using the local streets within the community of Mesa Verde and County Service
Area (CSA) 122 as identified in the attached list and map (Exhibit A).
Commercial
vehicles exceeding a manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating of 14,000
pounds are prohibited from using the following streets:
Bellwood Drive
Blythe Way
Cottonwood Drive
Citrus Drive
Eureka Drive
Evergreen Drive
Green Street
Lemon Drive
Lime Drive
Maple Drive
Mesa Drive, from Bellwood Drive to
its southerly terminus
Monroe Drive
Olive Drive
Orange Drive
Orchard Lane
Pallowalla Drive
Pallowalla Road
Park Drive
Pepper Drive
Roses Road
Section 2. Exemption
Pursuant to
California Vehicle Code Section 35714, this Ordinance does not prohibit any
commercial vehicles coming from an unrestricted street having ingress and
egress by direct route to and from the streets within the Mesa Verde community/CSA
122 when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods,
wares, and merchandise from or to any building structure located in the Mesa
Verde community/CSA 122 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 roadways in the Mesa Verde community/CSA 122 for
which a building permit has previously been obtained.
Commercial
vehicles owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor while necessarily
in use in the construction, installation, or repair of any public utility are
exempt from the vehicle weight restriction.
Section 3. Notice
Pursuant to California
Vehicle Code Section 35713, this Ordinance shall not be effective until signs
are posted. The Director of Transportation is hereby authorized to post signs
indicating that the weight restriction is in effect.
Section 4. Alternate Route
There
are currently no streets within the Mesa Verde community/CSA 122 that allow
through truck traffic. The route for trucks is the Interstate 10 freeway.
Violation
of this Ordinance shall be an infraction, punishable by a fine of $100 for the
first infraction, a fine of $200 for the second infraction, and a fine of $250
for each additional violation of this Ordinance within a period of one year
after the second infraction.
Adopted: 846
Item 3.93 of 08/23/2005 per
section 3 Ordinance shall not be effective until signs are posted.