Chapter 15.32 — PROPERTY NUMBERING SYSTEM

The board of supervisors finds that the public interest, safety, welfare and convenience require the establishment of a numbering system of street and road addresses in a uniform plan for the county. For the accomplishment of this objective, the board hereby establishes a uniform numbering system of street and road addresses for the county which shall be known of the Alameda County Property Numbering System.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.0)

The county property numbering system shall become effective in the unincorporated area of the county and may be established within any city of the county upon its adoption by said city.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.1)

The county property numbering system shall consist of base lines from which property numbers shall be established, the property numbers to progress in an increasing magnitude in easterly and westerly, and northerly and southerly directions generally in accordance with the distance from the base lines.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.2)

The county property numbering system shall consist of a map or maps of the county or portions thereof adopted under Section 15.32.100 of this chapter, upon which map or maps the base lines shall be shown or designated and by index lines indicate the principal locations at which major units of the numbering system shall commence, and such other maps shall be prepared and maintained as shall be necessary to designate the numbers and locations of numbers assigned to particular buildings and lands under the system. All maps constituting any portion of the county property numbering system shall have a legend endorsed thereon stating that the maps constitute a portion of the system.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.3)

The system or portions thereof shall be continued, enforced, operated and maintained within the unincorporated area of the county by the office, person or department designated by the board of supervisors, and property numbers assigned within such area shall be done in accordance with the system.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.4)

For purposes of determining the proper number for a particular location the number shall be proportional to the distances between the numbers next adjacent to the location on either side or the major unit line or lines if no numbers have been previously established on adjoining properties. For purposes of determining whether a number shall be odd or even, it is determined that odd numbers shall be on the right hand side of the street or road and even numbers on the left hand side of the street or road in the direction of increasing magnitude of numbers. Where existing numbers have been established prior to this chapter and the odd and even numbers exist in a reverse order on the sides of the street or road, the reversed order of odd and even number location shall remain as it presently exists and shall continue for any extension of the street or road.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.5)

No street or road crossing any of the base lines of the system shall be known by the same name on both sides of the base line unless the street or road shall be adequately designated by a prefix or suffix indicating a principal compass direction to denote the position of the street or road in relation to the base line (i.e., West Ave. 100, East Ave. 100, Northwest 200th Street, Southeast 200th Street). From and after the effective date of this chapter any public street, road or way established, or any of the same offered in dedication for public use or any private street or roadway established, shall be named in accordance with the following:

A.

All streets, roads and ways running generally northerly and southerly to be known as "streets" or "roads";

B.

All streets, roads and ways running generally easterly and westerly shall be known as "avenues" or "ways";

C.

All streets, roads and ways running in a variable curving or winding direction shall be known as "drives" or "lanes";

D.

All cul-de-sac or dead ends, not a continuation of any of the above shall be known as "courts" or "places";

E.

Major arterial routes through the county and/or cities thereof may be known as "boulevards," "parkways," "freeways," or "throughways."

All streets, roads and ways shall be known by the same name for its entire length and where a street, road or way shall change direction by ninety (90) degrees or by a lesser angle, each direction shall be known by a different name, provided that where such exists on the effective date of this chapter such name may continue to exist provided there shall be no further extension of the street, road or way.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.6)

The office, person or department designated to enforce, establish, continue, operate and maintain the numbering system shall give notice to the occupants or owners of land or building which are assigned or reassigned numbers under the system, which notice shall contain the old number, the new number or the number reassigned to a particular building or parcel of land, and the date on which the new number shall become effective.

Within ten days of the effective date of the notice of number assigned or reassigned, the occupants or owners of the property or buildings shall cause the number to be displayed upon the building or land in such manner as to be visible from the street or road upon which the land or building fronts, provided that in rural areas where buildings are removed considerable distance from any public street or road or where rural

free delivery of mail is provided, the number may be displayed upon receptacles designed for the delivery of mail. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit the display of a proper number in accordance with the system upon any road or driveway leading to buildings removed a substantial distance from the public road or street upon which the subject site abuts.

Within not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days from the effective date of the notice of numbers assigned or reassigned, the occupants or owners of the property or buildings shall remove or obscure from public view any old or previous number not in accordance with the system.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.7)

The adoption of the county property numbering system shall in no way affect the legal description of property by lot and block numbers or by metes and bounds.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.8)

The map or maps referred to in this chapter are made a part of this code. Those maps, and all notations, references, and other information shown thereon, shall be as much a part of this chapter as if fully set forth herein.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.9)

Any person, firm, partnership, co-partnership, or corporation, whether as principal, agent or employee failing or refusing to display a proper number after notice of such has been given in accordance with Section 15.32.080 of this chapter, or willfully displaying or permitting to be displayed any improper number after aforesaid notice shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail of said county for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Prior gen. code § 5-28.10)