Arcadia Municipal Code Part 5 House Numbering System

There is hereby adopted and established a system for the numbering of houses and store entrances as provided in this Chapter.

For the purpose of such enumeration all blocks on Santa Anita Avenue, on First Avenue, and on Second Avenue between Foothill Boulevard and Duarte Road, shall be divided into sections of twenty (20) feet, and all blocks on all other streets, for the purpose of such enumeration, shall be divided into sections of twenty-five (25) feet.

All house or store numbers shall be numbered according to the successive subdivisions of twenty (20) or twenty-five (25) feet, as the case may be, and allowing not in excess of one hundred (100) numbers for each block; that is, there shall be no more than fifty (50) odd numbers on one side of any street so numbered, nor more than fifty (50) even numbers on the other side of any street so numbered. Each successive block shall be similarly numbered with successive series of hundred.

Santa Anita Avenue is hereby adopted and established as the dividing line east and west for the purpose of such system of numbering, and that portion of Huntington Drive extending easterly from Santa Anita Avenue and known as East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly to the westerly boundary of the City is hereby adopted and established as the dividing line north and south for the purpose of such system of numbering.

All houses or store entrances on the northerly side of streets running easterly and westerly shall receive odd numbers, commencing at Santa Anita Avenue with number one (1) and increasing successively easterly and westerly therefrom. All houses or store entrances on the southerly side of streets running easterly and westerly shall receive even numbers, commencing at Santa Anita Avenue with number (2) and increasing successively easterly and westerly therefrom. All numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running easterly and westerly west of Santa Anita Avenue shall be designated by the word "West" in addition to such number. Numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running easterly and westerly east of Santa Anita Avenue shall be designated by the word "East" in addition to such numbers.

All houses or store entrances on the westerly side of streets running northerly and southerly shall receive odd numbers, commencing at East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly with number one (1) and increasing successively northerly and southerly therefrom. All houses or store entrances on the easterly side of streets running northerly and southerly shall receive even numbers, commencing at East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly with number two (2) and increasing successively northerly and southerly therefrom. All numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running northerly and southerly north of East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly shall be designated by the word "North" in addition to such numbers. Numbers of houses or store entrances on streets running northerly and southerly south of East Huntington Drive and its prolongation westerly shall be designated by the word "South" in addition to such numbers.

It is hereby made the duty of the Director of Public Works to furnish to any applicant therefor, upon blanks to be provided by the City, the correct number or numbers of any lot, house or parcel of land within the City, determined from a careful computation arrived at from the official maps of the City or from measurements made of the location of said houses or land, according to the plan specified in Part 1 of this Chapter.

After receiving such official number from the Director of Public Works, the owner or occupant of the premise for which said official number has been so given shall be entitled to display such number upon said premises and shall be entitled to the exclusive use of such number for the said premises for which the same shall have issued, and said premise shall thereafter be entitled to be officially known by such number thus furnished.

(Former Chapter 7 (Sections 8710 through 8737) repealed and a new Chapter 7 added by Ord. 1443 adopted 12-21-71. Chapter 7 (Sections 8710 through 8718) repealed and a new Chapter 7, Part 5 added by Ord. 1719 adopted 5-5-81.)