Compton Municipal Code § 14-5 House Numbering

[Ord. #856, § 8400; Ord. #1805, § 1; Ord. #1822, § 3]

All lands and lots within the City now platted or which may hereafter be platted shall have numbers assigned to each space of 12 1/2 feet frontage on any street within or bordering upon the same and such number shall be affixed to all buildings thereon, or which may hereafter be erected thereon, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to designate the respective block numbers and the Chief Building Inspector shall assign numbers for buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out or hereafter to be laid out or extended.

[Ord. #856, § 8401]

Compton Boulevard, running easterly and westerly from the easterly boundary line to the westerly boundary line of said City, shall be the dividing line or starting point for numbers on buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out, or hereafter to be laid out, extending in a northerly and southerly direction. Willowbrook Avenue, running northerly and southerly from the northerly boundary line to the southerly boundary line of said City, shall be the dividing line or starting point for numbers on buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out, or hereafter to be laid out, extending in an easterly or westerly direction. Numbers shall begin at the above named dividing lines or starting points and shall continue to the termini of the respective streets. One hundred numbers, or as many thereof as may be necessary, shall be allotted to each block, or equivalent. Number 100 shall be the first number used at the respective beginning points on the sides of the streets that are to contain the even numbers; and number 101 for the sides that are to contain the odd numbers, and all buildings in the rear, occupying the same lot corresponding with the front number, shall be given the front or entrance number, designated with a letter from the alphabet, such as A, B, C, etc. At the beginning of the second block from the starting point, the first number shall be 200 and 201 respectively, and so continuing throughout the system. Twelve and one-half feet, or fraction thereof, of frontage shall be allowed for each number, the same to be calculated from the end or center of block from which the number begins in any business section. On all streets the numbering shall be done as if the streets began at or extended to the dividing lines as defined in this subsection.

[Ord. #856, § 8402]

The numbers on the northerly and westerly sides of streets shall be odd numbers and the numbers on the southerly and easterly sides thereof shall be even numbers.

[Ord. #856, § 8403]

A block, within the meaning of this section, shall be that portion of any street between two cross or intersecting streets, or between a cross and intersecting street and an abutting street, or between two abutting streets. In the case of an abutting street, the prolonged center line of the abutting street shall be the dividing line of the block; provided that every block exceeding 200 feet, or the equivalent of the abutting blocks, in length shall be considered, for the purpose of this section as two blocks.

[Ord. #856, § 8404]

No person shall display upon, over or near any entrance to any building any number other than the number designated for such building, as provided in this section.