Article 5 — STREET NAMES AND PROPERTY NUMBERS

ARTICLE 5 - STREET NAMES AND PROPERTY NUMBERS[[1]]

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Note— Amended by Ordinance No. 67-008 C.S., adopted January 24, 1967. Amended by Ordinance No. 05-21, adopted December 20, 2005.

The public interest, safety, welfare and convenience requires the establishment of a numbering system of street and road addresses in a uniform plan for the City of Hayward, said plan shall be in agreement with the Alameda County Property Numbering System, being Chapter 15.32 of the Alameda County Ordinance Code or alternative system approved by the City Enforcing Official.

The City Council of the City of Hayward hereby establishes a numbering system of street and road addresses for this City in accordance with the Alameda County Property Numbering System which shall be known as the Hayward Portion of the Alameda County Property Numbering System, which shall be effective within the City of Hayward. An alternative system may be employed when it can be shown that the alternative system carries out the purpose of this Article and when the alternative system would not result in a disconnection of an established property numbering pattern within Hayward as determined by the City Enforcing Official.

The Hayward Portion of the Alameda County Property Numbering System shall consist of base lines, lying either within or without the limits of this City, from which property numbers shall be established, said property numbers to progress in an increasing magnitude in easterly and westerly, and southerly directions along all streets or roads running generally perpendicular to these base lines and generally in accordance with the distance from the base lines. In those instances where the direction of a street or road changes, but where said street or road continues to be known by the same name, then street numbers on that street or road shall be established and continued as prescribed in this Article over the entire length of this street in conformance with the predominant direction of travel assumed by that street or road.

The Hayward Portion of the Alameda County Property Numbering System shall consist of a map or maps of said City or portions thereof adopted under Section 10-5.90 of this Article, upon which maps said base lines may 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 said System. All maps constituting any portion of the Hayward Portion of the Alameda County Property Numbering System shall have a legend endorsed thereon stating that said maps constitute a portion of said System.

Upon the establishment of said system or portions thereof, said system shall be continued, enforced, operated and maintained within this City by the office, person, or department designated by Council, and property numbers assigned within the City shall be done in accordance with said System.

For purposes of determining the proper number for a particular location, said 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 Article and the odd and even numbers exist in a reverse order on the side of the street or road, said 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.

No street or road crossing any of said base lines of said System, where the numbering along said street or road shall originate from the intersected base line, shall be known by the same name on both sides of said base line unless said 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. From and after the effective date of this Article any public street, road or way established, or any of same offered in dedication for public use or any private street or roadway established shall be named in accordance with the following:

(1)

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

(2)

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

(3)

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

(4)

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

(5)

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

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 buildings 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 (10) 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 number 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.

The adoption of the Hayward Portion of the Alameda County Property Numbering System shall in no way affect the legal description of property by lot and block numbers or by metes and bounds.

The base and index lines hereinbefore mentioned are delineated on that certain map entitled "General Plan of the Hayward Portion of the Alameda County Property Numbering System" which map and all notations, references, data, and other information shown thereon are hereby adopted and made a part of this Article by reference.