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Earlier editions: 2026-09

Title 12 — STREET, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES

Hermosa Beach Municipal Code Ch. 12.04 Datum Plane

Hermosa Beach Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-05 · Hermosa Beach

Cite as: Hermosa Beach Municipal Code Chapter 12.04 · Text as of 2026-10-05

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12.04.010 Reestablished.

12.04.020 Street grades.

12.04.010 Reestablished.

For the purpose of establishing and designating all official grades of all public streets, lanes, alleys, places or courts in the city, the datum plane of the city is reestablished and declared to be the level continuous with that of the surface of the ocean at mean low tide as same is determined by the published survey of Santa Monica Bay, California, surveyed and determined by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1893. (Prior code § 1-11)

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12.04.020 Street grades.

The official grades of all public streets, lanes, alleys, places or courts in the city, now or hereafter dedicated to public use, shall be established, changed or modified with reference to the datum plane described in the preceding section and established as the datum plane of the city. (Prior code § 1-12)

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