Newark Municipal Code Ch. 12.12 Street Numbering and Naming

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; the plan shall be in agreement with the Alameda County property numbering system adopted by the county and being Chapter 4 of Title 5 of the Alameda County Ordinance Code.

(Ord. 46 § 1, 1958)

The city council 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 "Newark portion of the Alameda County property numbering system," which shall be effective within the city.

(Ord. 46 § 2, 1958)

The Newark portion of the Alameda County property numbering system shall consist of baselines, lying either within or without the limits of this city, from which property numbers shall be established, the property numbers to progress in an increasing magnitude in westerly and southerly directions generally in accordance with the distance from the baselines.

(Ord. 46 § 3, 1958)

The Newark portion of the Alameda County property numbering system shall consist of a map or maps of the city or portions thereof adopted under Section 12.12.100 of this chapter, upon which maps the baselines 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 the system. All maps constituting any portion of the Newark portion of the Alameda County property numbering system shall have a legend endorsed thereon stating that the maps constitute a portion of the system.

(Ord. 46 § 4, 1958)

Upon the establishment of the system or portions thereof, the system shall be continued, enforced, operated and maintained within this city by the office, persons or department designated by resolution of the city council, and property numbers assigned within the city shall be done in accordance with the system.

(Ord. 46 § 5, 1958)

For the 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 is 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.

(Ord. 46 § 6, 1958)

A. No street or road crossing any of the baselines of the system, where the numbering along the street or road originates from the intersected baseline, shall be known by the same name on both sides of the baseline unless the street or road is 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 baseline (i.e. West Ave. 100, East Ave. 100, Northwest 200th Street, Southeast 200th Street). From and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in 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 requirements:

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 culs-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.

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

(Ord. 46 § 7, 1958)

The office, persons, or department designated to 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 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 in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the display of a proper number in accordance with said 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 days nor more than one hundred twenty 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.

(Ord. 46.1 § 1, 1958: Ord. 46 § 8, 1958)

The adoption of the Newark 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.

(Ord. 46 § 9, 1958)

The baselines and index lines mentioned in this chapter are delineated on that certain map attached to the ordinance codified in this chapter entitled "general plan of the Newark portion of the Alameda County property numbering system" which map and all notations, references, data, and other information shown thereon are adopted and made a part of this chapter by reference.

(Ord. 46 § 10, 1958)

Violation or failure to comply with any provision of this chapter shall constitute an infraction and shall be punishable in accordance with the provisions set forth in Chapter 1.16 of this code.

(Ord. 270 § 11, 1990: Ord. 46 § 11, 1958)