Richmond Municipal Code Ch. 12.04 Generally

Every person owning any building or the agent therefor must within two weeks after the completion or occupancy of such building place or cause to be placed on or over the door or gate used as an entrance to such building, or adjacent to such door or gate so as to be readily seen from the street, the appropriate number of such building as herein specified.

(a) All entrances from streets to buildings, or to separate apartments in buildings, shall be numbered, and it shall be unlawful for any person, whether owner or occupant of the building or any apartment therein, to place, maintain or allow to remain thereon any number other than the one required by this chapter.

(b) The number placed upon any entrance shall be of a different color than the background upon which it is placed, and each figure of such number shall be at least one and three-quarters inches in height and proportionate width. All numbers must be made of substantial and permanent material and must be so placed or affixed as not to be easily effaced or removed.

The right-of-way lines of the Oakland Branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shall be the starting point of all numbered streets and all streets running in the same general direction as numbered streets for the numbers of all buildings facing on said streets, except as herein otherwise provided.

(1) Wernse and A Streets respectively and their direct extensions northerly and southerly shall be the starting point for all named streets for the numbers of buildings facing on said named streets except as herein otherwise provided.

(2) The main line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shall be the starting point of all streets crossing said main line for the numbers of all buildings and facing on said last-mentioned streets.

(3) Standard Avenue shall be the starting point for all streets intersecting Standard Avenue or terminating at Standard Avenue for the numbers of all buildings facing on said last-mentioned streets.

(4) On all streets named or numbered with the prefix or suffix "South" or "West," the numbers on the right-hand side commencing with the number "one" at the starting point shall be odd numbers and all numbers on the left-hand side commencing with the number "two" shall be even numbers.

(5) On all other streets the numbers on the right-hand side commencing with the number "two" at the starting point shall be even numbers and all numbers on the left-hand side commencing with the number "one" shall be odd numbers.

(6) Every twelve and one-half feet of frontage on each street shall be assigned a number except in cases where such system of numbering would require more than one hundred numbers for any one block, then one number shall be assigned to each twenty-five feet of frontage; and provided further, that one hundred numbers or as many thereof as shall be necessary shall be assigned to each block.

(7) When any street in its course fails to traverse certain blocks, one hundred numbers shall be allotted to each block not traversed in the same manner as if the street were continuous.

(8) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, the numbers of all buildings in the City of Richmond fronting on the west side of San Pablo Avenue between the northerly line of Lot 3, Block 5, Bay View Park, and the southerly line of Lot 19, Block 96, Richmond Annex, shall conform to and continue the numbering in effect for all buildings fronting on other parts of the west side of San Pablo Avenue and on the east side of San Pablo Avenue within the City of El Cerrito.

(9) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, the terms "north," "east," "south" and "west" may be used as either suffixes or prefixes.

(Amended by Ordinance No. 18-77 N.S.)

Every owner or occupant of any building not numbered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall within ten days after notice given by the Superintendent of Streets of the City of Richmond change the number of such building to conform with the numbering provided herein.

(Source: Ordinance No. 560.)

To comply with the provisions of Article 5 of Chapter 1 of Division I of the Streets and Highways Code, with particular reference to the amendments made thereto by Chapter 642, Statutes of 1935, there is hereby created in the city treasury a special fund to be known as the "Special Gas Tax Street Improvement Fund."

All moneys received by the City from the State of California under the provisions of the Streets and Highways Code for the acquisition of real property or interests therein for, or the construction, maintenance or improvement of, streets or highways other than State highways shall be paid into said fund.

All moneys in said fund shall be expended exclusively for the purposes authorized by, and subject to all of the provisions of, Article 5, Chapter 1, Division I of the Streets and Highways Code.

(Source: Ordinance No. 750.)

Prior to the adoption of any ordinance or resolution by the Council of the City of Richmond ordering the construction of any public improvement or the acquisition of any property for public use, or both, where the cost of such construction or acquisition is to be paid in whole or in part by special assessments or through special assessment taxes upon lands, and it appears that the public convenience and necessity require such undertaking or improvement and that proceedings should be taken therefor without complying with the provisions of the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931, a public hearing shall be held on said question of public convenience and necessity and notice of said hearing shall be given in the time and manner provided in this chapter.

Prior to the adoption of any ordinance or resolution ordering the construction of any public improvement or acquisition of any property for public use, pursuant to any act providing for the levy of special assessments upon property, a resolution of preliminary determination shall be passed and adopted describing the proposed improvement and the boundary lines of the district proposed to be assessed to pay therefor, and setting a time and place where and when any person interested, owning, or having an interest in the real property within the proposed assessment district, may file written objections and may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the Council of the City of Richmond should not find and determine that the public convenience and necessity require the proposed improvement or acquisition without compliance with the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931.

Notice of the hearing above provided for shall be given to the owners of the property within the boundary lines of the district to be assessed to pay for the costs of said acquisition of improvement as follows:

(a) A notice setting forth the time and place of the hearing on the public convenience and necessity of said improvement and containing a brief description of the proposed improvement shall be published twice in the newspaper designated in said notice, the first of which publications shall be at least ten days prior to the date fixed for said hearing. The publication of said notice may be combined with that of the Resolution of Intention. The City Clerk shall give said notice.

(b) Notices setting forth the time and place of the hearing on the public convenience and necessity of said improvement and containing a brief description of the proposed improvement shall be posted near the door of the Council Chamber in the City Hall of the City of Richmond, and shall be posted conspicuously above the line of the proposed public improvement at not more than three hundred feet in distance apart, but not less than three in all. Said notices shall be posted at least ten days before the day set for said hearing. Said notices posted as aforesaid shall be headed and be of the size and form required for notices of hearing on resolution of intention by the improvement act or improvement bond act under which it is intended to proceed.

The notices of hearing provided for in Section 12.04.080 hereof may be combined with the notice of hearing on a resolution of intention under the improvement act or improvement bond act under which proceedings are being taken.

Any person interested, owning, or having an interest in real property within the district proposed to be assessed to pay for said acquisition or improvement may, on or before the time fixed for said hearing, file with the City Clerk written objections to undertaking said proceedings without first complying with the provisions of the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931. Said objections shall bear the description of his property and a statement of the nature of his objection.

If no objections are filed as provided for herein, or when said objections shall have been heard and overruled, the Council of the City of Richmond, by the affirmative vote of not less than eight members of said Council, may adopt a resolution finding and determining that public convenience and necessity require the proposed acquisition or improvement, or both, and that the Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation and Majority Protest Act of 1931 shall not apply, and the findings and determination in such resolution shall be final and conclusive.

(Source: Ordinance No. 1350)

The fees for all work performed by the City Engineer or his assistants under the provisions of the Improvement Acts of the State of California governing the improvement of streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts and places for the construction of sewers and necessary appurtenances unless otherwise stated in the Resolution of Intention to order the improvements, shall be actual costs. Such costs shall cover the preparation of proceedings, doing the field work, drafting and clerical work and inspection in connection therewith, plus overhead expense.

The overhead expense shall include the cost of supervision, clerical work, authorized leave, vacations, holidays, overtime, materials, equipment, and supplies.

(Amended by Ordinance No. 192 N.S.)

The fees for all surveying, drafting, or clerical work not covered by Section 12.04.120 performed by the City Engineer or his assistant are hereby fixed at the actual cost of said work plus twenty-five percent for overhead expense.

(Amended by Ordinance No. 161 N.S.)

(Source: Ordinance No. 616)