San Clemente Municipal Code Ch. 10.36 Weight Limits and Truck Routes

A. .....Whenever any resolution of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons, the City Traffic Engineer is authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs as truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons.

B. .....When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons shall drive on such route or routes and none other, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons coming from a truck route having ingress and egress by direct route to and from restricted streets when necessary for the purpose of making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares and merchandise from or to any building or structure located on such restricted streets, or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodelling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.

C. .....The provisions of this section shall not apply to: (1) passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission; or (2) any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility.

D. .....Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are declared to be truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons.

(Prior code § 15-70)

A. .....Whenever any resolution of this City designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a street the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle, the City Traffic Engineer shall erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by such ordinance.

B. .....Those streets and parts of streets established by resolution of the Council are declared to be streets, the use of which is prohibited by any commercial vehicle. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission.

(Prior code § 15-71)

The use of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross empty weight of seven thousand (7,000) pounds on the following listed streets is prohibited:

A. Avenida Vaquero from Camino Capistrano to the freeway underpass.

(Prior code § 15-72)

Except for vehicles making deliveries to properties located on the streets listed below, the use of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross empty weight of four (4) tons on the following listed streets is prohibited:

A. Calle Del Cerro; and

B. Avenida Vista Montana, between Calle Del Cerro and Calle Aquila.

(Prior code § 15-72.1)

Except for vehicles making deliveries to properties located on the streets listed below, the use of any commercial vehicles with three (3) axles or more on the following listed streets is prohibited between the hours of ten (10:00) p.m. and seven (7:00) a.m.:

Avenida Vista Hermosa between the 1-5 NB off-ramp and Camino Vera Cruz.

Calle Frontera between Avenida Pico and Calle Guadalajara.

(Ord. 1309 § 1, 2006)