Santa Ana Municipal Code Art. V Truck Routes

The city council designates certain streets or portions thereof as streets, the use of which is permitted by any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight of three (3) tons; these streets shall be known as truck routes, and are described as follows:

(1) Seventeenth Street-Westminister Avenue, all portions within the city.

(2) Fourth Street, all portions within the city from Grand Avenue, easterly.

(3) First Street, all portions within the city.

(4) Edinger Avenue, all portions in the city.

(5) Warner Avenue, all portions in the city.

(6) MacArthur Boulevard, all portions in the city.

(7) Segerstrom Avenue-Dyer Road, all portions in the city.

(8) Bristol Street, all portions in the city.

(9) Main Street, all portions in the city.

(10) Standard Avenue, between Warner Avenue and First Street.

(11) Grand Avenue, all portions in the city.

(12) Harbor Boulevard, all portions in the city.

(13) Euclid Street, all portions in the city.

(14) Fairview Street, all portions in the city.

(15) Tustin Avenue, all portions in the city.

(16) Memory Lane, all portions in the city from Bristol, westerly.

The director of public works is authorized to designate the above streets by appropriate signs as truck routes for the movement of vehicles exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons, where, in his opinion, such designation is required.

(Code 1952, § 3270; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-1699, § 1, 10-24-83)

The city council designates all streets in the city, except those enumerated in section 36-170, as streets on which any commercial vehicle of gross weight over three (3) tons is prohibited. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding the 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 actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets, for which a building permit has been previously obtained. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a passenger bus under the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission, or owned by a bus company licensed by the city, or to any vehicle owned by a public utility while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of any public utility, or any vehicle owned by the city while necessarily in use in the construction, installation or repair of a city utility or street. The director of public works may erect and maintain appropriate signs on those streets affected by this section where he deems the same to be necessary.

(Code 1952, § 3271; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

(a) The truck routes specified in section 36-170, exclusive of the streets specified in subsection (b) of this section, are hereby designated as terminal access routes, which may be used by a combination of vehicles (consisting of a truck tractor and semitrailer, or of a truck tractor, semitrailer, and trailer) which exceeds any of the size limitations set forth in sections 35400 and 35401 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, and which is exempted from such limitations pursuant to Section 35401.5(a) of said Vehicle Code, for the purpose of access to or from a facility at which freight is consolidated to be shipped or where full load consignments may be off-loaded or at which the vehicle combinations are regularly maintained, stored or manufactured.

(b) The following streets are excluded from the designation of terminal access routes under this section:

(1) Main Street north of Warner Avenue.

(2) Fourth Street west of Tustin Avenue.

(c) The executive director of the public works agency is authorized and directed to provide signing as necessary to indicate the use as terminal access routes of the streets specified in this section for such use.

(d) From and after the provision of signing pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, no person may operate any combination of vehicles exceeding any of the size limitations set forth in Sections 35400 and 35401 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California on any street in the City of Santa Ana other than streets which are designated as terminal access routes pursuant to this section.

(Ord. No. NS-1932, § 1, 10-19-87)