Santa Cruz Municipal Code Ch. 15.04 Datum Plane

For the purpose of establishing grades and determining comparative elevations within the city, all such grades and elevations shall be hereafter referred to the datum plane used by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and bench marks established by said Coast and Geodetic Survey within the city boundaries shall be considered official bench marks of the city.

(Prior code § 7100).

Unless otherwise expressly provided, the grade established by any ordinance or resolution now in force and effect, or which may be hereafter passed and adopted, as the curb grade of any street or as the grade of the middle line of any street in this city, shall be on a straight line from one point of grade fixed by such ordinance or resolution to the next point of grade fixed thereby. This rule shall apply to each consecutive point of grade fixed by any such ordinance or resolution.

The term “point of grade” means the station at which a grade elevation is designated in any such ordinance or resolution.

(Prior code § 7101).