Santa Maria Municipal Code Ch. 1-4 Datum Plane

(a) For the purpose of establishing a permanent mark from which the base of vertical distances in the City can be readily ascertained and determined a plug of lead with brass screw is inserted in the top of and near the southeasterly corner of the stone base of a stone column situated at the westerly side of the entrance to the building at the northwesterly corner of North Lincoln Street and West Main Street. The horizontal plane at the surface of the upper end of the metal plug is fixed, established, and declared to be the datum plane from which all vertical distances must be estimated, designated, and measured in grading and determining the elevations of streets, curbings, pavements, sidewalks, gutters, sewers, bridge structures, and all other works of the City, and in Section 8-7.01, and in all ordinances, orders, enactments, and contracts passed or made after the effective date of the ordinance from which this section derives, whenever an elevation or grade is named in feet it shall be deemed to mean so many feet vertically above or below the established base or datum plane.

(b) The base or datum plane is 205.95 feet above the level of the sea.

(Prior Code § 1-9)