Ventura Municipal Code § 18.50.010 Authority to number

2 Cross reference(s): Building and construction regulations, Title 12.

The city manager shall designate the respective numbers for buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out or to be hereafter laid out or extended. The city manager shall from time to time prepare and keep on file maps showing the system of numbering herein authorized. (Code 1971, § 8511)

Each person owning or having custody or control of any building within the city may obtain the appropriate number for the same from the city manager. No person owning or having custody or control of any building or structure shall fail, neglect or refuse to place and maintain numbers as provided herein upon all entrances from the streets of the city, within 10 days from and after receipt of a notice by the owner, occupant, lessee, tenant or subtenant of such building from the city manager of the number or numbers designated for such building. All numbers other than those provided for in this chapter for the respective entrances shall be removed from every building by the owners, occupants, lessees, tenants or subtenants thereof, within 10 days from the service of said notice designating the appropriate numbers to be placed thereon. (Code 1971, § 8512)

The following shall be the respective base lines for numbers on buildings fronting on streets heretofore laid out or hereafter to be laid out or extended, namely: from north to south, Ventura Avenue; from east to west, Main Street from the westerly boundary of the city to its junction with Telegraph Road, thence in an easterly direction along Telegraph Road to the easterly boundary of the city. (Code 1971, § 8513)

A. Location of Odd and Even. The numbers on the northerly and westerly sides of the streets shall be odd numbers, and the numbers on the southerly and easterly sides thereof shall be even numbers.

B. Use of Numbers. One hundred numbers, or as many thereof as may be necessary, shall be allotted to each block of not to exceed 600 feet. Number one shall be the first number used commencing at the respective base lines on the sides of the streets which are to contain the odd numbers, and number two for the sides which are to contain the even numbers. At the beginning of the second block from the base line, the first numbers shall be 101 and 100, respectively, and so continue throughout the system.

C. Frontage. Approximately 20 feet of frontage shall be allowed for each number, to be calculated from the end of the block in which the numbering begins. On all streets the numbering shall be done as if the streets extended to the base lines as defined in Section 18.50.030. (Code 1971, § 8514)

In the event that any person who is obliged by the terms of this chapter to place and maintain appropriate numbers at the entrance of any building within the city shall fail to do so after receiving written notice from the city manager in accordance with Section 18.50.020, the city manager may cause the same to be done at the expense of the owner or person having custody or control of the building. (Code 1971, § 8515)