Walnut Creek Municipal Code Art. 8 Miscellaneous Driving Rules

It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive, propel, or cause to be propelled, any motor vehicle or animal across or upon any sidewalk excepting over permanently constructed driveways and excepting when it is necessary for any temporary purpose to drive a loaded vehicle across a sidewalk. Such sidewalk area shall be adequately protected by wooden planks, and written permission therefor shall be previously obtained from the Chief of Code Enforcement. Such wooden planks shall not be permitted to remain upon such sidewalk area during the hours from six p.m. to six a.m.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

No person shall ride or drive any animal or vehicle over or across any newly made pavement or freshly painted marking in any street when a barrier, sign, cone-marker, or other warning device is in place warning persons not to drive over or across such pavement or marking, or when a sign is in place stating that the street or any portion thereof is closed, or where barricades have been erected.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any limited access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

No public utility or public agency shall erect or place in any street any barrier or sign except of a type approved by the City Transportation Engineer. It shall be unlawful for any operator or pedestrian to disobey the instructions of any such approved barrier or sign.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to enter an intersection or a marked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate the vehicle he is operating without obstructing the passage of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any traffic control signal indication to proceed.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

a. No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone or in a crosswalk if such action interferes with the lawful movement of traffic. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any public officer or employee, or employee of a public utility when necessarily upon a street in line of duty.

b. Within the central traffic district, no person shall stand upon the paved surface of the street within that area delineated by curbs except when necessary to enter or exit from a vehicle or to load or unload a vehicle.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978)

It shall be unlawful for any person upon roller skates or a skateboard or riding upon or by means of any coaster, skateboard, toy vehicle or similar device to go upon any roadway, or upon any sidewalk or paved surface in any area zoned for commercial use within the City.

It shall be unlawful for any person upon roller skates or a skateboard, toy vehicle, bicycle or similar device to go upon any commercial or municipal structure or lot which is designed or used to accommodate the parking of motorized vehicles, excepting the parking of bicycles in said structures or lots where permitted by designated bicycle parking zones.

This section shall not apply to the use of bicycles by City employees or City volunteers acting within the scope of their employment or volunteer activities on behalf of the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 1338, eff. February 2, 1978; § 1, Ord. 1855, eff. 3/23/1995)