West Covina Municipal Code § 22-145 Interstate trucks; terminals, routes

The following streets and portions of streets are hereby designated and established as truck routes, to wit:

Amar Road, from Azusa Avenue to the westerly city limits.

Azusa Avenue, from the northerly city limits to the southerly city limits.

Azusa Canyon Road, from San Bernardino Road to the northerly city limits.

Barranca Avenue, from Garvey Avenue South to the northerly city limits.

Citrus Street, from Garvey Avenue South to Workman Avenue.

Francisquito Avenue, from Glendora Avenue to the westerly city limits.

Garvey Avenue: (1) North portions between Barranca Street and the Barranca Street westbound freeway off-ramp. (2) South portions between West Covina Parkway and Sunset Avenue, between Citrus Street and the Citrus Street eastbound freeway on-ramp, and between Barranca Street and the Barranca Street eastbound freeway on-ramp.

Glendora Avenue, from Vincent Avenue to the southerly city limits.

Grand Avenue, from the San Bernardino Freeway to the northerly city limits.

Holt Avenue, from the Holt Avenue eastbound freeway off-ramp to the easterly city limits.

San Bernardino Road.

Sunset Avenue, from Francisquito Avenue to the southerly city limits.

Valley Boulevard.

Vincent Avenue, from Glendora Avenue to the San Bernardino Freeway on- and off-ramps.

West Covina Parkway, from Glendora Avenue to Garvey Avenue North.

(Code 1960, § 3140; Ord. No. 1305, §§ 1, 2, 6-28-76; Ord. No. 1370, § 1, 2-27-78; Ord. No. 1374, §§ 1—3, 4-10-78; Ord. No. 1822, § 1, 9-25-89; Ord. No. 1968, § 5, 3-19-96; Ord. No. 2052, § 1, 4-18-00; Ord. No. 2530, § 2, 5-6-25)

The city council shall cause all streets and portions thereof established and designated by this chapter as truck routes to be clearly marked or signposted at their intersections with other truck routes or boundary lines of the city with appropriate signs displaying in letters not less than four (4) inches in height the words "Truck Route."

(Code 1960, § 3141; Ord. No. 2531, § 18, 7-15-25)

(a) When any truck routes are established pursuant to this division and designated by appropriate signs, the operator of any vehicle exceeding a maximum gross weight limit of three (3) tons shall drive on such routes and none other, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the operator of any vehicle exceeding a 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 place, building or structure located on such restricted streets or for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual and bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon such restricted streets for which a building permit has previously been obtained therefor.

(b) Any vehicle subject to the provisions of Section 50¼ of the Public Utilities Act is excepted from the provisions of this section.

(Code 1960, § 3142)

Any peace officer, having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load on any street is unlawful under the terms of section 22-143, is authorized to require the driver thereof to submit to a weighing of the same and for such purpose may require that such vehicles be driven to the nearest public scales in the event such scales are within five (5) miles.

(Code of 1960, § 3143)

(a) Definitions.

(1) Terminal means any facility at which freight is consolidated to be shipped or where full load consignments may be loaded and off-loaded or at which the vehicles are regularly maintained, stored or manufactured.

(2) Interstate truck means a truck tractor and semitrailer or truck tractor, semitrailer and trailer with unlimited length as regulated by the vehicle code.

(3) City traffic engineer means the city traffic engineer of the City of West Covina or his authorized representative.

(4) Caltrans means the State of California Department of Transportation or its successor agency.

(b) Purpose.

(1) The purpose of this article is to establish procedures for terminal designation and truck route designation to terminals for interstate trucks operating on a federally designated highway system and to promote the general health, safety and welfare of the public.

(c) Application.

(1) Any interested person requiring terminal access for interstate trucks from the federally designated highway system shall submit an application, on a form as provided by the city, together with such information as may be required by the city traffic engineer and appropriate fees to the City of West Covina.

(2) Upon receipt of the application, the city traffic engineer will cause an investigation to be made to ascertain whether or not the proposed terminal facility meets the requirements for an interstate truck terminal. Upon his approval of that designation, he will then determine the capability of the route requested and alternate routes, whether requested or not. Determination of route capability will include, without limitation, a review of adequate turning radius and lane widths of ramps, intersections and highways and general traffic conditions such as sight distance, speed and traffic volumes. No access off a federally designated highway system will be approved without the approval of Caltrans.

(3) Should the requested route pass through the City of West Covina to a terminal located in another jurisdiction, the applicant shall comply with that jurisdiction's application process. Coordination of the approval of the route through the city will be the responsibility of the entity which controls the terminal's land use. Costs for trailblazer signs shall be as provided in subsection (d)(2).

(d) Fees and costs.

(1) The applicant shall pay a nonrefundable application fee, as established by the city by resolution, sufficient to pay the cost of the review of the terminal designation and the review of the route and alternate route.

(2) Upon the approval of the terminal designation and route by the city and by Caltrans, the applicant shall deposit with the City of West Covina sufficient funds as estimated by the city traffic engineer to pay for the purchase and installation of terminal trailblazer signs. Trailblazer signs will be required at every decision point in the city on route to the terminal. Upon completion of the installation of the signs, the actual cost shall be computed and any difference between the actual and the estimated cost shall be billed or refunded to the applicant, whichever the case may be. No terminal or route may be used until such signs as may be required are in place. Costs for trailblazer signs may be proportioned in accordance with the provisions in subsection (e)(3).

(e) Retrofitting.

(1) If at all feasible routes to a requested terminal are found unsatisfactory by the city traffic engineer, the applicant may request retrofitting the deficiencies. All costs of engineering, construction and inspection will be the responsibility of the applicant. Except when the retrofitting of deficiencies is within the jurisdiction of Caltrans, the actual construction will be done by the city or by a contractor acceptable to it.

(2) When the work is to be done by the city, the applicant shall deposit with the City of West Covina the estimated cost of retrofitting. Adjustment between the estimated and actual cost shall be made after completion of the work and any difference between the actual and the estimated cost shall be billed or refunded to the applicant as the case may be. When the work is done by the applicant, the applicant may file with the city traffic engineer, on a form satisfactory to the city traffic engineer, a statement detailing the actual costs of the retrofitting.

(3) If at any time within five (5) years from the date of completion of the retrofitting by the applicant, should any applicant seek terminal approval which would use the route upon which such retrofitting was accomplished, any such applicants' fee may include that applicants proportionate share of the retrofitting, as determined by the city traffic engineer, which fee shall be disbursed by the City of West Covina to the applicant who paid for the retrofitting as well as to any applicant who contributed to the cost of retrofitting under this subsection. Nothing herein shall require the payment of a proportionate fee if the applicant doing the work failed to file the report with the city traffic engineer required by subsection (2) above.

(f) Revocation of route.

(1) The city traffic engineer may revoke any approved terminal or route if the terminal or route becomes a traffic hazard for vehicular traffic. A safety hazard includes the inability of interstate trucks to negotiate the route or said vehicles causing unsafe driving conditions for other vehicular traffic or pedestrians.

(g) Appeal process.

(1) If the city traffic engineer denies terminal designation, route feasibility or revokes a previously approved terminal or route, the applicant/terminal owner, within ten (10) days following the date of receipt of the decision of the city traffic engineer may appeal said decision to the city council in writing. An appeal shall be made on a form prescribed by the department of public works and shall be filed with the city clerk. The appeal shall state specifically wherein there was an error or abuse of discretion by the city traffic engineer or wherein its decision is not supported by the evidence of the record. Within five (5) days of the filing of an appeal, the city traffic engineer shall transmit to the city clerk the terminal application, the sketches of the revoked route and all other data filed therewith, the report of the city traffic engineer, the findings of the city traffic engineer and his decision on the application.

(2) The city clerk shall make copies of the data provided by the city traffic engineer available to the applicant and to the appellant (if the applicant is not the appellant) for inspection and may give notice to any other interested part who requested notice of the time when the appeal will be considered by the city council.

(3) If Caltrans and not the city traffic engineer denies or revokes terminal access from the federally designated highways, no appeal may be made to the city council, but must be made to Caltrans as may be permitted by Caltrans.

(h) Constitutionality. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of the ordinance from which this section derives is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one (1) or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid.

(Ord. No. 1654, § 1, 12-10-84)