TITLE
Recommendation to refer review of the Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 10.40 regarding definition and prohibition of commercial vehicles on residential streets to the City Council Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for further discussion and review for possible modification including, but not limited to, placing the item on the 2010 ballot.
DISCUSSION
Citation of Commercial Vehicles Parked in Residential Areas
The current City Municipal Code 10.40 prohibits the parking of “commercial vehicles” “exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons” on residential (non-truck) streets.
10.40.010 Establishment.
A. Whenever any provision of this title designates and describes any street or portion thereof as a truck route, the traffic engineer is authorized to designate such street or streets by appropriate signs.
B. When any such truck route or routes are established and designated by appropriate signs, no operator of a commercial vehicle, as defined in Cal. Veh. Code Section 260, Subd.(a), exceeding a maximum gross weight of three tons shall operate or park, and no vehicle for hire or advertised for hire shall park, along any other route or routes, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit such vehicle from 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 building or structure located on such restricted streets, or the immediate loading and unloading of passengers, or from parking in designated areas such as taxi zones or bus zones, 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.
C. The provisions of this section shall not apply to passenger buses under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission; or any vehicle owned by a public utility whil...
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