For Economic Development Committee [April 25, 2018]
TO: Honorable Economic Development Committee Members
APPROVAL: Robb R. Steel, Interim City Administrator
FROM: Robert G. Eisenbeisz, P.E., Public Works Director/City Engineer
Title
Review of Current Truck Routes and Consider an Update to the Circulation Element of the City's General Plan.
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BACKGROUND:
Unlike the 2010 General Plan Update, the 1992 General Plan did not have a formal truck route map. The 1992 General Plan did include the following goals and policies regarding trucks:
* Goal 3.2.2 Confine trucking to designated efficient and convenient routes within and through the City.
* Policy 3.2.2.1 Designate Baseline Road, Valley Boulevard Slover Avenue and Easton Avenue westerly or Ayala Drive) as east-west truck routes.
* Policy 3.2.2.2 Improve Cactus Avenue (north of Jurupa Avenue), Cedar-Ayala Avenues and Alder Avenue (between Casmalia and Baseline Road) to provide safe and efficient north-south truck routes.
* Policy 3.2.2.3 In order to protect businesses and residences bordering Riverside Avenue, discourage trucking on this roadway by improving locust Avenue between Highland Avenue and Riverside Avenue as an additional north-south route for trucking originating in new industrial areas in the Northern Sector bound for I-5 or Highland Avenue/State Route 30.
* Policy 3.2.4.1 Weight limits shall be established for trucks allowed to use neighborhood streets. Heavy trucks shall be prohibited on Neighborhood streets without special permit.
On April 10, 2018, the City Council expressed concern regarding increasing truck traffic on various arterial highways, including Ayala Drive, Baseline Road, and Pepper Avenue. The City Council requested review of the designated truck routes for possible modifications.
The City of Rialto approved the General Plan Update in 2010 with the following Truck Routes.
General Plan Update (2010) Designated Truck Routes
1. Interstate 15 - northerly sphere limit to Sierr...
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