For City Council Meeting [June 12, 2018]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Robb R. Steel, Interim CA/Development Services Director
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Request City Council to Adopt Interim Urgency Ordinance No. 1602 entitled "AN INTERIM URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RIALTO, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM TO PROHIBIT TRUCK TRAFFIC ON AYALA DRIVE BETWEEN THE I-210 FREEWAY AND BASELINE ROAD WITHIN THE RENAISSANCE SPECIFIC PLAN OF THE CITY OF RIALTO" Reading by Title only and Declaring the Urgency Thereof.
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BACKGROUND:
Commercial trucking is the primary means of moving goods in the United States. Distribution facilities provide jobs and generate tax revenues to the City's general fund. Although the City analyzes potential impacts from truck traffic in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, truck operators currently utilize routes not intended for truck traffic to park, pick-up and deliver goods in Rialto. Traffic congestion occurs as use increases. Congestion causes slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queuing. When traffic demand causes vehicular friction, the traffic speeds diminish causing congestion on public streets.
Because of the increase in truck activity on streets not designated as truck routes, the City requires a comprehensive study of truck traffic patterns to support goods movement and ensure that access along retail corridors remains unfettered. To accommodate the large volumes of truck traffic associated with goods movement, ensure appropriate road construction and maintenance, and protect residential neighborhoods, the City designates certain arterials as truck routes. Exhibit 4.5 of the General Plan illustrates those truck routes (Exhibit A).
Increased truck traffic threatens Rialto's neighborhood livability and access to destinations. The City seeks to analyze truck routes and modify the Circulation Element of the 2010 General Plan. Th...
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