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Prepared 9/28/89 • AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REORDAIN SECTION 16-9.1 OF CHAPTER 16 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1976, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO TRUCK TRAFFIC ON LOCUST AVENUE. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that Section 16-9.1 of the the Code of the City of Charlottesville, 1976, as amended, is hereby amended and reordained as follows: Section 16-9.1. Streets closed to certain trucks. (a) Tractor trucks (defined as any motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the load and weight of the vehicle attached thereto) and any other trucks of more than two axles, with the exceptions described in subparagraph (b) below, are prohibited from using the following City streets: 1) Jefferson Park Avenue from its intersection with Fontaine Avenue and Maury Avenue to its intersection (b) The streets listed above may be used by tractor trucks and other trucks with more than two axles only for the purpose of making deliveries or pick-ups of goods or passengers on that street, or when use of such street is the only safe means of access to another nearby street. In the case of the above described northbound lane of Park Street, such lane may also be used by trucks otherwise prohibited when those trucks are making deliveries or pick-ups on Rio Road between its intersection with the City limits and its intersection with Greenbrier Drive. c) This ordinance shall have no application to pickup trucks, which are defined as "any motor vehicle designed for the • transportation of property with a registered gross weight of 7,500 pounds or less." Approved by Council October 2, 1989 C V k of C6uncil 89-7-29 with Harris Road; 2) Harris Road from its intersection with Fifth Street, S.E. to its intersection with Jefferson Park Avenue • and Camellia Drive; 3) The northbound lane of Park Street from the 250 Bypass to the northern City limits; 4) North Avenue from Park Street to Sheridan Avenue; 5) Calhoun Street from Sheridan Avenue to St. Clair Avenue; 6) Locust Avenue from -the -250 -Bypass -to -River -Read; 7) St. Clair Avenue from the 250 Bypass to Peartree Lane; 8) Belleview Avenue from River Road to St. Clair Avenue; and 9) Watson Avenue from the westbound Locust Avenue ramp to Park Street. (b) The streets listed above may be used by tractor trucks and other trucks with more than two axles only for the purpose of making deliveries or pick-ups of goods or passengers on that street, or when use of such street is the only safe means of access to another nearby street. In the case of the above described northbound lane of Park Street, such lane may also be used by trucks otherwise prohibited when those trucks are making deliveries or pick-ups on Rio Road between its intersection with the City limits and its intersection with Greenbrier Drive. c) This ordinance shall have no application to pickup trucks, which are defined as "any motor vehicle designed for the • transportation of property with a registered gross weight of 7,500 pounds or less." Approved by Council October 2, 1989 C V k of C6uncil 89-7-29