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• AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND REORDAINING SECTION 15-73 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1990, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO PROHIBITION OF TRUCK TRAFFIC ON CERTAIN STREETS. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that Section 15-73 of the Charlottesville City Code, 1990, as amended, is hereby amended and reordained as follows: Section 15-73. 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 (2) axles, with the exceptions described in subsection (b) of this section, are prohibited from using the following city streets: (1) Jefferson Park Avenue from its intersection with Fontaine Avenue and Maury Avenue to its intersection 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. (7) St. Clair Avenue from the 250 Bypass to Peartree Lane. (8) Belleview Avenue from River Road to St. Clair Avenue. (9) Watson Avenue from the westbound Locus Avenue ramp to Park Street. 10 Brandywine Avenue from the 250 Bypass to its intersection with Greenbrier Drive. 11 Greenbrier Drive from Brandywine Drive to its (b) The streets listed in subsection (b) of this section may be used by tractor trucks and other trucks with more than two (2) 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 section 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 seven thousand five hundred (7,500) pounds or less." Approved by Council 2�_ 6ti December 20, 1993 rk of City Coun it