10-16-08 Regular Meeting and Public Hearing of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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originate outside the corporate limits of the city and enter the city at a point which is not on a designated truck route, it shall proceed to the nearest point on a designated truck route by the most direct route possible. (b) In those cases where truck traffic originates off a designated truck route, whether inside or outside the corporate limits of the city, and the destination of the truck traffic is nearer the origin or point of entering the corporate limits of the city than is the nearest point on a designated truck route by the most direct route possible, it shall not be necessary to proceed to the nearest designated truck route. (c) In those instances where the truck traffic has neither its point of origin nor destination within the corporate limits of the City of La Porte. its extraterritorial iurisdiction. or the corporate limits of any city adiacent to La Porte; then such truck traffic shall only be allowed on a limited access State Highways. i.e. State Highway 225 and State Highway 146. (Code 1970, S 25-83) Sec. 70-234. Loading, unloading and repair of trucks. Truck traffic restricted to the streets designated as truck routes may depart from such truck routes where it is necessary to load, unload or seek repairs at a legitimate repair facility, at a location situated off designated truck routes; provided, however, that such truck traffic shall not leave any designated truck route until such truck traffic has reached a point on some designated truck route which is nearest the applicable place of loading, unloading or servicing by the most direct route possible. All required loading berths and facilities for truck repair shall be off-street and located on the same lots as the building or use to be served. After leaving a designated truck route to load or unload, truck traffic may continue off truck routes to as many points of destination as necessary. If, in the course of making the necessary stops for loading and unloading, the truck traffic shall cross a designated truck route, then, in that event, such truck shall not again leave any designated truck routes until it has reached a point on some designated truck route which is nearest to the next place of loading and unloading by the most direct route possible. (Code 1970, S 25-85; Ord. No. 1792, S 1(25-85), 10-28-91; Ord. No. 97-2172, S 1,4-14- 97) Sec. 70-235. Hazardous cargo routes; designation. (a) For the purpose of this division, those streets and thoroughfares within the corporate limits of the city which are enumerated as follows are hereby designated as hazardous cargo routes: TABLE INSET: Route Extent State Highway 225 Entire extent within corporate limits New State Highway 146 Entire extent within corporate limits Fairmont Parhvay NeVI State Highv/ay 116 to west corporate limits