9.90.020 Truck route designation and restrictions.
A. The city’s designated truck routes shall be as identified in the city’s comprehensive transportation plan. Streets designated as future truck routes shall not be considered truck routes for the purpose of this chapter.
B. All through truck trips, with origins and destinations outside the Auburn city limits, shall take place on the designated city or state truck routes, as identified in the city’s comprehensive transportation plan.
C. Signage identifying a corridor as a truck route shall be placed along public highways, roads, streets, and thoroughfares included in the designated truck network.
D. All streets not designated as truck routes within the limits of the city of Auburn shall be restricted to allow only vehicles rated under 30,000 pounds GW, except for local truck trips which shall be defined, for the purpose of this chapter, as all truck trips with origins or destinations within the limits of the city of Auburn. No trucks of 16,000 pounds or more may travel within the downtown traffic control zone, except as provided in subsection G of this section.
E. A truck making a local truck trip shall travel by city truck routes to a location as close to its delivery or pickup point as possible and then travel to that destination by the shortest route practicable, remaining on the city’s arterial street network whenever possible. Local truck trips may be subject to route restrictions by the city engineer or designee as provided for in the Auburn City Code.
F. All trucks, whether conducting through or local trips, must be in conformance with the Washington State legal limits for trucks, unless granted a permit from the city for overweight truck hauling. Overweight truck hauling without a city-issued permit shall be a civil infraction subject to the penalties identified in RCW Title 46.
G. Except as provided for in this section, no person shall operate any vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 16,000 pounds or more, as indicated on the vehicle or in the records of the Washington State Department of Motor Vehicles for the vehicle, on any street, alley or public right-of-way in the downtown traffic control zone.
1. The downtown traffic control zone is the area from east of C Street NW/SW to west of Auburn Way N/S and from north of 3rd Street SW/SE and Cross Street SE to south of 3rd Street NW/NE and 4th Street NE.
2. A vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 16,000 pounds or more, as indicated in the records of the Washington State Department of Motor Vehicles for the vehicle, may operate in the downtown traffic control zone if the vehicle:
a. Is traveling within the downtown traffic control zone for the purpose of making a delivery to a property located within the downtown traffic control zone, or returning from such a delivery;
b. Originated from a property located in the downtown traffic control zone;
c. Is a public transit, school bus, or emergency vehicle; or
d. Is operating on a truck route specifically designated in the city comprehensive transportation plan.
e. Vehicles exceeding the state legal load or size limit are prohibited in the downtown traffic control zone unless they have received a city-issued haul route permit under this code. (Ord. 6633 § 1, 2016; Ord. 6093 § 1, 2007; Ord. 5682 § 1, 2002; Ord. 5319 § 2, 1999. Formerly 9.12.020.)