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Date: May 20, 2025
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Rebecca Poirier, City Clerk
By: Robert Williams, Deputy City Clerk I | [email protected] Subject: SECOND AND FINAL READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 3948
RECOMMENDATION
Second and Final Reading of ORDINANCE NO. 3948 amending Section 61.6.33 of the Torrance Municipal Code related to No Stopping – Maricopa Street.
FUNDING
None required.
DISCUSSION
At the regular meeting of the City Council held on May 6, 2025, this Ordinance was discussed, introduced, and approved for its first reading by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS Gerson, Kaji, Lewis, Mattucci, Sheikh and Mayor Chen.
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS None.
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS Kalani.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Ordinance No. 3948
2. Ordinance Summary
1 ORDINANCE NO. 3948
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 61.6.33 OF
THE TORRANCE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATED TO NO
STOPPING – MARICOPA STREET
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY TORRANCE ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1
Section 61.6.33 of the Torrance Municipal Code is amended in its entirety to read as follows:
“61.6.33 NO STOPPING–MARICOPA STREET.
There shall be no stopping any time along the north side of Maricopa Street, between Crenshaw Boulevard and 970 feet west of Alaska Avenue.”
SECTION 2
Any provisions of the Municipal Code or its appendices, or any other ordinances of the City of Torrance inconsistent with this ordinance to the extent of the inconsistencies and no further, are repealed.
SECTION 3
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason deemed or held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision will not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
The City Council of the City of Torrance hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or other portions might subsequently be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4
Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance will be guilty of an infraction and, upon conviction thereof, will be subject to a fine as provided in Section 36900 of the California Government Code.
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SECTION 5
This ordinance will take effect thirty days after the date of its adoption. Within fifteen days following adoption, this ordinance or a summary of this ordinance, if authorized by the City Council, will be published at least once in the Daily Breeze, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Torrance.
INTRODUCED and APPROVED this 6th day of May 2025.
ADOPTED and PASSED this 20th day of May 2025.
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Mayor George Chen
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
PATRICK Q. SULLIVAN, City Attorney ATTEST:
By:________________________________ _____________________________ Tatia Y. Strader, Assistant City Attorney Rebecca Poirier, City Clerk 3 ORDINANCE NO. 3948 SUMMARY
On May 20, 2025, the City Council of the City of Torrance adopted Ordinance No. 3948 amending Section 61.6.33 of the Torrance Municipal Code. The amended Section 61.6.33 revised the Code to indicate that there shall be no stopping any time between Crenshaw Boulevard and 9 70 feet West of Alaska Avenue. The prior language provided for no stopping any time between Crenshaw Boulevard and Hawaii Avenue.
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