SECTIONS 66100-66103 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 66100-66103

66100. The Legislature finds and declares that , because
substantial public moneys will be expended on the development of the
West Side Freeway portion of Interstate Route 5, including the
development of recreational and scenic observation sites in
relatively undeveloped areas, and because new commercial and other
development tends to locate at freeway interchanges in these areas,
and this development may be detrimental to both traffic capacity and
safety and to the preservation of the scenic characteristics along
the freeway route, it is therefore necessary, in the interests of the
public health, safety, and welfare, and to safeguard community
economic development along the route of the freeway, to establish
controls over the kinds, intensity, and design of land use and
development that are permitted to occur at those interchanges along
the freeway route from its intersection with the San Joaquin River to
the junction of the route with State Highway Route 99 in the
vicinity of Wheeler Ridge.

66101. To preserve the effective traffic capacity and safety of the
West Side Freeway, to maintain and enhance the present character of
the landscape abutting the freeway, and to ensure compatible land use
and development at and near interchanges along the route, the kind,
intensity, and design of land use and development occurring at the
freeway interchanges on the portion of the West Side Freeway
designated in Section 66100 shall be regulated within highway
interchange districts, which districts shall be established by each
local jurisdiction traversed by the West Side Freeway in which is
located any of the interchanges identified in this chapter.

66102. The boundaries of each district shall be designated by the
local jurisdiction within which each interchange is located and shall
include the territory that the local jurisdiction deems to be
affected by each interchange, but in no case shall the area consist
of less than a circle of one-mile radius from the point of
intersection of the centerline of the West Side Freeway with the
centerline of any highway, street, or road intersecting at an
interchange.

66103. Each local jurisdiction shall prepare for each highway
interchange district a general land use plan and appropriate zoning
ordinances by January 1, 1964. It shall be recognized that this state
has a continuing interest in adequate enforcement of these plans and
ordinances due to construction by this state of the West Side
Freeway.