9.570 Street Number Required on Premises.
The owner or tenant of every residence or place of business or other structure opening upon or having access to the streets of the City shall cause to be placed in a conspicuous place upon the main entrance or at the principal place of ingress to his premises a number, to be ascertained as provided in Sections 9.571 and 9.572.
[Reinserted, Sec. 5, Ord. 2020-44, Apr. 2, 2020]
(1) The City Manager shall prepare a map or maps of the city and indicate thereon the numbers used to designate the premises, as provided in Section 9.570.
(2) In assigning the numbers the City Manager shall use Main Street and the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway as base lines for starting points for the numbering and shall allow 100 numbers to each block, and not less than one number to each 25 feet of street front.
(3) For east-west streets east of the base line all numbers on the south side of said streets shall be even numbers, and all numbers on the north side of said street shall be odd numbers. For east-west streets west of the base line all numbers on the south side of said streets shall be odd numbers, and all numbers on the north side of streets shall be even numbers. For north-south streets north of the base line all numbers on the west side of said streets shall be odd numbers, and all numbers on the east side of said streets shall be even numbers. For north-south streets south of the base line all numbers on the west side of said streets shall be even numbers, and all numbers on the east side of said streets shall be odd numbers.
(4) A primary structure shall include but is not limited to residential building, mobile/manufactured home park, commercial building, industrial building, office building, public building, utility building or communications tower.
(5) Flag lots and lots accessed off of a minimum access street, as defined in Chapter 10, Section 10.430 will be addressed off the main street on which it fronts.
(6) Mobile home parks and manufactured homes within the park shall be addressed off the public street it fronts, with each home having a space number. The space numbering will adhere to the street addressing standard in the Code of the City of Medford Section 9.571.
(7) The City Manager or his Designee reserves the right to require the readdressing of property that is affected by the creation or extension of a public right-of-way or the subdivision of land.
(8) An application for a permit for a new structure shall be considered an application for an address assignment. Address numbers assigned by the Building Safety Director or his Designee must be displayed prior to the first building inspection.
(9) Any requested change of address after an assignment of said address is established shall constitute a fee of $100.
NON-COMPLIANCE
Failure to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance include, but are not limited to, by way of example: a number out-of-sequence, odd or even number on wrong side of street, numbers improperly affixed, numbers illegible, numbers unclear, numbers obstructed or not visible, numbers not present, numbers of improper size, numbers not in contrast with immediate background.
[Reinserted, Sec. 5, Ord. 2020-44, Apr. 2, 2020]