HomeMy WebLinkAbout680 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 680
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION
10.20.020 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA CITY CODE
REGARDING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT OF 40 MPH ON
WILSON AVENUE BETWEEN CARNELIAN STREET AND
AMETHYST AVENUE
A. RECITALS.
(i) California Vehicle Code Section 22357 Provides that this City Council
may, by ordinance, set pr[ma facie speed limits upon any portion of any
street not a state highway.
(ii) The City Traffic Engineer has conducted an engineering and traffic
survey, of certain streets within the City of Rancho Cucamonga which
streets as specified in Part B of this Ordinance.
(iii) The determinations concerning prima facie speed limits set forth in Part
B, below, are based upon the engineering and traffic survey identified in
Section A (ii), above.
B. ORDINANCE.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
CUCAMONGA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: Section 10.20.020 hereby is amended to the Rancho Cucamonga
City Code to read, in words and figures, as follows:
10.20.020 Decrease of state law maximum speed. It is determined by City Council
resolution and upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted by
state law is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets,
and it is declared the prima fade speed limit shall be as set forth in this section on those streets or
parts of streets designated in this section when signs are erected giving not[ce hereof:
(Ord. 169 Section I (part), 1982; Ord. 39 Section 5.1, (1978). Rancho Cucamonga 5/82 124
Existing Posted Proposed Prima Facie
Name of Street and Limits Speed Limit (mph) Speed Limit (mph)
1. Wilson Avenue - Carnelian Street NP 40
to Hellman Avenue
2. Wilson Avenue - Hellman Avenue NP 40
to Amethyst Avenue
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(i) Both sixty-five (65) miles per hour and fifty-five (55) miles per hour are
speeds which are more than are reasonable or safe; and
(ii) The miles per hour as stated are the prima facie speeds which are most
appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and are speed
limits which are reasonable and safe on said streets or portions thereof;
and
(iii)The miles per hour stated are hereby declared to be the prima facie
speed limits on said streets; and
(iv)The Traffic Engineer is hereby authorized and directed to install
appropriate signs upon said streets giving notice of the prima facie speed
limit declared herein.
SECTION 2: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published as required by law.
SECTION 3: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall cause
the same to be published within fifteen (15) days after its passage at
least once in The Inland Daily Bulletin, a newspaper of genera]
circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated
in the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
Please see the following page
for formal adoption, certification and signatures
Ordinance No. 680
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 20th day of March 2002.
AYES: Alexander, Biane, Curatalo, Dutton, Williams
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINED: None
William J. Alex~er, ~ for
D bra J. Ad,~CMC~,City Clerk
I, DEBRA J. ADAMS, CITY CLERK of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a Regular Meeting of the Council of
the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 6th day of March 2002, and was passed at a Regular
Meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 20thday of March 2002.
Executed this 21st day of March 2002, at Rancho Cucamonga, California.
'b Ta J. Ada City Clerk