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HomeMy WebLinkAbout754 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 754 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 LIMITS ON CERTAIN CITY STREETS A. RECITALS. (i) California Vehicle Code Section 22357 provides that the City Council may, by ordinance, set prima 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 facie 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 notice hereof: (Ord. 169 Section I (part), 1982; Ord. 39 Section 5.1, (1978). Rancho Cucamonga 5/82 124 Name of Street and Limits Existing Posted Speed Limit (rnph) Proposed Prima Facie Speed Limit (mph) 1. Kenyon Way, Fairmont Way to Milliken Avenue None 35 2. Base Line Road, West City Limit to Carnelian Street 45 45 - Ordinance No. 754 Page 2 of 3 Existing Posted Proposed Prima Facie Name of Street and Limits Speed Limit (mph) Speed Limit (mph) 3. Base Line Road, Carnelian Street to 40 40 Hellman Avenue 4. Base Line Road, Hellman Avenue to 45 40 Archibald Avenue 5. Base Line Road, Archibald Avenue to 45 40 Hermosa Avenue 6. Base Line Road, Hermosa Avenue to 45 45 Haven Avenue 7. Base Line Road, Haven Avenue to 45 45 Spruce Avenue (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 Dailv Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Please see the foHowing page for formal adoption, certification and signatures Ordinance No. 754 Page 3 of 3 PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 1 st day of March 2006. AYES: Alexander, Gutierrez, Michael, Spagnolo, Williams NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAINED: None ATTEST: ~ Debra J. Adam C, 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 15th day of February 2006, and was passed at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 1 st day March 2006. Executed this 2nd day of March 2006, at Rancho Cucamonga, California. ~ , CMC, City Clerk