HomeMy WebLinkAbout775 - OrdinancesORDINANCE NO. 775
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 22358 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
Existing Posted Proposed Prima Facie
Name of Street and Limits Speed Limit (mph) Speed Limit (mph)
Banyan Street, East Avenue None 45
to Wardman Bullock Road
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Existing Posted Proposed Prima Facie
Name of Street and Limits Speed Limit (mph) Speed Limit (mph)
2. Rochester Avenue, Foothill Boulevard to 50 45
Base Line Road
3. Rochester Avenue, Base Line Road to 50 45
Highland Avenue
4. Wilson Avenue, Amethyst Avenue to 45 40
Archibald Avenue
5. Wilson Avenue, Day Creek Boulevard to None 45
Etiwanda 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 Daily Bulletin, a newspaper of general
circulation published in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated
in the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
P/ease see fhe to/lowing page
for formal adoption, certification and signatures
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 4"' day of April 2007.
AYES: Kurth, Michael, Spagnolo, Williams
NOES: None
ABSENT: Gutierrez
ABSTAINED: None
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Donald J. Kurth, M.D., Mayor
ATTEST:
D bra J. A a s, 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 215' day of March 2007, and was passed at a Regular
Meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 4`h day April 2007.
Executed this 5"' day of April 2007, at Rancho Cucamonga, California.
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Debra J. Ada s MC', City Clerk