HomeMy WebLinkAbout836 - OrdinancesORDINANCE NO. 836
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:
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(Ord. 169 Section I (part), 1982; Ord. 39 Section 5.1, (1978). Rancho Cucamonga 5/82
Existing Posted Proposed Prima Facie
Name of Street and Limits Speed Limit (mph) Speed Limit (mph)
Foothill Boulevard, 45 35
Grove Avenue to Vineyard 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 /ollowing page
/or /ormal adopdon, certlflcailon and signatures
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 15` day of December 2010.
AYES: Michael, Spagnolo, Williams
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINED: Alexander
L. a is Michael, Mayor
ATTEST:
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~{, J ice C. Reynol s, City Clerk
I, JANICE C. REYNOLDS, 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 17`h day of November 2010, and
was passed at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on
the 151 day of December 2010.
Executed this 2ntl day of December 2010, at Rancho Cucamonga, California.
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~~Jani a C. Reynolds, City Clerk
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