HomeMy WebLinkAbout390 - OrdinancesORDINANCE NO. 390
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 UPON CERTAIN CITY STREETS
A. Recitals.
(i) California Vehicle Code Section 22357 provides that this City
Council may, by Ordinance, set prima facie speed 1 imits 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 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 that 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:
Name of Street or Portion Affected
Declared Prima Facie
Speed Limit (MPH)
1. Archibald Avenue - Banyan to North end
2. Archibald Avenue - Fourth Street to Banyan Street
3. Arrow Route - Baker to Haven
4. Baker Avenue - 8th Street to Foothill Blvd.
5. Banyan Street - from Beryl Street to London Avenue
6. Banyan Street - from west City limits to Beryl Street
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45
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35
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40
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7. Base Line Road - West City limits to Carnel jan
8. Base Line Road - Carnelian to Hermosa
9. Base Line Road - Hermosa to Spruce
10. Beryl Street - Banyan to end
11. Beryl Street - 800' n/o Lemon to Banyan
12. Carnelian Street - Foothill to end
13. Center Avenue - Foothill Blvd. to Church St.
14. Church Street - from Archibald Ave. to Elm
15. Eighth Street Grove to Haven
16. Etiwanda Avenue - Foothill to Summit
17. Grove Avenue - Eighth to Foothill
18. Haven Avenue - 4th Street to Wil son
19. Hellman Avenue - Foothill to Alta Loma Dr.
20. Hellman Avenue - 500' n/o Manzanita to Valley View
21. Hellman Avenue - 6th to Foothill
22. Hermosa Avenue - Base Line Road to Wilson Ave.
23. Hermosa Avenue - Wil son to Sun Valley Dr.
24. Hermosa Avenue - Eighth St. to Base Line Rd.
25. Highland Avenue - Amethyst to Hermosa
26. Highland Avenue - from Hermosa Avenue to 800'
west of Haven Ave.
27. Hillside Road - Ranch Gate to Amethyst St.
28. Hillside Road - Haven to Canistel Avenue
29. Lemon Avenue - Archibald Avenue to Haven Ave.
30. Lemon Avenue - Jasper St. to Beryl St.
31. Nineteenth Street - Haven to San Benito Ave.
32. Ninth Street - Baker Ave. to Archibald Ave.
33. Red Hill County Club Dr. - Foothill to Alta Cuesta
34. Rochester Ave. - Foothill Blvd. to Base Line Rd.
35. San Bernardino Road - from Vineyard Avenue to
Archi hal d Avenue
36. Sapphire Street - Banyan to end
37. Sapphire Street - 19th to Lemon
38. Spruce Avenue - Elm Avenue to Base Line Rd.
39. Terra Vista Parkway- Church to Belpine
40. Victoria Street - Archibald Ave. to Ramona St~
41. Victoria Street - Etiwanda Ave. to Route 15
42. Victoria Street - Haven Ave. to Mendocino P1.
43. Victoria Park Lane - Base Line Rd. to Day Creek Blvd.
44. Victoria Windrows Loop (north & south)
45. Vineyard Avenue - Church to Base Line Rd.
46. Vineyard Avenue - 8th Street to Foothill Blvd.
47. Whittram Avenue - Etiwanda to east City limits
48. Wil son - Amethyst Avenue to Haven Avenue
49. Wilson - Haven Ave. to 200' east of Canistel Ave.
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(Ord. 169, Section I (part), 1982: Ord. 39, Section 5.1, 1978).
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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;
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(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;
(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 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 Daily Report, a newspaper of general circulation published
in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of Rancho
Cucamonga, Cal i forni a.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 1st day of February, 1989.
AYES: Alexander, Brown, Buquet, Stout, Wright
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Dennis L. Stout, Mayor
ATTEST:
Beverly A~Aut~elet, City Cl~rk
I, BEVERLY A. AUTHELET, 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
18th day of January, 1989, and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 1st day of February
1989. '
Executed this 2nd day of February, 1989 at Rancho Cucamonga, California.
~Au~helet City Clerk