HomeMy WebLinkAbout340 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 3 40
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RAN(}tO
CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, SECTION 10.20.020 OF THE RAN(]tO
CUCAMDNGA 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!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 COUNCILL~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 low maximum--spreed. It is determined by
City Council resolution and upon the basis of !an =='.~ngineering and ~ traffic
investigation that the speed permitted by state ilaw is greater rthan 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 fo=th in'this
section on those streets or parts of streets designated in this section when
signs are erected giving notice hereof:
~ Declared Prima Facie
Name of Street or Portion Affected-..~ Speed Limit (MPH)
1. Archibald Avenue - Banyan to North .end 50
2. Archibald Avenue- Fourth Street;to
Banyan Street 45
3. Arrow Route - Baker to Haven 45
4. Banyan Street from Beryl Street to
London Avenue 35
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Declared Prima Facie
Name of Street or Portion Affected Speed Limit (MPH)
5. Banyan Street- from west City limits to
Beryl Street 40
6. Base Line Road - Carnelian to Haven 40
7. Base Line Road - Hermosa to Haven 45
8. Base Line Road - West City limits to
Carnelian 45
9. Beryl Street - Banyan to end 45
10. Beryl Street - 800' north of Lemon to
Banyan 40
11. Carnelian Street - Foothill to end 45
12. Canter Avenue - Foothill Blvd. to
Church Street 40
13. Church Street- from Archibald Avenue to
Haven Avenue 40
14. Church Street - Haven to Elm 40
15. Eighth Street - Grove to Haven 45
16. Etiwanda Avenue - Foothill to Highland 45
17. Grove Avenue - Eighth to Foothill 40
18. Haven Avenue - Highland to Wilson 50
19. Hellman Avenue - Foothill to Alta Loma Dr. 35
20. Hellman Avenue - 500' north of Manzanita '
to Valley View 40
21. Hellman Avenue - 6th to Foothill 45
22. Hermosa Avenue - Base Line Rd. to Wilson Ave. 45
23. Highland Avenue - Amethyst to Archibald 35
24. Highland Avenue - from Archibald Avenue
to Hermosa Avenue 35
25. Highland Avenue - from Hermosa Avenue to
800' west of Haven 45
26. Hillside Road - from Ranch Gate to
Amethyst Street 35
27. Lemon Avenue - Archibald Avenue to
Haven Avenue 40
28. Lemon Avenue - Jasper St. to Beryl St. 35
29. Ninth Street - Baker Ave. to Archibald Ave. 40
30. Rochester Ave. - Foothill Blvd. to Base
Line Road 50
31. San Bernardino Road - from Vineyard Avenue
to Archibald Avenue 35
· 32. Sapphire Street - Banyan to end 45
33. Sapphire Street - 19th to Lemon 40
34. Spruce Avenue - Elm Avenue to Base Line Rd. 40
35. Tetra Vista Parkway - Church to Belpine 40
36. Turner Avenue - Eighth to Foothill 45
37. Turner Avenue (Hermosa Ave.) - Foothill
to Base Line Road 45
38. Victoria Avenue - from Etiwanda Avenue
to Route 15 40
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Declared Prima Facie
Name of Street or Portion Affected Speed Limit (MPH)
39. Victoria Park Lane 35
40. Victoria Windrows Loop (north & south) 35
41. Vineyard Avenue - Church to Base Line Rd. 40
42. Vineyard Avenue - from 8th Street to
Foothill Blvd. 45
43. Whirtram Avenue - Etiwanda to east City
Limits 40
(Ord. 169 Section I (part), 1982: Ord. 39 Section 5.1, 1978). Rancho
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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;
(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 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 Daily Report, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City
of Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga,
California.
· PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 2nd day of March, 1988.
AYES: Buquet, Stout, King
NOES: Wright
AB SENT: Brown
Dennis L. Stout, Mayor
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ATTEST:
Beverly A~ Authelet, City Clerk
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 17th day of February, 1988, and was finally passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 2nd day
of March, 1988.
Executed this 3rd day of February, 1988 at Rancho Cucamonga.,
California.
Beverly ~f. Authelet, City 'Clerk