HomeMy WebLinkAbout630 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 630
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION
10.20.020 OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA CITY CODE TO
ESTABLISH A PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT OF 30 MPH ON PALO
ALTO STREET BETVVEEN ARCHIBALD AVENUE AND HELLMAN
AVENUE
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 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 fade speed limit shall be as
set forth in this section on those streets or pads 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)
1. Palo Alto Street-Archibald NP 30
to Hellman Avenues
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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; and
(ii) The miles per hour as stated are the prima facie speeds which are most
appropdate 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.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 16th day of August.
AYES: Alexander, Biane, Curatalo, Dutton, Williams
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAINED: None
William J. Alexyf'a~r, [vlayor'
ATTEST:
E~eb'~a J. Adams,~K, IC,~ity Clerk
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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 2nd day of August 2000, and was passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 16th day of August 2000.
Executed this 17th day of August 2000, at Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Debra J. Adams, CMC, City Clerk