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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10 - Speed Limits on Streets Recently Relinquised or AnnexedApril 12, 1999 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA • ITEM NO. io TO: Mayor and Members of the City Council FROM: Public Works Department SUBJECT: ESTABLISH SPEED LIMITS ON STREETS THAT WERE RECENTLY RELINQUISHED TO OR ANNEXED BY THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH RECOMMENDATION: Introduce Ordinance No. amending Chapter 12.24 (Special Speed Zones) of the Municipal Code to add streets recently relinquished to or annexed by the City of Newport Beach DISCUSSION: Several street segments were recently annexed to the City of Newport Beach from the City of Irvine. In addition, the State of California relinquished a portion of MacArthur Boulevard to the City of Newport Beach. In order to provide for radar speed enforcement by the Police Department, these streets must be added to the City of Newport Beach's Municipal Code. The following speed limits have been determined to be appropriate per the requirements of the California Vehicle Code: A speed limit of 50 miles per hour shall be established on Bison Avenue from Route 73 to MacArthur Boulevard, on Bonita Canyon Drive from MacArthur Boulevard to Route 73 and on MacArthur Boulevard from San Joaquin Hills Road to East Coast Highway. A speed limit of 55 miles per hour shall be established on MacArthur Boulevard from Route 73 to San Joaquin Hills Road. These are currently the speeds that are posted on these streets, or the streets are not posted. No changes in speed limits are being made with this action. Re ctf=ui PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Don Webb, Director By: almv llzl Q mes Brahler Associate Civil Engineer Attachment: Ordinance F: \users\pbW shared \council \fy98- 99\apr12\speed limits ORDINANCE NO. 99- AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AMENDING SECTIONS 12.24.050 THROUGH 12.24.090 OF THE NEWPORT BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING DECREASING STATE SPEED LIMITS follows: as follows: The City Council of the City of Newport Beach does hereby ordain as Section 12.24.050, "Decreasing State Speed Limits ", is amended to read Section 12.24.050, Decreasing State Speed Limits. It is hereby determined upon the basis of engineering and traffic surveys that the speed permitted by State law outside of business and residence districts as applicable upon the streets or parts thereof described in Sections 12.24.055 through 12.24.090 is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as hereinafter designated on those streets or parts thereof when signs are created giving notice thereof. . Section 12.24.055, "Prima Facie Speed Limit -- Fifty -five Miles Per Hour', is repealed and replaced to read as follows: Section 12.24.055, Prima Facie Speed Limit - -Fifty -five Miles Per Hour. The prima facie speed limit on the following named streets or parts thereof shall be fifty -five (55) miles per hour: Jamboree Road from East Coast Highway to San Joaquin Hills Road MacArthur Boulevard from Route 73 to San Joaquin Hills Road Section 12.24.060, "Prima Facie Speed Limit - -Fifty Miles Per Hour", is repealed and replaced to read as follows: Section 12.24.060, Prima Facie Speed Limit - -Fifty Miles Per Hour. The prima facie speed limit on the following named streets or parts thereof shall be fifty (50) miles per hour: Bison Avenue from Route 73 to MacArthur Boulevard Bonita Canyon Drive from MacArthur Boulevard to Route 73 Jamboree Boulevard from MacArthur Boulevard to Campus Drive. 1 s 0 Jamboree Road between MacArthur Boulevard and San Joaquin Hills Road. MacArthur Boulevard from Campus Drive to Jamboree Boulevard. MacArthur Boulevard from San Joaquin Hills Road to East Coast Highway San Joaquin Hills Road from Marguerite Avenue to Spyglass Hill Road. University Drive from La Vida to East City Limit This Ordinance shall be published once in the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be effective thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption. This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 12th day of April 1999 and adopted on the 26th day of April 1999 by the following vote, to wit: ATTEST: City Clerk f:\ users \pbw\ shared \ordinances\decspeed I999.doc AYES, COUNCILMEMBERS NOES, COUNCILMEMBERS ABSENT COUNCILMEMBERS Mayor K