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.
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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Don Webb, Director
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Associate Civil Engineer
Attachment: Ordinance
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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.
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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
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