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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11A - 2ND READ ORD - SPEED LIMITREQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: OCTOBER 4, 2016 TITLE: SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMENDING CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING SPEED LIMITS FOR CITY STREETS {STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 5, 1) RECOMMENDED ACTION Place ordinance on second reading and adopt. DISCUSSION CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: APPROVED ❑ As Recommended ❑ As Amended ❑ Ordinance on 1®t Reading ❑ Ordinance on 2"d Reading ❑ Implementing Resolution ❑ Set Public Hearing For CONTINUED TO FILE NUMBER On October 4, 2016, the following ordinance was introduced for first reading and City Council authorized publication of title by a vote of 6-0 (Tinajero absent): ORDINANCE NO. NS -2904 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA REPEALING AND REENACTING IN ITS ENTIRETY ARTICLE VII OF CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT Approval of this item supports the City's efforts to meet Goal #5 - Community Health, Livability, Engagement & Sustainability, Objective #1 (Establish a comprehensive community engagement initiative to expand access to information and create opportunities for stakeholders to play an active role in discussing public policy and setting priorities). FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact associated with this action. �b `o ri,� Ma a D. Huizar, Clerk of the Council EXHIBIT: 1. Ordinance No. NS -2904 11 A-1 11 A-2 Jmf 9112/2016 ORDINANCE NO, NS -XXX AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA REPEALING AND REENACTING IN ITS ENTIRETY ARTICLE VII OF CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS; SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows. A. Sections 22357 and 22358 of the California Vehicle Code authorize local authorities to declare prima facie speed limits at the rate found reasonable, safe, and most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic based on engineering and traffic surveys. B. Sections 40801 and 40802 of the California Vehicle Code require that engineering and traffic surveys be conducted within five years prior to the date of an alleged violation of such speed limits if enforcement of the speed limits involves the use of radar or any other electronic device that measures the speed of moving objects. C. The City of Santa Ana last completed an engineering and traffic survey in 2011 and completed a new study in 2016, in accordance with the above law. D. Based on the 2016 study, the prima facie speed limits set forth in Article VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code shall be updated by repealing and reenacting in its entirety Article VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, consisting of Sections 36-227 through 36-397. SECTION 2 Article VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby repealed in its entirety. SECTION 3. Article VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby reenacted in its entirety as follows: ARTICLE VII, PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS Sec. 36-227, Prima facie speed limits in general. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana determines and declares, upon the basis of engineering and traffic surveys made on or after January 7, 2016, which surveys are public records on file In the offices of the Public Works Agency of the City Ordinance No. N5 -XXX Page 1 of 13 and incorporated herein by reference, that the prima facie speed limits specified in those sections are reasonable, safe and most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic upon the streets and portions of streets specified in those sections, which streets and portions of streets would otherwise be subject to the prima facie speed limits established in the California Vehicle Code, These prima facie speed limits shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the streets and portions of streets to which they pertain, The provisions of this article shall not apply to any twenty-five (25) mile per hour - prima facie speed limit which is applicable when passing a school or the grounds thereof. Sec. 36-228. Alton Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Alton Avenue are as follows: Between Susan Street and Greenville Street 45 Between Greenville Street and Bristol Street 45 Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 40 Sec. 36.229. Clear Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Bear Street are as follows: Between Sunflower Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40 Between MacArthur Boulevard and Alton Avenue 40 Between Alton Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40 Sec. 36-230, Bristol Street, The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Bristol Street are as follows: Between Hesperian/SR 22 EB On -Ramp & Santa Clara Ave. 45 Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 45 Between Seventeenth Street and Civic Center Drive 40 Between Civic Center Drive and Walnut Street 35 Between Walnut Street and McFadden Avenue 40 Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40 Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 40 Between Warner Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40 Between Segerstrom Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40 Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 40 Ordinance No. NS -XXX Page 2 of 13 1I'AIa4T Sec. 36-231. Broadway and Broadway Place. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Broadway and Broadway Place are as follows: Between MalnPlace Drive and Seventeenth Street 40 Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue 35 Between Washington Avenue and Civic Center Drive 30 Between Civic Center Drive and First Street 25 Between First Street and McFadden Avenue 30 Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 30 Between Edinger Avenue and Main Street (250 feet North of Warner Avenue) 30 Sec. 36.232, Cabrillo Park Drive. The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Cabrillo Park Drive is as follows: Between Seventeenth Street and Fourth Street 35 Sec, 36.233. Cambridge Street. The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Cambridge Street is as follows: Between the North City Limit (NCL)/Route 22 and Fairhaven Avenue 40 Sec. 36.234. Chestnut Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Chestnut Avenue are as follows: Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 30 Between Standard Avenue and Grand Avenue 35 Between Grand Avenue and the East City Limit (ECL)/Elk Lane/Main Street 35 Sec. 36.235. Clvlc Center Drive. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Civic Center Drive are as follows: Between Fairview Street and Bristol Street 35 Ordinance No, NS -XXX Page 3 of 13 'T"1Al 6 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 35 Between Flower Street and Broadway 25 Between Broadway and French Street 25 Sec. 36.236. Oyer Road. The speed limits (in miles per hour),for the following portions of Dyer Road are as follows: Between Flower Street and Main Street 40 Between Main Street and Halladay Street 40 Between Halladay Street and Route 55 Freeway 40 Between Route 55 Freeway and Barranca Parkway/Red Hill Avenue 40 Sec. 36-237. Edinger Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Edinger Avenue are as follows: Between the West City Limit (WCL) east of Euclid Street and Richardson Street 40 Between Santa Ana River (WCL) and Fairview Street 40 Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street 35 Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 35 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40 Between Flower Street and Main Street 40 Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 40 Between Standard Avenue and Ritchey Street 45 Between Ritchey Street and the East City Limit (ECL) 45 Sec, 36-238, Euclid Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Euclid Street are as follows: Between Westminster Avenue and First Street 40 Between First Street and the South City Limit (SCL)/Lenhardt Avenue 45 Sec. 36.239, Fairhaven Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fairhaven Avenue are as follows: Ordinance No, NS -XXX Page 4 of 13 EXHIBIT 1 11 A-6 Between Grand Avenue and Linwood Avenue 40 Between Linwood Avenue and Greengrove Street East City Limit (ECL) 40 Sec. 36.240. Fairview Street, The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fairview Street are as follows: Between Route 22 EB Off -Ramp and Fifth Street 45 Between Fifth Street and Edinger Avenue 45 Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 4.5 Between Warner Avenue and Alton Avenue 45' Between Alton Avenue and Sunflower Avenue 45 Sec. 36-241, Fifth Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fifth Street are as follows: Between Euclid Street and Harbor Boulevard 30 Between Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 35 Between Fairview Street and Hawley Street 35 Sec. 36.242. First Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of First Street are as follows: Between the West City Limit (WCL) west of Euclid and Newhope Street 40 Between Newhope Street and Harbor Boulevard 40 Between Harbor Boulevard and Townsend Street 40 Between Townsend Street and Flower Street 40 Between Flower Street and Birch Street 40 Between Birch Street and Standard Avenue 40 Between Standard Avenue and Tustin Avenue/the East City Limit (ECL) 40 Sec. 36-243, Flower Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Flower Street are as follows: Between Seventeenth Street and Santa Ana Boulevard 35 Between Santa Ana Boulevard and Bishop Street 35 Ordinance No. NS -XXX Page 5 of 13 Between Bishop Street and Warner Avenue 30 Between Warner Avenue and Sakioka Drive/Sunflower Avenue 40 Sec. 36244. Fourth Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fourth Street are as follows: Between Mortimer Street and McClay Street 35 Between McClay Street and Route 5 Freeway 35 Between Interstate 5 Freeway and Route 55 Freeway 35 Sec. 36.245, Grand Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Grand Avenue are as follows: Between the North City Limit (NCL)/ SR 22 Ramps and Fairhaven Avenue 35 Between Fairhaven Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue 40 Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 40 Between Seventeenth Street and First Street 40 Between First Street and McFadden Avenue 45 Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 45 Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 45 Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road 45 Sec. 36.246. Greenville Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Greenville Street are as follows: Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 30 Between Warner and Sunflower/Wimbledon 35 Sec. 36247. Halladay Street. The speed limits (In miles per hour) for the following portions of Halladay Street are as follows: Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road Between Dyer Road and Alton Avenue EXHIBIT 1 11 A-8 30 30 Ordnance No. NS -XXX Page 6 of 13 Sec. 36.248. Harbor Boulevard, The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Harbor Boulevard are as follows: Between Westminster Avenue and Fifth Street 40 Between Fifth Street and First Street 40 Between First Street and a point six hundred (600) feet south of Kent Avenue 40 Between the city limits of Santa Ana at Santa Ana River (N/© Warner) and Segerstrom Avenue 40 Between Segerstrom Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40 See. 36-249. Hazard Avenue. The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Hazard Avenue is as follows: Between Euclid Street and Harbor Boulevard 30 Seo. 30.250. Lake Center Drive, The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lake Center Drive Is as follows: Between Harbor Boulevard and Susan Street 35 Sec, 36.251, Lincoln Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) For the following portion of Lincoln Avenue are as follows: Between Fairhaven Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue 35 Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 35 Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue 35 Sec. 36-252. Lyon Street. The speed limits (In miles per hour) for the following portion of Lyon Street are as follows: Between First Street and McFadden Avenue 35 Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 35 Between Edinger Avenue and Saint Andrew Place 35 Ordinance No. NS -XXX Page 7 of 13 Sec. 36-253. MacArthur Boulevard. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of MacArthur Boulevard are as follows: Between the West City Limit (WCL) at Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 40 Between Fairview Street and Main Street 40 Between Main Street and the East City Limit (ECL) at SR 55 40 Sec. 36-254. Main Place drive. The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Main Place Drive is as follows: Between Main Street/Memory Lane and Broadway 35 Between Broadway and Main Street/Town & Country Road 35 Sec. 36-255. Main Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Main Street are as follows: Between the North City Limit (NCL) at SR 22 and Seventeenth Street 35 Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue 35 Between Washington Avenue and First Street 30 Between First Street and Chestnut Avenue 35 Between Chestnut Avenue and Edinger Avenue 35 Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 35 Between Warner Avenue and Goetz Avenue 40 Between Goetz Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40 Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 45 Sec. 36.256. McFadden Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of McFadden Avenue are as follows: Between the Sail Street/West City Limit (WCL) and Euclid Street 40 Between Euclid Street and Newhope Street 40 Between Newhope Street and Harbor Boulevard 40 Between Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 40 Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street 35 Ordinance No. Nu -XXX Page 8 of 13 1 1AHIIL1 Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 35 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 30 Between Flower Street and Main Street 35 Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 35 Between Standard Avenue and Grand Avenue 35 Between Grand Avenue and the East City Limit (BCL) 35 See, 36-257. Memory Lane. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Memory Lane are as follows: Between Santa Ana River/West City Limit (WCL) and Bristol Street 40 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 35 Between Main Street and the North Clay Limit (NCL)/ Parker Street 35 Sec. 36258. Newhope Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Newhope Street are as follows: Between Westminster Avenue and First Street 35 Between First Street and Edinger Avenue 35 Sec. 36259, Pullman Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Pullman Street are as follows: Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road 40 Between Dyer Road and Garry Avenue 40 Sec, 36-260. Raitt Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Raitt Street are as follows: Between First Street and Willits Street 30 Between Willits Street and McFadden Avenue 35 Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40 Between Edinger Avenue and Saint Gertrude Place 40 Between Saint Gertrude Place and Warner Avenue 40 Between Warner Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40 Between Segerstrom Avenue and Alton Avenue 40 Ordinance No. NS -XXX Page 9 of 13 IxiAII 1 Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 35 Sec. 36-261, Ritchey Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Ritchey Street are as follows: Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40 Between Edinger Avenue and Wright Street 45 Sec. 36-262. Santa Ana Boulevard. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Santa Ana Boulevard are as follows: Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 35 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 35 Between Flower Street and Ross Street 30 Between Ross Street and French Street 25 Between French Street and Santiago Street 30 Between Santiago Street and Grand Avenue 35 Sec„ 36.263. Santa Clara Avenue. The speed limits (In miles per hour) for the following portions of Santa Clara Avenue are as follows: Between Lincoln Avenue and Grand Avenue 35 Between Grand Avenue and Wright Street 40 Between Wright Street and Tustin Avenue 40 Between Tustin Avenue and East City Limit (ECL)/Route 55 40 Sec, 36-264. Segerstrorn Avenue. The speed limits (In miles per hour) for the following portions of Segerstrom Avenue are as follows: Between Santa Ana River/West City Limit (WCL) and Spruce Street 40 Between Spruce Street and Flower Street/Dyer Road 40 Sec, 36.265. Seventeenth Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Seventeenth Street are as follows: Ordinance No. NS -XXX Page 10 of 13 EXHIBIT 1 11A-12 Between Fairview Street and West City Limit 40 Between Fairview Street and Bristol Street 40 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40 Between Flower Street and Main Street 35 Between Main Street and Wright/Eastside Street 35 Between Wright/Eastside Street and Tustin 40 Seo. 36.266. Standard Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Standard Avenue are as follows: Between First Street and Chestnut Avenue 30 Between Chestnut Avenue and McFadden Avenue 30 Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 30 Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 35 Sec. 36.267. Susan Street. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Susan Street are as follows: Between Harvard Street and Pendleton Avenue 35 Between Warner Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 35 Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 35 Sec, 36-268. Reserved. Sec. 36-269. Tustin Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Tustin Avenue are as follows: Between North City Limit (NCL)/Fairhaven Avenue and Twentieth Street 40 Between Seventeenth Street and Fruit Street 40 Between Fruit Street and the South City Limit (SCL) north of First Street 40 Sec. 36.270. Warner Avenue. The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Warner Avenue are as follows: Between the West City Limit (WCL)/Santa Ana River west of Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 45 ordinance No. N5 -XXX pale 11 of 93 A'!13 Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street 45 Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 45 Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40 Between Flower Street and Main Street 40 Between Main Street and Grand Avenue 40 Between Grand Avenue and the Route 55 Freeway 4.5 Between the Route 55 Freeway and Red Mill Avenue 45 Sec. 36.271. Westminster Avenue. Between Euclid Street and Newhope Street 45 Between Newhope Street and Clinton Street 45 Sec. 36-272 — 36-397. Reserved. SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentence, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 5. Neither the adoption of this ordinance not, the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall In any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of 'the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. ADOPTED this 4r11 day of October, 2016. APPROVED AS TO FORM: Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney By: 7XI. f4 hn M, Funk Assistant City Attorney Miguel A. Pulido Mayor 11EAHI�141 Ordinance No, NS -XXX Page 12 of 13 AYES: Councilmembers NOES: Councllmembers ABSTAIN: Councilmembers NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY I, MARIA D, HUIZAR, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Ordinance No. NS -XXX to be the original ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on 'and that said ordinance was published in accordance with the Charter of the City of Santa Ana. Date: Clerk of the Council City of Santa Ana '��I LIMIT115 Ordinanoe No. NS -XXX Page 13 of 13 11A-16