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Home My WebLink About1786 ORDINANCE NO. 1786 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA AMENDING THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING, AMENDING AND ADDING SECTIONS TO DIVISIONS 1 AND 2 OF PART 2, CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE III REGARDING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS The City Council of the City of Arcadia does hereby ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Arcadia Municipal Code Sections 3221.2 through 3221.21, Sections 3221.23 through 3221.26 and 3222.1 through 3222.7 as they currently read are hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding the following sections to Division 1, Part 2, Chapter 2, to read respectively as follows: "3221. SPEED LIMITS INCREASED. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the speed permitted by ,state law upon the following streets is less than is necessary to facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and is less than is reasonable and safe, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth on those streets or parts of streets specified in the following subsections at the speed limits set forth therein, which are hereby determined to be necessary for the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and are reasonable and safe, when signs are erected giving notice thereof:" "3221.1. SAME. Baldwin Avenue between Huntington Drive and Camino Real Avenue, thirty (30) mile~ per hour." "3221.2. SAME. Baldwin Avenue between Camino Real Avenue and Live Oak Avenue, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221,3. SAME. Camino Real Avenue between Baldwin Avenue and the easterly city limits of the City of Arcadia, thirty (30) miles per hour." l786 "3221.4. SAME. Duarte Road between the easterly and westerly city limits of the City of Arcadia, thirty~-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.5. SAME. First Avenue between Foothill Boulevard and Duarte Road, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.6. SAME. First Avenue between Duarte Road and Las Flores Avenue, thirty (30) miles per hour." "3221. 7 . SAME. Foothill Boulevard between Santa Ani ta Avenue and Fifth Avenue, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.8. SAME. Golden West Avenue between Huntington Drive and Duarte Road, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.9. SAME. Holly Avenue between Huntington Drive and Live Oak Avenue, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.10. SAME. Las Tunas Avenue between Baldwin Avenue and Live Oak Avenue, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.11. SAME. Live Oak Avenue between the easterly and Westerly city limits of the City of Arcadia, forty (40) miles per hour." "3221.12. SAME. and westerly city limits of miles per hour." "3221.13. Longden Avenue between the easterly the City of Arcadia, thirty-five (35) and southerly city miles per hour." "3221.14. SAME. Orange Grove Avenue between the westerly city limit of the City of Arcadia and Santa Anita Avenue, thirty (30) miles per hour." "3221.15. SAME. Santa Anita Avenue between the northerly city limit of the City of Arcadia and Huntington Drive, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.16. SAME. Santa Anita Avenue bet\>Jeen Huntington Drive and the southerly city limit of the City of Arcadia, forty (40) miles per hour." "3221.17. SAME, Second Avenue between Foothill Boulevard and Duarte Road, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." SAME. Mayflower limits of the City Avenue between the northerly of Arcadia, thirty-five (35) 1786 -2- "3221.18. SAME. Second Avenue between Duarte Road and the southerly city limit of the City of Arcadia, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.19. SAME. Sierra Madre Boulevard between the westerly city limit of the City of Arcadia and Santa Anita Avenue, twenty-five (25) miles per hour." "3221. 20. SAME. Sixth Avenue between the northerly city limit of the City of Arcadia and Live Oak Avenue, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221. 21. SAME. Sunset Boulevard between the westerly city limit and the southerly city limit of the City of Arcadia, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3221.23. SAME. Tenth Avenue between the northerly and southerly city limits of the City of Arcadia, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." SECTION 3. The Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending the following sections of Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 2, Article III thereof to read respectively as follows: "3222. SPEED LIMITS DECREASED. It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineereing and traffic survey that the speed permitted by state law outside of business and residence districts as applicable upon the following streets is more than lS reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon said streets, and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth, on those streets or parts of streets specified in the following subnsections at the speed limits set forth therein, which are hereby determined to be reasonable and safe, when signs are erected giving notice thereof." "3222,1. SAME. Baldwin Avenue between Orange Grove Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, thirty-five (35) miles per hour. "3222.2. SAME. Baldwin Avenue bet\veen Foothill Boulevard and Huntington Drive, thirty-five (35) miles per hour." "3222, 3~. SAME. Campus Drive between Holly Avenue and Santa Anita Avenue, thirty (30) miles per hour." 1786 -3- "3222.4. SAME. Colorado Boulevard between Colorado Street and Fifth Avenue, thirty (30) miles per hour." "3222.5. SAME. El Monte Avenue between Duarte Road and Live Oak Avenue, forty (40) miles per hour." "3222.6. SAME. Foothill Boulevard between the westerly City limit of the City of Arcadia and Santa Anita Avenue, forty (40) miles per hour." "3222.7. SAME. Huntington Drive between Michillinda Avenue and Colorado Place, forty (40) miles per hour." "3222.8. SAME. Lower Azusa Road between the easterly and westerly city limits of the City of Arcadia, forty (40) miles per hour." "3222.9. SAME. ~ Peck Road between the northerly and southerly city limits of the City of Arcadia, forty (40) miles per hour." SECTION 5. 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 Arcadia hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 6. Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of laws, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such law relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provisions 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 law and all rights and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force and effect. l786 -4- SECTION 7. The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in the official newspaper of the City of Arcadia within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Arcadia at its regular meeting held on the 17th day of January' 1984. ATTEST: ..; Arcadia f2&;j~~e 4~ ~ , City Clerk of the City of Arcadia I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, California, held on the 17th day of January, 1984, by the affirmative vote of a least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Dring, Haltom, Hannah, Pellegrino and Lojeski NOES: None ABSENT: None ~4~~ City Clerk , , / 'c/; / _____~ V I /, - ~ -..^ I -- . _____ . .:<~~~ .:-:.:: '. -_. .\.~::..... .~ 1::-' ) . . (~-;;..~ ~:-..:_ v-......J "::':</ ~,.-" ,~ :~-~",~: ~,-~-~:.c--~: 1786 -5-