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CA:RMM:rmd1524s/hpcal/pc SEP 8 1992
city Council Meeting 9-8-92 Santa Monica, California
STAFF REPORT
TO: Mayor and City council
FROM: city Attorney
SUBJECT: Ordinance Amending Santa Monica Municipal Code
Section 3347A to Establish Posted Speed Limits
on Various City Street Segments
At its meeting on August 11, 1992, the city Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance amending Santa Monica
Municipal Code Section 3347A to establish posted speed limits on
various city street segments. The ordinance is now presented to
the city council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, City Attorney
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Clty Council Meeting 9-8-92 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 164l(CCS)
(city Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 3347A TO ESTABLISH
POSTED SPEED LIMITS ON VARIOUS CITY STREET SEGMENTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION l. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 3347A is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3347A. MOdification of
state Speed Limits in certain Zones.
After review made pursuant to California
Vehicle Code Sect~on 627, it is hereby
determlned that the speed permitted by
state law upon the following streets, or
portions thereof, lS inappropriate for
the safe operation of vehicles by reason
of the prevailing speeds as determined by
traffic englneering measurements,
accident records, and highway traffic and
roadside conditions, and accordingly, the
prima facie speed limit for these
streets, or portions thereof, shall be as
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follows when signs are erected givlng
notice thereof:
( 1) 45 Miles Per Hour:
(a) Olympic Boulevard from
11th Street to Centinela Avenue.
(2) 35 Miles Per Hour:
(a) San vicente Boulevard
from Ocean Avenue to 26th street.
(b) Broadway from 26th
street to Centinela Avenue.
(c) Colorado Avenue from
Lincoln Boulevard to centinela Avenue.
(d) Pico Boulevard from
Ocean Avenue to centinela Avenue.
(e) Ocean Park Boulevard
from 14th street to centinela Avenue.
( f) Barnard Way from the
southeasterly Prolongation Line of pier
Avenue to Hollister Avenue.
(g) Ocean Avenue from
Hollister Avenue to Bicknell Avenue, and
from California Avenue to north city
limits.
(h) Neilson Way from south
city limits to Pico Boulevard.
(i) Main street from Ocean
Park Boulevard to Colorado Avenue.
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(j) 26th street from
Wilshire Boulevard to San vicente
Boulevard.
(k) Wilshire Boulevard from
Lincoln Boulevard to Centinela Avenue.
(3 ) 30 Hiles Per Hour:
( a) Montana Avenue from
Ocean Avenue to Stanford street.
(b) Arizona Avenue from
Ocean Avenue to Centinela Avenue.
(c) Ocean Avenue from
Colorado Avenue to Californla Avenue.
(d) 4th Street from Ocean
Park Boulevard to San Vicente Boulevard.
(e) 7th street from Olympic
Boulevard (north leg) to north city
limits.
(f) Lincoln Boulevard from
Santa Monica Boulevard to San Vicente
Boulevard.
(g) 11th street from Mar ine
street to San Vicente Boulevard.
(h) 14th street from Ashland
Avenue to San vicente Boulevard.
(i) 20th Street from Ocean
Park Boulevard to Montana Avenue.
(j) 23rd Street from Navy
Street to Pico Boulevard.
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(k) Cloverfield Boulevard
from pico Boulevard to Santa Monica
Boulevard.
(1) 26th street from
Cloverfield Boulevard to Wilshire
Boulevard.
(m) Nebraska Avenue from
stewart Street to Centinela Avenue.
(n) Stewart street from
Olymp~c Boulevard to Colorado Avenue.
( o) Main street from the
south City limits to Ocean Park
Boulevard.
(p) wilshire Boulevard from
Ocean Avenue to Lincoln Boulevard.
(q) 17th Street from pico
Boulevard to Montana Avenue.
(r) Ocean Park Boulevard
from Barnard Way to 14th street.
(s) Marine street from
Lincoln Boulevard to 17th street.
( t) Robson Street from 17th
street to Dewey Street.
(u) Santa Monica Boulevard
from Ocean Avenue to Lincoln Boulevard.
(v) Broadway from Ocean
Avenue to 26th Street.
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(w) Colorado Avenue from
Ocean Avenue to Lincoln Boulevard.
(x) Dewey street from Robson
street to 23rd Street.
(y) Airport Avenue from 23rd
street to Bundy Drive.
(z) 16th street from Marine
Street to pico Boulevard.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
thlS ordinance, to the extent of such inconsJ.stencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 3 . If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisd~ct1.on, such dec~s~on shall not affect the validity of the
remalning portions of this Ordinance. The City Councll hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordlnance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared l.nValld or unconstitutional wlthout regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
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within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS ' ~
city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 8th day of September, 1992.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1641(CCS)
'<Tas duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the 11th day of August 1992~ that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city council on
the 8th day of September 1992 by the following council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Abdo , Genser, Holbrook, Ka tz 1
Olsen, Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: councilmembers: Vazquez
ATTEST:
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