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Council Meeting, August 13, 1991
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Santa Monica, California
To:
Mayor and City Council
From:
city staff
Subject:
Ordinance Amending Santa Monica Municipal Code Section
3347A to Establish Posted Speed Limits on Various City
Streets
Introduction
This report recommends the City Council introduce the attached
ordinance for first reading amending Santa Monica Municipal Code
Section 3347A to establish posted speed limits on various city
streets.
Backqround
At its meeting on January 22, 1991, the City council directed the
City Attorney to prepare an ordinance establishing posted speed
limits on various city street segments.
The California Vehicle Code (CVC) requires that an engineering
and traffic survey be conducted every five years for all streets
included in the city's select street system to justify the posted
speed limit.
If an engineering and traffic survey is not
completed every five years it inhibits the city's ability to
effectively enforce and prosecute violations. Radar enforcement
is specifically prohibited on any street segments without a
current engineering and traffic survey.
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An engineering and traffic survey consists of: the sampling of
vehicles in a free flow condition to determine the prevailing
speed at which vehicles travel along a specific street segment:
the accident rate for the same street segment: and any unusual
conditions such as public facilities, curves or narrow traffic
lanes which may be along the specific street segment. All of
these factors are taken into consideration in determining the
appropriate speed limit for a street segment.
The current engineering and traffic surveys expired in 1990. New
engineering and traffic surveys have been completed for all
street segments. The review of the engineering and traffic
surveys indicate that there are various street segments that
require changes of the existing posted speed limits to conform
wi th the previously discussed requirements establ ished by the
state of California for the posting of speed limits. Exhibit "All
is a list of the street segments where an increase or decrease in
the existing speed limit is being recommended. The list shows
the existing posted speed limit and the recommended posted speed
1 imi t. The attached ordinance incorporates these changes with
street segments where the existing speed remains the same.
It should be noted that there have been many studies as to the
effect of posting various speed limits along a specific street
and the speed at which vehicles travel. The common conclusion of
these studies is that drivers unilaterally determine what is a
safe speed. The state Traffic Manual reflects this by directing
that speed limits be set by engineering and traffic surveys.
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Budqet/Fiscal Impact
There is no budget/fiscal impact.
Recommendation
It is respectfully recommended that the city Council introduce
the accompanying ordinance amending Santa Monica Municipal Code
section 3347A to establish posted speed limits on various city
streets for first reading.
Prepared by: Paul Berlant, Director of Land Use and
Transportation Management
Ron Fuchiwaki, City Parking & Traffic Engineer
Jamal Rahimi, Senior Traffic Engineer
Attachment:
Exhibit IIA" - Recommended Speed Limit Changes
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Exhibit "Au
Recommended Speed Limit Changes
street Existing Speed Limit
Proposed Speed Limit
OCEAN AVENUE 30
between California
and pico
35
BARNARD WAY 35
between Hollister
and Neilson
30
2ND STREET none
between Montana
and Colorado
30
5TH STREET none
between Wilshire
and Olympic
30
6TH STREET 25
between Wilshire
and Colorado
30
CLQVERFIELD BOULEVARD 30
between Santa Monica
and pice
35
SAN VICENTE BOULEVARD 45
between 7th
and 26th
35
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD 30
between Ocean
and Lincoln
35
SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD
between Ocean
and Lincoln
30
35
BROADWAY
between Ocean
and 26th
30
35
COLORADO BOULEVARD
between Ocean
and Lincoln
30
35
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OLYMPIC BOULEVARD
between 11th
and Centinela
45
40
MARINE STREET
between Lincoln
and 17th
30
25
(speed)
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CA:RMM:rmd1222/hpcal/pc
City Council Meeting 8-13-91
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
(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 1.
Santa Monica Municipal Code section 3347A is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3347A.
M.odification of
state Speed Limits in certain Zones.
After review made pursuant to California
Vehicle Code Section 627, it is hereby
determined that the speed permitted by
state law upon the following streets, or
portions thereof, is inappropriate for
the safe operation of vehicles by reason
of the prevailing speeds as determined by
traffic
engineering
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 giving
notice thereof:
(1) 40 Miles Per Hour:
(a) Olympic Boulevard from
11th street to Centinela Avenue.
(2) 35 Hiles Per Hour:
(a) San Vicente Boulevard
from Ocean Avenue to 26th street.
(b) Broadway
Avenue to Centinela Avenue.
(c) Colorado Avenue from
from Ocean
Ocean Avenue to centinela Avenue.
(d)
Pico
Boulevard
from
Ocean Avenue to centinela Avenue.
(e) Ocean Park Boulevard
from 14th Street to centinela Avenue.
(f) Ocean Avenue from
Hollister Avenue to the north Ci ty
limits.
(g) Neilson Way from south
City limits to pico Boulevard.
(h) Main street from Ocean
Park Boulevard to Colorado Avenue.
(i)
26th
Street
from
wilshire
Boulevard
to
San
Vicente
Boulevard.
(j) Wilshire Boulevard from
Ocean Avenue to centinela Avenue.
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(k) Santa Monica Boulevard
from Ocean Avenue to Lincoln Boulevard.
(1) Cloverfield Boulevard
from Pica Boulevard to Santa Monica
Boulevard.
(3) 30 Miles Per Hour:
(a)
Montana Avenue
from
Ocean Avenue to Stanford street.
(b) Arizona Avenue
Ocean Avenue to centinela Avenue.
from
southerly
Boulevard.
(c)
City
4th
limits
street
to San
from
vicente
(d) 7th street from Olympic
Boulevard (north leg) to north city
limits.
(e) Lincoln Boulevard from
Santa Monica Boulevard to San Vicente
Boulevard.
(f) 11th Street from Marine
street to San vicente Boulevard.
(g) 14th street from Ashland
Avenue to San Vicente Boulevard.
(h) 20th street from Ocean
Park Boulevard to San Vicente Boulevard.
(i) 23rd Street from Dewey
street to pica Boulevard.
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(j) 26th
Cloverfield Boulevard
Boulevard.
street from
to wilshire
(k) stewart street from pico
Boulevard to Colorado Avenue.
(l) 2nd street from Montana
Avenue to Colorado Avenue.
(m) Barnard Way from Neilson
Way to Hollister Avenue.
(n) 5th street from Olympic
Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard.
(0) 6th street from Colorado
Avenue to Wilshire Boulevard.
(p) 28th street from Ocean
Park Boulevard to pico Boulevard.
(q) 17th street from pico
Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard.
(r) Ocean Park Boulevard
from Barnard Way to 14th street.
(4) 2S Miles Per Hour:
(a) 16th street from Marine
street to pico Boulevard.
(b) 17th street from
southerly city limits to Pearl street and
from wilshire Boulevard to San vicente
Boulevard.
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(c) Cloverfield Boulevard
Ocean Park Boulevard to pico
from
Boulevard.
(d) Washington Avenue from
Ocean Avenue to Stanford Street.
(e) Marine street from
Neilson Way to 17th street and from 18th
street to 23rd Street.
(f) Dewey street from Robson
street to 23rd Street.
(g) Stanford street between
Wilshire Boulevard and Montana Avenue.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies 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
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
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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
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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