SR-304-001-02 (4)
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JUl ! 6 2005
Council Meeting: July 26,2005
Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and Councilmembers
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Amendment to Municipal Code Section 4.68.160 Establishing a New
5/10K Race Route, Eliminating a 5/10K Race Route, and Modifying the
Permitted Race Time and Frequency Parameters
Introduction
This proposed Ordinance would authorize establishing a new 5/10K race route in Santa
Monica, eliminating a 5/10K race route that is no longer feasible, and modifying the
permitted race time and frequency parameters.
Backoround
City staff receives numerous inquiries from individuals and organizations interested in
holding 5K or 10K races near the ocean in Santa Monica. There are currently four race
routes authorized per the Events Ordinance (SMMC 4.68.160) and none is near the
ocean. The 5K and 10K routes in the southern part of the City, near Santa Monica
College, have never been used and the landscaped medians on the Pico Boulevard
section of the route, which were installed after the route was established, have created
problematic conditions for runners alongside traffic. The 5K and 10K routes in the
northern part of the City, near St. Monica's Church, are used annually by two different
groups in the same general time frame.
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Discussion
Recognizing the need for a more appropriate and appealing race route and prompted by
a recent request to produce a race near the ocean, City staff (including representatives
from Community and Cultural Services, Police, Fire, Transportation Management,
Resource Management, and Big Blue Bus) have identified a proposed route that will
provide a "signature" Santa Monica route with an ocean view while minimizing impacts
to traffic circulation, businesses and residents. Similar to the limits applied to other
routes, races on the proposed route would be limited in number and to certain times and
days to address neighborhood and business district concerns.
The new route, described in detail in the proposed ordinance, starts in the south beach
area in Beach Park #1 at Ocean Park Boulevard, where there is plenty of adjacent
parking. The route should appeal to runners as it goes east on Barnard Way/Marine
Street, north on Main Street to Colorado Avenue, west to Ocean Avenue, continues
north on Ocean Avenue along Palisades Park to San Vicente and loops back to end
near the Pier entrance. Based on safety considerations, the specific portions or lanes of
the roadway to be used will be determined by City staff prior to issuance of the Event
Permit. Lane or street closures, when required, will be re-opened immediately after the
last participants pass through and Police determine it is safe to re-open them. To the
extent possible, efforts will be made to preserve access to businesses and scheduled
activities along the route. As with the other City-authorized race routes, the hours and
days of use and the number of races per year would be restricted. Race organizers
would be required to pay for all traffic control services, bus rerouting supervisors, buying
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out metered spaces along the route, and the mailing of neighbor notices. They would
also be required to provide general liability insurance as well as indemnification and
participant release waivers.
To minimize impacts on residents and businesses along the route, and as is the case
with the other approved routes, staff proposes to restrict the day and time of the week
that the new route can be used. A minimum number of weeks will be required between
races for both the new and existing routes. The current restriction, allowing one race
per quarter, is problematic because, although technically occurring in different quarters,
it is possible to have two races on the same route within one week of each other. This
practice has generated numerous complaints from affected neighbors.
The proposed Ordinance would authorize the use of the new 5/10K race routes near the
ocean, eliminate the 5K and 10K routes near Santa Monica College, and modify the
permitted race time and frequency parameters as follows:
. Limit the number of races on Routes A and D (new 5K and 10K Ocean routes) to
no more than two races between January 1 and the weekend prior to Memorial
Day weekend and no more than two races between the weekend atter Labor Day
and the weekend before Thanksgiving with no less than 8 weeks between each
race. Races would be limited to Saturdays and Sundays; races would not be
allowed at other times.
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. Limit the number of races on Routes Band C (the existing routes which will now
be referred to as 5K and 10K North City routes) to one race per quarter on
Saturdays only, with no less than 8 weeks between each race;
. All races must start no earlier than 7:30 a.m. and conclude no later than 11 :00
a.m.
Staff will carefully monitor race events and their impacts over the next 12 months and, if
necessary, return to Council to modify race routes and/or time/frequency parameters.
Budget/Financial Impact
The adoption of the attached, proposed Ordinance would have no financial impact.
Recommendation
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance be introduced for first
reading.
PREPARED BY: Barbara Stinchfield, Director
Elaine Polachek, Manager, Open Space Manager
Trinie Garcia-Valdez, Community Use Administrator
Department of Community & Cultural Services
Barry Rosenbaum, Senior Land Use Attorney
ATTACHMENT:
A. Proposed Ordinance
B. Map of Proposed Route
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Council Meeting 7-26-05
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER _ (GGS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AMENDING SECTION 4.68.160 OF THE COMMUNITY EVENTS ORDINANCE TO
ESTABLISH A NEW 5/10K RACE ROUTE, ELIMINATE AN EXISTING RACE ROUTE,
AND MODIFY THE PERMITTED RACE TIME AND FREQUENCY PARAMETERS
WHEREAS, on May 8, 2001, the City Council adopted Ordinance Number 2008
(CCS), adding Chapter 4.68 to the Santa Monica Municipal Code, the Community Events
Code; and
WHEREAS, the Community Events Code provides a coordinated process for
managing community events to ensure the health and safety of event patrons, residents,
workers, and other visitors, to prohibit illegal activities from occurring at community events,
and to protect the rights of community event permit holders; and
WHEREAS, Santa Monica is a coastal city in a prime location, bordered by the City
of Los Angeles to the north, east, and south;
WHEREAS, the City's land area is small, being just 8 square miles and the City's
population is approximately 90,000; and
WHEREAS, in addition to its large residential population, the City is a very desirable
place to work or visit; and
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WHEREAS, on weekdays, approximately 300,000 people are present within the City
and on weekends the number swells to as high as 500,000 people; and
WHEREAS, the density of the City and the number of people working or visiting the
City on a daily basis significantly impacts the ability of traffic to circulate on the City's
existing street network; and
WHEREAS, the City's street network is a grid system bisected by the Santa Monica
Freeway; and
WHEREAS, streets within this network are categorized into four functional
classification types, arterial streets, collector streets, feeder streets and local residential
streets; and
WHEREAS, arterial streets are generally the commercial arteries that keep traffic
moving throughout the City and have as their primary function the movement of vehicles
into and through the City and the service of adjacent commercial land uses; and
WHEREAS, the locations of the freeway interchanges and over crossings, as well
as the inter-relationships of City streets with those of the surrounding network in Los
Angeles, causes traffic to be concentrated on the City's arterial streets; and
WHEREAS, local residential streets are designed to serve adjacent residential uses
only; and
WHEREAS, arterial streets are expected to handle traffic volumes ranging from
34,000 to 61,000 average vehicle trips per day while local streets are designed to carry
2,500 average trips per day; and
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WHEREAS, due to the nature of the grid system, if an arterial street is blocked or
heavily congested, traffic will be diverted onto the nearest street which is typically a local
residential street; and
WHEREAS, residential streets are overwhelmed when traffic is diverted from arterial
streets and residents' peace and quiet enjoyment are significantly impacted; and
WHEREAS, since the arterial network already carries a significant volume of traffic,
diverting or stopping the traffic will further deteriorate the levels of service for these
intersections and result in increased traffic into residential neighborhoods and degradation
of the vitality of commercial districts; and
WHEREAS, community events are, by definition, atypical and not necessarily
anticipated by or appropriately regulated by existing citywide ordinances; and
WHEREAS, the City regulates community events for the same reasons it regulates
land uses: to protect the health, safety and public welfare by regulating traffic, noise,
aesthetics, and other impacts; and
WHEREAS, community events often require the provision of public services,
including police, fire, transportation, and public works and additional maintenance of the
facilities they use; and
WHEREAS, community events often use facilities that would otherwise be available
to the public or generate revenue to the City; and
WHEREAS, managing community events requires ensuring that these events are
compatible in size and type of use with their sites, adequate services are provided for the
events, adequate cost recovery for these services is achieved, the events do not interferee
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with the City's ability to provide services to the entire community, and the impacts on
neighbors and others are minimized; and
WHEREAS, the City receives numerous inquiries from individuals and organizations
interested in holding 5K and 10K races near the ocean; and
WHEREAS, there are currently four race routes authorized by the Community
Events Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, none of these routes are currently near the ocean; and
WHEREAS, the 5K and 1 OK routes in the southern part of the City have never been
used and the landscaped medians on the Pico Boulevard section ofthe route installed after
the route was established would create conflicts between race participants and vehicles;
and
WHEREAS, the City has evaluated a proposed new official route in order to provide
a "signature" Santa Monica route with an ocean view while minimizing impacts to traffic
circulation, businesses and residents; and
WHEREAS, race organizers would be required to pay all City costs associated with
the race; and
WHEREAS, to minimize impacts on residents and businesses along the route, and
consistent with other approved race routes, the City will restrict the day and time of the
week that the new route can be used and establish a minimum number of weeks between
races for both the new and existing routes,
NOW. THEREFORE. THE CITY COUNCil OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOllOWS:
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SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4.68,040 is hereby amended to
read as follows:
4.68.160 Races-Runs-Walks.
The procedures and criteria for conducting
races/runs/walks shall be as follows:
(a) There shall be two ten kilometer routes and two five
kilometer routes:
(1) The first ten kilometer route (route A10K Ocean
Route) felfte begins at Beach Park #1 (Barnard Way at Ocean
Park Boulevard) and continues south to Barnard Way. follows
the bend to go east on Marine Street, north on Main Street. west
on Colorado Avenue. north on Ocean Avenue. east on San
Vicente Boulevard to 14th Street where participants will turn
around and go west on San Vicente, south on Ocean Avenue to
end at the 1500 block of Ocean Avenue (before entrance to the
Pier Ramp). at Santa Monica College and continue on an
e3sterly direction 310ng Pearl Street to the intorcoction of 34th
Street, turning southerly along 3-1th Street to the intersection of
Oce~m Park Boulevard, continuing in a 'Nostcrly direction on
Ocean Park Be-tlIevard to 14th Street, turning northerly onto 14th
Street and continuing to the intersection of Pico Boulevard,
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turning easterly on Pico Boulevard and continuing to 30th Street,
turning southerly on 30th Street to Pearl Street and continuing in
a westerly direction to 16th Street to the Santa Monica College
stadium,
(2) The second ten kilometer route (route B10K North
City Route) f€Wte begins at Seventh Street and California
Avenue, west on California Ave to Ocean Avenue, north on
Ocean Avenue to San Vicente Boulevard, east on San Vicente
Boulevard to Twenty-fifth Street, south on Twenty-fifth Street to
Marguerita Avenue, west on Marguerita Avenue to Fourteenth
Street, south on Fourteenth Street to Alta Avenue, west on Alta
Avenue to Fourth Street, south on Fourth Street to California
Avenue, east on California Avenue to Seventh Street.
(3) The first five kilometer route (route C5K North City
Route) fGtfte begins at Seventh Street and California Avenue,
west on California Ave to Ocean Avenue, north on Ocean
Avenue to San Vicente Boulevard, east on San Vicente
Boulevard to Seventh Street, south on Seventh Street to
Georgina Avenue, west on Georgina Avenue to Fourth Street,
south on Fourth Street to California Avenue, east on California
Avenue to Seventh Street.
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(4) The second five kilometer route (route D5K Ocean
Route) fGtIte begins atae~_ch ParK#1. (Barnard Way C!tQ.c~tal1
Park Boulevard)and continues south on Barnard Way, follows
the bend to go east on Marine Street, north on Main Street, west
on Colorado Avenue, north on Ocean Avenue to the 1000 block
where participants will turn around and continue south on Ocean
Avenue to end at the 1500 block of Ocean Avenue (before the
entrance to the Pier ramp). at Pearl Street and 16th Street, east
on Pearl Street, south on 34th Street, west on Ocean Park
Boulevard, north on 16th Street to Pearl Street.
(b) 5K North City Route and 10K North City Route
races may only occur on Saturday mornin~s from 7:30 a.m. until
11 :00 a.m. There shall be no more than one race per quarter
each year. There shall also be a minimum of 8 weeks between
each race, Four races/walks/runs per route shall be allO'Ned
each year with no more than one per quarter on anyone route.
(c) Route A and Route D 5K Ocean Route and 10K
Ocean Route races may 2D.IY.-occur on Saturday and Sunday
mornings from eigAt 7:30 a.m. until 11 :00 a.m. two p.m. There
shall be no more than two races between January 1 and the
weekend prior to Memorial Day weekend and no more than two
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races between the weekend after Labor Dav and the weekend
before Thanksgiving each year. There shall also be a minimum
of 8 weeks between each race. Route B and Route C races may
occur on Saturday mornings from eight a.m. until two p.m.
(d) No vehicular races shall be permitted.
(e) Events which include multiple modes of travel (e.g.,
walking, running and bicycling) shall be permitted so long as the
start times for different modes of travel are staggered.
.ill Prior to the issuance of a Community Event Permit.
City staff shall determine the specific portions or lanes of the
roadway that may be used by the participants. This
determination shall be based on safety considerations and the
preservation of access to businesses and other scheduled
activities alonQ the route.
(f),{glln addition to the routes established by subsection
(a) of this Section, races/walks/runs may be permitted on other
streets in the City so long as the majority of the race/walk/run
occurs outside of the City and that portion of the race/walk/run
within the City does not exceed one-half mile in length. Races
permitted pursuant to this subsection (9) shall not be subiect to
the time/frequency requirements established in subsections (b)
and (c) of this Section,
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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, is 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 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.
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 thirty
days after its adoption,
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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