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City council Meeting 9-27-88
STAFF REPORT
FROM:
Mayor and City council
City Attorney
Ordinance Adding Section 3347c to the Santa
Monica Municipal Code and Amending Municipal Code
Section 3612 to Permit Vehicular Traffic on the
Third street Promenade Traveling at a Rate of
15 Miles Per Hour or Less
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SUBJECT:
The City is required by Vehicle Code Section 22358.3 to set
by ordinance a lower speed limit in the event that a street is
designed for a safe speed limit of less than twenty-five miles
per hour. The Third Street Promenade will be 20 feet in width
and will have curb radii designed for a ls mile per hour speed
limit.
Accordingly, the accompanying ordinance establishes a
fifteen mile per hour speed limit on the Third street Promenade.
In addition, in order to permit vehicular traffic on the
Third street Promenade, Municipal Code Section 3612 must be
amended. currently, this Section prohibits all vehicular traffic
on the Third Street Promenade. As amended, the proposed Section
permits vehicular traffic on the Mall, subject to such
restrictions as the Parking and Traffic Engineer may establish,
but retains the prohibition against vehicles with a gross loaded
weight in excess of 10,000 pounds.
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RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be introduced for first reading.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, city Attorney
Joseph Lawrence, Assistant city Attorney
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city Council Meeting 9-27-88
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION 3347C TO THE
SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE AND AMENDING
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 3612 TO PERMIT VEHICULAR
TRAFFIC ON THE THIRD STREET PROMENADE TRAVELING
AT A RATE OF 15 MILES PER HOUR OR LESS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Section 3347C is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION 3347C. Speed Restricted on
Third Street Promenade. No person shall
drive or operate any vehicle over or upon
the Third Street Promenade at a greater
rate of speed than fifteen (15) miles per
hour.
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 3612 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3612. Vehicles Permitted on
Third street Promenade. Subj ect to such
restrictions as may be established by the
Parking and Traffic Engineer, vehicles
wi th a gross loaded weight of less than
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10,000 pounds may be permitted on the
Third street Promenade.
SECTION 3. 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 4. 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 co~petent
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 5. 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 V
city Attorney
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