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Council Meeting 10-13-09 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER zz96 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AMENDING SECTION 4.68.160 OF THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE TO
ESTABLISH A NEW MARATHON ROUTE SEGMENT AND THE PARAMETERS FOR
AUTHORIZING AND CONDUCTING A MARATHON UTLIZING THIS MARATHON.
ROUTE SEGMENT
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 presentwithin 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 lahd 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 traffi6to 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 interfere
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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, there are currently four race routes authorized by the Community
Events Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, two of the race routes are for five-kilometer races and two are for ten-
kilometer races; and
WHEREAS, there are presently no routes for a marathon race; and
WHEREAS, the City has received a proposal to hold a portion of the 2010 L A
Marathon in the City; and
WHEREAS; participating in a race of this stature presents the. City with a unique
opportunity to be part of ainternationally-known, first-class event and receive significant
benefits therefrom including substantial economic benefits to local businesses and. a
unique entertainment opportunity for City residents and visitors; and
WHEREAS, a race of this nature raises a number of public safety issues related not
-only to race participants and spectators but potential impacts on the community at large; .-
including issues concerning the availability of assistance from and coordination with other
cities, the logistics and timing of closing and re-opening streets, traffic control and
management strategies, parking cohtingencies, and resident,. visitor and emergency
access; and
WHEREAS, due to the significant impacts that such a race can generate, it is
essential that such races provide substantial benefit to the City and be significantly limited
in number and time of occurrence and that the race only be undertaken by a marathon
entity with the demonstrated capability to organize and operate a large, successful
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marathon including sufficient funding to finance the costs incurred in organizing and
holding the marathon and sufficient staffing to ensure its safe and efficient operation; and
WHEREAS, race organizers would be required to pay full cost recovery for all City
services and expenditures associated with or in any way connected to the race,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4.68.160 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, two five-kilometer routes, and one
marathon route segment;
(1) •The first ten-kilometer route (10K Ocean Route) begins at Beach Park No. 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, wesfon 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 Boulevard, south on Ocean Avenue to end at the
1500 block of Ocean Avenue (before the entrance to the Pier Ramp}.
(2) The second ten-kilometer route (10K North City Route) begins at Seventh
Street and Califorhia Avenue, west on California Avenue to Ocean Avenue, north on
Ocean Avenue to San Vicente Boulevard, east on San Vicente Boulevard to Twenty-fifth
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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 (5K North City Route) begins at Seventh Street
and California Avenue, west on California Avenue 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.
(4) The second five-kilometer route (5K Ocean Route) begins at Beach Park
No. 1 (Barnard Way at Ocean Park Boulevard) and continues south on Barnard Way,
follows the bend.to go east on Marine Street, north on Main Street, wesf 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).
(5) The marathon route segment begins on San Vicente Boulevard at Twenty-
Sixth. Street (the City limits) and continues west on San Vicente to Ocean Avenue and
south on Ocean Avenue to end at the 1500 block of Ocean Avenue (before the entrance to
the Pier Ramp).
(b) 5K North City Route and 10K North City Route races may only occur on
Saturday mornings from seven thirty a.m. until eleven a.m. There shall be no more than
one race per quarter each year. There shall also be a minimum of eight weeks between
each race.
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(c) 5K Ocean Route and 10K Ocean Route races may only occur on Saturday
and Sunday mornings from seven thirty a.m. until eleven a.m. There shall be no more than
two races between January 1 st and the weekend prior to Memorial Day weekend and no
more than two races between the weekend after Labor Day and the weekend before
Thanksgiving each year: There shall also be a minimum of eight weeks between each
race.
(d) The marathon route segment shall be limited to the completion of marathon
races that are regional in scope (involve a course that runs through multiple jurisdictions),
attract elite and international runners; receive extensive national and international media
exposure, and are undertaken by a marathon entity with the demonstrated capability to
organize and operate a large, successful marathon including sufficient funding to finance
the costs incurred in organizing and holding the marathon and sufficient staffing to ensure
its safe and efficient operation. Preference shall also be given to applicants proposing
recurring marathons traditionally or historically associated with a particular day or dates.
The marathon may only occur on Sunday from 6:00 a.m. -- 6:00 p. m. There shall only be
one marathon per year that utilizes the marathon route segment..
(e) No vehicular races shall be permitted..
(f) 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.
(g) 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
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determination shall be based on safety considerations and the preservation of access to
businesses and other scheduled activities along the route.
(h) In 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/walWrun within the
City does not exceed one-half mile in length. Races permitted pursuant to this subsection
shall not be subject to the time/frequency requirements established in subsections (b)and
(c) of this Section.
.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 fo whether any portion of the ordinance
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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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Approved and adopted this 13th day of October, 2 09.
Ken Lensed, Mayor
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss.
Cityof Santa Monica )
I, Maria Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 2296 (CCS) had its introduction on September 22"d; 2009, and
was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on October 13tt', 2009, by
the following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Bloom, Holbrook, McKeown, Shriver
Mayor Genser; Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: Davis
A summary of Ordinance No. 2296 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to California
Government Code Section 40806.
ATTEST:.
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Maria Stewart, Cit Clerk