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Council Meeting 8-9-05 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2163 (CCS)
(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 5/1 OK 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 ottraffic,
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\[egulated by existing citywide ordinances; and
WHEREAS, the City regulates community events forth~ 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, 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 of the 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 (10K Ocean Route)
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 ).
(2) The second ten kilometer route (1 OK North City
Route) 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,
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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 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.
(4) The second five kilometer route (5K Ocean Route)
begins at Beach Park #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, 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).
(b) 5K North City Route and 10K North City Route
races may only occur on Saturday mornings from 7:30 a.m. until
11 :00 a.m. There shall be no more than one race per quarter
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each year. There shall also be a minimum of 8 weeks between
each race.
(c) 5K Ocean Route and 10K Ocean Route races may
only occur on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:30 a.m.
until 11 :00 a.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 races between the weekend after Labor Day
and the weekend before Thanksgiving each year. There shall
also be a minimum of 8 weeks between each race.
(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.
(f) 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 along the route.
(g) 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
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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 (g) 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 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 thirty
days after its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Approved and adopted this 9th day of August, 2005.
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 2163 (CCS) had its introduction on July 26,2005, and was
adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on August 9, 2005, by the
following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Mayor Pro Tem Katz, Bloom, Genser, Holbrook, Shriver
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: Mayor O'Connor, McKeown
ATTEST:
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Maria M. Stewa ,City Clerk
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