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Home My WebLink About1987-12-08; City Council; 9237; Designate Pontiac Drive as a through street'C n w > 0 cx e e a .. z 0 E a =1 0 z 3 0 0 ~1~53 OF CARLSBAD - AGENDLBILL 3 DESIGNATE PONTIAC DRIVE AS A THROUGH STREET AND ESTABLISH A 35 M.P.H. PRIMA MTG. 12/8/87 LIMIT ON A PORTION OF PONTIAC DRIVE RECOMMENDED ACTION: Introduce Ordinance No. 3 2 2 installing STOP signs on streets intersecting Pontiac Drive. Introduce Ordinance No. Lq 22 b to establish a 35 mile per hour prima facie speed limit on Pontiac Drive from Tamarack Avenue northerly to Victoria Avenue. ITEM EXPLANATION At the October 5, 1987 meeting of the Traffic Safety Commission, the Commission unanimously recommended that Pontiac Drive be declared a THROUGH STREET and that a 35 mile per hour prima facie speed limit be established on Pontiac Drive for a distance 0.70 miles north of Tamarack Avenue to Victoria Avenue. Current practice is for the location of STOP signs controlling access to THROUGH STREETS to be approved by Ordinance and included in the Carlsbad Municipal Code after a traffic study is completed to determine if a street should be designated as a THROUGH STREET. Section 600 of the California Vehicle Code allows cities to designate a roadway as a THROUGH STREET, thereby providing the mechanism to place stop signs on all minor intersecting streets. In the City of Carlsbad, the pol icy for determining THROUGH STREETS states: A THROUGH STREET may be established when any of the following conditions exist: A. B. C. 2,000 vehicles per day on the proposed THROUGH STREET. 1,000 vehicles per day, and: 1. 2. is a natural route which is an extension of a THROUGH 3. serves as a residential collector route or is a 4. an analysis of reported accidents indicates a need for Fifty percent (50%) or more of the intersections between the limits of the proposed THROUGH STREET are controlled by traffic signals, stop signs or yield signs, or meet the warrants for such control s. is a regularly scheduled bus route; STREET; Circulation Element street on the City's General Plan; control of crossing conflicts. PAGE 2 OF AGENDA BILL NO. 923 7 The results of a traffic study to determine the THROUGH STREET designation and prima facia speed limit were discussed at the Commission meeting. Of the 15 streets intersecting Pontiac Drive, nine (9) have right of way control. Therefor, Condition C is met and a THROUGH STREET was recommended. STOP control would be installed at the six (6) uncontrolled intersecting streets and the four (4) YIELD controlled intersections changed to STOP control. A traffic and engineering survey was completed as required by the California Vehicle Code to determine the prima facie speed limit on the southerly portion of Pontiac Drive. Based upon the results of the survey, a 35 mile per hour prima facie speed limit was recommended by the Commission on Pontiac Drive from Tamarack Avenue northerly 0.70 miles to Victoria Avenue. Beginning at Victoria Avenue northerly to Elm Avenue, Pontiac Drive has a 25 miles per hour prima facie speed limit since this portion of the road qualifies as a "residence district" per the California Vehicle Code. FISCAL IMPACT Installation of 10 STOP signs and two (2) speed limit signs will cost $1,300.00 EXHIBITS 1. Location Map - Proposed 35 m.p.h. speed zone. 2. Location Map - Proposed THROUGH STREET. 3. Ordinance No. J222- installing STOP signs on all streets intersecting Pontiac Drive. 4. Ordinance No.3 2a b to establish a prima facie 35 mile per hour speed limit on a portion of Pontiac Drive. LOCATION k-AP - EXISTING POSTED 25 MPH RESIDENTIAL SPEED ZONE VICTORIA AV. TO ELM AVE. '- PROPOSED 35 MPH SPEED ZONE I FROM TAMARACK AVENUE TO VICTORIA AVENUE 0.7 mi. "- -* REGENT RD. 1 SOUTHAMPTON RD. TAMARACK AVE. NORTH N.T.S. i N.T S. VICINITY MAP PROJECT NAME: PONTIAC DRIVE - [EXHIBIT PROPOSED 35 'MPH SPEED LIMIT 1. - c OCATION MA? TAMARACK AVE. NORTH N.T.S. LEGEND DNEW STOP SIGN @ EXISTING STOP SIGN @ EXISTING YIELD SIGN NOTE: ALL INTERSECTING STREETS SHALL HAVE STOP SIGNS INSTALLEL A I N i Nrs VICI ~ ~~ ~ ~~ PROJECT NAME- PONTIAC DRIVE - PROPOSED THROUGH STREET JITY MAF EXHIBIT 2 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 24 25 26 27 20 ORDINANCE NO 3225 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 10.28 OF TH CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE ADDITION OF SECTION 10.28.400 REQUIRING STOPS FOR STREET INTERSECTING PONTIAC The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, hereby ordains as foll ows: SECTION 1: That Title 10, Chapter 10.28 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended by the addition of Section 10.28.400 to read as follows: "10.28.400 Pontiac Drive. Drivers shall stop where the following described streets intersect Pontiac Drive: Olympia Drive Spokane Way Ti buron Avenue Chestnut Avenue Brighton Road Athens Avenue Mayfai r Court York Road Southampton Road Victoria Avenue Coventry Road Aval on Avenue Regent Road. It Sausal i to Avenue EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty days after its adopt on, and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of the ordinance and cause it to be published at least once in the Carlsbad dournal within fifteen days after its adoption. INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 22nd day of December , 1987, and thereafter, I// I// I// I// I// I// I// .* . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2a PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Council held on the 5th day of January ,1988, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Council Members Lewis, Kulchin, Pettine, Mamaux and Larson NOES: None ABSENT: None ,* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ORDINANCE NO. 3226 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 0 CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 10.44 OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE ADDITION OF SECTION 10.44.270 TO ESTABLISH THE SPEED LIMIT ON PONTIAC DRIVE FROM TAMARACK AVENUE TO VICTORIA AVENUE. The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, hereby ordains as foll ows: SECTION 1: That title 10, Chapter 10.44 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended by the addition of Section 10.44.270 to read as follows: "10.44.270 Pontiac Drive: Upon Pontiac Drive from Tamarack Avenue to its intersection with Victoria Avenue, the prima facie speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour." EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after it adoption and the City Clerk, City of Carlsbad shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be published at least once in the Carlsbad Journal within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 2 2nd day of December , 1987, and thereafter, PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Eouncil held on the 5th day of January ,1988, by the following vote, to Mit: AYES: Council Members Lewis, Kulchin, Pettine, Mamaux and Larson 9TT E ST : 9LETHA L. RAUTENKRANZ, City Clerh (SEAL) OL% iR Q-