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MTG. 5/17/94 30 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT CITY
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
UPON LOKER AVENUE WEST FROM
PALOMAR AIRPORT ROAD TO EL FUERTE STREET
Introduce Ordinance No. /VS-ASt to establish a prima facie 30 mile per hour sper
upon Loker Avenue West from Palomar Airport Road to El Fuerte Street.
ITEM EXPLANATION:
Tk? C#lglsael Psliek! Dk!bartmenl requegted Engineering Department staf ta can( engineering and traffic survey on Loker Avenue West to establish a prima facie spe on this unposted roadway. Loker Avenue West is an industrial collector in the Ci
Oaks industrial park located northerly of Palomar Airport Road.
The roadway is approximately 0.67 miles in length with a curb-to-curb width of 52 recent traffic count indicates 3,600 vehicles per day on Loker Avenue West, westei Fuerte Street. On-street parking occurs on both sides of the street and no bicycll
are striped on the road.
Sections 22357 and 22358 of the California Vehicle Code authorizes local authoi
establish a prima facie speed limit on the basis of the results of an engineering an(
survey. Staff presented the results of the survey to the Traffic Safety Commisz
May 2, 1994. The engineering and traffic survey considered such factors as the r
volumes, pedestrian volumes and crossing locations, adjacent land uses, dl locations, design speed, and the critical speed. Based upon the results of the engii and traffic survey, the Commission recommended, by a 5-0 vote, that a prima facie per hour speed limit be established upon Loker Avenue West from Palomar Airpo
to its intersection with El Fuerte Street.
of collisions that have previously occurred on this road segment, roadway features
FISCAL IMPACT
Installation of four (4) speed limit signs and posts will cost approximately $500.
EXHIBITS:
1. Location map.
2. Ordinance No. N5-d& to establish a prima facie 30 mile per hour speed lirr
Loker Avenue West from Palomar Airport Road to El Fuerte Street.
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ORDINANCE NO. NS-281
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 10.44, OFTHE CARLSBAD
MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE ADDITION OF SECTION 10.44.460 TO
ESTABLISH A PRIMA FACIE 30 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT UPON
LOKER AVENUE WEST FROM PALOMAR AIRPORT ROAD TO ITS
INTERSECTION WITH EL FUERTE STREET,
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, hereby ordains
SECTION 1 : That Title 10, Chapter 10.44, of the Carlsbad Municipal Code
by the addition of Section 10.44.460 to read as follows:
"1 0.44.460 Loker Avenue West:
Upon Loker Avenue West from Palomar Airport Road to its intersection wit
Street, the prima facie speed limit shall be thirty miles per hour."
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its ac
the City Clerk, City of Carlsbad, shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and ca
published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Carl5
fifteen (15) days after its adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of said City Council I
1Sdayof MAY , 1994, and thereafter,
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad C
held on the day of , 1994 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
CLAUDE A. LEWIS, Mayor
ATTEST:
ALETHA L. RAUTENKRANZ, City Clerk (SEAL)
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