HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002-10-15; City Council; 16925; Speed Limit On Avenida EncinasCITY OF CARLSBAD -AGENDA BILL
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REVISE THE EXISTING PRIMA FACIE
SPEED LIMIT UPON A PORTION OF
AVENIDA ENCINAS
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Introduce Ordinance No. NS-648 to establish upon Avenida Encinas a prima facie 40 mile per hour speed limit from a point 3,500 feet southerly of Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with Palomar Airport Road.
ITEM EXPLANATION:
Avenida Encinas is designated as a secondary arterial on the Circulation Element of the General Plan. From a point 3,500 feet south of Palomar Airport Road to the intersection of Palomar Airport Road, the existing prima facie speed limit is 35 miles per hour. The Carlsbad Police Department requested that this speed zone be re-evaluated and be considered to have a
higher speed limit posted.
The subject portion of Avenida Encinas follows a relatively straight alignment and has been improved with curb and gutter, sidewalk, and street lights on the east side. An asphaltic-concrete berm is constructed on the west side. The road segment varies in width from 31 to 64 feet with
on-street parallel parking permitted in some locations.
A speed survey conducted in conjunction with updating the Engineering and Traffic Survey found a critical speed (85Ih percentile) of 42 miles per hour, with 90% of the vehicles within the pace speed of 35 to 45 miles per hour. The results of the Engineering and Traffic Survey, including the low collision rate, support raising the prima facie speed limit to 40 miles per hour on Avenida Encinas
from a point 3,500 feet southerly of Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with Palomar Airport Road.
Sections 22357 and 22358 of the California Vehicle Code authorize local authorities to establish a prima facie speed limit on the basis of the results of an Engineering and Traffic Survey.
The Engineering and Traffic Survey considers such factors as the number of collisions that have occurred on the road segment, roadway features, adjacent land uses, driveway locations, traffic volumes, pedestrian volumes, critical speed, horizontal and vertical alignment, stopping sight
distance, and conditions that may not be readily apparent to the driver.
At their meeting on August 5, 2002, the Traffic Safety Commission considered the results of the Engineering and Traffic Survey to revise the prima facie speed limit upon Avenida Encinas from a point 3,500 feet southerly of Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with Palomar Airport
Road. The Commission recommended by a 4-0 vote to establish a 40 mile per hour prima facie speed limit upon Avenida Encinas from a point 3,500 feet southerly of Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with Palomar Airport Road. The other previously established prima facie speed limits upon Avenida Encinas from Carlsbad Boulevard to Cannon Road will remain unchanged.
The current version of the Engineering and Traffic Survey is on file in the office of the City Traffic Engineer.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Replacing the existing speed limit signs upon Avenida Encinas will cost about $500.
EXHIBITS:
1. Location Map.
2. Ordinance No. NS-648 to establish upon Avenida Encinas a prima facie 40 mile per hour speed limit from a point 3,500 feet southerly of Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with Palomar Airport Road.
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ORDINANCE NO. NS-648
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER 10.44,
OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE AMENDMENT OF
SECTION 10.44.280 TO ESTABLISH A PRIMA FACIE 40 MILE PER
HOUR SPEED LIMIT UPON AVENIDA ENCINAS FROM A POINT
3,500 FEET SOUTHERLY OF PALOMAR AIRPORT ROAD TO ITS
INTERSECTION WITH PALOMAR AIRPORT ROAD.
The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, hereby ordains as follows:
SECTION 1: That Title 10, Chapter 10.44, of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended
~y the revision of Section 10.44.280 to read as follows:
“1 0.44.280 Avenida Encinas:
(a) Upon Avenida Encinas from Carlsbad Boulevard to a point three thousand
‘eet northerly of Poinsettia Lane, the prima facie speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour.
(b) Upon Avenida Encinas from a point three thousand feet northerly of
’oinsettia Lane to a point three thousand five hundred feet southerly of Palomar Airport Road, the
xima facie speed limit shall be thirty miles per hour.
(c) Upon Avenida Encinas from a point three thousand five hundred feet
;outherly of Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with Palomar Airport Road, the prima facie
;peed limit shall be forty miles per hour.
(d) Upon Avenida Encinas from Palomar Airport Road to its intersection with
2annon Road, the prima facie speed limit shall be forty miles per hour.”
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its adoption and
he City Clerk, City of Carlsbad, shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be
mblished at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Carlsbad within fifteen
:15) days after its adoption.
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INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the
15th day of OCTOBER , 2002, and thereafter,
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Council
held on the day of , 2002 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
CLAUDE A. LEWIS, Mayor
ATTEST
LORRAINE M. WOOD, City Clerk (SEAL)
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
RONALD R. BALL, City Attorney
Ordinance No. NS-648