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CITY OF CARLSBAD - AGENDA BILL
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AB# 20.748
MTG. 12/06/11
DEPT. Clerk
REDUCTION OF THE SPEED LIMIT
ON LA COSTA AVENUE
DEPT. DIRECTOR ^f^
CITY ATTORNEY : ^ J~
CITY MANAGER
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Adopt Ordinance No. cs-165 reducing the existing 45 mile per hour prima facie speed
limit upon La Costa Avenue from 1000' east of El Camino Real to Rancho Santa Fe Road to 40
miles per hour.
ITEM EXPLANATION:
Ordinance No. CS-165 was introduced and first read at the City Council meeting held on
November 8, 2011. The second reading allows the City Council to adopt the ordinance which
will become effective thirty days after adoption. The City Clerk will have the ordinance
published within fifteen days, if adopted.
FISCAL IMPACT:
See AB #20,738 on file in the Office of the City Clerk.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT:
Carlsbad Municipal Code Title 19, Environmental Protection Procedures, identifies minor
municipal code amendments which do not lead to physical improvements beyond those
typically exempt or which refine or clarify existing land use standards as being exempt from the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and thus not requiring environmental review. This
exemption is pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 1506' (b) 3, which states "when it can
be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a
significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA."
EXHIBITS:
1. Ordinance No. CS-165.
DEPARTMENT CONTACT: Karen Kundtz 760-434-2808 Karen.Kundtz@carlsbadca.gov
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1 ORDINANCE NO. CS-165
2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 10, CHAPTER
3 10.44, OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE
REVISION OF SECTION 10.44.070 TO DECREASE THE
4 EXISTING 45 MILE PER HOUR PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT
UPON LA COSTA AVENUE FROM 1,000 FEET EAST OF EL
5 CAMINO REAL TO RANCHO SANTA FE ROAD TO 40 MILES
PER HOUR.
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The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, hereby ordains as follows:
That Title 10, Chapter 10.44 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is amended by the revision
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of Section 10.44.070 to read as follows:
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"10.44.070 La Costa Avenue:
10 (a) Upon La Costa Avenue from El Camino Real to a point one thousand feet easterly
11 the prima facie speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour.
12 (b) Upon La Costa Avenue from a point one thousand feet easterly of El Camino Real to
its intersection with Rancho Santa Fe Road shall be forty miles per hour.
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(c) Upon La Costa Avenue from Rancho Santa Fe Road to its intersection with Camino
14 de los Coches shall be forty-five miles per hour.
15 (d) Upon La Costa Avenue from Interstate Highway 5 to its intersection with El Camino
16 Real the prima facie speed limit shall be fifty-five miles per hour.
17 EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its adoption; and
18 the City Clerk shall certify the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be published at least once
19 in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Carlsbad within fifteen (15) days after its
20 adoption.
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INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a Regular Meeting of the Carlsbad City
Council on the 8th day of November 2011, and thereafter.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council
of the City of Carlsbad on the 6th day of December 2011 by the following vote to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Council Members Hall, Kulchin, Blackburn, Douglas, Packard.
None.
None.
None.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
RONTCLD R. BALL, City Attorney
MATT HALL, Mayor
ATTEST:
.ORRAJNE M. WOOD, City Clerk
(SEAL)