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ORDINANCE NO.
87-0-24
PRESENTED
ADOPTED
August 12, 1987
August 12, 1987
AN ORDINANCE: AMENDING SECTION 10-131 OF THE TOWN CODE
WHEREAS, as requested by the Town of Leesburg, an engineering and
traffic investigation was conducted by the Virginia Department of
Transportation (VDOT) which substantiates the need to adjust speed
limits on East Market Street:
THEREFORE, ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia
as follows:
Section I Section 10-131 of the Town Code is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 10-131. Speed Limits
The maximum speed limits on streets within town shall be 25 miles
per hour, or as prescribed in this section, and no person shall drive
a motor vehicle in excess of such maximum limits. Upon the following
streets within the town, between the points hereinafter indicated,
the maximum speed limit shall be the speed hereinafter indicated and
no person shall drive a motor vehicle between such points in excess
of such maximum speed limit:
(a) King Street: 55 miles per hour from Balls Bluff Road to
500 feet north of the 1983 corporate limits.
(b) King Street: 35 miles per hour from 500 feet north of the
1983 corporate limits.
(c) King Street: 35 miles per hour from First Street to 300
feet south of Country Club Drive.
(d) King Street: 45 miles per hour from 300 feet south of
Country Club Drive to the south corporate limits.
(e) Edwards Ferry Road: 35 miles per hour from Plaza Street to
the east corporate limits.
(f)
Market Street: ~-mltes-9e~-hem~-£~m-thm-Qast-~o=pQ~ate
~m~s-~o-6OO-~ee~-eas~-e~-~aws~-Rgad 55 miles per hour
from the east corporate limits to 320 feet east of Cardinal
Park Drive.
(g) Market Street:
~w~n-~M-~-R~e-~-byp~s-(m~h-em~amce~. 45 miles
per hour from 320 feet east of Cardinal Park Drive to
~.. Route 15 bypass (north entrance).
(h) Market Street: 35 miles per hour from Route 15 bypass
(north entrance) to 1000 feet east of Fort Evans Road.
(i) Evergreen Mill Road: 35 miles per hour.
(j) Masons Lane: 35 miles per hour from South King Street to
Evergreen Mill Road.
(k) Long Lane: 35 miles per hour from Evergreen Mill Road to
1000 feet east of Evergreen Mill Road intersection.
(1) Long Lane: 45 miles per hour from 1000 feet east of
Evergreen Mill Road intersection to Sycolin Road.
(m) Lawson Road: 35 miles per hour from Sycolin Road to 1200
feet east of Sycolin Road.
(n) Sycolin Road: 45 miles per hour from the Route 15 bypass to
the south corporate limits.
(o) Route 15 and Route 7 bypass: 55 miles per hour exclusive of
access ramps.
SECTION II. The manager shall clearly indicate by markers or signs
the maximum speed limits established by this ordinance.
SECTION III. Ail prior ordinances and resolutions in conflict herewith
are repealed.
SECTION IV. This ordinance shall be effective upon the placement of
appropriate signs and markers indicating the maximum speed limits esta-
blished herein.
PASSED this 12th day of August
ATTEST:
Clerk of C/uncil
Robert E. Sevila, Mayor
Town of Leesburg