HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1450ORDINANCE NO. 1450
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LYNWOOD AMENDING SECTION 7-10 OF THE LYNWOOD
CITY MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO PRIMA FACIE
SPEED LIMITS
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. SECTION 7-10 of the Lynwood City Code hereby is amended to
read as follows:
Section 7- 10. Increase or decrease of local speed limits on certain designated
streets.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of a traffic and engineering survey that the
prima facie speed permitted by State law in certain business and residential districts in the City
shall be changed to a speed limit declared to be reasonable and safe and which will be con~'ucive
to the orderly movement of vehicular traffic under the conditions found to exist upon such streets,
and it is hereby declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be as herein set forth on those
streets herein designated when signs are erected giving notice thereof:
1. Abbott Road, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Atlantic Ave. 35 miles per hour
2. Alameda Street, 103rd Street to South City limit 40 miles per hour
3. Atlantic Ave., Noah City Limit to Imperial Hwy. 35 miles per hour
4. Atlantic Ave., Imperial Hwy. to Fernwood Ave. 35 miles per hour
5. Atlantic Ave., Fernwood Ave. to South City Limit 40 miles per hour
6. Bulbs Road, Imperial Hwy. to Orchard Ave. 35 miles per hour
7. California Ave., Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. to Imperial Hwy. 35 miles per hour
8. California Ave., Imperial Hwy. to Fernwood Ave. 25 miles per hour
9. Carlin Ave., Bullis Road to Olanda Ave. i5 miles per hour
0. Duncan Ave., imperial Hwy. to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 30 miles per hour
] 1. Fernwood Ave., Wright Road to Alameda Street 35 miles per hour
12. Imperial Hwy., Nlona Blvd. to Fernwood Ave. 40 miles per hour
13. Imperial Hwy., Fernwood Ave. to State Street 40 miles per hour
14. Imperial riwy., State Street to Main Luther King Jr. Blvd. 35 miles per hour
I5. Tmperial Hwy., Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Bullis Road 35 miles per hour
16. imperial Hwy., Bullis Rd. to East City Limit 40 miles per hour
17. Long Beach Blvd., Tweedy Blvd. to South City Limit 35 miles per hour
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18. Lynwood Road, Bullis Road to Long Beach Blvd. 25 miles per hour
19. Lynwood Road, Long Beach Blvd. to Alameda Street 30 miles per hour
20. Martin Luther King 3r. Blvd. , Alameda Street to California Ave. 40 miles per hour
2 L Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., California Ave. to Bullis Road 35 miles per hour
22. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Bullis Road to Atlantic Ave. 40 miles per hour
23. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Atlantic Ave. to East City Limit 35 miles per hour
24. Norton Ave., Imperial Hwy. to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 35 miles per hour
25. Norton Ave., Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to State Street 30 miles per hour
26. Norton Ave., State Street to Alameda Street 25 miles per hour
27. Santa Fe Ave., Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Norton Ave. 35 miles per hour
28. Santa Fe Ave., Norton Ave. to Fernwood Ave. 30 miles per hour
29 State Street, Tweedy Blvd. to Long Beach Blvd. 35 miles per hour
30. State Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Cedar Ave. 35 miles per hour
31. State Street/Santa Fe Ave., Cedar Ave. to south City limit 40 miles per hour
32. Wright Road, Duncan Ave. to Fernwood Ave. 30 miles per hour
SECTION 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision. sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or place, is for
any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance
or its application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or
portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivision,
sentences, clauses, phrases or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance by the
City Council of the City of Lynwood and cause the same to be published in the manner required
by law, and said ordinance shall become effective thirty days after its final passage.
INTRODUCED, THIS 18th DAY OF February 1997.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 4th DAY OF
_ March ___, 1497.
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PAUL H. RICHARDS II, Mayor
City of Lynwood
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ANDREA L. HOOPER, City Clerk F.AUS I ON ~ - -ES
City of £,ynwood City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
APPROVED THIS CONTENT:
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City Attorney
City of Lynwood
STA"fE OF CAL[FORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
SS.
EM1L1O M. MU1zGA, Assistant City
Manager -Environmental Services
Director of Public Works
1, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, do hereby certify that the above and
foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
thereof held in the City Hall of the City on the 4th day of March , 1997, and
passed by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
SS.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
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City Clerk, City of Lynwood
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and Clerk of the City Council of said City,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance
No. 1450 on file in my office and that said Ordinance was adopted on the date and by the
vote therein stated. Dated this 4th day of March
1997.
City Clerk, City of Lynwood
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C97-2600