HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1372ORDINANCE N0. 1372
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COULdCIL 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
hgreb;. 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 conducive 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
2. Alameda Street,
103rd to south City limit
3. Atlantic Avenue, _
Abbott Road to McMillan Street
35 miles per hour
. 40 miles per hour
. 40 miles per hour
4. Bullis Road,
Imperial Highway to Orchard Avenue
5. California Avenue,
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd to
Imperial Hwy.
6. California Avenue,
Imperial Highway to Fernwood Avenue
7. Carlin Avenue,
Bullis Road to Olanda Avenue
8. Duncan Avenue,
Imperial Highway to
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
9. Fernwood Avenue,
Wright Road to Alameda Street
10. Imperial Highway,
East City Limit to
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
11. Imperial Highway,
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to
State Street
12. Imperial Highway,
State Street to Mona Blvd .
13. Long Beach Boulevard,
Tweedy Boulevard to South City Limit
. 35 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
25 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
30 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
40 miles per hour
. 35 miles per hour
40 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
14. Lynwood Road,
Bullis Road to Long Beach Boulevard .
15. Lynwood Road,
Long Beach Boulevard to Alameda Street
16. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
East City limit to Bullis Road. .
17. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
Bullis Road to California Avenue
25 miles per hour
30 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
13. Martin Luther riing JY. Baalevard,
California Avenue to Alameda Street 40 miles per hour
19. Norton Avenue,
Imperial Highway to
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
20. Norton Avenue,
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to
State Street
21. Norton Avenue,
State Street to Alameda Street
22. Santa Fe Avenue,
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to
Norton Avenue
23. Santa Fe Avenue,
Norton Avenue to Fernwood Avenue
24. State Street,
Tweedy Eoulevard to - --
Long Beach Boulevard
25. State Street,
35 miles per hour
30 miles per hour
25 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
30 miles per hour
35 miles per hour
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to
Cedar Avenue 35 miles per hour
26. State Street/Santa Fe Avenue
Cedar Avenue to south City limit 40 miles per hour
27. Wright Road,
Duncan Avenue to Fernwood Avenue
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 tP.ereof, 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 4th DAY OF February , 1992,
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 18th DAY OF February ,
1992.
L I.. HEI .r,, Nay
Ci~ of Lynwood
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
EMILIO M. MU A
Director of Public works
ATTEST:
ANDREA L. HOOPER, City Clerk
C1?-691
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, 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 Eall of the City on the lSrh day
of February , 1992, and passed by the following vote:
AYES: COIINCILMEliBERS BYRD, RICHARDS, HELLS, BEINE
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCII,lO?l~ER REA
City Clerk, City of Lynwood
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
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. 1372 on file in my office and that
said Ordinance was adopted on the date and by the vote therein
stated. Dated this 19th day of February 1992.
City Clerk, ity of Ly~iwood
C12-691