HomeMy WebLinkAbout031403 ORD - 03/27/2018 Ordinance amending Code of Ordinances to decrease the speed limit on
Beach Access Road 3A; providing for penalty
WHEREAS, in accordance with the Texas Transportation Code and City Code of
Ordinances, the maximum reasonable and prudent speed upon the streets of the
city is 30 miles per hour;
WHEREAS, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, City Council
can declare a different speed to be the maximum reasonable and prudent speed;
WHEREAS, speed studies determine the 85'h percentile speed, which represents
the speed most drivers will be traveling at or below, but the final speed limit may
be reduced up to 10 miles per hour based on engineering judgment and other
factors considered during the engineering and traffic investigation;
WHEREAS, the speed study on Beach Access Road 3A, from Saint Bartholomew
Avenue to the beach, determined that the 85'h percentile speed was 15 miles per
hour;
WHEREAS, other factors considered during the engineering and traffic
investigation were (1) lack of shoulders, (2) narrow pavement widths, (3) beach
access, and (4) lack of street lighting;
WHEREAS, based on the engineering and traffic investigation, the final speed limit
on Beach Access Road 3A, from Saint Bartholomew Avenue to the beach should
be reduced to 15 miles per hour.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. All of the Recitals are hereby found to be true and correct legislative
and factual findings of the City of Corpus Christi Texas, and they are hereby
approved and the Recitals are incorporated for all purposes as if they were fully
recited herein.
SECTION 2. City Code of Ordinances, Chapter 53 Traffic, Article VIII Schedules,
Section 53-255 Schedule VI, Decrease of state law maximum speed revised as
follows:
"Sec. 53-255. — Schedule VI, Decrease of state law maximum speed.
It is hereby determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation
that the speed permitted by state law upon the the following street is greater than
is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets and it
is hereby declared that the speed limit shall be as herin set forth on those streets
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or parts of streets herein designated at the time specified when signs are erected
giving notice therof:
Beach Access Road 3A:
From Saint Bartholomew Avenue to beach – 15 mph — At all times.
SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase,
word or provision of this ordinace shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final
judgement of a court of cometent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section,
paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance, for it
is definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its
purpose.
SECTION 4. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of
the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption stating the purpose of
the ordinance. This ordinance to become effective upon such publication.
SECTION 5. A violation of this ordinance, or requirements implemented under this
ordinance, constitutes an offense punishable as provided in Section 1-6 of the
Corpus Christi Code of Ordinances.
That the foregoing ordin nce was read for the first time and passed to its second
reading on this the ay or-(/AVYC L., 2018, by the following vote:
Joe McComb Ben Molina —ale—
Rudy Garza 4. Lucy Rubio
Paulette Guajardo 04Greg Smith , i
Michael Hunter _lit_ 4- 44
Debbie Lindsey-Opel CUCZLKA"
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on
this the ,-;Q "ay of(-Mak C , 2018, by the following vote:
Joe McComb ! Ben Molina i ., !
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Rudy Garza I. . / Lucy Rubio
Paulette Guajardo I , ' Greg Smith
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Michael HunteraF1 el HuV Cit
Debbie Lindsey-Opel ait)
PASSED AND APPROVED on this the (Q11-
day of4140-)kra: , 2018.
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City Secretary ., or
EFFECTIVE DATE
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Certificate of NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF
Publication ORDINANCE(S)
NO.031403,Ordinance amend-
ing Code of Ordinances to
In Matter of Publication of: decrease the speed limit
on Beach Access Road 3A;
providing for penalty. This
ordinance was passed and
approved on second reading
by the Corpus Christi City
Council on March 27,2018.
/s/Rebecca Huerta
CORPUS CHRISTI City Secretary
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
PO BOX 9277
CORPUS CHRISTI,TX 78469-9277
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I,being first duly sworn,upon oath depose and say that I am a legal
clerk and employee of the publisher, namely, the Corpus Christi
Caller-Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in
said City and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks,
Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio,
and San Patricio, Counties, and that the publication of which the
annexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-
Times on the following dates:
April 2, 2018
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On this April 2,2018, I certify that th- .ttached document is a true
and exact copy made by publisher.
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