Ordinance Number 911' ORDINANCE NO. 911
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS AT VARIOUS
LOCATIONS BY AMENDING SECTION 4-6.501, ARTICLE 5, TITLE 4 OF
THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MUNICIPAL CODE.
WHEREAS, California Vehicle Code Section 627defines an Engineering and Traffic Survey
to include a consideration of all of the following:
1) Prevailing speeds as determined by traffic engineering measurements;
2) Accident records;
3) Highway, traffic, and roadside conditions not readily apparent to the driver; and,
WHEREAS, the City of San Juan Capistrano has completed an Engineering and Traffic
Survey pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 22357, 22358 and 22358.3.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of San
Juan Capistrano, California, does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Establishment of Prima Facie Speed Limits.
' The San Juan Capistrano Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "Article
5"
"Section 4-6.501. Established.
"Pursuant to the provisions of Section 22357, 22358 and 22358.3 of the California
Vehicle Code, prima facie speed limits in the City of San Juan Capistrano are hereby
determined and declared as follows:
"(a) Fifteen miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the following
streets, or portions of streets, shall be fifteen (15) miles per hour:
"(1) Los Rios Street from Del Obispo Street to Verdugo Street;
"(2) Los Rios Street from Verdugo Street to Mission Street.
"(b) Twenty-five miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the
following streets, or portions of streets, shall be twenty-five (25) miles per hour:
"(1) Avenida de la Vista from Oso Road to La Zanja Street;
' "(2) Avenida de la Vista from La Zanja to its southerly end;
"(3) Avenida Positiva from Alipaz Street to Camino Del Avion;
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"(4) Calle Arroyo from La Novia Avenue to Calle Del Campo;
"(5) Calle Arroyo from Calle Del Campo to Avenida Siega;
"(6) Camino Capistrano from Del Obispo Streetto Ortega Highway;
"(7) EI Camino Real from Forster Street to La Zanja Street;
"(8) La Zanja Street from Avenida de la Vista to Camino
Capistrano;
"(9) Ortega Highway from Camino Capistrano to 1-5;
"(10) Paseo Adelanto from Del Obispo to its southerly end;
"(11) Via de Agua from Camino Las Ramblas to its northerly end;
"(12) Village Road from Rancho Viejo Road to Trabuco Creek Road.
"(c) Thirty miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the following
streets, or portions of streets, shall be thirty (30) miles per hour:
"(1) Aguacate Road from Del Obispo Street to its northerly end;
"(2) Avenida Aeropuerto from Camino Capistrano to its westerly
end;
"(3) Alipaz Street from its southerly end to Camino Del Avion;
"(4) Alipaz Street from Del Obispo Street to its northerly end;
"(5) Calle Arroyo from its westerly end to Rancho Viejo Road;
"(6) Camino la Ronda from La Novia Avenue to its easterly end;
"(7) Doheny Park Road from the southerly City Limits to Camino
Capistrano;
"(8) Mission Hills Drive from Rancho Viejo Road to its easterly end;
"(9) Paseo Adelanto from Del Obispo to its northerly end;
"(10) Rancho Viejo Road from Calle Arroyo to Ortega Highway;
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"(11) Via Entrada from La Novia to the private gate.
' "(d) Thirty-five miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the
following streets, or portions of streets, shall be thirty-five (35) miles per hour:
"(1) Calle Arroyo from Rancho Viejo Road to La Novia Avenue;
"(2) Calle Aspero from Del Obispo Street to Peppertree Bend;
"(3) Camino Capistrano from San Juan Creek Road to Del Obispo
Street;
"(4) Camino Capistrano from Ortega Highway to La Zanja Street;
"(5) Del Obispo Street from Calle Aspero to Alipaz Street;
"(6) Del Obispo Street from Alipaz Street to Camino Capistrano;
"(7) Del Obispo Street from Camino Capistrano to Ortega Highway;
"(8) La Novia Avenue from Ortega Highway to San Juan Creek
Road;
' "(9) Ortega Highway from 1-5 to Rancho Viejo Road;
"(10) San Juan Creek Road from La Novia Avenue to Avenida La
Mancha;
"(11) Trabuco Creek Road from Rancho Viejo Road to its easterly
end;
"(12) Valle Road from its southerly end to 1-5/1-a Novia Avenue
"(13) Valle Road from 1-5/1-a Novia Avenue to San Juan Creek
Road.
"(e) Forty miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the following
streets, or portions of streets, shall be forty (40) miles per hour:
"(1) Alipaz Street from Camino Del Avion to Calle Rolando;
"(2) Alipaz Street from Calle Rolando to Del Obispo Street;
' "(3) Camino Capistrano from Doheny Park Road to Stonehill Drive;
"(4) Camino Del Avion from Shipside Drive to Del Obispo Street;
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"(5) Camino Del Avion from Del Obispo Street to the Avenida
Positiva;
"(6) Camino Del Avion from Avenida Positiva to Alipaz Street;
"(7) Camino Las Ramblas from 1-5 to Via California;
"(8) Del Obispo Street from Camino Del Avion to Calle Aspero;
"(9) Highland Drive from Rancho Viejo Road to Windsor Drive;
"(10) Highland Drive from Windsor Drive to Hillside Terrace;
"(11) Junipero Serra Road from Rancho Viejo Road to Camino
Capistrano;
"(12) La Novia Avenue from San Juan Creek Road to Via Sequoia;
"(13) La Novia Avenue from Via Sequoia to Via Capri (West);
"(14) La Novia Avenue from Via Capri (West) to Valle Road;
"(15) Ortega Highway from Rancho Viejo Road to La Novia Avenue;
"(16) Ortega Highway from La Novia Avenue to Via Cordova/Hunt
Club Drive;
"(17) San Jan Creek Road from Avenida La Mancha to its easterly
end.
"(f) Forty-five miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the
following streets, or portions of streets, shall be forty-five (45) miles per hour:
"(1) Camino Capistrano from Stonehill Drive to Avenida
Aeropuerto;
"(2) Camino Capistrano from Avenida Aeropuerto to San Juan
Creek Road;
"(3) Camino Capistrano from La Zanja Street to Oso Road;
"(4) Camino Capistrano from Oso Road to Junipero Serra Road;
"(5) Camino Capistrano from Junipero Serra Road to the northerly -
City Limits;
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"(6) Camino Las Ramblas from Via California to Avenida Pescador;
' "(7) Camino Las Ramblas from Avenida Pescador its easterly end;
"(8) Del Obispo Street from the southerly City Limits to Camino Del
Avion;
"(9) Ortega Highway from Via Cordova/Hunt Club Drive to the
easterly City Limits;
"(10) Rancho Viejo Road from Ortega Highway to Golf Club Drive;
"(11) Rancho Viejo Road from Golf Club Drive to Junipero Serra
Road;
"(12) Rancho Viejo Road from Junipero Serra Road to Village Road;
"(13) Rancho Viejo Road from Village Road to the northerly City
Limits;
"(14) San Juan Creek Road from Camino Capistrano to Calle
Caballero (East);
' "(15) San Juan Creek Road from Calle Caballero (East) to La Novia
Avenue.
"(g) Fifty miles per hour. The prima facie speed limits on the following
streets, or portions of streets, shall be fifty (50) miles per hour:
"(1) Stonehill Drive from the westerly City Limits to Camino
Capistrano.
SECTION 2. Legislative Funds in Support of Prima Facie Speed Limits.
The Legislative findings in support of prima facie speed limits previously set forth by the
City Council in Ordinance No. 520, adopted on October 16, 1984, Ordinance No. 588,
adopted on December 16, 1987, Ordinance No. 621, adopted on January 19, 1988,
Ordinance No. 659, adopted on February 20, 1990, Ordinance No. 661, adopted on April 3,
1990, Ordinance No. 680, adopted on December 11, 1990, Ordinance No. 727, adopted
on March 16, 1993, Ordinance No. 757, adopted on December 6, 1994, Ordinance No.
830, adopted on January 5, 1999 and Ordinance No. 847, adopted on March 21, 2000,
shall continue to remain in effect unless amended herein.
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SECTION 3. Effective Date.
The Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days after its passage.
SECTION 4. City Clerk's Certification.
The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause the same to be
posted at the duly designated posting places within the City and published once within
fifteen (15) days after passage and adoption as required by law; or, in the alternative, the
City Clerk may cause to be published a summary of this Ordinance and a certified copy of
the text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the Office of the City Clerk five (5) days priorto
the date of adoption of this Ordinance; and, within fifteen (15) days after adoption, the City
Clerk shall cause to be published, the aforementioned summary and shall post a certified
copy of this Ordinance, together with the vote for and against the same, in the Office of the
City Clerk.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 21 s` day of February 2006.
ATTEST:
MONAHAN, CITY CLERK
DAVID M. SWERDLIN, MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, MARGARET R. MONAHAN, appointed City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 911 which was regularly introduced and
placed upon its first reading at the Regular Meeting of the City Council on the 7'" day of February 2006
and that thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at the Regular Meeting of the City
Council on the 218'day of February 2006 by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Hart, Bathgate, Soto, Allevato and Mayor Swerdlin
NOES COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNZILM�MBERS: None
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
'COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, MARGARET R. MONAHAN, declare as follows:
That I am the duly appointed and qualified City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano; and in
compliance with State laws, Government Code section 36933(1) of the State of California, On the 15`
day of February 2006, at least 5 days prior to adoption of the Ordinance, I caused to be posted a
certified copy of the proposed Ordinance entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA,
ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS BY
AMENDING SECTION 4-6.501, ARTICLE 5, TITLE 4 OF THE SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO MUNICIPAL CODE
This Ordinance was introduced at the City Council meeting of February 7, 2006 and adopted at the
February 21, 2006 meeting. This document was posted in the O is the City Clerk
MA ARET R. MONAHAN, CITY CLERK
San Puan Capistrano, California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
I, MARGARET R. MONAHAN, declare as follows: That I am the duly appointed and qualified City
Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano; That in compliance with State laws, Government Code
section 36933(1) of the State of California, on the 23`d day of February 2006, within 15 days after
adoption of Ordinance No. 911, 1 caused to be posted a certified copy of Ordinance 911, adopted at
the February 21, 2006 City Council meeting entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA,
ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS BY
AMENDING SECTION 4-6.501, ARTICLE 5, TITLE 4 OF THE SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO MUNICIPAL CODE
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San Juan Capistrano, California