HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 18 - Kimball Road Speed LimitMEMO TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: BRUNO RUMBELOW, CITY MANAGER ek
MEETING DATE: JUNE 16, 2015
SUBJECT: ESTABLISH A 40 MPH SPEED LIMIT ON NORTHBOUND
KIMBALL ROAD FROM SHADY LANE TO DOVE ROAD
RECOMMENDATION:
City Council consider adopting an ordinance amending the Grapevine Code of
Ordinances Chapter 23 Traffic, Section 23-26, Speed Limits Schedule for certain
public streets and ways, establishing a 40 mph speed limit on Northbound Kimball Road
between Shady Lane (south city limit) and Dove Road and take any necessary action.
Kimball Road from State Highway 114 to Dove Road was recently widened from a two-
lane undivided roadway to a four -lane divided arterial roadway. On June 2, 2015 the
Southlake City Council approved an ordinance on first reading establishing a 40 mph
speed limit on the section of roadway lying in Southlake. They will take final action with
a second reading on June 16.
The Grapevine/Southlake common city limits line runs down the center of the roadway
from Dove Road, south to Shady Lane. From that point south to SH 114, the entire
roadway lies within Southlake.
Speed limits are established based upon the following factors:
o The 85th percentile speed (the speed at which reasonable and prudent drivers
operate their vehicles)
o Design speed of the roadway
o Road surface, grade, alignment, and sight distance
o Adjacent development
The speed study prepared for the City of Southlake indicated an 85th percentile speed of
42 mph. The design speed for the new roadway is 45 mph.
The attached exhibit illustrates the location of the speed limit change.
Staff recommends approval.
June 10, 2015 (4:09PM)
ORDINANCE NO. X I AMAU- I&AD
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS AMENDING THE GRAPEVINE CODE
OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 23 TRAFFIC, SECTION 23-26,
SPEED LIMITS - SCHEDULE FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC
STREETS AND WAYS, ALTERING THE PRIMA FACIE
SPEED LIMITS ESTABLISHED FOR VEHICLES UNDER THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 167 AND 169 OF ARTICLE XIX,
R.C.S. 6701 d, UNIFORM ACT REGULATING TRAFFIC ON
HIGHWAYS, UPON THE BASIS OF AN ENGINEERING AND
TRAFFIC INVESTIGATION UPON CERTAIN STREETS AND
HIGHWAYS, OR PARTS THEREOF, WITHIN THE
CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE AS SET
OUT IN THE ORDINANCE; AUTHORIZING THE ERECTION
OF TRAFFIC REGULATION SIGNS; REPEALING
CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A PENALTY OF
FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($500.00); PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, Sections 167 and 169 of Article XIX, R.C.S. 6701 d, Uniform Act
Regulating Traffic on Highways, provide that whenever the governing body of the City shall
determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any prima facie
speed therein set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions
found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of a street or highway,
with the City taking into consideration the width and condition of the pavement and other
circumstances on such portion of said street or highway, as well as the usual traffic
thereon, said governing body may determine and declare a reasonable and safe prima
facie speed limit thereat or thereon by the passage of an ordinance, which shall be
effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection or
other place or part of the street or highway.
NOW, •RORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCILOF OF
GRAPEVINE,
Section 1. That Chapter 23 Traffic, Section 23-26, Speed Limits - Schedule for
Certain Public Streets and Ways of the Grapevine Code of Ordinances is hereby amended
upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation heretofore made as authorized by
the provisions of Sections 167 and 169 of Article XIX, R.C.S. 6701d, Uniform Act.
40" "Kimball Road, from Shady Lane (South City Limit) to Dove Road, northbound ....
Section 2. That the City Manager, or his designee, is hereby authorized to have
the proper traffic signs erected, constructed, and placed at such points along said
highways, streets or alleys, or portions hereof under construction, maintenance or repair so
that travelers will be reasonably notified of said traffic regulations.
Section 3. That all ordinances or any parts thereof in conflict with the terms of this
ordinance shall be and hereby are deemed repealed and of no force or effect; provided,
however, that the ordinance or ordinances under which the cases currently filed and
pending in the Municipal Court of the City of Grapevine, Texas, shall be deemed repealed
only when all such cases filed and pending under such ordinance or ordinances have been
disposed of by a final conviction or a finding not guilty or nolo contendere, or dismissal.
Section 4. That any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum
not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and a separate offense shall be deemed
committed upon each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
Section 5. That if any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or
word in this ordinance, or application thereto any person or circumstances is held invalid or
unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and the City Council hereby declares it
would have passed such remaining portions of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which
remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 6. That the fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the City of
Grapevine, Texas are inadequate to properly safeguard the health, safety, morals, peace
and general welfare of the public creates an emergency which requires that this ordinance
become effective from and after the date of its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this the 16th day of June 2015.
ATTEST:
ORD. NO. 2
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