HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 1956-011RESOLUTION SETTING SPEED LIMITS ON STATE HIGHWAY
O. 114, STATE HIGHWAY NO. 121, AND STATE LOOP
O® 10 AS AUTHORIZED BY ORDINANCE NO. 4-8, REG-
ULATING TRAFFIC ON THE STREET'S OF THE CITY OF
GRAPEVINE, 'TEXAS,
Ordinance No. 54-8, regulating traffic on the streets
of the City of Grapevine, Texas, authorizes the City Council
of the City of Grapevine to set the speed limits on the streets
within the said city based on engineering and traffic Inves-
tigations,
WHEREAS, The State Highway Department, at the request of the
City Council, has made an engineering and traffic study o
State Highways 114 and 121 and State Loop 10 ( Dallas Road)
and has made recommendations as to the speed limits in these
areas,
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 54-8 provides that it shall be prima
facie unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a speed
in excess of any speed so declared when signs are in place
giving notice of such speed limits.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT r, BY
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HE CITY
#F GRAPEVINE,
Section 1. The following sections of streets shall be zoned
Cor e
A. On State Highway o. ll4 (Northwest Highway)
1. Beginning at the west City Limits line at
Dore Road and extending eastward to the
east boundary line of the W. C. Lucas
Addition, a distance of approximately
886 feet--------------------------------------- 5 mph.
® Beginning at the east boundary line of the
said Lucas Addition and extending eastward
to a point 475 feet east of Scribner Street ----45 mph.
3. Beginning at a point 475 feet east of Scrib-
ner Street and extending eastward 1,400 feet
o a point 105 feet east of Horth Starnes
Street --®------------------- 35 mph®
4. Beginning at a point 105 feet east of North
Starnes Street and extending 1,500 feet east-
ward to a point 545 feet east of Dooley Street- 40 mph.
5® Beginning at a point 545 feet east of Dooley
Street and extending eastward to the City
Limits lime at East Wall Street --------------- 45 mph.
B. On State Highway No. 12-11i
1. Beginning at a point at the west City Limits
at Ball Street and extending easterly to a .... )10 phi
point 110 feet west of Church Street -..
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2. Beginning at a point 110 feet west of Church
Street and extending eastward and northward
to the intersection with State Highway 114 ------ 30 mP1
C. On State Loop No. 10 ( Dallas Road):
1® Beginning at the Intersection with State
Highway 121 and extending eastward a distance
of 3,400 feet ---------------------------------- 40 mph.
2. Beginning at the end of the above speed zone
and extending eastward to the present City
Limits line ------------------------------------ 50 Mph.
Section 2. This resolution shall nullify a like resolution duly
passed on the 6th day of November, 1956 and numbered R56-10.
Section 3® These regulations shall become effective upon the
erection of signs indicating such speed zones.
Section 4. This resolution, not being a penal ordinance In
Itself, need not be published to be effective but shall be
effective as provided In section 3. The penal section of
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previously published ordinance o. 54-8 shall apply In this
resolution.
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the Ljh day.of December, 1956.
City of Grapelurine,