HomeMy WebLinkAbout24892RESOLUTION NO. 24892
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE CITY
ENGINEER TO ESTABLISH AN ALL -WAY STOP
CONTROLLED INTERSECTION AT MATTHEW DRIVE &
SOUTH LINDEN WAY AND CHEROKEE WAY & SANTA
MONICA STREET/SEMINOLE ROAD, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 12.16.030 OF THE PALM SPRINGS
MUNICIPAL CODE."
WHEREAS, Title 12 "Vehicles and Traffic" of the Palm Springs Municipal Code
(PSMC) establishes procedures for the administration, implementation, enforcement,
evaluation, and maintenance of traffic regulations within the City consistent with the
California Vehicle Code; and
WHEREAS, Section 12.08.060 of the PSMC established the office of the City
Traffic Engineer, and designated the City Engineer, to serve in addition to such other
functions, with authority to exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as
provided for in Title 12; and
WHEREAS, Section 12.08.070 of the PSMC requires that the City Traffic Engineer
determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices
and signals, to conduct engineering analyses of traffic accidents, and to devise remedial
measures; to conduct engineering and traffic investigations of traffic conditions and to
cooperate with other city officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic
conditions; and
WHEREAS, Section 12.16.010 of the PSMC authorizes the City Traffic Engineer
to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained official traffic control devices
when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this city to make effective the
provisions of said ordinances; and
WHEREAS, Section 12.16.030 of the PSMC authorizes the City Traffic Engineer
to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained such additional traffic control
devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or warn traffic, but he
shall make such determination only upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and
traffic investigations and in accordance with such standards, limitations and rules as may
be set forth in the traffic ordinances of this city or as may be determined by ordinance or
resolution of the legislative body of this city; and
WHEREAS, based on traffic engineering principles, the City Traffic Engineer has
evaluated the intersections of Matthew Drive & South Linden Way and Cherokee Way &
Santa Monica Street/ Seminole Road; and
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WHEREAS, based on the City Traffic Engineer's investigations, in accordance with
sound traffic engineering principles, the City Traffic Engineer has recommended that the
intersections of Matthew Drive & South Linden Way and Cherokee Way & Santa Monica
Street/Seminole Road be established as all -way stop controlled intersections.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The true and correct recitals above are incorporated by this reference herein
as the basis and foundation for the City's adoption of this Resolution.
Section 2. In accordance with Section 12.16.010 and 12.16.030 of the Palm Springs
Municipal Code, the City Engineer is hereby authorized to establish all -way
stop controlled intersections at the following locations:
1. Matthew Drive & South Linden Way
2. Cherokee Way & Santa Monica Street/ Seminole Road
Section 3. The City Engineer shall install and maintain appropriate traffic control
devices as necessary to implement this Resolution.
ADOPTED THIS 27th DAY OF May, 2021.
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Justin C ifton, City M nager
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS)
I, Anthony J. Mejia, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Resolution No. 24892 is a full, true, and correct copy, and was duly adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Palm Springs on May 27, 2021, by the following
vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Garner, Kors, Woods, Mayor Pro Tern Middleton, and
Mayor Holstege
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the
City of Palm Springs, California, this 21 st day of I 20-? t
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City of Palnl Springs, California