HomeMy WebLinkAbout24815RESOLUTION NO. 24815
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 SOUTH CAMINO
REAL AND EAST AVENIDA GRANADA, ROSA PARKS
ROAD AND NORTH GRANADA AVENUE, ROSA PARKS
ROAD AND EASTGATE ROAD, AND WEST TRAMVIEW
ROAD AND NORTH GRANADA AVENUE, 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 South Camino Real and East Avenida Granada, Rosa
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Parks Road and North Granada Avenue, Rosa Parks Road and Eastgate Road, and
West Tramview Road and North Granada Avenue; and
WHEREAS, on the basis of the City Traffic Engineer's investigations, in
accordance with sound traffic engineering principles, the City Traffic Engineer has
recommended that the intersections of South Camino Real and East Avenida Granada,
Rosa Parks Road and North Granada Avenue, Rosa Parks Road and Eastgate Road,
and West Tramview Road and North Granada Avenue be established as all -way stop
controlled intersections.
NOW, THEREFORE, 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) South Camino Real and East Avenida Granada;
2) Rosa Parks Road and North Granada Avenue;
3) Rosa Parks Road and Eastgate Road; and
4) West Tramview Road and North Granada Avenue.
SECTION 3. The City Engineer shall install and maintain appropriate traffic
control devices as necessary to implement this Resolution.
ADOPTED THIS 12th day of November, 2020.
4,
David H. Ready, City Varrager
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE )
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS)
CERTIFICATION
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I, Anthony J. Mejia, MMC, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Resolution No. 24815 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 November 12, 2020, by the
following vote:
AYES:
Councilmembers
and Mayor Kors
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
RECUSED:
None
Garner, Middleton, Woods, Mayor Pro Tem Holstege,
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of
the City of Palm Springs, California, this '�� day of
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City of Palm ISprings, California