1526 - Resolution - Amending Resolution 1522 Speed LimitsRESOLUTION NO. 1526 ✓
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD,
!I WASHINGTON AMENDING RESOLUTION NO 1522
1% M0 ESTABLISHING INCREASE AND/OR DECREASE OF SPEED
LIMIT ON CITY STREETS OR INTERSECTIONS.
WHEREAS, RCW 46.61.415 as adopted by Ordinance No. 1479
authorized the City to alter maximum speed permitted by state law on City
streets or intersections, and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard desires to alter speed
permitted by state law on city streets or intersections by resolution and
posting of appropriate signs.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT
ORCHARD DOES HEREBY RESOLVE THAT RESOLUTION NO. 1522 IS HEREBY AMENDED TO
READ AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: DECREASE OF SPEED LIMIT. When signs are
erected by the City Engineer giving notice thereof, the speed permitted by
state law within those streets and intersections described in this section
should be decreased during the times specified:
(A) Tacoma Street from Kendall Street to Melcher Street,
twenty miles per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset;
(B) Kendall Street from Sidney Street to Tacoma Street,
twenty miles per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset;
(C) Sroufe Street from Sidney Street to Tacoma Street,
twenty miles per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset;
(D) Sidney Street from Division Street to Sroufe Street,
twenty miles per hour from eight a.m. to four p.m. on days school is in
session;
(E) Dwight Street from Seattle Street to Harrision Street,
twenty miles per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset;
(F) DeKalb Street from Seattle Street to Harrison Street,
twenty miles per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset;
(G) Pottery Avenue from State Highway 16 to Lippert
Street, twenty miles per hour from seven a.m. to three p.m. on days school
is in session.
SECTION 2: INCREASE OF SPEED LIMIT. When signs are erected
by the City Engineer giving notice thereof, the speed permitted by state
law within those streets and intersections described in this section
should be increased during the times specified:
(A) Tremont Street from west city limits to east city
limits, thirty miles per hour at all times;
(B) Sidney Street from Tremont Street to primary State
Highway 16, thirty miles per hour at all times;
(C) Port Orchard Boulevard, on all that portion five
hundred feet from its intersection with primary State Highway No. 160 to
five hundred feet from its intersection with Tremont Street thirty-five
miles per hour at all times;
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(D) Sedgwick Road from the west city limits to the east
city limits, forty miles per hour at all times;
(E) Pottery Avenue from its intersection with Tremont
Street to the south city limits, thirty miles per hour at all times except
during school hours (seven a.m. to three p.m.);
(F) On primary State Highway No. 160, beginning at the
west city limits, easterly to a point 0.29 miles west of the intersection
of West Street and Primary State Highway 160, thirty-five miles per hour
at all times;
(G) Old Clifton Road from the westerly city limits to its
intersection with Tremont Street, thirty-five miles per hour at all times;
(H) On primary State Highway 160, beginning at the east
city limits, westerly to the intersection of Maple Street and State
Highway 160, thirty-five miles per hour at all times.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Orchard,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the Clerk in authentication of such
passage this 26th day of December, 1989.
OBERT G. GrNEIK, MAY PROTEM
ATTEST
,-Patricia Hower, City Clerk