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1699 - Resolution - Amending Resolution No. 1646 Speed LimitsRESOLUTION NO. 1699V A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 1646 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. 1646 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) Dwight Street from Seattle Street to Harrison Street, twenty miles per hour, on days school is in session and when children are present; (B) DeKalb Street from Seattle Street to Harrison Street, twenty miles per hour, on days school is in session and when children are present; (C) Pottery Avenue from State Highway 16 to Lippert Street, twenty miles per hour, on days school is in session and when children are present. (D) Mitchell Avenue from Plisko Avenue to DeKalb Avenue, twenty miles per hour, on days school is in session and when children are present. (E) Sidney Avenue from Fireweed Street to one thousand feet north of Fireweed Street, twenty miles per hour, on days when school is in session and when children are present. 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 Avenue from Tremont Street to primary State Highway 16, thirty miles per hour at all times, except during school hours; (C) Port Orchard Boulevard, on all that portion five hundred feet from its intersection with primary State Highway No. 166 to five hundred feet from its intersection with Tremont Street thirty-five miles per hour at all times; Resolution No. 1699 Page Two of Two (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; (F) On Bay Street (State Highway 166), beginning at the west city limits, easterly to a point 0.29 miles west of the intersection of West Street and Bay Street (State Highway 166), 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 Mile Hill Drive State Highway 166), beginning at the east city limits, we to the intersection of Bethel Avenue, thirty-five miles per hour at all times. (I) Bethel Avenue, beginning at the southerly city limits to the intersection of Bay Street, thirty-five miles per hour at all times. W Olney Avenue, from the north city limits to its intersection with Mile Hill Drive, thirty miles per hour at all times. PASSED by the City Council the Mayor and attested by the Clerk in 22nd day of May, 1995. ATTEST: Patricia Parks, City Clerk of the City of Port Orchard, signed by authentication of such passage this ESLIE J. WEATHERILL, MAYOR