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1522 - Resolution - Increase or Decrease of Speed LimitsRESOLUTION NO. 1522 vl' A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON 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 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: twenty miles twenty miles twenty miles twenty miles session; twenty miles twenty miles (A) Tacoma Street from Kendall Street to Melcher Street, per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset; (B) Kendall Street from Sidney Street to Tacoma Street, per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset; (C) Sroufe Street from Sidney Street to Tacoma Street, per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset; (D) Sidney Street from Smith Street to Sroufe Street, per hour from eight a.m. to four p.m. on days school is in (E) Dwight Street from Seattle Street to Harrision Street, per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset; (F) DeKalb Street from Seattle Street to Harrison Street, per hour from eight a.m. until one hour after sunset; 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; Resolution No. 1522 Page 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 (seven a.m. to three p.m.); (E) 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 21th day of November, 1989. LESLI J. WEATHERILL, MAYOR atricia Hower, City Clerk