The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all streets within the city except where the city council, upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey, determines that other speed limit shall be applicable on specified streets or in certain areas, other than a state highway, as provided in this chapter.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
A. 
Speed Limit Increases. Whenever the city council determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour would facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and would be reasonable and safe upon any street other than state highway otherwise subject to a prima facie speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour, the city council may, by ordinance, declare a prima facie maximum speed limit of thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five, sixty or a maximum of sixty-five miles per hour, whichever is found the most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and is reasonable and safe.
B. 
Speed Limit Decreases.
1. 
Whenever the city council determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the limit of sixty-five miles per hour is more than is reasonable or safe upon any portion of any street other than a state highway where the limit of sixty-five miles per hour is applicable, the city council may, by ordinance, declare a prima facie speed limit of sixty, fifty-five, fifty, forty-five, forty, thirty-five, thirty or twenty-five miles per hour, whichever is found the most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and is reasonable and safe.
2. 
Whenever the city council determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the limit of sixty-five miles per hour is more than is reasonable or safe upon any portion of a highway other than a state highway for a distance of not exceeding two thousand feet in length between districts, either business or residence, the city council may declare a reasonable and safe prima facie limit thereon lower than sixty-five miles per hour, but not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
3. 
Whenever the city council determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour in a business or residence district or in a public park on any street having a roadway not exceeding twenty-five feet in width, other than a state highway, is more than is reasonable or safe, the city council may, by ordinance or resolution, determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of twenty or fifteen miles per hour, whichever is found most appropriate and is reasonable and safe.
4. 
Whenever the city council determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that the speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour when passing school buildings or grounds as established by Vehicle Code Section 22352 is more than is reasonable or safe, the city council may, by ordinance or resolution, determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of twenty or fifteen miles per hour, whichever is justified as the appropriate speed limit by such survey.
C. 
Speed limits established pursuant to this section shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon said street or highway.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)
The city traffic administrator is authorized to regulate the timing of traffic signals so as to permit the movement of traffic in an orderly and safe manner at speeds slightly at variance from the speeds otherwise applicable within the district or at intersections, and may erect appropriate signs giving notice thereof.
(Ord. 24-17, 11/20/2024)