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CC - ACTION ITEM: (1) Adoption of a Resolution Accepting the Results of the 2023 Engineering & Traffic Survey; and (2) Introduction of an Ordinance Amending Culver City Municipal Code Section 7.02.005 to Determine and Declare Updated Prima Facie Speed Limits on Certain City Streets
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Meeting Date: August 14, 2023
Contact Person/Dept: Thomas Check, Public Works/Mobility & Traffic Engineering
Phone Number: 310.253.5627
Fiscal Impact: Yes [X] No [] General Fund: Yes [X] No []
Attachments: Yes [X] No []
Public Notification: (E-Mail) Meetings and Agendas - City Council (08/09/2023)
Department Approval: Yanni Demitri, Public Works Director/City Engineer (8/2/2023)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council (1) adopt a Resolution accepting the results of the 2023 Engineering & Traffic Survey; and (2) introduce an ordinance amending Culver City Municipal Code (CCMC) section 7.02.005 to determine and declare updated prima facie speed limits on certain City streets.
BACKGROUND
Speed limits are set upon the basis of an Engineering and Traffic Survey (E&TS), which documents the speeds of free-flowing traffic on City streets, crash histories, traffic volumes, and other traffic and roadway data. The City conducted its last E&TS in 2013, which will expire on August 26, 2023. To ensure that speed limits continue to be enforceable by the Police Department via radar and lidar, the City Council must adopt an ordinance based upon a new E&TS, which was conducted earlier this year. Tonight, the City Council is also being asked to accept the results of that E&TS, via adoption of the proposed Resolution of the City of Culver City, California Accepting the August 14, 2023, Engineering and Traffic Survey, and Rescinding Resolution No. 2013-R060 (Attachment 2) The E&TS is Exhibit A to the proposed Resolution and is Attachment 3 to this staff report.
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