Amended
IN
Senate
June 25, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 22, 2021 |
Introduced by Assembly Members Friedman, Gipson, Ting, Chiu, and Quirk (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Boerner Horvath) (Coauthors: Assembly Members |
December 07, 2020 |
(7)This bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes.
(8)
(a)Whenever a local authority determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey that a speed greater than 25 miles per hour would facilitate the orderly movement of vehicular traffic and would be reasonable and safe upon any street other than a state highway otherwise subject to a prima facie limit of 25 miles per hour, the local authority may by ordinance or resolution determine and declare a prima facie speed limit of 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, or 60 miles per hour or a maximum speed limit of 65 miles per hour, whichever is found most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and is reasonable and safe. The declared prima facie or maximum speed limit
shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the street and shall not thereafter be revised except upon the basis of an engineering and traffic survey. This section does not apply to any 25-mile-per-hour prima facie limit which is applicable when passing a school building or the grounds thereof or when passing a senior center or other facility primarily used by senior citizens.
(b)This section shall become operative on the date specified in subdivision (c) of Section 22366.
(C)A 25 or 20 miles per hour prima facie speed limit on a highway contiguous to a business activity district when posted with a sign that indicates a speed limit of 25 or 20 miles per hour.
(6)As used in this subdivision, a “business activity district” is that portion of a highway and the property contiguous thereto that includes central or neighborhood downtowns, urban villages, or zoning designations that prioritize commercial land uses at the
downtown or neighborhood scale and meets at least three of the following requirements:
(A)Retail or dining commercial uses, including outdoor dining, that open directly onto sidewalks adjacent to the highway.
(B)Parking, including parallel, diagonal, or perpendicular spaces, located alongside the highway.
(C)Traffic control signals or stop signs regulating traffic flow on the highway, located at intervals of no more than 600 feet.
(D)Marked crosswalks not controlled by a traffic control device.
(E)Pedestrian density greater than one pedestrian per 100 feet of sidewalk during peak hours.
(F)Bicycle volume of 10 or more
bicycles per hour operating within or passing through during peak hours, including both sidewalk and highway use.