HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0794ORDINANCE N0. 794
An ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 627 AND
SECTHETION CITYl225 OF THE OF BURLINGAME41 ORDINANCE DE OF
By DESIGNATING
BAYSWATER AVENUE TO BE A THROUGH STREET
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain
as follows:
Section 1, Section 1225 of the 1941 Ordinance Code of
the City of Burlingame as amended by Ordinance No, 627 is hereby
further amended by adding thereto subparagraph (p) which shall
read and provide as follows:
11(p) Bayswater Avenue from its intersection with
E1 Camino Real and with Primrose Road to the westerly
line of California Drive; from the easterly line of
California Drive to the westerly line of Dwight Road;
and from the easterly line of Dwight Road to the city
limits."
Section 2, The segments of Bayswater Avenue described
above are designated through highways within the meaning of
j and in conformity to the provisions of Sections 600 and 21354
of the Vehicle Code of the State of California, and the Director
of Public Works is authorized and directed to erect and place
II or cause to be erected and placed the signs provided for in
11 Section 21354 at allintersections with said segments of Bays-
water Avenue,
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Section 3. This ordinance shall be published as required
li by law,
Section 4. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an
II emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of
!i the public peace, health, and safety and shall take effect
immediately. The following is a statement of the facts
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showing it is an emergency:
When Bayswater Avenue was improved as a public street
its improvement included substantial dips both in Bays-
water Avenue and in intersecting streets at their points
of intersection with Bayswater Avenue. These dips made
it impracticable and unsafe to cross Bayswater Avenue in
a motor vehicle at other than a very slow and safe rate
of speed. Bayswater Avenue from California Drive to its
eastern terminus was improved by center planting strips
in which trees, shrubbery and flowers have grown for many
years. These planting strips divided the eastbound and
westbound lanes and made these lanes exceedingly narrow
with the result that vehicular traffic normally proceeded
upon them at slow or moderate and, in any event, at safe
rates of speed.
Bayswater Avenue has recently been improved by removal
of the center planting strips and by filling in the dips
at intersections, thereby permitting vehicular traffic
upon or across Bayswater Avenue to move at immoderate and
unsafe rates of speed. Since its improvement both the
use of the street for vehicular traffic and the incidence
of vehicular traffic accidents have demonstrated an
immediate need for regulation of traffic upon and across
Bayswater Avenue by making it a through street and by
requiring all vehicles approaching it from intersecting
streets to come to a full stop before entering or crossing
Bayswater Avenue.
Mayor
I, Herbert K. White, City Clerk, do hereby certify that
the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of
the City Council held on the 3rd day of Feb- , 1964, and
adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Council held
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on the 17th day of Feb. , 1964, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen: Crosby-Dieder ichsen-George-Johnson-Mar tin
Noes: Councilmen: None
Absent Councilmen: None
City Clerk
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