Ordinance 43ORDINANCE N0, ~-3
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CUPERI'INO SETTING SPEED LIMITS AT OR
NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF STEVENS REEK ROAD AND HIGHWAY 9.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OP CUPERTINO DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, the City Council, pursuant to the provisions of
Section 511.3(b) of the Vehicle Cede, having determined, upon
the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation, that the
prima facie speed limit of 55 miles per hour is more than is
reasonable ands~.fe upon the porti~~n of Stevens Creek Road at
Highway g hereinafter described (;paid speed limit of 55 miles per
hour being applicable at said loc~~,tion under said Code), and that
the speed limit hereinafter speci:E'ied lower than 55 miles per
hour is appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic
and is reasonable and safe thereo~z, and that such speed limit
shall be effective upon the erection of appropriate signs giving
notice thereof; it is accordingly
ORDAINED, that the speed limit on Stevens Creek Road shall
be reduced to 35 miles per hour f~~r a distance of one-third of a
mile easterly and one-third of a mile westerly of its intersection
of Highway g for all traffic proceeding away from the intersection
and that the speed limit on Stevens Creek Road shall be reduced to
25 miles per hour fora distance ~~f one-third of a mile easterly
and one-third of a mile westerly cif its intersection of Highway g
for all traffic approaching the i~ztersection.
IT IS FURTHER ORDAINED that ~~.ppropriate signs giving notice
of the said speed limit hereby de~,ermined and declared be erected
upon said Stevens Creek Road.
This Ordinance shall take ef:E'ect and be in force thirty (30)
days from and after its passage; ~~his Ordinance shall be published
once with the names of the member~~ voting for or against the same,
in the Cupertino Courier, a newsp~~.per published in said County of
Santa Clara,
Introduced at a regular meet:~ng of the City Council of the City
of Cupertino on the 6th day of January, 1958. Passed and adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cupertino
on the 20th day of January, 1958, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen: Meyerholz, Nathanson, Paizis, Saich, Wilson
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
Approved:
ATTES
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City Clerk
~s/ R. I. Meyerholz
Mayor, City of Cuper ino
I, LAWRENCE K. MARTIN, City Clerk of the City of Cupertino and ex
officio clerk of the legislative t~ody of said City do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. ~+3
on file in my office and that the same has been published pursuant
to law,
IN WI~ NESS WHEREOF I have hereunto s t my hand and City Seal this
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