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City of Santa Ana
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Staff Report
September 19, 2023
TOPIC: Ordinance Amending Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code Establishing
Speed Limits: 2nd Reading
AGENDA TITLE
Second Reading of Ordinance Amending Article VII, Prima Facie Speed Limits, of
Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code Establishing Speed Limits on Certain
Streets and Portions of Streets in the City (Project No. 22-2992) (Non-General Fund)
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Conduct a second reading and adopt ordinance amending Article VII, Prima Facie
Speed Limits, of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code establishing speed limits
on certain streets and portions of streets in the City.
DISCUSSION
At its August 29, 2023 regular meeting, the City Council approved the first reading of
an ordinance amending Article VII, Prima Facie Speed Limits, of Chapter 36 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code establishing speed limits on certain streets and portions of
streets in the City by a vote of 5-1. If adopted by the City Council on September 19,
the ordinance will go into effect 30 days thereafter.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds for the installation of speed limit signs estimated at $5,000 is available in the FY
2023-24 budget (Accounting Unit No. 03217662-66220, Project 22-6992).
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Ordinance Amending Article VII, Prima Facie Speed Limits
Submitted By: Nabil Saba, P.E., Executive Director – Public Works Agency
Approved By: Kristine Ridge, City Manager
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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ORDINANCE NO. NS-XXX
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA REPEALING AND
REENACTING IN ITS ENTIRETY ARTICLE VII OF
CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL
CODE ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE SPEED
LIMITS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines,
and declares as follows.
A.Sections 22357 and 22358 of the California Vehicle Code authorize local
authorities to declare prima facie speed limits at the rate found reasonable, safe, and
most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic based on engineering and
traffic surveys.
B.Sections 40801 and 40802 of the California Vehicle Code require that
engineering and traffic surveys be conducted within five years prior to the date of an
alleged violation of such speed limits if enforcement of the speed limits involves the use
of radar or any other electronic device that measures the speed of moving objects.
C.The City of Santa Ana last completed an engineering and traffic survey in
2016 and completed a new study in 2023 in accordance with the above law.
D.Based on the 2023 study, the prima facie speed limits set forth in Article
VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code shall be updated by repealing and
reenacting in its entirety Article VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code,
consisting of Sections 36-227 through 36-397.
SECTION 2. Article VII of Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby
repealed in its entirety and reenacted in its entirety as follows:
ARTICLE VII. PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS
Sec. 36-227. Prima facie speed limits in general.
The City Council of the City of Santa Ana determines and declares, upon the
basis of engineering and traffic surveys made on or after August 29, 2023, which
surveys are public records on file in the offices of the Public Works Agency of the City,
that the prima facie speed limits specified in those sections are reasonable, safe and
most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic upon the streets and
portions of streets specified in those sections, which streets and portions of streets
EXHIBIT 1
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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would otherwise be subject to the prima facie speed limits established in the California
Vehicle Code.
These prima facie speed limits shall be effective when appropriate signs giving
notice thereof are erected upon the streets and portions of streets to which they pertain.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to any twenty-five (25) mile per hour
prima facie speed limit which is applicable when passing a school or the grounds
thereof.
Sec. 36-228. Alton Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Alton Avenue are
as follows:
Between Susan Street and Greenville Street 45
Between Greenville Street and Bristol Street 45
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 40
Sec. 36-229. Bear Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Bear Street are
as follows:
Between Sunflower Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Alton Avenue 40
Between Alton Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40
Sec. 36-230. Bristol Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Bristol Street are
as follows:
Between Hesperian St/SR 22 EB On-Ramp & Santa Clara Ave. 40
Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 40
Between Seventeenth Street and Civic Center Drive 40
Between Civic Center Drive and First Street 40
Between First Street and McFadden Avenue 40
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 40
Between Warner Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40
Between Segerstrom Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 40
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Sec. 36-231. Broadway and Broadway Place.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Broadway and
Broadway Place are as follows:
Between MainPlace Drive and Seventeenth Street 40
Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue 35
Between Washington Avenue and Civic Center Drive 30
Between Civic Center Drive and First Street 25
Sec. 36-232. Cabrillo Park Drive.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Cabrillo Park Drive
is as follows:
Between Seventeenth Street and Fourth Street 35
Sec. 36-233. Cambridge Street.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Cambridge Street
is as follows:
Between the North City Limit (NCL)/Route 22
and Fairhaven Avenue 40
Sec. 36-234. Chestnut Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Chestnut Avenue
are as follows:
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 30
Between Standard Avenue and Grand Avenue 35
Between Grand Avenue and the East City
Limit (ECL)/Elk Lane/Main Street 35
Sec. 36-235. Civic Center Drive.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Civic Center
Drive are as follows:
Between Fairview Street and Bristol Street 35
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 35
Between Flower Street and Broadway 25
Between Broadway and French Street 25
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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Sec. 36-236. Dyer Road.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Dyer Road are as
follows:
Between Flower Street and Main Street 40
Between Main Street and Halladay Street 40
Between Halladay Street and Route 55 Freeway Off-Ramp 40
Between Route 55 Freeway Off-Ramp and Barranca
Parkway/Red Hill Avenue 45
Sec. 36-237. Edinger Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Edinger Avenue
are as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCL) east of
Euclid Street and Richardson Street 40
Between Santa Ana River (WCL) and Fairview Street 40
Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street 35
Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 35
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40
Between Flower Street and Main Street 40
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 40
Between Standard Avenue and Ritchey Street 45
Between Ritchey Street and the East City Limit (ECL) 45
Sec. 36-238. Euclid Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Euclid Street are
as follows:
Between Westminster Avenue and First Street 40
Between First Street and the South City Limit
(SCL)/Lenhardt Avenue 45
Sec. 36-239. Fairhaven Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fairhaven
Avenue are as follows:
Between Grand Avenue and Linwood Avenue 40
Between Linwood Avenue and Greengrove Street
East City Limit (ECL) 40
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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Sec. 36-240. Fairview Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fairview Street
are as follows:
Between Route 22 EB Off-Ramp and Fifth Street 45
Between Fifth Street and Edinger Avenue 45
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 45
Between Warner Avenue and Alton Avenue 45
Between Alton Avenue and Sunflower Avenue 45
Sec. 36-241. Fifth Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fifth Street are
as follows:
Between Euclid Street and Harbor Boulevard 30
Between Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 35
Between Fairview Street and Hawley Street 35
Sec. 36-242. First Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of First Street are
as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCL) west of
Euclid and Newhope Street 40
Between Newhope Street and Harbor Boulevard 40
Between Harbor Boulevard and Raitt Street 40
Between Raitt Street and Flower Street 40
Between Flower Street and Main Street 40
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 40
Between Standard Avenue and Tustin Avenue/the East
City Limit (ECL) 40
Sec. 36-243. Flower Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Flower Street are
as follows:
Between Seventeenth Street and Santa Ana Boulevard 35
Between Santa Ana Boulevard and Bishop Street 35
Between Bishop Street and Warner Avenue 30
Between Warner Avenue and Sakioka Drive/Sunflower Avenue 40
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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Sec. 36-244. Fourth Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fourth Street are
as follows:
Between Mortimer Street and McClay Street 35
Between McClay Street & Interstate 5 Freeway SB Off-Ramp 35
Between Interstate 5 Freeway SB Off-Ramp &
Route 55 Freeway 35
Sec. 36-245. Grand Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Grand Avenue
are as follows:
Between the North City Limit (NCL)/ SR 22
Ramps and Fairhaven Avenue 35
Between Fairhaven Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue 40
Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 40
Between Seventeenth Street and First Street 40
Between First Street and McFadden Avenue 45
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 45
Between Edinger Avenue and W arner Avenue 45
Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road 45
Sec. 36-246. Greenville Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Greenville Street
are as follows:
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 30
Between Warner Avenue & Sunflower Avenue /
Wimbledon Way 35
Sec. 36-247. Halladay Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Halladay Street
are as follows:
Between W arner Avenue and Dyer Road 30
Between Dyer Road and Alton Avenue 30
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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Sec. 36-248. Harbor Boulevard.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Harbor Boulevard
are as follows:
Between Westminster Avenue and Fifth Street 40
Between Fifth Street and First Street 40
Between First Street and a point six hundred (600) feet
south of Kent Avenue 40
Between the City Limits (N/O Warner) and Segerstrom Avenue 40
Between Segerstrom Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40
Sec. 36-249. Hazard Avenue.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Hazard Avenue is
as follows:
Between Euclid Street and Harbor Boulevard 30
Sec. 36-250. Lake Center Drive.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lake Center Drive
is as follows:
Between Harbor Boulevard and Susan Street 35
Sec. 36-251. Lincoln Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lincoln Avenue
are as follows:
Between Fairhaven Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue 35
Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 35
Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue 35
Sec. 36-252. Lyon Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lyon Street are as
follows:
Between First Street and McFadden Avenue 35
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 35
Between Edinger Avenue and Saint Andrew Place 35
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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Sec. 36-253. MacArthur Boulevard.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of MacArthur
Boulevard are as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCL) at
Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 40
Between Fairview Street and Main Street 40
Between Main Street and the East City Limit (ECL)
at SR 55 40
Sec. 36-254. Main Place Drive.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Main Place Drive
is as follows:
Between Main Street/ North Memory Lane and Broadway 35
Between Broadway and Main Street/S Town & Country Road 35
Sec. 36-255. Main Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Main Street are
as follows:
Between the North City Limit (NCL) at SR 22
and Seventeenth Street 35
Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue 35
Between Washington Avenue and First Street 30
Between First Street and Chestnut Avenue 35
Between Chestnut Avenue and Edinger Avenue 35
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 35
Between Warner Avenue and Goetz Avenue 40
Between Goetz Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 45
Sec. 36-256. McFadden Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of McFadden
Avenue are as follows:
Between the Sail Street/West City Limit (WCL)
and Euclid Street 40
Between Euclid Street and Newhope Street 40
Between Newhope Street and Harbor Boulevard 40
Between Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 40
Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street 35
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Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 35
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 30
Between Flower Street and Main Street 35
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue 35
Between Standard Avenue and Grand Avenue 35
Between Grand Avenue and the East City Limit (ECL) 35
Sec. 36-257. Memory Lane.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Memory Lane are
as follows:
Between Santa Ana River/West City Limit (WCL)
and Bristol Street 40
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 35
Between Main Street and the North City Limit (NCL)/
Parker Street 35
Sec. 36-258. Newhope Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Newhope Street
are as follows:
Between Westminster Avenue and First Street 35
Between First Street and Edinger Avenue 35
Sec. 36-259. Pullman Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Pullman Street are
as follows:
Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road 40
Between Dyer Road and Garry Avenue 40
Sec. 36-260. Raitt Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Raitt Street are
as follows:
Between First Street and Willits Street 30
Between Willits Street and McFadden Avenue 35
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40
Between Edinger Avenue and Saint Gertrude Place 40
Between Saint Gertrude Place and Warner Avenue 40
Between Warner Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40
Between Segerstrom Avenue and Alton Avenue 40
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Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 35
Sec. 36-261. Ritchey Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Ritchey Street
are as follows:
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40
Between Edinger Avenue and Wright Street 45
Sec. 36-262. Reserved.
Sec. 36-263. Santa Clara Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Santa Clara Avenue are
as follows:
Between Lincoln Avenue and Grand Avenue 35
Between Grand Avenue and Wright Street 40
Between Wright Street and Tustin Avenue 40
Between Tustin Avenue and East City Limit (ECL)/Route 55 40
Sec. 36-264. Segerstrom Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Segerstrom
Avenue are as follows:
Between Santa Ana River/West City Limit (WCL)
and Spruce Street 40
Between Spruce Street and Flower Street/Dyer Road 40
Sec. 36-265. Seventeenth Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Seventeenth
Street are as follows:
Between West City Limit and Fairview Street 40
Between Fairview Street and Bristol Street 40
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40
Between Flower Street and Main Street 35
Between Main Street and Wright Street/Eastside Avenue 35
Between Wright Street/Eastside Avenue and Tustin 40
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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Sec. 36-266. Standard Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Standard Avenue
are as follows:
Between First Street and Chestnut Avenue 30
Between Chestnut Avenue and McFadden Avenue 30
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 30
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 35
Sec. 36-267. Susan Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Susan Street are
as follows:
Between Harvard Street and Pendleton Avenue 35
Between Warner Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 35
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 35
Sec. 36-268. Reserved.
Sec. 36-269. Tustin Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Tustin Avenue
are as follows:
Between North City Limit (NCL)/Fairhaven Avenue
and Seventeenth Street 40
Between Seventeenth Street and Fruit Street 40
Between Fruit Street and the South City Limit (SCL)
north of First Street 40
Sec. 36-270. Warner Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Warner Avenue
are as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCL)/Santa Ana River
west of Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street 45
Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street 45
Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street 45
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40
Between Flower Street and Main Street 40
Between Main Street and Grand Avenue 40
Between Grand Avenue and the Route 55 Freeway 45
Between the Route 55 Freeway and Red Hill Avenue 45
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Sec. 36-271. Westminster Avenue.
Between Euclid Street and Newhope Street 45
Between Newhope Street and Clinton Street 45
Sec. 36-272 – 36-397. Reserved.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of
this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of
any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, subsections, sentence, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal hereby of any
ordinance shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which
violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as
affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such
license or penalty or the penal provision applicable to any violation thereof, nor to affect
the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or
deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and obligations thereunder
appertaining shall continue in full force and effect.
ADOPTED this 29TH day of August, 2023.
_______________________
Valeria Amezcua
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:________________________
Jose Montoya
Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers ______________________________________
NOES: Councilmembers _______________________________________
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers _______________________________________
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers _______________________________________
Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, JENNIFER L. HALL, City Clerk, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Ordinance
No. NS-XXX to be the original ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City of
Santa Ana on _______________, and that said ordinance was published in accordance
with the Charter of the City of Santa Ana.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________
City Clerk
City of Santa Ana