Ordinance 2010-13 ORDINANCE NO. 2010-13
� AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS, AMENDING
SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE NO. 2007-36 AND ARTICLE IV,
SECTION 110-133 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES,
ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL ZONE FOR CERTAIN STREETS;
ESTABLISHING PRIMA FACIE MAXIMUM SPEED LIMITS
DURING SCHOOL HOURS IN SUCH ZONE; PROVIDING FOR
INSTALLATION OF SIGNS AND MARKINGS; REGULATING
VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC; PROVIDING FOR A
PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING FOR REPEALING, SAVINGS AND SEVERABILITY
CLAUSES; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
ORDINANCE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas ("Cit,y Council") finds it necessary
to amend Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2007-36 and Article IV, Section 110-133 of the Code of
Ordinances to coordinate with the change in school attendance times and to establish maximum
speed limits within the areas and at the locations named and designated in the body of this
Ordinance, all within the corporate limits of the City of Wylie, Texas (the "Citv"), and in the
immediate vicinity of school areas, during periods of time, which shall be set by the City's Engineer,
when the schools are in session and school children are going to and from schools and playgrounds;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is necessary for the protection and safety of
pedestrians crossing streets in school areas to establish maximum speed limits and to prohibit the
overtaking and passing of motor vehicles within the school zone; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has investigated and determined that it would be advantageous
and beneficial to the citizens of the City to amend Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2007-36 and Article
IV, Section 110-133 of the Code of Ordinances as set forth below.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WYLIE, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: Findings Incorporated. The findings set forth above are incorporated into the
body of this Ordinance as if fully set forth herein.
SECTION 2 : AMENDMENT TO SECTION 3 OF WYLIE ORDINANCE NO. 2007-36
AND ARTICLE IV SECTION 110-133 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES. Wylie Ordinance No.
2007-36, Section 3 and Article IV, Section 110-133 of the Code of Ordinances are hereby amended
as follows:
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Ordinance No. 2010-13
Amendment to Ordinance No. 2007-36
School Zone
"School Zones
a) Vehicle speed and operation generally: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate ..�.
or drive any vehicle at a speed greater than the speed designated or posted, or to
overtake or pass any other vehicle in any school zone as may be marked or
designated within the City during the hours indicated upon signs erected in such
zone, or whenever children are present in such zones, or when such zones have an
alternating flashing light in operation.
b) Speed limits: The following prima facie maximum speed limits hereinafter indicated
far motor vehicles are hereby determined and declared to be reasonable and safe.
Such maximum speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate of speed indicated for motor
vehicles traveling upon the main street or highway, or parts of the main street or
highway, and no motor vehicle shall be operated along or upon such portions of the
named streets or highways within the corporate limits of the City in excess of the
speeds set forth as follows:
1) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Brown Street from a point one hundred fifty feet (150') west of
the point of its intersection with Rustic Trail to a point three hundred
sixty feet (360') east of the point of its intersection with Westgate
Way.
b. On Birmingham Street from the point of its intersection with -�-�
Williams Street, one hundred fifty feet (150') south to the point of its
intersection with West Stone Road.
c. On Park Boulevard from the intersection of Westgate Way, west to
the intersection of Country Club (FM 1378).
d. On Westgate Way from the intersection of Park Boulevard, south one
� hundred fifty feet (150').
e. On Westgate Way from a point (1260') north of its intersection-e€
with Brown St.,-to a point (1170') south of-its intersection with
Brown St.
2) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. � On Kirby Street from a point two hundred feet (200' ) east of the point
of its intersection with Memorial Drive to the point of its intersection
with Birmingham Street.
b. On Springwood Lane from the point of its intersection with Lanwood
Drive to the point of its intersection with W.A. Allen Boulevard.
c. On Lanwood Drive from a point five hundred twenty five feet (525')
north of its intersection with Springwood Lane, south to the point of
its intersection with Heatherwood Lane.
d. On Heatherwood Lane from its intersection with Lanwood Drive to ---�
two hundred fifty feet (250') west of intersection with Castlewood
Drive.
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Amendment to Ordinance No. 2007-36
School Zone
e. On W.A. Allen Boulevard from a point one thousand feet (1000)
north of the point of its intersection with Springwood Lane to a point
� two-tenths (2/10) of a mile south to the intersection of Stone Road.
£ On Stone Road from a point four hundred feet (400' ) west of the point
of its intersection with Allen Road to a point east of the point of its
intersection to Stonehedge Drive.
g. On Lanwood Drive west to Castlewood Drive.
h. On Heatherwood Drive from W.A. Allen to the intersection of
Lanwood Drive.
i. On Heatherwood Drive from its intersection with Brentwood Drive to
a point, (250') north of the intersection.
j. On Park Boulevard from the intersection of Country Club Road, west
one hundred fifty feet (150').
k. On Cheyenne Road from Park Boulevard, north to one hundred fifty
feet (150') north of the intersection of Tuscalosa Drive.
1. On Tuscalosa Drive from the intersection of Cheyenne Road, east five
hundred feet (500').
m. On McCreary Road from the intersection of Riverway Lane, south one
thousand feet (1000').
n. On McCreary Road from the intersection of Riverway Lane, north one
thousand feet (1000').
o. On Riverway Lane from McCreary Road, east two-tenths (2/10) of a
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mile to one hundred feet (100') west of the intersection of
Meandering Drive.
p. On Appalachian Drive from the intersection of Riverway Lane, south
one hundred fifty feet (150').
q. On Springtide Drive from the intersection of Riverway Lane, north
one hundred fifty feet (150').
3) Thirty-five (35) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Country Club Road from the intersection of Park Boulevard,
south five hundred feet (500').
b. On Country Club Road from the intersection of Park Boulevard, north
one thousand feet (1000' ).
4) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Pirate Drive from the point of its intersection with Hilltop Street
to a point of its intersection with Ballard Street.
b. On Hilltop Street from the point of its intersection with Pirate Drive
to a point of its intersection with Stone Road.
c. On Kirby Street from the intersection of Birmingham, east to Ballard
„� Street.
d. On Ballard Street from the intersection of Stone Road, south to two
hundred feet (200') north of the intersection of Stoneybrook Drive.
Ordinance No. 2010-13
Amendment to Ordinance No. 2007-36
School Zone
5) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Wylie East Drive from a point (1000') north of its intersection .._.,
with Brown St. to a point (100') south of the Brown St intersection.
b. On Brown St. from its intersection with Wylie Drive East to a point
(100') west of the intersection.
6) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Hooper Road from its intersection with New Hensley Ln. south
to its intersection with Old Hensley Ln.
b. On the southbound lanes Woodbridge Pkwy from 500 feet north of
its intersection with New Hensley Ln. to its intersection with New
Hensley Ln.
c. On the northbound lanes of Woodbridge Pkwy from its intersection
with New Hensley Ln to the north property line of the Broad Stone
Apartments.
d. On New Hensley Ln. from its intersection with Woodbridge Pkwy
east to a point 400 feet east of the east property line of the Raymond
Cooper Jr High School.
7) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Elm Rd: from its intersection with FM 544 west to a point 400 --�
feet west of its intersection with Timber Falls Dr.
b. On Timber Falls Dr from its intersection with Elm Rd to a point 200
feet south of the intersection.
The appropriate hours of enforcement for such maximum speed limits shall be set by the
City's Engineer. The speed limits contained in this section shall not be effective until signs
giving notice of such regulations are posted upon or at the entrances to those portions of the
street or highway affected as may be most appropriate in accordance with the Uniform
Manual on Traffic Control Devices, as amended, promulgated by the state department of
transportation. The city manager or his duly authorized representative is authorized and
directed to cause to be erected such appropriate signs."
SECTION 4 : Penaltv Provision. Any person, firm, corporation or entity violating this
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined a
sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each continuing day's violation or separate act
under this Ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. The penal provisions imposed under this
Ordinance shall not preclude Wylie from filing suit to enjoin the violation. Wylie retains all legal
rights and remedies available to it pursuant to local, state and federal law.
SECTION 5: Savin�s/Re�ealin� Clause. All provisions of any ordinance in conflict with
this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent they are in conflict; but such repeal shall not abate --.
any pending prosecution for violation of the repealed ordinance, nor shall the repeal prevent a
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Amendment to Ordinance No. 2007-36
School Zone
prosecution from being commenced for any violation if occurring prior to the repeal of the
,� ordinance. Any remaining portions of said ordinances shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 6 : Severabilitv Should any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance be declared unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is expressly
provided that any and all remaining portions of this Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
Wylie hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, clause
or phrase hereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, and phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalid.
SECTION 7 : Effective Date This Ordinance shall become effective from and after its
adoption and publication as required by the Wylie City Charter and by law.
DULY PASSED AND APPROVE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WYLIE, TEXAS on this ��?�day of � , 2010.
Eric Hogue, Ma o
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CORRECTLY RECORD BY: ` '��� '�
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Amendment to Ordinance No. 2007-36
School Zone
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COUNTY OF COLLIN
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Chad Engbrock,
publisher of The Wylie News, a newspaper regularly published in Collin County, Texas and
having general circulation in Collin County, Texas, who being by me duly sworn, deposed and
says that the foregoing attached:
City of Wylie
Ordinance No. 2010-13
was published in said newspaper on the following dates, to-wit:
September 1, 2010
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Chad Engbrock, Publisher
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Subscribed and sworn before me on this, the � day of ���j�, 2010
to certify which witness my hand and seal of office.
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/ ORDIl�TANCE \
NO. 2610-13
AN ORDINANCE OF
THE ' CTTY OF
WYLIE, TEXAS,
AMENDING SEC-
TION 3 .OF ORDI-
NANCE NO. 2007-36
AND ARTICLE IV,
SECTION 110-133 OF
THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES,
ESTABLISHING A
SCHOOL ZONE FOR
CERTAIN STREETS;
ESTABLISHING
PRIMA FACTE MAX-
IMUM SPEED LIM-
ITS DURING
SCHOOL HOURS IN
SUCH ZONE; PRO-
VIDING FOR
INSTALLATION, OF
SIGNS AND MARK-
INGS; REGULATING
VEHICULAR AND
PEDESTRIAN TRAF-
FIC; PROVIDING
FOR A FENALTY
FOR THE VIOLA-
TION OF THIS
ORDINANCE; PRO-
VIDING FOR
REPEALING, SAV-
INGS AND SEVER-
ABILITY CLAUSES;
AND PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE OF THIS
ORDINANCE.
Eric Hogue, Mayor
ATTEST: '
� Cazole Ehrlich, City
� Secretary
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