Ordinance 2011-16 ORDINANCE NO. 2011-16
� AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS, AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 2007-36 AND ARTICLE IV (SPEED), SECTION 110-133
(SCHOOL ZONES), OF THE WYLIE 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, §545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code provides that whenever the
gov��rning body of the municipality shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
inve-stigation that any prima facie speed therein set forth is greater or less than is reasonable or
prudent under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of a
stre��t or highway within the City of Wylie, Texas ("Wylie" or "City"), taking into consideration,
amang other things, whether the highway is a two-lane, undivided highway, as well as the usual
trafl:ic thereon, said governing body may determine and declare reasonable and prudent maximum
prima facie speed limits thereon by the passage of an ordinance, which shall be effective when
app�ropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection or other place or part of the
� stre��t or highway; and
WHEREAS, §541.302 of the Texas Transportation Code defines a"school crossing zone" as
a re��uced speed zone designated on a street by a local authority to facilitate safe crossing of the street
by children going to or leaving a public or private elementary or secondary school during the time the
reduced speed limit applies; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas ("City Council") finds it necessary
to amend Ordinance No. 2007-36 and Article IV (Speed), Section 110-133 (School Zones), of the
Wylie Code of Ordinances to coordinate with the change in school attendance times and to establish
ma�cimum speed limits within the areas and at the locations named and designated in the body of this
Ord.inance, all within the corporate limits of the City of Wylie, and in the immediate vicinity of
sch��ol 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 Ordinance No. 2007-36 and Article IV (Speed),
Section 110-133 (School Zones) of the Wylie Code of Ordinances as set forth below.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
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OF �VYLIE, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: Findin sg Incorporated. The findings set forth above are incorporated into the --~
body of this Ordinance as if fully set forth herein.
SECTION 2: Amendment to Ordinance No. 2007-36 and Article IV (�eed), Section 110-
l��chool Zones�, of the Wvlie Code of Ordinances. Ordinance No. 2007-36and Article IV
(Speed), Section 110-133 (School Zones) of the Wylie Code of Ordinances are hereby amended to
read as follows:
"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
for 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�€
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:
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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.
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.
f. 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
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) Twenty (20) 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').
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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.
e. On Stone Road from the point of its intersection with 2 Street to the
point of its intersection with Dogwood Dr.
5) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Wylie East Drive �e from a point (1000') north of its intersection
e€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.
8) Twenty (20) miles per hour on school days, on the following streets:
a. On Country Club Dr. (FM 1378) from a point 200 ft south of its
intersection with Lakeway Dr. to a point 400 ft south of its
intersection with Teakwood Dr. ---
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As a result of the frequent changes to elementary and secondary public and private school
start and end times, the appropriate hours of enforcement for school zone maximum speed
`� limits shall be set by the City's Engineer. The maximum speed limits in a school zone shall
be set in accordance with the Texas Department of Transportation recommendations, unless
set forth and posted otherwise as determined 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: Penalty 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
und�er 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: Savings/Repealin C�use. 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
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: Severability. 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 APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WYLIE, TEXAS on this 9th day of August, 2011.
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Date of publication in The Wylie News — August 17, 2011
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STATE OF TEXAS
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. 2011-16
was published in said newspaper on the following dates, to-wit:
August 17,2011
Chad Engbrock, Publisher
Subscribed and sworn before me on this, the ��day of , 2011
to certify which witness my hand and seal of office.
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�'"aRDINANC
NQ.�11,16
AN ORDINANCE'OF
THE CITY OF
W�'LIE, TEXAS,
AMENDING OR�I-
NANCE NO. 2007-36 �
AND ARTICLE IY
($PEEI�), SECTION i
110-133 � (SCHOOL '
ZONES); OF THE
WYLIE COI)E OF l
ORDINANCES , I
ESTABLISHING A �
SCHOOL ZONE FOR I
CERTAIN STREETS;
ES�'ABLISHING
PRiMA FA�IE MAX-
IMUM SPEED LIM=
TT� 'DURING
SCHOOL HOLTRS IN
St3CH ZONE; PRO-
VIDING EOR
INSTALLATION OF
SIGNS AND MARK- '
�TGS; REGULATING
VEHIGULAR AND
PEDESTRIAN�AF- ]
FIC:; PROVIDING ' �
FOR A PEI�ALTY '
�OR THE VIOL;A-
TION OF THIS ORDI-
NANCE; PROVID-
INC"i FOR REPEAL-
� ING, SAVINGS AND
r SEVERABILITY
; CLAUSES; AND
� PROVIDTNG FOR AN
s EFFECTIVE DATE
� OF THIS ORDI-
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