Santa Ana Municipal Code § 36-118 Standing in median; storage of property in median

The director of public works is authorized to establish and maintain crosswalks at intersections and to designate them by appropriate devices or painted marks or signs upon the surface of the roadway.

(Code 1952, § 3250; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

The director shall establish and maintain such crosswalks between intersections as the director may determine to be necessary for pedestrian safety, based on engineering studies which show such necessity, or as the director may be directed to establish by resolution of the city council, and shall designate them by appropriate devices or painted marks or signs upon the surface of the roadway.

(Code 1952, § 3251; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-2141, § 2, 8-19-91)

The director of public works may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection directing pedestrians not to cross in the unmarked crosswalk so indicated.

(Code 1952, § 3252; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62)

Where signs have been posted prohibiting crossing a street other than in a crosswalk, no pedestrian shall cross a street other than in a crosswalk. The director is authorized to post such signs at such locations as the director may determine to be necessary for pedestrian safety.

(Code 1952, § 3253; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. NS-2141, § 3, 8-19-91)

(a) No person shall stand, walk or sit on any median other than in a safety zone or in a crosswalk. This Section shall not apply to any public officer, construction worker or employee of a public utility or its agent acting in the line of duty if such presence on the median is necessary to carry out the functions of the job.

(b) No person shall store or place personal property on any median.

(Code 1952, § 3254; Ord. No. NS-560, § 1, 1-15-62; Ord. No. 2394, § 5, 8-16-99; Ord. No. NS-3074, § 8, 1-21-25)

(a) Adult crossing guards for street crossings by elementary school children on their way to or from school shall normally be provided by the city if the crossing is in a "suggested route to school," as determined pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, if at least forty (40) such children use the crossing while going to or from school for each of any two (2) hours (not necessarily consecutive) on any school day (except as otherwise provided in subsection (1) b below), and if any of the following conditions apply:

(1) At uncontrolled crossings where there is no alternate controlled crossing within six hundred (600) feet; and:

a. If the critical (eighty-five (85) percentile) approach speed does not exceed forty (40) miles per hour: where the vehicular traffic volume exceeds three hundred fifty (350) vehicles during each of any two (2) hours (not necessarily consecutive) in which forty (40) or more school pedestrians cross daily while going to or from school; or

b. If the critical (eighty-five (85) percentile) approach speed exceeds forty (40) miles per hour: where the vehicular traffic volume exceeds three hundred (300) vehicles during each of any two (2) hours (not necessarily consecutive) in which thirty (30) or more school pedestrians cross daily while going to or from school.

(2) At stop sign controlled crossings where the vehicular traffic volume on an undivided street of four (4) or more lanes exceeds five hundred (500) vehicles per hour during any period when the school pedestrians are going to or from school.

(3) At traffic signal controlled crossings where either:

a. The number of vehicular turning movements through the school crosswalk exceeds three hundred (300) per hour while school pedestrians are going to or from school; or

b. There are circumstances not normally present at a signalized intersection, such as crosswalks more than eighty (80) feet long with no intermediate refuge, or an abnormally high proportion of large commercial vehicles.

(b) The director shall work cooperatively with elementary school officials to develop "suggested routes to school" in accordance with guidelines issued by the California Department of Transportation.

(Ord. No. NS-1013, § 1, 5-4-70; Ord. No. NS-2141 § 4, 8-19-91)

Editor's note— Ord. No. NS-2141, § 5, adopted Aug. 19, 1991, repealed former §§ 36-122—36-125, which pertained to adult school crossing guards at various locations and derived from Ord. No. NS-1013, § 1, adopted May 4, 1970.

In the event a location does not meet the standards set forth in section 36-121, and the appropriate board of education, within whose jurisdiction this intersection is, feels that special circumstances warrant the placement of an adult crossing guard at this location to protect the children crossing to or from their elementary school, the board may place an adult crossing guard at this intersection at its own expense. In such event, the city will place such guards under city police control and will provide them only with training and supervision at city expense.

(Ord. No. NS-1013, § 1, 5-4-70; Ord. No. NS-2141, § 6, 8-19-91)