South Pasadena Municipal Code § 19.13 State speed limit

It is determined upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the speed permitted by state law outside of business and residence districts as applicable upon the following streets is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist upon such streets and it is declared that the prima facie speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour on those street or parts of streets herein designated when signs are erected giving notice thereof:

Fair Oaks Avenue, north from State Street to Columbia Street;

Fair Oaks Avenue, south from Columbia Street to State Street;

State Street between Fair Oaks Avenue and the northerly city limits;

Pasadena Avenue from Monterey Road to the westerly city limits. (Ord. No. 1106, § 12.01; Ord. No. 1186, § 3; Ord. No. 1210, § 1; Ord. No. 2281, § 2, 2015.)

For state law as to power of local authorities to alter speed limits, see Veh. C. A., § 511.3.

19.13-1 Speed limits.¶

(a) This subsection is adopted under the authority of Section 22357 of the California State Vehicle Code giving local authorities the right to increase speed limits greater than twenty-five miles per hour. This council, in adopting this section, has read and considered the engineering and traffic survey conducted at the instance of the South Pasadena police department and it determines that a prima facie speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour is less than is reasonable or safe upon such streets. This council further determines that the respective increases are appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and are reasonable and safe. Appropriate signs giving notice of the prima facie speed limits shall be erected and maintained under the supervision of the city manager.

No person shall drive a vehicle upon any of the streets hereinafter described at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent, having due regard for the traffic on, and the surface and width of, the highway, and at no event at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property, this being known as the basic rule. The speed of any vehicle upon any of such streets not in excess of the limit hereinafter specified is lawful unless clearly proved to be in violation of the basic rule. The speed of any vehicle upon any of the streets in excess of the limit specified is prima facie unlawful unless the driver establishes by competent evidence that his or her speed in excess of such limit did not constitute a violation of the basic rule at the time, place and under the conditions then existing. The prima facie speed limits are as follows:

Arroyo Drive between Columbia Street and Pasadena Avenue—Thirty-five miles per hour;

Atlantic Avenue between Garfield Avenue and Pine Street—Thirty-five miles per hour;

Collis Avenue between Hill Drive and west city limit—Thirty-five miles per hour;

Fair Oaks Avenue between State Street and Monterey Road—Thirty miles per hour;

Fair Oaks Avenue between Monterey Road and Huntington Drive—Thirty-five miles per hour; Fremont Avenue between Columbia Street and Alhambra Road—Thirty miles per hour; Garfield Avenue between Atlantic Boulevard and Monterey Road—Thirty-five miles per hour; Garfield Avenue between Monterey Road and Grevelia Street—Thirty miles per hour; Grevelia Street between Fair Oaks Avenue and Garfield Avenue—Thirty miles per hour; Huntington Drive between Garfield Avenue and Alhambra Road—Forty miles per hour; Marmion Way between west city limit and Pasadena Avenue—Thirty miles per hour; Mission Street between Fair Oaks Avenue and Pasadena Avenue—Thirty miles per hour; Mission Street between Garfield Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue—Thirty miles per hour; Monterey Road between Garfield Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue—Thirty miles per hour; Monterey Road between Fair Oaks Avenue and Pasadena Avenue—Thirty-five miles per hour; Monterey Road between Pasadena Avenue and west city limit—Thirty-five miles per hour;

Orange Grove Avenue between Columbia Street and Mission Street—Thirty miles per hour;

Pasadena Avenue between Monterey Road and Mission Street—Thirty miles per hour.

(b) This subsection is adopted under the authority of section 22358.4 of the California State Vehicle Code (CVC) giving local authorities the right to declare prima facie speed limits in school zones. The city council hereby adopts the following prima facie speed limits on highways, streets and roads adjacent to schools in residential districts, subject to the criteria set forth in section 22358.4(b) of the CVC:

(1) Fifteen miles per hour for a distance of up to five hundred feet from a school site;

(2) Twenty-five miles per hour for a distance between five hundred and one thousand feet from a school site.

The aforementioned speed limits shall not become effective until appropriate signs giving notice of the prima facie speed limits are erected. Said prima facie speed limit signs shall be erected and maintained under the supervision of the city manager.

(c) This subsection is adopted under the authority of Section 22358.3 of the California Vehicle Code giving local authorities the right to decrease speed limits less than twenty-five miles per hour. This council, in adopting this section, has read and considered the engineering and traffic survey conducted at the instance of the South Pasadena police department and it determines that a prima facie speed limit of twenty-five miles per hour is more than is reasonable or safe upon such streets. This council further determines that the respective decreases in are appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic and are reasonable and safe. Appropriate signs giving notice of the prima facie speed limits shall be erected and maintained under the supervision of the city manager.

Peterson Avenue between Hanscom Drive and Hill Drive—Twenty miles per hour;

Peterson Avenue between Harriman Drive and Hanscom Drive—Fifteen miles per hour;

Hanscom Drive between Peterson Avenue and Illinois Drive (north)—Twenty miles per hour. (Ord. No. 1308; Ord. No. 1314, § 34; Ord. No. 1422, § 1; Ord. No. 1625, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. 1744, § 1; Ord. No. 1983, § 38; Ord. No. 2034 § 1; Ord. No. 2046, § 1; Ord. No. 2094-A, § 2; Ord. No. 2181, § 2, 2008; Ord. No. 2195, § 1, 2009; Ord. No. 2262, § 2, 2014; Ord. No. 2281, § 2, 2015.)

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