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    CIT Y o F OAKLAND

    TO:
    ATTN:
    FROM:
    DATE:
    RE:
    Agenda Report
    City Manager
    Craig G. Kocian
    Office of Public Works
    May 3, 1994
    RESOLUTION ADOPTING RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE
    CLOSURE OF CITY STREETS
    A resolution has been prepared adopting rules and regulations
    governing the closure or partial closure of local streets for the
    purpose of diverting through traffic to collector or arterial
    streets. Adoption of rules and regulations is required by the
    State of California Vehicle Code before traffic barriers may be
    installed to divert though traffic. Staff recommends that the
    resolution be approved.
    Background
    Residents have been increasingly expressing concerns regarding use
    of their local streets by through traffic that more properly
    belongs on collector or arterial class streets. The circulation
    element of the City's General Plan states, in part, that
    "Local streets" should be used primarily for access to
    abutting property. Their design should discourage all
    through traffic and should respect the importance of
    pedestrian movement. Where through traffic uses existing
    local streets, every opportunity will be explored in
    small-area planning to divert such traffic to arterial
    streets.
    The State of California Vehicle Code, Section 21101, states, in
    part, that
    Local authorities . . . may adopt rules and regulations
    by ordinance or resolution ... prohibiting entry to, or
    exit from, or both, from any street by means of islands,
    curbs, traffic barriers, or other roadway design features
    to implement the circulation element of a general plan.
    The City Attorney's Office has advised staff that in order to use
    this section of the Vehicle Code to close local streets to through
    traffic, rules and regulations for such closure must first be
    adopted by the City Council.
    Craig G. Kocian -2-
    May 3, 1994
    The resolution provides that the City Council may, by subsequent
    resolution, close certain City streets to through traffic by use of
    islands, curbs, traffic barriers, or other roadway design features
    when the following rules and regulations have been satisfied:
    1) When the street is classified as a local street in the
    circulation element of the City's General Plan, and
    2) When unwarranted through traffic is using the street
    instead of collector and/or arterial streets, and
    3) When 67% or more of the residents of the street have
    petitioned the City to install barriers or diverters to
    eliminate use of the street by through traffic, and
    4) When the installation of barriers or diverters on the
    street will not adversely affect the health and safety of
    the residents of the street or neighboring streets.
    Recommendation
    Staff recommends that the resolution adopting rules and regulations
    governing the closure of local city streets to through traffic be
    approved.
    -:3E.
    Director of Public Works
    APPROVED AND FORWARDED TO THE
    COUNCIL PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
    Manager
    OAKLAND CITY . T
    Ii &'ii "
    RESOLUTION No. C. M. S.
    INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMEMBER 1'f\crW
    RESOLUTION ADOPTING RULES AND REGULATIONS
    GOVERNING THE PROIllBITION OF ENTRY TO, OR EXIT
    FROM, OR BOTH FROM CITY STREETS
    WHEREAS, the State of California Vehicle Code Section 21101 in pertinent part, states
    that:
    Local authorities, for those highways under their jurisdiction, may
    adopt rules and regulations by' ordinance or resolution on the
    following matters: ... (t) Prohibiting entry to, or exit from, or
    both, from any street by means of islands, curbs, traffic barriers,
    or other roadway design features to implement the circulation
    element of a general plan . . . consistent with . . . health and
    safetY ..
    and
    WHEREAS, the Oakland Policy Plan is the major component of the Oakland
    Comprehensive Plan adopted by the City Council on October 24, 1972 (Resolution No. 52735
    C.M.S.); and
    WHEREAS, the City Council has declared that the Oakland Comprehensive Plan shall
    constitute Oakland's "General Plan"; and
    WHEREAS, the circulation element of the General Plan, in pertinent part, states that:
    There should be a clearly differentiated system of several levels of
    trafficway, each of which performs a separate principal function.
    Each level should have its own appropriate, identifiable form (type
    and scale of planting, typical cross section, etc.), and should be
    connected to the next higher and lower levels in a recognizable
    patter.
    "Local streets" should be used primarily for access to abutting
    property. Their design should discourage all through traffic and
    should respect the importance of pedestrian movement. Where
    through traffic uses existing local streets, every opportunity will be .
    explored in small-area planning to divert such traffic to arterial
    streets.
    and
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    WHEREAS, the City desires to insure that "local streets" are not used by unwarranted
    through traffic; now, therefore be it
    RESOLVED, that the City Council may, by resolution, close certain City streets to
    through traffic by use of islands, curbs, traffic barriers, or other roadway design features when
    the following rules and regulations have been satisfied:
    1) When the street is classified as a local street, and
    2) When unwarranted through traffic is using the street instead of collector
    and/or arterial streets, and
    3) When 67% or more of the residents of the street have petitioned the City
    to install barriers or diverters to eliminate use of the street by through traffic, and
    4) When the installation of barriers or diverters on the street will not
    adversely affect the health and safety of the residents of the street or neighboring streets.
    I certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a Resolution passed by
    the City Council of the City of Oakland, California,
    on ~ = _ _ _ : : ~ _ = _ = ~ - - - - - - - -
    CEOAFLOYD
    City Clerk and Oerk of the Council
    per ---'Oeputy

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