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WHEREAS, Section 545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code provides that whenever
the governing body of the City shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation that any prima facie speed therein set forth is greater, or less than is reasonable, or
safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection, or other place, or upon any part of a
street, or highway within the City, taking into consideration the width and condition of the
pavement, and other circumstances on such portion of said street or highway, as well as the usual
traffic thereon, said governing body may determine and declare a reasonable and safe prima facie
speed limit thereat, or thereon by the passage of an ordinance, which shall be effective when
appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected at such intersection, or other place or part of
the street or • . NOW, !
SECTION 1. Chapter 18 "Motor Vehicles and Traffic" of the Code of Ordinances of
Denton, Texas is hereby amended by modifying Section 18-73 regulating speed of vehicles on
FM 1830 or Country Club Road. Section 18-73, Item V shall read as follows:
V. FM 1830/Country Club Road
A. 45 mph From Ft. Worth Drive/377 to Sanders Road.
B. 1 mph From•- Road to the southerly
SECTION 2. • -r 18 "Motor Vehicles• • of #• of Ordinances of
Denton, Texas is hereby amended by modifying Section 18-73 regulating speed of vehicles on
FM 2181 or Teasley Lane. Section 18-73, Item VII shall read as follows:
VII. FM 2181/Teasley Lane
A. 35 mph From IH 35 E Southbound Frontage Road to Savannah Trail.
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B. 45 mph From Savannah Trail to 500 feet west of Pennsylvania Drive.
C. 40 mph From 500 feet west of Pennsylvania Drive to Lillian Miller
Parkway.
D. 45 mph From Wind River Lane to the south/easterly city limits,
SECTION 3. Chapter 18 "Motor Vehicles and Traffic" of the Code of Ordinances of
Denton, Texas is hereby amended by modifying Section 18-73 regulating speed of vehicles on
US 377 or Fort Worth Drive. Section 18-73, Item XVII shall read as follows:
XVII. US 377/Fort Worth Drive
A. 35 mph From Lindsey Street to IH 35 E Southbound Frontage Road.
B. 40 mph From IH 35 E Southbound Frontage Road to 550 feet north of
Massey Road.
C. 50 mph From 550 feet north of Massey Road to 250 feet south of Country
Club Drive/FM 1830.
D. 55 mph From 250 feet south of Country Club Drive/FM 1830 to the
south/westerly city limits.
SECTION 4, Chapter 18 "Motor Vehicles and Traffic" of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Denton, Texas is hereby amended by modifying subparagraph (a) of Section 18-212 to
include item (2), and deleting subparagraph (a) (2) of Section 18-213 which shall read as follows:
See. 18-212. - Thirty mile -per -hour zone.
Based upon an engineering and transportation department investigation heretofore made, as
authorized by the provisions of V.T.C.A. Transportation Code § 545.357, the prima facie speed
limit of thirty (30) miles per hour for vehicles is hereby determined and declared to be prima facie
reasonable and safe, and such speed limit is hereby fixed for vehicles traveling within the following
school zones:
(a) The time periods for reduced speeds for school zones described below shall be when the
school zone lights are flashing on school days. The location of school zones described
below shall be as follows, to -wit:
(1) Ryan High School. Both directions of McKinney Street/FM 426 beginning five
hundred (500) feet west of where McKinney Street/FM 426 intersects with the center
line of Ryan High School's driveway to five hundred twenty-five (525) feet east of
where McKinney Street intersects with the center line of Ryan High School's
driveway.
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Sec. 18-213. - Thirty-five mile -per -hour zone.
Based upon an engineering and transportation department investigation heretofore made, as
authorized by the provisions of V.T.C.A. Transportation Code § 545.357, the prima facie speed
limit of thirty-five (35) miles per hour for vehicles is hereby determined and declared to be prima
facie reasonable and safe, and such speed limit is hereby fixed for vehicles traveling within the
following described school zones:
(a) The time periods for the reduced speeds for the school zones described below shall be
when the school zone lights are flashing on school days. The location of school zones
described below shall be as follows, to -wit:
(1) The Selwyn School. Both directions of West Highway 380 from four hundred fifty
(450) feet east of where West Highway 380 intersects the center line of Marshall
Drive to one thousand two hundred (1,200) feet west of where West Highway 380
intersects the center line of Mesa Drive.
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SECTION 5. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction,
be fined a sum not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), unless the violation occurs in a
work zone and then the penalty shall not exceed Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00).
SECTION 6. This Ordinance shall be cumulative of all other ordinances of the City of
Denton defining school zones and school bus loading zones and shall not repeal any of the
provisions of said ordinances except in those instances where provisions of those ordinances are in
direct conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 7. If in any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this
Ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas hereby declares it would have enacted
such remaining portions despite any such invalidity.
SECTION 8. This Ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days from the date of its
passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption of this Ordinance to be
published twice in the Denton Record -Chronicle, the official newspaper of the City of Denton,
Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of 12017.
MAYOR
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ATTEST:
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
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AP 'R VED AS "(: LEGAL FORM:
AARON LEAL, INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY
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