22-1643ORDINANCE NO. 22-1643
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18 "MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC",ARTICLE III "SPEED OF VEHICLES", SECTION 18-73 "SPEED LIMITS ON CERTAINROADS AND HIGHWAYS", "SCHOOL ZONES", OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OFTHE CITY OF DENTON, TO CHANGE THE LOCATIONS, EXTENT, AND SPEED LIMITSOF CERTAIN SPEED ZONES IN THE VICNITY OF A SCHOOL; PROVIDING AREPEALER CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING ASEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FORPUBLICATION; PROVIDING CODIFICATION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVEDATE
WHEREAS, the City of Denton’s Capital Projects/ Engineering Department routinely
reviews the speed limits in the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton, as amended, in order
to make corrections, additions, or amendments, where appropriate; and
WHEREAS, the Capital Projects/Engineering Department desires to amend the speed
zone tables included in the City Code to provide for adjustments as a result of development and
to make text, speed limit, and road extent range corrections; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Transportation Code Section 545.356 specifies the procedures for
a municipality to set speed zones and to post speed limits; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds the the proposed changes to Chaper 18 “Motor
Vehicles and Traffic”, Article III “Speed of Vehicles”, Section 18-73 “Speed Limits on Certain
Roads and Highways”, incorporates the above studies and recommendations by the CapitalProjects/Engineering Department; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the proposed revisions are in the interest of thepublic health and safety; NOW THEREFORE,
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS :
SECTION 1. The recitals contained in the preamble of this ordinance are incorporated
into the body of this ordinance as if set out fully herein.
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby amends the existing Section 18-73 “Speed Limits
on Certain Roads and Highways,” in Chaper 18 “Motor Vehicles and Traffic,” Article III “Speedof Vehicles”, “School Zones”, and adds school zone speed designations on two streets for the
new high school located on Bronco Way at Bonnie Brae Street which shall read as follows:
Sec. 18-73. Speed limits on certain roads and highways.
Upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation heretofore made as authorizedby the provisions of V.C.T.A., Transportation Code § 545.356, the following prima facie speed
limits hereafter indicated for vehicles are hereby determined and declared to be reasonable and
safe; and such speed limits are hereby fixed at the rate of speed indicated for vehicles travelingupon the named streets and highways, or parts thereof, described as follows:
School Zones
With regard to school zone speed limits set forth below, the time periods for the reduced
school zone speed limits shall apply on school days when signs are posted giving notice of the
school zone times or when school zone lights are activated giving notice of the active schoolzonem
964’ N of Windsor Dr 25
240’ E of Bonnie Brae 20St.
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Bonnie Brae St,
Bronco Way
200’ N of Riney Rd
146’ W of Kingsview Dr,
SECTION 3. 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 when workers are present and then the penalty shall not exceed four hundred dollars($400.00).
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall supersede and replace all previous conflicting
provisions of City ordinances and Code, including Sections 18-210 through 18-2 14, and such
previous conflicting provisions are hereby repealed. All other non-conflicting provisions,
including those of Chapter 18 of the Code of the City of Denton, as amended, shall remain in
full force and effect, save and except as amended by this ordinance.
SECTION 5. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the
phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance are severable, and, if any
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs
and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council
without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph, or section.
SECTION 6. The City Secretary is hereby directed to record and publish the above
revised section in the City’s Code of Ordinances as authorized by Section 52.001 of the TexasLocal Government Code.
SECTION 7. It is hereby officially found and determined that the meeting at which this
Ordinance was passed was open to the public, and that public notice of the time, place, and
purpose of said meeting was given as required by the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government
Code, Chapter 551. Notice was also provided as required by Chapter 52 of the Texas LocalGovernment Code.
SECTION 8. This Ordinance, providing for a penalty, 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, a daily
newspaper published in the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage.
The motion to approve this ordinance was made by aSSe bw iS and
seconded by Bfi(M BeaK , the ordinance was passed and approved by
the following vote U - A
Aye Nay Abstain Absent
Gerard Hudspeth, Mayor:-L
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Vicki Byrd, District 1 :
Brian Beck. District 2:
Jesse Davis, District 3 :
Alison Maguire, District 4: /
Brandon Chase McGee, At Large Place 5 : b/
Chris Watts, At Large Place 6: /
PASSED AND APPROVED this, the LGbd,y ,f Auh\bS+ , 2022.
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ATTEST :
ROSA RIOS, CITY SECRETARY b\\\\\PIll if I
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:MACK REINWAND, CITY ATTORNEY