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ORDINANCE NO.5559
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY
OF WATERLOO, IOWA,BY ENACTING
A NEW SECTION 5.2.14,PEDESTRIAN
SAFETY,USE OF MEDIANS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATER-
LOO, IOWA, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1.
That the Municipal Code of the City of
Waterloo, Iowa, 2020, as heretofore
amended,Is hereby amended by adding
and enacting new Section 5-2-14,relating
to pedestrian safety and use of medians,
as follows:
5-2-14:PEDESTRIAN SAFETY,USE OF
MEDIANS:
A.The City Council makes the following
findings and adopts the following state-
ment of purposes of this section: 1.
Pedestrian fatalities increased in the
United States by 46%from 2009 to 2016,
With the largest increases in urban arterial
streets, according to the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety, 2. Fifty
percent of pedestrians who are struck by
a vehicle trevel8ng at 30 miles per hour
are killed;as speed increases, a higher
percentage of people struck are killed
according to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Literature Review on
Vehicle Travel Speeds and Pedestrian
Injuries(2000).3.The National Associa-
tion of Qty Transportation Officials Urban
Street Design Guide(2011)states that a
median or Island should be at least six
feet wide where pedestrians arepresent.
This is consistent with the Public Rights of
Way Accessibility GuidelinesPromulgated
by the United States Access Board which
specify that a pedestrian refuge in a street
must have a top surface width of six feet,
excluding curbs. 4. Section 240 of the
City of Waterloo Traffic Code provides
that pedestrians crossing a street in the
business district shall cross In crosswalks
only. In the ten years preceding, ten
udestrian fatalities have occurred in
atedoc.There have been 341 pedes-
trian injuries. 5. The City Engineer has
determined based on City GIS maps and
/or,where appropriate,site visits that the
intersections listed in subsection (b) of
this Ordinance do not have medians or
islands of adequate width for pedestrian
refuge;therefore, pedestrians should be
prohibited from standing,sitting or staying
in the medians at these intersections for
any purpose other than to cross the
street,if crossing is lawful.
B. Pedestrians are prohibited from
standing,sitting or staying on a median or
ramp nose for any purpose other than to
cross the street,if lawful,unless the width
of the top surface of the median,
excluding the curbs is at least 6 feet wide.
This prohibition includes,but is not limited
to,medians and ramp noses on or near
legs feeding the following Intersections in
the city: E. San Maman Drive and 218
1380 Ramps; E. San Maman Drive and
LaPorte Road;Bopp Street and LaPorte
Road;Bopp Street and Crossroads Blvd.;
Grimm Street and Crossroads Blvd.;
Pennys Street and Crossroads Blvd.;
Sears Street and Crossroads Blvd.;
Flammang Drive and Crossroads Blvd.;
Flammanq Drive and Sarah Drive;E.San
Maman Drive and Sears Street; E. San
Maman Drive and Pennys Street;E.San
Maman Drive and Flammang Drive; E.
San Maman Drive and Shoppers Blvd.
E.San Maman Drive and Lowes Blvd.
C. Pedestrians are prohibited from
standing,sitting or staying on a median or
ramp now;for any purpose,other than to
cross the street, if lawful, regardless of
the width of the top surface of the median,
or ramp now along the following streets
or rights-of-way:San Marren Drive from
Texas Street to Ansborough Avenue;
Sears Street;Pennys Street;Crossroads
Blvd.;Flammangg Drive;Bopp Street.
D. Sections 62-14(B) and (C) do not
apply to:1.Police officers,peace officers
and parking enforcement personnel of the
police department or employees of the
fire department while performing official
duties of the City. 2. Employees or
contractors for the city or other individuals
authorized by the city to perform
construction or maintenance work on city
streets or dghts-of-way,while performing
construction or maintenance work on the
street provided that proper signagge is
used and streets are blocked otf as
required by the City. 3. Any individual
responding to an emergency in the street.
E.The penalties for violating this Section
shall be a simple misdemeanor pursuant
to Title 1, Chapter 3, Subsection 1
(1-3-1).Section 2.Should any section or
part of any section,paragraph or clause
of this ordinance be declared invalid or
unconstitutional for any reason, it shall
not invalidate or impair the validity,force
or effect of any other section or sections
or part of a section or paragraph of this
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oromance.caution s. i ms orainance snap
be in fun force and effect from and after
itspassage and publication as provided
by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 81h day of
June 2020.Quentin Hart,Mayor
ATTEST:Kelley Felchle,City Clerk