From
Anda Upchurch
Title
Ordinance amending Schedule VI of the Traffic Register by adding parking restrictions along all remaining SH 360 frontage roads within the City of Grand Prairie City limits with approval from TxDOT
Presenter
Walter Shumac, Director of Transportation Services
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
Transportation Services has received numerous complaints from area businesses and through GPPD about unsafe visibility along SH 360 frontage roads due to commercial truck parking. TxDOT will install No Parking sign bases and poles and the City will install the No Parking signs on SH 360 frontage road segments within City limits as agreed upon with the City of Grand Prairie and covered under City ordinance. This ordinance will solidify the parking restrictions and allow GPPD to perform targeted enforcement in these areas as signs are installed.
Council has previously approved Ordinance #7229 restricting parking on two segments of SH 360 frontage roads: Southbound along the west side from Carrier Parkway to Fountain Parkway; and Northbound along the east side from Post & Paddock Lane to Riverside Parkway. This ordinance will add to Ordinance #7229 in order to cover the whole of SH 360 frontage roads within the City of Grand Prairie city limits.
Financial Consideration
TxDOT will install the sign bases and poles using their standards along the frontage roads at the locations agreed upon with the City of Grand Prairie. Traffic Operations will install the No Parking signs. Funding for the costs associated with this adjustment is available in the FY 2015/2016 General Fund Budget, Signs and Markings Maintenance Budget, account 251910-63115.
Body
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS,
AMENDING SCHEDULE VI OF THE TRAFFIC REGISTER TO RESTRICT PARKING ALONG ALL REMAINING SH 360 FRONTAGE ROADS WITHIN THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE
WHEREAS, Transportation Services has received numerous complaints from area businesses about unsafe visibility along SH 360 frontage roads due to truck parking,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT, pursuant to Section 25-3 of the City Code of Ordinances, the City's traffic register Schedule VI - Parking Prohibited At All Times on certain streets shall be amended by adding the following:
STREET OR PART SIGN TIME EFFECTIVE
THEREOF
State Highway 360 Southbound Frontage Road No Parking At All Times
From the north city limits to Carrier Parkway,
From Fountain Parkway to Avenue K East,
From the City limits ½ mile north of Kingswood Boulevard to Walnut Creek
State Highway 360 Northbound Frontage Road No Parking At All Times
From Walnut Creek to the city limits ½ mile north of Kingswood Boulevard
From Avenue K East to Post & Paddock Lane
From Riverside Parkway to north city limits
SECTION 2. THAT this section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof.
SECTION 3. THAT all ordinances or part of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. THAT it shall be an offense for any person to violate any section of the traffic register, as amended.
SECTION 5. THAT this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, ON THIS THE 3RD DAY OF MAY, 2016.