§ 7.01.09. Traffic control.

In order to avoid those hazards incident to public travel and to protect the members of the general public while in the use of streets and highways, the safety-service director is authorized and directed to establish and mark traffic control areas as provided in the following sections:

(A)

Traffic control signals. The safety-service director shall establish and designate traffic control signal intersections, at which intersections shall be maintained traffic control signals to regulate traffic. The safety-service director shall have all necessary authority to install at such locations any lawful traffic control signal when in his discretion it is necessary to expedite travel and promote public safety.

(B)

One-way traffic. The safety-service director shall determine and designate streets, parts of streets, or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction only and shall place and maintain appropriate markings, signs, barriers or other devices to give notice thereof. The safety-service director may erect signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the roadway.

(C)

Stop and yield right-of-way intersections. The safety-service director shall establish and designate stop intersections and yield right-of-way intersections, at which intersections shall be maintained the appropriate traffic control devices to regulate traffic and promote public safety. The safety-service director shall have all necessary authority to erect, or cause to be erected, appropriate and legible signs or markers, upon which shall be displayed the word "stop", at all intersections or the words "yield right-of-way", at all intersections designated by said director as yield right-of-way intersections.

(D)

Turns at intersections. The safety-service director shall place markers, buttons, or signs within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections or preventing turns at such intersections.

(E)

Through routes. The safety-service director shall designate certain routes which shall be designated as through routes and shall be adequately signed, when said designated routes contribute to accelerate the flow of travel and promote public safety.

(F)

Through trucks. The safety-service director shall designate and appropriately mark certain streets over which no person shall drive any through truck. Such designation shall be made only upon the basis of traffic survey determining that such street is not of adequate width, structure, or design so as to accommodate such vehicle with safety.

(G)

Pedestrian crosswalks. The safety-service director shall establish and designate by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where in his opinion there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the road-way, and at such other places as he may deem necessary in the interests of public safety.

(H)

Pedestrian safety zones. The safety-service director shall establish safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as he may deem necessary for the protection of pedestrians.

(I)

Bus unloading zones. The safety-service director shall mark or cause to be marked, by appropriate sign or other device, all areas where passengers are loaded or unloaded in the operation of public and school bus service for the protection of passengers and pedestrians.

(J)

Business loading zones. The safety-service director shall establish zones for loading and unloading of passengers or merchandise, or both, when in his judgment the operations of business in the area justify and traffic conditions permit.

(K)

No parking zones. To promote safety on the streets, to expedite the flow of traffic; and to regulate parking, the safety-service director may designate areas as "no parking zones" or "limited parking zones" and prescribe time limitations for parking or prohibit parking upon the streets, alleys, parking garages, city parking lots, and highways of the city. An appropriate sign shall mark the boundaries of such zones.

(L)

Individual parking spaces. The safety-service director shall designate and mark off individual parking spaces at points or places to be approved by resolution of the city council in certain sections of the downtown area and outlying districts, such parking spaces to be established along the curb of streets in such sections and to be approximately 23 feet in length alongside curbs. At each place where individual parking spaces are so marked off, each vehicle shall be parked entirely within an individual parking space.

(M)

Traffic lanes; overtaking and passing zones.

(1)

The safety-service director shall:

(a)

Mark lanes for traffic on street pavements at such places as he may deem advisable in the interest of public safety; and

(b)

Determine those portions of any street where overtaking and passing other traffic or driving to the left of center, or offset center, or center line of the street or roadway would be especially hazardous, and may, by appropriate signs or markings on the street or roadway, indicate the beginning and end of such zones.

(c)

Such zones shall be so designated in the following manner, to wit: an auxiliary yellow line placed parallel and to the right of the normal center line or offset center line.

(Ord. No. 0-100-17, § I, 9-5-2017)