Ordinance 2089CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. 2089
New Series
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING TWO STOP SIGNS
AT THE INTERSECTION OF MELROSE AVENUE AND MAITLAND
DRIVE
WHEREAS, upon petition of residents of Maitland Drive
this Council passed its resolution of Intention to Acquire and Con-
struct Improvements in the Maitland Drive Assessment District Local
Improvement District 1982 -1; and
WHEREAS, during reconstruction of said street it will be
necessary to reroute AC Transit buses from Maitland Drive; and
WHEREAS, AC Transit is willing to modify their route on a
temporary basis providing stop signs are installed at the inter-
section of Melrose Avenue and Maitland Drive to protect the buses
as they make their turnaround to avoid Maitland Drive;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA that:
Section 1 . At the intersection of Maitland Drive, Melrose
Avenue and Mecartney Road stop signs shall be erected on Maitland
Drive at or near its entrances to said intersection.
Section 2 . This ordinance is one of great necessity and
urgency within the meaning of Section 3 -12 of the City Charter,
is introduced and passed at the same Council meeting and shall be-
come effective on April 7, 1982.
Section 3 . The facts constituting the necessity and
urgency hereof are:
1. That traffic regulations are essential for the orderly
flow and control of traffic within the City.
2. That such regulations should necessarily be immediately
effective on passage to insure that maximum preservation of public
welfare is obtained.
3. That a potential health and safety problem will exist
if such amendment is not immediately effective.
4. That, in light of such potential health and safety
problems involved, the normal delay between enactment of this
ordinance and its effective date would be injurious.
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5. This Council hereby finds, determines and declares that
it is in the best interest and necessity that this ordinance be
introduced and passed at the regular meeting of the City Council
E held April 6, 1982, and that this ordinance become and be in full
o force and effect April 7, 1982.
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Section 4 . This ordinance shall be repealed and be of no
w further force and effect upon the completion and acceptance by the
cn City of the Maitland Drive Assessment District Local Improvement
t° = District 1982 -1 improvements.
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Presiding cpTicer of the Council
Attest:
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City Clerk
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
and regularly introduced and adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda
in regular meeting assembled on the 6th day of April, 1982, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Diament, Gorman, Sherratt, Stone and President Corica - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal
of said City this 7th day of April, 1982.
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City C erk of the City l(+eda