Ordinance 3245CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. 3245
New Series
AMENDING ALAMEDA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 8-8.5 AND 8-1.2 TO
AUTHORIZE THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND
VISIBILITY AT ALAMEDA INTERSECTIONS
In enacting this Section, the Alameda City Council finds as follows:
The Alameda General Plan Safety Element Policy SN-5 states that the City shall
"prioritize public safety through the implementation of a Vision Zero policy to reduce
annual pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries from collisions with faster
moving vehicles and unsafe streets."
The Alameda Municipal Code regulations must be maintained and updated to
ensure the safety of its residents.
In 2018, the over sixty (60) people bicycling and walking were involved in collisions
that were reported to the Alameda Police Department and two (2) collisions occurred in
Alameda in which people lost their lives.
The National Association of City Transportation Officials state that increasing
visibility at intersections results in reduced number and severity of collisions.
The California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices offers guidance that
parking should be prohibited one stall length from the crosswalk at all intersections.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ALAMEDA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: Section 8.5 Intersection Visibility Zones of Chapter VIII of the Alameda
Municipal Code shall be amended as follows:
8-8.5 -Intersection Visibility Zones.
a. The Public Works Director is hereby authorized, based upon what generally
accepted transportation engineering and planning standards indicate for the safety
or adequate flow of all modes of transportation to designate Intersection Visibility
Zones, in accordance with the eve Section 22507(a), at or near any intersection.
The Public Works Director shall cause to be installed and maintained signage and
markings designating the restriction and the limit of the zone. Records shall be
established and maintained detailing these locations and shall be available at the
Public Works Department.
b. The Public Works Director is hereby authorized to prohibit parking within 20 feet
of an intersection crosswalk or end of curb return at all intersections in Alameda.
At signalized intersections, the Director is further authorized to prohibit parking
within 30 feet on the near side of the intersection. The Director may authorize the
placement of street furniture or bicycle parking facilities within 20 feet of an
intersection crosswalk or curb return provided that the furniture or bicycle facilities
do not significantly impair visibility for all modes of transportation.
Section 2: 8-1 .2 Notice of Decisions of Chapter VIII of the Alameda Municipal Code shall
be amended as follows:
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Prior to executing decisions pursuant to his/her authority granted pursuant to Alameda
Municipal Code subsections 8-2.2, 8-7.2, 8-7.3, 8-8.3, 6-8.11, 8-20.3, 8-20.4, 8-
24.1 (b), 8-27.3, and 12-12.1, the Public Works Director shall provide a written notice of
his/her decision(s) to properties within three hundred (300') feet of the subject location
and to as many other persons as he/she may deem advisable. The notice shall provide
information on the appeal process.
Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance
if, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect
the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City
Council of the City of Alameda hereby declares that it would have passed this
ordinance, and each section, subsections, clause, or phrase hereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and
phrases are declared to be invalid and unconstitutional.
Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the
expiration of thirty (30) days from the date of its final passage.
Attest:
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting
assembled on the 16th day of July, 2019, by the following vote to wit:
A YES: Councilmembers Daysog, Knox White, Oddie, Vella and
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft-5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said City this 17th day of July, 2019.
Approved as to
Yibin Shen, .. ·
City of Alamey
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City of Alameda