Resolution 1996-340
AUG - 6 1996
RESOLUTION NO. 98- 340
RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE REDUCTIONS OF SPEED
LIMITS TO TWENTY FIVE MILES PER HOUR (25 MPHI ON
DESICNATEO
PLATTED
LOCAL
RESIDENTIAL
SUBDIVISION ROADWAYS THAT ARB THEN DEDICATED
TO PUBLIC USB WITHIN COLLIER COUNTY, SUBJECT TO
MANDATORY PREREQUISITES.
WHEREAS, Section 316, Florida statutes, and collier county Ordinance
NO. 91-25 authorizes the Board of County commissioners to alter or establish
speed limits on roads under Its Jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, many local subdivIsion roadways fall under the JurIsdiction of the
Board of County Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, In accordance with SectIon 316, Florida Statutes, and collier
county Ordinance No. 91-25, many local platted residential subdivision roadways
are constructed with lane widths In anticipation of accommodating only low
traffic volumes traveling at low speeds; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has set precedents by
establishing a 25 MPH speed limit on many Of the platted local residential
subdivision roadways within Collier COunty; and
WHEREAS, public notification has been advertised tv/o (21 weeks prior to the
Collier County Board of County Commissioners' public meetIngs held to consider
the proposed speed limit reductions to 25 MPH; and
WHEREAS, Inspections promulgated by requests of citizens to lower the
speed limits within residential areas have recently confirmed that many of the
roadways within older subdivisions In the County have been constructed below
the current County subdivision standards and which roads are utilized
concurrently by vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists, and which roads have been
constructed for only low.volume, low-speed travel;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
COLLIER COUNTY, that
1. Speed limits on roads may be lowered, when determined by the County's
Transportation Department to be warranted, to 2S MPH on the platted and
accepted local subdivision roadways, Implementation of those speed zones
by the Transportation Department shall be subject In each Instance to
having received a citizens' petition meeting County requirements and
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requesting same, In accordance with englneerlnll studies, gaining Board of
County Commissioner approval, and subject to availability of adequate
monetary and personnel resources.
2. The effective date of each speed limit reduction by road segment shall not
be until
al Board of county Commission approval; and
bl posting of appropriate speed limit sign age; and
cl Written notification of each such speed limit reduction has been
delivered to the Collier County Sheriff'S Office.
3. The County.s Transportation Department will review each respective
residential roadway upon receiving a citizens' petition for such action from
the residents requesting that the respectIve speed limIt be lowered. After
the completion of traffic engineering studies as then required by Florida
statutes and/or Collier County Ordinance, the collier County Transportation
Department will make Its recommendation and the Board of County
Commission will take action to deny the request, or to approve the request
and authorize the Transportation Department to commence lowering the
respective speed limits, subject to providing written notification of each
such reduction to the Collier County SheriffS Office.
4. Authorization Is hereby given to the CDunty's Transportation oepartment
to erect appropriate speed limit Signs In accordance with each respective
speed limit reduction caused pursuant to this Resolution, and In accordance
with section 316, Florida Statutes, and with Collier County Ordinance No, 91-
25, as then amended.
5. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, speed limits shall remain at
thirty miles per hour (30 MPHI on local subdivision roaClviays with areas of
Collier County now or hereafter platted as "The Golden qate Estates', and
also on all roadways then platted or then accepted as "local county
roadways" provided such roads are neither within a subdivision nor are
then subject to the establishment of different speed limits In accordance
with applicable Florida statutes and/or with County Ordinance No. 91-25, as
then amended.
6, The Clerk to the Board shall provide a true copy of this resolution to the
Collier County Sheriff'S Office,
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THIS RESOLUTION ADOPTED THIS ~ 7'-1.. DAY OF
MOTION, SECOND AND MAJORITY VOTE.
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1996, AFTER
DWIGHT E. BROCK,
CLERK
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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