Resolution 2004-372
16B3
RESOLUTION NO. 2oo4-.l.U.-
A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING SPEED LIMIT REDUCI'IONS ON TWO SEGMENTS OF NEW
MARKET ROAD FROM THE CURRENT SPEED LIMIT OF FORTY -FIVE MILES PER
HOUR (45 MPH) TO (1) THIRTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR (35 MPH) FROM JEROME
DRIVE TO HENDRY STREET, AND (2) FORTY MILES PER HOUR (40 MPH) FROM
HENDRY STREET TO ST ATE ROAD 29 (NORTH I5rH STREET).
WHEREAS, Chapter 316, Florida Statutes, permits the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) to alter
established speed limits on roads under its jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, New Market Road falls under the jurisdiction of the BCC and presently has a forty-five
miles per hour (45 MPH) speed limit; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 316, Florida Statutes, the BCC may alter such existing speed
limits as may be appropriate upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation; and
WHEREAS, the results of the County's engineering and traffic investigations indicate that changing the
current speed limit on New Market Road to thirty-five miles per hour (35 MPH) from Jerome Drive to Hendry
Street and to forty miles per hour (40 MPH) from Hendry Street to State Road 29 (North 15u, Street) is
reasonable and safer under the conditions found to exist and that it conforms to criteria promulgated by the
County and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, THAT:
SECI'ION I: The BCC does hereby establish (1) a thirty-five miles per hour (35 MPH) speed limit on New
Market Road from Jerome Drive to Hendry Street, a distance of approximately 0.9 miles, and (2) a forty miles
per hour (40 MPH) speed limit on New Market Road from Hendry Street to State Road 29 (North 15th Street), a
distance of approximately 0.9 miles, and directs the County Traffic Operations Department to erect appropriate
speed limit signs along both of these segments of New Market Road giving notice of this change.
SECTION 2: A copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded to the Collier County Sheriffs Office for proper
enforcement of the established speed limits for New Market Road within the designated segments.
SECTION 3: The effective date of the speed limit reduction shall be after written notificarion to the Sheriff's
Office and upon the posting of appropriate signage.
This Resolution adopted after motion, second, and majority vote favoring same this 1L}-tt... day of
PeGeM loer ,2004.
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER CO~' FLORIDA
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DONNA FI~LA, Chairman -
Item # Ive,3
Agenda 12 -14.... m I
Date ~l1't
Date 12-2D-2~
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