Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
CM/ ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: February 21, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance amending Chapter 18 of the Code of Ordinances to revise the school safety speed zone for Sam Houston Elementary School along Teasley Lane, for Ryan Elementary School along Ryan Road and to remove the school safety speed zone for Selwyn School along W. University Drive (US 380); providing a penalty of a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00); providing a severability clause, providing for publication; and declaring an effective date. The Traffic Safety Commission recommends approval (7-0).
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BACKGROUND
A considerable number of schools (Elementary, Middle and High) within the City of Denton have school zones along adjacent streets that provide access to the schools. School zones are sections of a roadway where the legally enforceable speed limit has been reduced for a specific time period to allow pedestrian crossings in a low vehicle speed environment. Sam Houston Elementary School, Ryan Elementary School and Selwyn School have such school zones along their frontage.
The school zone in front of Sam Houston Elementary School is along Teasley Lane, beginning three hundred twenty-five (325) feet east of where Teasley Lane intersects the center line of Pennsylvania Drive to three hundred sixty-five (365) feet west of where Teasley Lane intersects the center line of Lillian Miller Parkway. Similarly, the school zone in front of Ryan Elementary School is along Ryan Road, beginning five hundred (500) feet west of the intersection of Creekdale Drive and Ryan Road and continuing east to a point five hundred (500) feet east of the intersection of Forrestridge Drive and Ryan Road. Also, the school zone in front of Selwyn School is along W. University Drive (US 380), beginning four hundred fifty (450) feet east of where US 380 intersects the center line of Marshall Drive to one thousand two hundred (1,...
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