The city manager, for best use of the streets in the public interest, shall exercise the following powers, subject to approval by the city council, based on standards established by the state highway commission and recognized traffic control standards such as the "Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices" published by the bureau of public roads, providing, where required by the motor vehicle laws of Oregon approval by the state highway commission has first been secured:
A. Designate streets, portions of streets, sides of streets or city owned or leased land upon which parking or standing shall be prohibited or prohibited during certain hours and the angle of such parking.
B. Designate through streets.
C. Designate one-way streets.
D. Designate truck routes.
E. Designate streets where trucks, machinery or any other large or heavy vehicles exceeding specified weights shall be prohibited. Such vehicles may, however, be operated on such streets for the purpose of delivering or picking up materials or merchandise but then only by entering such streets at the intersection nearest the destination of the vehicle and proceeding no farther than the nearest intersection.
F. Designate where traffic control signals shall be placed and the time of operation of such signals.
G. Establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common carrier vehicles.
H. Designate the location of passenger loading zones for use in front of the entrance to any hotel, auditorium, theater, church, school or public building.
I. Designate and cause to be placed or maintained appropriate signs, marks or lines for:
1. Intersections where drivers of vehicles shall not make right, left or U-turns and the times when such prohibitions shall apply.
2. Crosswalks at intersections where deemed necessary for pedestrian safety.
3. Safety zones of such kind and character and at such places as deemed necessary for pedestrian safety.
4. Play streets, or such hours when certain streets may be used as such, on which no person shall drive a vehicle upon such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed area, and then such driver shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon such street.
J. Cause to be placed or marked and maintained:
1. Traffic control signs;
2. Parking spaces;
3. Traffic lanes and other symbols;
4. All other signs and markings necessary to implement traffic and parking controls.
K. Make and enforce temporary experimental or emergency regulations, consistent with this title. No such regulations shall be effective and in force until and unless adequate signs, signals, or other notices are erected clearly indicating such regulation. No such regulation shall remain in effect for more than ninety (90) days. (1956 Code § 7-003)