The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to:
(A) Subject to the concurrence of Council, cause to be erected and maintained a stop sign, yield sign or other official traffic control device to designate an intersection or other roadway junction at which vehicular traffic on one or more of the roadways should yield, or stop and yield, before entering the intersection or junction;
(B) Place an official traffic control device within or adjacent to an intersection, indicating the course to be traveled by a vehicle turning at an intersection, and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed in other provisions of this section;
(C) Determine those intersections at which drivers of vehicles shall not make a right, left or “U” turn and place proper signs at intersections. The making of turns may be prohibited between certain hours of the day and permitted at other hours, in which event the same shall be clearly indicated on the signs or the signs may be removed when the turns are permitted.
(D) Declare any street or part thereof a play street and place or cause to be placed appropriate signs or devices in the roadway indicating and helping to protect the same;
(E) Subject to review and confirmation by Council:
(1) Designate and maintain or cause to be maintained, by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway, crosswalks at intersections where, in his or her opinion, there is particular danger to pedestrians crossing the roadway and at other places as he or she deems necessary; and
(2) Establish safety zones of any kind and character and at places as he or she deems necessary for the protection of pedestrians.
(F) Subject to review and confirmation by Council, mark or cause to be marked traffic lanes upon the roadway of any street or highway where a regular alignment of traffic is necessary;
(G) (1) Subject to review and confirmation by Council and upon the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation:
(a) Decrease maximum speed limits at intersections and outside urban districts and increase speed limits within urban districts; and
(b) Determine maximum speed limits on arterial streets.
(2) The times during which speed limits established pursuant to this division are applicable shall be indicated by official traffic control devices.
(H) Determine the location of loading zones and handicapped person parking spaces and place and maintain appropriate signs indicating the same, stating the hours during which the provisions of this division are applicable.
(I) Establish bus stops, bus stands, taxicab stands and stands for other passenger common-carrier motor vehicles on the public streets, in the places and in the number as he or she determines to be of greatest benefit and convenience to the public, and every bus stop, bus stand, taxicab stand or other stand shall be designated by appropriate signs;
(J) On the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation, and subject to the concurrence of Council, prohibit, regulate or limit stopping, standing or parking of vehicles at all times or during specified hours. No prohibition, regulation or limitation relating to stopping, standing or parking imposed under this division shall be effective unless official traffic control devices are erected and in place at the time of any alleged offense. The Director shall cause the devices to be erected and maintained;
(K) On the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation, and subject to the concurrence of Council, cause to be erected and maintained official traffic control devices on any street or part thereof to prohibit the operation of trucks exceeding 10,000 pounds gross weight, provided that the devices do not prohibit necessary local operation on the street for the purpose of making a pick-up or delivery;
(L) On the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation, and subject to the concurrence of Council, cause to be erected and maintained official traffic control devices on any street or part thereof to impose vehicle size restrictions;
(M) On the basis of an engineering or traffic investigation, and subject to the concurrence of Council, determine and designate those heavily traveled streets upon which shall be prohibited any class or kind of traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic, and cause to be erected and maintained appropriate official traffic control devices giving notice thereof;
(N) Enact temporary regulations for experimental or other special purposes, which temporary regulations shall lapse after the end of 90 days unless reinstated by the Traffic Engineer;
(O) Test traffic control devices under actual conditions of traffic; and
(P) Authorize the temporary placement of official traffic control devices when required by an emergency, or pursuant to enforcement of temporary regulations as provided in division (N) hereof.
(Ord. 97-36, passed 8-12-1997; Ord. 84-02, passed 1-9-1984; Ord. 08-61, passed 8-26-2008; Ord. 10-04, passed 1-12-2010; Ord. 10-23, passed 4-13-2010)