(A) In accordance with requirements of the State Department of Transportation, or whenever the Council shall determine upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any speed limit listed in § 73.02 is greater or less than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any intersection or other place or upon any part of the city street system, the Council shall determine and adopt by ordinance a higher or lower speed limit as it deems reasonable and safe at the location.
(B) The following special speed zones have been established:
Special 15 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 15 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Bobetta Court |
Special 20 mph Speed Zones
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Special 20 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 20 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Second Street from Eighth Avenue South to First Avenue |
Third Street from Second Avenue South to Seventh Avenue South |
Main Avenue from Second Street to Harding Street |
Twenty-Fifth Avenue North from Fourth Street to Ninth Street |
North Ninth Street from Twenty-Fifth Avenue North to Twenty-Eighth Avenue North |
Twenty-Eighth Avenue North from Ninth Street to Fourth Street |
North Third Street between Cragmor Drive and the entrance to Eagle Point Park |
Special 25 mph Speed Zones
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Special 25 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 25 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Second Street from Main Avenue to Twenty-Ninth Avenue North |
Second Avenue South from Seventh Street to Bluff Boulevard |
Fourth Street from Second Avenue South to Seventh Avenue South |
Seventh Avenue South from Argyle Court to Melrose Court |
Tenth Street from Eighth Avenue South to Eleventh Avenue South |
Sixteenth Street from Second Avenue South to Eighth Avenue South |
Bluff Boulevard from College Avenue to South Nineteenth Street |
Springdale Drive from Bluff Boulevard to North Drive of Mt. St. Clare Dormitory |
Twenty-Seventh Avenue South from South Fourteenth Street to South Eighteenth Street |
Second Street from Twenty-Third Avenue North to Main Avenue |
Main Avenue from North Fifth Street to North Second Street |
Bluff Boulevard from South Fourteenth Street to 900 feet westerly of South Fourteenth Street |
South Fourteenth Street from Bluff Boulevard to Eleventh Avenue South |
Special 30 mph Speed Zones
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Special 30 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 30 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Second Street from Twenty-Ninth Avenue North to Thirty-First Avenue North |
Second Avenue South from Fourth Street to Seventh Street |
Second Avenue South from Bluff Boulevard to Fourteenth Street |
Third Street from Second Avenue South to Twentieth Avenue North |
Third Street from Twentieth Avenue North to Thirty-Third Avenue North |
Fourth Street from Seventh Avenue South to Eighteenth Avenue South |
Fourth Street from Second Avenue South to Seventeenth Avenue North |
Fifth Avenue South from Fourth Street to Bluff Boulevard |
Seventh Avenue South from Second Street to Argyle Court |
Seventh Avenue South from Melrose Court to Bluff Boulevard |
Seventh Avenue North from Fourth Street to Bluff Boulevard |
Eighth Avenue South from Gateway Bridge to Fourth Street |
Eighth Avenue South from Melrose Court to Bluff Boulevard |
Tenth Street from Eleventh Avenue South to Fifteenth Avenue South |
Eleventh Avenue South from Fourth Street to Camanche Avenue |
Eleventh Street from Second Avenue South to Thirteenth Avenue North |
Thirteenth Avenue North from Fourth Street to Seventh Street |
South Fourteenth Street from Camanche Avenue to Eleventh Avenue South |
Seventeenth Avenue North from Third Street to Fourth Street |
Nineteenth Street from Manufacturing Drive to Harrison Drive |
Bluff Boulevard from Seventh Avenue North to South Fourteenth Street and on Bluff Boulevard from 900 feet westerly of South Fourteenth Street to College Avenue |
Manufacturing Drive from Bluff Boulevard to Nineteenth Street |
Springdale Drive from North Drive to Mt. St. Clare Dormitory to Thirteenth Avenue North |
Thirteenth Avenue North from Fourteenth Street to Springdale Drive |
Stockwell Lane from U.S. Highway 67 to entrance of Eagle Point Park |
South Bluff Boulevard and Harts Mill Road from South Nineteenth Street to Windsor Drive |
South Eighteenth Street from Eighth Avenue South to Second Avenue South |
South Second Street from Eighth Avenue South to Fifteenth Avenue South |
U.S. Highway 30/67 from 200 feet south of South Sixth Street to Eighth Avenue South (Gateway Bridge) |
Third Street from Seventh Avenue South to Eleventh Avenue South |
Eighteenth Street from Second Avenue South to one-half mile north of Second Avenue South |
Forty-Fourth Avenue South from the west city limits to 200 feet east of Rock Creek |
Special 35 mph Speed Zones
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Special 35 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 35 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Second Street from First Avenue to Twenty-Third Avenue North |
Second Avenue South from Fourteenth Street to .8 mile west of Mill Creek Parkway |
Eighteenth Street from Thirteenth Avenue North to one-half mile south of Thirteenth Avenue North |
Camanche Avenue (U.S. Highway 30/67) from 200 feet south of South Sixth Street to 100 feet west of South Sixteenth Street |
Deer Creek Road from U.S. 67 east to city limits |
Lincolnway from Fourteenth Street to Sixteenth Street |
Stockwell Lane from U.S. Highway 136 to U.S. Highway 67 |
U.S. Highway 67 from Thirty-Third Avenue North to Thirty-Ninth Avenue North |
Springdale Drive from North Drive to Mt. St. Clare Dormitory to Thirteenth Avenue North |
Thirteenth Avenue North from Mill Creek Parkway to North Fourteenth Street |
Thirteenth Avenue North from Springdale Drive to Seventh Street |
Main Avenue from North Fifth Street to North Thirteenth Street |
Nineteenth Avenue North from North Second Street to the east city limits |
Sixteenth Street Northwest from Thirteenth Avenue North to U.S. Highway 136 |
South Thirty-Second Street from Second Avenue South to Harts Mill Road |
Harts Mill Road from South Thirty-Second Street to the entrance to Valley Oaks Golf Course |
Anamosa Road between U.S. Highway 30 and Forty-Fourth Avenue South |
Eighth Street Northwest between Stockwell Lane North and Forty-Fourth Avenue North |
Valley West Drive from Manufacturing Drive to Mill Creek Parkway |
Special 40 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 40 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
U.S. Highway 30/67 from 100 feet west of South Sixteenth Street to 200 feet west of South Nineteenth Street |
Special 45 mph Speed Zones
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Special 45 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 45 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Twenty-First Street from Manufacturing Drive to Harrison Drive |
Harts Mill Road from Windsor Drive South to Thirty-Second Street |
U.S. Highway 67 from Thirty-Ninth Avenue North to Stockwell Lane |
U.S. Highway 30 from a point 200 feet west of South Nineteenth Street westerly 10,219 feet to a point 3,055 feet west of Mill Creek Parkway |
Manufacturing Drive from Nineteenth Street to U.S. 30 |
U.S. Highway 136 from North Thirteenth Street to city limits |
On Thirteenth Avenue North from Mill Creek Parkway to west city limits |
U.S. Highway 67 from its south junction with U.S. Highway 30 to the south city limits |
Forty-Fourth Avenue South from 200 feet east of Rock Creek to South Fifty-Fourth Street |
Mill Creek Parkway from U.S. Highway 30 to U.S. Highway 136 (Main Avenue) |
Second Avenue South from .8 mile west of Mill Creek Parkway |
Main Avenue from North Fifth Street to 450 feet west of Mill Creek Parkway |
Main Avenue from 450 west of Mill Creek Parkway to the city limits |
Harts Mill Road from the entrance to Valley Oaks Golf Course to South Sixty-Second Street |
Special 55 mph Speed Zones
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Special 55 mph Speed Zones
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A speed in excess of 55 mph is unlawful on any of the following designated streets or parts thereof |
Second Avenue Road from Mill Creek Bridge to city limits |
Forty-Fourth Avenue North from Eighth Street Northwest to the west city limits |
Sixteenth Street Northwest from U.S. Highway 136 to city limits |
South Thirtieth Street from Harts Mill Road to U.S. Highway 30 |
South Fortieth Street from Harts Mill Road to U.S. Highway 30 |
South Fifty-Fourth Street from Second Avenue Road to south city limits |
South Sixty-Second Street from Second Avenue Road to U.S. Highway 30 |
Deer Creek Road from U.S. Highway 67 west and north to city limits |
South Sixtieth Street from U.S. Highway 30 to Harts Mill Road |
U.S. Highway 30 from a point 3,055 feet west of Mill Creek Parkway westerly 3,000 feet to a point 582 feet east of South Fortieth Street |
(Iowa Code § 321.290) (1999 Code, § 63.05) (Ord. 2095, passed 6-8-1999; Ord. 2237, passed 4-24-2001; Ord. 2249, passed 10-9-2001; Ord. 2254, passed 2-12-2002; Ord. 2261, passed 12-10-2002; Ord. 2278, passed 7-13-2004; Ord. 2282, passed 11-9-2004; Ord. 2336, passed 10-10-2006; Ord. 2343, passed 2-13-2007; Ord. 2361, passed 2-26-2008; Ord. 2388, passed 10-14-2008; Ord. 2441, passed 4-26-2011; Ord. 2463, passed 9-13-2011; Ord. 2683, passed 9-14-2021)
Penalty, see § 10.99