(a) All State routes are hereby designated as through streets or highways, provided that stop signs, yield signs or traffic control signals shall be erected at all intersections with such through streets or highways, except as otherwise provided in this section. Where two or more State routes that are through streets or highways intersect and no traffic control signal is in operation, stop signs or yield signs shall be erected at one or more entrances thereto by the Ohio Department of Transportation, except as otherwise provided in this section.
Whenever the Ohio Director of Transportation determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that stop signs are necessary to stop traffic on a through highway for safe and efficient operation, nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent such installations. When circumstances warrant, the Director also may omit stop signs on roadways intersecting through highways under his jurisdiction. Before the Director either installs or removes a stop sign under this paragraph, he shall give notice, in writing, of that proposed action to the Municipality at least thirty days before installing or removing the stop sign.
(b) Other streets or highways or portions thereof, are hereby designated through streets or highways, if they are within the Municipality, if they have a continuous length of more than one mile between the limits of such street or highway or portion thereof, and if they have "stop" or "yield" signs or traffic control signals at the entrances of the majority of intersecting streets or highways. For purposes of this section, the limits of such street or highway or portion thereof, shall be a municipal corporation line, the physical terminus of the street or highway or any point on such street or highway at which vehicular traffic thereon is required by regulatory signs to stop or yield to traffic on the intersecting street, provided that in residence districts the Municipality may by ordinance designate such street or highway, or portion thereof, not to be a through highway and thereafter the affected residence district shall be indicated by official traffic control devices. Where two or more streets or highways designated under this subsection (b) intersect and no traffic control signal is in operation, stop signs or yield signs shall be erected at one or more entrances thereto by the Ohio Department of Transportation or by Council or the authorized local authority, except as otherwise provided in this section.
(c) The Director of Public Safety shall erect stop signs or yield signs on all streets intersecting such through highways, except as otherwise herein specifically provided, and shall also erect stop signs at one or more entrances to any intersection designated as a stop intersection by the terms of this Traffic Code.
(d) The following additional intersections are hereby designated as stop intersections at which the Director of Public Safety is authorized and directed to erect stop signs as specified:
Margaret Avenue and Carabel Avenue with a stop sign on Margaret Avenue; Margaret Avenue and Woodward Avenue with a stop sign on Margaret Avenue; Lakewood Heights Boulevard and Riverside Drive with a stop sign on Lakewood Heights Boulevard; Delaware Avenue and Hilliard Road with a stop sign on Delaware Avenue; Athens Avenue and Carabel Avenue with a stop sign on Athens Avenue; Spring Garden Avenue and Franklin Avenue with stop signs on Spring Garden Avenue; Spring Garden Avenue and Archdale Avenue with stop signs on Spring Garden Avenue; and Spring Garden Avenue and Fries Avenue with stop signs on Spring Garden Avenue.
(e) Every stop sign shall bear the word "stop" in letters not less than six inches in height. Every stop sign shall be located as near as practicable at the property line of the street or highway at the entrance to which the stop must be made, or at the nearest line of the crosswalk thereat, or, if none, at the nearest line of the roadway.
(Ord. 35-10. Passed 7-19-2012.)
(f) Pursuant to authority of subsection (b) hereof and Ohio R. C. 4511.65, the following streets situated in residence districts are hereby declared not to be through streets or highways provided stop signs, yield signs or other official traffic control devices are erected at an intersecting street:
Bunts Road from Clifton Boulevard to Lakewood Heights Boulevard; Warren Road from Clifton Boulevard to Lakewood Heights Boulevard; Athens Avenue from Halstead Avenue to Carabel Avenue; Delaware Avenue from Brown Road to its western terminus at McKinley Avenue; and Woodward Avenue from Detroit Avenue to Fisher Road.
(Ord. 23-11. Passed 6-20-2011.)