(a) Findings. Consistent with California Vehicle Code Section 21101, the Board of Supervisors finds that it is appropriate to permanently restrict vehicles from a portion of the Great Highway Extension, beginning at Sloat Boulevard and extending south for a distance of approximately 3,317 feet, because that portion of the street is no longer needed for vehicular traffic.
(b) Restrictions on Vehicles. The Recreation and Park Department shall restrict vehicles from the Great Highway Extension, beginning at Sloat Boulevard and extending south for a distance of approximately 3,317 feet.
(c) Exempt Vehicles. The following vehicles are exempt from the restriction in subsection (b):
(1) Emergency vehicles, including but not limited to police and fire vehicles.
(2) Official City, State, or federal vehicles, or any other authorized vehicle, being used to perform official City, State, or federal business pertaining to the closed portion of the Great Highway Extension or any property or facility therein or accessible therefrom.
(3) Vehicles authorized by the Recreation and Park Department in connection with permitted events and activities.
(d) Motorized Bicycles, Scooters, or Boards. The Recreation and Park Department shall have the authority to issue rules related to the use of the closed portion of the street by persons utilizing motorized bicycles, scooters, or boards.
(e) Emergency Authority. The General Manager of the Recreation and Park Department shall have the authority to allow vehicular traffic on street segments that would otherwise be closed to vehicles under this Section 6.15 in circumstances which in the General Manager’s judgment constitute an emergency such that the benefit to the public from the vehicular street closure is outweighed by the traffic burden or public safety hazard created by the emergency circumstances.
(f) Promotion of the General Welfare. In enacting and implementing this Section 6.15, the City is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such breach proximately caused injury.
(g) Severability. If any subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this Section 6.15 or any application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or applications of Section 6.15. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares it would have passed this Section and each and every subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, and word not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any other portions of Section 6.15 or application thereof would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
(Added by Ord. 102-24, File No. 231075, App. 5/24/2024, Eff. 6/24/2024)