(A) Subject to state laws, the City Council, on all highways, streets, roadways, alleys, city property, parks and city parking lots, shall exercise all road traffic and parking authority for the city except those powers expressly delegated by this chapter or another ordinance.
(B) The powers of the Council include, but are not limited to:
(1) Designation of city-controlled through streets and directions of travel;
(2) Designation of truck routes;
(3) Designation of parking meter zones, spaces, rates and space leases;
(4) Designation of the type of vehicle traffic allowed;
(5) Authorization of greater maximum weights, heights or lengths for vehicles using city streets than specified by state law;
(6) Revision of speed zones;
(7) Revision of speed limits in parks, city property and city parking lots;
(8) Temporary or permanent closure of any public roadway, street or other public way in the city, not subject to state or federal control; and
(9) The regulation of all other vehicle and pedestrian uses of city property as reasonably necessary for the public’s general health, safety and welfare, whether temporary or permanent.
(C) Establishment, removal or alteration of the following traffic controls:
(1) Crosswalks, safety zones and traffic lanes, intersection channelization and areas where drivers of vehicles shall not make right, left or U-turns, and the time when the prohibition applies; and
(2) Parking areas, parking restrictions and time limitations, including the form of permissible parking.
(D) All vehicle and pedestrian regulations apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week, uninterrupted, unless otherwise specified.
(E) All vehicle and pedestrian traffic control shall be posted by signs reasonably calculated to inform the public of the regulation and of the time and place to which it applies. Signs conforming to federal and state highway standards meet this standard.
(Prior Code, § 71.015) (Ord. 1249a, passed 6-7-2010)