Ord 3189 5/16/1977 ORDINANCE NO. f/Iy
ORDINANCE REQUIRING, AND ASSESSING THE COSTS OF,
CONSTRUCTION OF LEFT TURN STORAGE BAYS IN STREET
MEDIANS AT EXISTING MEDIAN CUTS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Left turn storage bays shall be constructed
in street medians at existing median cuts under the following
circumstances:
A. When an owner or developer constructs a large traffic
volume generator such as a multi-commercial shopping center or
an industrial complex meeting the criteria set out in Section
27-33, Paragraph (b) and Section 27-35 of the Code of Ordinances,
and traffic entering such development turns left through an
existing median cut which has no left turn storage bay.
B. When a subdivider plats a subdivision abutting a street
containing a median, and the new subdivision contains a street
which intersects the abutting street at an existing median cut,
and traffic will enter the new subdivision street by turning
left off the abutting street through the median cut which has
no left turn storage bay.
SECTION 2. Such left turn storage bays shall be twelve
feet wide and shall have a minimum length of fifty feet,
measured from the nose of the median cut, plus a taper no
steeper than seven to one. The actual length of the left turn
storage bay shall be determined by a traffic study conducted
by the Traffic Engineering Department.
SECTION 3. Such owner, developer or subdivider shall,
at his sole expense, have construction plans prepared for the
storage bay, which plans must be approved by the Director of
Public Works and the Director of Traffic and Transportation.
The construction of all required surface and underground
improvements (except installation of traffic signals) shall be
performed by a bonded contractor at the sole cost and expense
of such owner, developer or subdivider, who shall also make
all necessary arrangements for, and pay all the costs of, the
relocation of any existing utilities and improvements that may
be required to be relocated. If it is deemed necessary by
the Traffic Engineering Department that traffic controls
(including signalization) be installed, the cost of all such
traffice-control materials and equipment, plus the cost of
engineering design and installation labor, shall be paid to
the City by such owner, developer or subdivider. The cost
of the engineering design and installation labor pertaining to
such traffic controls is here determined to be an amount equal
to twenty-five percent of the cost of material and equipment.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 16th day of May, 1977.
A Y O R
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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