6.02.055 Definitions.
For purposes of this ordinance the following terms are defined:
A. City Traffic Engineer – The City employee designated by the city manager to perform the functions of city traffic engineer under this ordinance, or the City employee assigned by the city traffic engineer to perform such functions.
B. Development review issue – A development review issue is any issue involving parking restrictions, traffic calming devices or restrictions to traffic operations that has been proposed in a development application, or imposed or approved through the design review process by the facilities review committee, the board of design review, the planning commission or the city council.
C. Emergency Issue – Any traffic restriction, issue or condition which creates a substantial risk of loss, damage, interruption of public services or threat to public health or safety that could not have been reasonably foreseen and requires prompt response to remedy the condition, and which, had it been reasonably foreseen, would have been a major issue.
D. Extreme Hazard – An emergency issue that represents a serious hazard or immediate threat to the safety of all persons using the public roadway.
E. Minor Issue – A minor issue is any traffic control issue that is not a major issue and not a development review issue. Minor issues include but are not limited to:
1. Approval of the installation of warning signs, directional signs, and signs giving notice of existing laws;
2. Approval of design details for traffic controls to implement the direction of the city council, to implement traffic commission recommendations approved by the city council or to comply with State or Federal regulations;
3. Approval of design details for traffic controls on new facilities which have been authorized by the facilities review committee, the board of design review, the planning commission or the city council;
4. Parking restrictions, traffic calming or restrictions to traffic operations imposed for a period of less than 30 days to control traffic during special events or during periods of construction on or adjacent to the roadway;
5. Approval of parking restrictions that extend for a distance of less than 50 feet along a street.
F. Major Issue – A major issue is any issue involving parking restrictions, traffic calming devices or restrictions to traffic operations except development review issues and traffic controls installed for a period of less than 30 days’ duration. A “Major issue” includes, but is not limited to:
1. Parking restrictions, provided such restrictions extend for at least 50 feet along a street.
2. Restrictions to traffic movements, such as one-way roadways and turn prohibitions;
3. Assignment of right-of-way at an intersection by the installation of STOP signs or YIELD signs or similar restrictions;
4. The control of traffic at any location by the means of traffic signals;
5. Establishment of speed limits, including recommendations on speed limits provided to other agencies to establish speed limits;
6. Restrictions to the use of a public roadway by any kind or class of vehicle or by pedestrians;
7. Establishment of truck routes;
8. Installation of a crosswalk at a location not controlled by a STOP sign, YIELD sign, or traffic signal;
9. Prohibition or restriction to pedestrian crossing;
10. Prohibition of vehicle passing;
11. Establishment of a school zone where reduced speed limits are established during designated times;
12. Installation of traffic calming devices;
13. Closure of an existing roadway;
14. Restrictions of existing access to adjoining properties;
15. Installation of pavement markings or other devices to delineate traffic lanes or bicycle lanes on a roadway where traffic lanes have not previously been delineated;
16. Designation or modification of a residential permit parking district.
17. Citywide policies on traffic; and
18. Any issue referred to the traffic commission by the city council, the city manager or the city traffic engineer.
G. Residential permit parking district – A geographic area within the City designated as a permit parking district.
H. Traffic calming – The installation of speed bumps, traffic circles or similar devices intended to discourage speeding or to discourage through traffic.
I. Traffic controls – All signs, signals, markings, and devices placed on, over, or adjacent to a roadway to regulate, warn, or guide traffic or to regulate parking. [BC 6.02.055, added by Ordinance No. 4026, 11/2/98; amended by Ordinances No. 4205 §§ 1, 2, Ordinance No. 4794, 12/1/20]