CITY OF FAIRFIELD
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-07
AMENDING SECTION 12B.4 OF CHAPTER 12B, PARKS AND RECREATION, SUBSECTION H
OF THE FAIRFIELD CITY CODE, TO REMOVE THE PROHIBITION OF USE OF ELECTRIC BIKES IN ROCKVILLE HILLS REGIONAL PARK, AND ALLOW THE USE OF CLASS 1 ELECTRIC
BIKES IN ROCKVILLE HILLS REGIONAL PARK
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRFIELD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Statement of Intent
A. On March 3, 2020, staff introduced Ordinance No. 2020-04, amending the Fairfield City Code, Chapter 12B, Parks and Recreation, Section 12B.4, Traffic and Parking Regulations, adding Subsection (h), prohibiting the use of all electric bikes (E - Bikes) at Rockville Hill s Regional Park ( Park). The ordinance amendment passed and was adopted at the City Council meeting on March 24, 2020.
B. In early 2023, the city council requested that the Rockville Citizens Advisory Committee (RCAC) provide a recommendation regarding the use of E-Bikes in the park.
C. At the city council meeting on May 20, 2025, RCAC proposed updating Ordinance No. 2020-04 to allow the use of Class 1 E-bikes at the Park and the City Council approved updating the ordinance.
SECTION 2. Section 12B.4(H) of Chapter 12B of the Fairfield City Code is hereby modified to read as follows:
“(h) Ride or operate any electric bicycle, other than a Class 1 electric bicycle as defined in California Vehicle Code Section 312.5(a)(1), in Rockville Hills Regional Park.”
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall no t affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall be effective 30 days following its adoption by the City Council. A summary of this Ordinance shall, within 15 days after passage, be published in ORD. NO. 2025-07
accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California with the names of the City Councilmembers voting for and against it.
INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Fai rfield on the 19th day of August 2025, and
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2nd day of September 2025, by the following vote:
AYES: MEMBERS: MOY/BERTANI/CARR/PANDURO/SANDHU/TONNESEN/WILLIAMS NOES: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________ ABSENT: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________ ABSTAIN: MEMBERS: _________________________________________________
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK