ORDINANCE O2025-__
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NAPA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ADDING NAPA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 10.32.120 RELATED TO COMPLIANCE WITH TRAFFIC CONTROL WHEREAS, on September 6, 2022 the City of Napa adopted the Local Roadway Safety Plan (LRSP). The LRSP is a localized data-driven traffic safety plan that identifies and provides recommendations for addressing roadway safety needs within the City; and WHEREAS, the Napa City Council has approved a red-light enforcement program for the purpose of reducing intersection related traffic accidents; and WHEREAS, when traffic control devices are implemented, local jurisdictions tend to see increases in the number of drivers taking short cuts through other properties to avoid compliance with the traffic control device, which creates another traffic safety issue; and WHEREAS, City personnel have regularly observed drivers leaving the roadway to use public or private property in a manner that avoids traffic control measures placed on City roadways; and WHEREAS, the City Council has considered all information related to this matter, as presented at the public meeting of the City Council held on May 6, 2025, including any supporting reports by City Staff, and any information provided during public meetings.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of the City of Napa as follows:
SECTION 1: Napa Municipal Code section 10.32.120 is hereby added to read as follows:
“10.32.120 Operation Prohibited on Property to Avoid Compliance with Traffic Control No person shall operate any motor vehicle, including a motorcycle or motor-driven cycle as defined in the California Vehicle Code, on any public or private property in a manner that avoids or evades official traffic control devices as defined in this Title 10, which have been installed on the adjacent public street or streets, or installed for the purpose of controlling any turning movement on the adjacent public street.” SECTION 2: Severability. If any section, sub-section, subdivision, paragraph, clause or phrase in this Ordinance, or any part thereof, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections or portions of this Ordinance or any part thereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, sub-section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-sections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases may be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3: Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days following adoption.
City of Napa, a municipal corporation
MAYOR: _______________________________
ATTEST: _______________________________
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF NAPA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF NAPA SS:
CITY OF NAPA
I, Tiffany Carranza, City Clerk of the City of Napa, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance had its first reading and was introduced during the public meeting of the City Council on the 6th day of May, 2025, and had its second reading and was adopted and passed during the public meeting of the City Council on the 20th day of May, 2025, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST: __________________________
Tiffany Carranza
City Clerk
Approved as to Form:
________________________
Christopher Diaz
Interim City Attorney
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