HomeMy WebLinkAbout117 - 09/20/2011 - ADDING A NEW SECTION TO ARTICLE VII OF CHAPTER 17 OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO STAYING ON MEDIANS ORDINANCE NO. 117, 2011
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ADDING A NEW SECTION TO ARTICLE VII OF CHAPTER 17
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
PERTAINING TO STAYING ON MEDIANS PROHIBITED
WHEREAS,Fort Collins Police Services("FCPS")has encountered persons occupying the
medians of streets within the City for extended periods of time; and
WHEREAS,FCPS is concerned with the safety risks to those individuals and others driving
or using the streets, sidewalks, and crosswalks; and
WHEREAS, FCPS is recommending that a new section be added to the City Code
prohibiting a person from remaining on medians for longer than is reasonably necessary to cross the
street; and
WHEREAS, the proposed new section would protect the citizens of Fort Collins by
minimizing the safety risks to pedestrians and motorists; and
WHEREAS, City Council believes it is in the best interests of the City to approve the
addition of this new section to the City Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended by the addition of a new
section 17-122 which reads in its entirety as follows:
Sec. 17-122. Staying on medians prohibited.
(a) No person shall stand or be upon a median of any street for longer than is
reasonably necessary to cross the street.
(b) For the purposes of this Section, median shall mean:
(1) The area of a street, generally in the middle, which separates traffic
traveling in one direction from traffic traveling in another direction, or
which,at intersections,separates traffic turning left from traffic proceeding
straight. Such an area is physically defined by curbing, landscaping, or
other physical obstacles to the area's use by motor vehicles, or by traffic
control markings which prohibit use of a portion of the pavement of a street
by motor vehicles other than to drive generally perpendicularly across the
markings, or to wait there awaiting the opportunity to cross or merge with
the opposing lanes of traffic (also known as painted medians, which are
wider than a double yellow line); or
(2) The area of a street at an intersection between the streets and a right turn
only lane, roughly triangular in shape, and separated from the motor
vehicular traffic lanes by curbing, landscaping, or other physical obstacles
to the area's use by motor vehicles (also known as a right turn island).
(c) This Section does not apply to medians which are thirty (30) or more feet
wide or to persons maintaining or working on the median for the government which
owns the underlying right-of-way or for a public utility.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 6th day of
September, A.D. 2011, and to be presented for final passage on the 20th day of September, A.D.
2011.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 20th day of September, A.D. 2011.
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