AGENDA #4e

 

MEMORANDUM

 

TO:                  Mayor and Town Council

           

FROM:            W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager       

 

SUBJECT:       Sledding Ordinance Repeal

 

DATE:             February 14, 2000

 

 

The attached ordinance would repeal Sec. 21-7.3 of the Town Code designating sledding streets during times of snow accumulation.  A copy of the existing ordinance is attached.

 

BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION

 

During our recent experience with the heavy snowfall in January, we determined that it is necessary to be able to have access to all Town streets for provision of necessary public services including snow removal as soon as we are reasonably able to do so. 

 

In addition, our experience has indicated that Section 21-7.3 currently creates some misunderstanding with respect to how streets can be marked and reserved as “sledding streets.” 

 

Based on recent experience we believe that no Town streets should be reserved as “sledding streets” and barricaded for such use because of the need for access for emergency vehicles.

 

RECOMMENDATION

 

That the Council adopt the attached ordinance repealing Sec. 21-7.3 of the Town Code. 


AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 21-7.2 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES RELATED TO DESIGNATION OF SLEDDING STREETS (2000-02-14/O-2)

 

BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Chapel Hill as follows:

 

Section 1.  Section 21-7.2 of the Town Code of Ordinances, entitled “Sledding streets” is hereby repealed.

 

Section 2.  This ordinance shall become effective upon adoption.

 

This the 14th day of February, 2000. 

 

 

 

 

CURRENT TOWN CODE PROVISION ON SLEDDING STREETS

 

 

Sec. 21-7.2. Sledding streets.

 

            Upon the natural deposit and accumulation of two (2) inches of snow upon any of the portions of the public streets listed herein, and the erection of signs and barriers as set forth below, such portions of public streets are hereby declared to be sledding streets subject to the following procedure and regulations:

 

            (a)        During the existence of the conditions which give this section effect, it shall be unlawful to use sledding streets for any purpose other than pedestrian traffic and traffic by persons riding, carrying, or personally pulling or pushing sleds or other nonmotorized vehicles or devices designed or adopted for gliding over the surface of ice or snow; provided it shall be unlawful for such public streets to be traveled by; motor vehicles carrying residents thereof; sanitation, public utilities, and other motor vehicles employed in the official business of any level of government; and fire, rescue and other such emergency vehicles of any and all types; provided further that regularly scheduled bus routes shall not be used as sledding streets.

 

            (b)        It shall be unlawful to barricade, mark, block or otherwise obstruct or to hinder, on any sledding street any traffic lawfully permitted thereon.

 

            (c)        Sledding streets under appropriate conditions shall be signed and barricaded at the direction of the town manager. The town manager shall not direct a public street to be signed and barricaded until a petition asking that the public street be used as a sledding street, signed by one hundred (100) per cent of the residents of the affected area of the street, is submitted. Upon cessation of appropriate conditions, all such signs and barricades shall be promptly removed.

 

            (d)        It shall be unlawful to use any public street other than one appropriately designated and marked as a sledding street for sledding or any other similar purpose.

 

            (e)        Streets and the portions of which to be designated as sledding streets are as follows:

 

                        Bartram Street‑‑From Shady Lawn Road to dead end.

 

                        Caswell Road‑‑From Chatham Lane to Granville Road.

 

                        Cedar Street‑‑Mt. Bolus Road to dead end.

 

                        Clayton Road‑‑From Curtis Road to dead end.

 

                        Coker Drive‑‑From Woodbine Drive to Manning Drive.

 

                        Cypress Road‑‑From Hemlock Road to Spruce Road.

 

                        Glen Hill Lane‑‑Entire length.

 

                        Johnson Street‑‑From Crest Drive to dead end.

 

                        Long Pine Road‑‑Entire length.

 

                        McCauley Street‑‑From Brookside Drive to dead end.

 

                        McMaster Street‑‑From Carver Street to dead end.

 

                        Purefoy Road‑‑North Howell Street to South Columbia Street.

 

                        Rock Creek Road‑‑From Totton Road to dead end.

 

                        Tatley Drive‑‑From Markham Street to dead end.

 

                        Sedgefield Drive‑‑From Mayberry to Rosewood Court.

 

                        Whiteplain‑‑From 400 feet east of Shannon Road to Colony Woods Road.

 

(Ord. No. O-78-69, 12-11-78; Ord. No. O-81-39, 5-26-81)