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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2021-664
File ID: AB2021-664 Version: 1 Status: Adopted
File Created: 11/05/2021 Entered by: RMcconne@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Public Works File Type: Ordinance Requiring a Public Hearing
Department
Assigned to: Council Final Action: 01/25/2022
Agenda Date: 01/25/2022 Enactment #: ORD 2022-002
Primary Contact Email: sdraper@co.whatcom.wa.us
TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Ordinance establishing a speed limit on a portion of Alderson Road
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
See attachments
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body: Action: Sent To:
12/07/2021 Council INTRODUCED FOR PUBLIC Council
HEARING
Aye: 6 Browne, Buchanan, Donovan, Elenbaas, Frazey, and Kershner
Nay: 0
Absent: 0
emp Absent: 1 Byrd
01/25/2022 Council ADOPTED
Aye: 7 Buchanan, Byrd, Donovan, Elenbaas, Frazey, Galloway, and Kershner
Nay: 0
Absent: 0
Attachments: Staff Memo, Proposed Ordinance, Vicinity Map, Traffic Study
Whatcom County Page 1 Printed on 1/26/2022
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PROPOSED BY: Public Works - Engineering
INTRODUCTION DATE: December 7, 2021
ORDINANCE NO. 2022-002
ESTABLISHING A SPEED LIMIT FOR A PORTION OF ALDERSON ROAD
WHEREAS, the Whatcom County Council is authorized under RCW 46.61,415 to
establish speed limits on certain County Roads; and
WHEREAS, the Whatcom County Council has requested that the Golf Cart Zone be
extended on Alderson Road to Gemini Street; and
WHEREAS, RCW 46.05.175 requires that a roadway designated as a Golf Cart Zone
have a posted speed limit of 25 MPH or less; and
WHEREAS, a Golf Cart Zone was created under Ordinance 2018-023, and
reauthorized under Ordinance 2019-072 to include "all county roads posted 25 mph or less
that lead to, and are contiguous with, Birch Bay Drive"; and
WHEREAS, the County Engineer has agreed that it is necessary to formally establish
the speed limit; and
NOW, THEREFOR, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that the
speed limit be established as follows:
25 mph on Alderson Road, from the East Loft Lane to Gemini Street, located in
Section 31, Township 40 North, Range 1 East, W.M.; and
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, by the Whatcom County Council that Whatcom
County Code Section 10.04.030 is amended as follows:
10.04.030 Twenty-five miles per hour.
ALDERSON ROAD. Alderson Road from East Loft Lane to Gemini Street, located in
Section 31, Township 40 North, Range 1 East, W.M.
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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, that the County Engineer is hereby directed to install
the appropriate signs and the Whatcom County Sheriff and Washington State Patrol be
notified by copy of this ordinance.
ADQRI ED,tMj� 25th day of ,Ian
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Dana Brf wF D,AVts,:. ear of the -Council
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APPROVED AS'TO`FOR,M:
Approved by Christopher Quinn by email/JA
Sr. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney,
Civil Division
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Todd Donovan, Council Chair
Approved ( ) Denied
Date: I Z'a -7 Da a,