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Home My WebLink AboutReg 2023-12-04 Item 5K - Ordinance - TMC Section 9.28.038 "Avoiding an Intersection"COUNCIL AGENDA SYNOPSIS Initials Meeting Date Prepared by Mayor's review Council review 12/4/23 BD ITEM INFORMATION ITEM NO. 5.K. STAFF SPONSOR: SGT BILL DEVLIN ORIGINAL AGENDA DATE: 12/4/23 AGENDA ITEM TITLE Avoidance of Intersection Ordinance CATEGORY ❑ Discussion Mtg Date ❑ Motion Mtg Date ❑ Resolution Mtg Date ® Ordinance Mtg Date 12/04/23 ❑ Bid Award fig Date ❑ Public Hearing Mtg Date ❑ Other !Wig Date SPONSOR ❑ Council ❑ Mayor ❑ Admin Svcs ❑ DCD ❑ Finance ❑ Fire ❑ P&R ® Police ❑ PW SPONSOR'S SUMMARY The Council is being asked to consider and approve the Avoidance of Intersection ordinance. REVIEWED BY ❑ Trans&Infrastructure Svcs ® Community Svcs/Safety ❑ Finance & Governance ❑ Planning & Community Dev. ❑ LTAC ❑ Arts Comm. ❑ Parks Comm. ❑ Planning Comm. DATE: 11/27/23 COMMITTEE CHAIR: ABDI RECOMMENDATIONS: SPONsoR/ADMIN. Police Department COMMITTEE Unanimous Approval; Forward to Regular Meeting COST IMPACT / FUND SOURCE EXPENDITURE REQUIRED $N/A AMOUNT BUDGETED $ APPROPRIATION REQUIRED $ Fund Source: Comments: MTG. DATE RECORD OF COUNCIL ACTION 12/4/23 MTG. DATE 12/04/23 ATTACHMENTS Informational Memorandum dated 11/13/23 Ordinance in Draft Form Minutes from the 11/27 CSS Committee meeting 177 178 TO: FROM: BY: City of Tukwila Allan Ekberg, Mayor INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM Community Services & Safety Committee Chief Eric Dreyer Sgt. Bill Devlin CC: Mayor Ekberg DATE: 11/13/2023 SUBJECT: Avoidance of Intersection Ordinance ISSUE Increase public safety on the city roadways through enforcement and education with a new ordinance. The ordinance would address drivers that avoid signaled intersections by cutting through public and private parking lots or drives. BACKGROUND It was brought to the police department's attention via complaints from citizens, and police on - viewing vehicles who were cutting through private and public lots to avoid backups at signaled intersections. These areas just to name a few include Foster High School public parking lot to avoid the signals at the intersection of S. 144th Street and 42nd Ave S. This area is a crosswalk for the students and faculty to ingress and egress through the main front doors of the school, and typically has a large amount of pedestrian traffic. These activities have also been viewed at multiple other locations throughout the city to include 10800 block of East Marginal Way S. with the intersection of Boeing Access and Tukwila International Blvd. In this location vehicles have been seen cutting through several different parking lots and businesses to avoid the signals, as this is a very large and busy intersection. These activities are frequently observed at the Chevron AMPM lot located at 15252 Tukwila International Blvd. Vehicles traveling westbound on Southcenter Blvd, will cut through this lot, to avoid the signals at Southcenter Blvd and Tukwila International Blvd. Westbound vehicles on Southcenter Blvd are also seen cutting through the north lot of the light rail station behind the above mentioned AMPM to avoid the signals at S.154th Street and Tukwila International Blvd. ANALYSIS The proposed new ordinance will help decrease the likelihood of injuries and/or property damage by providing Tukwila police with a new tool to educate and enforce drivers cutting through private or public property to avoid a signaled intersection. The police, prosecutor, and city attorney support this ordinance, and have reviewed it for presentation to Council. FINANCIAL IMPACT None. RECOMMENDATION The Committee is being asked to forward this item to the 12/04/2023 Regular City Council Meeting. ATTACHMENTS Avoidance of Intersection ordinance. 179 180 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, ESTABLISHING TUKWILA MUNICIPAL CODE (TMC) SECTION 9.28.038, "AVOIDING AN INTERSECTION"; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council desires to improve traffic safety and pedestrian safety throughout the City; and WHEREAS, motorists avoiding intersections disrupts the orderly flow of traffic and increases the likelihood of vehicle and/or pedestrian collisions; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to establish regulations, as set forth herein, to prohibit avoidance of an intersection; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, HEREBY ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Adoption of Findings of Fact. The City Council hereby adopts the foregoing recitals and incorporates them herein as support for this ordinance. Section 2. Regulations Established. Tukwila Municipal Code (TMC) Section 9.28.038 is hereby established to read as follows: 9.28.038 Avoiding an Intersection It is unlawful for any person operating a motor vehicle on the roadways of the City, upon approaching or leaving an intersection, to proceed across any public or private property in such a way as to avoid the intersection or any traffic control device controlling the intersection, unless so directed by lawful authority. CC:\Legislative Development\Intersection Avoidance 11-1-23 B. Devlin A. Youn Page 1 of 2 181 Section 3. Corrections by City Clerk or Code Reviser Authorized. Upon approval of the City Attorney, the City Clerk and the code reviser are authorized to make necessary corrections to this ordinance, including the correction of scrivener's errors; references to other local, state, or federal laws, codes, rules, or regulations; or ordinance numbering and section/subsection numbering. Section 4. Severability. If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or its application to any person or situation should be held to be invalid or unconstitutional for any reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to any other person or situation. Section 5. Effective Date. This ordinance or a summary thereof shall be published in the official newspaper of the City and shall take effect and be in full force five days after passage and publication as provided by law. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, at a Regular Meeting thereof this day of , 2023. ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED: Christy O'Flaherty, MMC, City Clerk Allan Ekberg, Mayor APPROVED AS TO FORM BY: Filed with the City Clerk: Passed by the City Council: Published: Effective Date: Office of the City Attorney Ordinance Number: CC:\Legislative Development\Intersection Avoidance 11-1-23 B. Devlin A. Youn 182 Page 2 of 2 City of Tukwila City Council Community Services & Safety Committee Meeting Minutes November 27, 2023- 5:30 p.m. Councilmembers Present: Staff Present: - Hybrid Meeting; Hazelnut Conference Room & MS Teams Mohamed Abdi; Thomas McLeod, Tosh Sharp David Cline, Pete Mayer, David Rosen, Kris Kelly, Jefri Peters, Eric Dreyer, Eric Lund, Rebecca Hixson Chair Abdi called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. I. BUSINESS AGENDA A. Grant Agreement: 2024-2025 Public Defense Program Staff is seeking approval of a grant agreement with the Washington State Office of Public Defense in the two-year amount of $75,000 for the Public Defense Program. Committee Recommendation: Unanimous approval. Forward to December 4, 2023 Regular Consent Agenda. B. Ordinance: Avoiding an Intersection *Staff presented the Council -requested ordinance that prohibits drivers from avoiding signaled intersections by cutting through parking lots or drives. Committee Recommendation: Unanimous approval. Forward to December 4, 2023 Regular Consent Agenda. C. Contract: Biological Evidence Preservation Staff is seeking approval of a contract with Auburn Mechanical in the amount of $48,629 to provide an adequate cooling system in the Police Department Evidence Room. Committee Recommendation: Unanimous approval. Forward to December 4, 2023 Regular Consent Agenda. D. Grant Acceptance: Tukwila Community Center HVAC Replacement Staff is seeking Council approval of a grant agreement with King County in the amount of $500,000 to be used toward the Tukwila Community Center HVAC Replacement Project. Committee Recommendation: Unanimous approval. Forward to December 4, 2023 Regular Meeting. II. MISCELLANEOUS Councilmembers and staff discussed the policy encouraging local businesses to participate in the procurement process. The meeting adjourned at 5:55 p.m. MeeZ Committee Chair Approval Minutes by LH 183