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AGENDA BILL APPROVAL FORM
Agenda Subject: Limiting use of Skateboards, roller skates and
coasters on the Les Gove Campus
Department: Parks and I Attachments: Ordinance 5921
Recreation
Administrative Recommendation:
Date: June 15, 2005
Budget Impact:
City Council introduce and adopt Ordinance 5921.
Background Summary:
The use of skateboards, roller skates and coasters in Les Gove Park has become a growing problem to
both users of the park, participants at the Senior Center, Library, Museum, and Parks and Recreation
Administration Building, as well as to those driving in the area. In an effort to increase the safety of all
visitors to the Les Gove Campus, it has become necessary to implement a limitation to the use of
skateboards, roller skates and coasters.
Ordinance 5921 prohibits the use of these conveyances along the streets, sidewalks and limit them to the
pedestrian trail in the park. The Parks Department is in the process of working with the local users to
develop a skatepark in the area, which will give them additional area in which to practice their art. This
ordinance provides a degree of protection for other users in the park and allows the police a means by
which those who disobey the rules can be cited.
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Reviewed by Council & Committees:
D Arts Commission COUNCIL COMMITTEES:
D Airport 0 Finance
o Hearing Examiner 0 Municipal Servo
o Human Services [8J Planning & CD
[8J Park Board OPublic Works
o Planning Comm. 0 Other
Reviewed by Departments & Divisions:
o Building 0 M&O
o Cemetery 0 Mayor
o Finance 0 Parks
o Fire 0 Planning
o Legal 0 Police
o Public Works D Human Resources
Action:
Committee Approval: OYes ONo
Council Approval: OYes ONo Call for Public Hearing _/_/-
Referred to Until _/_/-
Tabled Until _/_/-
Councilmember: Norman I Staff: Faber
Meeting Date: July 5, 2005 I Item Number: VIlI.A.2
ORDINANCE NO.5 9 2 1
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AUBURN, WASHINGTON, AMENDING
SECTION 10.58.040 OF THE AUBURN CITY CODE
RELATING TO USE OF SKATEBOARDS, ROLLER
SKATES AND COASTERS
WHEREAS, the City of Auburn has regulations that restrict or limit the use
of skateboards. roller skates and coasters in certain areas of the City; and
WHEREAS, the current provisions of the City Code identify some
limitations on where skateboards, roller skates and coasters may be Llsed and in
order to address the City's concerns regarding the development of the, Les Gove
Park campus, it is appropriate for the City Code to be amended to specify that
skateboards, roller skates and coasters shall also not be used on any roadways,
parking lots or sidewalks at the Les Gove Park property.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN,
WASHiNGTON, DO ORDAIN as follows:
Section 1. Amendment to City Code.
That section 10.58.040 of
the Auburn City Code be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows:
10.58.040 Prohibited areas.
A. It is unlawful for any person to operate or ride upon any skateboard,
roller skates or coasters, upon any street, alley, sidewalk, or publicly owned
parking lot in the Central Business District of the city as described in ACC
18.06.010(A)(11) and as delineated in the map attached to the ordinance codified
in this chapter, designated Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference.
B. it is also unlawful for anv person to operate or ride upon any
skateboard or roller skates upon any roadways. parkina lots, or sidewalks at the
Les Goye Park. (Ord. 4386 § 1,1989.)
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Section 2. Implementation. The Mayor is hereby authorized to
implement such administratiye procedures as may be necessary to c;arry out the
directions of this legislation.
Section 3. Seyerabilitv.
The proYisions of this ordinance are
declared to be separate and severable. The invalidity of any clause, sentence,
paragraph, subdivision, section or portion of this ordinance, or the invsllidity of the
application thereof to any person or circumstance shall not affect the validity of
the remainder of this ordinance, or the validity of its application to other persons
or circumstances.
Section 4. Effective date.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be
in force five days from and after its passage, approval and publication as
provided by law.
DATED and SIGNED this _ day of
,2005.
INTRODUCED:
PASSED:
APPROVED:
CITY OF AUBURN
PETER B. LEWIS
MAYOR
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ATTEST:
Danielle E. Daskam,
City Clerk
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