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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973-1580 PEDESTRIAN MALL ON 2ND STREET BETWEEN WALNUT AND “B” STREETS. ORDINANCE NO. 1580 AN ORDINANCE establishing a pedestrian mall on 2nd Street between Walnut and "B" Streets; adopting a plan therefor and providing for the limiting and regulating of vehicular traffic therein; and declaring an emergency. 411 WHEREAS, R.C.W. Chapter 35.71 vests authority in the City to establish and regulate any street right-of-way as a pedestrian mall and to prohibit, in whole or in part, vehicular traffic on such mall, such authority to be exercised by ordinance enacted pursuant to a resolution of the City Council declaring its inten- tion to establish such a mall and calling a public hearing on the matter, and WHEREAS, on October 15, 1973, the Yakima City Council did adopt Resolution No. D-3024 declaring the intention of the City • Council to establish such a pedestrian mall on 2nd Street between Walnut and "B" Streets and fixing November 5, 1973, as the date 410 for a public hearing on the matter, all pursuant to and in accordance with applicable laws, and WHEREAS, pursuant to such Resolution No. D-3024, and after due notice in accordance with applicable laws, the City Council held a public hearing on November 5, 1973, to consider and determine whether such a pedestrian mall should be established; and as a result of such public hearing, the City Council finds and determines that the public interest, safety and convenience will be best served by the establishment of such a mall, that vehicular traffic will not be unduly inconvenienced thereby, that property abutting on and in the vicinity of the moll will benefit from its establishment, that 411 the plan for establishment of such a mall is consistent with the • intent of the General Plan of the City of Yakima as heretofore adopted, and that such a mall should be established, now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. That part of 2nd .Street between Walnut and "B" • Streets in the City of Yakima is hereby established as a pedestrian mall and is hereby regulated for use as a pedestrian mall in accordance with the plan for such mall as depicted on the drawing filed herewith in the office of the Yakima City Clerk, which drawing is identified with the caption "2nd Street Pedestrian and Parking Mall Plan" and dated October 15, 1973, and is by reference made a part hereof and adopted as the plan for such mall. Section 2. The operation and parking o.f vehicular traffic within the pedestrian mall established by this ordinance shall be limited and regulated as indicated by the drawing and plan for such mall as adopted by Section 1 of this ordinance and as provided by Ordinance No. 1581 enacted contemporaneously with the passage o.f this ordinance establishing such mall. Section 3. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and wel- fare of .the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 5th day of November, 1973. 1 ,' • , . Wad Mayor ATTEST: City ,'lerk / -2- Op , ,