PPT Item # 9 - Ratify Ord. # 1326 3way stop

Powerpoint Ratify Ordinance # 1326 3 way stop

1. POLICE DEPARTMENT
Presented by:
Rick Pruitt
Police Chief
ORDINANCE TO RATIFY AN EXISTING
ALL-WAY STOP INTERSECTION
ITEM # 9
JULY 08, 2024

2. SUMMARY
Staff is requesting an Ordinance to ratify the
adoption of Ordinance No. 1326 as it was
intended by City Council
To create a new three-way stop intersection on
Estes Avenue at Acacia Street

3. BACKGROUND
The General Code e360 program does not include
the three-way stop intersection currently in effect for
Estes Avenue and Acacia Street
Ordinance No. 1326 passed on February 14, 1994
amended City Code Section 18-147, Schedule
B(1)(4)
Ordinance No. 1326 also contained a section
“repealing” this three-way stop intersection

4. BACKGROUND
The language in the Ordinance heading clearly
states the intent to add the three-way stop
intersection
Supported by the City Council motion adopting the
intersection as a three-way stop intersection
Stop signs were installed on the northeast, northwest
and southwest corners and have remained there to
date

6. PROPOSAL
An Ordinance ratifying adoption of Ordinance
No. 1326 intending to amend Section 18-147,
Schedule B(1)(4), of the Code or Ordinances to
create a three-way stop sign at the intersection
of Acacia Street with Estes Avenue

7. POLICY ANALYSIS
The proposed Ordinance to create an all-way
stop intersection is allowed in provisions of the
Texas Transportation Code and Section 18-98
“Stop Intersections” of the City Code

8. COORDINATION
The City Manager has reviewed the proposal
and the City Attorney prepared the proposed
Ordinance
The Ordinance will be published in the San
Antonio Express-News and posted on the COAH
website

9. FISCAL IMPACT
Cost to publish the Ordinance in the SA
Express-News -$460