To amend Section 12-74(b), Maximum Limits on Specific Streets, of Article IV, Speed, of Chapter 12, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, of the City of Plano Code of Ordinances, to lower the prima facie maximum speed limit from forty-five (45) miles per hour to forty (40) miles per hour on Hedgcoxe Road from its intersection with Legacy Drive to its intersection with Robinson Road and to maintain the prima facie maximum speed of forty-five (45) miles per hour on Hedgcoxe Road from its intersection with Robinson Road to its intersection with Custer Road within the city limits of the City of Plano; and providing a penalty clause, a repealer clause, a severability clause, a savings clause, a publication clause, and an effective date. Adopted Ordinance No. 2024-8-11

On August 23, 2010, by Ordinance No. 2010-8-20, the City Council of the City of Plano set the prima facie maximum speed limit at forty-five (45) miles per hour along and upon Hedgcoxe Road from its intersection with Legacy Drive to its intersection with Custer Road, and such Ordinance was codified as subsection “Hedgcoxe Road” of Section 12-74(b) of Chapter 12, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, of the City of Plano Code of Ordinances.

Section 545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code, as amended, provides that a governing body of a municipality has the authority to alter prima facie speed limits because of an engineering and traffic investigation and to prescribe reasonable and safe prima facie maximum speed limits for the same by Ordinance. Such Ordinance shall be effective once appropriate signs are erected at such intersection to give notice of the new limit.

The Transportation Engineering Division of the City of Plano received a request to lower the prima facie maximum speed limit on a section of Hedgcoxe Road where a number of horizontal curves are present.

Based on a traffic study completed by staff, the Transportation Engineering Division of the City of Plano determined that the proposed reduction in the prima facie maximum speed limit is warranted and proposes to amend a certain section of the Code of Ordinances to lower the prima facie maximum speed limit for the said section of Hedgcoxe Road.

This item may impact revenue collected from fines due to enforcement of this Ordinance; however, the exact change in revenue is indeterminable and will have minimal impact on the General Fund budget.

Approval of this item supports the City's Strategic Plan Critical Success Factors of Safe, Vibrant Neighborhoods.