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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra
FROM: Gayle Bishop / Costa
District Three
County
DATE: April 27, 1993 f>;
SUSJ=CT: Use of Roller Skates, Skateboards, Toy Vehicles, Bicycles
Prohibited in Certain Areas.
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATIONS)i BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
Recommendation:
That the. Board of Supervisors initiate an ordinance that it be unlawful
for any person upon roller skates or a skateboard or riding upon or by
means of any coaster, skateboard, toy vehicle or similar device to go
up on any roadway, or upon any sidewalk or paved surface in any area
zoned for commercial use within the town of Alamo.
It shall be unlawful for a person upon roller skates or a skateboard,
toy vehicle, bicycle or similar device to go up on any commercial or
municipal structure or lot which is designed or used to accommodate the
parking of motorized vehicles.; excepting the parking of bicycles in
said .structures or lots -where permitted by designated bicycle parking
zones.
Background:
Recently, local shopping centers in the unincorporated areas of the
County have seen an increase in the number of skateboarders using the
shopping centers for skateboard activities. Merchants and property
owners alike have requested that the Sheriff ' s Department take some
kind of legal action against them to stop the problem.
Walnut Creek currently has, and enforces. an ordinance, Sec. 3-5 807 ,
effectively.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(SI:
ACTION OF BOARD ON Ap r i 1 27 , 1993 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDEDOTHER X
The Board REFERREDhii above recommendation to the Transportation
Committee , with input requested from the Countywide Bicycle Advisory
Committee and the Sheriff.
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Cc: County Administrator ATTESTED April 27, 1993
County 'Counsel PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Transportation Commitee SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Countywide Bicycle Advisory Committee via CDD
Sheriff
M382 (10188) BY ,DEPUTY
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[DRAFT COUNTY-WIDE]
ORDINANCE NO. 93-
(Prohibiting Roller Skates, Skateboard,
Toy Vehicle and Bicycle Use in Commercial Areas)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text from
the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code) .
SECTION I. Section 46-4 .012 is added to the Contra Costa County
Ordinance Code to read:
46-4 . 012 Roller skate, skateboard, toy vehicle and bicycle
use prohibition. Within any district areas zoned for commercial
use, it shall be unlawful for any person upon:
(1) Roller skates or a skateboard or riding upon or by
means of any coaster, skateboard, toy vehicle or similar device
to go up on any highway, roadway, or upon any sidewalk or paved
surface located in any such commercial area.
(2) Roller skates or a skateboard, toy vehicle, bicycle or
similar device to go upon any commercial or public structure or
lot located in any such commercial area which is designed or used
to accommodate the parking of motorized vehicles (excepting the
parking of bicycles in said structures lots where permitted by
designated bicycle parking zones) .
(3) For the purposes of this section, areas zoned for
commercial use are those areas contained within districts zoned
C-E community business, N-B neighborhood business (including its
planned district) , R-B retail business, C general commercial, and
P-1 planned unit designed commercial areas .
(Ord. 93- Veh. C. SS 21113(f) , 21967 & 21969 . )
SECTION II. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30
days after passage, and within 15 days of passage shall be
published once with the names of the Supervisors voting for and
against it in the a newspaper published in
this County.
PASSED on , 1993, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of
the Board and County Administrator
By:
Deputy Board Chair
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