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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 9, CHAPTER 9, OF THE ORLAND PARK VILLAGE CODE ADDING TRAFFIC AND PARKING REGULATIONS FOR THE MAIN STREET TRIANGLE
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WHEREAS, the Village President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Orland Park (the “Village”) have the authority to adopt ordinances and to promulgate rules and regulations that pertain to its government and affairs and to protect the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the area commonly known as the “Main Street Triangle” (as hereinafter defined) is being developed with streets, roadways and parking areas; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the health, safety and welfare of the citizens and residents of the Village, as well as the motoring public, that regulations be enacted to control motor vehicle parking and traffic within and around the Main Street Triangle geographic area.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Orland Park, Cook and Will Counties, Illinois, as follows:
SECTION 1
The above recitals are incorporated herein by reference as though fully set forth herein.
SECTION 2
Title 9, Chapter 9, is amended be adding the following Section 9-9-16:
“9-9-16: MAIN STREET TRIANGLE:
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or maintain a motor vehicle in or on any street, roadway or parking area of the Main Street Triangle except in conformity with the parking and traffic control regulations hereinafter set forth.
1. DEFINITIONS:
Whenever in these regulations the following words and phrases are used, they should have the meanings respectively ascribed to them hereunder:
MAIN STREET TRIANGLE: The geographic area of land within the Village bounded on the east by LaGrange Road (U.S. Route 45), on the south by 143rd Street (Illinois Route 7) and on the north and west by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad right-of-way.
PARKING AREA: The area or areas of land near or contiguous to the Main Street Triangle, including interior public and private roadways and drives used by the public as a means of access to and egress from the buildings, stores, business establishments and residences within the Main Street Triangle and that part within the Main Street Triangle designated for the parking of motor vehicles.
ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS: All definitions set forth in Chapters 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 of this Title 9 are hereby included for purposes of this Chapter 9.
2. ONE-WAY TRAFFIC.
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a motor vehicle to drive the vehicle:
(i) eastbound on 142nd Street between Crescent Park Circle and Main Street;
(ii) northbound on Main Street between 142nd Street and Crescent Park Circle;
(iii) west and south (counterclockwise) on Crescent Park Circle between Main Street and 142nd Street.
(b) Upon any drive or roadway in the parking area designated for one-way traffic, vehicular traffic shall move only in the indicated direction when signs, signals or other devices indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained at intersections and alleys where movement in the opposite direction is prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle in violation of signs, signals or other devices so placed to designate drives or roadways, parts thereof or specific lanes thereon upon which vehicular traffic shall proceed in one direction.
(c) Appropriate signs, signals or other devices designating certain roadways in the parking area for one-way traffic shall be erected or installed in conformity herewith.
3. NO LEFT TURNS.
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to turn left:
(a) from northbound Ravinia Avenue to westbound Crescent Park Circle, or
(b) from westbound 142nd Street to southbound Crescent Park Circle.
4. STOP INTERSECTIONS.
All vehicular traffic moving on the streets and in the directions hereinafter designated shall come to a full and complete stop at the stop signs hereinafter provided for before entering the intersection, except when directed to proceed by a police officer, or otherwise provided by law:
Intersection Stop Street Direction
(a) Ravinia Avenue Ravinia Avenue Northbound
Crescent Park Circle
(b) Main Street Main Street Southbound
143rd Street
(c) Main Street Main Street Southbound
Crescent Park Circle
(d) Crescent Park Circle Crescent Park Circle Northbound
142nd Street
(e) 142nd Street 142nd Street Westbound
Crescent Park Circle
(f) Jefferson Avenue Jefferson Avenue Southbound
142nd Street
After the operation of a vehicle has stopped in obedience to a stop sign or signal, such operator shall proceed cautiously yielding to vehicles not so obliged to stop which are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, but may then proceed. Appropriate stop sign or signals shall be erected or installed at the above location.
5. NO PARKING ZONES.
No person shall stop or park a motor vehicle at any of the following locations except as hereinafter provided under “EXCEPTIONS”:
(a) The two (2) rail passenger pickup/drop off parking areas located on the east side of Main Street in front of the commuter railroad station and on 142nd Street northeast of the said railroad station, such vehicle may be ticketed and towed;
(b) In the designated loading zone of the 9750 Crescent Park Circle building located on the east side of Main Street adjacent to the 9750 Crescent Park Circle building, except when personal property is being loaded on or unloaded from the vehicle and the vehicle departs the loading zone as soon as reasonably possible after loading/unloading is completed but not longer than two (2) hours, such vehicle may be ticketed and towed;
(c) Both sides of Ravinia Avenue from 143rd Street north to the driveway of the 9750 Crescent Park Circle building, such vehicle may be ticketed and towed;
(d) Both sides of Ravinia Avenue from the 9750 Crescent Park Circle parking garage driveway to Crescent Park Circle;
(e) Both sides of Main Street to Crescent Park Circle with the exception of the Metra parking spaces on the west side of Main Street;
(f) On 142nd Street from Jefferson Avenue to Crescent Park Circle;
(g) On Crescent Park Circle from Main Street to 142nd Street;
(h) In any of the twenty (20) public parking spaces inside the 9750 Crescent Park Circle garage accessed off of Ravinia Avenue.
EXCEPTIONS:
(a) Overnight parking is permitted between the hours of 9:00 o’clock p.m. and 6:00 o’clock a.m. at all locations listed in (c) through and including (h) in this Subsection 5, above, and after 3:00 o’clock p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and legal holidays in the thirty (30) railroad commuter parking spaces on the west side of Main Street between 143rd Street and Crescent Park Circle; and
(b) Three (3) hour parking is permitted between the hours of 6:00 o’clock a.m. and 9:00 o’clock p.m. at all locations listed in (c) through and including (h) in this Subsection 5, above.
(c) Appropriate signs, signals or other devices designating certain roadways in the parking area for one-way traffic shall be erected or installed in conformity herewith.
6. YIELD RIGHT OF WAY:
(a) Where preference is given to traffic through any intersection on any roadway and specified entrances to said intersections are designated as yield right-of-way entrances by the erection of yield right-of-way signs or signals in the parking area, the driver of a vehicle in obedience to a yield right-of-way sign or signal shall slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions or shall stop if necessary and shall yield the right of way to other vehicles which have entered the intersecting roadway either from the right or left of which are approaching so closely on said intersecting roadway as to constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver having so yielded may proceed at such time as a safe interval occurs.
(b) Appropriate yield signs or signals shall be erected or installed in conformity herewith.
7. PROHIBITION OF STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING:
(a) When signs, signals or other devices have been erected upon any roadway or in any other portion of the parking area indicating that stopping, standing or parking is prohibited during designated hours or prohibited for a longer time than is designated, no person shall park any vehicle in violation of any such signs, signals or other devices.
(b) The provisions of this Section prohibiting the stopping, standing or parking of vehicles in the parking area shall apply at all times or at those times therein specified or as indicated on signs except when it is necessary to stop a vehicle to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer.
(c) Appropriate signs prohibiting stopping, standing or parking or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking during designated hours or prohibiting stopping, standing or parking for a longer time than is designated shall be erected or installed in conformity herewith.
8. PROHIBITION OF STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING OF PASSENGER VEHICLES IN LOADING ZONE OR SERVICE AREA:
(a) It shall be unlawful for the operator of a passenger vehicle to stop, stand or park said vehicle in any place marked as a loading zone or service area other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers and in no case for a period longer than three (3) minutes.
(b) Appropriate signs prohibiting stopping, standing or parking in a loading zone or service area shall be erected or installed in conformity herewith.
9. PROHIBITION OF STOPPING, STANDING OR PARKING IN SPECIFIED PLACES:
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a vehicle to stop, stand or park such vehicle in any of the following places in the parking area except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with directions of a police officer:
(a) Within an intersection;
(b) On a crosswalk;
(c) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet (30') of a point on the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone;
(d) Within thirty feet (30') of a traffic signal or stop sign on the approaching side;
(e) Within twenty feet (20') of a crosswalk at an intersection;
(f) At any curb within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant;
(g) At any place where the standing of any vehicle will block the use of any driveway;
(h) On any sidewalk;
(i) Alongside or opposite any excavation or obstruction when such stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;
(j) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;
(k) On any fire lane;
(l) At any place where signs have been erected or installed prohibiting stopping, standing or parking.
10. PROHIBITION OF PARKING IN SPACES DESIGNATED HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACES:
It shall be unlawful for a motor vehicle to occupy any parking space within any parking area designated and marked for the use of handicapped persons unless such vehicle is operated by a person defined as handicapped according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 1435 - an Ordinance regulating the use of handicapped parking spaces in the Village of Orland Park, Illinois, passed April 22, 1985.
11. UNAUTHORIZED PARKING OR ABANDONMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES:
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or permit an Inoperable vehicle to remain in any parking area of the Main Street Triangle within any view of the public. Inoperable vehicles may be towed pursuant to Ordinance No. 1736.
12. SPEED LIMITS:
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle at a speed in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour on, over or along any street, drive or roadway within the Main Street Triangle, or in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour in any parking area.
Appropriate signs shall be erected posting the speed limits in conformance with the plan.”
SECTION 3 PENALTY:
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall upon conviction be fined no less than sixty dollars ($60.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense of which such person shall be convicted.
SECTION 4
If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Ordinance shall be held invalid, the invalidity thereof shall not affect any of the other provisions of this Ordinance. All ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 5
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption, approval and publication in pamphlet form as provided by law.