Chapter 10.12
SPEED LIMITS

Sections:

10.12.010    State speed limits applicable – Exceptions.

10.12.020    City council to determine speed limits.

10.12.030    Schedule of approved altered speed limits.

10.12.040    Cautionary speed signs.

10.12.010 State speed limits applicable – Exceptions.

The state traffic laws regulating the speed of vehicles shall be applicable upon all streets, roads or highways within the city, except that the city may declare and determine in accordance with this chapter that certain increased or decreased speed regulations shall be applicable upon specified streets, roads or highways in certain areas, as authorized by state law. (Ord. 841 § 2, 1999).

10.12.020 City council to determine speed limits.

A. City council, on the recommendation of the directors of public works and of public safety, may in appropriate cases by ordinance alter the maximum speed limit within the city when it determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the maximum speed permitted by state law is greater or less than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist in the following cases:

1. Decrease the speed limit at intersections;

2. Increase the speed limit for arterial streets but not to more than 50 miles per hour; or

3. Decrease the speed limit but not to less than 20 miles per hour.

B. Such altered speed limits shall be effective upon the effective date of the ordinance establishing them and when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected. Such altered speed limits shall be included in the schedule set forth below as soon as may be practical, but the failure to do so shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of any altered speed limit approved by ordinance for which signs giving notice thereof have been erected.

C. No alteration of maximum speed limits on state highways within the city shall be effective until approved by the Secretary of Transportation. (Ord. 841 § 2, 1999).

10.12.030 Schedule of approved altered speed limits.

On the basis of engineering and traffic investigation, the following altered speed limits are hereby established:

A. SR 202 (with the approval of the Secretary of Transportation):

1. Beginning at milepost 25.42 (the northerly city of Snoqualmie boundary) and ending at milepost 26.57 (SE Northern Street), 35 miles per hour;

2. Beginning at milepost 26.57 (SE Northern Street) and ending at milepost 27.07 (SE Newton Street), 25 miles per hour;

3. Beginning at milepost 27.07 (SE Newton Street) and ending at milepost 27.95, 35 miles per hour; and

4. Beginning at milepost 27.95 and ending at milepost 28.28, at the boundary of the corporate limits of the cities of Snoqualmie and North Bend, 40 miles per hour.

B. Snoqualmie Parkway within the corporate limits of the city, 40 miles per hour. (Ord. 1292 § 1, 2024; Ord. 1265 § 1, 2022; Ord. 939 § 1, 2003; Ord. 841 § 2, 1999).

10.12.040 Cautionary speed signs.

The director of public works, in consultation with the director of public safety, is hereby authorized to place such cautionary speed signs, where engineering and traffic investigation shows special local conditions may warrant speeds less than the legal speed limit. (Ord. 841 § 2, 1999).