O-2023-48 Amending Section 12.09.004 School Traffic Zonesr _ TOWN OF PROSPER, TEXAS ORDINANCE NO.2023-48
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF PROSPER, TEXAS, AMENDING
SECTION 12.09.004, "SCHOOL TRAFFIC ZONES," OF CHAPTER 12,
"TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES," OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
TOWN OF PROSPER BY MODIFYING THE LIMITS ON WHICH SCHOOL
ZONES ARE ESTABLISHED; MODIFYING THE HOURS OF OPERATION OF
SUCH ZONES; PROVIDING FOR REPEALING, SAVINGS AND
SEVERABILITY CLAUSES; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE
CAPTION HEREOF.
WHEREAS, the Town of Prosper, Texas ("Town"), is a home -rule municipal corporation
duly organized under the laws of the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, Section 541.302 of the Texas Transportation Code defines a "school crossing
zone" as a reduced -speed zone designated on a street by a local authority to facilitate safe
crossing of the street by children going to or leaving a public or private elementary or secondary
school during the time the reduced speed limit applies; and
WHEREAS, Section 545.356 of the Texas Transportation Code provides that the
governing body of a municipality may alter prima facie speed limits by ordinance based on the
results of an engineering and traffic investigation; and
WHEREAS, the Town Council has investigated and finds that it is necessary for the
protection and safety of children going to and leaving public elementary and secondary schools
within Prosper to amend Section 12.09.004, "School Traffic Zones," of the Code of Ordinances to
modify the reduced speed school zones on certain public streets as set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
PROSPER, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1
The findings set forth above are incorporated into the body of this Ordinance as if fully set
forth herein.
SECTION 2
Existing Section 12.09.004, "School Traffic Zones," of Chapter 12, "Traffic and Vehicles,"
of the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Prosper, Texas, is hereby amended by modifying the
limits on which school zones are established, and the hours of operation of such zones, to read
as follows:
Street Name I
Falling Leaves Drive
Freeman Way
Goldenrod Lane
Ironwood Drive
Limits
Bryant Elementary School
From 200 feet north of Ironwood Drive
to Ironwood Drive
From 200 feet west of Goldenrod Lane
to Teel Parkway
From 200 feet south of Freeman Way
to Ironwood Drive
From 200 feet west of Goldenrod Lane
to Teel Parkway
Old Rosebud Lane From 200 feet west of Goldenrod Lane
_ to Goldenrod Lane
Rock Springs Drive From 200 feet north of Ironwood Drive
to Ironwood Drive
Hours of
Operation
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Speed
Limit
20
20
20
20
20
20
Seven Oaks Drive
From 220 feet south of Freeman Way
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to Freeman Way
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Teel Parkway From 300 feet north of Ironwood Drive
1 20
to 300 feet south of Freeman Way
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM,
Cockrell Elementary School
From 130 feet southwest of school property 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Cliff Creek Drive 20
to Evergreen Drive. 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Escalante Trail From Whitley Place Drive 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
to Prosper Trail 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Evergreen Drive From 130 feet southwest of Orchard Grove 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
Drive 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Fisher Road From Escalante Drive 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
to 205 feet east of Escalante Drive 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Mesa Drive
From Escalante Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 200 feet east of Escalante Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Orchard Grove Drive
From Evergreen Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to Escalante Trail
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Prosper Trail
From 750 feet west of Escalante Trail
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 300 feet east of Escalante Trail
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
Red Wing Drive
From Escalante Drive
to 215 feet east of Escalante Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
From 150 feet southwest of Escalante Trail
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
Whitley Place Drive
to 150 feet northeast of Escalante Trail
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Ordinance No. 2023-48, Page 2
Folsom Elementary School
Amistad Drive
From La Cima Boulevard
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 100 feet northwest of La Cima Boulevard
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
Amistad Drive
From La Cima Boulevard
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 190 feet southeast of La Cima Boulevard
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
From La Cima Boulevard
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Arrowhead Drive
20
to 120 feet southeast of La Cima Boulevard
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
Arrowhead Drive
From 270 feet northwest of Sommerville
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
Drive to Sommerville Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Buffalo Springs Drive
From 200 feet north of Cedar Lake Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 185 feet south of Cedar Lake Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Calaveras Court
From 260 feet northwest of Sommerville
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
Drive to Sommerville Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Cedar Lake Drive
From 135 feet west of Buffalo Springs Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to White River Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
La Cima Boulevard
From 255 feet southwest of Amistad Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 260 feet northeast of Amistad Drive
From 300 feet southwest of Arrowhead Drive
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
La Cima Boulevard
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 300 feet northeast of Arrowhead Drive
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
Livingston Drive
From 180 feet northwest of Salada Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to Twin Buttes Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
From 130 feet northwest of La Cima
Monticello Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
Boulevard to La Cima Boulevard
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
Salada Drive
From Livingston Drive
T
to 175 feet north east of Livingston Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Sommerville Drive
From White River Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to Livingston Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Texana Drive
From Livingston Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 180 feet northeast of Livingston Drive
2:35 PM to 3.20 PM
From Livingston Drive
Twin Buttes Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 170 feet northeast of Livingston Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
From 190 feet south of Cedar Lake Drive
White River Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 280 feet north of Sommerville Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Hall Elementary School
From Edgewood Lane 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
Big Sky Drive 20
to 130 feet west of Edgewood Lane 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Edgewood Lane From Kessler Drive 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
to 130 feet south of Big Sky Drive 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Gentle Knoll Lane From Star Meadow Drive 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
to 200 feet north of Star Meadow Drive 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Glendover Drive
From Kessler Drive
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
to 240 feet south of Kessler Drive
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Kessler Drive
From Star Trail Parkway
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
to Edgewood Lane
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Legacy Drive
From 300 feet north of Star Meadow Drive 7:15 AM to 8:00 AM 20
to 850 feet south of Star Meadow Drive 2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
Ordinance No. 2023-48, Page 3
Star Meadow Drive From Legacy Drive
to 200 feet east of Gentle Knoll Lane
Star Trail Parkway From 200 feet northeast of Kessler Drive
to 200 feet southwest of Kessler Drive
Rucker Elementary School
Craig Road From 100 feet north of Preston Road
to 100 feet south of First Street
Stuber Elementary School
Clearwater Drive
From 210 feet west of Village Park Lane
to Village Park Lane
First Street
From 300 feet west of Village Park Lane
to 610 feet east of Village Park Lane
_I
Highland Street
From 160 feet west of Village Park Lane
to Village Park Lane
From 215 feet west of Village Park Lane
Shadow Ridge Drive
to Village Park Lane
From First Street
Village Park Lane
to Highland Street
Zilker Parkway
From 160 south of Highland Street
to Highland Street
Windsong Elementary School
Copper Canyon Drive
From 115 feet south of Marigold Lane
to First Street
First Street
From 300 feet west of Redstem Drive
to 300 feet east of Copper Canyon Drive
From 260 feet west of Windsong Parkway
First Street
to 220 feet east of Windsong Parkway
From 200 feet east of Copper Canyon Drive
Lantana Lane
to Copper Canyon Drive
Marigold Lane
From 145 feet west of Redstem Drive
to 135 feet east of Copper Canyon Drive
Paddock Lane
From 265 feet west of Redstem Drive
to Redstem Drive
Pine Leaf Lane
From 265 feet east of Copper Canyon Drive
to Copper Canyon Drive
Porosa Lane
Prairie Clover Lane
Redstem Drive
Sweet Clover Drive
From 200 feet west of Redstem Drive
to Redstem Drive
From 265 feet east of Copper Canyon Drive
to Copper Canyon Drive
From 125 feet south of Marigold Lane
to First Street
From 265 feet east of Copper Canyon Drive
to Copper Canyon Drive
1 Windsong Parkway From 120 feet north of First Street
to 120 feet south of First Street
Ordinance No. 2023-48, Page 4
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15AMto8:00AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
KII
20
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
20
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
_
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
7:15 AM to 8:00 AM
2:35 PM to 3:20 PM
20
Denton Way
Church Street
Coleman Street
Coit Road
Richland Boulevard
Chaucer Drive
Clearwater Drive
First Street
Grove Vale Drive
Coleman Street
Frontier Parkway
First Street
Granite Shoal Drive
Old First Street
Wildcat Way
Cheek Middle School
From 1,500 east of FM 1385
7:45 AM to 8:30 AM
to 1,850 north of Gee Road
3:20 PM to 4:05 PM
20
Reynolds Middle School
From 30 feet north of Eighth Street
7:45 AM to 8:30 AM
to Prosper ISD Property Line
3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
20
From 160 feet north of Gorgeous Drive
7:45 AM to 8:30 AM
to 60 feet south of Wilson Drive
3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
20
Rogers Middle School
From 300 feet south of Richland Boulevard
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
to 1,150 feet north of Richland Boulevard
3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
20
From 300 feet west of Coit Road
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
to east end of roadway
3:15 PM to 4:00 PM
20
Rushing Middle School
From First Street
7:15 AM to 8:30 AM
to Clearwater Drive
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
20
From 300 feet east of Chaucer Drive
7:15 AM to 8:30 AM
to Grove Vale Drive
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
20
From 300 feet west of Chaucer Drive
7:15 AM to 8:30 AM
to 190 feet west of Winsor Dr.
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
20
From 30 feet south of Clearwater Drive
7:15 AM to 8:30 AM
to Clearwater Drive
2:35 PM to 4:00 PM
20
Prosper High School
From 110 feet east of Talon Lane
8:15 AM to 9:00 AM
to 1,900 feet east of Talon Lane
3:55 PM to 4:40 PM
20
From feet west of SH 289 (Preston
8:15 AM to 9:00 AM
Road)3,930
to 3,305 feet west of SH 289 (Preston Road)
3:55 PM to 4:40 PM 20
Walnut Grove High School
From 1,300 west of Granite Shoal Drive
8:15 AM to 9:00 AM
to 300 feet east of Old First Street
3:55 PM to 4:40 PM
20
From First Street
8:15 AM to 9:00 AM
20
to 200 feet north of First Street
3:55 PM to 4:40 PM
From First Street 8:15 AM to 9:00 AM
20
to 200 feet north of First Street 3:55 PM to 4:40 PM
From First Street 8:15 AM to 9:00 AM
20
to south end of roadway 3:55 PM to 4:40 PM
Ordinance No. 2023-48, Page 5
SECTION 3
All provisions of any ordinance in conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the
extent they are in conflict; but such repeal shall not abate any pending prosecution for violation of
the repealed ordinance, nor shall the repeal prevent a prosecution from being commenced for
any violation if occurring prior to the repeal of the ordinance. Any remaining portion of conflicting
ordinances shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 4
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason,
held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Town of Prosper hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each section, subsection, clause or phrase
thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses,
and phrases be declared unconstitutional.
SECTION 5
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions or terms of this Ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not to
exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.
SECTION 6
This Ordinance shall become effective after its passage and publication, as required by
law.
DULY PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
PROSPER, TEXAS, ON THIS 25TH DAY OF JULY, 2023.
APPROVED:
David F. Bristol, Mayor
ATTEST:
Michelle Lewis Sirianni, Town Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
Terrence S. Welch, Town Attorney
Ordinance No. 2023-48, Page 6