distance of at least 100 feet to the A list of all of the private roads SPEED LIMIT effect that the road is privately proposed for enforcement and a owned and maintained and that it is petition filled out by the property ENFORCEMENT not subject to public traffic owners need to be submitted to the regulations or control. County Transportation Department ON PRIVATE by the homeowners’ association. CVC section 21107.7 discusses the ROADS required procedures for enactment of The County then reviews the petition enforcement on privately owned and to confirm that a majority of the maintained roads not generally held roads’ property owners support CAN SPEED LIMITS BE open for public vehicular travel which speed limit enforcement, or at least a ENFORCED ON PRIVATE by reason of their proximity to or majority of the board of directors of ROADS? connection with highways, are best the common interest development served by enforcement of the CVC. that is responsible for maintaining the roads. Under sections 21107.5 and 21107.7 The processes require a public of the California Vehicle Code hearing before the Board of Next, a Board letter with a map of (CVC), law enforcement officers can Supervisors and a mailing of notices. the affected roads is prepared by the enforce speed limits on private roads In order for the law enforcement County to set the stage for the Board that primarily provide access to non- officers to conduct enforcement of Supervisors hearings. There will commercial buildings in patrols, the Board of Supervisors has be two public hearings held; the first unincorporated areas of the County if to adopt a resolution to that effect. is to provide notice to the public of certain procedures are followed by the intention to apply the CVC to the the road owners and the County of Vehicle Code enforcement in the listed private roads, and the second Ventura to enact enforcement and unincorporated area of the County is is to approve or deny the proposal to certain conditions are met. the responsibility of the California apply the CVC to the roads. Highway Patrol (CHP). Approval of CVC section 21107.5 addresses the the resolution by the Board of Once enforcement on the private necessary procedures setting up Supervisors does not constitute a roads is approved by the Board of enforcement on private roads open commitment by the CHP or Sheriff’s Supervisors, the homeowners’ for public use which connect with Department to provide enforcement association may contract with law highways such that the public cannot patrols on a regular basis. enforcement agencies for determine that the roads are not enforcement of speed limits on their highways. No ordinance or resolution The local homeowners’ association private roads. enacted under this section shall is responsible for noticing all owners apply to roads on which the owner and advising the Transportation The County charges a fee of $500 has erected a notice of a size, Department by providing a copy of for processing each request. shape, and color as to be readily the notice and mailing list. Payment must be provided before legible during daylight hours from a the formal process can be initiated. AFTER A RESOLUTION IS a) one side of which highway, SPEED LIMIT PASSED, HOW DO WE within a distance of a quarter ESTABLISH SPEED LIMITS? of a mile, the contiguous ENFORCEMENT ON property fronting thereon is occupied by 13 or more PRIVATE ROADS The local homeowners’ association separate dwelling houses or is responsible for any engineering business structures, or studies required to establish an enforceable speed limit, as well as b) both sides of which highway, furnishing, installing, and maintaining collectively, within a distance any signs and other traffic-control of a quarter of a mile, the devices. Any speed limit can be contiguous property fronting posted on a private road; however, if thereon is occupied by 16 or the speed limit is to be enforceable, more separate-dwelling it must be established in accordance houses or business with existing law. structures. A residence district may be longer than one- For information on how speed limits are established, see our “Speed quarter of a mile if the above ratio of separate-dwelling Limits” brochure. houses or business structures to the length of the highway RESIDENTIAL AREAS exists. The most common concerns about speeding generally originate from VEHICLE CODE ENFORCEMENT residential areas. Twenty-five mph speed-limit signs may be posted on The CHP is responsible for enforcing residential streets without conducting traffic laws on roads in the a speed survey, if the street or unincorporated area. If you have a segment of street being considered question about enforcement of (CVC 515) meets the following: speed limits, please contact the CHP • A “residence district” is that Dispatcher at: (805) 477- 4100. portion of a highway and the Rev. 7/22/14 property contiguous thereto, Public Works Agency other than a business district Transportation Department upon 800 S. Victoria Avenue Ventura CA 93009-1620 .