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ORDINANCE NO. 2024-003 1
<br />IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO
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<br />ORDINANCE NO. 2024-003
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<br />ORDINANCE ADDING CHAPTER 4-44 “SIDESHOWS, STREET RACES AND RECKLESS DRIVING
<br />EXHIBITIONS” TO TITLE 4 “PUBLIC WELFARE” OF THE SAN LEANDRO MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT
<br />SPECTATORS AT SIDESHOWS, STREET RACES, AND RECKLESS DRIVING EXHIBITIONS
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<br />WHEREAS, sideshows, street races, and reckless driving exhibitions cause significant damage to City of
<br />San Leandro infrastructure including harm or destruction to intersection markings, street signs, poles, cracking
<br />or displacement of asphalt, and damage to traffic safety equipment; and
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<br />WHEREAS, such infrastructure is critical for the preservation of public and traffic safety and requires
<br />replacement after a sideshow event, which diverts resources from other critical traffic and public safety
<br />priorities and improvements; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, sideshows, street races, and reckless driving exhibitions impact public safety, especially
<br />when the San Leandro Police Department is already addressing high emergency call volumes. For example,
<br />sideshows require a law enforcement response that diverts law enforcement personnel from responding to
<br />other emergencies; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, sideshows, street races, and reckless driving exhibitions create an unsafe environment for
<br />the communities in which they occur because participants and spectators drive recklessly before, during, and
<br />after the sideshow event. In addition, side shows, street races and reckless driving exhibitions have often been
<br />associated with the discharge of firearms, resulting in higher violent crime rates, dangerous falling objects, and
<br />vandalism; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, sideshows, street races, and reckless driving exhibitions drastically impact the quality of life
<br />in the communities where they occur by causing damage to vehicles, private and public property, reduced air
<br />quality due to the smoke released by burning rubber tires, increased exhaust fumes, noise pollution, and
<br />unmanageable crowds that leave behind garbage; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, promoters of sideshows, street races, and reckless driving exhibitions intend to attract
<br />hundreds of people from outside City of San Leandro that have no stake in the community and typically plan
<br />events in neighborhoods that already suffer from poverty, poorer health, higher crime rates, historic
<br />disinvestment, and the resulting poor equity indicators; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, in San Leandro, vehicles at sideshows, street races, and reckless driving exhibitions have
<br />caused great bodily injury to spectators; and
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<br /> WHEREAS, the Council finds that it is within the City's police powers to implement and enforce the
<br />provisions of this ordinance.
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<br />NOW, THEREFORE, the City of San Leandro City Council does ORDAIN as follows:
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