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Ordinance No. 2006-71 (a) The maximum safety and protection of vehicular and pedestrian traffic from physical injury or property damage. (b) The existing and potential traffic movement, volume and conditions. (c) The location and frequency of accidents, including studies of remedial measures. (d) The recommendations of the Police and Fire Chiefs. (e) The acceleration of transportation of persons and property by vehicles so as to expedite travel and promote public safety. (f) The convenience and welfare of the general public in parking, standing, loading and unloading, and the use of the streets as affecting business concerns and places of assembly. (g) Economy in the expenditure of money. 305.04 CONFORMITY WITH STATE MANUAL. All traffic control devices placed pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter shall conform to the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (OMUTCD). 305.05 POWERS OF PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR. In accordance with the authority granted to him in Section 305.03 above, the Director of Public Safety is specifically hereby empowered to: (a) Designate any street or highway as a through street or highway and require that all vehicles stop or yield the right of way as may be required before entering the same; or in residence districts designate certain streets or highways or portions thereof not to be through streets or highways despite the erection of stop signs or other official traffic control devices at intersecting streets. (b) Designate any intersection as a stop intersection and require all vehicles to stop at one or more entrances to such intersection. (c) Designate any intersection as a yield intersection and require all vehicles to yield the right of way as required. (d) Designate any street as a one-way street and require that all vehicles thereon be moved in one specific direction. (e) Designate and mark lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction regardless of the center line of the roadway. (f) Erect signs directing slow-moving traffic to use a designated lane or alloca~ng specified lanes to traffic moving in the same direction. (g) Designate those portions of any street, where overtaking and passing other traffic or driving to the left of the center or center line of the roadway would be especially hazardous, by appropriate signs or markings on the street to indicate the beginning and end of such zones. Such zones maybe marked by an auxiliary yellow line placed parallel and to the right of the normal center line or offset marked lane line. (h) Place markers, buttons or signs within or adjacent to intersections and require that a specific course of direction be traveled by vehicles proceeding in lanes by either permitting, prohibiting or requiring turns at such intersections. (i) Install traffic control devices, signals and signs at any location to regulate traffic. (j) Establish safety zones, crosswalks, zones of quiet and play streets. (k) Close any street or portion thereof to vehicular traffic. (1) Determine the location of any necessary bus stops and taxicab stands. 2