Council debates neighborhood speed limits, staff proposes petition‑based testing process
Staff proposed annual 85th‑percentile speed studies and a petition pathway (60% of homes) to lower residential speed limits; council members argued for either engineering‑based decisions or blanket safety limits (one member suggested 20 mph), and asked staff to refine the policy and petition thresholds.
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City staff proposed an administrative template to process resident requests for residential speed reductions: deploy radar units annually for named neighborhoods, publish data, and allow a petition (proposed 60% of homes in a development) to trigger council consideration and an ordinance to lower the speed limit to 25 mph (subject to statutory minima).
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