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Residents raise camera-timing, revenue and housing concerns during public comment
Summary
At the March 11 Edgewood meeting, residents questioned timing and revenue from school-zone speed cameras, voiced senior property-tax concerns, and urged aesthetic placement of homes in a new RM Homes development; city staff said camera timing follows Puyallup School District guidance and the police chief announced upcoming traffic enforcement.
Several Edgewood residents used the public-comment period at the March 11 City Council meeting to raise complaints and concerns about the city’s school-zone speed cameras, recent and upcoming development, property-tax burdens on seniors, and traffic enforcement.
Christine Veil, who identified herself as a resident and an elementary-school parent, criticized the timing of automated cameras near Northwood Elementary. “They are flashing and recording 30 minutes before school starts… It also goes 15 minutes after kids are to be in class,” Veil said, and argued the camera windows “give the obvious impression that they are trying to generate as many…
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