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Council adopts ordinance lowering House Road speed limit to 45 mph
Summary
After a Board of Public Works speed study recommended the change, the Common Council voted unanimous to lower the posted speed on House Road from 55 mph to 45 mph and adopted the ordinance on a single-reading waiver.
The New London Common Council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance lowering the speed limit on House Road from 55 miles per hour to 45 miles per hour following a speed study presented to the Board of Public Works.
The change follows a presentation to the Board of Public Works in which Director Garski said a speed study “was created to support the recommendation of reducing the speed limit from 55 miles an hour to 45 miles an hour for House Road, meeting all the necessary criteria.” The Board voted to approve and recommend the change to the Common Council.
At the council meeting, Councilmember Hess moved to consider the ordinance; Councilmember Besaw seconded. The council first voted to waive the usual notice rules to consider the ordinance on one reading and then voted to adopt the ordinance. Both votes carried 10-0.
Discussion at the Board of Public Works included the underlying speed study and operational considerations; no additional amendments or conditions were recorded in the minutes. The council record shows the formal recommendation from the Board and the council’s subsequent adoption; no public comments on the change were recorded during the council meeting.
The ordinance does not include an itemized implementation schedule in the meeting record. The minutes do not specify an effective date or the department responsible for posting new signage; those implementation details were not specified in the meeting record.
