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Galt council directs staff to pursue speed-control measures on Adairway and develop citywide policy
Summary
After hours of public comment and technical briefing, the Galt City Council voted 5-0 to direct staff to pursue speed-control devices and entrance-island improvements on Adairway, and to return with a draft citywide speed-control policy that includes community input and technical criteria.
The Galt City Council voted 5-0 on July 1 to direct staff to pursue a package of traffic-control measures on Adairway — including multiple speed-control devices and an entrance island — and to return with a draft speed-control policy for the city.
Public Works Director Griffin opened the discussion by reviewing options and describing three primary device types: "speed humps, speed lumps, [and] speed tables," and presented a staff draft modeled on Elk Grove's neighborhood-driven process.
The council and staff emphasized that the draft program would be iterative and community-driven. Griffin said the model includes two steps: a neighborhood petition (staff noted a 75 percent-signature threshold in the draft), followed by technical evaluation and then direct outreach to the properties that would be immediately affected. "Step 1 is the neighborhood will get…
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