Committee clears speed-hump installations in Holly Hills and Lansdowne after petitions and local studies

Alderman Schweitzer and Alderman Devote presented separate petitions and board bills on June 11 to install speed humps in two neighborhoods, and the Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee recommended both measures for passage.

Board Bill 30 covers several locations in the Holly Hills Special Business District and is based on a traffic study produced by TrailNet and an engineering firm, CBB, at the district’s request. Alderman Schweitzer told the committee the business district will fund the speed humps; her office mailed letters to about 50 households on affected blocks and said only one resident has registered opposition. The plan follows extensive public engagement done by the Holly Hills Special Business District.

Board Bill 16 would install speed humps on the 5200 and 5300 blocks of Lansdowne in the Fifth Ward; Alderman Devote said the petition showed overwhelming resident support and noted the two blocks run along the southern edge of Buder School, making traffic calming urgent for the school area.

The nut graf: Both measures were advanced by the committee — Board Bill 30 on a 5–0 roll call in committee and Board Bill 16 via previous-roll procedure with no recorded objection — after sponsors described neighborhood outreach, traffic studies or petitions supporting the installations.

Committee members had no substantive questions and there was no public testimony. The committee’s due-pass recommendations send both bills to the full Board of Aldermen for final action.