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Board hears traffic committee recommendation to lower speeds on Fifth Avenue; police support enforcement and signage review
Summary
The traffic committee asked the Board for input on reducing the speed limit on Fifth Avenue ahead of new development; police recommended slowing speeds and looking at enforcement and signage, but no ordinance change was voted tonight.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen discussed a traffic-committee recommendation to adjust the posted speed limit on Fifth Avenue and sought input from elected members before staff acts.
City staff described the proposal as moving the 30 mph zone farther west so that motorists entering the city would encounter 40 mph at the city limit and then 30 mph beginning at Bill Jones Industrial, rather than the current 30 mph start at Josephine Street. Staff…
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