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City outlines traffic‑calming process, data thresholds and $30,000 fund for measures
Summary
Community development staff summarized the city’s traffic‑calming program, including petition thresholds, enforcement and engineering steps, and a $30,000 REIT set‑aside for equipment and installations.
Community Development Director Bill Prescott reviewed Yakima’s traffic‑calming program at the council meeting, describing the stepwise process the city uses to evaluate resident petitions and the data thresholds that trigger education, enforcement or engineering responses.
Prescott said the program begins with a resident petition (the department requires signatures from 30% of area residents to trigger a formal study) and includes an evaluation of traffic counts, 85th‑percentile speeds and collision history. The city then pursues education and enforcement where appropriate and, for locations with higher speeds, engineering solutions such as speed humps.
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