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Commission backs plan to cut local speed limits to 20 mph; staff to start public hearings
Summary
Sarasota commissioners unanimously instructed staff to pursue lowering local street speed limits to 20 mph, order code changes and public hearings, and to develop an implementation plan that pairs limits with engineering measures where existing 80th-percentile speeds exceed the new limit.
The City Commission unanimously directed staff Oct. 6 to move forward on a traffic calming plan that includes reducing posted speed limits to 20 miles per hour on local streets, with an implementation schedule stretching to 2055 to allow phased engineering and funding work.
City transportation staff presented a citywide speed and crash analysis and a traffic-calming manual. Senior Transportation Planner Corinne Arriaga and Chief Transportation Planner Alvy Marie Corrales Quadrado told commissioners they tested a 20-mph model and found many local streets would still record high 80th-percentile speeds; the staff recommendation was to change signs where the…
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