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Vista council keeps Eucalyptus speed hump; adopts updated speed-hump policy raising petition threshold to 60%
Summary
After public comment urging retention, the council did not move to remove a speed hump at 972 Eucalyptus Avenue. Later the council adopted revisions to the city’s speed-hump policy, increasing the neighborhood petition threshold to 60% and adding a quantitative prioritization system.
The Vista City Council on Sept. 9 declined to remove a speed hump at 972 Eucalyptus Avenue after neighbors urged the council to retain the traffic-calming device. Later in the meeting the council unanimously approved an update to the city’s speed-hump policy that raises the petition threshold to 60% and establishes a prioritization score to guide installations.
Resident Brent Ayala and other neighbors told the council the speed hump on Eucalyptus slowed traffic on a street used by families walking to nearby Beaumont Elementary School and reduced a previous pattern of property damage from speeding. Ayala said the calming devices had produced “a significant decline in both…
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