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Flagstaff proposes stricter thresholds, new neighborhood-approval rules for traffic calming
Summary
Transportation staff proposed narrowing eligibility and tightening neighborhood-approval procedures for the residential traffic management program, recommending new speed-based thresholds and a 65% resident-signature requirement to initiate study and improvements.
City of Flagstaff transportation staff on Jan. 1, 2025 presented proposed updates to the Residential Traffic Management Guide intended to focus limited resources on the city’s worst speeding and comfort problems and to shorten processing timelines.
David Lemke, Transportation Engineer for the City of Flagstaff, told the Transportation Commission the program, active since 2012, has no dedicated capital budget, that traffic-calming projects can be expensive and time-consuming, and that 15 projects have qualified in the past five years. “Projects can be or become expensive if infrastructure changes are required. The Boulder Point Woodland Drive traffic calming project, for example, cost approximately $500,000 to complete,” Lemke said.
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