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Council adopts revised neighborhood traffic‑calming program with new scoring and faster timeline
Summary
Harrisonburg City Council on July 8 approved a revamped neighborhood traffic‑calming program that streamlines citizen requests, introduces a quantified prioritization score and incorporates equity considerations; the first intake deadline for the updated program is Oct. 1, 2025.
Harrisonburg City Council on July 8 adopted a revised neighborhood traffic‑calming program intended to speed up evaluations, make prioritization transparent and expand equity considerations for selecting streets for low‑cost traffic‑calming measures.
Public Works staffer Tom Partman presented the revised program, which replaces a more laborious earlier process that depended on neighborhood committees and in‑person petitioning. The new approach allows citizens to submit streets for review, shifts initial screening and data‑collection tasks to staff, and uses a scored prioritization matrix to rank…
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