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Boca Raton to introduce ordinance for automated school-zone speed enforcement; six zones slated for first phase
Summary
City staff will ask the City Council to introduce Ordinance No. 5,731 to allow automated speed detection in school zones. Staff singled out six school zones for phase 1, plans a public-education lead-in and an RFP for vendors, and flagged staffing and training as implementation constraints.
Boca Raton staff announced they will ask the City Council to introduce Ordinance No. 5,731 on March 18 to allow automated enforcement of school-zone speed limits using speed detection systems.
The announcement came as Zach Bier, Municipal Services Director, told council members that “the state recently updated the statutes identifying that there can be automatic detection in schools or school zones.” Bier said the city’s technical analysis prioritized school zones by combining average daily traffic, crash history and measured speeds from 2018–2023, and recommended a phased rollout to the areas that met the “heightened safety risk” threshold.
The city’s phase 1 list of school zones (alphabetical) is Addison Meisner, Blue Lake Elementary, Colusa Elementary, Omni Middle/Spanish River (a combined zone), Boca Raton High School and J.C. Mitchell. Bier said staff identified 15 school zones within the city for study and recommended beginning with six where the combined data supported priority deployment.
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