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Richmond committee approves ordinance allowing photo speed monitoring; study of additional sites continued to March
Summary
The Land Use, Housing and Transportation Standing Committee voted to forward an ordinance changing city code to allow photo speed monitoring devices in work zones and school crossings and recommended a separate resolution asking the administration to study additional high-risk locations be continued to the March meeting for a fuller report.
The Richmond City Land Use, Housing and Transportation Standing Committee on a voice vote recommended approval of an ordinance to amend city code to allow use of photo speed monitoring devices in highway work zones and school crossing zones and forwarded a resolution asking the administration to study additional locations for such devices to a March meeting for more detail.
The ordinance, numbered 2024-317, would add high-risk intersection segments authorized by the Virginia Code to the places where the city can install automated speed enforcement. Councilor Liz Lynch, who sponsored the papers, said the resolution is intended to "be thoughtful and planful" about placement and public engagement after changes in state law allowed cameras within 1,000 feet of a fatality on the high injury network.
The nut of the measure was procedural: the ordinance would amend City Code…
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