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Brentwood staff seeks clearer rules for neighborhood traffic calming; proposes longer petition window and stronger vote safeguards
Summary
City staff recommended clarifications to Brentwood's traffic-calming policy, preserving engineering standards while tightening petition and voting procedures for speed tables and speed humps.
City staff recommended clarifications to Brentwood's residential traffic‑calming policy on Monday intended to increase process certainty for neighborhoods and reduce irregularities in petitioning while preserving engineering-based decisionmaking.
The memo presented to the commission consolidates existing tier 1 (signage, speed trailers, enforcement) and tier 2 (physical improvements such as speed tables, raised crosswalks and medians) approaches and keeps the city's engineering review as the determinative step for whether a traffic-calming measure is appropriate. Engineering will continue to select measures and determine spacing; staff said speed tables are used where higher design speeds are expected and speed humps are reserved for slower…
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