Committee advances speed-hump and traffic-calming measures across St. Louis neighborhoods

A St. Louis City committee on Nov. 12 advanced two measures to install speed humps in neighborhood streets, moving both bills out of committee with due-pass recommendations.

Alderman Cox Antoine presented Board Bill 86, saying the measure followed a ward-level petition process and would place a speed hump on Victor Avenue in the 8th Ward. "This bill is done through a process that I have in my ward where we have a petition that's collected from the residents in the area," she said. The committee recorded a 5-0 roll-call vote to pass Board Bill 86 out of committee with a due-pass recommendation.

The committee also considered Board Bill 79, which Alderman Devote had filed with Amendment 1 to add paragraphs that would allow multiple speed-hump installations to be consolidated into a single bill. The amendment was adopted on a 5-0 roll call. Alderman Devote described his petition threshold and results: "We've gotta have 50% plus 1 of parcel owners onboard," he said, and told the committee that the five proposed humps (three in Northampton and others on Hill and South Hampton) met or exceeded that threshold.

There was no public testimony on either bill. Committee members asked routine process questions but raised no objections to advancing the measures. Chair Browning announced the adopted amendment and the committee's due-pass recommendation for Board Bill 79 following the vote.

What happens next: both bills will move to the full Board for further consideration; committee action was a recommendation rather than final enactment. The committee record shows the petitions and neighborhood support were a central part of both proposals.