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Assistant engineering director outlines traffic-calming policy, scoring and resident petition process
Summary
Assistant director Todd Art reviewed the city's traffic-calming policy (adopted 2008, revised 2023), explained the 80-point qualification threshold, petition and five-day count process, and described neighborhood ballots that require 65% of returned ballots in favor to install calming measures.
The city’s assistant director of engineering, Todd Art, presented an overview of the traffic-calming policy, how staff evaluate requests and how measures are implemented and removed.
Art summarized the policy history — a resident committee drafted the policy in 2007 and the city adopted it in 2008; council revisions in 2023 clarified evaluation areas and ballot thresholds. He explained the goal: physically alter roadway geometry to reduce average speeds (for example, raised islands,…
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