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Lima Council advances neighborhood traffic‑calming plan, sends issue to Council of the Whole
Summary
After a presentation from the city engineer and consultant, council voted to refer the matter to Council of the Whole for further review while directing staff to continue preparatory work and pick two pilot streets for concept design.
Councilors heard a second workshop on a neighborhood traffic‑calming program on Dec. 23 and voted to move the issue to Council of the Whole for more discussion while allowing staff to continue preparatory work.
City Engineer Ian Colai introduced the item and Drew Parker of Tool Design presented outreach findings, data and a proposed process. Parker said the team collected two public workshops and 164 survey responses and recommended a four‑step program: identify a concern, determine eligibility, develop solutions with the community and evaluate effectiveness after installation.
Parker said the program focuses on local streets and outlined screening criteria: a primary threshold in which an 80th‑percentile speed at or above 30 mph (or more than 1% of vehicles traveling at or above 40 mph)…
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