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Boca Raton staff to introduce ordinance allowing automated school‑zone speed enforcement; phased rollout proposed
Summary
City staff will present Ordinance No. 57-31 on March 18 to allow automated enforcement of school‑zone speed limits. Staff proposed a data-driven, phased deployment beginning with six high‑risk zones and recommended an RFP; council members pressed staff on training, certification and whether rollout can be accelerated.
City staff told the Boca Raton City Council on Feb. 24 that it will introduce Ordinance No. 57-31 at the March 18 meeting to authorize automated enforcement of school‑zone speed limits using speed‑detection systems.
Municipal Services Director Zack Beer said state changes now allow automatic detection in school zones and staff used a combination of average daily traffic, crash history, 85th‑percentile speed and the share of drivers exceeding the posted limit by 10% to identify initial sites. Beer read staff’s phase‑1 list as including “Addison Meisner, Blue Lake Elementary, Colusa, Omni Middle School, Spanish River,…
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