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Norristown council debates resident-initiated traffic-calming policy and tables final action
Summary
Council discussed a revised resident-initiated traffic-calming policy that lowers the initiation threshold to 50% but drew debate over whether 'residents' or 'property owners' should initiate studies; an amendment changed the language, but the council later voted 4-3 to table final adoption pending more information.
Council members spent the longest portion of the May 5 meeting debating a proposed resident-initiated traffic-calming policy (Resolution 26-39) that would change how neighborhood petitions for measures such as speed bumps or curb extensions are started.
Public-works staff (Sean) presented the revised policy and said it was intended to streamline the process. The draft calls for 50% of affected property owners to initiate an engineering study, and then 75% of the properties directly affected to approve implementation. "So we went to give it to where, make it…
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