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Bel Air keeps neighborhood traffic program as work group, adds notification and exception rules
Summary
The board agreed not to codify the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) and to keep it as a work group to preserve response speed. Staff will add an exceptions clause for unique safety conditions and collect email addresses from petition signers for better outreach.
Bel Air staff circulated a near-final draft of the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) and asked whether the board wished to codify it into the municipal code or retain it as an informal work group. Commissioners favored keeping the program as a work group to avoid the procedural delays associated with formal codification and open-meeting constraints.
Commissioners asked staff to improve outreach to petition signers (adding email addresses as an opt-in contact field) so affected residents are kept informed of meetings and decisions. Staff also proposed — and commissioners supported — an exceptions clause to allow the NTMP to act on unique safety concerns that data alone might not capture; staff described the clause as a "common-sense caveat" to let the program address visually dangerous conditions that scoring systems might miss.
The board agreed not to codify the NTMP and directed staff to circulate the latest draft and to add notification and exception language.
What’s next: Staff will reissue the NTMP draft with edits and a preferred non-codified procedure; the work group will continue to triage backlog traffic requests.
