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Rose Hill redesign moves repaving to 2027 to add traffic calming, protected bike facility and ADA upgrades
Summary
Staff presented a redesigned 0.6-mile Rose Hill Drive repaving project that shifts construction to summer 2027 to allow for traffic-calming elements: narrowed lanes, removed center turn lanes, a bidirectional protected bike facility, a four-way stop at Henry & Rose Hill, ADA curb ramps and bus-stop improvements; public feedback was mixed and staff plans further engagement.
Zoe Macomber, the city’s senior transportation planner and Rose Hill project manager, described a repaving-driven redesign for a 0.6-mile segment of Rose Hill Drive moved from summer 2026 to summer 2027 to accommodate traffic-calming design work and ADA improvements. The goal is to reduce the design speed to 25 mph, install a protected 10–12-foot bidirectional bike facility with a hardened buffer, shorten pedestrian crossings, and preserve on-street parking where possible.
Macomber outlined specific elements: regularized travel-lane widths to 11 feet for transit and emergency access, removing center turn lanes in some segments, decreasing turn radii on Preston, and adding a four-way stop at Henry and Rose Hill. She said the design includes green hashings at conflict zones, ADA-compliant bus-stop landing pads and attention to interactions between buses and bicycles at nine transit stops along the corridor.
"We wanted to reduce the design speed to 25 miles per hour so we could follow-up with speed limit changes," Macomber said, noting the project will use low-cost quick-build materials and hand off final engineering schematics to Public Works for curb-cut ADA upgrades. She acknowledged mixed neighborhood feedback and said staff will return with responses and further community engagement before final implementation.
