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Ashley Downs residents petition for speed study; council and staff outline ordinance steps
Summary
Ashley Downs HOA asked the council to run traffic and speed studies on Smarty Jones and Secretariat Drives to check eligibility for speed humps. Staff explained the multi‑step petition and speed‑hump ordinance requirements and warned that the city has not recently approved new speed humps.
Rodney Cotton, president of the Ashley Downs HOA, asked council to authorize a city‑backed traffic and speed study on Smarty Jones Drive and Secretariat Drive to determine eligibility for neighborhood speed humps. Cotton said the neighborhood has documented incidents of speeding and reported that petitions were filed with the city clerk’s office.
City staff reminded speakers of the existing 2021 ordinance that sets petition and study requirements; the city clerk and traffic director said the petition was filed and the traffic division had begun a study. Council members said the traffic director typically requires specific thresholds for average speed and 85th‑percentile criteria before recommending speed humps and that city approval has been rare in the past 15 years. Councilmember Robinson raised concerns about petition integrity (duplicate signatures or multiple household signers) and the ordinance’s 75% threshold language; staff said petitions and petition procedures will be reviewed and that the traffic director will follow the ordinance steps and report back to council.
