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Resolution to Approve the Installation of Traffic Calming Devices on Gladstone Avenue
Memorandum
Attached for your approval is a resolution for the installation of a traffic calming device on Gladstone Avenue (Packard to Independence). The construction is expected to take place in the 2009 construction season by the City’s contractor for the 2009 Annual Local Street Resurfacing project. The project construction cost will be paid from the approved FY10 Project Management Local Street, Traffic Calming Budget.
The residents of Gladstone Avenue have been surveyed and support the attached proposed traffic calming plan for their neighborhood. The Gladstone Avenue traffic calming project began with the residents’ petition received on October 26, 2007. After the initial evaluation and completion of the required speed study, the traffic calming public meetings were scheduled using the established process. All meetings were held on site and included walking the study street. Gladstone Avenue’s meetings were held on August 6 and September 10, 2008.
The adopted program allowed us to send a questionnaire to each address in the project area to determine their concerns, location of those concerns, and preferred traffic calming devices, among other information. This information proved useful in allowing us to attend the first meeting with a draft plan based on feedback from the residents. We walked the project limits and discussed the draft plan, making adjustments to be reviewed at the second meeting. At the second meeting, we shared the revised draft plan, had the devices painted on the street for visual review, and walked the project limits and discussed the revised draft plan, allowing for modification as necessary.
The draft plan from the second meeting was mailed to the residents in the project area. Each household was surveyed if they support the plan as shown, or allowed to indicate device-by-device which portions of the plan they supported.
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