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Resolution to Approve the Installation of Traffic Calming Devices on Arella Blvd (Stadium Blvd to Pauline Blvd) ($52,000.00) and to Appropriate $52,000.00 from the County Health Millage Fund, Fund Balance (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution for the installation of traffic calming devices on Arella Blvd between Stadium Blvd and Pauline Blvd. The construction is anticipated to take place during the 2025 construction season by the City of Ann Arbor's contractor for the Annual Local Street Resurfacing project, and to be paid for from the approved FY 2025 Traffic Calming Budget, if so approved. The traffic calming plan includes three (3) devices - (2) speed humps and (1) curb extension as shown on the attached final plan.
The residents and property owners of Arella Blvd. have been surveyed and support the attached proposed traffic calming plan for their neighborhood (based on the level of support required for the program). The Arella Blvd. traffic calming project began with the residents' petition received in September 2021. After the initial evaluation and completion of the speed study, the traffic calming public meetings were scheduled using the established traffic calming process. All meetings were held virtually on Zoom and included self-guided walking tour of the study street. Meetings were held on September 28, 2023, and November 29, 2023.
The adopted program allowed staff to send an initial questionnaire to each address in the project area to determine their concerns and location of those concerns, among other information. This information was used to prepare starter concepts for the first meeting. Staff and the residents discussed neighborhood interests and concerns, worked through an exercise with initial concepts, and refined concepts to be reviewed at the second meeting. In advance of the second meeting, staff painted the device locations on the street and established a self-guided walking tour of the proj...
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