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Resolution to Approve the Installation of Traffic Calming Devices on Granger Avenue (Packard Street to State Street) ($198,000.00) and to Appropriate $110,000.00 from the County Mental Health Millage Fund Balance (8 Votes Required)
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution for the installation of traffic calming devices on Granger Avenue (Packard Street to State Street) Area to appropriate funds from the Country Mental Health Millage Fund Balance. The construction is expected to take place during the Fall 2023 or Spring 2024 construction season by the City of Ann Arbor's contractor for the 2023 Annual Local Street Resurfacing project, and to be paid for from the approved Traffic Calming Budget. The traffic calming plan includes one (1) raised intersection, two (2) raised crosswalks, and one (1) speed table as shown on the attached final plan.
The residents and property owners of Granger Avenue 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 Granger Avenue traffic calming project began with the residents' petition received in October 2019. 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 a portion of the study street. Meetings were held on December 7, 2022, and February 8, 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 meeti...
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