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Resolution to Approve the Installation of Traffic Calming Devices on Baldwin Avenue (Packard to Stadium) ($35,000)
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution for the installation of traffic calming devices on Baldwin Avenue between Packard Street and Stadium Boulevard. The construction is anticipated to take place during the 2024 construction season by the City of Ann Arbor's contractor for the Annual Local Street Resurfacing project, and to be paid for from the FY 2025 Traffic Calming Budget. The traffic calming plan includes two (2) devices ;(2) speed humps, as shown on the attached final plan.
The residents and property owners of Baldwin 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 Baldwin Avenue traffic calming project began with the residents' petition received in September 2020. 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 March 15, 2023, and May 25, 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 project limits including signs describing the different devices. At the second meeting, staff shared the revised plan and discussed it with the neighborh...
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