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Resolution to Approve the Installation of Traffic Calming Devices on Manchester Road (Buckingham to Needham) ($35,000)
Memorandum
Attached for your consideration is a resolution for the installation of traffic calming devices on Manchester Road between Buckingham Road and Needham Road. 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 ;(1) speed hump and (1) raised crosswalk, as shown on the attached final plan.
The residents and property owners of Manchester Road 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 Manchester Road traffic calming project began with the residents' petition received in December 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 April 27, 2023, and June 22, 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 disc...
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