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ATTACHMENT 3 From: Mike TassanQ To: Cc: Nelson Fialho;Cedric NovenariQ;Mayor and City Council;Brian Dolan Subject: RE:Speed Bumps on Concord Street Date: Thursday,September 12,2019 12:25:31 PM Diane, Thank you for reaching out to us again with your concerns regarding the installation of speed lumps on Concord Street. I believe you have had some previous email exchanges with staff and we appreciate the continued outreach Your email included several questions and thoughts and I will do my best to try to address as many as possible. First, we will be bringing an informational report to City Council in October that outlines the use of the Expedited Speed Lump Program for Concord Street(and Touriga Drive).The Expedited Speed Lump Program was adopted by City Council in 2017 to provide a quicker response to concerns of speeding in neighborhoods.The City also has a Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program, but the funding through this program allows just 1 neighborhood per year to enter the program.The Expedited Speed Lump Program provides the opportunity of neighborhoods to have speed lumps installed without the formal steering committee and City Council process and several neighborhoods are able to go through the process in a single year. The Expedited Speed Lump Program is a petition process where residents can collect the necessary signatures to have speed lumps installed on their street.There are some conditions on the petition that include the requirement that 67%of residents within 500 feet of the proposed speed lump sign the petition and a second condition that 100%of the residents directly fronting the installation location support the installation. Concord Street residents circulated the petition over the summer and collected the necessary 67% of residents signatures and the 100%support at the proposed locations. Your email mentioned that perhaps we are going too fast for this installation, but the speed and efficiency of the program is one if its core principles.The City did hold two neighborhood public meetings and 4 steering committee meetings, although those meetings were not a requirement of the Expedited Speed Lump Program.The initial meeting held in April of 2019 was to gather information from residents and parents on their transportation related concerns around Vintage Hills Elementary School.The 4 follow up steering committee meetings were to develop comprehensive plans to address the concerns expressed at the April meeting.The most recent neighborhood public meeting held in August of 2019 shared the steering committees comprehensive plan with the neighborhood and was used to receive additional feedback. At this most recent meeting we heard from a number of residents (30-40 in attendance).The majority were in favor of the plan, although we did hear from 1 resident that was in attendance that he didn't really like the speed lumps (but was OK with the other elements presented) and we