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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-04 Resolution RECORD OF RESOLUTIONS Dayton Legal Blank, Inc., Form No. 30045 - . ----- Passed ,20_ A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A REVISED TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN WHEREAS, at their 2003-2004 Council goal setting session City Council established a goal to undertake a comprehensive review of the current Traffic Calming Policy; and WHEREAS, extensive research has been conducted to develop a revised Traffic Calming Program; and WHEREAS, the Community Services Advisory Commission at their January 13, 2004 meeting recommended City Council adoption of the revised Traffic Calming Program; and WHEREAS, the revised Traffic Calming Program was reviewed and discussed by City Council at their February 9,2004 study session, and the suggested revisions of City Council have been incorporated into the revised Traffic Calming Program. NOW, THEREF~ IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Dublin of the State of Ohio, of the elected members concurring that: Section 1. The revised Traffic Calming Program, attached hereto as Exhibit "A", be adopted. Section 2. This Resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest date permitted by law. Passed this I !:J~ day of .A. a y--J-... ,2004. ATTEST: ~(2C~~ Clerk of Council I hereby certify that copIes of this Ordinance/Resolution were posted in the City of Dublin in accordance with Section 731.25 of the Ohio Revised Code, NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM 9 72.130 DEFINITIONS. AFFECTED AREA. The area in which the placement of traffic-calming measures will have an effect. This shall be determined by defining the area significantly affected by street modifications. At a minimum this will include the households, and if applicable, any businesses, or apartment complexlbuilding(s) located on the affected street and any households, and if applicable, any businesses, or apartment complexlbuilding(s) located on cul-de-sacs attached to the affected street. AFFECTED STREET. The street on which traffic-calming measures are being requested. COLLECTOR STREET. A street that provides both access to property and traffic circulation within residential neighborhoods and commercial or industrial areas. This system collects traffic from local streets, penetrating the residential neighborhoods, and disperses it to the arterial system. The collector street system may also carry local bus routes. CUL-DE-SAC. A street having only one end open to traffic and the other end being permanently terminated with a vehicular turn around provided. CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC. Traffic that uses local or collector streets to travel through a residential neighborhood without having an origin or destination within the neighborhood or subdivision. HOUSEHOLD. A domestic unit consisting ofthe members of a family who live together along with non-relatives, APARTMENT COMPLEX/BUILDING(S): A building or several buildings containing a room or a suite of rooms equipped for individual living. Generally each building is occupied by more than one household. BUSINESSES: An industrial or commercial establishment. LOCAL STREET. A street that provides direct access to abutting land and connects to the higher order street system. These offer the lowest level of mobility and usually contain no bus routes. Service to through-traffic movement usually is deliberately discouraged. LOOP STREET. A street that has both of its termini on the same street. (Res, 42-99, passed 10-4-99) RESIDENT. One who resides in a particular place permanently or for an extended period, . Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program Purpose of Program The purpose of the City of Dublin Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program is to enhance both the safety and quality of life within residential neighborhoods. This can be achieved by one or more of the following: . Education: Increase awareness of residents in neighborhoods that there are traffic safety concerns such as excessive speeds, non-local traffic (cut-through volume), accidents, and possibly overflow parking. . Enforcement: Encourage compliance with speed limits on local streets through speed-reducing tactics provided by the Division of Police which include, but is not limited to, the following: traditional enforcement, StealtStat machines, the Neighborhood Speed Watch Program, and speed trailers. . Engineering: Evaluate the affected street for speeding, total volume, non-local traffic, and accidents to determine if traffic calming is warranted. Goal/Objectives of Program: The City of Dublin continually strives to ensure overall safety, protect its neighborhoods and enhance the quality of life for its residents. Traffic conditions on residential streets certainly affect neighborhood livability and one's sense of community. Traffic that is traveling at improper speeds and non-local, or cut-through, traffic that is consistently using residential streets can affect a neighborhood's livability, including pedestrian and bicyclist activities. However, implementing traffic-calming measures on every street is not always the answer. Each neighborhood may have its own unique set of problems that must be analyzed to identify solutions, Dublin's traffic-calming program was designed to serve as a guide for City staff and residents throughout the traffic-calming evaluation and implementation process. The program, however, is only a guideline and, therefore, subject to change. Under this program, staff will work with residents to identify traffic issues in their neighborhoods and seek appropriate solutions. The goal of the program is to affect driver behavior to improve safety and the quality of life for residents, pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists. This is to be balanced with providing quick response time for emergency service vehicles including fire trucks, police cars and ambulances. Page 2 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program Objectives are as follows: . Reduce vehicle speeds on residential/local streets . Reduce number and severity of accidents . Discourage non-local, or cut-through, traffic . Encourage pedestrian and bicycle activities . Create and/or enhance attractive streetscapes . Establish clear guidelines of the process and procedures to evaluate traffic calming requests . Partner with residents for best overall program for affected street S 72.131 PROCESS. This program is designed to provide a process through which residents can request traffic-calming measures within neighborhoods. Step 1: Education and Enforcement Before requesting Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic-Calming Program, residents should first pursue neighborhood speed-reduction options with the Division of Police Traffic Enforcement Unit, 614-410-4807. If such efforts have not been pursued, the City will advise the requesting applicant as to programs they would need to initiate prior to proceeding with a traffic-calming evaluation request. Once these options have been pursued, and if the City has determined these initiatives to be ineffective, staff will then advise the residents to proceed with the Neighborhood Traffic-Calming Program. If a neighborhood feels these strategies have been ineffective, the neighborhood may then choose to proceed to request evaluation for traffic calming measures, The neighborhood must deliver the request to the Division of Engineering, City staff will evaluate to what extent other actions have been pursued by the residents of the requesting area and determine whether these steps have been effective, If efforts, such as requests for increased enforcement, the use of a StealthStat in the neighborhood, and Neighborhood Speed Watch programs have been used by the residents and City Staffhas determined them ineffective in the reduction of volume, speed, non-local, or cut-through traffic, and accidents, then the request will proceed to the next step. I Page 3 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program Step 2: Engineering/Study Process (A) City receives request. A request for the evaluation for traffic-calming measures may be initiated by any resident of the city. A resident/neighborhood may request an affected area be defined at any time during the year. (B) Pre-qualification of street. Traffic calming measures are suitable in residential areas to manage speed, volume and cut-through traffic. Therefore, characteristics ofthe streets must be residential in nature. The street pre-qualifications are designed to ensure that the street segment is appropriate for considering traffic calming. Since some negative impacts can be associated with traffic-calming measures, some restrictions, in the best interest of emergency and transit services, are included on the list of pre-qualifications. Streets should meet the following standards in order to pre-qualify for traffic calming. (1) The street has a posted speed limit of 25 mph or less; (2) The street is classified as a local or collector on the city's thoroughfare plan; (3) The street has a right-of-way that is 60 feet wide or less; (4) The street has a standard curb and gutter cross section, and/or all drainage and safety concerns can be addressed to the satisfaction of the City Engineer; (5) The street is at least 1,000 feet in length; (6) The street is not a cul-de-sac street; (7) The street is not a loop street within a neighborhood or subdivision; (8) The street is not along a COT A bus route; (9) A fire station is neither on the street nor is the street a Critical Emergency Response Route. A list of Critical Emergency Response Routes can be found at the end of this program; and (10) This program applies only to existing streets. It does not apply to future roads or to new subdivision streets under construction, If an Page 4 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program existing subdivision street is intended to be extended in the future, then it must be at least 75% complete with the termination point known, If the street meets all of the above pre-qualification standards, the request proceeds to the next step. When appropriate, if the street does not meet all of these standards and residents still feel traffic-calming measures are necessary, staff will consider further evaluation ofthe street. (C) Affected area defined. Once a street has met the pre-qualification standards, the affected area will then be defined. Such determination will be completed by the City Manager or the City Manager's designee.. (D) Petition required by the City. Following a determination ofthe affected area, the City of Dublin will provide the base petition form to the resident(s), The resident(s) will complete the petition identifying specific issues described in the space provided on the petition to the best extent possible that the neighborhood wants to have addressed. This petition is to be circulated by the resident(s) requesting evaluation for traffic-calming measures, Only one signature per household/property owner will be accepted. If a home is leased or rented, only the signature of the owner of the dwelling will be accepted. If an apartment complex/building(s) is located on the affected street or within the affected area, only the signature of the owner or owner's representative of the apartment complexlbuilding will be accepted for the purposes of achieving the required percentage on the petitions. If a business is located on the affected street or within the affected area, only the signature of the owner or owner's representative of the building where the business is located will be accepted for purposes of achieving the required percentage on the petitions. There is a twelve (12) month time limit on starting the petition process and returning a completed petition to the City for validation. In addition, the petition must be returned to the City by July 1 of each year to begin the traffic calming evaluation process that year. (E) Petition received by the city. Once received, the petition will be reviewed and validated by the city. In order for the request to proceed, the petition must contain signatures from 67% of the households in the affected area and 90% of the households on the affected street. The petition must be returned to the City by July 1 of the calendar year in order begin the traffic calming evaluation process that year. Once the petition has been validated by City Staff, the request will be forwarded to Council for their acceptance of the study need and the appropriation of funding for the study, This will be done on an individual request basis. (F) Comprehensive study completed. There can be 2 stages of the comprehensive study. Stage 1: Once streets are pre-qualified, the Page 5 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program appropriate percentages of signatures are received and validated, and City Council concurs with need to conduct the study, the city will perform a comprehensive study of the affected area, The study will be performed by a qualified professional traffic engineer. The study will include collecting speed, volume, non-local, or cut-through traffic, and accident data along the routes and analyze the effect of the traffic-calming measures on city services. The study will also examine existing traffic control measures along the street. If any existing device, such as a stop sign, is found to be unwarranted it is subject to removal regardless of whether the street receives treatment for traffic calming. The goal of Stage I is to determine whether traffic-calming measures are necessary on the affected street and whether Stage 2 should be implemented, Stage 2: If necessary and recommended by the Stage 1 report, the study will be expanded to determine impacts to other neighborhood streets if traffic-calming measures were installed on the affected street. Stage 2 will also identify traffic-calming options/conceptual plans for the affected street. (G) Street priority. Through a point system, the data gathered in the comprehensive study will then be used to establish: 1) whether a street receives enough points to warrant any measures; 2) whether localized traffic calming measures are warranted on the affected street, and 3) whether the street warrants a traffic calming comprehensive plan and the associated street priority ranking. The point system will be according to the following criteria: (1) Speed. (a) Two points for each 1 mph the average 85th percentile speed falls between 30-32 mph. Three points for each 1 mph the average 85th percentile speed falls between 32-35 mph. Five points for each 1 mph the average 85th percentile exceeds 35 mph. (b) If the average 85th percentile speed is less than 30 mph, the street will not be co~sidered for traffic calming. (2) Volume. Local and Collector Streets, 1. One point for each 100 vehicles over the number of households served by the affected street multiplied by the average number of vehicle trips per day generated Page 6 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program by the household, as defined by the Institute for Transportation Engineers Trip Generation Manual, current edition. Based on subsequent Program criteria, 20% is the threshold value for acceptable through trips. Therefore, the product of the number of households and the appropriate trip generation rate(s) is then to be multiplied by 1.2 to allow for an acceptable amount of through trips., The formula for calculating the acceptable volume on a roadway is this: Nhouseholds * Tgeneration rate * ],2 = Ttotal Where N households = number of households in the affected area, T generation rate = applicable trip generation rate Ttotal = total trips for affected street 2. Minus one point for each 100 vehicles below the number of households served by the affected street multiplied by the average number of vehicle trips per day generated by the household, as defined by the Institute for Transportation Engineers Trip Generation Manual. This number is then to be multiplied by 1,2 to allow for an acceptable amount of through trips. See equation above for calculating the acceptable amount of traffic volume on a roadway, (3) Cut-through traffic. One-half point for each 1 % the percentage of cut-through traffic exceeds 20%, (4) Accidents: 2 points for each percent the accident-severity ratio/percentage for the street exceeds that of the citywide average over the last three years, No deduction of points will be made if the street has an accident-severity ratio/percentage less than the citywide average over the last three years. The accident severity ratio is to be calculated on a yearly basis for the preceding three years. (5) Pedestrian Generators: The street shall receive points for having each of the following: . Street has a school zone: 3 points . Street provides direct access to a City park: 2 points . Other public facility: 1 point Page 7 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program Examples include. but are not limited to: bikepath access points. tunnels. soccer fields. and municipal pools. The points will be totaled in a chart similar to the one below. If there is more than one street that has requested traffic calming, the streets will be ranked in order from the most points to the least points in a table similar to the one found below. If a street has between 20-35 points, it may receive localized treatments. A street must have a minimum of 35 points in order to qualify for traffic-calming measures. If a street does not have enough points to qualify for traffic-calming measures, then City staff will continue to work with the residents/neighborhood with the education and enforcement components of this program. I Volume I % Cut- Street Street 85th Cut- Volume Speed Through Pedestrian Total Name Type Percentile Through Points Points Points Accidents Generator Points I II II II II II II II II II I Step 3: Engineering/Conceptual Plans & Implementation (A) Traffic-Calming Measures Selection Process. Working with the residents in the affected area, City staff will select an appropriate type of traffic-calming measure(s) for the street. Unless determined warranted by the traffic calming evaluation process, stop signs and traffic signals are not considered traffic-calming measures for the purpose of this program. Concurrence of85% of the households in both the affected area and on the affected street will be required, by means of a second petition, upon the type of traffic-calming measure(s) to be implemented. Landscaping, for the purposes of this program, will be installed only as a traffic-calming measure. Additional landscaping/aesthetic treatments will be installed as determined necessary by the City Engineer and at the direction of the Dublin City Council. (B) Funding and Installation. Following the selection of traffic-calming measures, the street will be placed on a priority list for funding and installation. Based on the level of funding allocated for this purpose, streets shall be funded beginning with the highest ranked street. If all streets contained on the list cannot be funded during a year, the list will be carried over to the next year. Any new streets added to the list in a following year will be ranked below those already placed on the priority Page 8 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program list. However, Council always has right to adjust priority funding based on available resources. This program is subject to review on a biennial basis to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the program. (Res. 42-99, passed lO-4-99) Page 9 Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program LISTING OF CRITICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE ROUTES This program focuses on local and collector residential streets with a posted speed limit of 25 mph or less. The following is a list of major streets in Dublin that do not qualify for the Neighborhood Traffic-Calming Program, The list was developed in conjunction with the Washington Township Fire Department and the City of Dublin Division of Police. . Avery-Muirfield Drive . A very Road . Blazer Parkway . Brand Road . Bright Road . Coffman Road . Cosgray Road . Dublin Road . Dublinshire Drive* . lEarlington Parkway . Emerald Parkway . Frantz Road . Glick Road . Hard Road . Innovation Drive . Memorial Drive . Muirfield Drive . Perimeter Drive . Post Road . Rings Road, from Frantz Road to Woerner Temple Road and again, west of A very Road . Riverside Drive . SR 161 . Sells Mill Drive* . Shier Rings Road . Summit View Road . Tuttle Crossing Boulevard . Tuller Road . Woerner Temple Road . Wyandotte Woods Boulevard * These streets will receive no additional traffic-calming measures. Page 10 Office of the City Mana~er 5200 Emerald Parkway · Dub in, OH 43017 Phone: 614-410-4400. Fax: 614-410-4490 CITY OF DUBLIN Memo To: Members of the Dublin City Council From: Jane S. Brautigam, City Manageru ~.5 . 0~p Date: March 10, 2004 Initiated By: Paul A. Hammersmith, P.E., Director of Engineering/City Engineer Jean-Ellen M. Willis, P.E., Civil Engineer Re: Revised Traffic Calming Program - Final Document Resolution No. 11-04 Summary: Resolution 11-04 adopts the revised Traffic Calming Program for the City of Dublin. At their January 13, 2004 meeting, the Community Services Advisory Commission (CSAC) reviewed and discussed the revised Program. CSAC approved the proposed changes to the current Traffic Calming Policy and made a recommendation to Council to accept and adopt the revised Program. At the February 9, 2004 Council study session, Council reviewed and discussed the revised Program, and requested that staff consider several suggested revisions to the revised Traffic Calming Program. For clarification, staff contacted both Council Members regarding comments provided through the meeting minutes and as noted on a copy of the revised Program, respectively. Staff incorporated several suggested revisions in the revised Program and presented a final draft of the Program to Council at their March 1, 2004 regular meeting. In accordance with Council direction, the final revised Program, with all incorporated revisions, is being presented to Council for formal adoption. Upon adoption by Council, the revised Traffic Calming Program and the spiral bound booklet entitled "Dublin's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program. Solutions for a safer community" will be published and available for community distribution. As previously presented to Council, the booklet was developed to address the public outreach/education portion of the Program. It provides a comprehensive, user-friendly booklet outlining the Program, responsibilities, expected timeframes, and several types of traffic calming devices with pictures of each. In addition, the recently developed Traffic Calming Program post card will be utilized for needed communication to individual households within the community. Recommendation: Staff recommends approval of Resolution No. 11-04 adopting the revised Traffic Calming Program for the City of Dublin.