Traffic Calming

The Process

Through the Traffic Calming Program, the City and residents work together to improve public safety on neighborhood streets. Traffic calming is a method of slowing traffic through physical treatments to streets originally designed primarily for vehicles. The most common examples include speed humps, medians and traffic circles. 

The City has a formal process (PDF) for addressing traffic concerns on local streets and any resident can request information about traffic calming for their neighborhood by contacting the Traffic Engineering Division at 467-4360 or by email. 

There are numerous traffic calming studies going on concurrently citywide and the amount of time it takes to complete the process varies from neighborhood to neighborhood. Major steps include:

• The kick-off meeting, where residents learn about the program and the options available 
• Data collection, which is done by City staff and provided to a study team comprised of neighborhood residents
• Development of a plan to address the traffic issues, which is done by the study team, and
• A neighborhood vote on the elements of the plan 

Traffic Calming Vote Results

Vote tallies for neighborhood traffic calming ballots are posted for 2 weeks on this page.