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09/12/2016 eligibility of streets which would othenviee be eligible for traffic calming. The City has a duty to maintain a street system which reasonably allowa for timely emergatcy service response. However, on local streets the City also has other compelling duties which may to some degree conflict with maintaining the atreeta in a manner to optimize emergency service reaponae. Thoae dutiea include maintaining local residential atreeta in a manner which will induce traffic behavior consistent with areas where childr�t and pedeatrians can be expected to be in or near the street, or maintaining the streets in a mannes which inducea traffic behavior that allows residents quiet enjoyment of their homes and that limits impacts from traffic. For residential streets which are not on priroary emerge�ncy reaponse routes,reasonable accommodation for timely emergency service response may be quite different from individual residential atrec�ta on the primary responae routes. In those circumstances, traffic calming which causea minor increases to emergency seavice response time may be acceptable. Fire vehicles rarely if ever acl►ieve speeds of over 20 mph on the local residential sireets whexe traffic calming is norntally employed. Traffic calming plans will be designed with this in mind to minimize the impact on response times. The City will normally seek to identify and implement measures which offset the effects of neighborhood traffic management on emergency response and to avoid situations where the cumulative effect of neighborhood traffic controla dramaticaliy alt�s emergency response. Transit Routes Traffic calming generally should be limited along atreets with establiahed, comentional bus transit with normal serviee frequency. School tranait,ahuttle vans,paratransit vehiclea,and similar services of conventional transit aze not included in this consideration because they can reasonably be expected to operate in the neighborhood emironment at speeds where tr�c calming would not pose problema. In addition,many ofthese vehicles are not exceptionally long whcelbase vehicles. Resident Suoaort Where traffic calming is initiated by msident request, a petition requesting traffic calming signed by representatives of 50 percent of the properties in the primary impact zone of ihe traffic calming shall be considered s�cient indication of community support for the City to ad on the request (impact mne to be d�ned by the City staf�. TRAFFIC CALMING REQUEST PROCESS A tr�c calming plan goea through hvo processes from initiation to implementation. The requeat process must be compteted before the application may move imo the development procesa. A flow chart showing the path of an applicacion through each of these procesaes is seer►in Chart 1 and the proceases aze deacribed fiuther below: Page 7 of 13 ATTY/RES0.0088/CC RE50 TRAFFIC CALMING ON RESIDENTIAL STREETS RESO.N0.15522 REV:09-01-16 JS MUFF N0.702