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From YouTube: Charlotte City Council Approves Updates to Neighborhood Traffic Calming Policy | Inside the Crown

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New changes to a City of Charlotte transportation policy aim to make sure residents in rental properties have the same opportunities to improve neighborhood traffic safety as property owners.

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Jason puckett: hello and welcome to your city, council recap., I'm jason puckett.. In this video series we take a deeper dive into some of the votes on monday night's council meeting. and in.

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This one, we're talking about the new traffic calming policy.

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Julie eiselt:, we have a motion and a second. so I'll go through the roll call.. Mr. newton?

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matt newton: yes. julie, eiselt:, ms. watlington? victoria watlington:, yes. julie, eiselt:, I'm a yes., mrs. ajmera?, dimple, ajmera:, yes. julie, eiselt:, mr. phipps? greg phipps:, yes. julie, eiselt:, mr. winston? braxton, winston:, yes., julie, eiselt:, mr. bokhari?, tariq bokhari:, yes., julie, eiselt:, mr. driggs?, ed driggs:, yes., julie, eiselt:, mr. egleston? larken, egleston:, yes., julie, eiselt:, mr. graham?, malcolm graham:, yes., julie, eiselt:, ms. johnson. renee, johnson:, yes., julie, eiselt: thank you.

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Jason puckett:, that was the council voting unanimously to pass an update to the neighborhood traffic calming policy.. Now, if you're wondering what traffic calming actually.

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Is, well,: let's ask the cdot engineering program manager.

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Angela berry.

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Angela berry: neighborhood traffic calming is our effort to.

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Provide slower, speeds, and, in a sense, column, traffic, right just.

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Jason puckett:, the city does this in multiple ways. angela berry: [the]. Very first thing: we do when a neighborhood.

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Calls and asks for traffic. Calming, is if it's a local.

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Street or collector that we can safely lower the speed limit to.

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25 miles per hour — first thing we do out of the gate.

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Jason puckett: secondary options include installing speed bumps and installing multi-way stops.. Now the vote on monday didn't.

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Change any of those measures. what it did change is how people.

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Can request traffic calming measures, and who can make those.

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Angela berry:, so we lowered the values by which people could.

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Obtain neighborhood traffic calming., so we lowered the.

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Volume requirements, and we lowered the speed requirements.

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So that was a good thing., but it still required the petition.

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Process. and so the petition process is burdensome to our.

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Citizens, right., so what we're going to do is instead of the.

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Petition process,, once we identify a street and it.

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Qualifies,, then you will go on the list and we will send the.

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Opposition only postcard out and hopefully the process will be.

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Shorter., definitely not as burdensome on our citizens and.

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Quite honestly,, not as burdensome on our staff.

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Jason puckett: removing the petition process also benefits property, renters.

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Angela berry:, this checks that equity box right for those neighborhoods, where maybe we have a little bit higher rental.

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Property type than home ownership, property type that.

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They can qualify now without having to go through the whole.

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Signature of a petition.

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Jason puckett: now, if you want to request traffic coming in your neighborhood,, make sure you check the guidelines on the cdot website or give a call to 311. thanks for joining us inside the.

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