City of Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Tools, 19 Nov 2021

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From YouTube: How To Request Speed Humps

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Speed humps can help reduce vehicular speeds on streets across Charlotte. This video provides information that will help you and your neighbors work with the Charlotte Department of Transportation to request speed humps within your neighborhood.

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Charlotte is home to hundreds of neighborhoods each with its own collection of people, homes, trees and streets. Did you know that the charlotte department of transportation maintains over 2 hundred miles of streets?

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Some neighborhood streets are quiet and others are busy, but they're all important to help us get around if vehicles are traveling through your neighborhood at unsafe speeds, speed humps might be a good way to help reduce these speeds.

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If your neighborhood is interested in requesting speed, humps here are some important steps to take first reach out to the charlotte department of transportation by calling 311 or using the charlotte plus app on a smartphone.

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The charlotte department of transportation will ensure that each street in question is eligible for speed. Humps eligibility requirements include first, the street must be classified as a two-lane local residential street.

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Second, the street width must be less than or equal to 40 feet if these two requirements are met. The third step includes the charlotte department of transportation, reducing the speed limit to 25 miles per hour, if not already posted. The third step also includes the department of transportation conducting a traffic study.

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This study will determine the volume and average speed of vehicles on the street or streets in question.

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Traffic volume must be at least 600 cars per day. If the street has no existing traffic calming. If traffic calming devices are present, traffic volume must be 1 500 vehicles per day.

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The 85th percentile speed should be equal to or greater than 5 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour last. The charlotte department of transportation will ensure that the street is not a primary emergency services route.

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If the volume and average speed requirements for speed humps are met, a petition needs to be completed. To show neighborhood support, similarly, active hoas can complete this process internally, a petition needs to encompass all property owners on the street where speed humps are proposed at least 60 percent of property owners must sign and a 30-day appeal period will follow if the volume and speed thresholds are met, a petition is completed and the appeal period did not include any objections.

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Streets will be placed on the list to receive speed humps if any of these requirements are not met. Residents may work with the charlotte department of transportation to discuss other options and resources.

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That's it if your neighborhood is interested in requesting speed humps. The first step is to reach out to the charlotte department of transportation. Thanks for watching.