Strategic Initiative – Membership
- Compatibility of neighborhood pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular traffic.
- Healthy Air Quality
Following their April 26, 2024, meeting, the Board is working on redefining this ongoing initiative which dealt with neighborhood traffic calming and expand it to include these other items. Membership volunteers:
- Compatibility – Rob Grant, Arlington Park, A. Cloutier, Harbor Acres, Norm Dumaine, Glen Oaks Estates, and Mary Butler, Amaryllis Park
- Air Quality – Marisa Dawson, Central Cocoanut and Mary Butler, Amaryllis Park
These issues may require subcommittees to specifically define the issues in each neighborhood or set of neighborhoods.
Neighborhood Safety Team Members:
Norm Dumaine, Chair, (Glen Oaks Estates)
Doug Jeffcoat, (Public Works Director)
Nik Patel, (City Engineer)
Carl Shoffstall (CCNA Treasurer)
Richard Harris (CCNA President)
Alvi Corales (Public Works)
Joanne Gonet (CCNA 2nd Vice President)
Problem
Everyone acknowledges that excessive speed in a neighborhood is a safety risk for those residents that live on, walk on and play on those neighborhood streets. The CCNA neighborhood associations have collectively asked for assistance from the City in addressing the issues they are experiencing.
Committee Formed
CCNA established a committee in 2022, to address these concerns. The initial thought was to set up a speed monitoring and ticketing pilot program on selected neighborhood streets. For several reasons that pilot did not come to fruition. There was a Speeding Study early in 2023 that the committee felt clearly showed a problem, but the traffic division felt those results were within a “normal” range. Lou Costa, CCNA Immediate Past President undated membership with a slide presentation at the May 6, 2023, Membership Meeting.
A Change in Focus – Traffic Calming
What is Traffic Calming? The Federal Government’s Institute of Transportation Engineers defines traffic calming “as the combination of measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior, and improve conditions for non-motorized street users. Traffic calming consists of physical design and other measures put in place on existing roads to reduce vehicle speeds and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists. For example, vertical deflections (speed humps, speed tables, and raised intersections), horizontal shifts, and roadway narrowing are intended to reduce speed and enhance the street environment for non-motorists. Closures that obstruct traffic movements in one or more directions, such as median barriers, are intended to reduce cut-through traffic. Traffic calming measures can be implemented at an intersection, street, neighborhood, or area-wide level.”
- notes from the August 8, 2023 meeting
- notes from the August 17, 2023 meeting
- notes from the January 17, 2024 meeting
- Traffic Calming Committee Report – Recommended Changes
(Presented at the July 26, 2024, CCNA Board Meeting)