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• Installation of traffic calming controls for speed control, 60% of the traffic surveyed must exceed the posted speed limit and/or 35% must exceed posted limit by 5 miles per hour. • Stop signs will be considered and allowed as a traffic calming measure in residential areas when fit into a basketweave pattern in an area or a neighborhood. This will require area wide resident involvement to develop and to support this as an area traffic calming measure or plan (see Policy Section 3). Implicate in this provision is understanding that some stop signs may require removal in order to achieve a reasonable and acceptable basketweave pattern. • Intersections with volumes less than 5,000 vehicles per day entering the intersection, one of the intersecting streets may be controlled (2 way controls). • Intersections with volumes greater than 5,000 vehicles per day entering the intersection, traffic controls on both intersecting streets may be considered (4 -way or all way controls). • Where pedestrian levels in safety sensitive areas (parks, schools, houses of worship, senior centers, hospitals, trails) warrant, then traffic controls may be considered for pedestrian safety. This may include stop signs, marked crosswalks, and/or other traffic calming controls. • When engineering data and/or geometric design clearly indicates the need for traffic controls, then traffic controls should be considered. • If an intersection experiences five (5) or more accidents correctable by traffic controls in a three (3) year period, traffic controls should be considered. • If the presence of a sight obstruction is a factor (potential or documented), removal of the obstruction should be sought before considering traffic controls. 3. Non -qualifying devices (from #1 and 2 above) and traffic calming devices/methods may be considered if both of the following are satisfied: • 75% of residents within a six hundred (500) foot radius from the intersection/site request by petition (residents will be provided with a map with the appropriate radius lines and a petition form) or a neighborhood association supports a neighborhood study and calming strategy. • Special studies (site specific or neighborhood wide) and installation of traffic calming controls (except signs) would be at residents or neighborhood cost (specially assessed to benefited residents or areas). Page 2 of 3