Developing New policies and procedures
The newly adopted Neighborhood Traffic Management Program is the first comprehensive look at the policies & procedures the city will use in the ongoing efforts to provide traffic management to neighborhoods that are impacted by speeding or cut-through traffic. The Neighborhood Traffic Management Program will work from the goals outlined in the city's 2001 General Plan to identify specific projects and programs to address neighborhood traffic calming and transportation needs and objectives. Three interrelated components will make up the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program:
- Goals and Objectives: This sets forth the purpose of traffic management and the general principals that will guide the development of future projects.
- Process: A detailed process has been developed that assures that each new project is carefully reviewed by all the neighbors and those that could be impacted by any modifications to local streets. The policies & procedures provides the option to use either a series of neighborhood meetings or a petition process to obtain community consensus.
- Sample forms, hypothetical maps of affected and notification areas and advantages and disadvantages.
Adopted Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (11/15/07)
(pdf / 536kb/ 25pgs)
The process to the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program began more than a year ago based on an identified need to formalize policy and procedures that the Transportation Department was using to guide numerous project requests. An initial draft of the policies and procedures were presented to the Transportation Commission in October 2006. Extensive research of similar programs used in other communities was undertaken along with input received from several neighborhood focus groups. Additional revisions to the draft policies and procedures were presented to the Transportation Commission at their September 20th and October 18th, 2007 meetings. The formal approval and adoption of the program was completed at the Transportation Commission meeting on November 15th 2007, and will be coordinated with and implemented through the city's Transportation Master Plan once approved by City Council.
- Summer/Fall 2006 - Citizen input to draft Neighborhood Traffic Management Plan.
- November 2007 - Formal approval by Transportation Commission.
- Winter 2007 - Transportation Master Plan Public Hearing Process and finalization.
For more information contact:
Paul Porell, Traffic Engineering and Operations Director
pporell@scottsdaleaz.gov or (480) 312-7651.
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