Larchmont Traffic Calming OK’d

A traffic calming project on Larchmont Drive at a cost of  $8,800 has been approved by the Ann Arbor city council. The council’s action came at its June 16, 2014 meeting. The action included an appropriation for five other traffic calming projects, totaling $55,000.

The approval of this project comes in the context of the council’s budget deliberations last month, when an amendment was offered but rejected by the council that would have cut the FY 2015 budget allocation for art administration from $80,000 to $40,000 and put the $40,000 is savings toward traffic calming projects. The amendment got support only from Sumi Kailasapathy (Ward 1), Jane Lumm (Ward 2), Jack Eaton (Ward 4), and Mike Anglin (Ward 5).

Traffic calming projects must undergo a neighborhood engagement process in which at least 60% of households support the designed project. In the case of the Larchmont project, 13 out of 15 households supported the project.

This brief was filed from the city council’s chambers on the second floor of city hall, located at 301 E. Huron.