§ 19-651. Definitions.

For the context of this policy only:

Application for speed cushions include the petition;

Official accident report is a police filed report of an accident due to speeding.

Residential dwellings include single-family houses, townhouses, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes and mobile homes;

Speed criteria is the speed five (5) mph, or more, over the legal speed limit (thirty (30) mph);

Speed cushion is a speed hump with an unraised path for fire trucks and ambulances through the hump. Speed cushions are devices designed as several small speed humps installed across the width of the road with spaces between them. They are generally installed in a series across a roadway resembling a split speed hump.

Speed hump is a geometric design feature of a roadway, consisting of a three- to four-inch raised area in the roadway pavement surface extending twelve-foot transversely across the travel way, whose primary purpose is to reduce the speed of vehicles traveling along that roadway (See figure 1); page 5.

Speeds are eighty-fifth percentile speeds, i.e., the speed at or below which eighty-five (85) percent or vehicles are traveling;

Street refers to the street length that must be petitioned. It is a one-thousand-one-hundred-foot segment generally centered on the location of the speed cushions, or the length of the block, whichever is greater. If the one-thousand-one-hundred-foot segment extends into any part of an adjacent block, it includes the entire length of the adjacent block, unless separated by an intervening thoroughfare or offset intersection. No traffic signals or stop signs should be located within the one-thousand-one-hundred-foot segment to be considered for speed cushion installation. Installation of a speed cushion will not be considered within three hundred (300) feet of a traffic signal.

(Ord. No. 2010-O-139, § B., 9-20-10)