CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY-FIRST COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. F/S R-14-99 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton, by request
RESOLUTION
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F/S Adopting The City Of Albuquerque Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) Policy Manual By Reference As The Traffic Calming Policy For The City Of Albuquerque; Rescinding Resolution-03-314, Enactment No. 115-2003 (Benton, by request)
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ADOPTING THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (NTMP) POLICY MANUAL BY REFERENCE AS THE TRAFFIC CALMING POLICY FOR THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE; RESCINDING RESOLUTION-03-314, ENACTMENT NO. 115-2003.
WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque has established the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) for the purposes of addressing traffic safety and nuisances on local and collector streets; and
WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque adopted a Neighborhood Traffic Management Policy Manual in 2003 which provided the administrative, organizational and enforcement rules and regulations; and
WHEREAS, the primary measures identified in the 2003 Neighborhood Traffic Management Policy Manual to calm traffic were speed humps and the City recognizes that other tools and methods to provide traffic calming are evolving; and
WHEREAS, in 2009, the City implemented a study to review effective measures used in other jurisdictions and held public meetings in each quadrant of the City soliciting public input; and
WHEREAS, the resulting recommendations from the study and the public input meetings were formulated as a policy titled Streets and Traffic Enhancement Program (STEP); and
WHEREAS, the Council's Land Use, Planning and Zoning Committee has recommended retaining the original Neighborhood Traffic Management Program name for the Policy Manual.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
Section 1. The City of Albuquerque hereby rescinds the Neighborhood Traffic Management Policy Manual adopted through Council Resolution-03-314, Enactment No. 115-2003, and adopts the updated Neighborhood Traffic Management Program Policy Manual attached hereto as Exhibit A as a replacement to the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program.
Section 2. The NTMP Manual shall serve as the administrative, organizational and enforcement rules and regulations for the Traffic Calming Program of the City of Albuquerque.
Section 3. The City Council recognizes the Program will continue to evolve and may be administratively amended by the Director of the Department of Municipal Development as necessary to allow pilot programs and new techniques to be studied and implemented based upon engineering studies and effectiveness.
Section 4. In order to assess the effectiveness of the NTMP and criteria adopted by R-14-99, the Department of Municipal Development shall provide a report to the Council two years after adoption of this resolution. This report shall detail all applications for Neighborhood Traffic Management received and analyzed under the policy adopted by R-14-99, the applications that met the criteria established by R-14-99, and the status of those applications which met those criteria, including availability of funding and/or the anticipated schedule for implementation.
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