Fiscal Note
There is no anticipated City expenditure required. The costs of signage for the posted speed limit will be borne by the owner(s) of the manufactured home community.
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Creating Subsection 12.57(1)(c) of the Madison General Ordinances to establish speed limits on the private roads contained within the Highland Manor Manufactured Home Development.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: Newly enacted Wis. Stat. § 349.03(5) provides that a city may enter into a written agreement with the owner of a private road or driveway within a manufactured and mobile home community to enforce Wis. Stat. ch. 346 traffic regulations on the roads within that community. After the passage of this law, the owners of the Highland Manor manufactured home community ("Highland Manor") asked the City of Madison Police Department ("MPD") to enter into a traffic enforcement agreement. Highland Manor includes over 1,000 residents, 360 homes, 9 roads, and 2 playgrounds. The owners of Highland Manor have stated that speeding is a major concern in their community.
If MPD entered into an agreement with Highland Manor at the present time, the speed limit within that community would be 25 miles per hour, as established by Wis. Stat. § 346.57(4)(e). However, a recent traffic and engineering investigation conducted by the City of Madison determined that 25 miles per hour is not a reasonable or safe speed limit there. Instead, it determined that 15 miles per hour is reasonable and safe.
Wis. Stat. § 349.11 allows local governments to increase or decrease state provided speed limits deemed unsafe by a traffic and safety investigation. Using this authority, and the traffic and safety investigation recently completed by the City of Madison, this newly created MGO subsection will establish a speed limit of 15 mph for the roads located within Highland Manor. This speed limit will be enforceable by the City of Madison Police Department during the life of any traffic enforcement agreement entered into with the owners of Highland Manor pursuant to the newly enacted law.
*********************************************************************************** The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Subdivision (c) of Subsection (1) of Section 12.57 entitled "Modifying State Speed Limit On Certain Streets" of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:
"(c) Said investigation has determined that the speed permitted by state law upon streets within the Highland Manor Manufactured and Mobile Home community is greater than reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist on such streets and it is hereby declared that the speed limit shall be as hereinafter set forth on those streets or parts of streets herein designated, provided that the City of Madison Police Department has entered into an agreement for traffic regulation enforcement under Wis. Stat. § 349.03(5).
1. Belaire Drive - 15 miles per hour.
2. Fairlane Court - 15 miles per hour.
3. Harvest Circle - 15 miles per hour.
4. Hollywood Drive - 15 miles per hour.
5. Lasalle Street - 15 miles per hour.
6. Malibu Drive - 15 miles per hour.
7. Manor Drive - 15 miles per hour.
8. Rustic Parkway - 15 miles per hour.
9. Sierra Court - 15 miles per hour."