City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0322R

• File #: 07-0322R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for State Legislation - Automated Speed Enforcement
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/13/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/1/2007
• Title: Request for State Legislation - Automated Speed Enforcement FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2008 Maryland General Assembly to sponsor legislation to grant authority to Baltimore City to implement an automated speed enforcement program and urging the Governor to support this legislation to protect our residential and school communities from unsafe vehicular traffic.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Enforcement, Resolution, Speed

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/1/2007	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Recommended Favorably
10/1/2007	0	City Council	Adopted
9/17/2007	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/13/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
8/13/2007	0	City Council	Assigned
8/13/2007	0	Land Use and Transportation Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
At the request of: The Traffic Calming & Pedestrian-Friendliness Task Force
Address: c/o Jamie Kendrick, Baltimore City Department of Transportation
417 East Fayette Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202
Telephone: 410-396-6802
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Request for State Legislation - Automated Speed Enforcement

FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2008 Maryland General Assembly to sponsor legislation to grant authority to Baltimore City to implement an automated speed enforcement program and urging the Governor to support this legislation to protect our residential and school communities from unsafe vehicular traffic.
Body
Recitals

In May, 2006, the Baltimore City Council created The Baltimore City Traffic Calming and Pedestrian-Friendly Task Force, a Citywide neighborhood and school-based body, in cooperation with the Departments of Transportation and Planning, with the purpose to "design and adopt Baltimore City traffic calming and pedestrian-friendly goals, policies, procedures and time lines that ensure safer traffic and pedestrian conditions for Baltimore's residential and school communities."

The Traffic Calming Task Force found, in part, that: 2 primary concerns of residents seeking calming solutions are reductions in traffic speed and cut-through traffic; speeding on high volume, major roadwa...