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RESOLUTION REQUESTING REVIEW AND MODIFICATION OF SPEED LIMITS ON COLLEGE PARK SUBDIVISION ROADS

↑Meetings/Resolutions/29-2020
Activeformal_resolutionongoingThe Town Board requests that the Dutchess County Department of Public Works reduce speed limits on roads within the College Park Subdivision (including Harvard Street, Princeton Street, Amherst Street, Columbia Avenue, Cornell Avenue, Vassar Road, and Thayer Lane) from 35 mph to 25 mph due to the area being entirely residential, densely populated, with numerous intersections and limited road lengths.
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2020-06-24
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2020-06-24
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Resolution text

RESOLVED

  1. the Town Board of the Town of Red Hook hereby requests that the Commissioner of the Dutchess County Department of Public Works take all steps necessary to provide for the reduction of the speed limit on the roads within the College Park Subdivision, including Harvard Street, Princeton Street, Amherst Street, Columbia Avenue, Cornell Avenue, Vassar Road, and Thayer Lane, from the townwide limit of 35 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour.
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  • WHEREAS, the Town of Red Hook has noted the need for modification of speed limits on the roads within the College Park subdivision; and in particular the Town Board has noted that the area is entirely residential and densely populated with numerous intersections and limited road lengths

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2020-06-24adoptedvote: 5-0
Request the Dutchess County Department of Public Works to reduce speed limits on College Park Subdivision roads from 35 mph to 25 mph.
moved by McKeon · seconded by Hamel
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  1. the Town Board of the Town of Red Hook hereby requests that the Commissioner of the Dutchess County Department of Public Works take all steps necessary to provide for the reduction of the speed limit on the roads within the College Park Subdivision, including Harvard Street, Princeton Street, Amherst Street, Columbia Avenue, Cornell Avenue, Vassar Road, and Thayer Lane, from the townwide limit of 35 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour.
Whereas
  • WHEREAS, the Town of Red Hook has noted the need for modification of speed limits on the roads within the College Park subdivision; and in particular the Town Board has noted that the area is entirely residential and densely populated with numerous intersections and limited road lengths
Subject key: college_park_speed_limit_reduction