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MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, December 14, 2015 6:30 o'clock p.m. 7. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT POLICY (continued) Levang stated the communications committee can also publish it in a future newsletter. Levang noted Page 3 of the policy talks about costs and funding for the speed and traffic volumes. Levang stated she was wondering how the City charges the residents when it is a shared cost. Levang asked if the cost is added to someone's utility bill or is a separate bill and whether there has been a problem with compliance. Edwards stated the majority of them would be voluntarily paid up front or be assessed. Walsh noted at a work session back in September he raised three issues with the policy. Walsh stated in his view Staff needs to have a little more time to get the definitions correct. Under the request portion it says, any requests require written application of 50 percent of a project neighborhood. Walsh stated there needs to be a definition of what project neighborhood means versus at the whim of whoever is answering the question. Walsh stated under No. 3 there should be more detail about what data collection and traffic study means versus an engineering study. No. 6 says, if 75 percent of the impacted residents respond favorably to the notification, the proposal will be brought to the City Council in a public hearing for approval. Walsh stated he is not sure what that means and that in his view the City is doing a disservice to the residents by passing this until there are specific definitions. Walsh stated in his view Staff needs to spend a little more time on the policy since those issues have not been addressed. Edwards stated as it relates to the issue of the engineering study and guidelines to be considered, he attempted to add into the various appendixes what would be looked at for a speed study or a speed bump request, etc. Edwards indicated he did not include an all-encompassing list of every possible request. Edwards stated in regards to impacted residents, most of the projects would be on residential streets, which would be the impacted area, but that he could spell that out more. Walsh stated No. 1 and No. 6 are talking about the same basic thing but are using different words, which is a little confusing. Walsh stated he would like to see a little more detail before it is disseminated to the public. Printup stated he likes the spirit of the process and that the draft policy is a good start. Printup stated under Item D, parking, that might be something that could be explored a little bit further in relation to parking by residents versus nonresidents. Printup stated the parking would relate to the use of different trails where there are people parking on side streets and that it would be nice to differentiate the Orono resident as opposed to the non -Orono resident. Printup stated to his understanding there is a neighboring city that has a sticker process and that nonresidents can pay for a sticker to park on the side streets. Printup stated he would hate to penalize Orono residents when the problem might be coming from nonresidents. Edwards noted the City does not have an ordinance regulating resident -only parking, which is why it was not included in the traffic management policy. Edwards stated the intent was to implement some type of mechanism to deal with requests to install no parking signs. Printup stated it is something for the Council to think about. Page 13 of 44