The purpose of the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Policy is to improve livability and quality of life within residential neighborhoods through the deployment of traffic calming devices. This is accomplished by the following program steps:
A. 
Define a process to evaluate neighborhood concerns.
B. 
Identify criteria to implement various methods to calm traffic.
C. 
Establish the means to pay for and maintain the devices.
D. 
Prioritize the deployment of traffic calming devices.
E. 
Implement the program through the Capital Improvement Program.
A. 
The Borough of Brentwood continually strives to ensure overall safety, protect its neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for its residents. Traffic conditions on residential streets certainly affect neighborhood livability and one's sense of community. Traffic that is traveling at inappropriate speeds and commuter traffic that is inappropriately using residential roadways can adversely affect a resident's quality of life.
B. 
However, implementing traffic calming measures is not a solution for all speeding and cut-through traffic woes. Each neighborhood may have its own unique set of problems that must be analyzed to identify solutions. This program was developed to guide Borough staff and inform residents about the processes and procedures for implementing traffic calming measures on residential streets. Under this policy, staff will work with residents to identify traffic issues in their neighborhoods and seek appropriate solutions.
C. 
The goal of the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Policy is to implement measures identified by a consensus of the neighborhood to affect driver behavior in such a way that improves safety and the quality of life for residents, pedestrians, bicyclists and other nondrivers. This goal is to be balanced with the Borough's goal to provide quick emergency response times for emergency vehicles, including fire trucks, police and ambulances.
D. 
The objectives are as follows:
(1) 
Reduce vehicle speeds on residential streets.
(2) 
Discourage cut-through traffic.
(3) 
Promote conditions that encourage bicycle and pedestrian travel.
(4) 
Create attractive streetscapes in neighborhoods.
(5) 
Provide clear guidelines of the process to evaluate traffic calming measures.
(6) 
Encourage citizen involvement in all phases of neighborhood traffic calming activities.
(7) 
Make efficient use of Borough resources by prioritizing traffic calming requests.
E. 
It should be noted that it is not the intent of this program to change the classification of roadways. Residential collector streets are designed to carry more traffic than local residential streets and are typically streets that provide access between local streets and arterial streets. It must be recognized that not all residential streets can mimic the traffic conditions of a cul-de-sac and it is not the goal of this program to achieve those conditions.
F. 
The steps of this program involve request from the neighborhood identifying a traffic calming issue; review and evaluation of the request to determine eligibility; analysis and development of potential traffic calming measures; review and agreement on appropriate measures for implementation by the Borough and the neighborhood; and implementation of the selected measures by the Borough.