Getting a Speed Bump Installed

[djxpress]

The HOA has no power to put a speedbump on a public road.

[shmoov_groovzsd]

Thats the point, we dont see what you see. So if it is in fact on a public road, then true. You are likely going to have to go through the City of SD.

I would strongly advise going to an HOA board meeting and addressing your concerns. Ask them what you will need to make a case and if there is a process in getting it done (so you dont have to keep going the drawing board).
WIth the city, many times issues work our better in numbers. So if your board signs a peitition along with residents regarding the dangers of this road (barring any public right of way issues) you might have a case.

[oddstray]

Oh, my mistake. When I hear "HOA" I think of condo complexes. But of course there are HOAs which include public roads, and the HOA couldn't put up a speed bump.

[djxpress]

our HOA is useless and our Property Management is useless (besides collecting dues and buying things we don't need) i.e. satellite monitored water sprinkler rain sensors.

[shmoov_groovzsd]

dj, are you willing to take the lead on something like this? Basically everyone's input regarding getting the SD planning dept is really the only way. They are the gatekeepers.

I always feel if you come with a good solid case for something like photos or video and signatures etc, things get done. Its not pretty, but they have been done and can get done.
Post the videos on youtube of the speeding etc. Send the links to your local committee, County supervisor etc.

Its more about persistence and will than skill.

[westender]

Although on the other side of the country, our struggles for speed bumps may be instructive.

We succeeded in 2008 in getting two speed bumps installed, after more than a decade of work. Basic rules -- the street has to be long and slow (3/4 mile and 25MPH residential in our case), it cannot be designated as a "main street" or "thoroughfare," and it must show both high volume and a high percentage of speeders.

We met all of the criteria (with evidence -- volume measurements and traffic pattern studies, etc.), except the head of Public Works asserted that our street was an "unofficial thoroughfare." (It was not originally designed as such, but when the interstate was built in the 1960s, an exit on our same street, several miles away, established it in his mind as a thoroughfare). We had to litigate this, and we finally achieved a declaration that the street is not, in fact, a thoroughfare.

With all of the criteria met, it then took some arm-twisting of city councilmen to get the bumps installed.

It also helped that there are a few VIPs on the block. One of the most useful pieces of data was the width of our street -- at 16 feet it is unusually narrow -- a point we brought up repeatedly. The number of children living on the street did not seem to carry the same weight as a constant repeating of the litany of quantitative facts about speeders, volume, and street statistics.