On the docket for tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting, approving “traffic calming improvements” to the neighborhood surrounding the pending 315 West Ponce de Leon Ave development.  According to Asst. City Manager David Junger, these improvements were recommended by the neighborhood’s traffic calming advisory board back in 2011 and serve as an alternative to just building speed humps/bumps.  Among the measures set for approval this evening…

Medians at

• Northern and Ponce Place
• Fairview and Ponce Place
• Ponce Place and Montgomery
• Ponce Place and Clairemont

Mini-Traffic Circle at Ponce Place/Oakland/Beaumont (shown above)

Bulbouts at

• Fairview/Montgomery
• Wilton/Oakland

Mockups of the medians and blubouts are also available in the city’s materials for the meeting.

Also on the agenda, the recipients of this year’s sidewalk improvement program are…

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