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To request that the Chief Administrative Officer cause the Director of Public Works to conduct a study and provide recommendations to the Council concerning how applicable laws and regulations might be lawfully amended to require contractors to provide protected walkways, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, shared-use paths, and trails for the purpose of further promoting the City’s Vision Zero traffic safety program.
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WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 2016-R011, adopted March 7, 2016, the Council expressed its support for the development of a Vision Zero program in the City of Richmond with the goal of reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries in road traffic to zero by the year 2030; and
WHEREAS, the Council believes that it is in the best interests of the citizens of the City of Richmond to request that the Chief Administrative Officer cause the Director of Public Works to conduct a study and provide recommendations to the Council concerning how applicable laws and regulations might be lawfully amended to require contractors to provide protected walkways, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, shared-use paths, and trails for the purpose of further promoting the City’s Vision Zero traffic safety program;
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND:
That the Chief Administrative Officer is requested to cause the Director of Public Works to conduct a study and provide recommendations to the Council concerning how applicable laws and regulations might be lawfully amended to require contractors, as a condition of any such contractor’s permit, to provide protected walkways, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, shared-use paths, and trails for the purpose of further promoting the City’s Vision Zero traffic safety program, which study and recommendations shall include, but not be limited to, the following, to the extent permitted by law:
1. Proposed revisions to existing laws and regulations that would require contractors to provide temporary protected walkways, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, shared-use paths, and trails whenever construction projects impede such walkways, crosswalks, bicycle lanes, shared-use paths, or trails.
2. Proposed revisions to existing laws and regulations that would require the revocation of any applicable permit issued by the City upon the commission of a second or any subsequent violation by a contractor of a requirement to provide a temporary protected walkway, crosswalk, bicycle lane, shared-use path, or trail.
3. A proposed fine structure for the first, second, and any subsequent violation of any applicable law or regulation requiring a contractor to provide a temporary protected walkway, crosswalk, bicycle lane, shared-use path, or trail.