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To express support for the study and installation of photo speed monitoring devices in high-risk intersection segments[, including the 600 and 700 blocks of South Belvidere Street and certain other locations,] pursuant to Va. Code ? 46.2-882.1 and [through the City of Richmond's Department of Police "Safety Camera Program" and] to request that the Chief Administrative Officer consider identifying additional locations for the installation of photo speed monitoring devices and increasing the number of photo speed monitoring devices deployed by the City. (As Amended) (5th District)
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WHEREAS, through the Department of Police's program known as the "Safety Camera Program," managed by the Department of Police, the City has placed 15 cameras near schools operated by the School Board of the City of Richmond; and
WHEREAS, the City's Vision Zero traffic safety program, which establishes how the city will eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2030, included as one of its priorities the identification and evaluation of advanced tools and techniques to reduce speeding, such as automated speed enforcement; and
WHEREAS, the Safe and Healthy Streets Commission adopted a resolution dated October 16, 2024, expressing support for the use of photo speed enforcement cameras to enforce speed limits at high-risk intersection segments within the City of Richmond; and
WHEREAS, section 46.2-882.1 of the Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, authorizes local law enforcement to use photo speed monitoring devices in any "high-risk intersection segment," which means "any highway or portion thereof located not more than 1,000 feet from the limits of the property of a school that is part of or adjacent to an intersection containing a marked crosswalk that is identified in the manner provided in this section as one in which a traffic fatality has occurred since January 1, 2014;" and
[WHEREAS, the property limits of Open High School, l...
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