Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Department of Public Service is actively engaged in pursuing the City initiative to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries to zero, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all through the Vision Zero Columbus Action Plan 1.0. This ordinance demonstrates the commitment by the City of Columbus and City Council to the overall well-being of the City’s residents.
Fatal and serious injury crashes have been on the rise annually. Every person has the right to get to their destination safely. The Columbus Vision Zero Action Plan 1.0 is a two-year plan to begin to eliminate fatal and serious injury crashes on city streets. The action plan has set the goal that by the year 2035 all fatal and serious injury crashes will be eliminated.
The Department of Public Service plans to pursue and submit applications for grant opportunities to implement the action plan. No specific grant opportunities have been identified at this time.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
No financial participation is required at this time. City funds will be approved in the form of design contracts, right of way acquisitions, and/or construction contracts that will be submitted for Council’s approval at a later date
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To adopt the Vision Zero Columbus Action Plan 1.0, as described herein, as the primary framework for reducing traffic deaths and serious injuries to zero; to authorize the Director of Public Service, on behalf of the City of Columbus, to prepare and submit applications for grant opportunities; accept and expend grant funds; and to issue refunds if necessary after final accounting is performed. ($0.00)
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WHEREAS, sixty-five percent of fatal and severe injury crashes in the City occur on ten percent of City streets; and
WHEREAS, between 2015 and 2019, fatal and serious injury crashes have increased annually with a total of 225 people killed in crashes on City streets, and preliminary data indicates increased fatalities in 2020; and
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