Neighborhood Speed Management Program

On March 11, 2019, the Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) held a public hearing for residents to speak about speed hump project proposals for locations on the 2018 NSMP Simple Project list. Following the public hearing and a staff presentation, TAB recommended installing speed humps on 37th Street , 55th Street , South 41st Street , South 46th Street , and Grinnell Avenue . Staff plans to install speed humps on the five project streets in early summer 2019, and will notify residents in advance of construction.

Following a February 2019 recommendation from TAB to proceed with the top two projects on the  NSMP Complex Project list , staff began planning the 26th Street (between Kalmia Avenue and Jay Road) and 55th Street (between Baseline Road and Sioux Drive) projects in May 2019. 

July 11 and July 17: Second Neighborhood Meetings

At the first meetings we discussed existing conditions. Please attend the second meetings to review design alternatives for 55th Street and 26th Street and share your thoughts with city staff and consultants. The meetings will be open house-style so you can attend whenever in the evening is best for you.

55th Street Neighborhood Meeting #2

If you were unable to attend the meeting, please review the meeting materials and the 2 design alternatives: speed cushions and chicanes . You can also view a matrix of considerations for the alternatives.

Review Information from the First Neighborhood Meetings

The first of three neighborhood meetings for both projects included information on the NSMP, planning process and timeline, and the existing conditions. 

• 26th Street NSMP Project Neighborhood Meeting 1 (held May 15): If you missed the meeting, please review the Existing Conditions Map for 26th Street between Kalmia Avenue and Norwood Avenue  and the Existing Conditions Map for 26th Street between Norwood Avenue and Jay Road.
• 55th Street NSMP Project Neighborhood Meeting 1 (held May 16): If you missed the meeting, please review the Existing Conditions Map.

City staff accepts NSMP applications year-round and evaluates them on an annual basis.  The next deadline for application evaluation is May 31, 2019.  Please use the links on the upper right-hand corner of the page to access the online application and neighborhood petition.

Here are a few key pointers:

• Only residential and collector streets are eligible for participation in the program.   Eligible streets are in black and blue on the City of Boulder Street Classifications map.

• All applications requesting engineering treatments (such as speed humps and traffic circles) must include a neighborhood petition with signatures from 20 neighbors or 30 percent of households on the same block, whichever is less.

• Staff will review and rank applications requesting engineering treatments based on the criteria laid out in the NSMP final guidelines . All applicants will be notified of the ranking. Staff will then present a list of prioritized projects to the Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) for review.

• Projects with engineering treatments will be categorized as "simple" or "complex."

  • Simple projects are those that are expected to have a localized impact on reducing speeds, address speeding issues on a short segment of a non-critical emergency response route and have little effect on traffic diversion. They are also anticipated to cost less than or around $10,000. Simple projects will be implemented by staff after a recommendation by the Transportation Advisory Board.

  • Complex projects may include impacts to neighboring streets or other travel modes, be located on a designated critical emergency response route and cost more than $10,000. Complex projects must receive a recommendation to proceed from the Transportation Advisory Board and must also be approved by City Council.

• All applicants are eligible to receive educational materials and enforcement in their neighborhood.

You can  read the final guidelines   and review public feedback  about the guidelines from the June TAB meeting. You can also view higher resolution versions of the Critical Emergency Response Routes  (Attachment A) and City of Boulder Street Classifications map (Attachment B).

You can also sign up for NSMP Email Alerts.

If you’ve applied for the NSMP and would like to know the status of your application, look below for the date you submitted your application to find out its status.