On April 5, 1994, the Board of County Commissioners approved the placement of speed humps in residential areas. This Speed Hump Program creates a mechanism by which concerned citizens can fund the installation of speed humps by establishing a Municipal Service Taxing Unit, which is assessed to those property owners who directly benefit from the installation of the speed humps.
Speed humps will only be considered on roadways which:
FIRST OF ALL, did anyone in Ashington Park receive these meeting notices??? Lake Price Drive runs INTO and THROUGH Ashington Park and NO ONE appears to have been notified of any hearings on this matter.
SECOND, if developers were "made" to pay for these bumps or else lose the right to develop their land, the handful of whining residents who requested these bumps in order to divert traffic from "their" road have no monetary tax hit for the bumps installation....
THIRD, Lake Price Road is a major north/south access roadway for Orange AND Seminole County residents, leading to Highway 50 and the Expressway to the south and Oviedo to the north. It is not a "local residential street". With over 3,000 homes located in subdivisions on Lake Price Road, and estimating there are approximately 6,000 vehicles in the immediate area, there could be well OVER 3,000 cars on that road daily, putting the speed bump program out of its promulgated limits.....
FOURTH, where is the language indicating how the community REMOVES these road impediments? Lake Price Road is no longer a remotely located road to nowhere. Current residents are endangering their lives and homes by slow emergency vehicle response times. Current residents are paying more money in gas to stop and go N I N E times over these bumps, several times a day. Current residents will pay substantial amounts of money to repair DAMAGE to their vehicles. It is documented that speed bumps INCREASE AREA POLLUTION BY TEN TIMES!!!!! They also increase the noise levels in a neighborhood and DIVIDE RESIDENTS.
FIFTH, Seminole County ABANDONED its speed bump program years ago due to insurmountable problems........
WHY ARE THEY STILL HERE IN ORANGE COUNTY????? HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF AREA RESIDENTS WANT THEM REMOVED. IF WE DO LIVE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, IT'S TIME TO LISTEN TO YOUR VOTERS............BUMP THE BUMPS!