From: Wesley Reutimann
To: Gao, Beilei
Subject: Public Comment - MSC Items #2 and #3
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 6:27:47 AM
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Good morning MSC members and staff,
As I will not be able to attend today's meeting in person, I am submitting written comments on two important agenda items. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Item #2 - Please amend the proposed Speed Hump policy update to include an exemption for designated City greenways. Speed humps are evidence-based traffic safety measures that can be designed to accommodate emergency vehicles (see reference below). It is critical that the staff
have access to this tool to limit
speeding and reckless driving, particularly around local schools and pedestrian- filled business districts.
Every year far too many people in our community
are seriously injured or killed in
preventable collisions where speed is a primary collision factor. With new vehicles averaging larger, heavier, higher, and faster than a decade ago, the outcomes of higher-speed collisions are far, far worse, especially for anyone outside of a vehicle.
Speed humps / cushions are an affordable manner to address our ongoing traffic safety epidemic.
Speed Cushions are either speed humps or speed tables that include wheel cutouts to allow large vehicles to pass unaffected, while reducing passenger car speeds. They can be offset to allow unimpeded passage by emergency vehicles and are typically used on key emergency response routes. Speed cushions extend across one direction of travel from the centerline, with a longitudinal gap provided to allow wide wheelbase vehicles to avoid going over the hump.
Item #3 - Please lift the residential solar generation limit until Pasadena reaches its 100% clean power goal. Pasadena needs all the help it can get to reach its laudable clean power goal. Harnessing individual customer's willingness to install additional solar for their current and future needs is a key step in this process.
Solar permitting should be fast, easy and affordable in the City. As shepherds of a publicly owned
utility, you as Council Members have a great deal of
control over this regulatory process.
Thank you for your service to the community,
The Reutimann Family
Pasadena 91103