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170 171 Mr. Freihammer indicated that was correct. The City usually gets a lot more 172 requests than what staff can move around the city and as staff has learned that is 173 done by avolunteer and does affect the variability. He noted there is one permanent 174 one on County Road B but the one advantage to moving them is that people get 175 used to them and ignore them, so it usually is good to rotate them with construction 176 projects for cut -through traffic in neighborhoods. 177 178 Member Mueller indicated when she has reached out to the County before 179 regarding the lack or visibility of speed limit signs on County Road B, as an 180 example, she has been told that there are limitations with the number and type of 181 signs that can be posted and that there has to be certain rights -of -way or distances 182 or whatever and different sign types. She asked if that was accurate and something 183 the City needed to consider for Roseville roads. , 184 185 Mr. Freihammer explained only so many signs can be put up. The City's policy is 186 to make sure there is one speed limit sign every half or quarter mile or some sort of 187 stop intersection. He was not sure what the County's policy is, but speed limit signs 188 cannot be placed close together. 189 190 Mr. John Kysylyczyn, 3083 Victoria Street, provided background information on 191 the history of his political career and indicated he has taken an interest in this 192 subject. He explained he was opposed to the efforts to adjust the speed limits in the 193 city because he thought it was a complete waste of time and money. He pointed out 194 that he has noticed there is no ticket data There is data as to the traffic stops, but 195 there is no data as to how many speeding tickets have been written and for what 196 speeds they have been written for. St. Paul disbanded its traffic unit so the idea that 197 the City will have more officers focusing on traffic is false and is actually going in 198 the opposite direction. Roseville has done local enforcement and the outcome of 199 the local enforcement efforts back twenty years ago was that the tickets and the 200 people that were being stopped were the people that lived in the neighborhood. 201 There is this rabbit hole he encouraged the Commission not to go down, which is 202 that slower driving leads to less injury. The problem is not the speed, the problem 203 is the distracted driving, the people that are reading their cellphones while driving 204 down the road and talking on the phone while driving down the road. That is where 205 the real problem lies. He would caution the Commission on studying data on what 206 other cities have done because some cities make decisions that are politically 207 driven, and some cities make decisions that are statistically driven. The cities of 208 Brooklyn Park and Minneapolis are political party -endorsed where a lot of their 209 decisions are based on politics. Shoreview, on the other hand, is not a political 210 party -endorsed city and often times a lot of decisions made there are based on 211 statistics. Another thing he wanted to raise caution about is passing laws that no 212 one follows. That is the scientific versus politics. When you pass laws that no one 213 follows people have atendency of not respecting other laws. Another thing to point 214 out is perhaps Roseville should stop paving local side streets that are four car lanes 215 wide. Perhaps for the next reconstruction phase, quit paving four lane -wide local Page 5 of 7 Page 7 of 29