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Once upon a time, Shadow Lakes subdivision was in the county.
About a decade ago, it was annexed into the city, but not all of the speed limit signs have a city ordinance to support them.
At Wednesday’s Warsaw Traffic Safety Commission meeting, Public Works Director Dustin Dillon reported, “The request came in to lower the speed limit in Shadow Lakes subdivision to 25 miles an hour. Currently, the entrance into Shadow Lakes ... the first street entering into the subdivision is still in the county. As you turn right, after you go about 300 feet onto Ontario Lane, then it becomes city of Warsaw, with the remaining of the addition all inside the city of Warsaw.”
Dillon said the county had actually adopted the 25 mph ordinance for the subdivision and there were 25 mph county signs posted throughout the subdivision now. He said they went out to the subdivision and checked on those, and now all the 25 mph speed limit signs are the city’s.
“So if the Traffic Commission is good with that, we will make a recommendation to council to go ahead and adopt an ordinance to lower that speed limit to 25 as it is already posted,” he said.
Warsaw Police Department Capt. Brad Kellar made a motion to do that, Council President Jack Wilhite seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
Dillon will get with city attorney Scott Reust to prepare an ordinance for the city council to adopt regarding the speed limit in the subdivision.
At the Traffic Commission’s July meeting, Wilhite spoke about how he would like to do more about the Stop Arm Violations around school buses.
Since then, he said a number of commission members met, along with Dan Hampton from the Kosciusko County Prosecutor’s Office. They came up with a number of different things they thought they could implement, though some would require some help from state legislators.
“I was very encouraged by the amount of things that we came up with. We may not want to implement them all at once, but we can do a few of them,” he said.
Wilhite will have a full report at the Traffic Commisson’s Sept. 2 meeting.
Related to that, Warsaw Community School Director of Transportation Mark Fick reminded everyone that WCS starts Friday and everyone should be mindful of buses.
“Police will be out,” Fick said, adding that they’ll be running 51 routes with a little over 5,100 students in grades kindergarten to 12th.
“Please drive safely and we’re going to have some officers nearby, especially on the hill at Papa John’s,” Traffic Administrator Lance Grubbs said.
