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MINUTES OF THE 832 REGULAR MEETING
LIVONIA TRAFFIC COMMISSION
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The 832 Regular meeting of the Livonia Traffic Commission was held in the 5 Floor Gallery of City Hall
on Thursday, March 12, 2026; it was called to order by Chairperson Jim Policelli at 7:32 p.m.
PRESENT: Jim Policelli, Gordon St. John, Robb Drzewicki, Tom Wrenbeck, Carl Roberts, Sgt. Brendan
Adams LPD Traffic Bureau and Officer Elliot of the LPD Traffic Bureau
ABSENT: John Katers, Yara Racine, City of Livonia Engineer Todd Zilincik
VISITORS: Justin Gooch
Agenda Item 1a:
Justin Gooch requested that a type of “Bicycle Present” signage be added to West Chicago Ave. between
Inkster and Middlebelt Roads. He does bicycle there and West Chicago is a three-lane road with a center
turn lane, therefore, vehicular drivers may not realize that bicyclist may be present on the road and Justin
thought for safety it would be good to alert drivers of this possibility of bicycles being present. Upon
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investigation in the 2025 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 11 Federal Edition (MMUTCD), there
is a W-11-1 diamond shape sign with a bicycle symbol on it but the manual calls for this to be used for
unexpected entries into the roadway by bicyclists, and other crossing activities that might cause conflicts.
After some discussion, it was recommended that we table this item until the next meeting in April in order
to do some more research if there is a proper sign in the MMUTCD that could be used for this.
Agenda Item 1b:
Justin Gooch inquired about the project to extend the Stark Road bike path across the I-96 freeway and
also if it was to be extended south of Schoolcraft all the way to Plymouth Road. Since Mr. Zilincik, the City
Engineer was not present, more details about this project were not known so this item will be discussed at
the next Traffic Commission Meeting in April.
Agenda Item 2: February Minutes
The minutes from the February 12, 2026 Meeting were presented. A motion for approval as presented,
was made by Commissioner Roberts, and with support from Commissioner St. John. It was approved
unanimously that:
26-430 RESOLVED, the minutes from the February 12, 2026 meeting were
approved as written.
Agenda Item 3: Email concerning Yield signs in the neighborhood in the northeast corner
of Five Mile and Farmington Roads
An email was received from Julie Bushart requesting that Yield signs in her neighborhood be
replaced with Stop signs due to excessive speed and an accident that recently occurred at a yield
sign-controlled intersection. Her observation is that vehicles are not consistently obeying the
yield signs and are therefore not effective as a control device at these intersections. Julie was
contacted by Chairman Policelli by phone and Sgt Adams by email and the issue was discussed
with her with an explanation about why Stop signs are not allowed for these types of low vehicular
traffic loads in the MMUTCD. LPD did do a traffic observation of the intersecting streets where the
recent accident occurred and did not find any violators of the yield signs or an excessive
speeding vehicles.
Agenda Item 4: Traffic Calming Guidelines Draft Review
Commissioner Wrenbeck presented his first draft of a Traffic Calming Guidelines procedure. The intent of
the guidelines is to have a workable process, with community support, for any requests for traffic calming.
These guidelines are is still a work in progress but the following issues were decided to be incorporated in
the next draft:
Process can be initiated by any resident, tenant or property owner in the City of Livonia
A first step will be added to suggest any requestor come first to a City of Livonia Traffic
Commission to discuss the issue with this Commission in order to provide guidance to the process
before the requestor decides to pursue the rest of the process.
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On the Evaluation matrix, it was agreed that a (-1) score for the row 85 percentile <25 mph should
be a lower (-5) score
No fee will be initially charged to submit a project to this process but depending on the amount of
future requests, a fee may be appropriate.
Commissioner Wrenbeck will create another draft for review at the next April meeting.
Follow up from Previous Meeting(s):
Livonia Public works did vegetation mgt the Northwest corner of Newburgh and Pembroke to
alleviate the citizen concern about wrong way traffic on Pembroke.
Hoover School Lane Marking project is still awaiting the installation of traffic bollards at both ends
of the boulevard. Plan is to get this installed once the winter weather subsidizes.
Rosedale Elementary has a crossing guard assigned to it and it was suggested by Commission
Wrenbeck that we get an approximate number of people that use that crossing and if an excessive
number are using it, maybe it necessitates a reconsideration of further steps for this crossing of
Ann Arbor Trail. Sgt. Adams will request this from the crossing guard.
No further agenda items.
Motion to Adjourn – Motion to adjourn from Commissioner Wrenbeck and supported by Commissioner
Drzewicki at 8:45 p.m.
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NEXT MEETING: Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. in the 5 Floor Gallery
Respectfully Submitted by: Tom Wrenbeck, Recording Secretary