TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Adam Lindsay, ICMA-CM, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Sheila Thomas-Ambat, PE, Public Services Director
Brian McGill, PE, PTOE, Assistant Public Services Director - Traffic Services
DATE: September 22, 2025
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Approve Speed Limit Reduction from 35 mph to 25 mph on Ruritan Drive/Campground Church Road, between Skibo Road and Morganton Road
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
District 9
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal I: The City of Fayetteville will be a safe and secure community.
Objective 1.2: To ensure traffic and pedestrian safety.
Goal IV: The City of Fayetteville will be a highly desirable place to live, work and recreate.
Objective 4.5: To ensure a place for people to live in great neighborhoods.
Executive Summary:
City Council unanimously passed the motion at the September 2, 2025 Council Work Session to place the Council Member Request for Ruritan Drive and Campground Church Road's speed limit reduction from 35 mph to 25 mph, and the request for speed humps, on the September 22, 2025 Regular Council Session consent agenda.
Should this speed limit reduction proceed, it would apply from the intersection of Ruritan Drive at Morganton Road, along Ruritan Drive until it changes into, and continues along, Campground Church Road, and ends at the intersection of Campground Church Road at Skibo Road. Following the speed limit reduction, the speed hump request process can follow the Residential Traffic Management Program (RTMP).
Background:
The current speed limit for Ruritan Drive and Campground Church Road is 35 mph, and it is posted with 35 mph speed limit signs. Ruritan Drive and Campground Church Road is a two-lane road, which is City-owned and maintained, with the subject section being approximately 3,600 feet long, or 0.68 miles long. It has limited sidewalks towards Skibo Road on Campground Church Road, and NCDOT defines it as a "local" road. ...
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