I have provided recommendations for fully funded or $0 placeholder projects to mitigate hazards to the 500-600 N Prospect and Paulina neighborhoods, including a safety and soundwall, as well as speed reducing speed tables for Prospect between Beryl & Diamond.

In support of action by the Council, we are currently preparing the following:

To demand effective mitigation, these severe neighborhood impacts can be rigorously translated into dollar values to demonstrate a massive "cost of inaction" to municipal planners. Safety and kinetic risks are quantified using the federal Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) alongside injury scale tracking to calculate the economic drain of preventable crashes. Health damages are monetized by aggregating the direct medical expenditures and lost productivity associated with pollution-induced illnesses, while the continuous noise pollution is valued through hedonic pricing models. Because residential properties typically lose 0.5% to 1.0% of their total market value for every single decibel ambient noise rises above standard comfort thresholds, capturing this localized property depreciation mathematically proves that installing traffic calming and acoustic barriers is a highly profitable, cost-beneficial investment in community infrastructure.