EVERETT — Two streets in Everett will see lower speed limits after the City Council approved the change at a council meeting on Wednesday.

A section of Holly Drive between 100th Street SW and Evergreen Way will drop from 30 miles per hour to 25. A section of 16th Street between Grand Avenue and East Marine View Drive will change from 30 to 25.

Those decreases came from a new approach to setting speed limits the city developed as part of its Vision Zero plan to eliminate all traffic and pedestrian fatalities on its streets, city traffic engineer Corey Hert said.

“This council is pretty united when it comes to acknowledging the need to do something with the speed in our streets,” Council President Don Schwab said Wednesday.

The work with the Vision Zero plan created a formula to determin

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