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Consider Directing Staff and the Transportation Commission to Analyze Traffic Calming Solutions at the Intersection of Santa Clara Avenue and Sherman Street. (Vice Mayor Vella) WITHDRAWN
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COUNCIL REFERRAL FORM
The Council can take any of the following actions:
1) Take no action.
2) Refer the matter to staff to schedule as a future City Council agenda item.
3) Take dispositive action if sufficiently noticed such that the public and Council have been provided sufficient information by the published agenda, and no formal published notice of a public hearing is required.
Name of Councilmember requesting referral: Vice Mayor Vella
Date of submission to City Clerk (must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday two weeks before the Council meeting requested): May 11, 2017
Council Meeting date: June 6, 2017
Brief description of the subject to be printed on the agenda, sufficient to inform the City Council and public of the nature of the referral:
Direct staff and the Transportation Commission to analyze traffic calming solutions at the intersection of Santa Clara Avenue and Sherman Street, including installing a four-way stop sign. In April, there was a major collision, with one vehicle flipping over. In 2016, a vehicle drove over the sidewalk and crashed into a barrier several feet from a house. In 2015, a vehicle collision resulted in one vehicle driving into a home. This intersection is included on the safe routes to school and is one block from Mastick Senior Center, yet it remains dangerous for pedestrians to cross. The pedestrian paddle in the middle of the Santa Clara Avenue crosswalk is repeated run over and the City has had to replace it multiple times.
In May 2005, the Council directed staff to collect data and provide remedies for the intersection. In October 2010, Councilmember Matarrese included the intersection in a referral about over-burdened cut-through streets. However, the intersection continues to be unsafe and nothi...
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