CITY COUNCIL MEETING

Amen.

Good evening, and thank you for inviting the La Mirada Library friends to be part of this wonderful celebration. And to that end we basically augment what the library can do in terms of services like programs and materials as books We have a, to that end we have a bookstore that we operate and also we have a fall book sale coming up on October the 3rd. And a members only on October the 2nd.

Thank you.

Thank you, Deacon and friends of the library for participating in today's evening meeting. Roll call please.

Thank You Mr. Mayor this is the proclamation for National Hispanic Heritage Month it'd be appropriate to read the proclamation Yes sir

Whereas National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the histories, cultures, contributions and influence on American society whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. Whereas the observation started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week to recognize the contributions of the Hispanic community that gained momentum throughout the 1960s When there was a growing awareness of the United States multicultural identities. Whereas National Hispanic Heritage Week was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover its currently recognized 30 day period, whereas National Hispanic Heritage Month commemorates the anniversaries Anniversaries of independence for Latin America countries, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua.

All of which celebrate independence on September 15th while all aligning with the Independence Days of Mexico and Chile. Which celebrate their independence on September 16th and September 18th respectively. Whereas celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month helps to ensure that we continue to welcome diversity in its many forms in La Mirada. Now therefore, as the mayor of the city of La Mirada on behalf of the City Council do hereby proclaim September 15th through October 15th as National Hispanic Heritage Month in the city of La Mirada. Mr. City Manager.

And Mr. Mayor I'd like to invite John Gutierrez to accept the proclamation.

There's already been a run of ferries in here. And it was a, get a mic on him. There it goes. Need a lady's touch. I'm all thumbs, I'm sorry about that. Everything I read is on this and what was peculiar is when the city manager asked me, when Jeff asked me who do you think? And the first person that came out of my mouth was you to take this. In addition to what you do for the city, the Chamber of Commerce and who you are as an individual we're very proud to present this with you, knit this for you. We'll get a few pictures together and then give you the mic. You have a few words how does that sound?

First of all I'd like to thank our mayor, city council, the City of La Mirada, my wife for this opportunity. It's a privilege and an honor I don't take this very lightly. I'm not a man of a lot of words, so thank you very much and again,

Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council. Item two is introduction of two new full-time employees. As a council is aware it's the city's practice to introduce new full-time employees who have become part of our city team. This evening Devon Leyva and Ivan Sierra will be introduced and presented with a Panera Bread gift card and two tickets each to Splash and The Theater. We'll begin with Devon.

Yvonne Leyva joined the city as a full-time public safety assistant with the Public Safety Department in August. She provides information regarding city regulations and law enforcement services. She serves a critical role in managing calls for service, monitoring activities on surveillance cameras and the sheriff's radio, and tracking incidents throughout La Mirada Prior to joining the city team, she served as a police services assistant with the Whittier Police Department. Devon graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Cal State Los Angeles. Welcome, Devon.

I'm the city manager. What is Devon being given in her

envelope of surprises? She gets

two tickets to the theater, two tickets to Splash, and $40 to Panera, which is good for four breakfast or two lunches, however you want to do it. Now can she go on duty or off duty

to Splash and the theater? That's a good question. I would say off duty. Off duty. So I'm going to give you the mic for a little bit. I just wanted

to say thank you for having me. It's great seeing how the department helps out the community in many ways. And it's been an easy transition and everyone has been super helpful.

So I got a question, why did you pick La Mirada? You worked at Whittier before

correct? I did yes.

So why La Mirada over Whittier?

Destiny Alvarez she actually brought me...

Say it was your

destiny! Yeah we

can

say that.

So Destiny recruited you?

She did, yeah. And it's been really nice.

So your destiny is draft pick if it goes sideways. Destiny for that then right? Yeah. So you're going to school now what do you want to be when you grow

up? I'm not too sure yet but I do want to be in the law enforcement so just...

Which side of it? The

admin so just behind the desk not anything out in field.

The next I'd like

to bring up Ivan Sierra.

Ivan joined the city as a full-time human resources analyst with the Administrative Services Department also in August. Ivan supports the City in the areas of recruitment and selection, training and development, employee relations, classification and compensation, risk management, leave management, benefits administration, and labor relations. He served as a Human Resources Administrative Analyst at Cal State Fullerton prior to joining the City of La Mirada.

Ivan holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a human resources concentration and a master's degree in education for instruction and technology. Welcome, Ivan.

I thought

he looked so young, youthful in appearance. He looked

like a little Jeff when Jeff was young and little. We think that's a compliment. Yes, yes. I wonder if that mustache is real but it looks real to me. So want to say a few words?

I just wanted to extend thank you to Cecilia and the rest of the Executive Committee who Just very grateful. My family couldn't be here today, unfortunately, but I also want to give a very big thank you to my parents. Without them, I wouldn't be here at these opportunities that I've had in life. It's all thanks to them and every day I just try to make them proud.

Where did you grow up?

Pico Rivera.

Oh, you grew up in Rancho? Where'd you go? I did. Don here, okay. Where's your church in Pico? St.

Marianas.

That's where I went to, that's where I graduated from. Altar Boy and everything. Communion there. Communion there right? Oh wowzers, seems we've got more in common. Well I'll tell you what if you, I mean very honest when I say this, if you made it to this let and you made the cut so to speak, you're something special And I have no doubt we're going to give you your 5, 10, 15, 20-year pin. You know, I guarantee I won't be here but I can guarantee this building will be here and you'll be here. We look forward to having you as a great employee. This is a great place to work. I'm sure you're finding out and we value our employees and we value what you do for the city so thank you in advance because we know we're gonna get a lot out of you. Thank you very much.

God bless

OK.

I move to public comment, item six. Anyone would wish to address? We have one planned already. Mr. Rick Klein. Yes sir.

Good evening, Mayor. Good evening members of the City Council. My name is David Barraza. My wife and I live at the Landmark Active Senior Community and we've been here for six years. We came in the year of COVID. I am also the Volunteer Chess Club Coordinator at the Activity Center and it's been a great ride Probably over the four years, we're now into our fourth year. We've had over 100 people who have registered to participate in the chess program and this spans the ages of...

The youngest was nine years old and the oldest was in their 90's, mid-90's. And it's a very unique game where intergenerations can come together without requiring batteries, without requiring thumb dexterity which I do not have and to communicate over a game that's been around for 1500 years. It is a free activity and I want to let you know about a special event we're having in October the second Saturday on October 10th National Chess Day.

In 1976, President Gerald Ford proclaimed National Chess Day recognizing the many presidents who had played chess and statesmen as well including Benjamin Franklin who wrote the first American essay or article on chess but the funny thing about that essay it wasn't about how to play chess What he talked about was, why play chess? And he said it's a moral game.

It's a game that increases your cognitive development, your brain strength. It is a game that levels the playing field and invites honest healthy competition. I've seen that happen in so many instances So National Chess Day is the second Saturday in October, and I have flyers that I'd like to submit to the board. Chess is more than a game. It's a unique display of community social interaction.

And for those of you who are aware about our existence is another big reason that I came in. But to thank, to spend a moment of thankfulness that because of your funding of community services programs like ours can develop and affects the lives of so many people. Anyway, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you Mr. Maraza.

Oh, he's a lot taller than I am. Good evening Mayor Otero and council members. My name is Rick Klein for the record, resident of La Mirada, pickleball player in La Mirada among other things. I appear before you tonight to prompt you to start taking action with respect to the seventh cycle regional housing needs process. In the three minutes that I have, I don't have enough time to say everything so I submitted a PowerPoint briefing to you all and I think you perhaps have it before you.

It contains more details and there'll be more to come related to what I'm saying tonight. On October 26th, just about three, four weeks away, the state will deliver its housing determination number to our region. Southern California Association of Government, SCAG, will have 30 days to formally submit its questions and objections to the Department of Housing and Community Development.

HCD uses a template when they submit their regional determination numbers to every county or COG. And I've given in the briefing package one example, and behind that page there's another page that shows 17 counties who I compare their sixth and their seventh regional housing numbers. So I am here tonight to implore you to look at any one of those 17 determination numbers that have already been issued, and to do any or all of the following four things.

One, attend the Skagreena subcommittee meeting on the 26th. We can do it via Zoom, or if you wanna drive to downtown L.A., be my guest. And be a witness or make public comment Be a witness just in order to see and hear what transpires. Two, develop substantive and or data-driven questions challenging their assumptions and their number development. For instance, the assumption regarding growth is suspect without details.

Skagg and most of its constituent cities, 196 have been shrinking in the last six to 10 years Yet, HCD and SCAG continue to show and publish in July of this year continued but moderated growth. We should demand to see the data that drives the never-ending growth in addition to the math behind the intersection of the different variables that drive their models which nobody has ever seen.

Three, confer with your colleagues in other cities to gain shared consensus regarding questions and challenges to lay before HCD on the 26th. But these questions will continue to skag as they develop their response and allocate the numbers which we just recently went through just a year or so ago. And four, Our city manager and planning director will love this, direct staff to develop a strategy for helping SCAG with a meaningful response geared toward minimizing the impacts kind of like what happened last time.

To close, while there is no guarantee that we can achieve our desired reduction, a 10% reduction of our desire is better than none And I can guarantee that if we do not get, if we do not try, we will not get any reduction at all. So to me it's worth trying so that's my close for tonight. Anybody has any questions? I'll be glad to answer.

Thank you Mr. Klein. Madam Clerk anyone in line for public comment? Okay seeing nobody else, public comment anybody else? Public comment is now closed. Item number seven consent calendar

Who's staff section?

Second. First, have a second roll call please.

and Resolutions 8.1 Mr. City Manager Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council. The next two items are traffic-related items that have gone through our Public Safety and Traffic Commission, been reviewed and vetted by them. Our Assistant City Manager Anne Herrickson will be giving the staff report on these items, and then she'll be supplemented by the Traffic Engineer Bill Zimmerman as well.

Thank you, Mr. Boynton, Mayor and members of the City Council. Residents have expressed traffic safety concerns and requested the installation of a traffic signal at Rosecrowns Avenue and Stanton Avenue. At the Public Safety and Traffic Commission meeting on April 23rd, the commission approved a traffic study of the intersection to determine if the installation of traffic signals was warranted. The traffic engineer studied the intersection and reported that traffic signals are warranted based on the California MUTCD's Traffic Signal Warrant Analysis Criteria. At the commission meeting on August 27th, the commission approved the installation of traffic signals. Traffic engineer Bill Zimmerman is present this evening to present information on the traffic study and a recommendation to install a traffic signal at Rosecrans Avenue and Stanton Avenue.

Thank you, Anne. Good evening Mayor and Council Members. The first slide I want to go through is an actual location of the intersection we studied. North-south is Stanton Avenue. East-west is Rosecrans. And a few things about this intersection is Stanton comes down to the south and then connects with Alondra to the west. To the east of this which is to the right is Beach Boulevard and to the west is Santa Gertrudis.

I have just a few photographs of the intersection. This is southbound on Stanton, looking towards Beach Boulevard. You can see that there's a crosswalk. I also want to point out that there are privacy walls on all four corners. This is northbound on Stanton Avenue. You can see there's crosswalk on the south side going across and vehicles typically are going either right turns or they're going straight through to the north community.

This is Rosecrans Facing Beach Boulevard. There's a crosswalk on the west side of the intersection that is a schoolmarked crosswalk, and you can see the signage that's there which is appropriate according to state standards. How we have conducted our approach in methodology towards it, we conducted field reviews. Staff conducted the field reviews back in June, and in July, we went out with council members from Commissioners from the Public Safety and Traffic Commission.

Data was collected in March, we collected speeds and volumes, and then we analyzed it according to the state standards which is the California MUTCD. Go ahead. Just looking at the speed data you can see that under the 85th percentile that's the speed at which 85% of the drivers drive at. And that means 15% of the drivers are going above that. You can see that it's It's okay, at 49 miles per hour is the 15th percentile which means that we validated 45 miles per hour speed limit that we have for Rosecrans.

And this is a 24-hour data collection. As you can see of the 19,000 vehicles on Rosecrans 18,500 are actually in the expected speed range of one to 55 miles per hour. Of that, 97% are driving within the expected range and 3% are falling outside of that. The next part of the study was looking at the traffic signal warrant. There's a total nine traffic signal warrants and the first four are data-driven. As you can see as we went through each one of the warrants, that warrant number two was met. And according to the MUTCD it only requires one of the nine to be met for a traffic signal to be installed This one's a little complicated, so I'll take my time on this.

There's two different tables here. The first table above it is looking at both approaches. It's according to the METCD two or more lanes in either direction plus one lane north-south on Stanton Avenue and that's what the Xs represent. Then next to that is the four hour count and you can see starting at 2 o'clock going to 5 o'clock that we have starting about 1,100 and nine vehicles per hour all the way up to 1763. As we go towards the evening hour, you can see that the vehicles actually increase.

The second part of it is looking at the approach of the minor street, the higher approach which is southbound or northbound direction of Stanton. You can see we start out 134. It kind of varies throughout the whole time to 131. The second line on the draft from the bottom, or I guess middle line is what we use. It's two or more major streets and one minor street. And you can see that there's 80 at the bottom as that line comes all the way up to the right and 1400 down below. Stanton Avenue has an average of 137 vehicles in those four-hour counts, and then the Rosecrans has 1,471 vehicles as an average. So that puts the dot above that line which requires a traffic signal.

In conclusion, that Ordinance Number 2 has been met according to The California Vehicle Code in section 4C.03, and this was approved as Ann mentioned in August at the Public Safety and Traffic Commission. It is recommended that City Council adopt resolution number 2626 approving installation of traffic signals at Rosecrans Avenue and Stanton Avenue based upon the state standards of traffic signal installation. This concludes my report and staff's available for questions.

Thank you very much. Any questions from the dais? Mr. Lewis please.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just following up on some traffic enforcement before we consider a signal, have we had a speed radar out there trying to slow people down? Does that work or does it work for a little bit and then they just blow it off and go back to the 49

miles per hour? That is correct because background after the first month, it's very useful but the longer it's out there and deployed, the more becomes background and ignored. OK, so

it's been tried and it hasn't worked. Correct. Also about a motor motorcycle cop if we had one out there trying to pit citations to instruct people not speed to be a little more careful. Does that work?

It's short term because you only do spot enforcement because the use of personnel at one location becomes, I think it becomes a burden onto every place else in the city itself. So we only do spot enforcement at certain times and it's effective during that time period. It'll last maybe one to two weeks and then they go back to their normal driving pattern.

And I drove this the other day, there's a crossing guard who sits there. I'm not sure if that's every day. I think it's every day? School days. Every school day. So five days a week and that seems to be a necessity based on the fact that traffic signal would probably help alleviate getting rid of the crossing guard, I'm assuming or would that still be necessary?

I would imagine that the school district would probably still want the crossing guard.

Still have a crossing yard, okay? And then I'm assuming this is you said it's a school crossing something I learned a few years ago and you can correct me if I'm wrong that a yellow crosswalk means it's a school area and a white crosswalk means isn't a non-school area. That is correct. Okay this one has a yellow school crosswalk on I know we got schools on probably both sides of the street.

Los Coyotes, I'm not sure if that's being used anymore for school and then we have it for baseball but the other side down the street. So yeah, the fact that this is a school area they have a crossing guard and your recommendation is that we put a signal in? That is correct. It will be MUTCD state standard. Okay thank you. That's all I have. Mr.

Drewes

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Okay so this is all based upon a perceived presumption that there was speeding going on there which is subjective. If you have children everybody's speeding if you don't have children forget about it everything's good so I get that what do we know what the cost is for this study just to have the study done?

The traffic study? Mr. Zimmerman's study?

It's usually right around $4,000. Okay

what does it cost to have a signal put in? It's

about $750,000 Yeah it's probably $700,000 or so

And is there outside money available for this or we're going to fund this ourselves?

No, I mean there's any of the measure money that we get as a city, you know, Measure R, Measure M, Prop C. All those funding sources which we use for street and road traffic signal improvements, those types of items would be eligible for this project as well. And I also wanna make just a quick point, because it's come up a couple of times. Kind of the driver, I guess, for the need for the intersection, signalized intersection isn't so much speed but actually the traffic volume if I'm not mistaken. So speed is a concern that was mentioned but it's actually the traffic counts that satisfy that state requirement just as a side note.

Okay, a follow-up to Council Member Lewis's question about us sign there that speeding not a temporary one but a permanent. Do we have any hard data? I know there's communities will have a permanent sign there that says you are going this in speed limit is do we have any hard data anywhere that works or it doesn't work?

The Institute for Transportation Engineers did conduct a study many, many years ago about the use of them. And as I stated before, it's really effective in the first month because it is new to the driver. So any kind of science you put out there or any other I guess just like you see a political sign out there or anything else, you see it once. You recognize it but then becomes part of the background and so that's what happens unfortunately with radar signs, two-grip radar feedback signs. They do become part of the background as you're driving. You just start ignoring it.

Okay, is there any data on when you put a traffic sign in? Because okay we're talking about putting the traffic sign signal in where there's already two signals not really that far away. Now commuter coming through their Now knows there's, I've got a green light. Is there data that says or traffic studies? It says they're not going to speed more because they get they got a green light coming up and they want to make that light because they know they don't want to get stopped by this what they perceived to be a signal that doesn't need to be there. Is there any data on that?

Not particularly. What I can say is that the county does synchronize our signals, and it's synchronized at 45 miles per hour. So if they go over that speed, the tendency for them would be to hit the yellow to the red.

Okay so there's no real hard data on that. Do we have any idea how many traffic accidents we've had on that corner?

Yes, we took a look at the five-year traffic history, traffic collision history and there have been 10 within five years and five of the 10 occurred this year.

Okay so any pedestrians hit?

There was one bicyclist I believe.

Okay thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. To dovetail on what Council Member DeRuse, Mayor Pro Tem DeRuse is speaking about residents have had concerns with this area especially with the recent accidents and it's also in line with our strategic plan for safety and especially looking at pedestrian safety I just want to for clarity's sake, I know that's in our materials. Our own commission unanimously gave the recommendation for this correct? That is correct.

Were there any concerns that they brought up that could be some unintended consequences

They expressed concerns because of the location of the other traffic signals. They expressed concerns with the cost of it, with potential liability of installing it and not installing it so that different concerns were expressed. Thank you. That's

all I have,

Mayor. Thank you. Dr. Eanes? Thank you Mr. Mayor. I guess I just want to preface it by saying, I'm not an expert in transportation study or traffic study. Just based on observation and what you presented, why did we collect? Let me start with the approach on slide number six, methodology. Why did we collect on two Fridays? Was that random or is that those are peak hours?

I just looked it up, both are on May, collected on Friday. March 12th is on a Friday? Well the reviews were conducted on two Fridays and then the traffic data was collected on the Thursday.

Correct. Yeah so was that random? It was just random, just when we had availability to go out in the field and just look at

everything see how its

operating. Okay.

How would have collected based on what we know as peak hours? I would have done it during peak hours or the days we know rather than just doing sample in this case.

Well, the data requires for the first four warrants require us to do a 24 hour volume analysis so we do have peak hours within that and I believe warrant number three is a peak hour so we have assessed that too So just going through the first four, it's just an eight-hour volume count. It has a certain threshold. The four hour which we met is a certain threshold. The peak hour as well as pedestrian volumes. So we looked at all that in accordance with the California MUTCD.

Okay, yeah I'm not familiar with the law that governs this. But this is a pedestrian crossing study right? On traffic basically it's both?

It was a concern both with we had two scenarios one was the speeding so we did address that and the second one was there was a lot of traffic volume that they were saying it's hard to come out of the street.

Is this standard to not have any pedestrian studies You know, periods where it's peak pedestrian walking. Any study of that behavior or counts? I saw accounts, I think but there's

no one on it. If it wasn't in the package, I apologize, but over a 24-hour period, there was 53 pedestrians in that intersection.

Okay, so there was, okay. I just didn't see it on this. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's my only observation but I definitely support it. It's pretty exhaustive. Thanks for your response. Thank you Mr. Mayor.

Thank you Dr. Ng. A couple questions so you mentioned they're going to be the lights will be synced I presume on Rosecrans because that's the busiest Correct, that is correct. And they're going to be synced in for high traffic volumes such as rush hours. They'll be synced to move traffic freely now Stanton Avenue. Is that gonna be a magnetic loop where someone say if you know they pull up and the weight of the car triggers Do I have to hurry up?

Yeah, the county usually has a two minute cycle. So most of the time we'll go to Rosecrans and then there will be minor north-south coordination on it so at the end of the two minute cycle if it doesn't receive a call as you're talking about hitting the magnetic loop then it'll short cycle and go back to Rosecrans unless there's cars present or push buttons present. Got it,

okay. Yeah, I know the cost was rumbled about already but if it saves one life, it's worth every penny we spend. Especially since when it's triggered that one word, it's needed and if we don't put it, I think it's a strict liability for the city. Worth every penny because what people don't know there's more traffic fatalities in LA County than there are homicides and that happens every year from traffic. People take traffic for granted that it's just traffic but no, people die regularly in traffic accidents So I'm for it, and the money spent is well spent. Any other questions? Anybody else? Mr. Lewis.

I do have one follow-up. The fact that we had nine potential warrants, we found one warrant. This is probably for the city attorney, maybe the city manager. Does it expose the city if we had not found that we want to move forward with a signal and then somebody gets hurt even though we found a warrant?

So the MUTDC standards are minimum recommendations. They're not mandatory requirements, so the City Council would have the discretion to decide whether or not they would want to install a traffic signal there but it's not necessarily required based on the data we have. Okay, so depends

on the jury.

Yes,

pretty much your answer. Depends on 12 people. That's all I have, thank you.

Is that

it?

OK, let's put it to, do we have a first? I'll move the action.

Second.

First and second roll call please.

Number 8.2 Mr City Manager Again, our Assistant City Manager Anne Herrickson will be giving the staff report on this item as well.

Thank you. A resident emailed the city to express her traffic safety concerns. She reported that vehicles park on the north side of Foster Road on both sides of the intersection of Clearwood Avenue and Block Visibility. She requested the installation of red curb or a three-way stop sign at the location. At the Public Safety and Traffic Commission meeting on July 23rd, the commission approved a traffic study of the location. Traffic engineer Bill Zimmerman studied the location and determined that red curbing is warranted on the north side of Foster Road east and west of Clearwood Avenue based on a site distance triangle analysis. The Public Safety and Traffic Commission approved the recommendation to install the red curbing at its commission meeting on August 27th Traffic engineer Bill Zimmerman will present information on his traffic study and the recommendation to install red curbing.

Thank you, Anne. Good evening again mayor and council members This first slide is just showing the context of the location of the intersection under study. Foster Road's east-west, Clearwood Avenue is north-south and a couple things I want to point out in this slide is that St. Paul the Holy Cross is to the right and to the left is Foster Elementary School and there's a driveway that goes into St. Paul's just obscured from or I mean just off center from Clearwood, and notice on the west side of the intersection there is a marked school crosswalk.

Just a few pictures. This is southbound on Clearwood looking towards the east which is towards Valley View. You can see that there's privacy wall on this side, the driveway going into St. Paul. And let's go to the next slide. And then you can also see there's a privacy wall on the west side of Clearwood, and there is where you can see the marked crosswalk. And then there is a driveway going into Foster Elementary but that's closed with a gate. And you notice where the car is parked? You can see it. That's very close proximity to the crosswalk and there is a car parked right up against it.

With this project, we did conduct a staff review in July. Commission reviewed it also in August. We analyzed the site distance based upon the California METCD as well as the California Highway Design Manual and then from there we determined recommendations based upon results. So just as an overview of what site distance means Site distance is based upon an unmovable obstruction. Just a minute, my mouth is getting dry.

I apologize again. Such as a building or wall that cannot be moved or vehicles can be moved that's considered to be able to look through it so it's considered a movable object. And it's based upon the California MTCD and the Highway Design Manual that gives us information for the site distance. Based upon a 25 miles per hour speed out there, for a driver turning right he has to be able to see 238 feet. Driver turning left has to see 276 feet.

This is a psychosis triangle, so you can see it as the driver's ready to turn right. He has to be able to see 238 feet and it's to the left or to the right and then to the left if he's gonna turn left, he has to be able to see an approaching car coming at 276 feet. Based upon the sight distance, there may be a possibility with the existing walls out there that you would have a sight distance issue. However, the California Vehicle Code allows the driver to stop at the stop bar and then slowly creep into the intersection to be able to see both directions until he has a clear view as well as he does it safely.

But as we did our analysis, we also noticed that the cars parked right up against the crosswalk kind of impeded visibility of that student crossing at their crosswalk as they're heading eastbound on Foster Road. So what we're recommending, based upon that sight distance is that we actually strike 10 feet beyond the crosswalk red curbs so the cars are parking away from it and allow cars to be able to see a student crossing there. As well as reinforce the AB 413 which is the daylighting which is 20 foot before a marked or unmarked crosswalk. So it gives more visibility to that crosswalk for students crossing there.

So it is recommended the City Council adopt resolution number 26-27, approving the installation of red curbs. And I have a concept plan in the next slide showing the location of the 10 foot red curb as well as the 20 foot red curb. Staff is available for questions.

At your presentation any questions? Ms. Bean.

Thank you. Can you go over that again? So is that an additional, so the 20 feet on this side and the 10 on this side. That's an additional to the 20 required for daylighting AB 413 or there's nothing there right now.

According to AB 413 it's the approach only to an intersection.

Since it's not a full intersection.

Right, so that's why the 20 foot's there just to reinforce it. And typically we don't, it's more of a enforcement from police to enforce at 20 feet but since it's near our crosswalk and we have two schools adjacent to it I recommend that we put the 20 feet in just to reinforce the idea and get better visibility for the crosswalk.

And just for clarification there is no current stop sign or anything there?

No, it's free flowing.