REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on Consideration of Installation of Centerline Pavement Striping on Bray Avenue
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Enhance Community Engagement and Transparency and Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
On August 25, 2020, the Department of Public Works, Traffic Engineering Division, received a request from Council, on behalf of community residents, to perform a traffic calming study for Bray Avenue between Scott Boulevard and Los Padres Boulevard related to resident concerns about vehicles traveling at high rates of speed. Staff communicated that due to COVID-19 implications traffic might be a little lighter than usual, but based on the continued interest in the study staff moved forward with it.
Bray Avenue is an east-west 34-foot wide, two-way, two-lane local residential street with a posted speed limit of 25 mph. This section of Bray Avenue is stop controlled on both ends where it intersects Scott Boulevard and Los Padres Boulevard. The street also intersects five residential streets between Scott Boulevard and Los Padres Boulevard. (Attachment 1, Location Map).
The surrounding area consists of single-family residential to the north of Bray Avenue and commercial to the south. The adjacent properties along Bray Avenue are approximately 70 percent residential in nature. There is a slight S-curvature to the roadway on the west end towards Los Padres Boulevard and there are also various time restricted parking areas along Bray Avenue adjacent to commercial properties and some residential properties.
This report provides an update on staff's analysis of the situation and is divided into sections to provide the City Council with the following:
1) background information about the City's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program,
2) staff analysis of the situation based on recently obtained field data, and
3) possible alternatives for City Council discussion and consideration.
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