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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION Date: 7/09/2012 Item No.: 13.a Department Approval City Manager Approval Item Description: Neighborhood Traffic Management Program B ACKGROUND 1 Staff presented the draft Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (TMP) to the City Council at the 2 April 16 Worksession. Since that meeting staff has been working on addressing the questions that the 3 City Council raised during the discussion. Attached is a draft plan with proposed changes. The changes 4 incorporate language that clarifies the intent of the program, required neighborhood support, and 5 funding. Staff will discuss the changes and address questions at the meeting. 6 Two neighborhood traffic management requests were discussed by the City Council in 2011. Staff 7 would like to move forward with these projects as pilot projects for the new TMP. What follows is the 8 background and proposed next steps for each neighborhood. 9 Wheeler Avenue: In 2011 the City Council received a petition from the residents on Wheeler Avenue 10 and Shorewood Lane with a request to close off Wheeler Avenue at County Road D. The intent of this 11 request was to address the neighborhood’s cut through traffic concerns. The petition of support was 12 from 97% of the Benefitted Area, exceeding the TMP’s threshold of 65% support. The temporary 13 closure was installed last summer. Staff proposes to take this request to Step 8- Strategy Evaluation. 14 The next step would be for the City Council to order the preparation of a feasibility report. Staff would 15 then identify the costs associated with making the measure permanent, provide this information to the 16 Benefitted Area and bring back to the City Council for a Public Hearing. 17 Dale Street: As part of the public information process for the Dale Street reconstruction project, 18 residents brought up concerns about traffic. The traffic volume, while high for typical residential 19 streets, is low for a collector road. Traffic speed is the primary source of their concern. The road is 20 signed 30 mph. As indicated by the traffic counts, the 85th percentile speed is 38 mph. As a part of the 21 approval process, staff recommended that this project include the installation of two speed tables in the 22 corridor one to the north of Iona Lane, the second to the south of Iona Lane. 23 The discussion of the installation of the speed tables was limited to the Benefitted Area; the people that 24 live on Dale Street. We did not solicit feedback from the Affected Area; the property owners on the 25 streets that could be negatively impacted by traffic changes. Staff recommends that before we install 26 temporary speed tables on Dale Street to evaluate the effectiveness of this strategy, that we solicit 27 additional feedback, as described in Step 5- Receive Neighborhood Feedback. 28 PO OLICYBJECTIVE 29 This document was developed to guide city staff and inform citizens about the processes and procedures 30 for implementing traffic management strategies on local streets to address documented existing traffic 31 concerns such as excessive vehicle speeds, high volumes of non-local through traffic, vehicle crashes in 32 neighborhoods, and alleviate conflicts between motorized and non-motorized users. The document 33 includes a summary of the City of Roseville's Policies for the Traffic Management Program, background 34 Page 1 of 2