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of years on the street to deter potential speeders. She thanked Council for listening to her group of neighbors on this issue. Nathan Schrenk provided additional details on the accident that occurred in his yard, and shared that a local teen had advised him the next day that McGarvey Street was known by local teenagers as a spot that one could get their car airborne. He asked for the City to consider exploring ways to make the area less attractive to people who want to make their cars airborne. Doran Donnelly showed a map of the McGarvey neighborhood showing the location of the accident site, and shared his fear of crossing the street with his child in a stroller at one particularly dangerous crosswalk. He commented that the school has a traffic problem, and asked for consideration of several possible improvements such as a speed bump, more aggressive enforcement, and use of photo radar. He concluded with a request to the City to consider painting curbs red in front of neighborhood houses so that people cannot block residents' driveways. Council thanked Mr. Donnelly and the other neighbors for calling this issue to the Council's attention, and inquired which direction the traffic is primarily coming from. Mr. Donnelly responded that it was coming from both directions, but was a bit worse from the West because drivers were entering from the hill. David Chow added that the Canyon Road neighborhood doesn't have McGarvey Avenue's jumping problem, but does have a considerable speed issue. He mentioned numerous spinouts on Canyon Road, and asked what the proper steps were to take to pursue this matter with the City. Dr. Gregory Smith that McGarvey Avenue is frequently utilized as a shortcut to Farm Hill Road by commuters seeking to get to 1 -280. He advocated that the ideal situation for the neighborhood would be a radar camera. Dr. Smith stated that he didn't want to inconvenience law- abiding citizens who weren't speeding with additional stop signs or speed bumps. Roman Soshan said that he felt that added stop signs would not help the McGarvey speeding situation, that he is not in favor of speed bumps, but that he felt that photo radar would be the best way to pursue the situation. He commented that his family is regularly awakened by the sound of loud motorcycles and trucks that throttle to speed up as they go by. Council comment: The Mayor /Council thanked the residents for their comments, and requested that the Police Chief and Traffic Engineers follow up with residents of McGarvey and Canyon. Due to the number of citizens pursuing this topic, the request was made for Staff to respond to Mr. Peters for the McGarvey Avenue matter and to Mr. Chow for the Canyon Road matter. JOINT CITY COUNCIL AND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MINUTES MARCH 22, 2004 PAGE 3 MINUTES Book No. 60 Page No. 166