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<br />Report Council Representatives. Ad Hoc Edgewood Park Traffic Committee <br /> <br />Exec Summary <br />This is a report frirthe Council representatives of the Ad Hoc Edgewood Park <br />Traffic Committee (Claire, Ira, Pierce.) The committee is charged with evaluating the <br />speed humps in the Edgewood park area and will also give feedback to the Council <br />regarding specific speed humps in the Redwood Oaks and Friendly Acres <br />Neighborhoods. At this time the council representatives have recommendations to <br />improve and broaden the existing Redwood City Traffic Guidelines to include additional <br />neighborhood concerns when traffic modifications are considered. <br /> <br />Background <br />It is the Council's desire is to work with the neighborhoods to create appropriate <br />solutions to local traffic problems. Both the staff and Council use the "Traffic <br />Guidelines" which were developed to respond to traffic needs. These guidelines detail <br />engineering issues such as the speed, number of cars, and the percentage of neighborhood <br />members needed to request specific mitigation efforts. <br />Through the increasing use of "speed humps" in Redwood City, we are becoming <br />aware of additional "human" details that need to be considered to ensure that traffic <br />solutions do not cause other problems within the neighborhoods. Examples of such <br />"human" details include, but are not limited to: the closeness of bedrooms to the street <br />and providing information that includes the positive and negative impacts of proposed <br />traffic flow modifications. It is with this perspective, that we have some immediate <br />recommendations. <br /> <br />Immediate Actions Recommended <br />The traffic engineers have worked with the neighborhoods to address community <br />safety concerns. Extensive meetings, gathering of traffic data, and Council approval <br />created the measures currently in place. Even with these extensive efforts, some isolated <br />difficulties have occurred, causing problems for some individuals and dissension within <br />some neighborhoods. <br />The following immediate recommendations aim to correct situations that have had <br />unintended negative effects. In the future, this type of information will be taken into <br />consideration prior to mitigation in other areas. <br />1. Remove. the hump on the 3400 block of Hoover. Committee will discuss with staff to <br />determine the need to place a hump in a different location. Consideration will be <br />given to "temporary humps". Ask that this be placed on the next council agenda for <br />discussion. <br /> <br />. .~....- -.'.1Jr-..' <br /> <br />t-~~\ <br /> <br />1 <br />