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8A Page 1 REP��R T To the Honorabl� !'.ayor and Cit� C�c�o�cil IFrom the City Manager April 9, 2007 �ubjact ReG�est for a m�itiway stop sign on Hudson Street at!/era A�enGe. Recommendation By resolution, approve and authorize installation of a muitiway stop sign on Hudson Street at Vera Avenue. Background Staff addressed an initial request by area residents for additiona! tra�Fic cantrol at the meeting of the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association on October 26, 2006. In January 2007, residents in the area of the intersection of Hudson Street and Vera Avenue submitted a petition to the City to install stop signs on Hudson Street at Vera Avenue. S#op signs currently exist on Vera Avenue and fhe addition of stop signs on Hudson Avenue will create a multiway stop a# this intersecfiion. The petition was signed by 22 residenfs representing 21 properties located within a block of the subject intersection including three out of the four praperties located on the carners of Hudson and Vera. Notification of the proposed multiway stap was mailed on February 2Q, 2007 to 150 residents and property owners within one-block af the intersection. The notice provided a brief summary of the proposed multiway stop sign insta!lation, invited interested residents ta attend tonight's Cauncil meeting, and requested that ali written comments be submitted to staff no later than 5:00 PM, March 12, 2�q7. In response ta staff's notice to [ocal residents, a second petition opposed to the instaliation of a multiway stop was received on March 19, 2QQ7. This petition was signed by 26 residents representing 2Q addresses. Staff has investigated the need for a multiway stop at the intersection of Hudson Street and Vera Avenue, especiaify from the perspective of traffic safety. From January 2002 through December 2006, the Police Department recorded nine accidents at the intersectian af Hudson Street and Vera Avenue. However, six of those reported accidents, including two injury accidents, were reported in 2005 alone. City s#andards allow for a multiway stap if three or more accidents are reported within a twelve month period on a residential street with low traffic volume. However, the high traffic vo{ume (estimated at 9,000 vehicles per day) on Hudson Street make traffic control devices on the street subject to Caltrans standards for additional safe#y reasons. Caltrans standards allow for a mutiway stop on a residential street with high traffic volume if five or more accidenfis are reported within a twelve month petiod. PAGE 1 OF 2