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�2 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City February 10, 2003 Subject Stop signs on Grand Street at Harrison Avenue. Recommendation Adopt a resolution approving and authorizing the installation of stop signs on Grand Street at its intersection with Harrison Avenue. Background In September, 2000, residents of the 400 and 500 blocks of Grand Street petitioned the City to install either cul -de -sacs or speed humps in those blocks, or to install stop signs on Grand Street. A total of 30 residents of these blocks signed the petitions. Staff conducted initial traffic data measurements and informed the circulator of the petition that traffic speed on Grand Street did not meet the minimum eligibility criterion under the City's adopted policy on speed humps. Staff also informed the petition originator that, in originally establishing the neighborhood traffic calming program, Council had cautioned staff against proposals to employ devices such as cul -de -sacs, which would divert significant traffic to other streets. Proponents then focused the request on stop signs on Grand at Harrison; this intersection is currently uncontrolled (no stop signs). Representatives of properties at the corner of Grand and Harrison who were not already initial petitioners for the stops were contacted. Representatives of two of the three corner residential properties and of Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church, which occupies the fourth corner, support the installation. The owners of the remaining comer residence did not respond to the City's contact. Staffs traffic count analysis shows Grand Street carries a two -way average weekday traffic total of about 650 vehicles per day. Traffic using Grand Street has 85th percentile speeds of 27 miles per hour (mph) northbound and 28 mph southbound. On the average, about 9 vehicles per day travel through this area on Grand faster than 35 mph (more than 10 mph over the speed limit). Harrison Avenue has lower traffic volumes than Grand and generally similar speed characteristics. Traffic volumes at the intersection do not meet the quantified criterion of Redwood City's local street stop sign policy. At 650 vehicles per day, Grand Street — the busier street - would not even qualify under Redwood City policy as the minor street (900 vehicles per day required). There are several hours of the day when at least 20 school -aged pedestrians cross Grand at Harrison. However, the total conflicting traffic volumes during