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In response to Vice Mayor Ruskin's questions regarding Fernside-Massachusetts and Woodside, Consultant Smith said that the City of Woodside has committed to working with the City to remove the weeds in that area. Answering further questions, Consultant Smith said that the City would monitor the proposed Speed Awareness Program, the proposed posted intersection and warning signs, and would follow up with appropriate recommendations if those measures did not accomplish the required goals. In response to Council Member Bain's questions regarding the corner of Redwood Avenue and Virginia, Consultant Smith said that the intersection met the warrants for a four-way stop sign. He said, however, that staff wanted to present that entire issue, including traffic on Valota, to the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association as a balanced response to the conflicting requests to reduce traffic on Virginia. He said that was the only reason that staff was not recommending a stop sign at Redwood and Virginia at this time. Traffic Engineer Haygood said he had talked to one of the neighbors in that area and he agreed that the impact on surrounding streets should be considered, and he did not have a problem waiting for the presentation at the Roosevelt Neighborhood Association Meeting. In response to Council Member Leipzig's comments regarding a neighborhood poll on the traffic at Warwick and Finger, Consultant Smith advised that no polling had been done. He said that the problem as it was proposed to staff, was too much traffic going too fast. He said as they had studied the area, it had seemed obvious to them, that "this imbalanced control was somewhat strange, and could cause driver confusion, and we thought it might help to some limited degree to ameliorate the other concerns that we had originally been investigating. So we thought (installing a stop sign on the southbound approach of Warwick Street) was just a sensible manner of balanced traffic control that warranted going forward and not really something that should be a neighborhood popularity issue." Council Member Leipzig said he believed that this long time problem would benefit from neighborhood input. MEMO 7/14/98 (Council Member Hartnett joined the Council Meeting at this time, 8:40 p.m.) In response to Vice Mayor Ruskin's questions regarding a stop sign on Warwick, Traffic Engineer Haygood said that staff was recommending a third stop sign at the three-way intersection on Warwick to balance the traffic approaches. Vice Mayor Ruskin suggested that polling the neighbors might be beneficial to staff and Consultant Smith agreed that it could be done. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES BOOK NO. 57 JULY 13, 1998 MINUTES Page No. 084 PAGE 12