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D. Mayor Howard thanked the City's Human Resources Department and Director Maria Rivera-Pena for the successful "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" program on April 23, 1998. She said there were approximately 40 employees who brought their daughters to work, and the young women had wonderful and interesting questions to ask of the assembled panel which included the Mayor, a police officer and a landscape gardener. MEMO 4/28/98 E. Mayor Howard announced that April 28, 1998 is the 90th birthday of the County Court House (the domed building), which will become the San Mateo Historic Museum. She said a birthday celebration is planned for 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 1998. MEMO 4/28/98 ---------______n______------------------------------------------------------------______nn______------------------------ 8. STAFF REPORTS A. Installation of Speed Humps in the Redwood Oaks neighborhood (701) REPORT: Richard Haygood, Traffic Engineer, April 27, 1998 Dan Smith, traffic consultant, presented the staff report. He described the considerable traffic studies conducted in the Redwood Oaks neighborhood. He said staff chose Redwood Oaks as a test neighborhood because it had a history of speeding and cut through traffic problems and could be easily cordoned in such a way as to derive quantifiable results for speeding and traffic volume. The area studied was south of Woodside Road, west of El Camino Real, and north of the Atherton border. Mr. Smith showed a "Traffic Facts" slide and said 20,000 cars a day going in and out of the Redwood Oaks Neighborhood. He said there were 1,300 households in that Neighborhood and should generate only 50-60% of that 20,000 total, which means that approximately 40-50% of all of the traffic is "cut through" which is very high. Mr. Smith said there was a high of approximately 4,200 vehicles a day on Central Avenue near Woodside and 3,200 on Oakwood Drive near El Camino Real. Mr. Smith said speed studies showed that the narrow streets in the Neighborhood, some with no sidewalks and a lot of curbside parking, were carrying very heavy traffic. He said pedestrians were forced to share the streets with cars in many places and there are a lot of areas with impaired sight distance and buildings close to the streets. Mr. Smith said it made sense to instigate speed and traffic controls in this area. Mr. Smith described the proposed speed hump plan for five streets: Three on Center, three on Carlos, three on Oakwood Drive and two each on Oakwood Boulevard, east and west. Mr. Smith said the humps would be concentrated on the south and east side of the neighborhood which is an attempt to interdict all of the cut through routes and avoid entry on the north/south streets which are considered the primary direction of emergency response vehicles. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 56 APRIL 27, 1998 MINUTES Page No. 420 PAGE 17