Board of Public Utilities - Regular Meeting

The call to order the transportation board meeting for the city of Riverside, March 4. Right? Already? 2026. It is 05:31PM. Guess I gotta do that. We'll start with roll call.

Chair John.

Present. Thank

you. Vice Chair Tyler. Board Member Oscar. Board Member Cynthia? Present. Thank you. Board Member Ignacio? Board Member Karen?

Present.

Thank you. Board Member Joseph?

Present.

Thank you. Board Member Corey?

Corey Cullen, present.

Thank you.

Okay, we do have a quorum. We five members. And just to note that each item that is voted upon needs to have unanimous vote in order to pass because we have the minimum number of members present. Okay. Next item we'll have a statement of inclusion and decorum and this is a recorded statement.

Pursuant to the city council rules of procedure in order of business resolution, the members of all boards and commissions and the public are reminded that they must preserve order and decorum throughout the meeting. In that regard, members of the boards and commissions and the public are advised that any delay or disruption in the proceedings or a refusal to obey the orders of the board or commission where the presiding officer constitutes a violation of these rules. The city of Riverside is committed to fostering a workplace that provides dignity, respect, and civility to our employees, customers, and the public they serve.

Thank you. Our next item is election of officers. And this is for chair and vice chair. This is done on an annual basis around the March timeframe. So I would open open it up to the board for any nominations

is there a way we can move it to next time since we don't have enough members or

Yeah. We could definitely move it to the next meeting. I don't know when the next meeting would be. But we could definitely defer it to the next meeting assuming the transportation board members agree to that difference.

So, do we need to vote on that or just a raise of hands? Okay. Let's take a vote. Yeah. A motion and a second first. Let's try that and then we'll do the vote.

A motion to move the election until the next board meeting.

I second that motion.

Go ahead and vote.

Okay. Motion passes unanimously. So we'll move the vote for election of officers to the next board meeting. The next item is public comment. To comment on any matters within the jurisdiction of the transportation board, you are invited to participate not only here in person but via telephone at (951) 826-8688 and enter meeting ID 92696991265.

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No callers in the queue.

No callers in the I don't know what that was but okay. So we'll move on to consent calendar and this is item number four, the minutes of 12/03/2025, which was our last transportation board meeting. So, I'll give the board members a minute to review those minutes and then I'll ask for a motion and a second. Okay if I can get a motion and a second for that

I make a motion that we approve the minutes from December 3 as presented I

second that motion

okay we have a motion and a second.

Go ahead and vote.

Okay. Motion passes unanimously. We'll move on to the next item, presentation. And I want to note that we will be moving item number six to the end of the calendar. And the reason being is to allow for discussion of the other items, public participation. This one, number six is a rather lengthy presentation I was told. Item number five, the mate report And this is a quarterly oral update.

Hi. Good evening, everyone. I only see one familiar face up here. So for those of you who don't know me, my name is Lieutenant Chad Chinchilla. I am the new traffic bureau manager for Riverside Police Department. I took over for Lt. Adam Leveque just last month about the January as part of our routine rotation. So I'll be providing the updates from here on out, at least for the foreseeable future. And as I'm fairly new to traffic, I will do my best to answer your questions as best I can. As far as the update, I believe the last meeting you had was prior to the end of the year.

At that point, we had 14 fatal collisions in the city. Unfortunately, by the end of the year, we had three additional fatal collisions that occurred. So that brought us up to a total of 17 for the year for 2025. And while that number is is larger than we'd like to see it, it was still down considerably from some of the prior years. And just to put that into perspective, some of the post COVID years were particularly bad for fatal collisions.

So starting in 2019, we had 23. 2020, we had 24. 2021, we had 28. 2022, we had 38. And then it started to go down from there. 2023, we had 22. 2024, 'fourteen. And I am happy to and then '17 and 2025. I'm happy to report that so far this year, we have not had any. We're at zero.

And so that's good. We hope that stays that way and that we don't have any more major incidents. The incidents that occurred, the the three that were not reported the last time, those occurred in kind of sporadic locations. There wasn't any particular intersection or stretch of highway that was the cause of any of this. We had one at Magnolia And Polk on the West end of the city, one at Mission Inn and Redwood, and the third one was at Central And Fairview.

So they're pretty much pretty spread out. And there's not really a whole lot of commonalities between most of these incidents. The one that we that stands out the most when I'm looking at these stats is speeding, violation of twenty two three fifty of the vehicle code. And that was a primary collision factor in nine of those of those incidents. The breakdown for these fatals is that there was five solo vehicle collisions, five multi vehicle collisions, one motorcycle, four pedestrian, and two bicycle incidents.

So again, they're kind of spread out. There's not one particular category that seems to be the the source of these issues. Some of these involved alcohol and drugs. Other ones are just poor judgment and violating some of the laws. There's eight incidents so far where charges have not been filed.

Those are generally something that's determined to be accidental and not any sort of negligence or anything that was intentional. Charges were filed on seven of those. And as of this report, it says one pending investigation, but that did not include the other three. So there's technically four that are still pending investigation. And there was 24 additional call outs from our May team to assist with other incidents that were not related to any sort of traffic related incidents. That's pretty much it for the stats for the 2025. I can take any questions that you might have about any of those statistics.

Okay. Okay I have a general question. Yes. Obviously there's investigations that go on with each incident that takes place and corrective measures are sometimes implemented on the roadway or the facility and I'm wondering if there I know some of these are in under investigation so you may not be able to answer this fully but are there any changes that have been made at any of those locations as a result of those investigations because of the accidents? I'm

not gonna say no there isn't. I'm not aware of any that are specific to any one of these particular incidents that that was the deciding factor on whether or not some sort of corrective measure was was put into place. As far as the enforcement end of it, I can't say if if speeding is the factor in nine of these. Speeding is probably the number one complaint that we get about traffic throughout the city. And that's something that we are enforcing daily in numerous locations throughout the city.

Anytime one of the three one one requests come in, those do go to our motor officers and they get a worksheet of locations that they have to address. And they will go out and work those locations as best they can for as long as they can. But because of the volume of complaints, they

do have to move on

to other areas most of the time. One component of that obviously is staffing. And our staffing has increased exponentially. It's gone way up, which is very, good for us. And because of that, recently we were able to add additional motors to the motor unit.

So we were up to 16 motors now. At some point, think we were down to under 10. So we're up to 16 motors and four accident investigators that are all sworn officers with the department who handle collisions and traffic enforcement full time. And so that's a huge benefit for us. We are also getting radar on the motorcycles that can detect speed from cross traffic or vehicles that are moving away from them or towards them, as opposed to them having to stop and use the handheld radar guns that we all know and love so much.

So that's another component that we are adding to the mix here to help with the speed enforcement. It'll make them much more efficient at being able to stop vehicles that are speeding in front of them, or around them without them having to stop, set up, you know, hide behind a tree or something like that, and then try to catch somebody with that radar as they're coming in. So, I'm happy to report that as well.

I have a question.

Yes.

The accident on Lincoln And Van Buren about a month ago, do you know what caused that? Do you have any information on that? That was horrendous. I mean, one of the car's engines landed in front of a house in the yard. And it's a miracle nobody was killed but it was yeah. It was terrible. And I know for a fact that intersection a lot of red lights. They run a lot of red lights speeding and all. So

I don't I know what the cause

don't have any details specifically on that particular incident unfortunately but I can probably look that one up and let you know.

Thank you.

Any other questions that I can answer?

I didn't have a question. Had a comment actually if I may. Members I just want to let you know that traffic engineering department we do work very closely with the police services department. Historically we've reviewed high profile collisions such as fatal collisions. And if there's an opportunity for us to do some improvements on the engineering side, signage, striping, we'll go ahead and proceed forward to do so.

So we try to stay proactive about our improvements to reduce the collisions or even reduce the severity of the collisions as well. I know there was commonality about speeding out there. And I see on our agenda, we do have a citywide speed limit reduction program on the next agenda item. So that might be something that'll help alleviate some of the speeding concerns in the city. So, I just wanted to add that comment. Thank you.

Thank you very much, lieutenant. Thank you. And, yes, that's a perfect tee up for the next item. Item number seven, which is citywide speed limit reduction program.

We have our associate traffic engineer Felipe Medina as well as our consultant Brian. If you guys could be prepared to provide the presentation. Thank you.

Okay. Good evening, transportation board members, chair. My name is Felipe Medina. As Philip said, I am a associate engineer here with the city of Riverside. I will be providing a brief introduction for the upcoming presentation on the citywide speed limit reduction program.

So as a quick background, the city of Riverside received grant funds under the 2023 safe streets for all grant program. The grant provides funding for the city to evaluate the potential reduction of all existing posted speed limits citywide for the purpose of increasing the traffic safety of the for the community and to be consistent with the program's objectives. The city issued a request for proposals, and after reviewing those submitted, selected RK Engineering Group, private engineering consulting firm to complete the data collection and related analysis required for the review of the citywide speed limits. RK's responsibilities included collecting traffic and speed data, preparing updated engineering and traffic survey documentation, identifying potential safety corridors, and developing recommended speed limit adjustment adjustments consistent with the California MUTCD and the California vehicle code. As Philip said, we're joined here by Arcane Arcane Engineering team.

We have Brian Estrada here and Sabrina Ayala. Brian will be providing the presentation for you. Before I turn it over to him, I would like to mention that the traffic engineering team along with Arcane Engineering did meet with the Riverside Police Services Department in December. And we presented the proposed speed limit recommendations. So in the event that these components are adopted and implemented, city staff will coordinate citywide targeted enforcement with the police department. So, with that I'll go ahead and turn it over to Brian.

Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. My name is Brian Estrada with RK Engineering Group. And thank you, Felipe, for the introduction. I'd like to say it's been a real great honor working with Philip and the entire engineering team on this project.

So, I appreciate the opportunity. Felipe kind of touched on a few of these introductory slides. So, I'll just kind of quickly cruise through a few of them here. As mentioned, the citywide speed limit reduction program was funded through the Safe Streets For All grant and its primary goals were to try to help promote safer speeds, reduce speed limits, and reduce severe and fatal crashes throughout the community. So our quick agenda for the presentation.

Talk a little bit about the background. We'll run through the vehicle code and the MUTCD compliance documents that set the laws and standards for setting speed limits. Do a brief overview of the data collection and methodology that went into the study. Look at some of the safety corridors that were established as part of this study and the collision data that we reviewed, and then get into our findings and next steps. So again, as we mentioned, the project was funded through the Safe Streets for All grant.

And it aligns with the national initiatives for promoting safer roadways throughout the city. Speeding, as we just heard, is the leading collision factor in the city of Riverside with over 3,000 speed related collisions in five years. Fatalities in 2022 were forty fatalities in 2022 highlighting that serious need for action. And as the speeds go up, as the the faster people drive, the more severe injuries will occur and are related. And we see kind of that here in this graphic here.

A car driving 20 miles per hour, you have a ninety percent potential survival rate versus going 40 miles per hour. Your survival rate as a pedestrian goes down to twenty percent. So directly correlated between severity of collisions and the speeds. So the goals of the project are trying to, we surveyed three nineteen segments within the city. We applied some of the new laws established by the state of California, AB 43 and AB nineteen thirty eight to help reduce speed limits and apply safer engineering strategies and as part of that also education and outreach that goes with it.

So again, Brian Estrada with RK. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. So our engineering and traffic survey. So this is really the technical document that goes into setting speed limits. It's established in the vehicle code that every jurisdiction is required to have an engineering and traffic survey to utilize electronic radar or lidar enforcement and avoid a speed trap.

Essentially the engineering and traffic survey allows a local agency to do three things. It allows you to A, enforce those speeds using radar and lidar. It allows you to raise or in some cases lower the prima facie speed limit of 25 miles per hour and also lower the state maximum speed limit of 65 miles per hour. So that's the kind of the general fundamentals of an engineering and traffic survey and those are established in the vehicle code and they're all laid out within the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices sets the standards and guidelines for following that study. It's very well documented and following state guidance.

As mentioned, there have been some recent changes to state law that allow for some greater flexibility in setting speed limits. AB 43 was passed in 2021 and it's part of California's vision zero initiative. And it allowed lead agencies, jurisdictions more flexibility in setting speed limits. It also allowed for the establishment of safety corridors, really focusing in on where severe and fatal collisions are occurring within the city, making adjustments to speeds for higher concentrations of pedestrians and bicyclists, business districts. And it also gave some ability to retain existing and previously established speed limits.

So kind of to help avoid what's kind of colloquially known as a term speed creep. As time goes on, speeds tend to go up. So that addressed a little bit of that issue there. It also allows now for a premafascia speed limit of 20 or 15 miles per hour in some cases. And then AB nineteen thirty eight was kind of a supplemental bill to AB 43 to help reinforce some of the legal language within the California vehicle code.

So using those two new laws, we were able to really look at lowering speeds in a lot of cases. An engineering and traffic survey is valid for five years as a baseline level. That allows you to do your enforcement for five years. It can be extended up to seven provided the officer has completed his or her radar operating courses and also the equipment that they're using has been certified and calibrated and meets the appropriate standards for that there that allows that document to be good for seven years. It can go actually up to fourteen years now.

That's a new change extending the shelf life of that study provided that no major changes to the roadway has occurred. An engineer can re look at a road and if it hasn't had any major changes, additional lanes or land use changes, then that document can be extended up to fourteen years. Part of the data collection that went into this study, as mentioned, we looked at over 300 roadway segments throughout the city. We did field reviews. We did radar surveys.

So going out in the field and collecting radar surveys of cars. 100 samples per segment. We calculate some of the vehicle statistical speeds, eighty fifth percentile, 10 mile per hour pace speed. We'll talk a little bit about kinda some of what those statistics mean here in a second. Twenty four hour average daily traffic counts.

So how many cars are on the road for each one of those segments. Then we collected five years of collision records citywide and assigned those to each one of those segments to tabulate how many collisions are occurring on these roadways. Each one of those data points goes into to setting the speed limits. So the eighty fifth percentile speed is a common term that you may be familiar with already. It's sort of the starting point for setting speed limits.

In the vehicle code, it says that when a speed limit is to be posted, it shall be established at the nearest five mile increment of the eighty fifth percentile free flowing speed. The eighty fifth percentile is the speed at or below which 85% of vehicles are observed to travel under free flow conditions. So it's the speed most people travel under normal conditions. It's often sometimes referred to as the critical speed limit. And so, speeds are typically set at or near the eighty fifth percentile.

The new laws do allow for some additional reduction below that eighty fifth percentile speed, but there can be some enforcement challenges that arise once you start to set speeds too low below the eighty fifth percentile speed. Then you run into a condition where the majority of people on the road are essentially speeding. So that's kind of a little bit of a balance there in terms of how those get set. One of the new changes that came about out of AB 43 and the new the new laws were the establish of safety corridors. And a safety corridor is essentially it's a roadway segment within the city where the highest number of serious and fatal crashes occur.

And so we went through as part of that task looking at all the collision data and identifying where all of the fatal collisions are occurring, serious injury collisions, and also bicycle and pedestrian collisions are occurring as well. They get weighted based off of that different type of collision. And, we established 63 roadway segments within the city as safety corridors. You can see them here on the on the screen. And we have a map here too.

So all the segments highlighted in red are the safety corridors that were established as part of this study. And what that really shows is areas where maybe additional speed reduction would be appropriate. We've updated the ENTS form. This is what goes into, really kind of summarizes the whole findings of these studies. There's a little bit more information on them now.

Officers will be able to use these in court and present. You've got your speed survey statistics on there. You can see here where the eighty fifth percentile falls on both the the tabulation and the graph there. And then you've got all the the data there. The reason for the speed limit reduction, the critical speed, any justification, and the certification of that speed limit there.

So with that, I'm going to turn it back over to Felipe to talk about some the summary of findings and recommendations. Felipe? Do you want me to go you me to keep going through this one too? Yeah, okay, sorry. I'll do one more slide. So we did find out of the three nineteen segments that were a total of 135 of those segments came down in speed. Zero speed, zero segments went up. And that's really attributed to these new laws that have been passed within the state that allowed for no new speed increases. So 01/1935 reductions across multiple segments and roadways within the city here. You can see those all there.

And we've got some maps. I know these are a little bit hard to read, but these sort of summarize visually what the current speed limits are. All the dashed lines, if you can see them there, show the reduction in speeds throughout the city. So we've got a few of those. Next steps, we're here at the transportation board. This will go before city council for their approval and then final reading and then looking at likely summer fall for actually getting out in the field and starting to replace the signs and implement the new speed limits. There's recommendations and I'll turn it over to Felipe. Thank you very much for the presentation.

Okay. So, with that, the recommendations is that the Transportation Board recommend that the City Council approve the citywide speed limit reduction program which includes policy recommendations and an implementation plan, introduce and adopt ordinance amending section ten point seventy six point zero ten of the Riverside municipal code designating the speed limits for the streets and portions thereof in accordance with the provisions of sections 10 dot 20 dot zero two zero and ten dot 20 dot zero three zero and authorize city staff to coordinate installation of the new speed limit signs throughout the city as determined from the revised speed limit schedule and as required by the California vehicle code. And I would like to mention that we did get an e comment which goes into the speed limit schedule. So just for your consideration, I'll read it just per bit. It only says, thank you for the good work you're doing to improve our community.

I write in support of the item before you today that has clearly been thoroughly researched and well prepared. I have two comments for your consideration. I was glad to see the reduction of speed limits on Victoria Avenue to 35 miles per hour in all but one segment. This this is a much needed on Victoria. The excluded segment is number three zero four from La Sierra to Tyler Street.

Why was this excluded? This segment has 49 new new homes going in to the south with primary access off Victoria Avenue. It's surrounded by neighborhoods and is the entry to historic Victoria Avenue. Please consider including this segment as 35 miles per hour as the rest of the Victoria Avenue is for the safety of the residents, the many folks using the multiuse trails, and with the increased housing density that is currently under construction. As a planning commissioner, I can attest that there was concern from the public and council regarding the future resident safety for the housing track going in at the very busy intersection.

Reducing speed limit here would mitigate that public concern and align with the rest of the proposed Victoria Avenue speed limits. Please consider amending your approval to limit segment number three zero four to 35 miles per hour. And currently, I believe this segment sits at 45 miles per hour, so that would be a 10 mile per hour reduction. With the change of many roads to 35 miles per hour, this opens the opportunity for use of l v LSVs, which I believe is low speed vehicles on more of our roads. This is encouraging to see as they tend to be an affordable and clean transportation method, which helps accomplish our broader citywide goal.

So with your recommendations, take into consideration that section of Victoria would be amended to 35 miles per hour before going to council. So if you have any questions for either myself or Brian we are here for

you okay any comments or questions from the board members

Cynthia? I had one question. On the safety quarters. So there's now, I think, 60 or so, what we designate as safety quarters. What does that exactly mean? Mean, does it mean, you know, additional fines or is it just saying these are safety corridors? Or is there other stuff that come with calling it a safety corridor?

Yeah. It's really just for the purpose of setting the speed limits here that it just gives us one more justification to reduce the speed limit. There's no additional obligation or fine that would go along with it I

have a question. When you say Magnolia Avenue, you mean the whole stretch is gonna be reduced or there the whole And the same for all of these streets. It's gonna be the whole stretch of this?

No. It's just portions of that segment of that street will be reduced. We didn't put Within the report, shows each segment that will be for the presentation up here. Was a little hard to fit all of them in. Portions of each one of these streets may be reduced, not necessarily the entire street.

Thank you. Mhmm.

Okay. Any other questions? Great presentation.

Can

you turn on your mic?

Sorry about that. Is there any planned communication method? So let's say, you know, it's approved and the council approves it and we change all the signs. Is there any, you know, public education happening to say, hey this street has been reduced? Yeah.

I'm gonna answer that one. Yes. We plan on rolling out a city wide notification of the approved speed limits once they're installed out there. We're gonna work with our marketing department and then flush out the new information through our social media platforms and the city website just to notify everyone. And then we'll also coordinate with our police services department. I think there's a grace period that they pursue when the speed limit changes out in the field. It's not like we install the sign and then the next day we start enforcing it. So there might be some warnings at first maybe, you know, a week or two and then there's actual enforcement involved. But yes, you're correct. We will be informing the public about the changes.

Okay. I'll say it again. Great presentation.

Thank you.

I really appreciate the effort the city has gone through to get this prepared presented to this board going to go hopefully to the city council for approval. This is absolutely necessary if you listen to the previous presentation I think most everybody did speed is the number one reason why fatalities occur on every roadway not just within the city limits. But the city of Riverside is being active and taking measures such as this to address that particular issue. So I will tell you I will vote in favor of this.

Chair, I had a quick comment. The current recommendation is to approve the program as is. We did receive an e comment proposing to change one segment on Victoria. Today, it's 40 included in this report is proposing to change that portion of Victoria from La Sierra to Tyler to 40. And then there was an e comment received to go propose and change it to 35.

So I wanted to see if the transportation board can at least acknowledge the the comment and advise if you want to include that as part of the approval or if you want to disregard the comment and continue with what was presented. And if you had any questions about if we're able to do that or not, we can answer that question as well if you're interested in that information.

I so move that we approve this presentation what they've asked for and also amend it to include that one portion to 35 and keep it consistent with the rest of Victoria Avenue.

I second that. I second that.

Okay we have a motion and a second.

Go ahead and vote.

Motion passes unanimously. Thank you again for the presentation.

Thank you.

Okay, we'll move on to the next item, and this is the discussion calendar portion item number seven or number eight sorry this we already started that because that was part of that item number eight Larkin court establishment of a timed two hour PPZ

Good evening, chair and board members. My name is Brett Craig, senior traffic engineer, and I'm gonna be presenting the next item, Larkin Cordon, the establishment of a time to our parking preferential parking zone. So some background on our preferential parking program. It's a neighborhood driven program where, residents get together and and if they agree to, limit parking from outside sources, they can go through our program to establish this PPZ, to restrict, parking from outside sources, sources, parking in front of their homes. And what it does is it increases in build availability of on street parking for the residents and their guests by requiring them to display a parking permit during the the restricted times.

So this is taking place on Larkin Court, which is, just the street south of Drive. If you recall back in December, we met to establish the PPZ on Weida Drive, which was approved by city council and was subsequently transitioned to a PPZ last month. So that's been effect, recently. So Larkin Court, like I said, is the street south of, Wida. There is 12 homes there.

We received 75% residents affirming that they would like to establish this two hour PPZ between the hours of 8PM and 6AM. So overflow parking causes issues which the residents, want to deter, and these issues include or the the excess parking, it causes the following issues. Limiting the placement of trash cans, difficulty ingress and egress from their properties, often occurrences of litter and trash, and repeat parking violations of various types. As I stated, here's some maps of Larkin Court. And as with respect to Weeder Drive, the Lorraine Terrace Apartments, which is cited by the residents as the source of the excess parking overflowing on the Larkin Court, and this it's connected by the Monroe Street Frontage Road.

So the the PPZ is is proposed to be established for the two hour between 8PM and 6AM as you can see here on the map. It's not written in the report, but I wanted to share part of what we are proposing as another aspect of of this this item that you're considering. There's two recommendations that we'll get to. One is to approve the PPZ because it meets the criteria. And number two is to convert the Monroe frontage between the Weeded Drive and the Lorraine Terrace apartments to a one way configuration with diagonal parking to establish more on street available parking for the Lorraine Terrace apartment.

So you should have received a an aerial image with what the proposed configuration would look like. I'm gonna go places, where the projector, can show anyone who cannot see it. So the idea behind this configuration is to, increase the available on street parking. There's currently space for 10 vehicles to be parked on the east side of the Monroe Frontage Road. And with this configuration, it would increase that to 16, and it would allow more closer proximity parking to the Lorraine Terrace apartments.

I would also like to note that that driveway between the Monroe Fronted Street and Monroe Street is a right turn in, right turn out only today. So it it functions not too differently than how the configuration is proposed. Southbound traffic on Monroe Street can't make a left in. They they have to go down to Garfield Street and make a u-turn, or, there's another alternate route, from California to Shelby. So, that's just for your review and consideration for our recommendation.

So I'll proceed with the recommendation, and these are not mutually exclusive. You can approve one without the other. So I'll go ahead and read that, and then we can, again, answer any questions you may have. The recommendation from staff is that the transportation board recommends that the city council approve the proposed establishment of a two hour parking between the hours of 8PM and 6AM Except for residents with permits, preferential parking zone, PPZ, on Larkin Court from Monroe Street to its easterly terminus. And, also, recommendation is that the transportation board recommend that the city council authorize the public works department implement a temporary conversion of Monroe Street Frontage Road to a one way northbound between the Weeded Drive and Monroe Street, Arterial Road, if deemed appropriate by the city traffic engineer during the course of the Wieder Drive and Larkin Court preferential permit parking zone establishment.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Joseph. So

we're gonna try the one way street for a year, or is there like a time limit that we're gonna do that? Is this temporary?

It's for the duration of the PPZ should it be

approved. We could modify it to a period of time if you'd like. The idea was to provide the temporary additional parking for the duration of the PPZ that's been established. If they decide to remove the PPZ, then we would revert it back to its original configuration. But there's not really associated with it.

But it is tied to the PPZ. So, if you'd like to include a time limit on there, let's say six months or twelve months, we could include that as part of the recommendation as well.

So the PPZ, how long is that? A year or just?

It's for three years and it's reevaluated. Well, it's if the residents want to continue paying into it for three years.

The PPZ is permanent. The permits are issued every three years. But under the program guidelines, once it's approved, it has to remain for twelve months. So, if they want to reverse it, they have to wait at least twelve months. So that limits the amount of time they can keep going to the transportation board to change it if they're not happy.

And then they'd have to go back to the transportation board to be removed if they so chose to.

Be via petition as well.

So the people on Monroe Street will be the one to determine how long it is if they want to stay or who who determines that? Like for the for the one way street. We do or? Yeah.

You guys do. Cynthia?

Yeah. I remember when all those people came and spoke, the residents of the problems they were having with parking and taking the parking from them and everything. So I think this is really important, a good idea to do and see if it helps the situation because they really needed help and they came and spoke and I think we need to support them.

Okay speaking of which we're gonna open this up for public comment at this point I know that we did receive one phone call for this particular item in support. It just said agree with the city, with what the city is doing and is in support. So, have a whole bunch of people that wish to speak on this and I'll start with Dennis Aguirre. Just a reminder, you do have three minutes.

I live on a street and we got to park in permit. It's nice being able to come home and park in front of my own house. But what you're parking on Monroe, I looked at it and I don't think it's wide enough for at a one way parking. I looked at it to where if I was to park there, how would I get out of my car because there's a hedge there? They'd have to park at least two to three feet away from the hedge to be able to get out of the car.

And I've come down that road, I have a motor home towing a trailer or my truck and double parking is a problem. They'll double park, and I can't get out. Last month, there were three cars parked, and I had to wait to get out. And And and right now getting out of my out of Weta under Monroe, they parked on the corners in the red, blocked a fire hydrant on both sides of the street and I've come close to being hit. You have to creep out.

They they disregard the red. They disregard parking in front of the meter. And and like I said, double parking is a problem. I had one lady, I approached her and I took a picture of her because she was double parked and she wanna know what my problem was. And I told her, you can't double park.

She told me they were allowed to park double park. I stopped the policeman and and and he's I told him what was going on and she was still double parked. He says, I'll take care of it. But double parking, what worries me with two is if they're double parked on both sides, what if there's a fire? I don't think a fire truck could go down there between the cars.

I know the fire truck couldn't make the turn into the apartments. There's not enough room. They park so close. And you're only talking a few parking places. Most of the people on the apartments that live there park on on Monroe and they the only time them cars get moved is when the street sweeper comes and I've watched them pull out.

They got it timed perfect. Pull behind the street sweeper As soon as the ticket guy goes by, they park there again. So they're there for two more weeks. So they're creating their own parking place. They got more than one car and I see one neighbor, a person that has three cars.

Alright. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, Stephanie Mata.

Good evening. My name is Stephanie Matha. I'm the property manager for Lorraine Terrace. I'm here because I wanted to just give you like where our property is located. So Lorain Terrace is right on the corner of Monroe which goes like this. It's between Oida and California. To the right of the community, you have residential homes. To the left of the community, you have commercial space. The community is 30 units. It's a small apartment community.

It was built in 1962 and it's been there ever since. Riverside has grown, the population has grown in Riverside since 1960 so our property doesn't have room for expansion. So there's no room for us to create more parking spaces for our residents. Our residents were parking out on Ouida Street and Lurkin and on Monroe. However, a lot of the residents there have been harassing our residents, taking pictures of them, calling the cops when they're coming home from work, they're parking, they need to park somewhere.

Our property has eight garages which everybody parks in their garage and there's no additional parking spots for our residents. OITA then, you know, now it's been permitted so our residents have limited parking on the street. 90% of our residents have been our residents for a long term. They've been long term residents. Like I said, homeowners have harassed them.

They have called me personally harassing me saying to tell my residents to park somewhere else but it's so limited parking. Where do I have my residents park if it's not on the street? And then we cannot expand the community because it's such a small community and it's very limited in the space so we can't create more parking for our residents. And like I've said, the building has been there since 1962. Our residents feel discriminated because they're apartment residents and they don't have, they're not homeowners so they feel very discriminated.

They're taxpayers too. They're hardworking families that go to work and come home and they're just looking for parking and then they feel harassed by the homeowners. You know the street is public parking. I know one of the residents or the homeowners mentioned that people are double parking but at this point we don't even know if that's our residence. It is public parking.

It's not an HOA and yeah the homeowner the residents pay taxes and the home the owner of the property also pays city and state taxes as well. So yeah I'm here representing you know the residents at Lorraine Terrace. Thank you so much.

Okay thank you. Next speaker is Dina Amador Ansulu. Ansulu. Correct me if I mispronounce please.

Hello my name is Dina Amador Ansulu and I live on Larkin Court and yes I'm supporting to get a two hour parking or whatever because we can't even park in front of our homes. We have my kids can't even park in front of their house. We have several cars. They can't even park because everybody's always parking on there. And I think the one way parking on Monroe would be a great idea. This way they have parking, we have parking and it's a win win situation. So I support both of those things. That's all I want to say. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you very much. Next speaker Keith Hall.

I'm Keith Hall. I live on Ouida Drive and it's a parking that looks like some of the folks are wanting to do. Would make it impossible for vehicles to have trailers, which we do. We have a truck in a 26 or 40 foot trailer that could not make the turn on Monroe with the way that's being spoken about. Now the apartments, I can sympathize with them.

But when they were first put in, those apartments were for elderly people who did not have cars. Very few people had any cars. Now, many of the residents of the apartments have two, maybe sometimes three cars. So, the need for their parking seems to be utmost in some people's mind to the point to where making Monroe Street a one way or the way they're talking about doing the addition of the parking, making the parallel or whatever. And then not following what they have promised to do as far as following the particularly toward the end of the block where they where they just completely do not follow the rules.

Makes it just about impossible for somebody like Denny or my brother or me to get out and there's no way we can come in from the other direction. It doesn't work that way. We can't get even to our driveway. So, I'd like those things to be considered and realizing how difficult it is to navigate through there with what's being considered.

Thank you. Okay, thank you. Next speaker, Valentin Uribe? Did I not say that right? Okay.

It's fine. I'm explaining everything in in Spanish and some.

We have an interpreter.

Okay.

If you serious, if you don't mind, that would be great.

Good

evening. My house is located on Guida Drive. Aside from my car, my husband's car, we have three daughters who also get home from work and sometimes have to park down the street or further away from the home. Sometimes they get home at night and they, you know, it's a little they feel a little unsafe walking from where they're having to park to their home. She understands that the situation with the apartments and them having a fine parking as well.

She's just hoping that we can come to a resolution or the city could come to a mutual resolution where it could be beneficial to both the apartment residents and the home home owning residents in the neighborhood that's it thank you very much

okay thank you and thanks for helping out there Next speaker is Kelly Tesso.

I'm Kelly Tesso. I am one of the residents of Lorraine Terrace. And so as the lady stated about we understand the the concerns with safety, but as of since the the, thing had passed, the PPZ had passed, that we were unaware that it was even coming to you guys once again because the first time it came, we did calm down and we voiced our concern. Then all of a sudden, we kinda got all blindsided by the fact that it was passed and we saw signs up. Never knew that there was any kind of posting anywhere for us to be able to voice our concerns.

That being said, now, because we are gonna respect the the laws, my husband and I are now parking around the corner on Shelby. So you so when we're concerned about people parking, you know, we have to walk literally all the way around the block. We live at the back of the apartment. So, I mean, if there was it would be if there was a walkway, that would be amazing, but that's somebody else's property. So we are we and we do walk that street every day, twice a day.

And, you know, I know some of the concerns had been some people we were had been said that we were throwing trash on people's yards. Not true. Yards are clean. I know that there have been some people who may be in the apartments that have, and in unloading and unloading, have double parked. However, most of us, having been there at and we're a long time this is not an apartment complex that people leave quickly.

Most of us have lived there well over ten, fifteen. We even have a residence, and it's been there thirty years. When we first moved, my mother lived there. When we first were there, it was the parking center where Alpha Beta and there was a liquor store and a couple different shops there, and then we could park in the back, and there were gates in the wall, and that we could utilize that. We don't know when that got shut down, but now here we are.

I think the idea of being able to adjust parking spaces so that gives us a little bit of space where it makes it a one way street isn't the worst thing because there is an outlet that they could people could drive around on Shelby. And as far as I know, the corner where the red zone is, that was painted in by the former corner resident of that house that is next to the apartments. I'm not even sure that was a legal paint. I think she did it herself. So to stop people from parking right there, she didn't like people around her property.

So that's what I have

to say.

We're just trying to be respectful.

Thank you very much. The next speaker, Miguel Ruiz.

Good evening. My name is Miguel. I live on Larkin. Hearing your hearing the proposal from mister Brett Craig, I wouldn't be opposed to that making it a one way street.

I

would if you look at the you'd probably have to look at it on Google Earth or Google Maps. But if you see there's there's there's a hedge there's a hedge of bushes where I suggest maybe could be cut down and they could park on that side make that legal parking and still make it a one way a one way street. But that just you would probably have to look at that to further evaluate that. As far as the the making it a PPZ, I'm for it as well. Sometimes you know I gotta rush home to try to you know get a get my parking spot in front of my home and then have to switch cars you know from the car that I'm able to park in the garage so so then I could go do run my errands I'd like to just go right after work you know go do what I have to do whether it be the gym you know grocery shopping whatever it is sometimes have to come home pick up my kids have them take them to their you know sports activities and not have to come home and then worry that you know sometimes up to two three cars even around the corner you know parking parking the cross you know blocking the crosswalk be there and then I have to struggle to maybe even park further down Larkin towards the cul de sac.

I believe you've seen the layout of it. You know what I mean? But again I'm open to that making it a one way street but I just I would maybe think about looking at across the street where you see the bushes if you've seen that layout you know maybe trimming those down making it parking that way but I don't know how the residents of Wieder would feel but that's just my 2¢. Thank you for your time.

Okay. Thank you very much. That is all the speaker cards I have. I I assume no one else in the audience has wishes to speak on this.

Okay. I just wanted to make a few clarifying comments.

If you could, that'd be great.

Because the parking was proposed one one resident had a comment. Parking's proposed next to the hedges, which it's not. It's gonna be on the east side of the Monroe Frontage Road and diagonal configuration. So no one would have to worry about opening their car door adjacent to a hedge at this time as as proposed. The other comment I had was the parking aisle width is proposed to be 12 feet, which meets the standard for a one way traffic adjacent to diagonal parking.

And I just wanted to clarify in case anyone else is confused that only part of the segment of Monroe Frontage Road is one way from Weta to the Lorraine Terrace Driveway. That's the only part that would be converted to one way. So Weta South on Monroe Frontage Road south of Wita would still be two way traffic. So I just wanted to clarify that before we continue and resolve some of the the questions I heard.

Okay. Thank you very much. Okay, I'll open it back up to the board for comments or questions.

How many residents are in the apartment complex? Is it a 20 apartment, 10 apartment, 30 apartment?

I believe she said it's 30 units.

30 units? Okay. I missed that. Thank you. So the proposal that we're looking at is to make that little area on Monroe frontage one way and make slanted parking instead of parallel parking?

Correct.

And that would increase it from From ten

ten spaces to 16. It's a recommend recommendation number two.

I don't see why that wouldn't work, but I suspect it's still gonna be a problem. That's only increasing it by six spaces. And I'm not sure I understand what making it one way. Is that why you would do it because of having to pull in to park like that and get back out again?

And and we'd use the space from one of the travel lanes and add it to parking lane and that's and to do to do it in a safe configuration, it would have to be one way and accommodate the correct size parking stalls. It's not wide enough for two way traffic and parking on both sides. It's it would be very tight as the the the gentleman suggested that parking on both sides and one way traffic. That would be also, I think, really, really tight. So this configuration was the best option that we have at this time.

That probably wouldn't work because of the individuals that do have trailers that they pull through there because that's how they get out from their house. Okay. Thank you.

Any other comments, questions? Okay. Can we go back to the recommendations and read through those again?

Sure. So the first recommendation is there, again, can you approve one or both? One or the other? They're not they don't both have to be approved. And the recommendation from staff is that the transportation board recommends, one, that city council approve the proposed establishment of a two hour parking between the hours of 8PM to 6AM except for residents with permits preferential parking zone on Larkin Court from Monroe Street to its easterly terminus.

And two, that the city council authorized the Public Works Department to implement a temporary conversion of Monroe Street Frontage Road to one way northbound between Oueta Drive and Monroe Street Arterial Road if deemed appropriate by the city traffic engineer during the course of the Oueta Drive and Larkin Court preferential parking zone establishment.

Okay. It appears to me that we have again a situation where parking is a problem. We've had this particular location discussed at this forum previously and it looks to me at face value we do have a workable solution that offsets some of the lost parking that the apartment dwellers would gain if we did this diagonal parking on Monroe Street frontage. So I would support this however I would wanna add that some effort effort needs to be made by the city staff, by the apartment owners to identify how we're gonna address this situation in the future or after this gets approved if it does. And the reason I say that is now we know some of these other homeowners on these other streets are gonna come before this board asking the same thing.

We're gonna have the same conversation that takes place. So I think we need to come up with some kind of long term solution to address the parking. I didn't realize that apartment complex was built in 1963. They are boxed in. As was mentioned, they don't have any other alternative but to park on the street.

This gives them some additional parking. I don't know if we can make this exclusive for the apartments I don't think we can without a PPZ I don't think we want to go down that route right now but this to me seems like a workable solution at this point in time but we need to address the long term issue With that said, I'll open it up for a motion and a second.

I agree with you 100%. This is only a temporary fix right now. So we have to look long term.

Do you have specifics on how you'd like staff to coordinate with the apartment owner and is there any specific thing you want to

Well as was mentioned the folks that are renting the apartments were able to park in an alternative location where the old Alpha Beta parking area was previously but that got shut down I don't know particulars behind all that. But perhaps that could be investigated and see if that can be opened up and that become an option.

Yeah. I was gonna just add that on the north side of the apartment complex, there's a commercial retail Maxi Foods parking lot. That particular parking lot is not a 100% developed. There's a green construction fence for undeveloped land that's immediately abutting and adjacent to the the wall to the apartment complex. I believe that wall in the apartment complex does have two or three pedestrian gates.

And so it appears that at some point during the development there was an idea to access the parking lot in the commercial retail that's to the north. It just hasn't been developed. So that might be one of the solutions if the parking lot ultimately gets developed. If there's some type of parking agreement, that'd be immediately just to the north of the apartment complex. So that might be something in the future as a long term consideration.

There's also the school right next door off of Shelby Monroe Elementary School. Again, that's not city owned facility. That's a school facility. There is an existing parking lot there. I don't know if there's an opportunity for a parking agreement there. It is a bit of a long walk to get to the entrance of the apartment complex to Oida and Shelby, but there is an entire parking lot near the school that's available. And I'd also don't know if the school would permit parking on that parking lot. So that's another option. And then Shelby Drive itself is also open for parking. So that's another option.

The one way conversion, we were starting it at Ouida along the Monroe Furniture up until you come out to Monroe, the arterial street. You know, we could always consider extending that one way conversion further South Of Oida. So it'll be one way all the way down to Garfield. So that's another option to consider. But those are kind of the options that we've discussed internally, try to find a a long term fix because this has been brought to the the board's attention a couple times already. But just wanted to address some of the alternatives that were discussed internally.

I think it'd be great if the city could contract the property owners of Maxi Food and see kinda give an idea what they're planning to do with that parking area. Thank you. I'll go ahead and make a motion that we do approve both recommendations.

I second. Okay

we have a motion and a second.

Go ahead and vote

Motion passes unanimously. So just for everyone's clarification, this will now proceed to the city council for their consideration. You. Thank again, thank you for participating. We really appreciate people coming to these meetings and commenting and helping us understand the situation.

We'll move on to item number nine, request for speed humps on Lurren Avenue.

Yep. Thank you, chair and board members. I'm happy to present the next item, the proposed speed humps on Luerne Avenue. So just a background. The city has a neighborhood traffic management program that includes traffic calming tools, based on various road types to reduce speeding and calm traffic.

Speed humps are one of the items in our toolbox as of 2024. For a long time, it was something that city council and, was was not supportive of. There's some pros and cons of speed humps as we'll get into in the meeting, but they're now, in our toolbox and it's based on a new establishment of eight criteria that we set. So there's a process to get speed humps to this point right here at the transportation board starting with a resident and a a neighborhood coming together to petition and get get speed humps, looked at by traffic engineering. And it's a long process.

I'm not gonna read everything here, but, it's generated from from residents, and and we take a look at each and every one before we bring it to you. So this item tonight is on Lauren Street Lauren Avenue between Taft Street and Wood Road. It's two lane road, variant pavement widths, residential, classification, and some new developments, have been constructed in the past couple years, and some older developments have have been there for some time. Just the slide is showing you some street views on either end of the the roadway. As I said, there's some there's constantly construction in this area.

So at East Eastbound Lauren At Taft is fully developed, but Westbound Lauren At Wood is still will be developed in the future. This is the speed hump criteria that I, mentioned earlier, and this is the first one that the transportation will be reviewing that meets all eight of the criteria. Previously, the ones you have evaluated had either six or seven of the eight criteria met, but this one actually meets all eight. One a couple key items are the the miles per hour surveyed was between thirty six and thirty seven miles an hour, and it's signed for 25 miles an hour. The traffic counts range between eight fifty seven and eight sixty two daily traffic.

Oh, so Philip was just saying that a portion of Lauren did not meet the requirement for the vertical grade. But, anyway, we are proposing type two speed humps. These have grooves in the middle to allow for emergency vehicles to pass through them more quickly than, our type one speed humps which do not have the grooves, because it's based to match the the wheelbase of the emergency vehicles, bigger fire trucks. And the intent is to, ensure there's less delay for emergency vehicles as they're responding to incidents. And each speed hump can have up to ten seconds of delay per speed hump when fire trucks or emergency vehicles have to encounter them.

This slide here shows spacing guidance from ITE, Institute Institute of Transportation Engineers that we kinda use to inform our design for speed humps that is pretty commonly used nationwide. And we're just trying to follow those guidelines as as close as I can to be consistent with other agencies and jurisdictions. So the spacing varies between 150 to 500 feet. So we have proposed, five different speed hump locations on Lauren. It's about a half mile stretch of roadway.

So each speed hump is spaced around 400 feet apart, give or take some locations. There's no speed humps proposed in the vertical grade location, because, we we don't want to have speed humps on a enough a steep downhill where people will be gathering more speed, and it would be not wise not not good to have, someone hit a speed hump at highest speed. Some of the disadvantages of speed humps I mentioned, emergency vehicles, but there's also nuisance noise from braking and acceleration in between speed humps. It it also causes other diversions of traffic to other neighborhood streets, that that residents might be opposed to. And there's a high capital cost to, the speed humps.

They're about $8,000 per speed hump, and and we are seeing construction costs continue to go up. But, you know, there's also strong advantages for speed humps. Most notably, they reduce the average speed or the eighty fifth speed on the selected roadway up to 13 miles per hour, typically in the record. So the recommendation from staff is that the transportation board recommend city council approve speed humps along Lurn Avenue between Taft Street and Wood Road based on meeting all eight technical criteria. So that concludes my presentation, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

I'll open up to the board for any questions or comments. It doesn't look like we have any comments. We do have one comment card from the audience. Anthony Phillips? I was gonna ask you, but okay. We'll get you next then.

Good evening board members and commissioners. It's a pleasure to be here to to speak on behalf of my community. So my name is Anthony Phillips. I reside at 18664 Lauren Avenue and I guess I would be considered the resident who initiated this process in terms of getting a petition because of the excessive speeding that we have on Lauren Avenue. I resided on, my wife and I are, we're original homeowners.

We bought that particular home I think in 2006, so twenty years this year. Prior to that, we lived over off the call before Grove Community Church was built. So, I'm very familiar and invested in in the community, Orange Crest area and Mission Mission Ranch which is the area that's considered where we are And so, when we first moved there, our Lauren was a dirt road as you go east and so now it's paved and we have, as someone said, there's a lot of development going up. So, there's there's increased traffic. I was instrumental in actually getting Lauren and Sagebrush a three way stop sign that used to be a two way stop sign.

So, I was instrumental in getting that approved. The striping that we have, the the bumps down the middle of the road to try to slow the traffic down, the signs. I was in contact with a couple of the watch commanders at RPD for traffic enforcement. So, you mentioned the eight criteria and so this was something that you know that we've been asking for. So, I circulated the petition and got everyone to sign that was in agreement with it.

I know a lot of folks would like to have come but they couldn't because of work. So, I know there's at least four people I think that posted public comments but I would just hate especially after listening to the lieutenant who spoke earlier about traffic and fatalities, I think it's just gonna be a matter of time before we have something major that occurs on our street. We do have a lot of young families. I have a six year old granddaughter. There's a lot of families that like to walk and ride bikes on Lauren Avenue and I would just hate to see that we have a major accident because they speed at least 60 to 70 miles an hour on Lauren Avenue.

It's narrow. Where I live on top of the hill, there's a blind spot and so as you're coming up and down, it's very dangerous. And so I've had pretty much regular conversation with miss Donna Fuller for the city who who has, you know, assisted us in this process. So I appreciate, you know your attention in this matter and thank you guys for your time. I'll take any questions if you guys have anything you want to ask me.

Not at this time.

Thank you. Okay.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your attention.

Brian Colvin.

Good evening board and mister chairman. My name is Brian Colvin. I have also lived on Lurren. I live at Lurren, 18810 Lurren. I have lived there. Actually, my in laws, we took over the home and purchased, built that home in 1978. I've been there all since it was Orange Grove and everything. We've gone through transition, through time. As Anthony said, it was dirt up to a few years. I guess it's been seven, eight years ago.

It was a dirt road, and I actually was instrumental also in in documenting, photographing, consistently calling the police department, making cases where people drove through fences, drove through things, wrecked, almost hit that there was Edison poles in the center, which were now moved up against our property lines. I just basically told him, said, you know, our children, my kids, I have four children, and I only have one left in the home. I go into college. But I said somebody is going to get hurt because we had one truck slam into pole. We had one take out all the fence.

It it resulted into what is now a nicely paved road. It was nicely paved. And after Kaufman and Broad came in and and built the homes, they did another recap, and they were very, very good in how they structured it. The only challenge is that it just increased what happened before when it was dirt. The traffic level that has gone through, as Anthony said, I've I've raced bikes, motorcycles, you know, street and dirt, and I've heard bikes going up our road in excess.

Fourth year, you're gonna hit 80 miles an hour. And that's happened over the last couple weeks. It it stopped, but it was actually I I started tracking it. It was happening at 9AM 9PM, 09:30, and it it go up. And then thirty minutes later, do the same thing back the other direction. So, anyway, to cut to the quick and direct, I just ask that you initiate this. I was going to do the same thing Anthony has done, but when my wife told me I travel a bit for work, when my wife told me the petition came and said sign it. Sign it now. You know, I'll sign it. You know?

And so we just urge you to please approve this because somebody will get hurt. The traffic that comes through in the morning, and it's it's not really even it has lulls, but it's actually pretty consistent, and it's fast. And when kids, parents are trying to get their kids to school, I understand we all have to get our kids to school. But there's things that are gonna you know, there there's been lockups and very close to collisions. I, myself, and my family members have all had at least three to four times where we go to pull out and a car, you know, slams on their brakes, my neighbors as well.

So thank you very much for hearing us, and thank you for, working with us to make this a better place and safe.

Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much.

I'll also add that we received some comments in support. We received four email comments.

Yeah. They're identified as item number six, but I was wondering if that was really meant for item number nine.

Yeah. So those those are all related to the speed hump pro program. But Okay. In one phone call.

Okay.

I want to go ahead and make a motion that the Transportation Board recommend that this goes to City Council for approval.

I was talking about a motion.

Okay. We have motion and a second.

Go ahead and vote.

Motion passes unanimously. Thank you for staying so late and providing your comments. Really appreciate it. Our next item is item number 10. This is the 2026 transportation board work plan.

Good evening chair and board members. Philip Nutiama, city traffic engineer. I'm here to provide the presentation for the 2026 draft work plan for Board. Just a little bit of background. We've done this maybe the past couple of years.

It provides us with a planning tool to show what we're trying to accomplish each year. It also takes a look back at what we have accomplished in the prior years. This plan is ultimately forwarded to the mobility and infrastructure just for a receiving file just so it will document working on and what our goals and objectives are. In 2025, we reviewed a lot of speed humps. And we also recommended approval for a lot of speed humps.

I'm not going to name all of them but we've successfully approved I believe it's seven now. We also approved some temporary pilot curb extensions to be installed citywide. That's part of our pavement management program that's going to be rolling out very soon. There's also a lot of preferential parking permits that we established. Ouida Drive is the most probably famous one that we've discussed. There's also time parking zones on Main Street. And then as you may recall, some signage on the Bourne's Family Youth Center. Those are all just some of the items. There's actually more. I just ran out of space on this slide.

In the city charter, we have our mission statement. And also there's a municipal code that lists what the transportation board can and can't do and what's the purview. There's also six goals that align charter. So I just wanted to to indicate that there are some bylaws that we abide by and it's included in in this particular section. Some of the goals that we're trying to accomplish in 2026, these are similar to the prior work plans.

The first one obviously is attendance. We need to be available and attend the meetings to conduct city business. In prior years, unfortunately, we've had to cancel a meeting because we didn't have a quorum. Tonight's probably a good example. We had a a eight board member.

Three of them were not available, but we still were able to push through and have a meeting. So appreciate you guys all attending tonight. And then the other things that we could assume for a goal is provide, you know, pry sorry, pilot and long term accomplishments. They could include, you know, pedestrian crossings, bike facilities, speed limit signs, truck restriction signs, parking signs, those are all within the purview of the Transportation Board. That's goal two.

Goal three, we annually receive the traffic signal timing update and also some proposed capital improvement projects. Those are things that we review and file at least here at the Transportation Board. So we'll continue to do that. And then number four, try to think think of innovative transportation solutions. You know, one of them was what we faced tonight with regards to parking between multi family and single family complexes.

And then continue to do public outreach and engagement efforts, really bring in the community to provide feedback. So we're not just working in a silo. We're really approving what the community has asked for. Number five, these are some projects that are kind of underway. I provided an update with this in the past. We have a safe route to school individualized plans for 50 elementary and middle schools in the city as well as a citywide report. So that's forthcoming. But that's something that we're actively and ongoing completing right now. And also we review the MATE report which is the Major Accident Investigation Team. If you guys didn't know what those initials stood for.

Had that presentation today. They come by once every three quarters or whenever we have our meeting. And then a citywide effort. We are conducting a citywide general plan update and a climate action plan update today. It's We're about twelve to eighteen months from approving it. There's gonna be a lot of public outreach meetings. So encourage you to participate in that process if you wanna provide your input on how you wanna shape the community. That concludes my recommendation. This particular one can be approved by the transportation board. So I'm gonna say that the transportation board approves the proposed 2026 work plan.

That concludes our presentation. I'm open to answering any questions you may have.

Okay. Any questions or comments by the board? I do have a comment. I have to say that it seems like over the past year maybe a little more we've had a lot more public participation in these meetings. I know some of the because some of the items are potentially controversial but it's pretty nice to have participants from the public come and speak to us and talk about their concerns.

When I first started which has been five years or so now we had very few public participants so that's one really nice thing that I've seen improve I think it is part of this work the work plan effort so thank you for that staff So with that I'll ask for a motion and a second.

I'll make a motion that we approve the proposed 2026 work plan. I second that.

Okay we have a motion and a second.

Go ahead and vote.

Okay. Motion passes unanimously. We'll move back to item number six, residential speed hump program update.

Alright. Highly anticipated updates. So I have a lot to say. So you have to bear with me and have a lot of data to throw at you. So just a quick background, the residential speed humps. We annually get requests for about a 100 streets. And we were unable to sustain that program in the past. That was the problem. So we're trying to find a solution. So back in 2011 was I believe the last time we installed speed humps in the recent history.

And after three years of consideration, it was ultimately discontinued just because we couldn't find the funding source to install the speed humps. There's still every year, we're still getting requests for about a 100 streets. So even though it wasn't even available, we still receive those requests. In 2023, we proposed a temporary speed hump. So that was something that was movable.

It was a rubber speed hump. The idea was that we make a onetime purchase that we would relocate them to different sections, and we wouldn't have to spend that much money. We presented that to council, and they did not like it. And they said, you're gonna install it and then you're gonna take it away, and then it's gonna go back to how it was. So we had to regroup and create a permanent speed hump program, and that's what we did in in May 2024.

Above and beyond speed humps, there's other traffic calming solutions as shown on the on the exhibit. We have speed radar trailers, spot police enforcement, signage, and striping. You guys have seen this exhibit in the earlier agenda item. This is our neighborhood traffic management program. We have a bunch of tools at our disposal for traffic calming, speed humps on the lower right.

It's supposed to be a secondary option. We're supposed to try all the other things first. And we we try to do that, but the demand for speed humps is still very high. This particular graph is what discontinued the speed humps looks like. This is about a twelve year study of how many actual speed humps were installed.

Not the number of streets, but the actual number of humps. There's about two or three or four speed humps per street. As you can see in 2005 and 2002, there was a peak of 56 to 61 speed humps completed in one year. And so the demand was really high and this is the reason why we ended the the program. When we created the current speed hump program, we did work with our marketing team.

We rolled this out to the community. We created a website, had all the information, and then then there's also a location where you could submit your request for speed humps. We established a criteria petition and then a technical criteria. This is our our graphic that we sent out in our social media platforms and our city website, And it shows the benefits for speed humps as well. Okay.

You guys have also seen this slide earlier. This is our speed hump process. How how do we actually get speed humps installed? It starts off with a resident coming to us and telling us they want speed humps. We review the speed hump, street for eligibility for physical characteristics. It has to be residential street, and that means there's houses facing the street. It has to be a 25 mile per hour street, and you can only have one lane of travel in each direction. Those are the physical characteristics. If it meets that criteria, then we send them a petition. The community has to be in support of speed humps.

Know, we're not gonna install it if the homeowners don't even want it. So the minimum petition required is 70%. Once they give us that petition back, then we review the operational characteristics. Yeah. Supposed to be 37 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour street with the eighty fifth percentile. And then the traffic volume is less than 2,000. So those are some of the operational characteristics. If it doesn't meet all eight, we city staff, we have the administrative authority to deny it, and it doesn't even go to the transportation board. Once we deny it, though, they have the opportunity to appeal, and that gets forwarded to the transportation board. So that's our recommendation.

It's to deny the appeal. And then once the transportation board votes on it, if the transportation board denies it, there's an opportunity for the residents to get a second appeal to city council. So they actually have multiple ways of getting it approved. So just wanted to clarify our process. There is a petition. It's a minimum 70% of the homeowners that live there or the renters that are living in those owners. And then the petition is not collected by city staff. We send it to the applicant that's initially requesting. So it's a primary application. You guys have seen the technical criteria.

There's eight of them. There's physical characteristics, operational characteristics. We also have some other options that are considerations. You know, did the fire department have any concerns? What ward was it located at? Collision history and also any special circumstances. If there's a school nearby, a senior center nearby, things of that nature. Those are just for consideration. They're not actual warrants. But there is these are the eight warrants that you guys have seen and that's what we use for the program.

You guys have also seen this exhibit. This is our type two speed hub. So if an emergency vehicle has to go through the street, they don't have to stop. They kinda just straddle the middle of the road and they go right through the speed hub. You guys have also seen this exhibit. This is what we use for design for how many speed humps we lay out on a on a street, on a block. And then you've also seen this exhibit. These are the disadvantages for speed humps. It could they could try to speed in between speed humps and they can also move to another parallel street if the that subject street has speed humps installed. And then you've also seen this exhibit.

This is the actual Federal Highway Administration website that shows the range of speeds from five to 13 from their studies that they completed. Now this is some data that I compiled. These are the number of speed humps requests that we've received since we reinstated speed humps in May 2024. So I I think I stopped after January, which is when I submitted this. But we've gotten about 308 requests.

Wanna give a quick shout out to Veronica. She has been assisting with the speed hump requests ever since it's been instated, reinstated, and she's doing a lot of the upfront leg work. So thank you, Veronica. But based on the statistics, we're averaging about 15 requests per month and about a 185 speed hump requests per year. Now a majority of them aren't eligible.

So I wanna make that very clear. So 52% aren't even eligible. There are requests to add speed humps on arterial streets. And so we can't have a speed hump going across you know three or four lanes in each direction. So they obviously don't know the the speed hump guidelines but I just want to share that. And then the ones that we've approved, I think we've approved about seven. So seven out of 308. It's a small percentage, but it's the criteria that we set for for the program. Modstreet. This is the first one that we approved back in March.

Here are some statistics for before and after speed humps. So on the lower left, you could see what we presented to you. It was a 38 miles an hour. There's about over 5,000 cars there. There's three schools in that area. On the top left, you could see before speed humps, we already had red 25 mile per hour striping. We had our speed limit sign there and center line and edge line. We thought of everything we could except speed humps and still they are going too fast. It's a 25 mile per hour street and they're driving 38. So it was it's excessive.

After the speed humps, we took speed count at almost the exact same location, and you could see that there was significant reduction of seven miles per hour. They're still driving above 25, but it is a drastic improvement. And there's also a reduction in the number of vehicles on there. We didn't survey assuming that the adjacent street over may have gotten some of the the traffic. But it shows that it is effective and this was our our first speed hump.

This one is our second speed hump. It was Green Orchard Place. This particular street was an asterisk because it was a a greater posted speed limit on there. After the speed hump installation, the speed limit did change. The eighty fifth percentile operational speed limits out there went down to 34 and there was also a small change in in traffic counts. But we only installed two speed humps here and this was a shorter segment. So I wanted to share that with everyone. Ramona Drive, this was our third one. Again, there was a reduction of eight miles an hour after the speed hump was installed. And this one went the other way.

There was more cars after we installed the speed humps. So wasn't sure how that happened. Maybe they wanted to check out the speed hubs. And there was a design quirk on this one on the lower right. The street was narrower. It only allowed parking on one side. So we we were only doing the cuts on the speed hump on the middle and then on the left side, not the one on the right because it was too narrow to to do that. But we were still able to allow the emergency vehicle to get Kilmer Knock Way. This was in Ward 4. They requested speed humps.

As you can see, there was a five mile per hour reduction. There's also a reduction about 16% of the vehicles on the roadway. We installed three speed humps here. When we were installing it, they were they were outside in their yards and they were very happy and they're cheering us on. So it a it a good experience once they got their speed humps.

John Street, this was recently approved. I think it was in November or or October. I did get the post speed hump statistics tonight while we were doing the meeting, and I'm happy to share that the eighty fifth percentile is 28 out there. So it went down nine miles an hour. I know nine sounds it doesn't sound very high compared to how fast they're going.

But to to really get a driver to slow down their driving behavior takes, you know, an act of the man upstairs. But it it's really challenging to make everybody slow down. So we're very happy with that. And then the number of cars post speed hump was 231. So there was a small reduction of 30 cars for the day.

Mandalay, same thing. Before we posted this online, I didn't have the data, but I got it tonight. The eighty fifth percentile is also 28 miles an hour. So that brings it down by seven miles per hour based on the post pre and post speed hump comparison. The traffic counts drastically reduced, and I don't know how this happened, but there was only 2,500 cars in the post speed hump.

Yeah. So there were 2,000 cars less per day. I I don't know what happened there, but it looks like the speed humps really bothered them. 1st Street, this one was just approved in December. And we just went out earlier this week to lay out the speed humps. So we don't actually have post speed hump statistics because it hasn't been installed yet. But it it's also we're we're hoping it's gonna follow that same routine and reduce the speeds. So what does that all mean? We put this on a a graph. I only added four of them because I didn't have the other two yet.

But as an average, it's reducing the speeds about 6.26 miles per hour on a majority of the streets. So wanted to share that information. And then in regards to average daily traffic, there's also a reduction in the number of vehicles on the roadway about 8%. So, you know, the cars don't disappear. They tend to shift somewhere else.

So that's a deterrent to the neighborhood too. So going back to that graphic that I showed earlier from the historic number of speed humps approved. I know we talk about speed humps at every meeting, but I added how much we installed last year, which was 18. And then how much we've installed this year. I I put four because that's 1st Street.

We're gonna do it. It's just matter of time. But this is just to provide a comparison on the highest number in 2005 when we installed 61. And so after all that discussion about speed humps, we've installed 18, you know. So we got we got a long ways to to go to meet to meet that record. You know? I will say that we started talking about speed humps, I think, in March or April. So that wasn't a full year. So this year in 2026, we'll probably have a more accurate number because it's the the full year. So I wanted to share that statistic.

What are the next steps for the speed hump program? You know, I'm gonna continue to provide an annual update and talk to you guys about any changes you wanna discuss or propose. We we do have to go to council if we do make any changes. But I wanted to show the success of the program. The other thing I wanted to to show was is the collisions being affected.

Usually need at least one or two years be before you can say that something changed. So right now, we just installed the speed house, you know, six months ago, nine months ago. It's too soon to do a post and pre and post collision comparison. The other thing too is we want to seek sustainable funding for our speed hump program through either safety grants or our operating budget. Continue to engage the community.

You guys have listened to them. And if the community feels the speed humps are warranted, you guys have overridden staff's recommendation and still approved it. So And then we have a lot of work reviewing all these speed humps. So this is my recommendation to counsel is to consider staffing an internship or an additional position to help us review them. So that's the next steps in the Speedhump program. That concludes my presentation. And I'm happy to answer any questions that you guys may have. Thank you.

Yeah. One question. They're permanent, right? Once they're approved, do you ever go back? You know, if you look at the heyday, right, back in 2005, you did all the 61. Do we ever go back and see if they're still warranted? Or once it's approved, they're there forever. Right?

Oh, yeah. We don't retroactively review preexisting speed humps. The speed hump program at that moment in time could have been different. Mhmm. And it had different criteria.

And so we don't go back to rereview if they meet today's criteria because they may have been approved under different circumstances. As to my knowledge, we have never removed speed humps once they're installed. If the community wants to remove them, they have to go through the same process. They submit a request to remove it, and then we provide them with a petition to make sure that it's the entire community, not just one person. And then we we go through the process of presenting it to transportation board and then city council for removal. So, yeah.

And when we when the city repave the street, that speed hump gets replaced. That's correct. In kind. Yes. So we don't modify that for fire department requirements? That's correct.

Yeah. If if we get a request from a resident or the fire department to change it, then we can review it, but we return it in kind.

Okay. Okay. And with that, how many requests? 300?

About 300.

And Veronica has to do all that work? So I want to make a motion that Veronica gets a raise.

Oh, okay. It's a So, the recommendation is a receive and file. So, there's not an approve or deny. It's just a receive and file. It's a presentation similar to the May presentation.

We need a second.

I second that.

Okay. We have a motion and a second.

Okay. Go ahead and vote.

Motion passes unanimously item number 11 city council actions on traffic engineering related items

Yes. So the city council actions, all of the items that were approved at the December transportation board was forwarded to city council in January. Ouida Drive PPZ was approved. There was a board approved for the Hawks on Madison that went to city council. There were some comments opposing the the hawks, and so city council did not approve that one.

And then there was a a third item that escapes me. I believe it was I'd have pull up my agenda for for December. But that that item got approved as well. I think it was a parking another parking request. So that's kind of the the city council updates for traffic engineering. Okay.

So, the Hawks on Madison. That was where we wanted Where the proposal was to have a right turn only? Correct. On the side streets. Okay.

Yeah. So, the city council did receive some comments from the community to not approve it. And so, like city council didn't approve it and said to work with Casablanca community to for a proposal that could be approved at Council and Transportation Board. So we're back to the drawing board basically.

Okay. I have a question on that. Since it has a little button where you push to walk across the street and they took away the stop sign. Can you have both? Like the stop sign or you can't have both?

You cannot. They would be conflicting traffic control devices. Okay.

And we reached out to Caltrans to ask what the steps would be to remove or convert what the the ones that were grant funded. And they they kinda reiterated what I said at the previous meeting. It is something that would have to be done on the city's dime and it'd be an expensive conversion and it had have to get approved. There we'd have to show studies and that that it's warranted to be changed to like an always stop or we'd we'd have to do that kind of research before we make any recommendations.

Okay. Thanks for looking into that. Okay. Is that it? That was it. Item number 12, traffic engineer parking services updates.

I just wanted to say that we have our safe route to school citywide project forthcoming. Plan to bring that here to Transportation Board for review. And we're also kicking off our Vision Zero action plan. So Vision Zero is the idea of having zero fatal collisions traffic fatal traffic collisions moving forward. The plan is gonna create strategies that will lower the fatal collisions each year.

One of those strategies is managing managing speeds. Speeds. And so what you guys saw tonight, the CD wide speed limit reduction program that went ahead of the vision zero action plan, and that was intentional because we wanted to move forward with that aspect first. So that's the first step in an overall larger scheme of it. The vision zero action plan is gonna go around to each ward and do a public presentation.

There's a survey involved. There's a safety pledge, and we're gonna also do collision analysis with specific improvements. We're also gonna grab input from the community on what improvements they wanna see specifically for each ward. And then we'll wrap that up in a plan. So that's we're just kicking off and that's probably a one year long process. So those are the the two traffic engineering updates for us. Thank you.

So the the pledge, that's by the community members members of the community.

That's correct. Yeah. We're gonna create a pledge. It'll be something to the effect of I support vision zero, and here are the activities I plan to do. You know, obey traffic laws, drive within the speed limits, don't drink and drive, things of that nature.

K. Thank you. Okay. Last item, number 13, items for future transportation board consideration as requested by members of the board not sure if anybody has anything okay I do want to say I really want to reiterate the speed reduction effort that the city went through and presented here tonight. I think that is a huge step forward anything we can do to reduce speed every time we get a mate report speed is mentioned and what I'd like to do is know how many times speed is mentioned in this meeting either by members of the board staff or the public I think we'd be shocked we'd be shocked so with that I will adjourn the meeting seven p.

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