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DATE; December 27, 2012
MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Jose E. Pulido, City Manager
By: Brian Haworth, Assistant to the City ManagerYA
Gregory Tung, Urban Designer
SUBJECT: VARIANT DESIGN OPTION FOR THE LAS TUNAS DRIVE SAFETY
ENHANCEMENT AND BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT
In follow-up to the December 27, 2012 staff report presenting the three design
options for the Las Tunas Drive Safety Enhancement and Beautification Project
("Project"), this addendum proposes a variant to Option 3 in response to public
concerns raised at the December 19, 2012 community meeting (Attachment "A",
page 7).
Otherwise known as the Option 3 Variant ("Variant"), this design alternative switches
the street parking orientation from back -in angled parking to conventional head -in
parking. While Option 3 proposes an 18' back -in angled parking stall width, flexible
dining zone and a 5' bike lane, the Variant provides for a 17' head -in angled parking
stall width (at no impact to the net increase of 27 parking spaces proposed by Option
3) with flexible dining capability and a 6' wide parking assist lane. This lane would
enable a backing -out car to pull out a few feet to improve the driver's visibility of
oncoming traffic. Similarly, when attempting to pull into a diagonal parking stall, the
assist lane would allow the driver to move their vehicle slightly to the right before
pulling into the stall, enabling traffic behind that car to get around it if so desired.
The Variant's configuration also eliminates a formalized or designated bikeway
through the Downtown core (i.e., between Oak and Golden West avenues), instead
providing bicycle path continuity along Las Tunas Drive ("Las Tunas") by one or two
parallel "bike boulevard" treatments to the closest adjacent parallel residential
streets, namely Woodruff Avenue and potentially Workman Avenue. Treatments to
achieve this function are generally minor, involving the addition of striping "sharrows"
to the street paving and signage for the bike route (but no continuous white lines for
the typical separated bike lanes proposed by Option 3). It should be noted that these
residential streets have not yet been designated as "bike boulevards" through
community outreach or in workshops yet.
City Council
December 27, 2012
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Given the timeliness of the Project and the recent holiday, the project design team
will present a diagram tonight of the resulting bike boulevard route and typical street
section. Furthermore, implementation of the Variant, if so selected, should not result
in any appreciable cost difference impact to Option 3, while also allowing for a most
transformative streetscape approach in terms of matching Las Tunas' street and
property formats.
ATTACHMENT:
A. Project Comments: December 19, 2012 Community Meeting