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From:Garrett Otto <
Sent:Wednesday, September 15, 2021 2:34 PM
To:Advisory Bodies; Rice, Jennifer; Fukushima, Adam
Subject:ATC Item 3 - 2022 Paving Plan
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Dear ATC Committee Members,
I am writing to express some opinions on the paving plan.
First and most importantly Monterey street should include protected bike lanes as shown in the adopted ATP. My
understanding is that there is insufficient funding to accommodate the protected bike lanes due to shifting the project
to 2022 instead. I would suggest that several of the neighborhood streets be shifted to 2023 (except those Greenways
and SRTS identified) to ensure protected bike lanes are added to Monterey. I live on Lincoln Street and only see the need
for better traffic calming, but little need for a new slurry seal layer. I am sure there are many residential neighborhoods
that could be delayed a year to ensure protected bike lanes are added to Monterey Street as planned in the ATP. Please
consider that a new affordable housing complex is planned on Monterey and protected bike lanes would greatly
complement them.
I know that there would need to be extensive on‐street parking removal, but if you take a look at that corridor, only a
small fraction of on‐street parking spaces are actually used. They are consolidated near a couple restaurants and
businesses which have dedicated off street parking already.
You have probably seen several emails from my neighbors requesting traffic calming along Lincoln and Chorro. Lincoln,
West, and several side streets are home to many families with young children. Many of us bring our kids out to the
street to play and socialize on a daily basis.
Volumes on Lincoln and West streets are low, but speeds are high from folks trying to bypass stop signs on Chorro and
Broad. In the past few years there have been several drivers who have destroyed parked cars due to unsafe driving.
These collisions could have involved one of our kids and is a reminder that our neighborhood streets are being held
hostage by drivers and vehicles.
I would love to see Lincoln and West street become a Woonerf (living street) where cars are guests and kids and people
are the true owners of the street. If the sealing plan moves forward as planned I have suggested some traffic calming
elements that should be considered. Lincoln and West streets could be the guinea pig streets for a new Neighborhood
Traffic Management approach and show how residential streets could be converted to Woonerfs with a little creativity.
Due to the lack of stop signs many drivers speed around the corner from side streets and fail to properly check for
people walking and biking along Lincoln. This could be mitigated with painted bulbouts, traffic "buttons"/bumps, and
"shark teeth" yield lines on each side street corner (West/Chorro, Mission/Lincoln, Venable/Lincoln, Center/Lincoln,
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Mountain View/Lincoln, Lincoln/Chorro).
Though speed bumps are somewhat effective at reducing speeds, they can still be taken at higher speeds by larger
trucks. A more effective speed mitigation solution would be to create a chicane down the street. This could be achieved
using planters, or alternating angled parking on one side of the street.
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Ideally, a street closure along Lincoln would prevent bypass traffic and limit access to neighborhood traffic only. With
several side streets, this could be a simple and effective solution that would only require minimal change in route for
some residents.
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Remove parking directly in front of Anholm Park. These parked cars prevent drivers from seeing potential little ones
trying to cross the street to get to or leave the park. There should be larger speed tables on both sides of the park to
ensure drivers are slowed to <15MPH. Add bollards with signage identifying "children at play" on the street near the
park entrance.
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Thank you,
Garrett, Chenin, and Owen Otto
Lincoln Street
San Luis Obispo