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Home My WebLink AboutBates 12104-12106 - 12_10_2019 Item 1, OttoWilbanks, Megan From:Garrett Otto <garrettotto@gmail.com> Sent:Monday, To:Advisory Bodies Cc:Fukushima, Adam; Schwartz, Luke Subject:ATC - Froom Ranch Draft EIR Attachments:Pages from Draft EIR.pdf Dear Committee Members, Unfortunately Iam unable to attend the meeting as Ihave another concurrent meeting to attend. After reviewing the Froom Ranch Draft EIR, Ihave the following suggestions for adjustments tothe mitigation measures presented in the report. Add a mitigation measure that requires dedicated coned-off bike and pedestrian lanes as part of any traffic control plans during construction efforts that impact access to bike lanes and/or sidewalks. Bicycles shall not beforced to merge into vehicle traffic during construction effort on LOVR. Use of "bike lane closed" and "sidewalk closed" methods as part traffic control plan shall only be allowed for short durations as a last resort if space cannot be accommodate in the vehicle travel lane. Proposed mitigation measures atS. Higuera and Prado to address Auto Queuing will significantly reduce the LOS for bicycle access at this intersection. These mitigation measure have potential to hard multimodal transportation options at this intersection. Inorder toadd Class IV bike lanes on S. Higuera, a road diet isnecessary. The new configuration of S. Higuera should only have one vehicle travel lane ineach direction with a center turn lane. When you have two left hand turn lanes at this intersection will make it difficult to add in a Class IV bike lane along S. Higuera. Additionally 2left turn lanes makes it much more difficult and stressful tomerge into the left turn pocket bybike. Increasing the length ofa single left hand turn lane should beused instead of dual left turn lanes. Iwould argue that vehicle queuing is acceptable impact compared to compromising multimodal access atthis intersection and corridor. These mitigation should be revised tobe consistent with theproposed Class IVbikeroute aspartof the ATP. The mitigations should berevised such that improvements atPrado andS. Higuera shall bedesigned asabicycle protected intersection similar and consistent totheinstersection designed a Dalido and Madonna. Proposed mitigation at Tank Farm and S. Higuera indicate adding asecond left hand turn laneto address Auto queuing. For similar reasons to the intersection at Prado, this mitigation will decrease bicycle LOS by reducing street space that could be allocated for Class IV bikways. The mitigation should be altered to simply extend the left turn lane. In addition all bike lanes approaching and passing through the intersections shall be extended and painted green for higher visibility of cyclist traveling through the intersection. The right hand yield turn lane turning northbound from Tank Farm to S. Higuera should the bike lane extended through the intersection with protective post to provide extra level of protection for cyclist and reduce the turn radius ofvehicles. The crosswalk should berestriped with high visibility paint and aflashing beacon to warn traffic of pedestrians in the crosswalk since it is otherwise "uncontrolled". 1 12104 Traffic models indicate potential volume increase onS. Higuera duetothe project. Amitigation measure should be added to pay fair share or build Class IV infrastructure along S. Higuera. Iwish Ihad more time toreview and and provide additional comments. Ihave attached apage outof the Draft EIR which Imarked upwith the suggests Idescribed above tohelp clarify. Mycomments arein blue. Thank you, Garrett Otto 2 12105 PARKING HEREMAYPARKINGHEREMAY BEREMOVEDBEREMOVED IN PLACE BY OPERATIONOFINPLACEBYOPERATIONOF MADONNA FROOM RANCHROADMADONNAFROOMRANCHROAD WIDENING TO ACCOMMODATEDUALWIDENINGTOACCOMMODATEDUAL LEFT-TURN, DUAL THROUGH, ANDRIGHTLEFT-TURN, DUAL THROUGH, AND RIGHT TURN LANES ON ALLAPPROACHESTURNLANESONALLAPPROACHESPRADO R O A D PR A D O R O A D SOUTHHIGUERASTREETSOUTHHIGUERA STREETPRA DO R O A D SOUTH HIGUERA STREETINTERSECTIONINTERSECTION 1616 INTERSECTION 16 IN PLACE BY OPERATION OF MADONNA FROOM RANCH ROAD WIDENING TO ACCOMMODATE DUAL LEFT-TURN, DUAL THROUGH, AND RIGHT TURN LANES ONALLAPPROACHESPARKING HERE MAYBEREMOVEDEXTENDNORTHBOUNDEXTEND NORTHBOUND RIGHTTURNLANERIGHTTURN LANE TO 230 FEETTO 230 FEETCR E E K SI D E D R I VECR E E KSI D E DRIVETANKFARM ROADTANKFARMROADSOUTHHIGUERASTREETSOUTHHIGUERASTREETTANK FARMROADCREEK S I D E DRIV E SOUTHHIGUERASTREETINTERSECTIONINTERSECTION1515 INTERSECTION15EXTEND THE WESTBOUNDEXTEND THE WESTBOUND BIKE LANE TOBIKE LANE TOTHEINTERSECTIONTHE INTERSECTIONEXTENDTHE WESTBOUND BIKELANETOTHE INTERSECTION ADD SECONDADDSECONDSOUTHBOUNDLEFTSOUTHBOUNDLEFT TURN LANE ANDTURN LANE AND EXTEND TO 300 FEETEXTEND TO 300 FEET ADD SECOND SOUTHBOUND LEFT TURN LANE AND EXTEND TO300FEETEXTEND NORTHBOUND RIGHTTURNLANETO 230 FEET RESTRIPELEFTANDRESTRIPELEFTAND RIGHT TURN LANESRIGHT TURNLANESANDEXTENDTHELEFTAND EXTENDTHELEFTTURNLANE TO 250 FEETTURN LANE TO 250 FEET SUBURBAN ROADSUBURBAN ROADSUBURBAN ROADINTERSECTIONINTERSECTION 1414 INTERSECTION 14 RESTRIPE LEFT AND RIGHT TURN LANES AND EXTEND THE LEFT TURN LANE TO 250 FEET Note: Extension of Buckley Road to South Higuera is partofthe overall mitigations strategyforSouthHiguera/Vachell Lane. RESTRICTRESTRICT LEFT TURNSLEFT TURNS INTO AND OUT OFINTO AND OUT OF INTERSECTIONINTERSECTION SOUTH HIGUERA STREETSOUTH HIGUERA STREETVACHELL LANEVACHELL LANESOUTH HIGUERA STREETVACHELL LANEINTERSECTIONINTERSECTION 1313 INTERSECTION 13 RESTRICT LEFT TURNS INTO AND OUT OF INTERSECTION Aerial Source: Google 2017.050 FEET N Aerial Source: Google 2017.0 62.5 FEET N Aerial Source: Google 2017.050 FEET N Aerial Source: Google 2017.050 FEET N Note: Project is contributing to these improvements through City trans- portation impact fees. These diagrams depict the planned long-term fee-funded improvement that is assumed to be in place with or without the project by Cumulative Year 2035. Highlighted lanes indicate project-related mitigations.Partial List of Applicant Funded City Improvements to Transportation Network – Intersections 13, 14, 15, and 16 depicted improvements are not representative of final12106