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Investigation of trip generation from Fashion Square revealed <br /> a spill-over parking problem existed. Several employees and students <br /> who work or attend school in the Union Bank Plaza park in Fashion Square <br /> walk to the Union Bank Buildings. Closer investigation revealed that <br /> increased parking charges created this situation and that spillover <br /> parking was not limited to Fashion Square but occurred in the retail <br /> lots on the northwest corner of Main and La Veta and in the adjacent <br /> residential area. It was noticed that St. Joseph Hospital employees <br /> also park in the same residential area. Since employees have <br /> demonstrated a willingness to park in surrounding lots and residential <br /> areas to save the cost of parking, then the same would probably apply to <br /> future employees of Fashion Square as well as for other proposed <br /> projects in the area. <br /> In addition to increased parking in the adjoining residential <br /> neighborhood, increased traffic as well may result. Bedford Road north <br /> of La Veta Road offers an excellent opportunity for commuters to avoid <br /> congestion at the intersection of Main Street and La Veta Avenue. Some <br /> area employees were observed using this route. Bedford Road provides a <br /> convenient by-pass for commuters headed north either to the Orange or <br />I- <br /> Santa Ana Freeway. Flower Street provides a similar by-pass routing. <br /> The only difference is that Flower Street is a master planned commuter <br /> route passing through a multi-family area. Bedford Road is purely a <br /> residential street in a single family neighborhood. Flower Street also <br /> * poses a by-pass routing for northbound Bristol Street commuters seeking <br /> to avoid congestion on the connector ramp enroute to the Orange Freeway. <br />Li <br /> The impact of installation of a new traffic signal on La Veta <br /> Avenue at Bedford Road to serve Fashion Square (and Union Bank Plaza) <br /> traffic will enhance opportunities for commuters to use adjacent <br /> residential streets. The signal will be needed to control a high volume <br /> (16,000 AOT) entryway to Fashion Square. But the new signal also poses <br /> the potential for encouraging commuters to use Bedford Road. To <br /> preclude such, it may be necessary to force northbound traffic on <br /> Bedford Road to burn right or left at La Veta Avenue. This, in itself, <br /> 109