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Mitre - Ramirez, Norma From: Huizar, Maria Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 4:28 PM To: Cavazos, David; Galvez, William E. Cc: Carvalho, Sonia R.; Mitre - Ramirez, Norma; Orozco, Norma; Trujillo, Rose Ann Subject: FW: Bristol Street Widening Project FYI Norma, please include in Agenda packet. From: bobi keenan [ Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 11:52 AM To: Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vince; Reyna, Roman; Martinez, Michele; Benavides, David; Amezcua, Angelica; Tinajero, Sal; Cavazos, David; Huizar, Maria Subject: Bristol Street Widening Project Dear Mayor Pulido, Council Members Amezcua, Benevides, Martinez, Reyna, Sarmiento & Tinajero, City Manager Cavazos and City Clerk Huizar, I believe the Bristol Street Widening Project will finally come before the Council for vote at the next Council Meeting. I will be out of town and not able to attend this meeting. Still, I want to reiterate my support for a vote to approve the project as recommended by staff. A "Full Take" is warranted and absolutely necessary for the free flow of vehicular, cyclist, and pedestrian traffic and for the safety of all who travel in any of these manners along that stretch of Bristol Street. The Bristol Street Business Coalition has argued, I think unconvincingly, that they should be allowed to stay in place. I do not believe that their interests should be allowed to take precedence over that of the general and traveling public. We will only have this one opportunity to build a complete street along this section of Bristol between Washington and 17th Street. We must not be held hostage to the wishes of a few businesses that are in the way of progress for our city. If they prevail, the street will not line up with what has been done south of Civic Center. It will also have a potential impact on the plan for widening the section between Civic Center and Washington which is pending. Vehicles will bottle -neck. There will not be room for setbacks between the street and the sidewalk. The sidewalks will not be wide enough to accommodate pedestrian traffic safely. Just take a look at the PERMANENT mistakes that have been made along Bristol south of First Street, where a dairy, an office building and a large house have been allowed to remain. In some places it's barely wide enough to push a stroller through the space between the buildings and posts that arise from the sidewalk because there is no setback! And it completely violates the aesthetic appearance of the roadway. This should not happen again!