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Subject:FW: Planning Commission Meeting - March 30, 2020 - One Broadway Plaza Project
Date:Monday, March 30, 2020 8:16:24 AM
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Subject: Planning Commission Meeting - March 30, 2020 - One Broadway Plaza Project
Dear Chairperson McLaughlin;
One Broadway Plaza will create over 3,000 additional vehicle trips which will negatively impact theDowntown, Lacy, Logan, French Court and French Park Neighborhoods. One Broadway Plaza will alsodegrade the health and safety of our community, and the quality of life for thousands of Santa Anaresidents who reside there.
Traffic already has a stranglehold on these neighborhoods, and One Broadway Plaza will only worsenthat problem. One Broadway Plaza will construct over 500,000 square feet of new developed space, build402 apartment units, 18 floors of office space, a restaurant and retail businesses with zero neighborhood-specific traffic mitigations.
In response to the One Broadway Plaza project the neighborhoods of Logan, Lacy, French Court,Downtown and French Park (the Neighborhoods) DEMAND that the Planning Commission requirephysical traffic mitigation and calming requirements be placed on the project for the benefit of theNeighborhoods.
The Neighborhoods propose the One Broadway Plaza project;
1. Prepare a Master Traffic Mitigation and Calming Plan
2. Master Traffic Mitigation and Calming Plan must have the written satisfaction of the City of SantaAna, and the written satisfaction of the Neighborhoods
3. Will plan, design and construct all physical improvements identified in the Master Traffic Mitigationand Calming Plan
4. The Master Traffic Mitigation and Calming Plan will include, but not be limited to the following trafficmitigation and calming measures:
* Diverters, including turn restrictions, physical barriers and signage, to stop vehicles at key locations fromentering the neighborhoods, and to move vehicle traffic away, and on to larger thoroughfares.
*. Diverters and Calming Measures should include:
· Curb extensions and signage to divert vehicle traffic, and reduce the crossing distance for
pedestrians
· Barriers and planters to restrict vehicles while allowing pedestrians and bicycles to pass
· Traffic-calming bumps to encourage safer and more responsible driving, and to combat speeding
and unsafe behaviors.
· Roadway striping to slow speeding traffic
· Narrowed roadways to slow traffic on residential streets, and improve pedestrian and bicycle
safety. Slower traffic reduces the severity of accidents, reduces noise, and improves the livabilityof residential streets.
o Narrowed streets may include, but not be limited to, landscape planters in parking lanes,
raised medians, curb bulb-outs at intersections and mid-block, or a chicane (a slightbump toward a travel lane that creates a shallow curve) causing vehicle movement toslow
· Roundabouts to improve traffic movement at key intersections, to reduce collisions, and improve
safety
One-way traffic movement to limit ingress into a neighborhood
5. And City Staff to request the Council take action to identify Downtown, Lacy, Logan, French Court andFrench Park as "Traffic-Calmed Neighborhoods" once all traffic mitigation and calming improvements areinstalled.
6. Tasks 1 through 5 become the sole responsibility of the One Broadway Plaza developer, and shall be:
· Required as Conditions of Approval on the project
· Included in to the City's Development Agreement for the project for the Neighborhoods
· Fully funded by the Developer through a CASH deposit
The Neighborhoods seek these necessary remedies due to the severe lack of current and planned trafficmitigation and calming measures denied them. Neighborhood representatives are available to meet withthe City and the Applicant to begin discussions about the type and location of the aforementionedmeasures at the earliest possible convenience.
Thank you,
Jeff Dickman, French Park
714 240 0883