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Home My WebLink AboutCORRESPONDENCE - #38Les (Imm MI � Fisher Park Flower Street Traffic Calming Project (Between Memory Lane and the Santiago Creek Bridge) Santa Ana City Council Budget Workshop Tuesday, May 17, 2022 t x s, 0 lk l{. i Y '4 pa � R'r l 4• � 4i�,'gG e� 1 Orozco, Norma From: Les Hall <Ihall.mail@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 2:48 PM To: eComment Cc: Lopez, Jessie Subject: Item 38 / Budget Workshop (Business Calendar) / Santa Ana City Council Meeting / May 17, 2022 Begin forwarded message: From: Les Hall <lhall.mail(cD-gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: Flower Street Parkway Tree Petition and Potential Landscaped Medians Date: May 17, 2022 at 12.06.21 PM PDT To: "Lopez, Jessie" <JessieLopez(aD-santa-ana.orq> Cc: Carol Cossaboom <Carol.Cossaboom(a)-gmail.com>, Nancy Collins <nancycollins53(a)icloud.com>, Marcela Rodriguez <maranngio(c-yahoo.com>, Salomeh Kingston <skingston2276(agmail.com>, Paul Sanford <psanford100(agmail.com>, Ryan Murphy <rfmurphy81(q)-gmail.com>, Tessie Rios <gd2btess(a)-gmail.com> Jessie Thank you so much for participating in yesterday's Zoom meeting. A few of us are planning to attend tonight's City Council Budget Workshop to present whatever info we can. We're still learning how all this works but don't want to get left out of the process. Carol's sister is in the ICU so won't be able to attend tonight, but I think her input is very important so wanted to share that with you. I also added the same photos I originally presented awhile ago, but wanted you to have all this information together. I think photos really are worth a thousand words to show why we need help. Tonight and as this process goes forward what we are basically just hoping for is that City decisions on funding priorities be made based more on their individual merits and not based on who people know. Thanks so much for representing us all. Sincerely, Les Hall 1211 W River Lane Santa Ana, CA 92706 Begin forwarded message: From: Carol Cossaboom <carol.cossaboom(agmail.com> Subject: Re: Flower Street Parkway Tree Petition and Potential Landscaped Medians Date: May 17, 2022 at 12.46.44 AM PDT To: Les Hall <Ihall. mail(a-)gmail.com> Cc: Nancy Collins <nancycollins53(a)icloud.com>, marcela rodriguez <maranngio(a-)yahoo.com>, Salomeh Kingston <skingston2276(a)gmail.com>, Paul Sanford <psanford100(a-)-gmail.com>, Ryan Murphy <rfmurphy81(agmail.com>, Tessie Rios <gd2btess(a)gmail.com> Hi Les, I truly wish I could participate in tomorrow's meeting, it seems like a great opportunity for Fisher Park to get some much needed investment at the City level. As we all know, Flower Street north of the Santiago Creek bridge remains disjointed from the surrounding areas of our neighborhoods. This section of Flower Street feels more like a road, and oftentimes a racing strip. Our portion of Flower Street, with its unnecessarily wide lanes and lack of shade trees, seems to promote a more industrial or commercial zone feel, rather than it's actual single- family residential zoning. As a homeowner on this section of Flower Street, I have experience near collisions while I simply try to enter my drive way. I had one particular incident where a motorist attempted to illegally pass me on the right as I was turning into my driveway, nearly hitting the side of my car where my toddler was seated. My home is past the section where the painted street symbols indicate the transition from two lanes to one lane but because there is no physical narrowing of the street, motorists ignore the street lines. I fear when my guests park their cars on the street (though we have permits) that their car will be crashed into because of the y tempered speed and recklessness of motorist on this section of the street. As a mother of a toddler living in this neighborhood, I feel unsafe walking across the street to Jack Fisher Park because motorist drive so fast and disregard the crosswalk. While all of us in Fisher Park appreciate the intentions behind the new lit up crosswalk signs, I am disappointed to say it has not helped tame the traffic. Just today, May 16, I pushed the button to indicate I was crossing the street with my 1 year old son and 5 cars zoomed by, not slowing at all. There are many young families in Fisher Park and adjoining neighborhoods and we should all be able to feel safe walking our young children to the park, this is sadly not the case at the moment. I urge the City to prioritize safety when allocating funds. The facts is, Flower Street, north of the Santiago Creek does not have any effective traffic calming infrastructure and it is inequitable to other portions of the street. Flower Street, 2 north of Memory Lane is not a through street and that helps calm traffic on that portion. Flower Street, south of the Santiago Creek bridge has a median and narrower streets which help slow traffic, same as Memory Lane (east of Bristol). Our section of the street has been left behind on development and it is becoming increasingly unsafe. I along with many homeowners on North Flower work hard to preserve and maintain the dignity of our homes. We have a Key and several Contributive historical homes that we as homeowners are proud to restore and maintain to honor our City's rich history, we only ask that the City provide us with the similar consideration it has given to our adjoining neighborhoods. All the best, Carol Cossaboom 2606 N. Flower Street On May 16, 2022, at 6:03 PM, Les Hall <lhall.mail@gmail.com> wrote: Carol Here's another copy of the email I sent in March. I understand you can't attend the City Council Budget Workshop Meeting tomorrow, but maybe helpful if you could respond with your input re: Flower Street traffic issues. I'll forward your comments to Jessie Lopez so she has more input from Fisher Park, and especially from someone living on Flower Street. Les On Mar 10, 2022, at 2:21 PM, Les Hall <lhall.mailggmail.com> wrote: Carol Wanted to let you know that I had a great meeting today with Mayor Sarmiento, Nabil Saba (Public Works Director) and Zdenek "Zed" Kekula (Principal Civil Engineer of Traffic Engineering) about your Petition for additional street trees on Flower Street. No promises, but everyone seemed very positive and supportive, including the Mayor. You did a lot of work getting the Petition signed. We'll see what happens. We also discussed the possibility of adding landscaped medians to Flower Street between Memory Lane and the north side of Santiago Creek Bridge. This was your original suggestion and would be an incredible improvement to Fisher Park if we can persuade the City to do this. Again, no promises, and there will still need to be significant engineering studies re: what's possible and City funds will need to be allocated. But - everyone seemed positive and supportive and they are actively looking at the issue. The Mayor even mentioned that he had often been curious while driving on Flower Street why that had never been done. Keeping fingers crossed this all moves forward. Les 41 Memory Lane going east towards Flower Street 7 ti f' 1 ig 4 #2 Flower Street south of the Santiago Crek Bridge #3 Flower Street north of the Santiago Street bridge IA Y