HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979-08-21; City Council; 3648-5; Revised RAQS Transportation Control Requirements` CITY OF CARLSBAD
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AGENDA BILL N0: 3648, Supplement 5 Dept. Hd.�
DATE: August 21, 1979 Cty. Atty��-_
Cty. Mgr.
DEPARTMENT: Planning
SUBJECT: "
IMPLEMENTATION OF REVISED RAQS TRANSPORTATION
CONTROL REQUIREMENTS
Statement of_ the Matter
On February,2,•1979, the City Council adopted Resolution 5668,
the Revised RAQS commitments to implement transportation control '
measures. In addition the Council requested•an update report on ;
the progress in six months.
Attached is the update as prepared by the City Engineer.. It
appears we generally have made progres's'on most of these tactics.
However, others such as expanded ride -sharing programs have,not
been fully implemented. We will look into this more fully in the
'hear future.
- Exhibits
Memo from City Engineer dated August 7, 1979
Resolution 5668, with Attachment A, Attachment B
Recommendation
• No action required.
Council Action:
Dduncil directed staff to return in 6 months with an additiondl
report on the matter.
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Planning Director
FROM: City Engineer
DATE: August 15, 1979
SUBJECT: PROGRESS REPORT ON RAQS COMMITMENTS
I have reviewed the comni.tments made by the City Council in adopting
Resolution No. 5668 and offer the following comments:
Tactic T-2 Expanded Ridesharing
1. The City agreed to designate a ridesharing coordinator, actively promote
ridesharing among employees and allow flexible working hours where
necessary to accommodate ridesharing. A Commuter Computer survey has been
taken and a ridesharing coordinator has been designated.
2. The City agreed to promote ridesharing programs to private employers and
to consider adoption of an ordinance requiring employers to establish a
ridesharing program and provide incentives for th�,ir employees to ride --
share. Further study remains to be done on this tactic.
Tactic T-5 Expanded Transit
1. The City agreed to work with transit operators to identify areas of on -street
parking and traffic congestion which adversely affect transit operations and
bicycle use and eliminate on -street parking in areas where it is found to
be detrimental to transit and bicycling. No on -street parking has been
eliminated in the past six months. However, last summer an extensive coor-
ination project with NCTD established 125 signed bus stops and no parking
zones at 49 locations.
2. The Council agreed to provide incentives for their employees to use public
transit for home -to -work trips by July, 1979. The Manager has authorized
flexible work hours to fit bus schedules.
Tactic T-7 Encourage Bicycle Travel
1 The City has made a commitment to establishing bicycle facilities.
Recently the striping and signing of a bicycle path on La Costa Boulevard
was completed, contracts were let for the C ,isbad Boulevard Bikeway and
plans are nearing completion for the widening of Marron Road to accommodate
a bicycle path.
2. The City has agreed to adopt a commuter bicycle program for its employees
including designation of a bicycle coordinator, promoting commuter bicycling
among employees and providing secure bicycle parking. The program is to be
implemented by September, 1979. Thus far, the City has been active in
distributing the CPO brochure "Commute by Bicycle," but has not really
developed a commuter bicycle program. The City has surveyed all its employees
in a bicycling questionnaire.
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Planning Director
August 15, 1979
Tactic_T-14 Traffic Flow Improvements
1. The City agreed to undertake traffic engineering improvements on appropri-
ate major streets to relieve identified points of congestion. The City
has made considerable effort to improve the traffic congestion problems
in the vicinity of the,Plaza Camino Real. A new signal on Marron Road,
improvement and interconnection of the E1 Camino Real signals and widening
of the CALTRANS bridge over the freeway are all scheduled for completion
this year'.
2. The City has a continuing program of adding new signals and upgrading old
ones. Signals at Elm and Carlsbad Boulevard were upgraded to include East/
West split phasing, and signals at E1 Camino Real and Hosp Way have been
installed. Signals at E1 Camino Real and Alga, E1 Camino Real and Palomar
Airport Road, Palomar Airport Road and Paseo del Norte and Elm and Pio
Pico are scbeduled for installation during the next fiscal year.
3. The parking lot at Plaza Camino Real is in the process of being redesigned
with driveways being consolidated and traffic being rechannelized. New
sidewalks for safer pedestrian movements are also being provided.
Tactic T-27
The City has agreed to encourage the pedestrian mode by incorporating pedestrian
system improvements in all feasible public work and private projects. The City
has taken a strong position on requiring sidewalks as part of all development.
The City also completed the installation of an asphalt walkway along Chestnut
Avenue during the past year.
LE:mmt
l RESOLUTION N0: 5668
2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE REVISED REGIONAL AIR QUALITY
3 STRATEGY COMMITMENTS TO IMPLEMENT TRANSPORTATION CONTROL MEASURES
4 WHEREAS, all local jurisdictions within the San Diego Region reviewed the
5 proposed Revised Regional Air Quality Strategy (RAQS) in September and October,
6 1978; and
7 WHEREAS, the Comprel:nsive Planning Organization (CPO) and the Air Pol-•
8 lotion Control Board (APCB -County Board of Supervisors) adopted the Revised
9 RAQS in October, 1978, and approved it for submittal to the State Air Resources
10 Board as the San Diego region's portions of the State implemantation Plan for
air quality; and
12 WHEREAS, the CPO has recommended that the cities of the San Diego region,
13 County of San Diego, transit operators, the Neiropolitan Transit Development
14 Board, Commuter Computer, CALTRANS, and the California Transportation Commission,
15 commit to the actions required to implement the transportation control measures
x6 as specified in Attachment A; and
•17 WHEREAS, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 require development and
18 expeditious implementation of all reasonably available transportation control
19 measures by jurisdictions with the appropriate authority; and
20 WHEREAS, the Revised RAQS contains reasonably available transportation
21 control measures to be implemented beginning in 1978, and provides for the
22 analyses and possible demonstration by CPO of other back-up transportation mea-
23 sures; and
24 WHEREAS, the Revised RAQS contains fixed and mobile source technical con-
25 trots, as well as tra-isDortation controls, that will allow the region to achieve
26 healthy air quality and avoic Federal sanctions with the least cost and disrup-
` 27 tion to the economy and standard of living of the region; and
28 WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad adopted Resolution No. 3915 on June 1, 1976
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the implementation program for the transportation measures contained in the
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original RAQS adopted in 1976, which form the basis for the commitments in
Attachment A; and
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WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad hold a public hearing on April 18, 1978 and
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adopted Resolution No. 5372 for the commitments to implement air quality trans-
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portation control measures;
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NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the. City of Carlsbad adopts the conKnit-
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Carlsbad adopts the resource
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commitments of staff time and funding as delineates' in Attachment B to carry
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out the implementation•of the transportation control measures.
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad,
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RONALD C. PACKARD, Mayor
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ATTEST:
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ALETHA L. RAUTENKRAN?, City Clerk
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ATTACHMENT A
REVISED SAN DIEGU REGIONA?. AIR QUALITY ZTRATEGY .
COMMITMENTS TO IMPLEMENT'
TRANSPORTATION CONTROL MEASURES
I. LOCAL JURISDICTIONS IMPIEMENT.ATION
SCHBDULE `-
Tactic T-2 Expanded Ridesharing ;
1. Adopt a ridesharing program for jurisdiction July, 1979
employees. The program should include actions
which are appropriate for each jurisdiction from the
�r following list:
.. •a. Designate a ridesharing coordinator.
b. Actively promote ridesharing among employees.
C. Al,ow flexible working hours where necessary ,
to accommodate ridesharing.
d.=-P�rovide-free-parking far-ridesharers.N/A Parking is w freafor al
e.-Eliminate.-subsidized parking-fGr iaoa-ri.des�harers. N/t•� 1 y employees,
{ 2. Promote voluntary• ridesharing program to private CONTINUOUS
- employers within the jurisdiction.
' a_ Distribute ridesharing program information.
b. , `Assist in setting up new programs.
c.-Provide incentives -for vmployers'1.o establish- (This tactic capnot
ridesharing•programs (e.-g: reduced require-McRoldtl
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ments for•clevelcped-o sit 'parking) u *E'
9: Consider adoption of an ordinance proposed by CPO 1979-80 fiscal yea
to require that employers establish a ridesharing
program and provide incentives for their employees '
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to rideshare. (April -July 1979)
t Tactic T-5 Expanded Transit CONTINUOUS
1. Work with transit operators to identify areas of on -
street parking and traffic congestion which adversely
affect transit operations and bicycle use. '
2. Where warranted, eliminate on -street parking in areas CONTINUOUS
where it is agreed to•be-detrimental to transit and -
bicycling. ,
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Revised San Diego Regional Air Quality Strategy
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I: LOCAL, JURISDICTION'S
IMPLEMII`ITATIOis;•
SC11EDULI_':
Tactic T-5 Expanded Transit (cont'd.)
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3. Undertake traffic engineering improvements on
CONTINUOUS
appropriate major streets to relieve identified points
of congestion. (TIP -Table 5-3)
4. ` Cooperate in developing park -and -ride facilities
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contained in the Transportation Improvement Program
(TIP) and proposed through future revisions to the
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Transportation System Management Element MIME).
(TIP - Table 5-3)
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5. Provide incentives for jurisdictions' employees to use
July, 'i979
public transit for home -to -work trips (e. g., fare
reimbursement and/flexible work hours where
necessary). or,.
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Tactic rT-7 Encourage Bicycle Travel
1. Commit to establishing the bicycling facilities
CONTINUOUS �
identified in the TIP (TIP - Table 1-3, 5-11)
contingent on the availability of adequate funding.
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2. Adopt a commuter bicycle program for jurisdic' ion
September, 1979
employees. The program should include actiona which
are appropriate for each jurisdiction from the
following list:
a. Designate a bicycle coordinator.
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• b. Actively promote commuter bicycling among
employees.
• c. Proyide free, secure bicycle parking.,, ,
d. Provide showers and locker rooms for bicycle
commuters. (To be included only as part of new facilites
as funding is available)
3. Include bicycles in the jurisdictions' vehicle fleet
1979-80 (f i sca Iyear
for use on short trips, where warranted. (bicycles must. be pur•chaset
I 4. Promote voluntary commuter bicycle programs to
CONTINUOUS
private employers within the jurisdiction.
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j Tactic T-14 Traffic •Plow-�Improvements k� , ., r,
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Identify, and undertake the following improvements where
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; ; appropriate to smooth traffieAlows and, maintain travel speeds ;(see, Attachmont,!B;�_ "A.
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at current levels;' (TIP -"Table 5-3)
for• funding) '`'
Attachment A
Revised San Diego Regional Air Quality Strategy
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I. LOCAL JURISDICTIONS
IMPLEMENTATION
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SCHEDULE..
Tactic T-14 Traffic Flow Improvements (cont'd. )
1. Install computerized traffic control systems.
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2. Convert from "time" to "traffic" actuated signals.
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3. Replace "stop" signs with "yield" signs vrhere con-
•sistent with public safety considerations.
4. Channelization of vehicles.
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S. One-way streets.
6. Tutn pockets separate from through lanes.
7.. Parking restrictions.
8.- Off-street loading. -
Tactic T-27 Encourage Pedestrian Mode
CONTINUOUS
1. Incorporate pedestrian system improvements in all
' feasible public work projects and encourage them in
all feasible pz•ivate projects.
Tactic T-28 Ex arded Interurban Bus and Rail
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train strops are planne
1. -Provide intermodal transportation -terminals to - for Carlsbad at this
-ccrordinate-rail; bns, =4transit •serviee-where- time. ,
-needed:
Process=T-1 (modified) Process for Coordinated Land
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Use and Transportation Actions
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1. Continue to participate in the biennial Regional Growth
CONTINUOUS
Forecasting process.
2. Refer proposed general and community plans or plan
CONTINUOUS '
amendments which are inccnsistent with the location
and timing of development in the current Regional
Growth Forecasts to the CPO Board of Iiirectors for
review and recommendations regarding consistency
with process T-1 (modified), and the Revised RAQS.
3. Consider adopting project level measures to facilitate
(when provided by
the use of transit, ridesharing, bicycles, and Nvalking.
CPO; also included -`
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Tactic F-4 Fugitive- Dust, Unpaved Roads
1980,
*F "• „ 1. Participate in process with CPO and the APCD to
designate s'eIed�ed unpaved roads•.tobe chip -sealed
beginning in 1980.
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ATTACH13
- REVISED SAN DIEGO REGIONAL AIR QUALITY STRATEGY - -
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RESOURCE COMMITMENTS TO rMPLENIEDNT
• TRANSPORTATIOj`7 CONTROL MEASURES
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- Resource Commitments
Fiscal.Year
3978-79
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Staff -months
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T-2 Expanded Ridesha.ring
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staff 'fiima only'.
' T-5 Expanded Transit
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staff time onl
: T-7 Encourage Bicycle Travel
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T-I4 Traffic Flout Improveinents
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1 S i gna i - ECR 8 Hosp Way
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2. Signal - ECR Alya, Dove•
'3. Sfreet ov*erl ays
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a. Marron Road
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T-27 Encourage. Pedestrian Mode
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1. Chestnut Avenue walkway
$ 000
T-28 Expanded Interurban Bus and Rail.
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Process T-1 (modified) Process for
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staff time only
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Coordinated Land Use and Transpor-
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