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MEETING OF:
DATE OF lUIEETlNG:
TIIUIE OF MEETING:
PLACE OF MEETING:
TRAFFIC SAFETY COORDINATING COMMITTEE
February 23, 2012
8:00 a.m.
Room 240 - Faraday Center
CALL TO ORDER:
John Kim called the meeting to order at 8:03 a.m.
ROLL CALL:
Committee Members Present: John Kim, Associate Engineer
Dominic Fieri, Fire Department
Heidi Versteeg, Engineering Technician II
Staff Members Present: Jim Gale, Engineering Technician It
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
ACTION:
VOTE:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
Motion by Heidi Versteeg and duly seconded by Dominic Fieri to
approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on October 27,
2011, as presented.
3-0-0
Versteeg, Fieri, Kim
None
None
No Traffic Safety Coordinating Committee meetings were held in November, December, or
January.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS:
None
PREVIOUS BUSINESS:
Jim Gale mentioned that the All-Way STOP at the intersection of Monroe Street/Gayle Way,
previously heard by this committee, is scheduled to be installed the week of February 27, 2012.
Bryan Jones amved at 8:10 a.m.
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Dominic Fieri inquired as to the status of the pedestrian improvements along Carisbad
Boulevard between Carisbad Village Drive and Tamarack Avenue.
Mr. Jones explained that those improvements will be combined with Improvements at the
Intersection of Carisbad Boulevard/State Street and then be taken together to the City Council
at a future date.
NEW BUSINESS:
6A: Paseo Aliso at Via Adelfa - Investigate the need to establish an Alt-Way STOP
John Kim presented the staff report explaining that the subject Intersection is located adjacent to
El Camlno Creek Elementary School. The request originated from a school parent who lives in
the residential area east ofthe school,
John said both Paseo Aliso and Via Adelfa are unclassified per the Circulation Element of the
General Plan but function as local streets. John explained the roadway widths, available
paridng, traffic volumes, traffic collision history and roadway geometries of both roadways. John
mentioned that over the past five years, only one reported traffic collision occun-ed at the subject
intersection and it occuned on December 2, 2011. It was an injury accident and Involved an 11-
year-old pedestrian.
John said the intersection does not meet wanrants for All-Way STOP criteria based on minimum
traffic volumes, collision history, or limited sight distance but does have significant pedestrian
activity before and after school. Staff conducted pedestrian counts at the subject intersection on
a typical school day and detemiined that 21 adults and 42 children crossed Paseo Aliso in the
moming before school and 29 adults and 50 children crossed Paseo Allso after school. John
said the California MUTCD allows consideration of an all-way STOP at intersections, such as
this, where there is a "need to control vehicle/pedestrian conflicts near locations that generate
high pedestrian volumes".
Considering the aforementioned factors, staff recommends that an all-way STOP be established
at the subject intersection and a mari<ed crosswalk be painted across Paseo Aliso on the south
side of the intersection.
ACTION: Motion by Dominick Fieri and duly seconded by Heidi Versteeg that the Traffic
Safety Coordinating Committee agree with staffs recommendation to Install an
Alt-Way STOP at Paseo Aliso/Via Adelfa with a mari<ed school crosswalk across
Paseo Aliso on the south leg ofthe intersection.
VOTE: 3-0-0
AYES: Fieri, Versteeg, Kim
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
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OTHER BUSINESS:
John Kim stated that the City's traffic calming program (Carisbad Residential Traffic
Management Program) has been revised and is ready to be administered.
John Kim said if a meeting is held next month, It witt be held on March 22, 2012. Exact time and
location will be noted on the agenda.
ADJOURNMENT:
By proper motion, the meeting of February 23, 2012 was adjourned at 8:30 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
odames Gale
Engineering Technician 11
Traffic Division
Transportation Department