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Council Memorandum
Honorable Mayor Hall and Members of the City Council
Paz Gomez, Deputy City Manager, Public Works
Elaine Lukey, Chief Operations Officer f,:t1_,
Barrio Intersections List,. Questions
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Memo ID# 2019138
This memorandum provides a response to que~tions generated by the Council Memorandum
distributed on Nov. 26, 2019, concerning Barrio Intersections List...:. Status of Customer Service
Requests.
Background
-The following questions were asked after the Nov. 26, 2019, Council Memorandum was issued:
1. "Were sight distance evaluations done both with and without cars parked in the area
encroaching on (or blocking) the ADA sidewalk ramps at the i'}_tersection terminus-points
of the sidewalks?"
2. "/ am also curious if the "solution" to parking along the corners of intersections is
assumed to be parking enforcement."
Discussion
The following responses are provided:
1. We do not conduct sight distance measurements with or without parked cars, rather we
conduct these measurements with the assumption that cars will be parked along the
curb where it is legally permissible to do so, which is an industry best practice. The ·
logistics of trying to study an intersection with and without parked cars would greatly
increase time and cost of conducting these types of measurements, and is not best
practice. Therefore, the presence or absence of parked cars does not affect our
studies. It should be noted that blocking of a pedestrian ramp at an intersection is illegal
in most cases per the California Vehicle Code and, a_s such, can be enforced without the
presence of red curb.
22500. A person shall not stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle. whether
attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other
traffic or in compliance with the directions of a peace officer or official traffic
control device, in any of the following places:
(a) Within an intersection, except adjacent to curbs as may be permitted by local
ordinance.
Public Works Branch
Faraday Center 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008 I 760-602-2730
Honorable Mayor Hall and Members of the City Council
Dec.4,2019
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(b) On a crosswalk, except that a bus engaged as a common carrier or a taxicab
may stop in an unmarked crosswalk to load or unload passengers when
authorized by the legislative body of a city pursuant to an ordinance.
275 "Crosswalk" js either: .. . .
(a) That portionof a roadway includedwithinthe prolongation or connection of
the boundary lines of sidewalks at intersectfons where the intersecting roadways
meet at approximately right angles, except the prolongation of such lines from
an alley across a street. .
(b) Any portjon of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines
or other markings on the surface.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, there shall not be a
crosswalk where local authorities have placed signs indicating no crossing.·
2. Yes, in cas~s where the blockage of a pedestrian ramp occurs, our Police Department
will enforce.
cc: Scott Chadwick, City Manager
Celia Brewer, City Attorney
Babaq Taj, Interim Transportation Director
John Kim, City Traffic Engineer