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Carmel-by-the-Sea seeks community input on downtown stop signs
Summary
City leaders asked residents for input on whether to add stop signs in the village core, saying the City Council is the only body authorized to approve stop signs and staff will bring recommendations from a traffic safety committee.
Carmel-by-the-Sea officials asked the community for input on potential new stop signs downtown and said the City Council must approve any additions.
“We try not to over sign, have too many regulatory, or directional signs, in the city,” Speaker 1 said while introducing the item. Speaker 2 added, “the city council is actually the only body that can approve a stop sign in the city.”
Council members said the city’s traffic safety committee — with input from the police chief, Anna (the city planning director), and Ken (the public works director) — is advising on potential stop sign locations. The council framed the discussion as balancing visitor wayfinding and pedestrian safety with a desire to avoid excessive regulatory signage.
Speakers noted the village’s rising visitor numbers and increased pedestrian traffic as reasons to revisit downtown traffic controls. “There’s more people that are here than ever before, more, more cars, more pedestrians,” Speaker 1 said.
No ordinance text, location list, or vote was recorded in the transcript; the remarks requested community input and indicated that staff and committee recommendations will be presented to the council for formal consideration.
