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Traffic consultant recommends 22 stalls, crosswalk and signage; residents warn overflow could clog Beach Drive
Summary
A transportation consultant told the hearing the park will generate modest peak-hour trips and recommended 22 parking stalls (10 on-site, the rest off-site at City Hall), a marked crosswalk to link the sidewalk, and signage limiting turns; residents testified they expect summer overflow and emergency-access concerns on narrow Beach Drive.
Kirk Harris, a traffic and transportation engineer with Transportation Solutions, testified that his firm's traffic-impact analysis (TIA) found the local road network meets accepted level-of-service standards today and when forecast to 2027, and that the park's projected trip generation is modest when measured using locally applicable datasets. Harris explained why he used a Western-region park study (San Luis Obispo / Santa Rosa student study) rather than the ITE national park average for trip generation: national ITE rates are driven by much larger parks and understate trips for small, waterfront parks.
Using regional trip rates and peak-hour counts, Harris said the projected incremental traffic at the park driveway is small (single-digit vehicles in the study peak hour), and that adding the forecasted park trips…
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