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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-14-2006 - Minutes TCCITY OF ORANGE CITY TRAFFIC COMMISSION Minutes of a Regular Meeting: June 14, 2006 Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated. I. OPENING A. Flag Pledge B. Roll Call Present – Commissioners: J. Beil, N. Lall, F. Petronella, J. Pyne, L. Dick Present – Staff: T. Mahood, D. Allenbach, W. Winthers, Sgt. S. O’Toole, P. Then C. Approval of Minutes Š May 10, 2006 ACTION: Approved with correction to pg. 11, first sentence of final paragraph, delete “elite” and replace with “heavy”. MOTION: N. Lall SECOND: F. Petronella AYES: J. Beil, N. Lall, F. Petronella ABSTAIN: J. Pyne, L. Dick II. ORAL PRESENTATIONS None this meeting. III. CONSENT CALENDAR A. Request for the installation of “2-HOUR” time limit parking on Cypress St. adjacent to the business at 335 W. Chapman Ave. David Black 335 W. Chapman Ave. Orange CA 92866 ACTION: Approved the request and install a “2-HOUR” time limit parking zone on Cypress St. adjacent to the business at 335 W. Chapman Ave. June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 2 B. Request for the installation of red curb markings on both sides of the driveway at 182 S. Pepper St. Clarissa Saiz 182 S. Pepper St. Orange CA 92867 ACTION: Approved the installation of 15 feet of red curb on both sides of the subject driveway. C. Request for the installation of red curb markings on both sides of the driveway serving 576/588 N. Glassell St. Barbara McGuire 576 N. Glassell St. Orange CA 92867 ACTION: Approved the installation of 25 feet of red curb on both sides of the subject driveway. D. Request to prohibit left turns from southbound Santiago Boulevard at Brookside Avenue/Ralph’s Shopping Center driveway. Nick Lall, Vice Chairman City Traffic Commission CITY OF ORANGE ACTION: Continued until the Sept. 13, 2006 Traffic Commission meeting. There being no speakers from the audience requesting any item be heard separately, the Chairman closed the public hearing and returned the items to the Commission for further discussion and a motion. ACTION: Approved items A, B & C of the Consent Calendar, and continue item #D until the September 13, 2006 Traffic Commission meeting. MOTION: L. Dick SECOND: N. Lall AYES: Unanimous 77777777777777777 End of Consent Items 777777777777777777 Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 3 IV. CONSIDERATION ITEMS 1. Request for the implementation of a Neighborhood Parking Permit program on both sides of the 200 block of N. Olive St. and the north side of Maple Ave. from 115 W. Maple Ave. to Olive St. Anke Vogelvang 288 N. Olive St. Orange CA 92866 The oral presentation is based on the written staff report; please refer to your copy. There being no speakers from the audience the Chairman closed the public hearing and returned the items to the Commission for further discussion and a motion. Chairman Beil – I think this is one that perfectly applies to the Parking Permit Program for Old Towne, the Chapman University area. It is heavily parked; I’m going to support this. ACTION: Approved the request to implement the parking permit program on both sides of the 200 block of N. Olive St. and the north side of Maple Ave. from 115 W. Maple Ave. to Olive St. MOTION: N. Lall SECOND: F. Petronella AYES: Unanimous NOES: ABSTAIN: Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 4 2. Request for the installation of an “All-Way” STOP control at the intersection of Olive St. and Palm Ave. Anke Vogelvang 288 N. Olive St. Orange CA 92866 The oral presentation is based on the written staff report; please refer to your copy. Chairman Beil opened the public hearing for the following discussion: Ted Robinson, 236 N. Olive St. – (Absentee property owner) – I wonder if any consideration has been given that with the film school that will open next year, and also I didn’t hear any mention of pedestrian traffic. I use that intersection 3 or 4 times a day and there’s always people crossing here, this is a busy intersection and it’s going to get busier when the film school opens. The chairman closed the public hearing and returned the item to the Commission for further discussion and a motion. ACTION: 1. Denied the request for an “All-Way” STOP control 2. Approved the installation of 30 feet of red curb markings on the southeast corner of the intersection. Add “CROSS TRAFFIC DOES NOT STOP” plate to the existing STOP signs on Palm Ave. and Olive St. MOTION: L. Dick SECOND: N. Lall AYES: Unanimous NOES: Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 5 3. Request for the implementation of “NO OVERNIGHT PARKING” restrictions on the 500 block of N. Wayfield St. and the 1900 block of E. Madison Ave. Dave Frizzle 525 N. Wayfield St. Orange CA 92867 The oral presentation is based on the written staff report; please refer to your copy. Chairman Beil opened the public hearing for the following discussion: The following people spoke as opposing the overnight parking restriction. George Tastard, 1721 E. Madison Ave. – I rent out this house. We live on a cul- de-sac and at the end of the street there is a liquor store, across the street, there’s a business right next to me, it’s a foot doctor, behind me there is a furniture store and we don’t have any problem parking there at night, for us. I can see their point, their concerns are legitimate. If they’re going to put in these no parking signs they don’t need to put them in all the way to the end of the cul-de-sac. I would be upset too if someone was parked all weekend in front of my house when they had no business being there, it’s a bad situation for everybody. Isn’t there a city-owned empty lot on Walnut before the freeway, they could make that into a parking lot. Diane Bunton, 1810 E. Orange Grove Ave. – The street I live on isn’t part of what you’re talking about but if you have this take effect everybody parking over there is going to park over on my street. I’m over on Orange Grove and we already have it totally impacted we have many families with lots of cars so its pretty much all filled up at night so there’s not going to be any additional room for any more vehicles to park so I object to the whole idea of the restricted parking because the people have to park somewhere. I don’t know how they’re going to handle people coming from other neighborhoods and parking but in our own neighborhood alone there’s lots of people that have to use on-street parking because otherwise there’s no place to park their cars. If there are commercial vehicles parking in the area that’s already illegal and I think they need to maybe issue more tickets. Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 6 Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated. Caroline A. Cadiz, 1733 E. Madison Ave. – There are a lot of cars at times on the street but I have a handicapped brother that my sister and I take care of, usually she goes home about 8:30 or 10:00 so she would have to find parking somewhere else and last week my daughter was visiting from out of town, they wouldn’t have had any parking at night. With permit parking would each person get the whole front of their house to permit only for them or would other people also get to park there with permits? Chairman Beil – If you have a permit you can park anywhere in the parking permit zone. Caroline A. Cadiz, 1733 E. Madison Ave. – So you wouldn’t be guaranteed a spot? Chairman Beil – Nothing assures you of a spot when you get home. The following people support the overnight parking restriction. Bill Telkamp, 535 N. Wayfield St. – The parking on Wayfield St. has been good until the last 2-3 years when Oak St. started to fill up and now they’re starting to spill over to Wayfield St., Madison St. and its beginning to look like a use car lot in the evening. I fully object to that and I would support Dave Frizzle’s request that the time be from 11:30 pm to 7:00 am this will allow the families in the neighborhood to have whatever they need for street parking. Dona Strader, 545 N. Wayfield St. – I have 4 children and if they come to visit me there’s no room to park. I have grandchildren and I have to go see them because there’s nowhere for them to park if they come to my house. I would like something done so my children can come and see me. Don Strader, 545 N. Wayfield – They said everything I had to say, I do support the parking restriction. I think it’s pretty bad when they park a great big U-Haul truck on the street for the weekend. David Frizzel, 525 Wayfield St. – This was an R-1 zoned area when I bought my home and on Sunday night at 8 pm on Madison St. there were 30 cars in that small area and that is not counting the cars in the driveway. On the 500 block of Wayfield St. there were 26 cars plus cars parked in the garage with the doors down. Two of houses are vacant one on Wayfield St. and one on Madison St.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 7 and some of these are being used commercially and multi-family units and one on Madison is being used for college students at Chapman University and they 4-5 students living there and they have to park people out on the street and that would interfere with them, that is not a commercial area, it’s zoned for R-1 single-family residences. On Oak St. on Saturday night where most of the problems arise, these people overflow, of the 30 cars parked on Wayfield that night there were 3 commercial vehicles, one of them was long enough that it took up all 3 parking spaces in front of my home, they came in on Friday night and they parked there until Monday morning and they left sometime about 6-7 am on Monday. I went over on Oak St. just to see what was going that Sunday night and there were 161 cars parked on the 300-400 block of Oak St., and that is a big batch of cars. They come over from Oak St. starting on Friday night and there were 3 commercial trucks parked there and these people drive them home from work and then park them over the weekend and then they drive their regular vehicles and just leave the other trucks parked there until Monday morning. By 8:30 p.m. Sunday there was not 1 unused parking space available on Wayfield and Madison at 4:30 a.m. Monday the police was notified about an alarm going off, that alarm went off from 4:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The police officer came over at 9:00 a.m. at my request and ran a check on the owner of the vehicle and it was registered to an address over on Oak St. The residents of the house where this vehicle was parked and the alarm was sounding has 2 small children whose bedrooms are in the front of the house and that noise kept her and her 2 children up all night. We feel something has to be don there and after I talked about the NO OVERNIGHT parking from 11:30 pm to 7:00 am so the residents could have company and they could park on the street and we didn’t want it from 7 pm to 7 am but from 11:30 pm to 7:00 am would keep people from other neighborhoods from parking there overnight. A lot of these cars from Oak St. have leaking radiators and you find overflow from coolant, oil and water and it makes our neighborhood look bad. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 41 years and I’ve kept my property up and I don’t like these junky cars coming over and parking for 3 days. Vice Chairman Lall - The parking permit is not an option at this time, we are only dealing with the restricted parking right now. Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 8 Richard Lowe, 1810 E. Madison Ave. – we originally moved into a quiet residential neighborhood and that neighborhood has changed into a growing community of overloaded rental property along with the vehicles that come from that overloading. There are small businesses being operated from homes with a multitude of vehicles associated with construction trades and they fill up the streets. That’s from within the residents of that area itself. The overflow from whatever is going on at Oak St. that tremendous overcrowding along that length of road is moving in and taking up residential parking space on the streets. I expect to be able to come home in the evening or our guests on a Sunday afternoon being able to park in front of my house. That is disappearing and it’s a 2-part problem and I’m hoping with the installation of these ‘NO PARKING’ signs that will alleviate the problem cause there sure isn’t a problem parking on those streets on Thursday morning when the street sweeper comes. Chairman Beil – Has there been any consideration given to implementing permit parking program in the area? Richard Lowe, 1810 E. Madison Ave. – I only have a vague knowledge of permit parking. I understand it would be harder to enforce, and I think it’s costly for people in the parking permit program area. Chairman Beil – There is an initial fee and then acquiring the actual permits, there’s certain limits as to the number of permits per household, we have quite a bit of it in other areas of Orange, the Chapman University area has a huge permit parking program, and I believe we’ve got it down now in the City where it is effective. I’m just curious as to the feelings of your neighbors? Richard Lowe, 1810 E. Madison Ave. – I’d welcome feedback on any other options, one comment would be to say NO PARKING from 7 pm to 7 am will be a hardship on a few people, some who are absentee property owners, and some people like me will have to make accommodations, but everybody there has a 2- car garage and at least space in the driveway for 2 vehicles. The chairman closed the public hearing and returned the item to the Commission for further discussion and a motion. Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 9 Commissioner Dick – If in fact the residents are interested restricting the parking overnight I can see the reason they would like to restrict it as late in the evening as possible to allow them to have guests over in the evenings, and then for them to be able to come and go. I agree that this might be a solution and would recommend it be approved, with a modification of time limit. Vice Chairman Lall – I’d have to comment along the same lines that 7 pm to 7 am would be as harmful to the homeowners as it would be to solve the problem. Moving it to 11:30 pm I think will allow some latitude for homeowners to have guests over and still work on solving this problem. Commissioner Dick – There’s a lady who remarked about a potential hardship because of a handicapped brother, could we make an exception and put in a handicapped space at the curb? I don’t know if you can do that if it says NO PARKING. Tom Mahood, City Traffic Engineer –Generally handicap parking is exempt from time restrictions. In this case it’s not as simple as that, there would have to be a concrete landing put in the parkway adjacent to where the handicap parking stall would be located, providing a safe area for loading and unloading passengers, this is done by the homeowner requesting the handicap space under the terms of an encroachment permit from the City. We typically don’t post the signs until after that landing is installed. Commissioner Dick – If someone were to approach us with this sort of thing I would be tempted to vote in favor of such a petition. Tom Mahood – It should be processed as a separate request and not part of another request, and we would do a separate investigation. We do about 3 or 4 of these a year. Chairman Beil – What about the enforcement of that? Sergeant O’Toole, OPD Traffic Bureau – The speaker spoke of her sister coming to assist her with a handicap resident, not being an actual handicapped driver. Enforcement in that area being at night time is primarily going to be call driven, residents making complaints of violations because there is no regular parking control during those hours. Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 10 Chairman Beil – I have a lot of empathy with you cause I see the spillover going on and there is a horrendous amount of densification of a lot of our housing in Orange, particularly in areas where there are apartment complexes, there are extremely high occupancy levels in multi-family housing units such as on Oak St., however we have a whole bunch of those things happening all around the City. You’ve seen the actual discussion regarding occupancy rates in various types of residences, that’s a lively debate and it is happening because of this type of spillover happening in our well-established communities. My position is that I don’t really see a timed parking restriction as the cure; I’m trying to find out feedback on a permit-parking program. I think the appropriate way to really deal with this is to get the residents together in this area including Madison, Wayfield and as far down on Orange Grove as you want, and talk about establishing a neighborhood parking permit program. There is an initial application fee to conduct the studies then you have to go out and survey everybody in the permit parking area and get at least 51% in favor, that gets your whole neighborhood buy-in on that, you would then purchase parking permits. I don’t really think time restrictions are the way to go because time restrictions is going to start happening all over Orange where we have densification spillover and the result of that is that a lot of people who are really put under a lot of hardship regardless of time that you put those in, people who work at night, if you make it 11:30 pm or midnight people are going to have to go out and move their car in the middle of the night. I’m sure residents will be cited out there if this happens. I would like to recommend a continuance to explore the possibility of a discussion with the neighborhood on a parking permit program. Commissioner Dick – It makes sense to me. Vice Chairman Lall – That was my initial thought. Chairman Beil – My position will be to deny this action as presented and really recommend to the residents that you talk to staff and get all the details on a parking permit program, it is very successful in other parts of Orange, as far as rental properties and how that all works. Commissioner Pyne – I understand where you’re coming from and I agree with the fact that sitting here it seems that the parking restriction is not a fix, it’s almost cutting off your nose to spite your face. But the item we’re dealing with has to do with restricted time parking and the better of 2 evils would be to go Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 11 along with their request modifying the time of the restriction and see if this works. If it doesn’t work we have different options down the line, but I had heard some discuss that there could possibly be the monetary requirement that has to be paid in order for the studies might be restrictive for the residents. Dave Allenbach, Transportation Analyst – Application fee for permit parking is $965. In the past, generally, neighbors will pass the hat through the neighborhood and the contact person will come in and we will get one check from that person, but the neighborhood has contributed some amount of money toward that application fee so that one person isn’t bearing the entire cost. If the motion is approved there is also a very nominal fee for the actual parking permits but its very inexpensive after that. The main thing is the application fee, which covers the generation of the permit, establishing the area and performing our study and presenting it to the Traffic Commission. Chairman Beil – You say enforcement of time restrictions is call generated, we’re not going to be out there routinely patrolling for parking violations that time of night. Sergeant Sean O’Toole – You may get a few patrol officers, and we do have a few late hour traffic cops who tend to get through the area periodically, but in most of these residential neighborhoods the majority of our citations issued are generated on a call for service basis. They are prioritized response based upon the dispatch protocol for life threatening emergencies, and everything else. Chairman Beil – Can you comment also about the commercial vehicle parking? Sergeant Sean O’Toole – It is duly noted on my notebook to get some enforcement in there on the weekend, we have daytime parking control on the weekends and we’ll have them respond to that area. Tom Mahood, City Traffic Engineer – When the application first came in was permit parking discussed with the proponent? Dave Allenbach, Transportation Analyst – Our initial contact was at the counter in Public Works and he had asked about some type of control because the demand for on-street parking. We suggested permit parking and when the issue of the application fee was raised he felt at that time that the neighborhood would Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 12 not go for it. The other alternative was to restrict the parking in general during nighttime hours, and we pointed out to him that if such an action was approved by the Traffic Commission that it would affect everyone, whether they lived in the neighborhood or not. So if you’re on the street and there is a call for service they will be cited whether they live in the neighborhood or not. Based on that information the proponent felt that it would probably be better for the neighborhood, and maybe more of the neighbors would be in favor of nighttime parking restriction rather than permits. Chairman Beil – The way I’m leaning is to either continue it so there is more dialogue before any final decisions is made, or just deny it and hope you come back with an alternative. I’ll make the motion to continue the items to allow time for the neighborhood learn a little bit about the permit parking program as an option, and there are a lot more affected residents in this than the group that showed up here, so I think there needs to be a lot of dialogue in the neighborhood because time restrictions will adversely affect people. Commissioner Dick – Has Commissioner Pyne’s motion been seconded? Chairman Beil – It had not been yet. Commissioner Dick – That being the case I would second the Chairman’s motion to continue this until the August meeting. Vice Chairman Lall – I believe that permit parking is the more appropriate way of approaching this, and I hope the residents will look into this seriously and would support that. ACTION: Continued this item to the August 9, 2006 CTC meeting. MOTION: J. Beil SECOND: L. Dick AYES: J. Beil, L. Dick, F. Petronella, N. Lall NOES: J. Pyne ABSTAIN: Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 13 4. Request for the installation of a “handicapped” parking space in front of 4500 W. Tiller Ave. Lloyd Edmondson 4500 W. Tiller Ave. Orange CA 92868 The oral presentation is based on the written staff report; please refer to your copy. Chairman Beil opened the public hearing for the following discussion: Chairman Beil – One thing that struck me as was where to have them place the concrete pad, that is public right-of-way isn’t it? Dave Allenbach, Transportation Analyst – As you can see in the exhibit the block wall ends roughly at the public right-of-way, it’s the same on the other side of the street. In the neighborhood however, some people have built fences up to the curb line while other have anticipated sidewalk at some future date, and have ended their block walls or fences back about 6 ft. from the curb face. Commissioner Petronella – Has the proponent been notified that if someone else with a handicap placard comes along they have the right to park there? Dave Allenbach, Transportation Analyst – We did notify the proponent that most likely it will be him or members of his family that will be utilizing the spot. If the spot is vacant and there is somebody else in the area that has handicap markings on their vehicle they will be allowed to use the space, and he was fine with that. The chairman closed the public hearing and returned the item to the Commission for further discussion and a motion. ACTION: Approved the request pending the installation of a 22-foot long concrete landing area in the parkway. MOTION: J. Beil SECOND: F. Petronella AYES: Unanimous NOES: 777777777777777 End of Consideration Items 7777777777777777 Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper Minutes of a Regular Meeting – City Traffic Commission – June 14, 2006 Pg. 14 V. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS None this meeting. VI. ADJOURNMENT After discussion of today’s Agenda the City Traffic Commission meeting was concluded, and as there were no further requests for action under Oral Presentations, the Chairman adjourned this session of the City Traffic Commission. The next meeting of the City Traffic Commission is scheduled: 5:30 P.M. Wednesday – August 9, 2006 Respectfully submitted, CITY OF ORANGE Phyllis Then, Recording Secretary Traffic Engineering Division pthen@cityoforange.org CITY OF ORANGE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT 300 E. CHAPMAN AVENUE ORANGE CA 92866 PH: (714) 744-5536 FAX: (714) 744-5573 Tape #CTC-26.05 of this City Traffic Commission meeting is available for your review. Please contact the Recording Secretary at (714) 744-5536 in this regard, advance notice is appreciated.  June 2006.1 [N:/Traffic/CTC/2006 Minutes] Printed on Recycled Paper