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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMin - TSP - 2007.02.08 1 The City of Burlingame California 94010-3997 www.burlingame.org TRAFFIC, SAFETY AND PARKING COMMISSION Meeting Minutes – Approved Thursday, February 8, 2007 Commissioners Present: Victor James, Chair Michael Bohnert J. Mark Noworolski Stephen Warden Commissioners Absent: Dan Conway, Vice Chair Staff Present: Augustine Chou, Traffic Engineer, Public Works Traffic Sergeant Dean Williams, Police Department Joanne Louie, Administrative Secretary, Public Works Visitors: Pat Giorni, 1445 Balboa Kirsten Wallerstedt, Office of State Senator Leland Yee Farris Horak, 1332 Edgehill 2 1. CALL TO ORDER 7:00 p.m. 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG 3. ROLL CALL 4 of 5 Commissioners present. 4. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Chair James mentioned that a formal proclamation was being prepared for former Commissioner Gene Condon to acknowledge his service to the Commission. Chair James also acknowledged Kirsten Wallerstedt. Ms. Wallerstedt made a brief introduction and explained that she was from the office of State Senator Leland Yee; and, she expressed her availability to the cities along the peninsula as a resource from Senator Yee’s office. 5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – January 11, 2007 Motion: To accept the minutes of January 11, 2007 as submitted. M/S/C Warden, Noworolski; 4/0/1 6. CONSENT Motion: To move Item 8.1 1361 N. Carolan Avenue/City Corp Yard – Designation of three, 2- hr parking to the consent and approve. M/S/C Warden, Bohnert; 4/0/1 7. PUBLIC COMMENTS Pat Giorni suggested that the B/PAC determine when the next meeting would occur and to put a notice in the Burlingame newsletter seeking public participation. Another suggestion Ms. Giorni made was that a meeting should occur every 3 months or so to look at the bicyc le pedestrian bridge over Broadway and also at Carolan Avenue. Ms. Giorni suggested that if the TDA grant got approved for the lighted crosswalk at Broadway/Paloma Avenue intersection, that perhaps Council could borrow funds from the general fund to get the project underway immediately. Ms. Giorni also requested that complete staff packets be made available to the public for future meetings. Ms. Horak asked Mr. Chou what the timeline would be for the TDA grant process. Mr. Chou replied that the City was awaiting a March decision. He said that funding would be available in June, and each City would have three years to complete the projects. Mr. Chou said that provided that all the City’s projects are selected, two projects could start in July or August with a completion date in September or October, with the third project not starting until spring of 2008. 3 8. NEW BUSINESS 8.1 1361 N. Carolan Avenue/City Corp Yard – Designation of three, 2 hr parking spaces Moved to Consent. 9. CURRENT BUSINESS. 9.1. Traffic and Parking Issues None. 9.2 Staff Reports 9.2.1 Traffic Engineer’s Report None. 9.2.2 Traffic Sergeant’s Report None. 10. ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT None. 11. ACTION None. 12. OLD BUSINESS None. 13. COMMUNICATIONS 13.1 Letter from Pat Giorni stop signs at Hillside Drive and Balboa Avenue. Mr. Chou reported that this request would be addressed in a staff report to the Commission for discussion at the next meeting. 13.2 Communication from Dr. Sonny DeMarto, Burlingame School District, on crosswalks at Trousdale Drive and Ogden Avenue. Mr. Chou provided a map of the location and said that staff would take a look at relocating and realigning some of the crosswalks and bring the findings to this commission at a later date. Mr. Chou stated that this request could be handled directly by Public Works staff. 14. COMMISSION AND COMMITTEE REPORTS 14.1 Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee (B/PAC) Commissioner Bohnert reported that Craig Horak would like to join this committee. He added that currently this committee consisted of two TSPC Commissioners, one Planner Commissioner, one engineer, and one planner. He said that they would like to 4 bring in additional community members. Commissioner Bohnert reported that the B/PAC had plans to meet at 6:00 pm prior to the next TSPC meeting. Mr. Chou said that the next meeting would be used to lay down some groundwork for projects for this year, while past meetings were focused on determining projects for the last round of TDA grants. 14.2 Broadway/Paloma – Traffic Safety Measures Commissioner Warden reported that the sub-committee met about a week prior to finalize some of their plans for this area. He said that in the past, the committee had established a set of procedural parameters to determine such requests, but that these procedures were overlooked regarding this issue. He said the sub-committee wanted to go back and follow those established procedures by making the following recommendations. Motion: To accept the recommendation from the sub-committee as follows.  Leave the crosswalk laddering at the t wo existing crosswalks locations.  Continue with selective enforcement by the Police Department on an on-going basis.  Follow the TDA Grant process and act expeditiously with the bidding process once fund authorization is approved.  Staff to review signage and eliminate redundanc y while maintaining aesthetics on Broadway M/S/C Warden, Bohnert; 4/0/1 14.3 Bi-Annual Commission Report to Council Chair James reported that he would like to provide the Council with a bi-annual report of TSPC activities. He said the initial target dates for these reports would be around July 1st and December 1st of each year. 14.4 Quad Map Chair James introduced the concept of managing the activities of the Commission by dividing the city in quadrants. He said each Commissioner had been assigned to a quad and would take the lead on any activities or issues within their quad. He added that the assigned quads were negotiable and their boundaries could be realigned accordingly. 15. ADJOURNMENT 8:23 p.m.