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To: Mayor, Councilors Re:CDCT Preliminary Street Design—Recommended From: Meg Stewart-Smith Date:Tuesday April 14, 2008 Please support our CDCT Preliminary Design. Please print this summary of design considerations for your information tonight. We made an informed decision to route bicycles along previously planned routes in Crest Drive neighborhood. Bicyclists and Pedestrians both deserve safe routes through Crest Drive neighborhood. However,a system of bicycle routes has already been planned,therefore pedestrian needs is our highest concern. Please see the following: • LCOG's Draft TransPlan—Bicycle System • Wayne Morse Ranch Park Draft Master Plan • CDCT Recommended Design—Preliminary • Crest Drive Inventory of Neighborhood Trails These documents show a larger context within which CDCT preliminary street design was conceived. It is our intention to slow down and limit auto traffic adversely impacting our entire neighborhood. This action will function for pedestrian and bicycle safety. This design supports our environmental values, including those values for livability, balance and economy (i.e.sustainability). I am against the cyclist's demands to tack a five-foot uphill bicycle lane onto the auto lanes; I am against thoughtless bulldozing; I am for conscientious design. Consider the balance of negatives vs. positives: Negatives: • Wider street increases drop off on steeply sloping northern easement. • Increase in slope may require retaining walls,causing barriers to park access. • Pedestrians would conflict with bicycles,using the 5' lane to enter the popular dog park. • EWEB poles limit use of the northern 5-10' of easement. • Uphill easement is needed for clean water system of swales, catchments, and culverts. • Native trees drop fir cones/branches causing winter hazards in low light at road edges. • Children should not be expected to travel the speed of prevailing traffic downhill (25 m.p.h.) • Crest Drive Elementary School is a nearby destination and children's bicycling needs are denied. • Neighborhood consensus denied. • Context sensitive design process denied. Positives: • Elite bicyclists will have immediate rewards for primarily recreational (secondary commuter) needs. Directions to take: • Approve CDCT Preliminary Street Design • Implement clean water and conveyance system along uphill easement • Work with Wayne Morse Park on all-modes path in alignment with this project • Work with LCOG to revise Draft Master Plan for bicycles. Funding and priorities must match demands. Bicyclists claim their need is no longer a recreational need, but a commuter/sustainable need.