From bwinterhalder at ucdavis.edu Tue Sep 13 08:58:15 2005 From: bwinterhalder at ucdavis.edu (Bruce Winterhalder) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:58:15 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] Fifth Street Progress Message-ID: <1126627095.4990.11.camel@dhcp104.anthro.ucdavis.edu> Dear Members of the City Council & the City Manager (Davis, California) I have attached, and have copied below, a letter on behalf of the Board of the Old North Davis Neighborhood Association. Please read and consider it, with our best wishes, Bruce Winterhalder (ONDNA) 09/11/05 To: Jim Antonen, City Manager Ruth Asmundson, Mayor Members of the City Council (Greenwald, Puntillo, Saylor, & Souza) From: Bruce Winterhalder & the Board Old North Davis Neighborhood Association Re: Fifth Street Redesign The August break has passed and fall is nearly upon us. It is a good time to recall the action taken by City Council on Fifth Street this last 12 July, 2005. After lengthy discussion and public commentary ? indeed after two years of debate, consultant reports, commission reviews and neighborhood study study and lobbying ? Council approved on 4-to-1 vote a resolution authored by Don Saylor. It reads, as transcribed from the video: ?I move we direct staff to develop a plan for Fifth Street that incorporates the following elements: * bicycle route and network connectivity; * improved pedestrian safety at crossings; * reduced effective speeds; * protected left turns; and * staff should seek grant funds to implement this plan.? It was not mentioned in Saylor's resolution, but we believe in the spirit of the discussion that such a plan for Fifth Street not endanger the tree canopy that lines the section to be redesigned. Saylor's motion is straightforward; it ended a long, contentious evening. We wish to note that Saylor's resolution encodes the design objectives of the ON proposal for Fifth Street, and it establishes minimum design guidelines for any alternative proposed by Public Works. Notably the design must include bike access through extension of the current network, pedestrian safety measures at crossings, effective speed reduction and protected left turns. We now would like to work with the City and Public works to determine a timetable that will quickly and effectively implement the Saylor motion. We suggest a meeting between the City Manager, representatives of ON and Public works. This might best be arranged by the City Manager. We look forward to your reply. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Fifth2 11 Sept 2005.rtf Type: application/rtf Size: 5597 bytes Desc: not available URL: