HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-10-21 Public Comment - J. Landis - SID 762 S. 6th AveFrom: Jacquelyn Landis
To: Brenda Papera
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Katherine Maines
Subject: Re: Traffic Circles - 6th Avenue SID
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 5:03:29 PM
In Seattle the city has barricades at traffic circles to force drivers to turn right.
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On Feb 10, 2021, at 16:25, Brenda Papera <icemaiden13@gmail.com> wrote:
The problem with traffic circles as population and traffic increases is that no one
stops. This can make it difficult for pedestrians and our neighborhood dogs at
Cooper Park.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 3:04 PM Jacquelyn Landis <sweetgrass81@me.com>
wrote:
Hello
I would like to also discuss the possibility of crosswalks for Cooper Park across
6th and across Koch and Story streets.
Thank you
David Landis
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On Feb 10, 2021, at 10:28, Richard Kerin
<rick@kerinandassociates.com> wrote:
Shawn, Taylor, et.al. – On behalf of my neighbors and residents of
the City’s 6th
Ave. SID project, I ask you reconsider the center
circle (CC) at Story and place it in the project. As our project
consultants, City representatives, project designer and overall
project administrators, I fell it is incumbent and imperative you to
act in our best interests, particularly, when it comes to
public/pedestrian safety. For the same reasons we rely and expect
you to properly design the right size water, sanitary sewer and
storm drainage improvements, we count on you to administer our
traffic calming and pedestrian safety needs to the best of your
ability.
Without so much as a follow-up response to the WebEx meeting I
organized the other day to only discuss traffic calming
improvements you took it upon yourselves to axe the Story CC
without any justification or public safety rationale. I know this is
the first street corridor SID that the City has been able to get this
far along in the SID creation process. Let me remind you that you
got this far because the City’s been able to find an satisfactory
balance between project costs and a manageable portion of cost
allocated to property owners involved. Through several face-to-
face and virtual meetings, many e-mails and phone calls back and
forth and on-going dialogue amongst us neighbors we’ve been able
to confined one another that the positive merits of this project
outweigh any negative ones. Most that oppose the project are on
fixed incomes, unemployed or newer residents saddled with large
mortgages and just the expense of living in Bozeman. I can assure
you that you would not have gotten this far without the positive
support from the likes of Lisa Prugh and others who have worked
hard to promote this project.
In the process of addressing the issues of cost vs benefit; merits of
new and upgrades water distribution, sanitary sewer, storm sewer,
drainage, water and sewer services, etc., looking back traffic
calming was for the most part glossed over by you and by us except
for the straw vote that Kellen solicited in the final minutes of the
WebEx meeting weeks ago that kicked-off the project. So, as your
finalizing your engineering plans, please include the Story CC to
round-out the project improvements (no pun intended). The
Cooper Park neighborhood residents and I want it. Do the right
think and include it. Please don’t try and convince us all that it’s
too late because the plans are too far along at this point. We ask
you to find a way to fund both Olive and Story CCs and not allow
them to become sacrificial lambs through the project bidding
process. By the way we do thank you for incorporating the Olive
CC in the project.
Acting as our project representatives and spokesmen and women
we feel it is incumbent on you to error on the side of
public/pedestrian safety when reconsidering the Story CC.
Granting the project the Story CC we feel would accomplish that
goal in a comprehensive way. There’s no amount of reasoning or
engineering logic that should preclude you from including it. We
are all aware that the list of CC’s within our 6th
Ave SID goes far
beyond the scope of any street corridor re-design you have ever
considered within the City when it comes to pedestrian/traffic
safety/calming considerations. I applaud you for going outside of
your traditional comfort zone by going as far as you have. We
commend you for listening to our requests/wants for traffic calming
improvements to the extent you have. I get the feeling we’ve
pushed your limits with CCs and have gone as far as your willing
to go without further consideration. You just need to go the extra
step, whether its warranted or not, and simply design-in a CC at
Story. The consideration, here, shouldn’t be that it has to meet,
like the accident-history warrant to justify its installation. Use the
logic that its placement will prevent a future accident. As you well
know, the Cooper neighborhood is growing in population/residents
as more multi-family housing, ADU’s, etc. are built within and on
the perimeter of our Cooper Park neighborhood, like for example,
SOBO Condos. Circles aren’t difficult to maneuver around for
vehicles or snow plows. Certainly, one more isn’t going to trigger
some traffic crisis along 6th
or with east-west crossing traffic. The
CC @ Story would insure pedestrian safety/traffic calming where
its really needed most, i.e., around pedestrian busy Cooper Park.
Do the right thing, here, and include the Story CC in the project.
The project proponents want it!!
Thank you
Rick Kerin