DATE: APRIL 30, 2004
TO: MAYOR CUSHING AND HOMER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
THRU: CITY MANAGER WREDE
FROM: CHAIR MARQUARDT,
ROAD STANDARDS COMMITTEE
SUBJ: D.O.T. STRIPING PLANS FOR BARTLETT STREET, PIONEER AVENUE, EAST END ROAD AND STERLING HIGHWAY
The Roads Standard Committee has reviewed and discussed the Department of Transportation Striping Plans for Bartlett Street, Pioneer Avenue, Sterling Highway and East End Road at the March 2nd, March 23rd and April 20thmeetings. At the meeting of April 20, 2004, the committee took action to make the following formal recommendations to Council:
Ø DOT place pedestrian crosswalks at the following roads - Mariner Drive, Sabrina, Rochelle, Scenic View, Adams Street and Clover Lane.
Ø Access be provided for pedestrians between the crosswalk at the shoulder of the road and the detached pathway
Ø The speed limit be standardized at 35 mph from Lake Street to Spencer Drive.
Ø In the area between Lake Street and East Hill Road there be crosswalks and depressed curb at all intersecting streets.
That DOT meet with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Officials to assure and to arrive at safe crossings at East Hill Road and East End Road at Paul Banks School.
Ø That crosswalks and depressed curb and gutter be added on Bartlett Street at the Pioneer Avenue intersection and the East side of Bartlett Street at the Fairview Avenue Intersection.
Ø DOT provide crosswalks on the North side of the Sterling Highway crossing Pioneer Avenue, Greatland Street, Main Street, Poopdeck Street, Heath Street and Waddell Way.
Recommendation: The City Council forward the Road Standards Committee suggestions to the Department of Transportation.
Approved as amended by the Homer City Council during their Regular Meeting of May 10, 2004. MLC