5.1. SR 10-08-2007 - Laserfiche WebLink

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frame, overuses the available spaces and encourages us to look elsewhere fox residential parking areas. Staff suggests to Council that they review the recommendations of the parking study which advocates placing our residential parking across Highway 10, on the south side of the tracks west of Jackson. We would concur that there should be lighting enhancements, pavement resurfacing, and other physical improvements to this lot to make it more visible and safer fox those who use it. Having the residential parking located here in regard to snowfall is a non- issue as the lot could be posted once the primary plowing is done, vehicles would be removed, and the lot cleared the following day. The overall impact is fax less than any other proposed parking arrangement. As staff understands it, the major rationale behind not using the north lot is the safety of pedestrians crossing Highway 10. Statistics related to the safety of Highway 10 and Jackson do not support the theory that the intersection is unsafe fox pedestrian ox vehicle traffic. We have no recent records of pedestrian related accidents, and the few recorded crashes involve vehicles with accidents that are normally rear-end collisions and often associated with vehicles making turns. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services "Guide for Traffic Safety", the indicia fox establishing the safety or lack of safety of an intersection, is the number of pedestrian crashes, the number of vehicle crashes, and the number of complaints. The first two categories, which have the most weight, axe almost non-existent. The comments received concerning Highway 10 and Jackson from some concerned citizens ox business groups axe very few, they axe perceptual, and not supported by documented incidents. In reality, crossing Highway 10 at Jackson, a 30 mph zone, is no more dangerous than crossing any similar roadway anywhere in the metropolitan area. To label the intersection as "dangerous" and out of play as fax as parking is concerned, land locks the downtown area and takes our extended parking areas out of the equation and bottlenecks our ability to manage the parking system. We would ask that the Council reconsider not making the King Avenue lot the only lot to be allowed fox permitted parking and ask that consideration be given as well to allowing the Highway 101ot use as stated fox residential permits.