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ROLL CALL VOTE: AYES: Commissioners Allen, Balch, Brown, Nagler and Ritter NOES: None ABSTAIN: None ABSENT: Commissioner O'Connor Chair Ritter: Okay. Sorry Jennifer. You'll be first next time. 7. MATTERS INITIATED BY COMMISSION MEMBERS Commissioner Balch: I would like to specifically point out that the construction going on at the corner of Stanley and Bernal; the Vintage Center —is this the appropriate spot to mention such items? Beaudin: Let's hear what you have. Commissioner Balch: I'll make it a comment, how about that, with no action necessary. I will say that the construction has been shutting down lanes during peak hours and while it might be within the direction or authority granted by the Director of Engineering, I would strongly suggest they consider not shutting down lanes during peak traffic hours. That being said, I also want to point out a few other issues. The covered fence that they have now placed approximately three feet into the street is creating blind spots on that street, especially right as you pass the new Starbucks there and you're trying to navigate. So, combined with the shutting down of one or two lanes that kind of rotates, you're creating a traffic hazard in my opinion where you cannot see over, and in fact, it's over six feet because I measured it and I do know that you're not allowed to have greater than that type of fence at the intersections and certain things because we don't allow that. The other thing is that the Starbuck's traffic, and maybe this is just .... I wasn't on the Commission at that time when this was approved, but I will say they've opened the retail Starbucks element while the constructions is going on, but before they've completed the construction in that immediate adjacent area, and as a result, we have the Starbucks traffic ingressing or egressing the new center with all of the construction trucks also ingressing and egressing at the exact same time. So the volume of traffic trying to get through when it's one lane is just choking this intersection already. So I really think we haven't thought through when we allowed the occupancy permit for the retail to be granted in light of the construction completion. The next part is the lanes closure as I mentioned. I would like to point out that when the intersection of Bernal and Valley; the same road but just at a different location, when that repaving project has been going on, they've been doing it at key times to not impact traffic. I know that when they did Hacienda and recycled water, they did it at key times to be very careful about the impact to traffic. This one is happening at 8 o'clock to 8:30 in the middle of the day at morning commute, with a major backup all the way to the New Leaf shopping center this morning at 8:30. And what we're creating is the Vineyard traffic from Ruby coming through trying to make the left on Bernal and exit out PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 31, 2016 Page 56 of 58