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Avenue and Montevino Drive in order to reduce the impacts to Vineyard Avenue traffic on nearby residents. Staff implemented the Traffic Calming Program and held the initial public meeting on Tuesday, September 9, 1999. On July 11, 2000, City Council approved the following eleven traffic calming measures: I. Installation of entry and median islands on Montevino Drive. 2. Installation of entry and median islands on Crestablanca Drive. 3. Modification of the Vineyard Avenue at Montevino Drive intersection to increase capacity. 4. Modification of the Bernal Avenue at Tawny Drive / Vineyard Avenue striping. 5. Conversion of Sauterne Way to a southbound one-way street. 6. Installation of high visibility crosswalk signs on Vineyard Avenue approaching Sauterne Way and Touriga Drive. 7. Resurfacing of Vineyard A venue with a surface to reduce traffic noise. 8. Directed staff to study and develop a traffic simulation of Vineyard Avenue lane reduction. 9. Directed staff to submit additional landscape medians on Vineyard Avenue for consideration with the next CIP funding cycle (2001-02/2002-03). 10. Directed staff to determine the feasibility of raised island for Smoke Tree Commons, as part of Bernal Avenue Capital Improvements II. Appropriate $10,000 from the General Fund to increase the Traffic Calming Budget in Fiscal 20oo/0I. (If the conversion of Sauterne Way is approved, additional funds may be needed depending on the design chosen to implement the conversion. ) Staff has completed eight of these eleven recommendations. The remammg three recommendations are: Overlay of Vineyard A venue with rubberized asphalt, the installation of two landscaped median islands on neighborhood streets, and the incorporation of a Vineyard Corridor landscaping plan in the CIP budget. At an "After Study" meeting, the Vineyard Corridor residents present requested that all remaining funds be reallocated towards measures that would improve pedestrian safety crossing at Vineyard Avenue, slow Vineyard Avenue traffic and thereby reduce traffic-generated noise, improve Touriga Drive egress to Vineyard Avenue, reduce cut-through traffic on Tawny Drive, and add landscaping along the roadway to improve the aesthetics of the corridor. It should be noted that the installation of the first three landscaped islands on Montevino Drive and Cresta Blanca Drive had little affect on vehicle speeds or volumes, and the residents at the last two neighborhood meetings agreed that remaining funding should be allocated towards Vineyard Avenue improvements and that the last two islands could be striped instead of raised medians. SR:05:276 Page 3 of9