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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 A venue Capital Improvements 11. Appropriate $10,000 from the General Fund to increase the Traffic Calming Budget in Fiscal 2000101. (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 remaining 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 A venue improvements and that the last two islands could be striped instead of raised medians. Vineyard Avenue Roundabouts In July of 2001, City Council approved the design and construction of two roundabouts on Vineyard Avenue adjacent to the Neal School site. The Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan included a new traffic signal on Vineyard A venue at its intersection with the collector road on the west side of the future school site. However, because most of the students projected to attend this school lived in Ruby Hill, the school site was designed such that the primary drop-off zones and school packing lot entrances were off of the collector street on the east side of the school. The west side of the school was designed for limited student drop off and the end of the street was designed to accommodate a bus turnaround on this lower volume roadway. Because of the layout of the school, the plan was to construct a traffic signal at the east school side street instead of the west school side street. City Staff used traffic simulation models to analyze circulation around the school during the morning peak hour. All traffic simulations SR:05:293 Page 3 of 8