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Neighborhood Meetings The residents who attended the neighborhood meetings raised concerns related specifically to traffic and parking. They expressed concern that the existing Vineyard Avenue AM peak hours are already impacted by traffic volumes and by vehicle speed. They stated that with Valley View Elementary School within walking distance from the project site, the additional traffic generated by the proposed project would result in traffic and safety problems for the neighborhood. They believed that the proposed 45 residential units would further impact the already unacceptable traffic pattern on Vineyard Avenue as well as the parking problem resulting largely from the existing apartment complexes in the area. The neighbors were in support of other aspects of the project, especially the design. Traffic Vineyard Avenue adjacent to the proposed project has a level of service (LOS) of"C" for a residential collector street. Typically, this project would have been required to provide a traffic study specific to the impacts this project would generate. However, the City recently required a traffic study for the development of the Bernal Commercial Development, dated October 25, 2005. That project will be located on Bernal Avenue within Stanley Business Park, and it was recently approved by the Planning Commission. The intersections studied in that report reflect the same intersections that would be affected by this project, existing conditions plus approved project. Therefore, staff believed that the traffic study for the SilverStone project would have duplicated the efforts and results of the Bernal Commercial Development traffic study. Thus, staff waived the traffic study for this project, reducing the applicant's costs and project processing time. Dowling Associates, the City's traffic consulting firm, created a traffic model for the proposed project which was reviewed and analyzed by the City's Traffic Engineer. The results showed that Bernal Commercial Development would generate more AM and PM trips through the same intersections than the SilverStone project, as follows: Table 1: Proiect AM/PM Trip Rates Bernal Commercial SilverStone Commnnities AM Trips 75 30 PM Trips 204 38 The trips moving through the First Street/Ray Street/Vineyard Avenue intersection are impacted similarly by both developments, albeit exempt from consideration as a Downtown intersection per the General Plan. As shown below, the Bernal Commercial Development does reflect fewer AM trips through this intersection than the proposed project; however, staff believes it unlikely that all morning trips from the proposed SilverStone project would actually go through this intersection. SR:06:060 Page 6