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Councilmember McGovern asked that during peak hour time, did the possibility exist if we really wanted to try and move traffic in a much more advantageous way. City Manager Fialho said if it was a priority they would incorporate that staffing increase into the City’s operating budget. Councilmember McGovern said she was also looking at the downtown and said some of that delay is over 3 minutes at certain intersections. She was worried about the queuing on Main Street and how it will fill up different intersections and there could be a point when we’ve saturated our downtown so much that we will reduce the number of people who want to come down there because the traffic is backed up. She asked if we thought about looking at a maximum amount of delay time that we would think we should have in the downtown, such that we do not reduce people coming into the downtown because they cannot move. City Manager Fialho said he thought the only way you could accommodate that, because vehicles are still trying to come in, would be to require major infrastructure improvements to the downtown and this was not something we want to facilitate. He felt the best thing we can do is synchronize our traffic signals and do the best we can to facilitate traffic through the downtown. Mr. Tassano said there comes a time in signal timing where you have every approach that once you reach E and F, every approach has delay and no amount of signal time is going to end the fact that you cannot get that many cars through the capacity at that intersection. So at some time, capacity improvements have to be done. There are some significant restrictions in the downtown to improve those capacity locations and staff would start to look at how we improve some other locations around the downtown. Similarly, when we look at our arterial progression, as we reach capacity you can have a perfect signal timing but if it looks like First Street in the morning where your capacity is not there, it doesn’t matter how long the lights are left green, not everyone is served through those intersections. Councilmember McGovern said she has never heard that Hacienda Business Park between now and 2030 was going to grow by 55%, and she felt this was a lot. Ms. Stern said Kim Sterner was referring to trips related to office development throughout the City at 55% and not just Hacienda. Councilmember McGovern asked if Hacienda Business Park was looked at to determine what its growth was supposed to be just in that area. Ms. Stern said they do have the data to be able to do this, but she was not sure it could be pulled up or not. Councilmember McGovern said when she is making a land use decision this would be an important issue for her as well as understanding exactly what type of growth is expected there over and above housing. City Manager Fialho said by way of development agreement for the Hacienda Business Park, the City has committed to a level of commercial office and industrial growth inside the business park. This general plan also takes comparable land use patterns and applies it that we see today in the business park and we generally apply it to the east side. The Council might find that it does not want that kind of commercial office and industrial density in the future and anything that is taken off from the east side would improve the bottom line. Councilmember Cook-Kallio said Hacienda has an agreement that already states that more development could occur there and she confirmed that with City Manager Fialho. He noted that the City would, overtime, be approached by the business park to look at redevelopment opportunities. He said the AT&T complex comprises of a lot of open space and parking and is a generally under-utilized site, and there have been discussions about adding another office complex or hotel to that campus. Workshop Minutes 14 April 24, 2007