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Mayor Tarver said the City seemed to always be in a reactive mode rather than a proactive mode. Mr. van Geltier said the City was often in a reactire mode. Staff anticipates being successful with this program will generate additional demand. The spot problems are easy to address. The neighborhoods with cut through traffic are harder to address. Whenever a city takes cut through traffic out of one neighborhood, it ends up in another neighborhood. This makes one group happy and the other group unhappy. The City does not want to do this. Ms. Michelloft asked if the next step would be for staff to put before Council three areas so Council would then choose one, or would the Council choose to do two different areas at the same time? Mr. van Gelder said staff was looking for input from Council. He agreed that East Angela was a good area to start with. He said there has been offers by the development community to help with the program. Growth management would have to be looked at though. He couldn't see a developer implementing the program the project would not be developed for years. The traffic department has put funds in the next two years CIP budget for traffic calming devices. Ms. Dennis asked if a neighborhood were interested in being considered, should the neighbors call the traffic department? Mr. van Gelder said yes. Ms. Ayala asked staff to bring back to Council a list of neighborhoods that warrant the pilot program, overall funding levels, neighborhood partnerships and options for a demonstration program. Then Council would be able to make a more educated decision. Mr. van Gelder agreed. Mr. Pico said there was money in the operating budget to proceed. He felt that there was no need for further studies. Council told staff it wanted a traffic calming study done, particularly for the Mohr, Rheem, and Kamp area and this had been done. Those areas have interim stop signs now and would be ideal for this program. He would like to proceed with the program. He felt Council should be directing staff to look at lower East Angela area and Mohr, Kamp, and Rheem. Ms. Ayala asked if staff was looking for Council to pick areas tonight? Mr. van Geltier said staff would take any direction Council found appropriate. There needed to be a program that could be leamed from by doing. Afterwards staff would bring back to Council the cost to implement the program. City Council 04/01/97 Minutes 13