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drinking, doing drugs, etc) on that access road will continue, spilling <br />into the future park adjacent to it. <br />The access road is already closed off with bollards on one side. As a <br />compromise, would it be possible to keep the cul-de-sac accessible, <br />but close off the access road itself with bollards? Please see <br />attached diagram. <br />For the cul-de-sac itself, the new houses facing Manoir Ln should <br />help prevent misuse. Road segments along residential fence lines <br />do not seem to deter misuse (indeed, most of the alcohol and drug <br />paraphernalia we clean up is next to existing residential fences on <br />the other side of the Manoir cul-de-sac). So, we’re concerned that on <br />the latest “Alternative Split Park Conceptual Design” it appears that <br />the proposed house on Lot 1 is rotated in such a way that it’ll have a <br />long fence line along Manoir. We ask Trumark to make sure that’s not <br />the case, possibly by placing the front yard along Manoir (like is <br />done with the house at the end of the Frog Hill Ln cul-de-sac). <br />Road Safety <br />During the Planning Commission meeting, the commissioners <br />acknowledged the dangers of exiting from Manoir Ln and Thiessen St <br />onto Vineyard Ave, and suggested we contact the City Traffic <br />Engineer. Quoting commissioner Vivek Mohan, “I agree these <br />sideroads getting on to Vineyard, people are flying, instead of a 40 <br />mile zone or whatever, people are going 60, 70 miles on that road.” <br />Here are some concrete steps we think the City can take to make it <br />safer to enter and exit our neighborhoods and the neighborhood <br />Trumark is building: <br />- There is a “your speed” digital sign along Vineyard Ave coming out <br />of town which is supposed to show the driver’s current speed, but <br />has been broken for many years. <br />Please fix the “your speed” sign. <br />- The trees in front of the adjacent neighborhoods along Vineyard <br />Ave significantly reduce visibility for drivers trying to turn out of <br />Manoir and Thiessen. The foliage of California Pepper trees naturally <br />hang low and grow towards the ground like a weeping willow. In <br />hindsight, they should have been placed much farther from Vineyard <br />Ave. The current clear sightlines across Neal are very helpful for <br />road safety. It would be great for the City to <br />enforce a large setback for any trees or other obstruction on Neal <br />along Vineyard Ave going forward, so that Trumark and the future <br />homeowners association on Neal can’t make the same mistake that