INSIDE CITY HALL WHAT HAPPENED: The City...
INSIDE CITY HALL
WHAT HAPPENED:
The City Council approved plans for nine highway projects.
WHAT IT MEANS:
The city was awarded a $1.3 million grant for 14 street
rehabilitation projects scheduled over the next three years.
Funding will come from the Orange County Transportation
Authority’s Arterial Highway Rehabilitation Program. The city will
match that grant with $1.4 million for the projects.
Streets that will be repaired include sections of Warner Avenue,
Springdale Avenue, McFadden Avenue, Magnolia Boulevard, Gothard
Street, Hamilton Avenue, Yorktown Avenue and Graham Street.
Repairs generally include pavement crack sealing, pavement
reconstruction and asphalt overlay. Also included will be new curb
access ramps, signs and striping and traffic detection loops.
Officials say the work will increase the life of these streets by
10 years.
The estimated cost for all nine projects is $2.7 million. The
project will be advertised for bids as soon as Caltrans approves the
plans.
Councilman Gil Coerper was absent.
WHAT HAPPENED:
The council approved the 2003-04 Traffic Installation Priority
List.
WHAT IT MEANS:
At the City Council’s direction, staff prepared a list of 111
intersections within the city that could use traffic signals.
The top four identified were Ellis Avenue at Delaware Street,
Beach Boulevard at Taylor Drive, Adams Avenue at Ranger and Beach
Boulevard at Sea Bridge/Memphis Avenue.
Those that qualified are either controlled all-way stops, have
crossing guards but no traffic signals, have been on previous traffic
signal priority lists or are primary entrances to residential tracts
from major roadways.
Other criteria were three or more accidents at the intersection or
a high volume of traffic or pedestrians.
At Councilwoman Debbie Cook’s suggestion, Ellis Avenue at Delaware
Street, which was identified as the No. 1 location, was dropped to
No. 4.
Other intersections where the city plans to construct signals are
Palm Avenue and 17th Street, Heil Avenue and Graham Street, Hamilton
Avenue and Newland Street and Slater Avenue and Nichols Street.
WHAT HAPPENED:
An extra trash collection point will be added Downtown from June
until December at the cost of $18,000 to the city.
WHAT IT MEANS:
Rainbow Disposal, the company in charge of the city’s trash
collection, offered to add an additional trash receptacle Downtown
for weekend pickup between now and next December free of charge.
At the urging of Councilwoman Pam Julien Houchen, the City Council
voted to extend the additional pickup to weekday collections between
now and December. Increased weekday service will cost $18,000.
The council also approved $6,000 to increase the frequency of
sidewalk cleaning services Downtown during summer months.
WHAT WAS SAID:
“Ice cream cones, frappuccinos, lattes -- they simply stay on the
sidewalks, and your feet stick,” Houchen said.
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