James Becker asks Alex Stillman, Stacy Atkins-Salazar, Sarah Schaefer, Gregory Daggett, Genevieve Serna, Dana Quillman, Shea Freedomhowler…
Motor Vehicle traffic south of 7th street on the L Street corridor
Would you approve a woonerf or road that would have motor vehicle traffic on the L Street Corridor in the section south of 7th Street to Samoa Boulevard?
— James Becker
Responses
Gregory Daggett
My position is no motor vehicles, and no new roads on the L street corridor in the section south of 7th street to Samoa Boulevard. Over 1,200 people signed a petition to preserve this open space and wetland. The City Council final vote on the Gateway Area Plan put the road back into the area that was to be open space, south of 7th to Samoa Boulevard.
Genevieve Serna
Thank you for this question.
After hearing the public’s input on this issue I believe the decision made by the acting council to strike the one way conversion on L St should remain in place.
When I was on the Transportation Safety Committee reviewing this policy within the Circulation Element, I struggled to reconcile with the plan’s primary purpose of improving Level of Service (LOS) on K St as the Gateway area grows in the future despite the city’s explicit goals of moving away from this metric of circulation evaluation. Even as the plan evolved to focus more on the bike and pedestrian improvements to K St I felt the result of the couplet conversion would be the same, to increase the LOS for the area.
I believe the public would be better served by the green space they are seeking.
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