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(]]"CITY OF COLTON h AGENDA REPORT .." ._,...; 1887 For Council Meeting of July 6, 1993 afro'' TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL DATE: June 23, 1993 FROM: JOHN HUTTON PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR SUBJECT: REPORT REQUESTED FOR PROCEDURE USED TO DETERMINE INSTALLATION OF STOP SIGNS BACKGROUND: At theJune15, 1993 City Council meeting a resident who lives on Teresa Street near Davis Park requested stop signs to be installed at Teresa Street and Kimberly Avenue, a three way, T intersection. The resident indicated that due to the upgrades at Davis Park, additional traffic would necessitate the additional stop signs. The resident also made this request to the City's Traffic Committee. DISCUSSION: The resident did approach the Traffic Committee with an off agenda request to review the need for a stop sign at the location mentioned above. The Traffic Committee indicated that the installation of stop signs required that certain steps "called warrants" are necessary to be met and that the traffic committee would proceed with obtaining traffic volumes and pedestrian counts to determine if warrants could be met. After reviewing the findings of the field investigation it was found that there was not sufficient volumes to warrant the stop..signs "at this time", but it was noted that with the upcoming improvements being made at the park that these volumes would probably increase and new volume counts would be taken. It was explained that these statistics and data are necessary in order to protect the city from possible liability, if crosswalks or stop signs were installed without justification warrants and an, accident occurred, the city would be totally liable for changing a condition without proper justification that resulted in an injury or accident. By obtaining justifiable data first before acting there is sufficiently less liability to the city and its taxpayers.