HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - January 20, 1982 (24)REQUEST FOR "NO Council was apprised that the City of Lodi has received
- PARKING" AREA ON a petition from 33 residents of the 300 block of South
SOUTH SUNSET Sunset Drive, asking for the parking restriction. The
DRIVE petition represents 6916 of the total properties along
the street.
There are 3 conditions that may contribute to the traffic
hazard stated in the petition:
1. There is an existing no parking zone on the south side
of Lodi Avenue betveen Ham Lane and Sunset Drive.
Drivers of vehicles traveling east on Lodi Avenue and
preparing to turn right on Sunset Drive must be positioned
in the curb lane immediately north of the South curb line.
The natural tendency of mast drivers making the turn
is to parallel the curb line and, upon completion of the
turn, the vehicle would normally be positioned only
5 or 6 feet from the west curb line of Sunset Drive. A
vehicle parked along the west curb line could protrude
as much as 8 feet into the street area, and the driver
making the turn would have to veer to the left to avoid it;
Z. There is a six-foot high block wall located at the
sidewalk line which extends from the west property line
of 1200 -West Lodi Avenue to the center of the curb
return at Sunset Drive (at this point the wall reduces in
height to 4 feet). This wall blocks the vision of a driver
on Lodi Avenue from seeing a parked vehicle on Sunset
Drive until the driver is well into the right turn:
3. The curb -to -curb width of Sunset Drive is '6 feet;
two 8 -foot parking lanes and two 10 -foot travel lanes.
If a vehicle is parked at the curb, and another traveling
north on Sunset Drive approaching the stop sign, a
driver turning right has little room to negotiate the turn.