- Call to Order
- Alexandria Police Report
- Del Ray Parking Study
- Guest: Yon Lambert, Director, Department Transportation and Environmental Services
- Announcements
- Call to Order: 7:07pm
- Alexandria Police Report: Capt Dennis Andreas
- Burke & Herbert Robbery
- “Note job” at B&H on Monroe, no weapon displayed
- Description of perpetrator available
- Bank robbers often operate in sequence. Be alert.
- Traffic issues
- “Vision Zero” just adopted by City
- Traffic Safety Section (Lt. Mike May in charge)
- Safety starts with: How *we* behave
- Traffic Safety Plan is aligned with Vision Zero.
- Online for comment for a week
- Any police officer’s job to make a stop if infraction observed
- Issue warning, tickets, etc.
- Seek crash (fka “accident”) reduction
- 15 officers in Traffic Safety Section
- Radar in all cruiser to come (obviate handhelds)
- Changes in how DUI/DWI is handled
- Education (Prom time, elder drivers)
- Questions, comments?
- Are increased penalties effective?
- Effectiveness of speed camera, red light cameras?
- Aren’t pedestrians, joggers, cyclists part of problem?
- Are studies done at peak times on MVA?
- Use City’s Call-Click-Connect service for traffic complaints
- Which are the highest corridors for speeding?
- Quaker, Duke, Rt 1, Van Dorn
- Need to coordinate with State Police for some roads
- Commonwealth and Del Ray Ave. very dangerous.
- Four-way stop no always heeded.
- Roads come together with impaired line of sight
- Monroe Ave speedbumps encourages drivers to swerve into bike lane.
- Have we considered 3-D, trompe-l’œil crosswalk designs used in Ireland
- Actually used in Iceland. But no.
- Have we tried to employ clowns to raise awareness of traffic safety?
- Motion to fund $500 donation for Domestic Violence Program, by Tom Ortiz, seconded.
- Special guest: Justin Wilson, Vice Mayor, former DRCA President
- Parking Study: Katie North (lead planner, Department Transportation and Environmental Services)
- Revisit Del Ray Commercial Parking study
- Commercial Parking Standards change
- First part: Multifamily Parking study
- Task force busy for a year
- 1963 last time plan updated
- Back then: no Metro, DASH
- Land sue: 10% parking lots
- “Suburban style development”
- 40% of SUP applications ask for parking reductions
- All approved
- Times have changed
- Certain assumptions:
- Hotels: cabs and Uber usage outweigh private vehicle use hence less need for parking.
- Restaurants patrons: 52% walk?
- Recommendations
- Rework minimum and maximum ratios for parking
- Develop a “Combined Retail” Ratio
- Establish a neighborhood business exemption:
- Requesting a parking reduction typically adds 3 months to opening and all have been approved. Why bother?
- Shared parking
- Health and Human Services building (MVA & Mt Ida) parking structure is a possibility for evening and weekends
- Recommendations from DRCA
- Shared parking agreements
- Increased enforcement (adjudications process changes=more officers on street)
- Wayfinding for parking
- Advertise off-street parking provided or required by SUPs
- Introduction: Danielle Fidler, Parking Standards Task Force
- Too much time on parking reductions in Land Use Committee
- Special guest: Yon Lambert, Director, Department Transportation and Environmental Services.
- With T&ES since 2006
- City parking districts
- Created in response to opening of Metro and expected commuter use of neighborhood spaces
- Add new district in conjunction to changes on MVA (meters, time changes)
- (But no plans yet for meters)
- Employee parking cited a problem at some business.
- Residential excess (four cars from one household on street, not moving after three days)
- Personal experiences, anecdotes shared
- Today Vision Zero (2028) plan released
- Goal: No one hurt or killed in crashes
- Mount Vernon Avenue resurfacing project presents some opportunities.
- Change some bus stop locations, remove others.
- Add bulb-outs to provide more pedestrian visibility.
- Changes are expected to be parking neutral (no loss of parking)
- Traffic signals require engineering warrants
- Signals often induce more traffic so are a mixed blessing
- What about Dewitt? Some intersection four-way stops; others not? Inconsistency confusing.
- Dominion VA Potomac Substation Update
- Dominion plans to decommission substation in 2018.
- Does this present an opportunity for a public space that DRCA should pursue with City?
- Announcements
- No DRCA party for Holidays this year.
- Del Ray Business Association announcements: Gayle Reuter
- Register early for Turkey Trot. It can fill up!
- Del Ray Tree Lighting: December 2
- Del Ray Pub Crawl, benefiting Alexandria Neighborhood Health: December 9
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