Dear Red Phone:
“I was visiting somebody at Village Green and on the way back – and it’s been told to me by residents – that the intersection of First Street and Santa Teresa, on the southeast corner, the people walking there have no sidewalk. You’ve got two lanes on Santa Teresa merging into one, you’ve got traffic making a left from Santa Teresa and traffic making a right to Santa Teresa. People walking there are walking in the dirt. I know that’s private property there, but to have a major intersection with no sidewalk, it just seems incongruous. Thank you. And there’s a similar situation at Monterey and 10th Street.”
Dear reader,
Below is a response to your question from City Transportation Engineer Henry Servin. We hope this helps.
“A developer recently purchased and assembled properties at the southeast corner of First and Santa Teresa. As part of their residential project, they will install sidewalks along First Street, (and give us a new eastbound travel lane), and sidewalks along Santa Teresa and an extension of the bikeway corridor along Santa Teresa as well. The development is in the early submittal stages but it looks like the street changes would occur by Autumn 2014.”
As for the southerly portion of 10th Street between Monterey and Alexander, that has no sidewalk either, according to Servin. He says there is a pending development that will dedicate frontage along 10th Street, which will allow the City to provide another eastbound lane, bike lanes, and sidewalks.
“They are in the middle of the review process and will most likely go to construction in early 2015,” Servin writes. “We find it very difficult to provide sidewalks where we do not own the land. So, when a development comes along we begin dialogues on getting the fronting land for street improvements.”
Henry Servin can be reached at 1(408) 846-0451 or via email:
he**********@ci**********.org
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