Aptos Village Traffic Study

Members of the Board:
On January 13,2004, your Board approved a contract amendment with TJKM
Transportation Consultants to analyze the community based circulation plan for the Aptos Village Specific Plan, and directed the Department of Public Works to report back today with a status update.
The attached new circulation plan dated November 12, 2003, proposes to extend
Valencia Street across Trout Gulch Road to intersect with Aptos Creek Road. This new Valencia Street extension would intersect midway with two new segments of Granite Way, one to the north to Cathedral Drive, and one to the south to Soquel Drive. This circulation plan creates several new intersections that must be evaluated for levels of service and traffic operations impacts to determine if traffic signals, additional turn lanes, and or stop signs would be necessary.
The attached draft technical memorandum from TJKM dated February 10, 2004,
indicates that the intersection analyses based upon the new Valencia Street extension circulation plan does not differ in any substantial manner from the previous circulation analysis. The new intersections are expected to operate at acceptable levels of service without additional traffic control or additional turn lanes. The analysis reiterates the need to install traffic signals at Soquel Drive/Aptos Creek Road and Soquel Drive/Trout Gulch Road under existing traffic conditions in order to accommodate future project traffic volumes.
Our department will continue to work with TJKM to finalize the draft traffic study.
It is anticipated that the report will be prepared and distributed sometime in March, and will be included in the Planning Department’s environmental documentation for the Aptos Village Specific Plan.

It is therefore recommended that the Board of Supervisors take the following action:
1. Accept and file this report on the Aptos Village Traffic Study.
2. Direct Public Works to submit the draft Aptos Village Traffic Study to the
Planning Department for inclusion into the Aptos Village Specific Plan
environmental documentation.