No More Parking on Jenevein Avenue?

Parking and traffic could be drastically changed near the intersection of Jenevein and Linden avenues if a little known study makes it way through city government. 

The city’s Traffic Safety and Parking Committee will be discussing the study at its meeting today. Although no final decisions are expected to be made, the committee’s recommendations could influence how the city proceeds with fixing the traffic concerns raised about the intersection. 

“I’m not expecting to have a decision on the matter tonight,” said Klara Fabry, the city’s public services director, whose department oversees the traffic committee. “But I am expecting the committee to have a discussion.” 

The traffic at Jenevein and Linden first became an issue in early 2010, when several residents began making complaints to the city about the safety of the intersection, which currently only has stop signs at Linden Avenue. The residents wanted to make the intersection, which is only a block away from a four-way intersection at El Camino Real, a four-way stop. 

Some of the study’s recommendations include: 

• improving the traffic signals at Jenevein Avenue and El Camino Real
• taking away street parking on Jenevein, which would greatly impact businesses such as that don’t have any onsite parking and rely on street parking for their customers
• making Linden Avenue a one-way street 

The is at 7 p.m. in Conference Room 115 in City Hall.