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Department of Transportation recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 109-2025 amending speed restrictions on Pleasant Valley Road from thirty-five (35) miles per hour to twenty-five (25) miles per hour and adding a speed restriction on Carson Crossing Drive of thirty-five (35) miles per hour.
(District 2)
FUNDING: Road Fund (100%).
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Department of Transportation, Maintenance and Operations Division (Transportation) reviewed the existing speed survey on Pleasant Valley Road due to the recent pedestrian safety project. The current speed zone restriction is sanctioned by Resolution No. 247-51. The newly installed speed feedback sign for westbound traffic provides notification from a 35 miles per hour (MPH) speed zone to a 25 MPH speed zone entering Diamond Springs. Due to the location of the speed feedback sign, the existing speed zone limits need to be amended lengthening the 25 MPH speed zone by 0.15 miles and shortening the 35 MPH speed zone by 0.15 miles. The proposed amended speed zones were approved by the Traffic Advisory Committee (TAC) on April 30, 2025.
Similarly, Carson Crossing Drive speed zone was first brought to TAC in November 2024 with a proposed 45 MPH speed zone. Residents within the Heritage Community expressed concerns of increased pedestrian use of adjacent facilities to the age restricted community. Transportation staff reevaluated the survey and presented it at the April 30, 2025 TAC meeting to discuss further reducing the previously proposed 45 MPH speed zone by 10 MPH for a new speed zone of 35 MPH. The entire length of Carson Crossing Drive was proposed to be a radar enforced 35 MPH speed zone due to the presence of California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices defined pedestrian generators. The proposed speed zone was approved by TAC on April 30, 2025.
The following is the final recommendation that was approved by the West Slope Traffic Advisory Committee:
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