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TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS �•
•FROM :,. Phil Batchelor.. i ra
County Administrator
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DATE: July 13 , 1988 CjOJ*
SUBJECT: Additional Parking Spaces for
the Handicapped
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION•
Consider requesting the City of Martinez to make the changes
recommended in the attached report from the Community Development
Department to increase the number of parking spaces in the Civic
Center area which are reserved for the handicapped.
BACKGROUND:
At the request of Supervisor McPeak staff from the Transportation
Planning Division of the Community Development Department, in
conjunction with staff from the City of Martinez, surveyed the
location and use of parking spaces in downtown Martinez near the
major County buildings in order to determine whether the existing
spaces are adequate in number and in location. Their conclusions
are detailed in the attached report from Barbara Neustadter.
In general, the conclusion reached was that some of the parking
spaces reserved for the handicapped are not adequately utilized
because of their location and could and should be relocated. The
result of the attached recommendations is to create four new
parking spaces for the handicapped and abandon three of the
currently reserved spaces which appear not to be fully utilized,
resulting in a better location of the spaces and a net increase
of one space for the handicapped in the area around County
buildings in the downtown Martinez area.
If the Board of Supervisors wishes to see these changes
implemented, the Board should direct the Community Development
Department staff to make a formal request to the City of Martinez
to implement the changes suggested in the attached report.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; X YES SIGNATURE:
_X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON July-19, N88 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TARN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED
Community Development P IL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
(Barbara Neustadter) SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
City of Martinez (via CDD)
BY
M382/7-83 ,DEPUTY
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CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
DATE: April 4, 1988
T0: Phil Batchelor, County Admini rator C01*8CostaCounty
RECEIVED
FROM: Barbara A. Neustadte uty Director - Transportation APR 5
NO
SUBJECT: Parking Provision for he Handicapped
Office of
County niUrator
Please refer to Supervisor McPeak's memo of February 4, 1988 forwarded to me with
your memo of February 19, 1988.
Along with the City of Martinez staff we have made a field review of the supply
and demand of parking spaces for the handicapped in the vicinity of the County
Offices and Court House Buildings in the downtown Martinez area.
The total number of spaces reserved for the handicapped is nine out of which,
four to five were not occupied during the morning hours of Monday, March 7, 1988.
It was felt that even though parking spaces for the handicapped were available,
location of these spaces did not allow their best use.
It was decided that the City Parking Place Commission be requested to:
1. Allow one blue space (blue color used to mark a parking space for the
handicapped) near the new court house building at the southeast corner of
Ward Street at Pine Street.
2. Allow one blue space on Court Street near the Post Office, at the southeast
corner of Court Street. at Ward Street.
3. Allow one blue space in front of the County Recorders' Office on Las Juntas
Way.
4. Allow one blue space on the north side of Main Street in the mid-block of
Main Street between Pine Street and Court Street.
5. Eliminate one of the two .existing blue spaces at the northwest corner of
Main Street at Court Street.
6. Eliminate two of the four existing blue spaces in the parking lot located at
the northwest corner of Pine Street at Escobar Street.
The proposed reorganization of blue parking spaces will make more public
buildings accessible to the handicapped. Under this plan, the total number of
blue parking. spaces will be 10, i .e. , one additional space will be created.
We will request the City authorities to make the proposed changes after
Supervisor McPeak's approval .
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cc: Harvey Bragdon, Director of Community Development