APPENDIX A

Resident Letter and Survey
Traffic Circle at West 26^th Avenue and Osler Street

City of Vancouver Survey

Traffic Calming Plan - Traffic Circle
City of Vancouver May 2001

Dear Neighbour:

This survey seeks your opinion about a traffic circle at the intersection of Osler Street and 26th Avenue.

In 1999, the Children & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia applied to the City of Vancouver to develop additional building density on their existing site. As a condition of the development, City Council has required Children & Women's to participate in and fund a neighbourhood traffic calming plan. Subsequently, a letter was sent out from the City, to all the residents in your area requesting input for a neighbourhood traffic study.

After initial consultation, a residents' committee was formed that has worked with representatives from the City and Children & Women's to design a neighbourhood traffic calming plan. A major goal of this plan is to reduce the volume and speeds of vehicles short-cutting through your neighbourhood to get to Children & Women's.

The Committee has identified a concern that when eastbound traffic on King Edward is backed-up from the light at Oak, traffic short-cuts down Osler Street. To deal with this concern, a traffic circle is proposed for the intersection of Osler Street and 26th Avenue. A traffic circle is a circle with a concrete curb installed at the middle of an intersection. It forces motorists to slow down at the intersection in order to navigate around the circle. Other attributes of the traffic circle include increased green space, reduced intersection accidents, and the visual length of street is broken up.

Traffic Circles can be "sponsored" so that they are landscaped and cared for by residents of the neighbourhood. Please call Carli Williams at 871-6422 if you are interested in being a sponsor.

The cost for this traffic circle will not affect your taxes. If the results of the enclosed survey indicate that you and your neighbours support the traffic circle, the traffic circle will be presented to Vancouver City Council for approval. Your response to the survey is important.

Please return the survey by May 18, 2001 Please detach the bottom portion of this page and return it in the postage paid envelope. If you wish to expand on your comments, please fax them to 871-6119, e-mail carli_williams@city.vancouver.bc.ca or mail to Engineering Services, City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 1V4. All personal information will remain confidential but your comments will be forwarded to City Council. If you have any questions, call Carli Williams at 871-6422 or e-mail carli_williams@city.vancouver.bc.ca

Carli Williams, EIT
Neighbourhood Transportation
City of Vancouver

Please detach the following and return it in the postage paid envelope.

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Name: ___________________Address: _______________________________Postal Code:__________
Yes No Neutral
I support the proposed traffic circle at Osler and 26^th
I would like to be notified when this issue goes before Council.

I offer the following comments about the proposed traffic circle:

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