The agenda for the July 22 Traffic & Safety Commission meeting has been posted on the city website.  Also available is the staff report on the city’s Safeway Store major projects page (attachements referenced in the staff report are on the major projects page).

For vehicle circulation, Safeway proposes three options:

Option A:  Vehicle access for the underground parking garage well down Curtis and Neilson and across from residences (as per previous designs), no Solano access.  Truck access would be via a loading dock high up on Neilson.

Option B:  Vehicle access well down Curtis and Neilson, no Solano access.  Truck access would be via a loading dock located on Solano Ave.

Option B-1:  Truck access via a loading dock located on Solano.  There would also be a vehicle access ramp on Solano adjacent to the loading dock, however there would still be vehicle access on Curtis and Neilson and these access points would be south of the existing parking lot access cuts.

Unfortunately the city engineer has thrown his support behind proposal A, which makes it all the more important that we emphasize how detrimental this proposal is to the neighborhood.  Even option B-1 could use some improvement — the driveways on Curtis/Neilson need to either be removed, or moved north (towards Solano) to their existing locations.