Lincoln Avenue Road Diet/Lane Reduction; Street Safety Improvement — A Letter of Summary & Recommendations

Addressed to: Willow Glen Business Association

December 21, 2014

Tim Mulcahy

President, Willow Glen Business Association
1261 Lincoln Avenue
San Jose CA 95125

Dear Tim,

This will summarize key points in conversation that we had yesterday.

1. For many years, the Willow Glen community has been concerned with trends of heavy commuter traffic, resulting with increases to traffic bypass and congestion; whereas, that’s in addition to those issues related to pedestrian and bicycle safety; accidents; plus, regular speeding in excess of 25mph, which goes against the standard for a neighborhood street that’s proximate to a business district and schools.
   These concerns were expressed as of November 20, 2014, which was at a community meeting with both Willow Glen Neighborhood Association (WGNA) and the Business Association (WGBA); therein, especially discussing and making note of the negative safety and accident effects that a road diet — if not properly designed —could have on local schools, business and general neighborhood street safety.  Specific concerns were mentioned about Lincoln Avenue traffic, such as what’s south of Minnesota Avenue to Curtner Avenue.  For example, newly approved developments will impact the neighborhood with at least 7,000 additional housing units in the very near future:  Tamien Station Area Plan/Transit Village; Communications Hill 2; Ohlone Towers; Fruitdale Station (final phase); Sobrato residential at Lincoln Avenue, between Parkmoor & Auzerais (final phase).
2. Lincoln Avenue Road Diet Working Group ( RDWG ) held two closed-door, non-public meetings as of November 21 and December 4, year 20014.  These meetings were held privately — without community input — as referenced in the posted minutes, as seen here from WGBA:  http://www.willowglen.org/lincoln-road-diet
   San Jose Department of Transportation’s (DOT) presented a current draft plan and pilot program for the road diet/lane reduction, which is suggested for the area between Parkmoor and Minnesota Avenues.
   RDWG agreed, that for the pilot test to be successful, that the road diet/lane reduction must occur between Curtner and Coe Avenues.  The concerns are that a traffic back-up would increase the likelihood and risk of many motorists seeking an escape or alternate route from a gridlock, such as by diverting to nearby neighborhood streets that are perpendicular to Lincoln Avenue.
   Other concerns are with the safety of children at Willow Glen Elementary and River Glen School,. such as with exposure to particulate matter from idling cars.  Children, at such young age, are far more sensitive to, and at risk from, the pollution that’s created by excessive traffic, as well as idling cars.
   RGWG developed a list of issues to address, including: speed limit reductions; better signage; crosswalk improvements; traffic light timing, etc.
   DOT staff indicated that there may not be sufficient funds to expand the length of the test, such as from Coe to Curtner Avenues.  There are more costs involved than just striping the Lincoln Avenue; so, it may be cost prohibitive to expand the pilot program beyond Parkmoor and Minnesota Avenues.
   There is already a scheduled resurfacing plan for Lincoln Avenue in the autumn 2015 calendar, such as between West San Carlos Street and Minnesota Avenue.
   At the time of the resurfacing of Lincoln Avenue (between these two points) the cost of re-striping the surface — albeit for a road diet or return to original striping format — is already built-in to the cost of the autumn 2015 program.  There is no need to find additional funding, as it’s already covered.
   Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village (Stakeholders SGV) recommends that the test/pilot program begin at Pedro Street (at Los Gatos Creek), going south past the intersection of Minnesota and Lincoln Avenues.  This is so as to avoid complications at the Minnesota and Lincoln Avenue intersection; whereas, hopefully, the test will continue (southbound) past Pine Avenue, as far south as the budget will allow.
3. San Jose’s downtown, and some of the adjoining neighborhood streets (i.e., those of Willow Glen) are within a four mile radius of the downtown core/urban area; whereas, “Vehicle Miles Traveled” (VMT) replaced “Level of Service (LOS) guidelines.
   Also, trips by bike tend to be shorter trips, (e.g., Park Avenue, Hedding Street bikes routes, etc ), as they are identified in Envision 2014 Transportation Goals and San Jose Bike Plan 2020’s “Primary Bikeway.”  San Jose has identified ten streets that have received a combination of city, state and federal funding, which pays for road diets/lane reductions.
   Funding for Park Avenue serves as a part of San Jose’s Primary Bikeway Network.  The San Jose Department of Transportation has secured three grants.  These three grants are from U.S. federal Community Design and Transportation; California state’s Bicycle Transportation Account;  U.S. federal Highway Safety Improvement Program; as well as California state’s  Environmental Services Department secured grants, which provide funding to install “green street treatments.”

Low cost recommendations improve safety and build wide-spread community support: 

1. Lincoln Avenue Road Diet should go from Parkmoor to Curtner Avenue as a final implantation (beyond the pilot program), so as to minimize the negative impact on Willow Glen community, business district, neighborhood street safety, schools, traffic congestion, etc.  The road diet/lane reduction is to be fully implemented, with the allocation of funds.
2. Due to current funding constraints, the road diet/lane reduction pilot program should only go from Coe Avenue /Pedro Street to Willow Glen Way; that is, to minimize the impact on Willow Glen Elementary School and to improve safety for children; since (if started at Minnesota), exposure to particulate matter is increased by back-up traffic. 
3. Current speed limit between Minnesota and Willow Glen Way should be reduced from 35 mph to 25 mph. Currently, the area in front of the school is only 25mph when children are going to / from school; therefore, the reduction will (1) an increase to overall safety and (2) make the school crosswalk at Willow Glen Way safer; as well as (3) slow down traffic before the rest of the 25 mph business district; and (4) build road diet/lane reduction support from the school principal, PTA and parents.
4. Current speed limit between Curtner Avenue to Willow Glen Way should be reduced from 35 mph to 30 mph while retaining 25 mph in front Willow Glen Community Center.
5. Add a second Left Turn lane for Northbound at Lincoln and Curtner and before intersection
   Add a directional sign (with an arrow) directing motorists that are seeking a route from Curtner Avenue to Interstate-880 or I-280, to drive to Meridian Avenue and turn right towards Hamilton Avenue.
   At the northeast corner of Lincoln and Curtner, add a sign that advises motorists that the speed limit on Lincoln Avenue is 25mph, since the speed limit on Curtner, Hamilton and Meridian are all at 35mph, with multiple lanes.
6. Apply for state and federal grant funds, which will include working with elected representatives, so as to obtain funding for recently passed, but unfunded, “Three Feet for Safety” law for bike lanes.

Sincerely 

Ed Rast & Richard Zappelli

Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village — Willow Glen

Lincoln Avenue Road Diet / Lane Reduction Position Paper (20 November 2014) ★ Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village

     
Lincoln Avenue’s Road Diet/Lane Reduction project has been in the plans since at least year 2009; whereas, it has now taken on an alteration to its original plan, creating what can become a mass confusion at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue at Minnesota Avenue. That’s still yet to consider the opposite end of the strip at Willow Street and Lincoln Avenue. San Jose Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio's recent change of plans, such as to make alterations to the pilot test for downtown Willow Glen’s “Road Diet” or “lane reduction,” seems to have good intentions, but it has many problems.

Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village —Willow Glen (a.k.a. Stakeholders SGV) has been in conversation with Councilmember Oliverio, and the Willow Glen Business Association (WGBA) board members; therein, expressing concern about the usage of the Minnesota and Lincoln Avenues intersection that’s in front of the school for a pilot testing of this lane reduction project.

We believe that this revised lane-reduction pilot study and trial run, of which is recently being recommended to the neighborhood, will cause increased traffic congestion; that’s in addition to unsafe public safety situations for children, parents and motorist. Ultimately, it can cause the reverse to the intended outcome, making a mess of the downtown Willow Glen scene and connecting streets. Furthermore, it does not set-up a proper sampling or test run area that will represent the overall project; therefore the pilot study will not only create a messy situation; but, also provide inadequate feedback and lack of hypothetical scenarios.

For example, consider that the revision to the plan, which now focuses the road diet only to the area between Willow Street and Minnesota Avenue, excludes the rest of the sections of Lincoln Avenue. In that proposition, going north bound from Almaden Expressway to Minnesota Avenue, the lane reduction calls for motorists to face a lane merger that will bottleneck from two northbound lanes into one north bound lane as they cross Minnesota Avenue. It seems like an impossibility and messy predicament, such as to think that motor vehicles will suddenly be able to merge safely and readily at this busy intersection.

Per the revision, the main four lane strip of downtown Willow Glen — from Willow Street to Minnesota Avenue — will now be reduced to two lanes, one going north and the other south. Second: at the center of the street, there will also be a lane dedicated for left or right turns, as well as for emergency vehicle access. The reduction of two opposing lanes on the avenue will then allow for bicycle lanes to be added at the side of the street. Bicyclists will have a dedicated lane on each side of the road, going north and south. This is called a Road Diet/Lane Reduction; but, again, the framing of the project will be exclusively to the downtown strip, while ignoring the connecting areas. In other words, this proposal would be an inversion of the original plan and test areas.

Indeed, it’s agreed that the goal of a Road Diet is to eliminate all traffic fatalities and serious injuries on Lincoln Avenue. This initiative is being lead by downtown’s Willow Glen Business Association with the aim to improve the situation. What is more, Stakeholders SGV, the lead sponsor for the Walk/Bike to School event each year, also wholeheartedly supports the road diet concept as a traffic calming device.

However, it has been made known to the WGBA (the downtown business association) and Councilmember Oliverio, that Stakeholders SGV does not support the starting point of this Road Diet Pilot Study at the intersection in front of Willow Glen Elementary School. Stakeholders SGV does not support the starting point at any place close to the intersection in front of the school.

Repeatedly, Stakeholders SGV has proposed and asked for an alternative starting place for the Road Diet Pilot Study, as well as for the overall implementation of the project in the aftermath. As of the date of this letter, that request has yet to be acknowledged, not yet providing an alternative to the cited problem.

Per the stated concern and response to this Road Diet revision and its Pilot Study, its been suggested that the starting point of Lincoln Avenue’s lane reduction be made someplace else along the length of the strip, such as beyond Malone Road. This is because we want to avoid the Willow Glen Middle & High Schools access point at Malone, aside from further up the road towards the elementary school. If it happens at Malone, then motorist will try to escape the grid lock and will use friendly and quiet neighborhood side streets to get to Bird Avenue, an alternate north-south escape route.

It is the recommendation of Stakeholders SGV to begin the lane reduction at the source of the problem, which is primarily at Curtner and Lincoln Avenue.

Stakeholders SGV still supports the Road Diet and its Pilot Study, if appropriately planned. For example, there are many California cities that provide successful Road Diet case studies. Those best cities include: San Diego, Santa Monica, Redondo Beach, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa. All of these cities have since implemented successful Road Diets that show a major reduction of roadway traffic fatalities and serious injuries.

Comparatively, as of last year 2013, Lincoln Avenue had over 23 known and recorded accidents of this serious nature, of which one was a traffic fatality. In fact, another time in the recent past, one of such incidents was not considered as an on-site fatality, but it was learned that the person eventually died at the hospital. Many of these accidents took place in crosswalks at Lincoln Avenue.

Dedicated bike lanes are badly needed on Lincoln Avenue to accommodate the growing share of bicyclists in the area that are already using the avenue, as well as to comply with the standards of California’s new Three Feet for Safety Act.
When dedicated north-south lanes are added to an implemented Road Diet, case studies show (in the aftermath) that there are very little changes to traffic counts . Studies show that with a dedicated left turn lane, that traffic moves smother, as well as that there are fewer serious accidents. Furthermore, the middle lane provides for emergency vehicle access on Lincoln Avenue; which, with the current four lane road design, unsafe crossovers, bypasses and gridlock, our emergency vehicles presently have no speedily and manageable access. A center turn lane, alternately used as an emergency lane, will also improve the city’s 9-1-1 response time.

This position paper is prepared in anticipation to a neighborhood meeting that occurs Thursday 20 November 2014, and/or a response from Councilmember Oliverio. Further considerations can be made for the opposite end of the strip at Willow Street and Lincoln Avenue; such as, and including, another suggested starting point at Pedro Street and Lincoln Avenue (or thereabouts). This segment of the avenue is also of significant concern; that is, including Broadway Avenue and River Glen School, then out to Coe and Lincoln Avenue.

Best,

Richard Zappelli, 

Chairperson, Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village — Willow Glen
Former President, 2011 to 2014, Willow Glen Neighborhood Association

ROAD DIET MEETING for LINCOLN AVENUE

NEIGHBORHOOD DISCUSSION 

ABOUT LANE REDUCTION: 

Meeting occurs Thursday 20 November 2014 

at Willow Glen Elementary (Cafeteria). 

Be sure to arrive from 7:00 to 9:00pm.

BY THE WAY, also don't forget the TAMIEN STATION Meeting 

happening as of 18 November 2014 at Elk's Lodge ——> https://www.facebook.com/StakeholdersSGV/posts/1548478312059558

WALK SCHOOL 2014: PHOTO ALBUM

 Walk to School Day

— a National Safe Routes to School program — 

occurred Wednesday 15 October 2014

Participating schools included:

Willow Glen Elementary 

River Glen School 

Ernesto Galarza Elementary

Hammer Montessori School

Sacred Heart Nativity School

This event featured giveaways, refreshments, local sports mascots, prizes and dignitaries.

"Walk to School," Autumn 2014, is promoted by 
Stakeholders for Safe Green Village 
for the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, California.

Thanks to our program Sponsors:

Ranch Town Recycling

Arteaga's Food Center; 

Reed & Graham, Inc.

Additional Contributions by:

Bank of America 

(for annual use of the Parking Lot); 

Round Table Pizza - Willow Glen 

(for annually serving out cheese pizzas for the children);

Walgreens Stores 

(for supplying students umbrellas, bottled water, and flu shots)

Appreciation for our local sports teams and their mascots:

San Francisco Giants & "Gigante"

Oakland A's & "Stomper"

San Jose Earthquakes & "Q"

San Jose Sharks & "SJ Sharkie"

As well as local dignitaries:

Paul Fong, California State Assemblymember from the 28th district

Dave Cortese, Santa Clara County Supervisor

Pierluigi Oliverio, San Jose District 6 Councilmember

Hans Larsen, San Jose Department of Transportation

San Jose Police Department

Join children & adults around the world to celebrate the benefits of walking: 

Physical activity — Teaching safe pedestrian & bicycling skills to children — Awareness of how walkable & bikable community improvements can be made — Concern for the environment — Reducing traffic congestion, pollution & speed near schools — Sharing time with community leaders, parents & children

DAY ON THE BAY, SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 2014

Supervisor Dave Cortese 

— San Jose Mayoral Candidate 2014 — 

Invites you to the 

Annual "Day on the Bay: A Multicultural Festival" 

as of Sunday 12 October 2014 

at Alviso Marina County Park.  

Arrive from 10:00am to 3:00pm to be part of the festivities.

By the way, its free admission, includes free flu shots and free pumpkins… 

so feel FREE to join us!

SF GIANTS' "GIGANTE" TO APPEAR AT "WALK TO SCHOOL" EVENT 15 OCTOBER

SF GIANTS' MASCOT, "GIGANTE," HAS CONFIRMED THAT HE WILL BE AT THE "WALK TO SCHOOL" EVENT ON WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2014!  

Students from Willow Glen schools will be able to meet Gigante after 7:30am and before they walk to school.   This year's participating schools include: 

• Willow Glen Elementary, 
• River Glen School,
•  Ernesto Galarza Elementary, 
• Hammer Montessori School 
• Sacred Heart Nativity School.

As always, we'll be happy to give GIGANTE a spirited team welcome to the Willow Glen neighborhood!  Thanks to the SF Giants for always helping-out with the rally, building excitement for the National Safe Routes to School event!  WALK & BIKE to SCHOOL 2014!

Click here to visit our WALK TO SCHOOL web page (at this website).

Additional thanks to the sponsors of Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village 

that make this and other events possible.

EDITORIAL: THE NEXT GENERATION OF SJPD ROOKIES versus SENIOR OFFICERS.

THE NEXT GENERATION OF SJPD ROOKIES IS COMING IN WITH PEPPER SPRAY, FLASHLIGHTS AND RADIO; THAT'S AS THE NUMBER OF SENIOR OFFICERS DWINDLES.

SEE THIS VIDEO FROM KTVU 2 NEWS:http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/san-jose-community-service-officer-plan-triggers-c/ng5ch/

Now, Mayor Reed's agenda has impacted us to the point wherein the SJPD has begun training civilians to handle low-priority calls. This is unprecedented. The regular patrol force is already backlogged, running behind with high-priority calls. Adding rookies will not help the force, since new recruits cannot carry guns and require Field Training Officers to assist and protect them.

Just today, we heard that four more senior policers resigned from the force.

Traffic enforcement officers at one point were 50 officers strong, but now down to 9 officers on motorcycles.

Traffic enforcement officers are the ones that patrol around schools and follow drunk drivers on our streets, before these bad drivers cause accidents. The Mayor and City Council are not backfilling these enforcement positions.

Band-aid type solutions are not the solution to a city that's seriously bleeding. Your needs are already being "triaged": a process of wherein the police department is forced to determine more important things from amongst a large list of concerns that requires attention. Senior officers are tired, working over time and stressed out!

Folks… its time to wake up! We don't have enough patrol officers or training officers. But, at the rate we're going, this civilian force will become your regular police force.

Remember, even if they are unhappy, police and firefighters cannot go on labor strike. Instead, they just leave one by one.

What's happening here in San Jose is a major issue, relating to the nation's tenth largest city, third in the state. Once known as "America's Safest Big City," we have turned that completely upside down. The city council is at war with its own Police and Fire Department and doesn't realize that the "Capital of Silicon Valley" is in dire straits.

This report from KTVU Channel 2 and other networks is much appreciated; whereas it's a stark contrast to the Mercury News' editorial staff, which seems to be back-paging (if not silencing) these issues and endorsing politics-as-usual.

#BACKFILLING #SanJoseCA #POLICE #SJPD #SJPOA #ByTheNumbers #LawEnforcement #WillowGlen

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/san-jose-community-service-officer-plan-triggers-c/ng5ch/



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NEXT PHASE AT COMMUNICATIONS HILL DEVELOPMENT: TRAFFIC IMPACT SHOULD BE THE MAIN ISSUE FOR AN OUTREACH MEETING, AUGUST 28

South-bound Guadalupe Parkway/HWY-87
approaching turn-off for Almaden Expressway, Camden Avenue and Capitol Expressay
This picture is taken from Virginia Street bridge overpass

THE CITY OF SAN JOSE WILL HOST A PUBLIC OUTREACH MEETING ABOUT THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS HILL 2 PROJECT.

Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village is concerned about the addition of 2,200 more residential units with a projected automobile presence of approximately 4,000 more cars; that's for example, if we assume that each of those new households will have 1.5 cars each.

The addition of this many cars can have a negative impact as traffic spills over onto Curtner Avenue and Lincoln Avenue from both Guadalupe Parkway/HWY-87 and the Almaden Expressway. These areas are already congested during commuter hours.

Stakeholders SGV suggests serious mitigation alternatives to help ease traffic congestion. The meeting may well include issues about pollution and traffic congestion; but, we must engage a meaningful conversation that assures real solutions to this very real problem.

Guadalupe Parkway/HWy-87, coming from the north at downtown San Jose.
This picture is taken from Virginia Street bridge overpass.

Project Location & Information:

The Communications Hill 2 Project (approximately 320 acres) is the proposed development of the remainder of the Communications Hill Specific Plan approved by the City of San José in 1992. The project consists of up to 2,200 residential units, in a variety of configurations; up to 67,500 square feet of mixed-use commercial space, up to 1.44 million square feet of industrial park uses, public parks, trails, and a school site.

When: Thursday - August 28, 2014 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Time: Presentation starts at 6:45pm

Where: 

Communications Hill - Fire Station 33
2933 St. Florian Way, San Jose, CA 95136

Featuring:

City of San José Planning
Martina Davis, Acting Senior Planner
Email: martina.davis@sanjoseca.govPhone: (408) 535-7888

Contact for KB Home
Peter Lezak, Senior Director, Forward Planning
Email: plezak@kbhome.com
Phone: (925) 983-4521

Assyrian Food Festival, Saturday 23 August 2014

Don't forget that the Assyrian Food Festival is happening today in Willow Glen, Saturday 23 August 2014. Enjoy traditional Assyrian food, live music, dancing and entertainment, exotic teas, coffee and pastries. There's also a wine bar, exhibits and more… See vendors from around the world and let the kids play in a fun-filled kid zone! There will be a raffle grand prize for a 2014 Ford Mustang.

The event is happening at 680 Minnesota Avenue and includes free admission, shuttle and parking.


visit assyrianfest.com

SJ TAMIEN STATION AREA PLAN BACK ONLINE WITH OUTREACH MEETINGS. TIME TO RAISE SOME QUESTIONS

THE TAMIEN STATION AREA PLAN IS BACK ONLINE WITH AN INITIAL PARKING STRUCTURE PROJECT.  

A "Notice of Availablity & Meeting Invitation" has been sent to residents within ½ mile of Tamien Light Rail/Caltrain Station.   It's questionable if others in the Willow Glen neighborhood and surrounding areas have learned about the "Intitial Study/Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) that is included in this invitation.

This notice regards a parking structure project, a preliminary matter with regards to the overall building development.   Currently, VTA is going forth with outreach meetings once again, before construction actually begins.



MEETING DATE:
To learn more about the Project an draft IS/MND, you are encouraged to attend the following community meeting:

Tuesday 18 November 2014

5:30pm to 7:30pm

San Jose Elks Lodge, No. 522

444 West Alma Avenue, San Jose, 95110

BRIEF:
Valley Transit Authority (VTA) is proposing a four or five level parking structure within VTA's existing Tamien Station Light Rail Transit surface parking lot in San Jose to accommodate future parking demand, due to light rail and Caltrain operations.  The parking structure would provide up to 900 parking spaces. 


OFFICIAL SUMMARY FROM THE CITY OF SAN JOSE:

"The Project would consist of a four- or five-level parking structure with all levels above-grade. The parking structure would provide up to 900 parking spaces. Electric vehicle charging stations would be provided. The location of the parking structure would require the existing bus transit loop to be relocated to the south side of the proposed structure. A passenger drop off/pick up location would be located either in the bus transit loop area or in a turnout along Lelong Street. Bioinfiltration facilities to capture storm water runoff would be located on the west side of the parking structure along Lelong Street and in the middle of the bus transit loop. Replacement landscaping would include California native and/or drought-tolerant plants. The Project also proposes a traffic signal at Lelong Street and the State Route 87 on/off ramps. Figure 2 in the IS/MND provides a conceptual site plan for the Project and an illustration of the internal parking structure circulation."

The Draft Initial Study/proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) and technical appendices for the Tamien Station Parking Structure Project are now available at the following website:

http://131.103.70.39/cma/environmental_public/TamienStationParkingStructure/

DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS 
Comments will be accepted at the meeting or by postal mail or email to the address below.
Comments regarding the potential environmental impacts of the proposed Project are requested by:

5 pm on December 4, 2014.  

VTA Environmental Programs/Resources Management Department
Attention: Ann Calnan
3331 North First Street, Building B-2 San Jose, CA 95134-1927
E-mail: tamien.parking@vta.org 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
See more about this matter at de·Anza Press:

SJ TAMIEN STATION AREA PLAN BACK ONLINE WITH OUTREACH MEETINGS; QUESTIONS REMAIN

APIS FLORAL ARRIVES AT LINCOLN AVENUE, NEAR GLEN EYRIE & COE (OLD ANNE'S FLORAL SHOP)

APIS FLORAL HAS MOVED-IN AT THE CORNER OF LINCOLN AVENUE & PEDRO STREET.







Apis means bee in Latin, symbolizing this company's passion to your floral needs, "Like bees to honey." Willow Glen's new neighborhood florist specializes in craft & tailored floral arrangement; event design; as well as corporate/home and holiday staging. Floral arrangements are customized for each client need, including thoughtful detail in architecture and environment. Event designs are made to “wow,” as Apis helps you with everything; such as with the selection and style of an event tent; focal statement pieces, lounge settings, candy tables, custom bar, party favors and all other in-between items that come to mind. Home and corporate care includes window displays, landscape interior design, Christmas tree decoration and a host of other ideas you may want to bring out from your imagination.


We're happy to see Apis arrive in the neighborhood, especially since our last "Blight to Bright" street clean-up project in this area. It's good to realize that the old Anne's Floral shop will now be occupied by Apis Floral. We've since extended a greeting to the new owners.  We invite you to do the same. Be sure to visit at 955 Lincoln Avenue at Pedro Street, just one block north of Arteaga's Market (at Glen Eyrie and Coe Avenue) at the opposite side of the Los Gatos Creek bridge.


Just like the saying goes — "something old, something new" — its good to see a new floral shop at the old site, continuing Lincoln Avenue's mix of diverse businesses for neighborhood residents.


The team here does seem quite professional, passionate and committed to their enterprise, as you can see a roster of some of their corporate customers here.


Please welcome Jose Ibarra, founder and creative force behind Apis Floral, along with Arlene Hamacher a seasoned event planner; plus, Efrain Escalante, their marketing and social media guru.

CONACT: APIS FLORA at
flowers@apisfloral.com


Telephone (408) 879.9620


Apis Floral website:
http://www.apisfloral.com


Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/apis.floral


Instagram:
http://instagram.com/apisfloral/


Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/apisfloral/

SAN JOSE DOT'S "FUTURE BICYCLE PROJECTS," PROMO BY STAKEHOLDERS SGV

SAN JOSE DOT'S "FUTURE BICYCLE PROJECTS," CONCERNED LINCOLN AVENUE IMPROVEMENTS.

This Public Meeting was as of 13 AUG 2014 by the CITY of SAN JOSE, Department of Transportation(DOT), and was promoted by Stakeholders SGV. 

It concerns much of the work that Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village has contributed over the years, so as to bring the proposed BICYCLE‐related street improvements.

For Lincoln Avenue this will include:
— add Bicycle Lanes between Willow Street &San Carlos Street
— add Shared Lane pavement markings & signing between San Carlos Street & Park Avenue.

The meeting occurred at GardnerCommunity Center (520 W. Virginia Street).

Featured from San Jose DOT were:
Hans F. Larsen, Director
Paul Smith, Deputy Director
John Brazil, Bicycle Programs

Thanks go to the following individuals:

Supervisor DAVE CORTESE for attending the full meeting and supporting the bicycle lane programs in Willow Glen.   

Councilmember PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO for his support of bicycle lanes in Willow Glen over the years.

Chairperson CARLOS BABCOCK and everyone from SAN JOSE BIKE PARTY for your support and attendance!

EXTRA THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
Mike's Bikes (http://mikesbikes.com/)
Hyland Bicycle Shop (http://www.hylandbikes.com)
Red Dot Fitness (http://www.reddotfitness.net)
Eye Luv Lucy (http://www.eyeluvlucy.com)

PHOTOS: courtesy of Richard Zappelli, chairperson of Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village