ANAHEIM : Council to Consider Stadium Traffic Plan

The City Council will meet in special session at 2:30 p.m. today to consider a $1.9-million, four-year program to study and improve the traffic situation in the Anaheim Stadium area.

The council is meeting early to hear a presentation on the traffic program, said John Lower, the city’s traffic manager. The program was on last week’s council agenda, but the council voted to postpone the decision a week, saying it needed more information. The program would be funded through state and county grants.

Under the proposal, the city would hire JHK and Associates, a San Francisco firm, to run the program. JHK for five years has operated the city’s traffic management system.

Lower said improvements that can be expected near the stadium include the installation of closed-circuit television cameras for monitoring traffic in the area, installation of changeable highway message signs and operation of a highway advisory radio station.

The closed-circuit TV system will allow controllers sitting at a central site to change stop lights near the stadium, allowing for better traffic flow before and after events, Lower said.

In its regular 5 p.m. session today, the council is scheduled to consider a proposal that would increase by as much as 56% the park and recreation fees charged to residential builders. The money will be used to build new parks.

Builders of small apartment buildings with two to four units would face the largest increases. Their park fee would be $4,243 per unit, up from $2,779 per unit.

The builders of larger apartment complexes would see their fee raised from $2,779 to $3,279.

The park fee per single family home will be raised from $4,130 to $4,205. The fee for condominiums will be raised from $3,041 to $3,267 per unit. The fee for mobile home parks will be raised from $2,128 to $2,515 per space.