Traffic is on everyone's mind.
While some of our increased traffic comes from internal infill development, a significant share comes from growth in the cities around us. You can see it yourself any time you drive beyond Poway's borders — the surrounding region is growing fast, and that traffic doesn't stop at our city limits, it spills onto our roads.
Poway has set up a system where infill development pays for smarter, adaptive traffic signals that respond to local patterns and meaningfully increase the real-world capacity of our roads. But the pace of external traffic growth appears to be outrunning the pace at which we're able to add these new signals. I believe it may be time to pay it forward — invest now in these signals and backfill the accounts over time.
Parking — what to do about it?
Even in the face of state density bonus mandates, I continue to push developers to meet Poway's parking standards to reduce or eliminate street overflow. It's a challenge, given the new rights granted by the state, but a fight worth fighting.