ACTION:
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Clerk/Secretary
Department: Engineering Item No: D2
Prepared by:
Husam Hasenin, Traffic Engineering
Division Manager Meeting Date: February 24, 2026
Approved by:
Greg Mayer, Engineering Director
John Conley, City Manager Agenda Location: Discussion
SUBJE
CT: ACCESSIBLE PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS
RECOMMENDATION: Receive information on Accessible Pedestrian Signals in the City and provide direction to staff.
CORRELATION TO CITY COUNCIL GOALS: Traffic: Continue to enhance mobility safety, improve the flow of traffic for all forms of travel, reduce congestion, and improve our roads and sidewalks.
PRIOR ACTION: On October 14, 2025, received recommendations from the Senior Citizens Affairs Commission and Environmental Commission (Vote: 5-0).
PRIOR
TRAFFIC COMMISSION ACTION: None.
PRIOR
SENIOR CITIZENS AFFAIRS COMMISSION ACTION: On September 17, 2025, voted to recommend to the City Council that all new projected, planned and approved traffic signal installations and future traffic signal installations include Leading Pedestrian Interval (LPI), Accessible Pedestrian Signal (APS), and countdown technological features; that all 110 existing traffic signals in the City of Vista be surveyed and prioritized for repair and potential upgrade to LPI, APS, and countdown features to promote saf ety for the Vista senior population who may be affected by visual, auditory, mobility, neuromuscular and/or medical deficits, who navigate the city on foot or by public transit; that the APS and countdown features are not language based (Vote: 6-0, one vacancy).
STATEMENT ON THE SUBJECT: The City has been implementing Accessible Pedestrian Signals (APS) and countdown pedestrian indications with new traffic signal installation projects for the past several years, which will continue. The City has not yet implemented Lead Pedestrian Intervals (LPI). The City also recently completed replacement of existing outdated pedestrian signals with APS at the following seven intersections:
1. Civ
ic Center Drive & S. Santa Fe Avenue
2. S. Santa Fe Avenue & Postal Way
3. E. Vista Way & Vista Village Drive / Civic Center Drive
4. E. Vista Way & Anza Avenue / Vale Terrace Drive
5. N. Santa Fe Avenue & Bobier Drive
6. Vista Village Drive & Palm Drive / Main Street
7. Vista Village Drive & Citrus Avenue
AGENDA
REPORT
CITY COUNCIL
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
SUCCESSOR AGENCY
BUENA SANITATION DISTRICT
JOINT POWERS FINANCING AUTHORITY
02/24/2026
D2
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Directed staff to proceed with Accessible Pedestrian Signal assessments of intersections with high pedestrian counts that are on routes to schools or other sensitive uses and to study Lead Pedestrian Intervals at five intersections, meeting these criteria and also having high right turn volumes. Vote: 4-0 (O'Donnell absent)