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made for future development and expansion <br />of public transportation systems and for <br />eliminating conflicts in movement of private <br />and public transportation vehicles. <br />Additionally, the plan provides for <br />widening and changing Hays Street from a <br />one-way street to a two-way street and making <br />related changes to traffic signals within and <br />adjacent to the project area, and widening <br />portions of Davis Street and West Juana <br />Avenue. <br />Since the inception of the plan in 1960, <br />several public streets have been modified to <br />restrict vehicular movements to minimize or <br />preclude the use thereof by vehicular traffic <br />which has destinations other than in the <br />project area. Washington Avenue between <br />Davis Street and West Estudillo Avenue, one- <br />way northbound, provides access to off-street <br />parking and no longer intersects Davis Street. <br />A traffic diversion barrier has been installed in <br />Washington Avenue between West Juana and <br />West Joaquin Avenues which precludes the <br />through movement of two-way traffic <br />resulting in a dispersal of traffic into adjacent <br />public parking areas serving adjoining <br />commercial uses. The traveled way or usable <br />width of West Joaquin Avenue between East <br />14`h and Hays Streets has been effectively <br />reduced to accommodate one-way traffic and <br />diagonal parking thus restricting east -west <br />vehicular movement on portions of this street. <br />The parking, IoadinJdel[very and street <br />system delineated on the land utilization plan, <br />Exhibit 1.08.010, reflects the continuation or <br />furtherance of an already established plan <br />objective of discouraging the use of streets <br />within the core of the project area by <br />vehicular traffic which has destinations <br />elsewhere to minimize or preclude the <br />potential for conflict between the two <br />1.12.050 <br />different types of traffic within the project. To <br />provide for the proper utilization of property <br />to be redeveloped, provide improved access, <br />parking and traffic circulation, and to preclude <br />through movement of vehicular traffic from <br />the core of the project area, West Estudillo <br />and West Joaquin Avenues between the <br />westerly right-of-way line of Washington <br />Avenue and the easterly right-of-way line of <br />Hays Street may be vacated. A small section <br />of Washington Avenue, approximately one- <br />half block in length southerly of Davis Street <br />and northerly of West Estudillo Avenue, may <br />also be vacated. (Plaza 1 redev. plan § 9(D), <br />1986) <br />1.12.050 Bicycle access. <br />Bicycle routes planned for portions of West <br />Estudillo, West Joaquin and Washington <br />Avenues in the project area and affected by <br />this plan will be rerouted as necessary to the <br />perimeter of the project area to permit <br />continuation of east -west bicycle travel. <br />Bicyclists will have access to and parking <br />facilities in the project area. (Plaza 1 redev. <br />plan § 9(E), 1986) <br />13 <br />