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The Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees held a work session on February 10, 2026 (meeting originally scheduled for February 9) to review traffic calming studies for Hopper Street and Nanahagan Road presented by DTS Provident Engineering, and to finalize a decision on the Panther Club after-school program registration process. The board heard public comments and took votes on both agenda items.
Good evening, all welcome to the work session for the village of Pleasantville Blood Festies. Today is Monday, February 9, and we are starting in our work session. First item is a presentation by DTS Provident Engineering regarding two traffic studies that they undertook at our request. One was Nanahagan and the other was COP, it was Hopper Street. Joining us tonight is Carlito Holt from DTS Provident. Welcome, sir. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, board and everyone in attendance. Again, Carlito Holt with DTS Provident. Excuse me. I guess I don't know if if the board desires focusing on one first or second. Whichever you want, we're going to do a both. So yeah. So I'll start with Hopper Street. Excuse me. So for Hopper Street, we observed traffic along Hopper Street itself, as well as vehicles entering and exiting the parking lot. We did observe during uh a pickup drop off for what appeared to be a soccer practice. Um, unfortunately, due to the time of the year, we didn't get any observations for larger events. Um, but um really what I want to do is run through three concepts um that we ultimately developed for Hopper Street and the lot, and um then you know, kind of lead into what our uh preferred recommendation was. The uh the first option was really maintaining the Hopper Street lot in its current condition, which is a one-way circulation, which you enter at the western end of the lot, circulate one way through the lot, and then exit at the eastern end. Um the only thing that we looked at with this was whether there would be any opportunity to add on street parking along this portion of Hopper Street and convert to one way. Uh, we didn't really feel um this would that this would provide an added benefit. It gets a little difficult getting in and out of these residential driveways, uh, plus they would have to circulate through the parking lot now with the one-way orientation. Um, the the only benefit would be the added parking, but I think as far as a circulation and safety standpoint, we didn't feel it was a viable alternative. The next option was to convert the parking lot to a two-way circulation. Uh, actually close the westernmost access and uh make the easternmost access, the sole access in and out of the lot. This would just be striped, so you would still have this available for emergency services. Um, you know, with the width of the of the the drive aisle and the parking lot, it it's more than adequate for two-way circulation, as well as the driveway here at the eastern end is more than adequate for two-way circulation. Um, you know, what we didn't like in this option is it eliminates the option for parents that may be picking up to come in the western lot, pull up and have the passenger side um of their vehicle ready to receive their child and then continue on out. Um, as well as I know there's uh camp operations here, which you know try to orient the one-way circulation to for more efficient operations. So again, um, although you could convert it to the two-way and give uh vehicles the option of entering at the easternmost, uh, we didn't think it was beneficial to close the westernmost access. So ultimately, we arrived at um maintaining both points of access, but creating a two-way circulation. You know, everything is wide enough to support the two-way circulation, still provides um drivers the ability to come in the western end and do the pickup and continue on out, would allow for camp operations, but it also allows vehicles that you know maybe just arriving to park in the lot and go to the field to enter on the eastern end park and continue on and not have to go all the way down Hopper Street. So it limits some of the traffic circulation going by those residents on the end of Hopper Street. Um, and then what we can work with uh DPW on is just cleaning this up a little bit more. This is pretty pretty um wide, so we could get some more striping in here that would help channelize the movements in and out. But ultimately, our recommendation would be um you know, maintain all the curb cuts as is, but convert the uh parking lot to two-way operation as well as the eastern and western access points to be allowed to operate two-way. All right, thank you for that. And in part, what generated this was some complaints from folks who uh report that despite the theoretical arrangement at the moment, that's one way all the way down the hill on Hopped Hopper Street and then back up through the lot, plenty of people are going in the do not enter, which obviously is very wide and uh at quiet times uh is understandably perceived as not causing a problem. Um that said, some complaints have arisen, and and I certainly get them that if you make the expectation that it's always going to work as it's signed, and in fact, drivers are routinely doing something different. We either need to reinforce the one-way in a much more draconian manner, or reflect reality, which I think is the recommendation you have come to.