Cotati’s been bringing some continental concepts into the future of the city’s streets.
In recent times the city council has entertained Dutch designs to improve plans for future housing developments.
Coming up next month, Cotati voters will have the chance to overturn the city’s ban on roundabouts and traffic circles.
Measure S on Cotati residents’ November fifth ballot proposes to undo the prohibition.
12 years ago the city’s voters banned the construction of roundabouts and traffic circles by 57 percent of the vote, despite opposition from the city’s police chief, who argued that roundabouts reduce accidents compared to traditional intersections.
A ballot argument against this fall’s Measure S, written by paralegal Laurie Alderman, said the roundabout ban was “a creative way to slow down” a downtown improvement plan that proposed some roundabouts, among other changes to the city.
“This repeal of the ban on roundabouts is politically motivated to teach us citizens who is in charge once and for all and who makes the decisions in our city, no matter what the will of the citizens is,” Alderman said.