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GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR WEDNESDAY,
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OCTOBER 4TH.CLERK, WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE ROLE ALSO, MEYER.
DO YOU WANNA MOVE UP HERE? SINCE BOND IS ABSENT? IT DOESN'T MATTER.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THE PRESENTATIONS ON THE AGENDA.
WE'RE GONNA SWITCH THE CITY THREAT ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK TO BE THE FIRST ITEM, AND THEN WE'LL DO THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UPDATE AFTER THAT.
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NOW WE'LL OPEN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE.
TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES TOTALING NO MORE THAN 15 MINUTES.
UM, CLERK, HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THIS MEETING? THERE WERE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED.
AND I DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? OH, THERE WE GO.
UH, SO I'M EMILY FROM THE SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION.
UM, TODAY WAS INTERNATIONAL WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL DAY.
I THINK AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, UM, THERE WERE NINE SCHOOLS IN PETALUMA THAT PARTICIPATED, AND THREE MORE ARE GONNA PARTICIPATE LATER THIS MONTH.
I GUESS THEY HAD A CONFLICT TODAY.
UM, SO CHRISTINA PANZA, OUR, UM, DIRECTOR OF THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM IS STILL, UM, WORKING ON COLLECTING NUMBERS, BUT SHE HAS SOME EARLY RETURNS THAT SHE SHARED WITH ME.
UM, MCNAIR ELEMENTARY HAD A BIKE TRAIN, UH, WITH 63 BIKES THIS MORNING.
UH, AND SONOMA MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY, UH, ACTUALLY COUNTED ALMOST 300 STUDENTS PARTICIPATING, UM, WHICH WERE SPLIT ALMOST EVENLY BETWEEN, UM, BIKES AND WALKERS.
SO SHE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION, UM, MORE COMPLETE NUMBERS COMING SOON, BUT JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
UM, AND ALSO WANTED TO REMIND YOU THAT WE HAVE OUR, UH, FIRST EVER ADVOCACY SUMMIT COMING UP, UM, ON OCTOBER 21ST.
UH, THIS IS GONNA BE AT, UM, SONOMA CLEAN POWER IN SANTA ROSA.
UM, AND IT IS, UM, A DAY OF, UM, UH, SPEAKERS AND PANELS THAT ARE MEANT TO SORT OF ENCOURAGE AND EDUCATE, UH, FOLKS WHO ARE EITHER NEW TO THE ADVOCACY SPACE OR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, WORKING IN IT FOR A LONG TIME.
UM, SO WE HAVE A REALLY GREAT LINEUP, UM, AND YOU CAN GET MORE INFORMATION, UH, AND SIGN UP ON OUR WEBSITE, WHICH IS BIKE SONOMA.ORG.
I BELIEVE THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT.
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ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK PRESENTATION.UM, AND BJORN, ARE YOU INTRODUCING THIS? UM, SURE.
THANK YOU CHAIR, AND GOOD EVENING MEMBERS.
UM, SO AS I'M SURE MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD, WE'VE ALLUDED, ALLUDED TO OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, UM, THE CITY OF PETALUMA WAS HAPPY TO, UM, PARTNER WITH SAFE STREETS PETALUMA, WHO BROUGHT TO US A, A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE, UM, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM CITY THREAD, WHICH IS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, UM, THAT WAS FOUNDED BY A FEW FOLKS, UH, WHO PREVIOUSLY WORKED ON, UM, SOME REALLY COOL PROJECTS WITH PEOPLE FOR BIKES TO, UM, HELP CITIES BUILD OUT THEIR MOBILITY NETWORKS.
UM, AND, UH, SO THEY, OVER THE PAST, UM, SEVERAL MONTHS, WELL, THIS HA THIS HAPPENED REALLY EARLIER IN 2023.
THEY, UM, CONDUCTED A NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS WITH CITY STAFF, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, I'M SURE SOME OF YOU WERE INTERVIEWED, UM, AND, AND REALLY GOT TO UNDERSTAND OUR COMMUNITY FROM THE OUTSIDE.
AND, UH, AND THEN PROVIDED A SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, UH, THAT REALLY ADDRESSED BOTH THE CITY, UH, BUT ALSO, UH, FOLKS IN, IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, ON HOW TO, UM, STREAMLINE AND, UH, BUILD SUPPORT FOR THE BUILD OUT OF OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.
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HAPPY TO HAVE, UM, PETE AND BRUCE HERE TONIGHT, WHO REALLY WERE, LIKE I SAID, RESPONSIBLE FOR SPEARHEADING THIS EFFORT, BRINGING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THE CITY, AND, UM, UH, HAVE THEM SHARE, UH, THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON THE EXPERIENCE FROM, UM, FROM SAFE STREETS PETALUMA.AND I'M HAPPY TO ALSO KIND OF FILL IN FROM THE CITY SIDE AS THEY PRESENT.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL SHARE MY SCREEN.
UM, I WANT TO, IN THIS PRESENTATION, I'D LIKE TO, UH, PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, OF JUST FILL IN SOME GAPS IN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT CITI THREAD.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN'T BEEN ON PBAC, UM, WHO MAY NOT HAVE, UH, KNOW AS MUCH, HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BRING YOU UP TO SPEED.
UM, LET ME START WITH A QUESTION THAT MANY OF US HAVE ASKED AT SOME POINT.
GIVEN THE GOAL OF A COMPLETE AND INTEGRATED BIKE PED NETWORK, AS ARTICULATED AND AFFIRMED IN OUR BI IN BIKE PED PLANS AT THE STATE AND COUNTY LEVELS, AT THE CITY LEVEL, IN OUR OWN BIKE PED PLAN, OUR 2016 COMPLETE STREETS RESOLUTION, OUR GOAL OF CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030, OUR VISION ZERO GOALS, ELEVATION OF SAFE AND COMPLETE STREETS TO ONE OF OUR CITY'S TOP 10 GOALS AND PRIORITIES, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
GIVEN ALL OF THAT, MANY OF US AT TIMES ASK, WHY ARE WE SO SLOW IN BUILDING OUR BIKE PED NETWORK? WHY DO PROJECTS SEEM TO KEEP GETTING DELAYED? CITI THREAD HELPS US FORMULATE AN ANSWER AND POINTS AWAY FORWARD.
SO IT STARTED FOR US IN FEBRUARY OF 2022 WHEN, UM, WE FIRST HEARD ABOUT CITY THREAD FROM OUR FRIENDS BIKE ADVOCATES IN SANTA ROSA, UH, ALEXA FORRESTER AND CHRIS GUNTHER.
THEY ALERTED US TO A CITY THREAD ZOOM PRESENTATION THAT WE ATTENDED.
CITY THREAD IS A SMALL FIRM BASED IN DENVER THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY WORKED THROUGH AN ORGANIZATION CALLED PEOPLE FOR BIKES.
THEY'D WORKED WITH FIVE LARGE CITIES TO GET THOSE CITIES TO ACCELERATE THE BUILD OUT OF THEIR NON AUTOMOBILE MOBILITY NETWORKS, WHICH IN SHORTHAND WE'RE CALLING BIKE PED NETWORKS.
SO THE CITIES WERE AUSTIN, DENVER, NEW ORLEANS, PITTSBURGH, AND PROVIDENCE.
IN THEIR WORDS, THEY SAY THAT THEY QUOTE, AUDIT THE URBAN MOBILITY LANDSCAPE OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
AND IN MY OWN UNDERSTANDING, I THINK OF THEIR WORK AS SOMETHING LIKE URBAN ACUPUNCTURE.
THEY IDENTIFY PLACES WITHIN THE WHOLE COMPLEX SYSTEM, UH, THE PLACES WHERE THE ENERGY'S GETTING STUCK, WHERE THINGS ARE, ARE THE BOTTLENECKS, WHERE THINGS ARE AREN'T MOVING.
AND THEY TRY TO IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS AND COME UP WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR HOW TO GET THINGS UNSTUCK.
SO DATA FROM THE FIRST FIVE CITIES THAT THEY WORKED WITH SHOWS THAT THEIR WORK RESULTED IN CITIES COMMITTING AN AVERAGE OF SEVEN AND A HALF TIMES MORE FUNDING TOWARD INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WITH FIVE AND A HALF TIMES MORE NETWORK MILES COMPLETED WITHIN TWO YEARS.
SO THEY HAVE, UM, A, A PRETTY ADMIRABLE TRACK RECORD OF, UM, DEMONSTRATED SUCCESS.
SO VERY BRIEFLY, I JUST WANTED TO GO THROUGH, UM, OUR, THE TIMELINE OF OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THEM.
UM, SO IN SPRING AND SUMMER OF 2022, UM, BRUCE AND I AND A FEW OTHER PEOPLE, UM, WERE ON ZOOM CALLS WITH THE CITY THREAD PRINCIPLES AND TALKED WITH THEM ABOUT DOING WHAT THEY CALL A READINESS ASSESSMENT WITH US.
UH, AND AT THAT POINT WE STARTED, UM, A CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN IN ORDER TO, TO BRING THEM TO PETALUMA IN THE FALL OF LAST YEAR, THEY ANNOUNCED A GRANT PROGRAM.
UH, AND IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THAT PROGRAM, WE HAD TO RAISE $10,000.
SO WE DID A, OUR, OUR, OUR CAMPAIGN RAISED 5,000.
WE RECEIVED A COMMITMENT IN FOR AN ADDITIONAL 5,000 FROM OUR CITY MANAGER.
AND IN DECEMBER, WE WERE AWARDED A GRANT FOR READINESS
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ASSESSMENT.UM, THE GRANT THEY SAID WAS WORTH $50,000 IN THEIR CONSULTING SERVICES.
AND JUST PARENTHETICALLY, OR OR INCIDENTALLY, THE FUNDS WERE PROVIDED BY THE WIND COLLECTIVE, WHICH IS SOMEHOW RELATED TO THIRD GENERATION OF THE WALTON FA, FA, FAMILY FOUNDATION, FAMILY, UM, AND A BIKE COMPONENT MANUFACTURER CALLED SRAM.
SO, UH, WE THEN COMPILED LONG LISTS OF ALL OF THE PLANS AND STUDIES AND REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT WERE PERTINENT TO OUR MOBILITY ASPIRATIONS.
AND WE MADE LISTS OF, OF COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TO BE INVOLVED AND INTERVIEWED.
AND WE SET UP MEETINGS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.
UM, AND, UH, THEY INTERVIEWED, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY MANAGER, PUBLIC WORKS, STAFF, COMMUNITY GROUPS, AND OTHERS.
UM, IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, UH, THERE WAS A ZOOM PRESENTATION OF THEIR FINAL REPORT, WHICH THEY CALLED THEIR ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK.
UH, AND THEN IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR, UH, THEY INVITED TWO PEOPLE FROM EACH OF THE NINE CITIES THAT HAD BEEN AWARDED THIS GRANT TO COME TO DENVER FOR WHAT THEY CALLED AN A M P AND ACCELERATED MOBI MOBILITY PLAYBOOK GATHERING.
AND THEY VERY CONSCIOUSLY INVITED ONE CITY MEMBER OF CITY STAFF AND ONE COMMUNITY MEMBER FROM EACH OF THE NINE JURISDICTIONS.
AND THAT WAS VERY CONSCIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE, THEY ARE, UM, THEY WANT TO DEEPEN THE, THE CONNECTION AND THE, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND CITY.
SO AT THAT, I, I, I WENT TO THAT MEETING AS DID BJORN AND, AND INCIDENTALLY, UM, SANTA ROSA WAS ALSO A BENEFICIARY OF THIS PROGRAM.
AND, AND, UH, A COMMUNITY MEMBER AND A STAFF MEMBER FROM SANTA ROSA WERE THERE IN DENVER AS WELL.
SO, WHAT IS THE ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK? UM, I, I THINK IT WAS MAYBE DISTRIBUTED TO YOU.
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO READ THROUGH IT.
UM, IT'S A LITTLE DENSE AND FULL OF JARGON.
I'LL SAY IN MY OWN WORDS THAT THE ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK IS A SET OR A SEQUENCE OF STRATEGIES INTENDED TO BUILD BROAD COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR A COMPLETE MOBILITY NETWORK.
UM, DEMONSTRATING THAT BROAD COMMUNITY SUPPORT IN THEIR EXPERIENCE IS A KEY, A, A, A VITAL NECESSARY INGREDIENT THAT IS NEEDED TO GIVE OUR ELECTEDS AND OUR CITY STAFF THE CONFIDENCE IN KNOWING THAT THE WHOLE COMMUNITY IS ALIGNED AND ON BOARD WITH OUR NON AUTOMOBILE MOBILITY, UM, GOALS.
SO HERE ARE A FEW KEY IDEAS UNDERLINING UNDERLYING THE A M P.
OUR SITUATION HERE IN PETALUMA IS NOT UNIQUE.
THEY FIND THAT THE CHALLENGES THAT WE ARE FACING IN BUILDING OUR COMPLETE NETWORK ARE CONSISTENT FROM CITY TO CITY.
NEXT, GOOD BIKE PED MOBILITY IS NOT A FRINGE IDEA.
BASED ON POLLING DONE IN EIGHT US METROPOLITAN AREAS, THEY FOUND THAT 69% OF VOTERS SUPPORT INVESTMENTS IN BETTER BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE SUPPORT INCREASES TO 81% WHEN BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE IS COMBINED WITH OTHER TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS.
AND FULLY THREE QUARTERS OF PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD MAKE THEIR COMMUNITY MORE LIVABLE.
THIS, TO ME, WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT EARLY NEXT YEAR, THIS WAS PRETTY STARTLING BECAUSE I THINK MANY OF US LABOR UNDER THE, THE ILLUSION OR MISCONCEPTION THAT IT'S JUST A SMALL FRINGE GROUP OF US BIKE ADVOCATES WHO ARE IN FAVOR OF COMPLETE STREETS, WHEREAS THE DATA SUGGESTS THAT IT'S A CLEAR MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
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IT IS MISGUIDED.WHEN WE WANT TO PUT THE BLAME ON OUR ELECTEDS OR ON OUR CITY STAFF FOR OUR LACK OF PROGRESS, CITY THREAD REPEATEDLY, REPEATEDLY STRESSES THE IMAGE OF A THREE-LEGGED STOOL.
AND THEY TELL US THAT IN ORDER FOR A CITY TO FUNCTION MOST EFFECTIVELY, WE NEED ELECTED LEADERS, CITY STAFF, AND COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ALL WORKING TOGETHER.
EACH PART PLAYS A NECESSARY ROLE.
I'M JUST, I'M REMINDED THIS OF THIS ALL THE TIME WHEN I TALK TO PEOPLE WHO SEEM TO BE POINTING FINGERS AT, AT STAFF AND CITY COUNCIL FOR NOT, YOU KNOW, BLAMING THEM FOR THE REA AS THE REASON THAT WE DON'T HAVE WHAT WE FEEL WE SHOULD HAVE.
AND MAYBE THEY, THEY ARE NOT COMPLETELY FREE FROM BLAME, BUT A BIG PART OF THE RESPONSIBILITY LIES ON US AS COMMUNITY ADVOCATES.
THEY'RE SUGGESTING THAT THE SYSTEM ITSELF NEEDS TO BE FIXED AND TO FIX THE SYSTEM, THEY OFFER US THE ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK.
SO THE PLAYBOOK NEXT SLIDE, UM, AS IT'S LAID OUT, INVOLVES FOUR STEPS, WHICH ARE TO BE FOLLOWED IN ROUGH SEQUENCE, BUT AREN'T NECESSARILY DISCREET AND SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER.
SO OUR WORK IN SAFE STREETS IS NOW FOCUSED ON STEPS ONE AND TWO, WHICH WE SEE AS REALLY BEING PARTS OF A WHOLE AND NOT, NOT SEPARATE STEPS.
STEP ONE IS ESTABLISH A SHARED GOAL, A SHARED VISION OF WHAT WE ALL WANT OUR STREETS TO LOOK LIKE AND BE LIKE AND FEEL LIKE, AND HOW WE WANT OUR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE TO FUNCTION.
AND IN THE, IN THIS PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING A SHARED GOAL, WE ARE ENCOURAGED, DIRECTED TO TALK TO EVERYBODY IN OUR WIDER COMMUNITY.
NOT JUST THE BIKE ADVOCATES, OUR SCHOOL GROUPS, BUT, UM, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FAITH GROUPS AND SCHOOL GROUPS AND BUSINESSES AND JUST HEALTH GROUPS AND, AND JUST GET EVERYBODY'S INPUT AND INVOLVEMENT.
AND THEY SUGGEST THAT WE'RE LIKELY TO FIND THAT ONCE WE DO THAT OUTREACH, WE'LL FIND, UM, A LOT OF BUY-IN.
AND STEP TWO, ALIGN PARTNERSHIPS.
SO BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE, UH, IN AUSTIN AND DENVER, UH, AND NEW ORLEANS, THEY SUGGEST CREATING A COALITION AROUND THE SHARED VISION AND AROUND THE SHARED GOALS, BUT NOT ABOUT BIKES.
BUILD TRUST AMONG THE PARTNERS, UM, UH, AND, UM, BUILD A MESSAGE AND, AND A SHARED VISION AROUND COMPLETE STREETS.
AND THEY, THEY REPEATEDLY SAY, DON'T LEAD WITH THE BIKE LANE.
UH, THAT MOBILITY IS AN URGENT NEED AND NOT AN AMENITY.
AND THEN, BUT EVEN BEFORE STEP ONE, THEY SUGGEST STEP ZERO, GIVE PEOPLE SOME EVIDENCE OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, MAKE THIS STUFF REAL FOR PEOPLE, AND THEY SUGGEST THAT WE START BY UPDATING FIVE MILES OF EXISTING BICYCLE CORRIDORS OR INTERSECTIONS TO PROVIDE SAFETY AND SEPARATION WHILE THE A T P IS BEING DEVELOPED.
AND, AND I GUESS I, I SHOULD HAVE SAID, MAYBE I HAD IT IN MY NOTES, THAT THEY STRESS REPEATEDLY THAT THE A T P IS, IS CRITICAL TO STEPS ONE AND TWO.
AND FOR THAT REASON, WE ARE, WE'RE, WE'RE FOCUSING OUR ENERGIES AND ATTENTION ON THE A T P.
UM, SO THESE NEXT TWO, TWO STEPS FOLLOW AT, AT IN, IN CLOSE SUCCE SUCCESSION.
WE HAVEN'T REALLY, WE IN SAFE STREETS HAVEN'T REALLY PUT MUCH ATTENTION.
WE DON'T HAVE A GAME PLAN FOR THESE STEPS, BUT THEY ARE WHAT THEY CALL RESOURCING PARTNERS.
AND THIS, THIS STEP INVOLVES, UM, THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS.
UM, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT HITTING UP THE CITY TO, TO FUND ALL OF THESE EFFORTS, BUT WE'RE LOOKING TO SOME KIND OF A, UH, PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.
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THAT THAT HALF OF THE MONEY RAISED GOES TO MESSAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS.WE NEED TO CRAFT A, A MEDIA CAMPAIGN, WHICH WILL RELY ON A WHOLE WIDE RANGE OF OLD AND NEW MEDIA.
AND THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT POLLING USING, UM, PROFESSIONAL POLLING FIRMS TO, TO GAUGE, UH, THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST OR APPETITE IN COMPLETE MOBILITY NETWORKS.
UM, AND THE PRICE TAG THAT THEY MENTIONED FOR POLLING IN A CITY THE SIZE OF PETALUMA IS SOMETHING ON THE ORDER OF 25 TO $50,000, WHICH IS A LOT.
AND STEP FOUR IS BUILD THE NETWORK FAST.
AND THEY, THEY GIVE TO US A GOAL OF BUILDING 25 MILES OF CONNECTED ACTIVE MOBILITY NETWORK BY 2026.
SO I'LL CLOSE WITH A FEW OTHER NOTES THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT RANDOM THAT I GLEAN FROM THE GATHERING IN DENVER.
UH, AND THEY ARE, WE ARE PART OF A BIG MOVEMENT.
THIS IS A, A BURGEONING GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO GET PEOPLE, UH, TO GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET AROUND WITHOUT THE NEED TO GET IN A CAR.
DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS.
THIS IS, IT'S ONE OF THE LEGS OF THE STOOL.
GOOD POLITICIANS WANT TO GET STUFF DONE FAST.
PEOPLE GET RILED UP DURING CONSTRUCTION.
THEY THREATEN TO MOVE AFTER CONSTRUCTION.
THEY REFER TO THIS EFFECT AS THE POLITICAL VALLEY.
UH, OPPOSERS BECOME SUPPORTERS, CREATE AN ECOSYSTEM OF JOY AND PASSION.
THE EXPERIENCE IN AUSTIN, PROTECTED BIKE LANES COST AROUND $50,000 A MILE FOR PAINT AND PROTECTION IF DONE BY CITY CREW.
$200,000 PER MILE IF DONE BY OUTSIDE CREW.
TRAILS COST 3 MILLION TO 5 MILLION PER MILE.
THEY SAY, UH, THE RALLY AROUND A MESSAGE THAT APPEALS TO EVERYBODY.
AND THE MESSAGE THAT THEY USED IN, I THINK IT WAS NEW ORLEANS, WAS MORE SAFETY, LESS STRESS.
UM, IT'S INTERESTING HERE IN PETALUMA, I'VE HEARD FROM PEOPLE IN COOL PETALUMA AND FROM OUR MAYOR THAT ONE OF THE MOST, MOST OFTEN HEARD COMPLAINTS ABOUT OUR STREETS IS PEOPLE DRIVE TOO FAST ON MY STREET.
UM, AND ALSO WE ALL AGREE HERE IN PETALUMA THAT, UM, TRAFFIC IS AN ISSUE.
SO IF WE CAN BUILD A MESSAGE AROUND THOSE POPULAR IDEAS, WE'RE MAYBE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
CONVENIENCE AND CONNECTIVITY ARE TOP PRIORITIES FOR MANY, MANY, OR MOST PEOPLE.
NEXT, UH, AND I'VE MENTIONED THIS, THE POLLING OF LIKELY VOTERS.
UM, YOU WANT TO TARGET PEOPLE WHO VOTED IN THE LAST ELECTION, 25 TO 50,000 IN A CITY THE SIZE OF PETALUMA.
POLLS HELP DEFLECT OPPOSITION.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THOSE PEOPLE OPPOSED.
POLLS HELP AVOID SPENDING DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT ON ENERGY, ON OPPOSITION, BECAUSE IN POLL AFTER POLL, THEY FIND THAT, THAT A LARGE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE IN FAVOR OF ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UH, SOMEBODY SAID, NOBODY REALLY CARES ABOUT THE DATA, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE DATA, PEOPLE REALLY DON'T CARE.
THERE'S AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC MEETINGS AND THE MILES OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES.
BUILT SELLING BIKE LANES ONE AT A TIME IS DIFFICULT.
DON'T LEAD WITH THE BIKE LANE.
INSTEAD, LEAD WITH SAFETY, LEAD WITH CONNECTIVITY, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, CLIMATE GOALS, BUT DON'T LEAD WITH THE BIKE LANE.
THE BIKE LANE IS THE CHERRY ON THE ICE CREAM SUNDAE.
AND FINALLY, THE, THE MONEY IS NOT THE LIMITING FACTOR.
THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY TO DO TO, TO FUND OUR PRIORITIES.
AND FINALLY, I'LL SAY WE ARE GRATEFUL AND EXCITED TO HAVE CITY THREAD'S GUIDANCE.
WE KNOW THAT WE'RE PART OF A GROWING GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO MAKE OUR CITIES MORE LIVABLE, AND
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WE'RE EAGER TO GET INTO ACTION.SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS ADVENTURE AND, UM, WE'LL SEE WHERE IT LEADS US.
SO I'M HAPPY TO ATTEMPT TO AN, TO CLARIFY OR ANSWER QUESTIONS.
MAYBE BRUCE CAN HELP ME OR, OR BJORN TOO.
'CAUSE BJORN WAS, HE WAS, HE WAS THERE FOR THE WHOLE THING.
THANK YOU AND BRUCE FOR, FOR BRINGING THIS TO PETALUMA AND FOR DEVELOPING SAFE STREETS AND THE WORK OF, OF SAFE STREETS AND URBAN CHAT, AND LIKE GETTING COOL PETALUMA TOGETHER AND SUPPORTING THIS IS SO INSPIRING.
AND, UM, THIS PRESENTATION IS REALLY HELPFUL.
LIKE, HAVING HEARD ABOUT IT FOR A WHILE TO, IT'S BEEN HARD TO STILL WRAP MY MIND ABOUT YEAH.
SO THIS IS, IS REALLY HELPFUL.
NOW, COMMITTEE MEMBERS MAY PROVIDE BRIEF COMMENTS ON, UM, THE PRESENTATION, BUT WE SHOULDN'T DELIBERATE ON THE MATTER.
UM, AND, UM, I THINK I'LL START, DO I TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT FIRST? I'M SORRY.
NO, YOU CAN, YOU CAN GO AHEAD WITH QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS AND, UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS OR IF THERE'S INTEREST IN PUBLIC COMMENT, THEN YOU CAN, YOU CAN OPEN IT UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT THE COMMITTEE CAN YEAH, YEAH.
UM, PAMELA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO START? AND WE CAN WORK OUR WAY THIS WAY.
WELL, THANKS VERY MUCH PETE AND OTHERS WHO, UM, SUPPORTED THE EFFORT AND MADE THEIR WAY TO DENVER FOR THIS, UH, GATHERING.
UM, I'D BE CURIOUS TO LEARN ABOUT WHAT THESE OTHER MAJOR CITIES DID IN TERMS OF THE QUICK BUILD PROJECTS AND, UM, WHAT LESSONS THEY LEARNED, UH, AND, UH, TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO ANALYZE THEIR OWN CITIES TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THOSE GAPS WERE AND HOW TO GET THINGS DONE QUICKLY.
UM, I'D BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING IF WE CAN DISTILL ANY OF THAT FROM THE OTHER CITIES OR THE CONTACTS THAT PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL MADE WITH THOSE FOLKS.
UM, AND, UH, AND, UH, I, I'D LIKE, UM, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE COALITIONS TO GET BEHIND THESE EFFORTS CAN BE BROUGHT, MADE BROADER AND BROADER.
AND I LIKE THIS IDEA OF, IT'S NOT, DON'T LEAD WITH THE BIKE LANE BECAUSE IT REALLY IS ABOUT CREATING SAFETY AND AWARENESS ABOUT HOW FOLKS CAN GET AROUND WITHOUT THE CAR.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, I THINK I'VE BEEN FOCUSED ON, UH, THE QUICK BUILD E EFFORTS THAT OUR CITY, UM, CAN BRING.
AND, AND I THINK THAT, AS YOU SAID, IT, IT'S A, A THREE-LEGGED STOOL AND, UM, THOSE SUCH AS YOURSELVES AND PERHAPS SOME OF US UP HERE CAN DO MORE TO, UM, HELP BRING ABOUT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT.
UM, WE, OR I MEAN, UH, BRUCE AND PETE FOR DOING THIS, AND PETE FOR THE PRESENTATION, UM, I'LL CONFIRM THAT THE NUMBER ONE, UH, THING WE HEAR IS PEOPLE DRIVE TOO FAST.
UM, THE, I HAVE A FEW THINGS, UM, I APPRECIATE DON'T LEAD WITH THE BIKE LANE.
I ALSO THINK WE, UH, AND WHAT I REALLY TOOK FROM THE, THE AMP IS, UM, MAKING IT IN INEVITABLE TOO, OF LIKE SETTING A GOAL AND ACHIEVING IT.
AND, UM, I THINK SOMETIMES WE, LIKE SOME OF OUR SURVEYS, UM, LET THE STATUS QUO BE AN OPTION.
AND WE DON'T NEED TO, UM, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, ON D STREET, IF WE WOULD'VE JUST, UM, SAID, DO YOU WANT A PROTECTED BIKE LANE ON D STREET OR ON B STREET? UM, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT INEVITABLE THAT, UM, GIVES A BINARY CHOICE AND WE JUST DON'T ALLOW, UM, DON'T ALLOW THE, THE, THE STATUS QUO.
UM, I ALSO, I APPRECIATE THE, UH, THE, THE POLITICAL VALLEY, THE OPPOSITION GOING AWAY.
UM, WHAT THAT ALSO MEANS IS TIMING MATTERS, ESPECIALLY WITH DISTRICT ELECTIONS.
SO I THINK AS A, AS A BODY UP HERE, THINKING ABOUT, UM, WHEN WE TAKE ON PROJECTS IN AND WHERE THEY ARE IN THE CITY, SO THAT THERE'S NOT A HUGE AMOUNT OF OPPOSITION AND LIKE, IT'S NOT A TOP PRIORITY.
LIKE, UM, I'LL SAY IN 2022, UM, RAINIER, UM, THAT PROJECT, LIKE HAVING WORKED IN, YOU KNOW, WALKED DOOR TO DOOR IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, THAT WAS LIKE THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS HOW MUCH THEY HATED THE PROTECTED BIKE LANE
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD ICE CREAM SOCIALS TO TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY HATED IT.
AND IT WAS LIKE THE, YOU KNOW, IT HAD TO, YOU, YOU JUST HAD TO HAVE
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A POSITION.AND SO IT MADE IT REALLY TOUGH FOR A CANDIDATE OR A COUNCIL PERSON TO BE, UM, REALLY LIKE SHAMELESSLY AND SUPPORTIVE IT.
SO, UM, PICKING OUR, OUR FIGHTS, UM, CAREFULLY IS ALSO MATTERS.
UM, OTHERWISE, UM, LOVED ALL THAT STUFF.
AND THEN MY ONE QUESTION FOR BJORN IS, DO WE HAVE FIVE MILES, UM, PICKED OUT? YEAH, SO I WAS ACTUALLY, UM, LOOKING AT, AT THAT, AT ALL OF OUR PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE.
AND, SORRY, I'M JUST REFERENCING, LET'S SEE, WE'VE GOT, IF, IF YOU, UH, GIVE US 2023 AND 2024, UM, RIGHT NOW I'M JUST LOOKING AT ABOUT 10 TO 11 MILES OF, UM, UH, MOSTLY PAVING PROJECTS THAT WILL INCLUDE, THAT WOULD INCLUDE BIKE FACILITIES, BUT ALSO SOME, UM, A COUPLE OF STRIPING PROJECTS THAT WOULD JUST BE LIKE QUICK BUILD OR STRIPING TYPE WORK.
UH, THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
I, I'VE SEEN YOU AT OTHER, UH, COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS AND
THIS REALLY HELPED TO BRING EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
UM, I REALLY LIKE THAT PIECE ABOUT THE, THE POLITICAL VALLEY.
I THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT.
THERE IS STILL ONE PERSON FIGHTING THE FIGHT ON RAINIER MM-HMM.
THAT'S REALLY LIKE, I FEEL LIKE THIS KEY PIECE OF, IF WE JUST, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THAT THAT WORDING, UM, AND LEADING WITH THE OTHER PIECES ARE GONNA BE KEY.
UM, AND I FEEL LIKE IF WE ARE ALREADY HAVE THIS AMOUNT OF PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE, AGAIN, IF IT'S, UM, TYPED UP PROPERLY AND, AND MARKETED PROPERLY, I THINK THAT MAYBE WE COULD GET A LOT MORE SUPPORT, ESPECIALLY FROM, UM, FAMILIES THAT I KNOW WANT EAST WEST, MYSELF INCLUDED, I WOULD LIKE MORE EAST WEST TYPE STUFF.
UH, IT MAKES IT A LOT EASIER FOR US.
UM, I REALLY LIKED THIS, UH, IDEA OF CALLING IT MOBILITY NETWORKS, I, AS OPPOSED TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND, AND THE IDEAS BEHIND THAT.
AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD, UM, CONSIDER USING.
I, I MEAN, I THINK WE'VE MOVED FROM THE BIKE AND PED PLAN TO THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, BUT IN CERTAIN WAYS I THINK, UM, P A C AND CITY STAFF CAN, CAN IMPROVE THE MOBILITY NETWORKS AND HELP PUSH THAT MESSAGING.
UM, I'M CURIOUS, I, I READ HERE IN INDIVIDUAL PILOT PROJECTS AND A CULTURE THAT PRIORITIZES ONE-TO-ONE COMMUNICATION PROJECTS DISTRACTS FROM AND DELAYS A SWIFTER AND MO MORE COHERENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT BENEFITS MORE PEOPLE.
I KNOW I HAVE MY IDEAS OR GRIEVANCES ABOUT THE WAY THAT PROJECTS GET, UM, ROLLED OUT OR THE WAY THAT WE TAKE FEEDBACK, HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR US TO DO, UM, A QUICK BUILD OF THE DESIGN AND THEN GET FEEDBACK.
AND I'M WONDERING IF YOU HAVE HEARD FROM CITI THREAD OR IF WITHIN AMP IF THERE'S A WAY, IF YOU WOULD RECOMMEND DOING THAT PART OF COMMUNICATIONS, GETTING FEEDBACK AND ROLLOUT OF PROJECTS OR HOW, HOW WE COULD IMPROVE DOING THAT.
AS I UNDERSTAND IT, THAT IS THE CORE OF STEP ONE AND STEP TWO IN, IN THE PLAYBOOK, UM, IS JUST BUILDING EVIDENCE OF BROAD COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR MOBILITY NETWORKS.
SO THAT WITH THAT EVIDENCE IN HAND CITY STAFF AND ELECTEDS, UM, WILL HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO MOVE AHEAD WITH PROJECTS, UM, KNOWING THAT THE COMMUNITY IS, IS BEHIND THE PROJECT.
IT, IT'S A WASTE OF OUR ENERGIES AND, AND TIME TO BE, TO BE ARGUING FOR ONE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS BECAUSE THEY SO OFTEN GO OFF THE RAILS.
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SPEAKING TOGETHER, UM, ARGUING FOR OUR MOBILITY NETWORK AND, AND ONCE WE HAVE THAT UNDERSTANDING THAN THE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS THEY SAY WILL, WILL FALL INTO PLACE.SO I'M WONDERING, BJORN, IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT.
I, I AGREE AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT IT, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE IN SORT OF LIKE A, A, UM, KIND OF ALREADY LIKE DEFINED WAY OF HOW WE DO THAT PROCESS.
IS THERE A WAY WE CAN TALK ABOUT IF THERE'S CHANGE, IF WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO THAT? YEAH, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY, YOU KNOW, JUMPED OUT TO CITY THREAD, UM, AND THAT'S A, THAT THEY REFERENCED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE REPORT AND IN ALL, AND THAT THEY DID REFERENCE IN ALL OF THEIR CONVERSATIONS WITH US, IS THAT, UM, OUR LIVES, UH, AS CITY STAFF, UM, OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS LIVES, EVEN FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WILL BE MUCH EASIER ONCE WE HAVE THE ADOPTED ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR PROJECT SELECTION AND PRIORITIZATION IS REALLY, UH, WE'RE KIND OF, WE'RE KIND OF FOLLOWING MAINTENANCE PROJECTS, RIGHT? WE'RE FOLLOWING PAVING PROJECTS.
AND, UM, AND IT'S NOT CLEAR TO PEOPLE, UH, WHAT THE ROLE OF THESE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS ARE IN, IN THE BIGGER PICTURE AND FOR THE BUILD OUT OF OUR, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ATTEMPTED, I THINK WITHOUT, WITH A, YOU KNOW, SUPER OUTDATED PLAN FROM 2008, WE'RE TRYING TO FIND VALUE IN THE PROJECTS WE DO HAVE.
WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THEM AS, AS, AS GOOD AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT, UH, UH, ONCE WE HAVE A REALLY CLEAR VISION AND ESPECIALLY A VISION FOR, UM, WHAT I'LL CALL OUR PRIMARY OR PRIORITY NETWORK, UM, FROM THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, IT'LL BE VERY CLEAR HOW THESE PIECES ALL FIT TOGETHER.
AND I THINK IT'LL, IT'LL MAKE IT EASIER TO, FOR THE, FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THE VISION AND GRASP WHY BIKE LANES ARE BEING PROPOSED ON THIS STREET, UM, VERSUS ANOTHER AND WHY WE'RE PRIORITIZING THAT STREET OVER ANOTHER.
AND, AND THAT WILL JUST ALL BE VERY HELPFUL TO HAVE AS A, HAVING THAT, HAVING THAT PLAYBOOK.
I, AND I DO FEEL LIKE, UM, I DON'T WANNA SOUND DEFENSIVE, BUT WHEN I'M READING THE AMP I'M LIKE, BUT LIKE THE PLAN IS GOOD.
LIKE, I, I DO FEEL LIKE WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS AND I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE WORKSHOP AND TO JUST GET MORE FEEDBACK.
'CAUSE I, I FEEL LIKE IT'S COMING, COMING INTO SOMETHING THAT WE COULD BE PROUD OF,
AND, UM, AND THE, THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO NOTE WAS, UH, IT FEEDBACK COULD HELP DEVELOP COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES, COMMUNICATION PLAN AND MESSENGERS.
AND I'M WONDERING HOW WE CAN BETTER SERVE CITY THREAD'S MISSION WITH REGARDS TO COMMUNICATION AND MESSAGING AS A BODY.
I, I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER YET, BUT IT, IT'S GREAT TO KNOW THAT WE CAN BE WORKING TOGETHER.
WE'VE ALSO GOT SOME MORE PRESSING NOW.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GREAT COMMENTS AND WONDERFUL PRESENTATION.
UH, I KNOW I WISH I COULD BE ON THAT AD HOC AS WELL.
I HAD DEFINITELY THINK ABOUT THE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS ASPECT OF THIS, AND A FEW, JUST FEW THINGS COME TO MIND QUICKLY, I THINK TO KIND OF, YEAH, GETTING BEYOND BIKE LANES, FOR SURE.
I'VE BEEN IN THOSE ARGUMENTS AND THEY DON'T GO REALLY ANYWHERE, BUT WHEN YOU BRING IN THAT PERSONAL STORY OF SOMETIMES KIND OF, ALMOST OF THE TRAUMA OF GETTING HIT AND WHAT THAT'S LIKE, THAT CAN, I THINK, SWAY PEOPLE QUITE A BIT.
AND WHAT CAME TO MIND WAS THAT CALTRANS KIND OF LIKE DRIVE SAFE, MY UNCLES, YOU KNOW, AT WORK, SOMETHING THAT IS KIND OF GETTING, LIKE, IT'S ABOUT SAFETY, RIGHT? IT'S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE SAFE PLACE, SAFE ROUTES TO GET AROUND AND DO OUR EVERYDAY LIVES.
SO YEAH, I FOR SURE ECHO THAT COMMENT OF JUST FINE.
IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN GET INVOLVED BEYOND THE AD HOC FOR THE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS? UM, THE, THE REPORT YEAH, I AGREE IS A LITTLE BIT JARGONY, UM, AND DENSE, UH, BUT THERE'S YEAH, A LOT OF GREAT MATERIAL IN THERE.
UM, I'M WONDERING IF CITY THREAT HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE A REPORT CARD OR SOME SUMMARY FINDINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, DISTILLS MAYBE SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT ARE REPEATED AT EVERY,
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YOU KNOW, CITY AND BE LIKE, WHAT'S THE REAL MESSAGE FOR PETALUMA? CAN WE DISTILL THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? WE, WE CAN ASK THEM.THAT THEIR WORK WITH US, AT LEAST FOR THIS PHASE IS COMPLETE, BUT WE, WE CAN STILL ASK QUESTIONS.
UH, I WILL ASK THEM LIKE, WHAT MESSAGE THOUGH? WHEN, WHEN WE LEFT DENVER, MY FEELING WAS WE'D GOTTEN LOTS OF GREAT INFORMATION.
WE'D HEARD STORIES ABOUT WHAT OTHER CITIES, OTHER CITIES' SUCCESSES, BUT, UH, IT FELT LIKE COMING, LEAVING DENVER, IT WAS ALL VERY MYSTERIOUS THAT YEAH, THAT THE JOB FOR US WAS TO, TO MAP OUT OUR OWN ROUTE.
SO IN A WAY I COULD ANTICIPATE THAT CITY THREAD MIGHT GIVE US SOME SUGGESTIONS OF MESSAGES THAT WORKED ELSEWHERE, BUT THEY WOULD PROBABLY SAY YOU HAVE TO COME UP WITH YOUR OWN MESSAGE.
YEAH, I THINK MAYBE ULTIMATELY WHAT I WOULD WANT TO SEE, AND THIS IS
WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THIS INFORMATION? IS THERE STUFF THAT WE CAN LATCH ONTO ALREADY IN THE A T P OR ARE THERE SOME ADDITIONAL, YOU KNOW, AVENUES OF WORK THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON? KIND OF LIKE THE STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF ALL THIS.
I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I KIND OF WANTED TO SENSE.
UH, IT, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO, TO HAVE EXAMPLES OF OTHER ATPS WITH, WITH ACTIONS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW IN THE AD HOC.
AND THAT SEGUES TO MY LAST COMMENT.
JUST YEAH, KIND OF LEARNING FROM ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, QUICK BUILD PROJECTS, HOW, WHAT'S IS, CAN, CAN THEY PROVIDE YEAH.
MORE, MORE LEARNING RESOURCES, I GUESS JUST FROM, UM, KIND OF NETWORKING OF ALL OF THEIR, UM, THEIR CITIES THAT THEY'VE WORKED WITH.
AND THEN THE LAST QUICK COMMENT, I GUESS IN TERMS OF WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, MAYBE RENAMING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, MOBILITY NETWORK.
I THINK THERE'S ALWAYS, LIKE THE MICRO MOBILITY PART OF IT THAT JUST DISTINGUISHES A LITTLE BIT, THE ALLITERATION PART OF IT JUST ROLLS OFF YOUR TONGUE A LITTLE BIT EASIER, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW WELL THAT IS ABLE TO STILL BE PART OF THE MESSAGING.
IT'S A STRUGGLE, SO NOT A WAY FORWARD.
WE STILL REVERT TO, TO SAYING BIKE PED WITH THE ASTERISK THAT WHEN WE SAY BIKE PED, WE ACTUALLY MEAN ROLLING.
YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THE, UH, FOR THE, UH, PRESENTATION.
UH, IT'S REALLY HELPED ME A LOT WITH JUST UNDERSTANDING IT.
UM, I'M ALSO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT AND UNDERSTANDING IT.
UM, I, YOU KNOW, I, UH, I'M COMING INTO TONIGHT'S MEETING, UH, PARTIALLY INSPIRED FROM A WEEKEND TRIP I TOOK UP TO SEATTLE.
AND, UM, AND, AND ON THAT TRIP, I WAS JUST AMAZED AT HOW EASY IT WAS TO GET AROUND AND, UH, TO GO FROM THE AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR $3 AND THEN THE WHOLE WEEKEND, UH, NOT NEEDING A VEHICLE AND SEEING, YOU KNOW, LIKE BICYCLE, SUPER HIGHWAYS RUNNING DOWN SECOND AVENUE.
UH, SO ANYWAY, SO I, I I, I, I SEE THAT AND THE WHOLE TIME THAT I'M EXPERIENCING IT, I'M, YOU KNOW, CONTEMPLATING, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO, RIGHT? AND, AND HOW CAN WE START, UH, TO DO A BETTER JOB AND, AND, AND MOVE IN IN THESE KINDS OF DIRECTIONS.
AND THEN I, UH, YOU KNOW, RECEIVED THE CARBON NEUTRALITY BLUEPRINT, UH, OVER THE WEEKEND IN MY EMAIL, AND I TOOK A LOOK AT THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THE GOAL TO BE CARBON NEUTRAL BY WHAT, 2030 I, IF MY MEMORY'S CORRECT.
AND, UH, AND THAT'S RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, RIGHT? AND THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS IS IF WE BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S IF, IF, IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO GET OUT OF THEIR CARS, WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAKE IT EASY FOR THEM TO DO IT.
AND, UH, IT'S GOTTA BE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S WALKING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET,
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UM, OR WALKING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD STORE OR, OR, OR BICYCLING OR TAKING YOUR SCOOTER OR WHATEVER IT IS, THAT'S NOT A CAR.UM, WE HAVE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO DO THAT THAN IT IS TO GET IN YOUR CAR AND DRIVE DOWN THE STREET.
AND IN PETALUMA WE'RE NOT THERE.
AND IT'S THIS TYPE OF THING THAT I THINK CAN REALLY HELP US GET THERE.
SO, UM, SO I'M JUST EXCITED TO KNOW WHAT NEXT, HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER TO START, YOU KNOW, PUTTING TOGETHER A GAME PLAN TO, YOU KNOW, MEET THESE OBJECTIVES.
COULD I JUST ASK A CLARIFYING QUESTION? WHO ELSE IS ON THE, THE COMMUNICATIONS AD HOC FRANK.
YEAH, AND I'LL SAY A GREAT PRESENTATION, REALLY APPRECIATED THE CONTEXT YOU BROUGHT WITH THAT MEETING IN DENVER.
I REALLY LIKED THIS PRESENTATION.
IT WASN'T JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT I HAD READ.
YOU ADDED SOME PIECES THERE, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
YOU KNOW, PART I REALLY HONED IN ON UPON FIRST READING, THIS IS ON PAGE 22 WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE, I BELIEVE IT WAS EIGHT METROPOLITAN AREAS THAT WERE SURVEYED, AND HOW GENERALLY THE PUBLIC WAS 69% IN SUPPORT OF JUST BIKE AND PET INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, AND 81% WHEN PAIRED WITH OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THIS GETS ME THINKING ABOUT OUR UPCOMING RE PAVEMENT SCHEDULE OF CAWFIELD WESTERN, WELL, I GUESS, UH, BEFORE THAT IS HOWARD, UH, CAWFIELD AND WESTERN.
AND I GUESS THIS IS A QUESTION FOR BJORN, AND I'LL TRY NOT TO MAKE IT TOO LONG-WINDED, BUT IS THERE, I KNOW BUDGET-WISE, WE KIND OF SET ASIDE MONIES FOR LIKE LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS.
AND I'M THINKING, DO WE ALREADY HAVE A PACKAGE OF KIND OF, OTHER THAN CAR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE CAN BUNDLE TOGETHER AND MAKE SPACE FOR ON THE BUDGET? AND OF COURSE, COMING FROM ME, THAT WOULD INCLUDE STREET TREES, UH, BUT ALSO STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS, UM, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS, EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
IS THERE A WAY, OR IS THAT ALREADY HAPPENING, OR, OR HOW CAN THAT KIND OF ALL DOVETAIL TOGETHER AND, AND MAKE ROOM AND MAKE MONEY FOR IT? THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
UM, I PAVING PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, FROM PROJECT TO PROJECT, THEY ARE GENERALLY FUNDED IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
UM, SO FOR EXAMPLE, WITH HOWARD STREET, UM, BECAUSE THAT INVOLVES SUCH, UH, INTENSIVE UTILITY WORK, YOU KNOW, A, A GOOD AMOUNT OF THAT PROJECT WILL ACTUALLY BE FUNDED BY, FUNDED BY, UM, UH, UTILITY ENTERPRISE FUNDS, UM, WITH KIND OF THE CO WITH SOME, MAYBE WITH SOME STREET MAINTENANCE FUNDS TO SUPPLEMENT THOSE UTILITY FUNDS.
UM, OUR CALL FIELD LANE PROJECT IS ACTUALLY FUNDED WITH, UH, PARTIALLY FUNDED BY, UH, A STATE GRANT.
SO WE HAVE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES FOR EACH OF THE PAVING PROJECTS.
UM, THEY'RE COMING FROM DIFFERENT BUCKETS OF MONEY, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WITH EACH PROJECT YOU JUST HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, GOING INTO IT, YOU'RE TAKING A ROUGH ESTIMATE AT THE, AT THE COSTS, UM, BASED ON THE MILEAGE, THE TYPE OF WORK, YOU KNOW, THE, THE AMOUNT OF GROUND YOU'RE COVERING, THE TYPE OF WORK THAT YOU'RE ANTICIPATING.
AND, UH, BUT YOU REALLY AREN'T GONNA KNOW UNTIL YOU GET DEEP INTO THE, INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS, UM, REALLY HOW MUCH THE PROJECT WILL TRULY COST, WHERE THE BIDS ARE GONNA COME IN.
SO ALL OF THAT IS TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S COMPLICATED.
I THINK IT WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD TOPIC FOR A FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION TO BRING, UM, YOU KNOW, KEN AND GINA IN HERE, UM, OR JONATHAN, OUR C I P MANAGER, TO KIND OF WALK THROUGH THE DIFFERENT TRADE-OFFS AND CONSIDERATIONS WITH THE WAY PAVING PROJECTS ARE SCOPED AND, AND ULTIMATELY WHAT, WHAT GETS INCLUDED.
UM, I THINK WHAT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR IS THAT THERE IS AN APPETITE TO, YOU KNOW, WE SPENT BASICALLY THE ENTIRE HOWARD HOWARD STREET WORKSHOP TALKING ABOUT UTILITY UNDERGROUND
AND, UH, SO I, NOW IT'S JUST A MATTER OF, UM, OF FIGURING OUT WHAT, WHAT WE HAVE BUDGET FOR AND, UM, AND WHAT WE CAN INCLUDE.
UM, SO NOT A GREAT, NOT A GREAT LIKE ANSWER TODAY, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE A, IT WOULD BE A WORTHWHILE CONVERSATION.
AND I, AND WE'RE VERY AWARE OF, OF THE APPETITE FOR STREET TREES, BIOSWALES, UTILITY UNDERGROUNDING, UH, IMPROVED SIDEWALKS, ALL ALL OF THAT STUFF AS PART OF THESE PAVING PROJECTS WHERE TRADITIONALLY THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKED AT AS PAVING PROJECTS, RIGHT? SO NOW WE'RE KIND OF, I HAD A FEELING IT WASN'T GONNA BE AS SIMPLE AS I THOUGHT, JUST ADD THAT LINE ITEM IN THERE AND WE CAN DEFINITELY, UH, FUND IT.
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THINKING AS YOU'RE SAYING THAT, UH, WHETHER IT'S KIND OF THE IDEAL SCENARIO, MAYBE PARTNERING WITH A STREET PAVING PROJECT, OR MAYBE THERE IS SOME KIND OF, UH, PACKAGE THAT WE CAN PUT TOGETHER SO THAT WHEN WE DO, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENTS ON A STREET, WE'RE ALSO INCLUDING SOME OF THESE OTHER PIECES TO KIND OF GARNER THAT COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND MEET MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES AT ONCE.UM, ANYWAY, SOMETHING THAT I'M SURE YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY THINKING ABOUT, I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT, UH, AND THEN, UH, FOR PETE, AM I UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY FROM THOSE STATS? UH, I THINK IT WAS PRETTY CLEAR CUT, BUT TRAILS, SO KIND OF INDEPENDENT ACTIVE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IS HOW I INTERPRET TRAILS.
UH, VASTLY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN KIND OF SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE ON, ON STREETS ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION THAT THEY SHARED.
AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE, UM, OFTEN THE TRAILS, UM, HAVE TO BE, UM, GRADED.
UM, THEY HAVE TO BE BUILT, WHEREAS, UM, DOING SOMETHING ON A ROADWAY, IT'S ALREADY THERE AND IT MAY JUST INVOLVE STRIPING AND, AND OTHER PHYSICAL BARRIERS.
SO I, AND I DON'T WANNA READ THIS INTO THEIR ANALYSIS, BUT I WOULD GUESS IN THAT EXAMPLE FROM AUSTIN, DO CITY THREADS PRIORITIZE THAT KIND OF SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE STARTING THEIR INSTEAD OF TRAILS WHEN IT COMES TO A T P IMPROVEMENTS? THAT WAS NOT AN IMPLICATION.
AND THEY, THEY WEREN'T, WEREN'T MAKING THAT, AND I WASN'T MAKING THAT.
I WAS JUST THROWING SOME NUMBERS OUT THAT WERE INTERESTING TO ME JUST TO GET A SENSE OF SCALE.
WELL THEN I WON'T SPEND ANY MORE TIME ON THAT.
I CAN ACTUALLY, I, I MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT.
SO I DID HAVE A CALL WITH KYLE FAIRLY EARLY ON.
I DON'T KNOW IF PETE OR BRUCE, YOU WERE ON IT.
UM, AND HE WAS KIND OF, HE WAS INTERVIEWING ME ABOUT OUR EXISTING CONDITIONS IN PETALUMA, AND WE WERE LOOKING AT, AT GOOGLE MAPS TOGETHER AND LOOKING AT OUR BIKE NETWORK TOGETHER.
AND HIS OBSERVATION, AGAIN, AS A, AS A, AS A TRANSPORTATION PLANNER, AN EXPERT FROM OUTSIDE THE AREA WHO'S, I DON'T THINK HE'S EVER BEEN TO PETALUMA, UM, HE'S LOOKING AT THE SIZE OF OUR CITY, AND HE WAS LIKE, WOW, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS, I THINK YOU'VE, YOU'VE, YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHT SIZE, YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHT TOPOGRAPHY, RIGHT? MOST OF YOUR MOST TRIPS IN PETALUMA ARE PROBABLY UNDER THREE MILES, MAYBE IN THAT THREE TO FIVE MILE RANGE WHERE YOU COULD, YOU COULD REALLY BE, UH, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE A VERY BIKEABLE CITY.
AND, UM, IT ISN'T A MATTER, YOU KNOW, HIS, HIS RECOMMENDATION WAS, IF I WERE YOU, I WOULD NOT FOCUS TOO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY ON THE REALLY DIFFICULT PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE COSTLY AND INVOLVE PROPERTY ACQUISITION AND TAKE YEARS OF DESIGN.
I WOULD FOCUS ON FIGURING OUT WHAT YOU CAN BUILD QUICKLY.
UM, AND, AND IDENTIF REALLY HONING IN ON THOSE KEY PAIN POINTS, UM, AS PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BIKE ACROSS TOWN, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE LAKEVILLE, THE LAKEVILLE, WASHINGTON'S D STREET, THOSE TYPES OF CORRIDORS WHERE AT SOME POINT IN YOUR JOURNEY YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BIKE ON OR ACROSS ONE OF THOSE STREETS, RIGHT? UM, AND THAT WAS, THAT WAS KIND OF HIS TAKEAWAY, IS FOCUS YOUR ENERGY ON, UM, ON THE REAL PAIN POINTS THAT KIND OF AT THE CORE OF THE NETWORK, AND THAT WILL UNLOCK THE CITY'S POTENTIAL.
AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS WONDERING IF THEY GAVE A SENSE OF PRIORITIZATION.
UH, AND THEN I, I HAVE, AS A COMMENT, I WANTED TO SAY MAYBE THIS IS NO MISTAKE BECAUSE PETE IS ON OUR AD HOC FOR THE A T P PLAN, BUT MARRYING ACTIVE TRANSPORT GOALS WITH OVERARCHING, OVERARCHING, UH, CITY GOALS WAS, I THINK A CORE PART OF WHEN WE FORMED THE AD HOC, WHAT WE GOT TO WORK DOING.
AND SO IT WAS REALLY NICE TO SEE THAT MIRRORED IN CITY THREAD'S LANGUAGE OF, HEY, MAKE SURE YOU'RE REFERENCING THESE OTHER GOALS.
SO I THINK WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK THERE.
UH, AND THEN, YEAH, I GUESS ON THIS MESSAGING POINT, I LIKED THEIR MORE SAFETY, LESS STRESS KIND OF MESSAGING.
I'M WONDERING, I WOULD GUESS IF THEY HAD ONE, YOU WOULD'VE ALREADY ASKED FOR IT.
BUT DO THEY HAVE A PR KIT OR A LANGUAGE KIT, OR HERE'S WHAT WORKS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? A A AS, AS I UNDERSTOOD IN DENVER AND IN ALL THE CONVERSATIONS, THEY'RE LEAVING IT UP TO US, COME UP WITH, WITH A LOCAL SOLUTION THAT FITS YOUR, YOUR NEEDS.
THEY'RE JUST GIVING SOME SUGGESTIONS OF WHAT, WHAT MIGHT'VE WORKED IN OTHER PLACES.
UM, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY, THEY STOP SHORT OF ANY KIND OF BEING PRESCRIPTIVE.
LIKE, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN, YOU FIGURE IT OUT.
I LIKE TO HAVE A, A CAMPAIGN WE CAN STEAL GOOD IDEAS FROM.
BUT, UH, WELL, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE PRESENTATION.
BJORN, I, LASTLY, I WAS, I'M JUST WONDERING HOW, UM, THIS COULD FIT WITH THE BLUEPRINT AND MAYBE HAVE CITY THREAD BE SPECIFIC ACTIONS AS PART OF THE BLUEPRINT, WHICH MAYBE WE COULD TALK ABOUT AT THE BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP,
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BLUEPRINT BLUE ZONE, THE, THE CARBON, THE CLIMATE ACTIONS BLUEPRINT, MARSH.I'LL JUST COME COME BACK FOR A, FOR ONE MORE.
AND I FORGOT MARSHA, I'M SO SORRY.
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UH, YEAH, THE, IT'S A MEATY DOCUMENT.
THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD STUFF IN IT.
THERE'S A LOT THAT IS A, A LOT OF GAPS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
IT, IT, IT HAS SOME VERY SPECIFIC LANGUAGE ABOUT COMPLETE STREETS AND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, AND JUST FIGURING OUT HOW THAT DOCUMENT, UH, MARRIES WITH THE A T P AND THE, THE CHARGE THAT, UH, CITI THREAD SETS US UP TO.
UM, IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF THINKING AND MARJA AND MARJA, PLEASE.
THIS IS A VERY WEIRD SEAT TO SIT IN.
I HOPE WE ALL GET A, A POSSIBLE CHANCE AT BEING DOWN HERE GIVES YOU A DIFFERENT VANTAGE.
UM, GOSH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I HAVE BEEN HOPING FOR A VERY LONG TIME THAT WE WOULD ACTUALLY SEE THIS DOCUMENT.
I KNOW THAT IT CAME OUT, I THINK IN JUNE, AND I WAS VERY MUCH HOPEFUL THAT WE WOULD SEE IT BEFORE NOW, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE A T P PLANNING THAT WE'RE DOING AND WHAT YOU AND DARREN AND I ARE DOING, UM, WITH KELLY.
I MEAN, ALL OF THAT WOULD'VE BEEN MADE A WHOLE LOT EASIER IF WE HAD HAD THIS TO LOOK AT AS QUICKLY AS WE COULD HAVE.
BUT ANYWAY, IT'S A MARVELOUS DOCUMENT.
UM, I LOVE THE IDEA IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SOMETIMES TO SELL, UM, WHAT WE DO HERE IN BIKE AND PED, EXCUSE ME, IN OUR MOBILITY COMMITTEE, UM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS ABOUT BIKES AND SOMETIMES IT'S ABOUT PEDS, BUT, UM, RARELY DO YOU HAVE IT PUT TOGETHER LIKE THIS.
DOES THAT, IT JUST MAKES GOOD SENSE.
IT, IT'S A GREAT SELLABLE, UH, A GREAT SELLABLE, UH, PRODUCT.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO MENTION WAS
I THINK I'M THE ONLY MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE WHEN WE WROTE THE 2008 BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN.
SO ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 12, THERE'S A LITTLE PARAGRAPH THAT IS KIND OF, I TAKE ISSUE WITH.
IT SAYS, THE BIKE AND PED PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN IS WOEFULLY OUT OF DATE.
HOWEVER, IT GOES ON TO STATE, IT DOESN'T OFFER ANY GUIDANCE ON WHAT PROJECTS TO ADVANCE NEXT.
IN FACT, IT DOES FOR, UH, BICYCLES AND FOR PEDESTRIANS AND FOR TRAILS AND FOR EVEN FOR EDUCATION.
SO, JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT ONE SMALL POINT, BUT I'M THRILLED WITH THIS AGAIN, PETE.
I WISH WE HAD SEEN IT EARLIER.
I THINK THAT WOULD'VE, UM, MADE OUR LIFE WITH THIS PLANNING OF THE A T P THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR HOW MANY YEARS? FIVE.
I THINK WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS.
IT'S THIS WILL, THIS WILL
I MEAN, I WAS A COMMITTEE MEMBER PUSHING FOR IT WHEN
WELL, THAT'S WHAT I'M REMEMBERING OUR, YEAH, OUR VISIT IN THE LIBRARY THAT EVENING.
UM, ANYWAY, IT'S JUST, IT'S DELIGHTFUL TO SEE.
I'M, I'M THRILLED THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING, UM, LIKE THIS THAT HOPEFULLY WILL HELP US DEVELOP COALITIONS WHO ARE EXCITED TO, UM, HELP US MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
IT, IT'S GREAT THAT IT, IT, UM, PROVIDES A WAY FORWARD HOPEFULLY TO ACCELERATE EVERYTHING.
I'D LIKE TO OPEN IT TO PUBLIC COMMENTS STARTING WITH EMILY.
UM, JUST QUICKLY, WE'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH, UM, THE CITY THREAD PROCESS IN, UH, PETALUMA AND SANTA ROSA.
AND, UM, WE APPRECIATE THAT THESE REPORTS FOCUS ON, UM, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLANS AND THE, THE BARRIERS THAT CAN ARISE.
UM, WE SUPPORT THE BROADER IDEAS AROUND, UM, MESSAGING AND COALITION BUILDING, UM, AND BUILDING THE NETWORK FAST.
UH, AND WE HOPE THAT THE CITY ALSO WILL BACK, UH, THESE ELEMENTS OF THE PLAYBOOK AS IT WORKS TO IMPLEMENT ITS OWN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
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HI EVERYBODY.I WANNA THANK PETE FIRST FOR SAVING ME THE EMBARRASSMENT OF COMING UP AND DO, DOING A WOEFULLY INADEQUATE PRESENTATION OF WHAT WENT ON WITH CITY THREAD.
UM, I WAS ON PBAC BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS, HI.
AND WE LOOKED AT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND WHERE THE BIKE RACKS AND THE CUT THROUGHS AND, AND THE SHOWERS WERE GOING.
AND, AND THEN EVENTUALLY WE STARTED WORKING ON THE 2008 PLAN.
AROUND THAT TIME, I FELT LIKE WE NEEDED TO DO MORE COMMUNITY ADVOCACY.
SO I CREATED THIS GROUP CALLED PETALUMA GREEN LANE.
WE MADE A MAP, WE DID SOME WORK WITH THE, THE, UH, UH, THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND MAKING MAP KIOSKS, BUT IT DIDN'T REALLY GO ANYWHERE.
AND I KINDA LIKEN IT TO THERE WERE AS MANY PEOPLE AS INTERESTED IN THAT AS THERE WERE CYCLISTS ON THE STREET BACK THEN.
NOW YOU CAN HARDLY GO DOWN THE STREET WITHOUT RUNNING INTO ONE.
UH, BUT I THINK THE LEVEL OF INTEREST IN THE COMMUNITY FOR DOING THE THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO MAKE THIS WORK HAPPEN WAY FASTER THAN IT DID OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS.
ARE THERE YOU FOLKS, THE COUNCIL, THE STAFF, UH, AND AGAIN, UH, THINGS WE RUN INTO IS, UH, IN AN EFFORT TO BE TRANSPARENT AND, UM, AND, UM, WHAT'S THE WORD? ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY.
YOU CAN GO TOO FAR WITH THAT, AND YOU CAN GET 0.1% OF THE COMMUNITY TAKING UP ALL THE TIME.
THE PROJECTS START, STOP, START STOPS, AND NOTHING HAPPENS.
AND PEOPLE JUST COMPLAIN ABOUT GOVERNMENT IS A WASTE OF, OF MONEY.
SO, UH, THE, THE MESSAGE OF GETTING STUFF DONE, HOW CAN WE GET OUT THERE AND BUILD THINGS THAT PEOPLE WILL LOVE, UH, AND THAT, UH, THE ENGINEERS WILL LOVE AND ARE AFFORDABLE AND THAT WE CAN START TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
UM, I, I DID, I DID WANNA TALK ABOUT, UH, SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED, UH, AND HAVE BEEN ON SOME OF THE EMAIL LISTS FOR SAFE STREETS' PETALUMA SINCE WE STARTED THIS UP.
I THINK IT WAS LIKE APRIL LAST YEAR.
UH, BUT WE WERE CONCERNED NOT TO TELL EVERYBODY, MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE JUST COME IN THEN AND SAID WHAT WE KNEW, WHICH WASN'T VERY MUCH.
I THINK THE CITY THREAD, UH, FINDINGS HAVE REALLY GIVEN US SOMETHING TO SINK OUR TEETH INTO.
I'M GLAD WE'RE DOING THIS NOW.
THE QUESTION IN MY MIND IS HOW DOES SAFE STREETS PETALUMA, WHICH IS GOING TO BECOME PETALUMA COMPLETE STREETS COALITION, AND WITH THE INTENT BEING THAT IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT SAFETY, IT'S ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT COMPLETE STREETS DEFINE.
AND WE DIDN'T DEFINE IT, THEY'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, BUT HOW DO WE BRING ALL THOSE THINGS TOGETHER AND HOW CAN THAT COALITION, UH, REACH OUT, UH, AS YOU KNOW, GRANDPARENTS, UH, OR SOMEBODY THAT WATCHED, UH, A FEMALE DEER GET HIT ON I STREET, WATCH IT DRAW ITS LAST BREATH IN FRONT OF ME WHILE I WAS RIDING DOWN THE STREET.
THOSE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES, UH, THE CONCERNS FOR OUR KIDS, THE CONCERNS FOR BEING ABLE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATE, UH, HOW ALL THOSE THINGS CAN BE BROUGHT TOGETHER IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY SO THAT WE MOVE THIS ALONG.
I KNOW THERE'S KIND OF A, A, UH, A RANDOM COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS HERE.
PARDON? THE THREE MINUTES ARE UP.
THAT'S PROBABLY ALL I NEED TO SAY FOR NOW.
BUT I'LL BE WORKING WITH Y'ALL.
THAT MOVES US TO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION, WHICH IS THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UPDATE FOR OCTOBER, 2023 BY BJORN.
LEMME JUST CUE MY SCREEN UP HERE.
YEAH, THERE'S A, THERE IS A TIMER
UH, APOLOGIES THAT THAT HAPPENED.
I'LL POINT OUT
SO A QUICK UPDATE ON ALL THINGS ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, UH, PLAN RELATED.
UM, SO WE'VE GOT OUR, OUR RESCHEDULED OPEN HOUSE, UH, ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, SIX TO 8:00 PM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND, UM, THIS, AS I, AS I PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED, WE'LL HAVE AN OPEN HOUSE FORMAT.
SO WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT STATIONS AROUND THE ROOM WHERE PEOPLE CAN ENGAGE WITH SPECIFIC, UM, SUBJECT MATTERS OR CONTENT FROM THE PLAN.
UM, THIS IS THE, THE TENTATIVE, UH, UH, STATION LIST, AND I WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK ON, UM, ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO SEE US INCLUDE.
SO JUST A STATION OUTLINING VISION, GOALS, ACTIONS, EVERYTHING THAT OUR AD HOC COMMITTEE'S BEEN UP TO.
AND, AND I'VE GOT AN UPDATE ON THAT FOLLOWING IN THIS PRESENTATION.
UM, AND THEN MAYBE, UH, PARSING OUT OUR, UH, OUR PROPOSED BIKE NETWORK AND, UH, PEDESTRIAN NETWORK WITH THE PEDESTRIAN NETWORK REALLY FOCUSING
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ON SIDEWALK GAPS AND INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS.UM, THE BIKE NETWORK BEING ALL OF OUR ON-STREET BIKE, UH, UH, ROUTES.
AND, UH, ALSO WOULD LOVE TO, UM, CONTINUE TO SOLICIT INPUT FROM FOLKS ON WHERE THEY'D LIKE TO SEE IMPROVED BIKE ROUTE OR IMPROVED BIKE PARKING.
SO WE'LL HAVE SOME, SOME STICKY NOTES THAT PEOPLE CAN ADD TO MAPS.
UM, YOU KNOW, GIVEN, LOOKING THROUGH THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED ON THE SOCIAL PINPOINT MAP, UH, IT DID APPEAR THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF FOLKS, UM, WHO REALLY ONLY HAD, WHO WERE REALLY ONLY INTERESTED IN OUR, UH, OFF STREET TRAIL INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO I WAS CURIOUS TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHETHER IT WOULD BE WORTH HAVING TRAILS AS ITS OWN STATION, OR WE CAN OBVIOUSLY SHOW TRAILS ON BOTH THE BIKE, UH, THE BIKE MAP AND THE P UH, THE WALKING MAP, GIVEN THAT THOSE ARE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES.
UM, SO WANTED TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT.
AND THEN ALSO JUST, UH, HERE, IF YOU HAVE ANY, ANY OTHER, OTHER THOUGHTS ON STATIONS WHERE, UM, WE MIGHT, UM, ENGAGE FOLKS.
BUT REALLY GIVEN THAT THIS IS THE, THIS IS KIND OF THE MEAT OF THE PLAN BETWEEN THE VISION, THE VISION GOALS, ACTIONS, AND THEN THE, THE PROJECT MAP.
UM, THOSE WERE THE IDEAS THAT CAME TO MIND.
MARJA, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT I'D LOVE TO SEE TRAILS AS IT'S SEPARATE.
I THINK THERE'S SEEN IN THE CONTEXT OF WHERE THE BIKE PATHS ARE TOO.
SO IF YOU WANT TO GO FOR A HIKE AND NOT HAVE TO GET IN YOUR CAR, UM, SHOWING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS I THINK IS REALLY HELPFUL.
YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL, UM, WE'LL HAVE THOSE THREE STATIONS AND THEN AGAIN, WE'LL HAVE TRAILS, UH, SHOWING ON BOTH THE BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN MAPS AS WELL.
UM, BUT THE TRAIL, THE TRAIL MAP CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE FOCUSED AND, UM, AND IT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE INTERESTING JUST TO LOOK AT THAT TOO AND, AND UNDERSTAND.
I THINK IT'LL MAKE THE, THE GAPS REALLY, UH, POP OUT IN OUR, IN OUR TRAIL NETWORK AS WELL.
ANY OTHER, OH YEAH, MAYBE A BOOTH OR SOMETHING FOR OUR ADVOCACY GROUPS TOO, SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE CONNECTIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY WHO'S THERE AS WELL.
YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD, UH, CALL IT AN IMPLEMENTATION TABLE OR AN ADVOCACY TABLE.
YEAH, COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY PARTNERS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
ALSO, ARE WE ALL ALLOWED TO ATTEND THIS? YES.
SO YOU ARE ALL ALLOWED TO ATTEND IT.
UM, WE, YOU KNOW, UH, AGAIN, JUST BEING MINDFUL OF BROWN ACT, UH, WOULDN'T WANNA SEE FIVE OF YOU ALL HUDDLED UP IN A GROUP AT
UM, AND, UH, AND OBVIOUSLY ALSO THE NEED TO AVOID SERIAL MEETINGS WHERE, UM, YOU ARE DISCUSSING THE SAME MATTERS WITH MORE THAN ONE PERSON, AND THEN YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF CREATES THAT, UH, TELEPHONE EFFECT THAT OUR ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY DYLAN BRADY, UM, OUTLINED, UH, WHEN HE GAVE HIS BROWN ACT TRAINING.
UM, AND AGAIN, AS I REQUESTED FOR THE, THE PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED WORKSHOP, UM, WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOUR ASSISTANCE IF FOLKS ARE, UM, ABLE AND WILLING TO HELP US OUT, UM, STAFF THE STATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, SPLIT YOU UP OBVIOUSLY, AND, UM, ENGAGE OUR, UH, OUR, OUR ATTENDEES ON THE DIFFERENT TOPICS AND KIND OF TAKE NOTES.
AND THEN, UM, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO TOO IS, UH, THE FOLLOWING WEEK AT, AT OUR PBAC MEETING, COME BACK AND KIND OF DO IT AND DO A DEBRIEF.
SO THAT WOULD BE A REPORT OUT FROM MYSELF AND JEFF.
WE'LL SUMMARIZE THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
AND THEN ALSO WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS AND, AND GET YOUR NOTES.
UM, BECAUSE AFTER, AFTER THAT, WE'RE GOING TO, UM, HAVE QUITE A BIT OF, UM, YOU KNOW, FEEDBACK TO, TO SORT THROUGH AS WE UPDATE ALL OF THE, UPDATE THE MAPS AND THE ACTIONS AND, AND REALLY GET INTO, UH, PLAN WRITING MODE.
SO BJORN THEN, I'M ASSUMING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE MAPS AT EACH OF THESE STATIONS YES.
AND MAYBE SOME COLORED DOTS OR SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE COULD WRITE ON AND PLACE.
SO VERY, VERY LARGE MAPS AND, AND AS I DESCRIBED LAST MONTH, UM, WE ARE GOING TO SIMPLIFY THE MAPS BY, AT LEAST WITH THE BIKE MAP.
THE BIKE MAP IS BY FAR THE MOST, UM, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH SPATIAL INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO TAKE IN.
SO, UM, WE ARE GOING TO SHOW THE PROPOSED NETWORK ONLY, SO YOU WON'T HAVE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN EXISTING AND PROPOSED.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO SIMPLIFY A LITTLE BIT BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, OFF STREET FACILITIES, ON STREET FACILITIES.
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING ON THE MAP, YOU SHOULD ASSUME THAT
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IT IS BEING PROPOSED AS A ALL AGES AND ABILITIES, UH, QUALITY BIKE FACILITY.SO IT SHOULD, IT SHOULD, I THINK WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO TAKE TO HEART, UM, THE FEEDBACK WE GOT ON THE SOCIAL PINPOINT MAPS AROUND THOSE JUST BEING HARD TO, UM, HARD TO DIGEST,
AND MY LAST QUESTION IS, HOW, HOW ARE WE, AND TO WHOM ARE WE SENDING OUT THIS INFORMATION? SO THIS WILL GO OUT TO, WE LOOK WELL, WOULD OBVIOUSLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP GETTING THE WORD OUT.
WE'LL GET IT OUT THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITY UPDATE.
UM, AND WE'VE GOT A, A PRETTY LARGE, UH, SUBSCRIBER LIST FOR THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AT THIS POINT.
SO WE'LL GO OUT THROUGH ALL THE, UM, ALL THE TYPICAL KIND OF CITY, UM, CHANNELS AND, UH, OBVIOUSLY WOULD LOVE, YOU KNOW, FOR, UM, OUR, OUR COMMUNITY, UH, PARTNERS, SAFE STREETS, PETALUMA, S C B C, ET CETERA, TO HELP US GET THE WORD OUT.
YEAH, I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S POSSIBLE, BUT WITH, UM, WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL AND THE, THE NUMBERS, I'M NOT SURE IF THE SCHOOLS ARE GONNA BE LIKE CELEBRATING IT BACK TO THE PARENTS OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, 400 KIDS WALK OR ROLLED TO SCHOOL TODAY.
BUT IF THERE IS, AND WE CAN TAG ON LIKE, AND SHOW UP ON OCTOBER 25TH, LIKE, AND WE CAN GET THE SCHOOLS AND THE PARENTS INVOLVED, LIKE, JUST TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY COMMS THAT WE CAN TAG ON WITH THERE.
AND I ACTUALLY, SO I'LL, I'VE GOT IT IN MY LOADED UP IN MY STAFF UPDATE, UH, PRESENTATION.
BUT WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE HAVING OUR FIRST EVER SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TASK FORCE MEETING, UM, LATER THIS MONTH.
SO, UH, PLAN TO HAVE THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN ON THAT AGENDA.
AND, UM, UH, YEAH, WE'VE, WE'VE NOW GOT THAT A, A REALLY SOLID PARTNERSHIP IN PLACE BETWEEN, UM, THE CITY, ALL OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND, UM, OBVIOUSLY, UM, SAFE, THE SONOMA COUNTY SAFE US THE SCHOOL, UM, WHICH IS FACILITATING THE TASK FORCE BY THE WAY.
THEY, THEY SHOULD, THEY GET THE CREDIT HERE.
UM, BUT CREATING THAT ON ONGOING DIALOGUE AND, UH, BETWEEN ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT PARTIES SO WE CAN FOCUS IN ON, ON ALL OF THIS WORK, UH, UH, AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL.
AND, UH, JUST A POINT OF CLARIFICATION, SO THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED SO FAR FROM THE ONLINE MAP, UM, THAT WOULD BE EXPRESSED IN THE PROPOSED MAP LAYER.
SO ESSENTIALLY, IF SOMEONE COMES UP AND SAYS, HEY, I, YOU KNOW, ENTERED MY COMMENT, WHERE IS IT? WE CAN SAY, OH, IT'S BEEN INCORPORATED INTO HERE, AND THEN THEY CAN SAY, NO, IT'S NOT.
AND WE'RE LIKE, OH, WELL, UH, LET'S TALK MORE, OR, YES, IT IS THEN.
SO JUST WANTING TO KNOW YEAH, HOW THAT'S INTEGRATED WOULD BE, MAYBE YOU ALREADY SAID THAT.
SORRY IF YOU'RE REPEATING THAT.
SO WE, WE RECEIVED I THINK 350 OR 400 COMMENTS ON THAT MAP.
AND, UM, UH, I'VE BEEN, I'VE GONE THROUGH ALL OF THEM.
UM, I KNOW OUR, OUR MAP AD HOC COMMITTEE, YOU WENT THROUGH THEM.
UH, OUR GOAL IS TO CAPTURE AND REFLECT AS MUCH OF THAT FEEDBACK AS POSSIBLE.
THERE WERE QUITE A FEW COMMENTS THAT, UM, MAYBE FOCUSED IN ON ISSUES THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY, UM, EITHER WE DEEMED INFEASIBLE, UM, FOR VARIOUS REASONS, OR MAYBE BECAUSE, OR MAYBE THEY JUST WEREN'T REALLY APPROPRIATE FOR THE PLAN.
UM, RIGHT WHEN SOMEONE CALLS OUT, THERE WERE, THERE WERE A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WHO CALLED OUT THINGS THAT ACTUALLY WE COULD PROBABLY TAKE CARE OF THROUGH A WORK ORDER.
UM, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT WE COULD SEND TO OUR CREWS TO GO DO, UM, IN A MUCH SHORTER TIMEFRAME THAN ADDING THEM TO A BIG LONG PROJECT LIST AND HAVING THEM WAIT IN LINE.
SO, UM, THAT BEING SAID, UH, YEAH, I'VE GOT, I MEAN, I'VE GOT THAT WHOLE LIST OF COMMENTS ARCHIVED.
WE CAN PROVIDE THAT, BUT ALSO, YES, I'M, I'M REALLY HOPEFUL THAT PEOPLE, IF THEY DO FEEL THAT THEIR COMMENTS WEREN'T INCORPORATED, THAT THEY DO ELEVATE THAT AT THE WORKSHOP OR, OR BY EMAIL OR, UM, ANY, ANY NUMBER OF WAYS.
IS THAT IT, YOUR HONOR? ARE YOU TAKING THIS THROUGH THE REST OF THIS? OH, YEAH, SORRY.
I JUST WANTED TO ADD, IN TERMS OF THIS WORKSHOP, WILL THERE BE A FOCUS, YOU KNOW, EITHER THROUGH THE BIKE OR THE PED, UH, NETWORK TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN, UM, EASILY SAFELY GET TO SAY THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL OR THE SMART TRAIL, OR HOW WE CAN CONNECT, UH, YOU KNOW, GET TO THIS, TO OUR OWN STATION TO GET SOMEWHERE ELSE? I, I, I THINK THAT THERE ARE FOLKS IN TOWN WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THESE, YOU KNOW, SHORT RECREATIONAL TYPES OF TRIPS WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR KIDS AND FOR THEMSELVES.
AND, UM, SO MAYBE TO HELP FOLKS UNDERSTAND
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HOW WE'RE ADDRESSING THOSE KINDS OF GAPS SPECIFICALLY AS IT RELATES TO, UH, THOSE CORRIDORS.YEAH, I FEEL EVERY TIME I LOOK AT A BIKE MAP WITH SOMEONE, UM, IT FEELS LIKE, I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE THAT CONVERSATION OF, YOU KNOW, THAT SOMEONE WILL SAY, HERE'S WHERE I LIVE, HERE'S WHERE I WANT A BIKE TO, HOW SHOULD I GET THERE? AND THEN WE KIND OF GO THROUGH THAT EXERCISE OF, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE LOWEST STRESS ROUTE POSSIBLE.
SO I THINK THAT NATURALLY HAVING ALL OF THESE MAPS UP WILL LEND ITSELF TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND HOPEFULLY NOT ONLY IN A WAY THAT EDUCATES THEM MAYBE ON SOME POSSIBLE ROUTES THAT THEY CAN USE, EVEN IN THE INTERIM, WHILE WE WAIT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE TO BE, WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE NETWORK TO BE BUILT OUT.
OR MAYBE THEY FIND OUT ABOUT, UH, STREET OR A FACILITY OR, OR A ROUTE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT PREVIOUSLY.
UM, BUT ALSO IT WILL BE ENLIGHTENING BECAUSE NOW WE'LL SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, MAYBE WE'LL SEE A NEW GAP IN THE NETWORK THAT WE DIDN'T THINK OF BEFORE.
SO YEAH, I THINK IT CAN BE BOTH.
IT CAN BE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL.
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE QUESTIONS AND, AND FEEDBACK FOR THE WORKSHOP OR FOR THE OPEN HOUSE.
UM, LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, SEEING YOU ALL THERE.
AND I'LL MOVE ON TO THE VISION AND GOALS.
SO I DON'T THINK MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE LAST MONTH, BUT FIGURE IT'S HELPFUL FOR THE COMMITTEE TO SEE THIS AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE, UM, AS WE, AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
SO OUR, UM, OUR, OUR VISION STATEMENT, I BELIEVE REMAINS UNCHANGED.
WE DID, UM, WE MET, I MET WITH THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOLLOWING OUR LAST MEETING AND, AND WE KINDA DISCUSSED THE FEEDBACK THAT PBA RECEIVED OR THAT PBA C GAVE.
UM, AND, UH, EVERYONE FELT GOOD ABOUT THE EXISTING, UM, VISION STATEMENT IS MY RECOLLECTION.
AND AD HOC COMMITTEE MEMBERS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO JUMP IN.
UM, AND THEN WE'VE GOT THE FOUR GOALS, STILL VISION ZERO BY 2030, BUILD THE NETWORK, BEAUTIFUL AND WELL-MAINTAINED STREETS AND TRAILS AND, UM, NORMALIZE AND CELEBRATE.
AND THEN ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS TABLE, UM, THAT I THINK WE SHARED, UM, TWO MEETINGS AGO, AND AGAIN, SHOWING THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY YOU HEAR ABOUT THE, THE FOUR E'S ENGINEERING, EDUCATION, ENCOURAGEMENT, ENFORCEMENT, UM, I, I, UH, EDITED THAT FIRST E TO, UM, BUILD AND MAINTAIN.
BUT, UM, BECAUSE ENGINEERING TO ME DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT CONVEYED WHAT REALLY WHAT WE ARE DOING.
UM, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE GOAL AREAS DO KIND OF COVER THOSE, THOSE FOUR, UM, UH, AREAS.
AND OF COURSE, UM, AS COMMITTEE MEMBER QUINT POINTED OUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU BUILD GOOD QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, AND THAT, THAT REALLY IS THE, THE STRONGEST WAY TO ENCOURAGE INCREASED ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
SO I'VE GOT THOSE PENCILED IN, UH, WITH THOSE, THOSE LIGHTER XS AS WELL, JUST BEING KIND OF, UM, DEFACTO ENCOURAGEMENT.
UM, SO LOOKING AT OUR FIRST GOAL AND, AND THIS, THIS, SOME OF THIS WILL BE NEW ACTUALLY, IS JUST, UM, NOW STARTING TO THINK ABOUT THE, THE ACTION ITEMS THAT WOULD FALL UNDER EACH OF THESE GOALS.
UM, SO WE'VE GOT, UH, ON THE RIGHT THERE, JUST SEVERAL DRAFT ACTION ITEM EXAMPLES, MANY OF WHICH, UM, HAVE BEEN AT LEAST VETTED OR REVIEWED BY THE AD HOC COMMITTEE, SOME OF WHICH ARE, WILL BE NEW TO EVEN THE AD HOC COMMITTEE.
UM, AS, UH, AS, AS I WAS THINKING THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION, UM, AND WOULD BE HAPPY TO JUST KIND OF PAUSE WITH EACH OF THESE AND, AND GET YOUR THOUGHTS.
UM, MAYBE NOT NECESSARILY WORRYING ABOUT WORDSMITHING THESE FOR NOW, BUT, UM, CALLING OUT ANY SPECIFIC AREAS OR TOPICS, ACTIONS THAT YOU FEEL MIGHT BE MISSING FROM THIS, FROM THESE LISTS.
AND I CAN JUST KIND OF QUICKLY RUN THROUGH WITH, WITH THIS FIRST ONE.
SO, UM, WITH E WELL, WITH EACH OF THESE, UH, WHAT THE FIRST BULLET POINT I HAVE IS, IS PROVIDE AN ANNUAL REPORT TO PBAC, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THAT'LL BE A, THAT'S HOW WE ARE GOING TO REPORT OUR PROGRESS TOWARDS EACH OF THESE GOALS.
UM, AND, UH, AND, AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY, UH, IN THE PLAN.
UM, WE'VE ALSO GOT LOWERING SPEED LIMITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ASSEMBLY BILL 43.
THAT COULD MEAN A NUMBER OF THINGS AND, AND THAT WILL LIKELY BE SEVERAL ACTION ITEMS, YOU KNOW, WITH AS FAR AS, UM, EMBRACING OR MAYBE EVEN, UM, MAKING, MAKING 20 MILES AN HOUR A DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT THROUGHOUT THE CITY UNLESS OTHERWISE POSTED.
IF, IF THE LEGISLATION ENABLES US TO DO THAT, THAT'S A POSSIBILITY.
UM, UH, OTHERWISE, LOOKING AT THE OTHER GUIDANCE THAT WE GET FROM THE LEGISLATION, SHIFTING TO,
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UH, A, A PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, VISION ZERO CAMPAIGN, JUST TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ON, ON THE MOST, UH, ON THE, THE LEADING CONTRIBUTORS TO SEVERE INJURIES AND DEATHS OF, UH, PEOPLE BIKING AND WALKING, UM, ON ENFORCEMENT, REALLY, UH, THIS IS ONE THAT OUR, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT OBVIOUSLY WOULD LEAD, BUT ALIGNING THEIR EFFORTS WITH THE HIGH INJURY NETWORK AND WITH THOSE DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIORS PRO.AND THEN KIND OF SHIFTING MORE TOWARDS THE, UH, STREET DESIGN SIDE, PROHIBITING PARKING NEAR CROSSWALKS AND INTERSECTIONS.
THAT'S A PROVEN COUNTERMEASURE.
UM, THAT, UM, UH, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, THAT'S, THEY, THEY CREDIT THAT WITH, UM, MUCH OF THEIR VISION ZERO SUCCESS, ELIMINATING CONFLICTING, UH, MOVEMENTS AT SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, MAKING SURE WE'VE GOT LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS IN PLACE AT ALL OF OUR SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS.
UM, ELIMINATING LOCATIONS WHERE YOU'VE GOT LEFT TURNING VEHICLES OVERLAPPING WITH PEDESTRIANS IN CROSSWALKS.
UM, THERE'S A LOT YOU CAN DO AT SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS TO, TO IMPROVE SAFETY, UM, INVENTORYING, PRIORITIZING AND UPGRADING OUR UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS.
SO IDENTIFYING THOSE, THOSE HAND, THERE'S, WE'VE GOT A HANDFUL LEFT NOW THAT DON'T HAVE FLASHING BEACONS, FOR EXAMPLE.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT GO UNDER THIS ACTION OR UNDER THIS GOAL.
UM, DEVELOPING A TRAFFIC CALMING TOOLBOX.
AND THEN LASTLY, UM, IMPLEMENTING QUICK BUILD PROJECTS THAT TARGET, UM, HIGH COLLISION AREAS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED THROUGH RAPID RESPONSE RESPONSE TO COLLISIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING, UM, OR ALSO THROUGH THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM.
SORRY, I KNOW THAT IS A LOT, BUT AGAIN, I JUST WANT, THE MORE WE LOOK AT THIS, THE BETTER BECAUSE, UH, I'M SURE SOMETHING WILL JUMP OUT AT YOU IF NOT THIS TIME, NEXT TIME.
I'LL PAUSE THERE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON VISION ZERO.
UM, YEAH, I THINK THIS LOOKS REALLY EXCITING.
I UNDERSTAND HOW THE PROGRESS METRIC IS KIND OF THE BIG PICTURE.
UH, THE ONE THING I THINK COULD BE HELPFUL IS MAYBE THINKING ABOUT INDICATORS, EACH OF THESE BULLET POINTS, ESSENTIALLY, ALMOST ALL OF 'EM COULD BE AN INDICATOR JUST SAYING, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, AND THEN ELIMINATE CONFLICTING MOVEMENTS AT SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS.
I THINK PART OF ME WANTS TO SAY ALMOST MORE OF LIKE, PRIORITIZE BICYCLE MOVEMENT OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
UM, I'M THINKING OF JUST LIKE BIKE BOXES AND PEDESTRIANS GET EARLY, YOU KNOW, INTERVALS.
MAYBE BIKES COULD GET EARLY INTERVALS.
BUT, UM, SO I KNOW SANTA ROSA, FOR INSTANCE, HAS REALLY GOOD, UM, KIND OF, UH, BICYCLE IDENTIFIERS.
IF YOU ROLL UP TO AN INTERSECTION, IT'LL RECOGNIZE THAT YOU'RE A BICYCLE EVEN IF THERE'S NO CARS BEHIND YOU, FOR INSTANCE.
SO THAT'S KINDA THE PRIORITIZATION PART OF IT.
ADAM, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT INDICATORS MEANS? YEAH, LET'S SEE.
INDICATORS WOULD JUST, IT'S THE SAME AS A METRIC UHHUH, I THINK IT'S JUST GIVING, SAYING SO LOWER SPEED LIMITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ASSEMBLY BILL 43.
HOW MANY, UM, HOW MANY ROADS DID YOU APPLY THAT TO? OKAY.
SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES OF JUST SAYING WHAT ACTION WAS TAKEN FOR EACH OF THESE YES.
OR FOR, UH, SIGNAL IF AN ACTION WAS IMPLEMENT LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS THAT EVERY SIGNALED INTERSECTION WE COULD, YOU KNOW, WE SAY WE'VE DONE OKAY, WE'VE DONE 15 OUT OF 39 SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS AND HAVE THAT IN THE PLAN.
THAT'S IN THE PROGRESS REPORT EVERY YEAR.
UM, I'M LOOKING AT THE SSF ACT, UH, VISION ZERO ACTION STRATEGY.
I HAVEN'T FOUND IT 'CAUSE I JUST, UM, WAS ON THERE.
BUT, UM, THERE'S SOMETHING ALSO ABOUT LIKE REMEMBERING THOSE WHO ARE LOST AND NOT LETTING THAT, UM, JUST SORT OF LIKE GO AWAY.
WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF GHOST BIKES IN THE CITY, BUT, UM, THERE'S NOTHING TO REMEMBER THE PEDESTRIANS WHO'VE DIED ON MCDOWELL.
UM, AND SO, UM, IT FEELS LIKE, UM, EITHER HAVING SOMETHING IN THAT PLACE, WRITING A MEM, YOU KNOW, WRITING SOMETHING IN THE, IN THE NEWSPAPER, REMEMBERING THEM AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THEY GO SO FAR SO LIKE, INTERVIEW THEIR FAMILIES AND GET 'EM ON THE LOCAL NEWS AND TALK ABOUT THAT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY, UM, THEY TELL THE STORY OF THE PERSON WHO IS, YOU KNOW, HUMANIZED THE PERSON WHO IS DEAD AND DON'T ALLOW IT TO JUST BECOME SOMETHING IS JUST NORMALIZED, RIGHT? SO, UM, THAT'S THE ONE THING THAT JUMPS OUT AT ME ON HERE THAT I DON'T SEE.
MAYBE IT'S MORE OF AN ADVOCACY ROLE,
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BUT, UM, I THINK THERE'S THINGS THAT THE CITY CAN DO TOO.AND THERE'S ALSO, YOU KNOW, WITH THE WAY, SO WITH EACH OF THESE ACTIONS, UM, WE'LL IDENTIFY A LEAD, RIGHT? SO WHETHER IT'S, UH, PUBLIC WORKS OR POLICE OR THERE, WE COULD HAVE ITEMS IN HERE THAT, UM, ARE IDENTIFIED AS A PBA C LEAD EVEN, OR COMMUNITY LEAD.
SO, UM, THAT'S A, YEAH, DEFINITELY ANOTHER OPTION.
I'VE, I'VE REALLY BEEN LOOKING AT IT THROUGH THE LENS OF, UM, CITY RESPONSIBILITY, BUT WE, IT'S A REALLY GOOD COMMENT TO OPEN IT UP.
SHOULD I MOVE ON? ALRIGHT, UM, FIND MY MOUSE HERE.
SO, GOAL TWO, BUILD THE NETWORK, AND BETWEEN GOALS ONE, TWO, AND THREE ESPECIALLY, THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP.
SO DOING OUR BEST RIGHT NOW TO PUT THESE ACTIONS IN, IN BUCKETS.
BUT, UM, HONESTLY, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF VISION ZERO ACTIONS APPLY TO GOAL TWO AND VICE VERSA.
UM, BUT THIS ONE IS REALLY, THIS GOAL IS REALLY FOCUSED ON, UM, ON, ON THE BUILD OUT OF THE NETWORK.
AND, UM, AND MAYBE THE, UH, UH, LOOKING AT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE DON'T ASSOCIATE NECESSARILY WITH VISION ZERO, BUT MORE WITH, UM, WITH MODE SHIFT AND WITH, UM, UH, WELL WITH BUILDING OUT THE NETWORK.
SO AGAIN, PROVIDE AN ANNUAL REPORT TO PBA, UM, IMPLEMENT PROJECTS IDENTIFIED IN THE PROJECT MAP, UM, STARTING WITH PRIORITY PROJECT.
SO REALLY THE, THE BUILD OUT OF THE NETWORK IS MOSTLY GOING TO BE INFORMED BY WHAT ENDS UP IN THE PROJECT MAP.
UM, SO THIS GOAL MAY BE A LITTLE BIT LIGHTER, BUT THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL THINGS THAT, THAT, THAT OBVIOUSLY FALL UNDER THIS.
UM, UNDER THIS GOAL, UPDATING THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY AND CITY STANDARDS TO INCORPORATE ALL AGES AND ABILITIES, DESIGN PRINCIPLES, AND ALL OF THE OTHER, UM, ADVANCES IN BEST PRACTICE SINCE THE ADOPTION OF OUR, OF OUR LAST PLAN, OUR COMPLETE STREETS ORDINANCES, AND, UM, AND OUR CITY STANDARDS, DEVELOPING A CROSSWALK POLICY THAT IDENTIFIES CRITERIA FOR WHERE TO INSTALL MARKED CROSSWALKS, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR US, UM, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH PAVING PROJECTS AND, UM, OR, OR RESPONDING TO COMMUNITY REQUESTS FOR, UH, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, SOMETIME THAT, THAT, THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT WE OFTEN HAVE AT A STAFF LEVEL IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE THOSE IDEAL LOCATIONS ARE.
OR DO YOU MAKE, DO YOU PROVIDE CROSSWALKS ON BOTH LEGS OF THE INTERSECTION AT A GIVEN LOCATION OR JUST ONE SIDE? SO THERE, SO THAT WOULD BE A, A HELPFUL POLICY TO HAVE.
AND OBVIOUSLY ONE THAT WE WOULD CRAFT WITH P A C, UM, INVENTORYING, PRIORITIZING AND UPGRADING CURB RAMPS AND TRAIL CROSSINGS, UM, AND THEN IMPLEMENTING AND, AND THE REASON I CALLED, WELL THE REASON CURB RAMPS ARE CALLED OUT SPECIFICALLY IS BECAUSE THAT'S SUCH A, A GRANULAR DETAIL.
IT'S NOT, CURB RAMPS ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE THEIR WAY ONTO THE PROJECT MAP
IF THAT WOULD BE A, A VERY, THAT WOULD BE A, A BUSY MAP IF WE HAD ALL OF THE CURB RAMPS, UM, INVENTORIED ON THERE.
SO THAT, THAT'LL BE A BIG EFFORT.
UM, UH, REALLY KIND OF ALIGNED WITH THE CITY'S, UM, NEED TO DO, UH, IMPLEMENT ASSET MANAGEMENT.
AND, UH, LET'S SEE, WHERE DID I LEAVE OFF IMPLEMENTING A CITYWIDE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN WAYFINDING WAYFINDING PROGRAM, I SHOULD SAY, AND IMPLEMENTING THE CITYWIDE BIKE PARKING, UH, PROJECT.
SO LOOKING ALSO, UM, A LOT OF THESE YOU'LL SEE AS SORT OF COMPLIMENTARY EFFORTS TO THE BUILD OUT OF OUR BIKE NETWORK AS ENVISIONED THROUGH, OR OF, OF OUR BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN NETWORKS AS ENVISIONED THROUGH THE, UH, THROUGH THE PROJECT MAP.
BJORN, CAN I JUST ADD LIKE A, A SORT OF TO THE MOON THING? JUST, I WAS JUST RECENTLY IN, UM, IN NORTH ITALY IN, IN LIKE A, A VERY BIKE FRIENDLY TOWN AND THEY HAVE BIKE CHARGING AND LIKE ONE WHEEL CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE EVERYWHERE.
AND, AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT KIND OF WIELD THINGS PEOPLE WILL BE WRITING ON IN THE FUTURE, OR LIKE HOVERBOARDS, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT I THINK JUST TRYING TO SHOW, OR LIKE IF WE, IF WE HAVE A WAY OR COULD, COULD INCLUDE LIKE, THINKING IN THAT, IN THAT LINE, THAT'S HELPFUL.
UH, AS FAR AS LIKE MAYBE BIKE PARKING AND CHARGING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YEAH, I'VE, IT'S FUNNY THAT COMES UP FROM TIME TO TIME TALKING TO OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T REALLY FIGURED OUT, WE HAVEN'T, WE DON'T HAVE A, A REQUIREMENT YET AROUND, UM, CHARGERS, ESPECIALLY WITH DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
AND IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
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WHAT KINDS OF PLACES DID THEY HAVE, DID THEY PROVIDE THEM AND WAS IT A UNIVERSAL CABLE THAT, BECAUSE YEAH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT E-BIKES, SCOTERS, THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT ADAPTERS.YOU KNOW, THEY ALL USE JUST THE SAME 120 VOLT OUTLET THAT YOU HAVE.
IT'S A, IT'S A STANDARD LIKE PLUG, IT DOESN'T, YEAH.
IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S HIGH VOLTAGE, BUT, AND I THINK THAT'S SIMILAR TO LIKE HAVING A, A CAR, LIKE A ECAR RIGHT.
YOU HA COULD HAVE YOUR OWN CABLE AND, AND PLUG IN.
IT'S HAVING THE ABILITY AND LIKE A SPACE AND A WELCOMING WAY TO SAY MM-HMM.
THERE WERE ALSO BIKE CAR WASH, LIKE BIKE CAR WASHES EVERYWHERE.
THIS IS ON THE WAY TO THE DOLOMITES.
AND SO ALL ALONG LIKE THE TRAILS IN THE DOLOMITES, THERE'S ALSO BIKE CHARGING STATIONS 'CAUSE PEOPLE ARE EBI THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS AND THEN BIKE CAR WASHES EVERYWHERE.
I'VE HEARD OF A LOT OF DIFFERENT BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE.
I'VE NOT HEARD OF BIKE, BIKE WASHES.
UM, I THINK ONE THING THAT'S NOT, IT WASN'T ON THE TABLE BEFORE, UM, THAT WAS BEFORE, THIS IS INCLUDING EDUCATION WITH BUILDING.
UM, I THINK THERE'S AN, IT'S THE BEST PLACE TO LIKE PUT IT WHEN YOU'RE LIKE SEEING THE IMPLEMENTATION TO LIKE SEE THE REASON WHY AND THE EDUCATION WITH THAT.
SO INCLUDING LIKE A BULLET THAT SAYS LIKE INCLUDE EDUCATION OR WITH, WITH CONSTRUCTION.
UM, SIMILARLY SPEAKING, I EVEN AFTERWARDS WHEN WE DO THE MONITORING, LIKE, UM, I DON'T THINK PEOPLE KNOW THE IMPACTS OF THIS, OF THE TRAFFIC CIRCLE HERE.
LIKE SOME OF THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET DON'T KNOW THE DATA.
I KNOW IT BECAUSE I'M A NERD AND LIKE I EXPLAINED IT TO 'EM AND THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, SORT OF BLOWN AWAY BY IT.
UM, I DON'T THINK THE PEOPLE ON RAINIER KNOW THE, THE IMPACTS THAT THAT'S HAD, BUT IF WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB OF COMMUNICATING ABOUT, UM, THE IMPACTS OF THESE THINGS, IT'LL HELP TO SORT OF CONTINUE TO BUILD THE SNOWBALL.
IF I COULD ADD TO THAT TOO, I WOULD LOVE TO CALL THAT LIKE A CAMPAIGN.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE THINK ABOUT EDUCATION AS LIKE THE CITY BULLETIN OR, OR A MAILER, BUT I THINK WE COULD THINK OF CAMPAIGNING IN A LOT MORE BROADER CONTEXT AND, AND JUST TO HELP WITH ALL KINDS OF PROJECTS AND LIKE THE, THE OVERALL LIKE MESSAGING IN OUR CITY.
I JUST WANTED TO TAG ON, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN GOAL ONE AND TWO, UM, THE IDEA OF THE REDUCTION OF THE SPEED LIMITS AND POSSIBLY ADDING AN INVENTORY OF, YOU KNOW, THE QUICK BUILD PROJECTS OR SOME OF THESE OTHER, UM, EFFORTS WE'RE GONNA BE MAKING TO PRIORITIZE TO DO SOME WORK.
THERE'S EDUCATION COMPONENT AND THEN THERE'S TRYING TO BRING THOSE SPEED LIMITS DOWN.
SO I GUESS MY POINT IS, I MEAN, IF THERE'S A GENERAL CONSENSUS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF, UH, CARS DRIVING TOO FAST, MAYBE WE CAN LOOK AT SOME OF THE PROJECTS WE HAVE IN MIND.
AND AS PART OF THE EDUCATION ABOUT THE OVERALL EFFORT TO MAKE IT, TO CREATE THE MOBILITY NETWORK THAT WORKS FOR PEOPLE.
WE CAN ALSO TELL 'EM, HEY, THIS IS THE OTHER THING WE'RE GONNA DO.
WE'RE GONNA TRY TO BRING THE, THE SPEED LIMITS DOWN AND WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THE PLACES WHERE IT'S MOST APPROPRIATE AND PRIORITIZE THOSE.
AND THAT SEEMS TO BE TO, TO, TO BE AN AREA WHERE EDUCATION WOULD REALLY, UM, NEED TO, TO, TO BE EMPHASIZED.
'CAUSE WE CAN'T PUT A PUT THOSE, YOU KNOW, SPEED LIMIT STATIONS EVERYWHERE, YOU KNOW, BUT, UH, BUT I THINK TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DOING TO KIND OF SLOW DOWN THE SURROUNDING TRAFFIC WOULD BE GREAT.
WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED, UM, AS A CITY TEAM A LOT ABOUT, UH, VISION ZERO, THE, THE VISION ZERO CAMPAIGN.
AND, AND REALLY THE DRIVING MESSAGE BEHIND THAT IS SLOW DOWN, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'VE ALL SEEN THE CHARTS WHERE, UM, IF YOU'RE HIT BY AS A PEDESTRIAN, IF YOU'RE HIT BY A CAR GOING 20 MILES AN HOUR, YOU ARE LIKELY TO SURVIVE.
AND THIS IS A GRIM THING TO TALK ABOUT, BUT IF YOU'RE HIT BY A CAR GOING OVER 30 MILES AN HOUR OR 35 MILES AN HOUR, YOUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL DWINDLE DRAMATICALLY.
UM, AND THEY'RE BASICALLY NON-EXISTENT OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR.
SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, YEAH, BRINGING DOWN SPEEDS IS BY FAR THE MOST, THAT'LL BE OUR MOST EFFECTIVE MESSAGE AND STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE VISION ZERO.
I WAS JUST GONNA ADD ONTO THAT, UM, BRINGING DOWN THE SPEEDS ON OUR TRAILS.
WHEN WE WERE DOING OUR TRAIL COMMITTEE AD HOC WORK LAST SEMESTER OR SEVERAL MONTHS BACK, UM, WE CAME ACROSS THE FACT THAT WE REALLY NEED TO LIMIT, UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANY WAY TO LIMIT, BUT WE NEEDED TO FIND A WAY TO LIMIT SPEED ON TRAILS.
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SO IF WE'RE GONNA DO IT WITH, WITH ONE, MAYBE WE COULD DO IT WITH THE OTHER AS WELL.ONE OTHER PIECE TO BUILD OFF, UH, NICOLE'S COMMENT, I REMEMBER TWO WEEKS AGO AT OUR AD HOC MEETING, WE TALKED ABOUT MICRO TRANSIT, OTHER FORMS BEYOND BIKE AND PED.
UH, AND I WASN'T SURE IF WE PUT IT UNDER GOAL TWO OR FOUR KIND OF IN THE IDEA SCAPE, AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, STAYING UP WITH ALL THE EMERGING DEVELOPMENTS AND MOBILITY.
AND SO I, I APPRECIATE NICOLE OFFERING KIND OF A MORE TANGIBLE METRIC.
UH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
IT'S SOMETHING OUR AD HOC DISCUSSED AND WE COULDN'T REALLY WRAP OUR ARMS AROUND LIKE WHAT WE COULD CODIFY AS A METRIC.
BUT, UH, I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE WHETHER IT'S YEAH, TWO OR FOUR OR SOMEWHERE IN HERE.
SORRY, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I CAPTURE, UH, OH.
ARE YOU REFERRING TO SORT OF THE, THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE SHE SAW? YEAH, YEAH.
I JUST REMEMBER US HAVING LIKE A KIND OF A, A DOT.DOT CONVERSATION ABOUT LET'S MAKE SURE WE'RE STAYING ABREAST TO ALL THE EMERGING MICROT TRANSIT AND ADAPTING SOMEHOW.
UH, SO JUST THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO THAT MAKES THAT A LITTLE MORE TANGIBLE.
UH, YEAH, JUST A QUICK COMMENT.
UH, I THINK ON THE DEVELOP A CROSSWALK POLICY, UM, IT MIGHT BE JUST IMPLICIT IN PART OF THAT POLICY, BUT JUST THINKING ABOUT MINIMIZING STREET CROSSING DISTANCE, UM, I LOVE THE IDEA OF KIND OF PAINTED CURB EXTENSIONS ALSO JUST BEING ABLE TO GIVE THAT PLACE, YOU KNOW, AN IDENTITY.
AND I THINK OF SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS WHERE THERE'S JUST, YOU KNOW, VERY SMOOTH CURVES, YOU CAN JUST SPEED RIGHT AROUND IT VERSUS HAVING HARDER CURVES.
AND ALL IT TAKES IS JUST, YOU KNOW, PAINTING OUT THAT AREA AND THE KIND OF QUICK BUILD TYPE OF PROJECTS, BUT FOCUSING ON YEAH, KIND OF THAT STREET CROSSING DISTANCE I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
PRN I'M NOT SURE IF THIS WOULD FALL IN GOAL TWO, BUT I, OR MAYBE PART OF WAYFINDING OR TO MARSHA'S POINT, LIKE, UM, A LOT OF SIGNAGE FOR LIKE, MOVE TO THE RIGHT AND, UM, KNOW IN LIKE MARIN, WE HAVE A LOT OF THE LIKE HIKER HORSE AND BIKE TRIANGLES, WHICH MAY NOT BE AS LIKE PERTINENT IN PETALUMA, BUT SOMETHING OF KIND OF HOW TO YIELD AND, UM, MAKE THOSE SIGNS.
LIKE WE HAVE ONE TINY ONE ON THE L C T THAT'S LIKE RUSTED OUT, UM, AND PAINT LIKE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF PAINT ON THE L C T TO DIVIDE OR FIND WAYS TO HELP DIVIDE TRAILS AND PATHWAYS A LITTLE BIT BETTER, ESPECIALLY WITH THE THINGS ARE GETTING FASTER AND FASTER.
WE DO, I DID, I'VE NOTED TRAIL ETIQUETTE, SPEED LIMITS AND, UM, AND STRIPING.
AND I THINK THOSE, I'VE GOT SOME OF THOSE IDEAS UNDER, UNDER, UH, NUMBER THREE HERE.
UM, SO THE NEXT ONE, UH, GETTING AT THE IDEA OF, UM, UM, NOT JUST BUILDING OUT OUR NETWORK, BUT MAINTAINING IT AND MAKING IT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKING BEAUTIFUL INFRASTRUCTURE AND STREET STREETS AND TRAILS.
UM, SO THIS IS REALLY GETTING MORE AT THE, WELL, NOT ONLY THE MAINTENANCE, BUT ALSO THE, UM, THE AMENITIES, TREES, LIGHTING, UM, SEEDING WATER FOUNTAINS, PUBLIC ART, UM, SOME OF THE, THE SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE.
UH, SO YEAH, THE TOP BULLET THERE OR THE SECOND BULLET.
UM, DEVELOP MULTI-USE TRAIL STANDARDS WITH, WITH SURFACE TYPES, PLACEMENT OF AMENITIES, ET CETERA.
AND I THINK WHAT WE CAN DO IS TAKE THAT A STEP FURTHER AND ADD, UM, UH, FOLD, UH, SIGNAGE INTO THAT WITH, YOU KNOW, ED TRAIL ETIQUETTE.
UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT SPEED LIMITS, RIGHT? THAT'S, WE DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, ADOPTED SPEED LIMITS ON ANY OF OUR, OUR MULTI-USE TRAILS.
UH, CERTAINLY WANT TO LOOK AT STRIPING ADDING, UM, WHITE EDGE LINES OR DASHED YELLOW CENTER LINES TO OUR, TO OUR TRAILS THAT ARE BUSIER, UH, LIKE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
AND, UM, YEAH, THE STUFF THAT, UH, MANY OF THE THINGS THAT OUR, OUR TRAIL AD HOC COMMITTEE BROUGHT TO US, UH, A FEW MONTHS BACK NOW, UH, THIRD BULLET THERE, CREATING AN ADOPTED TRAIL PROGRAM OR HOSTING CLEANUP EVENTS, UH, EITHER OR, AND THAT'S DEFINITELY ANOTHER ONE WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE A COMBINATION OF, OF CITY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, UH, WORKING ON WORKING IN TANDEM ON THAT
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INVENTORYING POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR PUBLIC ART PROJECTS ON OUR STREETS AND TRAILS AND PROVIDING THOSE LOCATIONS TO THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE.I THINK THAT WOULD BE A, A WONDERFUL, UH, ITEM FOR MAYBE FOR PBAC TO OWN.
UM, YOU MAY RECALL DAVID WARD, OUR, OUR PUBLIC ART SPECIALIST COMING TO PBA SEVERAL MONTHS AGO NOW.
AND, AND BASICALLY, UM, TALKING ABOUT THE, THE SMALL ARTWORK, UH, I'M, I'M GOING TO BOT BOTCH IT.
I THINK IT'S THE SMALL ARTWORK COMMISSION THAT THEY HAVE.
AND, UM, AND ASKING THE COMMITTEE FOR IDEAS OF PLACES WHERE YOU'D LIKE TO SEE, UH, PUBLIC ART ON OUR STREETS AND TRAILS, DEVELOPING CITY STANDARDS AND COST ESTIMATES ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, STREET TREES, LANDSCAPING, BIOSWALES, UH, ET CETERA ON OUR STREET AND TRAIL TRAIL PROJECTS.
AND I ACTUALLY NOTICED THAT THAT WAS ALSO ALSO REFERENCED IN, UM, THE, THE, THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY AS ONE OF THE ACTION ITEMS IN THERE, UM, OR AT LEAST THE INCORPORATION OF THOSE IN THE CITY STANDARDS.
SO I ADDED COST ESTIMATES AS WELL TO, UM, KIND OF GETTING AT, UM, DARREN'S QUESTION AROUND THE, THE TRADE-OFFS ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, BUDGETING AND FOR, FOR OUR, OR INCLUDING THOSE TYPES OF ELEMENTS IN OUR, UM, PAVING PROJECTS, DEVELOPING A SIDEWALK MAINTENANCE PROGRAM FOR MINOR OR TEMPORARY REPAIRS SO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S, UH, WE LOOK AT AS THE CITY CONSIDERS, UM, ADDING, UH, STAFF FOR, UH, WHO CAN JUST KIND OF ROAM THE STREETS AND, AND DO SIDEWALK GRINDING WHERE WE HAVE CRACKS.
UM, AND NOT, AND NOT, YOU KNOW, STILL, I THINK PROBABLY THE, THERE'S HAS TO BE A LARGER DISCUSSION AROUND THE, IF, IF WE, IF WE WERE TO EVER REVISIT, UM, THE POLICY THAT REQUIRES PROPERTY OWNERS TO MAINTAIN THEIR FRONTAGE, BUT AT LEAST MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY CAN DO TO PERFORM MINOR REPAIRS IN THE INTERIM.
UM, AND THEN ALSO EXPLORING WAYS TO REDUCE BARRIERS TO THOSE SIDEWALK AND FRONTAGE IMPROVEMENTS FOR PROPERTY OWNERS.
UM, AND LASTLY, PURCHASING A SMALL SWEEPER FOR PROTECTED BIKE LANES, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE ARE ALL AWARE OF.
WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT MODELS AND, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE WILL DEFINITELY, UM, NEED AT SOME POINT, UH, AS WE BUILD OUT MORE PROTECTED BIKE LANES.
AND YOU WILL NOTICE OVER IN THE PROGRESS METRICS, THIS ONE HAS BEEN TRICKY.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, THE AD HOC COMMITTEE A BIT.
UM, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE DRIVING METRICS FOR THIS, UH, FOR THIS GOAL? BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY, UM, SO MANY ITEMS FOLDED UNDER IT, BUT, UH, THE, THE TWO THAT I THINK ARE, ARE REALLY TANGIBLE TO ME, PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX SCORE FOR OUR BIKEWAYS.
SO WE TAKE, WE, WE LOOK AT, UM, THERE'S A, IT'S CALLED THE P C I, IT'S A SCORE FOR ALL OF OUR, THAT, THAT MEASURES OUR PAVEMENT CONDITION ON A SCALE OF ZERO TO 100.
AND WHAT WE COULD DO IS PULL OUT OUR BIKEWAYS AND, UM, POSSIBLY HOLD THOSE AT A, UH, TO A HIGHER STANDARD, UM, THAN THE REST OF OUR CITY STREETS.
OR WE CAN SET A GOAL FOR P C I ON OUR, OUR BIKE NETWORK POTENTIALLY AND, AND MONITOR PROGRESS ON THAT.
UM, ONCE WE HAVE THOSE MULTI-USE TRAIL STANDARDS, UM, UH, INVENTORYING WHAT PERCENTAGE OF OUR, OUR MULTI-USE TRAILS MEET THOSE STANDARDS, ARE THEY PAVED? IS THE PAVEMENT IN GOOD CONDITION? ARE THEY LIGHTED? DO THEY HAVE ALL OF THE AMENITIES THAT WE WANT ON THEM? BENCHES, SIGNAGE, UH, STRIPING, ET CETERA.
BUT ANY OTHER, UH, YOU KNOW, METRICS ARE DEFINITELY APPRECIATED.
I THINK WHAT WE WOULD, TO ADAM'S POINT, WE ALSO HAVE SEVERAL, EACH OF THESE ACTION ITEMS COULD BE ITS OWN INDICATOR.
SO YES, STARTING WITH DARREN, OH, UM, I, I WAS JUST THINKING WITH, WITH, UH, THE METRICS, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY, I MEAN, I MEAN, BEAUTIFUL AND WELL MAINTAINED IS SUBJECTIVE.
AND SO IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO PULL THE COMMUNITY, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT DOES THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, HOW DO THEY FEEL ABOUT IT? UH, YOU KNOW, MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT PROGRESS METRICS, PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX FOR BIKEWAYS, AND THEN TRAIL MILEAGE THAT MEETS PERCENTAGE OF MULTI-USE TRAIL MILEAGE THAT MEETS STANDARDS.
HOW ABOUT INCLUDING PAVEMENT CONDITIONS? UH, IS THERE A POSSIBLE WAY TO INCLUDE PAVEMENT CONDITION INDEX FOR SIDEWALKS? IT'S NOT MEASURED THE SAME.
WELL, IT'S A, THEY, THEY'RE, IT'S A DIFFERENT METRIC, BUT I GET WHAT YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, I, I, I DIDN'T
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I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT.UM, SO YEAH, I THINK WE'LL JUST HAVE TO, WE'D HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO EVALUATE THAT AND, UH, MONITOR PROGRESS ON IT.
YEAH, IF YOU LOOK AROUND, WE SEEM TO BE GETTING A LOT OF, UM, OLDER FOLKS WHO ARE STARTING TO LOOK LIKE COMMAS BECAUSE WHEN THEY WALK, THEY'RE LOOKING STRAIGHT DOWN MAKING SURE THEY'RE NOT TRIPPING ON ANY SIDEWALK HAZARD.
SO IT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH WHEN I, I HAVE A NEIGHBOR WHO I TENDS TO STOOP LIKE THAT, AND I'M FINDING MYSELF GOING THAT THAT SAME DIRECTION.
UH, AND I'LL JUST PUT FORTH, YOU KNOW, WE JUST HAD A, AN URBAN FORESTRY MEETING, UH, ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT IS NOT ONLY THERE'S BEEN TALK OF LIKE A, A TREE ORDINANCE, IT WAS A TOP 10 COUNCIL PRIORITY, BUT IT REALLY, THAT'S LOOKING LIKE A UNIFIED TREE POLICY WITH PUTTING TOGETHER ACROSS MUNI CODE OR I Z O, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WHEN IT COMES TO PROMOTING, UH, STREET TREES AND TREES GENERALLY.
AND WHAT'S COMING OUTTA THAT IS, UH, CANOPY COVERAGE AS A METRIC THAT IS GONNA BE A CITY GOAL, UM, IN SOME SHAPE OR FORM.
UH, BEN ANDERSON, THE EXPERT CONTRACTED WITH THE CITY, HAS PUT FORTH LIKE 30% CANOPY COVERAGE IS SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE FEASIBLE HERE IN PETALUMA.
HE ALSO SHOWED US SOME MAPS OVER THE YEARS ON HOW MUCH OUR CANOPY COVERAGE HAS DWINDLED, WHICH IS STRIKING.
UM, AND A LOT OF THAT WAS FROM SONOMA COUNTY LIDAR MAPS THAT ALREADY EXIST.
SO I THINK FOR THIS, WHILE WE MAY NOT HAVE THAT SAME 30% GOAL, UM, TO PUT IN THERE SOMETHING ABOUT CANOPY COVERAGE, I THINK COULD BE A REALLY GOOD METRIC TO KIND OF HARMONIZE WITH THAT TREE POLICY THAT'S COMING OUT.
AND ALSO, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE TOO ARDUOUS IF WE'RE DOING IT ALREADY, WHETHER THAT'S HOOKING INTO EXISTING MAPS OR IF THE CITY ENDS UP ENGAGING IN SOME KIND OF CITYWIDE MAPPING TO, TO MEET THOSE OTHER POLICIES.
UM, SO I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT UNDER HERE AS WE SEARCH FOR SOME KIND OF BROAD METRIC.
YEAH, NO, I, I, I, I TOTALLY HEAR YOU AND I AGREE THAT'S A WONDERFUL METRIC.
IT'S A VERY TANGIBLE WAY TO MEASURE HOW
I, WHAT I STRUGGLE WITH ON THIS IS THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT FALLS WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN VERSUS WHAT FALLS IN THE PURVIEW OF, OF AN URBAN FORESTRY PLAN OR, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ALONG ALONG THOSE LINES.
AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK I WANT TO CONTINUE TO INCORPORATE, UH, STREET TREES AND WHAT JUST TREE CANOPY IN THIS PLAN, HOWEVER WE CAN, IT, IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE BECAUSE IT IS, UM, IT'S A, IT'S A WONDERFUL WAY TO ENCOURAGE MORE WALKING AND BIKING AND MAKE FOR MORE PLEASANT, UH, WALKING AND BIKING EXPERIENCES.
I JUST, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M, I'M JUST CANDIDLY SAYING THAT'S WHAT I'M STRUGGLING WITH WHEN IT COMES TO, YOU KNOW, SETTING A, SETTING A GOAL FOR SOMETHING LIKE TREE CANOPY IN A PLAN LIKE THIS.
YEAH, WELL, AND HOW YOU WOULD YEAH.
SEPARATE THAT OUT ON A MAP OF JUST IDENTIFYING CANOPY OVER THE A T P, UH, BUT I'LL JUST OBVIOUSLY KEEP THAT DISCUSSION GOING WITH YOU, SO YEAH.
JUST WANTED TO PLANT THOSE SEEDS AGAIN.
UM, I'M JUST GONNA ECHO WHAT DARREN SAID.
I THINK TREE, I DON'T KNOW, THAT TREE CANOPY IS SOMETHING THAT IT'S NOT GONNA MOVE VERY MUCH IN TWO YEARS.
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE GONNA SEE, YOU KNOW, MEASURABLE PERCENTAGE, BUT, UM, SOMETHING WHERE WE CAN TAG TREES WITH LIKE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S LIKE PART OF OUR COMPLETE STREETS PLAN AND EVERYTHING.
UM, 'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS I'M, I'M NOTICING IS WE'VE GOT LIKE RELIEF AND THEY'RE DOING AMAZING WORK ON, ON PROMOTING TREES GENERALLY.
AND I THINK THERE'S BEEN, WHAT I'VE, THE CONVERSATIONS I'VE BEEN A PART OF IS THAT THERE'S SOME RELUCTANCE TO TAKE ON STREET TREES, AND I'M CONCERNED THAT WE'RE, UM, THAT THERE'S A GAP RIGHT NOW IN OUR TREE IMPLEMENTATION INITIATIVES WHERE WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY LOOKING AT STREET TREES.
AND I, SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE PART OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
UM, AND I JUST THINK IT'S THE EASIEST WAY TO SELL ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
SO, I MEAN, HOW, HOW DO YOU, IS THERE A WAY TO FACTOR IN HOW WELL USED AND APPRECIATED, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THESE AMENITIES AND, AND THE, UH, FACILITIES WE'RE TRYING TO GET INSTALLED, YOU KNOW, ARE TO THE FOLKS WHO LIVE HERE? I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU, YOU GET TO THAT, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IN TERMS OF COMFORT AND BEAUTY AND MAKING THINGS INVITING, UH, YOU KNOW, ARE PEOPLE DOING IT? ARE PEOPLE USING IT? ARE THEY STOPPING? ARE THEY, ARE THERE BENCHES AND, AND THE PUBLIC ART? ARE THEY, UM, APPRECIATING IT AND, AND USING IT? AND I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU MEASURE THAT, BUT THAT SEEMS
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LIKE THAT'S, UM, ON THE HUMAN SCALE, IF THERE'S A WAY TO GET TO THAT, THAT MIGHT BE WORTH THINKING ABOUT.YEAH, THERE'S, IT SOUNDS LIKE
COMMUNITY SURVEY MAYBE OF, OF, UM, DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT TYPES OF AMENITIES.
I WOULD SAY JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, ANECDOTALLY, THE THING THAT WE ARE HEARING THE MOST ABOUT RIGHT NOW IS, IS STREET TREE.
THE THING I HEAR ABOUT MOST, IT SEEMS TO BE STREET TREES, UM, TO A LESSER, YOU KNOW, I DON'T HEAR IS SOME LIGHTING COMES UP ON OUR MULTI-USE TRAILS.
UM, PUBLIC ART SEEMS TO FALL UNDER A CATEGORY OF SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE REALLY APPRECIATE WHEN THEY HAVE IT.
BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, UM, THAT IS ALWAYS THAT PEOPLE, OR MAYBE KEN AND I, I, I WOULD SAY WE DON'T GET THOSE REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC ART.
MAYBE THEY'RE GOING TO DAVID, UM, BUT IT DOES MM-HMM.
UM, SO YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A, A GOOD, YEAH, SURVEYS A GOOD EXERCISE.
AND, UM, IS THERE A WAY TO HELP THE PUBLIC IDENTIFY ANY PROBLEMS? UM, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A, A LINK AT THE CITY'S WEBSITE, BUT IF THEY'RE ON THE TRAILS, ON THE SIDEWALKS, YOU KNOW, MULTI-USE TRAILS OR SOMETHING, IS THERE A WAY TO H HAVE THEM HAVE AN EASY WAY TO CONTACT THE CITY TO TELL US WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT WORKING ROU, RIGHT? UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A QR CODE POSTED ON A WAYFINDING OR SOMETHING.
LIKE, HELP US MAKE THIS BETTER.
TELL US WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE IS, OR TELL US WHAT YOU SEE THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT, UM, YOU KNOW, BUILDING PUBLIC AWARENESS AROUND OUR ISSUE REPORTING APP AND WEBSITE.
THAT'S A REALLY GOOD SUGGESTION TO HAVE SIGNS OUT ON TRAILS AND STREETS.
PLUS BJORN ISN'T THE ONE WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
IT, UH, I BELIEVE THE, THE, I DON'T THINK THERE'S AN IOS APP, UM, AVAILABLE IN THE, IN THE APPLE APP STORE.
SORRY, I'M NOT REALLY AN IPHONE PERSON,
AND, UH, AND THEN FOR IPHONE USERS, UH, YOU CAN USE THE BROWSER VERSION, I BELIEVE IS THE DIRECTION.
THERE'S A BROWSER, THERE'S A, THERE'S A, YOU CAN GO ON THE C WEBSITE AND USE, UH, A WEB VERSION OF THE APP, WHICH OF COURSE, IF YOU'RE ON THE, IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRAIL DOESN'T HELP, IS A LITTLE BIT TRICKY.
'CAUSE YOUR COMPUTER IS AT HOME.
I'M JUST THINKING, UH, JUST ONE QUICK QUESTION.
YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT THERE WAS AN INVENTORY OF POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR PUBLIC ART PROJECTS.
IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD, FOR NEW MEMBERS TO LOOK AT OR POTENTIALLY ADD TO? UM, YEAH, SO THAT WAS, IT WAS A PRESENTATION THAT, UM, DAVID WARD, UH, GAVE TO P A C BEFORE YOU JOINED.
UM, AND I CAN'T RECALL OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD HOW HE WANTED THAT INPUT, UM, OR WHETHER THERE WAS A WAY TO PROVIDE IT.
I WOULD, I WOULD, UM, I'M HAPPY TO PUT HIM IN TOUCH WITH YOU OR MAYBE SEND A NOTE OUT TO THE COMMITTEE.
UM, I CAN CLARIFY WITH, WITH DAVID AND, AND FOLLOW UP WITH THE COMMITTEE ON HOW TO PROVIDE THOSE SUGGESTIONS OR, OR IT COULD ALSO BE A FORMAL PROCESS IF THE COMMITTEE WANTS TO DO THAT, WHERE YOU, IF YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, DIVVY UP PARTS OF TOWN AND, AND GO FIND LOCATIONS.
I DON'T, I THINK WE SHOULD GET SOME GUIDANCE FROM DAVID WARD THOUGH.
THANK YOU ALL, THIS IS, THIS IS SUPER HELPFUL.
I'M GLAD WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.
UM, THE LAST GOAL, GOAL FOUR, NORMALIZE AND CELEBRATE, UM, GETTING MORE AT THE EDUCATION AND, UM, ENCOURAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.
UM, SO THE, UH, NUMBER ONE, PROVIDE A BIKE FLEET FOR CITY EMPLOYEES.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ACTUALLY ACTIVELY UNDERWAY.
WE'VE GOT TWO BIKES, UM, IN, AT PUBLIC WORKS, AND I THINK FOUR COMING TO CITY HALL.
UM, DEVELOPING PRINTABLE MAPS, SHOWING THE CITY'S EXISTING BIKE AND TRAIL NETWORK.
SO WE DO HAVE A WEB MAP, UH, CITY OF PETALUMA.ORG/BIKE MAP.
UH, AND THAT'S A INTERACTIVE MAP.
YOU CAN PAN AROUND, ZOOM IN, UH, CLICK ON, CLICK ON FEATURES.
SO JUST A REMINDER THAT THAT EXISTS.
BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANY PRINTABLE MAPS.
SO THAT WOULD BE, THANK YOU MARJA FOR, UM, FOR THE REMINDERS, UM, UPDATING OUR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL ROUTE MAPS IN,
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IN TANDEM WITH THAT EXERCISE.YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS COME UP MANY TIMES OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT, THAT OUR, OUR SAFE ROUTES MAPS ARE, ARE OUTDATED.
SO THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT IS MAYBE SPEARHEADED BY THE CITY OR SAFE ROUTES IF THEY HAVE, UH, RESOURCES AVAILABLE, UM, OR DONE IN PARTNERSHIP.
AND I THINK THE TASK FORCE WILL LEND ITSELF TO THAT EXERCISE.
UM, EVALUATING THE SNOW MEMBER AND BIKE SHARE SYSTEM ONCE THAT LAUNCHES AND CONSIDERING WHETHER WE AS A CITY WOULD WANT TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR SYSTEM WITH BY, UM, UH, FUNDING, POTENTIALLY FUND SEEKING FUNDING FOR ADDITIONAL BIKES AS PART OF THAT SYSTEM.
OR MAYBE WE SEE SOME GAPS AND WE WANT TO GO A DIFFERENT ROUTE.
MAYBE WE WANT TO GET DIFFERENT DEVICE, MAYBE WE WANT TO ADD SCOOTERS TO THE MIX AND WE WANNA GET OUR OWN, UM, UH, UH, CONTRACT IN PLACE.
SO THAT COULD BE A, THAT'S A, A WAY TO, SOMETHING TO EXPLORE.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST THREE REALLY LOOK AT, UM, TRYING TO, UM, MAKE, UH, BIKE BIKING MORE NORMALIZED AS A MODE OF TRANSPORTATION FOR, UM, UH, OUT OF TOWN GUESTS AT OUR HOTELS, PEOPLE ATTENDING EVENTS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO UPDATING OUR, OUR BIKE PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
UM, THAT FELT TO ME LIKE A, AN ENCOURAGEMENT, UM, MECHANISM.
SO, UH, THAT'S WHY I ADDED IT TO THIS, TO GOAL NUMBER FOUR.
AND THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER WAYS THAT, UM, WE COULD BE FURTHER NORMALIZING AND ENCOURAGING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
I MEAN, CCL VIA COMES TO MIND, RIGHT? THAT THAT EVENT, THAT THE EVENT THAT THE CITY AND S C B C PUT ON, UM, SO WE COULD LOOK AT CLOSED, CLOSED, OPEN STREET EVENTS.
UM, UH, WHAT ELSE? THERE'S, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY ONGOING PARTICIPATION IN WALK AND ROLL TO SCHOOL DAYS, BIKE TO WORKDAY.
UM, SO THERE, THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER, UM, UH, ACTIVITIES THAT REALLY AREN'T LISTED HERE THAT, THAT COME TO MIND.
ANYONE HAVE ANY
UM, AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, MAKING, UH, UH, SHARED BIKES AVAILABLE AT HOTELS, IT JUST OCCURS TO ME, ARE WE WORKING WITH DEVELOPERS OF SOME OF THE AFFORDABLE AND, UM, TRANSITIONARY HOUSING PROJECTS TO MAKE SURE, I WOULD IMAGINE A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS DON'T HAVE BIKES.
SOME MIGHT HAVE CARS, BUT THEY MIGHT CHOOSE TO, TO USE A, A SHARE BIKE TO GET INTO TOWN TO DO, UM, ERRANDS.
SO WE CERTAINLY HAVE LOTS GOING ON ON THE BOULEVARD, AND WE HAVE THE NEW BURBANK PROJECT UP THERE WHERE THE OLD CASINO TYPE THING WAS, UM, WONDERING IF THERE'S A WAY FOR US TO KIND OF EXPAND THE, THE SHARE PROGRAM OR REACH OUT TO THOSE, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPERS AND SEE WHAT THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO CREATE ON THEIR OWN.
THAT WAS A BIG PART OF THE DANKO, UM, AND CORONA STATION GRANT THAT, UM, THAT SMART AND THE CITY, UH, AND DANKO SUCCESSFULLY PARTNERED ON.
UM, I'M NOT SURE OF ALL THE DETAILS.
WE SHOULD PROBABLY BRING THAT BACK AND TO THE COMMITTEE AND, AND DISCUSS THAT.
BUT I KNOW THAT, UM, THERE WAS SOME, I THINK S C B C WAS FUNDED TO PROVIDE, UM, BIKE, BIKE TRAINS MAYBE FOR THE, FOR RESIDENTS LIVING AT THE, FOR STUDENTS LIVING IN THE DEVELOPMENT.
SO THAT THERE, YEAH, WE CAN, I THINK THAT'S A, YEAH, GREAT, GREAT ADDITION.
I THINK THERE'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT OPPORTUNITY TO GET SENIORS AND SENIOR HOUSING, MOBILE HOME PARKS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, LIKE GIVING THEM E-BIKES AND DOING, YOU KNOW, OR DOING LIKE, UM, LIKE BIKE RIDES, YOU KNOW, GROUP BIKE RIDES WITH SENIORS ON, ON E-BIKES.
UM, JUST LIKE ACTUALLY LIKE PUTTING BIKES AND GIVING PEOPLE BIKES.
BRIAN, IT'S MAKING ME THINK ABOUT THE CITY CHRYSALIS PROJECT AND IF THERE'S ANY WAY OR GRANT FUNDING TO GET BIKES THAT THE CITY CAN WORK WITH LOW INCOME RESIDENTS TO HELP THEM GET E-BIKES OR, OR BIKES AT ALL.
I THINK HEALTHY PETALUMA HAS SOME MONEY.
I MEAN, BIKES AND SCOOTERS AND I'LL ADD ON TO THAT.
UM, ADULT TRICYCLES, I THINK FOR DOING GROCERY RUNS, IF YOU'RE
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NOT COMFORTABLE, BIG OLD ERS AND NAVIGATING TRAFFIC, IT CAN BE TERRIFYING BY TRICYCLES.I FEEL LIKE, KIND OF HELP BRIDGE THAT GAP AND YEAH, I THINK THAT JUST SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING I, I'VE LOOKED AT A COUPLE, I KNOW THEY'RE, THEY DO HAVE KIND OF A ELECTRIC TRICYCLE 'CAUSE I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR HAULING.
GROCERIES, GOING TO FREEDMAN'S, WHATEVER YOU MIGHT WANNA THROW IN THERE.
SO, AND I THINK ALSO THE OTHER POINT TOO IS WITH THAT IS NORMALIZING IS THINKING MAYBE, UM, HOW TO GET THOSE BIKE RENTALS, UH, EVEN IN JUST REGULAR NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, THINKING ABOUT IF YOU'RE IN A SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU WANNA DRIVE TO SAFEWAY, CAN, IS THERE A, YOU KNOW, A TRICYCLE OR SOMETHING IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU CAN JUST WALK TO GO RIGHT TO SAFEWAY, COME BACK, DROP OFF YOUR GROCERIES, YOU KNOW, RETURN IT OR SOMETHING.
SO JUST AGAIN, THAT NORMALIZED, I FEEL LIKE IS REALLY POWERFUL, FIGURING OUT LIKE WHAT ARE THE EXTRA STEPS WE CAN TAKE TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT BIKE RIDERS WHO DON'T WANT TO RIDE THEIR BIKE? LIKE, WHAT, HOW DO WE ACCOMMODATE THEM? SO YOU, IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M HEARING SORT OF COMBINATION OF EXPLORING BIKE SUBSIDIES SOME WAY OR ANOTHER, WHETHER, UH, YOU KNOW, NOT, WE DON'T KNOW WHO, WHO WITH ANY OF THESE ITEMS, WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S FUNDING THEM, BUT, UM, BIKE SUBSIDIES OR JUST, UM, MORE BIKE SHARE GENERALLY.
UM, AND THEN HAVING DIFFERENT BIKE TYPES AVAILABLE THROUGH BIKE SHARE OR THROUGH THESE BIKES THAT ARE PROVIDED BY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, WHETHER IT'S TRICYCLES, CARGO BIKES, UM, IS THAT, YEAH, NO, I THINK THAT'S A, THAT'S CORRECT.
I, THE PART ABOUT EXPANDING LOCATIONS OF BIKE SHARE I THINK IS TRYING TO THINK MAYBE BEYOND NEW DEVELOPMENT, BUT WHERE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT IS TAKING AWAY A PARKING SPOT AND THEN ADDING, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE A BIKE, UM, OR A SCOOTER RENTAL STATION, FOR INSTANCE.
YEAH, I MEAN, BLUE ZONES HAS THEIR THING THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE LAUNCHING WHERE LIKE THEY DO LIKE PAIRED WALKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE ALL THAT STUFF NORMAL.
THERE'S JUST GONNA BE A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF WITH BLUE ZONES ABOUT LIKE HEALTHY LIVING AND MAKING, YOU KNOW, BUILDING A CULTURE AROUND ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AS A, AS A FORM OF HEALTHY LIVING.
SO, UM, I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO JUST REALLY WORK CLOSELY WITH THEM ON, ON THAT PROJECT.
YEAH, AS, AS WE WERE TALKING, I'M THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE MOVEMENT AROUND, UH, WALKING SCHOOL BUSES AND BIKE TRAINS.
UM, AS, AS THERE'S, THERE COULD BE A ROLE THAT THE CITY POTENTIALLY PLAYS IN SUPPORTING, UM, THE DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF THOSE, UH, OR EVEN JUST HELPING IDENTIFY THE ROUTES THAT ARE USED FOR THOSE.
AND THEN MAYBE THERE'S SOME COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, UM, OR THERE'S ORGANIZATION THAT'S FUNDED TO LEAD THOSE.
SO YEAH, I, UM, THIS HAS ALL BEEN VERY HELPFUL.
SO JUST AN UPDATED TIMELINE, NEXT STEPS.
UM, WE'VE GOT THE, UH, SO FAIR AND PI ACTUALLY SENT OVER THEIR UPDATED MAP, UM, TO ME YESTERDAY.
I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW IT YET.
SO WE'LL BE REVIEWING THAT, UM, LATER THIS WEEK AND EARLY NEXT WEEK.
AND THEN, UH, WE'LL GET, WE'LL GET THAT UPDATED DRAFT MAP, SIMPLIFIED DRAFT MAP UP ON THE PROJECT WEBPAGE, AND WE'LL BE SURE TO GET THE WORD OUT TO YOU ALL BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK.
AND I'LL DEFINITELY, I'LL ALSO BE, UM, REACHING OUT TO OUR MAP AD HOC COMMITTEE, UM, TO HELP WITH THAT REVIEW AND, UM, AND GET YOUR INVOLVEMENT THERE.
WE'VE GOT THE OPEN HOUSE ON THE 25TH.
WE'LL DO OUR DEBRIEF OF THAT AT OUR NOVEMBER MEETING, AND WE CAN DELVE INTO ANY, UH, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC TOPICS, UH, THERE AND AT, UH, AT OUR DECEMBER MEETING WHERE WE FEEL THAT ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK WOULD BE, UM, WELCOMED.
AND THAT CAN BE, THAT CAN BE SOMETHING YOU REQUEST.
SO FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANNA TAKE A LOOK AT AFTER THE WORKSHOP.
UM, OTHERWISE I THINK JEFF AND I WILL HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF, OF WHERE WE NEED SOME ADDITIONAL DIRECTION AND INPUT.
DECEMBER, HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO REVIEW, UH, THE DRAFT PLAN, BRING IT TO YOU ALL IN JANUARY, TAKE IT TO PLANNING COMMISSION IN FEBRUARY, GO TO CITY COUNCIL MARCH.
AND EACH OF THESE, THESE ALL ASSUME, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A PRETTY AMBITIOUS TIMELINE, ASSUMING THAT AT EACH STEP OF THE WAY THERE AREN'T, UM, MAJOR CHANGES BEING MADE,
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RIGHT? BECAUSE BETWEEN EACH OF THESE REVIEW, EACH OF THESE CHECKPOINTS, WE WILL BE TAKING THAT FEEDBACK, MAKING UPDATES, UM, BASED ON THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVE.SO ANYHOW, THAT'S WHAT I'VE GOT FOR THE UPDATE.
UH, I DID HAVE SOMEONE POINT OUT TO ME ON THAT PIECE ABOUT BIKE RENTALS.
SAUSALITO APPARENTLY IS A GOOD CITY THAT HAS A LOT OF GOOD PROGRAMS THAT WE COULD REFERENCE.
UH, AND I ALSO WANTED TO GIVE A, A BIG THANK YOU TO BJORN FOR DOING SO MUCH WORK ON THIS PLAN.
I MEAN, WE MET AS THE AD HOC A LOT AND CONTRIBUTED.
BJORN REALLY LIKE, TOOK A LOT OF HAPHAZARD IDEAS, PUT A TON OF TIME IN BETWEEN EACH MEETING, UH, AND I THINK HAS PRESENTED SOMETHING REALLY GREAT.
UH, I WILL OPEN IT FOR POET COMMENTS STARTING WITH EMILY.
UH, THANK YOU ALSO TO THE AD HOC COMMITTEE, UH, AND BJORN FOR ALL THE WORK ON THIS.
UM, THE, THE VISION AND THE GOALS AND THE ACTION, UH, THE ACTION PLANS HAVE REALLY IMPROVED.
UH, THE VISION ITSELF IS A LOT MORE VIBRANT, UM, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
UM, THE VISION ITSELF STILL SEEMS TO STOP SHORT OF IDENTIFYING ANY GOALS ON MODE SHIFT, WHICH I KIND OF FIND SURPRISING.
UM, THE LAST LINE OF THE, THE VISION, UM, MENTIONS PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES, FEELING, FEELING EMPOWERED, UM, TO USE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
BUT OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE WANT IS FOR PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY USE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, UM, AS AN ACTION POINT.
I'M NOT SURE IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD FIT IN UNDER GULF FOUR.
UH, I KNOW THAT, UM, UH, TRA TRAVEL TO SCHOOL IS LISTED THERE AS A METRIC, UM, AND THAT'S CERTAINLY IMPORTANT.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, TRACKING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE NUMBER OF TRIPS UNDER TWO MILES THAT DON'T INVOLVE A CAR, YOU KNOW, IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, AS A METRIC FOR, UH, WHETHER PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY ACTUALLY USING, UH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, YOU KNOW, ALONG WITH THIS, WE WOULD SUGGEST THAT IN ADDITION TO THE GOAL OF, OF NORMALIZING AND CELEBRATING A ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, UM, THAT THIS PLAN REALLY CLEARLY CALL FOR PRIORITIZING BIKING AND WALKING INFRASTRUCTURE OVER PROJECTS THAT BENEFIT VEHICLES AS A MEANS OF, UM, ACHIEVING ALL OF THE CITY'S GOALS.
UM, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN TALK AT PREVIOUS MEETINGS ABOUT WHETHER THAT'S WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, BUT I THINK EVEN AS WE HEARD TONIGHT IN DISCUSSION AROUND CITY THREAD, UM, THIS PLAN, THIS ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN TIES INTO SO MANY OTHER INITIATIVES, UM, AROUND CLIMATE AND SAFETY AND COMMUNITY AND HEALTH.
UM, AND I THINK IT'S REALLY CRITICAL TO START MAKING THESE CONNECTIONS, UH, CLEAR AND REINFORCING THEM, UH, WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
ALRIGHT, SO, UH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I THINK THE VISION IS RIGHT ON, UH, BJORN.
UH, SAFETY FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES AND DEFINITELY YES ON FIXING SIDEWALKS.
I THINK PROPERTY OWNERS DO NOT MAINTAIN THEIR SIDEWALKS.
I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME DATA ON THAT, BUT I THINK THEY JUST, THEY JUST DON'T, CITY HALL DOESN'T EVEN SEEM TO DO IT.
I SAW THE PINK PAINT ON THE SIDEWALK RIGHT OUT FRONT.
UM, SO MY NAME AGAIN, DAVID FELIX.
I'VE LIVED IN PETALUMA FOR 10 YEARS.
I ATTENDED MY FIRST PVAC MEETING SHORTLY AFTER MOVING HERE.
I'VE WORKED AS A PROJECT DEVELOPER, UH, FOR ROOFTOP AND GROUND MOUNT SOLAR BATTERY AND STORAGE AND EV CHARGING FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS.
I HAVE A SIXTH GRADER, UH, THIRD GRADER AND A PRESCHOOLER WHO LOVED TO BIKE.
UH, TODAY I ORGANIZED BIKE TRAINS AT MCNEER ELEMENTARY FOR INTERNATIONAL WALK AND ROLL DAY, AND WE HAD OVER 90 KIDS ON THEIR BIKES AND SCOOTERS TODAY, UH, AS OF LAST COUNT, THAT WAS 60% OF THE KIDS GETTING TO SCHOOL TODAY, NOT IN A CAR.
UM, AND SO NORMALLY 70% OF KIDS GET TO SCHOOL IN A CAR.
SO THAT'S, I THINK, THE KIND OF MO SHIFT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND, UM, SO WHAT THAT TELLS ME IS THAT THE, THE DEMAND IS THERE.
THE KIDS WANT TO RIDE TO SCHOOL.
WHY ARE THEY NOT RIDING TO SCHOOL? BECAUSE THEY WORRY THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET RUN OVER.
OKAY, LET'S, LET'S JUST TRY TO CALL IT WHAT IT IS, PLEASE.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE NOT RIDING TO SCHOOL.
OH, AND WE ALSO NEED MORE BIKE RACKS AT SCHOOL AS WELL.
UM, THAT'S SECONDARY, I THINK.
UH, SO IN 2019, THE CITY OF PETALUMA DECLARED A CLIMATE EMERGENCY, UH, AND THEY SET, SET OUT THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY FRAMEWORK, UH, WHICH WAS ADOPTED, UH, IN JANUARY OF 2021 AND KICKED OFF THE BLUEPRINT, WHICH WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY.
SO A FEW THINGS THAT I THOUGHT WERE INTERESTING IN THAT BLUEPRINT, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A DRAFT, UH, SET A BOLD GOAL TO BE CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2030, ALMOST A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR LOCAL ECONOMY TRANSITION.
75% OF ALL TRAVEL TRIPS TO MODES OTHER THAN SOVS.
65, 7% OF TOTAL EMISSIONS ARE FROM TRANSPORT.
AND THEY TALK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, UH, SHIFTING
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TO WALKING, BIKING, SCOOTERING RIDESHARE, COMPREHENSIVE TRIP TRIP REDUCTION STRATEGY, DYNAMIC PARKING MANAGEMENT LIMITS OF AMOUNT OF AVAILABLE PARKING, CREATING SCARCITY AND ADDING INCONVENIENCE TO MAKE TRIPS BY SOVS IN INCONVENIENT AND DISINCENTIVIZING DRIVING.WE WERE THE FIRST CITY IN THE COUNTRY, RIGHT, TO SAY, NO NEW GAS STATIONS, RIGHT? WHAT ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO DO IF THEY CAN'T PARK? HOW ARE THEY GONNA GET AROUND? UH, FOUNDATIONAL TO MEETING THE CITY'S CARBON NEUTRAL TARGET IS TO REDESIGN THE CITY STREETS AROUND PEOPLE RATHER THAN VEHICLES.
THIS IS IN THE BLUEPRINT THAT WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY.
UH, ALSO PANNING OUT FOR A SECOND.
CLIMATE DATA WAS, REPORT WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1.8 DEGREES ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS.
YOU ALL SAW BROOKLYN AND OTHER DENSE AREAS OF NEW YORK OVER THE WEEKEND.
WE KNOW ABOUT FIRE AND SMOKE HERE.
WE KNOW WHAT A CLIMATE EMERGENCY IS, BUT I DON'T REALLY FEEL LIKE WE'RE TREATING IT LIKE ONE.
I THINK EVERYONE'S HEARTS IN THE, IN THIS ROOM ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE, BUT I FEAR THAT WE LACK URGENCY AND CREATIVITY ABOUT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND WHAT THIS GROUP SHOULD BE ADVOCATING FOR.
RIGHT? THAT WAS 2019, THAT THAT STARTED.
AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE NEUTRAL BY 2030.
DO YOU ALL FEEL LIKE WE'RE GOING FAST ENOUGH? SO WHAT IF THE DEFAULT WAS THAT ALL STREETS ARE REDESIGNED TO BE COMPLETE STREETS, NOT A ONE BY ONE APPROACH.
IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A 75% MODE SHIFT, I THINK YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE THAT.
EXCUSE ME, DAVID, YOUR THREE MINUTES ARE UP.
THANK YOU DAVID AND JESSICA MOSES.
I'D JUST LIKE TO TELL DAVID, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO ME, YOU CERTAINLY CAN.
AND THEN THEY WILL BE ALL ON RECORD.
THANKS FOR THIS UPDATE, BJORN, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT REALLY KNOWING WHERE THESE NOTES SHOULD GO,
UM, BUT I THINK POSSIBLY RELATED TO THE OPEN HOUSE, UM, I'D LOVE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT WHAT TOOLS WE HAVE IN OUR TOOLBOX FOR MOBILITY.
UM, IT'S REALLY TOUGH TO IMAGINE IT IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN IT.
AND I THINK ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO BRINGING DOWN SPEEDS, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ALL THE TALK OF SIGNS AND STRIPING BECAUSE THAT'S SO EASY TO IGNORE.
SO I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US THAT IS MORE ON THE, LIKE ENVIRONMENTAL CUES AND PHYSICAL TRAITS, UM, THAT MIGHT SUPPORT OUR MOBILITY GOALS.
AND THIS IS LIKE, I HATE TO SAY IT, I SAW IT ON INSTAGRAM, BUT THERE WAS A VIDEO
UM, IT WAS LIKE A VERY, A PEDESTRIAN ONLY CORRIDOR.
UM, SO JUST THINKING THROUGH WHAT WE CAN DO BESIDES STRIPING AND SIGNAGE THAT WILL, THAT WILL LIKE PHYSICALLY SLOW DOWN DRIVERS, UM, AND NOT JUST ASK THEM NICELY TO SLOW DOWN.
UM, I ALSO LOOKED AT THE BIKE MAP THAT YOU, UM, MENTIONED, AND IT'S PRETTY UNFRIENDLY TO USE.
IT IS CURRENTLY SHOWING, AS FAR AS I COULD TELL, AND THIS WAS ON MY PHONE.
THE BIKE ROUTE LAYER HAS, UM, THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED BIKE LANES AS WELL AS ALL OF THE CLASSES.
SO IF I WAS TRYING TO DETERMINE HOW TO GET TO WORK, HOW TO GET TO SCHOOL WITH EXISTING BIKE LANES, AND IF I DIDN'T WANT TO NECESSARILY HAVE TO RELY ON SHEROS AND EXCLUDE CLASS THREE, THERE'S NO WAY FOR ME TO DO THAT.
UM, SO IF THERE'S A WAY TO BREAK OUT THOSE LAYERS TO MAKE THAT MAP MORE USABLE, I THINK IT COULD BE HELPFUL.
UM, BUT YEAH, I THINK IT'S EXCITING AND SOME, SOME GOOD GOALS.
UM, BUT TO ECHO THE, THE PREVIOUS COMMENTARY, I THINK CREATIVITY AND, UH, SOME, SOME VISION ARE CERTAINLY NECESSARY TO GUESS WHERE WE NEED TO GO.
THANK YOU JESSICA AND PEEKING.
THANK YOU BJORN
UH, I JUST HAVE A, A FEW, UH, RANDOM COMMENTS RELATED TO THE A T P UH, ONE.
THE WAY, THE WAY I SEE IT, THERE'S, IF WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE WHOLE RANGE OF, OF ACTIVE STREET USERS AND ALL OF THE NEW, THE, THE UPCOMING MICRO MOBILITY DEVICES ON OUR EXISTING STREET NETWORK AND ACHIEVE OUR VISION ZERO GOALS, THE ONLY WAY THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS IF WE SLOW DOWN VEHICLES.
UM, AND WE TALK ABOUT SLOWING DOWN, UH, VEHICLES.
BUT I'M JUST REMINDED OF THAT CHUCK MARONE QUOTE, IF YOU NEED A SPEED LIMIT SIGN TO TELL PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN, YOU'VE DESIGNED YOUR STREET WRONG.
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HAVE TO BE THINKING ABOUT, ABOUT STREET DESIGN AND, AND TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THAT, THAT GIVE DRIVERS THE MESSAGE THAT THEY NEED TO DRIVE SLOWLY.UM, AND IT, THERE'S A WHOLE RANGE OF MEASURES THAT WE'RE NOT CURRENTLY USING.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT WAS MENTIONED KIND OF PERIPHERALLY IS, UM, WE NEED TO UPDATE OUR STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, WHICH WERE LAST UPDATED IN 1996, OR LAST OVERHAULED IN 1996.
UM, AND I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT PROCESS IS UNDERWAY, BUT THAT'S A CRITICAL PART OF, OF EVERYTHING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, UH, ONE, ONE OTHER RANDOM THING.
THERE ARE SOME SIGNS I'VE SEEN, UH, IN AND AROUND SCHOENBERGER THAT SAY SOMETHING LIKE, BIKES MUST ALERT AND YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS.
AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE MESSAGE.
IT'S MUCH EASIER TO UNDERSTAND THAN THOSE, THE, THE TRIANGULAR SIGNS THAT I, I, I HAVE LOOKED AT, I'VE TRIED TO UNDERSTAND, BUT MANY PEOPLE DON'T.
UM, ANOTHER RANDOM IDEA IS THE IDEA OF BIKE COUNTERS THAT I'VE SEEN IN VARIOUS PLACES THAT, THAT, UM, THAT RECORD THE NUMBER OF BIKES PASSING BY A PLACE.
UM, AND THEN IF I READ IT CORRECTLY, IN THE, UM, CARBON REDUCTION BLUEPRINT, THERE IS SOME MENTION OF GIVING PRIORITY TO NON-MOTORIZED FORMS OF TRANSPORT.
UH, I'M, I'M NOT SURE I READ THAT CORRECTLY, BUT THAT ALL THAT IDEA ALSO APPEARS IN THE 2022 COMPLETE STREETS POLICY THAT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION PUT OUT RADICAL IDEA OF, OF, IN OUR PLANNING FOR OUR STREETS GIVING PRIORITY TO NON-MOTORIZED OR SPACE EFFICIENT VEHICLES.
THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENTS AND NOW WE ARE MOVING TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
SORRY, YOU'VE GOT A, YOU HAD A HAND THERE REALLY QUICKLY.
OH, YOU MAY HAVE MISSED DOWN BELOW
I KNOW IT'S DIFF IT'S INTERESTING, ISN'T IT? I JUST WANTED TO MENTION TO PETE SS C T A HAS BIKE COUNTERS, AND SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR BIKE COUNTERS OR WE'RE LOOKING FOR BIKE COUNTERS, EVIDENTLY THAT'S THE PLACE TO GO.
AND YOU TALKED TO ME DIRECTLY.
I AM ACTUALLY THE PERSON WHO RUNS THOSE BIKE COUNTERS.
I THINK PETE MAY HAVE BEEN ALLUDING TO THE, THE STYLE OF COUNTER THAT ACTUALLY DISPLAYS THE COUNT AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT MECHANISM.
AND THEN JUST TO CLARIFY, I GUESS THE BY COUNTERS THAT S C T A HAVE ARE JUST KIND OF FOR, UH, UH, EXISTING AND KIND OF BEFORE AND AFTER EVALUATION OF PROJECTS.
SO IT'S KIND OF FOR LIKE A MONTH LONG EVALUATION, NOT THE, I THINK SMART HAS A COUPLE BIKE COUNTERS, BIKE PET COUNTERS, BUT YEAH, THAT'S, THEY'RE MORE PERMANENT
I JUST WANNA, UM, IN RESPONSE TO MR. FELIX'S COMMENTS, UM, APPRECIATE THE, THE CALL FOR URGENCY AND, UM, GROUNDING US IN WHAT IS, UM, A PRETTY GRIM OUTLOOK RIGHT NOW.
UM, ON OCTOBER 16TH, UM, OUR NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING, ONE OF THE TOPICS IS AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN UPDATE, UM, CITY THREAD FINAL REPORT AND UPDATES ON D STREET AND RAINIER AVENUE TRAFFIC COMING PROJECTS.
IT'S GONNA BE A PRETTY BROAD TOPIC.
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME BECAUSE, UM, THE GROUP UP HERE CANNOT ESTABLISH A HIGHER SENSE OF URGENCY.
BUT, UM, THE CITY COUNCIL CAN, UM, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THERE, AND I KNOW BJORN'S WORKING HIS BUTT OFF.
UM, AND SO PLEASE SHOW UP AND, AND MAKE THAT MESSAGE LOUD AND CLEAR THAT WE NEED TO MOVE FASTER.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
NOW WE'LL MOVE TO THE NEXT, UH, ITEM WHICH IS APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2023.UM, COMMITTEE, ARE THERE ANY CHANGES TO BE MADE TO THE MINUTES? NO, THEN THE MINUTES WILL BE APPROVED AS IS.
UM, AND FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION.
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NEXT WE'LL GO TO COMMITTEE COMMENT AND, UH, MARJA, I'M GONNA START WITH YOU.[02:20:01]
OKAY, DARREN? UH, YEAH, I'LL GIVE AN UPDATE, UH, FOR PLANNING COMMISSION LAST WEEK.UH, IT WAS ACTUALLY AN INTERESTING MEETING, UH, THAT CONSISTED OF TRAINING FOR COMMISSION MEMBERS, TALKING ABOUT DUE PROCESS, TALKING ABOUT HOW PROJECTS MOVE THROUGH APPROVAL IN THE CITY OF PETALUMA, UM, AND HOW ARGUMENTS AND FINDINGS ARE MADE ON PLANNING COMMISSION.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A, A REALLY INTERESTING DISCUSSION.
AND WE ALSO DISCUSSED FORMING A COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH AD HOC, UH, THAT WOULD CREATE MESSAGING AND BASICALLY BREAK APART WHAT A LOT OF OUR TRAINING WAS, WHICH IS HOW THINGS WORK, WHAT THE PROCESS IS, WHAT TERMINOLOGY MEANS INTO MORE DIGESTIBLE, UH, KIND OF SUMMATIONS.
AND THEN BE ABLE TO USE THOSE ON THE CITY WEBSITE FOR PLANNING DEPARTMENT, BE ABLE TO BREAK THOSE OUT INTO DIFFERENT FORMS OF COMMUNICATION, UH, WHICH WE HAVE SOME PRETTY HIGH PROFILE PROJECTS COMING UP.
SO WE THOUGHT THAT COULD BE A, A REALLY USEFUL TOOL.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT HERE TOO.
'CAUSE I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, AND WHILE I'VE GOT THE MIC, I WILL POINT OUT I JUST WANT TO PLANT ANOTHER AREA, UH, TO LOOK AT FOR BIKE AND PED.
UH, WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY, UM, PART OF THIS IS INFLUENCED BY WHERE I LIVE, BUT THERE'S A CURVE WHEN YOU GO PI PETALUMA JUNIOR HIGH, UH, WESTERN AVE AND HE'LL DRIVE.
AND ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO, I HAD TO RUN OUT AND HELP SOMEONE WHO HAD FALLEN OFF HIS BIKE BECAUSE THAT BEND COMES REALLY FAST.
IT'S KIND OF CANTED THE WRONG WAY.
THERE'S A HIGH CURB ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET, SO IF YOU'RE COMING AROUND THIS BLIND CURB YOU DON'T SEE, AND THERE'S LIKE THE 12 INCH CURB YOU RUN INTO.
AND ALSO THE STREET ISN'T GREAT THERE.
UH, AND THIS GENTLEMAN FELL AND KIND OF SKINNED THE WHOLE SIDE OF HIS BODY, AND I HAD TO GO OUT WITH ALCOHOL AND KIND OF HELP HIM, AND HE INSISTED HE RIDE HOME, WHICH IS MADNESS.
UM, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAD THAT HAPPEN AGAIN WITH SOMEONE FALLING THERE.
AND JUST ABOUT A MONTH AGO, HAD SOMEONE FALL TO THE POINT AN AMBULANCE HAD TO BE CALLED.
UM, SO, AND WE HAVE ACCIDENTS THERE ALL THE TIME, CAR ACCIDENT.
BUT PUTTING THAT ASIDE, I WAS SURPRISED BY THE NUMBER OF BIKE ACCIDENTS WE'VE HAD.
UH, SO I COULDN'T HELP BUT, BUT MENTION THAT WHILE I'VE GOT THE MICROPHONE NOW.
UM, YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT, DARREN.
THAT'S MY, UH, COMMUTE, RIGHT, COMMUTE ROUTE WITH MY, UM, THREE YEAR OLD SON, AND WE GO DOWN THAT HILL AND IT'S, YEAH, DEFINITELY DANGEROUS.
I JUST SUBMITTED A, A COMMENT THAT I SHOULD HAVE WITH BJORN AND I TALKED ABOUT A WHILE AGO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET WHERE THERE'S SHOULD BE A PAINTED KIND OF NO PARKING, UM, WHERE PEOPLE REGULARLY PARK IN THE BIKE LANE.
SO YOU KIND OF HAVE TO AROUND A BLIND CORNER GO INTO THE STREET AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.
SO, UM, YEAH, UH, I JUST WANTED ONE TO GIVE ONE QUICK UPDATE THAT'S INTERESTING.
UM, ON THE S C T A SIDE, WE WERE JUST, UM, AWARDED A GRANT TO START A V M T, UH, MITIGATION BANK.
SO WE'RE, UM, IN THE EARLY STAGES OF KIND OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, UM, HOW TO SET THAT UP, LOOKING FOR BEST POLICIES.
BUT ESSENTIALLY THAT'S A COUNTY-WIDE, UM, MITIGATION BANK THAT WHEN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WILL, YOU KNOW, GET, UM, APPROVED, THERE'S, AND THEY EXCEED THE V M T, UM, FOR, UH, FOR THEIR PREDICTED TRAVEL PATTERNS THAT THEY WOULD PAY INTO A FUND THAT MITIGATION MONEY COULD THEN BE USED TO TRY TO IMPLEMENT PROJECTS THAT WOULD REDUCE THE OVERALL COUNTYWIDE V M T, WHICH OBVIOUSLY COULD BE IMPLEMENTED HERE IN PETALUMA AS WELL.
SO SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR.
I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT THERE WAS ANOTHER, UM, CRASH ON D STREET.
SOMEONE, A CYCLIST WAS CLIPPED BY A CAR, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS REPORTED.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT WAS LAST WEEK.
SO, UM, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO MAKE D STREET SAFER.
UM, FROM THE RECREATION PARKS AND MUSIC, UM, COMMISSION, WE HAD, UM, A PRESENTATION PRESENTATION FROM RELIEF UPDATING US ON THEIR, UM, CAL FIRE URBAN, UM, FIRE MANAGEMENT GRANT.
SO FOR THEIR FALL PLANTING, THERE'LL BE ANOTHER 77 TREES THAT ARE BEING PLANTED.
UM, THOSE ARE GOING IN AT ME WALK OR ROYAL PARK AND WISEMAN WITH WISEMAN.
I THINK THEY'RE JUST REPLACING SOME TREES THAT HAVE DIED.
UM, THEY ALSO GOT THE WORD THAT DAY THAT THEY ALSO, THAT THE CITY, UH, RECEIVED A $1 MILLION GRANT, SO THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE TREES COMING, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, AND WE ALSO, THIS ISN'T, THIS IS SORT OF PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE.
UM, WE HAD OUR BIG PRESENTATION ABOUT THE SKATE PARK THAT'S COMING IN.
WE'RE SENDING THAT TO CITY COUNCIL.
THAT WAS A BIG, UM, DRIVER FOR ME TO GET ON THIS COMMISSION, SO I CAN'T
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WAIT FOR IT TO COME TO FRUITION, UM, AT LOVELY LUSSI PARK.UM, I SAID, NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, WE'RE GONNA BE HEARING AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION UPDATE.
SO I ENCOURAGE ALL THE, ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS HERE TO WRITE INTO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND TELL 'EM ALL YOUR DREAMS AND, AND, UM, AND WHATNOT.
UM, I, LAST COUNCIL MEETING, WE APPROVED THE SUBTENANT, UM, GRANTS OR SUBTENANT, UH, AGREEMENTS WITH THE NINE, UM, UH, THE NINE BUSINESSES THAT OPERATE ON THE FAIRGROUNDS.
UM, ON OCTOBER 17TH, THERE IS A WORKSHOP TO TALK ABOUT THE, UH, SOUTHERN CROSSING, THE CAULFIELD BRIDGE.
FRANK, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT, THAT YOU'VE BEEN, BUT, UM, IT'S GONNA REALLY LOOK AT LIKE DESIGN FEATURES, BOTH LIKE AESTHETICS AND, UM, ALSO FUNCTIONALITY.
SO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PUT THAT ON YOUR CALENDAR IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE SO INCLINED.
UM, ECHO NICOLE'S COMMENTS ABOUT D STREET.
UM, UM, WE, AT OUR LA AT THE, NOT OUR LAST COUNCIL MEETING, BUT TWO COUNCIL MEETINGS BEF UH, AGO WE APPROVED THE OYSTER COVE PROJECT.
UM, AND AS PART OF THAT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UM, A CLASS FOUR BIKE LANE ON D STREET, UM, FOR THAT STRETCH THAT WE'LL BE GOING IN.
UM, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT DOESN'T GO ALL THE WAY TO LAKEVILLE.
SO WE, UM, AS PART OF APPROVING IT, WE ALSO GAVE, UM, STAFF DIRECTION TO CONTINUE, UM, AN UNDERGROUND, THE UTILITIES ALL THE WAY TO LAKEVILLE.
THERE'S LIKE THREE UTILITY POLES, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO HAVE A PROTECTED BIKE LANE ALL THE WAY DOWN D STREET.
SO, UM, THINKING AHEAD THERE, THERE WAS ALSO A, A, A STRONG CONTINGENT OF COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WERE ADVOCATING TO GET, UM, HOPPER STREET INTO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT, UH, PROGRAMS. SO, UM, A LOT OF THE, UM, MESSAGING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THE, THE, THE TIME BEFORE WITH SCANNELL, UM, MADE ITS WAY INTO THAT CONVERSATION.
UM, I, SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING EARLIER ABOUT LIKE, UH, YEAH, LIKE, DON'T MAKE IT ABOUT THE BIKES, AND I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE IT ABOUT KIDS AND SENIORS.
UM, WHEN I LED AN ADVOCACY, UH, EFFORT AROUND NORTH MCDOWELL, MY, ONE OF MY FIRST THINGS THAT I LIKE, IT WAS ALL ABOUT SIDEWALKS.
AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE SIGNS WAS SENIORS FOR SIDEWALKS.
UM, AND IT WAS LIKE THE MOST POWERFUL THING TO HAVE, LIKE A WHOLE MESS OF SENIORS WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.
UM, AND, UM, IT'S BEEN EFFECTIVE.
NOW WE'VE GOT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE CLOSED THE SIDEWALK APPS, UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A HUGE UPGRADE.
AND THEN, UM, YEAH, I, I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS.
DO YOU, WHEN ARE WE GONNA SEE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS HERE? YEAH, THAT WAS ACTUALLY ON THE AGENDA WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED LAST THURSDAY.
AND THEN, UM, RECEIVED NOTICE FROM PLANNING THAT THEY NEEDED SOME MORE TIME.
SO THEY ARE GOING TO, SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE AIMING FOR, UH, NOVEMBER 1ST, OUR NEXT MEETING FOR THAT.
UM, THERE WAS A BLUE ZONES MEETING LAST WEEK, UM, ON BUILT ENVIRONMENT WHERE WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT SOME OF THE CONCEPTS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT UP HERE TODAY.
UM, I WILL SAY THERE WERE THE, IT WAS MOSTLY A KUMBAYA MOMENT, UH, FOR EVERYBODY THAT WAS THERE UNTIL WE GOT INTO PARKING, AND THEN IT GOT A LITTLE CONTENTIOUS WITH PEOPLE, UH, TALKING ABOUT PARKING, PARKING MANAGEMENT.
AND THEN THERE IS A BLUE ZONES MEETING COMING UP TOMORROW ON FOOD SYSTEMS. SO OUR LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS. SO IF FOOD SYSTEMS ARE YOUR THING, UM, AND YOU'VE GOT FREE TIME TOMORROW NIGHT FROM SIX TO EIGHT, IT'LL BE AT THEIR, UM, FACILITIES IN DOWNTOWN.
I JUST WANTED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, HOW THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES ON I STREET ARE WORKING AND, YOU KNOW, ON THAT THEME OF, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, SPEED REDUCTION WITH THE, YOU KNOW, THE SIGNS AND, AND THE GREEN PAINT AND THE OTHER PAINT.
IS THAT, HAS THAT BEEN EFFECTIVE? AND DO WE HAVE A WAY TO, TO KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE? UM, I'M NOT SURE.
I HAVEN'T, UH, HEARD FROM KEN.
HE'S, UM, UH, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF DATA COLLECTION, UH, ON SEVERAL OF THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN EITHER RECENTLY IMPLEMENTED OR THAT ARE UPCOMING.
SO I, I'LL CHECK IN WITH HIM AND SEE IF HE HAS ANY DATA ON I STREET.
UM, WE ARE ALSO PLANNING ON INSTALLING OUR FIRST SET OF, UM, PILOT SPEED CUSHIONS ON THAT SAME STRETCH OF I STREET.
UM, SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND MAKING SURE, UM, THAT WE COULD, UH, CREATE A DESIGN THAT WILL ALLOW THEIR, UH, FIRE TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES TO CLEAR THE CUSHIONS.
UM, BASICALLY THEY'LL STRADDLE THE CENTER
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LINE WHEN THEY'RE RESPONDING TO CALLS AND THEY'LL, THEY ACTUALLY WILL NOT RUN OVER THE CUSHIONS, WHEREAS, UH, VEHICLES TRAVELING IN THE TRAVEL LANES WILL, UM, HIT THE CUSHIONS, SO THEY'LL HAVE TO SLOW DOWN.SO THAT'S, UM, UH, COMING UP, I'M, I'M NOT SURE ON THE TIMING, BUT WE'VE BEEN, UH, KEN'S BEEN WORKING PRETTY CLOSELY WITH FIRE ON THAT.
BJORN, CAN YOU CLARIFY, IS THAT LIKE A SPEED TABLE? IT'S, UH, IT'S GOT SPEED CUSHIONS HAVE GAPS IN THEM.
SO, UM, THERE'S BASICALLY, THERE ARE, IF YOU IMAGINE A TYPICAL TWO LANE ROAD, THERE WOULD BE THREE CUSHIONS, ONE BASICALLY CENTERED IN EACH LANE, AND THEN ONE STRADDLING THE CENTER LINE.
AND THEN, SO THERE, THOSE TWO GAPS ARE BASICALLY, UM, ROUGHLY IN THE MIDDLE OF EACH OF EACH, UM, WELL NOT QUITE IN THE MIDDLE, BUT THERE ARE TWO GAPS THAT ARE SPACED SO THAT ONLY LARGER VEHICLES, FIRE TRUCKS OR AMBULANCES CAN CLEAR THEM.
IF A PRIVATE VEHICLE WERE TO TRY TO, TO MAKE THAT SAME MANEUVER, AT LEAST ONE OF THEIR, UH, WHEEL PATHS WOULD HIT THE MIDDLE CUSHION COMMITTEE COMMENT.
[STAFF COMMENT]
ON TO STAFF COMMENT.DURING STAFF COMMENT, STAFF WILL PROVIDE BRIEF UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS AND STAFF SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, AND THERE SHOULD BE NO DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS.
THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
OKAY, SO A LOT OF, I'VE GOTTEN THROUGH A LOT OF THIS ACTUALLY ALREADY AS I'M THINKING ABOUT WHAT'S, WHAT'S IN HERE, UM, THINGS WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT.
BUT, UH, REALLY QUICKLY, UM, THE TWO, TWO CAPITAL PROJECT UPDATES, UM, JUST SHOWING THAT STRIPING CONTINUES ON, UH, BOTH GARFIELD AND NORTH MCDOWELL, WE'VE ACTUALLY GOT THE SAME STRIPING CONTRACTOR WORKING ON BOTH PROJECTS.
SO THEY'RE PRIORITIZING NORTH MCDOWELL RIGHT NOW GOING THROUGH THERE.
THEY JUST GOT ALL OF THE, UM, K 71, UH, PLASTIC, UH, FLEXIBLE, UM, DELINEATOR POSTS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE INSTALLING OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS IN THE BUFFERED BIKE LANE SECTIONS.
YEAH, THEY JUST GOT THEM IN YESTERDAY, SO THAT WAS FAST.
UM, SO YEAH, THOSE ARE, THE K 70 ONES ARE GOING IN ON NORTH MCDOWELL.
UM, AND THEN ON GARFIELD, THEY STILL NEED TO COME BACK AND ADD IN, UH, GREEN SHEROS.
SO THOSE WILL BE OUR FIRST, UH, GREEN SHEROS USED IN PETALUMA.
MUCH HIGHER VISIBILITY, MORE NOTICEABLE, THOSE WILL BE CENTERED, UM, OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE, OF THE LANES.
AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A HANDFUL OF BIKES MAY USE FULL LANE SIGNS GOING IN ON GARFIELD.
UM, JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT TOO, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN OUT THERE LOOKING AT THE STRIPING ON THE LEFT THERE, I WOULD SAY IT'S, IT'S EXCI.
IT DOES, IT LOOKS VISUALLY, LOOKS MUCH NARROWER THAN IT DID BEFORE.
UM, SO IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE SPEEDS, WHETHER THE SPEEDS COME DOWN.
AND YOU MAY RECALL WE, ON THAT PROJECT, WE, UM, IT'S A 40 FOOT WIDE ROAD.
WE PUT THE EDGE LINES AT 10 FEET.
SO YOU BASICALLY GOT TWO 10 FEET, 10 FOOT TRAVEL LANES THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.
BUT WE REMOVED THE CENTER LINE TO TRY TO CREATE A LITTLE BIT MORE FRICTION BETWEEN, UH, UM, OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS OF TRAFFIC.
SO, AND I THINK ESPECIALLY ONCE THE SHADOWS GO IN, UM, THAT'LL, THAT'LL ADD TO THAT.
AND THEN THE, THE TRAIL CROSSING EAST WASHINGTON OR THE WASHINGTON CREEK TRAIL CROSSING, WHICH IS SHOWN THERE, UM, HAS BEEN VASTLY IMPROVED.
SO IT USED TO BE A GRAVEL TRAIL THAT, UM, AND THE, AND THE TRAIL HEADS WERE SKEWED.
THEY WEREN'T LINED UP WITH EACH OTHER AND DIDN'T HAVE GOOD CURB RAMPS.
SO, UM, REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT, UM, GEORGE HOWARD, OUR ONE OF OUR ENGINEERS DID TO DESIGN THIS, WHERE HE ACTUALLY BUILT A NEW SECTION OF TRAIL THAT LINES UP THE CROSSING.
SO NOW IT'S A, IT'S A STRAIGHT SHOT.
WE'VE GOT THE NICE BULL BOUTS IN THERE.
IT'S A REALLY GOOD, IT'S A MUCH BETTER TRAIL CROSSING.
SO, UM, HAPPY WITH THE WAY THAT TURNED OUT.
AND THEN ON THE PLANNING DESIGN SIDE, UM, FOR OUR 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY, WE INTERVIEWED CONSULTANTS THIS WEEK AND, UM, HAVE, UM, OFFERED THAT, UH, AGREEMENT TO A CONSULTANT.
SO WE'LL BE EXCITED TO GET THAT UNDERWAY SOON.
AND THAT WILL, THAT'S AN S C T A FUNDED STUDY OF FOUR, UM, BIKE PED CROSSINGS OF 1 0 1 CORONA ROAD, RAINIER AVENUE, THAT'S THE UNDER CROSSING, UM, LYNCH CREEK TRAIL FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON THE NORTH MCDOWELL, UH, INTERSECTION.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, UH, MACKENZIE AVENUE, THE OVERCROSSING THERE.
AND REALLY EXCITED THE, THE CONSULTANT WHO WE'RE GOING WITH PUT TOGETHER AN AMAZING, UM, PROPOSAL, GAVE A GREAT INTERVIEW.
IT'S, IT'S A FIRM THAT HAS A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE THROUGHOUT THE BAY AREA ON, UM, FREEWAY CROSSING PROJECTS.
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AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY WELL RESPECTED AND, UM, COME WITH A LOT OF, CAME WITH A LOT OF GREAT IDEAS TO THE INTERVIEW.HONESTLY, THEY, THEY'D ALREADY DONE THEY HOMEWORK AND, AND HAD A REALLY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHALLENGES AT EACH OF THESE LOCATIONS.
SO, UM, BE EXCITED TO HOPEFULLY SHARE MORE WITH PBAC OVER THE COMING MONTHS AS WE, UM, GET THAT STUDY UNDERWAY.
UM, WE ARE, UH, KEN IS GOING TO COME, UH, HOPEFULLY TO OUR NOVEMBER MEETING WITH DESIGNS FOR IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE ENTIRE STRETCH FROM EDITH TO NORTH MCDOWELL.
SO THAT'LL BE THE, UM, COMBINATION, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT THE UNPAID SECTION FROM EDITH TO PAYAN, AND THEN, UM, WE'VE GOT THE SECTION FROM LYNCH CREEK TO, UM, NORTH MCDOWELL THAT HAS THE LOUSY PAVEMENT.
SO, UH, WE'LL BE UPGRADING ALL OF THAT WHOLE STRETCH, UM, AND THAT, SO THAT'LL BE EXCITING, UH, TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK ON, ON THOSE DESIGNS BEFORE, UH, HE GETS THAT OUT TO BID FOR CONSTRUCTION IN 2024 MARIA DRIVE IMPROVEMENTS.
THOSE WENT, THAT WENT TO BID, UM, LAST WEEK.
SO THOSE, THAT'S, UH, ON FULLY DESIGNED AND, AND, UM, AND HEADING TOWARDS CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN, UH, BIKE WAY FINDING, WE FOUND A, A, A VENDOR WHO WILL MAKE THE SIGNS FOR US.
UH, SO WE'RE GOING TO GET THE PILOT MOVING FORWARD.
AND, UM, ALSO WE'RE DEVELOPING, UH, THE, A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR A CITYWIDE PLAN THAT WOULD GO FAR BEYOND WHAT THE PILOT, UM, THE PILOT EFFORT DID.
UPCOMING MEETINGS, OCTOBER IS JAM PACKED, SO MY APOLOGIES TO
WE'VE GOT THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY THAT WAS JUST RELEASED.
THEY'RE HOLDING THEIR OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, RIGHT HERE BEFORE THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION MEETING.
UM, THEY DO ALSO HAVE AN ONLINE FEEDBACK FORM, SO IF YOU'VE GOT MEETING FATIGUE AND YOU WANNA PICK AND CHOOSE YOUR SPOTS, THAT'S ALSO AN OPTION.
AND THEN WE ARE ALSO TALKING ABOUT, UM, UM, UH, AWAITING, UH, DIRECTION ON HOW YOU ALL MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FORMAL INPUT.
SO WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH AN AD HOC COMMITTEE OR JUST THROUGH A PRESENTATION TO THE COMMITTEE.
UM, BUT, BUT, UH, LOOKING FOR WAYS FOR FEEDBACK AS A WHOLE TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THIS, UM, OF THIS PLAN.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE REFERENCED THE OCTOBER 16TH WORKSHOP.
UM, I THINK YOU COVERED THAT PRETTY WELL.
THAT'S AT THE COUNCIL'S REGULAR MEETING.
SO OBVIOUSLY WITH COUNCIL MEETINGS, YOU'VE GOT SEVERAL ITEMS ON THE AGENDA MAY NOT HAPPEN RIGHT AT SIX 30.
THE CALL FIELD BRIDGE, UH, CROSSTOWN CONNECTOR OPEN HOUSE, THAT'S, UH, AN EXCITING ONE THAT'LL BE BASE REALLY THE CITY'S INTRODUCTION TO, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY TO THAT PROJECT.
UM, LOOKING AT THE BRIDGE CROSS SECTION, UH, SO LOOKING AT THE, THE WIDTH OF THE BRIDGE, THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ACCOMMODATIONS, UH, POSSIBLE AMENITIES FOR THE BRIDGE, UH, THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE.
AND, AND THAT ONE WILL, THAT'S, UH, UH, JUST A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT THE PROJECT.
UM, WE'LL ALSO HAVE, WE'LL HAVE A PRESENTATION AND, AND GET FEEDBACKS FEEDBACK AT A FUTURE DATE.
UM, BUT THIS IS, THIS WILL BE A, THIS IS A FIRST CRACK AT IT.
AND THEN EARLY, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TASK FORCE FINALLY UNDERWAY, UH, THANKS IN, IN LARGE PART TO, UM, CHRISTINA PANZA, THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, UH, PROGRAM DIRECTOR.
AND, UH, SO THAT'LL BE A GREAT ONGOING FORUM FOR SCHOOL STAFF AND THE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, UH, TO MEET WITH CITY STAFF AND, UH, AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND FOCUS IN ON BARRIERS TO ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AT OUR SCHOOLS AND BRAINSTORM WAYS TO OVERCOME THOSE BARRIERS, WHETHER THAT'S THROUGH ENGINEERING, SO INFRASTRUCTURE FIXES OR EDUCATION, ENCOURAGEMENT ENFORCEMENT, AND, UM, UH, REALLY EXCITED TO HAVE BUY-IN FROM OUR, UM, UH, OUR THREE BIGGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TOWN SO FAR.
PALAMA, CITY SCHOOLS, OLD ADOBE AND WA SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THOSE WILL MEET MONTHLY ON THE THIRD TUESDAY FROM FOUR TO 5:30 PM AND WE'RE GOING TO ALTERNATE BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND CITY HALL.
UM, SO THE FIRST MEETING IS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
THAT MEANS NOVEMBER'S MEETING WILL BE HERE IN CITY HALL.
UH, THE MEETING AGENDAS WE DID DISCUSS SOME MEETINGS WILL BE CITYWIDE MEETINGS, SOME WILL BE FOCUSED JUST ON WEST SIDE SCHOOLS.
SOME WILL BE FOCUSED ON EAST SIDE SCHOOLS AND ALL OF THOSE, UM, UH, THE AGENDAS AND MEETING NOTES WILL BE POSTED TO THE SAFE ROUTES, UH, WEBSITE
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AT THE, THE LINK SHOWING HERE.THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT THE OPEN HOUSE.
I'M NOT GOING TO BELABOR THAT.
AND UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS. SO JUST THE PLACEHOLDER FOR THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
WE'VE GOT OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS, LYNCH CREEK TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS.
AT SOME POINT WE WILL COME TO YOU ALL WITH, UM, UH, PROBABLY ABOUT 50% DESIGNS FOR HOWARD STREET, UH, FROM WEST TO A TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK.
WE HAD OUR, OUR COMMUNITY WORKSHOP FOR THAT PROJECT, UM, EARLIER THIS OR IN, SORRY, IN, IN MID SEPTEMBER TO KIND OF GET INITIAL FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY ON WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE IN THAT PROJECT.
UM, AND THEN VISION ZERO UPDATE, WAVE FINDING, UPDATE, UH, OUR COMMUNICATIONS AD HOC COMMITTEE, WHICH SOUNDS LIKE THEY'VE GOT THEIR HOMEWORK CUT OUT FOR THEM.
AFTER THE CITY THREAD PRESENTATION.
UM, I ADDED THE UPPER PETALUMA RIVER TRAIL STUDY THAT FRIENDS OF THE PETALUMA RIVER DID.
UM, THAT WAS A REQUEST FROM ADAM TO ADD THAT CALL FIELD BRIDGE, CROSSTOWN CONNECTOR AND OUR, UH, THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY THAT I JUST MENTIONED.
SO WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF AGENDA ITEMS TO COVER OVER THE COMING MONTHS AND I'M SURE THERE WILL BE MORE
ALRIGHT, AND THAT'S ALL FROM ME.
THAT, UM, ADJOURNS THE MEETING AT, WHAT TIME IS IT? 9:13 PM THANK YOU EVERYBODY.