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PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6TH.
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CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE ROLL MEYER? HERE.[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]
UM, DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS, 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.
DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? WE RECEIVED ONE.
AND I HAVE A SPEAKER CARD FOR ARIS WEAVER.
I'M TRYING TO LOOK OUT THE DETAILS ON THE EVENTS I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT
UM, SO, UH, ARIS WEAVER WITH SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION.
UH, ONE OF THE FUN THINGS WE'VE DONE RECENTLY IS WE CAME ACROSS ON FACEBOOK, SOMEONE WHO HAD DEVELOPED A, UM, A BIKE LANE SWEEPER THAT CAN BE TOWED BY A BIKE.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE SEEN THROUGH ALL OUT THE JURISDICTIONS, AND IT'S NOT UNIQUE TO US, IT'S ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT BUILDING PROTECTED BY CLAIMS, THAT'S ONE OF THE BARRIERS.
THE QUESTIONS THAT COME UP IS, WELL, HOW ARE WE GONNA KEEP IT SWEPT? AND SO WHEN WE, WE, UH, SAW THIS ONE AND WE, UH, CON I CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER 'CAUSE I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT WHEN IS IT GONNA BE, UH, READY COMMERCIALLY AND THERE IN SILICON VALLEY? AND HE SAID, WELL, WE'RE NOT THAT FAR FROM YOU.
SO WE'VE BORROWED IT FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND ARE GONNA DO SOME DEMOS, UM, OF HOW IT WORKS.
NOT THAT A BIKE POWERED BIKE SWEEPER IS GONNA BE THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION, YOU KNOW, TO THE, TO THE CHALLENGE FOREVERMORE.
BUT JUST MORE AS A DEMO OF THIS IS NOT AN INSURMOUNTABLE PROBLEM.
SO I AM LOOKING UP WHAT DAY WE ARE DOING THE DEMO HERE IN PETALUMA.
AND THAT IS, THERE IS BIKE SWEEPER DEMO ON TUESDAY, MARCH 19TH AT ONE O'CLOCK AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SMART PATHWAY IN SOUTH POINT BOULEVARD.
WE WILL BE THERE WITH A SWEEPER AND DO A LITTLE DEMO.
SORRY, WE CAN'T LET EVERYBODY ELSE TAKE A TURN ON IT 'CAUSE LIABILITY ISSUES, BUT WE'LL AT LEAST BE ABLE TO DO A BIT OF A DEMO.
SO HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU THERE.
CORRECTION TO THE AMOUNT OF COMMENTS THAT CAME IN.
OKAY, SO THAT WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, AND WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A CHANGE IN THE AGENDA TO DO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION FIRST AND OUR PRESENTATION LAST.
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AND SO WE WILL MOVE TO, UM, OH, I GUESS WE WILL MOVE TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES FIRST FOR FEBRUARY 7TH, 2024.ARE THERE ANY CHANGES THAT THE COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE MADE TO THE MINUTES? NOPE.
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
IS.AND WE WILL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS REVIEW AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION COMPONENTS OF THE CALL FIELD BRIDGE AND EXTENSION, CROSSTOWN CONNECTOR PROJECT.
AND BJORN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO INTRODUCE THIS? YES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, TONIGHT WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE JASON HICKEY, WHO IS THE STRUCTURES DIVISION MANAGER FOR MARK THOMAS AND THE DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER FOR THIS VERY EXCITING PROJECT, THE LONG AND WAITED CALL FIELD BRIDGE, CROSSTOWN CONNECTOR.
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WILL JUST BE GIVING A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT, INTRODUCING THE COMMITTEE TO THE PROJECT, AND, UM, TALKING THROUGH SOME OF THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COMPONENTS OF THE PROJECT, UH, INCLUDING CONNECTIONS TO AND FROM THE BRIDGE ON BOTH SIDES.UH, THE BRIDGE CROSS SECTION ITSELF, UH, LOOKING AT THE, THE LANE WIDTHS AND MULTI-USE PATHWAYS ON THE BRIDGE.
AND ALSO TALKING THROUGH, UM, SOME OF THE AMENITIES AND, UH, SOME OF THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH WE'VE DONE SO FAR AND, AND WHAT WE HAVE IN STORE FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH IN THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO JASON.
TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN, UH, TO THE PRESENTATION.
AND, UH, IT'S A VERY EXCITING PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF PETALUMA, UH, FOR MARK THOMAS AS THE DESIGN FIRM AND FOR THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
UM, SO I'LL GIVE A A LITTLE BIT OF A, OF A OVERVIEW OF THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT.
THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT IS TO CONSTRUCT A NEW DRAWBRIDGE OVER THE PETALUMA RIVER, UH, THAT WOULD PROVIDE, UH, ACCESS BETWEEN THE, THE SOUTHEAST AND THE SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF PETALUMA.
UH, IT WOULD ENABLE, UH, SAFE AND CONVENIENT CROSSING FOR ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION, INCLUDING DRIVING, WALKING, BIKING, ROLLING, UM, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO GET ACROSS.
UH, IT WOULD ALSO AID IN THE RELIEF OF EXISTING, UH, TRAFFIC CONGESTION BY PROVIDING, UH, A NEW CROSSING ACROSS THE, THE PETALUMA RIVER, AND IT WOULD IMPROVE ON EMERGENCY RESPONSE TIMES.
UH, HERE'S, UH, AN OVERVIEW OF THE, THE AREA IN WHICH THE PROJECT IS.
UM, WE HAVE THE, THE PETALUMA OR THE CAULFIELD BRIDGE IN RED OVER THE PETALUMA RIVER THERE.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, UH, IN THE PROJECT AREA.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, THE PETALUMA RIVER PARK, WHICH WAS, UH, RECENTLY ACQUIRED, UH, THAT WAS PLANNED FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IS NOW KIND OF UP IN THE AIR.
UH, THERE'S, UH, CONSTRUCTION FOR THE RIVER PLACE APARTMENTS, WHICH IS ON THE, THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE PROJECT, UM, THAT'S PROGRESSING, UH, AS WE SPEAK, UH, TO THE NORTH OF THE PROJECT NEAR HOPPER LANE, UH, OR HOPPER STREET.
UH, WE HAVE A PLANNED CONNECTION THAT WOULD KIND OF REALIGN AND PROVIDE, UH, A BETTER CONNECTION FROM THE EXISTING AT, AT GRADE, UH, RAILROAD CROSSING, UM, AND PROVIDE BETTER CIRCULATION TO THE REST OF THE PROJECT.
AND THE, THE BRIDGE CROSSING ITSELF.
UH, HERE'S A OVERVIEW OF THE EXISTING AND PLANNED, UH, BIKE AND, UH, MULTI-USE TRAIL NETWORK.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THE, THE, THE PLANNED IS IN DASHED AND THE EXISTING IS IN SOLID LINES, UH, GREEN BEING THE, THE MULTI-USE PATH.
AND, UH, BLUE BEING, UH, AN EXISTING OR PROPOSED, UH, BIKE PATH.
UH, THE BRIDGE WILL HAVE MULTI-USE PATHS ON EACH SIDE, WHICH WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL.
THE RIVER PLACE DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER IS GONNA, UH, EXTEND THOSE EXISTING CONNECTIONS ON THE SOUTH BANK.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S PLANNED CONNECTIONS ALL ALONG, UH, THE PETALUMA RIVER ON THE, THE NORTH SIDE AND EXTENSION, UM, FURTHER TO THE WEST ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
SO HERE'S, UH, KIND OF A LAYOUT OF THE MAIN PROJECT AREA WHERE THE BRIDGE IS LOCATED.
UM, YOU'LL HAVE TO KIND OF REORIENT YOURSELF NORTH IS TO THE LEFT.
UM, SO WE'VE GOT, UH, PETALUMA BOULEVARD AND THE, UH, EXISTING ROUNDABOUT, UH, ON THE SOUTH SIDE TO YOUR RIGHT.
AND THEN WE'VE GOT THE, UH, UH, RECENTLY CONSTRUCTED, UH, DEVELOPMENT ON THE NORTH SIDE, UH, ALONG CAULFIELD LANE, UH, BATISTA WAY, UH, KIND OF FRONTS THE, THE RIVER RIGHT NOW.
AND THERE'S A EXISTING MULTI-USE PATH ALONG THE, THE BANK OF THE RIVER.
THE NEW BRIDGE WOULD CROSS OVER THAT EXISTING PATH FOR A FEW HUNDRED FEET.
THE EXISTING PATH WOULD HAVE TO BE REGRADED TO, TO LOWER IT, TO ALLOW IT TO GO UNDERNEATH THE PLANNED BRIDGE.
UM, AND THEN THE BRIDGE WOULD SPAN OVER THE TOP OF THAT AND, AND ACROSS THE RIVER.
UM, I'LL SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT KIND OF WHAT THAT, THAT BRIDGE LOOKS LIKE IN ELEVATION AND SECTION HERE.
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IF I CAN JUST, YEAH, UH, INTERRUPT.SO THE, UH, FOR THE COMMITTEE'S KNOWLEDGE, THE RIVER PLACE APARTMENTS THERE ON THE SOUTH BANK, UM, THAT YOU SEE IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER.
SO OBVIOUSLY YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO REVIEW THAT PROJECT, UH, AS A COMMITTEE, UM, THAT WAS STREAMLINED DUE TO IT BEING AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT.
JUST WANTED TO CALL OUT THAT THEY WILL BE CONSTRUCTING A SECTION OF NEW RIVER TRAIL ALONG THEIR PROJECT, UH, FRONTAGE OR ALONG THE RIVER.
UM, AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON A LOT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS WAS COORDINATING BETWEEN THEIR TEAM AND, UH, MARK THOMAS, OUR BRIDGE DESIGNERS, TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THEIR ROADWAY SIDEWALK PATHWAY FRONTAGE IMPROVEMENTS ARE COMPATIBLE WITH THE BRIDGE.
UM, SO WE'VE HAD TO DO SOME, WE HAD TO LOOK, WE'VE HAD TO LOOK AT THAT VERY CLOSELY, UM, GIVEN THAT THEY ARE, UH, MOVING THROUGH CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.
UH, HERE'S A ELEVATION OF THE, THE BRIDGE LOOKING DOWNSTREAM.
UH, SO YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A, THERE'S A SMALL SPAN OVER THE EXISTING, UH, MULTI-USE PATH.
THEN, UH, THIS IS, THIS IS GONNA BE A MOVABLE BRIDGE, SO KIND OF MOST SIMILAR TO D STREET, UM, IN TOWN HERE.
UH, SO THE, THE MAIN, UH, ABUTMENT, UH, IS GONNA BE ON THE, THE NORTH PIER.
UH, THE BRIDGE WILL THEN, UH, OPEN AND CLOSE AS NEEDED FOR, FOR VESSEL TRAFFIC.
AND THEN THERE WILL BE ANOTHER APPROACH SPAN, UH, ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
UM, IF WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE, THE BRIDGE CROSS SECTION, WE'VE GOT TWO LANES FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC.
UH, THE EXISTING ROAD NETWORK, UH, TO THE NORTH ON CAULFIELD LANE IS, IS TWO LANES AS WELL.
THEN WE'VE GOT FOUR FOOT SHOULDERS, UH, ON THE MAIN BRIDGE SECTION.
AND THEN ON EACH SIDE WE HAVE A 10 FOOT MULTI-USE PATH, UH, THAT WOULD ACCOMMODATE BIKES, PEDESTRIANS, UM, AND THOSE THAT WANNA ROLL.
SO HERE, HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE EXISTING SITE LOOKS LIKE NOW.
UH, SO WE'RE ON THE NORTH BANK.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING BACK TO WHERE THE, THE BRIDGE IS ENVISIONED TO BE, UM, UH, A FEW HUNDRED FEET, UM, INTO THE, INTO THIS PHOTO.
AND THEN IT WOULD CROSS AND, UH, OCCUR KIND OF WHERE THOSE, UH, LARGE, UH, TALL ORANGE TANKS ARE.
UH, THAT'S THE LOCATION OF THE, THOSE, UM, APARTMENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
THERE'S SOME EXISTING, UH, LANDSCAPING, UH, AS WELL AS, UH, AMENITIES FOR, UH, TRAIL USERS INCLUDING, UH, BENCHES AND, AND TABLES.
LIKE THIS EVENING, I HAD, UH, DINNER OVER THERE BEFORE THIS MEETING, SO IT'S, IT'S A NICE PLACE TO VISIT.
SO, UM, HERE'S, UH, LOOKING BACK THE OTHER DIRECTION TOWARDS THE WEST.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THE, THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED HOMES AND HOW THAT, UH, THERE'S THAT EXISTING GRADE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UH, CAULFIELD AND BAUTISTA WAY, UH, UP ON THE, THE TOP OF THE BANK.
AND WHERE THAT, UH, MULTI-USE TRAIL GOES UNDERNEATH.
THIS IS LOOKING, UH, FROM WHERE WE'RE STANDING, THE BRIDGE WOULD BE, UH, RIGHT TO OUR BACK.
AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING DOWN, UH, CAULFIELD LANE TOWARDS THE MARRIOTT ON THE NORTH.
UH, YOU CAN, UH, SEE WE'VE GOT TWO LANES AND RELATIVELY WIDE SHOULDERS.
AND THEN, UH, LOTS OF PLANTING AREAS ALONG, UH, WITH THE, THE EXISTING SIDEWALKS.
AND I'LL JUST SAY JUST A NOTE FOR PBA.
SO WE'VE GOT, UH, RIGHT NOW, I THINK 11 FOOT LANES AND, AND FIVE FOOT BIKE LANES OUT THERE.
UH, CALL FIELD WILL BE RETRIED FOR SOME REASON THE BIKE LANES WEREN'T STRIPED ON THAT LAST BLOCK, SO YOU DON'T SEE BIKE LANES IN THIS IMAGE.
BUT, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL COMPLETE THOSE BIKE LANES WHEN THIS GETS RES STRIPPED SOON.
AND, UH, WE CAN PROBABLY NARROW THE LANES JUST A TAD BIT TO 10 AND A HALF FEET AND, UM, UH, GET CLASS TWO BIKE LANES IN FOR THE FULL LENGTH OF, OF THE STRETCH OF CAULFIELD.
AND THEN HERE'S, UH, THE EXISTING ROUNDABOUT ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
UH, THE, THE NEW APARTMENTS, UH, WOULD BE ON THE LEFT OF THE PHOTO.
AND THEN ON THE RIGHT OF THE PHOTO IS THE EXISTING CALTRANS MAINTENANCE YARD.
UM, THE MOST OF THE, THE STREET IMPROVEMENTS WILL OCCUR, UH, WITH, WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE APARTMENTS, AND THEN WOULD BE EXTENDED WITH, UH, THE BRIDGE PROJECT, UM, ADJACENT TO THE THE CALTRANS FACILITY.
UH, OUR PROJECT IS GONNA CONSTRUCT, UH, THOSE SIDEWALKS AND
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IMPROVEMENTS.UM, AND THEN HERE'S A, A LAYOUT THAT'LL KIND OF, I'LL BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO ON THE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE, WE'RE GONNA REDO THE, THE EXISTING DRIVEWAY AT THE CALTRANS MAINTENANCE YARD.
AND THEN, UH, NEXT TO THE RIVER PLACE APARTMENTS, IT, MOST OF THAT FRONTAGE WILL GET, UH, CONSTRUCTED WITH THE APARTMENT, UH, INCLUDING THE DRIVEWAY.
AND THEN, UH, WE'LL CONFORM WITH THE BRIDGE PROJECT WHEN THAT COMES IN.
AND THAT'LL TIE INTO THE, THE EXISTING ROUNDABOUT.
SO, UH, WE HAD A, OUR FIRST PUBLIC MEETING, UH, ON, UH, THIS MOST RECENT, UH, PROJECT, UH, SINCE KIND OF THE, THE PROJECTS IN INCEPTION.
UH, SO WE HAD PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN OCTOBER TO ASK THE COMMUNITY KIND OF ABOUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, UH, SOME OF THEM INCLUDING LIKE THE COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY, WE ALSO ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AESTHETICS, WHAT THEY THINK THE, THE BRIDGE SHOULD LOOK LIKE, HOW THEY MIGHT USE THE BRIDGE.
SO THERE'S A LOT MORE QUESTIONS AND, UH, RESPONSES THAN I HAVE TIME TO DISCUSS HERE.
BUT SOME OF THE, THE HIGHLIGHTS ARE, UH, THE COMMUNITY REALLY WANTS TO SEE, UH, A BRIDGE WIDE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE BOTH CARS AND, UH, OTHER USERS.
THEY WANNA LOOK AT ARTISTIC AND DESIGN ELEMENTS THAT WOULD MAKE THIS BRIDGE, UH, A PLACE, UH, THAT FEELS LIKE IT FITS WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY AND THAT EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY CAN BE PROUD OF.
UH, THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT SAFETY, MAKING SURE WE HAVE ABUNDANT LIGHTING, UH, SIGHT LINES WHERE, UH, WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT EYES ON THE PROJECT AND THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE USING IT, INCLUDING THE KIDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ARE ALL SAFE, UM, WHICH IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY.
AND THEN, UH, THERE'S SOME EXISTING FISHING THAT OCCURS ALONG THE RIVER, AND SO, UH, THERE WAS COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT EXPRESSED INTEREST IN MAINTAINING OR, UH, IMPROVING, UH, KIND OF FISHING ACCESS AS WELL AS, UH, OTHER RECREATION THAT CAN OCCUR ALONG THE RIVER.
UM, SO HERE'S A, A SNIPPET FROM, UH, A COUPLE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT, THAT WERE ASKED.
THIS ONE IS, UH, HOW DO YOU CURRENTLY TRAVEL BETWEEN, UH, EAST AND WEST? UH, PETALUMA, UH, ACROSS THE, THE FREEWAY OR, UH, ACROSS THE RIVER.
AND WE SEE A, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DRIVING, WHICH IS, WHICH IS NOT A HUGE SURPRISE, BUT THERE IS A DECENT CONTINGENT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EITHER WALKING OR BIKING OR USING SOME OTHER, UH, MICRO TRANSIT.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO PUBLIC TRANSIT, UH, LISTED HERE.
AND THEN WE ALSO ASK THEM, LIKE WITH THE, THE CALL FIELD BRIDGE PROJECT, HOW DO YOU ANTICIPATE YOU SEEING YOU USE IT? UH, WOULD YOU USE IT? AND, AND HOW? AND SO WE SEE A, A SHIFT KIND OF HAPPEN, UH, WITH THE NEW CROSSING.
IT ALLOWS, IT APPEARS LIKE IT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO USE ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION, INCLUDING WALKING OR BIKING AS AN ALTERNATE TO, UH, TO JUST DRIVING FOR WHEN THEY'RE, UM, MOVING ACROSS TOWN.
SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, THAT CAME OUT THAT I WAS, UH, REALLY INTERESTED IN.
AND THEN THE, THE FULL KIND OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT REPORT WILL, UH, GET POSTED TO THE PROJECT WEBSITE AT SOME POINT.
UPCOMING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO PROVIDE, UH, FURTHER INPUT, UH, WILL BE COMING.
UH, WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING, WE'RE NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUSED, UH, MEETINGS WITH, UH, LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS ALONG THE, THE RIVER AND, AND THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT.
UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE REGULAR, UH, UPDATES TO COMMITTEES LIKE THIS AS WELL AS, UH, CITY COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS.
UH, THERE'S GONNA BE A, ANOTHER BIG PUBLIC MEETING AROUND THE JULY TIMEFRAME WHEN WE PLAN TO CIRCULATE THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT.
MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S AWARE THAT IT'S OUT.
THAT'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO, TO COMMENT, UH, ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT.
ADDITIONALLY, THIS, THIS PROJECT IS, UH, UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD BECAUSE WE HAVE A NAVIGABLE WATERWAY.
AND SO, UH, THE US COAST GUARD IS GOING TO CIRCULATE A NOTICE TO MARINERS, WHICH WILL INFORM THE, UM, RIVER USERS AS WELL AS OTHER MARINERS OF THE PROJECT, WHAT THE PROJECT IS GOING TO
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CONSTRUCT, AND HOW IT COULD IMPACT, UH, USING THE WATERWAY.AND THEN, UH, FOR THOSE NOT ALREADY SIGNED UP, UH, YOU CAN VISIT THE, THE PROJECT WEBPAGE, UH, THROUGH THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND SIGN UP FOR, UH, EMAIL UPDATES.
WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SOME QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, UH, FEEDBACK.
UM, AND ARE YOU GONNA TAKE US THROUGH THE REST OF THESE SLIDES WITH THE FEATURES? SO THIS IS JUST
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, CAN WE, OH, PAMELA, CAN WE START WITH YOU A QUESTION? I JUST WANTED TO ASK, WHAT'S THE DISTANCE IN, UH, IN HEIGHT, I GUESS, FROM WHEN THE RIVER'S AT ITS HIGHEST AND, UH, THE BRIDGE, PROPOSED BRIDGE? YEAH.
WHAT'S THE CLEARANCE? UM, SO WHEN IT'S DOWN, YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO BE CLEARING THE, NOT ONLY THE, THE A HUNDRED YEAR WATER SURFACE ELEVATION, BUT WE'RE ALSO, UH, PLANNING FOR ANTICIPATED SEA LEVEL RISE FOR THE A HUNDRED YEAR FORECAST.
AND SO WE'VE INCLUDED THAT IN THE HYDRAULIC MODELING, UH, THAT WE'VE DONE.
AND SO WITH INTO LIKE WORST CASE SCENARIO, SEA LEVEL RISE AND A HUNDRED YEAR STORM, UH, AND HIGH TIDE OCCURRING AT THE, AT THE SAME TIME A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW, IF THAT WERE TO HAPPEN, THEN THE A HUNDRED YEAR WATER SURFACE ELEVATION IS RIGHT AROUND THE BOTTOM OF THE LOW STEEL.
SO, UH, FOR THE, THE CURRENT SCENARIO, UH, THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, YOU CAN SEE WATER SURFACE ELEVATION THREE IS ABOUT, I THINK IT'S, UH, FIVE OR SIX FEET, UH, FROM, UH, THE BOTTOM OF THE BRIDGE.
SO, UH, DRAMATICALLY MORE THAN THE SMART BRIDGE, UH, JUST DOWNSTREAM.
SO, AND THE, THE CALTRANS MAINTENANCE YARD, WILL THAT CONTINUE TO TAKE ACCESS, YOU KNOW, IN PERPETUITY, UM, AT THE OTHER END OF THE BRIDGE? AND IS THAT USE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE? AS FAR AS I AM AWARE, UH, THERE'S NO, NO PLAN CHANGE IN, IN USE FOR THE CALTRANS MAINTENANCE YARD, AT LEAST NONE THAT I'M AWARE OF.
AND SAME FOR THE RIVER PLACE, UH, APARTMENTS.
DO THEY TAKE ACCESS WHEN THEY'RE APPROACHING THE BRIDGE AND THEN THEY MAKE THEIR RIGHT INTO, INTO THE SUBDIVISION? YEAH.
IS THAT THEIR ONLY FORM OF INGRESS AND EGRESS? IT IS.
YEAH, THERE'S A PRETTY STEEP SLOPE THERE.
UM, YOU CAN SEE ACTUALLY, IF YOU STAND ON THE NORTH BANK AND LOOK ACROSS, YOU SEE A MASSIVE RETAINING WALL THAT THEY BUILT, UM, THEY BASICALLY CUT INTO THAT HILLSIDE BELOW PUM BOULEVARD SOUTH.
SO THAT'S THEIR ONLY REAL POSSIBLE INGRESS AND EGRESS ON THAT PROPERTY.
I MEAN, I GUESS THE FOLLOW UP QUESTION TO THAT IS IT, IT'S, HAVE WE CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, THE BACKUP THAT MIGHT HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMING, YOU KNOW, IN THAT DIRECTION AND THEY'RE EITHER TRYING TO TURN IN SAFELY, UH, SO THAT MUST BE TURN IN AND TURN OUT RIGHT TURN SO YOU CAN MAKE A LEFT TURN OUT OF THERE AND A, AND A A RIGHT TURN.
THERE'S NO PROHIBITED MOVEMENTS, RIGHT? EVERYONE CAN GO IN BOTH DIRECTIONS WHEN YOU'RE COMING AND GOING.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING FOR NOW, UHHUH.
UM, IS THERE ANY, UH, TRAFFIC CONTROL, UM, THAT WOULD HELP? I MEAN, IT JUST LOOKS LIKE A VERY SHORT SPACE.
I, I JUST WONDER IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IS HOW TO CONTROL THE MOVEMENT SAFELY FOR PEOPLE GOING IN AND OUTTA THE APARTMENTS.
I REALIZE THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH REAL ESTATE THERE TO WORK WITH.
YEAH, THE, THE GOOD NEWS, THE VEHICLE SPEEDS WILL BE VERY LOW COMING OUT OF A ROUNDABOUT, UM, RIGHT.
BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT I'M, I'M
APPROVING THAT PROJECT AND, YOU KNOW, ANTICIPATING THAT THE BRIDGE WOULD BE BUILT.
UM, BUT WE'LL BE LOOKING, WE'LL BE DOING AN ADDITIONAL LAYER OF VIEW REVIEW, OBVIOUSLY FOR, UH, ANY OTHER TRAFFIC CONTROLS NEEDED, UH, THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT AREA ON SIDE STREETS DRIVEWAYS.
AND WE'VE, WE'VE DONE A PRELIMINARY KIND OF QUEUING ANALYSIS ON WHEN THE BRIDGE OPENS AND WHAT THE KIND OF TRAFFIC BACKUP.
UM, YES, THAT'S KINDA MY QUESTION WILL, WOULD LOOK LIKE.
AND SO, UH, KIND OF BASED ON THE PRELIMINARY QUEUING ANALYSIS FOR A A FIVE MINUTE OPENING, UM, TRAFFIC WOULD NOT QUITE BACK UP, UH, TO THE ENTRANCE TO THE ROUNDABOUT.
SO YOU'D STILL BE ABLE TO, YOU'D SEE THAT THERE WAS A QUEUE THERE AND YOU'D, UH, BE ABLE TO GO AROUND OR, UH, LOOK AT A ALTERNATIVE CROSSING.
SO YOU'RE, SO WHEN THE BRIDGE IS UP, IT'S ABOUT A FIVE MINUTE EXPERIENCE, IS THE IDEA, DEPENDING ON
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HOW MANY BOATS ARE COMING THROUGH, IS ONCE IT'S UP, IT TAKES FIVE MINUTES TO COME BACK DOWN OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS? YEAH.SO FIVE MINUTES IS KIND OF THE, THE TYPICAL, IF THEY RELATIVELY QUICKLY CLEAR.
UM, AND SO IT, IT WOULD DEPEND ON HOW QUICKLY THE, THE VESSEL CLEARS, BECAUSE THE VESSEL HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY.
AND THE, AND THE CROSSING GATES THAT WILL COME DOWN TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GOING NORTHBOUND, WHERE WILL THOSE BE? THOSE WILL BE, UH, BETWEEN THE, THE DRIVEWAYS FOR CALTRANS AND THE RIVER PLACE AND, UH, THE BRIDGE.
UH, SO PART OF THE REASON WE, WE ORIENTED THE BRIDGE IN THE DIRECTION WE DID IS BECAUSE THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO PUSH BACK THE, THE LOCATION OF THOSE CROSSING GATES SO THE ACTUAL BRIDGE DOESN'T OPEN UNTIL, UM, YOU'RE WITHIN THAT FIRST SPAN.
SO BJORN'S POINTING TO THAT, THAT KIND OF JOINT THERE, MM-HMM.
SO WE'D BE ABLE TO PUT THOSE, UH, GATES KIND OF AS FAR BACK AS WE COULD TO MAXIMIZE THAT, THAT QUEUING SPACE.
MM-HMM,
UM, SO THINGS BEING CONSIDERED IN THE EIR ARE, UM, TRAFFIC IMPACTS, UH, NOISE, UH, SENSITIVE SPECIES, UH, BOTH, UH, WITHIN THE RIVER AS WELL AS, UH, WITHIN THE RIPARIAN AREAS.
UH, WITHIN KIND OF THE, THE BANKS, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES, UH, HISTORICAL RESOURCES, UH, POLLUTION, UH, POTENTIAL POLLUTION IMPACTS OR, UH, HAZARDOUS MATERIALS IN THE AREA.
UH, THERE'S ALSO, UH, A NOISE.
UH, WE'RE EVALUATING THE NOISE AND THE, THE CONSTRUCTION NOISE ASSOCIATED WITH THE, THE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, UM, AS WELL AS A, A NUMBER OF OTHER, UH, IMPACTS.
THOSE ARE JUST THE, THE ONES I CAN, UH, SPOUT TO YOU OFF MY HEAD.
BUT, UH, YES, THERE, IT'S A, IT'S A PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT.
UM, IT'S GONNA BE A INITIAL STUDY, MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION, UM, AND A AND A EA.
THOSE ARE, AND IT'LL GET PROCESSED THROUGH, UH, THE US COAST GUARD ON THE, ON THE FEDERAL SIDE.
AND THEN, UH, THE CQA APPROVAL WOULD BE, UM, KIND OF INITIATED BY THE CITY.
UM, AND THEN I THINK I'VE HEARD SOME THINGS ABOUT AUTO CONTROLS FOR THE BRIDGE VERSUS MANUAL OR SOMEONE HAVING TO BE ON SITE TO, TO LIFT IT.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? YEAH, SO, UM, THERE, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TECHNICAL, UH, AND TECHNOLOGICAL, UH, INNOVATIONS SINCE SAY D STREET WAS CONSTRUCTED.
AND SO, UM, ADVANCES IN, UH, TECHNOLOGY AND BRIDGE CONTROLS HAVE COME A LONG WAY.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE EVALUATING IS, UM, HOW TO MORE SEAMLESSLY OPERATE, UH, THE BRIDGES, UH, THE CITY'S BRIDGE INVENTORY THAT MOVES AND SEE IF WE CAN, UH, EITHER OPERATE ALL OF THEM FROM THIS SITE OR OPERATE THEM FROM A REMOTE SITE.
AND, UH, IN, IN ANY CASE, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO STREAMLINE, UH, THE BURDEN ON THE CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S AS LOW COST TO MAINTAIN AS POSSIBLE, AS WELL AS IMPROVE THE, THE EXPERIENCE FOR USERS, UH, ESPECIALLY WATERWAY USERS WHO HAVE EXPRESSED SOME FRUSTRATION WITH HAVING TO CONTACT MULTIPLE AGENCIES AND WAIT FOR NON COORDINATED OPENINGS.
AND SO, UH, THAT'S A COMMENT THAT, THAT CAME UP, UH, A FEW TIMES DURING THE, THE INITIAL PUBLIC COMMENT OR PUBLIC MEETING THAT WE HAD.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE CAN TRY AND STREAMLINE THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BOTH, UH, FOR THE CITY'S BENEFIT AS WELL AS FOR THE USERS AND, UH, THE TAXPAYERS.
AND THEN MAYBE THIS ONE'S FOR BJORN, I DON'T KNOW, BUT JUST TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE CIRCULATION AND SAFETY MEASURES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR THE EXISTING NEIGHBORS, UM, AND WHAT, UM, WHAT ALTERNATIVES WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH, UH, WITH THE, YOU KNOW, MITIGATIONS AND WHATNOT THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY RIGHT WITHIN THE BRIDGE, BUT OBVIOUSLY CAUSED BY OPENING UP THE, THE CONNECTION.
SO OBVIOUSLY, UH, WHEN SCANNELL WAS, UH, MOVING THROUGH THE PLANNING PROCESS, UH, THAT WAS A BIG CONCERN THAT WE HEARD FROM, UH, FROM THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY FROM THE RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD, THE CONCERNS AROUND CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC ONCE THE BRIDGE
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OPENS.UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THAT THE, ALL THE, THEY'RE CREATING A NEW STREET GRID BASICALLY TYING INTO THE RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO WHAT'S GOING TO KEEP, WHAT CAN WE DO TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM GETTING OFF THE BRIDGE AND THEN CUTTING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO GET UP TO, UH, LAKEVILLE? SO, UM, WE ARE, I'D SAY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF BRAINSTORMING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WE CAN DO TO REINFORCE CALL FIELD AS THE PRIMARY, UH, INGRESS AND EGRESS FOR THE BRIDGE, AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE STAY OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.
OBVIOUSLY A LOT HAS CHANGED NOW THAT CANNELL, UM, NOW THAT THAT PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD TO THE PETMAN RIVER PARK, WE'RE SORT OF WAITING TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY COME FORWARD WITH, WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO DO WITH THEIR SITE.
UM, THE, THE REAL BIG CHANGE WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, REGARDLESS IS, IS BUILDING AN EXTENSION TO CALL FIELD LANE THAT SHOOTS THROUGH THE CITY'S PROPERTY HERE.
THIS IS THE CORPORATION YARD AND FORMER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.
SO THAT'S A NEW ROADWAY CONNECTION, AND WE'D LIKE TO TIE THAT INTO THE ROADWAY THAT RUNS BETWEEN THE MARRIOTT AND THE SPORTS FIELD.
UM, WHEN WE GET TO THE CENTRAL GREEN AREA, WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOME, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS TO MAKE THAT A SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS SLOW TRAFFIC, BUT ALSO KEEP A GOOD SMOOTH TRAFFIC FLOW.
BECAUSE ONCE TRAFFIC STARTS BACKING UP, THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE ARE GONNA GET FRUSTRATED AND START LOOKING FOR OTHER ROUTES.
UM, SO WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY, UH, PUTTING IN EL MORE TRADITIONAL ROUNDABOUT ELEMENTS THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO REMOVE THE STOP SIGNS AND CONVERT IT TO AN ALLWAY YIELD.
UM, SO THERE MIGHT BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE.
WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THAT CLOSELY.
WE'VE ALSO TALKED, UH, WE'RE IN THE VERY EARLY STAGES OF LOOKING AT THE FEASIBILITY OF MAYBE A, UH, A ONE-WAY, UH, COMING INTO THE CIRCLE FROM SOUTHBOUND FROM THIS SIDE, NORTHBOUND FROM THIS SIDE.
AND THAT WAY YOU AVOID ALL THAT OVERLAPPING TRAFFIC, UH, USING THE CIRCLE.
AND ALSO, UH, FRANKLY, THIS STRETCH OF HOPPER STREET IS PRETTY NARROW.
SO, UM, IF THAT WERE NARROWED TO ONE WAY OF TRAFFIC GOING NORTHBOUND, UM, AND THEN ALL THOSE FOLKS ARE TURNING RIGHT ONTO CA FIELD, YOU'VE GOT, IT JUST, IT WORKS WELL WITH NOT HAVING THAT OVERLAP BETWEEN NORTHBOUND AND SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC AT, AT THE CIRCLE OR AT THE, AT THE HOPPER CA FIELD INTERSECTION.
THERE'LL BE A LOT, WE HAVE TO MAKE IMPROVE, WE KNOW WE HAVE TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE HOPPER CA FIELD INTERSECTION.
UM, THAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE REQUIRED BY THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION BECAUSE IT IS NOT GRADE RAIL CROSSING.
SO, UM, ALL THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A LOT OF IDEAS ABOUT NEWS, ABOUT CIRCULATION CHANGES IN THIS AREA AND, AND GET FEEDBACK ON 'EM.
UM, AND THEN THE FINAL QUESTION IS HOW MANY DIFFERENT AGENCIES ARE GONNA BE, HAVE SOME SORT OF OVERSIGHT AND APPROVAL ON THIS PROJECT? IT'S LIKE FOUR OR FIVE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
MY MAIN QUESTION IS ABOUT THE, IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO THE WAYS THAT BICYCLISTS WILL APPROACH AND GET ONTO THE MULTIUSE PATH AND, AND OFF OF, AS ON THE NORTH SIDE, GOING FROM A CLASS TWO ONTO THE, THE MULTIUSE PATH AND OFF, AND THEN IT LOOKS LIKE THE ROUNDABOUT IS A CLASS THREE, I BELIEVE.
UM, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WOULD GET ON AT THAT IF THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN THE ROUNDABOUT GOING NORTH.
THEY WOULD GET ON IN THE, THE DRIVEWAY, THE CURB CUT THERE.
UM, SO IF YOU COULD SPEAK TO JUST MY, I'M WONDERING AND MAYBE CONCERNED ABOUT LARGER BIKES BEING ABLE TO NAVIGATE, GETTING, GETTING ON AND OFF, UM, IN, IN A SMOOTH WAY AND NOT FEELING LIKE THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO TURN AND, UM, TO GET ON.
I CAN, YEAH, I CAN TAKE A STAB AT THAT, JASON, SO I KNOW, 'CAUSE I, I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS A LOT AS WELL.
UH, SO WE HAVE THE EXISTING BIKE RAMPS, UM, GOING INTO THE ROUNDABOUT AT BOTH, AT ALL ON ALL LEGS, ON, UH, AT THE CRYSTAL EIGHT ROUNDABOUT.
ADMITTEDLY, THERE'S PROBABLY SOME DESIGN MODIFICATIONS WE COULD MAKE TO THOSE TO MAKE THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE USABLE.
UM, BUT THEN THE IDEA FOR THIS SIDE IS THAT ALL OF THESE SIDEWALKS HAVE BEEN WIDENED AND WILL FUNCTION REALLY AS OFF STREET AS, AS MULTI-USE TRAILS.
SO ANYWHERE WITHIN THIS ROUNDABOUT, YOU'RE REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE GOING AROUND AND USING THE CROSSWALKS AS FOR THE SAFEST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE.
UM, SO THOSE WILL TIE INTO THESE WIDENED SIDEWALKS AT, UH, THAT ARE BEING BUILT BY RIVER PLACE ON THE, UM, ON, ON THIS SIDE, AND THAT WE WILL BUILD AS PART OF THE BRIDGE PROJECT
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ADJACENT TO THE CALTRANS YARD.ON THIS SIDE, WE'RE NOT SHOWING, UM, THIS, THIS ILLUSTRATION DOESN'T SHOW CONNECTIONS, BUT, UH, WE, WE'D LIKE TO FIGURE OUT A CONNECTION THAT'S NICE AND CONVENIENT BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE RIVER TRAIL HERE, UM, ON, WELL, ON BOTH SIDES, SO THAT REGARDLESS OF THE SIDE YOU'RE ON, IF YOU'RE HEADED TO THE RIVER TRAIL, YOU CAN EASILY GET OFF AND, UH, UH, GO, GO DOWN TO THE RIVER TRAIL AND THEN CURB CUTS.
UH, SO ENTRY POINT, IF YOU'RE ON CALL FIELD, YOU'RE JUST BASICALLY CROSSING THE INTERSECTION WITH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AND THEN GETTING ONTO THE WIDENED MULTI-USE TRAIL.
IT, IT DOES LOOK A LITTLE TIGHT TO ME, BUT I'LL TRUST YOU IF YOU SAY, IF IT'S NOT GOING SOUTH, GETTING, GETTING ONTO IT, MAYBE THE, THE CURB CUT IS, IS, AND THIS IS SO CONCEPTUAL, THIS IS A CONCEPTUAL DRAWING.
THESE, THESE CURB, YEAH, THOSE ARE, THESE, THESE ARE LIKE 10% LEVEL.
AS, AS LONG AS YOU'RE CONSIDERING THAT, THEN I WON'T, UH, HARP ON THAT.
DO YOU MIND IF I HARP ON IT FOR A MOMENT SINCE, SINCE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC? I KNOW I'M GOING OUTTA TURN, BUT SINCE WE'RE, SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS, IF YOU CAN BRING THE, THAT SLIDE WITH THE ROUNDABOUT UP AGAIN PLEASE.
SO I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING WITH THE BIKE RAMPS, UM, AND I, I'M SORT OF PICTURING, UH, YOU KNOW, COMING, IF I AM, IF I'M COMING DOWN PALOMA BOULEVARD APPROACHING THE ROUNDABOUT AND I'M WANTING TO GO LEFT ONTO THE BRIDGE, I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET UP ONTO THE, ONTO THE TAKE THE EXIT ONTO THE MULTIPATH.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO AROUND, I'M GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR, FOR CARS TO, TO, TO, TO CLEAR.
AND THEN I NEED TO, SO I'M SORRY, IF YOU COULD TAKE YOUR CURSOR.
I WISH I HAD THE CURSOR, RIGHT.
AND, AND AS, AS AN AVID BIKER GOING THROUGH ROUNDABOUTS IN PETALUMA, I, I THINK THAT TO ME, IT, IT, THAT IDEA SORT OF STRIKES OF THE NOTION, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE DESIGNING THAT ROUNDABOUT JUST FOR CARS.
LIKE, I THINK THAT'S, I THINK YOU'RE ASKING TOO MUCH OF PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS TO TAKE THAT ROUTE.
AND I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE, LIKE, IT'S GREAT THAT IT'S THERE FOR SOMEONE WHO, WHO WANTS TO GO THAT ROUTE, BUT I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE DESIGNED IN A WAY TO WHERE CARS FEEL WHEN THEY GO THROUGH THAT ROUNDABOUT THAT IT'S OKAY FOR BIKES TO BE THERE TOO.
BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST PART OF THE, THE WHOLE DESIGN THING.
ASKING THE BIKES TO TAKE THAT BIG DETOUR THROUGH THERE, I THINK IS, YOU KNOW, IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT'S TOO MUCH.
AND SO ONE OTHER OPTION, UH, TOO IS YOU COULD GET OFF HERE AND THEN USE THIS CROSSWALK.
THIS IS ALL, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THESE SIDEWALKS ARE BI-DIRECTIONAL.
YOU DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE GOING WITH THE DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC.
SO YOU COULD CROSS THE BRIDGE ON THIS SIDE.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, THERE IS ALWAYS THE KIND OF TAKE THE LANE VEHICULAR CYCLING OPTION, UM, WHICH, WHICH YOU COULD, YOU COULD USE AND THEN, UH, USE A RAMP TO GET, OR I GUESS IT WOULD BE THE DRIVEWAY AT BURBANK PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GET UP ONTO THE, THE MULTI-USE PATH ON THE BRIDGE.
BUT YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN THAT, UH, THAT ROUNDABOUT DESIGN COULD, COULD BE, COULD DO, COULD DO A BETTER JOB OF ACCOMMODATING, ESPECIALLY I THINK ROUNDABOUTS.
I MEAN, I USE THE ROUNDABOUTS ON A DAILY BASIS, UH, ON MCDOWELL, AND I'M HAVING TO NAVIGATE THROUGH CARS AND I DON'T FEEL TERRIBLY UNSAFE.
AND I'M ABLE TO MOVE THROUGH THE ROUNDABOUT AT THE SAME SPEED OF THE CARS MORE OR LESS.
AND SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE GREAT BIG SHARES GOING THROUGH THERE THAT TELLS CARS THAT IT'S OKAY FOR BIKES TO BE THERE AND JUST TO PLEASE BE CAREFUL AND NOT RUN THEM OVER.
UM, IS THERE A VEHICLE WEIGHT LIMIT FOR THE BRIDGE? THE BRIDGE WILL BE DESIGNED TO HANDLE, UH, EVEN PERMIT VEHICLES THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY LIKE OVERLOADS.
SO IT, THERE WILL BE NO RESTRICTION FOR THE BRIDGE.
AND WOULD WE RESTRICT TYPES OF VEHICLES GOING THROUGH THERE? YEAH.
IT'S, WE'RE NOT PLANNING ON THIS BEING A FREIGHT ROUTE
GIVEN THAT IT'S GOING RIGHT THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, AND YOU'VE OBVIOUSLY GOT, IT'S, IT'S SOMEWHAT REDUNDANT WITH US 1 0 1 AND LAKEVILLE, WHICH ARE THE DESIGNATED FREIGHT ROUTES THAT, WELL, IT STRUCK
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ME TO SEE LIKE, ALMOST NO ONE WOULD LIKE TO USE TRANSIT TO GO OVER HERE.AND THEN IT GOT ME THINKING, WELL, WHAT IF WE HAD A BUS ROUTE THAT REALLY WAS THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF NO.
WOULD THAT BE A POSSIBILITY? YEAH.
THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK, UH, TRANSIT IS PLANNING FOR TOO, TO, TO IMPLEMENT A TRANSIT, A ROUTE ONCE THE BRIDGE IS BUILT.
UM, I'M WONDERING, BJORN, IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE, 'CAUSE I LOVE THIS PROJECT AND I THINK IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY, BUT I REALLY UNDERSTAND ALL THE CONCERNS ABOUT THIS, LIKE, VERY SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT RIVERBED CURRENTLY IS, AND ALL THE KIDS OUT THERE AND, AND THE TRAFFIC CONCERNS.
WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR STAFF TO FLAG LIKE THE NEIGHBORHOOD STREET CALMING, LIKE ANY, UM, THINGS COMING TOWARDS THE CITY AS HIGH PRIORITY SO WE COULD QUICKLY ADDRESS 'EM, LIKE KNOWING THAT WE CAN'T FIX EVERYTHING BUT NEW PROJECT, WE WANNA BE REALLY COGNIZANT TO PEOPLE'S NEEDS AND CONCERNS OUT THERE AND LIKE BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THOSE QUICKLY SO THAT THIS, THIS PROJECT IS WELL RECEIVED.
WITH, UH, ANY, ALL OF THOSE CIRCULATION, TRAFFIC, CALMING, PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS THAT I WAS, UM, DESCRIBING WOULD BE INCORPORATED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT.
SO BEFORE THE BRIDGE IS OPERATIONAL, UH, ALL OF THOSE CHANGES WILL BE IN PLACE.
AND I, AND THAT YOU'RE DOING MORE OUTREACH.
I'M JUST WONDERING IF, IF THERE'S ANY LIKE TICKETS THAT COME THROUGH SAYING LIKE, CAN WE HAVE A TRAFFIC COMING HERE AND IT SAYS LIKE, BAUTISTA OR PICO OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE CAN KIND OF GET THAT LIKE RED FLAG AS A HIGHER PRIORITY BEING THAT IT'S A NEW PROJECT AND A NEW EXPERIENCE? YEAH.
WELL, AND WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT IT SO CLOSELY RIGHT NOW THAT, UM, SO YEAH, WE'LL THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE TO SHARE ON THAT WITH THE, WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THEN COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE LIGHTING EXPERIENCE? I SAW THIS SLIDE AND I GO AHEAD AND FLIP.
CAN YOU FLIP TO THE, THE LIGHTING? SO, UH, LIGHTING CURRENTLY IS CONCEPTUAL AT THIS POINT.
UM, WE'VE DISCUSSED, UH, A FEW DIFFERENT, UH, LIGHTING CONCEPTS JUST AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL.
UM, THOSE WOULD MOST LIKELY INCLUDE, UM, OVERHEAD STREET LIGHTING AS WELL AS, UH, PATH LIGHTING.
UM, ALONG THE BARRIER, UH, IS, IS A VERY CONVENIENT PLACE TO, TO PUT IT FOR THE MULTI-USE PATH THAT WOULD PROVIDE LIGHTING, UH, AT A USER LEVEL, UH, ALONG, UH, THE ENTIRE LENGTH.
AND IT, IT'S PRETTY CONTINUOUS SO YOU DON'T HAVE BIG GAPS WHERE, YOU KNOW, SCARY MONSTERS COULD BE HIDING.
UH, SO THAT WOULD BE, UH, KIND OF THE, THE DESIGN CONCEPT AT THIS POINT.
I LIKE, I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE LIGHTING ON THE MULTI-USE PATH.
I'M JUST LIKE A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT SENSITIVE HABITAT AND THE ADDITION OF LIGHTS TO THE AREA.
AND ONE NICE THING ABOUT THAT TYPE OF LIGHTING IS IT'S VERY DIRECTABLE BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU'RE PLACING THE, THE FIXTURES AT, UH, ABOUT CHEST HEIGHT AND SO YOU'RE NOT GETTING A LOT OF SPILL INTO, UH, LIKE ONTO THE WATER THAT COULD IMPACT THE FISH.
AND YOU'RE ALSO NOT GETTING A LOT OF LIGHT POLLUTION GOING UP BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS DIRECTED DOWN AT THE, AT THE WALKING SURFACE.
SO IT'S, THAT TYPE OF LIGHTING IS ACTUALLY VERY GOOD FOR PREVENTING LIGHT POLLUTION WHERE, WHERE YOU DON'T WANT IT TO GO.
DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S SOLAR LIGHTING OR IF THAT'S A POSSIBILITY? UM, IT'S, IT'S A POSSIBILITY.
UM, WE COULD, WE COULD EVALUATE IT.
UH, SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES COME A LONG WAY.
UH, IT'S JUST WHERE DO WE PUT THE, THE SOLAR PANELS RIGHT.
UM, AND SO THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN, UH, KIND OF FURTHER EXPLORE AS WE WORK THROUGH, UH, THE, THE POWER REQUIREMENTS FOR THE BRIDGE AS WELL AS THE LIGHTING SYSTEM, UH, AS WELL AS OPPORTUNITY LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO PLACE, UH, SOLAR PANELS.
AND, AND WE REALLY HAVEN'T HAD A GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH SOLAR LIGHTING ON MULTI-USE TRAILS.
WE GET OUR LIGHTS GET CONFISCATED.
CAN WE GO, UM, GO BACK TO THE SLIDE THAT HAD THE MAP OF THE AREA? I, I JUST HAD ONE, ONE OTHER CALL OUT, SO YEAH, I KEEP GOING.
SO THE, THE ONLY THING, UH, THE ONLY OTHER CALL OUT THAT
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I WANTED TO JUST KIND OF TRY TO PUT ON PEOPLE'S RADAR, THE, AS HOPPER STREET COMES TO AN END, THERE'S UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S KINDA LIKE THAT MULTI, THE SMART PATH SORT OF COMES, YOU KNOW, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE STARTED IT DOWN IN THAT AREA AND IT, IT, RIGHT BEFORE IT GOES UNDER THE BRIDGE, IT'S A DOTTED LINE NOW, UM, UH, GO UP, GO UP, YEAH.SO AS THAT GOES UNDER, UM, SO THERE'S A TRAIL THERE NOW THAT GOES UNDER THAT BRIDGE AND COMES OUT THE OTHER SIDE AND YOU CAN CONNECT, UM, TO GET OVER TO, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE SHERIDAN THAT THE, THE MARINA.
UM, I LIKE TO SEE THE, YOU KNOW, THOSE IMPROVEMENTS REALLY BE A PRIORITY WITH THIS PROJECT.
UM, BECAUSE THAT OPENS, IF YOU THINK ABOUT THAT, PUTTING THE BRIDGE IN HERE AND COMPLETING JUST THAT LITTLE CONNECTION UNDER THE BRIDGE GIVES PEOPLE ON THE WEST SIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO, UH, TO GET INTO SCHOENBERGER, UH, IN, IN THAT WHOLE AREA AND CAN GET OVER TO THE BUSINESS PARK ON A BIKE OR WALKING AND NOT HAVE TO GET ON LAKEVILLE.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S ONE LITTLE SECTION THAT CAN OPEN UP A WHOLE AVENUE FOR, UH, SOME REALLY NICE TRAFFIC ON BIKES AND WALKING.
AND, UH, SO I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, JUST PUT MY 2 CENTS IN THAT, THAT SHOULD BE REALLY A PRIORITY TO COMPLETE WITH THIS.
I THINK A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ASKED, BUT I DID WANNA FOCUS ON TWO AREAS.
WELL, I GUESS THE FIRST QUESTION, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE REVIEWED THE SPIRIT LIVING PROJECTS, SO THERE'S THE SMALLER LOT AND THEN THE BIG SEMICIRCLE AROUND WHAT I'M CALLING THE TRAFFIC OVAL THERE IN THE MIDDLE.
THOSE SPIRIT LIVING PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO, UH, A LOT OF DISCUSSION HAPPENED AROUND IMPROVEMENTS FOR THOSE PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY CROSSWALKS, ESPECIALLY THAT STREET BETWEEN THE HOTEL, UH, AND THE PHASE ONE.
IS THERE ANY PLAN OR IS THERE A FUTURE DATE WHERE WE'RE GONNA GO INTO DEPTH WITH THESE CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS? YEAH, I THINK WE CAN, WE CAN DEFINITELY BRING THAT BACK TO PBA, UH, FOR A DETAILED REVIEW ONCE WE HAVE SOMETHING TO, TO SHARE.
THAT PROBABLY, PROBABLY GO TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD FIRST AND THEN COME TO PBE ON THE CIRCULATION IMPROVEMENTS.
'CAUSE YEAH, THAT, THAT ISSUE KEEPS COMING UP.
AND THEN BEFORE CAULFIELD BRIDGE, IF YOU WANNA GO BACK TO THE DIAGRAM OF THE ROUNDABOUT GOING INTO THE BRIDGE, I THINK IT MIGHT BE JUST REPEATING PAMELA HERE, BUT I I WANTED TO CONFIRM THE RIVER PLACE APARTMENTS DOES THAT NO TRAFFIC GOES FROM THERE OUT ONTO COFFEE ON THE COFFEE FIELD SIDE, RIGHT? NO, IT DOES.
SO THAT AREA, I MEAN, GETS HIGHLIGHTED.
I SEE PEOPLE COMING DOWN PETALUMA BOULEVARD AND NOT SLOWING DOWN VERY MUCH IF THEY'RE JUST GOING ON COFFEE FIELD.
UH, AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A CHANCE TO EMPLOY THINGS LIKE THE 3D LIFTED WRITING WITH THAT, UH, KEEP CLEAR BOX OR LIKE A SLOW DOWN.
I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO EMPLOY ALL THE TRICKS THERE TO ACTUALLY HAVE PEOPLE SLOW DOWN.
'CAUSE I SEE THE EGRESS IN AND OUT OF THERE, YOU KNOW, THE POTENTIAL OF BIKERS AND PEDESTRIANS BEFORE THAT.
I JUST SEE THAT AS SUCH A, A PROBLEM AREA.
SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THE NEW AND IMPROVED TRAFFIC CALMING TOOLS THAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO ROLL OUT.
I THINK A LOT OF THEM HAVE TO GO THERE.
UH, AND YEAH, LIKE I SAID, I THINK LITERALLY ALL MY OTHER QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED, SO THANK YOU.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF FROM THE COMMITTEE? OKAY, THEN WE WILL OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM.
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THAT BRINGS IT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION.
CAN YOU GET AROUND TO YOUR NEW CARD? CAN I DO, OH, PLEASE.
I SHOULD JUST HAND YOU A BIG STEP.
BEFORE
UM, IT LOOKED MY READING OF THE PLAN LOOK LIKE THERE'S A NICE STURDY VERTICAL BARRIER BETWEEN THE VEHICLES AND THE BIKES ON THE BRIDGE, CORRECT? YES.
UM, WHAT'S THE SURFACE THAT THE BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS, IS THAT GONNA BE CONCRETE OR, UH, IT'S A STEEL BARRIER.
BUT I'M OFF, BUT MY OTHER QUESTION IS WHAT SURFACE WE'RE ACTUALLY RIDING ON.
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IS THAT CONCRETE OR, UM, SO, UH, THE DECKING MATERIAL FOR THE MOVABLE BRIDGE MM-HMM.UM, HOWEVER, IT WILL BE, UH, KIND OF A, A COMPOSITE EPOXY MATERIAL BECAUSE THE, THE MOVABLE PORTION OF THE BRIDGE NEEDS TO BE AS LIGHT AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE HEAVIER IT IS, THE BIGGER THE COUNTERWEIGHT AND THE MORE EXPENSIVE IT GETS.
BUT NOT THAT, NOT THAT WEIRD GRID STUFF THAT'S ON D STREET FOR THE TWIN
IT WILL, IT WILL NOT BE THAT, IT WILL NOT BE GRID.
I ALSO HAVE, PLEASE, PLEASE COME ON UP.
THANKS FOR TAKING THIS QUESTION.
I LIVE IN A RIVERFRONT COMMUNITY AND JUST WANTED TO ASK REAL QUICK, UM, I WAS AT THE, UH, COMMUNITY, UM, UPDATED INFORMATION SECTION.
I THINK THE TRAFFIC ESTIMATES FOR THE COFIELD BRIDGE AT THAT TIME WERE 13,000 CARS A DAY.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT NUMBER HAS BEEN UPDATED, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT CANNEL IS NO LONGER GOING TO BE BUILDING, UM, LIKE THAT'S NOT NO LONGER GONNA BE RESIDENTIAL AREA THERE.
AND SO I WANTED TO KNOW, HAS THERE BEEN AN UPDATE TO THAT, THAT TRAFFIC ESTIMATE, OR DO YOU EXPECT AN UPDATE TO BE FORTHCOMING? THAT'S ALL I CAN, JASON, I'LL TAKE THAT ONE.
SO WE, UH, ARE GOING TO DO AN UPDATED TRAFFIC STUDY, ALTHOUGH, UM, THE NUMBERS PROBABLY WON'T CHANGE MUCH.
SO THAT PREVIOUS TRAFFIC STUDY ACTUALLY INCLUDED, IT ASSUMED FULL BUILD OUT OF EVERY DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA, SCANNELL SPIRIT LIVING, UH, RIVERSCAPE TOWN HOMES.
AND IT WAS ALSO, UM, UH, FORECASTED OUT, I BELIEVE TO 2040.
SO WE'LL BE TAKING THE SAME APPROACH WHERE IT'S FORECASTED OUT, ASSUMES FULL BUILD OUT OF EVERYTHING IN THE AREA.
AND, UH, SO YOU PROBABLY WON'T SEE A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK WHAT WE GO OFF OF IS WHAT THE LAND IS ZONED FOR.
SO PETMAN RIVER PARK, UM, WE CAN LOOK AT THE, I I'M SURE THERE WILL BE SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ABOUT THEIR PLANS FOR THE PROPERTY, AND WE CAN TRY TO DIAL THAT IN TO GET THE MOST ACCURATE, UH, TRAFFIC FORECAST POSSIBLE.
BUT LIKELIHOOD TRAFFIC MODELS TEND TO BE, UM, CONSERVATIVELY HIGH.
SO, UH, YEAH, JUST A QUESTION.
IS THERE ANY WAY FOR THE, UM, CAN YOU PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME? KELLY HAGLUND.
I'M WONDERING IF THE, UM, THE PATH ALONG THE RIVER FOR BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS COULD GO UNDER THE BRIDGE ON BOTH SIDES RATHER THAN HAVING IT, YOU KNOW, CIRCULATION COME OUT AND CROSS THE TRAFFIC.
AND THEN ALSO IF YOU KNOW THE TIMELINE FOR THE, UM, THE RIVER PATH TO CONNECT FROM THE BRIDGE TO DOWNTOWN.
SO WE LOOKED, UH, PRELIMINARILY AT THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING ABLE TO, TO TAKE THE, THE SOUTH TRAIL UNDERNEATH THE, THE PLANNED RIDGE.
UM, WITH KIND OF THE TOPOGRAPHY AND THE, THE GRADES IN THE AREA.
IT, IT PRESENTS, UH, QUITE A BIT OF A CHALLENGE.
UM, WE KIND OF, AS WE, WE PROGRESS AND WE, WE GET MORE INFORMATION, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE'VE GOT KIND OF MORE DETAILED, UH, TRAIL PLANS FOR, UH, THE ADJACENT DEVELOPMENT, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE A, A SECOND LOOK ON IF, IF THAT IS FEASIBLE, UH, TO BE ABLE TO PUT THE, THAT PATH UNDERNEATH.
UM, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE EVALUATING, UH, WE'RE NOT SHOWING IT HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO TO DO THAT OR NOT, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE KIND OF TAKEN A QUICK LOOK AT AND IT, IT POSES SOME CHALLENGES BASED ON THE GRADING.
BUT, UH, MAYBE, YEAH, THERE WAS A SECOND PART OF YOUR QUESTION.
WELL, I SEE THIS DOTTED LINE ALL THE TOWN AND IF THAT DECADES OUT OR WHAT'S THE I'LL, I'LL LET, I'LL LET BJORN.
SO, UH, LIKE I MENTIONED, THIS PIECE OF LAND HERE WAS, UH, RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY PETALUMA RIVER PARK FOUNDATION.
UM, SO REALLY THAT THAT'S KIND OF UP, THE TIMING WILL BE DRIVEN BY THEM ON, ON THE BUILD OUT OF THE RIVER TRAIL.
THAT'S WHAT ALL OF OUR CITY PLANS CALL FOR ARE, IS, IS THE COMPLETION OF THIS, UH, SECTION OF RIVER TRAIL.
AND THEN THE REASON YOU'RE SEEING A DASH LINE HERE GOING ACROSS THE CHANNEL IS BECAUSE WE'VE, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR COMMITTEE HAS DISCUSSED, UH, RIVER PARK FOLKS HAVE DISCUSSED, UH, JUST IDENTIFYING THAT REALLY, UM, CLEAR NEED FOR CONNECTION OVER TO THE RIVER PARK.
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GREAT WAY TO CON CONNECT THE TWO PARKS AND GET PEOPLE TO AND FROM DOWNTOWN IN A, WITH A REALLY NICE OFF STREET EXPERIENCE PUT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER, THAT WHOLE, OH, THIS.SO YEAH, THIS IS BEING, UM, SO THIS IS BEING BUILT BY, UH, THE RIVER PLACE APARTMENTS.
UM, THIS WAS, THIS SECTION HERE WAS BUILT YEARS AGO WHEN THIS DEVELOPMENT OCCURRED.
BASICALLY, RIGHT NOW IT'S HAPPENING.
ALL OF THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY ALONG THIS SIDE OF THE RIVER.
SO, UM, WE GET OUR LITTLE SLICE OF RIVER TRAIL WHENEVER A PROPERTY IS REDEVELOPED.
UM, IT'S REQUIRED BY THE CITY, BUT, UM, THERE'S, IT'S REALLY, UH, THAT'S A, THAT HAPPENS IN A, UNFORTUNATELY IN AN EX A VERY PIECEMEAL FASHION.
I BELIEVE THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT AND BRINGS IT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION.
UM, PAMELA, CAN WE START WITH YOU? I JUST WANNA ECHO THE, THE IMPORTANCE OF, UH, THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, UM, INCLUDING THE ONES THAT WE'VE USED, UM, RECENTLY IN OUR CONVERSATIONS, UH, REGARDING THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
I APPRECIATE THE, THE MOST RECENT PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT WHETHER THE, THERE COULD BE A TRAIL UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE SO THAT USERS OF THE TRAIL IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ALONG THE RIVER COULD AVOID, UM, NEEDING TO NEGOTIATE, UH, CAR TRAFFIC, IF THAT'S FEASIBLE.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE WELL WORTH, UH, INVESTIGATING.
UM, THOSE, THOSE I THINK ARE SOME OF MY MAIN CONCERNS.
UM, I DO LIKE THE IDEA, BJORN, THAT YOU MENTIONED OF POTENTIALLY REROUTING TRAFFIC AROUND THAT, UH, THE, THE OVAL AND MAKING THAT, UM, SINGLE DIRECTIONAL, UM, AND, UH, THAT, THAT WOULD CERTAINLY REDUCE SOME OF THE CONFLICTS IN THE AREA.
SO I THINK THAT THOSE WOULD BE IMPORTANT THINGS TO, UM, TO CONSIDER WHEN, UH, THESE, THESE NEXT IMPROVEMENTS COME THROUGH.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR THE THOUGHTFUL PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UM, I TO APPRECIATE THE, THE THOUGHT OF A ONE WAY, UM, UP THERE AT THE TOP.
I THINK THAT IN GENERAL, THE, THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROJECT IS GONNA RELY ON, YOU KNOW, SOME PRETTY, UM, PRETTY THOUGHTFUL MOBILITY SOLUTIONS.
UM, SOME OF THE THOUGHTS THAT I HAVE IS, UH, THERE'S ON, ON THE COALFIELD, UM, IN THE, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S POTENTIAL FOR, UM, VEHICLES COMING FROM THE WEST SIDE GOING EAST, UM, TO TAKE LEFT TURNS ONTO, LEMME JUST MAKE SURE I GET THE RIGHT STREETS ONTO PICO STREET.
ALVARADO STREET, UM, AND, UM, AND OBVIOUSLY BATISTA, IF THERE'S, UM, POTENTIAL THERE TO, UM, MAYBE NOT ALLOW LEFT TURNS.
I KNOW THAT MIGHT BE AN INCONVENIENCE FOR THE NEIGHBORS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT IT MIGHT ALSO STOP A LOT MORE VEHICLES FROM, UM, CUTTING THROUGH AND WE'VE GOT ROUNDABOUTS FOR GOING IN THERE.
UM, I'M NOT, I'M NOT SAYING IT'S THE RIGHT THING, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK AT.
UM, SIMILARLY ON THE WEST SIDE OF, UM, CAULFIELD THINK CONSIDERING NOT ALLOWING LEFT TURNS INTO THE RIVERVIEW, UM, DEVELOPMENT, THE BURBANK HOUSING PROJECT SO THAT CARS DON'T STACK UP THERE WHILE IT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND WE'D, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU HAVE CARS TRYING TO GO AROUND THEM AND WE JUST MORE PINCH POINTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT WHEN THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF GO AROUND THE ROUNDABOUT AND THEN TAKE A RIGHT LANE OR RIGHT TURN.
SO AVOIDING LEFT TURNS FEELS LIKE IT MIGHT BE PART OF THE SOLUTION.
UM, UH, WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH, UM, UH, MR. QUINT'S COMMENTS ABOUT TRYING TO GET THAT SMART PATH IN.
UM, I THINK THERE'S GONNA BE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE FROM THE WEST SIDE THAT ARE GOING TO SCHOENBERGER ON THIS AND, UM, GIVING THEM SOME ALTERNATIVE WAY TO, UM, LIKE IF WE, IF WE FORCE THEM TO HAVE TO GO OUT ON LAKEVILLE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE DEFINITELY GONNA DRIVE.
IF WE GIVE THEM SOME WAY TO AVOID LAKEVILLE, THEY, THEY MIGHT NOT.
SO, UM, WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT, UM, DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO INCLUDE THAT IN THIS PROJECT.
UM, I THINK ON THE, ON THE WEST SIDE IN PARTICULAR, UH, THAT ROUNDABOUT, IT'S, IT'S CERTAINLY DESIGNED FOR CARS AND WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT HOW TO SLOW CARS GOING IN AND COMING OUT ON THAT.
UM, FRANK HAD SOME GREAT COMMENTS ON THAT, BUT I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU.
BUT I THINK IN GENERAL I'D BE LOOKING FOR SOME CREATIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW TO SLOW TRAFFIC IN THE ROUNDABOUT.
UM, CERTAINLY LIKE THE IDEA OF THE MULTI-USE PATH GOING UNDER, UM, UNDER THE BRIDGE WHEREVER IT CAN IF, IF THAT'S POSSIBLE.
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AND THEN, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY IT.UM, AND IF WE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE A VMT ISSUE ON THIS, BUT IF WE DO, I THINK THAT SMART MULTI-USE PATH COULD BE, YOU KNOW, A, A REAL MEASURE.
UM, AND OF COURSE I'D LOVE TO SEE THE PATH GOING DOWN THE WEST SIDE
UM, UH, BUT THAT'S A LONG WAYS OUT.
I THINK THERE'S SOME OLD INDUSTRIAL, UH, LANDOWNERS THERE, CAVAL MACHINERY AND VAN BER AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT I DON'T, I DON'T SEE THEM LEAVING ANYTIME SOON.
SO THAT'S PROBABLY A WAYS OUT, BUT IT'S IN OUR PLAN SO IT WON'T, WON'T BE OVERLOOKED IF AND WHEN THEY DO LEAVE.
UM, I JUST WANNA ECHO THE COMMENTS THAT CAME UP DURING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AROUND ART AND DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE THE, THE CITY TO EXPLORE THAT AS A, TO MAKE IT MORE BEAUTIFUL AND MORE PLACEMAKING.
UM, BUT ALSO TO DEFER GRAFFITI ON THE BRIDGE.
UM, SO MAKE IT SOMETHING TO, TO COME EXPERIENCE AND TO COME SEE.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF NO LEFT TURNS.
I WAS THINKING, UM, PERHAPS, AND MAYBE THIS IS WHAT YOU MEANT DARREN BEFORE ABOUT RAISING THAT AROUND THE KEEP CLEAR SPACE AROUND THAT DRIVEWAY, CURB CUT, BUT WHILE IT'S NOT A RAISED INTERSECTION, COULD THERE BE SOME KIND OF RUBBER EYE, YOU KNOW, RAISE SOMETHING THERE TO WHEN CARS ARE COMING IN AND OUT OF THAT DRIVEWAY TO GENTLY REMIND THEM THAT THIS, THEY'RE ENTERING A SPACE THAT IS FOR BIKES AS WELL.
UM, SO SOME CREATIVE SOLUTION THERE.
AND MAYBE IT'S AS SIMPLE AS, YOU KNOW, NO LEFT TURNS, YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND THE ROUNDABOUT AND MAKE A RIGHT.
UM, BUT I DEFINITELY WOULD ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO EXPLORE SOMETHING THERE SO THAT IF BIKES ARE IN THE ROUNDABOUT AND THEY NEED TO USE THAT CURB CUT TO GET ONTO THE BRIDGE, MULTI-USE PATH, THAT IT IS SAFE AND SMOOTH TRANSITION FOR THEM.
I DON'T HAVE ANY, UM, COMMENTS AT THIS TIME, ADAM.
UH, DEFINITELY LIKE THE IDEA ABOUT THE SPLIT GOING THROUGH, UM, AROUND THE ROUNDABOUT, UH, TO JUST BE ABLE TO BIFURCATE TRAFFIC.
UM, I DEFINITELY SEE THIS AS A WAY FOR PEOPLE WANTING TO GET THROUGH EASIER.
SO AS MUCH AS, LIKE YOU SAID, TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE AND NOT TO HAVE, UM, BACK ROADS KIND OF EXPLORATIONS.
JUST STAY ON THE MAIN ROUTES, I THINK.
UH, YEAH, ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE RIVER PLACE DRIVEWAY IS THE 67 PARKING SPACES THAT STILL ACCURATE? I WAS LOOKING ONLINE.
YEAH, I GUESS I WAS JUST TRYING TO THINK.
YEAH, I WOULD JUST LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT THE TRAFFIC STUDY SAYS, JUST WHAT THAT FREQUENCY IS LIKE.
UM, BUT JUST KNOWING THAT AND YEAH, THE ROAD CONDITIONS, IT DOES SEEM, YEAH, LIKE THERE'S CREATIVE THINGS TO DO, UM, LIKE DISTRACT PEOPLE WITH ART
BUT I THINK PART OF IT WAS ABOUT, UM, SIGNALING SOME SIGNALING SIGNAGE, UH, AND KIND OF, I SAW THAT FOR TWO OPPORTUNITIES.
ONE FOR THINKING ABOUT FOLKS COMING ALONG PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH, IF THERE'S A BOAT APPROACHING TO KNOW THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A BOAT APPROACHING, YOU CAN'T GO LEFT FOR THE NEXT 10 MINUTES.
AND THEN THE SAME, TRYING TO THINK ABOUT, WELL IF SOMEONE'S TRYING TO COME OUT OF RIVER PLACE APARTMENTS, THERE COULD BE SOME LITTLE SENSOR THAT ONCE THEY CROSS OVER AND THEY START TO EXIT, UM, THAT, THAT ALSO MAY BE FLASHES SOME SIGN AND SAYS WARNING EXIT OR VEHICLE EXITING.
THAT COULD BE FOR THE CARS, YOU KNOW, SPEEDING AROUND.
YOU KNOW, ALSO, I THINK TOO FROM PETA BOULEVARD SOUTH GOING, UH, OVER CAWFIELD BRIDGE, UM, BUT ALSO FOR THE BICYCLIST PEDESTRIANS AS WELL.
SO THEN ON THE, UM, KIND OF ON THE LONG ALONG THE LINES OF IMPROVING, LET'S NOT MAKE IT JUST LOOK LIKE THE D STREET BRIDGE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD BE LEGAL TO PUT LIKE A LITTLE BALL BOUT LIKE A SEATING AREA ON THE BRIDGE.
UM, SO YOU COULD JUST HAVE EITHER A SEATING AREA OR JUST A STANDING SPOT THAT'S NOT IN THAT MAIN 10 FOOT TRAVEL LANE, BUT JUST GO HANG OUT.
MAYBE NOT FISHING BECAUSE
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DON'T WANT THE FISHING LINE GOING INTO THE WALKWAY, BUT AT LEAST TO GO HANG OUT AND ENJOY, YOU KNOW, THE NICE VIEW.UM, SO IF THAT'S POSSIBLE, THAT COULD BE REALLY GREAT.
PROBABLY NOT ON THE MOVABLE SPAN THOUGH, RIGHT? YEAH, I KNOW I KNOW, I WAS LIKE, WELL, PROBABLY NOT.
UH, AND THEN, LET'S SEE, THE LAST COMMENT WAS AROUND, UH, THE IDEA OF THE, UM, KINDA, YEAH, BUILDING OUT THE FULL VISION OF THE TRAIL ALONG THE RIVER.
HOW CAN WE DO THAT? NOT RELYING ON PIECEMEAL.
UM, SO GOOGLE CAME OUT WITH FLOATING DOCK FOR TIDAL CONDITIONS, BIKE TRAIL, POTENTIALLY.
AND WHAT, WHAT ALSO CAME TO MIND IS THAT THE, UM, SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANT HAS A HUGE AMOUNT OF UNTAPPED MONEY FOR DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.
THIS SEEMS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.
SAY, LET'S STOP WASTING OUR TIME WAITING TO DO THIS PIECEMEAL.
LET'S SEE WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THESE FLOATING DOTS TO CONNECT THE GAPS ALONG THE WAY.
UM, DO SOME RAMPS, OBVIOUSLY GOING DOWN, UM, BUT THEN JUST, YOU KNOW, NOT HAVE TO WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO CHANGE OWNERSHIP OR HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART OR WHATEVER WOULD TAKE.
UM, SO YEAH, JUST, I WOULD RECOMMEND THE CITY LOOK INTO THAT.
I THINK THE CALL FOR PROJECTS, OR SORRY, CALL FOR IDEAS, WHATEVER THE RIGHT SITES LIKE, UM, IS OPEN FOR THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL.
SO YOU CAN START TO LOOK AT WHAT, UM, POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES THERE ARE TO, UM, TO GET THAT PUSHED FORWARD.
YEAH, I WOULD BE REPEATING EVERYONE ELSE'S STATEMENTS.
I JUST THINK, UH, AS MUCH AS WE CAN DO TO REALLY GET VISIBILITY ON THOSE CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENTS, ESPECIALLY THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE USERS IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND MAYBE IT IS STOPPING LEFT TURNS.
UM, BUT YEAH, JUST GETTING VISIBILITY ON THAT.
UH, AND TO CLARIFY, I WAS TALKING ABOUT 3D RAISED QUA CROSSWALKS, THOSE LIKE OPTICAL ILLUSION CROSSWALKS.
JUST READING ABOUT THOSE, THERE'S BEEN SOME RESEARCH THAT CAUSES MORE ERRATIC BEHAVIOR.
SO MAYBE, MAYBE THAT'S NOT THE ANSWER.
CAN I ASK ONE MORE QUESTION? YES.
DO WE KNOW WHAT THE STATUS ON RIVERSCAPE TOWN HOMES IS? I DO NOT.
UH, WE CAN, HAVE YOU SEEN, HAS ANY COME TO PLANNING COMMISSION AT ALL OR? NO, WE GOT AN UPDATE ON IT, UH, AND SAW THEIR SITE PLAN.
THERE WAS A, AN ISSUE WITH THEM GETTING SOME LAND THERE RIGHT BY THE RIVER.
WE HAD TO DO A SWAP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT AS FAR AS I KNOW, THEY'RE PROCEEDING.
UM, I DON'T THINK THERE'S BEEN ANY HOLDUPS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
I BELIEVE THE PROJECT IS APPROVED THOUGH.
IT'S JUST, YEAH, WE'VE ALREADY FINALIZED THE SUBDIVISION MAP.
I'M JUST WONDERING 'CAUSE THERE'S A, THERE'S A, UH, A STOP SIGN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK WHEN YOU LEAVE ON CAULFIELD.
UM, THAT'S LIKE REALLY KIND OF A PAIN IN THE NECK.
IT'S BEEN IN, BE IN MY BONNET EVER SINCE THIS PROJECT GOT DONE AND THEY PROMISED TO FIX IT, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THEY FIX IT.
UM, SO WE ARE MOVING TO ITEM FOUR, WHICH IS REVIEW AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE HOWARD STREET IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.
AND BJORN, YOU ARE PRESENTING THIS? YES.
SO YEAH, TONIGHT, UM, WE'LL BE, UH, GIVING YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR HOWARD STREET IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, WHICH INCLUDES PAVING AND UTILITIES BETWEEN A STREET AND WEST STREET, UM, CURRENTLY IN DESIGN.
AND, UM, WE'RE JUST ON THE HEELS OF A, A RECENT COMMUNITY MEETING THAT WE HELD HERE, UH, A COUPLE WEEKS BACK.
UM, IT'S LARGELY AS THE SAME CONTENT THAT WAS SHARED THAT EVENING.
SO EXCITED TO GET PBA PBAS FEEDBACK ON, UH, WHAT WE SHARED WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
UM, WE'LL GO OVER EXISTING CONDITIONS, SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT, UM, TELL YOU WHAT WE HEARD AT OUR LAST TWO WORKSHOPS AND THROUGH OUR ONLINE SURVEY.
AND THEN SPEND SOME TIME GOING THROUGH PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS
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AND TAKE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.SO, LIKE I MENTIONED, THE, THE PRIMARY PROJECT IS ON HOWARD STREET, BETWEEN WEST AND A STREETS, UH, THAT FULL LENGTH WILL HAVE SEWER AND WATER MAIN REPLACEMENTS, AS WELL AS ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE, UH, SOME UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS ALSO HAPPENING ON SEVERAL SIDE STREETS THAT ARE SHOWN HERE.
UM, WE'RE CURRENTLY EXPLORING WHAT TYPE OF ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS ARE NEEDED OR FEASIBLE ON, ON THOSE SIDE STREETS.
BUT, UM, UH, DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU ON THAT JUST YET.
SO THE PROJECT WILL REPLACE UNDERSIZED AND AGING UTILITIES.
HOWARD STREETS, UH, THE, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND ARE, UM, SEWER AND WATER LINES OR SEWER AND WATER MAINS ARE, ARE VERY UNDERSIZED FOR THE USE AND, UH, AND, UH, PRONE TO BRAKES.
VERY OLD, UH, MATERIALS WE OBVIOUSLY WANT TO CAPITALIZE ON, UH, DELIVER AN EFFICIENT PROJECT THAT MINIMIZES DISRUPTION TO THE PUBLIC.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, TEAR UP THE ROADWAY FOR UTILITY REPLACEMENT AND THEN COME BACK IN AND RECONSTRUCT A NICE NEW ROADWAY THAT WE KNOW WON'T BE, UH, TOUCHED FOR A LONG TIME.
AND WHEN WE DO THAT, OBVIOUSLY WE ALWAYS LOOK FOR EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY.
AND THAT'S REALLY WHERE WE'LL BE FOCUSING TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION.
QUICK LOOK AT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS.
YOU CAN SEE, UH, FAILED PAVEMENT THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR.
UH, ON THE RIGHT THERE YOU'LL SEE WE'VE GOT THE HISTORIC COBBLESTONE CURBS AND, AND GUTTERS ALONG MUCH OF THE CORRIDOR, AND WE AIM TO PRESERVE THOSE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
WE HAVE, UH, UH, WE EITHER DON'T HAVE CURB RAMPS OR HAVE CURB RAMPS THAT DO NOT MEET CURRENT ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS.
UH, SO YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES HERE FOR ANYONE USING A WALKER, WHEELCHAIR, STROLLER, UM, OR EVEN NOT, IT'S JUST A CHALLENGING STREET TO NAVIGATE BY FOOT.
AND THEN WE'VE GOT DIFFERENT CONDITIONS.
UH, SO IT, UH, DOWN AT THE SOUTH END OF THE PROJECT, UH, AT THE LIBERTY AND A STREET INTERSECTIONS, UH, IT'S PRETTY WIDE OPEN.
WE'LL ACTUALLY DO A, A VERY, WE'LL HAVE A VERY FOCUSED CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION LATER.
AND THEN UP AT THE NORTH END OF THE CORRIDOR NEAR WEST STREET, IT NARROWS SIGNIFICANTLY.
AND THAT'S A SECTION WHERE WE, UM, HAVE SOME SIDEWALK, UH, OR WE'RE PLANNING FOR SOME SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
HERE'S A LOOK AT THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF VEHICLES PER DAY THAT USE THE CORRIDOR BY BLOCK.
UH, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT, IT'S, UH, THE BUSIEST STRETCH IS BETWEEN WASHINGTON STREET AND A STREET.
AND THEN THIS IS A LOOK AT 85TH PERCENTILE SPEEDS THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR.
UM, AND SO AGAIN, THE, THE HIGHER SPEEDS COINCIDE WITH THE, THE BUSIER STRETCHES, UH, DOWN BY, UH, CLOSER TO DOWNTOWN.
THESE ARE THE REPORTED COLLISIONS THAT WE HAVE FROM 2018 TO 2022.
UH, ONE VEHICLE VERSUS PEDESTRIAN COLLISION AT THE, UH, BODEGA WASHINGTON HOWARD SIGNALED INTERSECTION, UH, AS WELL AS ONE VEHICLE INTER, UH, COLLISION.
AT THAT INTERSECTION, WE'VE GOT A VEHICLE COLLISION AT THE STANLEY STREET INTERSECTION THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A CAR TURNING LEFT OFF OF STANLEY.
THAT'S SOMETHING I'LL WE'LL TALK ABOUT.
AND THEN A BIKE COLLISION, WHICH WAS A RIGHT HOOK COLLISION FROM SOMEONE, SOMEONE BIKING NORTHBOUND, UH, IN THE A STREET LIBERTY STREET AREA.
SO WE ARE, UH, CURRENTLY DESIGNING THIS.
WE'RE HOPING TO WRAP UP THE DESIGN BY THE END OF THE YEAR AND, AND CONSTRUCT THIS IN 2025.
AND WE'LL BE PROVIDING A MUCH MORE DETAILED TIMELINE AS WE GET FURTHER INTO THE DESIGN.
THE TOP, SO WE, WE HAD A SURVEY OUT FOR, UH, DURING THE FALL, UH, FOR A MONTH OR TWO.
AND THE TOP PRIORITIES WE HEARD WERE IMPROVING WALKING CONDITIONS, UH, NOT ONLY FROM AN ACCESSIBILITY STANDPOINT, BUT ALSO, UH, AN EYE TOWARDS CROSSWALK SAFETY AND JUST, UH, AND INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CROSSWALKS, UH, SLOWING VEHICLE TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR.
NOT NO SURPRISE THERE, WE HEAR THAT ON EVERY PROJECT AND IMPROVING BICYCLING CONDITIONS.
THIS IS, UH, CURRENTLY A CLASS THREE BIKE ROUTE IN OUR CITY'S BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN.
AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S USED BY, UM, DESPITE ITS TININESS, IT IS USED BY PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE SIGNAL.
IT'S ONE OF THE FEW SIGNALED CROSSINGS OF, OF WASHINGTON AND BODEGA.
UH, MORE SPECIFIC FEEDBACK THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED.
UM, THE, THE, THE TOP INTERSECTIONS THAT HAVE, OR THE INTERSECTIONS THAT HAVE
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REALLY RISEN TO THE TOP AS FAR AS, UH, REQUESTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS HAVE BEEN THE BODEGA WASHINGTON SIGNAL, WESTERN AVENUE, BASSETT STREET, AND LIBERTY STREET.WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THE NEED TO IMPROVE, WELL, I JUST TALKED ABOUT THE NEED TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY, WALKING, BIKING, AND SPEEDING ADDRESS, SPEEDING THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR.
UH, WE'VE GOTTEN COMPLAINTS, OBVIOUSLY NOW WITH, UM, THE NEW COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN THE AREA ABOUT, UH, SPILLOVER PARKING NEAR ASSOCIATED WITH CROOKED GOAT AND ACME BURGER, AS WELL AS, UM, SPILLOVER PARKING AND LOADING IMPACTS, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH ST.
VINCENT'S ELEMENTARY AND, UH, CHURCH.
AND THEN, UH, LOTS OF COMMENTS ABOUT ADDRESSING THAT NARROW SECTION UP NEAR WEST STREET, UM, PRIMARILY FROM A PEDESTRIAN STANDPOINT.
SO WE'LL KIND OF GO THROUGH THE CORRIDOR WIDE, UM, IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND THEN FOCUS IN ON A COUPLE OF AREAS.
SO WITH THESE TYPICAL INTERSECTION ENHANCEMENTS, UH, THE IDEA HERE IS WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT INSTALLING THESE AT ALL OF OUR, UH, REALLY AT ALL OF OUR INTERSECTIONS AND CROSSWALKS ON THE CORRIDOR.
SO THE HIGH HIGH VISIBILITY LADDER CROSSWALK, ACCESSIBLE CURB RAMPS BUILDING IN, UH, CONCRETE CURB EXTENSIONS.
IT'S A PRETTY WIDE ROAD, SO THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM TO, UH, PUSH THE, THE CURBS OUT, PUSH THE SIDEWALK OUT INTO THE STREET AT CROSSING LOCATIONS, ALSO PROHIBITING PARKING NEAR ALL OF THOSE INTERSECTIONS AND CROSSWALKS TO IMPROVE SITE DISTANCE.
AND THEN AT LOCATIONS WITHOUT STOP SIGNS, LOOKING AT THE, UH, RAPID FLASHING BEACONS WITH THIS PROJECT.
WE WILL ALSO BE LOOKING AT, UH, INSTALLING MEDIAN REFUGE ISLANDS AT THE UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALK LOCATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC CALMING AND, UH, AND, AND CROSSWALK, UH, IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THESE HAVE BEEN, I I SAW A STUDY RECENTLY ABOUT, UM, THESE ACTUALLY HAVE HAD A REALLY DRAMATIC IMPACT, NOT ONLY ON IMPROVING CROSSWALK SAFETY, BUT, UM, THE RATE AT WHICH DRIVERS YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS, UH, GOES, IS MUCH HIGHER WITH MEDIAN REFUGE ISLANDS IN PLACE.
SO, LOOKING, UH, AT THE WHOLE, AT THE CORRIDOR AS A WHOLE, AT ALL THE INTERSECTION TREATMENTS, UM, YOU'LL SEE, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL STOP SIGNS ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE CORRIDOR.
WE'VE GOT THE ONE SIGNALED INTERSECTION AT BODEGA AND WASHINGTON.
WE HAVE THREE EXISTING UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS THAT IS, YOU KNOW, CROSSWALKS WITH WITHOUT A STOP SIGN OR SIGNAL.
THOSE ARE AT UNION STREET NEAR ST.
WE'VE GOT TWO AT BASSETT STREET BY THE CHURCH, AND THEN WE'VE GOT ONE ACROSS A STREET.
SO WE WOULD, UH, PRE MAINTAIN ALL OF THOSE, UH, LEAVE THOSE IN PLACE.
AND WE ARE LOOKING AT ADDING TWO ADDITIONAL UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS, ONE AT KENT STREET THAT WOULD CONNECT TO THE DOG PARK ENTRANCE OF OAK HILL PARK.
THERE'S NO CROSSWALK DOWN THERE CURRENTLY.
AND THEN ANOTHER, UH, SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE, UH, KINDA THE HALFWAY POINT BETWEEN THE BODEGA SIGNAL AND WESTERN STOP SIGN, UH, WHICH IS HARRIS STREET, BREAKING THAT LONG STRETCH UP INTO, UH, AND PROVIDING A MORE DIRECT CROSSING ROUTE.
UH, SO THE STREET IS PRETTY WIDE, AND WE HAVE ROOM TO ADD AN UPHILL BIKE, UH, UPHILL BIKE LANE.
AND OBVIOUSLY IF YOU HAVE LIMITED WIDTH, SO WE DON'T HAVE QUITE ENOUGH WIDTH TO ADD BIKE LANES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
BUT, UH, WE DO HAVE ENOUGH WIDTH TO ADD A NICE WIDE BUFFERED BIKE LANE IN THE UPHILL DIRECTION.
AND THAT'S, UH, YOU, YOU, YOU PRIORITIZE THE UPHILL DIRECTION BECAUSE OF THE SPEED DIFFERENTIAL.
OBVIOUSLY BIKES ARE MOVING, PEOPLE ARE BIKING SLOWER UPHILL, SO THERE'S A GREATER NEED FOR SEPARATION FROM VEHICLE TRAFFIC.
AND THEN IN THE DOWNHILL DIRECTION, WE'RE LOOKING AT A CLASS SHARE SITUATION WITH BIKES MAY USE FULL LANE SIGNAGE AND HIGH VISIBILITY SHARES, AND TRYING TO EMPOWER PEOPLE TO TAKE THE LANE.
AND SINCE THEY'RE GOING DOWNHILL, THEY CAN MAINTAIN A, A CLOSER SPEED TO, UH, VEHICLE TRAFFIC.
SO THE HILL DOES IT CRESTS AT OAK STREET, SO THE UPHILL BIKE LANES WOULD BE SOUTHBOUND FROM, UH, THE BEND, UH, WHERE THE ROADWAY NARROWS UP TOWARDS WEST STREET.
UH, THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT SHOWING IT GOING ALL THE WAY TO WEST IS BECAUSE THE ROAD DOES NARROW QUITE A BIT UP THERE UPHILL FROM, UH, THE GALLAND AREA UP TO OAK.
AND THEN IT SWITCHES DIRECTIONS.
SO COMING FROM A STREET UP TO OAK, UH, IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, WE'RE LOOKING AT SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS NEAR WEST STREET.
UH, ON THE LEFT OF THIS IMAGE, THIS IS ACTUALLY CITY PROPERTY THAT HAS BEEN LANDSCAPED BY THE PROPERTY OWNER.
SO WE'VE, WE'RE TALKING TO THEM ABOUT, UM, THE POSSIBILITY OF INSTALLING A SIDEWALK RIGHT HERE ON CITY RIGHT OF WAY.
AND THEN, UM, ON THE, ON THIS SIDE OF THE STREET, YOU HAVE A SIDEWALK,
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BUT IT'S AN AWKWARD SIDEWALK.OFTENTIMES PEOPLE PARK UP ON THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE UP HERE, YOU ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE A, UM, CURB.
THE ROADWAY IS FLUSH WITH THE SIDEWALK.
AND BECAUSE IT'S NARROW, OBVIOUSLY THAT PUTS MORE PRESSURE ON PEOPLE PARKING THEIR CARS TO PARK ON THE SIDEWALK.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL LOOK AT DEFINING AREAS WHERE WE HAVE ENOUGH WIDTH FOR PEOPLE TO SAFELY PARK.
LEAVE THE ROADWAY CLEAR AND LEAVE THE SIDEWALK CLEAR.
AND WE'LL LOOK AT, UH, SOME, SOME WAYS TO, UH, GIVE THIS SIDEWALK A LITTLE BIT MORE DEFINITION.
THIS IS JUST LOOKING BACK IN THE OTHER DIRECTION.
UM, SO YOU CAN JUST SEE IT FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE LOOKING DOWNHILL TOWARDS WEST STREET.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE, ONE OF THE, UH, WE GOT A LOT OF COMMENTS AT OUR OPEN HOUSE OR OUR, OUR OUR MEETING RECENTLY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
A LOT OF FOLKS ASKED US TO ALSO CLOSE THE SIDEWALK GAP ON WEST STREET, UM, GOING UP THE HILL ON THIS SIDE.
SO, UM, LOOKING AT, WE'LL LOOK AT THE FEASIBILITY OF IF WE GET THIS, THIS SIDEWALK IN HERE, SEEING IF WE CAN TIE THAT SIDEWALK UP INTO THIS PROJECT AS WELL.
UM, WE'VE LOOKED REALLY CLOSELY AT BODEGA AND WASHINGTON, THE SIGNAL THERE, AND THIS IS LESS OF A BIKE PED TREATMENT, BUT MORE OF A, MORE FOR OUR, UH, FOR PEOPLE DRIVING RIGHT NOW, UH, AT THIS INTERSECTION.
IF YOU'RE DRIVING ON HOWARD STREET, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ROOM FOR OPPOSING LEFTS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY CLEAR EACH OTHER IN THAT INTERSECTION.
SO THERE'S THIS REALLY AWKWARD DANCE YOU DO AS A LEFT TURNING DRIVER, WHERE YOU'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO'S GONNA GO FIRST.
UM, AND, UH, IT, IT'S LED TO SOME ISSUES.
SO, UH, OBVIOUSLY NOT AN IDEAL SITUATION.
SO WE LOOKED AT THE FEASIBILITY OF GETTING IN DEDICATED LEFT TURN LANES AND SIGNALS IN A WAY THAT THOSE OPPOSING LEFTS COULD CLEAR EACH OTHER.
UH, AND IT REALLY, UNFORTUNATELY, IS NOT FEASIBLE WITH THE STRANGE, UH, WITH THE, WITH THE ANGLES OF THIS INTERSECTION.
SO, UH, WHAT WE HAVE ARRIVED AT IS A SPLIT SIGNAL PHASE, SO THAT THOSE TWO DIRECTIONS WILL NO LONGER SHARE GREEN.
SO IF YOU'RE DRIVING NORTH ON HOWARD, YOU'LL GET A GREEN, ALL OF THE SOUTHBOUND TRAFFIC WILL BE STOPPED.
AND THEN, UH, THE OPPOSITE WILL HAPPEN WHEN SOUTHBOUND GETS THERE GREEN, UH, I BELIEVE THESE ARE ALREADY IN PLACE, A FIVE SECOND LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVAL, JUST SORT OF THE STANDARD, UH, PRACTICE THAT WE'RE DOING THROUGHOUT THE CITY NOW.
AND WE'LL ALSO BE ADDING BIKE BOXES TO THE INTERSECTION, UH, ON HOWARD.
NOW WE GET TO THE, UM, KINDA THE EXCITING PART OF THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE THIS, THIS, THIS INTERSECTION HAS A, A LOT OF POTENTIAL TO REALLY BE REIMAGINED THROUGH THIS PROJECT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, JUST, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, A LOT WE CAN DO TO TIGHTEN UP THIS INTERSECTION, SLOW THE TURNING MOVEMENTS, SHORTEN THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING DISTANCES, UH, MAKE IT A, A SAFER AND MORE PLEASANT PLACE TO BE.
SO THE FIRST OPTION THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, WOULD INVOLVE BASICALLY MAINTAINING THE EXISTING TRAFFIC CIRCULATION AS YOU HAVE OUT THERE TODAY, RELOCATING THE CROSSWALK, SO PULLING THAT CROSSWALK, UM, NORTH A LITTLE BIT, UH, FOR BETTER SITE DISTANCE.
AND THEN EXTENDING THE CURB, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE ALONG, UM, AT THE, THIS CORNER HERE, PULLING THIS OUT TO NOT ONLY SHORTEN THIS CROSSING DISTANCE, BUT REALLY TO SLOW DOWN THIS RIGHT TURNING MOVEMENT, UM, SO THAT THIS IS NO LONGER A FREE RIGHT ONTO LIBERTY.
UH, CREATING A CROSSWALK ACROSS, EXTENDING THE MEDIAN QUITE A BIT.
AND THEN SAME THING OVER HERE.
AND THEN OPTION TWO, UH, WHICH DOES INVOLVE A CIRCULATION CHANGE IS REALLY THE SAME IDEA, BUT NOW LIBERTY STREET WOULD BE ONE WAY NORTHBOUND.
SO, UM, UH, WHAT THIS WOULD DO IS, UH, IT ACHIEVES THE SAME THINGS.
YOU'VE GOT A, YOU'VE SLOWED DOWN THIS TURNING MOVEMENT ONTO LIBERTY.
UH, YOU'VE ELIMINATED, UM, WHAT'S, WHAT CAN BE A, A VERY CHALLENGING MANEUVER OFF OF LIBERTY ONTO HOWARD.
UH, BOTH MAKING RIGHTS AND LEFTS JUST BECAUSE OF THE SITE DISTANCES HERE, PRIMARILY MAKING, UM, MAKING THOSE LEFTS IS, IS MORE CHALLENGING.
AND THEN IT ALSO CREATES, UH, SPACE TO ADD ANGLED PARKING ALONG THE CHURCH FRONTAGE ON LIBERTY STREET.
UM, THIS IS STILL A VERY CONCEPTUAL IDEA.
WE HAVE NOT, WE, WE, UH, HAVE JUST BEGUN DATA COLLECTION ON THIS.
SO WE'RE GONNA BE KIND OF QUANTIFYING THE IMPACTS OF THIS, LOOKING AT, UH, IMPACTS ON TO LIBERTY STREET IN TERMS OF VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, UH, QUANTIFYING PARKING IMPACTS, AND THEN ALSO, UM, LOOKING AT IMPACTS ON THE WESTERN HOWARD INTERSECTION WITH ANY DIVERTED TRAFFIC.
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THAT ONCE WE HAVE THAT STUDY DONE, WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING SOME NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH TO SEE WHAT FOLKS, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON, ON LIBERTY STREET, UH, THINK OF THE IDEA.UM, SO IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE FIRST PITCHED AT THE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP A COUPLE WEEKS BACK.
THOSE IN ATTENDANCE THAT NIGHT, REALLY, UH, THERE WAS A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR THE IDEA.
UM, BUT LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE DATA TO COLLECT AND, UH, AND MORE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO DO ON THIS.
SO, ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE PROJECT, WE'RE, UH, ALSO REVIEWING STREETLIGHT COVERAGE OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE THAT.
AND THEN, UM, MIGHT CUT OUT, HAPPEN TO BE TONIGHT.
UM, WE ARE REVIEWING STREETLIGHT COVERAGE AND DRAINAGE AND STORM WATER ISSUES.
WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO INCORPORATE NEW BEST PRACTICES AROUND, UH, YOU KNOW, BI WITH BIOSWALES CAP, STORM WATER, UH, AND, AND GETTING IT FILTERED OR GETTING IT INTO THE GROUND BEFORE IT GETS INTO THE STORMWATER, UH, SYSTEM.
AND ALSO LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES FOR STREET TREES.
UH, I MENTIONED THAT LEFT TURN COLLISION FROM STANLEY ONTO HOWARD.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT.
AND THEN, UH, TO ADDRESS THE SPILLOVER PARKING CONCERNS WILL BE WE ARE, UH, GETTING UNDERWAY WITHIN THE NEXT, UH, MONTH OR TWO WITH OUR DOWNTOWN AREA PARKING MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH WE'LL LOOK AT, UH, UTILIZATION RATES OF PARKING IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND, UH, TURNOVER AND, AND, UH, CON DO, UH, THERE'LL BE SOME PUBLIC OUTREACH INVOLVED TO UNDERSTAND TRAVEL BEHAVIORS.
AND THEN OUR CONSULTANT FOR THAT WILL BE COMING UP WITH A, A SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND HOW TO BETTER MANAGE PARKING.
AND THAT COULD INCLUDE, UH, EXPANSION OF OUR TIME, LIMITED PARKING ZONES, RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMITS, THINGS OF THAT TO, UM, UH, EASE THE, SOME OF THE SPILLOVER IMPACTS THAT THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE EXPERIENCING OFF OF HOWARD STREET.
SO WITH THAT, I THINK I AM READY TO TAKE COMMITTEE QUESTIONS.
BJORN, CAN I JUST CLARIFY, DO YOU WANT US TO GIVE YOU FEEDBACK ON THE RECONFIGURATION OPTIONS, OR DO YOU WANNA WAIT UNTIL NO, THAT'S FINE.
YEAH, LET'S, UH, WE'LL DO QUESTIONS FIRST AND THEN, UH, YEAH, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR WHAT THE COMMITTEE AND AND PUBLIC THINK ABOUT THE LIBERTY STREET IDEAS.
COULD WE START WITH YOU, DARREN? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
UH, YOU KIND OF HIT ON ONE OF MY QUESTIONS ABOUT STREET TREES, AND I WAS WONDERING THE FEASIBILITY AND CHALLENGES.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE ASSESSED KIND OF THE WHOLE ROUTE, BUT THROUGHOUT, ESPECIALLY WHEN I SEE THAT LIBERTY AND A INTERSECTION, I IMAGINE WE'RE PRETTY LIMITED FOR VISIBILITY, RIGHT? IN THAT AREA.
THERE, THERE REALLY COULD BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO ADD LANDSCAPING, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE EXTENDING THE MEDIANS, OBVIOUSLY THE MEDIAN WOULD BE LOW LYING LANDSCAPING, BUT, UM, UH, THAT CURB THAT CORNER, UH, ALONG AT THE, A STREET, UM, INTERSECTION, THERE COULD BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE.
UH, YEAH, WE WOULD DEFINITELY LOOK AT SITE DISTANCE WITH TREES, BUT THE VERY LEAST LOW LYING LANDSCAPING COULD BE INCORPORATED.
AND BIOSWELLS, I LIKE SEEING THAT.
AND THEN JUST IN TERMS OF QUESTIONS, UH, HOW MUCH CURRENTLY, HOW MUCH OF THE ADJUSTING SIDEWALKS OR CURB EDGES IS PLANNED AT THE MOMENT? I MEAN, I KNOW WE'RE GONNA BE DIGGING UP UTILITIES, BUT THROUGHOUT, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE OLD CURB COBBLES THERE, I, I DON'T THINK THEY NECESSARILY NEED TO BE REPLACED.
SO HOW MUCH IS PLANNED CURRENTLY? JUST WHAT'S REQUIRED OR IS IT KIND OF, EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE REPLACED ALONG THE UTILITIES OR, UH, YEAH, THAT'S UNDER ASSESSMENT.
SO AT A MINIMUM, ALL OF THE STREET CORNERS WOULD BE UPGRADED.
AND THEN, UH, FOR THE SIDEWALKS, I KNOW KEN, KEN MIGHT BE WITH US, HE COULD MAYBE CLARIFY, UH, UH, KIND OF MID-BLOCK, UH, WHAT TYPES OF SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS WE'D BE LOOKING AT.
YEAH, SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT A, A MINIMUM SIX FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK.
AND THE, THE HISTORIC CURVES, WE'VE GOTTEN PRETTY GOOD WITH THE, THE CITY'S STANDARD DETAILS TO BE ABLE TO PRESERVE THE CURBS WITH, YOU KNOW, THE NEW, YOU KNOW, SORT OF COMPLETE STREETS INSTALLATION.
SO, UM, DOES, DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, DARRYL? YEAH, I THINK YOU GOT THE HEART OF IT WITH PRESERVATION.
THERE WERE SOME PARTS THAT STOOD OUT THOUGH, AS DEFINITELY NEEDING A LOT OF WORK, ESPECIALLY THAT CORNER AS YOU COME DOWN, HOWARD, UH, ONTO WEST ON THE LEFT SIDE THERE, UH, ON THAT CORNER, IT LOOKS REALLY ROUGH, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE RIGHT ACROSS WEST IS LIKE A BEAUTIFUL CORNER THAT IT SHOULD BE.
SO YEAH, I WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE EXTENT THERE.
SO I GUESS THAT'LL EMERGE AS WE GO, AND I'D LIKE AN EYE TO A PRESERVATION
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OF SOME OF THOSE.UH, AND REALLY AT THIS POINT, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
I GUESS I'LL OFFER COMMENTARY ON THE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS WHEN WE GET THERE.
UM, JUST QUICK QUESTION, LESS OF A COMMENT, HOPEFULLY.
UM, WHERE WAS, UH, A PARKING PROTECTED BIKE LANE CONSIDERED AS AN OPTION? YEAH, SO LET'S, I'LL GO BACK TO THAT CROSS SECTION SLIDE OR JUST WONDERING WHY THERE WAS ONLY KIND OF ONE OPTION SHOWN FOR THE, FOR THE BIKE PATH? NO, AND, AND THIS IS STILL UP FOR DISCUSSION.
UM, THIS, SO TO GO PARKING PROTECTED, YOU NEED ANOTHER THREE FEET FOR THE, UH, PARKING LANE BUFFER, SO, OH, OKAY.
I SUPPOSE THAT IS, IF THE LANES WERE NARROWED TO 10 FEET, UH, AND THEN THE PARKING LANE, SO YEAH, YOU GOT, THEN YOU PICK UP A FOOT, UM, NOW YOU'VE GOT THREE FEET FOR THE BUFFER, THAT ENTIRE BUFFER WOULD HAVE TO BE BETWEEN THE PARKED CAR AND THE BIKE LANE, SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ANY SORT OF A BUFFER FOR THE PARKING LANE, UH, ON THE DRIVER'S SIDE.
UM, RIGHT ON BOTH SIDES REALLY.
YOU'D HAVE THE, THE DRIVER'S SIDE OF THE CAR FLUSH AGAINST THE, UH, THE TRAVEL LANE.
SO YEAH, SOMETHING THAT WORK THAT WE COULD CERTAINLY LOOK AT, BUT, UH, NOT IDEAL, ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE'VE GOTTEN OR THINGS WE'VE SEEN ON, YOU KNOW, ON RAINIER AND PETMAN BOULEVARD SOUTH, IT IS NICE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA SPACE FOR DRIVERS TO GET OUTTA THEIR CAR.
AND KNOWING THOSE LIMITATIONS, THAT'S PERFECT JUST TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE IT'S DANGEROUS AND WHERE IT'S FEASIBLE.
YEAH, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S DANGEROUS.
SO I DID, WE DID ALSO REFERENCE, UM, THE NATO ALL AGES AND ABILITIES, CONTEXTUAL GUIDANCE, AND I THINK WITH THE VOLUME ON THIS STREET AND THE SPEEDS MM-HMM.
UM, PURE APOLOGIES IF I MISSED THIS.
THE PROPOSED CONVERSION OF LIBERTY TO A ONE-WAY, IS IT A ONE-WAY TO WHAT? CROSS STREET? JUST TO WESTERN.
OH, JUST TO, YEAH, JUST TO WESTERN.
AND WHAT WOULD BE PLANNED TO DO WITH THE EXTRA? IS IT A ONE LANE ONE WAY? YES.
AND SO WHAT WOULD BE PLANNED WITH THE EXTRA SPACE? SO WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT WOULD BE ANGLED PARKING ALONG THE CHURCH, JUST GIVEN THE OH, OKAY.
AND WOULD WE SEE WHEN IT MEETS WESTERN, EVENTUALLY WE'D SEE A DESIGN, LIKE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, CONVERSION BACK TO A TWO WAY.
AND YEAH, SO LIKE I SAID, THIS IDEA IS IT'S STILL VERY, VERY EARLY.
WE HAVEN'T EVEN DONE THE DATA COLLECTION ON IT YET.
IT'S JUST WE'RE PUTTING IT OUT THERE, SEEING WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT IT.
AND LIKE I SAID, ONCE WE HAVE THE DATA, WE'RE GOING TO GO DOOR TO DOOR ON LIBERTY STREET TOO AND TALK TO THOSE FOLKS AND, UM, MAKE SURE WE REALLY HAVE, HAVE HEARD FROM EVERYONE ON THIS.
SO I THINK WHAT WAS THROWING ME OFF IS THE LITTLE YELLOW LINE.
SO THIS WOULD BE JUST, UH, CALLING OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY GETTING LEFTS ONTO LIBERTY, UM, SO THAT EVERY, WE DON'T HAVE ALL OF THAT TRAFFIC THAT'S HEADED FOR THE CHURCH, UH, CIRCLING THE BLOCKS, UM, IF WE CAN AVOID IT, THEY'RE GIVING THEM MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE WAYS TO APPROACH THE STREET.
AND IN THE OTHER DESIGN, IT LOOKS QUITE TIGHT TO MAKE A LEFT IN THE, IN OPTION ONE.
WITH THE, I KNOW THIS IS A ROUGH DESIGN, BUT WITH THE MM-HMM.
ALTHOUGH, I DUNNO HOW PREVALENT THAT TURNING MOVEMENT IS WITH THE CURRENT CIRCULATION.
SO AGAIN, THAT'LL GO INTO OUR, OUR DATA COLLECTION ON THAT.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF GETTING RID OF THE SLIP LANE THERE.
EITHER WAY, THE SLIP LANE, UH, NEEDS TO GO.
IT'S CLEAR THAT THAT'S THAT IDEA HAS, UH, THAT BROAD SUPPORT
UM, HOW DO BIKES KNOW THAT THEY CAN USE, THEY CAN MOVE,
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UH, AT THE LPI WHEN THAT TURNS FOR PEDESTRIANS? AND ARE YOU INCLUDING BIKES WAITING IN A BIKE BOX TO MAKE A LEFT TURN? THEY CAN DO THAT, OR NO? YES, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, BECAUSE, UH, IT'S A SPLIT PHASE, SO THEY WON'T BE OVERLAPPING WITH ONCOMING TRAFFIC.UM, YEAH, SO THAT'S, THAT'S AN EDUCATION.
UH, I THINK THERE'S, THAT JUST NEEDS TO GET OUT, UM, THAT, THAT'S THE STATE LAW THAT A RECENT STATE LAW NOW ALLOWS PEOPLE BIKING TO USE THE PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL.
SO, UM, I'M SURE MORE PEOPLE WILL BECOME AWARE OF THAT WITH TIME.
BUT, UH, WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT SIGNAGE THAT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A BIKE TRAFFIC, UH, SIGNAL.
THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE, YEAH.
MY LAST QUESTION IS, LOOKS LIKE THERE'S, THERE'S POTENTIAL TO ADD A LOT OF SPACE HERE.
HAS THERE BEEN ANY THOUGHT GIVEN TO PUTTING SOME BENCHES OUT HERE? OR IS THIS A PLACE FOR SOME ART, UM, LIKE ON, ON THE GROUND, I'VE SEEN CITIES DO SOME REALLY COOL DESIGNS WITH, WITH ALL THIS SPACE? SO THAT'S MY LAST QUESTION.
WHEN WE SHOWED THIS GRAPHIC AT THE, UH, COMMUNITY MEETING, THERE WERE, UH, SEVERAL REMARKS LIKE, PLEASE DON'T JUST MAKE IT CONCRETE.
LET'S DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S MAKE THIS A, A, LET'S DO SOME PLACEMAKING HERE, WHETHER THAT'S LANDSCAPING, ART, PAVERS, UM, JUST ANYTHING TO MAKE IT AN ATTRACTIVE AREA.
AND HOPEFULLY IT'S, IT FEELS LIKE AN EXTENSION OF THAT PARK, THAT BEAUTIFUL PARK IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH TOO.
UM, YOU DEFINITELY TOOK ONE OF MY QUESTIONS.
UM, FIRST QUESTION, WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR COLLISION DATA? BECAUSE I ALWAYS GO TO THIS SCTA VISION ZERO DASHBOARD, AND THERE'S A LOT MORE ACT LIKE COLLISIONS ON THIS STRETCH IN, IN THAT DASHBOARD.
YEAH, WE, OURS COMES FROM, I THINK I'VE PULLED THOSE FROM, UH, THE UC, BERKELEY TRANSPORTATION INJURY MAPPING SYSTEM.
UH, SO WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THEM SIDE BY SIDE TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE CAPTURING THAT TIM'S DOESN'T.
AND I'M ALSO, I KNOW WE'VE GOT A CTAS DATA EXPERT HERE YEAH.
WHO CAN, SORRY, DIRECTING THAT OVER THE EXPERT FOR SURE.
YOU MIGHT LOOK AT THE RANGE OF YEARS THAT YOU'RE TRACKING TOO, THAT YEAH, I THINK IT GOES BACK TO DIVISION ZERO, GOES BACK TO 2011.
SO YOU'D SEE A MUCH WIDER RANGE THAN BIGGER THAN DATA 2018 OR WHATEVER IT WAS.
SO THAT COULD BE IT, BUT IT'S FROM THE SAME DATA SOURCES, SO IT SHOULD BE CONSISTENT.
AND THOSE, UH, BOTH OF THEM ONLY, UH, COUNT FOR INJURY INVOLVED COLLISIONS.
THEY DO NOT HAVE PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY OR NON-INJURY CRASHES.
YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, LIMITING LEFT TURNS ONTO STANLEY.
UM, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOUR PLAN IS TO DO THAT? UH, SO IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT, THERE'S A, A, IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD TO DO WITH, UM, STRIPING AND SIGNAGE, UH, JUST KIND OF GUIDING THE, IT, SO THERE'S ONE IN PLACE RIGHT NOW AT KELLER AND KELLER APPROACHING WASHINGTON, WHERE YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE WEDGE AS YOU APPROACH THE INTERSECTION THAT FUNNELS THE TRAFFIC, RIGHT.
AND SOME, UH, SOME VERTICAL ELEMENTS.
SO THAT COULD BE DONE WITH, THAT COULD BE DONE WITH, UH, QUICK BUILD ELEMENTS OR IT COULD BE DONE WITH CONCRETE.
UM, AND THEN YEAH, STRIPING SIGNAGE RIGHT TURN ONLY.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY, YOU'RE LIMITING LEFT TURNS OFF OF STANLEY, NOT ONTO STANLEY, CORRECT.
UH, WE HAVE NOT LOOKED YET AT ELIMINATING LEFTS FROM HOWARD ONTO STANLEY.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL IS IN GEN? WELL, I'M, I'M GONNA, I GUESS I'LL GO INTO COMMENTS A LITTLE EARLY.
UM, STANLEY IS A MAJOR CUT THROUGH STREET FOR HIGH SCHOOL TRAFFIC.
AND IT'S LIKE EVERYBODY WANTS TO AVOID WA UM, WESTERN.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO AVOID WESTERN.
AND STANLEY CREATES THIS OPPORTUNITY WHERE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS WILL, WHETHER IT'S COMING FROM WESTERN TO HOWARD OR FROM HOWARD TO WESTERN, IT'S, UM, IT'S A PRETTY FREQUENT THING.
AND HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ARE NOT THE MOST, UH, RESPECTFUL WHEN THEY'RE DRIVING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS SOMETIMES.
SO, UM, A ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO, UH, LIMIT THE POTENTIAL FOR CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC ON STANLEY, I KNOW THE NEIGHBORS THERE ARE GONNA BE REALLY, UM, REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
UM, ALL THE WAY DOWN STANLEY TOO, NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, AT THAT END.
UM, THEN, UM, DOWN IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH AT BASSETT, IT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT HAS HIGHER VEHICLE COUNTS AND IT HAS THE HIGHEST, YOU KNOW, IS LIKE, UM, ISSUES WITH SPEEDING.
AND IT'S ALSO, UM, EVERY DAY AT THREE O'CLOCK, THERE'S LIKE A HUNDRED TO 150 KIDS THAT WALK DOWN BASSETT STREET AND CROSS
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IT, UM, AT BASSETT AND HOWARD.AND I'M WONDERING WHAT WE ARE PLANNING TO SLOW TRAFFIC IN THAT AREA AND JUST CREATE SAFER CROSSINGS.
SO THAT GOES BACK TO THE CORRIDOR WIDE UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, SO WE COULD LOOK AT ADDING A COMBINATION OF, OOPS, OR, UH, A COMBINATION OF BULL BOUTS AND MEETING REFUGE ISLANDS.
IN ADDITION, I BELIEVE THERE'S, WE HAVE RFPS IN ON BOTH CROSSWALKS RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO YEAH, THE BULL BULL BOUTS AND REFUGE ISLANDS WOULD BE THE ADDITIONAL TREATMENTS TO, TO SLOW OR TO, UH, IMPROVE THAT, THOSE CROSSWALKS.
I HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, THE TWO OPTIONS, OPTIONS ONE AND TWO, AND, UM, IF YOU COULD PULL THAT, THAT UP.
UM, THE, THE YELLOW MARKINGS, JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU GET THERE, UM, WHAT TURN MOVEMENTS WERE REALLY GONNA BE ALLOWED, LIKE HERE ON OPTION ONE.
SO SOMEONE GOING SOUTHBOUND ON HOWARD GOES PAST THAT FIRST CROSSWALK WHERE THE STOP IS AND THEN THEY PROCEED AND THEY MAKE THEIR LEFT.
AND THE ACROSS THE SECOND CROSSWALK, IF THEY WANNA GO UP LIBERTY, THAT'S THE MOVEMENT.
SO IT'S EFFECTIVELY ONE, ONE WAY, RIGHT? AGAIN, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T, I WOULD JUST GUESS, AGAIN, WE'RE GONNA COLLECT THE DATA.
I DON'T THINK MANY PEOPLE ARE MAKING THAT LEFT BECAUSE IT'S, THEY'RE GONNA GO UP TO, IF THEY'RE BOUND FOR LIBERTY, THEY'RE PROBABLY USING WEST THE ALWAYS STOP AT WESTERN AND THEN TAKING A RIGHT ONTO LIBERTY OFF OF WESTERN.
UM, THAT'S A PRETTY CHALLENGING LEFT TO MAKE.
YOU'RE GONNA BE SITTING THERE WAITING FOR ONCOMING TRAFFIC ON HOWARD AND I, I COULD BE WRONG.
WE'LL, WE'LL COLLECT THE DATA, BUT, UM, JUST MY KIND OF INITIAL THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
SO THIS, THIS ASSUMES THAT ALL OF THE TURNING MOVEMENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ALLOWED ARE STILL ALLOWED.
UH, YEAH, WE WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE LOOKING AT TURNING RADII TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, ALL WHERE WE'RE EXTENDING THE MEDIAN OR BUILDING THIS NEW SIDEWALK EXTENSION, UM, THAT IT'S ACCESSIBLE FOR WHATEVER THE DESIGN VEHICLE IS THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, FOR US IT'S TYPICALLY OUR FIRE TRUCKS.
UM, AND THERE ARE ALSO WAYS WHERE SOME OF THESE FEATURES COULD BE DESIGNED TO BE MOUNTABLE FOR FIRE TRUCKS.
SO MAYBE THE TURNING RADIUS IS ACTUALLY MUCH TIGHTER, AND WE'RE NOT DESIGNING IT FOR A FIRETRUCK TO CLEAR.
BUT, UM, IF THEY NEED TO MAKE THE TURN, THEY'LL JUST GO UP ONTO THE, ONTO THE PAVED AREA.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST, WE'RE REALLY IN THE, WE'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHICH IDEA HAS THE MOST SUPPORT AND, UH, MEETS OUR OBJECTIVES AT THIS INTERSECTION OF, AGAIN, SLOWING TURNING MOVEMENTS, IMPROVING PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY OF THE ACTUAL DESIGN.
SO WHAT, YEAH, I, I WOULD KIND OF, I, I THINK FOR, FOR TONIGHT'S PURPOSE, UH, QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS YOU HAVE REGARDING THE CONCEPTS AT A HIGH CONCEPT LEVEL ARE GREAT.
BUT, UH, IT'S NOT REALLY GONNA BE HELPFUL TO GET INTO, INTO THE WEEDS ON THE ACTUAL DESIGN.
CAN, CAN YOU SHOW OPTION TWO AGAIN? YEP.
I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THERE THOUGH.
SO THE, THE YELLOW LINE THAT'S, THAT'S THERE, THAT'S INTENDED TO SHOW THAT A CAR COULD MOVE TO THE LEFT AND THEN MAKE A LEFT AND GO UP LIBERTY.
YEAH, SO JUST AS WELL AS, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ACKNOWLEDGE, ACKNOWLEDGING AGAIN THAT, UM, WE DON'T NECESSARILY WANNA CREATE A CONDITION WHERE IF SOMEONE'S GOING UP LIBERTY AND THEY DON'T FIND A SPOT, NOW THEY'VE GOT A, THEY'RE GONNA CIRCLE THE BLOCK, UH, AND GO AROUND AND, AND TAKE A RIGHT OFF A STREET.
UM, THAT WE HAVE, THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE APPROACHES THAT, THAT NOT ALL CHURCH BOUND TRAFFIC NOW OR DOWNTOWN BOUND TRAFFIC, SORRY, NOT ALL CHURCH BOUND TRAFFIC, UH, NEEDS TO COME FROM THE SOUTH, IS KIND OF WHAT WE WERE SHOWING THERE.
SO IF WE CAN MAKE A LEFT TURN, P IF WE GO THE ONE WAY ROUTE, UH, AND WE CAN MAKE A LEFT TURN LANE WORK HERE, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT MAY BE A NICE BENEFIT.
IF WE CAN'T, THEN, UM, THEN IT WOULD JUST BE THE, THE EXISTING CONDITION WHERE YOU'VE GOT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU'VE JUST GOT A, A CENT, A DOUBLE YELLOW CENTER LINE, AND, UH, BASICALLY THE LEFT TURNING VEHICLES DON'T HAVE A SPACE TO WAIT.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE IMPEDING TRAFFIC WHILE THEY WAIT TO MAKE THEIR LEFT.
AND THEN, OR, OR IF IT MAKES SENSE, WE COULD EVEN, WE COULD, WE COULD LOOK AT PROHIBITING LEFT HERE.
SO THERE REALLY, EVERYTHING IS KIND OF UP FOR
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UM, AND THEN THE, THE MEDIAN REFUGE ISLAND, WILL IT BE, UM, LIKE IN THIS IMAGE, WILL, WILL THERE BE A FURTHER BULB OUT ON EITHER SIDE OF, UM, THE CROSSWALK, THE NEW CROSSWALK? UH, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SHOWING JUST CONCEPTUALLY, AGAIN, FOR THE PURPOSE OF, YEAH, IF THIS IS AN UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALK, UH, LET'S, UH, A NEW UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALK, LET'S THROW EVERYTHING WE CAN AT IT TO MAKE IT AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE.AND, UM, ONE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT WE HEARD AT THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING A COUPLE OF WEEKS BACK, UM, THERE WAS A REAL APPETITE FOR ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC, CALMING IMPROVEMENTS, ENTERING THE CURVE, UH, AND, AND EXITING THE CURVE, UM, BUT ESPECIALLY ENTERING THE CURVE.
SO, UM, WE'LL BE LOOKING DOWN AT THIS AREA AS WELL AND SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO TO SLOW PEOPLE AS THEY'RE YEAH, I, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT TO SEE IN THAT SECTION.
UM, SO BACK TO THE MEDIAN REFUGE ISLAND, WILL THERE BE RAISED PAVEMENT FOR A PERSON TO POTENTIALLY GO HALFWAY AND STAND AND WAIT? YEAH, THAT'S THE IDEA.
IT WASN'T CLEAR IF THOSE WERE JUST EXAMPLES OR IF THAT WAS REALLY WHAT WAS POTENTIALLY PROPOSED.
YEAH, I CAN PULL UP THE IMAGE, RIGHT? OKAY.
BUT, BUT NO, NO FURTHER BARRIER.
IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST THE RAISED PAVEMENT.
THERE'S NOT ANY FENCING OR OTHER PROTECTIVE, UH, ELEMENT THAT WE'RE THINKING OF HERE.
IT'S JUST, JUST ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THERE IS A PERSON WOULD WAIT IN THE MIDDLE, POTENTIALLY WORTH THE RAISED PAVEMENT ON EITHER SIDE.
WE'RE GOING TO PUBLIC COMMENT, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK.
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? NO PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED.
AND I HAVE ONE SPEAKER CARD FROM ARIS WEAVER.
I'VE GOT, UH, THREE CO COMMENTS.
UM, ONE OF THEM I'M VERY INTRIGUED, UH, AND INTERESTED IN THIS, UM, UPHILL DOWNHILL VARIANCE IN THE LANES.
AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING I'VE EVER SEEN, YOU KNOW, BEFORE SOMEWHERE, BUT, UM, I'M VERY INTERESTED IN THAT AND IT MAKES, IT MAKES SENSE.
THERE WERE A COUPLE OF, I MAY HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD, BUT THERE WERE A COUPLE TIMES THAT YOU MENTIONED ADDING PARKING, WHICH WAS A LITTLE CONFUSING TO ME.
'CAUSE IT FEELS LIKE OUR TREND IN GENERAL AS WE'RE SLOWING STREETS DOWN, IS NOT ADDING PARKING OR ELIMINATING PARKING.
SO MAYBE I DIDN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND, BUT, UM, THAT, THAT WAS KIND OF A QUESTION IN MY MIND.
AND THEN THE THIRD ONE IS, I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT GARBAGE CANS.
THIS, I SAW ONE IN ONE OF THE PHOTOS AND IT REMINDED ME OF STUFF, YOU KNOW, THAT WE, WE PLAN, WHERE ARE WE GONNA PUT THE CARS THAT ARE PARKED AND THE CARS THAT ARE DRIVING AND THE PEOPLE WALKING AND THE BICYCLISTS.
AND IF THERE'S NOT A PLANNED SPOT FOR GARBAGE CANS WHERE THEY END UP SEEMS TO HAVE THE MOST IMPACT ON CYCLISTS.
UM, IN THE LAST NINE IN MONTHS, I KNOW OF AT LEAST TWO COLLISIONS, UH, WHERE CYCLISTS TRYING TO NAVIGATE TRAFFIC AND THE GARBAGE CANS.
IN ONE CASE, SHE ENDED UP WITH A LOT OF STITCHES IN HER FACE.
THE OTHER WOMAN WAS IN THE HOSPITAL WITH A BROKEN PELVIS.
UM, AND THESE THINGS DON'T GET REPORTED VERY OFTEN, BUT THEY HAPPEN.
AND SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING ON MY MIND A LOT LATELY.
LIKE, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT, UH, TAKE CARE OF THAT CIVIC NEED WITHOUT IT ALWAYS EITHER IMPACTING CYCLISTS OR PEDESTRIANS IF THEY'RE ON THE SIDEWALK.
THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT AND BRINGS IT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION.
UM, DARREN, COULD WE START WITH YOU? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN LOOKING AT THIS STRETCH AGAIN, I NOTICED AROUND UNION STREET WHERE WE HAVE ST.
VINCENT'S, THERE WAS NO EXPLICIT PLAN FOR REDESIGN OR CALMING.
I THINK THAT'S AN AREA WORTH LOOKING AT.
I DID NOTICE THERE WAS AN INCIDENT THERE.
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S RIGHT BY A SCHOOL AND THERE'S KIND OF A SET OF CROSSWALKS AND TREE OR, UH, STREETS COMING IN AT A LITTLE BIT OF A KIND OF A JOG FROM EACH OTHER.
SO IT'S JUST, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD BE IDEAL FOR A REFUGE ISLAND, BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LET PEOPLE MOVE KIND OF IN EVERY DIRECTION.
UM, BUT JUST EXPLORING SOME TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THERE, UH, I THINK WOULD BE WORTH OUR WHILE.
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YEAH, REGARDING STANLEY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A CUTOFF THAT I USE, SO THAT HURTS TO SEE THAT ON THERE.BUT, UH, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND IT IS DANGEROUS FROM FOLKS KIND OF TURNING LEFT ONTO HOWARD, ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF BACKUP AT THAT LIGHT.
I'VE DEFINITELY ALMOST HAD INCIDENTS OF FOLKS GETTING CLIPPED THERE.
SO, UM, WHILE I DON'T PERSONALLY AS A COMMUTER LOVE THAT I, I SEE THE SAFETY IMPLICATIONS THERE, UH, AND UNDERSTAND THAT AND DO SUPPORT THAT.
AND YEAH, THEN MY OTHER NOTES ABOUT, UH, STREET TREES, I THINK ALL OF THAT IS GONNA BE COVERED.
UH, AND THEN FOR OTHER, UH, DISCUSSION POINTS, I THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BY THE CHURCH, I KNOW THAT'S A BIG AREA WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON.
UH, AND THEN I THINK NO OTHER AREA REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME, AND I WAS GONNA SAY SOMETHING ABOUT OAK HILL PARK, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S TONS OF ISSUES THERE.
UH, I DO SEE A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS USING THAT AREA.
I'VE NEVER FELT THAT IT'S PARTICULARLY UNSAFE.
UH, SO IT'S KIND OF A HOTSPOT, I THINK, FOR ACTIVITY.
UH, I DON'T THINK THAT IT SCREAMS FOR CHANGES.
I I DIDN'T SEE THEM IN THE PLAN HERE.
YEAH, YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
UM, SO THE CROSSWALK THERE AT, UH, AT THE TOP OF OAK STREET GOING ACROSS HOWARD IS REALLY LONG AND DIAGONAL.
AND SO WE HAVE IDENTIFIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SQUARE THAT UP AND SHORTEN IT QUITE A BIT.
AND THAT ACTUALLY GOES FOR MOST OF THE, A LOT OF THAT STRETCH OF THE CORRIDOR FROM, UH, FROM UNION UP TO, UH, UP TO OAK, UH, THE CROSSWALKS THERE, PROSPECT AND AT UH, AND AT OAK, YEAH, WE CAN PROBABLY SHORTEN THEM AND ACTUALLY BRING THEM TO, UH, UH, GET THEM STRAIGHT ACROSS THE ROAD RATHER THAN HAVING THEM AT A LONG DIAGONAL.
THAT, THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.
AND THEN WITH THE REFI CONFIGURATION AT LIBERTY, AND A, YOU MIGHT HAVE SAID THIS ALREADY, DO WE HAVE ANY TRAFFIC NUMBERS FOR PEOPLE ON KIND OF EITHER DIRECTION THERE ON, ON LIBERTY? UH, I THINK THE PEAK TRAFFIC I SAW WAS, IT'S FAIRLY LOW.
I THINK IT WAS, UH, 1700 VEHICLES A DAY TOTAL BOTH DIRECTIONS.
UH, SO AGAIN, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'RE GOING TO QUANTIFY, WE'RE GONNA FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT DISPLACED TRAFFIC WOULD GO.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS IT WOULD DO IS IT WOULD POTENTIALLY RELIEVE SOME OF THAT DROP OFF, UH, LOADING ACTIVITY THAT HAPPENS IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH ON HOWARD.
SO THERE COULD BE SOME RELIEF THERE.
UM, A LITTLE BIT LESS PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ACTIVITY ACROSS HOWARD AT BASSETT WHEN, RIGHT NOW, MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO THE CHURCH ARE ACTUALLY PARKING AT CITY HALL OR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND CITY HALL.
SO WE'LL HAVE FEWER PEOPLE TRYING TO BRING THAT PARKING ACTIVITY CLOSER TO THE CHURCH ITSELF.
YEAH, I MEAN, YOU DON'T WANT TO AFFECT CIRCULATION NEGATIVELY.
I TEND TO LIKE THE SECOND DESIGN.
I ALSO THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO EXTEND TREES AND DO MORE WITH, UH, IF I'M LOOKING AT THE DIAGRAM ON THE LEFT SIDE, THAT LARGE BULB OUT, WHEREAS THE ISLAND IN THE FIRST CONFIGURATION, I THINK YOU'RE A LITTLE LIMITED IN WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR VISIBILITY PURPOSES.
UM, SO YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW I KIND OF LIKE THAT SECOND DESIGN, BUT OF COURSE, I'LL, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM FELLOW COMMITTEE MEMBERS HERE.
AND YEAH, THOSE ARE KIND OF ALL THE POINTS I HAD.
SO IN LOOKING AT THE INTERSECTION BY A STREET AND HOWARD, UM, THERE, WHERE LIBERTY COMES OUT, UH, I, YOU KNOW, I I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE PROPOSED CHANGES THAT YOU HAVE.
I WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THE, IF THE BUSINESSES AND, AND, AND FOLKS ON LIBERTY THERE SUPPORTED THE ONE WAY, UH, I, TO ME, I THINK THAT SEEMS LIKE A GREAT, UM, A, A GREAT SOLUTION, BUT IT ALSO OFFERS THE ABILITY TO MAKE THAT INTERSECTION MORE BEAUTIFUL, RIGHT.
WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, THROUGH, UM, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS, UH, CAN BE PUT INTO THOSE NEW CURVES.
UM, SO, AND AGAIN, ALMOST MAKING THAT, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF AN EXTENSION OF THAT PARK, UM, I WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEE A PROJECT LIKE THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS DREAM OF THE DAY WHEN WE START SEEING CYCLE TRACKS IN PETALUMA, AND I THINK THIS IS A GREAT STREET FOR THAT.
UH, ALTHOUGH I ACKNOWLEDGE THE, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD PROBABLY REQUIRE TAKING OUT SOME PARKING AND GETTING THE, GETTING THAT PASSED OR GETTING SUPPORT FOR, THAT'S PROBABLY, UH, A NON-STARTER FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.
BUT, UH, BUT IT MAN SURE WOULD BE NICE IF THERE WAS
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AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, YOU KNOW, PUT IN A, A TWO-WAY BIKE PATH ON THAT STREET WITH THIS PROJECT.UM, WAS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION ON WESTERN AND BODEGA FOR ROUNDABOUTS? UM, MAYBE THAT'S MAY, MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S NOT NEEDED, BUT I I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS CONSIDERED, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT WOULD EVEN MAKE SENSE FOR THOSE AREAS.
I KNOW FOR A FACT WE LOOKED ACTUALLY AT A ROUNDABOUT AT THE LIBERTY INTERSECTION, UH, TO SEE IF WE COULD
I'M NOT SURE, KEN, DO YOU KNOW, UM, DID, DID, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT ROUNDABOUTS AT THE OTHER TWO LOCATIONS YET? IT, IT'S BECAUSE OF THE, UH, THE TRUCK TURNING MOVEMENTS.
WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE BIG SEMIS GOING TO THE CREAMERY, BUT THE, UM, FIRETRUCK ACCESS, IT'S JUST THE, THE WESTERN, UH, WESTERN AND HOWARD, THE GEOMETRICS OF IT ARE JUST SORT OF ODD.
UM, AND IT DIDN'T REALLY WORK OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY GO BACK AND TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT, BUT IT DIDN'T, DIDN'T SEEM TO TO WORK.
I THINK THE, THE BE THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT WE CAN MAKE AT THAT INTERSECTION IS JUST TO TRY TO SHORTEN THE PEDESTRIAN TRAVEL DISTANCE AND GIVE THEM MORE VISIBILITY WHEN THEY DO CROSS IN, IN SORT OF THIS OBLIQUE ANGLE, UM, INTERSECTION.
SO THAT'S HOW I WAS LOOKING AT THAT.
THOSE ARE THE ONLY COMMENTS I HAVE.
UH, YEAH, I WANNA SECOND FRANKLIN'S COMMENTS JUST ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY YEAH.
TO REALLY THINK WHAT'S POSSIBLE, WHAT WE WANT LONG TERM FOR THIS, THIS IS ALONG MY ROUTE TO, UM, PICK UP MY SON FROM PRESCHOOL.
AND YES, I'M VERY EXCITED NOT TO HAVE THE BUMPY BUMP ON HOWARD STREET, BUT ALSO IT'D BE NICE TO THINK ABOUT, IS THERE, YEAH, SOMETHING MORE PROTECTED THAT FITS WITH THAT LONG-TERM VISION OF WHAT WE REALLY WANT GIVEN IF THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW.
UH, SO YEAH, I WOULD, AGAIN, NOT SURE WHAT THE POSSIBILITY OF THAT IS, BUT UM, AGAIN, TAKING AWAY, IF WE'RE TAKING AWAY PARKING ON ONE SIDE, BUT THEN ADDING MORE PARKING ON THE OTHER, MAYBE THAT JUSTIFIES IT POTENTIALLY.
UH, AND THEN ALSO ON THE ROUNDABOUT POINT, I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT KIND OF SIX AND A STREET FOR KIND OF THOSE MINI ROUNDABOUTS.
THE ONE THAT'S LIKE AT UPHAM AND BASSETT, JUST RIGHT HERE.
I'M NOT SURE, UM, KEN, HOW THAT VIBES WITH, UH, KIND OF THE, THE FIRE ACCESS, UM, FIRE TRUCKS, IF, IF SOMETHING SMALL LIKE THAT WOULD JUST STILL MAYBE PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF MINIMUM CALMING BUT STILL ALLOW, UM, FIRETRUCK ACCESS.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S AT THE SIXTH AND A STREET.
'CAUSE YOU KNOW, I'M OFTEN TRYING TO AVOID STOP SIGNS OR STOPLIGHTS,
SO THINKING OF THAT AS, AS THAT A STREET AS A LITTLE CUT THROUGH SOMETIMES AS AN OPTION.
BUT, UM, YEAH, JUST WONDERING WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE ON THAT.
UM, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T, THE, THE SPEEDS ON ON SIXTH STREET ARE, ARE QUITE A BIT HIGHER THAN WHAT WE HAVE ONCE YOU GET TO HOWARD.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S JUST ONE, ONE ELEMENT OF IT.
THE, UM, 80, 85TH PERCENTILE ON SIXTH STREET IS, I THINK IT'S, UH, 29 MILES AN HOUR.
SO, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FIND WAYS OF CALMING THAT.
SO I MEAN, WE DID LOOK AT A DIVERTER AT THAT INTERSECTION OF A A SIX HOWARD AND, UM, THAT COULD POSSIBLY NARROW IT.
AND ALSO JUST THE, THE ANGLES THERE, THE SIGHT LINES ARE POOR.
SO, UM, YOUR, YOUR QUESTION THOUGH IS SPECIFIC TO THE, THE BIKE PATH TO TRAVEL, WELL, IT WAS MAYBE KIND OF TWO POINTS.
ONE WAS, UM, IS IT POSSIBLE, IS THERE ENOUGH SPACE AT THAT SIXTH STREET, A STREET HOWARD STREET INTERSECTION TO DO A SMALL ROUNDABOUT SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT'S AT BASSETT AND UPHAM? YEAH, WELL, I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING OF AN EGG SHAPE.
WE, WE LOOKED AT SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME GEOMETRICS.
IT'S JUST, AGAIN, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE ANGLES THERE, IT DOESN'T, DOESN'T LEND ITSELF.
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UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, A A A CIRCLE CAN BE PRETTY CONFUSING TO PEOPLE JUST, YOU KNOW, IN, IN OUR, IN OUR SOCIETY JUST 'CAUSE PEOPLE AREN'T USED TO IT.WE'RE GETTING THERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MAKING THAT SHIFT.
AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, WE DID DO A LAYOUT OF IT, UM, BUT IT DIDN'T, IT DIDN'T, NOTHING, NOTHING JUMPED OUT THAT WAS GONNA BE WORKABLE.
THE, THE ONE WAY SYSTEM I REALLY LIKED, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE, JUST CLEANING UP THOSE, THOSE MOVEMENTS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, PARTICULARLY THE, THE, THE LIBERTY ONTO SOUTHBOUND HOWARD SIXTH STREET, IS THIS REALLY UP SAFE? AND THE, UH, THE OUTREACH THAT WE'VE DONE AT THIS POINT TO THE CHURCH INDICATED THEY WERE, THEY WERE, THEY GAVE A THUMBS UP BECAUSE THEY GET ADDITIONAL PARKING, WHICH IS A REALLY GOOD THING.
SO, UM, YEAH, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, BJORN, IF YOU'VE GOT ANY THOUGHTS ON ROUNDABOUT? WE DEFINITELY TALKED ABOUT IT AND WE DID KIND OF SKETCHED OUT SOME IDEAS, BUT IT DIDN'T, DIDN'T REALLY LOOK WORKABLE.
YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ANY AND ALL TRAFFIC CALLING SOLUTIONS AROUND THAT CURVE.
UM, SO I THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE ADAM, WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT IS KIND OF, IS MORE YOU'RE SAYING AT THE A STREET INTERSECTION, NOT UP AT LIBERTY STREET WHERE WE'RE LOOKING, I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY, BUT CORRECT.
MORE AT THE, A STREET RIGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STUDY AREA.
WE, WE, WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY, UH, TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND, AND WE'RE, YEAH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT SPLITTER ISLANDS AT THE CURVE AND BULL BOUTS AND OTHER THINGS WE CAN DO TO KIND OF, RIGHT NOW, IF YOU'RE DRIVING NORTHBOUND, YOU'LL JUST SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE NATURALLY HAVE THAT CURVE.
UM, AND THEN MAYBE MY SECOND COMMENT ISN'T SO MUCH A QUESTION, BUT MAYBE IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO LOOK INTO OF JUST, UH, YEAH, THE OVERALL PARKING BALANCE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT PARKING IS AN ISSUE FOR THE CHURCH FOR SURE.
UM, BUT JUST WHAT IF, IF GETTING BACK TO FRANKLIN'S COMMENTS ABOUT IS THERE POTENTIAL FOR TAKING OFF STREET PARKING ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF HOWARD STREET FOR KIND OF A CLASS FOUR, UH, BICYCLE TRACK, THE WAY THAT THAT POTENTIALLY COULD BALANCE OUT THEN IN LOOKING AT LIBERTY STREET, WHERE TO BE, IF MAYBE BOTH SIDES WERE ANGLED PARKING, WOULD THAT HAVE A NET INCREASE OF THE AMOUNT OF PARKING THAT COULD STILL FURTHER CONDENSE, YOU KNOW, THE PARKING FOR THAT AREA.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, REALLY IMPROVE FOLKS THAT, UH, WANNA BE ABLE TO BIKE TO CHURCH, YOU KNOW, AND HAVE A SAFE PLACE TO GET LONG THE STREET THERE.
SO, UM, JUST SOMETHING MAYBE TO BE ABLE TO STUDY AND SEE IF SOME OF THERE'S CONFIGURATIONS THERE.
AND WOULD, ARE, WOULD YOU RECOMMEND LOOKING INTO THAT SPECIFICALLY ON THE BLOCKS BETWEEN, UM, BODEGA AND A STREET LIBERTY? UH, I'M JUST TRYING THINKING ABOUT THE CONNECTIVITY.
WELL, I WAS THINKING LIKE, WHAT, BETWEEN, ON LIBERTY, BETWEEN WESTERN AND HOWARD? OH, ON LIBERTY? YEAH.
FOR THE CYCLE TRACK IDEA ON HOWARD, ON THE CYCLE TRACK ON HOWARD STREET, ON THE EASTERN SIDE, SO RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH.
UM, THE, THE REAL CHALLENGES THAT ARE INTRODUCED BY CYCLE TRACKS IS JUST THE TRANSITIONS IN AND OUT.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT, BUT RIGHT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT THE BODEGA WASHINGTON SIGNAL, INTER SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION, OBVIOUSLY BEING, THAT'LL BE A CHALLENGING SPOT TO TRANSITION PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF A CYCLE TRACK.
CYCLE TRACKS ARE NEVER AS QUITE AS EASY AS THEY SEEM BECAUSE OF THE, THE, THE NEED WHAT, WHAT YOU RUN INTO AT THE INTERSECTIONS.
AND I THINK MAYBE A BETTER WAY TO THINK ABOUT IS JUST ALLOWING MAYBE FOR SOME FUTURE CONFIGURATION, CONSIDERING THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS MM-HMM.
SO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT CLASS OR WHAT IT WILL BE.
WE DO KNOW THAT WE'D WANNA HAVE SOMETHING SAFE FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES ALONG THERE.
SO MAYBE AT THIS POINT IT'S FINE JUST TO SAY LET'S TAKE CARE OF IT LATER, BUT PRIORITIZE IT DOWN THE ROAD.
UM, I, YEAH, I FEEL LIKE IT'S NOT A PART OF MY PBA C LENS TO SAY THAT I WOULDN'T PUT A CYCLE TRACK THERE, BUT I, I FEEL LIKE IT'S SUCH A HIGH TRAFFIC AREA OF DOWNTOWN AND
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A PRETTY SHORT, RELATIVELY SHORT SEGMENT OF ROAD THAT I WOULD BE OKAY WITH.I, I LIKE CONFIGURATION TOO, AND WOULD BE OKAY WITH PARKING THERE AND FEEL LIKE THAT CHURCH IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND SUCH A ASSET TO OUR COMMUNITY.
AND LIKE WE ARE, IT IS DENSE DOWNTOWN.
I'M, I FEEL LIKE IT'S OKAY TO PUT IN PARKING ONCE IN A WHILE IF YOU CAN, AND TAKING OUT A LANE OF TRAFFIC.
I FEEL LIKE IF IT'S PARKING, LIKE IF YOU'RE RE IF YOU'RE REDUCING TRAFFIC FLOW, YOU'RE HAVING LESS, UM, UM, SLOWER STREETS IN GENERAL.
I AM WONDERING TOO, IF WE COULD UTILIZE PART OF THAT LIKE PARKING AREA, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE FOR A BIKE CROWD.
UM, AND RELATIVELY CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN.
I MEAN, IT IS DOWNTOWN, UM, BUT THERE'S A LOT TO THINK ABOUT DOWN THERE.
UM, STANLEY IS ON MY BICYCLE, MY PRESCHOOL BICYCLE ROUTE.
AND, UM, I, I WOULD AGREE, EVEN THOUGH I USE IT ON MY BIKE AND MY CAR, IT'S, AND I MAKE A LEFT ONTO HOWARD, IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS.
IT'S REALLY HARD TO SEE AND IT MAKES, AND SO I, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF THERE NOT BEING A LEFT TURN ONTO HOWARD.
I THINK THAT REALLY LIKE BEGS THE QUESTION OF WHAT WE CAN DO FOR WAYFINDING AND BIKE ROUTES TO SAY LIKE, THIS IS A BIKE ROUTE.
'CAUSE IT'S MORE DANGEROUS FOR BIKES THAN FOR CARS TO MAKE THAT LEFT.
UM, IN TERMS OF THE CONFLICTS ON HOWARD AND IT, IT ALSO MADE ME JUST THINK LIKE, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE STANLEY, I MEAN ALSO BECAUSE YOU HAVE UPHAM, YOU DON'T HAVE ANY LIKE STOP SIGNS THERE.
AND SO THERE'S POINTS OF CONFLICT THERE.
IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THAT PART OF STANLEY BE A SLOW STREET AND BRING BACK THE SLOW STREETS PROGRAM AND HAVE THAT BE LOCAL TRAFFIC ONLY.
UM, AND I GET, I THINK, OH, I JUST WANTED TO NOTE WITHOUT LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, BEING A, A NAG ABOUT THIS, BUT IN THE, IN THE OAK HILL BREWSTER NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S A LOT OF LONG DRIVEWAYS ALONG LIKE NARROW BUT LONG, UM, UM, PARCELS AND PEOPLE WILL PARK TWO CARS AND THE SECOND CAR GOES IS ON THEIR DRIVEWAY, BUT OVER THE SIDEWALK.
AND SO IT'S PRETTY, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE IT'S PRETTY SLOW, BUT WITH OUR STROLLER, WE BASICALLY JUST WALK IN THE ROAD BECAUSE WE, WE CAN'T GET OFF OF THE SIDEWALK.
UM, WITH THE STROLLER, WE, YOU CAN'T GET INTO THE DRIVEWAY TO GET OFF.
SO IT'S EASIER FOR US TO WALK IN THE ROAD.
AND THE COMMENTS ABOUT THE GARBAGE CANS MADE ME THINK ABOUT THAT WITH ALL OF THE CARS THAT PARK THAT WAY IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, AND THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS FOR NOW.
CAN I, I'LL QUICKLY RESPOND ON THAT ONE.
SO I BELIEVE THAT'S AN ISSUE THAT YOU CAN RAISE WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT, UM, WHEN YOU SEE REGULAR SIDEWALK ENCROACHMENT, WHETHER IT'S LANDSCAPING OR OTHER PHYSICAL OBJECTS OR PARKED CARS.
UM, SO IF YOU GO TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND IT'S CITY OF PET LIMIT.ORG/CODE, DASHEN ENFORCEMENT, WHEN I TYPED IN PET LIMIT CODE ENFORCEMENT ON GOOGLE, IT CAME RIGHT UP.
UM, THEY'VE GOT A PHONE NUMBER, EMAIL ADDRESS, AND, UH, A COMPLAINT.
UM, YOU CAN, YOU CAN SUBMIT A COMPLAINT IN A, AN ONLINE FORM.
SO WOULD DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE THAT IF YOU'RE SEEING IT REGULARLY.
UM, I'VE, I'VE ALSO, IT'S MAYBE NOT ADVISABLE, I'VE SOMETIMES KNOCKED ON DOORS 'CAUSE I'VE EXPERIENCED THE SAME THING WITH A STROLLER
UH, WE NEED TO BE SHAMING PEOPLE MORE OFTEN FOR, FOR DOING THAT.
I, I GUESS I WISH, LIKE, JUST LIKE PUBLIC EDUCATION WOULD BE EFFECTIVE AND WE COULD LIKE, PUSH THAT THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY BULLETINS AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS AND PEOPLE WOULD ADHERE.
I, I JUST DON'T LIKE BEING IN THE POSITION OF DOING THE LIKE HALL MONITOR FOR PEOPLE, BUT, OKAY.
I JUST HAVE A, A A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, WASHINGTON AND HOWARD INTERSECTION.
UM, IS THE SIGNAL CHANGE, IS THAT THE MAIN AND REALLY ONLY SUBSTANTIAL THING THAT'S CHANGING THERE? SO SIGNAL CHANGE AND THEN THE BIKE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO YOU WOULD HAVE, OH, THE BIKE BOX BIKE LANES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE INTERSECTION.
BIKE FEEDING THE BIKE BOXES, AND, UM, WE'LL LOOK AT ANYTHING WE CAN DO ON THOSE,
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UH, THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS TO ACCESS THE, THE, UM, THE PEDESTRIAN, THE PUSH BUTTONS.BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THOSE, UH, WE DO HAVE, WE HAVE SLIP LANE SLIP LANES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE INTERSECTION, SO WE'LL LOOK AT WHAT WE CAN DO THERE TOO.
YEAH, I WAS WONDERING IF THE, THE SLIP LANES MIGHT GO AWAY, BUT I WAS GUESSING NO, BECAUSE YOU, YOU'D HAVE TO MOVE THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
WELL, NO, A LOT CITY, A LOT OF CITIES HAVE DONE SLIP LANE REMOVALS WHERE THAT SPACE BASICALLY IS ABSORBED BY, IT JUST BECOMES A GIANT BULB OUT, BASICALLY.
BUT WITH, WITH THE ENG IT JUST SEEMED LIKE WITH THE ANGLE, THE ANGLES ARE REALLY TOUGH.
YEAH, AND I THINK WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT IS THE, THE SITE DISTANCE, UM, FOR PEOPLE LOOKING DOWN BODEGA OR LOOKING DOWN WASHINGTON.
UM, YEAH, BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE, IT'S POSSIBLE THOUGH.
WE, WE CAN CERTAIN LOOK AT, UM, IF IT'S NOT POSSIBLE, YEAH, THEN A RAISED CROSSWALK OR SOMETHING THAT REALLY TRIES TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN THROUGH THE SLIP LANE WOULD BE GREAT.
AND ANY BULL BOUTS THAT CAN BE ADDED TO OTHER CORNERS, UM, TO CALM THAT INTERSECTION A BIT.
UM, SO I REALLY LIKE OPTION TWO.
UM, NOT BECAUSE I LIKE ADDING PARKING, BUT I LIKE REDUCING THE NUMBER OF KIDS THAT CROSS BASSETT STREET ON SUNDAY.
UM, AND SO I, I LIKE OPTION TWO FOR THAT REASON.
UM, I THINK IF WE CAN ADD SOME THINGS AT THE OTHER END OF STANLEY, WE COULD PROBABLY MAKE, UM, FOLKS ON STANLEY PRETTY HAPPY.
I KNOW THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO MAKE THE, THE OTHER END OF STANLEY MORE OF A, UM, THEY WANNA STOP PEOPLE FROM CUTTING THROUGH THERE TOO.
UM, THE, I THINK BASSETT, UH, I WOULD CONSIDER RAISED CROSSWALKS THERE.
I KNOW IT'S A, IT'S A CRUDE MEASURE, BUT IT'S A ALSO A VERY, VERY HIGH TRAFFICKED AREA FOR, UM, FOR KIDS.
UM, I REALLY LIKED THE, UM, MOVING THE CROSSWALK AT A STREET FROM WHERE IT IS UP THE STREET A BIT, AND THEN ADDING, UM, YOU KNOW, ADDING THE, THE MEDIAN IN THE MIDDLE.
THAT'S A GREAT MEASURE THAT'S GOING TO DO A LOT.
UM, IT FEELS LIKE WE SHOULD GO AROUND THE BEND AND GO DOWN SIXTH STREET JUST A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE COMING AROUND THAT CORNER, SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WOULD BE, BUT SOMETHING THERE, UM, DEFINITELY ECHO THE COMMENTS ABOUT GARBAGE CANS.
UM, AND THEN LIKE THAT WE'RE PRESERVING THE, THE COBBLESTONE.
UM, I THINK THAT THE, THE COMMENTS ABOUT PARKING OVERFLOW FROM CROOKED GOAT AND ACME AND WHATNOT, LIKE IF WE JUST TELL 'EM PARK AT CITY HALL OR SOMETHING, LIKE SOME SIGNAGE, WE COULD PROBABLY ADDRESS A LOT OF THAT.
UM, SO, UM, I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT LIGHTING.
I DIDN'T, I DON'T HAVE ANY SPECIFIC THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT, BUT I, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING.
UM, AND THEN THAT'S ALL FOR ME.
UM, I GENERALLY CONCUR WITH ALL THE COMMENTS THAT HAD BEEN MADE.
I THINK, UH, RELOCATING THIS, UH, THE CROSSWALK IS HUGE AND THEN LOOKING BACK TOWARDS SIXTH STREET IS, UM, WILL MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE AND WHATEVER OTHER TRAFFIC CALMING, UM, MEASURES SOME KIND OF AN ISLAND OR SOMETHING THAT DIVIDES, UH, THE ROAD THERE AND SLOWS PEOPLE DOWN AS THEY MAKE THAT TURN WILL BE CRITICAL.
UM, I THINK IF THE NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, ASK THEIR OPINION RIGHT THERE ON LIBERTY, IF, IF A ONE WAY MAKES SENSE, UM, I THINK THAT MAY BE A GOOD SOLUTION.
ADDING THE ANGLED PARKING, I GUESS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THAT SECTION COULD BE GREENED UP A LITTLE BIT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MENTION OF A BIKE CORRAL.
MAYBE NOT ALL OF THAT WHOLE SECTION NEEDS TO BE ANGLED PIPE PARKING.
MAYBE THERE COULD BE SOME ADDITIONAL GREENING, UM, MORE LANDSCAPING ELEMENTS OR BENCH OR SOMETHING ELSE TO KIND OF FLESH OUT, UM, WHAT'S THERE.
UH, I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF CONTINUING THE, THE GREEN SPACE NEXT TO THE CHURCH.
I THINK THAT WOULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THAT, UM, WITH ALL OF THESE OPTIONS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING.
UM, AND UM, YEAH, THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT.
[PRESENTATIONS]
AND WE ARE MOVING TO PRESENTATIONS AND WE HAVE BLUE ZONES PROJECT, UPPER NAPA VALLEY DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FROM COMMITTEE MEMBER BOND.[02:15:01]
THANK YOU CHAIR.UM, BEING THAT IT IS A QUARTER TO NINE, I WILL TRY TO MOVE QUICKLY HERE AND I MIGHT, UH, SKIP A COUPLE THINGS, UM, SO THAT YOU ALL DON'T FALL ASLEEP ON ME.
UM, SO BJORN, ARE YOU MIC? OH, SURE.
UM, BJORN, ARE YOU OKAY? PERFECT.
UM, SO YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE FIRST SLIDE ACTUALLY.
SO AS A REFRESHER TO ANYONE THAT IS NOT AS FAMILIAR WITH BLUE ZONE'S PROJECT, IT'S A HEALTH AND WELLBEING INITIATIVE AND I AM THE PUBLIC POLICY LEAD ON THE UPPER NAPA VALLEY TEAM.
SO DIFFERENT THAN THE PROJECT THAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN PETALUMA, BUT WE DO SIMILAR WORK.
AND SO I WANTED TO BRING A COUPLE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS THAT OUR TEAM HAS DONE TO THIS COMMITTEE TO POTENTIALLY SPARK SOME IDEAS AND INSPIRATION, UM, OF WHAT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY HERE CAN DO AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH PUBLIC WORKS.
SO YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT ONE IN CALISTOGA AND ONE IN ST.
UM, THEY WERE BOTH SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROJECTS AND WE DID THEM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENTS AND THE NAPA BIKE COALITION ALONG WITH OTHER PARTNERS.
BUT THOSE WERE TWO MAIN STAKEHOLDERS.
SO FOR CALISTOGA, UM, THIS WAS OVER SEVERAL YEARS OF PLANNING.
SO WE WENT TO THE CITY'S SAFETY DAY IN 2022.
WE COLLECTED SOME COMMUNITY INPUT ON WHAT CHANGES THE CITY MIGHT MAKE WALKING AND BIKING SAFER.
UM, THEN WE WENT BACK IN 2023, HAVING HEARD THE PREVIOUS YEAR THAT A PROTECTED BIKE LANE WOULD BE HELPFUL.
AND SO WE DEMONSTRATED A PROTECTED BIKE LANE.
UH, IT LED TO THE EVENT ITSELF THAT WAS AT A PARK AND THE BIKE COALITION LED A COMMUNITY RIDE AND THE MAYOR JOINED, UH, THERE WERE POLICE ESCORTS AND THEY BROUGHT THE KIDS AROUND CALISTOGA AND IT ENDED ON THAT PROTECTED BIKE LANE.
AND AT THE EVENT WE HAD THIS MAP OF THE CITY, AND IT'S SMALL, SO YOU CAN'T LIKELY SEE THE DOTS, BUT THERE ARE DOTS.
SO THE COMMUNITY PUT LITTLE DOTS WHERE THEY MIGHT LIKE TO SEE, UM, A, A PROTECTED BIKE LANE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND SO BASED ON THAT MAP, THERE WERE A LOT OF THEM AROUND THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND SO IN THE FALL OF 2023, WE DID A WEEK LONG PROTECTED BIKE LANE OUTSIDE OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
AND THAT WAS A RECOMMENDATION IN THE BIKE COALITION'S, SAFE ROUTES OF SCHOOL WALK AUDIT REPORT.
SO THERE WAS THIS STREET WHICH I'M SHOWING HERE, IT'S OUTSIDE OF AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THERE WAS ALREADY A CLASS TWO BIKE LANE, THOUGH THERE WERE NOT BIKE STENCILS AND IT WAS ALREADY RED CURB, SO THERE WAS NO PARKING, BUT PEOPLE PARKED ILLEGALLY DURING DROP OFF AND PICKUP.
AND SO THE SCHOOL WAS HAVING A LOT OF ISSUES TRYING TO GET PEOPLE NOT TO PARK THERE.
IT WAS BLOCKING THE BIKE LANE.
AND SO WE TRIED IT, WE BORROWED, UM, DELINEATORS FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND WE WENT OUT AND, AND SPACED THEM, HAD MY TAPE MEASURE AND WE PUT 'EM ALL AT THE RIGHT DISTANCE.
AND WE DID USE SOME INVERTED MARKING PAINT TO ADD THOSE BIKE STENCILS, UH, TEMPORARILY TO TRY TO INDICATE THIS IS A BIKE LANE.
AND THEN WE DID SIGNAGE, UM, THAT I HAVE PICTURED THERE ON THE LEFT JUST DESCRIBING WHAT THE PROJECT IS THAT WAS MEANT FOR PEOPLE WALKING BY ON THE SIDEWALK.
THERE WAS A QR CODE THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE ON THERE AND A SURVEY LINK.
UM, AND YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO I ALREADY TALKED ABOUT SOME PARTNERS THAT WE WORKED WITH.
OBVIOUSLY HAVING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPPORT WAS KEY.
UH, THEIR SUPERINTENDENT IS A GREAT PARTNER.
AND SO AS FAR AS THE, THE PROCESS ITSELF, I PULLED THE ENCROACHMENT PERMIT THROUGH MY WORK.
WE HAD THAT POSTED ON THE SITE.
UM, WE COORDINATED THE MATERIALS, GETTING THAT FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND PRINTING THE SIGNAGE.
SO THERE WASN'T A BIG LIFT ON THE, ON THE CITY SIDE.
SO WE REALLY TRIED TO TAKE MOST OF THAT ON.
AND THEN WORKING WITH, UH, PARTNERS, THAT'S US AT THE PHOTO IS WITH A PARTNER AT, UH, ONE OF THE SAFETY DAY EVENTS.
AND THEN WE WENT OUT AND ACTUALLY INSTALLED THIS THING.
WE HAD PAPER SURVEYS IN THE SCHOOL IN THE MAIN OFFICE FOR PARENTS TO TAKE.
WE HAD THE SCHOOL PUSH IT OUT THROUGH THEIR PARENT APP AS WELL SO PARENTS COULD TAKE IT.
UM, AND THEN I WENT OUT IN THE MORNING AND DURING, UH, DISMISSAL TO JUST COUNT, YOU KNOW, KIDS THAT WERE USING THE BIKE LANE OR ADULTS STAFF THAT WERE USING THE BIKE LANE, HOW WERE THEY USING THE BIKE LANE? DID IT MAKE SENSE? UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAD SOME FOLKS DOING SPANISH INTERVIEWS WITH PARENTS.
SO MY FAVORITE QUOTE WHEN I WAS OUT THERE ONE MORNING, THERE WERE TWO LITTLE KIDS BIKING TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THE ONE TURNED TO THE OTHER AND YELLS, THEY FIXED THE PIKE LANE.
AND HE WAS SO EXCITED AND IT JUST MELTED MY HEART.
UM, SO IT'S SO COOL THAT, THAT A LITTLE KID THOUGHT, OH, THIS, THIS IS FIXED.
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UM, AND NOW IT'S GOOD.AND SO WHAT DID WE DO? WE REVIEWED THE COMMUNITY SURVEYS THAT WE GOT.
WE HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM THE SURVEY RESPONDENTS IN MAKING SOMETHING PERMANENT IN THAT SPACE.
THERE ARE A LOT OF KIDS IN CALISTOGA THAT WALK AND BIKE TO SCHOOL.
WE ALSO TIME THIS WITH WALK TO SCHOOL DAY, WHICH WAS VERY INTENTIONAL.
UM, SO WE WERE OUT THERE TABLING WITH THE PRINCIPAL DURING THAT WEEK AND TALKING TO PARENTS.
UM, AND WE PRESENTED THESE FINDINGS TO THEIR PAC, WHICH IS THEIR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AND THEY WERE VERY SUPPORTIVE.
AND THIS ROAD IS SLATED FOR RE PAVEMENT IN A COUPLE YEARS.
SO THEY WOULD PROBABLY DO SOMETHING LIKE WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN IN A PERMANENT, UM, AS A PERMANENT SOLUTION.
BUT THEY ARE LOOKING TO ORDER FLEXI POSTS AND EPOXY THOSE DOWN UNTIL THEY'RE READY TO DO FULL REPAVING.
AND THEN MY OTHER PROJECT I'LL TALK ABOUT IS IN ST.
UM, SO THE, THE PHOTO THAT WAS JUST UP WAS ALL THE VOLUNTEERS FOR INSTALLATION DAY.
WE HAVE, UM, AT LEAST ONE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IN THAT PHOTO.
WE HAVE, I'M IN THE PHOTO THERE.
WE HAVE LOTS OF COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND A LOT OF KIDS FROM THE NEIGHBORING SCHOOLS.
UM, SO THIS WAS ANOTHER SAFE ROUTE OF SCHOOL PROJECT.
HELENA, IT WAS BETWEEN TWO SCHOOLS.
WE DID A TEMPORARY BULB OUT, WE DID FOUR AT, AT THIS INTERSECTION.
THIS WAS ALSO CALLED OUT IN THE BIKE COALITION, SAFE ROUTES OF SCHOOL WALKOUT AT REPORTS AS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
IT WAS UNSIGNED, UNCONTROLLED INTERSECTION AND A LOT OF KIDS USED IT TO WALK BETWEEN THE, UM, ELEMENTARY AND THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
SO WE PUT IT IN, IT WAS SET FOR THREE MONTHS.
WE HAD ABOUT 30 PEOPLE COME OUT.
WE HAD NEIGHBORS COME OUT TOO, WHICH IS ALWAYS GOOD.
UM, AND WE DID SOME MORE IN DEPTH EVALUATION.
THE CITY DID SOME SPEED COLLECTED SPEED DATA, UM, BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER.
AND UM, WE ALSO DID SURVEYS, AND I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
UH, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS SUPPORTIVE CITY COUNCIL.
UM, WE, THIS WAS ALSO TOOK A WHILE.
WE WENT AND PRESENTED TO COUNCIL A COUPLE TIMES AND TO OTHER GROUPS TO GET THEIR BUY-IN.
AND THE CITY PULLED THE ENCROACHMENT PERMIT.
IN THIS CASE WE BOUGHT THE MATERIALS.
SO ALL OF THOSE WHITE ANALYZERS WE PURCHASED.
AND THEN WE PURCHASED THE PAINT AND ALL THE OTHER SIGNAGE AND THINGS THAT WENT ALONG WITH THIS ONE TOO.
AND WE MANAGED AND OVERSAW THE INSTALLATION OF THE PROJECT.
THE PROJECT I CAME TO FIND OUT WAS WHEN THE CITY ENGINEERED THE DESIGN AND TOLD US HOW MANY THINGS TO BUY AND WHAT TO BUY AND WHERE TO HAVE SPACE.
'EM, THEY INTENDED THEM TO BE SHORTER FLEXI POSTS, BUT THEY TOLD US TO PURCHASE THE WRONG THING
SO, UH, PICTURE THIS WITH, YOU KNOW, AS A PERMANENT, UH, THING, AS POTENTIALLY HAVING SOME SMALLER FLEXI POSTS.
UM, I THINK IT WOULD'VE GONE OVER BETTER, WHICH I'LL GET TO IN A MINUTE.
IF THEY HADN'T BEEN SO TALL AND THEY WEREN'T, UH, NOT SO MANY OUT THERE, BUT SAY LEVY, UH, THAT, THAT'S HOW IT GOES.
UM, WE DID SAME THING AS WE DID IN CALISTOGA.
WE HAD PHYSICAL SURVEYS IN THE SCHOOLS.
UM, WE DID OBSERVATIONAL DATA COLLECTION AND THEN WE ALSO DID SPEED DATA COLLECTION.
I AM DRESSED UP LIKE A CARROT, UM, AT A HARVEST FESTIVAL EVENT.
UM, WE DECIDED KIND OF IMPROMPTU THAT MORNING THAT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD CAPTIVE AUDIENCE AND WE COULD, YOU KNOW, COLLECT SOME MORE FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY.
THIS WAS ABOUT A MONTH, I THINK, INTO THE PROJECT, SO IT HAD BEEN UP FOR A LITTLE BIT.
UM, SO IT WAS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY.
SO, UM, SOME FINDINGS, THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT IS MY KIND OF, OKAY, LET'S COLLECT SOME DATA TODAY.
UM, DRAW STUFF ON A, YOU KNOW, BIG SHEET WITH A MARKER.
SO WE PRINTED OUT SOME EXAMPLES.
WOULD YOU PREFER THE DESIGN, UH, AS AS IT WAS, SO NO CHANGES TO THE INTERSECTION OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE A CURB EXTENSION? AND WE PROVIDED SOME IMAGES.
THE ONE, UM, ON THE RIGHT OR THE, THE LEFT, SORRY, IS JUST POURED CONCRETE CURB EXTENSION, AND THEN THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS CONCRETE, BUT WITH LOTS OF PLANTS AND, YOU KNOW, VISUALLY VERY APPEALING.
SO BECAUSE WE WERE SEEING IN THE SURVEYS THAT PEOPLE WERE REALLY STRUGGLING WITH THE AESTHETICS, I THINK IN LARGE PART BECAUSE THEY WERE REALLY TALL AND A LOT OF WHITE CHANNELIZER AND THE COMMUNITY WASN'T REALLY, UH, JAZZED ABOUT THAT.
AND THEY WERE STRUGGLING THAT THIS WAS TEMPORARY, EVEN THOUGH IT SAID TEMPORARY ON ALL THE SIGNAGE.
BUT, UM, THERE WERE STRUGGLING WITH THAT A BIT.
SO IT WAS A GOOD CHANCE FOR US TO TALK TO PEOPLE AND HOPEFULLY CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A BUNCH OF DOTS, MAYBE.
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THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF DOTS ON THE CURB EXTENSION.SO PEOPLE OVERWHELMINGLY PREFERRED THE CURB EXTENSION VERSUS AS IT WAS, AND THEY OVERWHELMINGLY LIKED THE GREEN OPTION WITH, WITH PLANTS.
SO NOT SUPER SURPRISING, BUT IT WAS REALLY GOOD TO PAIR THAT WITH THE SURVEY, BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE AND TALK TO 'EM ABOUT THE PROJECT.
UM, SO THE SURVEY DID SHOW, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T ALL ALL BAD.
THERE WERE DEFINITELY A PERCEPTION OF SLOWING DRIVERS DOWN AND INCREASED SAFETY, WHICH IS GOOD.
AND THE CITY DID FIND THAT ENFORCEABLE SPEED VIOLATIONS WERE DOWN, UH, FROM THE PROJECT.
AND OUR NEXT STEP IS TO BRING THAT TO THEIR P BACK, WHICH IS THEIR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE.
SO THAT IS GONNA BE GOING BACK TO THEM IN APRIL FOR A RECOMMENDATION.
UM, CAN YOU, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FROM LIKE, THE INCEPTION OF THE PROJECT TO THE FEEDBACK? THIS IS THE ST.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT, HOW, HOW IT WAS GETTING AN ENCROACHMENT PERMIT? SO FOR THAT ONE, THE CITY PULLED IT FOR US.
SO IT WAS, THEY TOLD ME, HERE'S THE FORM TO FILL OUT.
I GOT, I GOT THAT FOR THEM IN INSURANCE AND IT WAS PRETTY SIMPLE.
AND THEN I JUST HAD TO POST THE PERMIT AT THE PROJECT SITE.
UM, I'VE LONG WANTED TO ADD, UH, TEMPORARY TRAFFIC PROJECT AS A TO OUR ENCROACHMENT PERMITS SO THAT IT'S LIKE A THING THAT'S RIGHT THERE THAT WOULD BE, UM, AN AWESOME ADDITION TO THE ENCROACHMENT PERMIT ONE.
I LOVE THE, I LOVE THE EXAMPLES.
UM, QUESTION HOW MANY CITY STAFF WERE PRESENT DURING THE ACTUAL DEMONSTRATIONS AND THE INSTALLATION AND ALL THAT? ZERO.
THERE WERE NO STAFF, SO I GUESS I HAD A LOT OF TRUST IN US.
I ALSO FORGOT TO MENTION WE DID SCHOOL COLORS.
SO WE DID DIFFERENT CIRCLES THAT THE KIDS BRAIDED STENCIL.
IT WAS CALLED TEMPORARY PAINT, BUT WE DID SCHOOL COLORS, SO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CORNERS HAD MIDDLE SCHOOL COLORS.
AND ANYWAY, I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT, BUT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, IT WAS REALLY FUN FOR THE KIDS.
WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK DID YOU DO THE INSTALLATION? THAT WAS A SATURDAY AND FOR CALISTOGA, THAT ONE WAS A MONDAY MORNING, VERY EARLY BEFORE KIDS CAME TO SCHOOL FOR WALK IN TO SCHOOL WEEK.
AND OTHER DEMONSTRATIONS THEY'VE SEEN THEY DO, UH, LANDSCAPING, UM, WITH EITHER FLOWERS OR TREES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
DID YOU USE ANY POTTED PLANTS TO SORT OF LIKE ADD THE AESTHETIC OF, OF ANY LANDSCAPING? WE DID NOT.
I THINK IF WE'D HAD BUDGET, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN GREAT, BUT THOSE WHITE CHANNELERS CHANNELIZER COST MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? COMMENTS? THANK YOU, KELLY.
YEAH, JUST THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
[COMMITTEE COMMENT]
OKAY.MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO SHARE UPDATES RELEVANT TO THE COMMITTEE, INCLUDING LIAISON REPORTS FROM OTHER CITY BODIES AND MAKE REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, AND THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
UM, PAMELA, CAN WE START WITH YOU? I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
UM, I HEARD CONTINUE TO HEAR GOOD THINGS ABOUT GARFIELD AND THE SORT OF CREATIVE WAYS THAT WE APPROACH GARFIELD.
BJORN, UM, I SHARED WITH A FEW PEOPLE, BUT, UH, THOSE WHO FOLLOW LA POLITICS MEASURE HLA PASS WITH FLYING COLORS, UM, WITH LIKE 65% SUPPORT.
UM, JUST TO BE LIKE, TO GIVE A SENSE OF THE OPPOSITION THAT IT FACED, THE FIREFIGHTERS, UM, HAD LIKE BANNERS ON THE SIDE OF THEIR TRUCK SAYING, NO ON HLA, DON'T SLOW US DOWN.
UM, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF MONEY SPENT AGAINST IT AND IT STILL PASSED WITH, UM, WITH FLYING COLORS.
SO, UM, GOOD TO SEE THAT, UM, THE PUBLIC SUPPORT SAFE STREETS, EVEN IF SOMETIMES DOESN'T ALWAYS FEEL THAT WAY.
UM, UH, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE, UM, THE LANE CLEANERS.
THERE'S A, A AREA
AND A LOT OF THEM ARE LIKE, WHERE DO I PULL OVER AND HOW DO WE CLEAN THIS
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THING? SO, UM, REALLY VERY TIMELY.UM, THE CLEAN CARS FOR ALL, UH, PROGRAM, IT'S A BAY AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT PROGRAM.
UM, IT REALLY NEEDS A BETTER NAME, UM, BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST FOR CARS, BUT, UM, THEY JUST RECENTLY EXPANDED TO COVER THE WHOLE BAY AREA.
THEY WERE ONLY COVERING, UM, LIKE A CERTAIN LIKE HIGHLY POLLUTED AREAS.
UM, BUT FOR INCOME QUALIFIED PEOPLE, THEY GET, UM, VOUCHERS FOR CLEAN CARS, ELECTRIC VEHICLES, UM, BUT ALSO THEY GIVE LIKE $7,500, UM, VOUCHERS FOR, UH, E-BIKES AND FOR, UM, UH, BUS PASSES.
SO IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS, UM, YOU KNOW, ON THE LOWER END OF THE INCOME SPECTRUM AND THEY'RE INTERESTED IN TRADING IN THEIR OLD CAR FOR EITHER A BUS PASS OR AN E-BIKE, UM, PLEASE POINT THEM TO THE CLEAN CARS FOR ALL PROGRAM UNTIL IT GETS A BETTER NAME.
UM, THEN, UH, THE COMMENT THAT THE CHAIR MADE ABOUT, UM, REPORTING, UH, MAYBE WE NEED LIKE A CODE ENFORCEMENT MONTH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE ALL JUST LIKE REMIND PEOPLE AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE, THE CITY JUST DOES THAT.
I KNOW WE'RE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW WITH, UM, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS, UH, RAMPING UP ENFORCEMENT ON CERTAIN STREETS.
AND, UM, I JUST WANT TO ALSO DO WANNA, I, I WISH WE HAD SOMEONE FROM THE POLICE HERE, BUT UM, THEY'RE DOING A BANG THEM UP JOB OF BEING THE MESSENGER FOR SAFE STREETS.
UM, LIKE THERE'S A, A POST THAT THEY PUT ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DAY LIGHTING AND WHY WE DO DAY LIGHTING.
AND IF THAT WAS ON THE CITY'S PAGE, WE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE TROLLING US LIKE CRAZY, BUT THE SAME PEOPLE THAT WOULD TROLL THE CITY'S PAGE OR LIKE, THIS IS GREAT, WE NEED THIS EVERYWHERE.
AND IT IS SO GREAT TO SEE PEOPLE LIKE CRAVING DAYLIGHTING.
UM, SO, UM,
UM, SO, AND THEN FINALLY, UM, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE ARGUS ONLINE VERSION, UH, OUR CHAIR, UM, PEN IN OP-ED, ABOUT D STREET, THAT I THINK IS PRETTY ON POINT.
AND, UM, REALLY JUST, UH, THANKS FOR THE ADVOCACY AND EVERYBODY'S TIME.
I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING EXCEPT, UM, I'VE BEEN THINKING, UH, ABOUT THE, UM, OVERCROSSING WORKSHOP THAT WE HAD.
I ATTENDED THE BEGINNING OF IT AND ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT STUCK WITH ME THAT I SEE FROM TIME TO TIME IN SOCIAL MEDIA TOO, IS, UM, I'VE NEVER WALKED ON THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL OR OTHER TRAILS BECAUSE IT'S NOT SAFE AND I'M AFRAID AND PEOPLE LIVE DOWN THERE AND IT'S DANGEROUS.
AND, UM, I DON'T FEEL THAT WAY AND I USE IT ALL THE TIME.
AND IT MADE ME THINK LIKE, WELL, HOW CAN WE, LIKE IF THIS PERSON WALKED THERE, THEY MIGHT SEE THAT IT'S A REALLY ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE.
AND SO I, I WOULD JUST BE INTERESTED IN LIKE HOSTING THAT AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO LIKE PUBLICIZE, LIKE GO FOR A WALK WITH YOUR FEEDBACK PERSON OR SOMETHING JUST TO GET PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO FEEL LIKE HAVE THAT FEAR OR THAT, UM, IDEA ABOUT IT.
SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO IDEATE HOW TO LIKE, HELP PEOPLE EXPERIENCE IT, UM, I AM, I'M INTERESTED.
UM, JUST FOLLOWING UP ON A PREVIOUS COMMENT, THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL THAT WAS THE NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY, UM, THAT'S OPEN.
SO, UM, APRIL, MAY AND AUGUST ARE THE DEADLINES, UH, THAT'S EXACT.
YOU NEED A, IT NEEDS TO BE A JURISDICTIONAL PARTNER, BUT FUNDING ALL OF THOSE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS, KELLY, THAT YOU'RE DOING, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT, THERE'S MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BASICALLY THAT'S JUST NOT BEING TAPPED INTO FOR PAINT FOR ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
SO DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE, UM, THE CITY TO CHECK THAT OUT, BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH THEM IN ANY CAPACITY.
UH, ANOTHER POINT, UM, MENTIONED MY WORK FOR SCTA TO LOOK AT, UM, PROGRESS METRICS FOR VISION ZERO.
UH, ONE OF THE, WE'VE DONE A LITTLE BIT OF WORK LOOKING AT HOSPITALIZATION DATA, SO TRYING TO KIND OF FILL IN THE GAP OF WE KNOW WHERE THE CRASH DATA IS ON OUR VISION ZERO WEBSITE.
THERE'S HOSPITAL DATA THAT CAN BE A VARYING QUALITY.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S KIND OF LIKE THE NEAR MISSES AND THE, THIS ISN'T A SAFE STREET, YOU KNOW,
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN, YEAH, THERE'S DANGEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS OR DANGEROUS DRIVING BEHAVIOR.AND WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO JUST TAKE AN INITIAL EFFORT OF EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY.
AND BJORN, THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT, IS LOOKING AT, UM, HOW WE CAN CREATE KIND OF A CULTURE IN SONOMA COUNTY TO BE ABLE TO REPORT ISSUES YES, TO THE CITY, BUT THEN ALSO TO A WEBSITE CALLED STREET STORY.
UM, THAT'S RUN OUT OF UC, BERKELEY, THEY'RE THE SAME FOLKS THAT PROCESS THE, THEY'RE SAFE TRUCK, THE SAME FOLKS THAT PROCESS THE CRASH DATA.
SO THEY'RE VERY MUCH IN LINE WITH KIND OF STREET SAFETY.
AND SO THE IDEA WOULD BE IS THAT, UM, YEAH, TRYING TO JUST GET ALL JURISDICTIONS FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN REALLY GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO FOLKS THAT WHEN WE DO WANNA REPORT ABOUT ISSUES THAT YES, GO TO YOUR CITY, BUT THEN ALSO GO TO THIS WEBSITE, BE ABLE TO, UM, UPLOAD YOUR COMMENTS.
UM, AND THEN KIND OF ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, THAT'S SOMETHING THEN THAT WE COULD DRAW FROM, FROM VISION ZERO AND SAY, YOU KNOW, LET'S LOOK GEOGRAPHICALLY SPECIFIC AT DIFFERENT AREAS WITHIN EVEN THE CITY, WHAT'S POPPING UP, UM, AS KIND OF ISSUE AREAS.
AND THEN ANOTHER WAY THAT WE'RE ALSO THINKING ABOUT USING IT AS FOR KIND OF THIS SPECIFIC PLANNING AREAS.
SO SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON NON PETALUMA BUT IN SANTA ROSA AND RONER PARK OR SOMETHING CALLED COMMUNITY-BASED TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
SO THAT'S SAYING FOR THIS CENSUS TRACK OR THERE'LL BE A CONCERTED EFFORT TO REALLY GET FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER AVENUE THAT YOU CAN ALSO USE, UM, STREET STORIES WITH.
SO, UM, I'LL BE COMING BACK AROUND WITH THAT, BUT JUST THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING REALLY INTERESTING.
UM, IS THAT SOMETHING WHERE WE COULD JUST SHARE OUR, LIKE THE, THE SUBMISSIONS WE'VE GOTTEN FOR THE NOMINATION PROGRAM? LIKE WE'VE GOTTEN OVER 400 NOMINATIONS FOR THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM FROM RESIDENTS ON THEIR STREET.
AND I'M WONDERING IF LIKE WE COULD, INSTEAD OF HAVING THEM SUBMIT IT TO A SEPARATE SITE, IF THE CITY COULD JUST LIKE DO A BATCH UPLOAD BECAUSE IT'S JUST A FORM, RIGHT? LIKE, AND THEN JUST WONDERING IF THERE'S SOME WAY WE COULD PUMP THAT IN THERE SO THAT THEY CAN DO IT.
'CAUSE UM, THE CITY'S GOT A MASSIVE FASCINATING STORIES ABOUT LIKE, YEAH, SOMEONE'S GONNA GET HURT HERE,
YOU KNOW, SO, UM, UM, I'M, I'M, I'M IN CONTACT WITH THEM, SO THAT'S ANOTHER MAYBE A THIRD CASE STUDY.
WE CAN JUST SAY WE'VE GOT A BATCH OF COMMENTS THAT WOULD BE IDEAL FOR UPLOADING.
IT'S ABOUT TAKING, GETTING RID OF LIKE PERSONAL INFORMATION SO EVERYTHING CAN BE PUBLIC.
UM, BECAUSE IT IS YEAH, EASY TO DOWNLOAD.
WE'LL DEFINITELY FOLLOW UP WITH THAT.
UM, JUST GOING OFF WHAT NICOLE WAS SAYING ABOUT THE OVERCROSSING MEETING FOR 1 0 1, I ALSO JUST HAD TO GO IN AND BRIEFLY CHECK IT OUT.
UM, THE ONE CROSSING, I MENTIONED THIS TO BE ON AN EMAIL THAT WASN'T ON THERE WAS THE EAST WASHINGTON CREEK CROSSING, WHICH IS, UM, NOT ANYTHING FORMAL RIGHT NOW.
IT'S A VERY INFORMAL CROSSING, BUT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO CONSIDER A PATHWAY THROUGH, UM, INSTEAD OF GOING OVER EAST WASHINGTON BOULEVARD, JUST ESSENTIALLY GO ALONGSIDE IT.
UM, SO INTERESTING TO HOPEFULLY THAT WE CAN EXPLORE THAT POSSIBILITY IN THE FUTURE.
AND THEN LAST UPDATE IS ON A PERSONAL ONE.
I HAVE MY NEW CARGO BIKE OUTSIDE CAPABLE OF CARRYING FOUR KIDS.
I CAN BE A BABYSITTER FOR A FEW HOURS.
UM, BUT I WAS OUT DRIVING IT AROUND AND EXPLORING, UM, TRYING TO GO ON SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THE MACKENZIE.
UM, OVERCROSSING WAS, YEAH, THAT WAS A PAIN IN THE BUTT
SO JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER IN OUR DESIGNS.
UM, YOU REALLY NEED, YEAH, A GOOD WIDE TURN IF YOU'RE KIND OF TRYING TO MANEUVER SOME OF THESE THINGS.
UM, I'M GONNA TRY TO TRICK IT OUT.
SO LOOK FOR ME OUT ON THE ROAD, BE FLASHING LIKE ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS ARE.
JUST A COUPLE UPDATES FROM PLANNING.
UH, SINCE OUR LAST PAC MEETING, WE HAD A TWO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS.
UH, THE FIRST ON FEBRUARY 13TH, THE COMMISSION PROVIDED INPUT AND NON-BINDING COMMENTS TO INFORM DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR AN UPCOMING SPAR FOR OYSTER COVE.
THIS IN ITSELF WAS KIND OF UNIQUE AND WE APPRECIATED THE APPLICANT BROUGHT
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FORWARD THEIR PLAN.SO IN PHASE ONE WE APPROVED THE SITE PLAN AND THE INITIAL ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE PROJECT AND THEN USUALLY AN APPLICANT WILL JUST COME FORWARD WITH SPAR, WHICH IS THE ACTUAL DESIGN MAKEUP OF THE BUILDINGS.
AND IN THIS CASE, THEY TOOK TIME TO KIND OF ADD AN EXTRA MEETING WHERE WE JUST GOT TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THEIR DESIGN THUS FAR.
UH, SO I THINK THAT IN AND OF ITSELF WAS KIND OF A GREAT SIGN THAT THEY'RE REALLY LISTENING TO FEEDBACK AND TRYING TO MAKE THE PROJECT AS GOOD AS IT CAN BE.
UH, OF NOTE FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, THEY ARE, UH, DOING THE SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION AT D STREET IN COPELAND.
THEY'RE DOING A NEW MULTI-USE PATH WITH DEDICATED BIKE LANE ALONG EAST D STREET.
OBVIOUSLY WE AS A COMMITTEE SAW THIS, BUT IT WAS NICE TO SEE SOME OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS MOVING ALONG.
AND WE'RE GONNA SEE SOME OTHER PIECES ABOUT OYSTER COVE COMING TOGETHER NEXT COUPLE WEEKS, INCLUDING AN EASEMENT, UH, FOR VULCAN OR, OR FOR SHAMROCK NEXT DOOR TO, TO GET EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS.
AND THEN ON FEBRUARY 27TH, THERE WAS A GREAT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.
WE WEREN'T LOOKING AT A BIG PROJECT, BUT WE HAD A SE TRAINING, WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT CQA AND MINIMUM NEG DEX AND EIRS.
AND I THINK IF THERE'S ONE KIND OF A COUPLE COMMISSIONERS SAID IF THERE'S ONE CLIP WE CAN PUT ON YOUTUBE, IT'S THIS PRESENTATION AND SOME OF THE FOLLOW UP.
'CAUSE IT WAS A REALLY GOOD DEEP DIVE INTO SOME OF THE ISSUES.
AND INEVITABLY WE ASK HYPER-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT PROJECTS THAT WE'VE SEEN WHILE TRYING TO ACT LIKE THEY WEREN'T.
AND WE ACTUALLY GOT INTO THE WEEDS ON SOME OF THOSE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY INFORMATIVE.
UH, AND THEN WE ALSO GAVE FEEDBACK ON THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY THAT OBVIOUSLY HAS BEEN CIRCULATING TO ALL THE CCBS.
UH, AND I THOUGHT THERE WAS JUST AS AN OVERVIEW AS A BIG DISCUSSION, BUT WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, DENSITY TARGETED AROUND TRANSIT AND THE IMPACTS THAT THAT HAS ON GHGS.
UH, WE HAD SOME COMMENTARY ABOUT TRYING TO SEPARATE OUT COMMERCIAL USE OR, YOU KNOW, COMPANY GENERATION OF GHGS BASICALLY INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL USERS, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING.
UH, WHAT THE CITY CAN DO TO ADDRESS ELECTRICITY CHOKE POINTS WHEN IT COMES TO ELECTRIFICATION, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER.
UH, AND THEN WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT GETTING OUR HEAD WRAPPED AROUND CALCULATIONS FOR SEQUESTRATION AND IMPACTS OF URBAN FORESTRY.
UH, SO YEAH, TWO MEETINGS I THINK BOTH WELL WORTH WATCHING.
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A LOT.OKAY, MOVING 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.
QUICK ROUND OF UPDATES FOR YOU.
UM, SO WITH THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UH, WE'RE IN THE EXCITING STAGE OF DRAFT PLAN DEVELOPMENT, UH, PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
AND THE NEXT STEP WILL BE REVIEW RIGHT HERE AT PAC OF THE DRAFT DOCUMENT.
UM, FROM THERE WE'LL MOVE ON TO OTHER, UM, CITY COMMISSIONS AND ULTIMATELY TO COUNCIL.
UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A TWO STAGE REVIEW FOR COUNCIL BEFORE THEY CONSIDER ADOPTION.
SO, UH, A WORKSHOP WITH COUNCIL AND THEN, UH, FOLLOWED BY CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION.
SO SEVERAL STEPS ALONG THE WAY FOR OBVIOUSLY THE PUBLIC WILL BE INVITED TO EACH TO, UH, PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INPUT.
UM, MARIA DRIVE IS SET TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION SOMETIME IN APRIL, SO THAT'S EXCITING.
UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT'LL START WITH, UM, RECYCLED WATER, UH, PIPELINE INSTALLATION.
AND THEN, UH, ON D STREET AND FIFTH STREET, WE WILL BE GOING TO, COMING TO COUNCIL.
UH, WE'RE CURRENT TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR THE FIRST COUNCIL DATE IN APRIL TO BRING A PRESENTATION.
UH, ACTUALLY IT'LL BE A COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF, UH, THE DESIGN OPTION ON D STREET.
AND, UM, UH, WELL THAT MEETING ACTUALLY, UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT SEVERAL SAFE STREETS RELATED ITEMS. WE'LL ALSO HAVE A PRESENTATION ON, UH, AB FOUR 13, WHICH IS THE DAY LIGHTING INTERSECTION, DAY LIGHTING, NEW STATE LEGISLATION.
UH, WE WILL BE BRINGING FORWARD REDUCED SPEED LIMITS, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AB 43, WHICH IS, UM, GOING TO ALLOW US TO
AND THEN, UM, AND THEN WE WILL BE AWARDING HOPEFULLY OUR, UH, ON-CALL STRIPING CONTRACT, WHICH IS GOING TO ENABLE US TO, UH, WORK MUCH FASTER WHEN IT COMES TO DELIVERING QUICK BUILD PROJECTS INVOLVING STRIPING AND SIGNAGE.
SO A LOT GOING ON AT THE, UM, AGAIN, HOPEFULLY THE FIRST APRIL COUNCIL DATE.
UM, AND THEN THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, WHICH KEN BROUGHT TO THE COMMITTEE A COUPLE OF MONTHS BACK, UH, IS WRAPPING UP DESIGN AND, UH, PLANNING TO PUT THAT OUT TO BID IN MAY AND GET THAT UNDER CONSTRUCTION, UH, HOPEFULLY
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IN SUMMER AND FALL OF THIS YEAR.AND NEXT UP WE'VE GOT THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM.
SO, UH, WE DOWNLOADED EVERYTHING RECEIVED THROUGH, UH, I THINK IT WAS MID-FEBRUARY OR THEREABOUTS.
AND, UH, THAT'S OUR FIRST BATCH THAT WE ARE SCORING.
WE HAVE 537 NOMINATIONS RECEIVED, BUT A LOT, UH, THAT OVERLAP SOMEWHAT.
UH, WE FINISHED MAPPING THEM ALL.
THERE WERE 236 UNIQUE LOCATIONS MAPPED WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
AND, UH, BECAUSE WE HAD SUCH HIGH VOLUME, WE'VE UPDATED OUR SCORING CRITERIA.
WE ARE NO, WE ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO USE TO COLLECT SPEED DATA.
UM, IF YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IF YOU GO TO THE PROJECT WEBPAGE, UH, WE WERE ENVISIONING GOING OUT AND COLLECTING ONE HOUR RADAR SAMPLES AT EACH OF THE LOCATIONS.
IF WE WERE TO DO THAT, WE WOULD NEVER GET THROUGH THESE.
SO WE'RE JUST GONNA ELIMINATE SPEED DATA FROM THE SCORING CRITERIA.
FOR NOW, WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON INJURY COLLISIONS GIVEN OUR COMMITMENT TO VISION ZERO AND OBVIOUSLY, UH, UH, ACCOUNT FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, WEIGHT PROJECTS OR WEIGHT LOCATIONS WHERE, UH, COLLISIONS HAVE BEEN, HAVE RESULTED IN MORE, UH, SEVERE, UH, INJURIES.
AND, UH, WE'RE STILL USING THE MULTIPLIER FOR PROXIMITY TO SCHOOLS AND PARKS AS WE ORIGINALLY OUTLINED.
UM, THAT'S NOT A, YOU KNOW, I KNOW IT'S IT'S SMALL MAP, BUT JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU OBVIOUSLY THE COVERAGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU JUST GO OFF THE, THE NUMBER OF UNIQUE LOCATIONS, IT PROBABLY LOOKS TO YOU LIKE THE WEST SIDE HAS A HIGHER CONCENTRATION, BUT WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD GEO GEOGRAPHICAL, UH, SPLIT BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST SIDES.
AND, UH, ON THE EAST SIDE, THE REQUESTS JUST TENDED TO BE MORE CONCENTRATED ON, UH, ESPECIALLY ON ARTERIAL AND, UH, COLLECTOR STREETS.
UM, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE EAST SIDE DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME GRID NETWORK THAT THE WEST SIDE DOES, THE SPEEDING OCCURS ON A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF THE OVERALL STREET NETWORK.
BUT, UH, YEAH, SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED WE'LL BE WRAPPING UP THAT SCORING AND, UH, GETTING ANOTHER UPDATE OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND HOPEFULLY IDENTIFYING, HOPEFULLY OUR NEXT PAC MEETING CAN GIVE YOU ALL AN UPDATE ON, UM, THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
AND THOSE WILL BE, SO ONCE WE HAVE THOSE PROJECTS, WE'LL BE GOING INTO A DESIGN DESIGN PROCESS AND, AND THOSE PROJECTS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH THAT ON-CALL STRIPING CONTRACT THAT I MENTIONED.
UM, NOT MUCH COMING UP RIGHT NOW.
OTHER, THE, I MENTIONED ALL THE STUFF THAT COULD BE GOING ON AT COUNCIL, BUT JUST FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH ONLY TWO MEETINGS OR TWO DEADLINES THAT MEETINGS OR DEADLINES THAT CAUGHT MY EYE.
WE HAVE THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY.
UH, SO WE HELD THAT, UH, INITIAL COMMUNITY MEETING LAST WEEK AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, AND SO THIS, THIS STUDY IS FOCUSED ON LOOKING AT NEAR AND LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS FOR CORONA ROAD, UH, THE CORONA ROAD, OVERCROSSING RAINIER AVENUE UNDER CROSSING WITH A FOCUS JUST ON BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN, UH, CONNECT CONNECTIVITY FOR NOW.
UM, THE MACKENZIE AVENUE OVERCROSSING BEHIND THE TARGET SHOPPING CENTER, AND I'M MISSING ONE OH LYNCH CREEK TRAIL, UH, WITH REALLY A FOCUS ON THE NORTH MCDOWELL CROSSING.
AND, UH, SO YEAH, LIKE I SAID, WE'LL BE, OUR CONSULTANT IS GOING TO BE IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS FOR EACH OF THOSE LOCATIONS.
AND WE'LL ACTUALLY EVENTUALLY END UP, UH, PUTTING THESE INTO, UH, SORT OF AN EARLY CONCEPTUAL PLANNING STAGE.
AND WE'LL HAVE SOME ROUGH COST ESTIMATES AND IDEAS ATTACHED WITH EACH OF THESE, UH, CROSSINGS.
SO AGAIN, KIND OF WITH AN EYE TOWARD BOTH NEAR TERM ACTIONS WE CAN TAKE AND, UH, LONG TERM, WHAT'S OUR, WHAT'S OUR VISION FOR THESE CROSSINGS? THE SURVEY IS UP, WE'RE GETTING A TON OF RESPONSES ON IT.
UH, LAST I HEARD IT WAS OVER 300 RESPONSES AND, UH, THAT'LL BE OPEN UNTIL MARCH 17TH.
AND IF YOU GO TO THE WEBPAGE LINKED THERE, YOU CAN, UH, GO CHECK OUT THE SLIDES AND, UH, TAKE THE SURVEY.
AND THEN WITH OUR SAFE ROUTES TASK FORCE, WE CONTINUE TO CHUG ALONG THERE.
UH, WE'VE COMPLETED THREE WALK AUDITS AND TASK FORCE MEETINGS FOCUSED ON THOSE, UH, THE, THE CAMPUSES WHERE WE'VE DONE WALK AUDITS AND WE'VE GOT FOUR MORE SCHEDULED, SO WE'VE KEPT UP WITH THAT, UH, WITH ONE ONCE A MONTH, UH, UH, CADENCE.
AND, UH, SO I'VE GOT LISTED OUR REMAINING, UH, WALK AUDITS AND TASK FORCE MEETING FOCUSES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR.
UH, WE'LL LIKELY BE TAKING JULY OFF AND THEN RESUMING, UH, PICKING BACK UP IN AUGUST.
AND THESE HAVE ALL BEEN PRIORITIZED BASED ON COLLISION HISTORY AROUND THE SCHOOLS.
AND JUST A REMINDER THAT THOSE TASK FORCE MEETINGS ARE THE THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
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KEN AND I SHARE, UH, FINDINGS FROM THE WALK AUDITS.AND THEN WE ALSO DISCUSS, UH, CHRISTINA PANZA PRESENT PRESENTS, PRESENTS UPDATES FROM SAFE ROUTES, ALL THE STUFF THEY'RE WORKING ON.
AND THERE'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE SCHOOL COMMUNITIES TO BRING OTHER COMMENTS, WHETHER THEY'RE RELATED TO THAT SCHOOL OR NOT.
UM, WE INVITE ANYONE TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE MEETINGS AND OUR REMAINING MEETINGS WILL ALL BE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER SINCE THOSE ARE ALL EAST SIDE FOCUSED SCHOOLS, AND YOU CAN GO TO THAT WEBSITE THERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
UM, WE WERE ABLE TO CHECK A, A FEW OFF OUR LIST TONIGHT WITH CAULFIELD HOWARD AND THE KELLY'S WONDERFUL BLUE ZONES PRESENTATION.
SO THIS IS OUR RUNNING LIST OF, UM, UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS. AND, UH, I'VE GOT HIGHLIGHTED THERE, THE THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY.
SO AT SOME POINT WHEN IT MAKES MOST SENSE, WE WILL DEFINITELY HAVE OUR CONSULTANT COME AND PRESENT TO THE COMMITTEE AND, UH, GET YOUR FEEDBACK.
UM, I THINK FOR NEXT MONTH I MIGHT, UH, SUGGEST THAT WE TACKLE, UM, WE DO A, A ANOTHER WAY FINDING DISCUSSION AND, AND TALK ABOUT, UM, WHAT WE WANNA DO THERE.
UM, THIS IS PROBABLY, IT'S NOT REALLY RELATED TO SOME OF THIS STUFF, BUT, UM, MR. SEN'S COMMENT MADE ME, UH, WANNA JUST REMIND IF IT'S NOT, I KNOW WE'RE DOING BUDGET RIGHT NOW AND THE UNDERGROUNDING OF THE REST OF THOSE THREE POLES ON, UM, ON D STREET THERE BETWEEN THE OYSTER COVE PROJECT AND LAKEVILLE, JUST MAKING SURE THAT THOSE GET ON, YOU KNOW, IN THE CAPITAL PROGRAM THIS YEAR.
UM, JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU.
YEAH, I, I DO NOT HAVE AN UPDATE ON THAT, BUT I'LL ASK AROUND AND, UH, MAKE SURE WE, CAN WE GET BACK TO THE COMMITTEE WITH AN UPDATE NEXT MONTH?
UM, THE BEST WAY TO JUST REACH OUT TO ME AND OR, UH, CHRISTINA PANZA AND WE CAN, UM, SEND THE DATES AND TIMES.
UH, WE GENERALLY MEET FOR THOSE FOR 8:00 AM UM, ON A WEEKDAY SO WE CAN OBSERVE SCHOOL DROP OFF CONDITIONS.
UM, SO YEAH, IF WOULD THE COMMITTEE BE INTERESTED, I COULD SHARE ALL OF THOSE DATES AND TIMES WITH THE FULL COMMITTEE IF YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN JOINING FOR THIS.
JUST ONE LAST PLUG I FORGOT TO MENTION.
UH, MARCH 13TH, NO, BEFORE YOU GROW IS GONNA BE THE MYSTIC THEATER.
DAVID BAKER ARCHITECTS IS GONNA BE PRESENTING NINE WAYS TO MAKE HOUSING FOR PEOPLE.
UH, THE HYPE IS CRAZ AROUND THIS, APPARENTLY IT'S GONNA BE A REALLY GOOD PRESENTATION, UH, BUT I WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW AND THAT YOU HAVE TO RESERVE A SEAT.
SO I THINK URBAN CHAT, OR NO, BEFORE YOU GROW, YOU CAN RESERVE A SEAT, MYSTIC THEATER ON THE 13TH.
I BELIEVE IT'S EITHER AT SEVEN OR EIGHT P 7:00 PM THANK YOU.
IT'S READY, IT'S VIDEOTAPED, BUT, UH, NO, BEFORE YOU GROW, THEIR LAST ONE WAS ON, IT WAS, UM, BY JAR WALKER.
IT WAS HUMAN TRANSIT AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY DYNAMITE.
EVERYTHING HE SAID, IT WAS JUST LIKE, DUH.
BUT LIKE, JUST SAID IT REALLY, REALLY PERFECTLY.
SO, UM, IF YOU GOT AN HOUR, UM, CHECK OUT THAT HE WROTE THE, HE WROTE THE BIBLE ON TRANSIT IN NORTH AMERICA, SO YEAH.
AND THERE'S A NEW TESTAMENT OR MAYBE NOT JUST NORTH AMERICA, RIGHT.
SO YEAH, THE OLD TESTAMENT AND NOW THERE'S A NEW TESTAMENT OUT AND UM, SO DEFINITELY OKAY.