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PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3RD.[ROLL CALL]
CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE ROLE MEYER? HERE.[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]
TO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE.
TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES, TOTALING NO MORE THAN 15 MINUTES.
UM, CLERK, DO YOU HAVE OTHER COMMENTS RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE MEETING? NO PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED.
AND MY FIRST GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT IS FOR DEB FOX.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME UP AND SAY HI.
UH, I WAS JUST WANTED TO GIVE A QUICK, UH, IN UPDATE AND INVITATION TO YOU ALL.
UH, WE ARE, UH, COOL PETALUMA.
PETALUMA, UH,
AND ON PI DAY, WE HAD 33 RIDERS LEADING, LEAVING FROM TWO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WEST SIDE, RIDING ACROSS THE D STREET BRIDGE, SUPPORTED BY BIKE LEADERS AND WHAT I CALL BUMPERS, WHICH ARE THE, UH, OUTSIDE, UH, AND THEN THE CABOOSE, UH, TO GET THE KIDS TO RIDE TO SCHOOL.
WE TOOK NINE CARS OFF THE ROAD ON THE D STREET BRIDGE.
SO IT WAS, UH, A REALLY SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
I AL ALSO HAPPENED TO HAVE THE CITY MANAGER ON THE BACK OF MY BIKE.
UH, WE HAD TWO, UH, CITY COUN, THE MAYOR AND A CITY COUNCIL PERSON JOIN US.
UH, AND BUT THAT'S REALLY NOT THE, IT'S THE STORIES AND THE JOY OF QUOTES THAT I GOT FROM KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS THAT THEY WANNA DO IT MORE.
AND SO THIS IS ALL PART OF A CAMPAIGN THAT COOL PETALUMA IS WORKING ON TO BUILD MORE FREQUENT AND, UH, REGULAR RIDING TO SCHOOL.
BUT AS YOU KNOW, NEXT MONTH IS BIKE TO SCHOOL MONTH OR BIKE MONTH, BUT BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY IS MAY 8TH.
I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU ALL TO PARTICIPATE, UH, AS ONE OF OUR BIKE, UH, BUMPERS, CABOOSE LEADERS.
I HAVE A, A GROUP FROM CHERRY VALLEY THAT IS, UH, WANTING TO DO THIS.
THEY'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A CHALLENGE RIDING UP AND OVER HILLS.
UH, BUT, UH, LIVE OAK, WE'VE BEEN PRACTICING.
WE PRACTICE EVERY WEEK, UH, GOING ACROSS THE D STREET BRIDGE AND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO RIDE WITH KIDS ON THE, ON THIS, UH, D STREET.
UH, AND, UH, I HAVE, UH, OF COURSE GRANT HAS BEEN A FREQUENT, UH, PARTICIPANT.
AND THEN, UH, MCNAIR, UH, DAVE FELIX WILL BE DOING HIS BIKE TRAINS.
BUT WE'RE GONNA, WHAT I WANNA DO IS ENGAGE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE IN DOING THIS.
UH, WE'LL BE, UH, WORKING, I'M WORKING WITH SAFE STREETS PETALUMA AND THEIR, UH, FIRST FRIDAYS AND GETTING, UH, RIDES COMING FROM BOTH SIDES OF TOWN, UH, GOING TO THE FAIRGROUNDS OR OTHER PLACES FOR DINNER.
WE'RE, LOOK, WE'RE WORKING TO GET, UH, PICNICS HAPPENING AT THE FAIRGROUNDS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN, UH, PICNIC AND, UH, HAVE DINNER AND MAYBE SOME MUSIC HAPPENING THIS SUMMER WITH MORE RIDES.
SO THE WHOLE GOAL IS TO GET PEOPLE WALKING AND ROLLING TO PLACES AROUND TOWN.
UH, ALSO, I FORGOT TO MENTION, UH, BIKE PETALUMA GONNA BE WORKING, UH, SEEING IF WE CAN GET, UH, SECOND SATURDAYS GOING AGAIN AND THEY'LL BE DOING, UH, RIDES TO GROCERY STORES, UH, RIDES TO BREAKFAST RIDES TO NATURE CENTERS.
THE WHOLE IDEA IS THAT WE ALL, AS A COMMUNITY, THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GONNA GET PEOPLE OUT ON THE BIKES IS TO SHOW THEM HOW TO DO IT.
UM, THERE IS A BUS COMPONENT AS WELL.
I'LL BE GOING TO THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE ON THURSDAY AND EXPLAINING TO THEM THEIR INVITATION IS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING.
AND I WOULD LOVE IF THAT COULD BE PUBLICIZED THROUGH, UM, CITY, UM, INSTAGRAM AND STUFF TOO, BUT KEEP US UPDATED.
UM, THE NEXT PUBLIC SPEAKER IS ARIS WEAVER.
IT JUST WARMS MY HEART TO HEAR OTHER, OTHER, WHAT OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, BIKE MONTH AND, AND OTHER BIKE STUFF.
SO, WITH MAY BEING BIKE MONTH, WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER STUFF COMING UP TOO.
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WE ARE HAVING THIS SATURDAY A PREBI TO WORK DAY FREE CLINIC.IT'S IN SANTA ROSA, UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU, BUT YOU CAN STILL COME ON THE TRAIN 'CAUSE IT'S REAL CLOSE TO THE TRAIN STATION, UM, AT THE TREK BICYCLE STORE THAT PEOPLE CAN, YOU KNOW, PULL THAT BIKE OUTTA THE GARAGE, YOU HAVEN'T RIDDEN IN A WHILE.
AND CAN OR MECHANIC VOLUNTEER MECHANICS WILL HAVE A LOOK AT IT AND WE'LL HAVE FOOD AND BE GIVING AWAY OUR BIKE MAPS AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN PETALUMA, UM, UH, IN COLLABORATION WITH PARKS AND REC, MY SAFE ROUTES OF SCHOOL STAFF ARE DOING, UM, LEARN TO RIDE A BIKE CLASSES FOR CHILDREN, UH, ONCE A MONTH.
AND THESE HAVE BEEN BEING REAL POPULAR.
UH, AND IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS SO SAD TO ME TO SEE EVERY YEAR MY STAFF TELL ME THAT IN THEIR BIKE RODEOS AND ALL THE STUFF THEY DO IN THE SCHOOLS, THAT MORE, THAT MORE AND MORE CHILDREN EVERY YEAR BY THE AGE OF 10 HAVE NEVER RIDDEN A BIKE.
UM, SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO HEAR THIS STUFF THAT OTHER FOLKS ARE DOING ALONG WITH THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE DOING AS PART OF OUR ONGOING, UM, TRAINING FOR ADVOCATES AND ACTIVISTS IS WE ARE DOING A WEBINAR AT THE END OF APRIL ON HOW IS ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION FUNDED.
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COMES UP A LOT, RIGHT? WITH FOLKS NOT KNOWING THE CYCLE OF HOW THINGS HAPPEN AND, AND WHERE AND WHEN TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE YOUR COMMENTS AND TRY TO MOVE THINGS THE DIRECTION YOU WANT THEM TO.
SO WE'RE DOING A WEBINAR ON THAT.
AND, UM, ANOTHER THING, THIS HASN'T BEEN PUT UP ON THE WEBSITE OR ANNOUNCED YET, SO YOU'RE THE FIRST ENTITY I'VE BEEN TELLING ABOUT IT IS WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR, UM, GOLDEN SPOKE AWARDS AGAIN, ONLY WE'RE GONNA DO IT IN JUNE INSTEAD OF SEPTEMBER.
AND SO WE ARE LOOKING FOR NOMINATIONS FOR, UH, BEST, UH, BIKE FRIENDLY BUSINESS FOR THE BEST, UM, BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT OF THE YEAR.
AND WHAT'S THE THIRD ONE? OH, UH, THE, UM, UH, CYCLING ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR.
SO WE'LL BE, YOU CAN LOOK FOR THAT, UH, TO BE ABLE TO NOMINATE, UM, FOLKS AND PROJECTS AND STUFF THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTHY OF AN AWARD.
UM, AND WE'LL BE DOING IT AT SOMO VILLAGE THIS YEAR.
UM, SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
AND I THINK THAT I'M ACTUALLY GONNA BE DONE BEFORE MY TIME RUNS OUT.
I HAD NOT PREPARED, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT JUST IN THE COURSE OF LISTENING TO ERIS AND DEB, FOUR THINGS COME TO MIND.
ONE IS TOMORROW MORNING AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, UH, CITY THREAD IS DOING A WEBINAR ON SAFE ROOTS FOR ALL, UM, GRANT FUNDING FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
UM, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
IF ANYBODY ELSE IS INTERESTED, UM, I'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE THE LINK.
UH, ANOTHER ONE IS, AS DEB MENTIONED, UM, THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A LOT OF INTEREST AMONG THE COMMUNITY FOR EXPANDING THE HOLIDAY LIGHTED BIKE RIDE AND DOING RIDES LIKE THAT MORE OFTEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
SO A BUNCH OF US MET LAST WEEK AND TALKED ABOUT SOME, BRAINSTORMED SOME IDEAS FOR THAT, BUT NOTHING IS QUITE JELLED.
AGAIN, IF, IF YOU HAVE, IF THERE ARE ANY IDEAS OUT THERE FOR WHAT WE MIGHT DO, UM, I'M HAPPY.
UM, I JUST, I ALSO WANTED TO MENTION, UM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOL TASK FORCE, UM, I ORGANIZED A BUNCH OF BIKE MECHANICS WHO WERE ALL MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA WHEELMAN.
WE DID, UM, UH, A NIGHT AT VALLEY VISTA SCHOOL OF FIXING BIKES.
AND IT WAS, IT WAS A RAINY, STORMY NIGHT.
PARTICIPATION WASN'T GREAT, BUT THERE WERE ENOUGH BIKES TO BE FIXED TO KEEP US ALL BUSY.
UM, AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT, THAT EVERYBODY THERE WOULD BE WILLING TO DO THAT SAME SORT OF THING AT OTHER SCHOOL SITES.
AND RIGHT NOW, UH, OH, THE, THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO MENTION IS, UM, I'M TAKING PART, I'M PART OF A GPAC MOBILITY AD HOC, AND WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE, AT THE, THE GOALS AND PRIORITIES THAT WE WANNA SEE IN THE MOBILITY ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN.
UM, A DRAFT WAS RELEASED MAYBE TWO WEEKS AGO, AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY, WE, WE HAD A MEETING
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LAST WEEK AND WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD STUFF IN THAT DRAFT, BUT IF THERE IS AN ORGANIZATION TO IT, A LOGIC TO HOW IT'S ORGANIZED, IT ELUDES ALL OF US.SO I I I IMAGINE THAT, THAT THIS DOCUMENT WILL BE COMING BEFORE YOU IN THE NEXT MONTHS.
SO ANYWAY, THAT'S, THAT'S MY OWN TAKE ON IT.
THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE ARE MOVING TO
[PRESENTATIONS]
OUR PRESENTATIONS.THE FIRST ONE IS BICYCLE WAYFINDING UPDATE.
AND BJORN, YOU CAN TAKE IT AWAY.
I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA REQUEST THAT WE FLIP THE PRESENTATIONS.
KEN'S GOING TO, UM, HELP ME OUT WITH THE WAYFINDING PRESENTATION SOUNDS.
I'LL JUST, I'LL JUMP RIGHT INTO THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM UPDATE, WHICH IS VERY EXCITING AND GOOD.
E, GOOD EVENING TO EVERYONE, BY THE WAY.
SO, UM, AS I MENTIONED, UH, AT LAST MONTH'S MEETING, WE'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK
UM, IT'S BEEN A, A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE, I THINK, UH, AND, AND DEFINITELY A SIGN THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS VERY MUCH ENGAGED AND, AND EAGER TO SEE SAFE STREETS AND TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, JUST A RE REMINDER OF WHAT THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM IS.
UM, WE CREATED THIS IN OCTOBER OF 2023, UH, ABOUT A HALF YEAR AGO.
AND, UH, IT'S A, A PLATFORM THROUGH WHICH COMMUNITY MEMBERS CAN REQUEST ANY FORM OF SAFETY OR OTHER TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS TO CITY STREETS.
THE GOAL FOR THIS PROGRAM IS FOR IT TO BE VERY ACCESSIBLE.
UM, SO THERE'S A, A WEBPAGE, UH, AND A FORM ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, UM, THAT, UH, MAKES IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO, UH, NOMINATE LOCATIONS.
AND THEN, UH, IMPORTANTLY FOR THIS TO ALSO BE TRANSPARENT AT HOW WE ARRIVE AT WHICH STREETS ARE THEN PRIORITIZED FOR, UM, SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS.
AND OF COURSE, THAT TRANSPARENCY COMES WITH A, A DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH THAT'S VERY OBJECTIVE.
AND, UM, INITIALLY WHEN WE OUTLINED THIS, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT USING COLLISION HISTORY AS WELL AS SPEED DATA AND PROXIMITY TO SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
AND AS I MENTIONED LAST MONTH, BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME OF REQUESTS WE'VE RECEIVED, IT'S NOT FEASIBLE TO USE SPEED DATA.
WE, WE WOULD BE COLLECTING SPEED DATA ALL YEAR IF WE WERE TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE TWEAKED THE SCORING AND ADJUSTED OUR, OUR PROCESS TO TRY TO, TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN, UM, EVALUATE, UH, THE HUNDREDS OF, OF REQUESTS WE'VE RECEIVED IN A MORE EFFICIENT MANNER.
THE, UM, SO, UH, YEAH, SO ACTUALLY THAT THIRD, SORRY, THAT FOURTH BULLET, THOSE TYPO THERE.
UM, IT REALLY IS, WE'RE, WE'RE PRIORITIZING THE STREETS WITH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT COLLISION ISSUES.
AND, UM, THIS IS ALSO, UH, IMPORTANT TO US BECAUSE IT PROVIDES A, A WAY FOR US TO, UH, UPGRADE STREETS THAT MAYBE AREN'T SLATED FOR, UM, MAJOR PAVING OR OTHER, UH, IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IN THE, IN THE COMING YEARS.
UM, A LOT OF TIMES, UH, YOU KNOW, CITIES WITHOUT SOME SORT OF TRAFFIC CALMING OR OTHER QUICK BUILD ORIENTED, UH, PROGRAM IN PLACE WILL ONLY IMPLEMENT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS WHEN THEY HAVE A PAVING PROJECT.
AND, AND SO WE, WE WANTED TO CREATE ANOTHER WAY FOR CITY STREETS TO RECEIVE ANOTHER, ANOTHER AVENUE FOR CITY STREETS TO, UH, RECEIVE IMPROVEMENTS MORE, MORE NEAR TERM IMPROVEMENTS.
SO OUR PROGRAM OVERVIEW, UH, WE ACCEPT THE NOMINATIONS ON A ROLLING BASIS.
UH, THERE'S THE URL THERE, WE SCREEN THEM, JUST KIND OF A PRELIMINARY SCREENING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
IF THEY'RE NOT ON CITY LIMITS, WE'RE GONNA FORWARD THEM TO THE APPROPRIATE AGENCIES.
AND, UH, JUST KIND OF GAIN A, A GENERAL IDEA OF THE CONCERNS.
UM, THERE WERE TONS, THERE WAS A LOT OF OVERLAP BETWEEN THE LOCATIONS PEOPLE NOMINATED.
SO, UH, WE CREATED LOCATION IDS FOR EACH OF THE, UM, NOMINATIONS.
AND THEN IF THERE WERE OVERLAPPING AREAS, WE JUST ACCOUNTED FOR THAT.
AND THEN, UM, WE, UH, SO WE'VE SCORED THEM, WE'VE RANKED THEM, AND THEN, AND I'LL BE SHARING THE TOP 10 SCORES, UH, TONIGHT, UH, IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
AND THEN WE'LL BE GOING INTO, ONCE WE'VE SELECTED OUR PROJECTS, WE'LL BE SCOPING THEM.
AND, UH, MOVING FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTATION THIS YEAR THROUGH OUR, UH, UH, OUR PROPOSED ON-CALL STRIPING AND SIGNAGE CONTRACT, WHICH IS ACTUALLY SLATED TO BE AWARDED
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AT, UH, COUNCIL NEXT MONDAY.AND, UM, WE'LL BE ROLLING OVER ANY PROJECTS THAT AREN'T, AREN'T IMPLEMENTED FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE NEXT CYCLE.
SO IN OUR FIRST ROUND, UH, WE DOWNLOADED EVERY NOMINATION WE RECEIVED THROUGH MID-FEBRUARY.
THERE WERE 537 OF THEM, UH, COVERING 236 UNIQUE LOCATIONS WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
AND, UH, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE UPDATED OUR, UM, SCORING CRITERIA TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT HIGH VOLUME OF SUBMISSION.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE PRIORITIZING COLLISION HISTORY.
WE ALSO HAD TO ADJUST OUR PROXIMITY TO SCHOOLS AND PARKS FOR THE MULTIPLIERS.
UM, SO WE DID, WE DID SET IT UP TO WAIT PROJECTS MORE FAVORABLY IF THEY WERE NEAR A SCHOOL OR PARK.
WHEN YOU DRAW A QUARTER MILE BUFFER AROUND SCHOOLS AND PARKS IN PETALUMA, YOU'RE COVERING THE ENTIRE CITY
SO WE, UM, DID SHRINK THOSE AREAS A BIT TO TRY TO CAPTURE THE GIVE, GIVE SOME PRIORITY TO THE PROJECTS THAT ARE REALLY CLOSE TO AJA, LIKE ADJACENT TO SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, PREDICTABLY, UH, THE TOP 10 SCORING, UH, CORRIDORS, UH, LARGELY ARE OUR BUSIEST, UH, LARGEST ROADWAYS.
UM, SO IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF MAJOR ARTERIAL ROADWAYS.
AND, AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE HERE IS THAT MOST OF THESE ARE SO BIG THAT IT REALLY WOULDN'T BE FEASIBLE TO, UM, ADDRESS THAT OR, OR TO REDESIGN THEM AND, AND PROVIDE THOSE SAFETY AND TRAFFIC CALMING IMPROVEMENTS ON THESE STREETS, UM, USING THIS SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM.
NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED GREAT INPUT ON THESE.
UM, IT'S ACTUALLY WONDERFUL BECAUSE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, DOZENS OF REQUESTS AND VERY DETAILED COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY NOW TIED TO EACH OF THESE CORRIDORS, WHICH ARE, THAT'S EXTREMELY HELPFUL DATA TO HAVE WHEN WE GO SEEK GRANT FUNDING, RIGHT? TO DEMONSTRATE THAT, HEY, THE COMMUNITY HAS IDENTIFIED A REAL NEED HERE FOR SOME IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, BUT IF WE WERE TO, YOU KNOW, TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A VERY SMALL BUDGET ALLOCATED FOR THESE QUICK BUILD PROJECTS.
AND IF WE WERE TO, WE COULD SPEND THE ENTIRE BUDGET ON, YOU KNOW, A QUARTER MILE STRETCH OF ANY ONE OF THESE MAJOR FOUR AND FIVE LANE ROADWAYS.
SO, UM, YOU'LL SEE THERE ON THE RIGHT, I HAVE TWO, TWO COLUMNS.
UM, ONE, UH, INDICATING WHETHER THE PROJECTS, WHETHER THE ROADWAYS ARE THREE OR MORE LANES.
AND THAT'S KIND OF, KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS WE CAN PROBABLY HANDLE TWO LANE ROADS THROUGH THIS PROGRAM WITH, UM, SOME BASIC INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS LIKE BULB OUTS, TRAFFIC CIRCLES, UM, WE COULD LOOK AT MIDBLOCK TREATMENTS LIKE, UH, CHICANES OR SPEED CUSHIONS.
UM, THAT'S THE, THAT'S MORE THE LEVEL WE'RE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS OR THE TYPE OF ROADWAY I SHOULD SAY, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS THROUGH THIS PROGRAM.
SO, UM, THAT'S ONE CRITERIA THAT WE'LL FILTER OUT THESE.
UM, AND THEN ALSO WE LOOKED AT WHETHER OR NOT THERE WERE ANY UPCOMING CIP PROJECTS.
AND SO OBVIOUSLY IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE TO PRIORITIZE STREETS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE AN UPCOMING PROJECT.
SO, UM, IN THE CASE OF D STREET, BETWEEN PETTON BOULEVARD AND CITY LIMITS, WE HAVE, UH, A QUICK BUILD PROJECT, UH, GOING TO CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION NEXT MONDAY THAT WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED THIS SUMMER, FOLLOWED BY A RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT, UH, IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
AND, UM, LIKEWISE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER OUT, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT A PAVING AND UTILITY PROJECT ON WESTERN AVENUE, UM, NUMBER SEVEN THERE.
AND, UM, AND THEN, UH, SIMILARLY WE'RE LOOKING AT A PAVING PROJECT, UH, ON CASA GRANDE ROAD BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND ELI.
SO ONCE YOU START FILTERING OUT THOSE PRO THOSE LARGER CORRIDORS AND OR STREETS WHERE WE HAVE UPCOMING PROJECTS X, THIS IS THE RESULTING LIST OF STREETS THAT ARE, AGAIN, TWO LANES AND WITHOUT UPCOMING CIP PROJECTS.
SO WE'VE GOT, AND A LOT OF THESE ARE, ARE VERY SIMILAR STREETS WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT, UH, THE TRAFFIC VOLUME CHARACTERISTICS.
UM, AND, AND I'D LIKE TO THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S EASY TO IMAGINE ON THESE CORRIDORS, UH, HAVING A REALLY PROFOUND IMPACT, UH, OR, OR HAVING A REALLY POSITIVE IMPACT IN REDUCING SPEEDS AND IMPROVING SAFETY WITH SOME OF THOSE SIMPLE SPOT IMPROVEMENTS THAT I WAS, UM, REFERENCING.
SO I'LL PAUSE HERE JUST TO KIND OF, UM, SO YOU HAVE A, A, A MOMENT TO DIGEST THIS LIST.
AND I WILL SAY TOO, THERE WAS A LOT OF OVERLAP.
UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDTOWN AREA.
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UH, WE'VE GOT EAST, EAST STREET.SO THERE'S OVERLAP RIGHT THERE BETWEEN THOSE TWO PROJECTS.
AT THE PAYAN EAST E INTERSECTION, YOU'VE GOT, UM, ELLIS STREET, UH, WHICH IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF, UM, RIGHT IN FRONT OF MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY.
YOU'VE GOT MADISON STREET RIGHT BY MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY.
AGAIN, THERE'S OVERLAP BETWEEN THOSE AND PAYAN, PAYAN, INTERSEX, UM, MADISON.
AND THEN, UM, AND THEN SOME, YEAH, COUPLE EAST SIDE STREETS, GRELLA AND PARK LANE.
THOSE ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL STREETS THAT RUN, UM, PARALLEL TO SOUTH MCDOWELL AND PROVIDE GOOD CONNECTIVITY WITH SCHOOLS AND PARKS OVER IN THAT AREA.
AND OUR, LET'S SEE, ON OUR, OUR WEST SIDE STREETS, WE'VE GOT B STREET BODEGA AND SECOND STREET FROM D TO G.
SO ESSENTIALLY, ALL OF THESE ARE, I SHOULD SAY, ALMOST ALL OF THESE ARE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL STREETS AND CONNECTIONS.
UM, AND ALL OF THESE ARE IN, ARE, ARE IDENTIFIED AS BIKE ROUTES IN EITHER OUR 2008 BIKE PED MASTER PLAN, OR OUR PROPOSED ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
SO, UM, OPPORTUNITIES TO, WITH, WITH A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS TO IMPLEMENT BIKE BOULEVARD, NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY TYPE IMPROVEMENTS, UM, GIVEN THESE, UH, THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE STREETS.
SO THE NEXT, NEXT STEPS, UM, JUST BECAUSE PROJECTS WERE LISTED ON THAT TOP 10 LIST, I DO WANNA BE CLEAR, WE, WE WILL HAVE TO KIND OF, WE'RE GONNA START SCOPING THESE PROJECTS OUT AND FIGURING OUT WHAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS YEAR WITH OUR AVAILABLE FUNDING.
UM, THIS DOES DRAW FROM THE SAME FUNDS AND, AND CIP PROJECT AS OUR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, QUICK BUILD PROJECTS, AND ALSO THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY.
AND, BUT, UH, WE DO HAVE A REALLY PROMISING OPPORTUNITY THROUGH THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL GRANT.
UM, WHICH IS HA WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING WITH SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AND ALL THE OTHER JURISDICTIONS IN SONOMA COUNTY TO SUBMIT A COUNTYWIDE APPLICATION.
AND, AND, UH, IN OUR EARLY CONVERSATIONS WITH SCTA, THEY SEEM TO THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT, UM, WE COULD PUT TOGETHER A, A REALLY COMPETITIVE PACKAGE OF PROJECTS AND, UH, HOPEFULLY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE AVAILABLE FUNDING FOR THESE TYPES OF, UH, QUICK BUILD TRAFFIC, CALMING AND SAFETY PROJECTS.
UM, AND THAT'S EVERYTHING I HAVE FOR, FOR THIS ITEM, BUT I'M HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS.
UM, PAMELA, COULD WE START WITH YOU? YEAH.
SO, UH, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT WE HAVE TO SPREAD ACROSS ALL THESE ACTIVITIES? ABOUT $200,000, AND FOR REFERENCE, UH, A TYPICAL INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT WITH EITHER BULL BOUTS OR A TRAFFIC CIRCLE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT $10,000.
SO IF WE WERE JUST LOOKING AT INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS, WE COULD PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THEORY THAT'S ABOUT 20 INTERSECTIONS WHERE YOU CAN DO SPOT IMPROVEMENTS, UM, LITTLE BIT LESS IF WE'RE GOING FOR SOME MID-BLOCK TREATMENTS LIKE SPEED CUSHIONS OR OTHER LANE MODIFICATIONS, RIGHT? IT SEEMED LIKE THE, THE, THE LAST LIST, THE REVISED LIST, UM, INCLUDED, UH, PROXIMITY TO A NUMBER OF SCHOOLS MM-HMM.
SO THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS TO RISE UP.
AND THERE'S BEEN, YEAH, AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF OVERLAP.
YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL YOU, SO WE'VE ALREADY DONE WALK AUDITS AT, WE DID A WALK AUDIT AT MCDOWELL AND IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON PARK LANE THERE.
WE DID A WALK AUDIT AT MCKINLEY AND IDENTIFIED A NEED FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON PAY RAN, UM, EASTY, UH, ELLIS AND MADISON.
SO, MM-HMM,
I'M, I MEAN, I'M, I'M SURE WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO FIND MORE SOURCES OF MONEY TO TAKE CARE OF THESE THINGS, BUT I, I KNOW THERE'S A, UH, A BACKLOG, UM, AND, AND A DEMAND, AND I THINK IT'S GREAT EVERYBODY WEIGHED IN THE WAY THEY DID, AS YOU SAID, TO GIVE COMMENT INTO THE FUTURE SO YOU CAN EXPRESS TO THE GRANT FUNDING ENTITIES HOW ACTIVE THE COMMUNITY IS AND HOW THEY'RE WEIGHING IN.
UM, I JUST WANNA ALSO FOR THE, FOR THE PUBLIC WHO'S LISTENING IN,
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UM, AT THE COUNCIL MEETING ON MONDAY, WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE REDUCING THE SPEED LIMIT AROUND SCHOOLS AND IN, UM, BUSINESS ACTIVITY DISTRICTS FROM 25 TO 20.SO, UM, ALL THIS IS BEING SORT OF LIKE COUPLED WITH UNDER A VISION ZERO FRAMEWORK, AND THANKS FOR THE UPDATE.
I GUESS, DO WE KNOW WHAT SOLUTION SET IS IMPLIED THAT EACH STREET, UH, THE IDEA BEING, DO WE HAVE AN IDEA OF LIKE SCOPE FUNDS? DOES THAT PLAY INTO THE PRIORITIZATION AT ALL? OR HAVE WE NOT FULLY SCOPED KIND OF WHAT EACH STRETCH OF ROAD NEEDS AT THIS POINT? YEAH, WE, WE REALLY HAVEN'T SCOPED IT OUT.
THIS IS JUST THE, JUST THE, THE INITIAL SCORING.
UM, SO THIS, THE POTENTIAL SCOPE HAS NOT PLAYED INTO THIS LIST AT ALL.
THAT WILL DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, HOW, UH, REALLY HOW MANY CORRIDORS AND INTERSECTIONS WE CAN, WE CAN ADDRESS, OBVIOUSLY IN THIS FIRST ROUND.
I WOULD SAY FOR ALL OF THESE, THE, THE SCOPE WILL BE FAIRLY SIMILAR.
UH, YOU'RE LOOKING AT OBVIOUSLY DAYLIGHTING, THE INTERSECTIONS WITH RED CURB, UM, AT THE INTERSECTIONS, POSSIBLY ADDING NEW CROSSWALKS OR ENHANCING EXISTING CROSSWALKS WITH, UH, THE HIGH VISIBILITY LADDER CROSSWALKS IF THEY'RE NOT IN PLACE.
ADDING BULL BOUTS, ADDING MEDIAN, UH, MEDIAN REFUGE ISLANDS.
WE CAN DO THOSE WITH QUICK BUILD ELEMENTS, UM, AT SOME INTERSECTIONS, YOU KNOW, AT ESPECIALLY AT TWO-WAY STOP INTERSECTIONS OR LARGER INTERSECTIONS.
IT MAY MAKE SENSE IN SOME LOCATIONS TO CONVERT THEM TO TRAFFIC CIRCLES.
SO THAT'LL BE, THAT'S THE KIND OF IMPROVEMENT WE'D BE LOOKING AT.
AND THEN, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'RE, WE'RE JUST NOW IMPLEMENTING THE, UH, SPEED CUSHION PILOT PROJECT ON I STREET.
AND SO THAT'LL BE, OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL GO OUT ONCE THAT'S IN AND, UM, TEST THAT WITH THEIR, UH, WITH THEIR VARIOUS VEHICLES.
AND, UH, OUR, OUR GOAL IS TO HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, GET, GET, BUY-IN OR SIGN OFF ON USING SPEED CUSHIONS, THEN THAT'LL BE ADDED TO OUR TOOLKIT.
AND I THINK ALL OF THESE CORRIDORS WOULD BENEFIT FROM AND BE GREAT CANDIDATES FOR SPEED CUSHIONS.
UM, MAYBE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BODEGA AVENUE, THAT MIGHT BE A LITTLE, A LITTLE TOO BUSY OF A CORRIDOR, BUT, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE CRITERIA FOR THOSE.
UM, BUT YEAH, I'D SAY, I'D SAY THESE ARE ALL, LIKE, I, LIKE I'VE SAID A FEW TIMES, THESE ARE ALL FAIRLY SIMILAR STREETS.
THANKS FOR LAYING OUT THE TOOLKIT.
AND THEN IN TERMS OF TIMELINE, OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE YOUR ONGOING CIP, WHICH ARE KIND OF BIG TICKET.
I MEAN, IS THIS KIND OF HAPPENING IN PARALLEL, SEPARATE TIMELINE FOR SOME OF THOSE CIP PROJECTS? THIS IS, YEAH.
THESE WILL ALL BE DELIVERED THROUGH, I MENTIONED THE ON-CALL STRIPING CONTRACT.
SO WHAT THAT'LL DO IS GIVE US THE ABILITY TO CALL UP OUR CONTRACTOR, AND BASICALLY, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO PUT THESE OUT TO BID INDIVIDUALLY, UM, WE, WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE PRICING THAT WE CAN CALL UPON OR REFER TO AND, UH, USE THAT TO IMPLEMENT THESE ON A ROLLING BASIS.
SO IT'LL GIVE US, IT'LL, IT'LL REALLY STREAMLINE THINGS ON THE DELIVERY SIDE.
UM, AND IT EVEN HAS POTENTIAL TO STREAMLINE THINGS ON THE DESIGN END, BECAUSE AS WE DEVELOP FAMILIARITY WITH OUR CONTRACTOR, HE BECOMES, YOU KNOW, WE COULD JUST, UM, WE, WE ESTABLISH THAT RAPPORT, HE'LL START TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY WE LAY OUT THINGS.
AND THE GOAL IS HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET TO A POINT WHERE WE SAY, HEY, WE NEED A TRAFFIC CIRCLE HERE.
AND HE ALREADY KNOWS KIND OF HOW TO LAY IT OUT AND, AND WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH AN EXTENSIVE DESIGN PROCESS.
UM, I WANNA SAY THAT I REALLY LIKE HOW THE SCORING CRITERIA WAS UPDATED.
IT, IT JUST MAKES SO MUCH SENSE, AND I THINK IT, IT'S A GREAT WAY TO MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS.
UM, I'M JUST, I JUST WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE THAT LIKE THE WHOLE CITY WAS ACCOUNTED FOR IN THIS, AND THAT MEANS THERE WAS A LOT OF ENGAGEMENT, WHICH IS LIKE, I'M PROUD OF PEOPLE FOR BEING ENGAGED AND PAYING ATTENTION, AND I WANT THEM TO FEEL LIKE THEY'VE BEEN HEARD.
SO I AM WONDERING HOW, LIKE, WILL, WILL THIS BE LIKE A TAB ON THE CITI WEBSITE THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE THIS INFORMATION? YEAH, SO WE'VE GOT THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM WEBPAGE WILL BE, BE ADDING, UPLOADING ALL OF THE, THE SCORES, UH, IN A, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE UNWIELDY RIGHT NOW.
WE'VE GOT A BIG SPREADSHEET WITH EVERY SINGLE NOMINATION.
SO WE'RE GONNA CLEAN IT UP, TRY TO GROUP THEM TOGETHER, AND SO PEOPLE CAN CLEARLY SEE WHERE THEIR NOMINATION RANKED AND HOW IT SCORED.
AND THEN, UM, AND THAT'LL BE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON THE, ON THE WEBPAGE.
AND, UH, AND THEN YEAH, BEING REALLY CLEAR TOO ABOUT, UH, WHAT WE'RE, ONCE WE IDENTIFY WHICH PROJECTS ARE MOVING FORWARD THIS YEAR,
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WE'LL CALL THOSE OUT.WE HAVE EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR EVERY PERSON WHO SUBMITTED A NOMINATION.
SO WE CAN, WE CAN RESPOND TO, WE'LL SEND IT OUT TO EVERYONE AN UPDATE, UH, SHARING WHICH PROJECTS ARE MOVING FORWARD.
AND WE ALSO HAVE THE ABILITY, SINCE WE HAVE THAT CONTACT INFORMATION, TO CIRCLE BACK WITH THE FOLKS WHOSE NOMINATIONS WERE SUCCESSFUL AND SAY, YOU KNOW, HEY, WE WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH IMPROVEMENTS ON YOUR STREET, UM, AND HERE ARE THE NEXT STEPS FOR DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WE NEED TO FIND THAT, THAT BALANCE BETWEEN, UM, HAVING SOME LEVEL OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ONCE WE ACTUALLY DO MOVE FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE PROJECTS.
AND, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE AWARE OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE COMING.
BUT ALSO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, NONE OF THE, THESE ARE, THESE ARE TRAFFIC CALMING AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, SO WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE HOPEFULLY, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE RECEPTIVE TO THE, THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE COMING THEIR WAY.
AND WE DON'T
I, I ALSO, I, I APPRECIATE LIKE THE FUNDING STRUCTURE AND, AND GETTING THE GRANTS, BUT I DO THINK, AND I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER BARNICLE, THIS IS LIKE SOMETHING REALLY TO HIGHLIGHT IN YOUR COMMUNICATION BACK TO COUNCIL IS LIKE HOW MUCH ENGAGEMENT THERE WAS HERE AND WHATEVER BUDGET WE PUT TOWARDS THIS PROGRAM, IT WOULD BE SO VALUABLE.
WHATEVER, HOWEVER WE COULD GET MORE MONEY INTO THIS, I JUST THINK WOULD BE HUGE FOR OUR CITY.
AND, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE WE CAN DO TO, TO HELP MAKE THAT HAPPEN, BUT I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S JUST, IT'S A NEED.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH BRAN, ADAM.
UM, YEAH, THANKS BRAN FOR LAYING ALL OF THAT OUT.
UH, AND THE, THE POTENTIALLY YEAH, FOR DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FUNDING FROM THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANT, FEDERAL GRANT WAS INTERESTING IN JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW WE COLLABORATE WITH OTHER CITIES AND THE COUNTY AND JUST WHAT A GREAT MODEL.
THIS IS THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION, AND I SHOULD KNOW THIS, AND I DON'T, WHAT ARE THESE OTHER CITIES DOING? CAN WE MAKE THEM DO IT? SO THEN WHEN WE APPLY FOR FEDERAL GRANTS, WE HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF COMMUNITY INPUT THAT SAYS WE HAVE, AND MAYBE IT COMES IN OTHER FORMS. THEY'RE FROM THE A TP, I THINK THE COUNTYWIDE A TP, AND THEN ALL THE OTHER CITIES ARE DOING IT AS WELL.
I THINK THAT, YEAH, I LOVE THAT IDEA OF JUST BRINGING THOSE YEAH.
PERSONAL STORIES AND DOING SOME INFOGRAPHIC OR CHARTS OR SOMETHING TO SHOW HOW IT'S COORDINATED AND COUNTYWIDE.
UM, AND THEN I KNOW THIS IS ON YOUR LIST, BUT THE ONE, ONE OF THE MEASURES THAT I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN ARE, ARE BIKE BOXES, UM, AND JUST IN PARTICULAR AT THE, UM, UM, AROUND THE SMART STATION.
THAT WAS, UM, THAT WAS A FASCINATING OVERVIEW.
UM, I'M SO GLAD WE'RE, WE'RE DOING THIS JUST TO ENGAGE PUBLIC AND HOPEFULLY TO TURN SOMETHING AROUND QUICKLY SO THAT THEY HONESTLY REALLY DO BELIEVE IN THE TIME THAT THEY TOOK TO SURVEY THEIR NEIGHBORS, ET CETERA, AND FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
UM, AS FAR AS THE NOMINATION OF STREETS, WE HAD 500 AND SOME NOMINATIONS, RIGHT? WHAT WAS THE PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WEST SIDE AND THE EAST SIDE, JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY? I HAVE NOT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO IN GIS.
UM, I DON'T HAVE, YEAH, OFFHAND, I, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THAT, BUT, UM, IF I GO BACK TO THE MAP, ACTUALLY, YOU'LL SEE, UM, IT DOESN'T, YEAH, I OBVIOUSLY, THE, THE, THE LAYOUT OF THE WEST EAST SIDES ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
BUT MY RECOLLECTION INITIALLY GOING THROUGH THE LIST WAS THAT THE NUMBERS WERE PRETTY EQUAL, UM, ON THE WEST EAST SIDE THAT WE HAD A LOT OF, WE HAD PRETTY GOOD GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OVERALL.
A I WOULD SAY YOU HAVE A SMALLER, A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF STREETS ON THE EAST SIDE WERE NOMINATED, BUT THAT'S LARGELY BECAUSE THE STREET CONNECTIVITY ON THE EAST SIDE IS NOT NEARLY AS GOOD AS THE WEST SIDE.
SO YOU HAVE MORE PEOPLE RELYING ON A HANDFUL OF COLLECTOR
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AND ARTERIAL STREETS ON THE EAST SIDE AS OPPOSED TO THE WEST SIDE WITH A GRID WHERE YOU JUST HAVE A LOT MORE TRAFFIC EVERYWHERE.UM, OR MORE, OR I SHOULD SAY MORE DISTRIBUTION OF TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE STREETS.
UM, SO YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DEFINITELY DIG INTO.
WE COULD EVEN BREAK IT OUT BY COUNCIL DISTRICT OR OTHER GEOGRAPHIES.
I WAS JUST THINKING, YOU KNOW, IT'S SO MUCH EASIER TO RIDE A BIKE ON THE EAST SIDE THAN IT IS THE WEST SIDE.
I WAS HOPING THAT WE'D HAVE, YOU KNOW, LOTS AND LOTS OF PARTICIPATION ON THE EAST SIDE, UM, JUST FROM THAT ONE ASPECT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, IF YOU CAN FIND OUT, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING.
AND THERE'S ALSO A REALLY GOOD, YOU KNOW, JUST ANECDOTALLY LOOKING THROUGH THE, THE TYPES OF COMMENTS THAT WE RECEIVED AND THE NATURE OF THE REQUESTS, UM, A REALLY GOOD DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN PEOPLE WITH CONCERNS ABOUT TRAFFIC, CALMING, BIKE IMPROVEMENTS, PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, IT WASN'T ALL, IT WASN'T, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF EXPECTED WHEN WE PUT THIS OUT THAT IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, 75% SPEEDING COMPLAINTS AND IT, IT, IT, TO BE HONEST, IT WASN'T, UM, IT, THERE WERE A LOT OF REALLY, A LOT OF REALLY, REALLY DETAILED COMMENTS ABOUT CROSS SPECIFIC CROSSWALKS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, BIKE LANES AND YEAH, IT'S SAFETY ISSUES.
A LOT OF GREAT, YEAH, A LOT OF REALLY GREAT DATA TO, TO USE AS, AND, AND WE'LL BE REFERENCING THIS SPREADSHEET WHENEVER WE HAVE A CIP PROJECT, OR LIKE I SAID, WHEN WE'RE GOING AFTER GRANTS, WE CAN, WE CAN PULL THIS UP WHEN WE'RE DOING A PAVING PROJECT AND LOOK AT ALL OF THE THINGS PEOPLE SAID ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR STREET.
UM, SO WE HAVE ABOUT $200,000 THAT WE CAN SPEND.
HOW FAR WILL THAT GET US? FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE A LOOK AT RAINIER AND WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR, WHICH WAS, I GUESS ABOUT THREE CITY BLOCKS WORTH OF CHANGES.
WHAT WAS THE PRICE TAG FOR RAIN RAINIER AS AN EXAMPLE, AND MAYBE THAT WOULD GIVE US AN IDEA OF HOW MANY OF THESE PROJECTS WE ACTUALLY COULD GET DONE FOR 200,000? YEAH, RAINIER, IT'S NOT REALLY AN, A GOOD APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON BECAUSE RAINIER IS SUCH A, A BIG STREET TRUE, OBVIOUSLY A FOUR LANE STREET.
SO THERE IS A LOT OF, A LOT OF STRIPING THERE.
UM, I WOULD SAY, WELL, HOW ABOUT FOR A COMPARISON? THE SHORT, HOW ABOUT GARFIELD? WELL, THAT'S A PAVING PROJECT.
UH, THE, SO THE STRETCH THAT KEN DID ON I STREET WITH THE BUFFERED BIKE LANES AND GREEN PAINT, UM, I THINK WAS A, A, A TOUCH UNDER $20,000.
AND I WOULD SAY THAT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT A QUARTER MILE.
AND THEN, LIKE I SAID, THE, UM, THE PER INTERSECTION WITH THE BULL BOUTS OR, OR A, A TRAFFIC CIRCLE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 10,000.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S GONNA GO FARTHER THAN I INITIALLY THOUGHT, AND THAT'S NICE TO HEAR.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR, YEAH, MAYBE NOT AS FAR AS, AS WE WOULD ALL HOPE, BUT IF WE COULD SQUEEZE A LITTLE MORE MONEY OUT OF THE COUNCIL, MAYBE WE COULD EXPAND ON THAT.
ANYWAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT.
UM, UH, ONE OTHER THOUGHT IS BETWEEN THE SLOW, THE FAST DOWN AND PEOPLE REQUESTING SIGNS, AND NOW HAVING PEOPLE THAT HAVE ARTICULATED SAFETY CONCERNS ON THESE STREETS AS WE DO GO OUT FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS AND THINGS LIKE ROAD DIETS ON COFIELD ROAD DIET ON, UH, CASA GRANDE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
LIKE THOSE ARE YOUR CHAMPIONS AND MAYBE CONNECT THEM IN WITH YOUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND YOUR COMMS TEAMS, YOUR COOL PETALUMA'S, RIGHT? LIKE THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT YOU START WITH WHEN YOU START DOING OUTREACH SO THAT, UM, THEY CAN CARRY THE MESSAGE TO THEIR NEIGHBORS AND IT DOESN'T BECOME, YOU KNOW, A NEXT DOOR, YOU KNOW, HORNET'S NEST BEFORE IT, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY IT MAKES ITS WAY FROM PEOPLE THAT ARE, THAT ARE NEIGHBORS.
I HAVE TWO, UM, COMMENTS ON THIS, PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS PRESENTATION.
UM, I JUST WANNA POINT OUT, UM, I FAILED TO MENTION ONE OF MY KEY PARTNERS IS THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AND THE, UH, STAFF THERE AND SONOMA COUNTY BIKE COALITION.
AND WE PARTICIPATED, UH, THE SAFE ROUTES ROOSTER SCHOOL TEAM AND I WERE PARTICIPATED IN A WALKING AUDIT, TRAIN FACILITATOR TRAINING WITH A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF MARK FENTON.
AND HE REALLY EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY IN THESE PROJECTS AND NOT JUST IN THIS PART, WHICH IS PHENOMENAL, BUT ALSO IN ACTUALLY DOING THE PROJECTS WITH THE CITY.
IT'S A GREAT WAY TO ENGAGE PEOPLE AND BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT JUST NOMINATING, BUT ACTUALLY, UH, HE HAS PICTURES OF KIDS PAINTING PART
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OF THE, UH, UH, BULB BOUTS OUR PUBLIC, OUR BLOCK LEADERS.THIS IS WHY I'VE BEEN PARTICIPATING.
SO FIGURE OUT HOW OUR BLOCK LEADERS CAN BE A PART OF DOING THESE, UH, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
LIKE THEY ARE PART OF OUR SOLUTION.
THEY CAN ACTUALLY HELP LOWER THE COST BECAUSE THEY CAN ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN DOING SOME OF THESE PROJECTS ON THE STREETS IN FRONT OF SCHOOLS.
THIS IS WHERE CHRISTINA AND I JUMPED THE FIRST TIME WE SAW HIM PUT OUT WHAT KIDS WERE PAINTING WAS A BIKE LANE IN FRONT OF THEIR SCHOOL.
LIKE, THIS IS, UH, THIS DOESN'T NEED TO BE JUST THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY.
AND THEN I ALSO WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT THERE IS A LARGE GRANT THAT IS AVAILABLE THAT PETE REFERENCED THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR PARTNERS TO DO THIS WORK WITH.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR NOT JUST, IT'S A SINGLE ENTITY APPLYING, THEY ACTUALLY WANT COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO PARTICIPATE.
AND THAT IS THAT SAFE STREETS FOR ALL GRANT.
I'VE READ THE WHOLE GRANT, I'VE LOOKED AT IT, I'VE IDENTIFIED ALL OF OUR PARTNERS THAT COULD BE HELPING ALL OF US DO THIS SO THAT WE DON'T JUST KEEP SAYING IT'S THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY, IT'S THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY, IT'S ALL OF OURS.
AND WE HAVE ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT SAID, I WANNA HELP MY STREET NEEDS TO BE SLOWED DOWN.
LIKE, LET'S ENGAGE THEM IN THE PROCESS WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION.
AND IT WOULD MAKE OUR BLOCK LEADERS FEEL LIKE THERE WAS MORE THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO DO AND THEIR TEAMS THAT THEY COULD, THEY COULDN'T GET OUT AND BE A PART OF THIS.
SO ANYWAYS, THAT'S MY 2 CENTS THAT I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST AS A, UH, WAY TO FUND IT FARTHER IS WITH THAT GRANT.
I, I, I REALLY, I I I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATE, UM, THIS WHOLE EFFORT SAFE STREETS NOMINATION.
IT'S, IT'S A WONDERFUL EFFORT TO GET THINGS DONE WITHOUT GOING THROUGH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT.
AND I KNOW IT, IT, IT'S, IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME.
UM, JUST TO TAG ONTO SOMETHING THAT DEB JUST MENTIONED YET, ANOTHER THING GOING ON, UM, TOWARD THE END OF, OF INVOLVING COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN, IN THE, THE DESIGN OF OUR ROADWAYS, UH, BLUE ZONES IS ORGAN ORGANIZING, AN ASPHALT ART PROJECT, UM, THAT I'VE BEEN A PART OF.
AND BJORN IS INVOLVED IN THAT.
AND I, I SENSE THAT THROUGH THIS PROJECT, THE CITY IS, IS FIGURING OUT HOW TO ALLOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO WORK ON OUR STREETS.
I DON'T THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT THAT IS IN, IN OUR DNA YET, BUT WE'RE FIGURING IT OUT.
SO MY QUESTION ABOUT, ABOUT SAFE STREET'S NOMINATION PROGRAM, UM, IS ABOUT, UM, WAYS OF, OF TRAFFIC CALMING.
UM, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT, THAT THE, THE RANGE OF, OF TRAFFIC CALMING METHODS THAT WE ARE NOW CONSIDERING IS LIMITED.
AND I WOULD, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE EXPAND THE RANGE TO INCLUDE THINGS LIKE ADVISORY LANES, EDGE LANES.
UM, I NOTE THAT, THAT SOME OF THE STREETS HERE ON THE WEST SIDE, THE OLDER STREETS ARE VERY NARROW WITH TWO-WAY TRAFFIC.
AND, UM, THEY ACCOMMODATE TWO-WAY TRAFFIC WITH LESS THAN 20 FEET OF WIDTH.
AND WHAT THAT REQUIRES IS THAT, IS THAT DRIVERS HAVE TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF VISUAL NEGOTIATION WITH ONCOMING VEHICLES.
UM, AND TRAFFIC IS SLOWED DOWN.
UM, EDGE LANES OR ADVISORY LANES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT ON A WIDER ROADWAY.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO THINK THAT WE COULD, UM, WE COULD EXPLORE THAT AS A POSSIBILITY ON A QUICK BUILD BASIS.
UM, JUST TRY IT OUT FOR A WEEK AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
BJORN, WOULD YOU MIND TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? LIKE HOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED OR, UM, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE? I'M SURE THERE'S ENGINEERING LIMITATIONS.
WE'RE, WE ARE WORKING THROUGH KIND OF REVIEWING OUR, OUR PERMITTING OPTIONS AND LOOKING AT HOW TO, UM, CREATE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES OR, OR, OR LOWER THE
IN THE CONTEXT OF STREET ART, WE ARE LOOKING AT ACTUALLY, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE ROLLING OUT A NEW PERMIT TYPE, A QUICK PERMIT THAT WOULD, UM, WOULD BE MUCH EASIER TO APPLY FOR THAN OUR ENCROACHMENT PERMITS AND ALLOW PEOPLE TO MAKE THOSE INSTALLATIONS, UH, ON, ON OUR STREETS WITHOUT NEEDING, UM, TO HAVE AN INSPECTOR PRESENT.
AND, AND, AND WITHOUT THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS THAT COME ALONG WITH THE ENCROACHMENT PERMIT, THE, THE EXCEPTION IS THAT THEY WOULD STILL NEED INSURANCE.
SO THAT, THAT COULD BE A BARRIER FOR SOME, UH, FOR
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SOME GROUPS.UH, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY, I KNOW SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS INSURANCE AND, AND CAN USE IT TO COVER, UM, CERTAIN EVENTS AND, AND INSTALLATIONS.
UM, SO I'D SAY PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS IS A GREAT WAY TO GO FOR THE, FOR THE INSURANCE FACTOR.
UH, WE STILL HAVEN'T WORKED THROUGH AS FAR AS DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS GO.
UM, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE CONCERN I THINK THERE FROM A, A LIABILITY STANDPOINT AND JUST KIND OF LOOKING AT THE, UM, THE ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS.
SO I'M FEELING GOOD ABOUT HAVING A, A CLEAR ANSWER AND PROCESS ON STREET ART.
UM, LITTLE BIT MORE WORK IS NEEDED ON THE, ON, ON DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS FOR NOW.
AND I DON'T KNOW, KEN, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING, I THINK KEN'S ONLINE AS THE TRAFFIC ENGINEER, HE IS A, A KEY PLAYER IN THAT.
UM, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I THINK I, I DO FEEL LIKE THE, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, WE HAVE TO STEP CAREFULLY IN HOW WE DO ANYTHING IN THERE.
BUT I'VE, UM, KIND OF THE, UH, THE ENERGY BEHIND DOING STREET ART AND THE, THE POTENTIAL THAT I THINK IT HAS IT DONE CORRECTLY AND SAFELY.
UM, NOT TO GO DOWN THE M-U-T-C-D RABBIT HOLE, BUT IT, IT DOES HAVE A POTENTIAL FOR, YOU KNOW, CALLING TRAFFIC AND JUST GIVING OUR, GIVING OUR RIGHT OF AWAYS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A, UM, YOU KNOW, A, A FRIENDLIER LOOK TO 'EM, THAT, THAT WILL HOPEFULLY HAVE PEOPLE DRIVING SAFELY.
SO I THINK WE CAN HAVE A FOLLOW UP DISCUSSION AND, AND UPDATE PBA AS WE MAKE PROGRESS ON BOTH OF THOSE FRONTS.
AND, AND THE GOAL, I THINK ULTIMATELY WOULD BE TO, UH, AGAIN, IS TO, TO CLEARLY DEFINE A PROCESS SO THAT THIS STUFF IS, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE, WE JUST, FRANK, TO BE HONEST, WE DON'T HAVE A PROCESS.
THE ONLY OPTION RIGHT NOW IS TO DO AN ENCROACHMENT PERMIT, AND IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE UNWIELDY.
IT'S NOT REALLY DESIGNED FOR THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS.
UM, AND JUST ONE THING GIRN I'LL TRY TO TRACK DOWN.
THERE WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE FROM THE VISION ZERO NETWORK.
UM, I THINK IT WAS AN OJA EXAMPLE, UM, WHERE THERE WAS, UH, YEAH, A, A ROAD SAFETY PROJECT THAT WAS ON A STATE HIGHWAY CALTRANS RIGHT OF WAY THAT THEY FIGURED OUT SOME WAY TO INCLUDE THE PUBLIC IN IT.
SO LET ME TRACK THAT DOWN AND I WILL SEND THAT TO YOU, BUT THAT COULD MAYBE HAVE A FEW LESSONS FOR OTHER PLACES TOO, LIKE LAKEVILLE.
BUT WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE, UM, AND MAYBE THIS QUESTION FOR KEN, BUT FOR LIKE QUICK BUILD PAINT TO NOT BE THERMOPLASTIC PAINT? YEAH, WE HAVE A FEW DIFFERENT KINDS OF PAINT IN OUR ON-CALL CONTRACT.
TO THAT WE'VE ALREADY GOT, UH, INCLUDED AND, AND PRICED OUT THE, AND, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ANOTHER PIECE OF THE STREET ART, UH, CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT CLOSELY WITH MELISSA ABERCROMBIE, WHICH IS, UM, THE TYPES OF PAINT THAT WILL BE, THAT WE'LL RECOMMEND OR REQUIRE FOR STREET ART INSTALLATIONS DEPENDING ON THE SURFACE TYPE AND THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THEY GET.
OBVIOUSLY WE'VE SEEN, UH, FROM WHAT WE'VE SEEN CERTAIN PAINTS ARE DO BETTER ON CONCRETE, SOME PAINTS DO BETTER ON ASPHALT.
UM, WE ALSO WANT BE MINDFUL OF POTENTIAL STORM WATER POLLUTION.
UH, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT HAVING THIS STUFF RUN OFF INTO OUR WATERWAYS.
PART OF KIND OF CLEARLY SPELLING ALL THIS STUFF OUT IS, IS, UH, IS COMING UP WITH SOME GUIDE GUIDANCE ON THAT AS WELL.
I THINK THAT CLOSES THIS PRESENTATION AND WE CAN MOVE TO, UM, THE WAY FINDING UPDATE.
AND SO FOR THIS ONE, I'LL JUST GIVE A QUICK INTRO HERE.
UM, I KNOW IT'S BEEN QUITE SOME TIME SINCE THIS COMMITTEE TALKED WAY FINDING AND WE'VE OBVIOUSLY HAD THE PROJECT, UH, IN THE WORKS FOR A WHILE, OR AT LEAST A KIND OF INITIAL, UM, WHAT WAS FRAMED AS A PILOT PROJECT BETWEEN PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH AND, AND DOWNTOWN LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
UM, SO WE WANTED TO BRING THIS BACK FOR A QUICK REFRESHER.
UH, SO FOR SOME OF YOU, THIS WILL NOT BE NEW.
AND, UM, WE'LL ALSO JUST, UH, I THINK I WANT TO OPEN IT UP A LITTLE BIT AND PROVIDE SOME THOUGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND HOW WE COULD TAKE THIS AND, AND ACTUALLY ROLL IT OUT INTO A CITYWIDE SYSTEM, UM,
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WHICH, WHICH I STRONGLY RECOMMEND, UM, AS OPPOSED TO A VERY LIMITED WAYFINDING PROJECT.SO WITH THAT, UM, KEN, WE'LL, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND TAKE IT OVER.
SO DID EVERYBODY HEAR ME OKAY? YES.
AND CAN YOU SEE THE PRESENTATION? OKAY, GOOD.
AND THEN BJORN, IF THERE'S, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO INTERJECT ON ANYTHING, JUST PLEASE DO THAT.
UM, SO I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A, A PRESENTATION.
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THIS, BUT I DO WANT TO PREFACE IT BY, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CHANGE, UH, SINCE THE PERIOD WHERE I, I HAD PUT THIS OUT TO BID.
WE'VE GOT AN A TP THAT'S READY TO BE LAUNCHED.
UM, WE'VE GOT SMART DOING THEIR WAY FINDING, UM, AND, AND THE MOST VALUABLE THING IS WE HAVE BEYOND.
SO HIS PLANNING ABILITY AND, AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN IN OREGON, WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, HAS, UM, BEEN DONE AT MARIN HAS BEEN REALLY VALUABLE.
SO WE'RE GONNA RUN THROUGH THIS.
SO WE WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS STARTING IN 2021, GOING INTO 2022, AND WE DID A VERY EXTENSIVE, UM, EFFORT TO FIND THE BEST WAY FINDING ICONOGRAPHY, YOU KNOW, DESTINATIONS, ALL THE, THE, THE ELEMENTS THAT GO INTO WAYFINDING.
SO WE LOOKED AT ALL THE EXISTING SIGNAGE, WE'VE GOT THE RED STAR BEEN OUT TO, YOU KNOW, SCHOENBERG, YOU KNOW, THERE'S VARIOUS ARTIFACTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS IN PETALUMA.
SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTOOD THAT.
AND THEN WE LOOKED AT CITYWIDE, LOOKED THROUGHOUT PETALUMA, ALL THE DIFFERENT PLACES THAT PEOPLE WANT TO GET TO AS A PRINCE PARK, SANTA ROSA, JC DOWNTOWN TRANSIT CENTER.
UM, AND THEN WE DID FOCUS VERY SPECIFICALLY IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, YOU KNOW, PARTICULARLY THE TRANSIT CENTER, THE THEATER DISTRICT, KENTUCKY STREET, THE MAIN LIBRARY.
UM, SO THAT WAS ALL PUT TOGETHER IN, IN A, IN A FORMAL DOCUMENT, IN A PLAN.
THEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE SIGNAGE TYPES AND THEIR LOCATIONS.
AND THIS HERE WE, WE WENT IN AND SPECIFICALLY LOOKED INTO THE, THE DOWNTOWN AREA FOR THAT.
AND, UM, FROM THAT POINT, THEN WE STARTED LOOKING AT THE, THE, THE BRANDS, THE COLORS, THE ICONS, WHAT WERE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR THAT.
AND WE HAD A WHOLE PALLET, UH, OF THIS AND, UH, PUT THAT INTO THE PUBLIC FORUM.
WE GOT A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION, UM, ON THAT.
AND THEN WE ALSO LOOKED AT PLACEMENTS, UH, SCENARIOS AND WHERE WE WOULD WANNA BE PUTTING A, A SMALL KIOSK, A TRAIL DIRECTIONAL FINDER, MAYBE TRAIL RULES, ALL THAT WENT INTO IT.
AND THEN WE, WE CRAFTED IT INTO A OFFICIAL SORT OF PILOT PROGRAM.
BUT I FEEL IT'S IMPORTANT TO GO BACK TO OUR ORIGINAL OBJECTIVES HERE, AND THAT IS TO INSTALL WAYFINDING TO PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR THE SAFE AND DIRECT MOVEMENT OF PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS.
AND, AND THE INITIAL PILOT PROGRAM THAT WAS ENVISIONED WOULD, WE'D GET THE FEEDBACK FOR A MORE FULL SCALE, UM, PROGRAM.
AND WE'LL, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS.
BJORN HAS SOME REALLY GOOD IDEAS ON THAT.
UM, WE BROUGHT IT TO PBAC AND, UH, WE LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, THREE DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
UM, WE GOT FEEDBACK THERE, PUT IN QR CODES, WHICH WE'LL BE DOING.
AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER CONSIDERATIONS FOR, FOR FUTURE PHASES IS WHAT ABOUT LIGHTING? UM, WHAT ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, ME, UH, ABILITY TO HAVE SORT OF BIKE REPAIR KIOSKS, UM, ALSO CONSIDER NAME CHANGE POSSIBLY, AND THEN, UM, ADD OTHER LOCATIONS.
SO FROM THERE WE, UM, WENT TO THE, THE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTED TO THAT, WE INVOLVED THE, THE CITY'S, UM, UH, DESIGN CONSULTANT, THE DESIGN GUILD.
WE WENT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND ACTUALLY WENT TO THE COUNCIL.
SO THERE WAS A FULL, FULL COURT PRESS ON THIS AND THAT, AT THAT POINT, IN ABOUT MID 2022, WE, WE HAD A, A PILOT PROGRAM DEVELOPED AND, UM, THE DIFFERENT SIGNAGE TYPES, UM, AND THAT WAS READY TO, TO ROLL
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OUT.UM, THESE ARE ALSO SOME EXAMPLES, UM, AND THE FOCUS, THE INITIAL FOCUS WAS COMING IN ON PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH, UM, GETTING TO THE FIFTH STREET, GREENWAY, GET TO DOWNTOWN, GET TO THEATER DISTRICT, GET TO THE TRANSIT CENTER, AND GET TO THE SMART MULTI-USE PATH.
THOSE WERE, THAT WAS THE, THE FOCUS.
UM, AND THESE ARE SOME MORE EXAMPLES OF THAT.
UM, AND I THINK IT'S, IT'S NOTEWORTHY TO ALSO SEE THAT WE HAD MAPS THAT WOULD BE THERE TO HELP PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, UM, KNOW WHERE TO GO.
UM, OUR DESTINATION SIGNS HAD HAD, UM, UH, TIME DURATIONS AND, UM, MILES AND DISTANCE ON THEM.
SO, AND THEN THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE PLACEMENT, UM, LOCATIONS, PRIMARILY SPECIFIC TO LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
AND, UH, THIS HERE WAS, IT SHOULD BE FIFTH STREET GREENWAY, UM, LOOKING AT GETTING PEOPLE TO THAT AND SOME OF THE INITIAL LAYOUT SIGNAGE THAT WAS BEING CONSIDERED.
SO THIS WENT OUT TO, WENT OUT TO BID AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I HAD BEEN COORDINATING WITH, WITH KATI AND THE VATO ON IT.
UH, KATI IN PARTICULAR HAD A, HAD A SORT OF A SIMILAR SETUP THAT WE HAD FOR SIGNAGE.
AND, UM, SO I GOT, GOT THEIR CONTRACTOR, UM, YOU KNOW, SENT 'EM ALL THE DOCUMENTS, PUT IT OUT TO BID, AND HE RETIRED AND NOBODY BID ON IT,
SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS GOING BACK TO LATE, UM, 2022.
AND SO AT THAT POINT, YOU KNOW, BJORN WAS COMING ON BOARD AND WE BASICALLY, I REFORMATTED, UM, AND AT, AT BJORN'S SUGGESTION, SORT OF REFORMATTED, IT'S LIKE, WELL, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS IN HOUSE AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET THE SIGNAGE MADE.
SO I DID FIND A FABRICATOR, I'VE GOT AN EXAMPLE.
SO WE'RE, WE'VE KIND OF, THIS WHOLE PROGRAM HAS BEEN REFORMATTED NOW THAT WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, THE A TP READY TO GO.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE CAN KIND OF, EVEN THOUGH THIS INITIAL PILOT DIDN'T NECESSARILY HAPPEN, WE'VE GOT, GOT EVERYTHING TEED UP, UM, IN, IN THE RIGHT WAY.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, A NEW PLAN AND, AND WE'RE READY TO, TO GO ON THAT.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MYSELF OR BJORN CAN TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
I DUNNO, BJORN DID I HIT EVERYTHING ON THIS? YEAH.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, A KEY POINT FOR THAT, WHAT YOU PUT OUT TO BID, I ASSUME, DID THAT INCLUDE, CAN YOU CLARIFY IF THAT INCLUDED ALL OF THESE, UM, KIND OF TRAIL KIOSKS AND, AND WHATNOT? OR WAS IT LIMITED JUST TO BIKE THE BIKE WAY FINDING SIGNS? UH, IT INCLUDED A KIOSK AT WATER STREET AND UM, UH, LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
IT HAD ONE KIOSK IN THERE AND IT WAS 15 SIGNS, BUT IT WAS MORE OF A, YOU KNOW, A DIRECTIONAL ORIENTED MM-HMM.
SO I'M GONNA STOP SHARING UNLESS THERE'S ANY, UM, IF YOU NEED ME TO GO BACK, I CAN DO THAT.
AND I THINK, SO I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS, AND WE CAN CERTAINLY BRING THIS BACK.
WE JUST WANTED TO KIND OF BRING A REFRESHER TONIGHT, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LIGHT AGENDA AND, AND, AND TALK ABOUT THIS.
UM, ONE OF THE, SOME OF THE THINGS WE'D LIKE FEEDBACK ON, YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD KIND OF GRUMBLINGS ABOUT BIKE PETALUMA NOT BEING INCLUSIVE ENOUGH, UM, OR, OR CAUSING CONFUSION GIVEN THE COMMUNITY GROUP WITH THE SAME NAME.
UH, WE'VE HEARD, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER WE SHOULD START WITH JUST BIKEWAY FINDING SIGNAGE OR TRAILWAY FINDING SIGNAGE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT, OF THE KIOSKS, WHICH ARE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE, CUSTOMIZED ELEMENTS THAT WILL, UM, THAT WOULD REQUIRE US FINDING A CONTRACTOR AS OPPOSED TO JUST FINDING A SIGNED FABRICATOR AND THEN GETTING THESE INSTALLED USING CITY RESOURCES.
UM, SO I THINK THERE'S SOME QUESTION AROUND THE PHASING OF THAT.
UM, AND THEN, AND THEN TO BE, YOU KNOW, TO BE FRANK, WE HAVE THIS NEW VISION FOR OUR BIKE NETWORK THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING THROUGH THE AT PLAN.
DO WE REALLY WANT TO IMPLEMENT A VERY LIMITED PILOT PROJECT THAT IS ONLY DIRECTING PEOPLE ESSENTIALLY BETWEEN POINT A AND POINT B BEING PELMAN BOULEVARD SOUTH AND DOWNTOWN? OR DO WE WANT TO TRY TO ROLL THIS OUT IN A HOLISTIC FASHION THAT'S TAKING OUR ENVISIONED BIKE NETWORK INTO CONSIDERATION AND, UM, SOMETHING THAT TRULY FUNCTIONS AS A SYSTEM, RIGHT? SO THAT, UM, THOSE SIGNS AREN'T LIMITED TO JUST FUNNELING PEOPLE ALONG THAT PEL THE BOULEVARD CORRIDOR, BUT THEY'RE TELLING
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PEOPLE HOW TO GET OFF ONTO OTHER, UH, ADJACENT BIKE ROUTES AND, AND ACCESS OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY.SO THAT'S, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE KIND OF THE QUESTIONS THAT COME TO MIND FOR US AS STAFF.
UM, I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF URGENCY TO JUST GET SOMETHING OUT THERE, GET SOMETHING DONE, AND WE CERTAINLY HAVE THAT ABILITY.
WE HAVE THE 12 SIGNS, WE'VE GOT THE SIGNAGE PLAN THAT, UM, THAT MERGE PRODUCED FOR THAT, THAT INITIAL PILOT BETWEEN A LONG PEDAL AND BOULEVARD.
UM, BUT GIVEN EVERYTHING, UH, WE DID FEEL LIKE IT WAS, IT'S WORTH KIND OF REOPENING THIS DISCUSSION.
UM, AND, AND ALSO TAKING IT, YOU KNOW, MY, MY RECOMMENDATION TO KEN HAS BEEN THAT WE, UM, AND TO, AND I'D SAY TO THIS COMMITTEE IS THAT WE MAYBE CONSIDER, UH, DEVELOPING A CITYWIDE WAYFINDING PLAN AND, UM, BUILDING OFF THESE EFFORTS, BUT IMPLEMENTING SOMETHING THAT'S, THAT'S MORE HOLISTIC.
I HAVE A QUESTION, BJORN, IF YOU WERE TO GO THAT DIRECTION, HOW MUCH FURTHER? I MEAN, HONESTLY, UM, I, I HAVE BEEN ON THIS SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING AND IT'S BEEN A NUMBER OF YEARS, AND WE KEEP, SOMEHOW THERE'S ALWAYS A SNAG AND THEN WE WAIT MORE, AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER SNAG AND WE WAIT MORE.
UM, I I REALLY ALMOST TO THE POINT WHERE I JUST WANNA GET SOMETHING GOING.
UM, SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, IF WE WERE TO DO IT CITYWIDE, WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TIME-WISE? HOW MUCH MORE TIME WOULD THAT THEN, CAUSE BEFORE WE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE SIGNS UP AND WORKABLE, THE, THE NICE THING THAT A CITYWIDE PLAN WOULD GIVE US IS WE'D HAVE A, WE'D HAVE A SIGNAGE PLAN SO THAT WHENEVER A CORRIDOR IS UPGRADED, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE'RE DOING THE FIFTH STREET PROJECT OR THE D STREET PROJECT, WE HAVE A CLEAR TEMPLATE.
ALL OF THE LOCATIONS THAT WE WANT TO CALL OUT ON THOSE CORRIDORS ARE IDENTIFIED.
ALL OF THE ADJACENT BIKE ROUTES ARE IDENTIFIED.
SO WE KNOW WHERE ALL OF THOSE DECISION SIGNS GO.
YOU KNOW, WHERE BIKE ROUTES INTERSECT EACH OTHER, UM, AS WELL AS, LIKE I SAID, WHAT DESTINATIONS THEY'RE POINTING PEOPLE TOWARDS.
SO IT, IT COULD BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN.
UM, I THINK YOU WOULDN'T SEE THE CITYWIDE SYSTEM NECESSARILY OVERNIGHT, BUT WE COULD START IMPLEMENTING, UH, ON A ROLLING BASIS BASICALLY AS WE'RE, AS WE'RE UPGRADING, UH, BIKE CUTS.
WELL, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE, I MEAN, THERE ARE LOTS OF STREETS IN THIS TOWN, WHICH HAVE JUST BEEN BEEN REDONE.
AND SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SIGNAGE GO UP IMMEDIATELY IN THOSE AREAS.
AND THEN WAIT, AS, AS YOU SUGGEST, AS, AS A STREET COMES ONLINE FOR IMPROVEMENT, THEN THE SIGN WOULD PERHAPS GO UP THERE.
MAYBE YOU WOULD WANNA MAKE SURE THERE'S GOOD SIGNAGE AROUND SCHOOLS, FOR EXAMPLE.
I JUST DON'T WANNA HOLD OFF AND SEE THIS THING YEAH.
AND THREE YEARS FROM NOW WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT WOULDN'T IT BE NICE? AND I THINK IF I COULD KIND OF REFRAME THE QUESTION, YOU KNOW, TO PEE BACK AND AGAIN, WE CAN, WE CAN BRING THIS BACK FOR, FOR MORE CONSIDERATION AND DISCUSSION.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IS IT, IS IT EVEN WORTH, UH, DOING A WAY FINDING PILOT VERSUS JUST GETTING THIS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME AND, AND ROLLING IT OUT CITYWIDE, UM, IS KIND OF, IS KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW.
THOSE 12 SIGNS THAT WE, WE COULD PUT THOSE 12 SIGNS IN, UH, VERY QUICKLY.
BUT AGAIN, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE PRETTY LIMITED UTILITY AND THEY'RE ALL GONNA HAVE TO BE TAKEN DOWN AND REPLACED WITH NEW SIGNS THAT THEN REFER PEOPLE TO THE REST OF THE BIKE NETWORK.
SO WOULD YOU DO, I GUESS, UM, SO MARGIE, YOU WOULD PREFER TO HAVE THE CITYWIDE PLAN AND HAVE IT DONE PARTIALLY IN-HOUSE RATHER THAN GO THROUGH THE PILOT? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE AND WE SPEND A GREAT DEAL OF TIME DESIGNING THE MARRIAGE PROGRAM.
SO IS IT GOING TO LOOK LIKE THE MARRIAGE DESIGN THAT YEAH, WE, WE DEFINITELY WANNA LEVERAGE ALL OF THE GREAT DESIGN WORK THEY'VE DONE SO THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.
THEY'VE ALREADY DONE SOME, SOME DEGREE OF PLANNING WORK.
UM, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF SIGN TYPES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THEIR, TO THEIR SUITE OF SIGNS.
UM, RIGHT NOW THEY'VE ONLY, THERE ARE BASICALLY THREE TYPES OF BIKE WAVE FINDING SIGNS.
THERE ARE DECISION SIGNS WHICH TELL YOU WHAT INTERSECTING BIKE ROUTES YOU'RE COMING UPON.
UM, THERE ARE CONFIRMATION SIGNS WHICH CONFIRM WHICH ROUTE YOU'RE ON AFTER YOU MAKE A TURN.
AND THEN THERE ARE TURN SIGNS WHICH TELL YOU IF YOU'RE ON AN ADJACENT STREET THAT MIGHT BE OUTSIDE OF THE BIKE NETWORK, HOW TO GET OVER TO THE BIKE NETWORK.
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AND, UM, SO THEIR, THEIR PLAN ONLY INCLUDED DECISION SIGNS.IT DIDN'T INCLUDE CONFIRMATION OR TURN SIGNS.
SO I'D LIKE TO ADD THOSE, LEVERAGING THEIR DESIGN TEMPLATES THAT THEY'VE ALREADY ESTABLISHED.
I DO THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BIKE PETALUMA AGAIN AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU ALL, UH, AND THE COMMUNITY LIKE THAT, UM, FOR THE KIND OF THE SIGN NAME OR THE SIGN THEME I SHOULD SAY.
UM, AND THEN I THINK WE SHOULD REVISIT THE DISCUSSION OF WHICH DESTINATIONS WE'RE CALLING OUT ON THE SIGNS AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS, IS GOOD WITH, WITH THOSE.
UM, THAT WOULD BE A FAIRLY EASY PROCESS.
SO THERE, THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF THINGS THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD LIKE TO REOPEN AND REVISIT, BUT WE'RE ALSO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO BRING THIS BACK FOR FRESH EYES ON THE PROBLEM FROM FROM YOUR COMMITTEE.
CAN YOU, UH, REFRESH MY MEMORY? HOW DOES THE, UM, THE ACTIVE, THE, THE PROPOSED ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND MAYBE EVEN OTHER ELEMENTS IN THE, YOU KNOW, CURRENT GENERAL PLAN THAT'S BEING DEVELOPED, SPEAK TO WAY FINDING IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE, NOT, NOT SO MUCH THE DESIGN OF IT OR THE LOOK AND FEEL OF IT, BUT IN TERMS OF, UM, WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE AND WHAT INFORMATION IT NEEDS TO CONVEY.
THEY'RE NOT, NOTHING HAS BEEN VERY PRESCRIPTIVE BEYOND JUST IDENTIFYING THE, THE OBVIOUS NEED AND, AND WE ALL KNOW THAT THERE'S A NEED, UM, THERE IT, BUT AS FAR AS A KIND OF A FOCUSED PLAN, WHAT THE WORK THAT KEN OUTLINE HAS BEEN BY FAR THE MOST DETAILED ON THIS EFFORT, UM, YOU WOULDN'T FIND ANYTHING IN A HIGHER LEVEL PLAN LIKE A BIKE BIKE, LIKE THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD REALLY, UM, TELL US HOW TO DO THIS WORK OTHER THAN JUST IDENTIFYING THE NEED FOR IT.
IF YOU WERE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR, SO YOUR SUGGESTION TO, YOU KNOW, SORT OF TAKE A STEP BACK AND LET'S DEVELOP A PLAN, LIKE REALISTICALLY, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THE NATURE OF THIS KIND OF WORK, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW LONG DOES THAT, SHOULD THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT TAKE? I THINK IT'S A, I THINK IT WOULD BE A FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD PROCESS.
I WOULD, I WOULD, AGAIN, WE HAVE A LOT TO BUILD ON WITH THE WORK THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE.
UM, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, I WOULD WANT TO BE CONFIDENT IN THE ACTIVE, THE ENVISIONED ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.
SO IT, IT TRACKS WITH THE ADOPTION OF THE AT PLAN I THINK IS WHEN WE WOULD FEEL GOOD ABOUT SAYING, OKAY, THESE ARE OUR, OUR ROUTES, UM, AND LET'S DEVELOP THE SYSTEM BASED ON THOSE.
AND, UH, AND THEN AGAIN, YOU KIND OF IMPLEMENT, YOU IMPLEMENT THE SIGNAGE AS YOU'RE GOING THROUGH AND IMPLEMENTING BIKE ROUTES.
I LOVE MARGIE'S SUGGESTION ABOUT, UH, GOING BACK AND, AND HITTING ALL THE STREETS AND BIKE ROUTES THAT HAVE BEEN UPGRADED.
FIRST, YOU KNOW, THE TRAILS ARE ALSO AN OBVIOUS FIRST STEP.
LET'S DIRECT PEOPLE INTO OUR TRAIL SYSTEM, OUR, OUR NICE LOW STRESS UPGRADED ROUTES.
AND THEN AS WE'RE IM IMPLEMENTING FUTURE ROUTES, WE START FILLING IN THOSE GAPS.
UM, SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, SORRY THAT I DIDN'T, IF I HAD TO PUT A, A TIMELINE ON AN ACTUAL PLAN, I WOULD SAY WE COULD HAVE IT TEED UP AND HAVE IT, HAVE IT POTENTIALLY COMPLETED WITHIN A FEW MONTHS OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
JUST USING, IT'S, IT'S REALLY A MAPPING EXERCISE IS WHAT IT IS FOR CREATING THAT SIGNAGE PLAN, SO.
BUT WHAT DATE WILL WE BE, ARE WE LOOKING AT NOW FOR THE, THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN? HOW FAR OUT IS THAT? UM, STILL, STILL LOOKING AT THIS SUMMER.
SO WOULD IT BE HELPFUL FOR YOU TO, FOR US TO RUN DOWN AND SAY WHAT OUR PREFERENCE IS? THAT'S FINE.
IF YOU ALSO WANNA JUST KIND OF CHEW ON THIS, WE CAN DO THAT AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK AND HAVE ANOTHER DISCUSSION.
UM, BUT YEAH, IF ANYONE HAS INITIAL INITIAL THOUGHTS, THEN WE'D WELCOME THOSE PLEASE.
SO I, UH, SORRY, JUST TO DIVERGE REAL QUICK.
I HEARD AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE.
I'VE ALWAYS STRUGGLED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TACTICAL URBANISM IS VERSUS QUICK BUILD.
SOMEONE RECENTLY SAID THAT TACTICAL URBANISM USES EPOXY AND QUICK BUILD USES BOLTS, BASICALLY.
SO HOW TEMPORARY IS IT? BUT I WAS JUST THINKING IN TERMS OF THE TACTICAL URBANISM ASPECT OF THIS, YOU KNOW, CORRUGATED
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POSTER BOARDS WITH THE LOOK AND DESIGN SHOULD BE PRETTY EASY AND CHEAP.JUST ZIP TIE THOSE AROUND POSTS WHERE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S THE WHATEVER VERSION WE WANT, IT'S SUCH A CHEAP WAY THAT WE CAN JUST TRIAL IT AND THEN, UM, YEAH, FIGURE OUT THE, YEAH, THAT THAT'S, YEAH, SO ONE EXAMPLE OF JUST BEING ABLE TO DO SOMETHING QUICK RIGHT NOW AND WHAT ALSO IS MAKING URGENCY WAS THAT I THINK WE'RE SLATED FOR THE BIKE SHARE PROGRAM TO BE LAUNCHED THIS SUMMER AS WELL.
SO JUST HAVING SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE COMING TO PETALUMA TO KNOW WHERE TO GO WHEN THEY ARRIVE AT THE SMART STATION.
UM, UH, SO YEAH, SOMETHING TEMP, QUICK BUILD OR SORRY, TACTICAL OR IS TEMPORARY THING, UM, COULD BE HELPFUL JUST TO ADDRESS THAT IN THE NEAR TERM.
AND THEN I THINK, YEAH, WAITING LONGER TERM TILL THERE'S A FULL SCOPE OF A PLAN, I THINK.
UM, YEAH, MAYBE THAT WAS IT ACTUALLY, I GUESS, I GUESS I WAS JUST, YEAH, WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BIKE SHARE LOCATIONS WERE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THIS, UM, AS WELL.
YEAH, THAT IS A GOOD POINT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TWO KIND OF TWO PARTS TO WAYFINDING.
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY ASSISTING PEOPLE IN NAVIGATING THE, THE BIKE NETWORK, AND IT WILL BE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FOR US AS A CITY AS WE ARE IMPLEMENTING MORE BIKEWAYS, ESPECIALLY MORE BIKEWAYS LIKE, UM, LIKE FIFTH STREET, WHICH KEN TOUCHED ON, OR ST.
UH, WE HAVE SEVERAL NEW PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS ON THE EAST SIDE WHERE WE'RE KIND OF PATCHING TOGETHER SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS, RIGHT? SO IT'LL HELP PEOPLE NAVIGATE THOSE.
UM, IT IS ALSO MARKETING, RIGHT? BECAUSE WHEN YOU SEE A SIGN, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE SIGNS THAT TELL YOU HOW FAR YOU ARE FROM A LOCATION AND HOW LONG IT TAKES TO BIKE, UM, NOW MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AS PEOPLE ARE OUT AND ABOUT WALKING THEIR DOGS OR, OR DRIVING AROUND, THEY SEE THOSE SIGNS AND THEY SAY, WHOA, I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS A 10 MINUTE BIKE RIDE TO DOWNTOWN FROM HERE.
UM, SO YEAH, THAT'S WHERE, THAT'S WHERE THESE COULD, COULD REALLY BE HELPFUL IN SERVING OUR, OUR, OUR LARGER GOALS OF, OF MODE SHIFT.
AND JUST ONE MORE COMMENT ON THAT.
ALSO, I THINK HAVING A QR CODE, AND THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE BECAUSE WHEN YOU START TO USE THAT DISTANCE, YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT OUR OTHER GOALS ARE, MAYBE IN TERMS OF CALORIES BURNED OR CARBON DIOXIDES, YOU KNOW, SAVED FROM OUR ATMOSPHERE.
YOU CAN HAVE THOSE METRICS FOR THOSE PEOPLE
OR MAYBE IT'S JUST, YEAH, HOW CAN, HOW FAST IS IT GONNA TAKE ME TO PLAN IT ALL OUT? BUT I THINK THAT COULD BE SOME HELPFUL MARKETING AS WELL FOR THE CITY'S EFFORTS.
AND KEN, I KNOW YOU'VE, WE WE'VE, WE'VE DEVELOPED A QR CODE AND I KNOW THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE TALKED TO WITH THE, THE SIGN FABRICATOR YOU'RE WORKING WITH ABOUT? WERE THERE ANY, ANY CHALLENGES TO THAT OR? YEAH, I DON'T, I DON'T SEE ANY AT ALL.
I MEAN, THAT'S JUST A SIMPLE THING TO PUT ON THERE.
UM, YEAH, SO NO, THAT'S A VERY GOOD IDEA.
UM, I, I LIKE THE IDEA OF DOING IT AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE AS WELL.
I THINK IT'S ALSO A SAFETY, UM, ISSUE, LIKE GETTING PEOPLE ON THE SAFEST NETWORK TO GET THROUGH TOWN, UM, WITH LIKE A B LIST OF KIOSKS AND LIKE OTHER MAPPING, MAYBE BUS ROUTES OR, OR OTHER, UM, INFORMATION IN THE FUTURE.
BUT I THINK GETTING, UM, DOING THE IN-HOUSE SORT OF HYBRID MODEL WOULD BE MY PREFERENCE.
AND I'M OPEN TO A DISCUSSION ABOUT ANY CHANGE.
I THINK
I FEEL LIKE THIS IS ONE OF THESE DISCUSSIONS.
AND SO
YEAH, I GENERALLY AGREE WITH THAT.
I'M COMING A LITTLE LATE TO THE GAME ON THIS ONE.
UM, I WAS GONNA ASK FROM THIS MANUFACTURER, I'M ASSUMING WE'VE SEEN EXAMPLES OF THEIR WORK AND, 'CAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET SOMETHING UP, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE ORDERING BEFORE WE ROLL OUT KIND OF A FULL CITY PLAN.
UM, THE OTHER PART THAT, THAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT IS BUDGET
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WISE, UH, I MEAN, I'M ASSUMING DOING A PILOT DOESN'T, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DECISION, SHOULD WE JUST GO WITH KIND OF A CITYWIDE PLAN, GET IT ROLLED OUT, WE'VE GOT OUR DESIGNS, WE HAVE SOME CONFIDENCE.I THINK THERE'S MERIT TO THE PILOT, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE MEMBERS HERE WHO HAVE SEEN THIS DRAG ON.
I THINK THERE'S MERIT TO THE PILOT JUST TO VERIFY THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE GETTING, DA DA, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA, THERE'S NO GREAT SAVINGS BY SKIPPING THE PILOT OR WHAT IS THE MONETARY COMPONENT OF THAT? YEAH, IT'S, IT'S VERY, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S NOT A SIGN SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY.
IT'S, IT'S MORE THE, UM, JUST AGAIN, KIND OF THE LIMITED UTILITY THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE REALLY ONLY GETTING PEOPLE, LIKE I SAID, BETWEEN POINT A AND POINT B.
AND I KNOW THERE'VE, WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS, KEN AND I HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH SOME OF YOU ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO HERE, WHY DON'T YOU TAKE IT UP TO LYNCH CREEK TRAIL AND THEN WHY DON'T YOU GET IT OVER TO THE LIBRARY? AND, AND THEN IT, THAT'S WHERE IT BECOMES A, A DISCUSSION.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHY I, I, I'VE HAD A HARD TIME WITH THE, THE IDEA OF A FAIRLY LIMITED PILOT IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS TO BE TRULY EFFECTIVE AND HAVE UTILITY, YOU KIND OF NEED A SYSTEM WIDE PLAN.
BUT I DO UNDERSTAND THE, THE CONCERN AROUND GETTING PEOPLE BETWEEN GETTING PEOPLE INTO OUR DOWNTOWN FROM, UH, FROM THE, THE SOUTH CITY LIMIT.
I THINK THAT'S, THAT WAS IDENTIFIED INITIALLY BY, BY PBA.
SO, AND I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO SEEING IT IN PRACTICE THAT IF THERE'S ANY OBVIOUS FLAW THAT WAS MISSING WHEN DURING THE DESIGN PHASE, IT KIND OF STANDS OUT THERE IN TERMS OF NAME.
UM, I LIKE, I THINK YOU WERE THE ONE THAT JUST SAID KIND OF INDUSTRY STANDARD NOW IS WALK, BIKE, AND ROLL.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS A POSSIBILITY OR IF THAT'S TOO LONG, OR, UM, BUT I LIKE THAT FOR THE NAME.
I FEEL LIKE IT'S A ALL ENCOMPASSING THING FOR THE NETWORK.
UM, BUT THAT'S ALL MY FEEDBACK.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES, SO I WILL SAY THE, UM, THE, THE BIKE WAVE FINDING SIGNS ARE NOT REALLY MEANT FOR PEDESTRIANS.
UM, MORE SO THE TRAIL SIGNS ARE, ARE KIND OF MULTIMODAL BETWEEN PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, ROLLING.
THE REASON BIKE WAYFINDING SIGNAGE NEEDS TO BE REALLY SPECIALIZED IS BECAUSE THE NEEDS OF BICYCLISTS AS THEY'RE NAVIGATING A SYSTEM ARE TEND TO BE MUCH MORE, THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SPECIFIC INTERSECTION TREATMENTS IN PLACE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DRIVE PEOPLE OR MOVE PEOPLE TOWARDS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD, GREENWAY, RIGHT, WE WOULD WANT PEOPLE, UM, GOING OVER TO YOU TO CROSS D AT FIFTH, ONCE WE HAVE THE TRAFFIC DIVERTER AND MEDIAN REFUGE IN PLACE, THAT FEATURE IS VERY MUCH DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE BIKING, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE JOGS KIND OF BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS AND, AND BIKE LANES, WHEREAS PEDESTRIANS REALLY HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE STREET NETWORK.
ALMOST EVERY STREET HAS SIDEWALKS AND CROSSWALKS.
UM, SO WE, THERE ARE PLACES WHERE WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT, AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO USE THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM AND COMMENTS WE'VE RECEIVED THROUGH THE AT PLAN TO IDENTIFY PLACES WHERE PEDESTRIAN WAYFINDING SIGNAGE IS NEEDED.
BUT GENERALLY, MOST CITIES WILL APPROACH THIS.
THEY'LL HAVE A, A BIKE WAYFINDING PLAN THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC TO THE NEEDS OF BICYCLISTS, AND THEN THEY'LL HAVE KIND OF A SEPARATE, UH, PLAN FOR TRAILS AND OTHER, UM, AND PEDESTRIAN, UH, CONNECTIVITY.
SO WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT KIND OF THE CITYWIDE WAY FINDING, THAT WAS ALWAYS THINKING JUST THE BIKE PORTION, NOT NECESSARILY PEDESTRIAN BIKE, BIKE AND TRAILS MORE SO.
AS A PEDESTRIAN, WE NEED SIGNAGE ALSO.
IT WOULD BE TERRIBLY NICE TO BE ON THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL AND KNOW THAT IF I TURN RIGHT ON THIS PATHWAY, THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE ME TO ELLIS, WHICH IS GONNA TAKE ME TO THE POOL, OR IT'S GOING TO TAKE ME TO TARGET OR TO THE LIBRARY.
I MEAN, WE'RE AWARE OF THOSE TOO.
YOU, I GRANT YOU THAT THE TIME THAT IT TAKES YOU TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B WOULD DIFFER WITH A PEDESTRIAN THAN A BICYCLIST.
SO JUST, JUST A NOTE FROM THE PEDESTRIAN HERE.
NOW, AND I WONDER IF THAT COULD BE APPENDED TO THIS INFRASTRUCTURE LATER? I MEAN, ONCE WE HAVE THE POST, ONCE WE HAVE AREAS, THE KIOSKS, IF THE PEDESTRIAN COULD COME YEAH, AND I'M, I'LL, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT RIGHT NOW, THE ONLY SIGNS THAT HAVE THAT REFER TO THE DISTANCES.
SO OBVIOUSLY THE DISTANCE WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR A PEDESTRIAN.
UM, WE COULD, I, WE COULD LOOK AT OTHER SYSTEMS TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY THAT REFERENCE, UM, TIME, THE TIME ESTIMATES FOR BOTH PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING IN A WAY THAT'S NOT PUTTING TOO MUCH INFORMATION ON THE SIGNS AND, AND KIND OF OVER CLUTTERING IT.
UM, BUT YEAH, THAT IS A POINT.
SO, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY PEDESTRIANS CAN USE THIS SIGNAGE, YOU CAN LOOK AT IT, BUT,
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BUT AGAIN, THE, THE, IT, IT'LL BE MORE TAILORED TO DIRECTING.IT WON'T NECESSARILY GIVE PEOPLE THE MOST DIRECT ROUTES FOR WALKING, WHEREAS IT WILL GIVE THEM THE SAFEST ROUTE FOR BIKING.
THAT'S PROBABLY THE, THE BEST WAY I COULD FRAME IT.
UM, I DEFINITELY THINK THE NAME NEEDS TO CHANGE.
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE TRAVEL PETALUMA, MOVE PETALUMA, I DON'T KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, I'M FINE MOVING FORWARD WITH A PILOT.
UM, IN PARTICULAR, I THINK PUTTING A BIKE, UH, DOING SOMETHING AROUND THE BIKE SHARE PROGRAM WHEN THAT ROLLS OUT, FEELS RIGHT BECAUSE, UM, GETTING PEOPLE ON BIKES THAT HAVE NEVER RIDDEN IN OUR CITY THAT PROBABLY DON'T HAVE HELMETS, LIKE GETTING THEM TO THE SAFEST ROUTE SO THAT THEY CAN GET DOWNTOWN OR THEY CAN GET TO THE FAIRGROUNDS OR WHATEVER FEELS IMPORTANT JUST GIVEN LIKE WHAT A MORASS IT IS KIND OF AROUND THE, THE TRAIN STATION.
SO I WOULD SUPPORT IT, ESPECIALLY IF WE WERE DOING IT AT THE TRAIN STATION.
I CONCUR WITH MOST OF WHAT'S BEEN SAID HERE.
UM, CERTAINLY A LOT OF EFFORTS GONE INTO THE, THE WAY FINDING, UM, DISCUSSIONS AND COMING UP WITH THESE IDEAS.
AND I THINK THAT WE WERE ALL VERY JAZZED ABOUT THE MERGE SIGNS, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE CAN USE THOSE, RIGHT? THE, THE LOOK AND FEEL OF THAT IS SOMETHING WE'VE WEIGHED IN ON AND WE'RE GONNA USE.
UM, I GUESS I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE PILOT PROJECT WOULD BE RIPPED OUT AND REMOVED IF THERE'S A, I WAS THINKING THAT THAT MIGHT BE ADDITIVE, SO WE'D PUT SOMETHING UP AND THEN WE CAN ADD TO IT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE NOT INSTALLING NEW SIGNED POSTS WHERE YOU WOULDN'T WANT THEM LATER.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A WAY TO KIND OF TINKER WITH THE IDEA.
I, I LIKE THE, THE CONCEPT OF, YOU KNOW, IF YOU PUT UP SOMETHING THAT'S TEMPORARY AND HELPFUL, DURABLE FOR, YOU KNOW, SIX OR NINE MONTHS, WHATEVER IT TAKES US, THAT SOUNDS GREAT TO ME TO GET THROUGH A WHOLE SEASON BEFORE THE SYSTEM WIDE PLAN IS READY.
BUT, BUT I GET WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT WE MAY BE PUTTING THINGS UP AT LOCATIONS IN THE PILOT THAT WON'T BE THE PLACES THAT WE REALLY WANT TO PUT THEM WHEN WE HAVE THE SYSTEM WIDE, UM, PLAN IN PLACE AFTER WE DO THE MAPPING.
SO IT, IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE, AND I WOULD ENDORSE DOING A, A LIMITED PROJECT NOW WE CALL IT A PRI PILOT OR WHATEVER WE CALL IT, TO GET PEOPLE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO THE PLACES WE'RE ALL, WE'RE ALL MOST FOCUSED ON, INCLUDING BIKE SHARE AND DOWNTOWN AND PARKS AND THINGS.
AND, UM, NOT SPEND A TON OF MONEY TO DO THAT, BUT MAKE IT USEFUL AND HELPFUL.
UM, AND KNOWING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE COMING.
UH, BUT I I, I DO THINK THERE'S UTILITY AND VALUE FROM A SAFETY AND JUST TO GET PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, MOVING AROUND THE CITY BY DOING A LIMITED PILOT.
UM, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE, THE CONUNDRUM AND, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONCERN ABOUT PUTTING THE ENERGY INTO DOING THE PILOT WHEN, WHEN THOSE THINGS MAY NOT HAVE THE UTILITY THAT WE WOULD ULTIMATELY WANT, BUT THEY HAVE INITIAL UTILITY.
UM, SO I I I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF A, A LIMITED PILOT THAT, UM, IS A GOOD USE OF THE, THE FUNDS AND, UM, AND KNOWING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE A SYSTEMWIDE ONE LATER.
AND YEAH, AND TO BE CLEAR, WE WOULDN'T BE TALKING ABOUT RIPPING OUT SIGNPOSTS.
UM, WOULD THOSE, THE SIGNPOSTS WOULD DEFINITELY KIND OF MEET THAT, THAT SYSTEMWIDE UH, CRITERIA.
BUT, UM, YEAH, JUST, IT WOULD JUST BE THE SIGNS THAT POTENTIALLY WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED.
UM, BUT YEAH, NO, THAT'S, THIS HAS ALL BEEN REALLY HELPFUL AND REALLY GOOD FEEDBACK.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER, ANY QUE OR, AND I GOT ONE MORE, UM, THING.
NO, IT'S VERY, IT'S, IT'S VERY GOOD FEEDBACK AND, AND, UM, YEAH, BJORN, YOU AND I CAN GET TOGETHER.
SORRY, IT LOOKED LIKE ADAM HAD, UM, HAD ANOTHER THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO SHARE.
JUST GOT ME THINKING ABOUT THE MARKETING PART OF IT, BUT TO CALL IT, UM, AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN YEAH, ROUTES THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO TAKE, UM, WALKING VERSUS WALKING AND BIKING, UM, AND JUST THINKING OF, I THINK THERE WAS A RECENT PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WE GOT JUST ABOUT HOW LIKE A BICYCLE IS A VEHICLE AND SHOULD BE KIND OF USED ON THE ROAD.
JUST SO THAT DISTINCTION I THINK IS HELPFUL WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO, YEAH, LIKE YOU WERE SAYING, PLAN OUT THE PATHS.
UH, WHAT CAME TO MIND WAS SOMETHING LIKE, UM, PETALUMA ROLLING ROUTES, SOMETHING WHERE IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU ROLL ON WHEELS, WHAT ELSE CAN YOU SAY? I DON'T KNOW, I WAS TRYING TO COME UP WITH AN ALLITERATION AND THEN THE OTHER ONE, SO THAT WOULD BE FOR LIKE, YEAH, ALL YOUR
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E-BIKES, YOUR SCOOTERS, EVERYTHING WHEN YOU'RE KIND OF ON THE STREET OR CAN TAKE A MULTI-USE PATHWAY.AND THEN FOR THE OTHER ONE FOR PEDESTRIAN WIDE, JUST CALLING IT LIKE PETALUMA PATHWAYS, THAT'S WHERE THERE'S KIND OF THE FAR AND WIDE INTEGRATED NETWORK THAT CAN TAKE YOU.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR LIKE, TALKING ABOUT ELLIS STREET OR WHEN YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, GOING, THIS IS A PATHWAY TO GET TO YOUR MAJOR DESTINATIONS TO TARGET AND THAT WHOLE CENTER.
UM, SO YEAH, JUST FIGURING OUT THE MARKETING AND HOW TO KIND OF DISTINGUISH THOSE TWO, UM, IS, IS HELPFUL.
SO YOU GUYS HAVE BRANDING IDEAS TOO.
THIS WAS ALSO A MAP OF LIKE THE CORE OF MILL VALLEY, THAT WAS, IT SERVES AS THE EVACUATION ROUTE ALSO.
AND SO IT WAS LIKE THEIR NETWORK, BUT ALSO LIKE THEIR SAFETY PROGRAM.
AND, UM, I LIKE, I, I GUESS THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT LIKE MOVE PETALUMA THAT SOUNDS MORE LIKE AN INITIATIVE OR LIKE A DEMAND RATHER THAN LIKE PETALUMA PATHS.
IT JUST, WHAT IT CONJURESS UP IS MORE LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, BUCOLIC AND LIKE SMALL TOWN AND LIKE WHAT PETALUMA LIKES TO RECALL AND IT TALKS ABOUT ITSELF ON NEXT DOOR
I LIKE, AND I COULD, I THINK PAT'S IS FINE FOR BIKEWAYS TOO, BUT I'M, I'M SURE THERE'S, BUT I DON'T KNOW OTHER, I GUESS I LIKE THE ALLITERATION ALSO.
JUST ONE THOUGHT, UH, WHEN, WHEN PAMELA WAS EXPLAINING THIS, I, IF THERE'S SOME WAY TO NAME IT IN THE PROJECT, AND MAYBE THAT'S IMPLICIT IN THIS, THIS IS A PILOT GET INVOLVED, IT COULD THEN FUNCTION AS, HEY, THIS IS GONNA CHANGE ALSO A WAY TO ENGAGE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE USING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE TO PARTICIPATE TOO.
YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SMART ACTUALLY DID.
I THINK THEY PUT UP, UP A COUPLE MOCK WAY FINDING SIGNS AND THEN HAD THEIR SURVEYS, UM, TO GENERATE SOME, SOME FEEDBACK ON PREFERRED SIGN SIGNAGE DESIGNS.
SO THAT'S A GOOD, GOOD THOUGHT.
WE'LL, YEAH, WE'LL DEFINITELY, UM, TAKE ALL OF THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND, AND COME BACK WITH A REPORT HOPEFULLY AT OUR NEXT MEETING ON NEXT STEPS AND, OR, WELL, DEPENDING ON WHAT, WHAT THE AGENDA LOOKS LIKE.
UM, WE'LL, WE'LL TRY TO GET, COME, COME BACK VERY SOON WITH A, WITH AN UPDATE.
AND, UM, ARIS WEAVER AND MORE TIME DOING, I GOT A JOB IN PETALUMA IN 1999, RODE MY BIKE DOWN EVERY DAY FROM ROANOKE PARK.
SOMEONE TOLD ME THERE WAS THIS PATH ACROSS TOWN.
I, IT TOOK ME A YEAR TO FRICKING FIND IT.
I WENT RIDING AROUND WHERE PEOPLE SAY, OH YEAH, OVER THERE.
AND HERE IT IS 25 YEARS LATER AND THERE STILL ISN'T ANY SIGNAGE, HELPING PEOPLE FIND THE PATHS.
I'VE BEEN RACKING ON THEM FOR FOUR YEARS ABOUT DOING SOME, WE FINDING, 'CAUSE YOU GET TO THE, THE PATH ENDS AT THE STREET.
AND THREATENED TO GO OUT WITH STENCILS AND SPRAY PAINT AND JUST DO IT MYSELF.
THEY'RE STARTING TO WORK ON IT NOW, BUT THERE'S STILL NOTHING THERE TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY AROUND.
I WAS INVOLVED WITH THE TATI WAY FINDING PROJECT, WHICH WE ALL I MERGED WAS THE CONSULTANT.
I WAS ON THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD AT THE TIME, AND SO WAS REPRESENTED ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND THEN WE GOT THOSE SIGNS UP QUICK.
THE PIECE OF THE SMART PATHWAY THAT'S IN KATI IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS ANY SIGNS.
SO LET'S TALK AND MORE ROCKING.
I DON'T LET THE PERFECT BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD.
I COULD COME UP WITH ALL OTHER LITTLE THINGS TO SAY, BUT JUST FRICKING DO IT ALREADY.
PEOPLE NEED TO GET AROUND, JUST DO IT.
IF YOU KEEP SAYING WE CAN, WELL WE, WE DON'T WANNA DO IT UNTIL THIS HAPPENS.
AND WE DON'T WANNA DO IT UNTIL THIS HAPPENS.
AND WE DON'T WANNA DO IT UNTIL AFTER, YOU KNOW, ALL THE, THE, THE BIKE SHARE THAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN WAITING FOR FOR YEARS.
AND I HAVE NO FAITH THAT THEY'RE EVER, THAT IT'S GONNA SHOW UP AT ANY GIVEN DATE BECAUSE OF HOW MANY TIMES THAT'S HAPPENED, IT'LL STILL NEVER GET DONE.
AND ALL THESE ERRORS ARE TALKING ABOUT IT WILL NOT HAVE DONE ANYTHING.
SO I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE,
OH, THANK YOU SO MUCH, BJORN AND KEN.
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OF MINUTES FOR MARCH 6TH, 2024.DOES THE COMMITTEE HAVE ANY CHANGES THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE? THEN THE MINUTES ARE
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ACCEPTED AS IS AND WE ARE MOVING[COMMITTEE COMMENT]
DOWN TO COMMITTEE COMMENT NOW.MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO BRIEFLY SHARE UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS 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, MARCIA, COULD WE START WITH YOU PLEASE? SURE.
UM, THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO SAY WAS AFTER, OH GOSH, MAYBE FOUR YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HARPING ON SOMETHING, IT'S BEEN FIXED.
THERE IS A NEW SIDEWALK AT 18 10TH STREET, AND THAT SIDEWALK WAS SO BAD.
ANYWAY, IT'S BEEN DONE AND I CANNOT THANK YOU KEN BJORN, WHOEVER FINALLY GOT THAT THING OVER THE, UH,
MY WALKING PARTNERS CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH.
WE HAVE NEARLY, UM, HAD A COUPLE OF INTERESTING ACCIDENTS ON THAT PORTION.
HOWEVER, THE NEW SIDEWALK IS MARVELOUS.
UM, SECONDLY, I WANTED TO MENTION THAT I WENT OUT WITH KEN AND SOME CITY FOLKS LAST WEEK TO LOOK AT A MINI SWEEPER.
WE HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT MINI SWEEPERS HERE AT ONE POINT IN TIME, WHENEVER WE START THINKING ABOUT PUTTING BIKE LANES WITH PROTECTED BOLLARDS, WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT, WELL, HOW DO YOU CLEAN AROUND THOSE GIZMOS? AND ONE OF THE GUYS THAT WAS THERE WAS, I BELIEVE HIS NAME IS SCOTT, AND HE'S ONE OF THE, UM, LEADS ON, ON FIXING THOSE THINGS THAT WE FIND THAT NEED TO BE FIXED.
AND HE WAS SAYING THAT THEY CAN LITERALLY TAKE THOSE BALLARDS OUT SO THAT THEY CAN BRING IN THE REGULAR SWEEPER, BUT IT TAKES BETWEEN FIVE AND EIGHT MINUTES TO TAKE OUT EACH BALLARD AND THEN THEY HAVE TO PUT BACK EACH BALLARD.
SO HE WAS SUGGESTING THAT WE, UM, THE PURCHASE OF A MINI SWEEPER MIGHT, MIGHT BE THE, MIGHT BE THE TRICK, BUT ANYWAY, I CAN'T SPEAK TO HOW GREAT IT WAS, BUT JUST THE THOUGHT OF GETTING A MINI SWEEPER SO THAT WE CAN DO SOME, UM, MAINTENANCE ON OUR BIKE LANES.
IT'S NO FUN TO RUN OVER GLASS AND WEEDS AND BRANCHES, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO THE, THE THOUGHT OF A MINI SWEEPER, IT'S GREAT.
I'M GLAD THAT THE CITY IS TAKING US SERIOUSLY AND IS LOOKING INTO THIS PURCHASE.
UM, MY THIRD ITEM WAS ABOUT ELECTRONIC BIKES COMING TO PETALUMA.
DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATES THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE, PERHAPS THAT NEEDS TO BE SHARED AT ONE OF OUR NEXT MEETINGS, LIKE THE NEXT MEETING? UM, LET'S SEE.
UH, I HEARD RUMOR THAT THERE WAS A GRANT OUT THAT WE PUT OUT THAT THE CITY OF PETALUMA PUT OUT FOR COPELAND STREET, AND I'M FASCINATED, IS THAT FOR A, IS THAT TO BE USED FOR A BIKE AND PED CONNECTION? UM, OR IS THAT TO BE, UM, IS THAT TO BE A CONNECTION TO SMART, THE SMART TRAIN STATION ON THE WEST SIDE AND THEN ULTIMATELY THE SMART STATION ON THE EAST SIDE? UM, IF YOU ALL CAN FOLLOW COPELAND IS WHERE WE HAVE OUR TRANSIT, RIGHT? SO IF YOU CROSS WASHINGTON STREET, COPELAND CONTINUES, GETS KIND OF GRAVELLY, ET CETERA, AND IT MAY GO THROUGH SOME PROPERTIES.
IT ULTIMATELY COMES TO A FENCE, WHICH IS ALWAYS TORN DOWN, AND YOU CAN GET ONTO THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL RIGHT THERE.
AND IT'S A FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT WAY OF GETTING FROM THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL TO, UM, THE TRAIN STATION.
SO I WAS JUST INTERESTED IN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GRANT THAT WE EVIDENTLY SUBMITTED.
UM, RAINIER, WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THAT TONIGHT.
ACCORDING TO SMART, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHETHER I BROUGHT THIS UP AT THE LAST MEETING OR NOT.
ACCORDING TO SMART AT AN SCTA MEETING THAT I ATTENDED, THE PETALUMA TO PEN GROVE PATH SHOULD BE COMPLETE BY THIS FALL, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS THRILLING.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT'S REALLY GONNA HAPPEN, BUT, UH, THE SMART, UH, PERSON WHO REPRESENTS, UH, SAID NO, NO, IT'S, IT'S DEFINITELY IN THE WORKS.
SO LET'S HOPE THAT PETALUMA TO PEN GROVE GETS COMPLETED THIS FALL.
UM, I WANTED TO MENTION THAT I GOT A, UH, A FLYER AND I'M SURPRISED THAT ARIS DIDN'T BRING IT UP.
THE WOW WOMEN ON WHEELS, THAT SOUNDS REALLY KIND OF COOL.
THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A HUNDRED K, A 50 K AND A FAMILY RIDE, AND THIS IS FOR OCTOBER 5TH, SO YOU MIGHT WANNA PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR IF YOU ARE THUS INTERESTED.
AND THEN VOLUNTEERS, UM, OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS I'VE BEEN HITTING, I'VE BEEN BEING HIT UP TO VOLUNTEER, UM, FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS.
UH, ONE CAME FROM THE BUTTER AND EGG DAY PARADE.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WORKING AS A VOLUNTEER, THEY ARE SHORT VOLUNTEERS RIGHT NOW, AND THEY WOULD LIKE YOU TO CONTACT THEM, UH, THE PET OF THE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION, AND IT'S AT ADMIN@PDCCS.COM AND VOLUNTEER.
I GUESS THEY'RE, THEY REALLY NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS.
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AND I ARE POURING BEER, I THINK AT ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE STATIONS, WHICH WE'VE DONE BEFORE.UM, SECONDLY, UH, JUSTIN BROOKS, WHO HELPS US ALL THE TIME ON BIKE AND P IS, UH, PUTTING A BIKE CORRAL TOGETHER FOR THE BUTTER AND EGGS DAY PARADE.
AND HE STILL NEEDS PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER.
SO IF YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF HOURS THAT YOU MIGHT DONATE HIS DIRECTION, HE COULD DEFINITELY USE IT.
AND YOU WOULD NEED TO EMAIL JUSTIN AT, UM, JUSTIN, J-E-S-T-I N7@GMAIL.COM.
AND THAT'S AGAIN FOR THE BIKE CORRAL, WHICH HE IS PUTTING TOGETHER FOR BUTTER AND EGGS DAY.
AND THEN THE LAST ITEM, UM, WHICH I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT, BUT I HEARD THAT THE PETALUMA PARK AND WRECK WAS PUTTING ON A 4TH OF JULY PARADE WITH DOGS AND BIKES.
AND AS SUCH, THEY NEED VOLUNTEERS TO ORGANIZE THAT KIND OF AN EVENT.
IF THAT STRIKES YOUR FANCY, I'M GUESSING YOU WOULD NEED TO TALK TO PARK AND REC.
SO THAT'S AGAIN, UM, THAT'S A JULY 4TH PARADE AND THAT'S THE END OF MY REPORT.
JUST MAYBE AN UPDATE, UM, ON THE EXPLORATIONS OF PETALUMA ON A TRICYCLE.
UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT I'VE FOUND IN TRYING TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE, I THINK IT'S CALLED LA CRESTA RIDGE.
IT'S THAT RIDGE IN BETWEEN WINDSOR DRIVE AND THE REST OF THE CITY.
UM, THERE'S GOING UP, UM, HAZE LANE, SO THAT'S KIND OF THE STEEP, UM, I GUESS WESTERN SIDE.
UH, THAT GATE, UH, DOES NOT ALLOW FOR ANYTHING WIDER THAN A HUMAN BODY TO GET THROUGH.
SO IN ORDER TO ACCESS THAT, WE WOULD HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY AROUND, UH, ALONG WESTERN, WHICH IS MY USUAL ROUTE FOR PICKING UP MY, UM, SUN.
UH, WHICH I HAVE NOW HAD TO DIVERT ALSO BECAUSE RIDING AROUND 150 POUND TRICYCLE, YOU FEEL THE BUMPS SO MUCH MORE.
SO SMOOTH PAVEMENT IS NOW MY FRIEND AND WE ARE FOLLOWING THE CLEANEST ROUTES, UM, THROUGH THE CITY.
UM, BUT THAT A ACCESS ISSUE IN PARTICULAR, I THINK WAS PARTICULARLY JARRING, JUST WANTING TO GO UP THERE AND HAVE A NICE LITTLE PICNIC AND KNOWING THAT WE CAN'T NECESSARILY, WITHOUT HAVING TO GO A LONG WAY AROUND.
SO, UM, YEAH, MAYBE JUST SOME A DA IMPLICATIONS AS WELL.
SO JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION AND NO OTHER UPDATES.
UM, NOTHING IN REGARDS TO THIS, UM, COMMITTEE, BUT FROM PARKS AND RECREATION, UM, NOTHING THAT OVERLAPS, BUT I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A FEW THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.
UM, THE MINOK, UM, NATIVE PLANT, UM, PROJECT IS BEING FUNDED AND PUT IN, WHICH SHOULD BE PRETTY EXCITING IN TERMS OF TAKING CARE OF SOME, UM, AREAS OF THE PARK THERE THAT ARE CONSISTENTLY GETTING, UM, JUST SWALLOWED UP BY RAIN.
UM, WE HAD A PRESENTATION FROM THE PETALUMA SPEEDWAY, UH, FOR THE BMX TRACK.
I KNOW, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING THINGS, UM, GOING AT THE SPEEDWAY.
SO THEY CAME IN AND GAVE A GREAT PRESENTATION.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT COULD BE AN EXCELLENT, UH, ADDITION TO OUR CITY.
UM, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO USE THE POOL, UM, WE'RE WORKING ON MAKING IT BETTER.
SO WE HAVE AN AD HOC AND, UM, AND, UH, THERE'S ACTUALLY A, A LARGE AMOUNT, NOT ONLY THE SWIM TEAM, BUT JUST OF SWIMS THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, THEY ACTUALLY WROTE A WHOLE LETTER AND DELIVERED IT TO, TO THE CITY.
SO THERE, THERE SEEMS TO BE JUST SOME, UM, ENERGY AND FOCUS THAT'S GOING INTO THE, THE SWIM CENTER, WHICH IS GREAT 'CAUSE IT NEEDS, UH, SOME UPDATES THROUGH THERE.
SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE MY PARKS AND REC UPDATES.
I'M GET AN UPDATE FROM PLANNING.
WE'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS SINCE THE LAST PBAC MEETING.
THE FIRST WAS ON MARCH 12TH, A JOINT MEETING OF THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION WHERE WE REVIEWED, UH, SEA LEVEL RISE AND FLOOD MAPS FOR THE CITY OF PETALUMA.
BIG CONVERSATION, BIG PRESENTATION DENSE WITH A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THE MODELS WORK.
A COUPLE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS, IT'S GONNA BE A VERY ITERATIVE MOD MODELING TOOL.
UH, CITY STAFF WAS INDICATING THAT FOR POTENTIAL PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN RUN SCENARIOS THROUGH THIS MODELING TOOL NOW AND SEE HOW CHANGES TO LAND USE OR CHANGES TO EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD CHANGE FLOOD PATTERNS BASED ON CERTAIN PARAMETERS OF RAINFALL AND HOW MUCH WE'RE ASSUMING SEA LEVEL RISE.
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I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WOULD BE THAT ITERATIVE AND THEY COULD RUN THIS KIND OF, AS DIFFERENT SCENARIOS COME TOGETHER.SO IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THAT TOOL IS USED.
ALSO, IN JANUARY OF 2024, A NEW DRAFT OF, UH, SEA LEVEL RISE DATA CAME OUT FROM THE RELEVANT ORGANIZATION.
I THINK IT'S OPC, UH, I'LL HAVE TO REMIND MYSELF OF THE NAME, THE STATE BODY THAT KIND OF PRODUCES A LOT OF THE BEST C LEVEL RISE DATA, AND IT'S DIFFERENT FROM THE 2018 DATA THAT OUR MODEL USES.
AND SO THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION THERE ABOUT WHICH TO USE AND WHY.
AND SOME OF THE UPCOMING DISCUSSIONS I THINK WILL BE REALLY BIG TO TUNE INTO.
THERE'S GONNA BE A COUPLE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THE LAND USE IMPLICATIONS AS WE DECIDE ON THE FORMAL MAP WHAT THIS IS GONNA LOOK LIKE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR POTENTIAL LAND USE, ZONING, THINGS LIKE THAT IN THE CITY STAFF, THEY WANTED TO HAVE WHOLE MEETINGS ABOUT THAT.
SO I THINK THAT'LL BE A REALLY INTERESTING, THE MODEL IS REALLY INTERESTING WITHIN THE IMPLICATIONS FOR HOW IT WILL AFFECT ZONING IN THE CITY ARE, ARE KIND OF THE BIG, BIG TOPICS AS WELL.
AND THEN TAKING US RIGHT BACK TO HAYES LANE, LIKE ADAM WAS TALKING ABOUT ON THE 26TH, WE REVIEWED A PROJECT AT FIVE 60 HAYES LANE, UH, SPAR ON A SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE THAT'S GONNA BE BUILT ACTUALLY AT WHERE HAYES LANE ENDS.
AND YOU GO ONTO THAT PATH THAT'S CURRENTLY BLOCKED ON LA CRESTA TO THE RIGHT OF THAT, KIND OF THE OPEN SPACE IN BETWEEN THAT TRAIL.
AND, UH, LIKE HILLCREST HOSPITAL, THAT AREA, THERE'S INFORMAL WALKING TRAILS THERE.
THAT'S ACTUALLY A PRIVATE LEON OWNED PARCEL.
UH, I THINK IT'S TWO PARCELS, FIVE ACRES.
THEY ARE BUILDING ON ONE OF THEM ON THE HILLSIDE THERE.
UH, AND THEY ACTUALLY, THIS IS AN APPLICANT WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED ON A, ON THE OTHER PARCEL THERE, BUT NOW THEY HAVE KIND OF A GREAT DESIGN EMBEDDED IN THE HILLSIDE.
THEY'RE NOT TOUCHING ANY TREES, WHICH I THINK WAS MUSIC TO A LOT OF PEOPLE'S EARS.
AND THEY ARE FOR THIS COMMITTEE, UM, THEY ARE GOING TO BE OPEN ABOUT KEEPING THAT INFORMAL WALKING TRAIL THAT RUNS THROUGH THE PROPERTY.
THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO SEE HOW THAT DEVELOPS, BUT THEY KNOW IT'S A BIG COMMUNITY WALKING TRAIL UP THERE.
UH, AND SO RIGHT NOW, UH, THEY ARE OPEN TO KIND OF KEEPING THAT OPEN AND SEEING HOW IT EVOLVES.
UM, SO WE GOT FIRST FRIDAY AT FIVE THIS WEEK I THINK.
UM, UH, LEAVES AT WALNUT PARK AT FIVE O'CLOCK.
UM, THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, IT'S THE, THE BJORN SHOW COMING UP, UH, ON MONDAY.
UM, WE'VE GOT, UM, AS I MENTIONED WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, THE, UH, ON-CALL STRIPING AND AND ROADS CONTRACT.
THAT'S GONNA HELP US DELIVER A LOT OF THE QUICK BUILD PROJECTS.
WE'VE GOT THE, UH, SPEED REDUCTION, UM, RESOLUTION THAT'S GONNA BASICALLY AUTHORIZE US TO REDUCE SPEEDS AROUND SCHOOLS IN, IN BUSINESS DISTRICTS, UM, FROM 25 TO 20.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE, UM, COVETED GREEN, UH, FIFTH STREET GREENWAY AND D STREET TRAFFIC CALMING PROJECT.
SO, UM, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT, UM, THE DESIGN ALTERNATIVE FOR D STREET, UM, GET THOSE COMMENTS INTO THE COUNCIL AND IF YOU, UM, WANNA SHOW COME, UM,
I KNOW IF FOLKS THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA OR NOT, BUT, UM, I'M GONNA TRY AND PUSH IT FORWARD IF, IF I'M GETTING A LOT OF NODS.
SO YES, THEN I'LL TRY TO DO THAT.
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WE'RE MOVING ON TO STAFF COMMENT.DURING STAFF COMMENT, STAFF WILL PROVIDE BRIEF UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS AND STAFF SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, AND THERE SHOULD BE NO DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS.
THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
UM, SO LOTS GOING ON THIS MONTH AND, AND NEXT MONTH.
UM, SO APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE IF I MISS ANYTHING.
UH, BUT YEAH, JUST FOCUSING THIS ON ALL OF THE UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS AND I KNOW THERE, YEAH, THERE, THERE WILL DEFINITELY BE SOME, SOME STUFF MISSING HERE.
SO OUR APRIL 8TH COUNCIL MEETING IS JAM PACKED WITH, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND SAFE STREETS RELATED ITEMS. UH, WHICH COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE ALREADY COVERED.
THE PACKET WAS JUST PUBLISHED, UH, LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
AND SO THAT'S ALL AVAILABLE AT OUR CITY MEETINGS PAGE.
WE'VE GOT A RIGHT ON THE HEELS OF THAT COUNCIL MEETING.
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MEETING FOR THE HOWARD STREET IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, WHICH WE PRESENTED TO YOU LAST MONTH.AND THIS MEETING WILL BE RIGHT HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY AT 6:00 PM AND IT'S GOING TO BE VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON THE OPTIONS THAT WE PRESENTED FOR LIBERTY STREET, THE LIBERTY STREET, HOWARD STREET INTERSECTION, AND ALSO, UH, FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE ONE-WAY NORTHBOUND PROPOSAL ON LIBERTY STREET.
WE HAVE NOW COLLECTED, UM, ENOUGH TRAFFIC DATA TO, UH, BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THAT ONE-WAY CONVERSION.
AND, UH, AND REALLY THERE ARE AREN'T ANY SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS OF FROM MAKING THAT CONVERSION.
SO WE'LL BE PRESENTING THAT DATA AND GETTING SOME MORE FEEDBACK, UH, ESPECIALLY HOPEFULLY FROM THE FOLKS WHO WHO LIVE IN THE AREA.
WE CONTINUE TO CHUG ALONG WITH THE SAFE ROUTES TASK FORCE.
UH, LAST MONTH WAS FOCUSED ON LOMA VISTA, SO OUR NEXT THREE WALK AUDITS WILL BE LAW TO ME, WALK AND CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, ALL KIND OF OVER IN THE, THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF TOWN.
AND, UH, YEAH, THESE MEETINGS CONTINUE TO BE HELD THE THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH AT 4:00 PM AND, UH, ALL OF THE ACTUALLY GO CHECK OUT LAST MONTH'S, WE'LL SEND THIS OUT AND YOU CAN CLICK THIS LINK.
UM, LAST MONTH'S MEETING, TINA, UH, FROM SCBC OR FROM SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS AND SCBC GAVE A LOT OF UPDATES ABOUT ALL OF THE SAFE ROUTES PROGRAMMING IN OUR SCHOOLS.
SO, UM, GO CHECK OUT HER PRESENTATION, UH, USING THAT LINK.
WE, UM, ARE IN, IN THE PROCESS OF SCHEDULING OUR NEXT, UH, ONE-ON-ONE CROSSINGS MEETING.
I THINK THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE, UM, UH, THERE'LL BE SOME REALLY INTERESTING STUFF PRESENTED BECAUSE RIGHT NOW OUR CONSULTANT IS TAKING A STAB AT SOME INITIAL, UH, DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR EACH OF THE CROSSING LOCATIONS, KIND OF GIVING THEIR INITIAL THOUGHTS ON WHAT'S POSSIBLE AT EACH OF THOSE LOCATIONS, BOTH NEAR AND LONG-TERM.
AND JUST A REMINDER, THOSE LOCATIONS ARE CORONA ROAD, RAINIER AVENUE, LYNCH CREEK TRAIL, AND THEN THE MACKENZIE AVENUE OVERCROSSING.
AND, UH, WE WILL BE SURE TO GET THE WORD OUT ONCE WE HAVE THAT DATE SELECTED.
IT SHOULD BE LATE APRIL, EARLY MAY.
AND AS YOU MAY HAVE SEEN, I SENT AN EMAIL TO YOU, I BELIEVE LAST WEEK, THAT THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE POLICY FRAMEWORKS ARE AVAILABLE FOR IN DRAFT FORM FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.
AND THOSE ARE, UM, THE, THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS WILL REALLY, IT'S KIND OF THE MEAT OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
UH, THESE WILL FORM THE BASIS FOR EACH OF THE GENERAL PLAN, UH, THEY'RE CALLED ELEMENTS.
BASICALLY EACH CHAPTER IS, HAS A KIND OF A SUBJECT AREA FOCUS, UH, LIKE LAND USE TRANSPORTATION.
UM, SO, SO THOSE ARE ALL AVAILABLE.
WE WILL BE HOLDING A JOINT MEETING WITH THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE HERE DURING OUR REGULAR MEETING TIME NEXT MONTH.
SO THAT'S WHAT OUR MAY MEETING WILL BE DEVOTED TO WILL BE A, A JOINT REVIEW WITH TRANSIT ON THE, THE TRANSPORTATION SECTION.
UM, AND WE'LL BE GETTING OUT SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID FOR THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY, WE WILL SEND OUT A, UH, EITHER A WORD DOC OR A SPREADSHEET SO THAT YOU ALL CAN COMPILE COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING AND WE CAN PUBLISH THOSE, UM, PRIOR TO THE MEETING SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT, SEE WHAT EACH OTHER, WHAT, WHAT YOUR COMMENTS ARE, UH, AND, AND HOPEFULLY MAKE FOR A MORE EFFICIENT REVIEW PROCESS.
UM, AND I'M REALIZING, FRANK, THAT'S A NICE TWO FOR ONE FOR YOU.
YOU'VE GOT A, YEAH, FRANK'S ON BOTH COMMITTEES AND ACTUALLY I SHOULD GO BACK.
UH, SO IF YOU GO TO THIS URL RIGHT NOW, YOU CAN ACCESS ALL THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS, BUT UM, THEY HAVE NOT YET POSTED ANYTHING TO MY KNOWLEDGE, ALLOWING YOU TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS JUST YET.
I BELIEVE IT SAYS THAT THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD STARTS MAY 4TH.
I THINK THEY'RE PLANNING ON TRYING TO DIRECT A LOT OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS THROUGH THE COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS AT THEIR, THEIR REVIEWS.
BUT I'M SURE THERE WILL ALSO BE AN ONLINE OPTION TO SUBMIT COMMENTS.
AND AS ARIS MENTIONED, MAY IS BIKE MONTH AND IT IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORRIDOR OR THE CORRIDOR, THE CORNER, UM,
I BELIEVE THAT'S THE FIRST RIGHT, FOR, IS THAT A, FOR CELEBRATING THAT COUNTYWIDE THROUGH, UM, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE THE, THE USUAL FESTIVITIES ON BIKE TO WORKDAY MAY 16TH.
UM, WE WILL HAVE AN ENERGIZER STATION AGAIN, SO I'LL SEND OUT AN EMAIL, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ABLE AND INTERESTED IN JOINING.
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UH, A PLUG FOR THE FAMILY BIKE LESSONS, WHICH ARE, UH, REC AND PARK, UH, GROUP HELP PARTNERS WITH SAFE ROUTES TO PUT ON.SO THOSE ARE OUR UPCOMING DATES, OR OUR REMAINING DATES I SHOULD SAY ARE APRIL 10TH, MAY 8TH, AND JUNE 5TH.
AND THOSE ARE ALL HELD OVER AT THE, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER PARKING LOT.
UM, AFTER SCHOOL, YEAH, I WOULD ASSUME SO.
AND UPCOMING AGENDA ADDED A BULLET FOR GRANT ACTIVITY BECAUSE THERE ARE SEVERAL UPCOMING DEADLINES WITH, UH, SAFE STREETS FOR ALL AND THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM AND OTHERWISE NO NEW ADDITIONS HERE.
UM, AND THEN I'LL JUST, JUST QUICKLY TO RESPOND TO MARGIE'S QUESTION ABOUT COPELAND STREET.
UM, YES, WE DO HAVE, UH, A REQUEST INTO SCTA THROUGH WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS TO LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
AND SO, UM, UH, WE HAVE THE UPCOMING PROJECT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE PAVING AND REPAVING THE SECTION FROM, UM, WHAT IS IT, EDITH, TO UP OVER TO NORTH MCDOWELL.
AND THEN IN THAT, UH, WE'VE ALSO INCLUDED A REQUEST FOR FUTURE FUNDING FROM SCTA TO, UH, LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT THAT CONNECTION AT COPELAND STREET, AT THE, THE HOLE IN THE FENCE FOR, UM, UH, TO FORMALIZE THAT CONNECTIVITY FROM COPELAND STREET ONTO, UH, THE RIVER TRAIL.
AND THEN TO RESPOND TO ADAM, UH, THAT GATE.
I'VE HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE WITH THAT GATE, HAD TO LIFT A STROLLER OVER IT ONCE.
UH, AND SO YOU REMINDED ME OF THAT.
UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT IS, THAT LAND IS CONTROLLED BY VICTORIA, HOA, BUT I'LL SEE IF ANY, I'LL, I'M SURE THERE'S SOMEONE AT THE CITY WHO HAS A CONTACT AND, AND WE CAN, UH, SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO GET THAT CHANGED TO A BOLLARD OR A COUPLE OF BOLLARDS POTENTIALLY.
THE LEARN TO RIDE CLASSES ARE AT THREE 30 AND THEY COST FIVE.
THE LEARN TO RIDE CLASSES ARE AT THREE 30 AND THEY COST $5
HAD TO YEAH, READ IT IN ALL OF, ALL OF BJORN'S PLUGS.
REMINDED ME ON APRIL 27TH FROM 11 TO THREE AT PRINCE PARK, WE ARE GONNA BE HAVING AN ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION HOSTED BY YOUR TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE RELIEF THERE.
FOLKS FROM, I BELIEVE THE RIVER PARK ARE GONNA BE THERE.
THERE'S GONNA BE FOOD AND MUSIC AND STUFF FOR KIDS.
SO JUST WANNA PUT THAT OUT THERE.
APRIL 27TH, PRINCE PARK, 11 TO THREE, COME CELEBRATE TREES IN PETALUMA.
OKAY, I THINK WITH THAT, WE ARE JOINED AT 8:23 PM THANK YOU.