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[CALL TO ORDER]
GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE JOINT MEETING OF THE PETALUMA PEDESTRIAN IN BICYCLE AND TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR WEDNESDAY.[ROLL CALL]
CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE ROLE MEYER BOND? HERE.[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]
DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE 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, ARE THERE ANY SPEAKER CARDS THAT NEED TO BE BROUGHT UP? IF YOU HAVEN'T BROUGHT THEM UP ALREADY, PLEASE DO SO.
AND CLERK, HAVE WE RECEIVED COMMENTS PRIOR TO THIS MEETING? THERE WAS ONE PUBLIC COMMENT RECEIVED.
UM, I DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARDS HERE, SO WE WILL CLOSE.
TIME WRITING ON CARDS FOR HOW MANY THINGS I WANNA SAY.
UM, OUR GOLDEN SPOKE AWARDS GALA IS COMING UP IN THE BEGINNING OF JUNE, OR WE GIVE AWARDS, UH, FOR THE BE FOR, UM, BIKE ADVOCATES OF THE YEAR FOR THE BEST BIKE PROJECT OF THE YEAR FOR THE BIKE FRIENDLY BUSINESS OF THE YEAR.
AND SO WE ARE STILL, UH, SEEKING NOMINATIONS FOR ALL OF THOSE CATEGORIES.
SO IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE THAT YOU THINK HAS JUST BEEN GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND AS AN ADVOCATE FOR BICYCLING, UM, IF THERE'S ONE OF YOUR PROJECTS HERE IN THE CITY THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN THE LAST YEAR, THAT IS PARTICULARLY EXCELLENT, UM, OR IF THERE'S A BUSINESS THAT YOU HAVE IN MIND OR THAT YOU PATRONIZE OR THAT YOU WORK AT THAT IS REALLY GOOD AT, UM, PROMOTING BICYCLING, UM, PLEASE, YOU CAN EITHER JUST EMAIL DIRECTLY TO ME OR WE DO HAVE A FORM ON OUR WEBSITE@BYSONOMA.ORG.
THANK YOU'LL POST GENERAL PUBLIC AND WE'LL
[PRESENTATIONS]
MOVE TO PRESENTATION.THE FIRST PRESENTATION PROCLAMATION, WHEREAS THE BICYCLE IS A HEALTHY CONVENIENCE, FINANCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FOUND FORM OF TRANSPORTATION AND AN EXCELLENT TOOL FOR RECREATION ENVIRONMENT, LOCAL ATTRACT AND FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND WHEREAS CREATING A BICYCLING FRIENDLY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN SHOWN TO IMPROVE RESIDENTS HEALTH, WELLBEING, AND QUALITY OF LIFE, GROWING THE ECONOMY OF PETALUMA, ATTRACTING TOURISM DOLLARS AND LOCAL BUSINESS SPENDING AND REDUCING POLLUTION, CONGESTION, AND WEAR AND TEAR ON OUR STREETS AND ROADS.
AND WHEREAS THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ROUGHLY TWO THIRDS OF OUR CITY'S ACTIVITY-BASED GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, AND PETALUMA IS COMMITTED TO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030.
AND WHEREAS THE SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION, THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLISTS, THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION AND JURISDICTIONS THROUGHOUT THE BAY AREA, WILL BE PROMOTING BICYCLING DURING THE MONTH OF MAY, 2024.
AND WHEREAS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF MAY, THE RESIDENTS OF PETALUMA AND ITS VISITORS CAN EXPERIENCE THE JOYS OF BICYCLING THROUGH FREE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, TEAM BIKE CHALLENGES AND VIRTUAL EVENTS ORGANIZED BY THESE GROUPS.
AND WHEREAS THESE GROUPS ARE ALSO PROMOTING GREATER PUBLIC AWARENESS OF BICYCLE OPERATION AND SAFETY EDUCATION IN AN EFFORT TO REDUCE COLLISIONS, INJURIES AND FATALITIES AND IMPROVE HEALTH AND SAFETY FOR EVERYONE ON THE ROAD.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT KEVIN MCDONALD, THE MAYOR OF PETALUMA, ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM
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MAY, 2024 AS BIKE MONTH AND MAY 16TH, 2024 AS BIKE TO WORK DAY AND URGE ALL RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS SPECIAL OBSERVANCE AND COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE WILL PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION TO ARIS.THAT PHOTO OFF HERE, DO I GET TO SAY A LITTLE BIT? PLEASE.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVE ABOUT BIKE TO WORKDAY AND BIKE MONTH IS THAT IT'S A GATEWAY.
I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY STORIES I'VE HEARD FROM PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT THEIR INITIATION INTO STARTING TO RIDE A BIKE, THEY HADN'T OCCURRED TO THEM UNTIL SOMEONE AT THEIR OFFICE PUT TOGETHER A TEAM FOR BIKE TO WORKDAY AND THEY GOT HOOKED AND KEPT ON GOING ON.
UM, THIS YEAR'S, THE 30TH YEAR OF BIKE TO WORKDAY IN THE BAY AREA.
UM, IT'S CHANGED OVER THE YEARS, PARTICULARLY COVID SORT OF SHIFTED THINGS A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT IT'S A GREAT EVENT AND PETALUMA HAS BEEN SO INVOLVED EVERY YEAR.
WE'VE ALWAYS HAD MULTIPLE, UM, LOCATIONS, UH, SPONSORED BY THE CITY AND BY OTHER BUSINESSES HERE GOING ON.
AND THERE'S JUST SO MUCH GOING ON DOWN IN HERE IN PETALUMA THAT, UM, WE APPRECIATE YOU AS A PARTNER AND I JUST HOPE TO SEE EVERYBODY OUT THERE ON, UH, BIKE TO WORK DAY ON THE 16TH, THERE'LL BE AT LEAST, LET'S SEE, THERE'S AN ENERGIZER STATION AT THE SMART STATION, I THINK, AND I SHOULD LOOK AT THE MAP.
GO TO THE MAP BY SONOMA, OREGON.
YOU'LL FIND THE MAP THAT TELLS YOU WHERE THEY ALL ARE.
THANK YOU ARISTON TO EVERYONE AT SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
AND NOW WE MOVE TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES.ARE THERE ANY CHANGES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE MADE FOR THE MINUTES FROM APRIL 3RD, 2024? OKAY, THE ME THE MINUTES WILL BE APPROVED AS IS AND NOW WE WILL MOVE
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
TO PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION.UM, CHAIR, I MEAN, I'M SORRY, COMMITTEE MEMBER BOND IS GOING TO RECUSE HERSELF FROM, FROM THIS PORTION.
SO SHE'LL MOVE DOWN AND, AND REJOIN US AFTER, UM, THIS PRESENTATION.
SO NOW WE WILL RECEIVE A PRESENTATION AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK RELATED TO THE DRAFT TRANSPORTATION POLICY FRAMEWORK, A PART OF FOUNDATIONAL WORK ON THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
AND HEATHER HEINZ, YOU WILL BE PRESENTING AND INTRODUCING RON.
PLEASED TO BE HERE THIS EVENING.
WE ARE AT A, A VERY, UM, EXCITING POINT IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE WITH THE RELEASE OF DRAFT POLICY FRAMEWORKS.
UM, SO WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A TAG TEAM ON THIS PRESENTATION, SO I'M GONNA KICK IT OFF AND THEN HAND IT TO RON WHITMORE, WHO IS, UM, OUR LEAD CONSULTANT, UM, ON THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE WITH RAM AND ASSOCIATES.
AND THEN HE IS GONNA HAND IT OVER TO MATT GOYIN WITH FARHAM PEERS, WHO IS GONNA WALK THROUGH, UM, THE REAL SPECIFIC, UM, TRANSPORTATION POLICIES, UM, GOALS AND POLICIES, UM, FOR DISCUSSIONS.
SO, UM, KICKING IT OFF TODAY, WE ARE HERE TO TALK TO BOTH PBA AND TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE ABOUT, UM, THE TRANSPORTATION FRAMEWORK, UM, AND GET YOUR COMMENTS, FEEDBACK.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT HAS, UM, SUBMITTED THEIR, THEIR COMMENT FORM THAT IS VERY HELPFUL.
UM, AND HOPEFULLY THOSE THAT HAVEN'T WILL, UM, AND WE'LL HAVE A NICE DISCUSSION TONIGHT.
SO KICKING IT OFF WITH REALLY WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE GENERAL PLAN.
UM, SO SOME OF YOU, THIS MIGHT FEEL LIKE, WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THIS AGAIN? BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE HEARING IS, UM, PEOPLE NOT, UH, KNOWING ABOUT THE GENERAL PLAN OR KNOWING WHAT THE GENERAL PLAN IS OR WHY THEY SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE GENERAL PLAN.
SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD STARTING POINT WHENEVER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT.
SO REALLY THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PETALUMA TO COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY, UM, TO, UM, GET ALL THIS INPUT SO THAT WE CAN DEVELOP A SHARED VISION FOR HOW WE SEE PETALUMA IN A LONG-TERM VISION.
THE GENERAL PLAN IS A POLICY DOCUMENT, UM, AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA GUIDE THE OTHER ACTIONS THAT THE CITY DOES OVER THE NEXT 20 TO 30 YEARS.
SO IT IS NOT THE SAME AS LET'S SAY OUR ANNUAL BUDGET OR OUR ANNUAL, UM, CIP PROGRAM OR OUR ZONING REGULATIONS, BUT IT'S THAT OVERARCHING BLUEPRINT THAT EVERYTHING
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ELSE WE DO SHOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH SO THAT WE ARE CONTINUALLY CHECKING IN AND SAYING, ARE WE MOVING TOWARDS THAT VISION WE EXPRESSED IN OUR GENERAL PLAN? NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.SO, ALRIGHT, IT'S THIS BIG POLICY DOCUMENT.
WHY SHOULD WE CARE? HOW DOES IT AFFECT, YOU KNOW, EVERY RESIDENT? UM, IN PETALUMA, IT REALLY DOES, IT OUTLINES, UH, HOUSING.
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF HAVING HOUSING OPTIONS, UM, CHOICES FOR PEOPLE IN PETALUMA, REGARDLESS OF THEIR INCOME LEVEL, THEIR FAMILY SIZE, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE HOUSING THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF ALL PETALUMA, UH, JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UM, SPECIFIC TO THE, THE PURVIEW OF THESE TWO BODIES.
HOW WE TRAVEL, HOW WE MOVE AROUND OUR COMMUNITY, UM, HOW WE ARE THINKING ABOUT THOSE DECISIONS IN LIGHT OF GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION AND OUR CLIMATE INITIATIVES.
UM, HOW WE ARE ENSURING WE HAVE OPEN SPACE TO BE ABLE TO BREATHE CLEAN AIR AND TAKE OUR KIDS TO THE PARK.
HOW WE ARE PREPARING FOR FLOODS AND WILDFIRE AND HOW WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, PROTECTING THOSE THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO THE IM THE IMPACTS OF THOSE, UM, OF THOSE ISSUES.
UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY COMMUNITY CHARACTER.
HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE PROTECT WHAT IS JUST SO ESSENTIALLY PETALUMA, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD? SO THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS TO CARE.
HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY IN PETALUMA, ONE OF THESE WILL REALLY RESONATE WITH THEM AND THEY WILL, UM, TAKE INTEREST.
SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION WITH US.
UM, THE PETALUMA'S CURRENT GENERAL PLAN WAS ADOPTED IN 2008.
IT HAD A HORIZON OF 2025, SO WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT.
AND SO WE, UM, DECIDED TO INITIATE THIS GENERAL PLAN UPDATE AND WE DID THAT IN 2020.
WE REALLY STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT IN OUR GOALS AND PRIORITIES DISCUSSIONS TO SAY, HEY, 2025 IS COMING UP, BUT ALSO A LOT HAS CHANGED.
WE ARE DEALING WITH NEW, NEW THINGS THAT WE JUST WEREN'T ISSUES OR WEREN'T, DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME, UM, INPUTS AS 2008.
SO WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT IN 2020.
WE BOUGHT, BROUGHT RAMEY AND ASSOCIATES ON WITH THEIR TEAM OF SUB CONSULTANTS ON IN 2021.
AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
WE ARE LOOKING AT ADOPTION BY THE END OF 2025.
UM, AND I THINK LAST TIME I WAS BEFORE BOUGHT THESE BODIES WAS WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY.
SO THAT IS OUR, UM, GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION STRATEGIES.
AND THAT IS OUT, WE RECENTLY, I GUESS DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, WE'RE AT COUNCIL TALKING ABOUT THAT AND ARE NOW GOING BACK TO UPDATE FOR A FINAL DRAFT FOR ADOPTION OF THAT, OF THAT PLAN AS WELL.
WE KEEP SHOWING THIS, JUST TRYING TO SHOW THE PROGRESS WE ARE MAKING.
UM, OUR GENERAL PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAS BEEN STEADFAST IN WORKING THROUGH THIS PROCESS WITH THE CONSULTANTS, WITH STAFF, WITH THE PUBLIC, REALLY SERVING AS AMBASSADORS OF THIS EFFORT.
UM, SO WE DID A LOT OF DISCOVERY IN THE BEGINNING, WHICH WAS THE EXISTING CONDITION REPORTS.
SO YOU'LL SEE REFERENCE IN THE FRAMEWORKS TO THAT WORK THAT WAS DONE.
THEN THE VISIONING TO SET THOSE, UM, THAT VISION STATEMENT, THOSE GUIDING PRINCIPLES.
UM, AND THAT'S ALSO INCLUDED IN YOUR STAFF REPORT, KIND OF HOW THAT RELATES TO THIS SPECIFIC FRAMEWORK.
UM, POLICY DEVELOPMENT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE FRAMEWORKS ARE DOING IS SETTING FORTH THAT INITIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT.
AND WE ARE ALSO, UH, WELL INTO THE DISCUSSION OF LAND USE ALTERNATIVES AND WE'LL BE LOOKING AT COMING OUT.
THAT'S WHAT SOME OF THESE MAPS BEHIND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT THE COUNCIL WAS, UM, DISCUSSING ON MONDAY NIGHT AS WELL.
AND, UM, MORE ON THAT WILL BE COMING OUT, UM, IN LATE SUMMER FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO RON TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FRAMEWORKS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE FRAMEWORK SPECIFICALLY.
I'M A PRINCIPAL WITH IAN ASSOCIATES AND PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE PETALUMA GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
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WITH YOU HERE TONIGHT.I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE, UM, CITY COMMISSIONS, COMMITTEES AND BOARDS AND THE VOLUN MANY HOURS OF VOLUNTEER WORK THAT THEIR MEMBERS, UH, COMMIT TO SERVICE OF THEIR CITY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
PARTICULARLY EXCITED IN THE CASE OF PETALUMA, WHICH DOES SUCH AN EXCELLENT JOB OF USING ITS VARIOUS ADVISORY BOARDS TO DIG IN TO POLICY AND MAKE THOUGHTFUL, WELL-INFORMED, GROUNDED RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE POLICY MAKERS ABOUT WHAT DIRECTION THE CITY SHOULD TAKE.
UM, SO WE'RE REALLY GLAD THAT AS WE'VE ROLLED OUT THESE PUBLIC DRAFT POLICY FRAMEWORKS, WE HAVE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO MOST OF THE, UM, COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS, AND BOARDS, AND DISCUSS THEM IN DEPTH.
UM, AS HEATHER MENTIONED, I'LL BE SHARING A BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS ARE AND, AND A BIT ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE NOT BEFORE TURNING IT OVER TO MATT FROM FAIR AND PEERS, ONE OF OUR MANY EXCELLENT SUB CONSULTANTS ON OUR TEAM WHO WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY FRAMEWORK.
SO HEATHER SHOWED YOU THE ROADMAP AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS ARE AN IMPORTANT STEP, BUT CERTAINLY NOT THE FINAL STEP IN THE PROCESS OF CONFIRMING THE POLICY THAT WILL BE, WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME ADOPTED INTO THE GENERAL PLAN.
IT'S OUR FIRST ATTEMPT AT GETTING ON PAPER THE GOALS, POLICIES, AND SOME IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS.
AND THE INTENT IS TO HAVE A CONVERSATION THAT THE GOALS AND POLICIES AND REALLY CONFIRM THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, THAT WE HAVE THAT BASIC STRUCTURE AND FOUNDATION OF THE GENERAL PLAN.
UM, AND JUST SO YOU'RE CLEAR WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, GOALS ARE REALLY DESCRIBING THE CITY'S PREFERRED FUTURE.
UM, THE DESIRE, THE DESIRED OUTCOMES IN 20 45, 20 50 POLICIES IN TURN, UM, PROVIDE THE DIRECTION, THE INTENT, UM, THAT IF FULFILLED SHOULD ACHIEVE THE DESIRED OUTCOMES OR GOALS.
AND THEN FINALLY, ACTIONS ARE MORE SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES, PROCEDURES, PROGRAMS OR PROJECTS THAT ARE NEEDED TO, UM, ACHIEVE OR FULFILL THE, THE INTENT OF A POLICY AND ULTIMATELY TO ACHIEVE A GOAL.
I SHOULD ALSO NOTE HERE,
THEY VERY MUCH ARE TECHNICALLY DRIVEN AND REALLY TEXTUALLY BASED FOR THE MOST PART, BECAUSE WE DO REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO LOOK HARD AT THE GOALS AND POLICIES AND HELP US SEE IF WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, HELP US REVISE THEM AND, AND REALLY GET THEM RIGHT.
UM, AS WE PROCEED FROM HERE TO DRAFTING THE GENERAL, THE INITIAL DRAFT OF THE GENERAL PLAN.
THIS IS, THERE'S BEEN MUCH ON THIS SLIDE, BUT THE INTENT IS TO SHOW YOU THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND THAT THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS HAVE MANY, MANY DIFFERENT INPUTS.
UM, AS HEATHER MENTIONED, UM, WE STARTED THE PROJECT PROJECT WITH BOTH EXISTING CONDITIONS AND A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
ALL OF THAT VERY MUCH INFORMED THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS AND IF YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK THEM OVER, REALLY SERVE AS THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS INCLUDING THE VISION PILLARS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT THE GPAC WORKED VERY HARD TO DEVELOP AND THAT WERE AFFIRMED BY CITY COUNCIL EARLY ON.
UM, WE THEN SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME DURING 2022 WORKING WITH STAFF, THE CONSULTANT TEAM AND THE GPAC IN A LONG SERIES OF MEETINGS TO TALK THROUGH OUR INITIAL STRATEGY IDEAS.
ALL OF THAT INPUT BECAME, UH, THE INITIAL ADMINISTRATIVE DRAFT OF THESE POLICY FRAMEWORKS, WHICH THEN WENT THROUGH THOROUGH REVIEW AND QUITE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW BY CITY STAFF IN 2023 AND CONCLUDING EARLIER THIS YEAR TO RESULT IN WHAT YOU HAVE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW.
NOW, THE PUBLIC DRAFT FRAMEWORKS THIS STAGE NOW WHERE WE'RE AT WITH COMMUNITY, UH, REVIEW IS CRITICAL.
IT'S REALLY A CHECK TO SEE DID WE GET IT RIGHT, HAVE WE REALLY REFLECTED, UM, HAVE, ARE WE REALLY GONNA ACHIEVE THE VISION THE CITIES HAS ESTABLISHED? UM, IF WE PURSUE THESE GOALS AND, UH, HEAD IN THE DIRECTION AS PROVIDED BY THE, UH, POLICIES.
ARE THINGS MISSING? HAVE WE NOT GONE FAR ENOUGH? HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR? WE'RE VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO PEOPLE'S CLOSE READS AND SPECIFIC FEEDBACK FROM HERE.
ALL THE COMMUNITY INPUT WILL GO BACK TO THE GENERAL PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WHICH
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WILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AND ONTO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL.WE DO VERY MUCH USE THE CITY COUNCIL AT EACH PHASE OF THE PROJECT TO GET THEIR AFFIRMATION AND CONFIRMATION THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
AND WE USE THAT GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION TO INFORM THE NEXT STEPS.
AND SO WE VERY MUCH ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING BACK TO COUNCIL AFTER PUBLIC REVIEW TO HAVE THEM LET US KNOW WHETHER WE'RE ON OUR TRACK AND, AND WHERE TO CHANGE COURSE AS APPROPRIATE.
THERE'S A LOT OF FRAMEWORKS AND ALL OF THEM HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION.
SOMEONE JUST ASKED ME HOW MANY PAGES TOTAL OF FRAMEWORKS WE HAVE, AND THERE'S 352, I THINK SOMEBODY COUNTED THE NUMBER OF POLICIES AND IT'S OVER 400
UM, AND THEY TOUCH ON A RANGE OF TOPICS.
UM, SHOULD NOTE HERE THAT WE STUCK WITH TOPICS THAT CORRESPONDED WITH HOW WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THE TYPES OF EXPERTISE NEEDED FOR PETALUMA'S GENERAL PLAN, UM, AND VERY MUCH ACCORDING TO WHAT WE KNEW ARE SOME OF THE, UM, PRIORITIES OF THE COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS SOME OF THE STATE REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THAT YOU NEED TO ADDRESS IN A GENERAL PLAN.
THAT BEING SAID, WE DO NOT EXPECT THAT THE GENERAL PLAN WILL BE ORGANIZED THIS WAY NECESSARILY.
UM, SO WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE WITH US AS WE KIND OF STAY IN THESE SILOS FOR THE TIME BEING, RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND CONNECTIONS AMONGST ALL THESE TOPICS.
UM, AND WE DIDN'T ALWAYS, I'M SURE, GET IT RIGHT ABOUT WHERE WE ADDRESSED SUBTOPICS IN ONE ELEMENT WHERE SOMEBODY MAY EXPECT IT TO SEE IT IN ANOTHER.
UM, SO JUST BEAR WITH US AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS PHASE.
THE GENERAL PLAN WILL, UH, LOOK QUITE A DI BIT DIFFERENT.
IN FACT, ONCE WE GO THROUGH THIS PHASE AND HAVE THE LAND USE, UH, PREFERRED LAND USE ALTERNATIVE SELECTED, UM, WE'LL THINK HARD AT THAT POINT, HOW BEST TO ORGANIZE IT IN A WAY THAT IS BOTH ACCESSIBLE AND CLEAR FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, UM, AS WELL AS THE POLICY MAKERS AND CITY STAFF WHO ARE GONNA BE IMPLEMENTING AND USING IT ON A REGULAR BASIS.
UM, IT SHOULD, IF DONE WELL, PRESENT A VERY COMPELLING, HOLISTIC, INTEGRATED STRATEGIC, UM, SENSE OF THE DIRECTION THE CITY IS HEADING AND HOW TO GET THERE.
WE DON'T EXPECT IT, AS I NOTED TO BE ORGANIZED THE SAME WAY NECESSARILY.
WE BY LAW DO NEED TO REQUIRE SOME ELEMENTS AND MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WE'VE MET THE STATE REQUIREMENTS FOR THOSE ELEMENTS.
THAT BEING SAID, WE ARE FREE TO ORGANIZE IT AS IT, UH, SEEMS APPROPRIATE FOR THE CITY.
UM, AND WE WOULD EXPECT THAT YES, WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE SOME ELEMENTS OR CHAPTERS, BUT ALSO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN THEMES THAT RUN THROUGH THE ENTIRE PLAN AND, AND WHERE TO SEE THOSE THEMES IN EACH OF THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THAT ALL BE VERY CRYSTAL CLEAR.
WE ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THE PLAN IS, IS VERY IMPLEMENTABLE.
AND SO, UM, WE'LL MAKE IT CLEAR ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, UM, WHERE THERE ARE SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT CO THAT FALL WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF DIFFERENT CITY DEPARTMENTS.
UH, THE CITY WAS VERY WISE IN, UM, REQUESTING BOTH A WRITTEN DOCUMENT AND AN ONLINE E OR DIGITAL PLAN.
THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE IT ALLOWS US TO BE CREATIVE ABOUT HOW TO ORGANIZE THE GP AND HOW TO PROVIDE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT AVENUES THROUGH WHICH TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO DIFFERENT TOPICS OR STRATEGIES THAT PEOPLE MAY HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN.
IT'LL ALSO, AGAIN, BE VERY IMPLEMENTATION ORIENTED.
WE KNOW THAT THESE, IN THIS POLICY FRAMEWORKS, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO BEGIN IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC METRICS OR INDICATORS, UM, THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE GENERAL PLAN.
IN ADDITION, THERE'LL BE A VERY CLEAR ACTION MATRIX, UM, DESIGNED TO MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, WHO'S IN CHARGE, WHAT PRIORITY IS IT RELATIVE TO EVERYTHING ELSE, AND BY WHEN SHOULD IT BE DONE.
AGAIN, I, UH, AS HEATHER NOTED, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THAT SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED, UM, COMMENTS.
UM, THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR USING THE FORM THAT REALLY FACILITATE OUR TEAM'S ABILITY TO, UM, INTEGRATE AND MAKE GOOD USE OF YOUR INPUT.
IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, UM, PLEASE DO SO.
UM, WE HAVE THESE BACKED BY JUNE 7TH AT THE LATEST.
I SHOULD NOTE ALSO, UM, THERE ARE MANY MORE OF THESE SORTS OF MEETINGS COMING UP.
ONE TOMORROW NIGHT, SEVERAL TWO NEXT WEEK, AND THEN ANOTHER ONE OR THREE NEXT WEEK I BELIEVE, AND THEN A FEW MORE COMING UP IN, UH, UH, FUTURE WEEKS JUST FYI.
THE, UM, PUBLIC ART MEETING MAY BE MOVED TO MAY 30TH, SO STAY TUNED FOR EMAIL NEWS ABOUT THAT.
RECOGNIZE THAT MANY PEOPLE MAY BE INTERESTED
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IN DIFFERENT TOPICS.OBVIOUSLY, YOU'RE WELCOME TO ATTEND SOME OF THESE OTHER COMMITTEE COMMISSION OR BOARD MEETINGS.
WE ALSO WOULD HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU AND PLEASE BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND DISTRIBUTE THE NEWS THROUGH YOUR NETWORKS TO JOIN US NEXT A WEEK FROM SATURDAY AT THE GENERAL PLAN FEST AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.
IT'S AN OPEN HOUSE FROM NINE TO TWO.
UM, REALLY SHOULD BE A GREAT FUN EVENT.
GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO TALK TO THE PEOPLE BEHIND THESE FRAMEWORKS, PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COMMENT, UM, AND GET A AND A, A VISUAL SENSE OF HOW, HOW ALL THESE, UH, CONNECT IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
UH, UM, ALSO, FOLKS, YOU YOURSELVES INCLUDED AND OTHERS THROUGH THE, UM, PLAN, UH, WEBSITE CAN ALSO PROVIDE GOAL AND POLICY AND OR MORE GENERAL FEEDBACK ON ANY OF THE FRAMEWORKS.
UM, AND THERE'S A QR CODE TO THE SPECIFIC WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN DO THAT.
OH, AND HERE'S THE SLIDE ABOUT THE, THE PLAN FEST.
SO YEAH, AGAIN, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, UM, PLAN TO, TO JOIN WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT FOR YOU THAT DAY.
AGAIN, IT'S AN OPEN HOUSE FORMAT, UM, AND THERE'LL BE FOOD PRIZES, BRING THE KIDS, THERE'LL BE KIDS ACTIVITIES.
AT THIS POINT, I AM GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MATT GOYIN FROM FARHAM PIERS, WHO WILL TALK YOU QUICKLY THROUGH THE CORE ELEMENTS OF THE TRANSPORTATION FRAMEWORK.
ONCE AGAIN, I'M MATT GOYIN WITH FARHAM PEERS, AND SO WE'RE A SUB-CONSULTANT TO RAMEY.
WE'VE BEEN HELPING THE CITY DEVELOP THIS, UH, THIS, UH, SECTION, THE TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY SECTION.
UM, I JUST LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT THERE'S JUST BEEN SO, SO MUCH GREAT FEEDBACK, YOU KNOW, OVER THE, AND INPUT OVER THE COURSE OF THIS ENTIRE KIND OF GENERAL PLAN PROCESS, YOU KNOW, INCLUDING THE LAST TIME THAT WE CAME BEFORE YOU ALL.
UM, AND SO THIS IS REALLY TRYING TO BE A REFLECTION OF CAPTURING THAT AND HEARING THAT.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR FEEDBACK ON WHAT'S, WHAT'S VALUABLE AS A PART OF THIS EFFORT, BECAUSE WE REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS THE MOST VALUABLE FOR YOU ALL AND IN A, YOU KNOW, CONCISE AND CLEAR MANNER.
UM, SO JUST A QUICK RECAP OF EXISTING CONDITIONS.
NONE OF THIS IS, IS GONNA BE NEW FOR MOST OF YOU, BUT YOU KNOW, AT PETALUMA, OF COURSE, IS A VERY AUTOMOBILE ORIENTED CITY RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF THE ROADWAY NETWORK AND LAYOUT AND HOW PEOPLE TRAVEL AROUND.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES IN PETALUMA FOR HELPING PEOPLE, PROVIDING PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRAVEL BY OTHER MODES, PARTICULARLY THOSE SHORT TRIPS THAT ARE MA YOU KNOW, TRIPS THAT ARE LESS THAN TWO MILES THAT MAKE UP ONE THIRD OF ALL THE TRIPS.
UM, CH REDUCING VEHICLE TRAVEL AND PROVIDING MORE PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET AROUND OTHER WAYS IS CRITICAL FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
AND THAT'S TO DO, THAT'S REALLY GONNA BE REALLY TACKLING SOME OF THESE KEY CHALLENGES, LIKE REDUCING THE BARRIERS THAT, UM, UH, GET IN THE WAY OF CROSS DOWN TRAVEL AND, UM, KIND OF THE HIGH STRESS, YOU KNOW, SOME UNSAFE ROADWAYS THAT JUST MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE TO GET AROUND BY WALKING, BIKING OR, OR, UH, TRANSIT.
UM, THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF JUST KIND OF INFLUX AND OUTFLUX OF, OF PEOPLE EACH DAY DUE TO EMPLOYEES AND JUST, AND SO TAKING, MAKING SURE THAT THIS GENERAL PLAN SPEAKS TO THAT AND PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES, UM, TO ADDRESS SOME OF THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, OVERALL THIS IS REALLY ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE CHANGE IN PRIORITIES, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, TRADITIONAL TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING APPROACH, UM, HAS, THAT HAS GUIDED, YOU KNOW, THE CITY IN MANY CITIES HAS BEEN ABOUT AUTOMOBILE THROUGHPUT FOR MANY DECADES.
AND REALLY THE, THE SHIFT AROUND NOW IS TO NOT ABOUT HOW FAR AND HOW FAST YOU CAN GO, BUT TO WHAT IS ACCESSIBLE AND HOW SAFE ARE YOUR ROADWAYS.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF THAT FILTER THROUGHOUT THE, UH, UM, THE FRAMEWORK.
SO JUST A QUICK ALL I'M SURE ALL OF YOU KNOW, YOUR TRANSIT NETWORK, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, PETALUMA TRANSIT, YOUR LOCAL PROVIDER.
SO COULD YOU MOVE CLOSER TO THE MIC BECAUSE SURE.
READING IN AND OUT IN OUR MARKET HERE.
WE HAVE A SHORT CORD HERE, SO I'M GONNA SHIFT OVER, GET CLOSE TO HEATHER TURN, FACE ME IN INTELLECTUAL THERE THAT MM-HMM, YEAH, LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN'T HEAR ME.
UM, WE HAVE PETALUMA TRANSIT AS WELL AS MANY REGIONAL TRANSIT PROVIDERS.
UM, SO THERE'S REALLY THE, THIS, THIS GENERAL PLAN SEEKS TO BOTH WORK WITH YOUR LOCAL, YOU KNOW, PETALUMA TRANSIT, AS WELL AS MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S, UH, SEAMLESS INTERMODAL CONNECTIVITY TO ALL THE REGIONAL PROVIDERS THAT, UM, UH, SERVE PETALUMA.
UM, AND RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S SOME REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING TRANSIT, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE CENTER OF TOWN WHERE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE FUTURE LAND, LAND USE GROWTH IS GOING TO GO.
UH, THE, WHEN IT COMES TO THE EXISTING BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN NETWORK, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE'S A LOT OF BARRIERS, UM, TO, UH, CROSS TOWN TRAVEL, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR PEOPLE WALKING AND BIKING.
THERE ARE, UH, CHALLENGES WITH JUST SAFETY AS WELL AS JUST THE FEELING OF COMFORT, UM, AND STRESS ON THE ROADWAYS.
AND SO, UM, SOME OF THOSE EXISTING, EXISTING BARRIERS ARE THINGS LIKE THE PETALUMA RIVER
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1 0 1 SMART TRACKS, UM, AND THEN SOME OF THE EXISTING BICYCLE FACILITIES ARE REALLY JUST LOCATED ON, UH, ROADWAYS WITH HIGH VEHICLE SPEEDS AND, AND, AND TRAFFIC VOLUMES THAT MAKE IT A HIGHER STRESS.SO THE FOUNDATIONS THAT WE STARTED WITH, UM, FROM THE ORIGINAL GENERAL PLAN, UH, UH, PROCESS INCLUDE REALLY THE VISION AS WELL AS THESE KEY PILLARS THAT ARE LISTED HERE.
UM, THE TRANSPORTATION SECTION SHOULD REALLY ADDRESS CLIMATE, THE CLIMATE ACTION, RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY GOALS FOR THE CITY, UM, AS WELL AS THE EQUITY, JUSTICE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES, JUST RECOGNIZING THAT THE CITY NEEDS TO BE ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL PEOPLE, ALL AGES AND ALL ABILITIES.
AND HERE ARE SOME OF THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT WE PULLED OUT OF THE, THE LONG LIST OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT REALLY APPLIED MOST, UH, UH, SPECIFICALLY TO TRANSPORTATION.
THAT INCLUDES, UH, TRANSPORTATION OF COURSE HAS A CRITICAL ROLE TO CARBON NEUTRALITY, AS WE'VE HEARD, UM, MANY TIMES.
AND IT, IT CAN PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN, UH, PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, HELPING PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY CONNECT THE EAST AND WEST SIDES OF THE CITY, MAKING A MORE AFFORDABLE, WELCOMING, ACCESSIBLE AND FAMILY FRIENDLY CITY.
UM, SUPPORTING OUR DOWNTOWN, PRIORITIZING THE, YOU KNOW, MOVEMENT BY WALKING, BIKING, TRANSIT, OTHER TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES OVER AUTOMOBILES, OF COURSE IS THAT'S FOUNDATIONAL TO WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, AND THEN IT ALSO TIES INTO OUR, YOU KNOW, THE, IN THE DEVELOPMENT, THE LAND USE PLANNING, UH, PRINCIPLES AS WELL.
SO THE WAY THAT THE SECTION IS ORGANIZED, AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THOSE, YOU KNOW, WHO'VE ALREADY DONE A DEEP REVIEW, BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA GO INTO EVERY SINGLE POLICY AND ACTION, YOU KNOW, IN, IN MY PRESENTATION HERE.
BUT JUST STARTING WITH THE OVERALL ROADMAP OF HOW, HOW THIS IS STRUCTURED, THIS IS STRUCTURED AROUND VALUES BASED, UM, REALLY TRYING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE, THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF, OF, UH, HOW PEOPLE CENTERED MOBILITY CAN WORK WITHIN THE CITY OF, UH, PETALUMA.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUS ITERATIONS OF THE GENERAL PLAN, THE CURRENT GENERAL PLAN ARE BASED AROUND MODAL PRIORITIES, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A BICYCLE SECTION, UH, PEDESTRIAN SECTION.
AND THE CHALLENGE WITH THAT, OF COURSE, IS THAT WE ALL TRAVEL BY MANY DIFFERENT MODES, AND WE ALL, WE ARE NOT DEFINED, YOU KNOW, BY THE, THE WAY THAT WE TRAVEL.
AND SO THIS RESTRUCTURING IS MEANT TO STRUCTURE AROUND KIND OF THE, EACH, EACH OF THE KEY VALUES THAT GOES INTO OUR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.
UM, THE FIRST VAL, THE FIRST GOAL IS REALLY ABOUT THINKING ABOUT HOW TO USE THE 20% OF PETALUMA'S LANDMASS THAT MAKES UP THE EXISTING ROADWAY NETWORK.
UM, AND DEFINING THE, THE MODAL PRIORITIES AND HOW THOSE STREETS SHOULD BE DESIGNED.
THE SECOND PRIORITY IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT THE CLIMATE AND EMERGENCY RESOLUTION FILTERS DOWN INTO THE WAY THAT THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK IS PLANNED GOING FORWARD.
UM, GOAL THREE IS ABOUT THAT CONCEPT OF ACCESS.
HOW MANY PLACES CAN YOU EASILY GET TO WITHIN, YOU KNOW, WHERE LIVING YOUR DAILY LIFE, ACCESS TO JOBS, ACCESS TO PARKS, SCHOOLS OPPORTUNITY, AND MAKING SURE THAT'S EQUITABLE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
REALLY, THAT'S KIND OF THE SHIFT FROM WHAT, WHAT, WHAT THE KIND OF PAST PARADIGM WAS, WHICH WAS HOW FAR AND FAST CAN WE GET, YOU KNOW, IN A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME.
UM, AND THEN, UH, UH, A KIND OF PARALLEL TO ACCESSIBILITY IS SAFE AND HEALTHY MOBILITY.
SO IF WE'RE KIND OF, INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THAT, HOW MANY PLACES CAN WE GO? CAN WE DO IT SAFELY? IS IT, IS IT, UH, SUPPORT HEALTHY, HEALTHY TRAVEL? UM, IS THAT COMPLIMENTARY? UH, SAFE SYSTEMS AND VISION, ZERO STYLE STYLE PLANNING.
UH, THE NEXT GOAL IS REALLY ABOUT, UH, KIND OF PRACTICALLY HOW DO WE INTEGRATE LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING? HOW DO WE SET A VISION FOR, FOR DOING THAT? UM, AND, UH, AND THEN THE FINAL GOAL IS ABOUT JUST HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE DO THIS IN A TIMELY AND EFFICIENT MANNER TO, TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS, THIS, UH, FRAMEWORK.
SO I'LL GO THROUGH EACH OF THESE JUST WITH, UH, SOME QUICK HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT, WHAT THEY DO INCLUDE.
UM, I'M SURE YOU'VE READ IT ALREADY, BUT, UM, SO STARTING WITH THIS, THE PETALUMA'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, REMAN REIMAGINED, THIS IS REALLY ABOUT SETTING MODAL PRIORITIES, MAKING, UH, SURE THAT WE ARE GOING TO, THAT THE CITY IS GOING TO, UM, YOU KNOW, DESIGN COMPLETE STREETS GOING FORWARD AND BUILDING IN GREEN STREET STANDARDS.
AND THAT INCLUDES THINGS LIKE HOW FIGURING OUT HOW TO INCORPORATE MORE TREES AND MORE, UM, YOU KNOW, BIOSWELLS, ALL THAT TYPE OF STUFF WITHIN THE, THE STREET STANDARDS.
AND, AND STREET STANDARDS ARE A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF IMPLEMENTATION DOCUMENT THAT COMES OUT OF THIS VISIONARY DOCUMENT WHERE THIS SETS THE DIRECTION AND THEN FUTURE EFFORTS DIG INTO THE DETAILS TO REALLY FIGURE OUT HOW, HOW THIS WORKS, YOU KNOW, ON EACH STREET THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UM, AND THEN ALSO THERE'S REALLY JUST REIMAGINING HOW, HOW YOU ACCESS THE PETALUMA RIVER, BOTH TO THE, TO THE RIVER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT, AS WELL AS ALONG THE RIVER AS WELL.
THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION, THIS IS REALLY FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE THAT THE CITY PRIORITIZES LOW CARBON TRAVEL AND HAS A VARIETY OF
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POLICIES AND ACTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, UH, ENABLING THAT.UM, FULFILLING THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY IS THERE'S, UH, YOU KNOW, A FEW ACTIONS IN HERE, BUT THERE'S A MUCH BROADER SET THAT ARE WITHIN THE CARBON, THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHERE THERE'S ALREADY AN IMPLEMENTATION DOCUMENT THAT'S OUT AS DRAFT, AND SO WE'D APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK ON HOW MUCH DETAIL GOES INTO THE GENERAL PLAN VERSUS, UM, JUST LETTING THE, THE BLUEPRINT SPEAK FOR ITSELF.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, MAKING SURE THAT ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT LAND USE DEVELOPMENT THAT COMES IN IS, IS ALIGNS WITH THE CLIENT GOAL.
UH, THE CLIMATE GOALS FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY.
UM, THE EQUITABLE ACCESS FOR ALL GOAL INCLUDES, UH, SEVERAL TIERS ABOUT JUST MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET AROUND THE CITY AND GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO, AS WELL AS CONNECT TO THE REGION.
AND SO WE WANNA START, YOU KNOW, EQUITABLE IS FIRST BECAUSE THIS IS, YOU KNOW, REALLY RELATES TO THAT VISION AND THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND MAKING SURE THAT ACCESSIBILITY THROUGHOUT THE CITY IS EQUITABLE.
AND, UM, AND REALLY BUILDING A FRAMEWORK THAT MAKES SURE THAT EVERYONE IS, THAT'S INCLUSIVE FOR AGES, ABILITIES, DE YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC LOOPS, PEOPLE WHO DON'T OWN CARS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ALL THE, THE RANGES OF MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.
TRANSPORTATION IS NOT A LIMIT TO OPPORTUNITY WITHIN PETALUMA.
UM, THE SEAMLESS MOBIL MULTIMODAL CONNECTIONS IS REALLY ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE, YOU'RE ABLE TO CONNECT TO REGIONAL TRANSIT SERVICES, UH, WHILE CONNECTING EAST AND WEST.
PETALUMA IS JUST ABOUT CONNECTING WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE, REALLY THE TWO, TWO SIDES OF THE CITY THAT IS SO IMPORTANT, UM, TO THE CITY.
AND THEN YOUR NEXT, YOUR FINAL TWO POLICIES THERE ARE ABOUT IMPLEMENTING YOUR A TP AND THE VISION, WHICH YOU ALL ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH, UM, CREATING THAT LOW STRESS WALKING AND BICYCLING NETWORK AND INVESTING IN PUBLIC TRANSIT TO REALLY SUPPORT IN WAYS THAT CAN SUPPORT ALL THE OTHER GOALS.
UH, NOW SHIFTING FROM THE KIND OF ACCESSIBILITY, HOW DO YOU GET TO WHERE YOU NEED TO GO, UM, TO THE SAFETY AND HEALTHY AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S YOU'RE SAFE WHILE DOING IT? UM, THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH IS ONE THAT IS ACTUALLY REQUIRED TO BE INCORPORATED IN ALL GENERAL PLANS GOING FORWARD, BUT NOT UNTIL 2025.
SO PETALUMA IS, IS GONNA, IS WILL HOPEFULLY BE ONE OF THE FIRST, UM, TO REALLY INCORPORATE THIS INTO THE, UM, INTO THE GENERAL PLAN.
AND THIS WILL GUIDE ROADWAY DESIGN OR, YOU KNOW, THE SYSTEM THAT IT IS FOR GETTING AROUND, UM, THE CITY AND REALLY MAKING SURE THAT, UH, VULNERABLE USERS SUCH AS SCHOOLS AND PARK PLACES, NEAR PARKS OR, YOU KNOW, SENIOR CENTERS ARE REALLY PRIORITIZED FOR ROADWAY SAFETY.
UH, MAKING SURE THAT, UM, PLACES WHERE THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE, ARE PRIORITIZED AS WELL, THE INTERMODAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS.
AND, UM, BUT MAKING SURE THAT EVACUATIONS ALL THIS IS BALANCED WITH EVACUATION NEEDS, UM, FOR THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY THERE'S A ITEM ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT, UH, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IS IMPARTIAL GOING INTO THE FUTURE.
UH, INTEGRATING LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IS, UH, YOU KNOW, REALLY CRITICAL TO, TO THE CLIMATE PLANNING GOALS.
BUT ALSO REALLY YOU, UH, THIS SETS OUT THE IDEAS OF HOW THE CITY WILL BE GOING FORWARD IN TERMS OF UPDATING BUILDING CODES AND LAND USE STANDARDS TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, LOW CARBON TRAVEL IS PRIORITIZED WHEN, WHEN NEW DEVELOPMENT, UH, LAND USE CHANGES COME IN.
UM, THAT MEANS, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS, YOU KNOW, GREAT SIDEWALKS AND IS CONNECTED TO BIKEWAYS AND HAS TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT MEASURES TO PROVIDE THE EDUCATION OR, OR TRANSIT, YOU KNOW, PASS SUBSIDY TYPE, YOU KNOW, JUST ENGAGEMENT WITH, WITH NEW RESIDENTS AND EXISTING RESIDENTS TO HELP THEM GET AROUND.
THIS ALSO COVERS THE PARKING POLICIES AND ALIGNING PARKING POLICIES WITH CLIMATE GOALS, UM, AS WELL AS MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET THE GOODS AND GOODS THAT THEY NEED THROUGH SUPPORTING LOCAL FREIGHT.
AND OUR FINAL GOAL IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THIS IS DONE IN A TIMELY AND EFFICIENT MANNER.
UM, IT INVOLVES, YOU KNOW, COLLECTING THE RIGHT, MAKING SURE THAT THE MOBILITY PRIORITIES ARE PRIORITIZED AND IMPLEMENTED IN ALL DECISIONS THAT OUR, YOU KNOW, THE CITY MAKES, UM, COLLECTING THE RIGHT DATA TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS, UH, THAT THE, THE CITY KNOWS HOW WELL IT'S DOING IN TRACKING THROUGH ALL THOSE GOALS, UH, PREVIOUSLY, UM, MAKING SURE THAT RESIDENTS ARE ENGAGED SO THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING KIND OF LOW COST, NEAR TERM, YOU KNOW, NEEDED SOLUTIONS.
IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NEEDS OF THE KIND OF LOCAL EXPERTS IN, IN THEIR, IN THEIR COMMUNITIES AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT THE CITY IS, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO LOOK FOR CREATIVE FUNDING STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AS WELL.
SO WITH THAT, THAT WAS A, A QUICK OVERVIEW.
UM, AND I LOOK F YEAH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.
SO AT THIS POINT WE WILL, UM, ASK THE COMMITTEES AND WE'LL START WITH P BACK TO SEE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CLARIFYING QUESTIONS FOR STAFF BEFORE WE OPEN IT FOR DISCUSSION.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, CAN I START WITH YOU, PLEASE?
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I HAVE NO QUESTION.SO, UM, MADAM CHAIR IF I MAY, HELLO? JARED HALL TRANSIT MANAGER.
UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE HAVING SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES TONIGHT WITH THE MIC, SO I THINK THE ONES THAT ARE WORKING, WE MAY HAVE TO PLAY PAST THE MICROPHONE A BIT.
UM, SO I'M HAPPY TO HELP FACILITATE THAT.
I'LL GRAB ONE RIGHT NOW 'CAUSE I'M NOT SURE IF YOUR MIC IS WORKING.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, I THINK SOMEBODY, I THINK SOMEBODY CAN USE MINE TOO FOR RIGHT NOW.
WHY DON'T I UNDERSTAND THERE'LL BE MORE OPPORTUNITY TO GET, UH, MORE SPECIFIC IN KIND OF WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS, I GUESS KIND OF THE IMPLEMENTATION ELEMENT.
UM, BUT I'M ALSO CURIOUS IF THERE'S ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY NOW JUST TO ADD MORE SPECIFICITY IN THE ACTUAL, UM, IN THE ACTUAL ACTIONS, UM, JUST TO TRY TO KIND OF BUFF THEM UP A LITTLE BIT TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE DIRECTION TO WHAT THE ACTION COULD BE.
SO JUST KIND OF A QUESTION AROUND WHEN CAN WE, IS THAT AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO GIVE FEEDBACK AS WELL, JUST TO SAY, CAN THESE POLICIES, UM, OR CAN THESE ACTIONS BE IMPROVED IN THEIR IMPLEMENTATION LANGUAGE TO BEGIN WITH? I JUST SEEING IF THAT MADE SENSE OR NOT.
RON, CAN YOU HEAR Y UH, I, YEAH, I CAN, I CAN RESPOND.
IT SOUNDS LIKE, LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE A MIC ISSUE.
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A MIC ISSUE.
UM, NORMALLY POLICY FRAMEWORKS ARE FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON GOALS AND POLICIES, BUT PETALUMA BEING PETALUMA, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE FELT THE NEED TO BEGIN IDENTIFYING IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS.
UM, THEY WEREN'T OUR FOCUSED, BUT WE, BUT AS WE THEN TALKED THROUGH ISSUES, WE BEGAN TO IDENTIFY MORE AND MORE IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS.
SO IT'S NOT FINISHED, BUT CERTAINLY WE WELCOME SUGGESTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL ACTIONS.
WE DIDN'T SEE THIS INITIAL LIST AS COMPREHENSIVE, SO WE VERY MUCH WELCOME ADDITIONAL IDEAS AND WE'LL AGAIN, CONTINUE TO FLESH THEM OUT AS WE CONFIRM AND REFINE THE GOALS AND POLICIES.
AND THE ADMIN DRAFT OR THE PUBLIC DRAFT OR THE GENERAL PLAN SHOULD HAVE A COMPLETE SET OF ACTIONS.
YOU'LL HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY THEN TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT ALL THE IMPLE IMPLEMENTATIONS ACTIONS INCLUDED THAT ARE NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS.
I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS EITHER.
WE'VE BEEN DEALING AS A COMMITTEE, WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH, UM, THIS ISSUE FOR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS, SO I FEEL OKAY WITH BEING REASONABLY VERSED ON THIS.
UM, I, I JUST HAVE, IS THIS NOT WORKING EITHER? OKAY.
UM, I JUST HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW COLLECTING THE FEEDBACK, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THIS WOULD BE FOR DISCUSSION, BUT THERE, COULD YOU GIMME SOME BACKGROUND ON THE FIVE, LIKE RANKING YOUR TOP FIVE, UM, OR WHY THAT'S THE WAY YOU WOULD LIKE TO COLLECT FEEDBACK? EMAIL FORM ON THE FORM? YEAH, GO FOR IT, RON
UM, WELL ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL BE DOING IN THE INITIAL DRAFTS OF THE GENERAL PLAN WILL BE IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES.
SO WE THOUGHT IT WAS A USEFUL OPPORTUNITY TO GET AT PEOPLE'S INITIAL IMPRESSIONS.
UM, AND IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO FORCE PEOPLE TO PRIORITIZE BY GIVING THEM A LIMITATION.
UM, THAT BEING SAID, WE SUSPECTED THE BULK OF THE COMMENTS WOULD COME ON THE, IN THE NEXT SECTION, THE QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS.
UM, UM, SO WE REALLY WANNA HEAR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY.
BUT YES, IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SEE IF WE GET PEOPLE TO, TO, TO NARROW DOWN THEIR TOP CHOICES.
UM, 'CAUSE WE WOULD LIKE TO REFLECT PRIORITIZATION IN THE, IN THE DRAFT GENERAL PLAN ITSELF.
THANK YOU THAT, THAT'S I GUESS WHAT I WAS ASSUMING.
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EXERCISE AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO LIKE SUBSUME THE OTHER ACTIONS IN OTHER GOALS.AND, UM, THAT WAS JUST AN INTERESTING TAKEAWAY.
UH, MS. ABRAMS, CAN WE START WITH YOU CLEAR? I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, I'M NOT COMPLETELY CLEAR ON WHAT THE APPROPRIATE QUESTIONS ARE AT THIS TIME.
WHAT, AS OPPOSED TO WHEN WE'RE GIVING COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, SHOULD BE THINGS THAT YOU ARE NOT SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION ON WHICH TO COMMENT EFFECTIVELY QUITE YET, IF THAT HELP.
OKAY, THEN I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION.
MS. COLE ROSS, YOU COULD PASS THE MIC TO HER.
UM, THE PLAN TALKS ABOUT, UH, TWO MILES BEING A REASONABLE WALKING AND BIKING DISTANCE.
AND IS THAT TWO MILES THERE AND BACK, OR TWO MILES? ONE WAY? I THINK, I THINK THAT'S, UH, PART OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS SECTION, WHICH IS TRYING TO LOOK AT WHICH, UM, WHAT TRIPS MAY BE EASY FOR PEOPLE TO SHIFT TO OTHER MODES SUCH AS BICYCLING, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO THAT WOULD BE A, A ONE WAY, A ONE-WAY TRIP.
IS IT OKAY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SKE, ANY QUESTIONS? ONE, I THINK, CAN YOU HEAR ME ON, AM I MIC WORKING? I THINK SO.
UM, IN TERMS OF, UH, FREIGHT ASSETS, WHICH WOULD BE, UH, UNDER, UH, POLICY 5.5, UM, I, I JUST WONDER, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, HOW MUCH OF AN ASSET THESE ITEMS ARE? I, WHEN I WAS ON THE AIRPORT COMMISSION, I BELIEVE THE ONLY FREIGHT COMING WAS, UH, VIA UPS AND IT WASN'T A VERY, YOU KNOW, LARGE PERCENTAGE OF OUR, UH, OF OUR, UH, GDP OR WHATEVER.
UM, AND I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WERE ANY STATS TO SUPPORT THAT IN TERMS OF, UH, LISTING IT EVEN.
UH, AND THE MARINA, I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY FREIGHT TRAVELING THROUGH THE MARINA, BUT I COULD BE WRONG.
I DON'T KNOW THAT, UH, UH, CAN ANYONE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT? MR. GOEN, I ASSUME THAT'S ADDRESSED TO YOU.
YEAH, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THAT SORT OF INFORMATION.
I WONDER IF ANY OF THE CITY STAFF OF THAT ABOUT HOW MUCH FREIGHT WE THAT COME IN AND OUT.
I I DO NOT HAVE THAT OFF THE TOP, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO OFFER OBSERVATION.
UH, LIVING OVER BY THE, THE BUSINESS PARK THERE, THERE'S REALLY QUITE A BIT OF FREIGHT MOVING OVER THERE, AND I THINK AS A COMMUNITY AND WE, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANNA ENCOURAGE ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, IT'S, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP THAT IN CONSIDERATION.
BUT YEAH, THERE'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF TRUCK MOVEMENT OVER THERE AT YOU'RE SAYING IN THE BUSINESS PARK? YEAH.
WELL, I WAS JUST CONCERNED THAT, UH, THE, WHEN IT TALKED ABOUT FREIGHT ASSETS, IT, IT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE AIRPORT AND THE MARINA AND NOT TRUCKS.
UM, OH, THAT'S WHAT I, YOU KNOW, WHERE I WAS ASKING ABOUT WHERE THE EMPHASIS ON, ON AIRPORT MARINA AND, AND I, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE'S A, A LOT OF POTENTIAL TO INCREASE THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE VERY APPROPRIATE.
BUT I UNDERSTAND IF NO ONE, PERHAPS THAT'S SOMETHING THE TEAM CAN DO SOME RESEARCH INTO.
I, I JUST DUG UP A EMAIL THAT WE GOT FROM DAN COHEN WITH THE CITY, UM, THE AIRPORT.
AND SO THEY, THEY PROVIDED, YEAH, DATA ON, ON AIRPORT, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, AROUND FOUR, FOUR TO 500 LANDINGS A YEAR WITH, WITH FREIGHT.
I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, REALLY HOW, HOW THAT WOULD INFORM ANY DECISIONS YOU HAVE TO MAKE.
YEAH, I, I, YEAH, I THINK THE, THE LANDINGS FOR UPS ARE ONE A, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE LESS THAN ONE A DAY, FIVE OR SIX DAYS A WEEK.
AND, AND THE NUMBERS ARE NOT MASSIVE, BUT I, I'M JUST WONDERING WHETHER THERE WAS SOMETHING I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT WAY.
AND IF I MAY, MR. CHAIR, I KNOW THAT SMART, OF COURSE, HAS GOOD TABS ON THE FREIGHT TRAFFIC, ON THE SMART RAIL SIDE OF THINGS AT LEAST.
SO FOR RAIL FREIGHT, THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD SOURCE FOR THAT DATA.
YEAH, I WOULD GUESS THAT'S MORE RIGHT NOW IT IS JUST THAT THOSE THINGS WEREN'T LISTED, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF FREIGHT ASSETS.
COUNCIL MEMBER POQUE? NO, THAT'S ALL.
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MR. QUINT, UH, NO QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.THERE ARE A COUPLE OF, UH, ITEMS THAT, UM, REFERENCE NETWORKS AND, AND MAPS THAT I DIDN'T SEE, UH, INCLUDED IN THE PLAN.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT I ASSUME WAS PART OF THE, UH, EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT? IS THAT CORRECT? DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC CITATION? SURE, SURE.
UM, SO YOU, UH, HIGH INJURY NETWORKS, UM, TRANSIT HUBS AND NODES, UH, YOU TALK ABOUT, UM, HIGH STRESS NETWORKS.
UM, THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT I'M SURE YOU HAVE MAPPED SOMEWHERE.
I JUST DIDN'T, UH, SEE THEM REFERENCE IN THE DOCUMENT.
UM, EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT, I, UH, THIS, THIS POLICY DOCUMENT HAS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT, BUT ALL THOSE DETAILS ARE GENERALLY IN, IN THERE.
THERE'S LIKE HIGH ENTRY NETWORK, FOR EXAMPLE.
UM, SOME OF THIS, LIKE A LOW STRESS NETWORK IS, IS FROM THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
UM, AND SO THAT'S, UH, UH, WAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, YOU KNOW, SINCE, SINCE A LOT OF THIS WAS WRAPPED UP.
UM, BUT THAT'S AVAILABLE AS WELL.
I THINK IT'S PROBABLY ADDRESSED MOSTLY TO MR. WHITMORE.
SO MANY OF THESE DOCUMENTS TALK ABOUT CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030.
UH, YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD ME MAKE COMMENTS PREVIOUSLY THAT A LOT OF THE RESOURCES REQUIRED TO GET THERE ARE NOT CALLED FOR.
SO THAT WAS GONNA MAKE THE, THE GOAL DIFFICULT IN ANY CASE.
BUT THEN IN THE CA MONDAY EVENING COUNCIL MEETING, IT WAS CLEARLY ACKNOWLEDGED BY MR. KOVICH OF YOUR FIRM THAT WE WEREN'T GONNA GET TO CARBON NEUTRALITY IN 2030.
HOW DO WE, HOW IS THE GENERAL PLAN GONNA BE BUTTONED UP WHERE ALL THOSE REFERENCES ARE OBSOLETE? WHAT DO WE LAY OUT INSTEAD AS A GOAL? HOW, HOW DO YOU DO THAT AS THE REPORT EDITOR? GREAT.
UM, UH, THE PRINCIPAL CHALLENGE WE'VE HAD IS THE, UM, TWO EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MOVING ALONG CONCURRENTLY, AND IT'S BEEN SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO KEEP THEM PERFECTLY ALIGNED BASED ON THE TIMING OF DIFFERENT DRAFTS.
UM, WE ARE HAVE EVERY INTENTION OF SYNCHRONIZING AND ALIGNING THE GENERAL PLAN AND THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY.
UM, THE, THE ONE, ONE THING TO KEEP IN MIND, AS YOU KNOW, IS THE BLUEPRINT IS, UH, SHORT TO MEDIUM TERM DOCUMENT AND VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON THAT 2030 GOAL.
THE GENERAL PLAN IN CONTRAST IS A, YOU KNOW, 20 TO 30 YEAR PLAN WITH A DIFFERENT PLANNING HORIZON.
AND SO, AS MATT MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE'S A BIT OF A DIFFERENCE THERE IN TERMS OF THE HIGH LEVEL LONG-TERM POLICY DOCUMENT THAT IS THE GENERAL PLAN AND THE NEARER TERM, YOU KNOW, MORE FUNCTIONAL PLANS THAT A CITY WILL ADOPT, LIKE A A GOT CAP.
THAT BEING SAID, UM, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU THAT TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE'S CLEAR CONNECTION AND OVERLAP BETWEEN ACTIONS DESCRIBED IN THE BLUEPRINT AND GOALS, POLICIES AND ACTIONS IN THE GENERAL PLAN, THEY SHOULD BE CONSISTENT.
UM, WE'VE WORKED VERY HARD TO KEEP THEM CONSISTENT AS WE'VE MOVED ALONG.
I CAN'T GUARANTEE THAT THEY'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT CONSISTENT AT THIS POINT BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENT PUBLICATION DATES,
IN FACT, A NEW DRAFT GONNA COME OUT SOON BASED ON PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND SO WE'LL CERTAINLY LOOK AT THE FINAL ADOPTED VERSION AND WORK VERY HARD TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY.
DOES THAT ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTION, OR WAS THERE ALSO A QUESTION ABOUT MORE SPECIFIC TARGETS OR METRICS? I, I THINK, I THINK I DID HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION THERE, AND, AND I DID NOT MEAN TO MAKE IT AWKWARD.
I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT REPORTS, DIFFERENT TIMELINES, GOALS CHANGE.
I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WHAT WILL THE FINAL, UH, GENERAL PLAN CALL FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2040 GETTING CLOSE TO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2035? WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DO WE THINK OUR METRIC MIGHT BE? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
UH, WE, I ASSUME WE WILL ADOPT SINCE, WELL, SO THAT'S A, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
YOU KNOW, WE HADN'T, WE'RE NOT ON THE TRACK CURRENTLY TO HAVE A GHG REDUCTION ELEMENT IN THE GENERAL PLAN.
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KNOW, THE, THE CAP, THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN WILL BE ADOPTED AS A, A CERTIFIED GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION PLAN, WHICH FOR PURPOSES OF CQA, UH, CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR STREAMLINING, STREAMLINING DOWN THE, THE DOWN, UH, IN THE FUTURE.UM, AND BASED ON ALL THAT, AND THAT MEANT TO, TO HAVE A CERTIFIED PLAN, IT HAS TO BE WELL ALIGNED WITH STAKE GOALS, AS YOU KNOW, IT'S ON TRACK TO EXCEED STAKE GOALS, BUT ACHIEVE THOSE STAKE GOALS MUCH EARLIER.
BUT MY ASSUMPTION IS ALL ALONG THAT THE, BECAUSE THE CAP WILL BE ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN ADVANCE OF THE GENERAL PLAN, WE WILL BRING THE GENERAL PLAN INTO CONSISTENCY AND ALIGNMENT WITH THE CAP, UM, WHEN APPROPRIATE, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE A SPECIFIC GHD REDUCTION GOAL OR TARGET INCLUDED IN THE PLAN.
I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT, QUITE FRANKLY, UM, BUT I WOULD ASSUME WE WOULD STICK WITH WHATEVER THE COUNCIL ALREADY HAD ADOPTED ITS POLICY THROUGH THE BLUEPRINT.
AND I KNOW THAT'S A DIFFICULT QUESTION.
I ASSUME I'M NO LONGER, NO LONGER ON YOUR CHRISTMAS CARD LIST, BUT THANK YOU FOR, OH, NO, I, DAVE, I, I, YOURS ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUESTIONS.
I TRY NO FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE ON THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE.
SEEING NONE, PASS IT BACK TO YOU.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK.
HAVE YOU RECEIVED COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? THERE WERE TWO PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED.
UH, OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, I HAVE SPENT HOURS LOOKING IN, IN CLOSE DETAIL AT THE BLUEPRINT FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY, THE ACT OF TRANSPORTATION PLAN, THE CITY'S GOALS AND PRIORITIES.
AND NOW THIS, UH, THIS FRAMEWORK, AND I, I, I HOPE THIS ISN'T TOO MUCH OF A RANT, BUT I, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, UM, MY, MY HONEST FEELINGS ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS.
UM, ONE, I APPRECIATE MUCH OF THE CONTENT IN THIS DOCUMENT, CARBON NEUTRALITY BY SOME DATE, UH, REIMAGINING PETALUMA TRANSPORTATION NETWORK PRIOR, PRIORITIZING SAFETY OVER SPEED, PRIORITIZING TRAVEL BY ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, AND SO ON.
WHEN I TRY TO READ THIS FRAMEWORK, UM, I'M JUST HORNSWOGGLED, UM, MY SENSE IS THAT A DOCUMENT LIKE THIS SHOULD BE AS LONG AS IT NEEDS TO BE, AND NO LONGER IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN CLEARLY AND CONCISELY USING LANGUAGE THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD BY AVERAGE PEOPLE, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
IF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS REALLY A PRIORITY, UM, AND ULTIMATELY IF IT FULFILLS ALL OF THOSE, IT WILL BE MORE LIKELY TO BE IMPLEMENTED.
UM, SO I, I FIND THIS, THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT FULFILL MANY OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS, SO I'LL FINISH UP.
MY QUESTIONS ARE HOW DOES THIS FRAMEWORK, UM, RELATE TO INTERACT WITH THE A TP? HOW DOES IT RELATE TO INTERACT WITH THE CARBON NEUTRALITY BLUEPRINT, LOCAL ROADWAY SAFETY PLAN, VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, AND OTHERS, THAT THAT RELATIONSHIP, HOW THESE, THESE PARTS WORK TOGETHER OR INTENDED TO WORK TOGETHER IS COMPLETELY INSCRUTABLE TO ME.
UM, AND, UH, AND ALSO I PERSONALLY GET LOST, COMPLETELY LOST IN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISION PILLARS, PRINCIPLES, AND GOALS.
UM, ANYWAY, I, I WOULD HOPE FOR MORE CLARITY AND BREVITY.
UM, SO WITH THE MAIN QUESTION UP THERE IS, DOES THE FRAMEWORK ESTABLISH A CLEAR PATH TO TRANSFORMING THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM? NO.
UM, THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE THAT I WOULD SAY IS BAD OR IS WRONG OR ISN'T USEFUL.
UM, MANY, IF, IF I TRIED TO LOOK THROUGH THE POLICIES AND PRIORITIZE THEM, THEY'RE ALL VERY, SEVERAL OF THEM OVERLAP QUITE
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A BIT, SO IT WOULD BE HARD TO PICK THEM APART.SO SOME OF THEM COULD POSSIBLY BE CONSOLIDATED, UM, RATHER THAN HAVE SO MANY THAT ARE KIND OF SIMILAR.
BUT I'M AN ACTION ORIENTED GAL, SO I WAS ACTUALLY FOCUSING ON ALL THE ACTIONS IN THE PLAN.
THERE ARE 115, WHICH IS A LOT, AND I WENT THROUGH ALL OF THEM AND LOOKED AT THE VERBS, UH, DEVELOP, ADOPT, EVALUATE, SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE.
AND WHY I THINK THIS DOESN'T NECESSARILY ESTABLISH A CLEAR PATH IS BECAUSE YOU COULD CREATE POLICIES, EVALUATE STRATEGIES, AND WRITE PLANS, AND NOT ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING THAT CHANGES ANYTHING.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I LIKE ACTIONS THAT ARE ACTIONABLE.
SO MOST OF THEM HAD THOSE KIND OF VERBS, BUT THERE WERE 10 THAT STARTED WITH THE VERB PRIORITIZE, RIGHT? BECAUSE WITH ALL OF THESE, YOU KNOW, THE LIST OF ALL OF THIS STUFF, HOW DO YOU PRIORITIZE ONE OVER THE OTHER? SO I ZOOMED IN ON THE, THE 10 THAT SAID PRIORITIZE.
AND OF THOSE TENS, SIX OF THEM WERE VERY CLEARLY PRIORITIZING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OVER EVERYTHING ELSE, PRIORITIZING, CYCLING, WALKING, TRANSIT, OVER MOTOR VEHICLES.
SIX OF THEM HAD SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
UM, THREE OF THEM HAD TO DO WITH, UH, PROMOTING SAFETY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, PRIORITIZED SAFETY, WHICH IS KIND OF VAGUE, UM, AND REDUCING SPEEDS.
SO THE MAJORITY OF ANY TIME THE WORD PRIORITIZE WAS IN THERE HAD TO DO WITH THIS.
SO I'M GONNA, WHEN THE BUDGET HAPPENS,
UM, BUT I KNOW THAT'S NOT PART OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING HERE WITH THE PLAN.
UM, I, I AGREE WITH MR. ALDEN THAT CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030 AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.
UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S IT.
ARIS, UM, THAT CLOSES PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE CAN RETURN TO THE COMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION.
UM, AND I'M WONDERING, STAFF, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVISEMENT ON HOW, WHAT, LIKE SPECIFICALLY YOU'RE LOOKING FOR FROM US? I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA LET RON, UM, TAKE THIS.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIFIC OTHER THAN, UM, THE PRIORITIZATION AND CONCERNS THAT ARE IN COMMENTS, WHAT OTHER FEEDBACK WE'D LIKE TO HEAR.
UM, SO YEAH, ON THE SCREEN OR OTHER QUESTIONS WE HAVE, THE FIRST TWO OBVIOUSLY ARE WHAT WE INCLUDED IN THE FORMS THAT WE INVITED YOU TO FILL OUT.
UM, AND SO, UM, IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONS TO WHAT YOU'VE PROVIDED ON THE FORMS, UM, THOSE WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, IN ADDITION FOR SOME OF THE FRAMEWORKS, WE IDENTIFIED SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS, AND THERE WERE TWO SPECIFIC TO THIS FRAMEWORK.
SO, UM, EITHER TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY RELATE TO THE FIRST FEW QUESTIONS OR OTHERWISE, WE ARE VERY INTERESTED IN, UM, RESPONSES TO THE QUESTION AROUND HOW CLEARLY THE, THE PATH IS, UM, ESTABLISHED IN THE FRAMEWORK TO REALLY, AND I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE WRONG WORD TO REALLY TRANSFORMING THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, UM, IS, IS IT, IS THAT REALLY WHAT WE'RE GONNA GET IF THIS POLICY FRAMEWORK AS WRITTEN GETS, UH, IMPLEMENTED? AND THEN THE SECOND OR FINAL QUESTION ON THE SCREEN IS GETTING TO WHAT MATT NOTED ABOUT A BIT OF THE RESTRUCTURING IN THIS ELEMENT COMPARED TO HOW CIRCULATION OR TRANSPORTATION ELEMENTS HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE PAST.
UM, WHICH IS ESTABLISHING A CLEAR MODAL HIERARCHY, WHICH, WHICH ONE OF THE COMMENTERS ADDRESSED.
UM, AND, UM, SPECIFICALLY RELATING TO THE COMPLETE AND CRE GREEN STREETS AND THE STREET TYPOLOGY AND APPENDIX A, UM, IS THAT, DOES THAT WORK? IS IT A, IS IT A, IS WORKABLE APPROACH TO ORGANIZING TRANSPORTATION GOALS, POLICIES AND ACTIONS? THANK YOU.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE, CAN WE START WITH YOU PLEASE? THANK YOU.
UM, SO I WOULD AGREE WITH WHAT BEAT SAID, UM, THAT I FEEL, IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S
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A LOT HERE AND I'M MISSING THE, LIKE, THE STRUCTURE AND THE FRAMEWORK, PART OF THE FRAMEWORK.LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, I WOULD ALMOST SAY, LIKE YOU SAID, THAT THERE WAS NOT MUCH VISION.
I THINK THERE'S, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF GOOD, YOU KNOW, LIKE I'LL SAY SQUISHY WORDS AND TERMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT WHAT I'M MISSING IS LIKE THE REALLY TANGIBLE GOALS.
AND I THINK PART OF WHAT, UM, WHAT GETS ME IS THAT THE GOALS AREN'T ACTUALLY WORDED AS GOALS AS I THINK ABOUT IT.
SO LIKE, UM, I WAS JUST WRITING DOWN SOME, SOME THINGS THAT I WOULD THINK OF FOR THE GOALS WOULD BE LIKE, X PERCENT OF LOCAL TRIPS ARE SERVICED BY FIXED ROUTE TRANSIT.
AND THEN THE HOW UNDERNEATH THOSE THE ACTION WOULD BE LIKE, DEVELOP NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS AROUND TRANSIT STOPS, PRIORITIZING HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE CURRENTLY COMMUTING INTO THE CITY.
LEVERAGE IMPACT FEES FROM CATALYST PROJECTS TO INCREMENTALLY EXPAND OUR TRANSIT SERVICE, UM, IMPLEMENT A PARKING ENTERPRISE FUND TO ELIMINATE SHORT VEHICLE TRIPS.
DOWNTOWN GOAL TWO XX PERCENT OF LOCAL TRIPS ARE MADE BY BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, AND OTHER MICRO MOBILITY TECHNOLOGIES.
THEN INSERT, YOU KNOW, ALL AGES AND ABILITIES IN THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
WALKING IN PETALUMA IS AN INVITING AND SAFE EXPERIENCE, WHETHER WALKING FOR NEEDS OR RECREATION, SOMETHING AROUND PARATRANSIT AND A DA TO REALLY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SERVICING, YOU KNOW, THE, THAT SEGMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY.
AND THEN, UM, REALLY KIND OF, I PUT IT AT THE BOTTOM BECAUSE IT'S, UM, REALLY FOCUSED ON VEHICLES AND, YOU KNOW, FIXING ROADS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT LIKE, ACHIEVE A SAFE, WELL MAINTAINED ROADWAY NETWORK THAT APPROACH ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.
UM, AND LIKE THOSE TYPES OF GOALS TO ME FEEL MUCH MORE TANGIBLE.
UM, AND WHAT I WOULD KIND OF EXPECT TO SEE US SORT OF LIKE DRIVING TOWARDS, UM, 'CAUSE THE, THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GOALS AROUND VALUES, I THINK REALLY KIND OF GETS TO WHAT NICOLE SAID, WHICH WAS, UM, A LOT OF OVERLAP.
JUST A TON OF OVERLAP OF LIKE WITH THE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, THIS IS VISION ZERO AND THIS IS HEALTHY AND THIS IS EQUITABLE.
AND IT'S LIKE, ALL THOSE THINGS ARE LIKE VALUES AND THEY ABSOLUTELY BELONG IN HERE, BUT I THINK THEY BELONG IN THE PILLARS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE PILLARS, THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND IN THE GOALS, I WOULD JUST EXPECT IT TO BE LIKE REALLY, REALLY TANGIBLE, LIKE OUTCOME ORIENTED THINGS THAT WE ARE HOPING THIS FRAMEWORK IS GONNA GET US TO.
YEAH, AGREED WITH, UM, PREVIOUS COMMENTS JUST AROUND NEEDING TO STREAMLINE.
I THINK A LOT OF THE REPETITION AND COUNCIL MEMBER BARNA COMMENTS JUST AROUND GOALS, I THINK MAKES A LOT OF SENSE AS WELL, TOO.
JUST HAVING THOSE BE SOMETHING STILL HIGH LEVEL, BUT MORE SPECIFIC THAN WHAT THEY ARE NOW.
UH, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I GUESS I WAS LOOKING FOR ALSO THAT STARTS TO GET THERE, BUT MIGHT HELP GUIDE THIS A LITTLE BIT, ESPECIALLY FOR TRANSPORTATION, THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, UH, REGULATORY OR, UH, UM, REQUIREMENTS.
THERE'S OTHER INFORMING DOCUMENTS.
UM, FOR ME PERSONALLY, NEAR AND DEAR IS OBVIOUSLY KIND OF THE VISION ZERO.
AND SO I THINK JUST TO TOUCH ON THAT REAL QUICKLY, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S MENTIONED, BUT YOU HAVE TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT WHERE DOES THE, WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO IMPLEMENT AROUND VISION ZERO? UM, SO GETTING BACK TO, LET'S SAY THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, UM, AND TRYING TO THEN SAY, WHAT IS IT WITHIN THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, ARE WE TRYING TO IMPLEMENT WITHIN THE GENERAL PLAN? SO THINKING ABOUT HOW THE, THESE GUIDING DOCUMENTS CAN INFORM THE POLICIES AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S CONSISTENCY AND THERE'S THAT CONNECTION.
UM, I THINK THAT'S, YEAH, JUST, I'VE GOT A LOT MORE OTHER COMMENTS, OF COURSE, THAT I'M GONNA SUBMIT, I THINK IN, IN WRITING.
UM, BUT TO JUST GO DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM THE VISION ZERO, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON, I THINK CAN, THAT CAN HELP WITH ACTIONS
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ARE SOME OF THE, UM, PROGRESS METRICS IN VISION ZERO, FOR INSTANCE, IN THINKING ABOUT WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY TRYING TO ACHIEVE FROM THESE HIGH LEVEL GOALS.THE PROJECT'S METRICS ARE ESSENTIALLY KIND OF THE ACTIONS OF VISION ZERO.
SO THINKING ABOUT WHAT FROM THOSE, CAN WE BE MORE EXPLICIT IN, UM, IN THE GENERAL PLAN POLICIES.
UM, ONE OF THE SECTIONS I NOTICED THAT JUST DIDN'T HAVE TOO MUCH ON ONE OF THE THEMES IN TERMS OF CONSISTENCY WAS ACTUALLY KIND OF AROUND ENFORCEMENT.
UM, AND DRUNK DRIVING INE INEBRIATION.
I KNOW THAT'S A BIG PART OF VISION ZERO IS MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE DRIVING SAFELY, BUT THERE WASN'T REALLY ANY MENTION OF THAT IN TERMS OF THE POLICIES.
SO THAT'S, YEAH, JUST ONE QUICK EXAMPLE OF TRYING TO FIND THAT THREAD BETWEEN WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT WE'RE ALREADY FOLLOWING AND COMMITTED TO, AND HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE BEING EXPRESSED CLEARLY IN THE, IN THE DOCUMENT AS WELL.
AND WITH THAT, I THINK I WILL CLOSE THERE,
WHAT, UM, I THINK WHAT I WANNA SAY IS I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE BRIAN'S COMMENTS.
I ALSO APPRECIATE PETE GANG'S COMMENTS BECAUSE I WANT THIS WRITTEN IN SUCH A LANGUAGE THAT ANYONE IN PETALUMA CAN EASILY PICK IT UP AND UNDERSTAND IMMEDIATELY WHAT IT SAYS, THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE ALL OF THE ADJECTIVES AND THE ADVERBS THAT MAKE IT SQUISHY AND KIND OF A, A MUDDLE FOR FOLKS.
AND I WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE, UM, UH, MORE CLARITY, MORE BREVITY.
I HAVE NO PROBLEM SPECIFICALLY RIGHT NOW ABOUT LISTING A GOAL FOLLOWED BY A POLICY AND AN ACTUAL ACTION STATEMENT.
I'M, I'M NOT HO, I'M NOT WISHING TO CHANGE THAT AROUND.
WHAT I AM HOPING THAT CAN BE CHANGED IS ALL OF THE VERBIAGE, REALLY CUT IT DOWN AND MAKE IT SIMPLE.
UM, I ECHO ALL OF MY, UM, FELLOW COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE, THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
I, I THINK, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS IN, IN THIS DOCUMENT IS LIKE THE LAND USE, THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, UM, THAT IT FEELS MORE, UM, CONCRETE AND TANGIBLE TO ME.
IT'S ALSO NOT SOMETHING IN MY WHEELHOUSE THAT I'VE SEEN REPEATEDLY IN, IN ALL THESE OTHER DOCUMENTS.
SO, UM, I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF, UM, EVERYTHING'S JUST FEELING NEBULOUS RIGHT NOW WITH BETWEEN THE BLUEPRINT AND, AND, UM, SOME OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND THIS, AND, AND WHAT THEIR PURPOSE IS, WHY WE HAVE THEM ALL IN SO MANY PLACES.
IT'S STARTING TO MAKE IT FEEL LIKE THERE'S, IT'S NOT ACHIEVABLE BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, OH, LET'S IMPLEMENT TO THIS ENTIRE OTHER DOCUMENT, OR LET'S DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK AROUND LIKE, EQUITY.
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE, OH, I CAN'T, I, WE CANNOT DEVELOP ANOTHER, UH, FRAMEWORK TO ADOPT AND THEN IMPLEMENT LIKE WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT.
UM, AND I, I MEAN, I DO THINK THERE'S GOOD ACTION ITEMS IN HERE.
I THINK THERE'S A LOT THAT, UM, CAN BE INTEGRATED.
IT DOESN'T FEEL APPROPRIATE TO SAY LIKE THAT.
I WOULDN'T WANNA PRIORITIZE EQUITABLE ACCESS FOR ALL, BECAUSE IN THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, EVERY TIME WE TALK ABOUT ANY, ANYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING, WE WANT, WE WANNA SEE THAT IT'S LIKE SAFE, EQUITABLE, AND ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES.
SO I THINK IN OUR, UM, LENS, THIS IS INHERENT IN, IN WHATEVER KIND OF DEVELOPMENT WILL HAPPEN.
UM, SO I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT TIGHTENED UP IN, UM, IN MORE EXPLICIT WAYS.
UM, AND THEN ONE OTHER COMMENT IS JUST AROUND TRANSPORTATION.
IT SEEMS LIKE IT, IT MAKES SENSE THAT EVERYTHING IS VERY CITY FOCUSED.
IT'S A CITY DOCUMENT, BUT BRINGING IN LIKE THE REGIONAL
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AGENCIES AND THINKING ABOUT HOW ALL OF THE OTHER TRANSPORTATION, UM, THAT COMES THROUGH PETALUMA, LIKE GREYHOUND AND, UM, AND AMTRAK AND FLIX BUS, AND LIKE, HOW ARE THOSE BEING THOUGHT ABOUT HERE? ARE WE, ARE WE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO USE TRANSIT THROUGH THIS, LIKE IN A REGIONAL SENSE, SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT, LIKE MTC AND, UM, YEAH, JUST I THINK THINKING ABOUT HOW PETALUMA DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE END DESTINATION, BUT HOW PEOPLE ARE GONNA MOVE THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY TO GET THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, UM, COULD BE WORTHWHILE CONSIDERING IN THIS DOCUMENT.UH, NOW COMMENTS FROM THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE.
MS. ABRAMS, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS, PLEASE? I DO.
YOU HAVE A WORKING MIC,
WELL, I'M EXTREMELY GRATEFUL, UM, TO PETE, BRIAN AND MARIA CLOSE, MARJA MARJA, UM, FOR SPEAKING TO THE LANGUAGE, UH, BECAUSE I FEARED I WOULD BE A VOICE IN THE, THE WILDERNESS BECAUSE I WANTED TO FOCUS ON THAT.
UH, BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T READ IT, YOU CAN'T USE IT.
AND IN THE, UH, FOUNDATION, THE EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT, THE CITY'S EVALUATION OF THE CURRENT CITY PLAN IS THAT THE BROAD LANGUAGE IS NOT IMPLEMENTABLE FOR THEM.
AND IF WE GIVE THEM A NEW PLAN THAT'S NOT IMPLEMENTABLE, WE HAVE WASTED OUR TIME AND OUR MONEY AND OUR OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, AND ONE OF, UH, TWO OF THE PILLARS THAT SPEAK TO ME VERY MUCH ARE TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC AND FOR GOVERNMENT TO BE TRANSPARENT.
AND THIS DOCUMENT AS WRITTEN IS, CAN NOT ENGAGE THE PUBLIC AND IS NOT TRANSPARENT.
AND I DO NOT COMPLAIN AGAINST 300 ACTION ITEMS. WE CAN BE PROUD OF AS MANY ACTION ITEMS AS WE WANT, BUT EACH SENTENCE MUST BE CLEAR AND UNDERSTANDABLE AND WRITTEN WITH AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE.
UM, AS I, I DECIDED AS, UH, SOMEONE ELSE WHO SAID SHE WAS ACTION ORIENTED, THAT I'D START WITH THE GOALS, POLICIES, AND ACTIONS.
AND AS I STARTED READING IT AND I KEPT SEEING REFERENCES TO THE FOUNDATION AND THE, THE, THIS OR THEM, THE, THAT, I THOUGHT, OKAY, OKAY, I'M GONNA GO BACK AND I'M GONNA GET MY FOUNDATION CLEAR.
SO THEN I FOUND THAT THERE WERE 14 TOPICS, WHICH I HAD TO COUNT BECAUSE THEY'RE IN BULLETS NOT NUMBERED.
SO IF YOU'RE GONNA LIST A BUNCH OF THINGS, NUMBER 'EM, UH, AND THERE'S FRAMEWORKS FOR 14 TOPICS, BUT THERE ARE SEVEN MORE TOPICS, BUT IT MIGHT ONLY BE SIX BECAUSE TRANSPORTATION IS REPEATED THAT ARE CROSS FRAMEWORK.
THEN EACH FRAMEWORK HAS GOALS, POLICIES, AND ACTIONS.
AND THE DEFINITIONS FOR GOALS, POLICIES, AND ACTIONS WERE MADE MUCH MORE CLEARLY BY OUR CONSULTANT WHEN HE SPOKE TO THEM THAN THEY ARE WRITTEN HERE.
AND I WOULD SAY THAT YOUR PRESENTATIONS WERE MUCH MORE CLEAR THAN WHAT'S WRITTEN HERE.
AND WHEN I CAME TO YOUR PRESENTATION ON THE, UM, CLIMATE BLUEPRINT OR THE CARBON FOOTPRINT, I DON'T KNOW, SORRY.
UM, THERE WAS, THERE WERE A COUPLE TABLES IN THAT DOCUMENT THAT I THOUGHT, NO, NO, NO, THESE HAVE TO BE CROSS-REFERENCED, AND THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU GAVE IN THIS ROOM, YOU'D REORGANIZED IT.
SO THEY WERE CROSS-REFERENCED.
SO I WANT THAT KIND OF CLARITY IN THE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU'RE WRITING, AND I KNOW THERE'S A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WORKING ON IT, AND SOME OF THE AREAS ARE WRITTEN MORE CLEARLY THAN OTHERS.
UM, I CAN FIND A VERY CLEAR GOAL AND THEN A THREE OTHER GOALS THAT ARE SIMPLY STATEMENTS OF FACT OR STATEMENTS OF WHAT WE WISH WOULD BE, BUT NOT STATED AS A GOAL.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S DIFFERENT AUTHORS AND, AND YOU NEED AN EDITOR, I GUESS.
BUT ANYWAY, SO I GOT TO GOALS, POLICIES
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AND ACTIONS, WHICH I WROTE DOWN THE DEFINITION SEVERAL TIMES TO GET IT IN MY HEAD.AND THEN I FOUND OUT THAT THERE WERE VISION AND PILLARS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES.
I WAS, OKAY, I'M COPING, I'M COPING.
AND THEN I GOT TO THEMES AND DEFINITIONS, AND I SAID, I'M NOT GONNA SAY ANYTHING ELSE.
I'M JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT THE WAY THAT IT'S WRITTEN.
BUT IF YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN RID OF THE WORD THEMES AND JUST STUCK WITH DEFINITIONS, BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THAT IT WAS, WAS DEFINITIONS, I COULD HAVE CONTINUED.
UM, AND YOUR DEFINITIONS ARE OFTEN USING THE SAME WORDS TO DEFINE.
AND I'VE GOT ALL THE EXAMPLES, WHICH I'M NOT GOING TO PUNISH YOU WITH RIGHT NOW, BUT IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME, UM, I'D BE HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT.
I WORK IN PUBLIC HEALTH, SO I'M USED TO DENSE LANGUAGE, OFTEN VAGUE LANGUAGE, UM, WHERE YOU HAVE TO PULL OUT THE REAL MEANING FROM IT.
UM, BUT I'M ALSO USED TO HAVING TO TRANSLATE DOCUMENTS INTO PLAIN LANGUAGE FOR LAY AUDIENCES.
AND IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT IN, IN THAT THIS, WELL, IT IS NECESSARY THAT THIS POLICY BE TRANSLATED INTO PLAIN LANGUAGE FOR, UM, FROM, FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES.
AND, UM, THAT'S AN OPPORTUNITY ACTUALLY TO, UM, INTEGRATE THE DIFFERENT POLICIES.
SO, UM, AND SO I THINK THE FIRST THING I WANNA SAY IS THAT, UH, I HAD DIFFICULTY SEEING THIS POLICY IN ISOLATION FROM OTHER POLICIES, AND I HAD TO SPEND QUITE A BIT OF TIME ACTUALLY READING THE HEALTH EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE POLICY, UM, TO SEE HOW THIS RELATED TO THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY.
AND THEN I REALIZED THAT THERE WERE MANY, MANY OTHER POLICY FRAMEWORKS THAT I HAD NOT READ.
UM, SO I THINK, UM, SOME OF THE THINGS I WANNA POINT OUT IS, FIRST I WANNA SAY THAT TWO, TWO MILES IS NOT A REASONABLE WALKING DISTANCE ONE WAY
SO, UM, AND IF SOME OF THESE GOALS AND ACTIONS ARE, HAVE THAT IN MIND AS A GOAL, TWO MILES, THAT NEEDS TO BE RETHOUGHT.
UH, AND SO, UH, THE OTHER THING IS I WANNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY AS A RENTER TO TALK ABOUT THE FOCUS ON EVS.
UM, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY WHO'S ACTUALLY ASKED PEOPLE WHO DON'T OWN AN EV, WHAT IS THE BARRIER TO OWNING AN EV? AND, UM, I MIGHT OWN ONE.
I HAVE NOWHERE TO CHARGE IT CONVENIENTLY, EVEN IF I COULD AFFORD IT.
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WE WON'T REACH CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2030.
AND I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S SUFFICIENTLY ARTICULATED IN THIS FRAMEWORK.
UM, I ALSO DON'T THINK THE GEOGRAPHIC LAYOUT OF PETALUMA IS ARTICULATELY, IS, IS ARTICULATED IN THIS FRAMEWORK.
NOT THE BARRIERS, NOT THE RIVER AND THE FREEWAY, BUT THE FACT THAT THE EAST SIDE IS HEAVILY, HEAVILY SUBURBAN AND SPREAD OUT.
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S SUFFICIENTLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT PETALUMA OVER THE YEARS WILL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MOVE PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS IN THIS GEOGRAPHIC LAYOUT.
UM, AND, UM, SO I, I THINK MAYBE MY COMMENTS ARE JUST MORE GENERAL THAN SPECIFIC.
I HAVEN'T READ ALL OF THE MULTIPLE OTHER, UH, REPORTS AND FRAMEWORKS THAT ARE OUT THERE, BUT THERE SHOULD BE SOME EFFORT
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TO INTEGRATE THEM INTO A FRAMEWORK LIKE THIS AND TO ACKNOWLEDGE, YES, THIS IS AN IDEA THAT CAME FROM THIS REPORT, OR THIS IS AN IDEA THAT CAME FROM THAT REPORT.THIS IS AN IDEA THAT IS MENTIONED IN FIVE REPORTS, SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
UM, I FOUND IN THE, UH, HEALTH AND EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE REPORT AN IDEA ABOUT AN EV SHARING, CAR SHARING PROGRAM.
I THINK THAT'S A TERRIFIC IDEA.
WHY ISN'T IT REPEATED IN THIS FRAMEWORK? UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I MIGHT ACTUALLY DO THAT, BUT I MIGHT USE A CAR SHARE PROGRAM LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE LANGUAGE DIDN'T BOTHER ME SO MUCH, BUT I THINK THERE JUST NEEDS TO BE SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF, UM, THIS IS ONE IN A LONG LIST OF REPORTS.
THE OTHER REPORTS HAVE SAID THESE THINGS, AND WE AGREE, AND WE'RE GOING TO INCLUDE THEM IN THIS.
WHAT IS THE FINAL REPORT? GOING TO THE GENERAL PLAN, I'M GUESSING.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER
NO, I'M THINKING, I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE, UH, BEFORE ME.
UH, I, YOU KNOW, I CERTAINLY AGREE WITH, UH, FOLKS TALKING ABOUT MORE BREVITY, UM, WITH TRYING TO DELINEATE A PATH.
BUT I THINK, UH, UH, PATTY THERE, IN TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES WE HAVE WITH DELINEATING A, UH, A CLEAR PATH AT THIS TIME, MAKES IT HARD TO, UH, STATE WHAT THE CLEAR PATH SHOULD BE.
UM, I, AS A MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL, THAT, UH, COMPLAINS AS MUCH AS ANYONE ABOUT, UH, WHAT WE'VE BEEN TRAINED, UH, BY STAFF TO, TO, YOU KNOW, TO UNDERSTAND.
I THINK THAT THIS, THIS IDEA THAT ALL STAFF HAVE 90% OF THEIR TIME TAKEN BY THINGS THEY HAVE TO DO BECAUSE OF STATE OR FEDERAL OR SOMETHING WE PASSED IN THE PAST, AND THAT LEAVES ONLY 10%.
WHEN I SEE A LOT OF ACTIONS AND STUFF THAT START WITH, UM, UH, WAIT A SECOND.
I CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF MY NOTES HERE WITH STUDY, DEVELOP, EVALUATE, INVESTIGATE.
I SAY, YOU KNOW, I START THINKING THAT THIS, UM, THIS, UH, GENERAL PLAN IS, IS A PLOT TO TOTALLY GET RID OF ANY, ANY TIME WE HAVE TO DO THINGS THAT COME UP NEW.
IF THEIR EMERGENCY, WE'LL DO THEM, YOU KNOW, AND EVERYONE WILL AGREE IF THEY'RE AN ABSOLUTE EMERGENCY, BUT IT GETS TOUGH, UH, TO, TO SAY, GOSH, CAN'T WE, YOU KNOW, DO THIS QUICKLY AND BE DONE WITH IT? UM, AND, AND I, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT'S NOT EASY AND SUCH, BUT, BUT THAT'S THE WAY I SEE SOME OF THAT STUFF THAT'S VAGUE.
AT THE SAME TIME, AT THE SAME TIME, I, UH, I DON'T, I, I DON'T LIKE LOCKING US IN TO, YOU KNOW, TOO MUCH TO, UH, I'M NOT, METRICS DON'T BOTHER ME, BUT IN TERMS OF, UM, THINGS WE, WE MIGHT DO, BECAUSE WE GET PEOPLE COMING IN ALL THE TIME SCREAMING ABOUT, UM, EITHER SOMETHING'S NOT IN THE GENERAL PLAN THAT WE WANNA DO, OR THAT SOMETHING ISN'T A GENERAL PLAN THAT WE DON'T WANNA DO.
THINGS CHANGE FASTER EVERY YEAR.
UM, UH, SO IN A CERTAIN SENSE, YOU KNOW, I LIKE SOME, SOME, UM, SOMETHING NOT SPECIFIC.
AND I, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING IN THIS GENERAL PLAN RIGHT NOW, OR CERTAINLY IN THIS SECTION THAT'S THAT WAY.
UH, SO, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THIS IS JUST AGREEMENT WITH OTHER FOLKS HAVE SAID, I THINK, BUT FROM A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW.
ONE OTHER THING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS IN TERMS OF SAFETY, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SAFETY, UM, I'VE ALWAYS ASSUMED THAT EVERY PARENT TAUGHT THEIR KIDS TO LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE STREET.
AND THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERY GRANDPARENT DID THAT TOO.
AND EVERY, EVERY, EVERYBODY DID THAT.
BUT I DON'T SEE MUCH ABOUT EDUCATING KIDS, FOR EXAMPLE, ABOUT DOING THAT HERE.
AND SOME OF THE REPORTS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED LATELY ABOUT PEOPLE THAT HAD NEAR MISS NEAR MISSES OF BEING HIT BY A CAR SPEEDING AROUND A CORNER OR SOMETHING, IMPLY THAT PEOPLE THINK THEY, UH, THAT WALKING IN THE CROSSWALK IS LIKE WEARING A, UH, A TOTAL BODY, UH, UH, UM, WHAT ARE THEY CALLED ANYWAY, YOU KNOW, A SUIT THAT'S IMPERVIOUS TO EVERYTHING.
SO I WOULD JUST SUGGEST A LITTLE, I'M SORRY, A SUPERMAN SUIT, UH, MORE OR LESS, YEAH, THE ONES, YOU KNOW, THE LITTLE, UH, AIR POCKETS OF THINGS THAT YOU CAN BLOW IT WITH AIR AND PROTECT YOU IF, UH, IF SOMETHING HITS YOU.
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TOO MUCH, BUT THOSE, THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS, MR. QUINT.SO EVERYBODY HERE HAS ME JUST LIKE QUESTIONING MY OWN VALUES AROUND WHAT'S RIGHT OR WRONG IN THIS THING.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, MY SENTIMENTS, THERE'S SOME OF MY SENTIMENTS THAT ECHO EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID.
I, YOU KNOW, I FOUND MYSELF HAVING TO, UH, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY, UH, READ THIS THING, YOU KNOW, THREE OR FOUR TIMES.
LIKE, I HAD TO SKIM THROUGH IT JUST TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND THE LAYOUT AND THEN GO BACK AND READ IT AT A SLIGHTLY LITTLE, YOU KNOW, IN DEPTH LEVEL AND THEN READ IT AGAIN.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I, I, THE, THE COMMENTS THAT I'M HEARING I THINK ARE, ARE, ARE ALL VALID, YOU KNOW, HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, I WOULD SAY TOO THAT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF, I THINK THERE'S GOOD STUFF IN HERE, UM, AROUND, YOU KNOW, THE GOALS.
I I, YOU KNOW, I I, I'M NOT SAYING THIS TO, TO SUGGEST THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR OUR FELLOW, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER BARNACLE, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT HE WAS SUGGESTING IS, IS WRONG OR ANYTHING.
BUT, UH, BUT I THINK ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY AND THE VISION OF PETALUMA 20 YEARS FROM NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, UM, SOME OF THESE GOALS RESONATE WITH ME.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE HIGHER, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SORT OF HIGHER LEVEL, A LITTLE MORE ESOTERIC.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, AS I START TO GET MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT STUFF SEEMED APPROPRIATE, UH, YOU KNOW, PEDAL, UH, REIMAGINE, UH, PETALUMA TRANSPORTATION NETWORK.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE EVER GET TO A POINT TO WHERE WE CAN ENCOURAGE, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE DENSE LIVING DOWNTOWN, UM, YOU KNOW, FILL IN SOME OF THE EMPTY LOTS, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVE IT BECOME A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A DENSE PLACE TO LIVE, YOU WE'RE GONNA NEED BETTER TRANSPORTATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA NEED, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS GONNA HAVE TO GROW AND EVOLVE TO, TO, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH THAT.
BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, LAY OUT, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC DETAILS FOR THAT HERE.
UM, TO ME, UH, YOU KNOW, I, FROM, FROM WHAT I READ, UM, IN THE DOCUMENT, IT, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS TO BE GOING, IT, TO ME, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UM, THE IDEA ABOUT ACTUALLY HAVING STANDARDS FOR STREETS, UM, MY GOD, I WAS, I WAS RIDING MY BIKE THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, TWO DAYS AGO, AND IT NEVER OCCURRED.
LIKE SO OVER ON THE EAST SIDE, RIDING THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, THAT I, I DON'T KNOW, I'M GUESSING IT WAS PROBABLY BUILT IN THE EIGHTIES.
MAYBE I'M OFF, MAYBE IT WAS THE SEVENTIES.
THERE WASN'T A SINGLE, THERE'S NOT A SINGLE RAMP ON ANY OF THE SIDEWALKS.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING SOME FRAMEWORK AROUND, LOOK, WHEN WE'RE GONNA, WE HAVE A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON NOW WITH THE REBUILDING OUR STREETS.
YOU KNOW, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT FRAMEWORK IN PLACE, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T FEEL THREATENED WHEN WE'RE RIDING OUR BIKE DOWN.
IT, THAT IT'S A SHARED SPACE FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR PEDESTRIANS, FOR PE PEOPLE ON, UH, YOU KNOW, MICRO MOBILITY DEVICES.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, THIS, AND, AND IT MOVES IN A DIRECTION THAT GETS US CLOSER TO WHETHER, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, 2030, OR WHETHER IT'S 2035 OR WHETHER IT'S 24, WHATEVER THAT CARBON NEUTRALITY IS, AS LONG AS WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND AT A, AT A GOOD PACE.
AND TO ME, AS WHEN I READ THIS, I FEEL LIKE THE FRAMEWORK IS TAKING US IN THAT DIRECTION.
SO, UM, I, I, I REALIZE I'M NOT GIVING A LOT OF SPECIFICS THERE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT STANDPOINT, I, I THINK THERE'S SOME REALLY GOOD STUFF IN HERE.
AND, BUT I DO, I DON'T DISAGREE THAT,
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UH, I MEAN, AGAIN, IT TOOK ME SEVERAL TIMES OF READING IT TO REALLY START TO COMPREHEND IT.SO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT SAYS SOMETHING.
SO BAT AND CLEANUP HERE, A LOT OF STUFF'S ALREADY BEEN SAID.
UM, I WOULD AGREE THAT, UH, THERE'S A BALANCE TO BE STRUCK BETWEEN, UH, GETTING, GETTING MORE FINITE GOALS AND NOT TYING US DOWN TO ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR.
UM, I WOULD AGREE THAT EVERYTHING IN HERE SEEMS GREAT.
UM, UH, I THINK A LOT OF THE THINGS I WAS GONNA SAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAID, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I NOTICED, UM, THAT CAME UP A LOT WAS, WAS, WAS MODAL SPECIFIC.
UM, EITHER WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, NO OFFENSE TO OUR FELLOW, UH, UH, COUNCIL HERE IS EITHER, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT PEDESTRIANS, EITHER WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, BICYCLES, OR WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, TRANSIT.
AND I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS I, I FEAR THAT PRIORITIZING THAT BY NOT INCLUDING WHEELS OF ALL SIZES, HOWEVER YOU WANNA PHRASE IT, UM, BIKES, TRIKES, UH, SKATEBOARDS, ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
I THINK THAT IT MIGHT, UM, UH, I DUNNO, I THINK IT'S, IT IS BETTER TO USE MORE INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE.
IT'S, I WAS GONNA SAY, UM, I AGREE THAT THERE'S SOME STUFF THAT OVERLAPS, UM, YEAH, I DON'T REALLY KNOW THAT I HAVE MUCH NEW TO ADD TO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I'LL, UH, I'LL JUST CLAM UP.
I GUESS I GET THE BAT CLEANUP.
UH, I'VE GOT A, JUST A FEW RANDOM COMMENTS.
UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HERE HAVE READ THE GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK.
UH, WHEN I BEGIN ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT, ABOUT THE OTHER FRAMEWORKS, UH, MR. WHITMORE SUGGESTED I READ IT.
IT WAS GREAT ADVICE, THANK YOU.
IT REMINDED ME, AND IT'S SOMETHING I KNEW, BUT I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT TO A LOT OF US, WE THINK OF ADOPTING A GENERAL PLAN AS REACHING A GOAL LINE.
IT'S NOT, WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE IS THE COUNCIL EVERY YEAR WILL SET THEIR OWN GOALS, SET THEIR OWN BUDGET, AND IF WE HAVE THE WRONG COUNCIL, IF WE DON'T PUSH FOR THE RIGHT THINGS, WHAT WE ADOPTED AS A GENERAL PLAN BECOMES REALLY NOTHING.
UH, THE GENERAL PLAN IS NOT A GOAL LINE.
IT'S A FIRST DOWN, REALLY IMPORTANT.
FIRST DOWN, WANNA KEEP POSSESSION OF THE BALL, BUT WE NEED ANOTHER FIRST DOWN EVERY YEAR.
SO ANYBODY WHO'S LISTENING THIS EVENING AND THINKS, THIS IS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT FOR 20 YEARS, NO, THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT WORKS.
UM, EVERY GENERAL PLAN I'VE EVER READ, AND I FEAR IT'S GONNA BE HERE.
ALSO, THERE'S NO REAL SENSE OF URGENCY, NO MATTER HOW IMPORTANT SOMETHING IS, IT JUST FEELS BLAND.
YOU KNOW, I WANT TOM CLANCY TO WRITE A GENERAL PLAN.
ONE OF THE REALLY COOL THINGS THAT'S IN HERE, AND I, I MISSED IT THE FIRST TIME I CAUGHT IT WHEN I READ IT THE DAY, IS WE ARE GOING TO DO OUR OWN DEFINITION OF COMPLETE STREETS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THIS, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF DESCENT WITHIN THE URBAN PLANNING COMMUNITY, URBAN URBAN PLANNING COMMUNITY ABOUT THE SMART GROWTH AMERICA EFFORT AT, AT COMPLETE STREETS.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS IS IN ORDER TO GET A LOT OF CITIES TO ADOPT IT, IN ORDER TO GET STATES TO ISSUE GRANTS BASED ON COMPLETE STREETS, THEY'VE ALLOWED THE CONCEPT TO BE DUMBED DOWN.
AND THAT'S A SHAME 'CAUSE IT REALLY IS A GOOD IDEA, BUT IT'S LARGELY BEEN LOST.
SO THE FACT THAT WE ARE GONNA DO OUR OWN, THAT MIGHT END UP BEING MY TOP PRIORITY WHEN I DO MY RANKING OF 'EM.
UM, VISION ZERO, I, I, I KNOW A LOT OF YOU LOVE IT.
I'VE ALWAYS HAD A PROBLEM WITH IT.
AND, AND I'LL GIVE A QUICK ANECDOTE ON WHERE MY PROBLEM COMES FROM.
10 YEARS AGO AS I WAS ON PBA C, A RESIDENT CAME IN AND, AND BROACHED VISION ZERO, PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME VISION ZERO HAD EVER BEEN BROUGHT UP IN PBAC AND GOOD FOR HER FOR DOING IT, WE GOT DONE.
AND THE CITY ENGINEER, VERY NICE GUY, NO LONGER WORKS FOR THE CITY, I WON'T EVEN MENTION NAMES.
WHEN WE GOT THROUGH, HE SAID, WE ALREADY HAVE A VISION ZERO, ZERO VISION.
WE ALREADY HAVE A VISION ZERO CITY.
WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO GET KILLED, AS IF WISHING PEOPLE NOT TO GET KILLED MADE IT A VISION ZERO CITY.
AND IT'S ALWAYS SORT OF STUCK WITH ME BECAUSE IT'S A GOAL THAT'S, YES, IT'S A METRIC.
NOBODY'S LYING DEAD IN THE STREET, GOOD THING.
BUT IT, WE KNOW THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO TO REDUCE TRAFFIC DEATH IS SLOW VEHICLES.
AND YET, 90% OF THE VISION ZERO PLANS THAT ARE OUT THERE DON'T CALL FOR SLOWING, SLOWING VEHICLES.
THEY TALK ABOUT PUTTING UP LIGHTS, THEY
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TALK ABOUT PEDESTRIANS WEARING VESTS.THAT'S THE REASON I'VE ALWAYS BEEN MORE DRAWN TO 20 IS PLENTY BECAUSE IT JUST, IT TRULY SLOWS CAR.
IT DOES THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TOWARD VISION ZERO IN A VERY DEFINITIVE METRIC-BASED APPROACH.
AND RELATED TO THAT, I, FOR YEARS, I JOINED A LOT OF YOU IN SAYING, WE NEED TO REDESIGN OUR STREETS TO ENCOURAGE LOWER SPEEDS.
BUT WHEN YOU RUN THE NUMBERS OF HOW LONG, HOW MANY YEARS IT'S GONNA TAKE US TO REBUILD ALL OUR STREETS TO THOSE NEW STANDARDS, WE'RE NOT GONNA GET THERE.
THERE'S ANOTHER APPROACH TO GET THERE.
ISA INTELLIGENCE SPEED ASSISTANCE GOVERNORS ON CARS THAT WILL NOT LET YOU GO ABOVE THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GONNA SAY, THAT SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE FICTION.
EUROPEAN UNION IS REQUIRING ALL NEW CARS TO HAVE ISA DEVICES ON THEM.
'EM, VENTURA COUNTY HAS REFITTED ALL THEIR RIGS WITH ISA EXCEPT FOR THE SHERIFF RIGS WITH THEY, THEY GET AWAY WITH SPEEDING, BUT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS TO OBEY THE SPEED LIMIT.
THIS IS DOABLE STUFF, AND I THINK WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT IT IN A GENERAL PLANT.
NOT GONNA HAPPEN VERY QUICKLY, BUT IT'S PROBABLY GONNA GET US THERE QUICKER THAN STREET DESIGN WILL.
VMTI LOVE THE CONCEPT OF VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED AS A, AS A METRIC.
I AM DISAPPOINTED THAT THE, THAT WE AND OTHER CITIES HAVE IMPLEMENTED BY DRAWING A LINE SAYING PROPERTIES INSIDE ARE GOOD, PROPERTIES OUTSIDE ARE BAD.
HOW YOU CONFIGURE THE PROJECT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
A PROJECT INSIDE THE BMT LINE THAT HAS THREE PARKING SPACES PER UNIT WILL GENERATE MORE TRAVEL THAN A PROPERTY OUTSIDE THAT HAS A QUARTER OF A PARKING SPACE AND FREE AND FREE TRANSIT PASSES BY DRAWING A HARD LINE.
WE ENRICH THE PROPERTY OWNERS ON THE INSIDE AND WE DON'T ENCOURAGE ANYBODY TO, TO CONFIGURE THEIR PROJECT TO REDUCE TRAFFIC GENERATION.
I, I WOULD LIKE US AS A GOAL TO RE-LOOK AT HOW WE'VE DONE VMT MICRO TRANSIT.
THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE WATCHED THE RECENT PRESENTATION BY JARED WALKER REGARDING MICROT TRANSIT, HE HAD A GREAT LINE, WHICH IS FOR MICROT TRANSIT RIDERSHIP IS DEATH.
AS, AS THE MAYOR POINTS OUT, MICROT TRANSIT IS GIVING AWAY FOR ZERO.
WHAT LYFT CHARGES 10 BUCKS FOR IT IS GOING BANKRUPT ANYWAY.
THE MORE MICROT TRANSIT WE HAVE, THE MORE WE SUCK CITY RESOURCES INTO IT.
AND WE DON'T REALLY GET AS MUCH OUT OF IT AS WE SHOULD.
MICROT TRANSIT CAN BE A GOOD DEVICE IN CERTAIN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE EFFECTIVELY A MONEY SINK.
BUT I WOULD LIKE OUR GENERAL PLAN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MICRO TRANSIT HAS TO BE A VERY SPECIFICALLY TARGETED APPLICATION.
NOT SOMETHING THAT IS A BROAD SOLUTION.
UH, JUST A MATTER OF PHRASING, THE ENTIRE COUNTRY TALKS, PARKING REFORM, THE PARKING REFORM NETWORK, PARKING REFORM IN MINNEAPOLIS, IN NEW YORK CITY, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
WE SOMEHOW HAVE LOST THAT WORD.
WE, WE, WE ARE GONNA DO PARKING MANAGEMENT, WHICH IS A VERY SOFT WORD.
IT'S SORT OF A SOFT AS ENCOURAGE.
IT JUST DOESN'T FEEL LIKE WE'RE REALLY GETTING DOWN TO IT.
NOW, TO BE FAIR, WE DO TURN AROUND AND THEN TALK ABOUT PARKING METERS, WHICH IS A GOOD PART OF PARKING REFORM.
IT'S JUST THAT LEAD WORD IS THE WRONG WORD.
AND THEN LASTLY, AND THIS IS JUST A REALLY MINOR EDITORIAL COMMENT, WE END UP WITH AN APPENDIX A OF THREE OR FOUR PAGES OF TECHNICAL SPECS, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THEY MAY BE SUPERSEDED AT SOME POINT.
I, I DON'T KNOW WHY WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THOSE PAGES RATHER THAN JUST REFERENCING THE NATO GUIDELINES.
UM, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE WE END UP WITH FOUR PAGES OF STUFF THAT MAY NOT BE PERTINENT FIVE YEARS FROM NOW.
'CAUSE THEY'VE BEEN REVISED BY NATO.
SO THAT JUST STRUCK ME AS A WASTE OF PAPER OR A WASTE OF DIGITAL SPACE, WHATEVER.
OKAY, WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH TO RON AND MATT AND HEATHER AND FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND HEARING OUR FEEDBACK.
I THINK, I THINK, UM, I FOR ONE, HAVE A LOT TO THINK ABOUT AND, AND MORE TO ADD AFTER TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION TO MY COMMENTS.
AND I'M WONDERING HOW, I KNOW YOU SHOWED THE CALENDAR OF OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH THIS DOCUMENT.
ARE THERE OTHER WAYS THIS CAN BE PUSHED OUT TO THE PUBLIC? I'M ASSUMING THIS IS ON CITY WEBSITE TO GIVE FEEDBACK.
IT'S ON THE PLAN PETALUMA.ORG.
ALL OF THE FRAMEWORKS ARE POSTED THERE AND FEEDBACK FORMS ARE AVAILABLE THERE.
WE ALSO HAVE THE PLAN FEST, UM, WHICH IS ON MAY 11TH, OPEN HOUSE FROM NINE TO TWO.
UM, EACH OF THE FRAMEWORKS, THERE'S GOING TO BE A STATION, UM, WITH SOME BOARDS FOR EACH OF THE FRAMEWORKS.
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BOTH CONSULTANT TEAM MEMBERS THERE WHO HAVE THAT BACKGROUND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE.IT'S GONNA HAVE STAFF THERE THAT WERE PART OF REVIEWING THEM, AS WELL AS SOME GPAC MEMBERS, UM, WHO ARE PART OF THAT PROCESS TOO.
SO AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME, ASK MORE QUESTIONS, LOOK AT SPECIFIC SECTIONS, MAKE COMMENTS, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO PARTICIPATE.
UM, AT THIS POINT WE'RE GOING TO RECESS AND LET TRANSIT STEP AWAY AND INVITE KELLY BOND BACK IN.
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OKAY.WE'RE RECONVENING OUR MEETING AND IT'S COMMITTEE COMMENT.
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.
THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
UM, FRANK, CAN I START WITH YOU PLEASE, ADAM? UM, YEAH, LET'S SEE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO SCAN MY COMMENTS REAL QUICK.
UM, I THINK I HAVE NO COMMENT.
OKAY, I JUST WANTED TO PROMOTE THAT KELLER COWORK IS GONNA HAVE AN ENERGIZER STATION ON BIKE TO WORK DAY AND I'LL BE THERE.
UM, JUST AS ANOTHER PLUG FOR YOU, ERIS AND I DON'T HAVE MUCH MORE DETAIL, BUT KELLER COWORK, UM, UM, WALK AND ROLL TO
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SCHOOL DAY, UH, NEXT WEDNESDAY, UM, BE THERE B SQUARE.UH, WE'RE MEETING AT WICKERSHAM PARK, I BELIEVE.
UM, AND THERE WILL BE DONUT HOLES AND, UM, IT'LL BE A FUN, UH, FUN EVENT.
UM, ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT OF NEXT WEEK.
UM, KNOW BEFORE YOU GROWS HAVING, UM, A SESSION ON HOUSING, WHICH DOESN'T NECESSARILY TIE INTO THIS, BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY GONNA BE AN INTERESTING THING.
IT'S WITH CHUCK MARONE FROM STRONG TOWNS.
UM, SHOULD BE INTERESTING TO, TO, UH, INTERESTING TOPIC.
UM, AND THEN NEXT MONDAY WE ARE THE COUNCIL IS, UM, GONNA BE HAVING A WORKSHOP ON THE PROPOSED HOWARD STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, AND SO WE'RE GONNA BE ACTUALLY ABLE TO ADD PARKING, UM, IF, IF ALL THINGS GO, UM, GO AS PLANNED, WHICH IS, UM, A NICE, UH, A NICE BREATH OF FRESH AIR COMING OFF OF RECENT, UH, SITUATIONS.
THAT'S ALL CIRCLE STAFF COMMENT
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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.
GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, THANK YOU FOR HANGING WITH US HERE AS WE, UH, TRANSITION TO OUR, JUST OUR TWO BRIEF ITEMS. UM, THERE ARE LOTS AND LOTS OF THINGS GOING ON AT THE CITY RIGHT NOW.
UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T HAVE MANY PROJECT UPDATES TO SHARE.
UH, DID SEND OUT A MESSAGE A WHILE AGO ABOUT THE RECENT UPGRADES THAT OUR, OUR WONDERFUL PUBLIC WORKS CREW COMPLETED AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
YOU CAN SEE THERE WHERE WE HAD, UM, THE, UH, THE WAVE RACKS AND, UH, AND SO THEY EXPANDED THAT CONCRETE PAD.
UH, WERE ABLE TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE BIKE PARKING CAPACITY, PUT IN, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR MUCH BETTER, UH, MORE, UH, ACCESSIBLE AND ACCOMMODATING, UH, BIKE RACKS.
AND ALSO ADDED ONE OF THE REPAIR STATIONS DONATED BY THE PETALUMA LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.
UM, SO REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THAT.
AND YOU'LL CONTINUE TO SEE BIKE RACKS POPPING UP THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, AS WE GO THROUGH THE SPRING AND SUMMER MONTHS.
UM, I'LL ALSO JUST NOTE, UM, THE MARIA DRIVE, UH, IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT IS NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
WE'LL, I'LL, I'LL TRY TO BRING BACK MORE INFORMATION TO SHARE NEXT MONTH.
BUT IF YOU'RE OUT ON MARIA DRIVE RIGHT NOW, YOU WILL SEE LOTS AND LOTS OF CURB RAMPS, UH, BEING CONSTRUCTED AND, UM, SOME SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR.
SO THEY'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW AND DOING ALL OF THE CONCRETE WORK.
AND THEN THEY'LL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH, UH, UTILITY WORK.
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A BRIEF RECAP OF OUR APRIL 8TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF, UH, PBA RELATED ITEMS ON THE AGENDA THAT EVENING.WE GAVE A PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL, UH, SORT OF A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF ALL OF OUR, UH, SAFE STREETS EFFORTS.
WE AWARDED OUR ON-CALL STRIPING CONTRACT, WHICH WE ARE EXCITED TO BEGIN, UH, UTILIZING TO MORE EFFICIENTLY DELIVER QUICK BUILD AND O OTHER STRIPING IMPROVED ROADWAY STRIPING SIGNAGE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UH, WE'LL BE USING THAT, UH, A A LOT GOING INTO THE SUMMER MONTHS HERE.
UM, TO DELIVER SAFE, SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM PROJECTS.
UH, WE'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY USE IT TO DELIVER OUR FIFTH STREET AND D STREET PROJECTS.
UM, SOME, SOME BIKE LANE PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO, LOTS OF EXCITING STUFF ON THE WAY.
UH, THANKS TO THAT CONTRACT, OUR COUNCIL COMPLETED THEIR FIRST READING OF AN ORDINANCE TO REDUCE SPEED LIMITS, UH, IN THE DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT AND WITHIN 500 FEET OF ALL SCHOOLS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ASSEMBLY BILL 43.
AND THAT'S GOING TO CITY COUNCIL FOR A SECOND READING, UH, NEXT MONDAY, MAY 6TH.
AND, AND THAT'LL, UM, MAKE IT OFFICIAL IF, IF ADOPTED.
AND, UH, THEN AGAIN, WE'LL BE STARTING TO ROLL OUT THOSE REDUCED SPEED LIMITS, UH, GOING INTO THE SUMMER MONTHS.
AND, UH, LASTLY, THE COUNCIL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DESIGNS FOR THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY PROJECT AND THE D STREET TRAFFIC CALMING PILOT PROJECT.
AND, UH, VOTED FOR THE BIKE LANE ALTERNATIVE ON THE D STREET PROJECT, WHICH WILL PROVIDE BIKE LANES IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ALONG THE CONSTRAINED SECTION BETWEEN FOURTH STREET AND LAUREL AVENUE.
AND SO BOTH OF THOSE PROJECTS WILL MOVE TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION, UH, THIS SUMMER.
TONS AND TONS OF THINGS GOING ON IN MAY.
AND, UH, SO VERY FITTING THAT WE HAVE A, A COMBINATION OF LOTS OF, UM, FUN EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO, UH, HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD, UH, ADVOCATE FOR, UM, OR, OR PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON, UH, ITEMS THAT INVOLVE WALKING AND BIKING.
SO, UH, AS COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE MENTIONED, NEXT MONDAY, MAY 6TH, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL CONDUCT THEIR SECOND READING OF THE ORDINANCE TO REDUCE SPEED LIMITS.
AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A WORKSHOP ON THE HOWARD STREET IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.
AND THAT AGENDA IS LIVE, SO YOU CAN GO VIEW THAT AGENDA AT THE CITY MEETINGS PAGE RIGHT NOW, TWO WEEKS AFTER THAT MONDAY, MAY 20TH AT 5:00 PM THE COUNCIL WILL HAVE ITS, UH, BUDGET WORKSHOP FOR THE CITY'S OPERATING IN CAPITAL BUDGETS FOR FISCAL YEARS 20 24, 20 25.
AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
UH, THAT'S WHERE THE, THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD AS FAR AS IDENTIFYING, UH, PRIORITIES FOR PROJECTS THAT WILL BE, UM, CAPITAL PROJECTS, UH, THAT WILL BE UNDERTAKEN NEXT YEAR.
AND SKIPPING OVER TO THE EVENT SIDE, WE'VE GOT, UH, BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY WEDNESDAY, MAY 8TH.
SEVERAL SCHOOLS IN PETALUMA ARE PARTICIPATING.
WE'VE GOT THE FULL LIST THERE AND HAVE HIGHLIGHTED BY BOLDING THOSE THAT HAVE, UH, WHERE PARENTS OR STAFF HAVE ORGANIZED BIKE TRAINS OR WALKING SCHOOL BUSES.
AND I KNOW, UH, SEVERAL SCHOOLS WILL BE USING HAMM PARK AS COUNCIL MEMBER.
UH, BARNACLE MENTIONED AS A MEETING PO MEETING SPOT.
SO, UH, IF YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF SCHOOL AFFILIATION, JUST A REMINDER AND YOU DON'T, AND YOU DON'T SEE YOUR SCHOOL HERE, JUST A REMINDER THAT A LOT OF THESE EFFORTS REALLY ARE PARENT AND STAFF DRIVEN.
UM, A GREAT WAY TO BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS ARE BY JOINING US AT OUR SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TASK FORCE MEETINGS, CONNECTING WITH STAFF, PARENTS, UM, SAFE ROUTE STAFF AND, AND FI FINDING OUT OUT WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GET INVOLVED IN THOSE EFFORTS AT OUR SCHOOLS.
SO AGAIN, IF YOU DON'T SEE, UH, A SCHOOL HERE, UH, THAT MEANS THEY'RE LIKELY IN NEED OF SOME SORT OF A PARENT CHAMPION OR, OR STAFF CHAMPION.
UM, AND, UH, FEEL FREE TO, TO GET IN TOUCH AND I'LL, I'LL CONNECT YOU WITH THE PEOPLE YOU NEED TO KNOW TO, UH, GET THINGS MOVING AT THOSE SCHOOLS.
AND I SEE A, A HAND FROM MARSHA, JUST A COMMENT.
UM, I'M LOOKING AT THE LIST OF SCHOOLS THAT WE HAVE THAT'S PROBABLY AT LEAST A THIRD MORE THAN WE'VE EVER HAD BEFORE.
THE, YOU KNOW, THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TEAM.
UH, HATS OFF TO CHRISTINA PANZA.
SHE'S DOING AN AMAZING JOB PROMOTING ALL OF THEIR OFFERINGS AND, UH, AND GETTING SCHOOLS SIGNED UP.
AND WE'RE ALSO FINDING THAT AS WE GO THROUGH WITH THE TASK FORCE MEETINGS, WE GO DO OUR WALK AUDITS AT THESE SCHOOLS.
AND THAT'S BEEN REALLY EFFECTIVE AT CREATING THOSE CONNECTIONS WITH, UH, SCHOOL LEADERSHIP.
AND THEY'RE STARTING TO REALLY SEE THE VALUE OF SAFE ROUTES.
UM, THEY'RE LEARNING ABOUT WHAT SAFE ROUTES HAS TO OFFER AND
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ALSO OBVIOUSLY SIGNING UP.UM, ESPECIALLY I THINK IN FEW NEXT YEAR WE'LL SEE A LOT MORE PARTICIPATION BECAUSE WE'RE MAKING THOSE CONNECTIONS.
AND, UH, THIS WAS ALREADY DISCUSSED QUITE A BIT, JUST, UH, THE, THE REMINDER ABOUT GENERAL PLAN FEST, UH, MAY 11TH, AND THAT WILL BE NINE TO 9:00 AM TO 2:00 PM UH, AT THE, AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN BEVERLY C. WILSON HALL.
EXCITING TO START TO SEE THE, THE FAIRGROUNDS SITE BE USED FOR, UH, CITY MEETINGS IN PUBLIC, UH, PUBLIC EVENTS OF THIS NATURE.
AND IF YOU ARRIVE BEFORE 10:00 AM YOU WILL GET TO SEE THE SHEEP AND GOATS MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN D STREET TO, UH, THE RIVER PARK FOR THE TRANSHUMAN FESTIVAL.
SO MAYBE AN INCENTIVE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE GOT KIDS TO, TO COME OUT BEFORE 10:00 AM I KNOW MY, MY TODDLER IS REALLY INTO SHEEP
SO, UH, OUR CITY TEAM WILL BE OVER IN OUR USUAL SPOT AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, UH, ON LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
UH, I KNOW THERE'S A STATION ORGANIZED AT THE DOWNTOWN SMART STATION, I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT BE.
SAFE STREET'S, PETALUMA, KELLER STREET, COWORK, I JUST ADDED THAT.
THANK YOU, KELLY AND WALNUT PARK.
AND I WILL SEND OUT AN EMAIL, UH, LATER THIS WEEK ASKING FOR ANY VOLUNTEERS FROM PAC IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN ME OUT THAT MORNING TO, UH, GREET FOLKS AND, UH, REPRESENT PAC AT OUR ENERGIZER STATION.
OUR NEXT SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL TASK FORCE MEETING IS THURSDAY, MAY 16TH.
A REMINDER, WE MEET THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH AT 4:00 PM THE LOCATIONS HAVE BEEN MOVING A BIT DUE TO COMMUNITY CENTER RENOVATIONS THAT ARE UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, WE WILL BE ACTUALLY AT THE ME WALK CAMPUS.
UH, OUR, WE JUST COMPLETED OUR WALK AUDIT OF THE ME WALK SCHOOL AREA YESTERDAY, SO WE'LL BE REPORTING BACK OUT ON THAT WALK AUDIT, UM, ON MAY 16TH.
AND THEN OUR FINAL WALK AUDIT AND TASK FORCE MEETING FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE ON JUNE 20TH, UH, FOCUSED ON CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL, WILL LIKELY BE AT CASA GRANDE, BUT I JUST DON'T THINK WE'VE CONFIRMED THAT YET.
AND, UH, AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A, A BREAK FOR, UH, JUST FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, AND THEN WE'LL BE BACK AT IT IN AUGUST.
I BELIEVE OUR FIRST SCHOOL'S UP FOR AUGUST.
WE'LL BE VALLEY VISTA AND PETALUMA JUNIOR HIGH.
UM, AND I SUPPOSE ALSO THE, THE SPRING HILL CAMPUS THERE.
AND, UH, WE'LL RELEASE THAT FULL, THAT FULL SCHEDULE, UH, PROBABLY SOMETIME, UH, IN JULY OR AUGUST AS WE GET CLOSER TO NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
PETALUMA IS HOLDING THEIR CLIMATE RESOURCE, UH, EXPO ON TUESDAY, MAY 21ST AT THE EXPO HALL AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.
THEY HAVE LOTS OF FOLKS, UH, LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND, UH, AND VENDORS COME AND SHARE, UH, ALL OF THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING IN THE COMMUNITY THAT'S, UH, IN SOME WAY TOUCHING ON, UH, ADDRESSING OUR, OUR CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
AND, UH, ALWAYS A VERY FAMILY FRIENDLY, FRIENDLY EVENT WITH FOOD AND CRAFTS AND THINGS TO DO FOR, FOR KIDS.
UM, I'VE GOT THE LINK THERE, AND WE ARE GOING TO BE HOLDING OUR SECOND COMMUNITY WORKSHOP FOCUSED ON THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY RIGHT HERE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH AT 6:00 PM IN CITY HALL.
UH, AND THIS WILL BE A REALLY EXCITING MEETING BECAUSE WE'LL ACTUALLY HAVE SOME, SOME CONCEPT PLANS, IDEAS TO SHARE ON EACH OF THE FOUR CROSSINGS.
AGAIN, THOSE ARE THE CORONA ROAD, OVERCROSSING RAINIER UNDER RAINIER AVENUE, UNDER CROSSING LYNCH CREEK TRAIL CROSSING AT NORTH MCDOWELL BOULEVARD, WHICH IS SHOWN HERE, AND THE MCKENZIE AVENUE OVERCROSSING.
SO WE'LL HAVE SOME, UH, AT OUR, OUR FIRST MEETING BACK IN FEBRUARY, UH, PRESENTED SOME OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS, CONSTRAINTS AT EACH LOCATION AND, AND GOT IDEAS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT THIS ONE WILL BE ABLE TO SHARE SOME, SOME MORE CONCRETE IDEAS AROUND WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO IMPROVE EACH OF THESE CROSSINGS, BOTH NEAR AND LONG TERM.
AND OUR UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS, UH, TARGETING HOPEFULLY NEXT MONTH FOR, UH, AN OVERVIEW OF ALL OF THE GRANT ACTIVITY.
THERE ARE A LOT OF GRANT APPLICATIONS, UH, THAT HAVE EITHER RECENTLY BEEN SUBMITTED OR ARE UPCOMING.
AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE, WE GET FEEDBACK ENGAGED IN ALL OF THAT WORK.
AND, UH, NOTHING ELSE HERE REALLY TO HIGHLIGHT.
AT SOME POINT WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT ONE-ON-ONE CROSSING STUDY TO PVAC FOR YOUR FEEDBACK, BUT WE'LL FIGURE OUT A TIME WHEN THAT MAKES MOST SENSE TO, TO GET YOUR EYES ON IT AND WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY NEW ITEMS THAT
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YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAYBE ADD TO THIS LIST IF ANYONE HAS ANY.I'D LIKE AN UPDATE ON ENFORCEMENT.
SOME PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT ENFORCEMENT, YOU KNOW, FOCUS ON, SORRY, YOU MIGHT NEED TO SPEAK INTO YOUR MIC.
UM, I, I'VE HEARD, UH, LIKE D STREET, YOU KNOW, THEY SAID THERE'S BEEN ONE TICKET GIVEN ON D STREET IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT ENFORCEMENT, UM, THAT I'VE BEEN TALKING TO RECENTLY.
I THINK IT'D BE, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT MY FIRST PRIORITY WHEN I THINK ABOUT STREET SAFETY AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MAYBE OUR POLICE CHIEF OR SOMEONE COME IN AND JUST TALK TO US ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY ARE DOING ON ENFORCEMENT, UM, AND HOW THEY APPROACH THAT SORT OF THING.
WE DO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR TRAFFIC SERGEANT WALT SPILLER.
HE ACTUALLY COMES TO ALL OF OUR SAFE ROUTES WALK AUDITS AND TASK FORCE MEETINGS.
AND, UH, WE HAVE A GREAT WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM.
UH, LOTS OF COLLABORATION AROUND, YOU KNOW, SHARING THE COMPLAINTS THAT BOTH OF OUR RESPECTIVE DEPARTMENTS ARE RECEIVING, UH, AROUND SPEEDING OR UNSAFE DRIVING.
AND, UH, YEAH, THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE A REALLY, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT SUGGESTION.
IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE HIM IN HERE.
SO I, I THOUGHT MARJA WAS RAISING YOUR HAND.
UM, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TONIGHT, BUT I DID ALSO JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE KEN IADT, OUR SENIOR TRAFFIC ENGINEER, WHOSE, UH, LAST DAY WITH THE CITY, UNFORTUNATELY WAS LAST THURSDAY.
HE HAS NOW MOVED ON TO RETIREMENT.
SO WE OBVIOUSLY WISH KEN THE VERY BEST.
AND, UH, WE HAVE SOME BIG SHOES TO FILL ON OUR TEAM AS WE RECRUIT FOR A NEW, UM, TRAFFIC ENGINEER.
AND JUST WANTED TO, UH, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I KNOW KEN WAS VERY INVOLVED WITH THIS COMMITTEE, BUT, UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT INTERNALLY AT THE CITY.
UH, YOU KNOW, HE OBVIOUSLY GOT A LOT OF PRAISE, UM, FROM OUR, OUR LEADERSHIP AND STAFF HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, HE REALLY WAS, UH, THE RIGHT PERSON TO HAVE AT THE CITY AT A TIME WHEN WE REALLY STARTED TO EMPHASIZE AND, AND FOCUS ON PAVEMENT, QUALITY, SAFE STREETS, VISION ZERO, COMPLETE STREETS, ALL OF THOSE EFFORTS.
SO, UM, AS, UH,
SO, UM, UH, IS THERE ANY GATHERING FOR HIM? WE, WE ALREADY HAD ONE.
UH, ALTHOUGH I THINK I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF KEN START SHOWS UP AT SOME COMMUNITY EVENTS IN THE COMING WEEKS, INCLUDING MAYBE THE FIRST FRIDAY AT FIVE BIKE RIDE.
UM, AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SHARE HIS CONTACT INFO IF ANYONE WANTS IT.
WE ARE ADJOURNED AT 8:48 PM EXCELLENT.