* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:02] GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PETALUMA PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17TH. [ROLL CALL] FIRST, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ROLL CALL CLERK. WOULD YOU TAKE THE ROLE PLEASE? BAL PRESENT. BARNACLE. PRESENT. GARCIA PRESENT. UH, SORRY. KUSON HERE. GREENSPAN. UH, QUINT. HERE. TAR HERE. SLAT. AND WE HAVE A QUORUM. CORRECT? VERY [GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT] GOOD. ALRIGHT, WE ARE AT THE, UH, AGENDA ITEM, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO READ THE FOLLOWING DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO 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 20 MINUTES SUBJECT TO THE COUNCIL'S SUBJECT TO THE COMMITTEE'S DISCRETION. WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO OPEN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND ASK SPEAKERS TO BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS UP TO THE CLERK IF THEY'VE NOT ALREADY DONE SO. GOOD. UH, GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, I, THIS MAY BE UNNECESSARY, BUT I'M HERE TO MAKE A SHORT PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE HOLIDAY LIGHTED BIKE RIDE, WHICH IS THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20TH. UH, WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO ARRIVE AT THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY CENTER NO LATER THAN FIVE O'CLOCK. THE RIDE STARTS PROMPTLY AT FIVE 30 AND WE FOLLOW A, A LITTLE OVER FIVE MILE ROUTE THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. UM, I'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF PUBLICITY. UM, WE HAVE A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED ONLINE REGISTRATIONS, AND MOST OF THOSE, UM, INCLUDE MULTIPLE KIDS. SO HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GONNA SHOW UP, BUT WE'RE HOPING FOR A LOT. UM, SO TELL YOUR FRIENDS, BE THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. GANG. CLERK, DO I HAVE ANY FURTHER CARDS? THERE'S TWO MORE. OKAY. THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE. ALRIGHT, WITH THIS, EMILY, YOUR NEXT UP. HELLO, UH, EMILY CHARLTON FROM THE SUNNOVA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION. UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO, UH, REMIND YOU THAT OUR ANNUAL MEETING, UH, IS COMING UP, UM, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10TH. UH, AND I KNOW SOME OF YOU'RE MEMBERS, UM, IT'S A GOOD TIME TO JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IF YOU HAVE ONE. UM, WE'LL BE AT THE SANTA ROSA VETERANS MEMORIAL BUILDING. UM, AND IT'S FROM FIVE TO EIGHT, UH, COMING HERE ABOUT WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON FOR THE YEAR. SO WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE. THANKS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JANICE. SKATER THOMPSON. WE'LL BE NEXT. I'M JUST, UM, TELLING EVERYBODY HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY AND BE SAFE. AND I WANT TO SAY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY DOES FOR THE CITY. THANK YOU. THANKS. MEANWHILE, I SKIPPED SOMETHING. CLERK, DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? UH, NO PRIOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. OKAY, GREAT. AND IT LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE HAS SPOKEN. SO WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND CONTINUE ON WITH THE [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] AGENDA, THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. WE ALL RECEIVE THE MINUTES IN OUR PACKETS. UH, ARE THERE ANY CORRECTIONS, DELETIONS, ET CETERA, OR CAN WE JUST ASSUME THAT THEY ARE GOOD AS WR? GOOD AS WRITTEN. ALL RIGHT. I SEE. NO NOD. I SEE LOTS OF NODS AT THIS. IT'S GOOD. SO WE'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH APPROVAL, [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION] WHICH TAKES US TO OUR ONLY, UH, PUBLIC HEARING AND MATTER FOR CONSIDERATION TONIGHT. AND THAT IS TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THE DRAFT ACTION PLAN FOR INCLUSION IN THE, IN THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND BEYOND THE FLOOR IS YOURS. [00:05:02] ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. UH, COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND, UH, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, UH, HAPPY TONIGHT TO CONTINUE TO CONTINUE MAKE PROGRESS TOWARDS COMPLETION OF OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. UM, TONIGHT WE WILL BE REVIEWING FOR THE SECOND TIME OUR DRAFT ACTION PLAN, WHICH IS, UH, A STANDALONE, UM, WHICH IS A CHAPTER IN, IN THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. SO JUST FOR, UH, A QUICK REFRESHER OF THE CONTENTS OF THE PLAN, UM, THIS WILL BE CHAPTER FOUR. UM, SO IT IS, UH, I'VE, I'VE ITALICIZED, UH, WHAT WE'VE REVIEWED THERE. SO WE'VE REVIEWED OBVIOUSLY THE VISION AND GOALS. UM, THOSE WERE INCLUDED IN THE STAFF REPORT AND WE'VE, WE'VE REVIEWED THOSE QUITE A FEW TIMES THAT OUR PAST MEETINGS, UM, TONIGHT THE ACT, WE'VE GOT THE ACTION PLAN, WHICH HAS SEVERAL SUBSECTIONS OR TOPICAL AREAS. AND THEN, UM, REALLY THE MEAT, THE, THE REMAINING MEAT OF THE PLAN IS, UH, IN CHAPTER FIVE. UH, LAST MONTH WE REVIEWED BIKEWAYS AND MULTI-USE TRAILS. WE STILL NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT INTERSECTIONS, CROSSWALKS, AND SIDEWALK GAPS. UM, AND THE WAY I WOULD REALLY DESCRIBE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CHAPTER THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT TONIGHT, THIS IS EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE SETTING OUT TO ACCOMPLISH, UH, OVER THE, THE, THE COURSE OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. UM, THAT IS NOT TIED TO A SPECIFIC LOCATION. SO WHERE CHAPTER FIVE IS, UH, SHOWING THE MAPS OF BIKEWAYS, MULTI-USE TRAILS INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS, SIDEWALK GAP CLOSURES THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO WITH THE PHYSICAL LOCATIONS, UM, AND ALSO PRIORITIZE LISTS THAT WE ARE AIMING TO TACKLE. UM, CHAPTER FOUR, THE ACTION PLAN BEFORE YOU TONIGHT ARE, UM, UH, KIND OF THE, IT'S IT'S DESCRIPTIONS OF HOW WE ARE GOING ABOUT DOING THAT WORK. UM, IT'S IDENTIFYING SPECIFIC TANGIBLE ACTIONS THAT WE CAN MONITOR PROGRESS ON AND TOWARDS, UM, THAT ARE NOT, AGAIN, NOT TIED TO THOSE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. SO, UM, I THINK WHAT WE CAN DO, UH, IS I'LL, I'LL JUST PULL UP, UH, THE, THE DOCUMENT ITSELF AND I APOLOGIZE, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY, UH, MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT CUMBERSOME FOR US TO GET THROUGH IT, BUT IT IS AN IMPORTANT, UM, OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THAT. UH, AND, UM, WE CAN JUST GO THROUGH THIS SECTION BY SECTION IF IT'S HELPFUL. UM, I'LL BE HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS AND, AND THEN WE CAN, I THINK WHAT WE DID LAST, LAST MONTH WORKED PRETTY WELL, UM, WHERE WE, UH, ALLOWED THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON EACH INDIVIDUAL SECTION SO THAT WE COULD KIND OF BREAK IT UP INTO BITE-SIZED CHUNKS IF WE, IF WE WANNA DO THAT AGAIN. SO WE WANNA DO THAT ONE. IT'LL JUST BE ONE REVIEW THEN WITH BOTH PUBLIC AND WITH COMMISSIONERS. NO, I THINK COUNCIL PEOPLE, WELL, I THINK WHAT, UM, SORRY. I THINK WHAT OR WHAT WE AGREED TO DO IS, LAST TIME THE PUBLIC WAS ALLOWED TO COMMENT AFTER, UM, UH, THE COMMITTEE ASKED QUESTIONS AND PROVIDED SOME COMMENTS THAT GAVE THE, THE PUBLIC THE BENEFIT OF KIND OF ADDING ON. SO, UH, AND THEN IT ALSO GAVE THE COMMITTEE A CHANCE TO RESPOND. SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT FORMAT AGAIN TONIGHT IF WE'D LIKE TO, WE COULD BREAK IT UP INTO EACH, UM, EACH KIND OF TOPICAL SECTION IF THAT'S HELPFUL. UM, SO I'LL, I'LL SWITCH OVER TO MY SCREEN SHARE AND I'LL HAVE THIS UP IN WORD AND I WILL USE TRACK CHANGES SO THAT WE CAN ALL KIND OF, UM, KEEP KEEP TRACK OF COMMENTS IN REAL TIME. UH, AND ANY QUESTIONS THAT COME UP, LET ME SWITCH MY SCREEN SHARE HERE. ALRIGHT. AND I'LL ZOOM IN, OBVIOUSLY. SORRY, TRYING TO, OKAY. ARE WE READY TO GO? YEAH, I THINK WE ARE GOOD TO GO. I WILL ALSO NOTE THAT PRIOR TO THE MEETING WE DID RECEIVE COMMENTS FROM, UH, NATHAN SPINEL OF SAFE STREETS PETALUMA, AS WELL AS PETE GANG OF SAFE STREETS, PETALUMA. UM, AND SO THOSE WERE SENT OUT TO THE COMMITTEE AND, UM, I BELIEVE AARON WILL UPLOAD THOSE TO THE AGENDA IF HE HAS NOT ALREADY. UM, SO THEY WERE RECEIVED AFTER THE 3:00 PM DEADLINE, BUT THEY'LL BE UPLOADED TOMORROW. OKAY, GREAT. SO WE'LL, WE'LL GET THOSE ADDED TO THE AGENDA MATERIALS. AND THEN I WILL ALSO SAY FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, UM, AND FOR ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC TONIGHT WHO'S INTERESTED, UM, I DID SHARE A WORD DOCUMENT WITH YOU ALL, UM, IN CASE YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMPLETE YOUR OWN REVIEWS ON YOUR OWN TIME, UM, GIVING YOU THE BENEFIT OF BEING ABLE TO GO IN AND MARK THIS UP YOURSELVES. AND WE'LL HAPPILY ACCEPT THOSE COMMENTS, UM, THROUGH THE NEW YEAR. IF YOU'D LIKE TO DO THAT ON YOUR OWN TIME. OBVIOUSLY YOU WON'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF HAVING THOSE COMMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSED, SEEN, AND DISCUSSED BY THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE TONIGHT. BUT, UM, HAPPY TO CONTINUE TO ACCEPT THOSE. AND SAME GOES FOR ANYONE, UM, IN THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A WORD VERSION. I'M HAPPY TO, TO SEND THOSE OUT AND, UH, AND CONSIDER THOSE [00:10:01] COMMENTS AS WELL. OKAY. SO WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM BJORN IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS DOCUMENT, IT'S PRETTY HEAVY, WE'RE GONNA DO IT SECTION BY SECTION. SO THE FIRST SECTION IS CALLED INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN, AND THAT'S THE SECTION THAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT FIRST DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, YOU'RE FREE TO ASK BJORN QUESTIONS. YOU CAN MAKE COMMENTS, YOU CAN MAKE SUGGESTIONS, UM, BUT KEEP YOUR, KEEP YOUR REMARKS SUCCINCT. I WOULD PREFER NOT TO BE HERE AT MIDNIGHT SINCE I HAVE A 7:00 AM FLIGHT OUT OF TOWN TOMORROW. SO, UM, LET'S BE SUCCINCT. LET'S NOT REPEAT BE REPETITIVE STATE. YOU CAN ALWAYS SAY DITTO. GREAT COMMENT, BRIAN. UM, THANKS FRA, THANKS FRANK FOR THAT INFORMATION. BUT THE IDEA IS JUST TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANOTHER COMMENT, BUT THEN GO ON WITH YOUR OWN. ALRIGHT, SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SECTION ONE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN, AND WE ARE NOW AS A COMMITTEE TAKING A LOOK AT THAT. THIS IS THE TIME FOR QUESTIONS OF BJORN, UM, ET CETERA. SO LET'S GO FORTH. WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE FIRST? I CAN ALWAYS START ON ONE END. AND DARREN, THANK YOU FOR VOLUNTEERING. THANK YOU CHAIR. UH, SO MY QUESTIONS I THINK COULD BE BROADLY, UM, KIND OF BROADLY FIT A COUPLE ITEMS IN THIS AREA, BUT JUST AN IDEA OF PRIORITIZATION MM-HMM . AND IT'S NOT EXPLICITLY STATED IN THE PLANNING PROCESS OF WE WILL DECIDE WHAT TO PRIORITIZE. IS THAT KIND OF LOCATED MORE IN CHAPTER FIVE? IS THAT KIND OF IMPLICITLY THAT WE, 'CAUSE LATER ON WE TALK ABOUT NEAR TERM PROJECTS, SO I'M ASSUMING SOME PRIORITIZATION HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE. YEAH. AND IS IT, DO WE NEED TO MENTION ANYTHING MORE ABOUT THAT? AND TO BUILD ON THAT, I MIGHT AS WELL ASK IT NOW. I'M THINKING ALSO WHEN WE THINK OF THINGS LIKE A DA IMPROVEMENTS OR AREAS THAT ARE OF KIND OF SPECIAL CONCERN FROM PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISE MOBILITY, AND THEN AS A ANOTHER GROUP THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER, BUT A REALLY ANY UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, DO WE MAKE SURE THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE KIND OF HITTING CERTAIN EQUITY MARKERS, WHATEVER THOSE LOOK LIKE. UM, I'M JUST NOT SURE HOW THAT ALL FITS THIS IDEA OF PRIORITIZATION AND SERVING CERTAIN COMMUNITIES BASED ON LIKE MOBILITY AND TRADITIONALLY UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. IF THAT BUILDS INTO THE PLANNING PROCESS HERE, MAYBE IT'S NOT LISTED IN ANY OF THE IPS, BUT IT'S KIND OF DONE IN OTHER AREAS OF THE PLAN. YEAH, SO ACTUALLY AT LAST MONTH'S, GREAT QUESTION. AT LAST MONTH'S MEETING, UH, AS PART OF THE PRESENTATION ON THE DRAFT, THE UPDATED DRAFT BIKEWAY NETWORK, UH, WE DID HAVE SOME PRIORITIZATION CRITER CRITERIA THAT WAS, UM, SHARED WITH THE COMMITTEE. I DON'T RECALL THERE BEING MUCH FEEDBACK ON THE CRITERIA, BUT I CAN SUMMARIZE IT HERE. UM, SO WE HAD, UH, FIVE POINTS EACH FOR ANY MAJOR BARRIER CROSSED, UM, WITH THE MAJOR BARRIERS BEING THE FREEWAY, RIVER AND SMART TRACKS. SO TRYING TO ELEVATE THOSE PROJECTS THAT ENHANCE OUR CROSSTOWN CONNECTORS, RECOGNIZING THAT THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BARRIERS TO, UH, MOBILITY IN, IN PETALUMA. WE HAD, UM, WAITING FOR THE TYPE OF FACILITY WHETHER SO, UH, TRAILS AND ARTERIAL ROADS WERE, UM, WERE FAVORED. AND THEN, UM, AT FIVE POINTS EACH COLLECTORS THREE POINTS AND LOCAL STREETS ONE POINT. SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT THERE IS, UM, BASICALLY THE, THE ROLE THAT THE, THE STREET OR TRAIL IN QUESTION KIND OF PLAYS IN THE OVERALL, UH, MOBILITY NETWORK FOR THE CITY, UM, WITH ARTERIALS AND TRAILS TENDING TO SERVE THE GREATEST VOLUME OF TRIPS OR HAVING THE GREATEST DEMAND FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TRIPS. UM, WE HAD A, UH, UH, SCORE FOR THE ACTUAL LENGTH OF THE BIKEWAY. SO ONE POINT PER MILE OF THE TOTAL OVERALL ROUTE TO TRY TO AGAIN, PRIORITIZE THE MA THE WHAT I'LL CALL THE SPINES OF THE NETWORK, UM, FIRST. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE BUILT OUT THOSE KEY ARTERIES AND SPINES, THEN WE MOVE TO THE MORE SECONDARY CONNECTIONS. SORRY. YEAH. WELL, I JUST DON'T WANT TO MAKE YOU REPEAT THAT MEETING. YEAH, I HAD TO MISS THAT MEETING. YEAH. SO IT SOUNDS LIKE, WELL, I THINK IT'S HELPFUL. YEAH. YEAH, I CAN I, AND SO WE HAD ALSO A ONE FOR CONNECTIVITY, SO TRANSIT HUBS, LIBRARIES, COMMUNITY CENTERS, UM, SO IF, IF THE ROUTE SERVED CERTAIN TYPES OF CONNECTIONS, THEIR POINTS AWARDED, AND THEN WE ALSO HAD A HIGH INJURY NETWORK MULTIPLIER. UM, SO YEAH, THAT'S REALLY WHERE THE ACTUAL PROJECTS WILL BE PRIORITIZED IS THROUGH THAT, THAT PROCESS. YEP. THAT WAS THE KIND OF ROBUST METRIC SYSTEM I WAS THINKING ABOUT. SO, TERRIFIC. UH, THAT IS, AND, AND FEEL FREE TO GO BACK AND, AND TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND, AND IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS, IT SOUNDS LIKE I, I PROBABLY SHOULD. THANKS. UH, THANK YOU BJORN. THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS. ANOTHER, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER HAVE COMMENT. YES. I'LL JUST GO DOWN THE LINE. I DON'T, DON'T HAVE A, DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TILL [00:15:01] DARREN MENTIONED. IT IS MORE OF A QUESTION IS, I KNOW THERE'S NOTHING AT MTC THAT'S DESIGNATING IN PETALUMA, LIKE AN EQUITY PRIORITY CORRECT. COMMUNITY, BUT DOES PETALUMA HAVE ITS OWN STANDARDS? ARE THERE, THERE WAS A DESIGNATED COMMUNITIES THAT THOSE, I KNOW THOSE WEREN'T INCLUDED IN THE CRITERIA, BUT MAYBE THAT WAS KIND OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING AT A LITTLE BIT, DARREN. YEAH, THERE WERE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE GENERAL PLAN, UM, EXISTING CONDITIONS, GENERAL PLAN, UPDATE, EXISTING CONDITIONS, REPORT, UH, THERE WAS AN ANALYSIS DONE SO THAT THAT CAN CERTAINLY BE INCORPORATED AS CRITERIA. IT'S, UM, I BELIEVE DONE AT, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS AT THE BLOCK GROUP OR CENSUS TRACK LEVEL. UM, BUT YEAH, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY, UH, ANY AREAS IN TOWN THAT MEET THE REGIONAL DESIGNATION FOR DISADVANTAGED. YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE PERFECT JUST TO BUILD OFF WHAT HE WAS SAYING, TO HAVE THAT AS A CRITERIA. THANKS, THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU, ADAM. AND DO I HAVE ANOTHER HAND? NOTHING AT ONE END. NOTHING IN THE MIDDLE. ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT, UM, IS THERE ANYBODY FROM THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT RELATED TO THIS INFRASTRUCTURE ONE SECTION? WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT ON THE OTHER SECTIONS YET. WE'RE DOING THESE ONE AT A TIME. KEEP IN MIND THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE NO COMMENT OR QUESTION AT THIS TIME, YOU CAN TAKE, AS BJORN MENTIONED, YOU CAN TAKE THIS DOCUMENT HOME. YOU CAN, UM, AS ONE OF MY GRANDCHILDREN SAYS, DUDE IT UP. YOU CAN HIGHLIGHT, YOU CAN PUT STARS, WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU NEED TO DO, UM, AND GET IT BACK TO BJORN BY THE END OF THE MONTH. SO THAT'S A POSSIBILITY THAT EXISTS. YES, DAVID? UM, I MEAN, ADAM, EXCUSE ME. NO WORRIES. UM, ONE OTHER THOUGHT CAME TO MIND FOR THIS INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN. DESIGNERS RELATED TO COMMENT I MADE LAST, UM, MEETING. UH, IT HAD, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR IT, I THINK IT IS, BUT, UM, SOMETHING RELATED TO TRYING TO ENGAGE WITH, UM, THE LARGE SHOPPING STRIP MALL MM-HMM . CENTERS, ESPECIALLY THAT HAVE GROCERY STORES FOR TRYING TO PILOT SOME TYPE OF SAFE BIKE ROUTE, UM MM-HMM . DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ONE OF THESE, UM, YOU KNOW, THROUGH, UH, A GRACIOUS WILLING LANDOWNER OF ONE OF THOSE. SO I'M NOT SURE IF THAT FALLS INTO ANY OF, SOME MAYBE SOMETHING DOWN FURTHER, BUT I DO. YEAH, WE DID HAVE THIS, SO, UM, 18 HERE, BIKE PARKING INCENTIVES FOR EXISTING BUSINESSES, WHICH IS REALLY TRYING TO, UH, ADDRESS, YOU KNOW, GROCERY STORE SHOPPING CENTERS SEEM TO BE THE MOST COMMON EXAMPLE THAT WE HEAR ABOUT, WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ANY SORT OF TRIGGER TO REQUIRE THEM TO IMPLEMENT BETTER BIKE PARKING, UM, BECAUSE THEIR PROJECTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN APPROVED LIKELY BEFORE ANY BIKE PARKING REQUIREMENTS WERE IN PLACE. AND SO YOU'RE REALLY LOOKING FOR A VOLUNTARY ACTION FROM THOSE PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS. UM, SO WE COULD CREATE A, A SIMILAR ITEM, UM, OR WE COULD EVEN JUST EXPAND UPON THIS ITEM TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO, UM, UH, ENCOURAGE OR INCENTIVIZE THE CREATION OF BETTER WALKING AND BIKING CONNECTIVITY ON THOSE PRIVATE PROPERTIES. IS THAT, IS THAT REALLY WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? PRECISELY, YEAH. OKAY. I'M NOT SURE IF I WAS THINKING ABOUT BIKE PARKING AND ACCESS INCENTIVES OR SOMETHING SEPARATE. UM, BUT THAT'S SPOT ON. YEAH. OKAY. AND THAT'S ALL SOMETHING CHAIR. OKAY. YEAH. UM, BJORN, I'M JUST GOING BACK TO, TO LAST NIGHT, AND ONE OF THE, THE STICKING POINTS FOR SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WAS THAT, UM, THE, THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE WASN'T IN OUR EXISTING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A, FOR SOME THAT WAS ENOUGH OF A REASON TO NOT INCLUDE IT. UM, FOR OTHERS OF US IT WAS, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, NO, THIS IS ABOUT CONNECTIVITY. UM, IS THERE SOMETHING IN THE CONS COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE THAT WE CAN PUT IN THERE THAT LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, MEASURES THAT WILL INCREASE CONNECTIVITY, WHETHER THEY'RE IN OR OUT OF OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIKE, UM, SHOULD BE PURSUED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT JUST SO THAT WE, UM, HAVE PO POLICY PRECEDENT WE CAN LEAN BACK ON BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GONNA CATCH EVERYTHING IN THIS PLAN. AND IT WOULD BE GOOD TO NOT MISS OPPORTUNITIES LIKE WE DID LAST NIGHT. YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING, I AM THINKING BACK TO, SO YES, OUR, [00:20:01] OUR PLAN WAS NOT DONE WITH THAT LEVEL OF GRANULARITY. UM, THE, THE 2008 BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN MASTER PLAN, I HAVE SEEN EXAMPLES, HOWEVER OF PLANS, UM, SANTA ROSA'S ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, FOR EXAMPLE, SANTA ROSA HAS A, A VAST NETWORK OF CREEK TRAILS, AND THEIR PLAN ACTUALLY DID IDENTIFY SPECIFIC BRIDGE LOCATIONS. SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY TRY. THERE IS PRECEDENT. I MEAN, WE COULD, WE COULD FOLLOW THAT ROUTE AND, AND INCORPORATE THAT HERE. UM, I DO, I THINK WHAT'S CHALLENGING IS THAT IT'S HARD TO ANTICIPATE WHEN YOU TAKE, LIKE CREEKWOOD FOR EXAMPLE, IT'S, IT'S HARD TO ANTICIPATE, UM, THAT THE DEVELOPMENT, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY THAT MIGHT OCCUR. UM, RIGHT. AND SO WHEN, WHEN THIS PLAN WAS DONE IN 2008, I DON'T THINK ANYONE WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT LAND DEVELOPING AND THEN THE CONNECTIVITY. UM, SO IT, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, MAYBE NOT HAVING TO ADDRESS LIKE EXACTLY WHERE THE BRIDGES SHOULD GO, BUT LIKE, I REMEMBER WHEN SID COMMONS WAS GOING THROUGH AND THERE WAS A LOT OF OPPOSITION. I WAS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T THINK IT SHOULD, SHOULD, THE PROJECT SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPROVED MM-HMM . BUT LIKE PUTTING IN A, UM, A PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE AT THAT PROJECT WAS ANOTHER LIKE, SORT OF NO-BRAINER AMENITY THAT CUT OVERLOOKED AND HAVING POLICY PRECEDENT TO, UM, TO INCREASE CONNECTIVITY IN PLACE. JUST LIKE SOMETHING THAT IT'S LIKE, NO, WE'RE WE WANT TO BE DOING THIS, IF WE'RE GONNA BE DOING THESE PROJECTS THAT WE DIDN'T SEE COMING, YEAH, I WOULD, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WOULD CARRY MUCH MORE WEIGHT IF IT WAS IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE AS PART OF THE MOBILITY ELEMENT. BUT, UM, THERE'S CERTAINLY SOME, I I THINK WE COULD, WE COULD LOOK TO ADD SOMETHING HERE THAT REINFORCES THAT. UM, I'LL JUST TENTATIVELY ADD, UH, AN ITEM HERE. SO THIS WOULD BE, AND IT'S NOT JUST SPECIFIC TO BRIDGES, RIGHT? , IT'S KIND OF THE OVERALL JUST CONNECTIVITY IN GENERAL CONNECTIVITY TO THE SITE TO AND THROUGH THE SITE AS PART OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. YEP. AND SORRY, I, I, YOU KNOW, IT'LL BE DIFFICULT TO NOT GONNA TRY TO WORDSMITH ANY OF THESE IN REAL TIME, BUT I'LL TRY TO CAPTURE THE GIST OF THEM SO THAT WE CAN ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, BRIAN DOES THAT SUFFICE? WHAT, WHAT, PERFECT. GOOD. THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT. UH, FRANK, SO FOR THE, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN SECTION, UH, DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO, UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TIMING TO, UM, PERHAPS TRY TO NARROW IT DOWN A LITTLE MORE THAN JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, BEING IN A YEAR, UM, AND I, AND I GUESS THIS GETS A LITTLE BIT TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, SOME HIGH LEVEL PRIORITIZATION, UH, FOR THIS SECTION, YOU KNOW, SO FOR EXAMPLE IS, YOU KNOW, COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE. IS THAT GONNA BE MAYBE Q1, Q2? MM-HMM . MM-HMM . RIGHT. UM, IT, YOU KNOW, IT, TO ME, I THINK IT WOULD, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY BENEFIT TO ADD SOME, UH, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF SOME ADDITIONAL TIMING THERE. YEAH. THAT'S, IT'S, THAT'S TOUGH TO COMMIT TO THAT SPECIFIC OF A TIMEFRAME IN A PLANNING DOCUMENT THIS BIG, I'LL, I'LL JUST BE, BE HONEST WITH OUR KIND OF EXISTING CAPACITY AND RESOURCES AND, AND, UH, I, I, I REALLY LIKE THAT AS AN ASPIRATION. UM, WOULD YOU SAY THAT THAT SHOULD ONLY APPLY TO PIECES TO ACT ACTIONS THAT WE'VE SET ATI THAT WE ARE PLANNING ON DELIVERING IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS? I MEAN, IT SEEMS KIND OF SILLY, FOR EXAMPLE, TO SAY LIKE, Q4 OF 2029, OR IS THAT WHAT YEAH, EXACTLY. AND I GUESS, UM, YEAH, IT'S, AND I'M NOT LOOKING AT IT TO HOLD PEOPLE'S FEET TO THE FIRE. YEAH. IT'S MORE, UM, REALLY JUST TRYING TO, AGAIN, SET SOME ASPIRATIONAL GOALS, TRY TO NARROW IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT MM-HMM . UM, AND ALSO, UH, AGAIN, I THINK IT IDENTIFIES, YOU KNOW, WHAT PIECES ON THESE DO WE WANNA WORK ON FIRST, RIGHT? YEAH. SO IF YOU, AS SORT OF THE LEAD STAFF PERSON ON THIS KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON A SECTION FIRST, MAYBE THAT GOES INTO, EVEN IF IT'S H ONE, H TWO, RIGHT? I MEAN, AT BEST I'D LIKE TO SEE MAYBE QUARTERLY. BUT, UM, SO ONE THING [00:25:01] I DO, WE ARE GOING TO DO OUT OF, ONCE WE HAVE THIS PLAN IS WE WILL HAVE AN ANNUAL REPORT. THIS IS DOWN IN THE EVALUATION SECTION. AND WHAT I ENVISION WITH THAT IS, UM, COMING TO PAC WITH A PRESENTATION ON ALL OF OUR PROGRESS, WE'LL HAVE A SPREADSHEET WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ACTIONS AND A STATUS UPDATE, KIND OF TRACKING OUR PROGRESS ON ALL OF THESE. AND THEN ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, GIVING AN UPDATE ON WHAT PROJECTS WE'VE IMPLEMENTED, KIND OF SHOWING MAP UPDATES, UH, MILEAGE UPDATES FOR OUR NETWORK, BUILD OUT BYED COUNT DATA, WHERE WE HAVE IT, THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, BUT ALSO USING THAT AS A, TO KIND OF, UH, TO SET OUR WORK PLAN, UM, OR OUTLINE OUR WORK PLAN FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. I'M, I'M CURIOUS IF THAT TYPE OF PRE ANNUAL PRESENTATION AND WORK PLAN PROCESS WITH PAC COULD SERVE THAT PURPOSE? I JUST, IT'S HARD FOR ME. I MEAN, THERE ARE, I THINK THERE ARE OVER, I BELIEVE THERE ARE OVER 50 ACTIONS HERE. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER. IT'S DEFINITELY OVER 40. AND TO GO THROUGH AND SAY Q2 FOR THIS ONE, Q3 FOR THIS, I, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S GONNA BE A, YEAH, NO, IT'D BE HARD TO, IT'D BE HARD TO STICK TO THAT GIVEN ALL OF THE THINGS THAT TEND TO COME UP ON A DAILY AND WEEKLY BASIS, . YEAH, NO, FOR SURE. I TOTALLY GET THAT. AND, AND I GUESS FOR ME, AND JUST THINKING, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I WAS HONESTLY, I, I WAS JUST SORT OF THINKING ABOUT IT, UH, FOR THE FIRST SECTION, UM, OKAY. YOU KNOW, THE PLANNING AND DESIGN PHASE, SETTING, THE, UH, BUILDING, SORT OF BUILDING THE, THE FOUNDATION FOR YEARS END. YEAH, EXACTLY. YEAH. AND, UM, AND ALSO, COULD YOU TAKE A, JUST A MOMENT AND BRIEFLY DESCRIBE, UH, WHAT IT, WHAT IT MEANS TO, UH, BE TOC COMPLIANT? YEAH, SO THIS IS SOMETHING, METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION IS THE REGIONAL, UM, METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION. THEY BASICALLY CONTROL THE PURSE STRINGS FOR ALL REGIONAL, STATE AND FEDERAL FUND TRANSPORTATION FUNDING AND IN, IN PAST YEARS. SO THAT, THE LAST EXAMPLE WAS COMPLETE STREETS COMPLIANCE, WHERE IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THEIR BIG, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S EVERY, EVERY FOUR YEARS THEY HAVE, UH, THE ONE BAY AREA GRANT THAT COMES AROUND. IT'S WHERE THEY, UH, BASICALLY TAKE IN A BUNCH OF, UH, FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDING, AND THEN THEY ISSUE A COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM THAT BAY AREA AGENCIES ARE OPEN TO APPLY FOR. AND THE WAY THEY INCENTIVIZE CITIES TO ADOPT POLICIES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE, THEY WOULD LIKE TO PROMOTE, UM, WHAT THEY DO IS THEY'LL REQUIRE AGENCIES TO BE COMPLIANT WITH THOSE POLICIES. SO THE LAST EXAMPLE, LIKE I SAID, WAS THE COMPLETE STREETS COMPLIANCE, WHERE EVERY CITY IN THE BAY AREA, IF THEY WANTED TO APPLY TO THAT GRANT, THEY NEEDED TO SHOW, DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY HAD ADOPTED A COMPLETE STREETS POLICY. THE NEXT ONE UP THAT THEY'RE DOING IS, UM, THE, UH, TRANSIT OR ORIENTED COMMUNITIES. THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE CITIES NEED TO SHOW COMPLIANCE. THERE'S SOME, THERE'S ONE IN ZONING, THERE'S, UH, FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UM, THERE IS, I BELIEVE ONE, UH, ON HOUSING PRODUCTIVITY. UM, ANYWAYS, THE ONE THAT'S RELEVANT TO US AT PAC, UM, AND FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION IS TOC. AND SO THE THREE CRITERIA THAT WE NEED TO MEET ARE OUTLINED HERE. WE NEED TO SHOW A PLAN, WHICH WILL BE THIS PLAN THAT EXPLICITLY PRIORITIZES IMPROVEMENTS AROUND OUR SMART STATIONS. THOSE ARE OUR TWO DESIGNATED, UM, TOC AREAS. SO THE HALF MILE AROUND BOTH SMART STATIONS, WE NEED TO COMPLETE A STATION ACCESS AND, UH, ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT PLAN. WE JUST SUBMITTED A GRANT APPLICATION TO, UH, WE SUBMITTED GRANT APPLICATIONS TO DO THOSE FOR BOTH THE DOWNTOWN AND CORONA STATIONS, AND THEN ALSO TO COMPLETE A MOBILITY HUB PLAN, WHICH WOULD BE DONE THROUGH THE SAME GRANT, WHICH BASICALLY SHOWS HOW WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE AND ENCOURAGE, UH, SEVERAL DIFFERENT TRAVEL OPTIONS AT AND AROUND THOSE STATION AREAS. SO WE NEED TO DO THAT ALL BY 2026 IN ORDER TO HAVE FULL ELIGIBILITY FOR THAT GRANT, WHICH WILL BE, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST, UM, FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE BAY AREA FOR TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS. THANK YOU. THAT WAS HELPFUL. GOOD EXPLANATION. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE ON THIS SIDE OF THE DAIS? IF NOT ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC? ANY COMMENTS THAT YOU WANNA VOICE? YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO FILL OUT A FORM TODAY, JUST LINE UP BEHIND [00:30:01] THE PODIUM. NONE. ALRIGHT, WELL, WITH THAT, LET'S MOVE TO THE SECOND SECTION. AND THERE ARE MORE ACTIONS IN THIS SECTION THAN I CAN FIT ON ONE SCREEN. SO THEY'RE HUGE , I THINK IT'S THREE PAGES OR SOMETHING. WE CAN, SO WE ARE ON THE, UM, MAYBE I'M ON THE WRONG PAGE. WE ARE ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE BUILD OUT SECTION, AND YES, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ACTION ITEMS. SO IS THERE ANYONE, UM, COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO HAVE HAS A QUESTION CONCERN? BJORN'S RIGHT HERE. IT'S A GREAT CHANCE TO ASK AND I'LL, AND I'LL ACTUALLY JUST OPEN, THERE WAS A COMMENT IN, UM, I THINK BOTH PETE AND NATHAN, UH, IN THEIR PUBLIC COMMENTS COMMENT, UH, ADDRESS THE, THE NEAR TERM TIMING. UH, MY PROPOSAL HERE WOULD BE TO BASICALLY HAVE THREE CATEGORIES OF PROJECTS NEAR TERM, UH, MIDTERM AND LONG TERM, EACH WITH FIVE YEAR INTERVALS. UM, REASON BEING FIVE YEARS IS GENERALLY KIND OF OUR, OUR PLANNING HORIZON. I'LL SAY WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A FIVE YEAR CI CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN. WE HAVE A FIVE-YEAR PAVING PLAN. UM, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AFTER THIS ADOPTION IS UPDATED ON FIVE-YEAR CYCLES. SO THAT JUST SEEMED TO MAKE SENSE. UH, FIVE YEARS SOUNDS LIKE A LONG TIME, BUT IT'S ALSO, UM, UN . IT, IT'S, IT'S NOT THAT MUCH TIME IN, IN THE WORLD OF, OF PROJECT DELIVERY O OBVIOUSLY WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, BECOME MORE NIMBLE AND, AND USE MORE QUICK BUILDS AND, AND ESPECIALLY THROUGH OUR PAVING PLAN, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO KNOCK OUT A REALLY GOOD CHUNK OF OUR ENVISIONED BIKE, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN NETWORK. BUT, UH, ANYHOW, THAT WAS THE REASONING FOR, UM, KIND OF A FIVE YEAR HORIZON. UH, THE OTHER THING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR, OUR GOALS AS A CITY, UM, THE CAR CARBON NEUTRALITY GOALS LOOKS AT 2030, VISION ZERO LOOKS AT 2030. TECHNICALLY FROM A FIVE YEAR, UH, FIVE YEARS FROM ADOPTION, WE COULD, THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE 2029. SO HAPPY TO MAKE THAT CHANGE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO, UM, TO DO HERE, BUT ALSO OPEN TO FEEDBACK ON THOSE DIFFERENT BJORN, COULD I ASK PROJECT CATEGORIES YOU A CLARIFICATION QUESTION ON, UM, ONE B DASH THREE LANE REDUCTIONS? MM-HMM . WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, REDUCING THE VEHICLE LANES IN ONE DIRECTION, NOT INCLUDING TURN, UH, TURN LANES ALL ON A MULTI-LANE ROADWAY SEGMENT THAT CARRY FEWER THAN 18,000 VEHICLES PER DAY. COULD YOU GIVE US A VERY QUICK REVIEW OF WHAT STREETS IN PETALUMA WOULD FALL UNDER THAT CON THAT CATEGORY VERSUS THOSE THAT ARE GREATER THAN 18,000 VEHICLES? YEAH. SO, UM, ELI BOULEVARD SOUTH, UH, CASA GRANDE ROAD, RAINIER AVENUE ARE ALL UNDER 10,000 VEHICLES A DAY AND ALL HAVE FOUR OR MORE LANES. SO THOSE ARE KIND OF, THAT'S THE LOW HANGING FRUIT. UM, THERE ARE EVEN SECTIONS OF SNOW MOUNTAIN PARKWAY AS YOU MOVE KIND OF CLOSER TO THE JC AND CORONA THAT HAVE, UH, AROUND THAT THE 10, I THINK AROUND THE 10,000, UH, VEHICLE PER DAY RANGE. SO WE HAVE A TABLE ACTUALLY THAT WE'RE, IT'LL BE IN THE EXISTING, WE'LL HAVE A, A LIST OF ALL OF THOSE, OF THOSE STREETS. BUT THE, THE POINT HERE IS REALLY TO TACKLE ALL THE, WHAT I'LL CALL KIND OF THE NO-BRAINERS AS FAR AS LANE REDUCTIONS, BECAUSE LANE REDUCTIONS REALLY ARE, I MEAN, NOT ONLY ARE THEY ARE, ARE THEY AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO EASILY REALLOCATE ROADWAY WITH, TO CREATE PROTECTED BIKE LANES, BUFFERED BIKE LANES. UM, BUT ALSO WHEN YOU ELIMINATE THAT MULTI-LANE CONDITION, YOU'RE JUST REDUCING SO MANY CONFLICTS AND, AND, AND THEY HAVE SUCH AN INCREDIBLE COLLISION REDUCTION BENEFIT. SO IT REALLY SUPPORTS ALL OF OUR GOALS HERE AS FAR AS ACHIEVING VISION ZERO, UH, ACHIEVING MODE SHIFT. SO, SO THAT'S THE RECOMMENDATION HERE IS TO START THERE. AND THEN, UM, AND AGAIN, AS THIS NOTE SAYS, IT'S NOT INTENDED TO, UH, PRECLUDE OR, OR DISMISS THE POSSIBILITY OF LANE REDUCTIONS ON BUSIER STREETS, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE A LOGICAL PLACE TO START WHEN WE HAVE SO MANY STREETS THAT ARE, THAT WERE OVERBUILT. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ANY OTHER BRIAN? YEAH, NATHAN ASKED A GOOD QUE I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD QUESTION ABOUT THE WHY THE NO RIGHT ON RED OR WHY THE NO, RIGHT ON RED IS ONLY ON THE DOWNTOWN DISTRICT. YEAH, WE CAN, I THINK WE CAN BROADEN THAT. UM, OKAY. THAT WAS, THAT'S, THAT'S FAIR. UM, OTHER, [00:35:01] I GUESS COMMENT IS THAT THE, THE ON-CALL CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS FEELS LIKE, UM, MAYBE IT'S LIKE HOW WE DELIVER THESE THINGS. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY LIKE AN ACTION PLAN. I DON'T REALLY SEE LIKE WHAT THE, WHAT THE ACTION IS THERE. IT'S LIKE THAT'S THE, THE MECHANISM FOR DELIVERING, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALK CLOSURES AND LANE REDUCTIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT MAYBE I'M, I'M MISSED THAT . IT'S JUST, IT'S FELT, IT'S BEEN SUCH AN, AN INCREDIBLE TOOL THAT THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR WE'VE, WE'VE DONE THIS AND IT'S REALLY INCREASED OUR CAPACITY. IT FELT IMPORTANT TO CALL OUT BECAUSE OF THAT, BUT OKAY. UH, DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND YOUR, YOUR POINT ABOUT OKAY. THAT, YEAH. UM, COUPLE OTHER, UH, COMMENTS ON THE PRIORITIZATION AS WE MOVE INTO THIS. UM, OBVIOUSLY HIGH INJURY NETWORK AND SOME OF APPLYING SOME OF THOSE THINGS TO SIDEWALK CLOSURES IN PARTICULAR UNCONTROLLED, UH, CROSSWALKS FEELS LIKE ONE. AND THEN, UM, SORRY, WHAT WAS THE, THE UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS, THERE'S JUST MAKING SURE THAT THE PRIORITIZATION IS, IS FOCUSED ON LIKE, LIKE, UH, HIGH INJURY NETWORK STREETS THAT THOSE ARE YEAH. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE IT, IT SAYS 2030, SO IT DOESN'T REALLY TELL US LIKE, WE'RE GONNA TRY AND ACHIEVE ALL THE THINGS ON OUR HIGH INJURY NETWORK AND BY 2026. RIGHT, RIGHT. THAT TO ME, LIKE IF WE CAN BREAK SOME OF THESE ACTION PLAN ITEMS DOWN TO LIKE, UM, REALLY ACCOMPLISHING THINGS IN CERTAIN AREAS, UM, IT, IT'LL MAKE IT FEEL LIKE IT'S NOT JUST LIKE, OH, HERE'S SOMETHING WE WANT TO DO OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, BUT ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT IS MEASURABLE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS TOO. UM, AND THEN THE FINAL ONE, MAYBE THIS BELONGS IN A TRANSIT THING, BUT LIKE, UH, MAKING OUR TRANSIT STOPS MORE APPEALING, UM, MORE USER FRIENDLY. UM, LIKE EMERYVILLE, UH, THEY SET A GOAL FOR THEIR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM TO HAVE SEATING AT EVERY, AT EVERY BUS STOP WITHIN A YEAR. AND THEY DID IT. AND I THOUGHT LIKE, THAT'S JUST A SIMPLE THING THAT YOU CAN DO FOR PEOPLE WHO RELY ON THE BUS, IS MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THEY HAVE SEATING THERE. RIGHT? SO, UM, AND I THINK PRIORITIZING A DA ACCESS AROUND BUS STOPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT, UM, BUILDING IN SOME PEDESTRIAN ELEMENTS AROUND OUR BUS STOPS IS, I THINK, IMPORTANT. MM-HMM . AND PRIORITIZING THAT. THANKS. ANY HANDS? YES. UH, I'VE GOT ONE, MAYBE TWO SPECIFIC COMMENT. UM, BUT IT IS PASSED ALONG TO ME FROM SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY. THERE, A BIG FAN OF KIND OF LIKE THE, UM, THE FEW BIKE SIGNAL POLES THAT ARE AROUND TOWN. UM, I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT CAN, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE RIGHT TERM FOR THAT IS, BUT IF THAT COULD, IF THERE'S A PLACE TO MAYBE CALL THAT OUT SPECIFICALLY. IT IS, YOU KNOW, SUCH A HANDY THING WHEN YOU COME UP ON AN INTERSECTION AND YEAH. THERE'S NOT A CAR BEHIND YOU YOU CAN'T ACTIVATE AND YOU WANNA BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, GO FORWARD. ACTUALLY, AND I SAW A COMMENT FROM PETE ABOUT THIS AS WELL, AND IT WAS ACTUALLY, IT WASN'T ABOUT THE PUSH BUTTONS, BIKE PUSH BUTTONS, BUT ABOUT THE BIKE, UH, THE LOOP DETECTION AT THE MAGNETIC LOOPS, MAKING SURE EVERY, EVERY INTERSECTION. SO OUR, OUR GOAL ACTUALLY WITH SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS, WE'RE MOVING AWAY FROM THE LOOP DETECTORS AND FROM PUSH BUTTONS IN THE CASE OF BIKES AND TOWARDS SIG UH, CAMERA DETECTION. SO, GREAT. THAT'S WHY GOOD TO KNOW. CAMERA DETECTION IS SINGLE IS CALLED OUT HERE UNDER, UH, IV DASH SEVEN. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S THE DIRECTION WE'RE, WE'RE HEADED WITH THAT. PERFECT. THAT TAKES CARE OF, AND PLEASE DO LET US KNOW IF YOU'RE EVER, UM, IF YOU'RE EVER AT A, AN INTERSECTION WHERE YOU SEE A CAMERA UP ON THE MA ARM AND YOU'RE NOT GETTING PICKED UP AS A BIKE, UM, THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL FOR US TO KNOW BECAUSE WE CAN KIND OF RECALIBRATE 'EM. AND SOMETIMES IT COMES DOWN TO, LIKE, AT CERTAIN TIMES OF THE DAY, IF THE SUN'S HITTING THE CAMERA AT A WEIRD ANGLE, IT'S OBSCURING A CERTAIN, YOU KNOW, IT'S OBSCURING THE AREA WHERE PEOPLE ON BIKES MIGHT BE. IT'S ALSO ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE'RE ADDING SO MANY BIKE BOXES, UM, TO OUR, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY TO OUR PAVING PROJECTS ON THE BIG ARTERIALS. UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE, WE TRY TO, THAT'S WHERE OUR CAMERAS ARE TRYING TO PICK UP BIKES IS IN THAT BIKE BOX AREA. SO NEXT, AMBER, WHERE DOES THE FAIRGROUNDS FIT [00:40:01] INTO THIS? UH, SO THE FAIRGROUNDS, YOU KNOW, IS, IT WILL BE SUBJECT, I THINK, TO ITS OWN KIND OF PLANNING EFFORT. UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT, I THINK THAT'LL, THAT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO LIKE A STATION AREA PLAN, RIGHT? WHERE THERE'S A, A, A ROBUST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS WHERE THEY ARE LOOKING VERY CLOSELY AT A SPECIFIC AREA IN TOWN AND THEY'RE PLANNING OUT ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT, UM, YOU KNOW, ADDRESSING ALL THOSE DIFFERENT TOPICAL AREAS LIKE CIRCULATION, UM, PARKS AND RECREATION, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND SO WHERE WE WOULD, I THINK HAVE, UH, UH, AN IMPACT ON THE FAIRGROUNDS THROUGH THIS PLAN WOULD BE THROUGH OUR, OUR ENVISIONED BIKEWAY NETWORK, WHICH DOES SHOW THE GOAL OF CREATING A, A PATHWAY, SOME SORT OF CONNECTION BETWEEN EAST E STREET AND THE MCKENZIE OVERCROSSING. THAT'S DEFINITELY BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A, AS A DESIRE. UM, AND THEN AS FAR AS THE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE DESIGN PRINCIPLES THAT ARE EMPLOYED IN DESIGNING ANY SORT OF NEW CONNECTIVITY THROUGH TO AND THROUGH THE FAIRGROUND SITE, WE WOULD LOOK TO, WE'VE, WE'VE CERTAINLY ESTABLISHED A PRETTY CLEAR APPETITE THROUGH THIS PLAN FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES, BIKEWAY DESIGN, GOOD CONNECTIVITY. UM, OBVIOUSLY I'M, I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING AT MORE PEDESTRIAN ASPECTS OF IT. OKAY. THERE'S NO SIDEWALKS YEAH. IN CROSSWALKS. OH, YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. AND THAT WOULD DEFINITELY, SO WE CAN, WE CAN FLAG SOME ON THE PERIPHERY. WE CAN CERTAINLY FLAG THOSE AS, AS FAR AS ONCE THE FAIRGROUNDS PLANNING EFFORT GETS UNDERWAY THOUGH THE, ANY, ANY SORT OF NEW CONNECTIVITY THAT'S ENVISIONED THAT WOULD CERTAINLY INCORPORATE BEST PRACTICES IN, IN BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN DESIGN. YEAH. UM, ONE OTHER SMALL COMMENT, UM, JUST NOTING THAT THE BAY TRAIL, THE BAY AREA RIDGE TRAIL HAVE SMALL PORTIONS THAT RUN THROUGH OR AROUND PETALUMA, UM, IF THAT'D BE WORTH INCLUDING ANY, I DON'T SEE IT CALLED OUT SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, AROUND THE BIKE MM-HMM . HEADWAY FINDING, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF WE NEED TO GET THAT SPECIFIC, BUT I KNOW THEY DO HAVE SOME, AT LEAST THE, THE RIDGE TRAIL HAS SOME OUTDATED SIGNS THAT THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO THINK WORK WITH THE CITY FOR A WHILE TO YEAH. YOU KNOW, INSTALL. SO SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES WOULD BE HELPFUL. WE ALSO HAVE THE, UM, GREAT REDWOOD TRAIL SLASH SMART TRAIL TO INCLUDE THERE. WERE YOU, YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT THAT FROM A SIGNAGE PERSPECTIVE? YEAH, MAINLY FROM A SIGNAGE PERSPECTIVE. PERFECT. YEAH. NEXT, IS THERE ANOTHER QUESTION? COMMENT, FRANK. FOR IB 16 BIKE PARKING REQUIREMENTS, UM, I WAS TALKING TO A SMALL BUSINESS, THIS ONE HAPPENED TO BE OVER OFFICE SECOND STREET, UM, AND WAS, UH, WONDERING IF THEY HAD INQUIRED ABOUT POTENTIAL BIKE PARKING, UH, OR GETTING BIKE RACKS FOR THE FRONT OF THEIR BUSINESS. AND IT OPENED UP A WHOLE CONVERSATION AROUND, UM, THIS AREA WITH BIKE PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND HOW, UM, THE, JUST THE, UM, SORT OF THE HOOPS THAT THEY HAD TO JUMP THROUGH FOR PERMITTING, FOR OPENING THEIR BUSINESS AND HOW, UM, SORT OF DIFFICULT AND CONTENTIOUS THAT WAS. AND IT MADE ME WONDER HOW, LIKE WITH SMALL BUSINESSES OPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY, IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, THE CITY TO PARTNER WITH THOSE BUSINESSES? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THE GOAL WAS THE, THE GOAL WAS FOR THIS BUSINESS TO PROVIDE SAFE AND SECURE BIKE PARKING FOR EITHER THEIR CUSTOMERS OR THEIR EMPLOYEES. AND, UM, I MEAN, THAT COULD BE A TALL ORDER FOR SMALL BUSINESSES. AND SO IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY TO HELP IN THAT AREA? SO YEAH, IT'S, SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE A, A PROCESS THROUGH WHICH ANYONE BUSINESSES INCLUDED COULD REQUEST BIKE CRACKS WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, RIGHT? SO IF THEY ARE A BUSINESS THAT FRONTS A SIDEWALK, A PUBLIC SIDEWALK, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY CAN REACH OUT AND REQUEST A, A BIKE RACK AND WE CAN GO OUT AND INSTALL ONE BECAUSE IT IS SERVING THE PUBLIC. IT'S NOT JUST [00:45:01] SPECIFIC TO THEIR BUSINESS AND IT'S NOT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. SO, UM, BUT I REC RECOGNIZE LOTS OF BUSINESSES ARE NOT, DO NOT MEET THAT CRITERIA. THEY MIGHT KIND OF BE SET BACK IN A, A PARKING LOT OR SOMETHING THAT'S ALL ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. UM, SO YOU'RE RIGHT. YEAH, WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE A PROCESS FOR THAT. AND THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE CAN, MAYBE, MAYBE THERE'S A WAY TO INCORPORATE THAT HERE. UM, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED JUST THROUGH, DEPENDING ON THE, THE TYPE OF APPROVAL THAT THEY'RE AFTER, RIGHT. IF IT'S LIKE A NEW DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THERE, DEF OUR ZONING CODE REQUIRES ANYTHING SUBJECT TO ZONING APPROVALS IS GOING TO HAVE TO INCORPORATE BIKE PARKING. IF IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, LIKE A BUSINESS TURNING OVER THOUGH, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE WOULD BE ANY BIKE PARKING REQUIREMENT FOR THEM. UM, SO I'LL, I'LL ADD THAT TO THE, I'LL ADD THAT TO OUR LIST HERE TO REVIEW FOR BUSINESSES THAT KIND OF MEET THAT CRITERIA, AND THEN WE'LL ADD SOME LANGUAGE HERE TO, TO ADDRESS THAT. SURE. YEAH. AND, AND YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, YOU'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR INCENTIVES TO HELP THEM OUT, IT SOUNDS LIKE. WELL, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, IT WAS A, AND, AND AGAIN, I ACKNOWLEDGE I, I HEARD THIS SECONDHAND. I WASN'T THERE. UM, BUT, UH, IT WAS A, IT WASN'T A NEW DEVELOPMENT. IT WAS A BUSINESS THAT WAS MOVING INTO AN EXISTING VACANT BUILDING, AND THEY WERE ASKED TO PROVIDE, UH, INDOOR PARKING FOR THEIR BI FOR EMPLOYEE BICYCLES, AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE SPACE FOR THAT. AND IT, YOU KNOW, IN THAT PARTICULAR CASE, IT WAS A BURDEN. UM, THEY TRIED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET BY, BUT IT REALLY WASN'T ADEQUATE. AND IT WAS MORE, UM, HOW DO YOU SORT OF MEET THE REQUIREMENT ON PAPER RATHER THAN PROVIDING, UM, AND, AND WHEN I, AND, AND IN THEIR CASE, IT WAS AS I HEARD IT, AND I, IT, IT SOUNDED LIKE A BURDEN FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS THAT WAS TRYING TO GET UP AND MM-HMM . AND, AND JUST GET OFF THE GROUND. AND, UM, AND SO IN THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THAT, IN THAT CASE, FOR A SMALL BUSINESS, UM, IT SEEMED TO ME LIKE THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY TO HELP RATHER THAN TO, UM, OKAY. YOU KNOW, MAKE IT HARDER. UM, AND AGAIN, I'M HAPPY TO GET MORE DETAILS YEAH. THAT IT COULD BE HELPFUL TO HEAR DIFF A FEW DIFFERENT CASE STUDIES SURE. AND KIND OF, AND GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE APPROVALS ARE, WHAT THE, WHAT REQUIRE REQUIREMENTS THEY'RE SUBJECT TO. UM, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT, UH, SCENARIOS, I THINK. YEAH, FOR SURE. THAT KIND OF COME UP. OKAY. ANOTHER QUESTION OR COMMENT, AMBER? WELL, I, I CAN ADD TO THAT, THAT 15 YEARS AGO WHEN WE BUILT OUT THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE IN, WE HAD TO PUT IN A BIKE RACK OUT FRONT OF OUR BUILDING AS PART OF OUR FINAL SIGN OFF FROM THE CITY. UM, SO EVEN 15 YEARS AGO, BIKE RACKS WERE MANDATORY WHEN YOU DO A REMODEL OF A CERTAIN SIZE. OKAY. ANOTHER COMMENT QUESTION, IF NOT, I HAVE A QUESTION. IT IS IN REGARD TO, UM, ONE B DASH EIGHT, NO, RIGHT ON RED IN DOWNTOWN, I THINK, UM, IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT WOULDN'T THAT LEAD TO A HUGE BACKUP IF WE, UH, DECIDED THAT WE WERE GONNA GO ALONG WITH THIS? AND THEN ANOTHER PIECE OF MY, MY QUESTION IS WHY ONLY IN THE DOWNTOWN? YEAH. SO, AND I, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE ALSO ASKED, UH, YOU KNOW, WHY, WHY SINGLE OUT DOWNTOWN, DOWNTOWN WAS JUST HIGHLIGHT, UH, HIGHLIGHTED INITIALLY BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY THERE IS. AND, AND YOU DO HAVE INTERSECTIONS WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE BUILDINGS THAT ARE BUILT RIGHT UP TO THE, UP TO THE, TO THE SIDEWALK. AND SO SOMEWHAT LIMITED SITE DISTANCE IN, IN SOME CASES. UM, BUT I THINK WE CAN CERTAINLY EXPAND THAT, UH, OUTSIDE THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND ALSO LOOK AT JUST THE AREAS WITH, UH, HISTORY OF RIGHT ON RED COLLISIONS. AND, UM, YEAH. AND THEN AS FAR AS, UH, UH, THE TRAFFIC PIECE, YOU KNOW, UH, AGAIN, IT'S, THAT'S THE, THAT'S, THAT'S THE CHALLENGE IS, IS, UH, OBVIOUSLY OUR PRIORITY IS SAFETY AS ESTABLISHED THROUGH OUR VISION ZERO GOAL, RIGHT? TO ELIMINATE SEVERE INJURIES AND, AND DEATHS FROM TRAFFIC BY 2030. SO, UM, THAT, THAT NEEDS TO BE THE, THE STARTING POINT FOR THOSE DECISIONS. AND IF THERE REALLY, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS A, AN ISSUE AND BASED ON, BASED ON OUR VISION [00:50:01] ZERO POLICY AND OUR LOCAL ROAD SAFETY PLAN, I THINK THAT'S PRIORITY. I'M THINKING SPECIFICALLY OF THE PLACE WHERE KENTUCKY STREET MEETS, UM, WASHINGTON, AND IF YOU CAN'T TURN RIGHT THERE, YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE LIGHT. UM, THE BACKUP ALONG KENTUCKY COULD BE THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF KENTUCKY AND YEAH. AND I, I DO THINK RIGHT ON RED IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE BE, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD LIKELY BE ROLLED OUT CITYWIDE OVERNIGHT, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE WOULD BE CERTAIN AREAS WHERE IT REALLY, IT REALLY IS WARRANTED. YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE OUR BEST TO ADDRESS, AT LEAST FOR PEDESTRIANS, THE RIGHT ON RED, UM, ISSUES THROUGH LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS. RIGHT? WE'VE GOT FIVE SECOND LEADING PEDESTRIAN INTERVALS, UH, IN AT MOST SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS NOW. SO, UM, THIS IS KIND OF THAT NEXT, THAT NEXT LAYER. AND, AND WE DO REALIZE THAT RIGHT ON RED WILL WOULD BE ANYWHERE THAT IT'S IMPLEMENTED WOULD LIKELY BE CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE OF BACKUPS. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENT FROM ANYONE, BRIAN? YEAH, APOLOGIES. I, I MISSED THIS ON THE FIRST ONE. UM, BUT ON INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN, UM, I DON'T SEE THE CORRIDOR STUDIES THAT WE'VE FLAGGED ON IN PRIOR MEETINGS MM-HMM . BUT IT FEELS LIKE HAVING A TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THOSE CORRIDOR STUDIES AND MAKING SURE THAT THOSE CORRIDOR STUDIES LINE UP WITH, UM, OUR FIVE YEAR PAVING PLAN AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT WOULD BE, UH, WORTHWHILE PUTTING IN THERE. YEAH. UM, WHAT IF WE JUST TIED THE CORRIDOR STUDIES TO THE SAME TIMEFRAME WITH THE OH, I SEE. BECAUSE THAT'S, YEAH. OKAY. WHERE THAT ON MY CURSE? YEAH. IS THERE A NEXT, ANYONE ELSE? YES, EMILY. THANKS . UM, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UH, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, UM, WHICH IS MENTIONED OR THE, THE, THE AUDITS, UM, WHICH ARE MENTIONED IN THE FIRST, THE PLANNING SECTION. UM, THIS IS A PROGRAM OF COURSE, THAT HAS, UH, INVOLVED A LOT OF PEOPLE AND LED TO A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS. AND I'M JUST CURIOUS WHERE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THOSE PROJECTS IS ACTUALLY BEING CAPTURED. UM, IF IT'S UNDER ONE OF THE PROGRAMS LISTED IN THE SECOND SECTION, OR, UM, IF IT'S GONNA BE IN THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN OR THE CHAPTER FIVE PLAN ITSELF. UM, OR JUST AGAIN, WHERE THOSE, WHERE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BEING, UH, CAPTURED AS FAR AS IMPLEMENTATION GOES. THANKS. THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AND I, YEAH, THAT'S A, WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY ADD ONE THERE. UH, CURRENTLY OUR SAFE ROUTES QUICK BUILD PROJECTS ARE, WE'RE DOING THAT SORT OF THROUGH OUR, WE'RE DOING IT THROUGH OUR ON-CALL CONTRACT, SO IT'S REALLY BEING DELIVERED THROUGH THE SORT OF, IT'S MARRIED WITH THE, THE SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION. UM, AND IT'S ACTUALLY LEAPFROGGED IT IN IN MOST CASES BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO PRIORITIZE SCHOOLS. BUT I WILL ADD AN ACTION ITEM SPECIFIC TO THE BUILD OUT OF ALL OF THOSE QUICK, 'CAUSE WE'RE EV WITH EVERY AUDIT, WE IDENTIFY SEVERAL QUICK BUILD PROJECTS. SO I'LL, I'LL ADD ONE FOR, UM, THAT, THAT LIST OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS. ANYONE ELSE? YES, SIR. COME FORWARD. HI, MY NAME'S DAN BERRY. IT IS REALLY A QUESTION ABOUT NUMBER 17 FOR THE BIKE PARKING. SO I, I KNOW WE PUT IN 59 BIKE RACKS IN THIS CALENDAR YEAR, UH, FOR LIKE 14 MONTHS. I'VE BEEN REQUESTING A PARTICULAR LOCATION FOR A BIKE RACK, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO FIND OUT WHERE THE LIST IS OF POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR BIKE RACKS, UH, TO KNOW IF THE LOCATION I'M FOND OF IS ON A LIST SOMEWHERE. SO I'VE SUBMITTED LIKE A FEW TIMES THROUGH THE WEBSITE AND BJORN'S CONFIRMED, CONFIRMED BY EMAIL THAT IT WAS RECEIVED, BUT I DON'T KNOW THE STATUS OF IT. WAS IT DENIED? IS IT GONNA BE PUT IN? UM, AND SO IF THERE WERE A WAY FOR THE PUBLIC TO LOOK AT THAT IN THE RIGHT OF WAY, SO WHERE A BIKE RACK MIGHT GO IN, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT ANY PLACE THAT WE SEE A BIKE, UH, CHAIN TO A TREE OR TO A BENCH, UM, WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR A BIKE RACK. [00:55:01] SO IF YOU SEE THAT AGAIN AND AGAIN, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO KNOW THAT THE CITY IS CONSIDERING THAT LOCATION. SO WE COULD DRIVE AROUND THE CITY, LOOK WHERE BIKES ARE LOCKED TO TREES AND SAY, WELL, THAT'S A GOOD PLACE AND I'D LOVE TO SEE A LIST OF POTENTIAL PLACES FOR THE NEXT 59 THAT ARE GOING IN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. BJORN. DO WE HAVE THAT KIND OF LIST? YES, WE DO. UM, YEAH, SO WE, WE COMPLETED THE FIRST WAVE OF BIKE RACKS, OBVIOUSLY THIS YEAR, UM, THROUGHOUT KIND OF WITH A FOCUS REALLY ON THE, ON THE DOWNTOWN AREA. UH, WE STILL DO HAVE A HANDFUL OF RACKS REMAINING AND UM, REALLY WE JUST NEED TO FIND SOME TIME WHERE OUR STREET CREW, WHICH THEY'RE THE ONES WHO INSTALL THOSE, HAVE SOME BANDWIDTH, AND THEN GO OUT AND WORK THROUGH THE REST OF OUR, OF OUR RACKS. UM, SO WE'LL TAKE A, WHEN THEY DO HAVE THAT BANDWIDTH, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY BUSY WITH ALL THE, UH, WITH WINTER ACTIVITY. UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY, IS IT, IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIKE POST THE LIST ON THE WEBSITE OF LIKE, YEAH. WHAT'S COMING AND WHAT'S YEAH. YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE DON'T. THAT'D BE GREAT. YES. YEAH, I THINK WE COULD DO A MAP. WE COULD, WE COULD CREATE A MAP THAT HAS BOTH THE LOCATIONS WHERE WE'VE INSTALLED RACKS AND WHERE THEY'VE BEEN REQUESTED. THAT'D BE NICE. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? I'LL SAY THANK YOU TO THAT TOO. , ANOTHER THANK YOU. A VERY POPULAR ITEM. ALL RIGHT. WELL, WITH THAT, LET'S MOVE ON TO SECTION THREE SINCE I'M SEEING A LITTLE ACTIVITY. AND, AND THAT SECTION IS INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE AND WE ARE IN THE ONE M DASH ONE CATEGORY. DO WE HAVE COMMENTS? DARREN? THANK YOU CHAIR. UH, I'M LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT ITEM I AM DASH FIVE. AND I'M JUST WONDERING, I THINK THE WAY I'M INTERPRETING THAT IS, AND EVEN THE TITLE OF THAT SECTION, SIDEWALK REPAIR AND FRONTAGE IMPROVEMENTS, DOES THAT LANGUAGE LEAVE IT OPEN TO IF SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SPLIT SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT FUNDING COMES BACK OR THERE'S ANY CITY SHARED RESPONSIBILITY THAT LEAVES ENOUGH FLEXIBILITY THERE FOR THAT, RIGHT? THAT, THAT WE WILL PURSUE THOSE OPTIONS? YOU KNOW, I, I READ THAT AS PART OF REDUCER ELIMINATION. YES, DEFINITELY PART OF THE BARRIER, ONE OF THE BARRIERS IS THE COST. SO YEAH, COST, UH, I MEAN, PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS, RIGHT? THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS AT PLAY. UM, AND, AND SO THAT'S THE GOAL, OBVIOUSLY SUBJECT TO CO COUNCIL APPROVAL. SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S A BIG ENOUGH ITEM TO NOT BE EXPLICITLY SAID, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WOULD FIT IN THERE. SO. PERFECT. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? WE'RE IN SECTION THREE INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE. ADAM, I THINK WE CAN QUESTION, I THINK WE CAN REMOVE, UH, PURCHASE FROM PROTECTED BIKE LANE SWEEPER . YEAH, I JUST, I YEAH, WE, WE DID, I THINK YOU WANTED SOMETHING TO CHECK OFF. WANTED SOMETHING TO CHECK OFF THE LIST, RIGHT? IT'S MARKED AS COMPLETE. YEAH, IT ALREADY SAYS COMPLETE THERE. JUST WANTED TO GIVE OURSELVES A LITTLE PAT ON THE BACK FOR THAT FIRST CITY IN THE NORTH BAY WITH A MINI SWEEPER. YES, ADAM. SURE. I'M NOT SURE IF THIS GOES IN THIS SECTION. UM, WHAT, WHAT'S IM SIX FOR THE TEMPORARY TRAFFIC CONTROL, IS THAT KIND OF IN LIKE RESPONSE TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, FOR INSTANCE? EXACTLY. YEAH. SO I KNOW THERE WAS JUST A POST ON THE BIKE PEDAL IN A FACEBOOK GROUP WITH A PICTURE OF A CONSTRUCTION, A BIKE LANE OR CONSTRUCTION AHEAD, ROADWORK AHEAD SIGN, LIKE IN THE BIKE LANE BLOCKING THE BIKE LANE. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, UH, OUR INSPECTORS DO TALK TO CONTRACTORS ABOUT ALL THE TIME. YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A NEARBY OPPORTUNITY TO FIND ANOTHER PLACE TO PUT YOUR SIGN WHERE IT'S STILL VISIBLE TO DRIVERS AND, AND STILL SERVE, YOU KNOW, GETTING THAT MESSAGE OUT WITHOUT IMPEDING BICYCLE AND, AND PEDESTRIAN THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN PATH OF TRAVEL, UM, PLEASE DO SO. BUT IT'S UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS CONSTANT REMINDERS AND, AND IT JUST, AND CONSTANT ATTENTION, UM, FROM OUR INSPECTORS BECAUSE YEAH, IT'S JUST WHAT, WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS THEY'RE TAKING THESE TEMP TRAFFIC CONTROL TEMPLATES, UH, FROM THE MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES THAT LITERALLY SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS SIGN GOES 200 FEET BEFORE THE LANE CLOSURE. AND SO THEY'RE JUST MEASURING OUT 200 FEET, THEY'RE DROPPING IT THERE, THEY'RE NOT KIND OF, THEY'RE NOT LOOKING AROUND AND THINKING, OH, I COULD PUT IT IN A [01:00:01] PLANTING STRIP, OR I COULD PUT IT, YOU KNOW, ON THAT SUPER WIDE SIDEWALK. SO THAT IT, IT'S, SO ANYHOW, JUST SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, TO WORK ON . YES. WANTED TO, I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HERE BECAUSE OF HOW OFTEN IT COMES UP. YEAH. SO THE CASE THAT I'M THINKING OF IN PARTICULAR IS MORE PEDESTRIAN FOCUSED. IT'S UM, THE ADOBE WINERY CONSTRUCTION MM, MM-HMM . SO WHERE THERE'S ON STREET PARKING, UM, BUT THEN THE SIDEWALK WAS TAKEN AWAY FOUR YEARS AND YEARS SINCE I THINK I'VE MOVED HERE. UM, AND IT'S THAT KIND OF CA THOSE KIND OF SPECIFIC CASES, WHICH THEN I THINK WE CAN EXPAND THE LANGUAGE OF THIS. YEAH, WELL, YEAH, YEAH, EXACTLY. TO SAY BIKE FRIENDLY AND PEDESTRIAN OR PEOPLE FRIENDLY. I DON'T KNOW WHATEVER THE RIGHT WAY TO SAY THAT IS, BUT UM, IT'S, YEAH, SPECIFICALLY AROUND HAVING REPLACING IF YEAH, IF YOU'RE GONNA TAKE AWAY THE SIDEWALK, YOU KNOW, REQUIRE SOME TEMPORARY REPLACEMENT OF IT, UM, YEAH. WHEN FEASIBLE, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S LIKE ON STREET PARKING AND THERE'S A PARKING STRUCTURE RIGHT NEXT TO IT. OKAY. GREAT COMMENT, FRANK. REGARDING ITEM I AM FOUR, THE THERMOPLASTIC ROADWAY MARKING, DO WE KNOW IF THAT IS AN ADDED COST TO THE CITY OR IF IT SAVES US MONEY? UH, SO THERE WOULD BE A SLIGHT UPFRONT CAPITAL INVESTMENT TO PURCHASE THE EQUIPMENT, BUT MASSIVE, MASSIVE SAVINGS OVER THE ANNUALLY, UM, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY WHERE, I MEAN, PAINT THE, THE LIFESPAN ON PAINT IS JUST SO SHORT, WHEREAS THERMOPLASTIC LASTS FOR YEARS. SO WHEN YOU SEE OUR CREW OUT PAINTING THE SAME CROSSWALK EVERY YEAR, THEY DON'T NEED TO BE DOING THAT . IF WE HAD THERMOPLASTIC, THEY WOULDN'T NEED TO BE DOING THAT. SO THAT'S THE GOAL THERE. NEXT, UH, I THINK THE, I THINK THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN TR TEMPORARY TRAFFIC CONTROL IS, SHOULD BE A, A PRIORITY. I KNOW IT SAYS 2025, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I THROW MY WEIGHT BEHIND THAT. IT'S BEEN A REAL PET PEEVE OF MINE IN THE LAST LONG TIME. ANYONE ELSE, AUDIENCE, ANY, ANY COMMENT? ALRIGHT, WITH, IF NOT, WE'RE MOVING ON TO SECTION FOUR, WHICH IS EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT. DARREN? UH, YES. SO FOR ITEM EE DASH FIVE, I THINK IT'S GREAT VOLUME WISE, YOU KNOW, TO TARGET THE LARGEST EMPLOYERS. I WAS JUST WONDERING IF WE HAVE ANY PROGRAMS OR CAN PUT IN ANY INCENTIVES OR EVEN JUST LIKE THE CITY SHOWCASING SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION. THE, THE BUSINESS I'M THINKING OF IS LIKE GRAND CENTRAL PETALUMA, BUT ANY BUSINESS THAT SEEMS TO OFFER INCENTIVES OR PROGRAMS TO ADVOCATE THAT THEIR CUSTOMERS BIKE, THERE'S SOME WAY THE CITY CAN UPLIFT THAT. AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF CITY INVESTMENT, UH, BUT JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS, THE SMALL BUSINESSES AS WELL AND WHAT THEY DO TO KIND OF ADVOCATE FOR SOME OF THIS, THIS CULTURE CHANGE. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING NOTE, I DID PUT THIS ON THE COMMITTEE'S WORK PLAN. THERE ARE A FEW, A FEW OF THOSE THROUGHOUT THIS. SO, UM, AND ALSO THAT'S, I I DO THINK THERE'S, THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THERE AND THIS MAY BE SOMETHING THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, OMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION MAY ALREADY BE DOING, WHERE THEY'RE KIND OF THROUGH THEIR, UH, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL MEDIA KIND OF HIGHLIGHTING AND CELEBRATING BUSINESSES THAT, THAT ARE, UH, BIKE FRIENDLY IN, IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THAT'S A GREAT COMMENT. I LIKE THAT ONE A LOT. UH, THE OTHER ONE THAT JUMPS OUT TO ME IS, UM, LIKE WE HAVE OPEN STREETS DEMONSTR IN DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS. UM, WE STILL DON'T DO ANY EDUCATION ATTACHED TO THAT. SO WE HAVE THESE PROJECTS, BUT WE DON'T ACTUALLY PROVIDE LIKE PHYSICAL EDUCATION RESOURCES THERE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING BY THE STREET TO UNDERSTAND WHY BOUTS ARE IMPLEMENTED. UM, AND I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE THAT A PRIORITY TOO. YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A, LET ME SEE, I'M LOOKING FORWARD. I'M GONNA ADD MAYBE LIKE A, I COULD SEE TWO, TWO FACETS OF THAT. LIKE AN ONLINE TOOLKIT THAT KIND OF DESCRIBES THE FEATURES AND THEIR PURPOSES. AND THEN ALSO A PHYSICAL PRESENCE. YOU'RE SAYING IT SOUNDS LIKE OUT ON THE STREET WHERE A NEW BULB OUT GOES IN, PUT UP AN A-FRAME OR AN 11 BY 17 POSTER SAYING [01:05:01] THIS IS WHY WE DID THIS HERE. BASICALLY A A DURABLE POSTER ON THE, THE STOP SIGN THAT'S BEEN MOVED OUT INTO THE STREET WOULD BE REALLY AWESOME. UM, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. PREFERABLY NOT IN A FRAME 'CAUSE THEY JUST INEVITABLY WELL YEAH. BLOW OVER AND THEN PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT HAVING A FRAMES LAYING ON THE GROUND. OKAY. YES. AMBER, I KNOW THAT I'VE SEEN ON A, MY HUSBAND'S ALSO ON THE DOWNTOWN, THE PETMAN DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION, AND I KNOW THAT THE BIKE COALITION HAS WORKED WITH THEM TO HAVE, UH, BIKE VALETS FOR A COUPLE OF THOSE EVENTS. IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN GET MORE EDUCATION OUT FOR OUR LARGER EVENTS? I MEAN, MY HUSBAND AND I ACTUALLY RODE OUR BIKES TO THE LIGHTED BOAT PARADE. MM-HMM . UM, RECENTLY. AND IS THERE ANY WAY THAT WE CAN GET SOMETHING PUT TOGETHER TO HELP JOIN THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO GET MORE, IF ANYBODY WAS AT THE BIKE, THE LIGHTED BOAT PARADE, THE TRAFFIC WAS MILES LONG IN TOWN. AND IF WE COULD HAVE HAD A PROMOTION OF A BIKE AREA FOR THAT, IT MIGHT HAVE HELPED WITH THAT. YEAH, A COUPLE THINGS COME TO MIND. I MEAN, WE'VE GOT, OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF OUR SUMMER EVENTS, UH, OFFER VALET BIKE PARKING, USUALLY DONE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH, UM, SAFE STREETS, SAFE STREETS AND, AND BIKE PETALUMA. UM, SO VALET BIKE PARKING IS OBVIOUSLY AN IMPORTANT ONE FOR LARGE EVENTS. AND THEN, UM, AND THEN I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO, I MEAN, YEAH, JUST I THINK ADDITIONAL WITH ALL EVENT PROMOTION, YOU KNOW, SHOWING PEOPLE ACT RESOURCES, LIKE HERE'S A MAP, HERE'S HOW YOU GET TO THE EVENT BY BIKE. UM, USING THOSE, OUR NEW BIKE MAPS THAT WILL BE CREATED. I'VE GOT A GREAT PICTURE FROM THE LIGHTED BOAT PARADE. OKAY. . YEAH. OKAY. ADAM? YEAH. UM, IN THE TITLE, TITLE OF THIS WITH ENCOURAGEMENT, UM, I TEND TO THINK ABOUT OUT KIND OF LIKE MORE ALL WEATHER RIDING AND WHAT IT TAKES, KIND OF LIKE THE GEAR, THE GLOVES OR RAIN JACKETS. THERE'S A LOT TO SAY, LIKE, I'M GONNA TAKE THIS TRIP BY BIKE EVEN IF THE WEATHER'S NOT GREAT. YOU KNOW, DO I HAVE THE RIGHT GEAR FOR THAT? THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I FEEL LIKE IS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF ENCOURAGEMENT. UM, AND IN THE SAME IDEA OF LIKE SUBSIDIES OR SOMETHING. UM, ESPECIALLY KIND OF HOW THE PROGRAM FOR SUBSIDIES KIND OF FOCUSED ON LOW INCOME PEOPLE. JUST THINKING HOW YOU COULD WORK WITH MAYBE BUSINESSES OR WITHIN THE SOMETHING CITY BRANDED OR WHERE THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO KIND OF ENCOURAGE PEOPLE IF THEY ARE GONNA RIDE, HERE'S SOME, YOU KNOW, MAYBE LOWER COST RIDING GEAR REFLECTORS, THINGS THAT IT KIND OF TAKES TO BE YEAH. KIND OF AN NIGHTTIME, DAYTIME, ALL WEATHER RIDER. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A FINANCIAL INVESTMENT, SO HOW CAN WE HELP PEOPLE MM-HMM . GET OVER THAT HURDLE. THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A TOUGH ONE FOR US TO DO AS A CITY. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN PROMOTE SPECIFIC PRODUCTS OR SEND BUSINESS, UH, IN, IN ANYONE'S DIRECTION, NECESSARILY. UM, BUT SO YOU'RE LOOKING FOR JUST MORE BASICALLY LOCAL RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE TO KIND OF OVERCOME THOSE BARRIERS. UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE RELATED TO WALKING AND BIKING AT NIGHT AND OR IN THE DARK AND IN THE WINTER, IN, IN MORE EXTREME CONDITIONS, GET SOME BASIC THINGS LIKE GLOVES AND A, YOU KNOW, LITTLE SKULL CAP THAT'S KIND OF, I RYE WHEN IT'S LIKE NIGHTTIME OR IT'S COLD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO, YEAH. I, I'M KIND OF GRASPING, OBVIOUSLY. WHOOPS. I'M OBVIOUSLY KIND OF GRASPING, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE HOW TO GET THAT IN HERE, BUT IT IS, YEAH. ONE OF THOSE, YEAH. MONETARY BARRIERS THAT IF PEOPLE HAD THAT IN SOME WAY THAT MAYBE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH, SAY, THE E-BIKE SUBSIDIES, THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT YOU ALSO GOT YEP. YOU KNOW, AS A PART OF THAT. UM, YEAH. SO THIS, I PULLED, THIS WAS PULLED DIRECTLY OUT OF THE BLUEPRINT FOR CLIMATE ACTION. UM, THIS WAS IN THERE AS A, AS AN, AS AN ACTION ITEM TO, I MEAN, THIS IS JUST WORD FOR WORD WHAT IT, WHAT IT SAID 2027. SO WE COULD CERTAINLY, YEAH, WE COULD EXPAND THIS. UM, AND IT COULD BE, IT COULD JUST BE WRITTEN MORE BROADLY. COULD BE, IT COULD BE MORE THAN JUST E-BIKES, E-BIKES, BIKES, UH, AND BIKE ACCESSORIES. I KNOW THE CURRENT, THE REBATE THAT JUST WENT OUT FOR THE STATE DOES ALSO HAVE ACCESSORIES AND, [01:10:01] UH, AS A ELIGIBLE EXPENSE. SO. OKAY. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT, BUT THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. JUST TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO, DIDN'T THE CITY HAVE A BUSINESS? THEY WENT TO BUSINESSES ABOUT GETTING E-BIKES FOR EMPLOYEES? 'CAUSE I KNOW MY COMPANY MISSED IT BY LIKE TWO WEEKS SIGNING UP FOR, IT WASN'T THE CITY. SONOMA CLEAN POWER HAS A PILOT PROGRAM FOR THAT. OKAY. I MEAN, THERE WAS ONE , , WE, WE JUST MISSED IT. YEP. GOT A FEW OTHERS. UM, I'VE SEEN SOME MAINTENANCE EVENTS. I THINK AT GRAND CENTRAL THEY'VE DONE SOME, LIKE MAINTENANCE EVENTS MM-HMM . UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE PROMOTE THOSE AND GET PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH HOW TO MAINTAIN THEIR BIKES. UM, UH, THE SORT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, DONATE YOUR OLD BIKE AND THEN HAVING SOME WAY OF, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FOSTER THOSE SORTS OF PROGRAMS AND HAVING PEOPLE GET FREE BIKES. UM, TEMPORARY PARKING EVENTS, I THINK IS, IS CRITICAL. I'M THINKING IN PARTICULAR AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, IT FEELS LIKE EVERY TIME I GO TO A EVENT AT THE FAIRGROUNDS, I'M LIKE, I HAD, THERE'S NOWHERE FOR ME TO PARK MY BIKE. MM-HMM . INCLUDING A LUMA ICE. UM, AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER ONE THAT I DON'T SEE ON HERE IS JUST REALLY LIKE, LEANING INTO THE CITY'S OWN CHANNELS, SOCIAL MEDIA, WEEKLY, UM, EMAIL, THINGS LIKE THAT OF JUST TRYING TO REALLY, LIKE, UM, I THINK IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT DARREN WAS MENTIONING ABOUT, LIKE, I, IT'S SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESSES THAT ARE LEADERS IN THIS SPACE, OR CHILDREN WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, GETTING ON THEIR BIKES. UM, YOU KNOW, FORMER CHAIR KAMAR HAD THE, THE WHOLE IDEA OF LIKE, HAT HAIR, DON'T CARE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS. THINGS LIKE THAT TO TRY AND LIKE NORMALIZE SHOWING UP TO SCHOOL WITH HAT HAIR. UM, SO I THINK THERE'S SOME THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THE CITY CAN DO WITH ITS OWN, UH, CHANNELS. NEXT, OR IN ADDITION TO, I SECOND YOUR COMMENTS, BRIAN. I VERY MUCH, UM, MISS THE, THE BIKE RODEO ASPECT OF THINGS. GETTING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND LEARNING ABOUT BIKES, LEARNING ABOUT HOW TO BE A, A PEDESTRIAN WHO IS SAFE, UM, AND CAN MAKE IT FROM POINT A TO POINT B. UM, TALKING ABOUT TRANSIT, I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE COULD CHAT WITH KIDS ABOUT AND CHAT WITH THEIR PARENTS FOR THAT MATTER. I HAVE ALMOST GOTTEN RUN OVER SEVERAL TIMES ON LYNCH CREEK TRAIL AS I WALK IT. AND I HAVE A BIKE RIDER BEHIND ME WHO DOESN'T KNOW TO CALL IT OUT. AND, YOU KNOW, ONE MISSTEP ON MY ON ON MY SIDE, I'M GONNA GET CREAMED JUST A REFRESHER COURSE ON WHAT'S, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE NICETIES, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING? WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN FIX? UM, BUT JUST GETTING FACE TO FACE CONTACT WITH PEOPLE AND TRYING TO PUSH THIS WHOLE IDEA OF SAFETY. THAT WAS, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS INITIALLY A COUPLE YEARS AGO, SAFETY WAS A HUGE PART OF OUR, OUR DISCUSSIONS. AND ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE THAT IS JUST EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO DO. I, I SECOND YOUR POINT, BECAUSE I HAVE THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR'S, 14-YEAR-OLD E-BIKE SITTING IN MY GARAGE SO HE DOESN'T FIND IT BEFORE CHRISTMAS MORNING. AND WHAT CAN WE GET AHEAD OF WITH THOSE KIDS? I MEAN, WE CAN'T GET AHEAD OF CHRISTMAS AT THIS POINT IN TIME, BUT CAN WE HAVE A PUBLIC, LIKE WHERE, WHERE CAN WE TEACH THESE KIDS THE PROPER ETIQUETTE? 'CAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT THERE'S A GROUP OF KIDS IN TOWN RIGHT NOW THAT ARE REACT GOING VERY POORLY ON THEIR E-BIKES. WE ALL SEE THEM ALL OVER TOWN, BUT GET THE PARENTS AHEAD OF GIVING THESE KIDS AT 14 YEARS OLD. A MOTORIZED VA MOTORIZED BIKE. YEAH. SO WE, SO I, I WILL HIGHLIGHT, 'CAUSE THIS THIS KEEPS COMING UP. WE DO HAVE, UM, THIS IS ESPECIALLY SEEMS, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN, THE CONFLICTS ARE MAYBE MORE IMPACTFUL ON THE TRAILS IS WHERE WE HEAR MOST COMPLAINTS ABOUT, UM, KIDS ON KIDS AND, AND TEENAGERS ON E-BIKES. UH, SO WE DID HAVE ONE FOR TRAIL SIGNAGE, TRAIL ETIQUETTE, AND SPEED LIMIT SIGNAGE. RECOGNIZING SIGNAGE IS JUST, YOU KNOW, . THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF THE, THE FIRST PASS AT IT. UM, AND THEN ON THE EDUCATION PIECE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE ARE THINGS THAT THE CITY CAN CERTAINLY SHARE. UH, IT IS AN AREA OF GROWING EMPHASIS FOR OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEN THEY'RE TALKING TO THE SCHOOLS. UM, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL SEEMS LIKE A REALLY LOGICAL ORGANIZATION FOR THAT. I KNOW THAT THEY, THEY'RE MORE ACTIVE IN OUR [01:15:01] K THROUGH EIGHT SCHOOLS, SO THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY REACHING THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WE'VE GOT, THEY'RE, THEY'RE OFFERING THEIR PROGRAMMING OR 13 OUT OF 15 OF OUR PUBLIC K THROUGH EIGHT SCHOOLS HAVE SIGNED UP FOR THEIR PROGRAMMING, THE TWO THAT AREN'T BEING LAW TO SARAH AND KENNELWORTH. UM, SO THAT MESSAGING IS GETTING OUT. UM, I DON'T, I THINK IT'S JUST, IT'S, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT, UH, THE CITY, WE CAN CERTAINLY SHARE MESSAGING ON IT, BUT, UM, AND, AND IT'S THOSE TOUCH POINTS, RIGHT? SO WHEN SAFE ROUTES IS IN THE SCHOOLS, THEY'RE SHARING THAT MESSAGE. WHEN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS VISITING SCHOOLS, THEY'RE SHARING THE MESSAGE. IT'S GONNA TAKE, IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT OF, A LOT OF WORK TO KIND OF TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION THAT'S, YOU KNOW, HAS ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY THAT NO ONE HAS HAD BEFORE THEM. SO, SORRY IF THAT, I'M JUST, IT IS, IT IS IT, IT IS A KNOWN IT ISSUE THAT I THINK A LOT OF GROUPS ARE TRYING TO ADDRESS IS KIND MY LONG, MY LONG WINDED WAY OF SAYING THAT. YEAH. I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST TRAILS. I SEE IT ALL THE TIME ON SIDEWALKS WITH KIDS JUST BLASTING DOWN SIDEWALKS AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE RUNNING PEDESTRIANS OFF SIDEWALKS. I SEE IT ALL THE TIME. KIDS JUST, YOU KNOW, RIDING ONE, LIKE TWO PEOPLE ON A BIKE AND NO HELMET. UM, THE, THE ETIQUETTE AND THE SAFETY PARAMETERS OF TEENAGERS ON E-BIKES RIGHT NOW IS PRETTY ABYSMAL. IT PAINS ME TO, TO THINK ABOUT REGULATING RIDING A BIKE. YEAH. BUT, UM, IT'S A PROBLEM. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, THANK YOU, BJORN. OKAY. ANYWAY, OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS SECTION? IF NOT, WE MOVE TO THE NEXT SECTION, NOT SEEING ANYTHING. SO WE ARE GOING TO BE MOVING TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENFORCEMENT. IS THERE ANYONE WHO HAS A COMMENT OR A QUESTION? BRIAN? UM, I THINK WE NEED TO BE ENFORCING HELMETS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. UM, OUR POLICE HAVE DONE SOME THINGS LIKE WHEN SCHOOL GETS BACK IN SECTION OF LIKE POSTING ON USING THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS TO LIKE, YOU KNOW, SAY, HEY, WE'RE GONNA BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN INCREASING ENFORCEMENT AND WHATNOT AROUND THE SCHOOLS AND YEAH. UM, BUT WHAT THEY DON'T DO IS ACTUALLY REPORT OUT ON LIKE, THE ENFORCEMENT DATA. SO I THINK REPORTING ON ENFORCEMENT DATA, UM, UH, AROUND SPEEDING AND RUNNING STOP SIGNS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, AND THEN I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US TRY AND GET INTO THE REMOTE, UM, UH, REMOTE CITATIONS, UH, IF THAT, IF THAT PILOT EXPANDS, I THINK THERE'S LIKE THREE CITIES THAT HAVE IT GOING ON RIGHT NOW. IT'S LIKE LA AND TWO OTHERS. UM, I'D LOVE TO SEE US TRY AND BE FIRST MOVERS ON THAT WHEN IT, WHEN WE GET THE OPPORTUNITY. DOES THE CITY AT THIS TIME HAVE ANY CLA DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS FOR THE TYPE OF E-BIKES THAT ARE OUT THERE? AND ARE THEY HAVING ANY SET UP FOR THAT? WE DEFER TO THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE. SO THE, THE VEHICLE CODE HAS DEFINED DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF E-BIKES AND OTHER, IT'S NOT JUST E-BIKES, RIGHT? THERE'S ALSO ELECTRIC SCOOTERS AND OTHER KIND, I MEAN, GOT ONE WHEEL , ONE WHEEL DEVICES OUT THERE. SO, UM, YEAH, WE'RE REALLY JUST DIFFERING TO THE STATE ON ALL THINGS, UH, ALL ALL FORMS OF NEW MOBILITY. . YEAH. AND NEXT? YES, SIR. CAN YOU HEAR ME? NO. SHOULD BE GOOD. IF YOU'LL STATE YOUR NAME. CHECK. THERE WE GO. HI, UH, I'M JASON MYERS. I'M A, A PARENT AND AN AVID CYCLIST IN THE COMMUNITY. AND, UM, AS A ROLL UP TO SOME OF THE CONCERNS, AND THIS IS KIND OF A GENERAL, UH, COMMENT, SO, YOU KNOW, FORGIVE, ITS GENERALNESS, BUT I THINK THAT IN TERMS OF SAFETY ON THE ROADS FOR, FOR PARENTS AND KIDS, UM, AND TO THE INCENTIVES TO WEAR HELMETS AND MAYBE INCREASE SAFETY AT NIGHT AND INCREASE SAFETY AND, UH, CONDITIONS THAT HAVING FORMING PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE SCHOOLS SPECIFICALLY, UM, I KNOW THE, UM, THE, THE PRINCIPAL AT THE SCHOOL THAT MY SON GOES TO IS REALLY RECEPTIVE TO SOME OF THE SAFE STREET. IN FACT, SHE POINTED ME TOWARD THE SAFE STREETS. UM, THEY'RE THE, THE [01:20:01] SAFE TO SCHOOL BOARD. UM, AND I THINK WORKING WITHIN THE SCHOOLS AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PRINCIPALS AND MAYBE SOME OF THE PARENTS WHO ARE ACTIVE CYCLISTS, UM, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD PLACE TO TALK ABOUT SAFETY AND TALK ABOUT WHY HELMETS ARE KIND OF IMPORTANT AND WORKING, YOU KNOW, WITH THE YOUNGER KIDS. 'CAUSE I THINK THAT, UM, THE SAFETY ELEMENT WILL PERCOLATE UP. I THINK THERE'S, I'M SEEING A LOT OF, UM, UNSAFE BEHAVIOR WITH THE ELECTRIC BIKES AS WELL. AND I THINK ENFORCEMENT ONLY GOES SO FAR. IT'S THAT IF, YOU KNOW, TAKING THE, I THINK IT'S THE, THE MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENT MODEL AND SAYING LIKE, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR HEAD AT 40 MILES AN HOUR, 30 MILES AN HOUR, AND YOU'RE JUST LETTING KIDS KNOW WHAT UN HELMETED UNSAFE BEHAVIOR LOOKS LIKE. UM, BUT AGAIN, FORMING THOSE PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE SCHOOLS AND PRESENTING TO THE YOUNGER KIDS WHO ARE CURIOUS ABOUT BIKES IS PROBABLY A, A GOOD WAY TO GO. UM, YEAH, JUST PERCOLATING THAT GOOD DATA UP. UM, AND THEN I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION SLASH CONCERN ABOUT THE AUTOMATIC AUTOMATIC DETECTION, UM, AT THE INTERSECTIONS. UM, I'M AN AVID CYCLIST AND A COMMUTER, AND I ALSO RIDE WITH MY 5-YEAR-OLD. AND BEING THE BIKE BOXES ARE GREAT, BUT AN AUTO AUTOMATIC DETECTION IS SOMETHING I HAVEN'T SEEN. AND IT SOUNDS AWESOME, EXCEPT I WOULD NEVER ENTER A BIKE BOX WITH A FIVE OR A SIX OR A SEVEN OR A 10-YEAR-OLD. UM, YOU'RE TOO PRONE AT THAT. YOU'RE TOO SUBJECT AT THAT POINT TO OTHER TRAFFIC AND COMFORTABLE ALONE, BUT NOT WITH KIDDOS. SO HAVING THOSE BUTTONS, WHETHER THEY WORK OR NOT, WHICH IN SOME PLACES THEY DON'T, IS, UM, JUST LETS YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONTROL OVER WHEN YOU CAN CROSS WITH MORE THAN ONE PERSON. SO THAT'S THE COMMENT I WANTED TO LEAVE WITH. I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING YOUR COMMENTS TO US. WE APPRECIATE THEM. ANYONE ELSE DO I SEE? I WANTED TO MAKE MENTION, UM, ON PS TWO, WHICH IS MULTI-USE TRAIL PATROLS DEPLOY, DEPLOY PUBLIC SAFETY STAFF TO CONDUCT REGULAR PATROLS ON MULTI-USE TRAILS TO ENSURE SAFETY AND PROMOTE TRAIL USAGE BY PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. UM, WE COULD ALSO HELP AS MEMBERS OF PACI TALK TO PEOPLE WHEN I'M WALKING ON TRAILS, UM, PARTICULARLY THOSE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE, UM, DO SOMETHING CRAZY ON A BIKE. BUT IT CERTAINLY WOULD BE EASIER FOR THOSE OF US WHO WOULD, WHO WOULDN'T MIND DOING THAT IN A NICE WAY IS, IS MAYBE WE COULD HAVE BUSINESS CARDS MADE UP WITH JUST SOME REAL SIMPLE THINGS THAT PEOPLE NEED TO REMEMBER WHEN THEY'RE RIDING A BICYCLE ON A TRAIL. IT COULD BE SPEED LIMITS, IT COULD BE A VARIETY OF THINGS, BUT I LOVE THE IDEA OF HAVING PEOPLE ON THE TRAIL TO CORRECT BIKE BIKE PEOPLE IF THEY DARE. AND THERE ARE SOME ADULTS THAT I STEER CLEAR UP, BUT WHEN IT'S A KID, I USUALLY STOP AND GO, HOLD ON, LET'S TALK FOR A MINUTE. BUT ALL OF US COULD BE GOOD STEWARDS. AND OF COURSE IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE WERE, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAD A POLICE UNIFORM ON OR SOMETHING, WHICH WE WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE. BUT, UM, SOME IDENTIFICATION THAT WE'RE THERE FOR THE, FOR THE BETTER. GOOD OF ALL, NOT FOR PUNITIVE REASONS. AND I, I DID REACH OUT TO OUR, UH, CHIEF OF POLICE, BRIAN MILLER ABOUT, UH, THIS ITEM JUST TO KIND OF CHECK IN ON WHAT THEY ARE CURRENTLY DOING. AND THEY HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY PATROLLING THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL MUCH MORE FREQUENTLY SINCE THEY, THEY ACTUALLY JUST RECENTLY PURCHASED SOME NEW E-BIKES AND, UM, SO I THINK THEY'VE BEEN A LOT MORE ACTIVE ON, ON LYNCH CREEK TRAIL IN RECENT MONTHS SINCE GETTING THOSE. WELL, I FIGURE IF YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF OVERSEE OVERSIGHT OVER THE TRAILS FOR JUST TWO OR THREE MONTHS, YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AND THOSE KIDS THAT, PARTICULARLY THE KIDS THAT YOU WORK WITH, ARE GONNA REMEMBER AND BE REMINDED EACH TIME THEY SEE SOMEONE OUT THERE WITH EYES ON THE TRAIL. AND THAT'S GONNA HELP ALL OF US AND KEEP THEM SAFER AS WELL. ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS SECTION? IF NOT, WE'LL MOVE TO THE NEXT SECTION, WHICH IS CAPACITY BUILDING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. ANY COMMENTS? I SEE NO COMMENTS. SO SHALL WE MOVE TO EVALUATION, WHICH IS OUR LAST SECTION? [01:25:02] MAYBE, MAYBE COULD WE GO BACK TO THAT LAST ONE? SURE, GO AHEAD. UM, FIONA, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S ANYTHING, I'M JUST TRYING TO, I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF. I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT KIND OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THINGS EASIER, KIND OF SOME OF THE WORK THAT SCTA IS DOING AROUND THAT. UM, KIND OF QUICK BUILD AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS, BUT I DON'T, KIND OF SECOND GUESSING MYSELF NOW, I WAS JUST THINKING HOW TO, IF THERE'S ANYTHING TO, TO MENTION ABOUT LEVERAGING VIRGINIA, UM, SOME OF THAT WORK, BUT THAT MIGHT BE TOO SPECIFIC AT THIS POINT. ARE YOU, UM, LIKE A REFERENCE TO THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THAT SCTA PROVIDES? IS THAT WHAT UM, YEAH, I THINK I WAS THINKING OF MORE, YEAH. SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT ARE KIND OF IN DEVELOPMENT, I GUESS. SO IT MIGHT BE GETTING A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF THE, THE CURVE, BUT TRYING TO HELP MAKE SURE THAT SOME OF THE QUICK BUILD PROJECTS AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS ARE MORE EASILY IMPLEMENTABLE. UM, BUT I THINK, I THINK THAT COULD MAYBE, I THINK THAT'S ALREADY INCORPORATED IN ANOTHER SECTION. OKAY. IF YOU HAVE YEAH, IF IT, IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND, FEEL FREE TO SEND IT OVER. YEAH. AS FAR AS THE RESOURCES UNDER DEVELOPMENT, MOVING BACK TO EVALUATION, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, DARREN? UH, THANK YOU CHAIR. YOU KNOW, ONE I'M THINKING OF, AND I GUESS I'LL QUALIFY IT WITH, THIS MIGHT BE IMPLICIT THROUGHOUT, BUT I'M THINKING OF MECHANISMS IN PLACE FOR COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ON IMPLEMENTED CHANGES AS PART OF EVALUATION. SO MAKING SURE THAT, AND PARTICULARLY WITH ITEMS LIKE, UH, LANE REDUCTION, RIGHT? MM-HMM . THAT'S USUALLY A BIG ONE. UM, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE CREATING SPACES WHERE WE CAN GATHER COMMUNITY FEEDBACK? AND, AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE IN, SINCE I'VE BEEN ON PAC, I HAVE MORE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION THAN EVER. UH, AND I LOVE TO WALK AND HIKE. UH, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS THAT ARE REALLY INTO CAR CULTURE AS WELL. SO MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S A SPACE WHERE THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THIS IS NECESSARILY BEING ENFORCED, BUT THAT THERE'S LIKE A SPACE TO ELICIT AND RECEIVE THAT FEEDBACK AS THESE PROGRAMS MOVE FORWARD. UM, JUST TO TRY TO MITIGATE THAT FEELING OF, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING BEING DONE TO YOU. BUT DO WE B BASICALLY, DO WE THINK THAT'S COVERED THROUGHOUT? IS THAT IMPLICIT IN DECISION MAKING? YOU KNOW, WHEN A PROJECT IS GONNA INEVITABLY COME BEFORE US OR COUNCIL, LIKE THAT IS THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK. IS IT WORTH HAVING SOMETHING CALLED OUT HERE IN EVALUATION OF A, SOME KIND OF COMMUNITY FEEDBACK LOOP, KIND OF LIKE A, LIKE A PROJECT POSTMORTEM OF HERE'S WHAT, HERE'S WHAT WE BASIC ARE GIVING THE COMMUNITY A CHANCE TO SAY WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THE IMPROVEMENTS AFTER THEY'RE, THEY'VE BEEN IN PLACE FOR SOME TIME, ESSENTIALLY, OR Y YEAH, SOME, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO, AND LIKE I SAID, WITH PROJECTS THAT MIGHT ALREADY BE PART OF IT, SO WE'RE COVERED. UH, BUT YEAH, I THINK SOMETHING LIKE WHAT YOU DESCRIBED, IS ALL OF IT GONNA BE PRODUCTIVE? NO. YEAH. UM, BUT I THINK IT'S A REALLY USEFUL THING TO, TO INCLUDE WHEN WE THINK ABOUT EVALUATING EFFECTIVENESS FOR THE MM-HMM . FROM THE COMMUNITY SIDE, I CAN, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT UNDER THE CASE STUDIES COULD BE CAPTURED WITH JUST A SIMPLE ADDITION OF, UM, AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK? YEAH. I THINK I'LL ADD ANOTHER WORD THERE TOO, UM, TO KIND OF CAPTURE THE, I THINK THAT'S AN ELEGANT, UH, PRETTY SIMPLE SOLUTION. YEAH. YES. ADAM? UH, LET'S SEE. SO FOR EV ONE, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF NEEDS TO BE AS SPECIFIC AS THIS, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING PARTICULAR, UM, WITHIN THE, UM, VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, UM, FROM SCTA THAT'S SPECIFICALLY CALLING OUT THE PROGRESS METRICS MM-HMM . UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF THE PROJECT UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW THAT, UM, FROM THROUGH SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANTS TO KIND OF GET THAT UP AND UNDERWAY. SO IT'S KIND OF ESSENTIALLY THERE KIND OF INCLUDING PROGRESS ON ACTION ITEMS OR, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF IT NEEDS TO BE MORE SPECIFIC TO SAY LIKE THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN, PROGRESS METRICS WOULD BE, [01:30:02] I THINK ESSENTIALLY KIND OF TIED TO WHAT THE ANNUAL REPORT, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR IT, BUT THAT'S KIND OF THE IDEA IS TO, THROUGH ALL THESE PRO PROGRESS METRICS, WE CAN REPORT ANNUALLY ON HOW WELL WE'RE DOING IN ADDITION TO KIND OF YEAH. THE OVERALL CRASH DATA, UM, THESE OTHER POINTS OF DATA TO SAY, YOU KNOW, YEAH. WHAT CAN WE, WHAT CAN WE MEASURE? SO I'M NOT SURE YET, MAYBE JUST TRYING TO TIE THAT STU TIE THAT TOGETHER. UM, IT WAS THE PROGRESS ACTION PLAN PROJECT METRICS OR? YEAH, SO IT WOULD BE THE ACTION PLAN PROGRESS METRICS. AND WOULD THOSE BE, ARE THOSE AVAILABLE LOCALLY? IS THERE A SNAPSHOT FOR JUST PETALUMA THAT WE COULD REFERENCE YEAH. WITH THOSE PROJECT PROGRESS METRICS? YEAH, EXACTLY. OKAY. I'LL BE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THAT. OKAY, COOL. AT SOME POINT, WE'VE MENTIONED IT IN A COUPLE TIMES IN OUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS, BUT YEAH, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THEN YOU CAN MEASURE ANNUALLY AND SAY ACROSS MAYBE 25 DIFFERENT METRICS. UM, HOW WELL ARE WE DOING TOWARDS REACHING VISION ZERO? RIGHT. IN ADDITION TO JUST THE RAW CRASH DATA. RIGHT. OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? YEAH, ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE? YEAH, I GOT, SO BRIAN, UM, ON THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COUNT PROGRAM, I THINK WE SHOULD THROW IN THEIR TRANSIT RIDERSHIP TOO. OFTENTIMES TRANSIT RIDERS ARE ALSO PEDESTRIANS. UM, SO HERE'S THE CHALLENGE THERE IS THE SCOPE OF THIS. SO TRANSIT RIDERSHIP IS TRACKED, UM, BY, BY TRANSIT. IT'S ACTUALLY REQUIRED OF THEM FOR ALL OF THEIR REPORTING, UM, FEDERAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. SO WE HAVE THAT DATA EASILY AVAILABLE ALREADY BEING COLLECTED. IS IT SOMETHING THAT YOU JUST WANT TO SEE REPORTED ON AT THIS COMMITTEE? I THINK AS PART OF AN ANNUAL REPORT OR SOME SORT OF A REPORT ON BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN USAGE. OKAY. KNOWING WHICH OF OUR BUS, LIKE FOR THIS BODY UP HERE MM-HMM . TO KNOW WHICH OF OUR BUS STOPS ARE REALLY LIKE HIGHLY USED, UM, AND WHICH AREN'T, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. LIKE I JUST, INCREASINGLY THERE'S GONNA BE YEAH. A MUCH STRONGER NEXUS BETWEEN THE WORK THAT WE DO ON THIS BODY AND THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UM, AND SO I THINK CONTINUING TO TRY AND SHARE DATA ACROSS THOSE TWO IS, UM, IS HELPFUL. AND YOU'RE LOOKING NOT JUST, WELL, OBVIOUSLY OVERALL RIDERSHIP TRENDS, BUT ALSO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU WANNA HEAR, YOU WANNA KIND OF DIG INTO IT AND FIND OUT WHICH, WHICH STOPS ARE SEEING GAINS IN RIDERSHIP? WHICH ROUTES ARE SEEING GAINS? YEAH. ESPECIALLY AS WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR GENERAL PLAN, RIGHT? AND WE'RE LOOKING TO PRIORITIZE A LOT OF THE, UM, HOUSING GROWTH ALONG OUR MAJOR CORRIDORS, RIGHT? SO TRANSIT, I WOULD THINK OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS WE'RE GONNA SEE A, UM, CHANGES IN TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, AND IT'S, UM, IT WILL HAPPEN IN DIFFERENT NODES OF THE CITY BASED ON WHERE WE'RE SEEING, YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS OPEN. THIS NEW SMART STATION OPENING UP AND THE, THE HOUSING PROJECT JUST CLOSED THEIR FINAL FUNDING GAP, RIGHT? SO WE'RE GONNA SEE PEOPLE LIVING THERE, UM, MORE PEOPLE LIVING THERE, SO MM-HMM . YEAH. NO, THAT SOUNDS I'LL, I, I ADDED A BULLET TO OUR ANNUAL REPORT TO JUST GET THAT DATA FROM TRANSIT AND FOLD THAT IN THIS, THIS IS A KIND OF A DISCREET EFFORT WHERE WE'RE GONNA NEED TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL COUNTERS. UM, AND THE APPROACH THAT WE'RE PROPOSING HERE IS JUST TO FOCUS ON OUR CROSSTOWN CONNECTORS THAT CROSS US 1 0 1, AND ASSUMING THAT'LL BE A PRETTY GOOD PROXY FOR OVERALL BIKE PED USAGE IN PETALUMA, RIGHT. AS EVERYONE'S CROSSING US 1 0 1 ON A, YOU KNOW, WEEKLY IF NOT DAILY BASIS. UM, SO YOU'LL JUST, IT'LL BE A GOOD WAY TO SEE THOSE TRENDS YEAR OVER YEAR, UM, WHEREVER OUR STREETS AND TRAILS CROSS 1 0 1. I'D ALSO THROW THAT ON SOME OF THE CASE STUDIES, LIKE I'M THINKING D STREET RIGHT NOW, UHHUH , RIGHT? LIKE HAVING MORE DATA ON D STREET ISN'T GONNA BE HARMFUL TO US, RIGHT? RIGHT. UM, SO, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT PERMANENT, PERMANENT COUNTERS, SO NOT HAVING TO GO OUT AND DEPLOY TUBES. WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO JUST OPEN IT UP AND SHOW THE COUNT DATA IN REAL TIME ON, UH, ON THE CLOUD, WHICH WOULD BE GREAT. YES. ADAM, JUST TO CONTINUE ON THAT THREAD, I, I AM A LITTLE HESITANT. I, I UNDERSTAND KIND OF THE US 1 0 1 CROSSINGS, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THERE MIGHT BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES JUST LIKE, UM, D STREET OR OTHER KIND OF PINCH POINTS. I THINK IT WAS THIS, I GUESS THE SMART PATH HAS THEIR OWN, THEY HAVE ONE, YOU KNOW, COUNT DATA AS WELL. UM, BUT [01:35:01] DOWNTOWN, AND I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE IT JUST SEEMS LIMITING HANDFUL OF KEY LOCATIONS. YEAH. THERE A HANDFUL OF OTHER KEY INDICATORS MIGHT BE HELPFUL. UM, ESPECIALLY I THINK, YEAH, YOU HAD BROUGHT IT UP AT A MEETING, SEPARATE MEETING JUST YEAH, COUNTING KIND OF PROGRESS. I THINK THIS GET GETS TO IT, BUT BEING ABLE TO DO A LITTLE MORE CITYWIDE YEAH. UM, I FEEL LIKE COULD BE BENEFICIAL. UM, MAYBE IT'S PRIORITIZING THOSE US ONE OH ONES, BUT THEN BEING OPEN TO OTHER HIGH PRIORITY AREAS. UM, BUT YEAH, KIND OF THINKING OF THOSE PINCH POINTS AREAS YOU WANT TO KIND OF TRACK OVER TIME. MM-HMM . OKAY. ANYONE ELSE? YES, DARREN, JUST A QUESTION THAT DIDN'T REALLY FIT ANYWHERE ELSE, BUT I'M THINKING OF, UM, CITY BUDGET AND HOW THIS MAPS TO THAT. AND I MEAN, IS THIS KIND OF THE MARCHING ORDERS AND THEN WE LET PUBLIC WORKS DETERMINE IN TERMS OF PRIORITIZATION, HOW THIS FITS INTO THE BUDGET? BECAUSE I WOULD LOVE FOR THEM TO BE SEQUENTIAL, BUT OF COURSE SOME PARTS OF THESE ARE GONNA BE AT DIFFERENT STAGES FOR EVERY PROJECT. UM, YEAH. I GUESS IS THERE ANY EFFORT EITHER FROM THIS BODY OR THAT NEEDS TO BE STATED IN THERE ABOUT HOW WE MAKE SURE THERE'S KIND OF BUDGET ROOM FOR THIS? OR DO YOU PRETTY HIGH CONFIDENCE THAT THIS IS SETTING AN AGENDA AND WE'LL KIND OF MOVE IT FORWARD? YEAH, I MEAN, I DID HAVE A, I THINK A LITTLE STATEMENT UPFRONT HERE THAT, THAT, UM, TIMING AND IMPLEMENTATION COULD DEPEND ON STAFFING AND FUNDING LEVELS, COUNCIL PRIORITIES, AND CITY COUNCIL APPROVALS, UH, WHICH TYPICALLY KIND OF WOULD COME INTO PLAY THROUGH THE ANNUAL BUDGET. AND THAT WE ARE ASSUMING CURRENT STAFFING AND FUNDING LEVELS FOR THOSE TARGET YEARS DOING OUR BEST AT LEAST. UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK IT'S A, A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION TO HAVE ANNUALLY IN THAT ANNUAL REPORT AND, AND WORK PLAN KIND OF TRACKING THE PROGRESS AND, AND RECALIBRATING WHERE WE NEED TO, UM, MOVING THINGS UP, MOVING THINGS DOWN. I, I THINK WE, WE CERTAINLY HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY, UH, TO DO SO. UM, AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CAPITAL BUDGET WILL OBVIOUSLY DETERMINE THE PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS YOU SEE IN, IN THE, IN OUR, ON OUR STREETS AND TRAILS. UM, A LOT OF THESE ARE MORE OPERATIONAL, I WOULD SAY, KIND OF, UH, JUST ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH STAFF TIME AND, UM, AND MAY NOT, YOU KNOW, ASSUMING THAT WE ARE STAFFED AGAIN AT OUR CURRENT LEVELS OR HOPEFULLY INCREASED LEVELS, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN, WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS WORK. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THAT CONTEXT. NEXT COMMENT OR QUESTION? I'M SEEING NONE. ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE? OKAY. EVERYBODY SEEMS VERY SATISFIED. ALL RIGHT. WELL, OUR, OUR RECOMMENDATION, WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO WAS MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS AND GIVE THOSE TO BJORN. BJORN. WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED THAT. YES, ABSOLUTELY. YEAH, THIS HAS BEEN REALLY HELPFUL AND EXCELLENT. UH, PLENTY OF WORK TO DO JUST TO CLEAN THIS UP. SO REALLY APPRECIATE THE, THE DEEP DIVE, AND IF PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO SEND FEEDBACK, PLEASE DO SO. CAN YOU ALSO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE THIS GOES NEXT? YEAH, SO THE NEXT TIME YOU WILL SEE THIS, IT WILL BE IN THE DRAFT PLAN IN ITS ENTIRETY. SO WE WOULD NOT SPEND NEARLY AS MUCH TIME ON THIS CHAPTER ALONE BECAUSE YOU'LL BE LOOKING AT AN ENTIRE PLAN. BUT, UM, BUT AGAIN, HOPEFULLY, UH, YOU KNOW, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL FIGURE OUT A WAY TO INCLUDE A, A MARKUP VERSION THAT SHOWS ALL OF THE CHANGES, TRACK CHANGES, UH, SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE THE PROGRESS BASED ON TONIGHT'S FEEDBACK AND ANY FEEDBACK THAT FOLLOWS IN THE SUBSEQUENT DAYS, WE WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATIVE. THANK YOU. YEP. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SUCH A COMPLETE, UM, DISCUSSION EVERYONE. AND WE'LL MOVE ON [COMMITTEE COMMENT] ON A, ON THE AGENDA TO COMMITTEE COMMENT. DURING COMMITTEE COMMENT, MEMBERS OF OUR COMMITTEE ARE INVITED TO SHARE UPDATES RELEVANCE 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. SO WITH THAT, DO I HAVE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO LEAD THE WAY? WE HAVE A COUPLE OF LIAISONS HERE WHO PROBABLY HAVE THINGS TO SHARE. DARREN, MINE'S PRETTY SIMPLE. UH, AFTER A REALLY [01:40:01] BUSY SUMMER PLANNING COMMISSION, WE'VE HAD A BIT OF A HIATUS, SO THERE'S NOTHING TO REPORT OUT ON SINCE THE LAST MEETINGS FROM THAT I WAS AT FROM PAC, UH, AND NOTHING ON THE TREE COMMITTEE FRONT OTHER THAN RELIEF IS DOING GREAT WORK AND HAS BROUGHT AMERICORPS VOLUNTEERS IN TO HELP WITH SOME STREET FRONTAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND OTHER PROJECTS WITH TREE PLANTING AROUND TOWN. THEY GET TO DO ALL THE FUN STUFF. UH, BUT THAT'S IT FOR TREE AND PLANNING. FABULOUS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. BRIAN. COUNCIL HAS BEEN MEETING? YES, COUNCIL HAS BEEN MEETING. YES. UM, WE HAD A WORKSHOP ON THE OVERLAY ZONE A COUPLE, UH, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. UM, WE APPROVED THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE CREEKSIDE, UH, DEVELOPMENT OVER BY CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL. UM, UNFORTUNATELY THE COUNCIL REMOVED THE BRIDGE FROM THAT PROJECT, WHICH WAS, UM, NOT DESIRABLE FOR, FOR MYSELF, BUT, UM, EXCITED TO SEE THE HOUSING PROJECT MOVING FORWARD NONETHELESS. UM, AND YEAH, I, I MEAN, GO OUT TO LUMA ICE, RIDE YOUR BIKE THERE. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. HOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE? ANYTHING TO REPORT OUT? FRANK? I'M GOOD. THANK YOU, . AMBER, JUST A REMINDER THAT THE E-BIKE INCENTIVES DO GO LIVE TOMORROW FOR THE STATE FOR THE LOW INCOME, UH, DOWNTOWN, THE, THE BIKE SHOP IN THE THEATER SQUARE. PUT A POST UP ABOUT IT ON FACEBOOK TODAY. IF YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY WHO'S LOOKING FOR IT, THEY EXPECT 'EM TO GO VERY QUICKLY. WOW. THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION. ADAM, ANYTHING FROM SCTA? UH, NOTHING NEW AT THIS TIME, AND I HAVE NOTHING FROM SCTA, I DIDN'T GO TO THE LAST MEETING. [STAFF COMMENT] ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S MOVE ON TO STAFF COMMENT. KEEP IN MIND THAT DURING STAFF COMMENTS, STAFF IS TO PROVIDE BRIEF UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS AND STAFF SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. THERE SHOULD BE NO DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS. THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT. AGAIN, FOR THIS ITEM, BJORN. UM, YEAH, SO NO, NO PRESENTATION FROM ME THIS MONTH. I APOLOGIZE, BUT I, I DO PRO THERE, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT GOING ON AND, UH, PROMISE TO BRING LOTS OF PHOTOS TO OUR NEXT MEETING. UM, HIGHLIGHTS, UH, RECENTLY COMPLETED, UH, BIKE LANES ON SUNNY SLOPE AVENUE BETWEEN D STREET AND ICE STREET, UM, AS WELL AS TWO NEW CROSSWALKS THERE. UM, ONE OF WHICH WAS REQUESTED AT OUR RECENT SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, UH, WALK AUDIT. UM, WE'VE GOTTEN A COUPLE. WE ALSO GOT A COUPLE OF BOUTS IN ON, UH, BEHIND MCNAIR ON G STREET, UM, AT THEIR, THEIR CROSSWALK, KIND OF AT THE BACK OF THE SCHOOL, THEIR REAR ENTRANCE, UM, WHICH ALSO CONNECTS OVER TO THE PARK. UM, AND THEN ALSO TWO NEW CROSSWALKS IN BOUTS OVER AT F AND 11TH STREET, UM, RIGHT THERE BY THE PARK. WE'VE GOT A LOT OF, UM, WORK GOING ON ON FIFTH STREET RIGHT NOW, SO THEY WERE DELAYED BY THE WEATHER. BUT THE FIFTH STREET NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY IS GOING IN. UM, THEY'VE, SO FAR, THEY'VE GOTTEN ALL OF THE BULB BOUTS OUTLINED. UM, THEY'VE GOT, SHES IN. AND, UM, SO NEXT UP THEY'LL JUST BE FILLING IN ALL OF THOSE BULB OUTS. THEY'LL BE INSTALLING TWO NEW TRAFFIC CIRCLES AT, UH, GG STREET AND I STREET. UM, THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF NEW CROSSWALKS ALONG THE CORRIDOR WHERE THEY, WE DIDN'T PREVIOUSLY HAVE MARKED CROSSWALKS. UH, WE'VE GOT NEW BIKE LANES IN ON THE SECTION BETWEEN, UH, WESTERN AVENUE AND KELLER AND, UH, A STREET WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY WIDER AND COULD ACCOMMODATE BIKE LANES. SO GO CHECK THAT OUT AND THEN CONTINUE TO CHECK IT OUT BECAUSE IT WILL, UM, AS, AS OUR, UH, CONTRACTOR FINDS OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE WEATHER, HE'LL, THEY'LL BE OUT THERE, UM, WORKING ON IT. UM, AND THEN WE'VE ALSO GOT A LOT OF CONCRETE WORK GOING ON THROUGH OUR ON-CALL CONCRETE CONTRACT. SO, UH, THERE SHOULD BE NEW CURB RAMPS GOING IN IN QUITE A FEW PLACES. THE, THE ONE THAT I THINK WE'LL BE MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS THE MACKENZIE OVERCROSSING, WHICH I WAS TOLD WOULD, WAS BEING, UH, THE, THE CURB WAS BEING DEMOLISHED TODAY, APPARENTLY. SO HOPEFULLY THAT NEW RAMP IS IN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS, UM, WHICH IS GREAT. AND, UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER UPDATES THAT COME TO MIND. THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THE E-BIKE INCENTIVES. UM, WE DO ALSO HAVE THE CITY COM. UH, CITY COMMITTEES HAVE THREE VACANCIES, SO YOU CAN FIND THESE@CITYOFPETALUMA.ORG SLASH CCBS. AND ONE OF THEM IS ON OUR COMMITTEE, UH, FOR A TERM EXPIRING IN 2027. UM, AND THAT'S DUE TO FRANK'S, UH, ELECTION TO CITY COUNCIL. SO JUST WANTED TO THANK [01:45:01] FRANK FOR HIS SERVICE ON THIS COMMITTEE AND, UH, CONGRATULATE HIM ON HIS ELECTION TO CITY COUNCIL. WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY MISS YOU. MAYBE YOU'LL BE BACK AS A, AS A COUNCIL LIAISON. UM, BUT, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. AND YOU WERE, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE KNEW THIS, BUT FRANK WAS ACTUALLY, UM, HE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND. HE WAS ALSO ON THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, SO, UM, YEAH, IT'S PLENTY TO ASK JUST TO BE ON ONE COMMITTEE. YOU WERE ON TWO, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. AND I'VE REALLY, UH, I'VE REALLY ENJOYED MY, MY TIME HERE. AND I, UH, YOU KNOW, IF THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, ADVISE US TO COME BACK, I'LL, I'LL BE EXCITED TO DO THAT AND, UH, DEFINITELY SUPPORT THE CAUSE. YES, . GOOD. SO THOSE APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN UNTIL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15TH AT FIVE O'CLOCK. AND PLEASE REACH OUT TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW, WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED. AND OBVIOUSLY IF YOU'RE IN THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT, LOOK AT THE AUDIENCE. WE'VE GOT SEVERAL PEOPLE RIGHT THERE. YOU'RE PROBABLY, YOU'RE PROBABLY INTERESTED. SO ENCOURAGE YOU TO APPLY AND THAT'S IT FOR YOU, RIGHT? I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE. UM, WITH THAT I ADD MY CONGRATULATIONS AND ALL OF OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO FRANK. IT'S A GREAT STEP FORWARD. UM, WE WILL CERTAINLY MISS YOUR WISE WORDS HERE, HOWEVER, SO DO COME BACK AND VISIT US AT LEAST ONCE IN A WHILE. UM, WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A HAPPY AND A SAFE HOLIDAY SEASON. AND WE ARE ADJOURNED AT EIGHT, OH MY GOSH, 8:18 PM THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.