[CALL TO ORDER]
[00:00:03]
GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TODAY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7TH, NINE, UH, 2025, GOING BACK TO THE 19 HUNDREDS.
[ROLL CALL]
ROLL CALL, UM, CLERK, WOULD YOU TAKE THE ROLL, PLEASE? UM, BASHAW GARCIA.AND WE WILL MOVE TO, UH, GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, AND I'LL NEED TO READ THE FOLLOWING, WHICH WE READ EVERY WEEK OR EVERY MONTH.
DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON, AND 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 COMMITTEE'S DISCRETION.
WITH THAT, I WILL OPEN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND ASK SPEAKERS TO BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY.
AND MY THREE MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE ARE ALL SHAKING THEIR HEADS.
WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, CLERK, HAVE WE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? UM, NO PRIOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND WE HAVE, YES, WE HAVE THE NUMBER OF GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED IS NONE.
WE'RE MOVING TO PRESENTATIONS.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS UNDER PRESENTATION OR AFTER PRESENTATIONS IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY WAS ABLE TO DOWNLOAD THEM WITHOUT A PROBLEM.
AND IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES, ADDITIONS, OR CORRECTIONS, NOW'S YOUR TIME TO SPEAK AND LET US KNOW.
AND I SEE NO ONE WITH THEIR HAND UP.
WITH THAT, WE WILL JUST, UM, APPROVE THE MINUTES WITH OR WITHOUT CHANGES.
AND IN THIS CASE, IT'S WITHOUT CHANGES.
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
PUBLIC HEARING, PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR CONSIDERATION IS THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA.AND BEFORE WE GET TO IT, I DID KIND OF A LITTLE, LET'S SEE IF I CAN FIND IT IN ORDER TO GO THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE ENTIRE ENTIRETY OF OUR, UM, REASON FOR MEETING TONIGHT IS WE HAVE A TASK BEFORE US, AND THAT IS TO REVIEW THE FEEDBACK AND PROVIDE FINAL FEEDBACK ON THE A TP.
AND I NEEDED TO DEVELOP A PROCESS TONIGHT BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA WHETHER I WOULD HAVE 50 PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, THREE OR FIVE OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
AND SO CONSEQUENTLY, I WANTED TO MAKE IT AS EASY AND AS CONCISE AS POSSIBLE.
AND SO I DECIDED THAT A PROCESS WOULD MAKE SENSE.
SO MY PROCESS IS THAT BJORN WILL MAKE THE PRESENTATION, AND AFTER HE MAKES THE PRESENTATION, WE'LL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND.
AND REMEMBER, WE ONLY RESPOND IN, IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION.
SO WHATEVER SENTENCE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE, YOU NEED TO HAVE A SENTENCE, A QUESTION MARK AT THE END.
AND THE WAY WE'LL DO THIS IS, UM, I WILL START AT, UM, I'LL PROBABLY, WELL, I'VE GOT NEW PEOPLE ON BOTH ENDS, SO THAT'S REALLY A VERY HATEFUL PLACE TO START.
BUT I GUESS KATE WILL START WITH YOU ON THE, ON THE FIRST ROUND, AND YOU'LL BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK A QUESTION, UM, OF BJORN, AND THEN BJORN CAN RESPOND, AND WE'LL GO ALL THE WAY DOWN THE LINE.
AND ONCE WE'RE DONE, WE'LL START A ROUND TWO AND WE'LL DO THE SAME THING.
SO YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO ASK OR MAKE ONE QUESTION PER ROUND.
AND THE, AND I'M HOPING THAT AFTER THREE ROUNDS OR SO, WE'RE READY TO MOVE ON TO, UM, PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S HOW I FORESEE DOING THIS, HANDLING THIS.
UM, AS FAR AS PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'LL CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND IT'LL BE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON, I SUPPOSE.
IS THAT CHANGEABLE? SINCE I'M SURE WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE HERE,
WELL, FOR RIGHT NOW, WE'LL GO FOR THREE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
SO EACH PERSON WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES, AND AT THE END, ONCE WE HAVE FINISHED THE PUBLIC COMMENT, THEN BJORN WILL BE ALLOWED TIME TO MAKE COMMENT.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE'LL MOVE BACK TO US THE COMMITTEE.
AND THIS WILL BE THE, NOW IT'S A CHANCE FOR YOU TO MAKE A COMMENT.
[00:05:01]
WILL BE ONE OF YOUR LAST COMMENTS THAT YOU'LL BE MAKING ON THE A TP.YOU CAN COMMENT, YOU CAN PRESENT YOUR VIEW, YOU CAN, UM, MAKE A RESPONSE, BUT KNOW THAT THIS IS THE FINAL FEEDBACK TIME.
WE'LL TRY TO KEEP THE COMMENTS DOWN TO, UM, A FEW MINUTES.
AND IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMMENT, OF COURSE, YOU CAN CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, TAG IT ON.
IF YOU FIND THAT SOMEBODY ELSE UP HERE HAS ALREADY MADE THAT COMMENT, UM, JUST SAY DITTO TO, UM, JOANNA OR DITTO TO MARJO OR WHATEVER, WE WON'T TAKE THE TIME TO REPEAT IT AGAIN.
AND, UM, SO THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE YOU'LL HAVE.
TRY TO KEEP YOUR COMMENTS DOWN.
AND AT THE END OF OUR COMMENTS, UM, BJORN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESPOND OR YOU CAN RESPOND AS WE GO, DEPENDING ON, ON HOW YOU WANNA DO THAT.
AND THEN NEXT, THE CHAIR WILL CLOSE THE ITEM, NOTING THAT FEEDBACK OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OR CONSIDERATIONS ARE NOTED IN THE MINI MEETING MINUTES.
AND ALSO THAT BJORN HAS A GOOD RECORD OF, OF WHAT, AS WELL AS AARON, HAVE GOOD RECORDS OF WHAT HAS BEEN SAID BY ALL OF US AND WHAT IS OF IMPORTANCE TO ALL OF US.
AND, UM, ANYWAY, THAT'S KIND OF HOW I'D LIKE TO HANDLE IT.
THIS IS NOT, UM, WE DON'T NEED FEEDBACK ON FIXITS.
I DON'T WANNA KNOW THAT YOUR STREET HAS BOLLARDS THAT NEED TO BE REMOVED OR THAT THERE'S, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT'S IMPEDING THE BIKE PATH ON FOURTH AND KENTUCKY.
THIS IS A, THIS IS A LITTLE HIGHER LEVEL KIND OF A SPACE.
SO ANYWAY, THAT'S HOW I'D LIKE TO HANDLE IT.
WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO ASK BJORN TO PRESENT.
GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, THANKS FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT.
SO, YEAH, UH, THIS IS OUR ONLY ITEM ON THE AGENDA OTHER THAN OUR ROUTINE ITEMS. WE'LL OBVIOUSLY GO TO COMMITTEE AND, UH, STAFF COMMENTS NEXT.
BUT, UM, JUST WANTED TO GIVE THE COMMITTEE ONE LAST OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS, UH, THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED ON THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN OVER THE LAST MONTH.
UH, WE RELEASED THE DRAFT FOR PUBLIC REVIEW ON APRIL 4TH AND ASK FOLKS TO SUBMIT COMMENTS THROUGH, UM, SUN SUNDAY NIGHT, MAY, UH, SUNDAY, MAY 4TH.
AND WE ALSO, UM, COLLECTED COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK AT THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS, UH, OBVIOUSLY INCLUDING YOUR JOINT MEETING WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION THE FOLLOWING WEEK AT THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND THEN THE WEEK AFTER THAT AT CITY COUNCIL.
AND THEN, UH, JUST THIS PAST SUNDAY, UM, LITTLE BONUS, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER GARCIA, WHO WAS AT FUTURE FEST ON BEHALF OF, UH, HIS EMPLOYER, SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, WAS NICE ENOUGH TO, UM, PUT OUT SOME COMMENT CARDS AND BRING SOME PRINTED MATERIALS AND COLLECT ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK.
SO VERY GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR DOING THAT.
WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE YOU, ADAM.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I'LL JUST, UH, JUMP IN HERE AND I'LL JUST SAY, UM, WE DID, WE GOT A LOT OF FEEDBACK.
UM, AND TONIGHT I'LL DO MY BEST TO PROVIDE A HIGH LEVEL SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE GOT.
THERE'S NO WAY I WILL CAPTURE EVERY SINGLE COMMENT THAT WE RECEIVED.
BUT, UM, FOR TRANSPARENCY AND PEACE OF MIND, I WILL BE PUTTING TOGETHER A TABLE THAT INCLUDES EVERY SINGLE COMMENT AND, UM, AND ALSO A RESPONSE TO THOSE COMMENTS AND HOW WE, UM, EITHER INCORPORATED THOSE, THE FEEDBACK OR IF WE DID NOT INCORPORATE THE FEEDBACK BACK FOR SOME REASON, AN EXPLANATION AS TO WHY.
SO IF YOU DON'T SEE SOMETHING, YOU'RE LIKE, HEY, I SAID THIS AT THIS MEETING, OR I SAID THIS, OR I SENT THIS EMAIL.
IF YOU DON'T SEE IT TONIGHT, UM, YOU KNOW, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ELEVATE THAT.
BUT, UM, ODDS ARE YOU WILL SEE IT, UH, ONCE WE, UH, COMPILE THAT TABLE.
SO, OOPS, SORRY, I NEED TO GET BACK TO PRIME PRESENTER MODE.
SO TONIGHT, OUR GOAL IS TO SUMMARIZE AND DISCUSS THAT FEEDBACK AND SEEK FINAL FEEDBACK FROM YOU BEFORE REVI MAKING FINAL REVISIONS TO THE DRAFT PLAN.
THE DRAFT PLAN WILL, UH, THE REVISED DRAFT PLAN WILL GO TO CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION IN THE COMING WEEKS OR MONTHS, DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH WORK THIS IS, UH, TO MAKE ALL OF THESE REVISIONS.
UM, BUT HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET IT BACK TO THEM, UH, IN A MATTER OF WEEKS.
SO I JUST MENTIONED OUR ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY OR HOW WE COLLECTED THIS FEEDBACK, AND, UH, WE RECEIVED 30 WRITTEN COMMENTS IN ADDITION TO, UH, THE SEVERAL HOURS OF, OF DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD AT THOSE THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS.
SO I'LL GO CHAPTER BY CHAPTER, UM, HERE WITH SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT, UM, IN THE INTRODUCTION SECTION, UH, THERE WASN'T A WHOLE LOT OF FEEDBACK BEYOND ADDING, UM, SOME, UH, THERE WAS A, AN ARTICLE SHARED BY, UH, A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WITH SOME ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ON THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVE
[00:10:01]
TRANSPORTATION, UH, AND THEN ALSO A REQUEST TO ADD REFERENCES TO THE FIVE-YEAR PAVING PLAN AND URBAN FORESTRY MASTER PLAN ON OUR VISION AND GOALS.UH, ONLY ONE COMMENT, I BELIEVE THROUGHOUT, UH, ALL OF THOSE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND, AND AMONG ALL OF THOSE EMAILS, UH, ON THE VISION AND GOALS, AND IT WAS ON THE VISION STATEMENT.
AND, UM, THIS COMMENT WAS, UH, SUGGESTED THAT WE CONSIDER ADDING A REFERENCE TO THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
THEY ARE HIGHLIGHTED, OBVIOUSLY IN THAT INTRODUCTION, UH, CHAPTER, BUT THERE WAS A SUGGESTION TO ADD A REFERENCE HERE TO THE VISION STATEMENT.
AND THEN ALSO A COMMENT AROUND, UH, A WORDSMITHING COMMENT, UM, ON THIS, UH, WORD PREFER IN THAT LAST PORTION, OH, I'M SORRY, YOU CAN'T SEE MY CURSOR.
SENIOR SCREENS, UH, THIS WORD PREFER, PREFER, UM, UH, I THINK RECOMMENDING THAT INSTEAD WE USE THE WORD CHOOSE TO USE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OR SOME VARIATION, I GUESS IT WOULD BE, UM, PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES ARE EMPOWERED TO CHOOSE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
SO INTERESTED IN, IN YOUR FEEDBACK, UM, ON THAT FOR THE BASELINE REPORT CHAPTER, UM, A REQUEST TO ADD A MAP SHOWING OUR EXISTING BIKE NETWORK.
AND I THINK ANYTIME WE DISCUSS THE EXISTING BIKE NETWORK, UH, WE'RE REALLY SHIFTING TOWARDS THINKING ABOUT OUR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES BIKE NETWORK.
SO, UM, I WOULD, UH, BE INTERESTED IN THE, I'M, I'M ASSUMING OUR, THIS COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE US TO SHOW AN ALL AN EXISTING ALL AGES AND ABILITIES BIKEWAY NETWORK MAP, RATHER THAN AN EXISTING BIKEWAY NETWORK MAP IN THAT CHAPTER.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, INSTRUCTIVE ON, ON SORT OF THIS, THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR, OUR BIKEWAY NETWORK.
AND THEN ALSO A REQUEST TO ADD MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAUSES OF COLLISIONS.
SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE, UH, THE LOCATIONS OF COLLISIONS, THE NUMBER THAT HAPPEN ON AVERAGE THAT HAPPEN PER YEAR.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CALL OUT THE PERCENTAGE THAT OCCUR ON THREE STREETS OF THREE OR LANE, UH, THREE OR MORE LANES OR NEAR INTERSECTIONS.
BUT DRILLING DOWN ANOTHER LAYER, HOW MANY OF THESE INVOLVE PEOPLE ON BIKES? HOW MANY INVOLVED PEOPLE WALKING? UM, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PRIMARY COLLISION FACTORS THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, CONCLUDES ARE AT FAULT FOR THE, UH, OR ARE CAUSE THE COLLISIONS, UH, THAT INVOLVE PEOPLE USING ACTIVE MODES? AND I CAN ACTUALLY, WE GOT A LOT OF COMMENTS ON THE ACTION PLAN.
UM, I CAN, I'LL, I'LL GO TO, I'LL GO THERE LAST BECAUSE I ACTUALLY, UM, EMBEDDED THOSE IN THE PLAN ITSELF AS COMMENTS.
UM, SO I'LL SKIP IT, SKIP THAT CHAPTER AND, AND JUMP OVER TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS CHAPTER.
GENERALLY, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A, I THINK A THEME AT, AT EACH OF THE PRESENTATIONS AND THROUGHOUT MANY OF THE COMMENTS, UH, WERE TO REALLY EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF, UH, URBAN GREENING STREET TREES, UM, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, STORM WATER TREATMENT, ET CETERA.
AND ALSO, UH, MORE EMPHASIS ON TRAFFIC CALMING IN THE DESIGN GUIDANCE IN THIS CHAPTER.
SO, UM, UH, SEVERAL OF THE COMMENTS ALLUDED TO WITH TRAFFIC, THE, THE OVERLAP FIRST OF ALL, BETWEEN, UM, THAT THOSE, THOSE GREEN STREETS IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAFFIC CALMING, UM, AND, AND ALL OF THE BENEFITS THAT COME WITH THEM, UH, BUT ALSO MOVING BEYOND TYPICAL TRAFFIC ENGINEERING INTERVENTIONS TO TRAFFIC CALMING LIKE SPEED BUMPS OR SPEED LIMIT SIGNAGE.
AND, UM, AND REALLY MOVING TOWARDS STREET DESIGN TREATMENTS THAT, UM, THAT SLOW SPEED.
UH, THERE WAS ALSO, UM, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF, UH, REQUESTS TO ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT, UH, THE TYPES OF MATERIALS OR WAYS THAT PROTECTED BIKE LANES CAN BE IMPLEMENTED.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, A QUESTION WAS RAISED OVER WHETHER AS A CITY WE WANT TO ACCEPT, UH, PLASTIC BOLLARDS AS A PROTECTED BIKE LANE, TREATMENT VERSUS CONCRETE OR PARKED CARS OR OTHER, UM, OBJECTS THAT MIGHT BE MORE LIKELY TO WITHSTAND, UM, YOU KNOW, VEHICLE, UH, VEHICLE THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UH, KEEP CARS OUT OF
UM, THERE WERE A FEW QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, UH, EXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS AND WHETHER THOSE ARE TRULY
[00:15:01]
ALL AGES AND ABILITIES APPROPRIATE AS ENVISIONED IN THIS PLAN.AND I'M, I'M CERTAINLY WELCOME THAT DISCUSSION TONIGHT.
UH, AND THEN AS FAR AS SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS, YOU KNOW, NOT A TON OF COMMENTS ABOUT THE PROPOSED, UM, BIKEWAY NETWORK, UH, REALLY, UH, VERY FEW CHANGES REQUESTED, UH, THAT COME TO MIND TO THE, THE PROPOSED BIKEWAY NETWORK.
ALMOST NO COMMENTS ABOUT, UM, THE PRIORITY TABLES FOR THE BIKEWAY NETWORK AND FOR, UH, THE SIDEWALK GAPS.
UH, REALLY NO COMMENTS ABOUT THE PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY.
UM, SO ASSUMING WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE VERY CLOSE, IF NOT ALREADY THERE WITH, WITH THOSE, UH, THREE ELEMENTS OF THIS CHAPTER.
UM, BUT JUST HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE LOCATIONS THAT WERE RAISED REPEATEDLY IN THE COMMENTS, UH, THE EAST WASHINGTON CORRIDOR STUDY WAS, UM, A TOP PRIORITY.
AND I WILL NOTE THAT WE DO HAVE THAT RANKED AS THE TOP PRIORITY CORRIDOR STUDY NOW THAT, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE ARE, UM, NEARING COMPLETION OF THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY, AND WE'RE GETTING UNDERWAY WITH OUR LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR STUDY.
UM, BUT WE'VE ALWAYS ANTICIPATED DOING THAT IN ADVANCE OF A PAVING PROJECT ON EAST WASHINGTON THAT I BELIEVE IS SCHEDULED FOR 2030, UM, OR THEREABOUTS.
THERE WERE SEVERAL COMMENTS ABOUT DIFFERENT CROSSINGS ON SNOW MOUNTAIN PARKWAY, NOTABLY THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL CROSSING, BUT THERE WERE SOME OTHERS AND THE, AND THE CHALLENGES THAT COME WITH CROSSING SNOW MOUNTAIN PARKWAY ON FOOT AND BIKE.
I WILL NOTE THAT WE DO HAVE THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL CROSSING OF SNOW MOUNTAIN PARKWAY, UM, IS ACTUALLY A FUNDED PROJECT AND WAS INCLUDED IN THE PRIORITY PROJECT TABLE.
UM, THERE WAS A COMMENT THAT WAS RECEIVED AT FUTURE FEST THIS WEEKEND ABOUT CONSIDERING, UM, ADDING KEOKUK STREET BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND PROSPECT TO OUR BIKE, OUR BIKEWAY NETWORK.
UH, A COMMENT HIGHLIGHTING THE NEED FOR A CROSSING OF WATER STREET AT EAST EAST WASHINGTON STREET THAT IS IN OUR PRIORITY PROJECT TABLE.
AND THEN ALSO REQUEST TO ADD ANY UPCOMING CIP PROJECTS TO THOSE PRIORITY PROJECT TABLES.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, CASA GRANDE ROAD IS A UPCOMING PAVING PROJECT THAT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THAT, UH, PRIORITY PROJECT TABLE.
AND, AND WE CAN CERTAINLY ADD, GO AND ADD THOSE PAVING PLAN, UM, PROJECTS IN, UH, A COMMENT THAT CAME UP WITH THE MAPS, UM, JUST TO IMPROVE LEGIBILITY, ADDING AN INCEPT INSET MAP FOR THE DOWNTOWN AREA, A LITTLE ZOOM IN, UH, FOR THAT, THE BIKEWAY NETWORK DOWNTOWN WOULD HELP.
UM, I THINK, UH, JUST THERE'S A LOT GOING ON DOWNTOWN, SO THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO SEE WHERE THE ENVISIONED BIKEWAYS ARE ADDING INFORMATION ABOUT, ABOUT OUR ONE-ON-ONE CROSSING STUDY, WHICH IS A, A GREAT CALL, SOMETHING WE DIDN'T MENTION IN THE PLAN, UM, WITH THE PRIORITY PROJECT TABLES, EXPANDING THOSE TO INCLUDE THE STATUS IF THERE IS ONE.
SO IF A PROJECT IS IN PLANNING OR IN DESIGN, MAKING THAT NOTE.
AND THEN ALSO ADDING DESCRIPTIONS OF, UM, IMPLEMENTATION OPPORTUNITIES.
SO YEAH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S AN UP, UH, COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH AN UPCOMING PAVING PROJECT, FOR EXAMPLE.
AND THEN ALSO COMING UP WITH A VERY ROUGH, UH, WHAT I'LL CALL KIND OF PLANNING LEVEL COST ESTIMATES BASED ON, UH, ASSUMPTIONS.
SO IF WE SAY, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, A NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY COSTS $50,000 PER MILE, THEN WE WOULD APPLY THAT COST ESTIMATE JUST BASED ON THE LENGTH, NOT ACTUALLY BASED ON THE, THE TYPE OF BIKEWAY AND THE, AND THE LENGTH OF THE PROJECT, NOT ACTUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT THE, THE TECHNICAL, UM, POTENTIAL TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OR, OR VARIABLES THAT CAN CHANGE THE COST ESTIMATE, BUT IT'LL GIVE US AT LEAST A, A ROUGH BALLPARK SO WE KNOW WHAT IT'LL TAKE TO BUILD OUT THAT, THAT PRIORITY PROJECT TABLE.
AND THEN, UH, ADDING A, LIKE, UH, WE HAVE THAT, THE SIDEWALK GAP CLOSURE PRIORITY PROJECT TABLE, UM, ADDING ONE OF THOSE AS WELL FOR UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS USING THE SAME PRIORITIZATION METHODOLOGY IN THE IMPLEMENTA IMPLEMENTATION CHAPTER.
I THINK THERE WAS, UH, EMPHASIS THROUGHOUT THE MEETINGS THAT, UM, IMPLEMENTATION IS WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S THAT THIS IS THE
SO, UH, BUILDING OUT THAT CHAPTER TO OUTLINE THE ENTIRE PROJECT DELIVERY PROCESS FROM, UM, CONCEPTION TO COMPLETION AND HIGHLIGHTING THE TYPICAL PITFALLS THAT WE SEE, UH, WHEN WE ARE DELIVERING PROJECTS AND, UM, SOME STRATEGIES TO AVOID THEM.
[00:20:01]
UH, A REAL AREA OF EMPHASIS IN THAT DISCUSSION WAS ON THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ELECTRIC MICRO, I'LL CALL THEM MICRO MOBILITY DEVICES, WHETHER THOSE ARE E-BIKES, SCOOTERS, UH,
SO THERE IS A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE OUT THERE.
THERE'S A TABLE, UH, THAT, THAT IDENTIFIES THE DIFFERENT DEVICE TYPES AND WHERE THEY ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED PER THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE, AS WELL AS ANY AGE OR LICENSING REQUIREMENTS.
AND SO, UM, I THINK WE'LL, WE'LL ADD THAT TO OUR APPENDIX BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT RESOURCE.
AND, UM, AND, AND THE QUESTION COMES UP OFTEN ENOUGH, PEOPLE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE AREAS WHERE THE CITY MIGHT TAKE ACTION AND CREATE OUR OWN, UM, REGULATIONS AROUND THESE DIFFERENT DEVICES.
UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY I THINK IT'S, IT'S HELPFUL TO SEE WHERE, WHAT'S REGULATED BY THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE, RIGHT? THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE DEFER TO.
UM, AND THEN IF, AND, AND THEN I, WE CAN ALSO NOTE IN THAT TABLE, WHICH, UM, WHERE WE MAY HAVE SOME LOCAL AUTHORITY THROUGH A LOCAL, THROUGH A CITY ORDINANCE TO CREATE OUR OWN REGULATIONS, IF THAT IS DESIRED.
THAT WAS, LIKE I SAID, A, A HUGE AREA OF EMPHASIS IN THE, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION.
AND THEN, UH, LASTLY THERE, UM, ADDING THE CITY THREAT ACCELERATED MOBILITY PLAYBOOK IN ITS ENTIRETY TO THAT APPENDIX AND JUST NOTING, UM, THAT THAT'S, UH, UH, WAS PRODUCED BY A, UH, BY A THIRD PARTY, UM, BUT WAS, UH, THAT DID INVOLVE, UM, CITY PARTICIPATION, UH, AS WELL AS OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN, UH, SO NEXT STEPS I MENTIONED, UH, THIS WILL GO TO CITY COUNCIL FOR, UM, CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION AT ONCE WE MAKE ALL OF THESE CHANGES.
I'LL STOP SHARING MY SCREEN HERE.
UM, I CAN TOGGLE OVER TO THE PLAN DOCUMENT ITSELF, WHERE I JUST WENT AHEAD AND ADDED COMMENTS, UM, BASED ON SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED ON THE, UM, THE ACTION PLAN.
AND, UH, THANK YOU TO COMMITTEE MEMBER YEAGER FOR SEND, LIKE I SAID, SENDING SOME VERY DETAILED FEEDBACK THERE, CALLING OUT SPECIFIC ACTION ITEMS. UM, SO MOST OF THESE COME FROM, COME FROM YOU, UM, BUT IF OTHERS WOULD LIKE TO DO THE SAME, UM, I, I CERTAINLY WELCOME THOSE COMMENTS AND I KNOW I THINK WE HAVE SOME MORE THAT HAVE COME IN FROM THE PUBLIC AS WELL.
THIS WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE.
JUST SEE HOW FAR I CAN ZOOM FOR YOU HERE.
UM, SO THERE WERE TWO COMMENTS ON, AND I'LL, I'LL TRY MY BEST.
I I'M NOT GOING TO READ THESE, UM, WORD FOR WORD.
I'LL DO MY BEST TO SUMMARIZE TWO COMMENTS ON THAT COMPLETE STREETS POLICY TO BROADEN, UM, TO INCLUDE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, AND THEN COMMITTEE MEMBER Y YEAGER, I THINK NOTED THAT, UH, THE USE OF FEASIBLE WHERE IS FEASIBLE OH YEAH.
UM, MAKING ALL AGES AND ABILITIES BIKEWAY DESIGN THE DEFAULT PRACTICE WHEREVER FEASIBLE, THAT, THAT, UM, IS TOO BROAD AND THAT IT SHOULD BE, UH, ON NOTED THAT OR REPLACED WITH ON EVERY CITY STREET.
THE, THIS IS A, A RATHER LENGTHY COMMENT ON THE STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN UPDATE STANDARD, BUT I'LL JUST NOTE THAT THERE WERE SEVERAL COMMENTS, UH, ON, ON THIS.
I, THIS ACTION ITEM IN PARTICULAR, HIGHLIGHTING IT AS A PRIORITY AND, UM, REQUESTING FOR THE INCLUSION OF THOSE, UM, GREEN, UH, GREEN STREETS, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, WHEN THOSE STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN STANDARDS ARE UPDATED.
ONE COMMENT TO, UH, MAKE ALL UNCONTROLLED CROSSWALKS CONTROLLED ON STREETS WITH SPEED LIMITS OVER 25, MEANING, UH, THAT WOULD BE ANY CROSSWALK THAT DOESN'T CURRENTLY HAVE A STOP SIGN OR TRAFFIC SIGNAL, UM, ACROSS A BI, A BUSIER STREET, UH, WOULD NEED TO,
[00:25:01]
UH, OR THIS COMMENT IS REQUESTING THE ADDITION OF STOP SIGNS OR TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT ALL OF THOSE CROSSWALKS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNCONTROLLED.ADDING A PROJECT MAP, NOTING ALL THE POTENTIAL LANE REDUCTIONS ON STREETS CARRYING FEWER THAN 18,000 VEHICLES PER DAY, UM, EXPANDING UPON OR, OR GOING FURTHER THAN STATE REGULATIONS ON AB FOUR 13.
SO THAT'S OUR, THE STATE REQUIREMENT TO PROHIBIT PARKING WITHIN 20 FEET OF ALL INTERSECTIONS.
UH, AND THIS COMMENT SUGGESTS GOING FURTHER, GOING POTENTIALLY TO 40 OR 60 FEET, UM, EXCEEDING ASSEMBLY BILL 43.
I'LL JUST, I, I DON'T, THAT'S A REALLY TRICKY ONE.
I'M NOT SURE HOW HOW WE WOULD DO THAT.
UM, BUT WE CAN LOOK THROUGH THAT, LOOK, LOOK AT THAT MORE CLOSELY AND SEE IF THERE ARE ANY MECHANISMS TO, UM, POTENTIALLY PUSH THE ENVELOPE THERE.
BUT I, I'M NOT AWARE OF, OF OUR ABILITY TO, UH, GO BEYOND WHAT THE STATE ALLOWS US TO WHEN IT COMES TO SETTING SPEED LIMITS, UH, SUPPORT FOR RIGHT ON RED, UH, AT LEAST MAYBE CHANGING THIS LANGUAGE, GIVING IT MORE TEETH, MOVING FROM EVALUATE TO IMPLEMENT.
UM, LET'S SEE, INVENTORYING, CURB RAMPS, UH, AS A, LET'S SEE.
YES, YES, THIS IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING, UNFORTUNATELY NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE IN A, IN 80, 80 HOURS.
UM, HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE MORE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, AND I'LL JUST SEE IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER KIND OF HIGHER, A LOT OF THESE ARE VERY, VERY SPECIFIC.
THIS WILL BE AN, I THINK YOU KNOW, THIS ONE.
THERE WERE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON THIS.
SO THE CURRENT DEFAULT PRACTICE IN CALIFORNIA, AND I THINK MOST PLACES IS 15 MILES AN HOUR FOR A, A SPEED LIMIT ON MULTI-USE TRAILS.
UM, YOU MAY COME ACROSS SOME AREAS WHERE YOU SEE A REDUCED SPEED LIMIT OR A REDUCED ADVISORY SPEED LIMIT BASED ON THE CONDITIONS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE TRAIL NARROWS OR IF YOU HAVE A BLIND CURVE, YOU MIGHT COME ACROSS A FIVE MILE AN HOUR OR A 10 MILE AN HOUR SIGN, UH, DOWN IN MILL VALLEY WHERE THEY'VE HAD SOME TRAIL CONFLICTS ON THE MILL VALLEY SAUSALITO PATHWAY, WHICH IS SUPER BUSY PATHWAY.
UM, THEY'VE GOT A SECTION WHERE THEY'VE LOWERED THE SPEED LIMIT TO 10 MILES AN HOUR.
I WILL SAY EVERYTHING I'VE SEEN, UM, SUGGESTS 15 IS AN APPROPRIATE SPEED, AND THEN SLOWING TO SLOW THE, THE GENERAL GUIDANCE IS, YOU KNOW, RIDING 15 WHEN OTHERS AREN'T PRESENT AND SLOWING TO FIVE OR 10 MILES AN HOUR WHEN PASSING.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY BRING BACK AND DISCUSS, AND ESPECIALLY LOOKING AT WHAT OTHER AGENCIES HAVE DONE IN THE AREA, I THINK WOULD BE APPROPRIATE IN THAT CASE.
SO IF YOU'D LIKE, WE COULD, WE COULD CERTAINLY, UH, BROADEN THIS OR WE COULD JUST EVEN ELIMINATE THIS SPEED LIMIT REFERENCE, AND IT COULD BE SUBJECT TO FURTHER DISCUSSION IF THAT SEEMS A LITTLE BIT TOO PRESCRIPTIVE.
UM, A COMMENT QUESTIONING WHETHER STREET MURALS BELONG IN A THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
UM, THIS GOES BACK TO OUR FIRST PRESENTATION, ADDING A PEDESTRIAN REFERENCE TO OUR TEMPORARY TRAFFIC CONTROL.
SO THIS WOULD, UM, ENSURE THAT, UH, SIDEWALK CLOSURES, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO AVOID SIDEWALK CLOSURES THAT FORCE PEOPLE TO DETOUR AROUND, UM, AREAS WHERE THERE MAY BE SOME SORT OF ACTIVE WORK OR CONSTRUCTION IN THE ROADWAY.
THERE WERE LOTS OF QUE UH, COMMENTS ON THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION MAPS ITEM, AND I THINK, UM, THE FEAR WAS THAT WE WOULD CREATE A MAP THAT ONLY HIGHLIGHTS THE EXISTING AND PLANNED INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, BUT REALLY I THINK WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE AFTER IS, IS CREATING A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT MAP TYPES.
ONE THAT DOES INCLUDE THAT, IS KIND OF THAT PLANNING TOOL HELPS TRACK THE STATUS AND BUILD OUT OF OUR NETWORK.
UM, BUT ANOTHER BEING A ALL AGES AND ABILITIES BIKEWAY NETWORK MAP THAT WILL OBVIOUSLY GROW OVER TIME.
AND ALSO, UH, THERE WERE SOME COMMENTS HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE THAT THESE CAN BE USED FOR ACTUAL NAVIGATION.
THAT CAN SOMETIMES BE A CHALLENGE WITH, UH, WITH THESE MAPS AND, AND FIGURING OUT A WAY TO HOPEFULLY, UM, CREATE THAT
[00:30:01]
FUNCTIONALITY.AND I THINK LOOKING FOR SOME OTHER, I THINK SOME CONCERN ABOUT THE REPORT BEING, WELL, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS.
THERE WERE SOME COMMENTS SAYING THIS REPORT SHOULD BE DONE MORE FREQUENTLY.
IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ANNUAL REPORT.
BUT THEN THERE WAS ALSO THIS COMMENT SAYING, UM, YOU KNOW, SIMPLIFY THIS, IT, IT COULD BE TOO MUCH OF A BURDEN FOR STAFF.
SO, UM, INTERESTED IN FEEDBACK THERE, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ULTIMATELY I THINK WE'LL, WE'LL GET A FEEL FOR, UM, ONCE WE PRODUCE THAT FIRST REPORT.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT ABOUT COVERS IT THERE.
SO AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS A LOT, IT'S A WEIRD FORMAT.
UM, HOPEFULLY YOU ALL HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK THROUGH ALL OF THOSE WRITTEN COMMENTS THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA AND ATTACHMENTS A THROUGH D.
UM, WE ALSO DID JUST GET ANOTHER COMMENT VIA EMAIL, SO WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WE GET THAT OUT TO YOU, UH, AND GET THAT POSTED TO THE AGENDA.
BUT LOOKING FOR, AGAIN, ANY, IF YOU'VE HAD ANY REVELATIONS SINCE WE PRESENTED, UH, BACK IN EARLY APRIL, THINGS THAT HAVE COME TO MIND OR, YOU KNOW, UM, OR, OR ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ELEVATE THAT I'VE MENTIONED TONIGHT.
ANYTHING I'VE MISSED, UH, THAT YOU WANNA ELEVATE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IF YOU WOULD PREFER TO TAKE ONE LAST DEEP DIVE AND SEND COMMENTS VIA EMAIL THE WAY COMMITTEE MEMBER YEAGER DID, YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO DO THAT.
SO NO PRESSURE, UH, BUT, UH, REALLY HAPPY TO GO IN AS IN DEPTH AS YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO TONIGHT.
IF NOT, IT'LL BE A VERY SHORT MEETING, SO THANK YOU.
SO THAT BRINGS US TO THE NEXT SECTION THAT I HAD BEEN DISCUSSING EARLIER, AND THAT'S THE COMMITTEE.
SO NOW IS OUR CHANCE TO ASK QUESTIONS.
THIS IS, UM, THE QUESTION AREA.
SO YOU MUST END YOUR SENTENCE IN A QUESTION MARK, AND WE'LL START OFF, UH, WITH KATE TO MY LEFT.
AND, UM, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE OPPORTUNITY FOR EACH ONE OF US TO MAKE ONE COMMENT, AND ONCE WE GET THROUGH THAT, WE'LL GO FROM ROUND TWO AND WE'LL START WITH THE OPPOSITE END PERHAPS, AND WE'LL GO THROUGH ONE COMMENT PER PERSON AND SEE HOW THAT WORKS.
I'M NOT REALLY VERY SURE, BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, LET'S TRY TO SETTLE ON ONE QUESTION PER PERSON.
UM, BJORN, AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR PRESENTATION, YOU MENTIONED HAVING A TABLE FOR ALL OF THE COMMENTS AND HAVING RESPONSES TO ALL OF THE COMMENTS.
FOR THE SAKE OF TRANSPARENCY, WHERE WOULD THAT BE HOSTED? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS GONNA BE AVAILABLE ON THE CITY WEBSITE OR AS A PART, AS AN APPENDIX TO THE PLAN? I JUST WASN'T REALLY SURE.
YEAH, I CAN, ABOUT WHAT THAT, IT CAN CERTAINLY BE, UH, I'VE SEEN THOSE INCLUDED IN THE, IN THE APPENDIX OF THESE PLANNING DOCUMENTS.
THERE COULD ALSO, UM, POST IT TO THE PROJECT WEBPAGE, UH, AND ATTACH IT WHEN IT, WHEN THIS DOES GO BACK TO CITY COUNCIL, OBVIOUSLY, I THINK THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE WOULD WANT, WOULD LOOK FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT THEIR FEEDBACK WAS INCORPORATED OR HOW IT WAS INCORPORATED.
I THINK THE PRESENTATION WAS CLEAR.
UM, JORDAN, YOU MENTIONED THE PROJECT DELIVERY PROCESS.
UM, I WOULD LOVE TO LEARN MORE, UM, AND WE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL, UH, BUT, UH, WHO DRAFTS THE SCOPE OF AN INITIAL PLAN WHEN SOMETHING IS, YOU KNOW, FUNDED AND GOOD TO GO? SO WITH, UM, REALLY ANY, ANY PROJECT, OBVIOUSLY ONCE A ONCE A CI, ARE YOU TALKING LIKE A CIP PAVING PROJECT OR YEAH, SIGNIFICANT BIG THINGS WHERE YOU'VE GOT A, YOU KNOW, A STRETCH OF ROAD AND YOU'RE GONNA BE RIGHT, YOU HAVE MONEY TO, TO TRANSFORM IT.
YEAH, SO THE, UM, WITH A PAVING PROJECT, OBVIOUSLY THE FIRST STEP IS UNDERSTANDING THE, THE PRIMARY NEEDS FROM A, UM, PAVEMENT ACCESSIBILITY, UTILITY AND SAFETY STANDPOINT.
SO, UM, UNDERSTANDING WHAT AREA IS BEING, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE EITHER RECONSTRUCTING OR REHABILITATING THE PAVEMENT,
[00:35:01]
UM, UNDERSTANDING WHERE THAT MAY OVERLAP WITH DIFFERENT UTILITY REPLACEMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED.UH, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S AN OLD SEWER MAN IN THE AREA, IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY OBVIOUSLY TO TAKE CARE OF THAT AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN, AND THEN THEY'LL, AND THEN WE'LL START BY, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS, UH, IN TANDEM WITH SAFETY NEEDS.
SO WITH SAFETY, THAT'S REALLY JUST OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TEAM LOOKING AT, UM, COLLISION HISTORY, LOOKING AT THE CONDITIONS IN THE FIELD AND JUST ASSESSING, YOU KNOW, USUALLY IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS, HEY, WE'VE GOT REALLY WIDE LANES HERE, UM, OR WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, WIDE TURNING RADIO, TURNING RADII, CURB RADII HERE.
UM, UH, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEN WE CAN START TO DRILL DOWN TO COLLISION DATA SPEED DATA, UM, LOOKING AT ANY COMMUNITY FEEDBACK WE'VE RECEIVED IN THE PAST.
UM, SO WE'LL PULL UP THE, THE LOCAL ROAD SAFETY PLANS, SEE IF ANY THERE WERE ANY COMMENTS ON THAT STREET THERE.
WE'LL PULL UP OUR SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM, UH, LOOK AT ANY COMMENTS WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH THE SAFE ROUTE SCHOOL TASK FORCE.
NOW, THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, THERE'S A LOT OF FEEDBACK THAT WE CAN, UM, THAT WE, THAT WE CAN PULL WITHOUT ACTUALLY GOING BACK OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, GET KIND OF A BASELINE UNDERSTANDING OF EVERYTHING THAT, THAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH OR, OR WE, WE WOULD RECOMMEND.
AND THEN, UM, AND THEN IT COMES BACK, THEN IT GOES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY GENERALLY FOR, UH, SOME SORT OF A WORKSHOP WHERE WE PRESENT THOSE EXISTING CONDITIONS AND SOME OF OUR RECOMME INITIAL RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, IF THERE IS A, YOU KNOW, A REAL DECISION THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE, LIKE SAY THERE'S, UH, LIKE WITH HOWARD STREET IS A GREAT EXAMPLE WHERE, UH, WE IDENTIFIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY RECONFIGURE THE LIBERTY AND A STREET INTERSECTION.
SO THEN WE MAKE THAT A FOCAL POINT OF THAT PRESENTATION.
LIKE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF LOW HANGING FRUIT, LIKE, HEY, WE'RE GONNA UPDATE ALL THE CURB RAMPS, WE'RE GONNA ADD CROSSWALKS HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO, MAKE THESE KIND OF STANDARD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, BUT HERE'S AN AREA WHERE WE REALLY WANT, UH, YOUR FEEDBACK ON WHAT KIND OF CHANGES YOU WANT TO SEE HERE.
AND, AND TRY TO NARROW, NARROW IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT, UM, AND, AND GET SOME REAL CLEAR DIRECTION FROM THE COMMUNITY ON, ON WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO SEE IN THAT AREA.
UM, SO THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TEAM, I THINK IS, WHAT IS THAT ANSWER MY QUESTION? YEAH.
UM, AND YEAH, THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT.
UM, BUT IT'S TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TEAM THAT'S DRAWING THAT PLAN THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IN THE CITY BEFORE IT GOES OUT TO, TO GET COMMENT.
UH, SO KINDA RECOGNIZING SOMEWHAT HOW BICYCLISTS ALREADY DO RIDE IN THE CITY.
UM, WHAT WOULD YOU FORESEE AS KIND OF MAYBE CHALLENGES OR OPPORTUNITIES OF POTENTIALLY ADDING SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF ALLOWING AN IDAHO STOP
UM, WE'RE NOT, I AM, IF I'M NOT AWARE OF, UH, ANY CITIES IN CALIFORNIA HAVING THE ABILITY TO, UH, IMPLEMENT THEIR OWN, UH, TRAFFIC REGULATIONS.
SO I, I DON'T SEE US, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN DONE AT A STATE LEVEL EVERYWHERE.
I DON'T KNOW OF ANY CITIES THAT HAVE TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES OR, OR EVEN BEEN ABLE TO IMPLEMENT IT.
UM, SAME WITH SPEED LIMITS, UNFORTUNATELY.
I HEARD A, UH, A COMMENT RECENTLY THAT CONCRETE BARRIERS COST ABOUT THE SAME AS PLASTIC BOLLARDS.
IS THAT A TRUE STATEMENT? IT'S DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF PLASTIC BOLLARD AND THE TYPE OF CONCRETE BARRIER YOU'RE USING, UH, THERE'S NOT A, THERE'S NOT A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
UM, SO IT'S, UH, IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT WITH FUTURE, UH, IMPLEMENTA FUTURE PROTECTED BY CLAIM PROJECTS, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE MAINTENANCE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH REPLACING THE BALLARDS OVER TIME.
IS THERE, IS THERE, UH, ANY, ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE PLASTIC BOLLARDS OVER? UH,
[00:40:02]
NO, I THINK THERE, IT'S REALLY JUST A MATTER OF, UM, THEY, I MEAN, I GUESS THE ADVANTAGE WOULD BE THAT THEY ARE EASIER TO REMOVE IF YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, DOING A PROJECT WHERE, UM, YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE TOTAL, UH, CERTAINTY OVER THE ULTIMATE CONFIGURATION THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO IMPLEMENT.UH, IN THE CASE OF NORTH MCDOWELL BOULEVARD, I'LL SAY THAT WAS OUR FIRST PROTECTED BIKE LANE, AND I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY OVER HOW, HOW THE PROJECT WOULD, WOULD DO.
AND IT WAS JUST A, IT WAS A KIND OF A QUICK LIKE, OR A LAST MINUTE ADDITION TO THE PROJECT THAT WAS, UM, EASY TO MAKE WITH, UH, WITH SOME OF THAT FLEXIBILITY AND, AND ASSURANCE THAT THE PROJECT COULD BE ALTERED IF, IF NEEDED.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'VE, I'D LIKE TO THINK THAT WE'VE WORKED PAST THAT AND, UH, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE HAVE THE, THE MINI STREET SWEEPER, WE'VE ADDRESSED REALLY THE, THE PRIMARY ISSUE ASSOCIATED WITH PROTECTED BIKE LANES, UH, OR AT LEAST WE'RE ON OUR WAY TO.
AND, UM, I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY, WE IN MOST CITIES ARE, ARE LOOKING TOWARDS CONCRETE NOW.
UM, I'VE GOT A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
UM, MICROPHONE QUESTION,
UM, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE DATA GATHERING PROCESS FOR THIS? THE, UM, JUST GENERALLY HOW YOU ARE GATHERING DATA, AND THEN KINDA THE SECOND PART OF THAT IS IN MEASURING THE EFFICACY OF SOME OF THE IMPLEMENTATIONS.
UM, ARE YOU, HOW ARE YOU GETTING KIND OF, UH, PROCESS AND UPDATE DATA FROM FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY? SO I ASSUME YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TYPICAL, UH, DATA THAT WOULD TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENING ON, ON A GIVEN STREET AND KIND OF BEFORE AND AFTER DATA OR, UM, UM, YEAH.
I MEAN, I'M, I'M SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT LIKE, UM, IN, UH, IN THE PLAN ON PAGE NINE OF THE PLAN, UM, AVAILABLE DATA SUGGESTS MOST TRIPS IN PETALUMA ARE CURRENTLY MADE BY PRIVATE VEHICLE, RIGHT? REFLECTING SUBURBAN NATURE OF THE CITY.
AND I'M JUST, UM, I'M, I'M WONDERING IF THIS IS BASED ON ACTUAL DATA IN PETALUMA OR IF THIS IS EXTRACTED FROM, YOU KNOW, UH, LITERATURE OR SUPPORTING DATA, UH, YOU KNOW, STATE OR COUNTYWIDE.
THERE ISN'T REALLY A GOOD SOURCE OF DATA FOR, TO TELL US HOW PEOPLE GET AROUND FOR ALL TRIPS.
THE ONLY REAL, THE ONLY SOURCE OF, OR ONLY DATA SOURCE WE REALLY HAVE AT OUR AVAILABILITY IS, UM, THE CENSUS AND, AND AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA, WHICH ASKS PEOPLE THEIR PRIMARY MODE OF TRAVEL TO GET TO WORK.
SO THAT'S PROBLEMATIC IN TWO WAYS.
NUMBER ONE, IT'S ONLY ONE TRIP TYPE, SO IT'S NOT ACCOUNTING FOR HOW KIDS ARE GETTING TO SCHOOL OR HOW YOU'RE TAKING, HOW YOU'RE GOING GROCERY SHOPPING, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, GOING TO YOUR FRIEND'S HOUSE.
UH, THE SECOND WAY IT'S PROBLEMATIC IS THAT IT IS ASKING FOR YOUR PRIMARY MODE ONLY.
SO IT'S NOT ASK IF YOU'RE TAKING MULTIMODAL TRIPS.
UM, IT DOESN'T TELL US THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE TAKING THE SMART TRAIN AND YOU'RE BIKING TO THE TRAIN, YOU'RE PROBABLY SELECTING TRAIN AS YOUR PRIMARY MODE TO WORK.
UM, YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT SAYING THE BIKE IS YOUR PRIMARY MODE.
UH, AND THEN IT'S ALSO, UM, UH, LIMITING IN THAT MAYBE YOU BIKE ONE DAY A WEEK AND, UH, THERE'S NO WAY TO INDICATE THAT.
SO IT, THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO OFF OF THE CENSUS DATA, UM, JUST UNDER 2% OF PETALUMA RESIDENTS WALK OR BIKE TO WORK.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST ANECDOTALLY, I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE BIKING, WALKING, AND BIKING FOR OTHER REASONS ON A DAILY BASIS THROUGHOUT PETALUMA.
SO IT'S NOT REALLY A GREAT METRIC.
AND WE DON'T, UNFORTUNATELY AT THIS POINT, UNLESS ADAM, UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMETHING OF SOMETHING, I, I DON'T KNOW OF ANY OTHER REALLY GOOD, UM, DATA SOURCES THAT COULD TELL US HOW PEOPLE ARE GETTING AROUND FOR, FOR ALL TRIPS.
I'LL JUST ADD THAT THE OTHER SOURCE WE HAVE THAT, UM, SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION CLIMATE AUTHORITIES USE IS KIND OF LIKE THE BIG, BIG DATA CELL DATA FOR OUR TRAVEL BEHAVIOR SURVEY.
UM, THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY DISTINGUISH BY TRIP TYPE, THOUGH.
IT JUST KIND OF SAYS TRIP LENGTH USUALLY, UM, ORIGIN DESTINATION.
SO IT'S STILL, YEAH, PRETTY LIMITED IN TRYING TO PARSE THAT APART BY MODE.
JASON, DID YOU GET THAT ANSWERED? IN OTHER WORDS, SHOULD I MOVE
[00:45:01]
FORWARD? I DID.UM, MY TURN, BJORN, WHAT IS THE SIDEWALK GRANT PROGRAM? SO THERE'S A DISCUSSION OF CREATING A 50 50 COST SHARING PROGRAM, UM, THAT IS SUBJECT TO COUNCIL APPROVAL IN THE, UH, THE DRAFT BUDGET FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR OF A PROGRAM THAT'LL, UM, CREATE MA OR CREATE MATCHING FUNDS FROM THE CITY FOR PROPERTY OWNERS WHO ARE, UH, IMPLEMENTING ANY SORT OF SIDEWALK OR FRONTED SIDEWALK REPAIRS, BASICALLY.
UM, SO THAT'S CURRENTLY, UH, THAT'S 100% PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU HAVE A BROKEN SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE THAT THE ENTIRETY OF THAT COST IS ON YOU TO FIX IT.
AND SO THIS WOULD CREATE A PROGRAM THROUGH WHICH THE CITY PAYS 50% OF THAT UP TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT.
AND MY ASSUMPTION IS WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE THAT POLICY.
IT'S, IT'S SUBJECT TO THE COUNCIL APPROVAL OF THE, OF THE BUDGET.
AND HOW WOULD, THERE IS A, THERE IS A SIMILAR PROGRAM FOR SEWER LATERALS RIGHT NOW, SO FOR YOUR SEWER CONNECTION, IF THAT GETS REPAIRED OR REPLACED, UH, THERE IS A GRANT PROGRAM THAT THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM WILL BE MODELED OFF OF THAT EXISTS.
WHEN MIGHT YOU EXPECT THAT TO BE AN ACTUAL POLICY? SOMETIME THIS FISCAL NEXT FISCAL YEAR 26? I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT DETAILS ON THE START DATE, BUT THAT'S MY ASSUMPTION.
AND THIS TIME WE'LL START WITH JASON ON MY RIGHT, THE END ON MY RIGHT.
AND AGAIN, WE'LL GO THROUGH, UM, A QUESTION.
AND IF YOUR QUESTION HAS PART A AND PART B, THAT'S MORE THAN ACCEPTABLE, FEEL FREE TO GO AHEAD AND DO THAT.
SO JASON, LET'S START WITH YOU.
I HAVE A FOLLOW UP TO, I HAVE A FOLLOW UP TO THE CON, UH, TO MY QUESTION FROM BEFORE, JUST LIKE CLARIFYING AND SUGGESTING, BUT I'M NOT EXACTLY READY FOR IT RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO I WANTED TO A CHANCE TO, UM, YEAH, FORMULATE THAT.
UM, IS THERE ANY WAY TO INCLUDE IN THE PLAN, UM, KIND OF ANTICIPATE ANTICIPATED RESULTS OF STUDIES IN PARTICULAR? YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE CORRIDOR, THE 1 0 1 CROSSINGS STUDY, WHICH I THINK WHATEVER FINDINGS, THAT'S A GREAT COMMENT THAT COULD BE INCLUDED.
UM, MY MIND GOES TO KIND OF THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR STUDY, WHAT COMES OUT OF THAT, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY OTHER, UM, KIND OF PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE FO BICYCLE FOCUS STUDIES, BUT JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, IS THERE SOME WAY THAT WE CAN MENTION THAT EVEN AFTER, 'CAUSE IT, I THINK THE PETALUMA, I'M SORRY, THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR STUDY SHOULD CONCLUDE AFTER THIS A TP IS DONE.
SO THERE'S NO WAY TO BRING THAT IN, BUT IS THERE SOME WAY TO KIND OF MENTION AND SAY, TO INCORPORATE THE RESULTS OF, YOU KNOW, THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR STUDY OR SOMETHING OF TO THAT EFFECT? YEAH, I THINK IT, AND THE SAME IS TRUE FOR THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY, UM, CAN CERTAINLY ADD A REFERENCE TO THE WORK THAT'S UNDERWAY.
AND, UH, ULTIMATELY I THINK WE HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY IN THIS PLAN, UH, ESPECIALLY COMING BACK, UM, ANNUALLY, NOT ONLY WITH PBA, BUT ALSO WITH CITY COUNCIL, UH, WITH OUR FIVE YEAR CIP, UH, YOU KNOW, AS THOSE NEW PRIORITY PROJECTS ARE IDENTIFIED TO INCORPORATE THOSE AND, AND ELEVATE THEM.
UM, SO I, YEAH, LET ME, I'LL, I'LL NOODLE ON THAT.
I THINK IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT SUGGESTION TO ADD SOME, ADD SOME LANGUAGE, KIND OF CLARIFYING HOW THE CORRIDOR STUDIES WILL BE USED AND WHAT WILL COME OF THEM.
I GUESS IN PARTICULAR, I KNOW THERE'S THE PRIORITIZATION, YOU KNOW, IF SOMETHING COMES OUT OF THE CORRIDOR STUDY THAT, HOW WOULD THAT BE INCLUDED THEN IN THIS, IN THESE PRIORITY LISTS, KIND OF USING A SIMILAR RANKING, FOR INSTANCE MM-HMM
UM, I'VE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, BUT JUST TO KEEP IT FOCUSED, UM, HOW UNDER THE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF IDEAL PROCESS DO PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, UM, GET ENTERED, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR CONSIDERATION? HOW, HOW WOULD THAT ALL START ROLLING? UM,
[00:50:01]
THAT'S SPECIFIC CHANGES.SO IT'S NOTED IN THE ACTION PLAN FOR, UH, WHAT WAS IT, I BELIEVE IT WAS FOR COMPLETION IN THE TARGET COMPLETION YEARS NEXT, OR FISCAL YEAR 26, 27.
UM, SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A, A PRETTY REALISTIC TIMEFRAME, UH, IF WE START WORK ON THAT SOON.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS, UH, A MORE TIME CONSUMING PROCESS THAN YOU WOULD IMAGINE, JUST LIKE HOW DOES IT GET STARTED? SO IF YOU WANT, YOU KNOW, STREETS TO BE A HUNDRED FEET WIDE OR OH, GOTCHA.
STREET TREES OR SOMETHING, AND YOU, YOU PUT THAT ON A PIECE OF PAPER, UM, WHAT IS IT THAT STARTS THAT, YOU KNOW, TOWARDS ULTIMATELY BEING ADOPTED, BUT JUST LIKE, WHAT, HOW DOES THAT START? YEAH, IT'S THAT, SO THE, THE STANDARDS ARE DEVELOPED BY OUR CITY ENGINEERING TEAM AND ULTIMATELY, UH, I BELIEVE THEY GO TO CITY COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION ONCE, UH, AND, AND FOR CODIFICATION.
BUT WHAT WOULD CAUSE THEM TO, LIKE, IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA, YEAH, IF WE, IF FEEDBACK HAS AN IDEA, UH, WHAT GETS THE, UM, THAT, THAT TEAM TO WORK ON IT.
I SUPPOSE WE COULD, I HAVEN'T BEEN, TO BE COMPLETELY HONEST, I HAVE NOT BEEN OUTTA CITY WHEN THE, THE STREET STANDARDS WERE UPDATED BEFORE, SO IT WAS UPDATED LAST YEAR.
I'M KIND OF SPITBALL, WELL UPDATED IN A, UM, THERE MAY HAVE JUST BEEN ONE SPECIFIC, UH, STANDARD THAT WAS UPDATED.
FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE SOMETIMES IT'S SOMETHING LIKE, OH, WE NEED A NEW STORM DRAIN STANDARD OR SOMETHING.
UM, BUT IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A, A COMPREHENSIVE STREET STANDARD UPDATE, UM, I, I THINK IT WOULD MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO BRING THOSE STANDARDS TO THIS COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW AND FEEDBACK.
UM, POTENTIALLY IN ADDITION TO OTHER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.
UM, I CAN'T RECALL SEEING A CITY DO A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROCESS FOR CI STREET STANDARDS BEFORE, BUT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T, OR SHOULDN'T OR DOESN'T MEAN THAT OTHER CITIES HAVEN'T NECESSARILY, I JUST HAVEN'T.
AND IT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE, YEAH, COMPREHENSIVE, I MEAN, LITTLE PIECEMEAL CHANGES ADD UP TO BIG THINGS AND MAYBE A LOT EASIER TO IMPLEMENT, UM, THAN, THAN TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, TOP TO BOTTOM START OVER.
AND ESPECIALLY USE LEVERAGING OR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF, UH, OTHER MODEL CITIES THAT HAVE ALREADY GONE THROUGH THIS EFFORT AND MAYBE MAKING MINOR ADJUSTMENTS IF WE NEED TO, BUT OTHERWISE, HOPEFULLY THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN BORROW HEAVILY FROM.
UM, SO IF WE, OR IF THE CITY CANNOT LIKE LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT, LIKE WHO COULD, LIKE, WHO DO I HAVE TO TALK TO
UH, THE, THE COMMENT WAS SUGGESTING THAT WE GO FURTHER THAN THE STATE GUIDANCE FOR HOW SPEED LIMITS ARE LOWERED AND THAT, THAT WE JUST LEGALLY CAN'T DO.
SO FOR MANY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED US TO CONSIDER A CITYWIDE 20 IS PLENTY, 20 IS PLENTY, UM, UH, SPEED LIMIT REDUCTION, WHICH WOULD LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT TO 20 MILES AN HOUR BY DEFAULT.
BASICALLY, RIGHT NOW, THE DEFAULT SPEED LIMIT, IF IT'S NOT SIGNED ON A STREET, IT'S 25.
AND SO WE'VE GOTTEN REQUESTS TO, TO DO LOWER THAT TO 20.
LEGALLY WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT.
WE CAN LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT TO 20 MILES AN HOUR IF A STREET MEETS CERTAIN CRITERIA, BUT, UH, UNFORTUNATELY THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE DOES NOT ALLOW US TO DO GO ANY FURTHER THAN THAT.
SO, UM, YEAH, I THINK WE CAN, WE CAN PUSH AB 43 AS FAR AS WE CAN.
WE'VE ALREADY STARTED WITH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT THE SPEED LIMIT DOWN TO 20 DOWNTOWN WHERE WE'RE ALLOWED TO, UH, WE'RE LOWERING THE SPEED LIMIT TO 15 NEAR ALL SCHOOLS IN ACCORDANCE WITH AB 43.
WE, THERE'S ONE FINAL PIECE OF AB, AB 43 THAT ALLOWS US TO LOWER THE SPEED LIMITS ON, AND I BEL OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I BELIEVE IT'S A TOTAL OF IT, IT CAN CONSTITUTE ONE FIFTH OF THE CITY'S STREET MILEAGE, GIVEN THAT IT MEETS, UH, CERTAIN CRITERIA.
AND THE CRITERIA THAT I CAN THINK OF ARE IT'S, UM, HIGH INJURY CORRIDORS OR STREETS WITH HIGH AMOUNTS OF BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN
[00:55:01]
VOLUME.AND THEN THERE'S SOME OTHER VERY SPECIFIC CRITERIA.
UM, SO I, I'M JUST, AGAIN, NOT, UH, SHARING THIS INFORMATION JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE THAT WE HAVE TOOLS AT OUR DISPOSAL, BUT THERE ARE DEFINITELY LIMITATIONS, UH, IN TERMS OF HOW WE, HOW FAR WE CAN GO.
SO BASICALLY I WOULD HAVE TO LOBBY THE STATE, UM, FIRST YOU WOULD, I I WOULD SAY FIRST COME TO THE CITY AND WE CAN SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
AND THEN IF YOU, IF, IF, IF WE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, UH, LOWER THE SPEED LIMIT, UH, OR IF WE RUN INTO LIMITATIONS, UH, THAT ARE IMPOSED BY THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE, THEN YOU CAN LOBBY THE STATE
YEAH, THAT IS KIND OF A FIX IT.
OH, I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT MY STREET.
I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS.
AND I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION, UM, WHICH HAS A COUPLE OF PARTS.
TALKING ABOUT ELECTRO ELECTROMOBILITY REGULATIONS, WHAT DO WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN OUR NEW A TP DOCUMENT, OUR DRAFT DOCUMENT THAT ADDRESSES ELECTROMOBILITY REGULATIONS? AND SECONDLY, WHAT IS THE PROCESS? WHAT'S THE CITY'S PROCESS IF WE WERE DECIDE IF WE WERE TO DECIDE OR PBAC WAS TO RECOMMEND THAT WE START WORKING ON AN ORDINANCE, WHICH WOULD HELP US, UH, PERHAPS MAKE SOME IN-HOUSE REGULATIONS REGARDING THIS? SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO ACTIONS THAT ARE RELATED.
ONE IS THE MULTI-USE TRAIL ETIQUETTE AND SPEED LIMIT SIGNAGE ACTION.
UH, UH, WHICH DOES NOT MENTION, UM, PROHIBITING ANY DEVICES OR DEVICE TYPES ON OUR MULTI-USE PATHWAYS.
IT JUST TALKS ABOUT, UH, UPDATING SIGNAGE, UH, TO EMPHASIZE SAFE OPERAT OPERATION OF THESE DEVICES AND CONSIDERING ESTABLISHING AND SIGNING, UH, A SPEED LIMIT ON OUR TRAILS.
UM, THE OTHER ITEM IS MORE OF AN EDUCATIONAL PIECE, UH, WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, TO, UM, PERFORM ANNUAL EDUCATION EVENTS AT PIT OF MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS REGARDING SAFE AND LEGAL OPERATION OF ELECTRIC BIKES, SCOOTERS, AND OTHER MOTORIZED WHEELED DEVICES, UH, AND CREATING RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS.
SO THERE ARE NO ACTIONS IN HERE THAT RECOMMEND CREATING OUR OWN LOCAL REGULATIONS.
UM, OUR, YOU KNOW, BASIC, OUR CURRENT RECOMMENDATION IS TO LEAD WITH EDUCATION AND SIGNAGE AND FOLLOW THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE, UM, OR ENFORCE THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE.
AND, UH, AND, AND TO TAKE IT FURTHER IF, UH, WE FIND THAT THOSE ACTIONS AREN'T EFFECTIVE.
BUT AGAIN, IF, UM, IF, IF OUR CITY COUNCIL DECIDES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO PURSUE SOME SORT OF LOCAL REGULATIONS, UM, AS OTHERS, OTHER CITIES HAVE STARTED TO DO, UM, THEN, THEN WE CAN PURSUE THAT.
THAT WAS THE THIRD PART OF MY QUESTION.
ARE THERE OTHER COMMUNITIES, PARTICULARLY IN SONOMA COUNTY THAT THEY MUST BE EXPERIENCING THESE SAME ISSUES? IS DO WE KNOW OF ANYTHING THAT THEY'RE DOING OR ANY WAY ANYTHING THAT THEY'RE DOING TO HANDLE WHAT'S GOING ON, ON PARTICULARLY OUR TRAILS AND OUR SIDEWALKS FOR THAT MATTER? I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY IN SONOMA COUNTY.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT HAPPENING.
UM, I BELIEVE IN MARIN COUNTY, THEY MAY HAVE JUST, UH, CREATED A, A, A, A MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN CLASSES OF E-BIKES, IF NOT ALL E-BIKES.
UM, I'LL JUST ADD, SO AFTER THE, THE LENGTHY COUNCIL DISCUSSION ABOUT, UH, ABOUT E-BIKES, UM, OR, OR IT WAS FRAMED AS BEING ABOUT E-BIKES IN THE COUNCIL MEETING, UM, AFTERWARDS I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH OUR, OUR, UM, CHIEF OF POLICE.
AND HE AND I AGREED THAT ACTUALLY WE THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE CONFUSING E-BIKES FOR ELEC WHAT ARE EFFECTIVELY ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLES.
UM, AND SO THE, IT MAY NOT BE FAIR TO
THEY'RE WITH ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLES THAT ARE BEING O RIDDEN AND OPERATED ILLEGALLY BY, YOU KNOW, THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE
[01:00:01]
DOES HAVE VERY SPECIFIC MINIMUM AGE AND, AND I THINK EVEN LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR THESE ELECTRIC MOTOR MOTORCYCLES THAT YOU'RE STARTING TO SEE MORE AND MORE.SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A VERY DELICATE, GIVEN ALL OF THE, UH, ADVANCES HAPPENING IN THAT ARENA, UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A FACT-BASED CONVERSATION AND THAT WE'RE FULLY AWARE OF, OF THE IMPLICATIONS IF WE DO GO THAT ROUTE AND DECIDE TO TRY TO, UH, GO FURTHER THAN THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE ALREADY DOES.
AND I KNOW I'M MISSPEAKING WHEN I SAY THIS, BUT I THINK THIS WOULD BE A PERFECT, UH, SOMETHING PERFECT TO PUT ON OUR LIST OF, UM, AGENDA ITEMS AND GIVE IT A VERY HIGH PRIORITY IN THAT RIGHT NOW, THIS ELECTROMOBILITY ISSUE ON LYNCH CREEK TRAIL AND YESTERDAY I WAS ON ADOBE TRAIL AND, UM, IT'S GETTING PRETTY HEAVY AND IT'S, THEY'RE GETTING KIND OF, UM, FREEWHEELING AND DANGEROUS FOR THEMSELVES AND CERTAINLY DANGEROUS FOR ANYBODY WHO'S A PEDESTRIAN OR A BICYCLIST FOR THAT MATTER COMING TOWARDS THEM.
SO MAYBE THIS WE COULD ADD TO OUR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AND MAYBE THIS IS AN, UH, AD HOC MEETING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR AN AD HOC GROUP FORMING.
MOVING ON TO LINE THREE OR OUR THIRD ROW OF QUESTIONING.
WE'LL START WITH KATE THIS TIME AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYBODY WHO'S GOT YET ANOTHER QUESTION.
IS THERE ANYBODY, HOW MANY OF US HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS? ADAM, WILLIAM? NO, NO, I'M NOT SEEING ANY DOWN HERE.
ALRIGHT, WHY DON'T WE JUST START HERE.
AND IT'S KIND OF A FOLLOW UP TO WILLIAMS, UM, QUESTION DISCUSSION.
UM, SO WE'VE GOT OUR UH, OR STREET DESIGN STANDARD SUBCOMMITTEE THAT STILL HAS NOT MET DISA POINTEDLY.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA KNOW HOW DOES, HOW WOULD THAT PROCESS OF THAT KIND OF SUBCOMMITTEE FIT INTO WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT OF THEN GOING TO CITY ENGINEERS AND SO FORTH COMING TO P BACK? WHAT, WHAT DO YOU KIND OF ENVISION THAT PROCESS? 'CAUSE I THINK ALL OF THOSE INVOLVED HAVE A YEAH.
APPETITE TO KIND OF GET THAT STARTED AND POTENTIALLY EVEN YEAH.
HOW IT MIGHT FIT INTO THE A TP IF AT ALL.
UM, YEAH, I MEAN AD AD HOC COMMITTEES SORT OF OPERATE AT AT THEIR OWN DISCRETION, UM, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A SOMEWHAT DEFINED SCOPE.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU'VE ALREADY KIND OF ESTABLISHED THAT AD HOC, UH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO BE IN THAT WORK WHENEVER YOU WANT, UM, JUST COORDINATING AMONGST YOURSELVES AND I'M HAPPY TO, UM, KIND OF PROVIDE SOME INITIAL CONSULTATION ON AND MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS.
BUT ULTIMATELY IT'S, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF UP TO THAT AD HOC COMMITTEE, UM, HOW THEY, HOW YOU WANT TO, UH, GO ABOUT THAT WORK.
AND I BELIEVE THAT SCOPE IS MORE SPECIFICALLY NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARDS.
UH, IF YOU DO WANT TO BROADEN IT TO UM, INCLUDE MORE GENERAL STREET STANDARDS, I, YOU CAN DO THAT AS WELL.
JUST NEED TO KIND OF MAKE THAT CALL BECAUSE ONCE YOU'VE, UH, ONCE YOU START YOUR WORK, IT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S SORT OF HOW AD HOC COMMITTEES HAVE TO BE RUN, UH, IN, IN COMPLIANCE WITH BROWN ACT REQUIREMENTS.
THEY JUST NEED TO HAVE A WELL-DEFINED SCOPE AND THE SCOPE CAN'T SHIFT TO ANOTHER PROJECT ONCE YOU'VE COMPLETED, UH, YOUR, YOUR WORK.
UM, THEN MAYBE JUST KIND OF A TANGENTIAL FOLLOW UP QUESTION.
I KNOW THERE WAS, UM, A DISCUSSION OF EMULATING WHAT, UM, THE CLIMATE COMMISSION, UH, WAS DOING OF HAVING LIKE SMALL BREAKOUT AD HOCS AT THEIR MEETINGS.
IS THAT STILL SOMETHING MAYBE ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH THIS HERCULEAN EFFORT, CAN WE CONSIDER DOING THAT AT OUR OWN PAC MEETINGS AS WELL FOR KIND OF FOCUSING IT ON THIS AS WELL? YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, I, I HATE TO DO ANYTHING THAT ASKS YOU ALL FOR MORE OF YOUR TIME.
SO, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, IF, IF WE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LOOK AT THIS PLAN AND, AND FOLKS COME UP WITH A FEW DIFFERENT AD HOC COMMITTEES THAT THEY WANT TO ESTABLISH.
UH, THE ONLY THING I THINK WE WOULD NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF IS WHEN WE DO HAVE AN AGENDA ITEM THAT REQUIRES SOME, UH, FEEDBACK OR AN ACTION FROM THIS COMMITTEE, THAT THAT WOULD BE PRIORITIZED OVER THE AD HOC COMMITTEES, UM, FOR THAT EVENING OR,
[01:05:01]
OR THAT MAYBE THE AD HOCS JUST HAVE A SHORTER MEETING TIME.DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY OPERATE? IS THAT IF THEY HAVE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE, IS THAT ALL THAT THEY DEAL WITH THAT AT THAT MEETING OR DO THEY HAVE SOME LIKE A PRESENTATION AND AD HOC? I ACTUALLY HAVE NOT ATTENDED ANY OF THEIR MEETINGS, BUT, UM, I CAN, I CAN FIND OUT OR I KNOW PETE GOES TO THEIR MEETINGS.
UH, YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, THAT SIMPLY COULD BE ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM WHERE YOU'D LITERALLY, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE UP HERE ARE BRAND NEW AND THEY WEREN'T HERE WHEN WE HAD TO GO, YOU KNOW, OUR LAST ROUND OF AD HOC MEETINGS OR AD HOC GROUPS.
I ASSUME THEY MUST HAVE SOME REGULAR BUSINESS ITEMS THEY NEED TO COVER AND THEN THEY PROBABLY BREAK, BREAK OUT ONCE THEY'VE COVERED ALL THOSE.
WILLIAM, DO YOU HAVE ANY, ANYTHING? UH, NO, NO MORE QUESTIONS.
OKAY, SO WE ARE FINISHED WITH THAT SECTION AND THEN THAT MEANS THAT IT'S TIME TO OPEN PUBLIC COMMENT.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK AND CLERK.
DO WE, DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING ON THIS ITEM? UM, THERE WAS ONE THAT CAME IN ABOUT THE SAME TIME THE MEETING STARTED, UH, WHICH WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
BUT, UM, OTHERWISE, NO THANK YOU.
UM, I HAVE THREE SPEAKER CARDS AND THE FIRST ONE IS VERONICA OLSON AND SHE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY BRUCE AND PETE, YOU'LL PICK UP THE END.
UM, MY NAME IS VERONICA OLSON AND I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN PAC MEETINGS FOR SOME TIME.
UM, BUT I STARTED WITH THE, UM, A IAS STAT PROJECT.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT, BUT IT WAS BASICALLY A PROJECT THAT WAS, UM, A FEW, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS GOT TOGETHER WITH CITY MEMBERS TO APPLY FOR A GRANT TO CREATE A VISION FOR A SUSTAINABLE CARBON NEUTRAL, UH, REGENERATIVE CITY AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO IN THAT PROCESS, THERE WERE MANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CAME ABOUT.
IT WAS A BIG COMMUNITY PROCESS.
BUT BASICALLY, UM, FROM THAT AND THE GENERAL PLAN THAT WE HAVE GOING OUR VISION FOR THE GENERAL PLAN AS A COMMUNITY AND ALSO THE CLIMATE BLUEPRINT, WE HAVE BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, SOME RUNNING THEMES GOING THROUGH ALL OF THOSE BIG VISION, KIND OF BIGGER PLANNING PROCESSES, AND THEY ARE TO HAVE COMPLETE GREEN STREETS.
UM, AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IS ONE OF THE MAIN THEMES AND ALSO NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS.
SO MY, MY COMMENT TONIGHT IS IN THE, IN THE CURRENT A TP PLAN, I FEEL LIKE WE CAN REV UP THE GREEN PART AND START TO ACTUALLY HAVE, UM, VERBIAGE AND REFERENCES BACK TO THOSE OTHER DOCUMENTS SO THAT WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE LARGER PLANS FOR THE CITY.
UM, THINGS LIKE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS, BIOSWALES, NATURE'S GRA NA, NATIVE GRASSES AND PERMEABLE SURFACES ALL NEED TO BE PART OF OUR PLAN, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T MENTION THEM AND WE MENTION THEM IN ONE AND NOT ANOTHER, THEN UM, IMPLEMENTATION CAN BE MORE DIFFICULT.
UM, WE ALSO, IN OUR, IN OUR, UM, IN THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS, UM, PROCESS, ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST, NUMBER ONE WAS WE NEED TO UPDATE OUR STREET DESIGN STANDARDS.
AND I KNOW THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED TONIGHT.
UM, SO WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR PETALUMA? LIKE, WHAT ARE GREEN STREETS? WHAT ARE COMPLETE STREETS? THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT DE DEFINITIONS.
YOU CAN TALK TO, UM, A TRAFFIC ENGINEER AND YOU CAN TALK TO A NATIVE LANDSCAPE PERSON, AND THEY WOULD HAVE TWO DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF WHAT A GREEN STREET LOOKS LIKE.
SO I THINK COMING TOGETHER WITH DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES AND HAVING MAYBE, UM, UH, A GREEN STREET EXPERT OR LANDSCAPE PERSON OR URBAN FORESTER TO BE PART OF THESE CONVERSATIONS WITH PUBLIC WORKS COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE ADDED TO THE A TP PLAN AS ONE OF OUR GOALS.
UM, LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE? AND THEN ON A, ON A, ON A ACTUAL STREET NOTE, UM, I WANTED TO KNOW IF SAFE ROUTES, IF ST.
[01:10:01]
UM, RIGHT HERE DOWNTOWN COULD BE ADDED TO THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM.BECAUSE AT THE MOMENT, THEY'RE NOT INCLUDED.
AND THAT IS A VERY, VERY, VERY HEAVY TRAFFIC SCHOOL.
UH, LOTS OF PARENTS COMING IN FROM ALL AREAS.
SEE, I HAVE MY SLEEVES ROLLED UP ALREADY 'CAUSE THIS IS THE FUN PART.
NOW, UH, I DID WANT TO, UH, VOLUNTEER FOR THE AD HOC ON STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, AND I'M GOING TO NOMINATE VERONICA OR SOMEONE OF HER CHOICE TO ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THAT IS GOOD TO SEE THIS LEVEL OF THIS KIND OF SKILLSET BEING BROUGHT TO IT.
UM, THE, UM, I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY.
I THINK THERE'S A, A LOT OF, UH, WELL, THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY THERE BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE DRIVEN BY REPAVING AND HOW WE EVEN CHOOSE TO REPAVE THE STREETS.
IF YOU'VE READ MY COMMENTS THAT, UH, WE SHOULD REALLY SERIOUSLY QUESTION THE IDEA THAT STREETS HAVE TO BE REPAVED CURB TO CURB, AND VERSUS JUST REPAVING THE PART WHERE CARS ARE GOING FAST AND ARE SUBJECT TO DAMAGE IF THEY HIT A POTHOLE AND ARE CREATING MORE DAMAGE BY VIRTUE OF THEIR SPEED.
SO IF WE JUST PAINT 16 FEET DOWN THE MIDDLE, UH, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SAVE A LOT OF MONEY, MAKE THE STREETS QUIETER AND MORE ATTRACTIVE.
SO I WANNA JUST MAKE SURE THAT GETS ATTENTION AS FAR AS THE, UH, THE, UH, DESIGN STANDARDS FOR ANYTHING.
UH, I, I DID A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH, AND FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YES, THINGS ALWAYS LOOK EASIER THAN, UH, THEY ARE WHEN YOU ACTUALLY START DOING THEM.
UH, I'VE BEEN LEARNING THAT ABOUT, UH, SIGNS AND SIGNAGE, BUT, UH, ALSO THEY'RE NOT IMPOSSIBLE WITH A LITTLE BIT OF FOCUS, UH, THAT THERE ARE OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE DONE THIS AND MAYBE HAVE DONE SOMETHING REALLY SPECIFIC.
AND THE FIRST, THE FIRST THING SHOULD BE TO FIND THOSE FOLKS.
AND IF WE CAN GET THEIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR FREE, OR JUST HAVE A MEETING WITH SOME PEOPLE LIKE PETE AND I HAVE DONE WITH THE WOMAN THAT'S DOING TREES IN THE CURB ZONE UP IN PORTLAND, HOW DO YOU TAKE ACTUAL STREET ASPHALT AND PLANT TREES IN IT? UM, THAT WE CAN MAKE A LOT OF PROGRESS QUICKLY.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, RATHER THAN A NIGHT, UH, 20, 26 TO 27 TIMEFRAME, MAYBE THAT'S FOR EVERYTHING, AND MAYBE THAT WOULD INCLUDE ALL THE UNDERGROUND STUFF.
BUT IF WE CAN TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA DO REPAVING ON ST.
FRANCIS OR ANY OF THE OTHER STREETS THAT ARE QUEUED UP FOR, UH, REPAVING IN THE COMING YEAR OR TWO, UH, LET'S GET SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT WE CAN APPLY THOSE RIGHT AWAY.
AND EVEN IF IT'S INTERIM AND TEST AND PILOT, CALL IT WHATEVER YOU WANT, BUT LET'S TRY TO LEARN BY DOING AND MAKING SOME PROGRESS SOON RATHER THAN CONTINUING TO LOSE THESE OPPORTUNITIES TO TRY NEW STUFF, BECAUSE WE WEREN'T QUITE READY WITH ALL THE DETAILS YET.
AND AGAIN, I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH Y'ALL.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS AS ALWAYS.
UH, AND I, THIS TIME I WON'T FORGET TO SAY THANK YOU, BJORN, FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK, YOUR TIRELESS WORK.
THIS IS A, A MONUMENTAL EFFORT AND IT'S SO, SO IMPORTANT.
UM, I WAS WITH VERONICA, I WAS PART OF THE TEAM THAT BROUGHT THE A IAS STAT FOLKS TO PETALUMA.
UH, THEY WERE HERE I BELIEVE TWO YEARS AGO, AND THE SUBJECT THAT WE OUTLINED THAT WE GAVE THEM TO LOOK AT WAS COMPLETE STREETS AND 15 MINUTE CITIES.
AND, UM, IT, IT IS NOTABLE TO ME THAT THEIR MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS DON'T, HAVEN'T QUITE MADE IT INTO THE A TP.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT COMES TO MY MIND IS AT THAT FIRST MEETING WHERE, WHERE THE S STAT TEAM AND OUR TEAM AND CITY STAFF MET AND GOT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS, UH, THAT'S WHEN I FIRST MET OUR THEN NEW, UH, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER BOLT.
AND IN A CONVERSATION WITH HIM, UH, I MENTIONED THE IDEA THAT, THAT THERE SHOULD BE A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT INVOLVED IN ON EVERY STREET DESIGN PROJECT, AND HE AGREED IT NEVER GOT IMPLEMENTED.
BUT, UM, WHEN I TRY TO LOOK AT, AT OUR COMPLETE STREETS AMBITIONS, AND I TRY TO IDENTIFY THE, THE STRUCTURAL OR SYSTEMIC BARRIERS, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I SEE IS THAT WE NEED TO,
[01:15:01]
TO HAVE ON THE TEAM WRITING OUR STREET DESIGN STANDARDS MORE EXPERTISE, A WIDER RANGE OF EXPERTISE THAN JUST TRAFFIC ENGINEERS.WE NEED ARBORISTS AND, AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND, UM, LANDSCAPERS.
UH, I GUESS THE OTHER THINGS THAT I WOULD POINT TO, UH, IF WE ARE TO, TO REALIZE OUR AMBITIONS IS WE NEED TO INCREASE CITY STAFF THAT ARE TASKED WITH CARRYING OUT THESE EFFORTS.
UM, BJORN IS AWESOME, BUT HE CAN'T DO IT ALL HIMSELF.
IDEALLY, WE'D HAVE A TEAM OF PEOPLE.
UM, WE NEED MORE TO DEVOTE MORE FUNDING TO COMPLETE STREETS, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.
WE NEED TO, TO PRIORITIZE IT MORE HIGHLY.
AND FINALLY, WE NEED, UH, WE NEED TO HAVE ON CALL CONSULTANTS WHO ARE DESIGNING OUR STREETS, WHO HAVE A BROADER RANGE OF EXPERTISE THAN JUST TRAFFIC ENGINEERING.
AND THAT IS THE END OF PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO WITH THAT, I CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE MOVE ON.
BJORN, AT THIS POINT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS BACK TO WHAT YOU JUST HEARD, ANY OF THE THREE SPEAKERS? UH, NO, I APPRECIATE THE HIGHLIGHTING THE A-S-A-I-A-S STAT REPORT.
UM, WE CANER I CAN, I CAN DEFINITELY ADD SOME REFERENCES TO THAT, ESPECIALLY IN THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER WHERE WE REFERENCE OTHER, UH, RECENT PLANNING EFFORTS OR RELATED PLANNING DOCUMENTS.
UM, I THINK THE ONLY QUESTION I HEARD THERE THAT I CAN RESPOND TO WAS, UM, THE REQUEST TO ADD ST.
VINCENT'S TO SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.
AND, UM, THAT IS SOMETHING CURRENTLY, UH, WE'RE GOING OFF OF THE ENROLLMENT IN THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM IN, IN COORDINATION WITH THENO COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL, UH, ORGANIZATION.
VINCENT'S IS NOT RECEIVING OR ENROLLED IN SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS.
UM, I GUESS THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE CAN'T DO A, A WALK AUDIT THERE, BUT, UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE ALWAYS NEEDS TO BE SOME SCHOOL BUY-IN.
AND SO WE WOULD NEED STAFF AT ST.
VINCENT'S TO BE RECEPTIVE TO MEETING AND, UH, AND GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
UM, BUT AT THIS TIME, THAT'S, UH, TYPIC, THAT'S, WE'VE ONLY HEARD FROM AND, AND, UH, COLLABORATED WITH, UH, PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY.
SO, AND THAT WAS IT AS FAR AS YOUR RESPONSES.
YEAH, I THINK ALL, ALL OF THE OTHER COMMENTS ARE, ARE, UH, IT'S GREAT FEEDBACK AND, UH, GOOD STUFF FOR
ALL RIGHT, THEN LET'S MOVE BACK TO THE COMMITTEE.
AND THIS IS, UM, OUR CHANCE TO MAKE COMMENT.
YOU CAN PRESENT YOUR VIEWS, YOU CAN, UM, MAKE SOME RESPONSE.
YOU CAN, UH, SAY WHATEVER YOU FEEL IS NECESSARY TO SAY REGARDING THE A TP.
UM, AND WE'RE GOING TO, AND YOU CAN JUST TAKE THE FLOOR.
SO IF WE START DOWN HERE WITH JASON, JASON, UM, WHATEVER COMMENT YOU HAVE TO MAKE, LET'S TRY TO KEEP IT SUCCINCT, AND AGAIN, NOT REPEAT EACH OTHER, BUT PLEASE GIVE US YOUR COMMENTS REGARDING THE A TP SO THAT BJORN AND THE AUDIENCE AND ALL OF US ARE MADE AWARE.
UM, I, I GUESS I HAVE, UM, I, I'D LOVE TO SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, BEING NEW TO THE COMMITTEE, I'D LOVE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, ANY OF THE KIND OF HISTORICAL STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE.
UM, AS MUCH AS I AGREE THAT, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BACKGROUND, LIKE THE NECESSARY BACKGROUND FOR, YOU KNOW, STREET IMPROVEMENTS IS GERMANE TO THIS, TO THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
I'M TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER HOW THAT, UM,
[01:20:04]
I GUESS WHEN I LOOK AT THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, I, I THINK ABOUT THINGS LIKE ACCESSIBILITY AND SAFETY AS A PERSON THAT USES, UM, THE STREETS, LIKE GREENING YES, IS IMPORTANT.HOWEVER, I SEE, UM, THE, THE SET OF PROBLEMS AS KIND OF DISTINCT.
LIKE, I WANT BEAUTIFUL STREETS AND I WANT SUSTAINABILITY.
BUT WHEN I'M THINKING ABOUT, UM, AND, AND, AND OF COURSE THERE'S THE QUESTION OF, YOU KNOW, THERE'S KIND OF THE DUAL PURPOSE QUESTION OF SLOWING DOWN AUTOMOBILE, AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC AND PLANTING TREES AND MAKING THINGS, UM, SLOWER AND MORE SUSTAINABLE.
I'M JUST, I'M TRYING TO PARSE AND NOT PUSHING BACK AT ALL.
I'M JUST TRYING TO PARSE HOW SOLVING LOGISTICAL PROBLEMS OF, YOU KNOW, LAYOUT AND WAY FINDING AND MAINTENANCE AND, UH, ACCESSIBILITY AND SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY ELSE USING THE STREETS.
I, I'M JUST TRYING TO COMBINE IN MY HEAD HOW, UM, HOW THIS STUFF WORKS.
AND I'D LOVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW, OFFLINE ABOUT HOW SOMETHING LIKE A, THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THE GREENING CO YEAH.
COEXIST, UM, BECAUSE THEY, THEY FEEL LIKE IT, IT, THEY'RE EQUALLY IMPORTANT, BUT THEY FEEL LIKE SEPARATE KIND OF BUCKETS OF SOLVABLE PROBLEMS. UM, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S MY COMMENT.
UM, YEAH, NO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.
I'M JUST TRYING TO ABSORB WHAT'S BEEN DONE HISTORICALLY AND HOW WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, INTO MAKING, YOU KNOW, A SUSTAINABLE, SAFER, UH, MORE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE AND OTHER, UM, AND, AND HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE CITY FOR THE FUTURE.
I'M SORRY THAT WAS VERY HARD BEING NEW ON THE COMMITTEE AND IT'S
HOWEVER, FRANK HAS BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE FOR A WHILE, SO FRANK, IT'S YOUR TURN.
UM, AND, UH, I'D BE HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT, I, I HAD SOME THOUGHTS AS YOU WERE TALKING AND WOULD WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT.
GIVE ME MY PERSPECTIVE ON THAT OFFLINE.
UM, ARE WE, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M, UH, YOU KNOW, WORKING BY THE RULES HERE.
ARE WE LIMITED TO ONE COMMENT OR CAN I JUST OKAY.
SO I'LL, I'LL MAKE IT, I'LL MAKE IT QUICK.
FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE FOLKS FROM SAFE STREETS PETALUMA, UH, FOR ALL THEIR INPUT AND ADVOCACY ON THIS.
UM, I KNOW, UH, IT, THIS MEANS A GREAT DEAL TO, YOU KNOW, THIS GROUP.
UH, AND I PERSONALLY HAVE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL FROM YOUR PARTNERSHIP, SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU THE RECOGNITION THAT YOU DESERVE.
UM, I ALSO, UH, THANK YOU VERONICA, YOU AND I HAVEN'T MET.
UM, BUT, UH, MAYBE WE HAVE, BUT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, I READ YOUR COMMENTS BEFORE THIS CAME TO THE, UH, THE COUNCIL AND I ECHOED YOUR COMMENTS DURING, UH, YOU KNOW, DURING THE COUNCIL COMMENTS.
AND I WOULD ECHO THEM AS WELL.
I DO THINK WE NEED TO, UM, THINK AS, AS YOU KNOW, STREET PROJECTS ARE A BIG DEAL AND GETTING THEM RIGHT, THE, THE, THE, UM, THE PENALTY FOR GETTING THEM WRONG IS 50 YEARS OF A REALLY BAD STREET.
AND SO GETTING IT RIGHT, UM, WHETHER THAT MEANS INCORPORATING SAFETY AND GREEN AND ALL OF THAT STUFF, I THINK IS, IS CRITICAL.
UM, UH, MOVING ON, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IMPLE IMPLEMENTATION, IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE IS AMPLE SUPPORT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN OUR TOWN RIGHT NOW, RIGHT? THERE'S SUPPORT FOR IT ON COUNCIL.
UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, BUT A LOT OF THE WORK THAT THE A TP IS DEPENDENT ON, IF WE THINK ABOUT SOME OF THE BIG BIKE PROJECTS, OR NOT, NOT BIKE PROJECTS, BUT SOME OF THE BIG PROJECTS THAT WE THINK ABOUT, UH, AS, AS WE'RE BUILDING OUT THE A TP INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, ARE DEPENDENT ON, UM, YOU KNOW, LARGE CIP PAVING PROJECTS, RIGHT? LIKE, COPPERFIELD'S NOT GONNA GET DONE UNTIL WE REDO THAT STREET.
UM, AND A LOT OF THOSE PROJECTS HAVE A LONG HORIZON.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF THE A TP WORK THAT WE CAN'T, THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO UNTIL SOME OF THOSE CIP PROJECTS COME ALONG.
AND SO I WANT TO ENCOURAGE US, UM,
[01:25:01]
TO BE VIGILANT THAT WE ARE GOING AFTER THE PROJECTS THAT WE CAN GET DONE, RIGHT? WE NEED TO PUSH AND GET THOSE CIP PROJECTS DONE.UM, BUT WE NEED TO, UM, REALLY BE, UH, TAKE A, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE AND TRY TO GET STUFF DONE, UM, AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.
I'VE HEARD THAT FROM THE GROUP, AND I AGREE WITH IT.
UM, I, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA BE, I'M GONNA GO ON THE RECORD.
I HAVE A, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A SON WHO RIDES AN E-BIKE, AND I THINK MY, MY SON ON HIS E-BIKE IS A WONDERFUL THING.
HE SPENDS A LOT LESS TIME INDOORS PLAYING GAMES, AND A LOT MORE TIME OUTSIDE PLAYING WITH HIS FRIENDS.
AND THE E-BIKE HAS BEEN A, A, A, A, YOU KNOW, AN AN IMPORTANT PART OF THAT.
HE CAN GET HIMSELF TO HIS BASEBALL PRACTICES, HE CAN GET HIMSELF TO HIS BASEBALL GAMES.
I, ON SUNDAY, I HOSTED, LIKE, I WAS THE LEADER OF OUR, UH, OF THE PETALUMA VALLEY LITTLE LEAGUES, UH, ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT.
AND WE WERE THERE ALL DAY LONG WITH HUNDREDS OF KIDS AND HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES.
AND THE, AND THE BIKE RACK THAT THE CITY PUT IN WAS OVERFLOWING, UH, WITH THESE THINGS.
AND, AND, AND I DIDN'T SEE IN, IN, IN THAT ENTIRE DAY.
AND IT, UH, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T WITNESS A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING, RIGHT? SO I SAW PEOPLE, KIDS USING THESE DEVICES IN RESPONSIBLE WAYS.
NOW, THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THE CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE ARE RAISING ARE NOT REAL.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE REAL.
AND I SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M SEEING GROWING RESENTMENT FOR THIS.
LIKE, I VIEW THAT THE KIDS ON E-BIKES AS A SOLUTION TO OUR CLIMATE PROBLEM.
MY HOPE IS THAT MY SON, WHEN HE TURNS 16, HE'S ALREADY SO USED TO GETTING ANYWHERE HE WANTS TO GO SAFELY ON HIS E-BIKE, THAT THE LAST THING HE WOULD WANT TO DO IS GET IN A CAR.
LIKE MY HOPE FOR THAT I THINK IS REAL.
AND, UM, BUT IN ORDER TO, BUT THE CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE ARE RAISING ARE ALSO REAL.
WHEN SOMEONE IS WALKING ALONG THE EASTERN TRAIL OR THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL, AND SOMEONE COMES UP FROM BEHIND THEM ON AN E-BIKE WITH NO BELL, AND THEY ZIP PAST THEM AT 15 MILES AN HOUR, IT'S SCARY.
AND, UM, AND, AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE, YOU KNOW, MY HOPE IS THAT WE CAN RECOGNIZE THAT AND THAT WE CAN REALLY LEAN INTO, UM, THIS, UM, A, A, A STRONG EFFORT AND BE A LEADER ON HOW TO EDUCATE OUR YOUTH TO OPERATE THESE THINGS SAFELY AND TO BE AWARE THAT WHEN YOU RIDE BY SOMEONE ON A TRAIL, UH, AT A QUICK PACE, THAT IT SCARES THEM.
AND THAT WE NEED TO BE SMARTER AND MORE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THAT.
I THINK OUR CHILDREN ARE REALLY INTELLIGENT.
WE HAVE REALLY GOOD SCHOOLS, AND I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN, UM, DO A BETTER JOB AS THESE DEVICES BECOME MORE PREVALENT BECAUSE THEY WILL BECOME MORE PREVALENT.
UM, SO, SO TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN ADD TEETH TO OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN TO REALLY HAVE A STRONG FOCUS ON THIS EDUCATION AND, UH, AND, AND ETIQUETTE, UM, I BELIEVE THAT THAT CAN GO A LONG WAY TO HELPING SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, UH, AND ASSU UH, PEOPLE'S CONCERNS AND IMPROVE SAFETY.
WE WANT TO IMPROVE SAFETY ON OUR TRAILS.
I'LL STEP DOWN OFF MY SOAPBOX.
THANK YOU, FRANK, BY THE WAY, ADAM.
UM, A FEW COMMENTS, AND I'LL TRY TO SUBMIT THESE ASAP INTO, UH, FORMAL LETTER.
UM, SO FOR ONE, I THINK WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT SOME OF
[01:30:01]
THE ISSUES OF, YOU KNOW, HOW TO DEFINE EXACTLY WHAT STREET, OR SORRY, WHAT BICYCLE FACILITY TYPE IS APPROPRIATE ON EACH ROAD.AND KIND OF FIFTH STREET COMES UP AS AN EXAMPLE OF A GREENWAY.
WHY COULD WE ONLY KEEP THAT AS A GREEN WAY, NOT HAVE LIKE A PROTECTED LANE SOMEHOW IN THERE? AND THAT GOT ME THINKING AROUND, YEAH, JUST SOME TYPE OF TRANSPARENT FORMULA THAT WE CAN KIND OF PUT INTO.
I'M NOT SURE IF IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE A TP OR THE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS ARE WHERE, BUT SOMETHING THAT LOOKS AT KIND OF LIKE STREET WIDTH, UM, UH, OBSERVE SPEED, UM, TRAFFIC VOLUME FOR WHATEVER TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, BICYCLE EQUIVALENT THERE MIGHT BE FOR USING STRAVA OR SOMETHING.
UM, BUT I THINK, YEAH, WHAT IT ALSO COMES DOWN TO IS JUST KIND OF THE PARKING ON STREET PARKING FULLNESS.
SO, UM, I THINK YOU HAD MENTIONED BONA AT ONE POINT THAT DENVER HAS SOMETHING THAT SAYS, IF YOU KNOW, LESS THAN 50% OF BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET ARE, UM, ARE BEING UNUSED, THAT DURING A NIGHTTIME SURVEY, THEN IT WOULD MAKE SENSE THAT, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE PARKED CARS COULD JUST GO ONTO ONE SIDE OF THE STREET, AND THEN THE REMAINING, UM, ON STREET PARKING COULD BE USED FOR, UH, FOR SAY, A PROTECTED BICYCLE LANE.
SO, UH, WHERE THAT ALSO THEN COMES INTO KIND OF A CHALLENGE THOUGH, IS, UM, MAYBE ONE LAST FACTOR IS, IS LIKE THE STREET CROWN.
I HAD TO LOOK UP THAT TERM, SO KIND OF LIKE HOW CURVY IT IS.
SO I RIDE A TRICYCLE, UM, AND IT DOES NOT DO WELL ON THE SIDES
UM, AND IDEALLY, YOU KNOW, I SEE A LOT OF, UH, ALL, ALL AGES RIDING TRICYCLES THESE DAYS.
UM, SO THAT WOULD BE JUST ONE OTHER CONSIDERATION.
HOW MIGHT THAT LOOK? SO IN TERMS OF LIKE FIFTH STREET, NOT THAT I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR IT, BUT YOU KNOW, HAVING LIKE A CENTER LANE PROTECTED, UM, BICYCLE LANE MIGHT BE MORE APPROPRIATE RATHER THAN PUTTING PEOPLE KIND OF ON A SLOPED, UM, SIDE OF THE STREET.
SO YEAH, SOME TYPE OF FORMULA AND MAYBE WE CAN WORK THAT OUT KIND OF IN OUR, UM, AD HOC, UM, TO THINK MORE ABOUT THAT.
IN TERMS OF MAPS FOR THE, UM, FOR THE A TP, I THINK THERE'S TWO THAT IN, IN ADDITION TO KIND OF HAVING EXISTING AND THEN PROPOSED, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THAT KIND OF GETS TO THIS POINT THAT I JUST HEAR SO MUCH THAT PEOPLE WANNA BE ABLE TO GET ACROSS TOWN WITHOUT HAVING TO INTERACT WITH, YOU KNOW, VEHICLES IN A WAY WHERE THEY'RE RIDING RIGHT ALONGSIDE THEM, THAT THERE'S SOME LEVEL OF PROTECTION.
UM, AND I THINK THAT GETS TO THE HEART OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES.
SO TRYING TO LOOK AT WHAT OUR PROPOSED NETWORK IS, AND THEN FIND OUT WHERE ARE THOSE GAPS THAT, UM, THAT EXIST IN THAT NETWORK TO REALLY BE ABLE TO CONNECT, SAY LIKE SCHOOLS, SHOPPING CENTERS, OUR MAJOR TRANSIT CENTERS, WHAT WOULD THAT PROTECTED, UM, BIKEWAY NETWORK LOOK LIKE? AND WHERE THEN ARE THOSE KIND OF LIMITATIONS? LET'S SAY WE WANT IT ON FIFTH STREET, BUT ON STREET PARKING IS AN ISSUE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO YOU CAN SAY LIKE, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE THAT, BUT HERE ARE THE CHALLENGES FOR MAKING THAT HAPPEN ON THIS STREET.
MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, IT'S JUST GONNA BE ON STREET PARKING, IS THE REASON WHY YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT, UM, PROTECTED NETWORK.
BUT HAVING SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES THAT KIND OF, I THINK GETS TO THAT ASPIRATION OF WHAT WE REALLY WANNA BE ABLE TO GET, UM, AND THEN BE ABLE TO KIND OF ADDRESS A LOT OF THESE CONGESTION ISSUES WITH, YOU KNOW, KIDS CAN RIDE THEIR BIKES TO SCHOOL ACROSS TOWN, AND WE DON'T WANNA HAVE TO WORRY, PARENTS DON'T HAVE TO PICK THEM UP.
THERE'S BIKE TRAINS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, CONNECTING ALL OF THEM.
SO THE SECOND MAP I MENTIONED IN THE PAST ALSO IS WANTING, TRYING TO DO ONE THAT FOCUSED ON SHOPPING CENTER ROUTES, ALSO ASPIRATIONAL, BUT JUST IDENTIFYING THAT IF WE DO WANT PEOPLE TO MAKE ALL OF THEIR TRIPS, GETTING GROCERIES IS FUNDAMENTAL.
AND SO HOW DO YOU INTERACT WITH PARKED CARS, MOVING CARS, YOU KNOW, FOLKS TRYING TO GET IN AND OUT IN THESE HUGE, UM, UH, PARKING LOTS OF THE SHOPPING CENTER.
SO ADDING SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
UM, I THINK, YEAH, GETTING TO SIGNAGE, I THINK IT JUST HAD A LOT OF MORE RECENTLY KIND OF BAD EXPERIENCES OF TRYING TO CROSS AT A CROSSWALK, UM, EITHER ON A BIKE OR, OR, UM, WALKING AND JUST HAVING CARS BLOW THROUGH.
SO SIGNAGE THAT'S VERY SPECIFIC, NOT THAT LIKE, HEY, THIS IS A CROSSING, BUT SAYING YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS.
[01:35:01]
SO VERY EXPLICIT AND CLEAR.UM, AND THEN THE LAST TWO ARE KIND OF RELATED TO VISION ZERO.
SO, UM, FOLKS KNOW I'M THE, ESSENTIALLY THE COORDINATOR FOR THE COUNTYWIDE VISION ZERO EFFORT, SO I HEAR A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, VERY TUNED TO THE COMMENTS ON, ON THAT.
FOR VI VISION ZERO EDUCATION, UM, WE'RE WORKING AND HOPEFULLY MORE IN THE FUTURE WE'LL HAVE GREATER FUNDING TO TRY TO, UM, TO MORE MARKETING AROUND VISION ZERO.
NOBODY OUTSIDE OF THESE CIRCLES KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS.
SO REALLY TRYING TO GET TO THAT MESSAGE, UM, FARTHER AND WIDER AND TRYING TO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITIES, RATHER THAN JUST SAYING, IT'S JUST ON YOU, IT'S JUST ON US.
UM, AND THEN IN TERMS OF THE VISION ZERO ANNUAL REPORT, THERE'S SOMETHING, A PROJECT ALSO THAT WE'RE WORKING ON, UH, THAT'S ESSENTIALLY GONNA BE LIKE A, IT'S A PROGRESS METRIC TRACKER THAT'S BASED OFF THE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN.
SO THIS IS A WAY THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE ANNUAL UPDATES ON THESE DIFFERENT, UM, UH, PROGRESS METRICS IN OUR COUNTYWIDE VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN.
IF YOU'RE NOT SURE WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT THE REPORT.
THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT STUFF ALL AROUND, UM, KIND OF SAFETY, UM, UM, AND ACTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO THAT COULD BE A WAY TO KIND OF SAVE SOME OF THAT STAFF TIME, UM, THAT'S BEING DISCUSSED.
OUR HOPE IS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE KIND OF LIKE AN EXPORTABLE PDF FOR EACH, UM, CITY THAT CAN REPORT ON, SAY, HOW MANY BIKE PATHS HAVE BEEN MADE, HOW MANY CROSSINGS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED OVER THE PAST YEAR, SO WE CAN HAVE THAT ACCESSIBLE TO, TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
SO AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE TO GET THAT SPECIFIC, BUT JUST SAYING SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT OF WORK WITH S-C-T-C-A AND PARTNERSHIP, UM, ON, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO REPORT ON VISION ZERO ACTION ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
SO, UM, AND THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS.
I REALLY FEEL HEARD, UM, THROUGH THIS PROCESS, UH, AND I HOPE THAT I KNOW THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE.
UM, THE A TP IS NEVER GONNA PLEASE EVERYONE, AND, UH, IT'S ALSO LIKE NOT A BINDING DIRECTIVE THAT LAYS OUT WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
IT'S IT'S GUIDING DOCUMENT, RIGHT? SO, UM, YOU KNOW, LET'S JUST GET IT OUT THERE, PUBLISH IT SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE IMPLEMENTATION
UM, I'D MUCH RATHER SPEND OUR TIME REVIEWING PROJECT BY PROJECT SAYING, YOU KNOW, MOVE THIS CURB, PUT A TREE THERE, UH, CHANGE THE, THOSE, UM, VERTICAL ELEMENTS FROM PLASTIC TO CONCRETE, UM, ON SPECIFIC STREETS.
UM, I, I THINK THAT'S, UH, WHAT I'D LIKE TO SPEND MY TIME ON.
SO THE PLAN'S GREAT AND, UH, IT WILL BE A GOOD GUIDE GUIDING DOCUMENT.
UM, BUT I, I VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD TO IT BEING PUBLISHED.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, AND AS WE DO THEN MOVE FORWARD, UM, YEAH, I REALLY WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO, UM, TO DREAM BIG.
DON'T, DON'T SETTLE, UH, QUICK BUILD PROJECTS ARE, ARE COOL.
UM, YEAH, I LOVE LIKE LITTLE, YOU KNOW, ROUNDABOUT THINGS THAT SHOW PEOPLE WHAT WHAT IT COULD BE LIKE.
UH, BUT AS HAS BEEN MENTIONED, UM, IF YOU, IF YOU ARE GONNA START SPENDING SIX OR SEVEN OR MORE FIGURES, UH, ON PROJECTS, IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE THERE FOR 50 YEARS.
SO WE WANNA REALLY BE AMBITIOUS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, A REALLY GOOD PROJECT IS NOT NECESSARILY GONNA COST A LOT MORE THAN A REALLY BAD ONE.
WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON BAD INFRASTRUCTURE ALREADY.
UM, I, I'VE READ ALL THE COMMENTS ON ALL OF THIS AND WELL, FIRST I WANNA START WITH LIKE, I THINK NO ONE LIKES CARS, LIKE PEOPLE LIKE THEIR OWN CAR, BUT IT'S NEVER THAT YOU SEE PEOPLE OF LIKE, OH MY GOD, I'M SO GLAD I'M WITH ALL THESE CARS HERE IN THE STREET.
PEOPLE LIKE THEIR OWN CAR, NOT CARS IN GENERAL.
UM, I ALSO WANNA SAY THAT I AGREE WITH MOST OF THE COMMENTS, AND I ESPECIALLY AGREE WITH THE COMMENT THAT WE SHOULDN'T BUILD THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FEW BIKES THAT ARE RIDING OUT THERE.
I THINK WE SHOULD BUILD THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL THE BIKES THAT WILL RIDE OUT THERE.
WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHERE WE WANNA BE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S, IF YOU LOOK, YOU NEED TO SCALE IT.
LIKE, IF YOU LOOK AT LIKE VISION ZERO, IT'S A VISION, IT'S NOT VISION.
IT'S VISION ZERO, AND IT'S A, IT'S A GOAL THAT'S ACHIEVABLE, BUT WE
[01:40:01]
HAVE TO DO THINGS DIFFERENT IF WE WANNA HAVE A DIFFERENT OUTCOME.SO I WANNA ENCOURAGE US TO LIKE, THINK BIG AND GO FOR IT.
LIKE, DO WE WANNA DO IT OR NOT? LIKE GO FOR IT.
UM, SO SPECIFICALLY TO THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, I AGREE WITH, I THINK THAT WAS WILLIAM'S COMMENT ON LIKE THE WHEREVER FEASIBLE, I WOULD SCRATCH THAT AND MAKE IT LIKE, YES, LET'S DO THAT.
UM, I THINK THE NO TURN ON RED, WE COULD JUST LIKE DO THIS ACROSS THE CITY BECAUSE THERE'S NO REAL BENEFIT TO IT.
TO HAVE A RIGHT TO TURN ON RED WOULD MAKE IT SAFER.
UM, BUT I THINK THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY LIES, AND THEN THAT WAS MENTIONED A FEW TIMES TONIGHT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS, AND I THINK WE COULD REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE THERE.
AND I WANNA, THIS IS WHY I ASKED ABOUT THE SPEED LIMIT EARLIER, RIGHT? I'M FROM GERMANY, AS YOU CAN HEAR, UM, WHICH IS THE LAND OF THE ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE.
LIKE, WE, LIKE CARS, OUR CAR, WE DON'T DO VALET PARKING BECAUSE WE WOULD NEVER LET ANYONE DRIVE OUR CAR.
LIKE WE ARE OBSESSED WITH CARS.
AND STILL WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S CALLED
AND WE HAVE THAT REGULARLY IN ALL TOWNS.
THAT'S FOR RESIDENTIAL AREAS, AND CARS ARE GUESTS THERE.
THE SPEED LIMIT IS SIX MILES PER HOUR, BUT IF YOU'RE GOING SIX MILES PER HOUR, YOU KIND OF FEEL LIKE SPEEDING.
AND IF THAT'S POSSIBLE IN GERMANY WITH THE CAR OBSESSION, THEN I THINK THAT SHOULD BE DOABLE HERE AS WELL.
SO THAT WAS MY QUESTION OF LIKE, SO OKAY, WHO DO I HAVE TO TALK TO THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT SOMETHING LIKE THIS? AND IF THERE'S A RULE ON THE CALIFORNIA LEVEL THAT PREVENTS THAT, THEN IT'S LIKE, LOOK AT WHO MADE THAT RULE AND HOW DO WE CHANGE THAT
THEY'RE GREENER, THEY'RE QUIETER, YOUR PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES ON THOSE STREETS, RIGHT? IT'S A BETTER WAY OF LIVING.
AND YOU STILL CAN DRIVE YOUR CAR ALL THE WAY TO YOUR DRIVEWAY AT SIX MILES PER HOUR.
UM, SO I JUST WANNA LIKE ENCOURAGE US TO BE BOLD AND ACTUALLY GO FOR CHANGE AND GO FOR THAT VISION ZERO AND A DIFFERENT FUTURE.
UM, FIRST I WOULD JUST WANNA THANK YOU BJORN AND THE STAFF THAT WORKED ON THIS.
IT'S SUCH A BIG PROJECT AND ALSO ALL OF, UM, THE CONTRIBUTOR SAFE STREETS.
I KNOW THAT YOU ALL WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN LOTS OF FEEDBACK AND, UM, LOTS OF INPUT, SO THANK YOU.
UM, AND THE AD HOC COMMITTEE, THIS COMMITTEE THAT WORKED SO HARD ON IT, UM, I'M COMING IN AT THE TAIL END, SO I KIND OF GET TO
SO, UM, I DO REALLY APPRECIATE AND WANNA RECOGNIZE THAT.
UM, I HAD A COUPLE LIKE QUESTIONS ABOUT SOME OF THE MAPPING, BUT, OR THE MAPS, UM, YOU ANSWERED THOSE QUESTIONS AND I'M GLAD TO SEE LIKE AN EXISTING BIKE NETWORK MAP BEING ADDED.
UM, I ALSO JUST WANTED TO KIND OF GO BACK TO OUR LAST MEETING, WHICH WAS THE JOINT MEETING WITH, UM, PLANNING.
I AM SO GLAD THAT WE HAD THAT MEETING.
I FEEL LIKE IT WAS VERY PRODUCTIVE AND VERY EYE-OPENING.
WE HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT VOICES.
I IN PARTICULAR JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT FROM A MOBILITY DEVICE USER ON HAVING MORE FOCUS AND MORE, UM, REALLY TARGETED SPECIFIC LANGUAGE, UM, FOR ACCESSIBILITY AND, YOU KNOW, ALL AGES, ALL ABILITIES.
IT'S GREAT TO JUST HAVE THAT REMINDER RIGHT IN OUR FACE.
UM, SO I REALLY APPRECIATED THE COMMENTS THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, FROM, UH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION ALSO ON GREENING DESIGN STANDARDS AND PRACTICES.
I THINK WE HAD SOME GOOD CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT LAST TIME AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME GOOD CONVERSATION, UM, TONIGHT TOO.
I THINK THAT THIS, THE A TP IS A GREAT WAY TO SNEAK IN JUST BECAUSE IT'S NOT HAPPENING IN OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AND IT'S NOT,
[01:45:01]
YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF DISHEARTENING TO HEAR THAT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE GONE TO, YOU KNOW, UM, THE CITY AND HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS AND YEAH, YEAH, SURE, LET'S DO IT, BUT IT'S NOT ACTUALLY HAPPENING.SO WHY NOT MAKE AN EFFORT TO REALLY BRING IN, YOU KNOW, ONCE THE URBAN FORESTRY PLAN AND BRING IN ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT, UM, PARTNERS AND IDEAS AND JUST HAVING, UH, REFERENCING THE EXISTING SOLUTIONS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
I MEAN, WHY DOUBLE UP ON THE WORK? BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THAT WORK HAS ALREADY HAPPENED AND IT'S ALREADY THERE AND IT IS A RESOURCE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA START SOMEWHERE.
SO, UH, I THINK ALL OF US WANT GREENER SAFER STREETS.
UM, I WOULD LOVE TO LIVE ON A SIX MILE AN HOUR STREET.
BUT, UM, I ALSO THINK THAT THE E-BIKE VERSUS MOTORBIKE DISTINCTION, ELECTRIC MOTORBIKE DISTINCTION IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
UM, I THINK THAT I WAS ACTUALLY REALLY INSPIRED BY, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER QUINT'S COMMENTS ABOUT YOUR SON AND USE JUST THE FREEDOM AND THE ACCESS THAT, UM, AN E-BIKE PROVIDES.
AND I AGREE COMPLETELY, AND I, MY HOPE IS THAT IF WE ARE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, MORE PROTECTED BIKE LANES AND SAFER BIKE LANES THAN THE E-BIKE USERS IN PARTICULAR, YOUNG PEOPLE WILL BE MORE ENCOURAGED TO USE THOSE SAFER PATHS IN THOSE SAFER SPACES.
AND THEN THERE WILL BE LESS CONFLICT WITH CARS AND PEDESTRIANS.
AND SO I THINK TO YOUR POINT, YOU KNOW, BUILD IT, BUILD WHERE WE WANT TO BE.
UM, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT STATEMENT FOR, FOR THIS PLAN.
NOT JUST FOR WHO IS USING RIGHT NOW, BUT FOR WHO WE WANT ON OUR STREETS IN THE FUTURE.
AND THAT'S OUR CHILDREN, THAT'S OUR GRANDCHILDREN, THAT'S OUR GRANDPARENTS, THAT'S EVERYONE.
SO, UM, YEAH, I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED FOR THIS TO GET GOING AND, UM, AGAIN, I APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK THAT WENT INTO IT.
THANK EVERYONE FOR ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS.
UM, AND I'LL CLOSE THE COMMENT SECTION WITH MY COMMENTS, BUT I, I MEAN, I COULD GO ON FOREVER, SO I'M JUST SORT OF, I PICKED OUT THINGS THAT I HEARD, UM, BY, UH, WRITTEN COMMENTS.
I WENT TO MOST OF THE MEETINGS WHERE WE WERE REVIEWING THE A TP FOR COUNCIL FOR TRANSIT, ET CETERA, AND I TOOK NOTES.
AND SO FROM ALL OF THAT AND EVERYTHING THAT PETE AND BRUCE HAD BEEN SAYING TO US, UH, IN ADDITION, UH, I JUST CAME UP WITH A RANDOM LIST OF THINGS THAT I AGREE WITH VERY STRONGLY.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS THE SIDEWALK GRANT PROGRAM.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE THAT MOVE.
REASON BEING IS THAT I AM A WALKER AND I WALK, UM, ABOUT 30 MILES PLUS PER WEEK.
AND I AM ON SIDEWALKS IN THIS TOWN THAT ARE FRIGHTFUL.
I MENTIONED THAT I WAS ON THE ADOBE TRAIL YESTERDAY AND I ALMOST FELL INTO, UM, TWO DIFFERENT HOLES THAT ARE CAUSED BY, UM, THE TILE THAT THEY USED AS TEMPORARY.
I THINK IT WAS TEMPORARY, THE, UH, TEMPORARY SURFACE TO, UM, A PIECE OF THE, THE ADOBE TRAIL.
ANYWAY, IT'S JUST, I WOULD LOVE FOR US TO FOCUS AND PUSH VERY HARD A SIDEWALK GRANT PROGRAM AND MAKE IT WORK AND MAKE IT ENFORCEABLE.
UM, THE NEXT ITEM, AND THESE AREN'T IN ANY PRIORITY ORDER, I WANT US TO KEEP OUR, WE JUST STARTED OUR CONNECTION WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PETALUMA SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND I WOULD LOVE IT IF WE WOULD EXPAND THAT TO, UH, AND I KNOW IT'S A SOUTH SAFE ROUTES FOR SCHOOL GROUP THAT IS, IS OVERSEEING THIS NOW, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT EDUCATION SAFETY COMPONENT OPEN.
WE NEED TO TALK TO THE SUPERINTENDENTS, UH, THE SITE COUNCILS FROM THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS, GET BUY-IN FROM THEM, THAT THEY NEED TO HELP US MAKE THIS PLACE A SAFER PLACE FOR OUR KIDS, UH, AND OUR YOUNG FAMILIES.
SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP OUR CONNECTION WITH THESE, UM, WITH THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS AND EXPAND THE, THE ONES THAT WE, WE CHAT WITH ALSO.
UM, I AM IN A FULL AGREEMENT THAT WE NEED, UM, A FULL-TIME TRANSPORTATION PLANNER.
BJORN IS AWESOME AND HE'S WONDERFUL, BUT HE'S NOT OURS A HUNDRED PERCENT.
I DON'T DUNNO, ACTUALLY AM I ACTUALLY AM A FULL-TIME TRANSPORTATION PLANNER.
NOW THE ISSUE IS I'M, BUT ARE YOU, ARE YOU CURRENTLY ON PART-TIME?
[01:50:01]
ARE YOU JUST DEALING WITH BIKE AND PED? UH, ALL, ALL TRANSPORTATION.AHUH, BUT EVERY TRANSPORTATION I WANT FOR, I WANT YOU FOR BIKE AND PED AND FOR THE OTHER AS WELL.
EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW AS A CITY, EVERYTHING WE TOUCH HAS AN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION COMPONENT WHEN IT COMES TO ANYTHING STREET RELATED.
SO, WELL, WE ARE VERY THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR US AND WE JUST WANNA ENSURE THAT WE GET MORE OF YOU NEXT YEAR.
UM, LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE? PEDESTRIAN OVERCROSSING OF 1 0 1, UM, WHOSE NAME I CAN'T REMEMBER OFF, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD IS NOT A DA COMPLIANT.
AND I KNOW THAT WE ALL KNOW THAT THOSE OF US WHO HAVE ACTUALLY WALKED ACROSS THE PEDESTRIAN OVERCROSSING OF 1 0 1, IT NEEDS WORK AND IT NEEDS NEGOTIATION WITH CALTRANS.
I THINK THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ACTUALLY OWN IT.
UM, BUT I'M JUST EVERY, I WAS IN CHICO LAST WEEKEND AND THEY JUST PUT IN A, A BIKE PED BRIDGE THAT WENT AND GOES ACROSS 20TH STREET, ONE OF THEIR VERY, VERY BUSY STREETS.
AND I WAS JUST LIKE, GOD, IF CHICO CAN DO IT, WHY CAN'T WE? ANYWAY, THAT REALLY DOES NEED HELP.
UM, I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE MAXIMUM SPEED ON TRAILS.
UM, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT REDUCED TO REDUCED AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT NOTICED SIGNED, UM, INCORPORATION OF CITY THREAD REPORT IN OUR APPENDIX.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE AN AWESOME ADDITION TO THE APPENDIX.
AS FAR AS MAP GOES, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MAP THAT IS ALL AGES AND ABILITIES PLUS PEDESTRIAN PLUS TRAILS, AND THAT BE A MAP THAT I COULD USE.
'CAUSE I, IN FACT, MOST PEOPLE I KNOW COULD USE IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, BUT I WOULD LOVE IT IF WE WOULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I THINK I'LL CLOSE WITH THE FACT THAT KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS A TP IS A LIVING DOCUMENT.
IT'S LIKE ANYTHING EL NO, NOT LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, BUT IT'S GOT ITS OWN PARTICULARITIES IN THAT IT, WE CAN ADD TO IT AS WE MOVE.
IT ISN'T A WINNER, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT A STOPPER TODAY, NO MATTER WHAT WE FORGET TOMORROW, WE CAN GO, OH, WE NEED TO FIX THAT AND WE CAN FIX THAT.
SO IT'S, THAT'S A NICE THING TO KNOW THAT, THAT THIS OBJECT THAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IS A LIVE DOCUMENT, NOT A SET IN STONE.
I'VE ALMOST GOTTEN RUN OVER TWICE LATELY ON, ON THAT ONE.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL JUST CLOSE BECAUSE I HONESTLY COULD TALK FOR ANOTHER HOUR ABOUT PIECES THAT I THINK ARE ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.
I VERY MUCH APPRECIATED, UM, THE COMMITTEE'S COMMENTS TONIGHT, AND I THINK BJORN APPRECIATES WHAT WE, WHAT WE'VE GIVEN HIM SO FAR.
IF WE HAVE ANY FURTHER COMMENTS, MAY WE EMAIL THOSE TO YOU, BJORN? YES, ABSOLUTELY.
AND REFER TO, UH, WILLIAM'S EMAIL FOR A HELPFUL FORMAT.
YEAH, HE DID A GREAT JOB OF OUTLINING PAGE NUMBER, ACTION ITEM.
VERY EASY TO READ HIS COMMENTS AND KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE IS REFERRING TO.
I'LL KNOW EXACTLY WHO TO GO TO.
OKAY, WELL WITH THAT, UM, BJORN, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU NEED FROM US? UM, WELL, BECAUSE, BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED MACKENZIE, I DON'T WANNA OPEN THAT CAN OF WORMS, BUT, UM, WE WILL BE COMING BACK WITH THE FINAL, UH, 1 0 1 CROSSINGS STUDY, WHICH WILL INCLUDE NEAR AND LONG-TERM RECOMMENDATIONS AT THOSE FOUR LOCATIONS WE LOOKED AT.
SO THAT WAS, UM, CORONA, RAINIER, UH, LYNCH CREEK TRAIL AT NORTH MCDOWELL, AND THEN MACKENZIE AND I WILL SAY, UM, MACKENZIE'S BEEN AN INTERESTING ONE BECAUSE YES, IT IS CALTRANS OWNED, BUT, UH, IF WE WANT TO REPLACE THAT STRUCTURE, WE'VE GOTTA COME UP WITH THE MONEY.
SO, UM, THEY DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE ANY PLANS TO REPLACE IT.
IT IS SEISMICALLY SOUND, SO THERE'S NOTHING TRIGGERING THEIR NEED TO REPLACE IT.
UM, A DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVE HAD INTERNALLY THAT I'LL JUST KIND OF PLANT THE SEED FOR YOU ALL TONIGHT BECAUSE THIS WILL COME, WE'LL COME BACK AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS.
OUR FEELING IS THAT IT MAY BE WORTHWHILE, UH, IF WE DO WANT TO PURSUE, UM, UH, A NEW FREEWAY CROSSING, OUR FEELING IS THAT IT MIGHT BE MORE WORTHWHILE TO BUILD A NEW CROSSING SOMEWHERE ELSE THAN TO SPEND ALL OF THAT MONEY REPLACING AN EXISTING YET IN YET INACCESSIBLE STRUCTURE.
UH, THE, THE IDEA THERE IS AT LEAST YOU WOULD GET TWO, ARE YOU TALKING COFFEE CROSSING? NO, I'M JUST LOCATION TBD.
BUT THE, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND TO REPLACE THAT STRUCTURE IS THE SAME YOU
[01:55:01]
WOULD SPEND TO BUILD A NEW ONE SOMEWHERE ELSE.SO, UH, IT'S, YOU KNOW, UH, BASICALLY THE DIFFERENCE IS, OR THE DECISION IS DO YOU WANT TWO FREEWAY CROSSINGS, ONE THAT IS ACCESSIBLE AND ONE THAT'S INACCESSIBLE, OR DO YOU WANT ONE FREEWAY CROSSING THAT IS ACCESSIBLE? UM, AND AND OUR FEELING IS THAT THERE WOULD BE A GREATER MOBILITY BENEFIT FOR THE CITY IF WE WERE INSTEAD TO POTENTIALLY PURSUE A NEW FREEWAY CROSSING THAN TO REPLACE THAT ONE.
AND AT LEAST JUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHAT WE HAVE THERE.
UM, WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN.
WE'VE, WE'VE, YOU KNOW, REMOVED THE BALLARDS, WE'VE REMOVED THE GATES, WE'VE ADDED THE CURB RAMP WITH, UH, ON THE EAST SIDE.
UH, SO WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE IT AS ACCESSIBLE AS POSSIBLE UP TO THIS POINT.
BUT, UH, OTHERWISE, UH, ANYTHING BEYOND THAT WILL REQUIRE FULL REPLACEMENT AT A COST OF $20 MILLION.
SO MAY, MAYBE THE ONE THING WE COULD DO, UM, NOT REPLACE IT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE DOWN SLOPE THAT GOES TOWARDS TARGET, THAT'S AN IDEAL PLACE FOR SKI JUMPERS ON ELECTRIC BIKES.
OR SOMETHING TO SLOW PEOPLE AT THE BOTTOM.
SOMETHING TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT SAFER.
AND YOU KNOW, I REALIZE IT'S NOT A DA BUT WE DO HAVE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL, WHICH IS, SO THAT CAN SUFFICE CURRENTLY.
AND DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? NO, I, I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DISCUSSION AND THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE HERE TONIGHT, UH, FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO'S CHIMED IN THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.
A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK AND, UM, UH, I'M HEARING A LOT OF THEMES WITH ALL, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THESE MEETINGS AND, UH, THROUGHOUT ALL OF THESE EMAILS.
SO, UH, I THINK WE HAVE A, A LOT OF REALLY STRONG CONSENSUS FROM OUR CITY COMMITTEE'S COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT WHAT THEY WANNA SEE IN THIS PLAN.
SO WITH THAT, UM, WE DON'T NEED A VOTE ON THIS.
UM, WE CAN CLOSE THIS ITEM AND MOVE TO OUR NEXT ITEM FOR THE EVENING.
[COMMITTEE COMMENT]
COMMENT.AND AS IT STATES, UH, IN OUR AGENDA, UM, 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, OF WHICH I THINK I INADVERTENTLY MADE A COUPLE ALREADY.
THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, AND THERE IS NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
SO IS THERE ANYBODY WHO'D LIKE TO REPORT? NOT EVERYBODY, BY THE WAY, HAS TO REPORT.
UM, IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE LIAISING AND WHAT KIND OF MEETINGS YOU'VE BEEN GOING TO LATELY.
SO IF THERE'S, JUST RAISE YOUR HAND AND WE'LL GET STARTED.
FRANK, I KNOW YOU GO TO ZILLIONS OF MEETINGS.
YEAH, I DON'T, UH, UH, I DON'T HAVE TO REPORT OUT TONIGHT.
UM, UH, I DON'T BELIEVE THERE WAS, UH, ANYTHING THAT CAME OUTTA THE LAST TRANSIT MEETING THAT WOULD BE GERMANE TO THIS.
UM, I DO, UM, UH, I DO RECALL THE LAST ITEM OR THE ITEM THAT WE, UM, HAD BEFORE US HERE ON THIS, UH, BODY REGARDING THE WAY FINDING THAT DID GO TO COUNSEL.
I'M RE LIKE WE, THAT WAS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR, RIGHT? YEAH.
SO THAT, THAT CAME TO COUNSEL AND PASSED.
UM, SO, UM, LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHICH MEANS, WHICH MEANS, UH, STAFF CAN GO FORWARD WITH THE, UM, UM, REQUESTING THE FUNDS.
EXCELLENT FOR THE, FOR THE WAY FINDING PROGRAM.
I JUST WANTED, WANTED IT OUT THERE PUBLICLY FOR ALL OF US.
ANYONE ELSE? YEAH, WILLIAM? SURE.
UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO ASK MARGIE TO CONSIDER A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM, UM, TO, TO DISCUSS SOME SPECIFIC STREET DESIGN STANDARD CHANGES.
UH, THERE'S AN EXISTING STREET DESIGN STANDARD DOCUMENT.
UM, WE CAN, UH, THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR GREENWAYS, UM, CAN APPROACH THAT FROM THE LENS OF, OF GREENWAYS, BUT ANYONE ON THE COMMITTEE CAN, UM, HAVE THEIR OWN SUGGESTIONS AND THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE PUT ON THE AGENDA TO DRIVE TOWARDS HAVING A, A CONCRETE PROPOSAL FOR WHAT CHANGES COULD BE MADE.
UM, AND THEN, UH, ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM, UH, SAME, SAME DIRECTION, BUT A DIFFERENT ITEM WOULD BE, UH, TO DISCUSS, UM, WHAT TRIGGERS IMPLEMENTATION OF STREET DESIGN STANDARDS BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE BEEN THERE SINCE 1996.
AND I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, 90% OF PETALUMA STREETS, UH, DON'T FOLLOW THEM AT ALL BECAUSE THEY,
[02:00:01]
THEY EXISTED BEFORE THEN.SO, UM, YEAH, SOME WAY OF HAVING THOSE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, UH, BE TRIGGERED, SOMETHING CODIFIED SO THAT, UM, WHATEVER SET OF CONDITIONS DETERMINED WOULD, UM, TRIGGER UPGRADES TO BE COMPLIANT WITH THE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, EITHER IN THEIR EXISTING FORM OR IN A, A MODIFIED FORM.
UH, SO THOSE TWO AGENDA ITEMS. GREAT, GREAT.
BJORN, DID YOU GET BOTH OF THOSE ADDED? THAT'S PROBABLY ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM.
EVERYBODY NEEDS TO TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE ONES WE HAVE NOW AND SEE IF WE CAN PRIORITIZE AND MAYBE EVEN LOOK AT SOME AND GO, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M SURE WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THAT.
YEAH, I'M ADDING THEM RIGHT NOW.
UM, JUST SOME UPDATES FROM RECREATION, MUSIC AND PARKS.
UM, WE ARE ACTUALLY HOPING TO USE THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN IN, UM, SOME OF OUR CONVERSATIONS, UM, IN DECIDING AND PRIORITIZING WHICH PARKS TO DESIGNATE FUNDING FOR, UM, IMPROVING FACILITIES AND, UH, REPLACING STRUCTURES AND, YOU KNOW, SO I JUST FEEL LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF CONNECTION BETWEEN WHAT THE TWO BODIES ARE DOING.
UM, YOU KNOW, PARKS THAT ARE ALONG ACCESSIBLE BIKE PATHS THAT ARE FAMILY FRIENDLY AND KID FRIENDLY, OR GONNA OBVIOUSLY BE MORE DESIRABLE TO HAVE SAFE PLACE STRUCTURES THAT OPPOSED TO A PARK THAT ISN'T REALLY ACCESSIBLE BY BIKE.
SO WE ARE WORKING ON A RIGHT NOW LIST OF, UH, WHICH PARKS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS ARE GOING TO BE UP FOR REPLACEMENTS AND ALL OF THAT.
UM, WE ALSO JUST SOME UPDATES ABOUT THE POOL IN CASE ANYONE IS CURIOUS.
IT'S BEING RE PLASTERED RIGHT NOW AND THINGS ARE GOING REALLY GREAT.
THE CITY STAFF IS WORKING SO HARD ON, UM, ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT POP UP AND, YOU KNOW, ARE NOT PLANNED FOR, BUT THEY ARE DEALING WITH THEM.
SO HOPEFULLY BY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND THEY'LL BE ON TARGET TO OPEN AGAIN AND THE RE WITH A NEWLY RE PLASTERED POOL.
THEY'RE CURRENTLY FINISHING UP AND THEN THEY HAVE TO REBALANCE ALL THE CHEMICALS AND ALL OF THAT.
BUT, UM, YEAH, SO THAT'S EXCITING.
THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS BECAUSE THAT POOL IS A MAINSTAY OF THIS COMMUNITY ABSOLUTELY.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE? YES, JASON? I JUST WANTED TO SAY, UH, TWO THINGS.
UM, AS THE PARENT OF TWO SMALL CHILDREN, UM, POOL UPDATES, WONDERFUL.
SUMMER'S COMING UP AND REALLY LIKE THIS DEMOGRAPHIC RIGHT HERE,
THE SECOND COMMENT, UM, THEY'RE JUST KIND OF, UH, TO THAT POINT, TO YOUR POINT, UM, AS THE FATHER, LIKE TWO YOUNG KIDS, WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME AT PLAYGROUNDS, ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST SIDE.
I'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THAT.
THERE, THERE ARE FACILITIES THAT ARE LIKE RIPE.
UM, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE WELCOME TO GO ONTO THE, UM, THE WEBSITE FOR, UH, I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT ADDRESS, BUT IF YOU GO ONTO THE REX WEBSITE, THERE IS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN SUBMIT FEEDBACK FOR WHICH PARKS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AND THAT'S AN ONGOING PROCESS.
UM, SO, AND THEN WE TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND KIND OF DESIGNATE PRIORITY.
SO DEFINITELY SHARE WITH YOUR COMMUNITY AND DO YOURSELF.
UM, AND THEN, UH, JUST A NOTE, UM, THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR WAYFINDING, UM, I OR THE, THE AD HOC GROUP, UM, I'M STILL INTERESTED IN KIND OF HAVING, MAKING THAT HAPPEN AND BEING THE, UH, THE VOICE FROM THE COMMITTEE FOR DOING THAT, OR THE PERSON FROM THE KIDNEY TO DO THAT.
SO, UM, I JUST USE A LITTLE BIT OF GUIDANCE AS TO LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WHOLE ROUND TRIP FOR THAT GROUP OR FOR THAT AD HOC.
ACTUALLY, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WE HAD AN AD HOC FOR THAT, DO WE? I WE PROPOSED AD HOC FOR GREAT.
AND WE DID, UM, I BELIEVE LAST MEETING WE DISCUSSED, UH, AT OUR JULY MEETING HAVING AN ITEM ON AD HOC COMMITTEES, GIVEN THAT WE'LL HAVE A NEW MEMBER AT THAT POINT, RIGHT? UH, DUE TO MARGIE'S UPCOMING DEPARTURE.
ANY, SORRY, BACK TO YOU CHAIR.
IS THERE, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO HAS A COMMENT? OKAY.
[STAFF COMMENT]
YOU HAVE COMMENTS? YES.IT IS BIKE MONTH, SO I'LL JUST, UH, SHARE
[02:05:01]
SOME UPCOMING EVENTS.WHILE BJORN'S LOOKING, BY THE WAY, THIS IS WHY WE HAVE LIAISONS BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH PARK AND REC.
IT'S, WE CONNECT YOU TO EVERYTHING ELSE AND WE, IF WE SHARED INFORMATION, IT WOULD BE TREMENDOUS.
SO WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR COMING.
SO, UM, I WANTED TO GRAB SOME BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS OF A COUPLE OF RECENT QUICK BUILDS THAT ARE COMPLETE OR NEAR NEARING COMPLETION.
UM, THOSE BEING AT WESTERN AND FAIR WHERE WE JUST MADE SOME CROSSWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN, UM, ALSO OVER AT MEADOW MEADOW SCHOOL, WHERE WE JUST IMPLEMENTED, UM, SOME OF THE SAFE, UH, THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL WALK AUDIT AND TASK FORCE.
UM, WE ADDED A NEW CROSSWALK, SOME BOUTS, UH, AND REALIGNED A CROSSWALK NEAR THE SCHOOL TO MAKE THE CROSSING DISTANCE SHORTER AND SLOW TURNING MOVEMENTS.
SO ANYWAYS, I'LL COME BACK AT OUR NEXT MEETING.
I'LL, I'LL BRING SOME BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS AND HOPEFULLY THAT TIME WE'LL ALSO HAVE SOME PHOTOS FROM, UH, CORONA ROAD WHERE WE'RE DOING SOME, UM, QUICK BUILD IMPROVEMENTS BETWEEN THE PEDAL, THE BRIDGE OVER PETAL RIVER AND, UH, THE FREEWAY OVERCROSSING STRUCTURE, UH, ON THE, UH, SO ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE OVERCROSSING.
UM, THOSE SHOULD BE GOING IN PRETTY SOON, HOPEFULLY, LIKE I SAID, HOPEFULLY BY NEXT MEETING WE'LL HAVE THOSE DONE.
SO, UH, LIKE I SAID, A LOT GOING ON IN MAY.
UH, STARTING WITH NEXT MONDAY CITY COUNCIL'S MEETING WILL BE FOCUSED ON THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 25, 26 BUDGET.
THAT INCLUDES THE OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGETS.
SO GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, DIG INTO THAT DOCUMENT AND GIVE FEEDBACK ON, UH, ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, PRIORITIZED OR, OR FUNDED, UM, IF IT IS NOT, UH, SHOWING AS FUNDED ON, UH, NEXT WEDNESDAY, REALLY EXCITING, THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL MURALS RIBBON CUTTING.
UM, THERE ARE SOME GREAT NEW MURALS OUT THERE NEAR THE PAY RAN.
UH, THE PAY RAN UNDER CROSSING.
AND SO, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT EVENT, THAT'S NEXT WEDNESDAY AT FIVE 30.
AND THERE'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UH, WALK OR BIKE WITH OTHERS.
UM, THERE'LL BE GROUPS MEETING AT, UH, WATER STREET AND NORTH MCDOWELL TRAIL HEADS, UH, 15 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE EVENT TO MAKE THEIR WAY OVER TO PAYAN.
SO DEFINITELY GO CHECK THAT OUT OR JUST GO USE THE TRAIL AND CHECK OUT THE MURALS.
AND, UM, UH, A REALLY GREAT IMPROVEMENT THERE.
BIKE TO WORKDAY OR BIKE TO WEAR EVERY DAY IS NEXT THURSDAY.
UH, WE HAVE THREE STATIONS IN PETALUMA, BOTH SMART STATIONS, UH, AND THEN, UM, AND THEN ONE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER IN OUR TRADITIONAL SPOT.
SO THE, THE PETMAN NORTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER STATIONS ARE HOSTED BY THE CITY.
AND THEN THE DOWNTOWN SMART STATION, UH, ENERGIZER STATION IS HOSTED BY MIKE BIKE, MIKE'S BIKES, AND SAFE STREETS PETALUMA.
UM, IF ANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP OUT AT, UH, ONE OF THE CITY TABLES, WE WOULD DEFINITELY WELCOME YOUR HELP.
UM, IT'S A PRETTY FUN MORNING OF GIVING OUT COFFEE, SNACKS, ET CETERA, AND JUST GREETING AND CHEERING ON PEOPLE WHO ARE, UH, MAKING THEIR WAY TO, UH, TO WORK OR SCHOOL.
SO, UH, I'LL, I'LL SEND OUT AN EMAIL TO THE WHOLE COMMITTEE AND, UH, ASKING, SHARING THE HOURS AND DUTIES AND ASKING IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO HELP.
WE HAVE A TASK FORCE MEETING THAT SAME DAY AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
UH, THIS ONE IS OVER AT THE PETALUMA CITY SCHOOLS DISTRICT OFFICE.
AND WE ARE NOT FOCUSED ON, UH, WE ARE NOT REPORTING OUT FROM A WALK AUDIT AT THIS ONE BECAUSE WE'VE, UH, COMPLETED ALL OF OUR WALK AUDITS, UM, I GUESS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ST.
VINCENT'S, UH, ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOLS.
BUT, UM, WE, FOR THE TIME BEING, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY WALK, ANY ADDITIONAL WALK AUDITS STUDIED.
SO I BELIEVE THE GOAL FOR THIS MEETING WILL BE TO, UM, TALK ABOUT KIND OF THE FORMAT AND FOCUS OF THE TASKFORCE TASK FORCE MOVING FORWARD.
WE DO PLAN ON CONTINUING TO MEET, UM, BUT NOW WE HAVE, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE BANDWIDTH OPENING UP, UH, GIVEN THAT THE MEETINGS WILL NO LONGER BE FOCUSED ON THE WALK AUDITS.
UH, SO INTERESTED IN GETTING FEEDBACK ON, UM, UH, WHAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE COVERED AT THESE MEETINGS, UH, ON AN ONGOING BASIS.
AND, UH, AS ALWAYS, YOU CAN FIND THEIR AGENDAS ON THE SONOMA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES WEBSITE.
UH, TOWARDS THE END OF THE MONTH, WE WILL BE HAVING A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ON THE RAINIER AVENUE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE A, UH, INSTALLATION
[02:10:01]
OF A RECYCLED WATER MAIN AND, UH, REPAVING RAINIER FROM MCDOWELL TO SNOW MOUNTAIN PARKWAY.SO THAT'S ON THURSDAY THE 29TH AT 6:00 PM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND AT THAT MEETING WE'LL BE, UH, RECAPPING THE PILOT PROJECT, WHAT WE HEARD, WHAT WE LEARNED, AND ALSO, UH, SHOWING SHARING, UH, OUR PROPOSED DESIGN FOR THE, FOR THE FINAL PAVING PROJECT ON RAINIER.
AND THEN LOOKING FURTHER OUT INTO JUNE, UH, SONOMA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION IS HOSTING A FAMILY BIKE WORKSHOP AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER ON JUNE 21ST FROM 10 TO 12.
AND I BELIEVE YOU DO HAVE TO REGISTER.
SO, UM, WE'LL GET THIS PRESENTATION OUT TO YOU AND, AND BE SURE TO USE THAT LINK TO SIGN UP.
AND THEN OUR UPCOMING AGENDA ITEM LIST, UH, ONLY NEW ONE I WILL HIGHLIGHT HERE IS THAT STREET DESIGN STANDARDS, UM, OVERVIEW, UH, THAT, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER YEAGER REQUESTED.
UM, AND I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY COVER THAT ALL IN ONE PRESENTATION.
JUST START WITH AN OVERVIEW, HOW AND WHEN THEY'RE APPLIED, AND THEN WE COULD GET SOME INITIAL FEEDBACK ON WHAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE UPDATED.
UM, AND WE COULD ALWAYS COME BACK FURTHER DOWN THE LINE FOR MORE DETAILED FEEDBACK ONCE WE HAVE SOMETHING IN FRONT OF YOU.
UM, WE DID ACTUALLY ALREADY HAVE A ITEM FOR, BEFORE IT SAID E-BIKE, UH, ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION.
I JUST CHANGED IT TO ELECTRIC MICRO MOBILITY ENFORCEMENT AND EDUCATION TO BROADEN IT A BIT.
UH, BUT OTHERWISE NO CHANGES HERE.
AND CAN YOU SEND US THAT DECK SO THAT WE ALL HAVE IT WILL DO.
I, I USE SPECIFICALLY THE CALENDAR
ALRIGHT, WITH THAT, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT, UH, APPROXIMATELY EIGHT 50, RIGHT? YES.
I THINK IT'S EIGHT 50 OR IS IT 9 58 58 50.
THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING AND WE'LL SEE YOU IN A MONTH.