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GOOD EVENING,[CALL TO ORDER]
AND WELCOME TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 2025.UH, AARON, WOULD YOU PLEASE DO THE ROLL CALL?
[ROLL CALL]
UH, THOU SHALL PRESENT.UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK AS OUR FIRST, UH, ITEM OF BUSINESS FOR CITY CLERK KAITLYN CORY TO PLEASE SWEAR IN OUR NEW MEMBER, DAVID FELIX.
UM, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE.
I LOVE TO COME, UH, SEE THE COMMITTEES AND JUST EXTEND MY APPRECIATION FOR WHAT YOU DO.
I KNOW THAT YOU'RE VOLUNTEERING AND YOU'RE GIVING UP YOUR TIME FOR THE CITY, SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO TO SUPPORT THE CITY AND THE COUNCIL.
UM, IF I COULD HAVE THE NEW MEMBER, PLEASE JOIN ME IN FRONT OF THE PODIUM.
UH, STAND THERE AND WE'LL TRY TO CATCH YOU ON THE MIC.
IF YOU COULD RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME.
I STATE YOUR NAME, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR.
I, DAVID FELIX, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND, THAT I'LL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE, THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA, AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION, AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY, AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES.
DISCHARGE THE DUTIES UPON WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER UPON, WHICH I'M ABOUT TO ENTER.
THANK, SO I'LL HAVE YOU SIGN THAT.
HAVE A GREAT MEETING EVERYONE.
THANK YOU CLERK COREY
UH, ITEM TWO ON THE AGENDA THIS EVENING, AS TO APPOINT A CHAIR AND A VICE CHAIR.
UM, I NOW INVITE BJORN, PLEASE TO PRESENT.
THANK YOU AND GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, JUST A, A REALLY, UH, HOPEFULLY, UH,
LAST MONTH, UH, WE TRIED THIS AND, AND DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FOLKS HERE, SO WE, WE MOVED THE DISCUSSION.
UM, AND SO WANT TO OPEN IT BACK UP.
UM, THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, THE CHAIR, UH, IS DOES WHAT WILLIAM IS DOING RIGHT NOW.
THEY READ OFTEN AN ANNOTATED AGENDA, KEEP THE MEETING RUNNING SMOOTHLY AND EFFICIENTLY AND, UM, UH, HELP KIND OF RUN THE Q AND A AND, AND DISCUSSION, UH, FOR THE COMMITTEE AND THE VICE CHAIR IS JUST THEIR BACKUP.
UM, I DO MEET WITH THE CHAIR MONTHLY, UH, FOR 30 MINUTES OR SO TO DEBRIEF THE PREVIOUS MEETING AND ALSO PREVIEW NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA AND GET INPUT FROM THE CHAIR ON THE FOLLOWING MONTH'S AGENDA.
UM, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, REALLY NO, UM, OBLIGATIONS OUTSIDE THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
UH, I NOW REQUEST FROM THE COMMITTEE ANY NOMINATIONS, UH, FOR CHAIR, CHAIRPERSON.
UM, WANNA RAISE A HAND IF YOU HAVE A NOMINATION? YES, YOU, WILLIAM.
I'VE BEEN NOMINATED BY SECOND
ANYONE ELSE WANNA VOLUNTEER THEMSELVES? OKAY.
UM, DO CHAIR AND THEN WE DO VICE CHAIR? YES.
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BEEN MADE AND SO NOW I ASK THE CLERK FOR A ROLL CALL.DID WE, WE DON'T HAVE A VICE CHAIR.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET A VICE CHAIR BEFORE AND WE'LL TRY TO GET BOTH ON.
DO BOTH AND THEN VOTE FOR ONCE.
WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO VOLUNTEER OR NOMINATE A VICE CHAIR, PLEASE? I'LL DO VICE CHAIR.
UM, I SECOND THAT SELF NOMINATION,
SO WE CAN DO ONE VOTE FOR BOTH.
ONE VOTE, UM, TO, UH, AND CHAIR, UM, MYSELF AS CHAIRPERSON AND, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBER BCHA AS VICE CHAIR, PLEASE.
[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]
NOW WE MOVE INTO THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.UH, DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE COMMITTEE'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE.
TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES TOTALING NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES SUBJECT TO THE COMMITTEE'S DISCRETION.
UH, PLEASE, SPEAKERS, IF YOU HAVE ANY GENERAL COMMENTS NOT RELATED TO AGENDA ITEMS, UH, PLEASE BRING YOUR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY.
AND HAVE WE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? UH, THERE WERE TWO, UH, PRIOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS.
WE GOT BRUCE HAGEN WITH SAFE STREETS PUM, BUT PLEASE BRUCE, WELCOME TO THE PODIUM.
UM, SO I WANTED TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO A COUPLE OF THINGS.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THAT TODAY IS THE FIRST WALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD PARK DAY.
I DUNNO HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE SEEN THAT IN SOCIAL MEDIA.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, JOHN CROWLEY AT AQUAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND BLUE ZONES AND SOME OTHER FOLKS HAVE ORGANIZED.
BUT THE IDEA IS TO GET PEOPLE OUT, UH, INTO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND DOWN TO A LOCAL PARK AND TRY TO IDENTIFY TREES ALONG THE WAY AND AS A WAY TO HELP KNIT THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER IN A BETTER WAY.
SO I, UH, I HAD TO PASS ON THAT TONIGHT.
UH, ALSO, UH, WE'RE GOING TO REVIVE SOMETHING THAT MY NEIGHBORHOOD DID, UH, RIGHT AFTER COVID 2021.
WE CALLED IT, UH, NEIGHBOR DAY.
SO WE CELEBRATED LABOR DAY TO SUPPORT THE LABOR OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE TRYING TO MAKE BETTER TOWN AND DO A LOT OF UNPAID WORK LIKE Y'ALL.
UH, SO THIS YEAR, THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER IS GOING TO BE NEIGHBOR DAY AND JUST STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION.
IT'LL BE OUT THERE IN SOCIAL MEDIA AND POSSIBLY IN THE PAPER.
AND LAST OF ALL, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN MY FORMAL, UM, SUBMISSION OF THE TREE PARKING PROPOSAL, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT, ITS REALLY CLEAR THAT THIS IS, UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT SAFE STREETS PETALUMA HAS HAD A CHANCE TO, UH, CHEW ON FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, AND I GOT THE GO AHEAD TO SUBMIT IT IN THEIR NAME.
UH, AND THAT ALSO THAT THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT AREN'T ANSWERED HERE, SO WE JUST CAN'T RUN OUT AND START, UH, YOU KNOW, DIGGING UP THE STREET.
BUT, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP, IF NOT THIS GROUP, UH, ENDORSE IT IN SOME FASHION, WHETHER THAT'S A GROUP LETTER, INDIVIDUAL LETTERS, OR I KNOW IF IT'S AN AGENDA ITEM WOULD HAVE TO BE FOR A SUBSEQUENT MEETING.
BUT SOME WAY TO HELP ME ROLL THE SNOWBALL, UH, BECAUSE THE NEXT STOP FOR THE SNOWBALL WILL BE PROBABLY THE CLIMATE COMMISSION.
UH, I'VE TALKED A LOT WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND I WANT TO GO BACK TO, UH, THE PEDAL IN THE CITY SCHOOLS, UH, WHERE DAN OSTERMAN, WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND CLIMATE ACTION CURRICULUM.
UH, AND I HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK ON THIS, BUT BASICALLY GET ENOUGH PEOPLE INVOLVED SO THAT WE HAVE A GOOD VOLUNTEER CREW OF PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP REALLY MAKE IT HAPPEN, HAPPEN QUICK, AND HAPPEN WITH SMILES ON OUR FACES.
SO I THINK I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT, EITHER IN MY 43 SECONDS OR, UH, ANY OTHER TIME, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
OTHERWISE, CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING HERE AND REALLY LOOKING FORWARD WITH THE ACT OF TRANSPORTATION PLAN
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TO SEEING A LOT OF GOOD THINGS HAPPEN.AND THAT IS THE ONLY PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, UH, IN PERSON.
SO WITH THAT, I CLOSE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND MOVE ON TO OUR PRESENTATION SECTION.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
FIRST UP IS TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FOR THE PREVIOUS MEETING FROM JULY 2ND.UM, DOES ANYONE VIEWED THE MINUTES, UH, WANNA MAKE A CHANGE TO LAST MONTH'S MEETING? OKAY.
UM, WE APPROVE THE MINUTES WITHOUT, UH, ANY CHANGES.
NEXT, UH, PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
CONSIDERATION.WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THE AD HOC COMMITTEES.
UM, BJORN, WOULD YOU PLEASE PRESENT? THANK YOU.
UM, NO SLIDES FOR THIS ONE, BUT I WILL BRING UP THE STAFF REPORT, WHICH HOPEFULLY EVERYONE HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, TAKE A LOOK AT PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
UM, OUR CITY COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS ARE ABLE TO USE AD HOC COMMITTEES, OH, SORRY, LET ME ZOOM IN FOR YOU THERE.
AND THIS ALLOWS SUBGROUPS OF YOU AND, UH, FOLKS NOT ON THE COMMITTEE, UH, TO ROLL YOUR SLEEVES UP.
UM, DO RESEARCH ON A, A SPECIFIC, A TOPIC, AGAIN, OF YOUR CHOOSING AND THEN REPORT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE WITH YOUR FINDINGS AND ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE FOR, UM, THE COMMITTEE OR, OR CITY AS A WHOLE.
UM, WE ASK THAT OUR AD HOC COMMITTEES ARE COMPRISED OF NO MORE THAN FOUR PAC MEMBERS.
UH, IN ORDER TO AVOID BROWN ACT ISSUES, WE ALSO ASK THAT YOU DON'T DISCUSS YOUR AD HOC COMMITTEE MATTERS, UM, WITH OTHER PAC MEMBERS OUTSIDE OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS, UH, IN ORDER TO AVOID THE SAID, SAID BROWN ACT ISSUES.
UM, SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TWO AD HOCS THAT WERE FORMED, UM, I BELIEVE EARLIER THIS YEAR.
I'M NOT SURE EITHER OF THEM HAVE REALLY, UM, GOTTEN, UH, STARTED ON THEIR WORK.
UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARDS, THE AD HOC WITH, UH, YEAGER GARCIA AND GANG, AND THEN THE WAYFINDING AD HOC WITH SCH, LATT AND HAGAN.
UM, SO TONIGHT IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THOSE TWO AD HOCS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S CERTAINLY, UM, UP TO YOU, YOU KNOW, FOLKS CAN, YOU CAN CHANGE MEMBERSHIP.
IF, IF YOU WOULD STILL LIKE TO PRIORITIZE THOSE, UH, IF YOU'D LIKE TO MODIFY THE SCOPES OF EITHER OF THOSE GROUPS, I THINK YOU CAN.
UM, AND THEN I'VE ALSO, IN THE STAFF REPORT HERE OUTLINED, UH, WENT THROUGH THE ACTION PLAN FROM OUR DRAFT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND IDENTIFIED SEVERAL TOPICS THAT I THOUGHT MAY BENEFIT FROM, UH, CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AD HOC COMMITTEES.
UM, I DON'T WANNA LIMIT YOU JUST TO THESE OPTIONS, BUT THOUGHT IT MIGHT HELP, UM, JUST TO KIND OF, TO AT LEAST IDENTIFY A HANDFUL OF TOPICS OR ACTIONS THAT WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE A TP, UM, WHERE, AGAIN, WHERE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AD HOC COMMITTEES COULD, COULD HELP GET THE BALL ROLLING IN THESE AREAS.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT, UH, REALLY JUST WANT TO OPEN IT UP FOR YOU ALL TO LEAD THIS DISCUSSION AND, UM, FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANNA DO.
DOES ANYONE ON THE COMMITTEE HAVE, UH, ANY OF THEIR OWN THOUGHTS ABOUT THE AD HOC COMMITTEES? JUST GENERALLY? UH, I WAS GOING TO, UM, SUGGEST THAT WE MAKE A POINT OF USING OUR, UH, COMMITTEE TIME TOWARDS THE, OUR COMMITTEE COMMENT PERIODS, UH, FOR ANYONE WHO IS SORT OF THE, THE HEAD OF AN AD HOC COMMITTEE EACH MONTH, UM, TO ALWAYS RECAP THE PROGRESS OF THE PREVIOUS MONTH AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE NEXT MONTH, UM, SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, KEEP THE, THE BALL MOVING.
I'VE BEEN GUILTY OF, UH, GETTING TOO BUSY AND, UM, SITTING ON THINGS MYSELF.
AND I THINK HAVING THAT AS A STANDARD PART OF, UM, OF OUR COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENT EACH MONTH WOULD BE GOOD JUST TO KEEP, KEEP THINGS ALIVE.
UM, THAT'S A, A PROPOSAL I'M MAKING MAYBE INFORMALLY, UM, TO ANYONE SO THAT, UH, WE KNOW THAT THESE AD HOC COMMITTEES ARE NOT JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, A PLACEHOLDER.
UH, AND, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE NOT MAKING PROGRESS, IF THERE'S NOT ENOUGH INTEREST, WE WE CAN SUNSET THEM.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO WITH, UH, EITHER OF THE OPEN COMMITTEES, UM, THIS EVENING.
UH, AND WE ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY HERE TO MAKE NEW
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AD HOC COMMITTEES IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED.AND I LIKE HOW BJORN HAS OUTLINED, UM, SOME GOOD, UH, ITEMS FROM THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT WOULD BE, UH, SOMETHING APPROPRIATE FOR AN AD HOC COMMITTEE.
UM, DOES ANYONE ON THE COMMITTEE SEE ONE OF THESE ITEMS HERE? IP ONE, IP TWO, IB 17, EE FIVE EV FOUR, AS SOMETHING THAT SPEAKS TO THEM THAT, UM, THEY'D WANT TO CHAMPION AS A, AS AN AD HOC COMMITTEE LEADER? CAN I JUST ASK THE QUESTION REALLY QUICK? YEAH, PLEASE.
IS THIS, UM, THIS LIST IS SPECIFICALLY GENERAT, LIKE YOU CAME UP WITH THIS, WE WEREN'T AFTER LOOKING AT THE A TP AS FAR AS LIKE THINGS THAT YOU COULD EXTRACT INTO LIKE AN AD HOC COMMITTEE.
UM, AND I GUESS IS THERE ANY, ANYTHING GOING ON LIKE CITY LEVEL THAT WOULD IMP LIKE AFTER THE A TP IS IMPLEMENTED AND EVERYTHING, IS THERE ANYTHING TO BE AWARE OF HERE AS FAR AS LIKE HOW, LIKE PLANS ON THE CITY FOR ANY OF THESE IN PARTICULAR? OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT WHOEVER'S ON THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WOULD REALLY BE LEADING AND GENERATING? UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE, THE FIRST TWO ITEMS THERE, THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE AND THE STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN STANDARDS UPDATE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, UH, BY BOTH STAFF AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AS HIGH, HIGH NEAR TERM PRIORITIES FOLLOWING ADOPTION OF THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
UM, THE REST OF THOSE ITEMS WERE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER OUT IN OR LOWER IN PRIORITY, UH, BASED ON PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS WITH PVAC, IF THAT'S HELPFUL.
IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
I'D BE INTERESTED IN, UM, THE BUSINESS ONES IB 17 AND EE FIVE.
UM, BIKE BARKING, BIKE FRIENDLY BUSINESS.
UM, SEEMS LIKE A SINGLE AD HOC MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE THOSE AGREED.
BOTH AS, UM, KIND OF TOPICS UNDER ONE UMBRELLA.
UH, IS THAT SOMETHING THEN THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THAT COMMITTEE? OKAY.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET, UM, ONE OTHER PERSON.
I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED AS A BUSINESS OWNER IN DOING THAT.
'CAUSE WE DO TRY TO BE BIKE FRIENDLY IN OUR OWN BUSINESS.
UM, WE NEED A, A NICE NAME FOR IT.
UM, WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT ONE.
FIRST AGENDA ITEM COMES UP WITH A NAME AND, UH, AND A MISSION.
IT NEEDS TO HAVE A KIND OF SPECIFIC AND LIMITED, UM, GOAL THAT THE AD HOC COMMITTEE IS LOOKING TO ACCOMPLISH.
UH, AND YEAH, I APPRECIATE THAT, UH, THAT YOU'RE VOLUNTEERING.
AND I'LL JUST SAY ON, ON THAT ONE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A REALLY GOOD, UH, RECENT SUCCESS STORY, UH, WITH PETA MARKET WHERE FOLKS REACHED OUT TO THEM, YOU KNOW, THAT FOR YEARS THEY'VE HAD REALLY LOUSY BIKE PARKING
IT'S A LOT LIKE WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AT THE CITY.
SO, UM, GOOD RECOGNITION THAT, UH, FOR ANYTHING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY OUR SHOPPING CENTERS, UM, THEIR ADVOCACY CAN WORK.
UM, AND THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO MAYBE FOCUS SOME OF FEEDBACK'S EFFORTS GIVEN THAT THOSE ARE KIND OF OUTSIDE OF OUR, YOU KNOW, WE'RE FOCUSED ON FOCUSING ON CITY RIGHT OF WAY, UM, WHAT WE CAN CONTROL.
BUT, UH, YOU GUYS HAVE THAT, THE ABILITY TO INFLUENCE, UH, PRIVATE, PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS.
I HAD AT SOME POINT SUBMITTED A LIST OF PLACES FOR PUTTING BIKE RACKS, UM, PROBABLY FIVE OR SIX PLACES, NONE OF WHICH WERE ON CITY PROPERTY
I THINK I JUST FILLED OUT THE FORM THAT, UM, WAS AVAILABLE.
I CAN, I CAN DIG THAT UP ACTUALLY.
I CAN SHARE THAT WITH THE AD HOC COMMITTEE, ALL THE, UH, BUSINESSES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE RECOMMENDED RACKS.
LITTLE, UM, HIT LIST FOR THEM TO START ON.
UM, JUST TO ADD ON TO THAT IDEA A LITTLE BIT, MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO THINK ABOUT LIKE A BIKE FRIENDLY SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH WOULD GO BEYOND JUST THE BIKE PARKING IMMEDIATELY, BUT ALSO INCLUDE, LIKE, THINK ABOUT THE ACCESS THE BIKES ACCESS THROUGH FROM THE STREET WHERE THERE MIGHT BE A CLASS FOUR, CLASS TWO PROTECTED, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'RE THROWN INTO A PARKING LOT AND THEN THERE'S BIKE PARKING SOMEWHERE THROUGH THERE.
WHAT'S THE APPROPRIATE ROUTE THAT BICYCLISTS SHOULD GO? SO I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S COULD BE PART OF IT.
IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE THAT, JUST, JUST TO ADD, I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S A REALLY GREAT,
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UM, REALLY GREAT THOUGHT AND COMMENT.UM, I'VE ACTUALLY RUN INTO THIS SITUATION RECENTLY.
UM, MY COMMUTE, MY MORNING AND AFTERNOON COMMUTE CHANGED FROM RIVER TRAIL, WELL, TWO RIVER TRAIL ALONG PAY RAN DOWN MAGNOLIA AND THERE'S SEVERAL NEW BUSINESSES, UH, THAT HAVE OPENED UP IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR WHERE THERE'S NOT VISIBLE PUBLIC PARKING.
ONE OF THEM, UM, IS THE BAKERY.
UH, AND THAT'S ALSO IN A, IN AN AREA LIKE THAT, THE THING I WOULD SUGGEST IS THAT THERE'S FOLLOW UP ALSO WITH THE BUSINESSES TO SEE WHAT HURDLES THEY FACED, UM, WHAT SPACE THEY HAD AVAILABLE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, JUST TO SEE IF WE CAN ELIMINATE, UM, BARRIERS TO HAVING THAT BIKE, BOTH ACCESS AND PARKING MM-HMM
UM, SO IT'S, YEAH, IT'S, IT'S THE BAKERY.
AND THEN WHAT'S THE NEW RESTAURANT THAT OPENED UP, UH, THE NEW FRENCH BISTRO? WHAT'S THAT? ETTE? YES.
SO THAT'S HARD TO PARK AT THAT BAKERY, IS IT? YEAH, THEY KNOW
THANK YOU FOR THAT SUGGESTION.
UM, ANYONE ELSE HAVE AN ITEM TO ADD SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE COULD EXPLORE WITH AN AD HOC COMMITTEE? ADAM, I'LL JUST SAY I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD JUST TO, I'M ON ALREADY ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARDS, BUT IT COULD BE HELPFUL WITH THE STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN STANDARD UPDATES AND THEN THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE, BJORN, TO THINK ABOUT HOW THOSE COULD KIND OF FLOW INTO EACH OTHER IN A WAY THAT IF THE, YOU KNOW, GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARDS IS A SUBSET OF THE STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN STANDARDS THAT WE CAN AT LEAST BE STRATEGIC IN HOW WE'RE TRYING TO TACKLE IT.
COULD YOU YOU MAYBE KIND OF SPEAK JUST A LITTLE BIT TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE, I GUESS IN THE TRAIL DESIGN STANDARDS UPDATE? YES.
THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE IS, UM, IS A FRAMEWORK AND TO BE REDUNDANT, A POLICY STATEMENT THAT, UH, BASICALLY OUTLINES THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO IMPLEMENTING COMPLETE STREETS.
UM, THE VERSION THAT WAS ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL IN 2016, UH, AT THAT TIME MET BEST PRACTICES.
UM, BUT OBVIOUSLY HERE WE ARE NINE YEARS LATER AND, UM, UH, AND SO THAT THAT COMPLETE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY IS SOMEWHAT VAGUE.
UM, IT, IT TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MEETING THE NEEDS OF ALL USERS, BUT IT'S NOT VERY ASPIRATIONAL OR PRESCRIPTIVE.
UM, WHEREAS IF YOU LOOK AT METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSIONS, UH, MORE RECENT COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE THAT THEY'RE ENCOURAGING JURISDICTIONS TO CONSIDER, UM, IT'S VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT, UM, MAKING ALL AGES AND ABILITIES BIKEWAYS THE DEFAULT DESIGN PRACTICE.
AND I THINK THERE'S ALSO LANGUAGE AROUND, UM, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH I KNOW HAS BEEN A TOPIC THAT THIS COMMITTEE IS VERY INTERESTED IN.
UM, SO YEAH, TO THAT, THAT WILL NOT GO INTO SPECIFIC DESIGN TREATMENTS.
IT'LL, IT'S MORE OF A HIGH LEVEL FRAMEWORK.
THE, THE STANDARDS UPDATE, UM, WE WOULD BE LOOKING FOR ACTUAL, UM, ENGINEERING STANDARD DETAILS FOR DIFFERENT, UH, STREET DESIGN TREATMENTS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, A TRAFFIC CIRCLE, STANDARD DETAIL BULB OUT BIOSWALE PROTECTED BIKE LANE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, NONE OF WHICH ARE IN THE CURRENT STREET STANDARDS.
NOT THAT THAT'S, UH, LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO IMPLEMENT THOSE THINGS.
BUT IT'S, UH, OBVIOUSLY IN OUR NEXT STANDARD, UH, DESIGN STANDARD UPDATE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE SEVERAL, IF NOT ALL OF THOSE ELEMENTS INCLUDED AND, UH, READY TO USE AT OUR DISPOSAL.
SO MAYBE JUST TO FOLLOW UP, WOULD THOSE, COULD THOSE BE TANGENTIAL OR SHOULD ONE COME BEFORE THE OTHER IN HOW WE DO THIS? NO, I THINK, I THINK THEY CAN,
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THEY CAN RUN CONCURRENTLY.UM, I DON'T THINK ANYTHING THAT THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY GROUP COMES UP WITH WILL BE, UM, WOULD, WOULD REALLY CHANGE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN STANDARDS.
SO, UM, PROBABLY GOOD TO HAVE AWARENESS OF WHAT BOTH OF THE GROUPS ARE WORKING ON, WHICH WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THROUGH CHECK-INS AT OUR MEETINGS.
BUT, UM, UH, I, I DON'T FORESEE ANY CONFLICTS OR ANY ISSUES WITH THOSE TWO WORKING CON CONCURRENTLY OR, OR ONE COMING BEFORE ANOTHER.
THE, I WILL SAY THE, THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY UPDATE, I THINK THAT'S A, A PRETTY HIGH PRIORITY, NOT ONLY IN THE A TP, BUT ALSO IN THE BLUEPRINT FOR, UM, CLIMATE ACTION.
AND SO, UH, DEB FOX AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UM, GETTING THAT ROLLING PRETTY IN, IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS.
UM, SO WHETHER THERE'S A PBA AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THAT OR NOT, IT, IT WILL LIKELY MOVE SOON, UM, OR WILL MAKE PROGRESS ON THAT SOON.
UH, AND, AND SO IF, IF THERE IS INTEREST IN PBA IN BEING, OR FROM ANY OF YOU BEING MORE, UH, CLOSELY INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS, I WOULD RECOMMEND DOING THAT THROUGH AN AD HOC.
OTHERWISE, IT'LL PROBABLY COME TO PBA IN DRAFT FORM FOR YOUR FEEDBACK.
YOU CAN, UM, HAVE YOUR, HAVE YOUR GIVE YOUR INPUT THAT WAY BEFORE IT THEN GOES TO COUNCIL.
SO EITHER WAY, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S, IT'S, IT'S GOING TO GET DONE IN A MATTER OF MONTHS.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU AND DEB COULD MAYBE USE OR BENEFIT FROM ASSISTANCE, LIKE FROM AN AD HOC TO HELP IN DRAFTING THAT AND GETTING IT MOVING MORE QUICKLY? YOU'RE WELCOME TO SOLICIT THAT.
I, YEAH, I MEAN, I, I DON'T ANTICIPATE IT BEING A HUGE LIFT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, MTCS ALREADY GIVEN A KIND OF A MODEL POLICY.
UM, I THINK IT COULD BE A PRETTY QUICK REVIEW EITHER BY STAFF, YOU KNOW, DEB AND MYSELF OR US, AND AN AD HOC LOOKING AT MTCS AND BASICALLY FIGURING OUT, UH, ANY CHANGES WE WANNA MAKE TO REFLECT LOCAL NEEDS AND PRIORITIES BEFORE IT THEN COMES BACK TO THE COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW IN DRAFT FORM AND THEN GOES ON TO CITY COUNCIL FOR, UH, CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTION.
AND YOU SAID WE HAVEN'T, UH, THE LAST TIME WE ADOPT, UH, UPDATED OR CREATED, IT WAS 2017 OR SO? 16.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE GONE THROUGH, WE'VE HAD PROJECTS GO THROUGH THE MTCS CHECKLIST SINCE THEN.
UM, YEAH, SO IT'S HUMMING ALONG.
UM, I THINK WE, WE SHOULD JUST TOUCH ON THE EXISTING COMMITTEES.
UM, WAS MENTIONED THAT IN NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY DESIGN, UH, AND STREET AND TRAIL DESIGN ARE NOT REALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND I THINK WE DISCUSSED IT PREVIOUSLY.
SO, UM, I WANT TO, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE CHANGE THE NAME OR AT LEAST MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WHAT I SEE FOR THE CONTINUED, UH, GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARDS AD HOC WOULD BE TO INCLUDE, UM, THE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS.
A GREENWAY IS A TYPE SUBSET, AS YOU SAID, OF UM, OF THE, THE DIFFERENT STREET TYPES IN THE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS AND MIGHT AS WELL HAVE THEM ALL BE INTEGRATED.
UM, SO THAT'S WHAT I ENVISIONED FOR IT AND LOOK INTO, UH, MAKE STEPS IN THE COMING MONTHS, UM, BETWEEN MEETINGS TO, UH, GET SOMETHING TOGETHER THAT THIS, UM, THIS COMMITTEE COULD, COULD LOOK AT AND SEND AS A RECOMMENDATION, SOME CONCRETE RECOMMENDATIONS TO, UH, TO COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL.
SO ARE YOU SUGGESTING BROADENING, STICKING WITH THE, THE SAME MEMBERSHIP OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARD AD HOC, UH, WHICH IS YOU, ADAM AND PETE, BUT BROADENING YOUR SCOPE TO STREET TYPES THAT ARE IN, IN THE STREET, UM, STANDARDS.
YEAH, I'M DEFINITELY STILL SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
AND THEN WAYFINDING, UM, I KNOW THAT SAFE STREETS PETALUMA IS, HAS DONE A LOT ON THAT, UM, AND IS IS NOW MAYBE MORE FOCUSED ON STREET TREES, BUT IF YOU GUYS ARE GONNA MEET ON THAT, THEN WE SHOULD KEEP IT.
IF NOT, THEN I KNOW YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE TO KEEP YOUR NAMES ON THE LIST.
WELL, I THOUGHT, BUT I MIGHT, WHO KNOWS, WHO KNOWS WHAT I KNOW.
UM, I THOUGHT THAT WE ARE PAYING NOW A CONSULTANT TO FINALIZE ALL THE WAY FINDING AND EVERYTHING, SO IT'S LIKE, ISN'T THAT A PROJECT THAT'S MOVING FORWARD RIGHT NOW? SO THERE'S NOTHING FOR US TO DO AT THE MOMENT.
WE'LL WAIT, WHAT COMES OUT OF THAT?
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YEAH.UH, THINGS HAVE CHANGED A BIT SINCE YOU CREATED THAT AD HOC COMMITTEE.
I THINK AT THAT TIME WE DIDN'T HAVE AN ACTIVE PROJECT WE NOW DO.
SO, UM, IF YOU'D LIKE THOUGH, WE COULD CONTINUE WITH THE AD HOC AND, UM, ALLOW FOR, UH, YOU TO BE INVOLVED IN KIND OF THE EARLY SCOPING AND REVIEW OF, UM, UH, JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT THE DIRECTION THAT WE'RE TAKING IT.
OTHERWISE, I WOULD SAY IT WOULD PROBABLY, WE COULD, WE COULD DISSOLVE THAT AD HOC, UM, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEND YOUR, UH, TIME ON A DIFFERENT TOPIC OR YEAH, IT'S REALLY, IT'S REALLY UP TO YOU AND, AND BRUCE, WELL, IF BRUCE UP FOR IT, I WOULD LIKE TO BE LIKE SURE.
CAN I GET TO SPEAK IN THE AUDIENCE OR SHOULD I JUST, UH, LET'S JUST, WE'LL TRY TO KEEP SOME FORMAL OUT.
WE'LL, CAN WE HAVE LIKE AN AD HOC, UH,
LET'S USE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, BRUCE, FOR YOUR, YOU CAN SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS THAT WAY.
UM, I ALSO HAVE SOME, I'VE BEEN TAKING SOME NOTES, UH, ON THE PAST SYSTEM AND HAPPY TO JOIN THE WAY FINDING COMMITTEE AND OVERSIGHT.
WELL, WE'VE GOT OUR TWO AD HOCS AND NOW ONE MORE.
SO WE'VE MADE SOME PROGRESS ON THIS AND I THINK I CAN MOVE US TO, UM, UH, OPENING PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE AD HOC COMMITTEES.
SO PLEASE, DO WE HAVE ANY, UH, OH, SORRY.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK.
AND I DON'T THINK WE RECEIVED ANY COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM BEFORE THE MEETING, IS THAT CORRECT? UH, NO PRIOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
UM, FIRST ONE I HAVE HERE, PETE GANG WITH SAFE STREETS PETALUMA.
MORNING, GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UH, FIRST I AM JUST SO STRUCK BY WHAT A WONDERFUL GROUP OF PEOPLE YOU ALL ARE.
UM, I'VE BEEN ON A COUPLE OF AD HOC, PREVIOUS AD HOC COMMITTEES, TWO PAC, ONE FOR THE VISION ZERO EFFORT, AND ONE MAKING COMMENT ON THE VISION GOALS AND ACTION ITEMS FOR THE A TP.
UM, UH, WILLIAM AND I WERE THE AD HOC FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAY DESIGN STANDARDS, AND WE DID EXACTLY NOTHING
UM, I, I WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE.
UM, AND I, I COMPLETELY SUPPORT THE IDEA OF, OF BROADENING THE SCOPE TO INCLUDE STREET DESIGN STANDARDS.
UM, I KNOW BJORN HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MAYBE ONGOINGLY, UM, RESEARCHING OTHER ESTABLISHED STREET DESIGN STANDARDS.
SO I, I HOPE THAT WE CAN BUILD ON THE WEALTH OF INFORMATION THAT BJORN ALREADY HAS.
UM, AND THERE WAS ONE OTHER THING THAT I DON'T REMEMBER, SO I GUESS THAT ENDS MY PUBLIC COMMENT.
WE HAVE ONE MORE COMMENT WITH BRUCE HAGEN.
YEAH, I'M IN, I'M INTERESTED IN HAVING A REVIEW, UH, AS PART OF THE, I GUESS IT'S A POOL DESIGN THAT'S GONNA BE DOING THE, UH, UH, THE WAY FINDING AND JUST TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT OFFER SOME OPINIONS.
DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT'S A BIG TASK.
UH, BY THE WAY, THOSE OF YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY AND WITH, UH, BLUE ZONES AND REBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA TO DO OUR, UH, KIND OF OUR QUICK, NOT SO QUICK BUILD, NOT SO QUICK, QUICK BUILD OF SIGNS ALONG THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL.
AND I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A GONNA GO UP ANY WEEK NOW, SO WATCH FOR THAT.
UH, I DID ALSO WANNA MENTION THAT I WANT TO HAVE SOME CAPACITY IF WE DECIDE TO GO FORWARD WITH SOME FASHION OF TREE PARKING, UH, UH, THE, THE, THE CITY COMPONENT OF THAT, THEY'LL, I'LL HAVE SOME AVENUE, WHETHER IT'S DIRECTLY WITH BJORN OR THROUGH, UH, THE C THE COMMITTEE OR THE STAFF TO HELP IMPLEMENT THAT.
I DON'T THINK IT NEEDS A FORMAL AD HOC, BUT I MAY BE WRONG.
UM, BRINGING IT BACK TO THE, UH, COMMITTEE, IS THERE ANYTHING THEY MENTIONED
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THAT, UM, WE WANNA DISCUSS DAVID, UH, REAL QUICK ON THE WAY FINDING, DOES THAT INCLUDE SMART TRAIL? DOES THAT FALL UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THIS AD HOC? SO WOULD THAT BE RECOMMENDING TO SMART OR HOW DOES THAT WORK AS FAR AS, I THINK THERE'S CERTAIN SECTIONS, ESPECIALLY THE NEW AREA BY THE NORTH STATION THAT ARE KIND OF CONFUSING AND COULD BENEFIT FROM SOME SIGNS.BJORN, UM, CAN THE AD HOC ADVISE ON, ON THAT OR WHAT'S THE CASE? YEAH, I MEAN, HONESTLY I THINK A MORE EFFICIENT WAY WOULD JUST BE TO FEEL FREE TO PASS YOUR COMMENTS ALONG TO ME AND THEN I CAN PASS THEM ON TO SMART STAFF OR YOU CAN JUST PASS, SEND THEM TO SMART STAFF DIRECTLY.
UM, I ALSO HAVE SOME, UH, SUGGESTIONS I'M SENDING THEM WITH THEIR NEW WAYFINDING UP THERE.
AND I'M JUST, UH, SHARING MY SCREEN HERE WITH MY NOTES ON WHAT I HEARD FROM YOUR DISCUSSION THUS FAR ON THE DIFFERENT AD HOCS AND THEIR MEMBERSHIP.
SO PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANY YOU HAVE ANY, UM, CHANGES TO MAKE.
UH, JASON, ANYTHING TO ADD ON AD HOC COMMITTEES GOING DOWN THE LINE? NOPE.
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THAT WE MOVE ON TO COMMITTEE COMMENT.UH, DURING COMMITTEE COMMENT, MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO BRIEFLY SHARE UPDATES RELEVANT TO THIS COMMITTEE, INCLUDING LIAISON REPORTS FROM OTHER CITY BODIES AND MAKE REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
WE'LL START ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE.
UM, I, THE SECOND TO LAST PBAC MEETING, I TALKED ABOUT EUROPEAN, UM, SHARED STRAITS OR STREETS WHERE CARS ARE GUESTS, RIGHT? WITH A VERY LOW SPEED LIMIT OF LIKE FIVE MILES PER HOUR OR SO.
AND I LEARNED THAT THOSE ARE NOT LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA.
SO EVEN IF I BEG BJORN, HE CAN'T MAKE THAT HAPPEN FOR US
UM, WHICH IS VERY DISAPPOINTING, BUT ALSO, I MEAN, IT'S CALIFORNIA LAW, SO IT'S A RULE AND IF A RULE NO LONGER WORKS, THAT SHOULD BE CHANGED.
UM, I LOOKED INTO THIS AND I FOUND THAT ACTUALLY WASHINGTON STATE JUST PASSED THE BILL THIS YEAR TO ALLOW SHARED STREETS AND SEATTLE STARTED TO IMPLEMENT THAT.
AND WHAT THEY, THAT BILL THAT THEY DRAFTED SAYS, UM, IT'S THE SPEED LIMIT IS 10 MILES PER HOUR.
PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS HAVE RIGHT OF WAY FOR THE ENTIRE STREET.
UM, IN COURSE OUR GUESTS, RIGHT? AND THEY HAVE SOME OTHER, UM, REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ON IT FOR TRANSPARENCY OF THIS, BUT THAT'S THE, THE CORE OF THE BILL.
UM, AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD LOOK TO IMPLEMENT THAT IN CALIFORNIA AS WELL, UM, TO ALSO ALLOW THE CITY OF PETALUMA TO CREATE THOSE SHARED STREETS, WHICH I THINK IS GONNA MAKE LIFE IN PETALUMA A LOT NICER.
SO I WANTED TO UPDATE ON THIS THAT YES, THERE IS ALREADY A BLUEPRINT IN ANOTHER STATE, AND I GUESS NOW IT'S FINDING AN ASSEMBLY MEMBER TO GET BEHIND THIS AND GET THAT BILL MOVING SO WE CAN CHANGE THAT LAW AND HOPEFULLY AS WE, WE JUST STARTED LOOK LOOKING INTO THIS, WE CAN GET THAT AT THE AGENDA AT SOME POINT HERE TO SEE THAT IF WE AS PBA OR THE CITY OF PETALUMA CAN GET BEHIND THAT BILL.
DID, DID YOU FIND THE, THE MECHANISM LIKE THE SPECIFIC, UH, STATE STATUTE OR WHATEVER THAT, UM, THAT ESTABLISHES A MINIMUM ALLOWABLE SPEED LIMIT? UM, WELL THERE IS LIKE SEVERAL, AS I UNDERSTAND, THERE'S SEVERAL SECTIONS IN THE VEHICLE CODE.
THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED TO ALLOW FOR THAT.
AND I DID WRITE A DRAFT BILL, BUT I'M NO LAWYER, SO THERE IS, THAT'S A GREAT DRAFT AND I CAN SHARE THAT.
I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANY COMMENT AT THIS TIME.
UH, JUST ONE COMMENT TO FOLLOW UP.
I CHECKED WITH, UM, SOME COLLEAGUES AT THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION CLIMATE AUTHORITIES, AND THERE WAS AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE THAT CAME UP IN REGARDS TO SLOW STREETS.
UM, AND OBVIOUSLY YEAH, NOT BEING LEGAL AT THE STATE LEVEL.
THERE'S AN EXAMPLE LOCALLY IN THE CITY OF TATI CALLED THE WOO EARTH STANDARDS FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT SAYS, FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT, NEW MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT, YOU CAN BASICALLY BUILD IN THOSE KINDS OF DESIGN STANDARDS.
BUT OBVIOUSLY APPLYING IT TO EXISTING STREETS IS YEAH.
KIND OF WHAT THE NAME OF THE GAME IS FOR
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TRANSFORMING OUR CITIES AND SUCH.SO THIS IS MORE FOR STRICTLY NEW DEVELOPMENT, BUT IT WAS JUST, YEAH, AN INTERESTING BIT OF FEEDBACK IF YEAH, THERE WAS SOME TYPE OF STANDARD TO START TO AT LEAST POINT AT, UM, WHERE IT'S BEEN ADOPTED, HOW THAT MIGHT BE CONSTRUCTED INTO YEAH, KIND OF A STATEWIDE STANDARD COULD BE INTERESTING TO EXPLORE.
UM, I'M SURE THERE'S OTHER FOLKS ACROSS THE STATE MAYBE THINKING ABOUT THIS TOO, SO MIGHT BE PART OF A LARGER EFFORT OR SOMETHING.
UH, ALRIGHT, JASON, YOU'RE UP.
UM, I JUST HAD A, UH, A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS AND, UH, JUST A CLARIFYING QUESTION TO COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
UM, CAN YOU GIVE US, I, I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY, UM, THE DESCRIPTION OF THE, THE SHARED BIKEWAYS.
CAN YOU CLARIFY A LITTLE BIT AB ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IDEALLY AND WHAT'S, WHAT THE CLOSEST EXAMPLE THAT YOU'VE SEEN, LIKE IN CALIFORNIA OR IN THE US IS? UM, SO I HAVE NOT SEEN ONE IN CALIFORNIA.
I THINK, UM, I'M FROM GERMANY, SO THIS, WHERE THIS IS STANDARD, UM, AND IT'S NOT A BIKE WAY, IT'S THE STREET, RIGHT? OKAY.
THINK YOU TAKE KENTUCKY, RIGHT? MM-HMM
AND YOU MAKE IT A SHARED STREET.
SO YOU STILL ALLOW CARS IN AT LIKE 10 MILES PER HOUR, WHATEVER.
BUT PEOPLE AND BICYCLISTS ARE ALLOWED TO USE THE ENTIRE STREET, SO YOU CAN WALK WHEREVER YOU'D LIKE.
WE COULD HAVE MORE TREE PARKING, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
YOU COULD HAVE MORE PARKLETS LIKE GOT IT OUT THERE.
LIKE MAKE THE STREET FOR PEOPLE AND NOT FOR CARS, BUT CARS ARE GUESTS.
SO THEY COULD DRIVE SO SLOWLY, SLOWLY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
YOU STILL, THEY HAVE ACCESS OR DELIVERY TRUCKS, THEY STILL HAVE ACCESS MM-HMM
IF YOU WANNA GET FROM PLACE A TO PLACE B, YOU WOULDN'T GO THAT ROUTE.
UM, I THINK JUST AS A, AS A POINT OF EXAMPLE, SAN UH, SAN FRANCISCO DURING THE PANDEMIC, UM, DID A SIMILAR PROJECT WHERE THEY DIDN'T CHANGE THE SPEED LIMIT, BUT THEY PUT UP BARRICADES THAT SAID BASICALLY PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLES LIMITED, CARS LIMITED.
UH, AND I THINK THEY CLOSED OFF SOME CORRIDORS.
AND THE LAST TIME I WAS RIDING IN SAN FRANCISCO, WHICH IS SOMETIME IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, THEY KEPT A LOT OF THOSE, THOSE ROADWAYS.
SO I'M ASSUMING THAT IT'S KIND OF A SIMILAR PROJECT WHERE YOU DISSUADE VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, UH, CREATE A, A SAFER SPACE FOR BIKES WHERE THERE'S NOT GONNA BE SPEEDING TRAFFIC OR CARS OBSTRUCTING, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO THAT'S A KIND OF WHAT I'M IMAGINING IS A CROSS BETWEEN THE TWO THINGS.
AND I THINK IT'S BEEN, THERE WAS JUST AS A NOTE REMEMBERING BACK TO, YOU KNOW, ALL THE THINGS GOING ON DURING THE PANDEMIC.
THERE WAS PUSHBACK FROM THE PUBLIC, BUT NOT NEARLY AS MUCH AS THERE WAS SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE MOVING AROUND IN SAN FRANCISCO ON BIKES AND, UM, IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE IT, IT SLOWED TRAFFIC DOWN AND MADE IT MUCH MORE AMENABLE, NOT ONLY TO PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS, BUT TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SO KIDS, PEOPLE WALKING TO WORK, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
UM, IT REALLY OPENED UP, THERE'S LIKE KIND OF A CELEBRATORY FEEL TO IT DESPITE ALL THE, YOU KNOW, UM, THE STUFF THAT WAS GOING ON.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M IMAGINING THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT IS THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO PUSHING IT AS FAR AS THEY CAN PUSH IT RIGHT NOW.
AND I PROPOSE THAT WE AS CALIFORNIANS MOVE THAT ONE STEP FURTHER.
UM, AND THAT IS, UM, MAYBE NOT CREATE MORE AD HOCS, BUT THERE IS, I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE, UM, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAINIER PROJECT AND IT'S GREAT, IT'S AWESOME.
UM, BEING IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, I'VE NOTICED, LIKE WE WERE, WE WERE NEWISH TO, TO PETALUMA WHEN, UM, THE CURRENT TEMPORARY PROJECT WAS, UM, WAS STARTED AND I WAS DELIGHTED.
UM, HOWEVER, I'M NOTICING THAT SOME OF THE PUSHBACK, I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE COMMENTS FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND SOME OF THE PUSHBACK THAT
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HAPPENED IN THE AGENDAS IN THE, UM, THE MEETINGS.AND A LOT OF THE PUSHBACK THAT I'VE BEEN SEEING COMES FROM FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO DON'T HAVE, WHO AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH, YOU KNOW, URBAN DESIGN OR, UH, THE, THE, THE INITIATIVES AND THE REASONS BEHIND AND THE TRAFFIC SLOWING AND ALL THAT KINDA STUFF AS A PUBLIC SAFETY MEASURE.
AND SO IN SOME WAYS, THE COMMENTS THAT I'VE SEEN, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO LIKE INFER WHAT PEOPLE KNOW OR DON'T KNOW, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC OUTREACH THAT ISN'T, THAT, THAT ISN'T HAPPENING NECESSARILY IN FRONT OF THESE THINGS.
I THINK THE EMPHASIS IS ON THE PLANNING AND THE GREAT WORK THAT'S HAPPENING AND, BUT, BUT THE AGENDA AND THE REASONS FOR THESE PROJECTS ARE, ARE NOT, UH, BEING ACCESSED BY FOLKS IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, I THINK PEOPLE FEEL, THE SENSE THAT I GET IS PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THESE PROJECTS ARE FOISTED ON THEM AND FOR WHAT REASON THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LEFT TO SPECULATE.
SO I, UM, YEAH, I FEEL LIKE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO REACH OUT TO THE PUBLIC A LITTLE BIT BETTER AND LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING AND THE REASONS BEHIND, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY THE PUBLIC SAFETY REASONS BEHIND A LOT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING.
UM, AND I'M NOT GONNA SPECULATE THAT'S MAYBE FOR A
MAYBE SOMETHING FOR THE PEDAL AND MEDIA TEAM.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TRACTION THEY GET, UM, BUT, UH, THAT'D BE, IF PEOPLE ARE LISTENING TO IT, GOOD KIND OF WAY TO EXPLAIN THAT PUBLIC SAFETY STUFF.
BUT, UH, IF PEOPLE ARE NOT LISTENING TO PODCASTS, THEN YEAH, I, I KNOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING OUTREACH, SO THANK YOU JASON.
UH, WELCOME TO THE FIRST MEETING.
YEAH, YEAH, NO, I'M, I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET USED TO HAVING MORE THAN THREE MINUTES TO TALK.
I'M USED TO BEING ON THAT SIDE FOR A WHILE, SO I'M VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE.
AND I THINK IT'S AN EXCITING TIME FOR PETALUMA, UM, TO BE ADDRESSING SOME OF THESE ISSUES.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PRESS RECENTLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENTS AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, COULDN'T, YOU KNOW, COULDN'T BE MORE IMPORTANT TOPIC, I THINK AS FAR AS LIKE, LOCAL ISSUES.
SO I'M, UH, HUMBLED TO BE HERE AND REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL TO TRY TO ADVANCE THINGS.
UM, JUST WANTED TO ECHO SOME SUPPORT FOR WHAT YOU JUST SAID.
UH, ONE EXAMPLE THAT COMES TO MIND, UH, TO ME, UH, FOR ME IS BERKELEY.
UH, WE MOVED UP TO PETALUMA 13 YEARS AGO FROM THE EAST BAY.
AND I REMEMBER QUITE A FEW STREETS IN BERKELEY THAT HAD, YOU KNOW, FAIRLY INEXPENSIVE, YOU KNOW, BARRICADE LOOKING LIKE FENCES BASICALLY, UM, THAT WERE NOT, I'M NOT SURE WHERE THEY FALL ON THE QUICK BUILD SCALE, BUT THEY SEEM RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE AND DID A GOOD JOB OF BLOCKING, YOU KNOW, MOSTLY FOR LOCAL TRAFFIC.
SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHAT HAPPENS IN SAN FRANCISCO, BUT I THINK THEY HAD BEEN THERE PRIOR AND THEY'RE PERMANENT MM-HMM
UM, AND KIND OF MINI ROUNDABOUTS, WHICH I THINK IS ANOTHER THING THAT COMES UP A LOT IN TOWN.
AND I'M JUST CURIOUS NOW, AND I WANNA GO LOOK, UM, HOW DID THEY DO IT? UM, HOW DOES IT COMPLY WITH STATE GUIDELINES? AND JUST MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UM, USE IT AS AS PRECEDENT HERE.
UM, AND THEN ALSO YOU JUST BROUGHT UP COMMUNICATIONS AND I THINK THAT'S HUGE ACTUALLY.
I'M, I'M CURIOUS KIND OF WHAT THE CITY'S PLANS ARE AFTER SLOW THE FAST DOWN.
DOES THAT JUST GO AWAY OR ARE THERE KIND OF SUBSEQUENT, UM, UM, KIND OF COMMUNICATIONS PLANS? YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT I THINK ABOUT A LOT IS ULTIMATELY, I THINK WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE COLLECTIVELY IS SLOW CARS DOWN.
AND SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE MAIN WAYS TO SLOW CARS DOWN IS TO CREATE FRICTION, I THINK IS THE ENGINEERING TERM.
AND WHAT I THINK MOST DRIVERS, I THINK ALL OF US ARE ALSO DRIVE CARS EXPERIENCE WHEN WE'RE EXPERIENCING FRICTION IS SLOW AND MAYBE FRUSTRATING.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO CREATE SLOW AND FRUSTRATING DRIVING SITUATIONS WITHOUT TELLING PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO ON PURPOSE, BECAUSE IT SAVES LIVES AND IT MAKES SPACE FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO USE THE ROADS BESIDES CARS.
SO I THINK COMMUNICATION IS ACTUALLY CRITICAL.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK PEOPLE GET IT.
YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT ANY OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND IT'S LIKE, OH, ANOTHER ROUNDABOUT WA IT'S LIKE, YEAH, THE POINT IS YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FRUSTRATED.
UM, SO I, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING WE WOULD BE HELPFUL.
UM, AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S CITING STATISTICS AS FAR AS LIKE, YOU KNOW, FATALITIES PER MILE PER HOUR
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OR, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE PRETTY COMPELLING.I'M NOT SURE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT A COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT, YOU KNOW, SO I, I WOULD LOVE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT THE CITY IS ABLE TO DO TO TRY TO MAKE IT SO MORE OF THE COMMUNITY CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THESE CHANGES ARE HAPPENING, UM, AND TRY TO MAKE IT LESS CONFRONTATIONAL SO WE DON'T END UP IN THIS LIKE, CARS VERSUS BIKE SITUATION, WHICH I FEEL LIKE HAPPENS A LOT.
UM, 'CAUSE 'CAUSE I, I FEAR THAT PEOPLE WHO'D NEVER SPEND ANY TIME ON A BIKE JUST HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO RIDE IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CITY THAT ARE SCARY, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNGERS AND OLDERS, YOU KNOW, NOT EXPERIENCED RIDERS, WHICH AGAIN, ALL AGES AND ABILITIES I THINK IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS.
UM, UM, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE.
UM, ANYWAY, JUST SOME THOUGHTS FROM WHAT Y'ALL MENTIONED.
AND, SORRY, I JUST HAD ONE QUICK FOLLOW UP TOO.
I FEEL LIKE I REGRET NOT THINKING OF THIS WHEN WE HAD THE TIME AND DISCUSSION, BUT I, I THINK COMMUNICATION WAS AS AN AD HOC COMMITTEE AT ONE POINT.
AND THAT GOT KIND OF KICKED OR GOT LOST.
I, IT WAS, I THINK IT WAS, UH, I THINK IT WAS MARJA AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNACLE AND NEITHER OF THEM ARE ON THE COMMITTEE ANYMORE, SO, BUT THE SAYING A LOT OF THE SAME THINGS THAT YOU'RE SAYING AS WELL, UM, AND YEAH, THE OPPORTUNITY I THINK, TO TRY TO USE ONE OF THE IDEAS LIKE OF IMPLEMENTING THAT MIGHT BE LIKE PUTTING A SIGN UP BEFORE, UM, LIKE CA FIELDS HAS ITS KIND OF CONVERSION AND KIND OF DO A RENDERING OR EXPLAIN SOMEHOW ON KIND OF ONE OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION BOARDS WHY IT'S HAPPENING, WHAT'S HAPPENING, WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE IF YOU CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THAT WOULD BE KIND OF TRYING TO MAYBE GET YEAH, SOME OF THIS COMMUNICATION DOWN.
THAT'S JUST ONE SLICE OF IT, BUT COULD BE, YEAH, MORE EX NEEDS TO BE EXPLORED.
I SECOND THAT THIRD THAT WHATEVER.
SO, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT AVENUE IS IF WE NEED TO REOPEN THAT COMMUNICATIONS AD HOC OR OTHER, WHAT ANOTHER APPROACH MIGHT BE.
YEAH, I I CAN TELL YOU IT'S, IT'S
UM, OUR RECENT OUTREACH ON THE RAINIER CORRIDOR, WE'VE BEEN USING A LOT OF, OR CITING A LOT OF DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE COLLISION REDUCTION BENEFITS OF ROUNDABOUTS.
UM, SO WE'RE, WE'RE
UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE, UH, PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINIONS AND, AND THEY TEND TO, UM, YEAH, WE, WE, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE STATISTICS AND THE INFORMATION WE PUT OUT THERE, UM, IT, NOT EVERYONE LISTENS TO IT, SO, UH, OR WANTS TO HEAR IT.
SO, UM, YEAH, A LOT, A LOT OF EMOTIONS.
WHEN, ANYTIME YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ANY CHANGES TO STREETS, I'LL SAY THAT MUCH.
UM, IS THIS AN APPROPRIATE KIND OF FORUM TO ASK WHAT WAS, 'CAUSE I, AT THE RAINIER MEETING SPECIFICALLY, UM, I SHOWED UP AND IT SEEMED PRETTY AMICABLE, BUT I HEARD THAT AT THE FRONT END OF THE MEETING THERE WAS A BIT OF, UM, I DUNNO, PUSH BACK OUTCRY, WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT.
IS THIS AN APPROPRIATE FORUM TO ASK KIND OF WHAT THE GENERAL, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE GENERAL TEMPERATURE WAS AT THAT MEETING EARLY ON OR LIKE WHAT, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE WHAT YOU BEING THERE, LIKE WHAT, HOW IT WENT? UM, YEAH, I MEAN, I, I THINK IT'S, IT, IT'S, IT WAS A, IT'S TOUGH WITH THAT FORMAT.
IT WAS A OPEN HOUSE FORMAT WHERE, UM, PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO JUST WALK UP AND KIND OF START ASKING QUESTIONS.
WE DID HAVE SOME INFORMATION OUT, BUT, UM, UH, SO THERE WERE A LOT OF, A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED THAT, UM, IT WAS, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE CONTEXT FOR THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE WERE ASKING.
UH, AND UH, WHEREAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING WE HAD HELD, UH, A A FEW MONTHS PRIOR, UM, I WAS ABLE TO KIND OF WALK PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN OUR RATIONALE FOR THOSE CHANGES BEFORE OPENING IT UP FOR QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.
WHEREAS HERE IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS KIND OF THE FIRE HOSE
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE THING WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT, UH, METHODS OF OUTREACH AND, UH, TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO FOSTER A, A HEALTHY DIALOGUE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND, AND BRING
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PEOPLE ALONG TO EXPLAIN, UH, WHY WE'RE RECOMMENDING CERTAIN CHANGES.UM, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY KEEP THEM ENGAGED IN THE DESIGN PROCESS OR GET THEM ENGAGED IN THE DESIGN PROCESS AND, AND REALLY HELP HELP THE COMMUNITY SHAPE OUR PROJECTS.
UM, BUT, UM, THERE, THERE IS ALWAYS A, A CHALLENGE WHEN, WHENEVER YOU'RE PROPOSING ANY, ANY CHANGES ON STREETS, UM, PEOPLE HAVE PRETTY STRONG OPINIONS, UM, ABOUT THINGS AND, UM, AND, AND THAT'S JUST PART OF IT.
SO, UM, YEAH, I MEAN, TO, TO DAVID'S POINT WITH TRAFFIC CALMING, I MEAN, I, I
UM, BUT REALLY, I MEAN, TO DAVID'S POINT, TRAFFIC CALMING IS NOT A NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE FOR DRIVERS, YOU KNOW, OR A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON A DRIVER.
UM, IF YOU'RE INDUCING CONGESTION OR MAYBE, UH, YOU KNOW, PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM, UH, DRIVING IN A CERTAIN AREA OR, OR FORCING PEOPLE TO DETOUR, YOU MAY HAVE AN ARGUMENT THAT THERE'S, THAT'S A NEGATIVE IMPACT.
BUT FORCING PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE MORE CAREFULLY FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE IS NOT A NEGATIVE IMPACT.
THEY ARE STILL, THEY STILL HAVE THE ABILITY, YOU KNOW, PE WITH THESE PROJECTS, PEOPLE STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO DRIVE ON THESE STREETS.
UM, WE'RE NOT LIMITING ACCESS.
SO, UH, AND WE'RE NOT CREATING CONGESTION, TRAFFIC CALMING IS NOT CONGESTION.
SO, UM, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO DRIVE, UH, SAFE SPEEDS ON OUR STREETS.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S A MESSAGE THAT WE AT THE CITY WILL HOPEFULLY CONTINUE TO, UM, GET OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, THAT
UH, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET YOU TO DRIVE FIVE MILES AN HOUR SLOWER ON A GIVEN STREET.
SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEAK VELOCITY AND AVERAGE VELOCITY IS SOMETHING THAT'S DIFFICULT, I THINK, FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND.
AND IT'S ONLY THE AVERAGE THAT MATTERS, UM, IN TERMS OF HOW YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
UM, FOR MY COMMITTEE COMMENT, UH, I WANT TO CIRCLE OVER TO, UH, COMMENT FROM MR. BRUCE HAGAN ABOUT THE TREE PARKING PILOT PROJECT AND, UH, TAKE HIS SUGGESTION, UH, THAT IT BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION IN THE A TP.
I KNOW IT'S LATE ON A TP DEVELOPMENT, UM, BUT, UH, WE HAVE SOME PROPOSED TEXTS HERE ALREADY, AND THE PROJECT IS SORT OF STARTING TO GROW LEGS.
UM, SO I JUST ASK THE CITY CONSIDER, UH, ACTUALLY PUTTING THAT INTO THE A TP.
UH, AND WITH THAT I CLOSE MY COMMENT AND ALL OF COMMITTEE COMMENT AND OPEN UP THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS STAFF COMMENT.
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THANK YOU.JUST A, A FEW BULLETS TO RUN THROUGH.
UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING ABOUT SPEED LIMITS AND HOW THEY'RE SET, UM, YOU CAN SPEND SOME, UH, TIME READING CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE CALIFORNIA VEHICLE CODE, UH, GOOD, GOOD BEDTIME MATERIAL FOR YOU.
UM, AS FAR AS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UH, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF RECENT QUICK BUILD PROJECTS.
UM, I, I CAN'T RECALL WHETHER I SHARED THAT WE HAD, UH, MADE SOME UPGRADES AT THE FAIR, THE INTERSECTION OF, UH, FAIR STREET AND WESTERN AVENUE, UH, WHERE WE ADDED SOME QUICK BUILD BULB BOUTS AND MOVED FLASHING BEACONS TO THAT INTERSECTION.
UM, WE'VE ALSO GOT, UH, THE, THE LATEST ITERATION OF OUR ATTEMPT TO SLOW TRAFFIC ON OUTER I STREET, UH, BETWEEN WESTRIDGE AND VELIA IS NOW IN THE SPEED CUSHION HAS BEEN REMOVED.
UM, JUST DUE TO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE, WERE SEEING A LOT OF DRIVERS, UH, STRADDLING THE CENTER LINE TO TRY TO HIT THE, THE TWO GAPS IN THAT SPEED CUSHION.
UM, WHICH OBVIOUSLY HAS POOR OPTICS WHEN YOU SEE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DRIVING ACROSS THE DOUBLE YELLOW LINE.
UM, AND SO, UH, THE NEW SOLUTION, UH, THAT WE, UM, HAVE IMPLEMENTED IS A SERIES OF MEDIAN ISLANDS.
UM, AND THE REASON FOR THOSE JUST, IT FORCES PEOPLE WHETHER ONCOMING TRAFFIC IS PRESENT OR NOT, UH, PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO MANEUVER THOSE MEDIAN ISLANDS, UM, IN A WAY THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE TO WITH THE SPEED CUSHION BECAUSE OF HOW LOW TRAFFIC VOLUME IS OUT ON ICE STREET.
SO, UM, BE INTERESTED TO COLLECT SOME DATA ON THAT AND SEE HOW THOSE WORK.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE SOME MINOR IMPROVEMENTS.
NO REAL BIG CHANGES ON NORTH WEBSTER STREET, NEAR VALLEY VISTA, JUST IN ANTICIPATION OF, UM, THE MERGER BETWEEN VALLEY VISTA AND LIVE OAK, UH, WHERE THEIR, THEIR INTENT ATTENDANCE IS INCREASING SUB SUBSTANTIALLY
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AT THAT CAMPUS, UM, STARTING NEXT WEEK.SO GOT A FEW, A FEW CHANGES IN, UM, AND I THINK, AND WE'RE GONNA BE OUT EVALUATING AND, UM, KIND OF, AND LOOKING FOR, UH, ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, FOR THE SCHOOL THERE.
AND, UH, OTHER THAN THAT, JUST BEEN FOCUSING ON THE S-C-T-C-A FUNDING PROGRAM APPLICATIONS.
UH, SO AFTER PRESENTING TO YOU IN EARLY JULY, OUR PROJECT LIST, UH, WE SHARED OUR PROJECT LIST WITH CITY COUNCIL ON JULY 21ST.
THEY APPROVED ALL FIVE OF OUR RECOMMENDED PROJECTS.
UM, I KNOW PBA C HAD RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE EAST WASHINGTON PROJECT, BUT, AND HONESTLY IT WAS VERY HELPFUL, UH, TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH PBA C.
WE DID GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE PROJECT A LITTLE BIT MORE CLOSELY, UH, HAVE BROADENED THE SCOPE TO INCLUDE PROTECTED BIKE LANES ACROSS US 1 0 1.
SO FROM, UM, UH, NORTH MCDOWELL OVER TO, UH, JUST WEST OF THE, UM, THE SOUTHBOUND RAMPS, UH, IS THE GOAL WOULD BE TO INCLUDE PROTECTED BIKE LANES THERE.
AND THEN AT THAT POINT WASHINGTON KIND OF PINCHES DOWN AND WE WOULD WANNA TRANSITION PEOPLE OFF THE CORRIDOR OVER, UM, PROBABLY THROUGH THE FAIRGROUNDS, UH, TO GET TO, TO COMPLETE THE CONNECTION.
UM, AND WE ALSO, I THINK, UH, I BELIEVE AT PBAC WE DID SHARE, YOU KNOW, OUR INTENT TO IMPROVE A LOT OF CROSSINGS ALONG WASHINGTON.
SO THAT'S STILL PART OF THE SCOPE.
UM, AND, UH, UH, A BIG, WE, WE REALLY WANNA FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET, UH, A CROSSING IN AT WATER STREET FOR THE ENVISIONED RIVER TRAIL THERE.
WE KNOW THAT'S A, AN IMPORTANT CROSSING OPPORTUNITY.
SO ALL FIVE OF THOSE PROJECTS WILL BE SUBMITTED TO S-C-T-C-A THIS FRIDAY FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE FUNDING PROGRAM.
AND WE'LL BE KEEPING YOU UPDATED AS, UM, WE FIND OUT WHERE THE PROJECTS RANK AND, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE SUCCESSFUL GETTING SOME GRANT FUNDING FOR THOSE.
UM, COMMITTEE MEMBER MYERS MENTIONED THE RAINIER OPEN HOUSE.
SO WE HELD AN OPEN HOUSE LAST WEEK THAT FOLLOWED A, A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING THAT WE HELD BACK IN MAY.
UM, AND THAT PROJECT IS GOING OUT TO BID IN THE COMING WEEKS.
WE HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF, UM, ENGAGEMENT ON THAT ONE.
AND SO IF YOU GO TO THE PROJECT WEBPAGE, UM, ON THE CITY'S WEB, IF YOU GO TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND, AND SEARCH FOR RAINIER AVENUE, UH, YOU CAN SEE ALL THE LATEST INFORMATION WE'VE BEEN PUTTING OUT ON THAT PROJECT, INCLUDING QUITE A BIT ABOUT THE, UM, ABOUT THE ROUNDABOUT.
AND, UH, JUST A REMINDER, WE'VE GOT THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR STUDY SURVEY ONGOING, AND THAT WILL CLOSE SEPTEMBER 1ST.
TO ACCESS THAT SURVEY CAN GO TO SCTA.CA.GOV/LAKEVILLE.
WITH THAT, UM, I WARNED YOU GUYS MY MEETINGS RUN FAST.