* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] RECORDING IN PROGRESS. [CALL TO ORDER] ADVISORY, [ROLL CALL] UH, FOR PBA BASHAW. PRESENT, FELIX. PRESENT. CHISHOLM. PRESENT. GOLDMAN. HERE. MYERS. UH, QUINT. HERE. LERT. YEAGER HERE. AND FOR T UH, ABRAMS. HERE. ALDEN? HERE. RO HERE. UH, CHE. UH, QUINT HERE. VAZQUEZ IS A RE HERE AND TAR HERE. WE HAVE QUORUM. UH, THANK YOU. AND GOING FORWARD, I'LL TRY TO KEEP MY MICROPHONE ON. UM, WE [GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT] ARE NOW OPENING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS, AND 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. AND I'LL JUST HIGHLIGHT THAT, UH, IF EVERYONE'S EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING THAT'S ON THE AGENDA, HOLD THAT THERE WILL BE A COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR STUDY. UM, SO THIS IS JUST GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS. UM, 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. AND NOW OPEN GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND ASK ANY SPEAKERS WHO HAVE GENERAL COMMENTS TO BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY. THANK YOU. WE HAVE THIS EVENING. ONE GENERAL COMMENT. UM, PETE GANG, WILL YOU PLEASE APPROACH THE MICROPHONE? GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE. UH, VERY BRIEFLY, I JUST WANTED TO INVITE EVERYBODY TO THE FOURTH ANNUAL PETALUMA HOLIDAY LIGHTED BIKE RIDE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH. UM, IT IS A, A FUN, FESTIVE, ALL AGES, UH, BIKE RIDE, KINDA LIKE A, A LIGHTED PARADE SUPPORTED BY THE POLICE. IT'S JUST A GOOD TIME. UH, STARTS AND FINISHES AT MCNAIR PARK, FIVE O'CLOCK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND WITH THAT, WE WILL CLOSE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT. AND, UH, [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] BEFORE WE MOVE ON, WE GOT TO APPROVE THE, UH, MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING, UH, NOVEMBER 5TH, 2025. UH, THIS IS FOR THE PAC. UH, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR CHANGES, COMMENTS? NO. OKAY. UH, WITH THAT, THE, UH, MEETING, THE MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING ARE, UM, APPROVED WITHOUT CHANGES. NOW [PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION] WE MOVE ON TO PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION WHERE WE WILL, UH, FIRST REVIEW AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON CONCEPTS DEVELOPED FOR THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS STUDY. UM, AND I NOW INVITE BJORN, PLEASE TO INTRODUCE, UH, THE PRESENTERS. ALRIGHT. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. UM, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO, UH, HEAR FROM BOTH COMMITTEES AND, UH, THE COMMUNITY TONIGHT ON THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENT STUDY. THIS IS A STUDY THAT WAS IDENTIFIED BY PAC, UH, AS A PRIORITY A COUPLE YEARS BACK, UH, RECOGNIZING OBVIOUSLY THE IMPORTANCE FOR, UH, THE IMPORTANT ROLE THAT LAKEVILLE STREET AND HIGHWAY PLAY IN OUR COMMUNITY, BOTH LOCALLY AND REGIONALLY, UM, CONNECTING PEOPLE AND WITH GOODS AND SERVICES. UM, AND SO BACK IN 2023, WE ACTUALLY CAME TO PAC AND SOUGHT A LETTER OF SUPPORT, UM, FOR A GRANT APPLICATION FOR THIS STUDY. UH, AND FORTUNATELY IT WAS FUNDED, UM, IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR PARTNERS AT SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AND CLIMATE AUTHORITIES. WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN $200,000 IN GRANT FUNDING THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THIS STUDY. UM, AND SO TONIGHT WE WILL, UH, YOU'LL HEAR FROM THE PROJECT TEAM, THEY'LL BE PRESENTING, UM, SOME OF THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS THAT THEY'VE DEVELOPED THUS FAR. UH, WE'RE STILL VERY EARLY IN THIS PROCESS, SO EAGER TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK. AND, UM, FOR THOSE IN ATTENDANCE [00:05:01] TONIGHT, JUST WANT TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT AN UPCOMING OPEN HOUSE THAT WE WILL BE HOLDING, UM, ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28TH FROM SIX TO 8:00 PM AT ME WALK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. UM, WHICH WILL HAVE, WHICH WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF AN ENGAGING, UM, OPPORTUNITY FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. SOMETIMES WITH THESE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, WE ARE KIND OF CONSTRAINED BY, UH, THE MEETING FORMAT. SO THAT MEETING WILL BE MORE CONDUCIVE TO A DIRECT DIALOGUE BETWEEN, UH, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND OUR PROJECT TEAM. UM, AND THEN MOVING FORWARD, WE'LL ALSO BE SHARING, UH, ADDITIONAL UP ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS TO ENGAGE WITH THIS STUDY AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK. UM, AND IF, IF YOU HAVEN'T YET ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL UPDATES@CITYOFPETALUMA.ORG SLASH LAKEVILLE, WHICH IS WHERE WE'LL BE, UM, SHARING PROJECT UPDATES ON THIS. UM, SO WITH THAT, JUST AGAIN, WANT TO SHARE OUR GRATITUDE TO OUR PARTNERS AT SONOMA COUNTY CLIMATE, UH, TRANSPORTATION AND CLIMATE AUTHORITIES. UM, WE HAVE DAVID ROBERTA AND MARGO OCONUS HERE TONIGHT, UM, WHO, UH, AGAIN, ASSISTED US IN OBTAINING THIS GRANT FUNDING AND ARE HELPING US, UH, LEAD THIS STUDY. AND THEN, UH, AND TONIGHT I'LL BE, UH, PASSING IT OVER TO DAVID WILLIAMS, WHO'S SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER FOR MARK THOMAS. AND, UH, THEY'RE THE LEAD CONSULTANT. AND DAVID WILL BE WALKING YOU THROUGH, UH, EACH OF THESE CONCEPT DESIGNS AND, AND TALKING YOU THROUGH THE STUDY. SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DAVID. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS, BILL. YEAH, UH, THANK YOU, UH, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT SOME OF THE CONCEPTS WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING ON THE STUDY. UH, WE STARTED ABOUT A YEAR AGO. WHAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT TODAY IS JUST, UM, WHY WE'RE DOING THIS STUDY, UH, THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH THAT WE'VE DONE TO DATE, SOME CONCEPTS THAT WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING FOR, FOR TRAIL SYSTEMS, UH, FOR INTERSECTION CONCEPTS, UH, TRANSIT ENHANCEMENTS, AND JUST WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE. AND THEN THERE'LL BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR QUESTIONS AS WELL. SO, IN TERMS OF WHY ARE WE DOING THIS STUDY, UH, THERE IS A HISTORY OF COLLISIONS ALONG STATE ROUTE 1 1 6, UH, THAT, UM, ESPECIALLY A RECENT ONE WHERE THERE WAS A FATALITY DOWN THE PINE VIEW WAY. UH, THERE IS AGING INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG THE STUDY CORRIDOR AS WELL. UH, THERE'S ARE GAPS IN THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE STUDY LIMITS. SO WHAT WE ARE DOING IS BASICALLY WE'RE LOOKING AT SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS FOR ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE STUDY CORRIDOR. WHAT WE'RE PARTICULARLY LOOKING AT IS IMPLEMENTATION OF LOW STRESS, UH, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN TYPE FACILITIES, UH, LOOKING AT TRANSIT SERVICE, UH, TRANSIT SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS AS WELL, AND JUST OPPORTUNITIES TO LINK TO EXISTING AND PLANNED FACILITIES. AND WHEN WE ARE DOING THE STUDY, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT WE CALL NEAR TERM IMPROVEMENTS. UH, BASICALLY IMPROVEMENTS THAT BE CONSTRUCTED WITHIN FOUR YEARS. AN EXAMPLE OF THAT MIGHT BE A, A SIDEWALK GAP CLOSURE, WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO DO, GET RIGHT AWAY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO MOVE UTILITIES. UH, MIDTERM IMPROVEMENTS ARE FIVE TO 10 YEARS. THAT MIGHT BE MORE OF A, AN INTERSECTION TYPE IMPROVEMENT, UH, ROUNDABOUTS, UH, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND LONG TERM, UH, COULD BE ALSO MORE COMPLEX. UH, SEGMENT TYPE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, REALLY DEPENDS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROJECT IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, HOW QUICKLY WE CAN IMPLEMENT THOSE PROJECTS. AND WE ALSO WANNA COMPLEMENT IMPROVEMENTS THAT CALTRANS IS CURRENTLY UNDERTAKING. UH, UH, THERE'S AN OVERLAP WITHIN OUR STUDY CORRIDOR AS WELL. SO, IN TERMS OF OUR STUDY LIMITS, IT IS ALONG, UH, THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR, UH, BASICALLY FROM P PLUMA BOULEVARD NORTH, MORE IN THE URBAN, UH, CITY DOWNTOWN AREA ALONG LAKEVILLE STREET TILL IT GETS OVER TO HIGHWAY 1 0 1. AND THEN IT'S BASICALLY ALONG, UH, STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO THE SEA LIMITS AT THE SOUTH END, WHICH IS, UH, UNDER CALTRANS JURISDICTION. THIS, THIS EXHIBIT SHOWS JUST SOME OF THE, UH, STUDIES UNDERWAY, INCLUDING WHAT WE ARE DOING. UH, THERE IS, UM, A STUDY, UM, THAT THE CITY OF PETALUMA IS DOING FOR VARIOUS BIKE PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS OF, UH, 1 0 1. UH, OUR PROJECT, UM, OVERLAPS, UH, A PLANNED CALTRANS MAINTENANCE PROJECT. UH, BASICALLY THEY'RE LOOKING AT DOING IMPROVEMENTS FROM HIGHWAY 1 0 1 SOUTH TO ACTUALLY DOWN TO STAGE [00:10:01] GULS ROAD. AND THERE'S ALSO INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS THAT CALTRANS ARE EVALUATING AT STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 AND PINE VIEW WAY. SO WHAT OUR PROJECT, WHAT OUR STUDY IS DOING, IS TAKING ALL THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AS WE EVALUATE, UH, WHAT WE CAN DO TO COMPLEMENT WHAT IS CURRENTLY UNDER STUDY. SO JUST SOME, UM, UPDATES ON SOME OF THESE CONSTRUCTION START DATES. UH, THE IMPROVEMENTS AT STAGE GULCH ROAD, UH, THAT YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE WORK ON THAT, UH, AS EARLY AS, UH, SPRING OF 2027, UH, THAT IS IN FINAL DESIGN GOING THROUGH RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION, UH, THE, UM, THE, WHAT WE CALL THE MAINTENANCE PROJECT. THAT'S BASICALLY A LONG, UH, UH, STATE ROUTE 1 1 6, UH, THAT'S ESTIMATED TO BE IN CONSTRUCTION OF FALL OF 2028. AND THEN THE, UH, PINE VIEW WAY, UH, IMPROVEMENTS THAT'S CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, EVALUATION BY CALTRAN THAT'S ANTICIPATED TO BE IN CONSTRUCTION SPRING OF 2029. SO IN TERMS OF, UH, COMMITTEE OUTREACH, WHAT WE DID WAS WE HAD, WE ATTENDED WHAT WE CALL A POP-UP EVENT AT THE, UH, COUNTY FAIR AND PETALUMA BACK ON JUNE 21ST. UH, WE SPENT ABOUT EIGHT HOURS THERE AT, AT THE POPUP EVENT, AND GOT SOME REALLY GOOD INPUT FROM FOLKS. UH, WE PUT UP INFORMATION BOARD SHOWING THEM WHAT THE, THE STUDY INTENT WAS. UH, WE COLLECTED, UH, SURVEY INFORMATION FROM FOLKS EMAILS, AND THAT REALLY GAVE US OUR INITIAL OPPORTUNITY TO GET INFORMATION OUT TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING. WE ACTUALLY, UH, HAD A BOARD AT THE COMMUNITY EVENT. UH, REALLY JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS TO LOOK AT PRIORITIES ON, UH, WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS WERE ON PRIORITIES THAT WE GAVE 'EM, LIKE A FIRST, SECOND, THIRD. AND WHAT WE, WE FOUND WAS THAT, UM, NOT SURPRISING, THE BICYCLE TYPE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, SIDEWALK AND TRAIL GAP CLOSURES AND ALSO SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS FOR ALL, FOR ALL USERS WERE, WERE A TREND THAT WE SAW IN TERMS OF THE INPUT WE HAD ABOUT JUST UNDER 50 FOLKS THAT PARTICIPATED IN THIS. UM, IT WAS BASICALLY A THING WHERE YOU JUST STICK THINGS ON A BOARD TO GET THEIR INPUT. WE'VE ALSO GOT THE PROJECT WEBSITE UP ON THE S-C-T-C-A, UH, SITE. UH, WE ALSO, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT POPUP EVENT, UH, WE DID A SURVEY ONLINE. UH, WE ACTUALLY GOT ABOUT 364 RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY, AND FOLKS WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES. AND I BELIEVE WE GOT ABOUT 200 EMAILS THROUGH THAT PROCESS AS WELL. SO WE'VE GOT SOME REALLY GOOD FEEDBACK FROM THAT, THAT POPUP THAT, UH, SURVEY WAS BASICALLY OPEN, UH, FROM JUNE THROUGH SEPTEMBER. THIS IS JUST SOME INFORMATION WE GOT FROM THAT WEBSITE, JUST, UM, AT A HIGH LEVEL, UH, MOST FOLKS USING THE CORRIDOR, UH, UH, DRIVING CARS. UH, BUT THERE ALSO IS QUITE A LOT OF FOLKS USING BIKES AND WALKING. AND THEN, UH, IN TERMS OF THE FREQUENCY OF USE, UH, UH, A LOT OF FOLKS ARE USING THAT CORRIDOR ON A, ON A REGULAR BASIS. UM, AND THEN WE ALSO PROVIDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS TO JUST GIVE SOME FEEDBACK. AND SOME OF THE, THE, THE, THE MAIN CONCERNS THEY NOTED, UH, THROUGH THAT SURVEY WAS THE BICYCLE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IN THE CORRIDOR, UH, CONCERNS ABOUT TRAFFIC DIVERTING TO SIDE STREETS TO AVOID CONGESTION, AND THAT, UH, WOULD LEAD TO POTENTIAL IMPACTS TO ADJACENT RESIDENTS AS WELL. SO NOW I JUST WANTED TO WALK THROUGH JUST THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT. UH, WE GOT, LIKE I SAID, WE'VE GOT SOME REALLY GOOD FEEDBACK FROM THE PUBLIC FOR THE POPUP EVENT, THE ONLINE SURVEY. SO REALLY JUST STARTING WITH OUR STUDY LIMITS ONCE AGAIN. AND AS WE ZOOM IN ON THIS, THIS IS OVERLAPPING IN PURPLE. THE CALTRANS PROJECT LIMITS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT ALONG THE STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 CORRIDOR FROM JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 1 0 1. AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOING DOWN ALL THE WAY TO ST. STAGE GOLD ROAD. THEY'RE LOOKING AT. UM, AND THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHASE, BUT THEY'RE LOOKING AT ADDING BIKE LANES, UH, TO THE FACILITY, UH, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS. AND THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING AT A SIDEWALK GAP CLOSURE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 1 1 6. IT'S BASICALLY CLOSING THAT GAP BETWEEN, UH, JUST EAST OF MARINA OVER TO, UH, CASA GRANDE. SO WITH, WITH THAT GAP CLOSURE THAT CALTRANS WOULD DO FROM BASICALLY FROM 1 0 1 ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO PA UH, TO FREDDY'S, YOU WOULD HAVE A CONTINUOUS SIDEWALK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 1 1 1 6. UH, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR SIDEWALKS ON THE NORTH SIDE AS WELL, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF CONSTRAINTS THERE. THERE'S, UM, THERE'S GREAT DIFFERENCES, UH, BETWEEN THE ROADWAY AND THE BACKS OF PROPERTIES. UH, THERE IS VERY CONSTRAINED RIGHT OF WAY AVAILABILITY, LOTS OF UTILITIES. UM, SO THE, [00:15:01] THE COST FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD, UM, WE'D HAVE TO EVALUATE POTENTIAL RIGHT OF WAY NEEDS, UH, UTILITY RELOCATIONS, UM, AND POTENTIALLY WARS WHERE WE'VE GOT GREAT DIFFERENCES. THIS NOW OVERLAPS WHAT CALTRANS IS GONNA DO AT PINE VIEW WAY AND STATE ROUTE 1 1 16 WITH THE INTERSEX IMPROVEMENTS. THAT, ONCE AGAIN IS CURRENTLY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHASE. AND THEN THE CITY HAVE A SEWER UPGRADE PROJECT THAT'LL ACTUALLY INCLUDE A PLANNED, UH, TRAIL SEGMENT THAT WILL CONNECT BAYWOOD DRIVE, UH, TO CASA GRANDE. BUT, UH, SORT OF MORE AWAY FROM, SO ROUTE 1 1 1 6. SO WHEN WE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHAT CALTRANS IS PROPOSING TO DO, WHAT THE CITY'S PROPOSING TO DO, WHAT WE'RE SHOWING HERE IN YELLOW IS, UM, IN TERMS OF THE STUDY AREAS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT, THE YELLOW CAN BE SPOT LOCATION OR SE SEGMENT, LOCATIONS OF IMPROVEMENTS POTENTIALLY ALONG THE ROADWAY. THAT COULD BE INTERSECTION TYPE IMPROVEMENTS FOR BIKES, PEDESTRIANS. THE GREEN IS ACTUALLY MORE TRAIL SPECIFIC TYPE PROJECTS, UH, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES TO, UM, ONCE AGAIN, BE AT A SPOT LOCATION, OR IT COULD BE A, A LONGER SEGMENT THAT WE'RE, WE'VE EVALUATED AS WELL. WHAT WITH, WITH THIS STUDY, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, GOING BACK TO OUR OBJECTIVES, IS TO CREATE LIKE LOW STRESS FACILITIES. SO ONCE WE, AS WE LOOK THROUGH THIS STUDY, UH, THE YELLOW HERE IS THE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET FOLKS, UH, ALONG TRAIL SYSTEMS THAT GET YOU OVER TO, UH, AREAS WHERE YOU WOULD LINK TO EXISTING BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES, MORE IN THE LOCAL STREET NETWORK. AND THEN IN PINK, IT PROVIDES THAT CONNECTIVITY NOW TO OTHER TYPES OF, UH, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES OUT THERE. UM, SO WHILE, WHILE WE'RE LOOKING AT MOVING FOLKS ALONG THE STUDY CORRIDOR, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT FOLKS TO EXISTING, UM, TRAIL SYSTEMS OUT THERE, PARK FACILITIES AND WHAT EXISTS TODAY, AS WELL AS LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES THAT, UH, WOULD COMBINE, UH, WITH FUTURE PLAN FACILITIES AS WELL THAT THE CITY'S LOOKING AT. SO NOW I JUST WANTED TO DIG IN A LITTLE BIT DEEPER ON WHAT WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING IN TERMS OF THE TRAIL CONCEPTS. SO THE FIRST ONE IS A CONNECTION, A TRAIL CONNECTION FROM LAKEVILLE STREET TO WATER STREET ADJACENT TO THE SMART TRACKS. SO IT'S MORE OF A SPOT LOCATION TYPE IMPROVEMENT, AND IT CONNECTS THE EXISTING, THE EXISTING TRAIL ON SMART THAT STOPS AT LAKEVILLE STREET, AND THEN THERE'S TRAIL SYSTEMS AND BY PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES ON WATER STREET. SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS BASICALLY JUST EXTENDING A TRAIL ON SORT OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF IT'S THE, UH, IT'S A SPUR TRACK AND PROVIDING THAT CONNECTIVITY, UH, FROM BASICALLY GETTING FOLKS FROM LAKEVILLE STREET TO WATER STREET, THE SECOND AREA, BUILDING UPON WHAT WE DID ON THAT FIRST IDEA, UH, BUILDING SOMETHING PARALLEL TO SMART. WHAT WE LOOKED AT WAS A SEGMENT FROM JEFFERSON STREET, GETTING FOLKS OVER TOWARDS BAYWOOD DRIVE, UM, AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE NEXT TO THE SMART TRACKS. AND WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT DOES IS IT CLOSES THAT GAP, UH, FROM BASICALLY JEFFERSON STREET GETS FOLKS OVER TO, UH, BAYWOOD DRIVE. THEN WHEN THE CITY BUILDS THAT, UH, TRAIL CONNECTION AS PART OF THEIR SEWER PROJECT, YOU CAN THEN MOVE PEOPLE AWAY FROM STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 OVER TO, TO, UH, CASA GRANDE. SO THIS GIVES YOU AN IDEA, JUST SOME OF THE CONCEPTS. IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO THE OTHER ONE. IT'S A LONGER SEGMENT. IT'S REALLY STARTING IN THE TOP LEFT IS JEFFERSON STREET, LOOKING AT SOME TYPE OF, UM, SIGNALED CROSSING THERE, MAYBE A HAWK SIGNAL. UH, BUT MOVING PEOPLE, UH, PARALLEL TO THE SMART TRACKS, THERE WOULD BE RIGHT OF WAY NEEDS, UH, TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. THERE MIGHT BE SOME UTILITY IMPACTS AS WELL. AND THEN CONTINUING ON THE BOTTOM IS CONTINUING, UH, TO THE EAST. AND THEN THE TOP LEFT IS WHERE WE GET TO CORFIELD LANE. SO WE CROSS CORFIELD LANE, BUT THEN WE ALSO PROVIDE THAT CONNECTIVITY TO THE EXISTING BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN F FACILITIES ON CORFIELD LANE THAT ARE GOING SORT OF NORTH SOUTH. AND THEN THAT PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET FOLKS OVER OVER TO THE, THE RIVER AREA WHERE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, EXISTING AND PLANNED FACILITIES AS WELL. SO IT PROVIDES THAT CONNECTIVITY, BUT IT ALSO CONTINUES, UH, UNDER 1 0 1 AND ULTIMATELY CONNECTS [00:20:01] JUST AROUND THE MARINA CROSSING APARTMENTS, UH, WHERE THERE'S AN EXISTING TRAIL SYSTEM, UH, THAT EXISTS TODAY THAT WE WOULD CONNECT INTO ON THAT, ON THAT FACILITY. AND LIKE I SAY, THAT THEN GETS YOU OVER TO BAYWOOD DRIVE. THE NEXT ONE WE WANTED TO LOOK AT IS UNDERSTANDING THAT ADOBE CREEK TRAIL SYSTEM. UM, WE WANTED TO SEE WHAT OPPORTUNITIES THERE WERE TO GET FOLKS ACROSS STATE ROUTE ONE ONE SIX AT ADOBE CREEK AS WELL. SO ADOBE CREEK ON THE TOP. LOOK, BASICALLY THE NORTH SIDE OF THIS, THE TOP SIDE OF THIS EXHIBIT, THERE'S A TRAIL, BOTH SIDES OF THE CREEK. THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS PAVED, THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS UNPAVED. WHEN YOU GO TO THE OTHER SIDE, THE TRAIL TRAIL IS ON THE, UH, SORT OF THE WEST, UH, SIDE OF ADOBE CREEK AND CONTINUES DOWN TO A LOT OF THE, UH, THE OPEN SPACE AREAS. SO HOW CAN WE GET FOLKS ACROSS HERE SAFELY, UH, WITH, UH, SOME TYPE OF SIGNAL. AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS POTENTIALLY SOME TYPE OF HAWK SIGNAL HERE. UH, WE TRIED TO SPLIT AS MUCH OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UH, MCDOWELL AND SAY C LANE IN TERMS OF PLACING THAT, THAT CROSSWALK, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE IT TOO FAR AWAY FROM THE ACTUAL TRAILS THEMSELVES, UH, FOR, TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. AND, AND THIS CONCEPT ASSUMES THAT CALTRANS IS PUTTING IN THE BIKE LANES ON 1 1 6 AS WELL. SO WHAT THIS WOULD REQUIRE, WE'D HAVE TO EXTEND THE BOX CULVER THAT EXISTS UNDER STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 TO BE ABLE TO BUILD SOMETHING LIKE THIS. UH, BUT IT'S REALLY PULLING FOLKS FROM THE NORTH SIDE, BOTH SIDES OF THE CREEK OVER, OVER 1 1 6, AND THEN GET THEM OVER, AND THEN CONNECTING TO THE EXISTING TRAIL THAT GOES TO THE SOUTH. SO THERE'S THE TRAIL CONCEPTS WE LOOKED AT. SO WE NOW WE STARTING TO LOOK AT INTERSECTION CONCEPTS. AND INTERSECTION CONCEPTS ARE FOR ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION, NOT NOT JUST VEHICLES, BUT IT'S ALSO BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS. SO THE FIRST ONE WE STARTED LOOKING AT, UH, IN IS AT BAYWOOD DRIVE. UH, IT'S AN EXISTING SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION. SO WHAT, WHAT CAN WE DO AT BAYWOOD? SO WHAT WE LOOKED AT IN TERMS OF MAINTAINING THE SIGNAL, BUT MODIFYING THE INTERSECTION ITSELF. UM, BUT PROVIDING PROTECTED INTERSECTION. SO BASICALLY GETTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS THAT MAY BE ON BIKES TO BE ABLE TO PULL OUT AROUND THE CURB, RETURNS INTO PROTECTED AREAS, UH, IMPROVING, UH, THE CROSSWALK, UH, LOCATIONS AS WELL. WHAT THESE EXHIBITS SHOW TO ALSO EXISTING TRANSIT STOPS THAT ARE OUT THERE. SO MA MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING ACCESS TO THOSE TRANSIT STOPS OR POTENTIALLY LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THERE'S ANY TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS WE NEED TO DO AT EACH OF THESE LOCATIONS AS WELL. SO THAT, THAT'S JUST A CONCEPT IN TERMS OF PROTECTED INTERSECTION. WE THEN LOOKED AT THE ROUNDABOUT. SO, UM, THE IDEA HERE IS WITH THE ROUNDABOUT IS TO PULL THE BIKES OFF 1 1 16 IN ADVANCE OF THE ROUNDABOUT, GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO ALONG, UH, MIXED USE TRAILS, UH, SIDEWALKS AROUND TO, AND THEN THEY WOULD PULL BACK ON TO STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 AFTER THEY GET THROUGH THE INTERSECTION. SO SIMILARLY, WE LOOKED AT CASA GRANDE ROAD. SO IT'S VERY SIMILAR CONCEPT IN TERMS OF, UH, SIGNALIZING, UH, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS. SO ONCE AGAIN, UH, AND THIS IS SHOWING WHAT CALTRANS IS GONNA BUILD IN TERMS OF THE SIDEWALK. SO WHEN THEY COMPLETE THEIR PROJECT, THAT SIDEWALK GAP THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS ON THE SOUTH SIDE WOULD BE CLOSED UP TO CASA GRANDE. AND THEN THIS IS A, IS A SKEWED INTERSECTION THAT'S MORE OF A, UH, AN INTERESTING, UH, INTERSECTION TO WORK WITH THE BIKES AND PADS, BUT IT'S ONCE AGAIN, GETTING THOSE, UM, SORT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOLKS TO GET OFF BEHIND RAISED CURBS AS THEY GO THROUGH THE INTERSECTION. PROVIDING SOME MORE, UM, UH, SPI FOR THAT. WE'RE ALSO POTENTIALLY ON THE, IF YOU'RE GOING WESTBOUND AND YOU'RE GONNA DO A, A RIGHT TURN TO GO NORTH ON CASA GRANDE, POTENTIALLY SOME TYPE OF RAISED CROSSWALK JUST TO SLOW FOLKS DOWN AS THEY GO AROUND THAT, THAT, UH, THAT RIGHT TURN. WE DID LOOK AT ELIMINATING THE ISLAND AND JUST HAVING A RIGHT TURN THERE, BUT THEN THAT CREATED A VERY LONG CROSSWALK. UM, SO WE, WE FELT THAT THIS AT THE MOMENT IS A CONCEPT THAT IS WORTHWHILE LOOKING AT. AND THEN ONCE AGAIN, LOOKING AT A ROUNDABOUT AT THE SAME, UH, INTERSECTION. AND IT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, AS YOU START TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IF ROUNDABOUTS, UH, ARE SOMETHING THAT [00:25:01] THAT IS OF INTEREST, YOU, YOU MIGHT BE STARTING TO LOOK AT THEM AT, AT MULTIPLE INTERSECTIONS TO, TO KEEP THE TRAFFIC FLOWING AND ADOPTING SIMILAR TYPES OF THEMES IN TERMS OF SAFETY FOR BICYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS. SO ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE THE SIDEWALK GAP CLOSURE BY CALTRANS. UM, AND ONCE AGAIN, THE THEME IS GETTING FOLKS OFF 1 1 6, UH, GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET OFF THROUGH A SAFE PATH THROUGH THE ROUNDABOUT AND THEN GET THEM BACK ON THE FINAL AREA THAT WE LOOKED AT. IT REALLY BUILDS UPON WHAT CALTRANS IS DOING AT PINE VIEW IN TERMS OF SIGNAL, UH, UH, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS THERE, DOING THERE. SO WHAT WE THOUGHT, OKAY, WE'VE GOT SIDEWALK AND TRAIL, UH, IMPROVEMENTS DOWN TO, UH, FREDDY'S ROAD NOW WITH WHAT CALTRANS IS DOING, POTENTIALLY SOME OF THE OPPORTUNITIES WE'RE DOING LOOKING AT ONCE WE, THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS THAT GO DOWN TO THE KAISER HOSPITAL DOWN AT PINE VIEW. UH, THEY HAVE TO USE A LOT OF THE, THE BACK STREETS TO GET OVER THERE. SO WHAT WE LOOKED AT WAS CONTINUING THAT THEME OF WHAT CAN WE DO AT THE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS, BUT SEGMENTALLY, WHAT CAN WE DO IN TERMS OF BIKE PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES, UH, OFF STATE ROUTE 1 1 6, BUT GET THEM OVER AND DOWN TO PINE VIEW. SO I'M GONNA START AT THE FREIGHTS ROAD END ON THESE NEXT EXHIBITS, AND THEN FINISH AT PINE VIEW, WHICH REALLY IS THE CALTRAN CONCEPTS THAT WE'RE BASICALLY BUILDING UPON. SO ONCE AGAIN, IT'S LOOKING AT, UH, SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS, UH, PROTECTED AT FRED'S ROAD, UH, DOING SOME, UH, MODIFICATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS TO THE, UH, BUS TRANSIT STOPS THERE. AND THEN ON THE TOP HERE, SO BASICALLY YOU'RE GOING, UH, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT IS HEADING SOUTH. SO AS WE GO AROUND THAT, THAT CURVE ON, UH, LAKEVILLE, WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT IS O SO ONCE AGAIN, CALTRANS IS DOING THEIR BY LANES ON 1 1 16. WE'RE LOOKING AT O ON EITHER SIDE OF 1 1 16, PUTTING A MULTI-USE PATH THAT WOULD BE SEPARATED MOST LIKELY BY SOME TYPE OF BUYER RETENTION TYPE, UH, FACILITY. AND THEN THAT GETS FOLKS THE, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET DOWN TO PINE VIEW. THERE'S ALSO AN EXISTING TRAIL SYSTEM IN BEHIND THE, UH, THE COMMUNITY OFF RADIS ROAD THAT CURRENTLY STUBBS AND STOPS BEFORE IT GETS TO 1 1 6. SO A BIKE PATH ON THAT NORTH SIDE, UH, SORRY, THE EAST, EAST, NORTHEAST SIDE, UH, WOULD ALSO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT TO IT AS WELL. AND THEN AS WE GET DOWN TO PINE VIEW, THIS IS BASICALLY THE CALTRANS DESIGN FOR A SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION THAT'S CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL PHASE. THAT'S ONE OF THE ALTERNATIVES THEY'RE LOOKING AT. SO WE, WE BUILT UPON THAT, WE, WE MADE SOME, UH, SUGGESTIONS TO THIS MORE FOR THE BIKE PITS THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT. UM, AND WE'RE ALSO LOOK, UH, LOOKING AT THOSE, THOSE BIKE TRAIL, UH, MULTI-USE TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS ON EITHER SIDE AS WELL. SO NOW WHAT IF WE DO ROUNDABOUTS? SO WE DO A ROUNDABOUT AT FREDDY'S ROAD. THE MOVEMENT OF BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS SOUTH IS VERY BASICALLY THE SAME AS AS THE SIGNALS. UM, THE ROUNDABOUT AT FREDDY'S ROAD IS, THE TRAFFIC IS BASICALLY YOU COULD KEEP A SINGLE LANE COMING NORTH AND CREATE A SINGLE LANE GOING SOUTH. RIGHT NOW, THERE'S LIKE A, A LANE DROP GOING SOUTHBOUND, AND THEN IT OPENS UP THE TWO LANES. WITH A ROUNDABOUT LIKE THIS, YOU COULD OPPORTUNITY JUST TO KEEP PEOPLE IN A SINGLE LANE. AND THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS THAT EITHER IN THE, IN THE PEAK PERIODS, THEY, THEY'RE GOING TO, OR FROM FRIDAYS ROAD. SO YOU CAN DESIGN A ROUNDABOUT LIKE THIS TO CONSIDER THOSE PEAK MOVEMENTS AND, AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TURNING LANES THROUGH THE ROUNDABOUT TO GET FOLKS, UH, TO AND FROM FREDDY'S ROAD. SO ONCE AGAIN, AS WE GO SOUTH AND WHAT, WHAT WE'RE USING, UM, JUST NORTH OF SOUTH MCDOWELL BOULEVARD, THERE IS AN EXISTING SIDEWALK OUT THERE TODAY, BUT IT SORT OF STOPS. SO WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WE WOULD SORT OF FOLLOW THAT GENERAL ALIGNMENT OF THAT SIDEWALK, BUT, BUT MAKE IT WIDER. SO IT, IT, IT'S SORT OF MORE OF A, A MULTI-USE TYPE TRIAL. AND THEN ONCE AGAIN, FINISHING WITH WHAT CALTRANS IS CURRENTLY PROPOSING, THIS IS THE, THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE THEY'RE EVALUATING AT PINE VIEW. SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE RIGHT NOW IN ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW ON ROUNDABOUT OR SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS AT THE PINE VIEW INTERSECTION. SO THE WAY WE'RE CONCEPTUALLY, WE'RE THINKING IF THEY BUILD A SIGNAL THERE, MAYBE A SIGNAL THAT MCDOWELL IMPROVED THE SIGNAL AT PHRASE, IF THEY BUILD A ROUNDABOUT AT PINE VIEW, MAYBE YOU KEEP THE ROUNDABOUT THEME GOING AS WELL. [00:30:04] WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING, I, I DON'T HAVE ANY EXHIBITS FOR THIS, IS, UM, IT'S SOME IDEAS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH THE CITY ON FOR LAKEVILLE STREET DOWNTOWN, UH, BETWEEN BASICALLY, UH, PET PETALUMA BOULEVARD NORTH OVER TO EAST D STREET. AND THIS IS, IT'S A VERY CONSTRAINED AREA. THE, THE SMART TRACKS RIGHT NEXT TO LAKEVILLE STREET THROUGH THERE, UM, VERY NARROW, UH, BASICALLY COMING SOUTHBOUND. THE BIKES ARE CURRENTLY SHARING THE TRAFFIC LANE, UH, WITH THE, UH, WITH THE CARS ON THE OTHER SIDE, NARROW SIDEWALKS. SO WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE DEVELOPING CONCEPTS STILL, STILL IN PROGRESS OF, UH, TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS WE COULD DO THROUGH THERE AS WELL. UH, PRIMARILY, UH, FOR BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS, BUT WE ARE CONSTRAINED. SO WE'RE LOOKING MORE OF, UH, STRIPING IMPROVEMENTS, YOU KNOW, ADDING SIDEWALK SEGMENTS POTENTIALLY OUT THERE. THERE'S, THERE'S SOME, UM, INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS AS YOU GO AROUND THE CURVE THERE. UH, BUT MAKING IT MORE DEFINED AS TO WHERE THE SIDEWALK AREAS ARE. FINALLY, I JUST WANTED TO TALK ABOUT TRANSIT SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS. AND THIS, THIS GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF ALL THE EXISTING BUS STOPS. THERE WE GO. UH, ALL THE EXISTING BUS STOPS THAT ARE OUT THERE TODAY ALONG THE CORRIDOR, INCLUDING THE ONES, UH, RIGHT HERE NEXT TO THE SMART STATION. SO WE'RE EVALUATING THOSE BUS STOPS IF THEY, THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE ANY OF THOSE AS PART OF THE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS, THE STUDY AREAS WE'RE LOOKING AT, AS WELL AS JUST, YOU KNOW, DO, UH, DO ANY OF THOSE BUS STOPS NEED TO BE IMPROVED? SO THAT'S SORT OF PART OF THE STUDY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS WELL. AND THEN AS WE DRILL DOWN A BIT, THE EXISTING PARK AND RIDE LOT AT 1 0 1, UH, THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO MAKE IT MORE OF A, WHAT WE WOULD CALL LIKE A MOBILITY HUB, UH, ADDING IN SOME EV CHARGING FOR VEHICLES AND BIKES. AND THERE'S ALSO, RIGHT NOW, IF YOU'RE GOING NORTHBOUND AND THE BUS PULLS INTO THE BUS STOP, IT HAS TO TRAVERSE ACROSS THE RIGHT TURN LANE TO CONTINUE, UH, NORTH ON LAKEVILLE. SO THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY POTENTIALLY FOR WHAT WE WOULD CALL LIKE A BUS QUEUE JUMP LANE, WHERE BASICALLY THE BUS, WE WOULD HAVE TO MODIFY THE RIGHT TURN AND PUSH IT MORE OVER AND CREATE LIKE AN EXTRA LANE BETWEEN THE THROUGH LANE AND THE RIGHT TURN LANE, AND THEN THE BUS COULD PULL INTO THAT, AND THEN IT WOULD GET PRIORITY TO GO THROUGH THE SIGNAL AND CONTINUE NORTHBOUND. SO WE'RE STILL, THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING, UH, WE'RE CURRENTLY JUST LOOKING AT NOW. SO THE NEXT STEPS, UH, WE STARTED THE STUDY, UH, THE START OF THIS YEAR. UH, WE'RE BASICALLY, NOW WE'RE IN THE DECEMBER TIMEFRAME. SO THIS IS BASICALLY WHERE WE ARE HERE TODAY. UH, WE'RE CONTINUING THAT CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT. UH, WE MENTIONED THAT, UH, WE DO HAVE A, A CORRIDOR STUDY OPEN HOUSE THAT WE'RE PLANNING ON JANUARY 28TH OF NEXT YEAR, UH, BETWEEN SIX AND EIGHT AT THE MEWA VALLEY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. UH, THERE IS A QR CODE HERE THAT, UM, CAN BE ACTIVATED, AND IT ACTUALLY TAKES YOU TO THE S-C-T-C-A WEBSITE WHERE THE PROJECT WEBSITE IS. AND THERE'S, THERE'LL BE MORE INFORMATION ADDED TO THAT WEBSITE. THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO FINISH THE STUDY UP THE END OF 2026. SO GO THROUGH, UH, THE PUBLIC REVIEW. UH, WE PLAN SOME OPEN HOUSES AGAIN NEXT YEAR AS WELL. UH, FINALIZE, UH, WHAT WE'VE DONE PREVIOUSLY IS TO PREPARE A, A, A DRAFT CORRIDOR STUDY REPORT, UM, PUBLISH THAT, UM, AND CIRCULATE THAT ON THE, ON THE PROJECT WEBSITE, AND GIVE FOLKS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THAT AS WELL, UH, AND GET COMMENTS BACK THAT WAY. AND THEN ULTIMATELY, OUR GOAL IS TO WRAP THE STUDY UP THE END OF THE NEXT YEAR. AND WITH THAT, OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DAVID, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, WE WILL NOW GO THROUGH THE, UH, PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, AND THEN THE TRANSIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, AND EVERYONE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, ASK DAVID QUESTIONS OR OFFER COMMENTS ON THE, UM, THE STUDY REPORT. I'M GONNA GO KINDA COUNTERCLOCKWISE HERE. UM, IF YOU DON'T MIND STARTING DAVID DOWN THERE, IF YOU'RE READY, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. UH, SURE. UH, GREAT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. UM, JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS. YOU MENTIONED IT BRIEFLY, BUT, UM, WHENEVER YOU TALK ABOUT SIDEWALKS OR BIKE LANES, I'M CURIOUS, IS IT ALL PROTECTED, SEPARATED FROM VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND ALL THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND THE SEGMENTS WE'RE LOOKING AT, THEY WOULD BE SEPARATED FROM THE ADJACENT TRAFFIC LANES, THE CALTRANS, UH, THAT, THAT ONE, THAT SEGMENT THAT I TALKED ABOUT IS STILL UNDER STUDY BY CALTRANS. ALL RIGHT. UM, ANY DISCUSSION [00:35:01] OF SPEED LIMIT CHANGES FOR ANY OF THESE SECTIONS? THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE INTRODUCING TO CALTRANS AND WE'RE HAVING THOSE DISCUSSIONS. UH, CALTRANS, UH, IS A PARTNER IN THE STUDY, SO THEY PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE. UM, WE SORT OF PRESENT THEM INFORMATION AND WE'RE, WE'RE ALSO ASKING THEM TO GIVE US UPDATES ON THEIR PROJECTS AS THEY GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS AS WELL. BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHASE FOR THAT MAINTENANCE PROJECT. UH, THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE, THE BIKE LANES, THE TYPES OF BIKE LANES, AND ALSO POTENTIALLY LAME WITS THROUGH THIS SEGMENT. YOU KNOW, IT'S A CONSTRAINED CORRIDOR FOR THEM AS WELL. MM-HMM . OKAY. UM, AND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE DOING ROUNDABOUTS ALL THE WAY THROUGH VERSUS SOME SIGNALIZE, CAN YOU MAYBE EX EXPAND ON THAT A LITTLE BIT, MAYBE LIKE WHERE YOU'RE AT IN THAT PROCESS? OR I, I GUESS HOW, UM, ARE THERE, ARE THERE REALLY COMPELLING REASONS NOT TO DO ROUNDABOUTS IN, IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU CAN? YEAH, AN EXAMPLE THAT COMES TO PLAY IS AT BAYWOOD, IT'S SO CLOSE TO THE SIGNAL FOR THE RAMPS FOR 1 0 1, THAT POTENTIALLY IF YOU, IF YOU BUILD A ROUNDABOUT THAT CLOSE, AND, AND WE DON'T, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY TRAFFIC STUDIES, THAT'S NOT PART OF OUR STUDY, THAT WOULD BE FUTURE STUDIES ON ANY TYPE OF PROJECT THAT THAT ADVANCED. UM, BUT POTENTIALLY, AND I'VE BEEN STUCK IN THAT TRAFFIC, UM, WHERE IT STOPS AND IT STOPS THROUGH THE SIGNAL. SO IF YOU BUILD A ROUNDABOUT THERE, POTENTIALLY SOMEONE WOULD BE STUCK IN THE ROUNDABOUT, RIGHT? FOLKS TEND TO STOP IN A SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION, NOT GO THROUGH. UM, BUT THEY, THEY, THEY'RE TYPES OF CONSTRAINTS YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK AT. YOU'D HAVE TO, YOU'D HAVE TO SEE IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT MULTIPLE ROUNDABOUTS, HOW TRAFFIC WISE THEY WORK VERSUS SIGNALS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THE ROUNDABOUTS ARE FREE FLOWING. SO, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S THAT ADVANTAGE. UM, IT SLOWS TRAFFIC DOWN. IT'S ALMOST LIKE A, A TRAFFIC CALMING. SO WITH A SIGNAL, IT, YOU KNOW, IF THE, IT'S GREEN FOLKS CAN JUST GO, WHEREAS THE ROUNDABOUTS ARE DESIGNED, WHICH CANES TO COME IN TO, TO SLOW FOLKS AS THEY GO, AS THEY APPROACH GO THROUGH AND, AND GET 3D ROUNDABOUT. OKAY. SO IT REALLY CONCEPTUALLY WE'RE, LOOK IT, YOU COULD PICK ONE AND ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, IF IT, IF IT WORKED, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DID THE ANALYSIS ON A SEGMENT, LIKE MAYBE BETWEEN FREDDY'S AND PINE VIEW, MAYBE YOU COULD DO A ROUNDABOUT AND A SIGNAL, YOU KNOW, OR COMBINATION THAT, THAT'S REALLY WHERE A MORE ADVANCED TRAFFIC STUDY WOULD LOOK AT. BUT TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, IN A SEGMENT LIKE THAT, YOU PROBABLY WANT TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF CONSISTENCY FOR THE DRIVER AS THEY GO THROUGH. I GUESS. YEAH, THAT WAS WHAT I WAS THINKING AS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IT, IT SEEMS LIKE, UM, ROUNDABOUTS OR GENERALLY PREFERRED FOR SAFETY, KINDA LONG-TERM COSTS, UH, TRAFFIC CALMING, LIKE YOU SAID. UM, SO IT SEEMS LIKE UNLESS THERE'S A COMPELLING, LIKE THE ONE YOU MENTIONED OF, YOU KNOW, FREEWAY ON RAMP BACKING UP AND STOPPING THE WHOLE THING LIKE THAT, THAT MAKES SENSE. BUT UNLESS THERE'S LIKE COMPELLING REASONS NOT TO DO ROUNDABOUTS, I GUESS I WOULD, I'D, I, YOU KNOW, MY PREFERENCE WOULD BE TO SEE AS MANY ROUNDABOUTS AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY IF IT, YOU KNOW, CREATES A MORE CONSISTENT DRIVING EXPERIENCE AND FLOW FOR EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. GREAT PRESENTATION. ALRIGHT, IF THAT'S IT THEN, UH, ADAM, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? UH, SURE. AND JUST WANTED TO SAY ADAM GARCIA'S, PRESIDENT FOR PBAC. MY NAME WASN'T CALLED. UH, SO JUST FOR THE RECORD, I'M IN ATTENDANCE. UH, JUST, LET'S SEE, QUESTIONS. UM, KIND OF GETTING TO THE INTERSECTION, IMPROVEMENTS AROUND ROUNDABOUTS. HAVE YOU SEEN ANY EXAMPLES OF SAY LIKE, UH, WAITING BOXES FOR BICYCLISTS? SO WHEN YOU HAVE KIND OF THOSE CURVES, SOME BICYCLISTS MAY WANT TO GO STRAIGHT, OTHERS ARE JUST MAKING THAT CURVE? YEAH, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'VE CONSIDERED OPTIONS FOR THAT OR I'VE SEEN, I, IT'S PROBABLY EARLY IN THE DESIGN PHASE. IT'S VERY EARLY IN THE DESIGN. I, I, THE WAY I LOOK AT IT WITH A ROUNDABOUT, LIKE IF A VERY EXPERIENCED BIKE RIDER VICE IS PROBABLY JUST GONNA STAY IN THE TRAFFIC LANE, GO THROUGH THE ROUNDABOUT, UH, THEY FEEL SAFE DOING THAT. UM, THE MORE RECREATIONAL TYPE BICYCLISTS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY MAY TEND TO WANT THAT OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO PULL OFF IN ADVANCE, UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, SAFELY GET THROUGH TO ROUNDABOUT AND THEN COME BACK ONTO 1 1 6 THAT WAY. BUT YEAH, WE WE'RE AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL CONCEPTUALLY. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE TYPES OF QUESTIONS AS YOU GET MORE INTO DETAILED DESIGN, IF, IF IT, IF SOMETHING FLOATS TO THE SURFACE FOR ANY OF THESE LOCATIONS IN TERMS OF DESIGN, THAT'S WHEN IT WOULD BE STUDIED AND, UH, LOOKED AT MORE CLOSELY. GOT IT. AND THINGS TOO, WITH, UM, JUST DESIGN IN GENERAL, THE STANDARDS ARE CONSTANTLY EVOLVING. THERE'S, THERE'S ALWAYS NEW IDEAS OUT THERE. AND WHAT I'VE FOUND ON PROJECTS IS THAT I COULD START IN THE PLANNING PHASE BY THE TIME I GET TO DESIGN, WHICH, WHICH MIGHT BE A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, FIVE, [00:40:01] 10 YEARS, UM, THE STANDARDS HAVE EVOLVED AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE IMPLEMENTING NEW IDEAS, UH, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT'S HAPPENING LOCALLY AS WELL AS REGIONALLY AND YOU KNOW, ACROSS THE STATES. OKAY. AND ALSO WHAT OVERSEAS COUNTRIES ARE DOING AS WELL. COOL. WELL, THANK YOU. UM, I THINK, YEAH, THE WAITING BOX WAS PROBABLY RELEVANT AS WELL FOR BOTH DESIGNS, THE SIGNALIZE AS WELL TOO. SO YEAH. AS THOSE STANDARDS ARE UPDATED, THAT'S GREAT TO CONSIDER. UH, FOR THE, UM, I GUESS JUST HAVE YOU CONSIDERED ANY CONNECTION, ANY INTEREST IN, I GUESS OR STUDY AROUND CONNECTIONS TO THE FAIRGROUNDS? I KNOW THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT OFF OF THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR, BUT GIVEN THE CITY'S INTEREST IN REDEVELOPING THAT, KIND OF FIGURING OUT WHAT ACTIVITY IMPROVEMENT MIGHT BE. YEAH. UM, ENHANCED, I GUESS JUST CURIOUS IF THAT'S COME UP IN CONVERSATION. IT, WE'RE AWARE OF IT, BUT OUR STUDY IS PRIMARILY MORE THE MOVEMENT OF FOLKS ALONG LAKEVILLE, UM, BUT ALSO PROVIDING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO COME OUT AT THE END OF THE STUDY AND NOT PRECLUDE LIKE FUTURE PLAN FACILITIES, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE FAIRGROUND DEVELOPMENT. SO IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES THERE THAT ARE PLANNED, YOU KNOW, AND THAT INFORMATION'S AVAILABLE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE STUDY WE COULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE A LOOK AT IT AS WELL. OKAY. GREAT. YEAH, IT KIND OF MAKES, I GUESS, FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY OF THE CONNECTION OPPORTUNITIES, OPPORTUNITIES TO EXISTING BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES ON LOCAL STREETS. YEAH. AS YOU'RE HIGHLIGHTING THOSE OTHER AREAS, UH, LET'S SEE, A QUESTION FOR, UM, ADOBE CREEK. UH, WAS THERE ANY STUDY SIMILAR TO HOW YOU DID FOR THE, UH, US 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY ABOUT POTENTIAL UNDER CROSSING, SAY UNDER 1 0 1 THROUGH THAT KIND OF CREEK? YEAH, CON, UH, CONTAINER AREA, WE, WE, WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT LIKE AN UNDER CROSSING ON AN OVER CROSSING, UM, YOU KNOW, AT ADOBE CREEK, UH, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GO UNDER THERE POTENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE A FLOODING ISSUE. UM, IF YOU TRY AND GO OVER JUST THE, AND ALSO THE, IN TERMS OF A, A SHARED USE FACILITY, BIKES AND PEDESTRIAN, THERE'S, THERE'S GRADES FOR BIKES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MEET AS WELL AS, UM, MINIMUM MAXIMUM GRADES FOR PEDESTRIANS AS WELL. SO JUST TO, TO BE ABLE TO GET DOWN AND, UM, YOU KNOW, CREATE ENOUGH VERTICAL SEPARATION TO BE ABLE TO GO UNDER SOMETHING OR EVEN OVER IS A, IS A LONG LENGTH. SO YOU, YOU'D BE STARTING, YOU KNOW, LIKE A DOWN RAMP OR AN UP RAMP, A FAIRWAY DISTANCE ALONG ADOBE CREEK TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT MM-HMM . AND THEN THAT WOULD THEN BE TAKEN AWAY, THOSE EXISTING TRAILS OUT THERE. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD NO LONGER BE ABLE TO CONNECT DIRECTLY, YOU KNOW, TO 1, 1 60 IF YOU STILL WANTED TO DO THAT. UM, SO THERE, THERE'S PROS AND CONS FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN A VERY CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENT LIKE ADOBE CREEK SOMETHING ADD TOO. YEAH. AND YEAH, SO, UM, YOU MAY RECALL IN OUR ONE OH ONE CORRIDOR CROSSING STUDY, UM, AT THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL CROSSING OF NORTH MCDOWELL, WE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT AN UNDER CROSSING OPTION MM-HMM . AND THAT LOCATION, UM, IT'S ACTUALLY LESS CONSTRAINED, I BELIEVE, UM, THAN THIS LOCATION. AND, AND THERE THE, THE DECISION WAS NOT TO PURSUE A GRADE GRADE SEPARATED UNDER CROSSING. UM, AND TO, AND TO DO SOMETHING AT GRADE SEEMED TO BE THE MOST FEASIBLE AND COST EFFECTIVE. SO IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, THE ANSWER'S GONNA BE THE SAME HERE. OKAY. YEAH. YEAH. I GUESS I HADN'T SEEN THE KIND OF S SCHEMATICS, SO IT'S, WOULD LIKE TO, I GUESS, SEE THAT PROOF AS WELL. UM, AND I GUESS MY LAST QUESTION, UH, JUST WITH THAT STUDY ALONG, UH, THE KIND OF FOCUS STUDY FROM EAST D STREET TO, UH, NORTH PETALUMA BOULEVARD, PARTICULARLY AT THAT EAST D STREET INTERSECTION, I KNOW SMART OWNS SEVERAL OF THOSE PROPERTIES JUST TO THE SOUTH. I'M JUST WONDERING, HAVE YOU ENGAGED WITH THEM AT ALL IN THIS PROCESS, IN CONSIDERING POTENTIAL ROUNDABOUT FOR, FOR THAT INTERSECTION? WE, WE HAVEN'T CONSIDERED A ROUNDABOUT. I KNOW WHERE WE ARE. I THINKING A COUPLE, YEAH, WE DO HAVE A MEETING COMING UP TO WITH SMART JUST TO TALK THROUGH SOME OF THESE IDEAS, UH, FOR I THINK IN THE NEXT WEEK OR OR SO. SO WE HAVEN'T, UM, WE HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT IT ROUNDABOUT THERE, UH, ROUNDABOUT IN A CONSTRAINED AREA THERE WITH THE SMART TRACKS RIGHT THERE. IT'D BE, IT WOULD BE. AND THE ADJACENT, UH, PROPERTY IS RIGHT UP AGAINST BACK OF SIDEWALK, SO IT WOULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT. YEAH, THERE'S A, IT'S A GREAT, GREAT EXAMPLE IN WINDSOR [00:45:01] WHERE IT'S, IT'S BEEN DONE AS WELL. AND, UM, YEAH, THAT'S, I GUESS MY JUST LAST COMMENT WOULD JUST BE CONSIDERING YEAH, KIND OF WAYS TO, FOR OBVIOUSLY PEDESTRIANS TO GET THROUGH THERE, EASIEST THAT'S, UH, CONNECTING TO THE FAIRGROUNDS, FOR INSTANCE. UM, THAT, THAT WOULD BE POTENTIAL MAIN EXIT POINT FOR SMART RIDERS WHO WANT, UH, TO BE ABLE TO WALK TO THE FAIRGROUNDS, FOR INSTANCE. AND ONE, THE OTHER IDEA IS WITH THE DIG IN SMART TRAIN STATION IS THAT'S POTENTIALLY ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR A MOBILITY HUB. THEY'VE ALREADY GOT ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGE THERE, SO POTENTIALLY YOU COULD PUT IN SOME OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE. UH, TYPICALLY FOLKS WITH A MOBILITY HUB WANNA BE CLOSE TO LIKE SHOPS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO, YOU KNOW, GET A CUP OF COFFEE, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THAT, THAT'S A, A PRETTY GOOD LOCATION FOR THAT. GREAT. THANKS. IT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. THANKS ADAM. AND, UH, YEAH, DAVID, YOU COULD PLEASE YEAH, MAKE SURE YOU'RE USING THE MICROPHONE THERE FOR, UH, EVERYONE IN THE ROOM. ALL, SORRY ABOUT THAT. UM, ANYONE ONLINE? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. AND NOW, UH, CODY, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THIS PLAN? THANK YOU. SURE. YES. UM, MINE ARE ALL AROUND THE, UH, JEFFERSON TO BAYWOOD TRAIL. THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS. SO LOOKING AT IT, BECAUSE THE TRAIL COMES FROM THE MARINA, IT GOES UNDER THE OVERPASS, IS THIS ALSO GOING TO BE THE MISSING LINK FOR THE RIVERFRONT ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM? BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THAT THE TRAIL THAT WAS STARTED AT THE NEW, OR I THINK RIVER BEND PROPERTIES CAN LINK UP TO THAT. IS THAT PART OF THE PLAN? SO, UM, THERE IS A VISION FOR TWO DIFFERENT MULTI-USE PATHWAY CONNECTIONS THROUGH THAT AREA. UM, IF YOU GO BACK TO OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN THAT WAS RECENTLY ADOPTED, UM, THERE IS AN ALIGNMENT THAT MORE CLOSELY FOLLOWS THE RIVER, UH, UNDER FROM THE RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD. OKAY. UNDER US 1 0 1 UNDER THE SMART TRACKS, AND THEN IT CUTS UP, UM, TO THE MARINA, UH, JUST EAST OF, OF, UH, US 1 0 1. UM, SO THAT'S ONE OPTION. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY CURRENTLY IN OUR, UM, COUNCIL APPROVED, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN. UM, AND THEN THE OTHER OPTION, WHICH WOULD, SO THAT'S MORE OF A, I THINK, YOU KNOW, SERVES KIND OF THE RIVER RIVER ACCESS, UH, AND, AND WHAT WAS ENVISIONED IN THE RIVER ACCESS AND ENHANCEMENT PLAN FROM THE 1990S. UM, AND THE OTHER OPTION WHICH WE'RE SHOWING HERE, A MORE DIRECT TRAIL, UH, MORE FOR FOLKS WHO MIGHT BE MAYBE, UH, TRANS, UH, TRAVELING IN A MORE UTILITARIAN FASHION, UM, AND JUST WANT TO PICK THE MOST DIRECT PATH OF TRAVEL THROUGH THE AREA. UM, AND THAT MORE CLOSELY FOLLOWS THE HOPPER STREET, LAKEVILLE STREET CORRIDOR. SO THAT'S MY OTHER QUESTION, BECAUSE THEN IF THIS IS ON HOPPER STREET, YOU'D BE PASSING IN FRONT OF THE NEW FRONT DOOR TO THE RIVER PARK, WHICH GIVES YOU, UH, EVEN QUICKER WAY THAN TO CUT OVER AND TAKE THEIR BRIDGE INTO DOWNTOWN. RIGHT. SO ARE THEY BEING FACTORED INTO THIS? YEAH. YEAH. SO THAT WHOLE, UM, ALL OF THAT CONNECTIVITY, UH, THAT PLANNED CONNECTIVITY IS, UH, IS UNDER CONSIDERATION. THE CHALLENGE HERE IS THAT YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE BARRIERS TO TRANSPORTATION. YOU HAVE THE SMART TRACKS, WHICH HAVE EXTREMELY LIMITED CROSSING OPPORTUNITIES. SO OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN'T CROSS THE SMART TRACKS FROM, UH, BETWEEN D STREET AND CAULFIELD. RIGHT. UM, YOU'RE STUCK ON ONE SIDE OF THE TRACKS OR THE OTHER. SO THE ENHANCEMENTS THAT THE RIVER PARK FOLKS ARE, UH, PLANNING ARE ON THE HOPPER STREET SIDE OF THE TRACKS. AND THIS WOULD PROVIDE AN OPTION ON THE LAKEVILLE STREET SIDE OF THE TRACKS, UM, WHICH IS BASICALLY, SO AGAIN, THE TRACKS ARE, UH, BASICALLY A WALL IN THAT SECTION THAT WAS HARD TO VISUAL. SO THEN MY, MY LAST QUESTION'S GONE BECAUSE, SO THIS IS NOT GOING ALONG HARBOR STREET 'CAUSE 'CAUSE THAT WAS IDENTIFIED AS A, UH, A HIGH INCIDENT CORRIDOR. SO THERE WON'T BE ANY SAFETY RISKS WITH THIS TRAIL BECAUSE IT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE? OR IS THIS ALSO, WE HAVE PLANS FOR BOTH. SO WE HAVE PLANS FOR, UM, A PATHWAY THAT FOLLOWS, UM, THE WATER AS CLOSELY AS IT CAN, WHETHER THAT'S THE RIVER OR MCNAIR CHANNEL. UM, AND THEN IN ANY LOCATION WHERE THERE IS EXISTING DEVELOPMENT OR LAND USE WHERE A PATHWAY IS NOT VIABLE CURRENTLY, UM, THEN IT'LL GO TO THE CLOSEST ON STREET CONNECTION AVAILABLE, WHICH IN THAT CASE WOULD BE HOPPER STREET. UM, SO IT'S ALL, IT'S, IT WOULD BE EASIER TO, TO LOOK AT A MAP AND KIND OF POINT OUT WHERE, UH, I MEAN, I GUESS I COULD FLIP BACK FAR BACK TO THE, AND THESE ARE GREAT QUESTIONS. UM, ALL RIGHT, LET'S SEE. GET MY CURSOR HERE. SO YEAH, SO YOU CAN SEE THE, THE, THE SMART TRACKS HERE, UM, ARE JUST SOUTH OF THAT GREEN LINE. SO THIS PATHWAY WOULD GET PEOPLE, UM, WHO ARE USING THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR OVER TO, UM, TOWARDS CAULFIELD ON THAT SIDE SEPARATELY. YOU KNOW, YOU CURRENTLY HAVE ACCESS ALONG HOPPER STREET, EXCUSE ME. AND THEN IF ANYTHING DEVELOPS ON THE PAMA RIVER PARK [00:50:01] PROPERTY ON HOPPER STREET, THERE WOULD BE FRONTAGE IMPROVEMENTS THERE THAT WOULD PROVIDE THE SAME DEGREE OF CONNECTIVITY, UM, THAT THIS PATHWAY WOULD. OKAY. YEAH. 'CAUSE MY ONLY CONCERN WAS IF THIS IS GOING ALONG HOPPER STREET, IT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED AT A HIGH IN INCIDENT CORRIDOR. RIGHT. WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THERE'D HAVE TO BE OTHER SAFETY MEASURES IN PLACE FOR THAT TRAIL THEN, RIGHT? YEAH, NO, THE GOAL IS FOR, UH, THE GOAL THAT WAS, THAT WAS REALLY, UM, OUTLINED IN OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN WAS FOR, TO MAXIMIZE SEPARATION BETWEEN, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION USERS, PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING, AND ROLLING, AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC. SO THANK YOU. THAT'S, THAT'S THE VISION. AND I THINK JUST OUR STUDY TOO IS REALLY JUST BUILDING UPON WHAT, WHAT CALTRANS IS ALREADY PLANNING AND ALSO WHAT THE CITY'S PLANNING AS WELL, AND JUST THE ABILITY TO MAYBE, YOU KNOW, DEPEND ON WHAT ADVANCES IS, MAKING SURE THAT WE PROVIDE ANY TYPE OF CONNECTIVITY TO, TO OTHER PLANT FACILITIES. OKAY. THAT'S IT. CODY, BRIAN? YEAH. HI. THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EXACTLY WHAT IT IS THAT THE LONG-TERM PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS OF THIS ROADWAY ARE. UM, I WANTED TO FOCUS IN ON THE S SMART TRACK CONNECTION BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND WATER STREET. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I USE ALL THE TIME FOR MYSELF TO BE ABLE TO GET DOWNTOWN AS A CYCLIST BECAUSE I LIVE ON THE EAST SIDE AND IT'S REALLY THE MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO BE ABLE TO GET DOWNTOWN. AND SO FAR IT IS. THE, THE LACK OF A CONNECTION REALLY TO THE DOWNTOWN IS, UM, BECAUSE IT IS CURRENTLY INCOMPLETE, IS VERY MUCH AN IMPEDIMENT TO SOMEONE WHO'S NOT A EITHER AVID CYCLIST OR, YOU KNOW, VERY SURE OF THEMSELVES ON THAT ROUTE, BECOMES VERY PRECARIOUS BECAUSE, UH, AT THE MOMENT IT JUST DEAD ENDS INTO LAKE STREET, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND UTILITY POLES. YOU HAVE NO DIRECT ACCESS ONTO NORTH PETALUMA, UM, FROM EITHER A LEFT HAND TURN OR RIGHT HAND TURN. SO, UM, AND I KNOW THAT WATER STREET IS A MUCH LESS TRAVELED ROAD, UM, RUNS BEHIND, UM, A LOT OF THE BUSINESSES THERE. UM, IS THERE ANY OTHER, UM, I GUESS CONNECTION OPPORTUNITIES FROM THAT PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT? BECAUSE ONCE YOU END UP THERE, YOU, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU WOULD RUN INTO SIMILAR PROBLEMS WITH THAT LAST, NOT, NOT EVEN LAST MILE, THE, THAT LIKE LAST 50 FEET CONNECTION TO BE ABLE TO GET TO WHERE YOU REALLY NEED TO GO. YEAH. OR IS THAT OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THAT, THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THIS PARTICULAR STUDY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT? UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THE CITY'S YOU'RE, UH, SORRY, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST PAST THIS SOUTHERN TERMINUS SHOWING HERE AT WATER STREET? YEAH. YEP. SO, UM, WE, YOU CAN SEE HERE, UH, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN HERE IS THIS WOULD BE FILLED IN BASICALLY, UM, WITH A WIDENED SIDEWALK WHERE THERE'S CURRENTLY A CROSSWALK ACROSS, UH, WATER STREET AT, AT THE DEAD END THERE. UM, SO THAT IT COULD POTENTIALLY BE CONVERTED INTO A, UM, A CONTINUOUS MULTI-USE CONNECTION JUST AROUND THE BEND THERE TO THE PATHWAY THAT PICKS UP, UM, OVER BY THE APARTMENTS. UM, OR, UH, YOU KNOW, GIVEN HOW LOW LOW TRAFFIC, UM, WATER STREET IS, IT'S, IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT TOO LONG OF AN ON-STREET GAP FOR PEOPLE TO JUST POP OUT AND THEN MAKE A LEFT TURN, AND THERE COULD BE SOME ADDITIONAL STRIPING OR SIGNAGE ENHANCEMENTS TO, TO REINFORCE THAT CONNECTION. GREAT. AND THEN IS THERE ANY ADDITIONAL, UM, THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CONNECTION FROM THAT AREA TO THE, ALSO THE LYNCH KE CREEK TRAIL AREA? YEAH, SO, UM, WELL, RIGHT NOW YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A CONNECTION FROM, UM, JUST SOUTH OF HERE. UH, THAT, THAT PATHWAY DOES CONNECT TO THE, TO THE BRIDGE ACROSS, UH, THE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER, UM, AND GETS YOU ONTO LYNCH CREEK TRAIL. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS YOU'RE, YOU'RE THINKING WOULD BE NEEDED. UM, JUST POTENTIALLY EITHER DIRECT ROUTE AMONGST, UH, YOU KNOW, RIGHT BY THE CLOVER, UM, PLANT AND AROUND THAT AS EITHER MORE DIRECT ROUTE. OH, GOTCHA, GOTCHA. UM, FOR ACCESS, YOU KNOW, TO THOSE COMMUNITIES DIRECTLY, UM, THAT RUN A, I KNOW THAT THAT SPACE IS ALSO VERY CONSTRAINED IN TERMS OF BOTH THE PATHING AND SMART TRAIN LOCATION AND THEN THE ROADWAY ITSELF, BUT IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THAT COULD POTENTIALLY MAKE THAT A MORE PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE FRIENDLY PORTION OF THE CORRIDOR AS WELL, BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES OPEN UP A LOT OF THE ADDITIONAL ACCESS, UM, TO THOSE COMMUNITIES DIRECTLY. GOTCHA. SO NOW [00:55:01] YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, BETWEEN THE SMART PATHWAY AND, UM, LYNCH CREEK ON LAKEVILLE. OKAY, GOTCHA. SORRY FOR MISUNDERSTANDING. YEAH, SO THAT WAS, DAVID MENTIONED THAT WE'RE WORKING ON A COUPLE OF IDEAS THERE. I THINK ONE IS A, WOULD BE MORE OF A NEAR TERM IMPLEMENTATION. WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME GRANT FUNDING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT NEXT YEAR, JUST MAKING SOME STRIPING CHANGES TO THAT SECTION OF LAKEVILLE, UH, TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO. UM, AT A MINIMUM, I THINK WE, WE CAN PROVIDE, UM, ON STREET BIKE LANES AND WE COULD STRIPE SOME SIDEWALKS THROUGH THOSE REALLY LONG DRIVEWAY SECTIONS, UH, BY, UM, BOTH CLOVER AND HUNT AND BARONS. UM, AND THEN WE WOULD ALSO BE LOOKING AT SOME LONGER TERM IDEAS AS WELL. UM, BUT IN, AT THE VERY LEAST, WE'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE SOME STRIPING MODIFICATIONS OUT THERE, UM, IN 2026 AND NARROW THE TRAVEL LANES DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND, AND DEFINE THOSE PATHS OF TRAVEL FOR PEOPLE WALKING, BIKING THROUGH THE AREA. GREAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YEP. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, BRIAN. UH, AMBER, GO AHEAD PLEASE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I HAVE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE PRESENTATION. WHAT ASPECT OF GETTING SMART INVOLVED IN ANY OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS? THE, I'M CARRYING OVER WITH HIM THAT THE SMART TRACKS IN THAT AREA ARE, I'M SORRY, LETHAL FOR ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPEN. AND I LOVE THE STRIPING AND EVERYTHING, BUT IF THE ROADWAY'S NOT ACTUALLY RIDEABLE BECAUSE IT'S WITHIN THE SMARTS REALM, WHAT POWER DO WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THAT AS WELL? AND I, I THINK WITH THE SMART, THE IDEA OF THE, THE TRAILS IN AND AROUND THE SMART TRACKS IS REALLY TO BUILD UPON WHAT TRAILS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BUILT. UH, WORKING CLOSELY WITH SMART, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FACILITY, LIKE TO THE NORTH OF THIS LOCATION, UH, NORTH OF LAKEVILLE STREET. SO IT'S REALLY JUST CONTINUING THAT COORDINATION. WE'RE SMART LOOKING FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THEIR RIGHT OF WAY WHERE YOU POTENTIALLY COULD, COULD PUT A TRAIL SYSTEM. AND THEN, UH, LOOKING AT THE, THE CROSSINGS LIKE YOU WOULD HAVE ON, ON LAKEVILLE STREET, YOU KNOW, WHAT IMPROVEMENTS YOU CAN DO THERE. UH, AND IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT, AS YOU GO NORTH UP THROUGH LIKE WINDSOR AND, AND OTHER TOWNS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE, THE IMPROVEMENTS FOR CROSSING SIMILAR THIS HAS BEEN DONE IS JUST BUILDING UPON THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. I THINK I'M THE LAST FEEDBACK MEMBER TO GO, SO I WILL GO, UM, GOT A LIST OF COMMENTS HERE. UM, I'M GONNA ECHO THE PREFERENCE FOR, FOR ROUNDABOUTS, UH, WHERE, AND WHENEVER WE CAN, UM, ADVOCATE FOR THOSE. IT'S NICE TO HAVE ALTERNATIVES, UM, BUT UH, IT'S BETTER TO MAKE THE INVESTMENT DO IT THE RIGHT WAY. UM, SO, UH, YEAH, LIKE TO HAVE ALTERNATIVES IN THERE. I GOT TO THE, UH, SIGNALIZE INTERSECTIONS FIRST IN MY REVIEW AND STARTED MARKING IT ALL UP AND THEN GOT TO THE NEXT PAGE AND THOUGHT, OH, OKAY, WELL , IT'S COVERED GOOD. UM, SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN, UH, ABANDON, UM, THOSE PLANS FOR SIGNALIZING, ALL THOSE INTERSECTIONS, UH, TO THE SOUTHEAST. UM, AND THEN ALSO MENTIONED IS THE REDUCED SPEED, UH, REALLY NEEDS TO BE, UH, A PRIORITY, UM, AND, AND LOOKING AT THIS ANALYSIS. SO I HOPE THAT THE, UH, FUTURE REPORTS, UH, HAVE SOME, SOME CONCRETE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, TO WHERE WE CAN PUSH THAT AS, AS, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE. THERE'S NO REASON TO GO THROUGH TOWN ALONG THAT CORRIDOR, YOU KNOW, FASTER THAN HUMAN SPEED. UM, AND THEN AS WE'VE BEEN GETTING INTO, UM, I NOTICED THIS AL ALSO THAT THE FIRST MILE FROM THE BOULEVARD DOWN TO JEFFERSON, THERE'S NOT A LOT IN THE PLAN. UM, AND, UH, THAT IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF A SKETCHY AREA. THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN DO WHERE THE TRACKS CROSS THE ROAD AT A FIVE DEGREE ANGLE OR WHATEVER THAT IS. UM, BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE AND WE NEED TO SEE IN FUTURE REPORTS. UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT WHITE LINE TO WHITE LINE ALONG A LOT OF LAKEVILLE THERE. IT'S 24 FEET. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU NEED 12 FEET FOR EACH LANE. YOU CAN DEFINITELY GET, UM, LEGAL VEHICLES DOWN ON 10 AND A HALF FEET OR SO. UM, SO, SO YEAH. ANY, ANY SORT OF IDEAS TO, UM, ADD SOME SPACE THERE? GO AHEAD, JOHN. SORRY, CHAIR YEAGER. I, I DON'T, SORRY TO INTERRUPT. UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE A CHANCE TO HEAR FROM OUR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. AND SO IF WE CAN JUST KEEP THIS TO SECTION TO QUESTIONS ONLY FROM THE COMMITTEES AND THEN SAVE SURE. COMMITTEE COMMENTS FOR AFTERWARDS, PLEASE. THANKS. UM, YEAH. THANK YOU. UM, WHICH ONE OF THESE ARE QUESTIONS, UH, AT JEFFERSON THERE? COULD THAT BE A, IS JEFFERSON STOPLIGHT? UM, THERE ARE A COUPLE WHERE YOU'VE GOT CROSSWALKS AND I'M, I'M GONNA ASK, IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO A STOPLIGHT INSTEAD OF JUST LIKE A FLASHING SIGNAL LINES CROSS LANE? THAT THAT'S POTENTIALLY AN IDEA THAT OKAY. YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE EVALUATED. UH, YOU'D HAVE TO SORT OF LOOK AT THE TRAFFIC, UH, IN MORE DEPTH, UH, THE TRAFFIC STUDIES ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT COULD BE EVALUATED. OKAY. UM, THERE'S A SPOT, UH, THERE'S A PATH BEHIND SOUTHGATE PARK, RIGHT ON THE, THE EDGE OF THE LAST HOUSING DEVELOPMENT THERE THAT ALSO DEAD ENDS. AND, UM, I WAS WONDERING IF, UH, TO A FUTURE [01:00:01] REPORT A, UM, CROSSWALK COULD BE ADDED THERE AS WELL. IT'S, IT'S KIND OF IN BETWEEN YOUR, UM, YEAH. I THINK WE PROVIDED A T CONNECTION TO THAT. I THINK HERE. IS IT SOUTHVIEW, THE BACK OF SOUTHVIEW? UM, YEAH, IT'S BETWEEN, UM, SORRY, IT'S IN MY NOTES HERE. RIGHT THERE. YEAH. OOPS, I, I DON'T THINK I SAW ANYTHING ON IT. OH, IT'S THIS AREA RIGHT HERE? YES. YEAH. SO WE, CONCEPTUALLY WE WOULD PROVIDE A CONNECTION TO THAT. UH, WE DIDN'T PUT A CROSSWALK, PROPOSE A CROSSWALK THERE. OUR THOUGHT PROCESS IS TO EITHER GET HIM DOWN TO, UH, UH, WAS IT MCDOWELL OR GET HIM OVER FREDDY'S TO MAKE THAT CROSSING. OKAY. SO THE PLAN WOULD BE JUST TO STAY ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE AT THAT SPOT? YEAH. OKAY. UM, AND, UH, MIGHT THE FUTURE REPORT ALSO INCLUDE SOME LANDSCAPE AND I DIDN'T SEE ANY MENTION OF, OF TREES IN HERE AND, UH, CORRIDOR COULD INCLUDE A LOT MORE SHADE? YEAH. WE, THESE ARE LIKE ZOOMED IN EXHIBITS OF BIGGER EXHIBITS WHERE WE HAVE TYPICAL SECTIONS. SO THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR BY RETENTION. YEAH, WE'RE ADDING PAVEMENT IN CERTAIN AREAS. SO WE'D BE LOOKING, UH, IF A CONCEPT LIKE THIS EVOLVED INTO DESIGN, WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, AREAS LIKE THAT FOR LANDSCAPING, HARDSCAPE, AND POTENTIAL TREES AS WELL. THAT WOULD BE PART OF THAT PROCESS. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, NOW YIELD TO, UH, TRANSIT PLEASE. GIL. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. SO, UM, WE'LL MIRROR THEIR, THEIR ORDER AND, UH, BJORN HAS ASKED US TO, UM, LEAVE ROOM FOR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT. SO LET US, UH, TRY TO RESTRICT OURSELVES TO QUESTIONS. SO FRED, OKAY. UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, I, ON THE TRANSIT END BUS AND THE SMART AND ALL THAT, I THINK THE MAIN THING THAT I HAD AT IS WHEREVER WE HAVE BUS STOPS ON ANY OF THE ROUTES COMING INTO LAKEVILLE, ALONG LAKEVILLE, WE MAKE SURE THEY'RE PULLOUTS. MM-HMM . IMMEDIATELY. I MEAN, I KNOW THAT'S NOT EASY IF THERE'S CONSTRUCTION OR YOU CAN MAYBE GET THE DEVELOPERS TO DO THIS, BUT ONE THING THAT, SO THAT DOESN'T BLOCK TRAVEL. UM, ONE THING I'VE ALWAYS, UM, HAD AN ISSUE WITH IS THE ONRAMP OR THE OFF RAMP ON 1 0 1 ONTO LAKEVILLE, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU SPENT ON THAT ONE, JUST DISCUSSING, BUT THAT'S WHERE THE TRUCKS COME IN. MM-HMM . UH, SO NOT THAT THIS IS GONNA LIVE IN FAVORS FOR PEOPLE IN THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY, BUT IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN REGULATE THE TIMES OF DAY THE TRUCKS ARE USING THAT OFF RAMP? I DUNNO. I MEAN, SOME PLACES YOU CAN SAY NO TRUCKS THIS HOUR, THESE HOURS. SO THOSE ARE THE ONLY COMMENTS. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU PATTY. UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS AT THE TIME, AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INFORMATIVE PRESENTATION, FRANK. YES. THANK YOU. UH, OKAY. SO, UM, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE IS, UM, WHAT SECTIONS OF THE CORRIDOR IS CALTRANS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONS FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION VERSUS THE CITY? SO, RIGHT, RIGHT NOW, THE CALTRAN JURISDICTION, OBVIOUSLY IT'S A 1 0 1 FREEWAY AND THEN STATE IT'S STATE ROUTE 1 1 6 FROM BASICALLY JUST WEST OF 1 1, 1 0 1 ALL THE WAY DOWN, UH, TO STATES, GOCH. SO THAT'S UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF CALTRANS IN TERMS OF, UH, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF THEIR MAINTENANCE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. UM, BUT IT'S, IT'S VERY COMMON FOR A LOCAL AGENCY LED PROJECT TO, TO DO IMPROVEMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN CALTRANS, UH, JURISDICTION AS WELL. SO WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH CALTRANS. THEY'VE AL ALREADY DONE A LOT OF WORK IN ADVANCE ON THESE VARIOUS PROJECTS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT. GOT, THEY'VE GONE THROUGH PLANNING INTO ENVIRONMENTAL PHASES PRETTY MUCH ON THOSE THREE PROJECTS NOW. AND ONE'S READY TO GO INTO CONSTRUCTION AT STAGE, GCH. UH, SO WE, UH, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE SHOWING HERE BUILDS UPON WHAT CALTRANS WOULD DO UNDER THEIR PROJECT. SO WE'VE MADE THE ASSUMPTION THAT CALTRANS IS GONNA BE OUT THERE FIRST, UH, DOING IMPROVEMENTS ALONG STATE ROUTE 1 1 16 FROM 1 0 1 THROUGH TO THE SEA LIMITS, AND THEN WHAT CAN WE DO? AND WE CAN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THEM TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF THEIR DESIGNS. UM, BUT REALLY, UH, IT, IT'S [01:05:01] REALLY THEIR DESIGN. UM, BUT IT HAS TO GO, UH, THROUGH THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS ON THEIR DESIGNS. AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE CURRENTLY AT. GOT IT. SO, SO IF WE'RE, UM, IT'S THE REALLY THE FINAL DECISION IN TERMS OF ROUNDABOUTS AT INTERSECTIONS OR THE TYPES OF BIKE LANES FROM THE 1 0 1 OFF RAMP TO THE CITY LIMITS AND, AND THE CONSTRUCTION PIECE OF THAT, IS THAT REALLY LIKE CALTRANS JURISDICTION OR, SO THEY WOULD REALLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION? NOT NECESSARILY. LIKE RIGHT NOW THEY'RE DOING THE DESIGN AT PINE VIEW. THEY'RE EVALUATING THE DESIGN AT PINE VIEW BECAUSE THAT WAS A HIGH PRIORITY SAFETY PROJECT BASED, BASED ON THAT RECENT FATALITY. SO THEY'RE DOING THAT DESIGN IN HOUSE. UM, THEY'RE ARE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THEY, UH, THEY HAVE LIMITED FUNDING JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. MM-HMM . UM, BUT IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, FOR A LOCAL AGENCY, UH, IT COULD BE A COUNTY, IT COULD BE A CITY, IT COULD BE A, UH, A TRAFFIC AUTHORITY, POTENTIALLY THEY COULD DO AN IMPROVEMENT AT AN INTERSECTION, UM, BUT IT WOULD STILL BE UNDER THE CALTRANS JURISDICTION. THEY, THEY WOULD OVERSEE THE DESIGN BY THE LOCAL AGENCY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE BY THE LOCAL AGENCY THAT THAT'S PRETTY COMMON. SURE. I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND IS WHEN CONSTRUCTION, WHEN, WHEN THIS PROCESS IS DONE AND CONSTRUCTION STARTS MM-HMM . IS THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A POINT AT WHICH CALTRAN COMES UP TO AND THEN THE CITY HAS TO TAKE OVER? AND WHETHER THAT WOULD BE SORT OF A COORDINATED EFFORT? IS THAT THE, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MAINTENANCE? NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT, UM, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING IN ROUNDABOUTS YEAH. VERSUS, YOU KNOW, IN SOME OF THESE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THIS LIKE REALLY GETS DOWN TO LIKE REBUILDING THE ROAD. YEAH. RIGHT. AND I, AS I, AS I'M LOOKING AT THIS, IT FEELS TO ME LIKE A LOT OF THE, UM, A LOT OF THE FOCUS OR THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU'RE SEEKING IS ON REALLY THAT, THAT POINT UP TO 1 0 1. AND THERE'S, UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE REST OF THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR GOING ALL THE WAY TO, UH, PETALUMA BOULEVARD NORTH, THERE'S SECTIONS IN THERE THAT ARE IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT AS WELL. MM-HMM . AND I JUST, YOU KNOW, LIKE I THINK ABOUT CROSSWALKS, UM, THERE, THERE ARE A HANDFUL OF CROSSWALK ON LAKEVILLE, UM, BETWEEN THE FREEWAY AND BETWEEN D STREET THAT ARE WOEFULLY INADEQUATE. RIGHT. AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF THIS PROCESS IS CAPTURING THAT KIND OF FEEDBACK. SO I REALIZED THAT WASN'T, I DIDN'T STATE THAT IN A QUESTION, BUT I, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ULTIMATELY, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CAPTURING THAT FEEDBACK AS WELL. AND IT'S TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION FOR ANY DESIGN. YEAH. AND WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY IS THIS, THIS ISN'T LIKE THE FINISH POINT ON THIS CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT. SO, UH, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE PLANS IN PLACE TO SHOW SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT BJORN MENTIONED BETWEEN D STREET AND TON BOULEVARD NORTH, EVEN THOUGH IT'S, IT'S A, UM, IT'S A CONSTRAINED AMOUNT OF RIGHT OF WAY TO WORK WITH. UM, BUT THERE ARE OTHER LOCATIONS, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE CROSSWALK, LOCATIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT. CAN WE PUT REFUGE ISLANDS IN, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN LOOK AT AS PART OF THE STUDY AND, AND WRAP THAT UP INTO LIKE THE, THE FINAL CONCEPTS. GOT IT. AND JUST ONE MORE QUESTION. SO IS THERE A POINT AT THE PROCESS, WITHIN THE PROCESS WHERE THERE WILL BE, UM, THE ABILITY TO GIVE MORE FEEDBACK IN TERMS OF THE TYPES OF, UH, LANE DESIGN? RIGHT. SO OFTENTIMES WHEN, HERE WITHIN THE CITY, WHEN WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA DESIGN RAINIER VERSUS CAULFIELD OR WHATEVER, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE WE HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE DRAWINGS OF THE, OF THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR OUR BIKE LANES MM-HMM . THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT TYPE OF, IN THAT TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE. SO I'M JUST CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, THIS, UM, THE PRESENTATION IS GREAT, BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY GET TO THAT GRANULAR LEVEL. SO I'M JUST WONDERING AT SOME POINT, WILL THAT, WILL THERE BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE FEEDBACK ON THAT? AND IN TERMS OF THESE CONCEPTS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT? UH, WE ARE SHARING THOSE WITH THE, THE CITY, UH, THROUGH BEYOND, UH, SO WHERE THESE HAVE EVOLVED LIKE SEVERAL ITERATIONS FROM WHERE WE STARTED BASED ON INPUT, UH, FROM THE S-C-T-C-A CALTRANS, AS WELL AS THE CITY. SO WE, WE'VE ALREADY STARTED THAT PROCESS AS PART OF EVOLVING THESE CONCEPTS. SO WE'RE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE CITY THROUGH BEYOND AND, UH, JUST TO LOOK AT OTHER IDEAS, OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL. SURE. UH, YEAH, I TRUST FULL WELL THAT THE, THE FOLKS THAT ARE DESIGNING IT ARE GONNA DO A GREAT JOB. WOULD LOVE TO GET MY EYES ON IT BEFORE, YOU KNOW, THE FINAL DECISION IS MADE. [01:10:01] AND I THINK THE, THE IDEA AT THE END OF THIS STUDY IS THERE'D BE POTENTIAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO COME FROM THE STUDY. UM, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY LOOKING AT, UH, OPPORTUNITIES FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS. YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, ARE THERE A LOT OF RIGHT OF WAY NEEDS TO SUPPORT A PROJECT? ARE THERE A LOT OF UTILITY IMPACTS? SO SORT OF RANKING PROJECTS AS WELL. UM, AND SOME LIKE A SIDEWALK GAP CLOSURE MAY A SIMPLER PROJECT TO ENVIRONMENTALLY CLEAR AND DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT. UM, AND THAT'S WHERE WE GET INTO THE, THE, THE NEAR TERM MIDTERM LONG-TERM TYPE IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL. THANK YOU. I THINK GREAT QUESTIONS. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, AND I THINK WHAT YOU WERE AFTER, UH, IT SOUNDED LIKE MAYBE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SEEING SOME CROSS SECTIONS WHERE IT SHOWS LIKE THE, THE DIMENSIONS OF EACH OF THE LANES AND THE CONFIGURATION. YEAH. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY, UM, BRING TO OUR, OUR OPEN HOUSE, I THINK IN JANUARY, UM, FOR REVIEW AND FEEDBACK. AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE HELPFUL TO SOME OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS. YEAH. THANKS. YEAH, AND THEY, AND THESE, AND THESE EXHIBITS, UM, THEY'RE JUST A SNAPSHOT OF A, A BIGGER EXHIBIT THAT DOES HAVE SOME TYPICAL CROSS SECTIONS ON IT. GOT IT. OKAY. THANK YOU, DAVE. OKAY. UH, THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION. I WILL HAVE COMMENTS LATER, BUT NO QUESTIONS NOW. THANK YOU. OKAY, ERIC, UH, I JUST WANT TO ECHO WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING. THIS IS A, A REALLY GREAT PRESENTATION. IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LOT TO CHANGE IN IN LAKEVILLE AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF CONSIDERATIONS TO BE MADE, BUT I'M GONNA TRY TO KEEP IT BRIEF AND JUST NARROW IT DOWN. 'CAUSE I DID HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE, UH, TO FRANK'S POINT, A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE GRANULAR OF EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S GONNA BE COMING. SO I'M, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THAT AND WHAT TRANSIT COULD WEIGH IN ON THAT. BUT REALLY WHAT I WANTED TO NARROW IT DOWN TO WAS TWO, TWO PARTS OF THIS REALLY, I HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A CONFUSING TIME TRYING TO PROCESS WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE KIND OF DESIGNATED BUS LANE OVER BY, UM, WHAT'S REALLY THE IN AND OUT AND YEAH, IF YOU CAN BRING THAT BACK UP. YEAH. SO I GUESS, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, IT'S SO SMALL COMPARED TO THE OTHER CONCEPTS THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT. COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE OF WHAT THAT IS AND HOW THAT WOULD WORK? BECAUSE I'M SEEING ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT, RIGHT THERE, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S IN ADDITION OF A SIDEWALK. AND SO I WAS CURIOUS TO SEE LIKE, HOW, HOW FAR OUT DOES THAT EXTEND, UM, BECAUSE WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE YEARS AGO THERE WAS A, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A PRETTY BAD ACCIDENT THERE. UM, UNFORTUNATELY IT, IT TOOK SOMEONE'S LIFE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT. BUT YEAH, IF YOU COULD JUST KIND OF ELABORATE WHAT WHAT THAT WOULD BE. YEAH. SO RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW, IF, UM, IF THAT BUS GETS INTO THE TURNOUT, DROPS SOMEONE UP, PICKS SOMEONE UP, THEY HAVE TO TRAVERSE ACROSS THE RIGHT TURN LANE TO GET TO THE THROUGH LANE TO CONTINUE NORTHBOUND. AND OBVIOUSLY IN PEAK PERIODS THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC THROUGH THERE. THE IDEA HERE IS THAT THEY WOULD MERGE INTO THE RIGHT TURN LANE, BUT THE RIGHT TURN LANE WOULD GET MODIFIED AS YOU APPROACH THE INTERSECTION AND THE RIGHT TURN WOULD GO SORT OF FURTHER OVER AND YOU CREATE LIKE A NEW SHORT LANE BETWEEN THE, THE THROUGH LANE AND THE RIGHT TURN LANE THAT THE BUS COULD, COULD GET INTO. AND THEN THE LIGHTS WOULD BE, UH, MODIFIED SO THAT THE BUS GETS PRIORITY AND THEN IT WOULD CROSS THROUGH THE INTERSECTION INTO THE THROUGH LANE WHILE THE THE VEHICLES ARE STOPPED. OKAY. GOT IT. YEAH, I GUESS 'CAUSE IT WAS JUST VERY TINY SNAPSHOT, IT WAS HARDER FOR ME TO VISUALIZE. YEAH. I WAS TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING THAT SORT OF CONVEYED THE YEAH. THE IDEA. YEAH. UM, AND THEN THE OTHER PART, STILL STAYING ON THIS SCREEN, YOU HAD MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, THE ABOVE SECTION OF THE EV CHARGING AND THE BIKES, THE VEHICLES AND BIKES. UM, COULD YOU ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON KIND OF THE MULTI-PURPOSE USE THAT WE WOULD SEE FOR THIS? LIKE, COULD WE POTENTIALLY SEE THIS AS A SECONDARY STOP FOR IF A BUS ONE OF OUR BUSES NEEDS SOMETHING MM-HMM . OF SERVICE OR THEY JUST NEED TO PARK FOR A MINUTE? WELL, I THINK ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS LOCATION I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, IT'S PEOPLE LIKE TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO GRAB A SANDWICH OR A, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO EAT OR A COFFEE. UH, THERE ARE SOME, UH, FA FACILITIES, RESTAURANTS, AND PLACES THAT YOU CAN ADJACENT TO THIS. SO THIS HAS, THIS SITE HAS GOOD POTENTIAL FOR WHAT WE WOULD CALL A MOBILITY HUB. AND IT'S REALLY MOBILITY HUB BRINGS ALL TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION, UM, MODES TOGETHER. AND, AND THE MOBILITY HUB CAN BE DIFFERENT DEPENDING, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH THE PARTNERS ON IT. SO, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR EV CHARGING, UH, UH, VEHICLE, UH, BIKE CHARGING, UH, STORAGE LOCKERS FOR BIKES IF FOLKS CHOOSE TO ACTUALLY, [01:15:01] YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, DO A RIDE THEIR BIKE HERE AND THEN GET A COUPLE AND, AND GO OR GET ON A BUS. UM, BUT THERE'S ALSO OPPORTUNITIES, UM, FOR LIKE REST AREAS. SO THERE'S A LOT OF TRAIL SYSTEMS THROUGH HERE. SO IF SOMEONE'S ON A ELECTRIC BIKE USING A TRAIL AND THEY'RE GETTING LOW ON A CHARGE, IF THEY KNOW THIS FACILITIES HERE, THEY CAN GET OVER THERE, YOU MIGHT PROVIDE LIKE MORE OF A, LIKE A GAZEBO TYPE FACILITIES WHERE THEY CAN BE IN SHADE, ESPECIALLY LIKE ON WARM DAYS. UM, AND THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS YOU CAN DO IN, IN A MOBILITY HUB. IT'S REALLY GOT A LOT OF POTENTIAL AND ESPECIALLY IN A, IN A, A SPOT LIKE THIS WHERE, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S UNDERUSED IN TERMS OF PARK AND RIDE. SO THERE'S, THERE'S SPACE AVAILABLE THERE POTENTIALLY TO, TO ADD IN THESE TYPES OF FACILITIES. RIGHT. YEAH. AND REMIND ME, THIS IS OWNED BY CALTRAN? IT'S CALTRANS, YEAH. OKAY. SO JURISDICTION OF WHAT WOULD, WHAT WOULD OCCUR ON THERE? UM, WOULD IT FALL UNDER THEM LIKE AN, LIKE IF THERE'S A POP-UP SHOP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? WE, WE'D HAVE TO COORDINATE WITH CALTRANS, BUT IT, LIKE, UM, WITH ALL RECENT, UH, EVOLUTION OF DESIGN, UH, CALTRANS IS ALSO IN TERMS OF, UH, GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, LIKE USING, UH, EV, UH, VEHICLES, BIKES, UH, THESE MOBILITY HUBS ARE, ARE, ARE THINGS THAT CALTRANS ARE LOOKING AT AS WELL. OKAY. GOT IT. AND THEN ONE MORE FOR, AND THIS ONE'S ACTUALLY FOR JARED , SO OH, THANKS. JUST A FEW THINGS TO ADD ON TO THAT REALLY QUICK. UH, JARED ALL TRANSIT MANAGER BY THE WAY. GOOD EVENING. WE ACTUALLY AREN'T CURRENTLY ABLE TO SERVE THIS STOP AT ALL. IT'S ONLY BEEN SERVED RECENTLY BY GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT, WHO IS NOT CURRENTLY SERVING IT AT ALL SINCE THEY'VE DONE RECENT CHANGES WITH THEIR SERVICE. SO EVEN WHEN IT WAS SERVED BY GOLDEN GATE, IT WAS FAIRLY UNDERUTILIZED. IT WAS NEVER FULL CAPACITY. SO I THINK THIS KIND OF FUTURE VISION OF MO MOBILITY HUB CAN REALLY ACTIVATE THE SPACE MM-HMM . AND REALLY KIND OF FULLY UTILIZE WHAT'S A VALUABLE AREA TO THE WAY WE HAVEN'T BEFORE. THE REASON WE DON'T SERVE IT CURRENTLY IS IT'S NOT JUST A MATTER OF KIND OF THE PLACEMENT, IT'S THAT PAIRED WITH THE SPEED WHEN THE BUS WOULD HAVE TO PULL OUT CARS ARE COMING THROUGH, WHICH CAN BE FAIRLY QUICK, YOU KNOW, UPWARDS OF 50 MILES PER HOUR AROUND A CURVE. SO WE WOULD HAVE TO DO THAT MERGE AS WAS DESCRIBED. AND SO THIS WOULD LET US START SERVING THAT LOCATION AGAIN BY DOING THESE TYPE OF IMPROVEMENTS AND DOING THIS Q JUMP LANE BY ELIMINATING THAT TYPE OF WEAVE ACROSS HIGH SPEED TRAFFIC. SO IT LETS US PROVIDE BETTER TRANSIT ACCESS THERE IN ADDITION TO OPENING UP A LOT OF OTHER OPPORTUNITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE COULD DO TO THE AREA. I SEE. THANK YOU. SO, AND THE LAST ONE, UM, I MEAN IT'S STILL FAR IN A WAY TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GONNA GET ROUNDABOUT WHAT MIGHT NOT GET ROUNDABOUT, BUT WE WOULD POTENTIALLY SEE IMPACTS TO THE BUS SCHEDULE FOR ROUTE 24. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S PART OF THE CONSIDERATION. I MEAN, THE DISCUSSION WE'RE HAVING IS PRIMARILY ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE SIDE. THE PIECE THAT'S ALSO A PART OF THE DISCUSSION IS THE SERVICE ON THE TRANSIT SIDE. UM, ANY COMMENTS THAT WE HAVE, THOUGHTS ON SERVICE ON ROUTE 24 OR ALONG THE CORRIDOR HELPFUL? UH, RIGHT NOW PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. THIS AREA IS SERVED BY PETALUMA TRANSIT ROUTE 24 THAT RUNS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. IT RUNS 30 MINUTES DURING PEAK TIMES, 60 MINUTES OFF PEAK. AND WE HAVE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF COMMENTS OVER THE YEARS HOPING TO SEE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THAT CORRIDOR, MORE FREQUENT SERVICE, WEEKEND SERVICE, ET CETERA. BUT ANY TYPES OF COMMENTS OR FEEDBACK IN THAT REGARD WOULD BE HELPFUL. YEAH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, AS WE GO FORWARD, I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT WE CAN INCORPORATE WITH THAT BECAUSE IF WE, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT ROUNDABOUTS, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY IT WOULD MEAN THAT THINGS ARE GONNA BE FLOWING AT A MUCH QUICKER RATE AND THINGS ARE NOT GONNA BE STOP AND GO AND HOPEFULLY IT OPENS UP THE POTENTIAL OF WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THE ROUTE, UM, FOR 24 AND POTENTIALLY HAVE SOME BETTER FREQUENCY FOR IT. YEAH. I THINK SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAVEN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT MUCH HERE THAT WE COULD CONSIDER TOO, AS IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CORRIDOR. THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS. ONE BEING TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY. SO IF YOU KEEP THE APPROACH NOW TO WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF SIGNALS, INTERSECTIONS, YOU CAN HAVE TECHNOLOGY INSTALLED ON THE BUSES THAT KIND OF EXTEND GREEN SIGNALS OR MAKE THEM CYCLE A BIT FASTER. MM-HMM . SO BUSES THAT GET A SLIGHT PRIORITY AND CAN MOVE A LITTLE FASTER THROUGH THE CORRIDOR, THAT'S A CONSIDERATION. OR I THINK IF YOU MOVE MORE TOWARDS THE ROUNDABOUT CONSIDERATION, I GET THE SENSE THAT WOULD KIND OF SPEED THE MOVEMENT OF OUR BUSES THROUGH THE CORRIDOR AND THAT PROBABLY ALSO WOULD'VE LED US MOVE FASTER THROUGH THE CORRIDOR, SUBSEQUENTLY POSSIBLY MODIFYING OUR SCHEDULES TO MAKE YOUR TRIPS GO FASTER THROUGH THE CORRIDOR AS A RESULT. RIGHT. GREAT. WELL I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S IT, . ALRIGHT. OKAY. I'M GAIL AND I HAVE A VERY HIGH LEVEL QUESTION FOR YOU. UM, AND PARDON ME IF I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW IT, THE ANSWER TO IT, . UM, SO THIS, I'M, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT WHAT [01:20:01] THE OUTPUTS OF A STUDY ARE. 'CAUSE I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY PLAN AND I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY DESIGN, BUT, AND WHAT THE OUTPUTS OF THE STUDY THEY WOULD BE THE INPUT FOR WHAT NEXT STEP, IF YOU COULD HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT. SO ONE OF THE NEXT STEPS AS WE TIE DOWN THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, WE'RE GONNA BE DOING COST ESTIMATING ON THE EACH OF THE DOING COST ESTIMATING ON EACH OF THEM LOOKING AT, UH, UH, COSTS TO ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT, UH, IF THERE'S RIGHT OF WAY INVOLVED THERE UTILITY IMPACTS. UH, WE ALSO FACTOR IN ACTUAL WHAT WE CALL SOFT COSTS, LIKE TO ACTUALLY FOR FOLKS TO ACTUALLY DO THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE, DO THE DESIGN, DO THE CONSTRUCTION. UM, SO THAT'LL BE PART OF THE FINAL STUDY. AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, MORE RANKING, THE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, WHAT, UH, IN TERMS OF, UH, PROJECTS THAT REALLY ARE A GOOD CANDIDATE MAYBE TO DO NEAR TERM VERSUS MIDTERM VERSUS LONG TERM. SO, SO IN, IN THE CALTRANS REALM, UM, THEY SORT OF START, THEY START OFF WITH LIKE A STUDY AND THEN THEY LOOK AT ALTERNATIVES. YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING CONCEPTS HERE VERY SIMILAR. THEN THEY, YOU KNOW, EVALUATE WHAT, UH, ALTERNATIVES MAKE THE MOST SENSE TO. AND THEN THEY COULD MOVE MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVES INTO LIKE AN ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE TYPE PROCESS. BUT THEN YOU HAVE TO SELECT SOMETHING, UM, AND THEN ULTIMATELY DESIGN IT, CONSTRUCT IT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WE COULD HAVE MULTIPLE PATHS MOVING FORWARD IN TERMS OF, UM, PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS, BICYCLE IMPROVEMENTS, UM, IMPROVEMENTS ON THE ROADWAYS AS WELL. SO THERE, THERE COULD BE MULTIPLE PROJECTS THAT THAT COULD COME OUT OF A STUDY LIKE THIS. UM, BUT THEN IT'S ALSO, I THINK WE ALL MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE'S SOME OF THESE IDEAS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR, UH, GRANT APPLICATION FUNDING AS WELL. SO THERE'S, THERE'S FUNDING OUT THERE, THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES, POTENTIALLY IF IT'S SUCCESSFUL, YOU COULD GO AWAY AND, AND, AND FINISH OFF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION OF A, OF A INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? YES. NO, THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL. THANK YOU. AND THEN I HAVE A VERY DETAILED QUESTION. UM, IT, YOU SPOKE ABOUT, UM, BUS STOP IMPROVEMENTS AND YOU SPOKE IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS OF SIDEWALKS AND BIKE LANES AND INTERSECTIONS, BUT YOU SIMPLY SAID BUS STOP IMPROVEMENTS AND I WAS WONDERING IF YOU COULD ELUCIDATE IT. YEAH. AND THAT'S RIGHT NOW WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING TO FOCUS THE, THE STUDY, WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE TODAY ISN'T LIKE A COMPLETE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT. SO THERE'S STILL OTHER AREAS THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING AND, AND THE TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS, LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON SCREEN IS, WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY DRAWN THIS CONCEPT UP, BUT THE IDEA IS TO DEVELOP SOMETHING LIKE THIS MORE IN AN EXHIBIT FORM TO SHOW WHAT IT POTENTIALLY LOOKS LIKE. AND THE SAME WITH THE, THE BUS STOPS. SO SOME OF THOSE LOCATIONS WOULD BE LOOKED AT AS PART OF LIKE AN INTERSECTION EVALUATION, WHETHER IT'S A, UM, LIKE A SIGNAL OR A ROUNDABOUT. UM, SO THERE'S CERTAIN, SOME OF THE, SOME OF THOSE BUS STOPS WOULD BE EVALUATED AS PART OF THOSE SPOT LOCATION EVALUATIONS AS WELL. BUT THERE'S SOME, SOME BUS STOPS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, SORT OF ISOLATED FROM SOME OF THESE AREAS THAT WE LOOKED AT THAT WE'D ALSO WANNA TAKE A LOOK AT. AND THAT, THAT'S STILL TO COME. ONE THING TO ADD ON TO THAT TOO, WHEN WE, UH, KIND OF LOOK AT BUS STOPS AND THE PLANNING FOR THOSE, IT'S NOT LIKE AN ISLAND. SO WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT IT AS PART OF A NETWORK. SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING IMPROVEMENTS AT THE STOP, LIKE NEW CONCRETE PADS, SHELTERS, BENCHES. WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT THE SIDEWALK CONNECTIVITY TO IT. ARE THERE MISSING GAPS WE NEED TO BUILD? IS THERE BROKEN SIDEWALK AND CONCRETE WE NEED TO REPAIR RE KIND OF NEW. ALL THOSE ARE PART OF THE CONSIDERATION AND PLANNING AS WELL. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. BACK TO YOU. AND WITH THAT, THAT'S THE REST OF OUR, UH, COMMITTEE COMMENTS. AND I OPEN THE FLOOR TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE PUBLIC IS NOW INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THIS AGENDA ITEM. UH, 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. UH, DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING? UH, THERE WERE, THERE WERE TWO PRIOR PUBLIC COMMENTS. OKAY. THOSE ARE, EXCUSE ME, UM, SHARED WITH, UH, BOTH COMMITTEES PRIOR TO MEETING. YEP. AND THOSE ARE ATTACHED TO THE, UH, AGENDA ONLINE. UH, AND I'LL NOW CALL THE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS. UH, CATHERINE BROWSKI. [01:25:05] YES. PELLUM OF TRANSITON NEEDS TO HAVE A BUS RUNNING ON LAKEVILLE AND BAYWOOD ON WEEKENDS, AND THEY NEED TO HAVE PEN RUNNING ON LAKEVILLE AND BAYWOOD. IF THEY COULD STOP ON, UH, IF PEN, UH, PEN, UM, STOP AT, UH, LAKEVILLE AND CALLWAY COFFEEVILLE, THEY COULD STOP IN BAYWOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT, UH, MAY I ASK JODY JOHNSON UP TO THE MICROPHONE? SO I FIRST WANNA REITERATE CONSIDERATION FOR THAT ROUTE 24. UM, WE HAVE VULNERABLE RESIDENTS ON, UM, AT LITTLE WOODS, THAT THAT IS THEIR ONLY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND TO NOT BE ABLE TO GO ANYWHERE ON THE WEEKENDS WITH ANY KIND OF BUS. UM, I'M ALSO THEN SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF A RESIDENT THAT IS ILL. SO SHE STATES THE LIGHT TO TURN LEFT INTO BAYWOOD COMING FROM DOWNTOWN. THE FREEWAY TAKES A LONG TIME TO TURN GREEN ON THE LEFT ARROW AND DOESN'T LAST LONG. TRAFFIC BUILDS UP ON THE FREEWAY OVERPASS DURING TRAFFIC HOURS, MORE SAFE CROSSWALKS ON LAKEVILLE BY BAYWOOD. THAT FOUR STOP AREA WOULD BE GREAT, AS WELL AS UNDER THE FREEWAY. ALSO, MORE LIGHTING UNDER THE FREEWAY AND BY IN AND OUT, THAT STRETCH BETWEEN IN AND OUT AND FREEWAY OVERPASS IS DANGEROUS. PEOPLE TEND TO WALK AGAINST TRAFFIC OR EVEN WITH TRAFFIC BIKING RIGHT BY THE STORAGE NEAR IN AND OUT. THERE SHOULD BE A SIDEWALK OR A DIVIDER SO PEOPLE DON'T GET HIT. SO HOPEFULLY, UH, GIVE SOME CONSIDERATION TO OUR VULNERABLE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN LITTLE WOODS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, NEXT PLEASE. UH, CHARLES LITTLE, MY COLLEAGUE, GO FIRST. OKAY. IS THAT WENDY? WENDY JACOBS, PLEASE. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS WENDY JACOBS AND I'M THE CHAIR OF RELIEF PETALUMA, YOUR URBAN FORESTRY NONPROFIT. FORGIVE ME FOR READING. WE HOPE THAT SOME TREE PLANTING COULD CREATIVELY BE PRIORITIZED UNDER THE NEAR TERM PART OF THE PLAN. THIS MAY BE BACKWARDS FROM THE TYPICAL ORDER OF BUSINESS IN A LARGE PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT, BUT TIMES HAVE CHANGED. AND CLIMATE FACTORS SUGGEST PRIORITIZING AS MANY TREES AS EARLY AS REASONABLE FOR HEALTH SAFETY, FOR ENCOURAGING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND HEAT AND STORM WATER MITIGATION. EVEN MORE COULD BE PLANTED AFTER CONSTRUCTION. OF COURSE, PLENTIFUL INTEGRATED SHADE TREES WOULD MAKE THIS A REALLY BELOVED CORRIDOR IN ADDITION TO A SAFE CORRIDOR, AND WOULD HELP SLOW TRAFFIC SIGNIFICANTLY. GETTING SOME OF THEM STARTED EARLY, WOULD ENHANCE THE CORRIDOR AND START DELIVERING BENEFITS ESPECIALLY TO RESIDENTS. TODAY, MUCH OF THE LAKEVILLE CORRIDOR IS DOCUMENTED AS THE HOTTEST MOST AIR POLLUTED AREA IN THE CITY. RELIEF HAD TARGETED THIS CORRIDOR AND IDENTIFIED 60 SITES ALONG THIS CORRIDOR THAT COULD TAKE A SHADE TREE PRETTY MUCH IMMEDIATELY UNDER EXISTING CONDITIONS. THIS IS NOW ON HOLD, OF COURSE, IN DEFERENCE TO THIS MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL AND INTRICATE UNDERTAKING. AT LEAST WE WILL BE GETTING 10 SHADE TREES PLANTED THIS WINTER ALONG THE FRONT OF THE SMART STATION. ALSO A FEW ALONG HOPPER STREET. WE'VE MEASURED TEMPERATURES AT 135 DEGREES AT THE STATION. SO THE TREES ARE GOING TO HELP. WE'RE VERY GLAD TO SEE THIS CORRIDOR PROJECT UNDERWAY, AND WE HOPE THE TREES WILL BE A NOTABLE FEATURE OF THE PLAN BOTH NEAR AND LONG TERM. WE ARE HAPPY TO HELP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NOW, CHARLES, PLEASE, AND WE NEED TO TURN THIS ON. I'M STILL CHARLES LITTLE. YES. UM, I'M VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE POSSIBILITIES THAT THE PLANTERS HAVE COME UP WITH HERE. I'M ALSO A BIKE RIDER, AND ALL OF THE SUGGESTIONS THAT YOU'VE MADE ARE THINGS THAT APPEAL DIRECTLY TO ME AS A BIKE RIDER IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE THIS A PLACE, A SAFE PLACE TO RIDE A BIKE. BUT I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT TREES, AND I DON'T WANT THE PLANTERS OR ANYBODY TO FORGET THE FACT THAT TREES ARE GONNA BE VERY IMPORTANT. I MEAN, I RIDE MY, I STARTED TO RIDE MY BIKE TO GO TO KAISER, TO GO TO SHELLENBERGER PARK OUT LAKEVILLE. I GAVE UP. [01:30:01] IT'S TOO DANGEROUS. IT'S TOO HORRIBLE TO GO THERE ON A BIKE. SO I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO INTO THE SUBDIVISIONS AND GO AROUND THE OTHER WAY AND THEN MAKE A SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT RIDE ACROSS, UH, LAKEVILLE FURTHER ON. BUT PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE AND HAVE TO WALK TO SCHOOL ALONG LAKEVILLE OR HAVE TO GO TO WORK ALONG LAKEVILLE, THEY DON'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WANDER OFF INTO THE COMMUNITY THERE LIKE I CAN DO ON MY BICYCLE. AND THEY NEED TREES TO KEEP THAT AREA COOL AND PLEASANT FOR THEM. AND AS WENDY POINTED OUT, IT'S THE HOTTEST PLACE IN THE CITY RIGHT ALONG LAKEVILLE THERE. AND THAT IS NOT GOOD FOR PEOPLE. IT'S NOT HEALTHY FOR PETALUMA. UM, WE CANNOT IN RELIEF PLANT TREES IN CONCRETE OR ASPHALT, THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE FOR US. SO WE WANT TO HAVE YOU FOLKS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU MENTIONED, UH, POTENTIAL TREES. THAT'S GOOD. GLAD TO HEAR THE WORDS THERE. AND THEN, AND ALSO THAT AND THE WORD SHADE, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, THAT THEY, THIS, THERE NEEDS TO BE SPACE ALLOTTED NOW IN THE PLANNING PROCESS SO THAT WE HAVE TREES THAT WE NEED ALONG THIS VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF, OF STRUCTURE IN, UH, PETALUMA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU COMMENTS, UH, . JERRY. HELLO. THANK YOU. UH, AND THANK YOU FOR WONDERFUL PRESENTATION. THAT'S VERY GOOD. UM, A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THESE, THERE'S TWO ISSUES ON THIS THAT CAME UP A COUPLE YEARS AGO ON PAC, AND I'M DELIGHTED TO SEE THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE GROWING, UH, A BIT SLOW, PERHAPS SLOWER THAN TREES, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE THERE. AND, AND THE ONE, ONE, UH, THE FIRST ONE I I MENTIONED IS THE, UH, CONTINUATION, UH, ALONG HOPPER UNDER 1 0 1 AND OVER TOWARDS THE MARINA. AND, UM, IT, IT'S, TO SEE THAT THAT LINE NOW IS REALLY NICE, THAT THAT WILL ALLOW CONNECTION OVER TOWARDS KAISER, UH, WHICH I THINK IS GREAT. THAT WAS ALSO MENTIONED. UM, AND THEN THE SECOND ONE THAT, UH, CONCERNS ME IS THE CROSSING OUT DO ADOBE CREEK. AND, UH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ROUNDABOUTS TO, UH, UH, EXPEDITE TRAFFIC, BUT THEN A POTENTIAL, UH, SURFACE CROSSING, UH, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO THAT. THERE IS THE OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR, TO UTILIZE AN EXISTING TUNNEL, UH, WHICH IS THERE NOW FOR THE CREEK. BUT THERE'S TWO CHAMBERS IN THAT. AND I KNOW IT WAS MENTIONED, UH, A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT, UH, I, I DO BELIEVE IT'S POSSIBLE TO GO UNDER THERE, UH, USE ONE CHAMBER FOR THE CREEK AND ONE CHAMBER FOR THE, UH, MULTI-USE PATH. AND, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT REMAIN IN STUDY. UH, BJORN MENTIONED, UH, MCDOWELL AND THERE WAS SOME TALK OF UTILIZING A TUNNEL THERE, UH, AND THAT THAT WAS NOT, UH, PRODUCTIVE. I DON'T THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE QUITE THE SAME. AND ALSO WAS MENTIONED THE POSSIBILITY, UH, AND THIS WAS MENTIONED A LONG TIME AGO, UH, FOR THAT CROSSING ON THE RIVERFRONT TO UTILIZE A UTILITY TUNNEL, UH, UNDER THE BRIDGE, THE SMART TRAIN BRIDGE, UH, UH, IF THAT CAN BE UTILIZED, WHICH I PERSONALLY DON'T THINK IT CAN, UM, THEN THE, THE TUNNELS UNDER, UH, ADOBE CREEK COULD CERTAINLY BE UTILIZED. I'D, I'D LIKE THAT TO PLEASE REMAIN AS A POSSIBLE, UH, UH, USE. UH, IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, AGAIN, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ROUNDABOUTS X BY TRAFFIC AND THEN HAVE A SURFACE CROSSING AT ADOBE CREEK, IT'S KIND OF COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. SO UTILIZING THOSE TUNNELS, I THINK, UH, SHOULD BE, REMAIN AS POSSIBLE, UH, USE AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED. OTHER THAN THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT, WE CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS ITEM AND BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE FOR DISCUSSION. UM, SO WE'LL GO AROUND AND HERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, US TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, UH, ON THIS AGENDA ITEM. UM, SO I'M GONNA START, WE'LL GO THROUGH THE SAME ORDER, UM, STARTING WITH DAVID. UH, YEAH, I'LL JUST, I'LL TRY TO KEEP THIS QUICK. UM, I GUESS ONE THING THAT YOU BROUGHT UP, [01:35:01] UH, IN THE PRESENTATION AT THE BEGINNING BUT DIDN'T REALLY SEE, UM, LATER ON WAS THE SHORT, MEDIUM, AND LONG-TERM PLAN. SO I JUST WOULD WANT TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY MORE SPECIFICITY THAT CAN BE PROVIDED IN THE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, ASPECTS OF THE PORTIONS OF THE PLAN. UM, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN TALK ABOUT AT THE JANUARY 28TH MEETING. UM, JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH PARTS OF THIS MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE PRIORITIZED MORE QUICKLY. UM, COUPLE THAT WERE BROUGHT UP HERE. I THINK WATER STREET AND ADOBE CREEK, UM, SEEM LIKE THEY COULD BE, UM, HIGH VALUE, YOU KNOW, LOW HANGING FRUIT POTENTIALLY, UH, IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO MOVE THOSE MORE QUICKLY. UM, LET'S SEE HERE. AND THEN AGAIN, UM, I, I MENTIONED THIS BEFORE IN QUESTIONS, BUT JUST TO COMMENT, UH, THE STATISTICS AROUND ROUNDABOUTS, I THINK PROBABLY EVERYONE IN THE ROOM IS, IS AWARE, BUT, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN, IN, UH, INJURY CRASHES, FATALITIES, SLOWER SPEEDS, NO T-BONE CRASHES, REDUCED CONFLICT POINTS. SO TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE THAT WE CAN BE USING ROUNDABOUTS WHEREVER WE CAN, WHEREVER IT'S FEASIBLE. I THINK, UH, AND ALSO THE CONSISTENCY IN THE DRIVING EXPERIENCE, JUST TO REEMPHASIZE THAT. UH, THAT'S IT FOR ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU DAVID. ADAM, UH, YEAH, JUST TO, I GUESS ECHO THAT COMMENT IN TERMS OF PHASING, UH, I THINK THAT COULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO SHOW YEAH, WHAT NEAR TERM IMPROVEMENTS ARE POSSIBLE. AND THEN I THINK AS WELL AS LIKE WHAT ASPIRATIONAL PROJECTS MIGHT LOOK LIKE AS WELL TOO. SO IF PERHAPS WE KNOW THE, UH, THE HAZARDS, FLASHING HAZARD, UM, CROSSING, FOR INSTANCE AT ADOBE MIGHT BE A NEAR TERM THING, BUT LONG TERM WOULD BE ACTUALLY TRYING TO IMPLEMENT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH LAKEVILLE TRAFFIC. COULD KIND OF BE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO BREAK THOSE UP TO SAY WHAT'S STILL POSSIBLE. BUT WHAT CAN WE DO RIGHT NOW? UM, THE SAME ONE, UH, I THINK COULD APPLY FOR THAT. UH, D STREET, UH, LAKEVILLE INTERSECTION. UH, THERE ARE SOME DRAWINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, UH, THAT SHOW A PEDESTRIAN BICYCLE OVERPASS OVER THAT TO TRY TO BE ABLE TO CONNECT D STREET WITH HOPPER STREET, WITH LAKEVILLE, UH, TO BYPASS THAT CROSSING, TO REALLY TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT EAST WEST CONNECTION BETWEEN DOWNTOWN FAIRGROUNDS AND THEN POTENTIALLY FURTHER CAN BE PRIORITIZED. SO THAT OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE A LONG TERM PROJECT THAT MIGHT NOT REALLY EVER COME TO FRUITION, BUT TO TEST THOSE IDEAS AND SAY, WHAT'S, WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR THESE, UH, FOR THESE AREAS, BUT THEN WHAT SHORT TERM CAN WE REALLY DO THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST BE SOME CROSSINGS WITH SIGNALS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO, UH, WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE THAT KIND OF SCALED OUT IN SOME OF THESE PROPOSALS. UM, AND YEAH, I GUESS THAT'S HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND WHY THERE WEREN'T ANY DRAWINGS, FOR INSTANCE, FOR THE LAKEVILLE, UM, UH, ON AND OFF RAMPS FOR 1 0 1, THAT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S IN CALTRANS CAMP. SO WHEN THAT COMES AROUND, KIND OF TO FRANK'S POINT, IT'D BE GREAT TO BE ABLE TO REVIEW THAT. SO, UM, UH, AND THEN LASTLY, I THINK THE OTHER JUST COMMENT WOULD BE RELATED TO WHAT THE RECENT COMMENTS WERE AROUND, UH, DOING MORE TREE PLANTING AS MUCH AS THE CITY CAN GET. I THINK THE, UH, STORM WATER ENGINEERS INVOLVED AS WELL TOO. I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE WHERE CAN THAT, THOSE IMPROVEMENTS POTENTIALLY BE MADE FOR LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT FOR HANDLING STORMWATER. IN ADDITION, I THINK THAT CAN GO HAND IN HAND WITH THE, UM, WITH THE TREE ESCAPING AS WELL. UH, AND THOSE ARE, OH, UH, MOBILITY HUBS, DEFINITELY. LAST COMMENT ARE GREAT. UM, MTC METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION HAS A WEBSITE THAT CAN GET MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT MOBILITY HUBS ARE, AND THERE ARE BOTH OF THOSE SITES PRETTY PROXIMATE TO THE, THE PARK AND RIDE STATION, BUT AS WELL AS AT THE SMART STATION DOWNTOWN PETALUMA. SO THAT'S GREAT THAT THOSE ARE THERE. AND YEAH, THERE'S MORE RESOURCES TO SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE THERE. SO FOR FUTURE, FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION. AND THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU, ADAM. CODY. THANKS. I DON'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE, UH, STOPLIGHT AND A ROUNDABOUT, HOW IT AFFECTS TRAFFIC. SO WHEN MAKING THE DECISION FOR THESE POINTS ON LAKEVILLE, UH, WHETHER IT'LL BE A STOPLIGHT OR A ROUNDABOUT, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, UH, AT LEAST NOT, NOT SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC IN ANY FURTHER WAY AND HOPEFULLY MAKING THAT, UH, MORE EFFICIENT ALONG WITH BIKE AND PET IS TAKEN [01:40:01] INTO CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, BRIAN, I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. THANK YOU, AMBER, PLEASE. I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS. ALRIGHT. UM, I'LL JUST GO THROUGH SOME OF MY, UM, PRIORITIES. UM, YEAH, WHERE WE CAN, LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, UM, UM, THE FIRST MILE FROM THE BOULEVARD TO JEFFERSON, I, I THINK THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE. IT IS, IT IS CONSTRAINED. UM, BUT WE DON'T NEED TO DRIVE 55 DOWN THERE. UM, SO, UH, THERE, THERE SHOULD BE SOME SPACE, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET CREATIVE. I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, UH, FOR THAT SECTION. SO OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF INTEREST IN, IN LITTLE PORTIONS THERE AND CONNECTING TO LYNCH CREEK. AND, UM, WE NEED TO SEE THAT IN A FUTURE PLAN. UM, WHERE WATER STREET IS A HUGE PRIORITY. I KNOW IT'S A, THE MAYORS HAS MENTIONED IT. UM, THAT SECTION, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY EVENTUALLY WILL BE OPEN, UM, TO CONNECT, UH, FROM THE SMART, UH, TRAIL. UM, THERE'S A, I THINK THREE RAILROAD SPURS THAT COME OVER THERE BEHIND HUNT AND BARONS. ONLY TWO OF WHICH I THINK ARE, ARE IN USE OR ONE OR TWO. UM, SO I, I THINK THERE COULD BE SOME OPPORTUNITY. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET THE LAND, UM, BUT TO REALLY EXPAND THAT, UM, AT THE TOP OF WATER STREET THERE, IT'S BUILT AS IF THERE'S GONNA BE A FULL STREET GOING NORTH WITH A CROSSWALK. UM, IF THERE WAS ANY WAY TO GET MORE OF THAT SPACE, UM, YOU COULD HAVE A NICE LITTLE CORRIDOR THERE THAT'S NOT JUST A LITTLE PATH TUCKED IN NEXT TO THE FENCE, BUT ACTUALLY A, A PLEASANT PLACE TO BE, UM, WOULD BE A GOOD TEMPLATE FOR, YOU KNOW, ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY WHERE YOU CAN REALLY MAKE IT, UM, NOT JUST A, A PATH, BUT ACTUALLY MAKE IT NICE. UM, I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME DETAIL YOU MENTIONED THERE ARE, UM, SECTION DETAILS. I SAW THEM KIND OF REFERENCED IN SOME OF THE PLANS. IT'D BE NICE IF WE COULD GET ACCESS TO WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE, EVEN IN, IN DRAFT FORM, ESPECIALLY LIKE, UH, UNDER 1 0 1 THAT UNDER CROSSING, THERE'S A TON OF INTEREST. WE GET COMMENTS ABOUT THAT FREQUENTLY. UM, BE GOOD TO SEE CONCEPTUALLY AT LEAST WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. UM, , OH, UM, AT, AT ADOBE CREEK AND ELSEWHERE WHERE WE HAVE, UH, ON GRADE CROSSWALKS, UH, I'M SURE THERE ARE GUIDELINES, UH, FOR MINIMUM WIDTH, UH, YOU KNOW, STANDARD CROSSWALKS. I'D LIKE TO EXPLORE MAKING THOSE AS WIDE AS POSSIBLE, UH, SUCH THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE PEDESTRIANS, YOU KNOW, DETOURING AROUND, UM, KEEPING THEIR, THEIR PATH AS STRAIGHT AS POSSIBLE. GIVING THEM MORE OPTIONS FOR CROSSING. UM, YOU KNOW, I'D SAY GO CRAZY. MAKE, MAKE THE SUPER WIDE CROSSWALKS, UM, AT SOME OF THOSE KEY AREAS, ESPECIALLY IF IT, YOU HAVE, UM, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, CYCLING TRAFFIC COMING FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. UM, CAN, CAN REALLY HELP BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE BAD DECISIONS WHEN THEY LOOK AND THEY HAVE TO GO HALF A BLOCK UP AND, AND CUT AROUND. UM, SO GIVE, YOU KNOW, MORE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITIES. WE HAVE INTERSECTIONS, UH, FOR CARS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, COUPLE DIFFERENT BASKETBALL COURTS, UM, IN SIZE, JUST MASSIVE INTERSECTIONS. UH, WE COULD DO SOMETHING SIMILAR WITH CROSSWALKS. UM, SEEMS LIKE THE PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS DESERVE IT. UM, YEAH, LANDSCAPING TREES, YOU HEARD IT BEFORE. UM, WE'D LOVE TO SEE THAT. THAT'S OBVIOUSLY IT COULD REALLY BE A NEAR TERM THING. ANY, ANYWHERE, UM, POSSIBLE ALONG THAT CORRIDOR. WE DON'T NEED TO, UM, MOVE A LOT OF HARDSCAPE IN, IN SOME PLACES, AS RELIEF IDENTIFIED 60 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS WHERE A TREE COULD BE PUT IN TODAY. UM, THAT COULD BE PUT AS, YOU KNOW, SORT OF LIKE A, A QUICK BUILD OR PARTNERSHIP WITH RELIEF TO, UH, TO GET STARTED NOW. UM, AND NOT, NOT WAIT UNTIL, YOU KNOW, ALL THE PLANS COME TOGETHER. UH, I'D ALSO LIKE TO PUT IN A SHOUT OUT FOR, UM, WHERE WE DO HAVE STOPLIGHTS, UM, CONSIDER TIMING, UH, WHERE PEDESTRIANS GET ALL DIRECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME, AS I'VE SEEN IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD, UM, IS JUST A REALLY NICE CONVENIENCE AND, UH, MAKES IT, YOU KNOW, FEEL SAFER FOR PEOPLE. UM, SO JUST RED ALL AROUND FOR, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE CYCLE INSTEAD OF TAKING TURNS FOR THOSE PEDESTRIANS. UM, UH, THE WASHINGTON INTERSECTION IS NOT MENTIONED AT ALL IN THE PLAN, AND THAT'S, THAT'S HUGE. UM, DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE. I I THINK THERE AREN'T VERY MANY CYCLISTS IN PETALUMA THAT, THAT FEEL SAFE GOING THROUGH THERE IN EITHER DIRECTION. UM, AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY A HIGH TRAFFIC AREA, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF CARS THERE. THAT MEANS THAT ALSO A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T DRIVE, UM, EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT THERE, THERE'S LATENT DEMAND THEY WANT TO BE THERE. SO WE NEED TO ADDRESS THAT. UM, THAT IS THE END OF MY LIST. OKAY. TURN IT OVER NOW TO TRANSIT. ALRIGHT. UM, FRED, DO YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE COMMENTS AND THAT THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED. ONE IS THE ADOBE CREEK. MY WIFE IS A WALKER, AND, UH, SHE AND [01:45:01] THEIR FRIEND WALK FIVE MILES, UH, WHATEVER. THEY GO OUT AND THAT'S ONE OF THEIR ROUTES. AND ADOBE AT THE LAKEVILLE IS JUST, THERE'S, THERE'S NO WAY TO GET ACROSS WITHOUT GOING BACK TO MCDOWELL AND ACROSS. SO THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. SO I SHOUT OUT FOR MY WIFE AND HER WALKING. UH, THE ONLY OTHER THING IS LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY IS ONE OF THE MAIN ENTRANCES INTO THIS TOWN. THE MORE LANDSCAPING, THE MORE THE, THE MORE YOU BEAUTIFY THAT AREA, MAKE IT CALMER WITH, WITH LANDSCAPING, I THINK THAT'S ONE ESSENTIAL THING THAT WE HAVE TO DO. THANK, THANK YOU, PATTY. HI. I KNOW I'M ON THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE, BUT I'M ALSO A WALKER AND I WALK ON LYNCH CREEK TRAIL ALL THE TIME. AND I ALSO WALK ON THE SMART TRAIL, UM, OVER THERE ONTO LAKEVILLE. AND I'D LIKE TO SEE A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING OFF THE SMART TRAIL ACROSS LAKEVILLE, UM, BECAUSE I DART ACROSS, I DART ACROSS THE STREET THERE, ALL THE TIME. AND, UM, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE SAFER, UH, IF THERE WAS A LIKE SET CROSSING THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, FRANK. THANK YOU. I'LL, UH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT CALL OUT. I WOULD CONCUR WITH THAT. UM, THAT CROSSING SUGGESTION. UM, I LOVE THE IDEA OF THE MO THE, UH, MOBILITY HUB CONCEPT AND, AND THE IMPROVED TRANSIT STOP AT THE MOBILITY HUB. UH, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE CROSSING AND INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS ON LAKEVILLE BETWEEN CAULFIELD AND D STREET. ACTUALLY CAULFIELD ALL THE WAY UP TO, UH, UH, NORTH PETALUMA BOULEVARD. UM, I CONCUR WITH THE COMMENTS ON ADOBE CREEK. UM, I LOVE THE CONCEPT OF THE ROUNDABOUTS WHEREVER THEY CAN GO. UM, I JUST WANT TO ECHO THE COMMENTS ON GREENING THE CORRIDOR. AND LASTLY, I WOULD SAY, UM, THE ONE THING THAT, UH, WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT, AND I THINK IT'S BECAUSE IT'S SORT OF OUTTA SIGHT OUT OF MIND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, UM, BUT ON FREIGHTS ROAD BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND ELI, THERE'S A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TRUCK TRAFFIC. AND THAT SECTION IS REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, A RESIDENTIAL AREA, UH, WITH, UM, A LOT OF STUDENTS IN THE SOUTHGATE NEIGHBORHOOD MAKING THEIR WAY TO LOCAL SCHOOLS WALKING ACROSS FREIGHTS. UM, SO MOST OF THE TRUCKS THAT MAKE THAT LEFT HAND TURN ONTO FREIGHTS, THEY'RE SIMPLY GOING OUT TO ONE 16. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE STATE ROUTE, THE STATE HIGHWAY ROUTE SYSTEM ONE 16 ACTUALLY GOES OUT TO STAGE GULCH ROAD AND, UM, AND, UH, AND, AND THEN CONNECTS BACK ONTO ONE 16 FROM STAGE GOLD'S STAGE GULCH. IT'S NOT A, UM, IT'S REALLY NOT FEASIBLE TODAY FOR TRUCKS TO CONTINUE STRAIGHT ON ONE 16 AND GO OUT AND MAKE THE LEFT HAND TURN AT EARNINGS, UH, BECAUSE THAT INTERSECTION ISN'T SAFE. UH, BUT WITH THE ROUNDABOUT GOING IN THERE, THAT CHANGES SAYINGS. AND SO, UH, WHAT I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR THE INTERSECTION THAT GOES IN AT FREIGHTS AND, UM, UH, AND, AND LAKEVILLE, IT ALLOWS FOR LOCAL TRUCK TRAFFIC, BUT IT REALLY INCENTIVIZES, UM, THROUGH TRUCK TRAFFIC TO GO OUT AND UTILIZE THE ROUNDABOUT AND STAY ON ONE 16. I THINK THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, I I PERSONALLY HAVE HEARD IT, UH, FROM MY CONSTITUENTS IN THAT AREA, AND I KNOW THE PAIN THEY FEEL. AND SO ANYTHING THAT, THAT COULD BE, ANYTHING THAT COULD BE DONE TO, UH, UH, TO, TO HELP THAT SITUATION WOULD BE WELCOME. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU, DAVE. WELL, AS A TRANSIT COMMITTEE MEMBER, THE ONE THING THAT I REALLY LOOK AT IS HOW ROUTE 24 FUNCTIONS IN THE FUTURE. AND I KNOW THAT'S REALLY NOT PART OF THIS EVENING, BUT I WILL TIE IT BACK IN A MOMENT. YOU KNOW, LONG TERM I WANT TO SEE BETTER FREQUENCY AND LONGER DURATION OF SERVICE OF 24. ONE WAY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN IS TO MAKE IT A MORE PALATABLE PEDESTRIAN ENVIRONMENT ALONG 24. SO PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO WALK TO A BUS STOP, ARE WILLING TO WAIT AT A BUS STOP. BEST WAY TO MAKE IT A MORE PALATABLE PEDESTRIAN ENVIRONMENT IS REDUCE TRAFFIC SPEEDS. SO, BUILDING ON WHAT THE P PBA C CHAIR CHAIR SAID EARLIER, IF WE REDUCE THE LANE WIDTHS, WE SLOW TRAFFIC, WE MAKE IT MORE FRIENDLY TO PEDESTRIANS, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN BUSES START MAKING MORE SENSE, THOSE PIECES CONNECT TOGETHER NICELY. WHEN WE DID THE ROAD DOWN ON PETALUMA BOULEVARD SOUTH, WE ARE NOW SEEING MORE PEDESTRIANS THERE THAN WE DID 10 YEARS AGO. IT'S BEEN A SLOW GAME, BUT IT IS HAPPENING, AND I WANNA SEE LAKEVILLE GOING DOWN THAT SAME PATH. THANK [01:50:01] YOU. THANK YOU, ERIC. UH, YES. UM, YOU KNOW, DAVE, YOU KIND OF, SAID A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO SAY TOO ABOUT, ESPECIALLY ABOUT ROUTE 24, BUT I MEAN, I WANTED TO ECHO THAT AND WHAT WAS SAID BY JODY AND, AND, AND CATHERINE THAT, I MEAN, THIS IS A ROUTE THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AND PRIORITIZING. AND I KEEP THINKING ABOUT THE, THE SPEEDS THAT ARE ON THIS ROUTE. AND I KIND OF DID MY OWN LITTLE FIELD TRIP TO KINDA LOOK AT THE VERY END OF EARNINGS AND WHERE, HOW THAT ROUNDABOUT WOULD LOOK. AND, YOU KNOW, I GET COMPLAINTS FROM MY FRIENDS THAT I'M A SLOW DRIVER , AND 35 MILES PER HOUR ON THAT ROAD, UM, AT LEAST IN, YOU KNOW, THE PETALUMA CITY LIMITS FELT NORMAL TO ME, BUT MY CAR KEPT TELLING ME THAT IT'S A 45 MILE PER HOUR LANE. AND, YOU KNOW, TO ECHO DAVE'S POINT, IT COULD BE MORE PALATABLE IF WE LOOK AT REDUCING, REDUCING THESE SPEEDS AND, AND SEEING WHAT THAT COULD DO TO REVITALIZE THIS AREA. BUT, YOU KNOW, ON THE OTHER, ON, YOU KNOW, ON THE MORE CONCEPTUAL AND, UM, PALATABLE SIDE OF THINGS, UM, THE TREES, I MEAN, I WAS THINKING ABOUT, UM, WHAT TO SAY HERE ON THIS PART WITH, UM, WHAT'S ON MARIA MARIA DRIVE AND RAINIER, WHEN YOU'RE HEADING DOWN DOWN TO THE PRESCHOOL IN LOMA VISTA, THERE'S A COUPLE OF THOSE DIVIDERS THAT HAVE TREES IN 'EM. SO TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND BAYWOOD, I MEAN, I, I'M ALL FOR THAT. IT IS A VERY, VERY HOT ROAD AND NOT IN THE GOOD WAYS. SO, UM, TO SEE THAT ADDRESS WOULD BE NICE. UM, AND KIND OF A WILD CARD IDEA THAT I HAD TOO IS, UM, THERE IS A EXISTING, IT'S NOT A TRAIL, BUT IT'S USED BY THE CITY TO ACCESS, I THINK, PARTS OF THE, OF THE HIGHWAY, BUT ALSO SOME VEGETATION MANAGEMENT. IT'S A TRAIL THAT'S USED BY THEIR, THE PUBLIC, PUBLIC WORKS CARS THAT PASSES BEHIND THE CUL-DE-SACS ON BAYWOOD. SO ON ALDERWOOD, ASHWOOD AND, AND COTTONWOOD. UM, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE CITY AND MAYBE P BACK TOO, TAKE UP AN IDEA OF WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE AS A TRAIL FOR FOLKS TO THEN CONNECT ONTO LAKEVILLE HIGHWAY. MAYBE IT GOES UNDERGROUND AND MAYBE IT GOES UNDERNEATH THE HIGHWAY AND THEN CONNECTS OVER TO THE MARINA. I DON'T KNOW. BUT, UM, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT OCCURRED TO ME KIND OF JUST LAST MINUTE RIGHT NOW. UM, AND THEN I ALSO WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT FRANK WAS MENTIONING ABOUT STUDENTS AND CASA GRANDE. I THINK WHAT ALSO ISN'T REALLY BEING LOOKED AT TOO IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT A ROUNDABOUT COULD DO FOR LAKEVILLE ON, UM, LAKEVILLE AND CASA GRANDE ROAD IS GONNA HELP, BUT I'M ALSO CURIOUS AS TO WHAT THAT'S GONNA DO FOR ANY POTENTIAL BUILDUP THAT COULD BE SEEN FROM CASA GRANDE ROAD UP TO CASA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL. AND I KNOW THAT'S ANOTHER INTERSECTION THAT HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED MANY TIMES, AND THAT PROBABLY SHOULD BE, UM, ASSESSED FOR WHAT WE COULD DO TO IMPROVE THAT. UM, BUT AS SOMEONE WHO WENT TO CASA, I WAS FRUSTRATED A LOT OF THE TIMES, UM, AS A PEDESTRIAN, BUT ALSO JUST AS A DRIVER TO WHAT THE BUILDUP IS ON THAT STREET. UM, AND THEN JUST OVERALL, I KNOW, UM, I DON'T WANNA GET MORE GRANULAR, BUT I DO ABSOLUTELY WANNA SEE MORE OF WHERE WE CAN HAVE SAFETY, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN JEFFERSON ALL THE WAY DOWN TO, UM, TO BAYWOOD, UM, WITH LIGHTING AND MAKING SURE THERE IS EMERGENCY SERVICES THAT PEOPLE CAN ACCESS WITH THOSE. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE CALLED, BUT I SEE THEM AT UNIVERSITIES ALL THE TIME. THE, UM, THE BUTTON THAT YOU CAN PUSH THAT HAS A LIGHT, BUT ALSO, UM, TO CALL FIRST RESPONDERS FOR WHATEVER NEED. BUT OVERALL, I MEAN, THESE ARE MASSIVE IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, LONG OVERDUE FOR LAKEVILLE. AND, UM, WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO CONTINUE MOVING THIS FORWARD AND WHATEVER COMMUNITY INPUT WE CAN DO, ESPECIALLY FROM FOLKS IN, IN LITTLE WOODS OR EVEN THE BAYWOOD ARMS APARTMENTS, THOSE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT DON'T OFTEN GET THE, THE ABILITY TO REPRESENT THEMSELVES HERE OR EVEN ADVOCATE FOR WHAT THEY NEED. AND SO WE NEED TO CONTINUE PUSHING FORWARD FOR THESE IDEAS WITH THEIR SUPPORT AS WELL. THANK YOU. I WILL BE BRIEF BECAUSE DAVE SAID, UH, WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY, WHICH IS THAT, UM, THE BUS STOP IMPROVEMENTS IS REALLY THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND COMFORT IMPROVEMENTS YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO BE SAFE GETTING TO AND FROM THE BUS STOP. I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S TRAFFIC CON CONCERNS [01:55:01] AS WELL, BUT WE ARE MOVING PEOPLE AND THEN WE'RE DROPPING THEM OFF, YOU KNOW, AND THEY ALSO HAVE TO GET TO US TO GET ON AND THEY HAVE TO DO IT SAFELY AND COMFORTABLY. AND SO YES, FOR SIGNALS THAT GO ALL FOUR WAYS OR SMART SIGNALS, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE MAYBE THERE ISN'T HIGH PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, BUT IF YOU PRESS THE BUTTON FOR THE WALK AND YOU'RE WAITING WHAT FEELS LIKE 15 MINUTES LIKE IT WASHINGTON AND LAKEVILLE, IT'S SUCH SO UNPLEASANT , IT'S REALLY SO UNPLEASANT. UM, AND THEN TREE, THE TREES, TREES, TREES, TREES. I KNOW IT'S, IT, AND IT SEEMED LIKE THAT'S NOT A HIGH PRIORITY YET, BUT WAITING OUT IN THE HEAT FOR A BUS IS UNHEALTHY, YOU KNOW, AND THE AIR IS UNHEALTHY. SO HOW ARE WE GONNA GET PEOPLE ON THE BUSES IF THEY ALL DIED AT THE BUS STOP? OKAY. THANK YOU, . YEAH, PLEASE GO AHEAD, BJORN. SORRY. JUST, UH, REALLY QUICKLY WANTED TO THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, THE REALLY, UH, THE GREAT DIALOGUE HERE TONIGHT. ALWAYS ENJOY THE CROSS POLLINATION BETWEEN THESE TWO, TWO COMMITTEES. UM, THERE WAS A, A PUBLIC COMMENT ABOUT A SIGNAL ISSUE AT BAYWOOD AND LAKEVILLE, AND SO ALL OF THOSE SIGNALS ON THE, UH, CALTRANS SECTION OF LAKEVILLE ARE OWNED AND OPERATED BY CALTRANS. UM, BUT WE ARE GOING TO REACH OUT TO THEM ABOUT THAT ISSUE. AND I ALSO JUST WANTED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF THE CALTRANS, UM, CUSTOMER SERVICE REQUEST PORTAL. IT'S, UM, IF YOU GOOGLE CALTRANS CUSTOMER SERVICE, IT'LL COME UP AND IT ALLOWS YOU TO PLACE A PIN ON A MAP AND THEN DESCRIBE AN ISSUE JUST LIKE YOU CAN@CITYOFPETALUMA.ORG SLASH ISSUES, UM, FOR, FOR SOME STUFF WITHIN OUR, UM, JURISDICTION. BUT THE, THE URL, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU WANT IT IS, UM, CSR.DOT.CA.GOV. AND THIS APPLIES TO ANY KIND OF ISSUE YOU'RE SEEING WITHIN CALTRANS RIGHT OF WAY. UM, IF YOU'RE EVER ON A STATE, UH, A STATE HIGHWAY, UM, SO INCLUDING LAKEVILLE HERE IN OUR CITY, UM, AND I JUST WENT IN AND SUBMITTED A TICKET, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO REACH OUT TO THEM DIRECTLY ABOUT IT. UM, BUT THAT'S A, A GOOD RESOURCE TO KNOW ABOUT CSR.DO.CA.GOV. YEP. THANKS, BJORN. YEAH, I USED THAT FOR HIGHWAY ONE AND THEY RESPONDED TO THE TICKET RIGHT AWAY. UM, SO THAT'S A GOOD RESOURCE. UH, WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO GIVE US JUST A FIVE MINUTE RECESS TO LET THE TRANSIT COMMITTEE GO ON THEIR MERRY WAY. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. THANKS FOR INVITING US. OKAY. YOU WELL? YEAH. GOOD. A LITTLE MORE TO GO. UM, SO YEAH, WE'LL BE BACK HERE AT, UH, 8 33 MEETINGS BACK IN SESSION. UH, SORRY TO INTERRUPT. UM, UH, [COMMITTEE COMMENT] WE ARE NOW ENTERING THE COMMITTEE COMMENT SECTION OF OUR MEETING, AND, UH, I INVITE EVERYONE TO BRIEFLY SHARE UPDATES RELEVANT TO THE COMMITTEE, UH, INCLUDING LIAISON REPORTS FROM OTHER CITY BODIES AND MAKE REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UH, DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEMBERS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERED ANSWERS. THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM. , UM, YOU WANNA START US OFF? FRANK, PLEASE? YEAH, SURE. SO, UM, NO, UH, NOTHING REAL MAJOR FROM CITY COUNCIL TO REPORT. THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY ACTION OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS THAT IS REALLY PERTAINED TO, YOU KNOW, PBA C PEDESTRIAN, BICYCLE, THAT SORT OF THING. UM, BUT, UH, SO AS YOU MAY HAVE KNOW OR HEARD, I AM ALSO ON TRANSIT. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, IN OUR LAST TRANSIT MEETING, WE HAD A FOLLOW UP PRESENTATION FOR THE, REALLY THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK, THE FIN, THE BUDGET FOR TRANSIT, AND THE UPCOMING, UM, TRANSIT BUDGET FOR THE NEXT, FOR THE COMING FISCAL YEAR. SO THE CITY'S FISCAL YEAR, WHAT STARTS IN JUNE OR JULY 1ST, JULY 1ST. UM, SO, UH, SO WE'LL HA WE'LL BE ON A NEW BUDGET STARTING JULY 1ST, AND THAT BUDGET IS PROJECTED TO HAVE A PRETTY MATERIAL SHORTFALL FOR TRANSIT. AND SO THERE'LL BE SOME, SO THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY'S GONNA HAVE TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH THAT AND FIGURE OUT A WAY TO BALANCE THE BUDGET. UM, AND SO WE, THE TRANSIT S STAFF TO BRING A WORKSHOP BACK TO T UH, AND THE REASON FOR, AND, AND, AND TO REALLY ON THE SAME TOPIC OF THE, OF THE BUDGET AND [02:00:01] TO SORT OF BRING SOME IDEAS ON WHAT THE CITY'S LOOKING TO DO TO HELP BALANCE THE BUDGET. UM, AND IF, UH, SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANY OF YOU JUST BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT. I THINK THAT WORKSHOP MAY OCCUR IN JANUARY-ISH, UM, MAY AT AT THE SOONEST. AND, UM, BUT IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN IT, THE, YOU KNOW, I'M ENCOURAGING THE PUBLIC TO SHOW UP AND GIVE THEIR INPUT. 'CAUSE REALLY, ULTIMATELY IT'S PROBABLY GONNA AFFECT SERVICE. AND SO WE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WANT THE CITY TO BE ABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS BASED ON HAVING, UH, THE PUBLIC'S INPUT. UM, SO I'LL STOP THERE. AND THAT'S IT. SORRY TO END ON A DOER NOTE. UH, BUT ANYWAY, NO COMMENT. UH, LET'S SEE. I CAN GIVE A, A QUICK UPDATE ON A PROJECT, UH, THAT'S WRAPPING UP THROUGH SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AND CLIMATE AUTHORITIES. THERE WAS, UM, A STUDY, COUNTYWIDE STUDY, UH, TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF A VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED OR VMT MITIGATION PROGRAM. UH, IT'S GONE THROUGH SEVERAL, UH, ROUNDS OF, OF KINDA REVIEW THROUGH, UH, TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE COMPRISED OF, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, LIKE-MINDED FOLKS AS BJORN ACROSS THE COUNTY, UM, TO EVALUATE WHAT A POTENTIAL PROGRAM COULD LOOK LIKE. UM, THERE'S SOME GREAT RESOURCES ONLINE. IF YOU WANNA FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION. UM, UH, I CAN PROVIDE THOSE TO YOU. JUST LOOKING UP THE SONOMA COUNTY TRANSPORTATION CLIMATE AUTHORITY VMT MITIGATION PROGRAM. UM, BUT ESSENTIALLY WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE'VE COME UP WITH A SUGGESTION, UH, TO DO WHAT'S CALLED A VMT EXCHANGE, UH, WHERE THERE ARE IDEAS FOR POTENTIAL MITIGATION PROJECTS, UH, THAT COULD BE RELATED TO, SAY, IMPROVING TRANSIT OR IMPROVING BIKE AND PED FACILITIES. THOSE WOULD BE, THOSE MITIGATION FEES WOULD BE GENERATED BY PROJECTS THAT ESSENTIALLY EXCEED WHAT THE VMT THRESHOLD IS FOR, UM, FOR CERTAIN DIFFERENT HOUSING, INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL PROJECTS. UH, WHERE WE'VE KIND OF SINCE LANDED, HAVING DONE A LOT OF THIS WORK IS THAT THERE HASN'T BEEN, AND ISN'T NECESSARILY FORESEEN MAJOR PROJECTS THAT ARE GONNA BE SEEN TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT VMT, UH, IMPLICATIONS, HIGH VMT, ESSENTIALLY, UM, THAT WOULD, UH, GENERATE THE NEED FOR MITIGATION. SO PROJECTS YOU COULD CONSIDER WOULD BE KIND OF MORE THE TRADITIONAL LIKE SPRAWL PROJECTS OUTSIDE OF, YOU KNOW, THE EDGE OF THE CITY LIMITS, FOR INSTANCE. A LOT OF THOSE EITHER HAVE KIND OF WRAPPED UP OR AREN'T EVEN EVEN BEING PLANNED. A LOT OF THE INFILL PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY HOUSING, HAVE BEEN STREAMLINED TO GET OUT OF A LOT OF THAT VMT MITIGATION AS WELL TOO. SO PROJECTS THAT HISTORICALLY MIGHT GENERATE VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED, ARE NOW NO LONGER REQUIRED TO MITIGATE FOR THOSE. UM, SO IN ESSENCE, WE'RE KIND OF PUTTING A PIN IN IT. THERE'S WORK AT THE STATE LEVEL AS WELL TOO TO TRY TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH, UH, VEHICLE MILES, TRAVEL MITIGATION FOR THAT MIGHT GENERATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. THAT'S KIND OF ONE OF THE BIG, UH, POTENTIAL, UM, BENEFACTORS. SO THERE'S VARIOUS THINGS HAPPENING KIND OF AT THE STATE LEVEL TOO. SO WE'RE ESSENTIALLY KIND OF HOLDING, UM, ONTO THESE DIFFERENT IDEAS AND WE'LL BE MEETING REGULARLY, SO THERE'S NO NEXT STEPS ON THAT WORK, BUT JUST WANTED TO LET FOLKS KNOW, UM, ABOUT THAT, UH, PROCESS, EVEN IF THAT WAS A LITTLE TOO IN THE WEEDS. UM, ALL RIGHT. THAT'S ALL. UH, THANK YOU. UM, I, I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD THIS EVENING, SO, UM, MOVE ON TO AMBER. NO, THANK YOU. AND, AND BRIAN, UM, JUST GENERALLY AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, WE WENT OVER THE DRAFT GENERAL PLAN, UM, CHANGES. UM, THEY'RE VERY INTERESTING CHANGES THAT DO CHANGE THE WAY IN WHICH, YOU KNOW, HOUSING IS DEVELOPED, UM, THE TYPES OF LAND USE THAT IS APPLICABLE TO DIFFERENT AREAS, UM, AS THAT MOVES ALONG, WHICH INEVITABLY WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO LIVE HERE. AND [02:05:01] ALSO JUST THINKING LONGER TERM ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRANSPORTATION UTILIZATION, INCLUDING BIKEABILITY AND, UH, WALKABILITY OF THOSE AREAS AS THEY ARE DEVELOPED. SO, UM, THE IDEAS THAT WERE PRESENTED WERE REALLY INTERESTING. UM, THE PLAN IS DEFINITELY MOVING ALONG AND, UM, IT'S EXCITING TO SEE THAT CHANGE, UM, IN DEVELOPMENT AND THAT'S REALLY IT. THANK YOU, BRIAN. CODY. THANKS. YEAH. UM, I'M THE LIAISON FOR PARKS AND REC. I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR THAT TONIGHT, BUT I'M ALSO ON PUBLIC ART. AND, UH, SIMILARLY TO TONIGHT, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT LAKEVILLE BEING AN ENTRANCE TO THE TOWN, SO IS THE BOULEVARD, UH, SOUTH. AND WE JUST HAD A MEETING, WE HAD A, UM, A PRESENTATION BY, UM, UH, ROTARY THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT REVAMPING THE, UH, THE, THE ROUNDABOUT IN THE BOULEVARD SOUTH RIGHT WHEN YOU COME IN UNDER THE OVERPASS, UH, THE UNDERPASS. UH, AND, UM, SO I KNOW THE CITY HAS GIVEN THEM SOME GUIDELINES TO FOLLOW FOR WHAT THEY CAN DO IN THERE, AND THEY WANT TO MAKE, UH, HELP IMPROVE THE SAFETY THERE, UH, THROUGH WHATEVER THEY'RE GOING TO DO INSIDE THE ROUNDABOUT. SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THEY KEEP TABS ON, AND IT'LL BE NICE TO HAVE MULTIPLE ROUTES INTO THE CITY BEING BEAUTIFIED AND CHANGED. OH, THANK YOU. YEAH, IT'S GREAT. UH, THE ROUNDABOUT OPPORTUNITY FOR ART IS SOMETHING THAT IS, I THINK, UH, UNDERAPPRECIATED. UM, IT'S ANOTHER HUGE BENEFIT, ART AND LANDSCAPING. UH, AND WITH THAT, UH, WE GET [STAFF COMMENT] TO STAFF COMMENT PORTION. YEAH, THANK YOU. UM, WASN'T PLANNING ON MENTIONING IT, BUT YOU REMINDED ME SPEAKING OF ANOTHER, UH, GATEWAY ROUNDABOUT FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T BEEN OUT TO, UM, WINDSOR DRIVE AND EAST, EAST AND D STREET RECENTLY. UM, THAT ROUNDABOUT, ROUNDABOUT IS NEARING COMPLETION. UM, AND IT'S PRETTY COOL TO SEE, UM, ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS OUT THERE. UM, THE SIDEWALKS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FROM, UM, THERE WAS, THERE'S PREVIOUSLY A PRETTY LENGTHY SIDEWALK GAP, UH, BETWEEN ELROSE AND SUNNY SLOPE AND WINDSOR DRIVE, SO THAT'S ALL BEEN COMPLETED. UM, NICE NEW SIDEWALKS, CURB RAMPS OUT THERE AT THE ROUNDABOUT, SO GO CHECK IT OUT. UH, AND OBVIOUSLY SOON THAT'LL, THAT'LL BE A NEW ENTRANCE TO HOME AND PUTNAM PARK, SO BE SEEING A LOT MORE, UM, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY THAT WAY. UM, ALSO OUT THERE, I, HOPEFULLY YOU ALL SAW MY EMAIL. UM, WE DID JUST COMPLETE OUR, UH, BIKE LANE GAP CLOSURE PROJECT ON WINDSOR DRIVE. SO I THINK I SENT A FEW PICTURES. UM, THAT PROJECT ALSO INCLUDED SOME CROSSWALK ENHANCEMENTS, UM, AT OXFORD COURT AND AT, UH, ONE OF THE INTERSECTIONS WITH WINDSOR LANE. WE PICKED THOSE TWO INTERSECTIONS BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEY PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY, UM, TO, UH, BOTH HELEN PUTNAM REGIONAL PARK, BUT ALSO TO SOME OF THE LOCAL NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS. UM, SO THERE ARE LOGICAL CROSSING, UH, LOCATIONS FOR PEOPLE WHO, UH, ARE OUT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. UM, SO GOING INTO 2026, UH, AS FAR AS QUICK BUILD PROJECTS ARE CONCERNED, WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON WRAPPING UP ALL OF OUR QUICK BUILD IMPROVEMENTS AT SCHOOLS. SO I'LL HAVE SOME UPDATES ON THOSE, UM, AS WE GET INTO THE NEW YEAR, UM, BOTH, UH, IN TERMS OF DESIGN AND, UM, TIMING ON EACH OF THOSE, UM, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS. UM, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO, UH, GEARING UP FOR, UH, UH, WE'RE GETTING THE RAINIER AVENUE PROJECT OUT TO BID SHORTLY, AS WELL AS OUR LYNCH CREEK TRAIL, UH, PAVING PROJECT WILL BE OUT TO BID SHORTLY. SO BOTH OF THOSE WILL BE GOING INTO CONSTRUCTION IN 2026. UH, AND HERE, LET ME SHARE MY SCREEN JUST WITH OUR UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS. OH, I ALSO FAILED TO MENTION, UM, WE DID JUST WRAP UP, UM, SLURRY SEALS ON ABOUT SIX MILES OF CITY STREETS. UM, SO SLURRY SEALS ARE A, A THIN, UM, CEILING SEAL, CEILING CO COATING, UH, ON OUR ROADWAY. UH, YOU DO THEM ON ROADS THAT ARE ALREADY IN, UH, PRETTY GOOD CONDITION TO KEEP THEM IN GOOD CONDITION. IT'S SOMETHING THAT EXTENDS THE LIFECYCLE, UNFORTUNATELY, NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN DO ON A STREET THAT'S ALREADY IN DETERIORATED CONDITION. WE GET THOSE QUESTIONS A LOT. WHY DID THIS STREET THAT'S IN GOOD SHAPE GET SOME LOVE? BUT MY STREET THAT'S CRUMBLING DIDN'T. THE REASON IS IF A STREET IS ALREADY TOO FAR GONE, THERE'S REALLY, YOU WOULD JUST BE WASTING, UH, MONEY DOING THAT. SO, UM, WE DID, UH, MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS, UH, IN A LOT, A LOT OF CASES WITH SLURRY SEAL PROJECTS, THEY'RE PRETTY, THEY'RE JUST GOING IN AND PUTTING THE STRIPING BACK EXACTLY AS IT WAS BEFORE. UM, BUT WE DID GO THROUGH THE LIST AND LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE SOME CHANGES ON, UH, STREETS THAT HAD A GREATER, UM, SIGNIFICANCE IN OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK. SO [02:10:01] ON, UM, ELI ROAD NORTH, UM, WE DID NARROW THOSE LANES DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND TRIED TO MAXIMIZE THE WIDTH OF THE BIKE LANES UP THERE. UM, AND ALSO MADE SOME MODIFICATIONS TO THE STRIPING TO MAKE SOME OF THE, UM, CROSSINGS AND INTERSECTIONS, UH, A LITTLE BIT SAFER AND EASIER TO MANEUVER FOR PEOPLE, UM, USING ALL MODES OF TRAVEL. AND THEN WE ALSO MADE SOME PRETTY BIG CHANGES ON, UM, MADISON STREET BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND UM, ELLIS. SO OUT THERE WE, UM, COPIED WHAT WE DID ON GARFIELD DRIVE A COUPLE YEARS BACK WITH THAT PAVING PROJECT. SO NOW ON MADISON, YOU'LL SEE WHITE EDGE LINES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET. WE'VE NARROWED THE TRAVEL LANES DOWN TO 10 FEET EACH, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY REMOVED THE CENTER LINE, SO, UM, ACCEPT IT INTERSECTION APPROACHES. UM, AND THEN WE'VE ALSO SAY THAT MADISON BETWEEN LAKEVILLE AND ELLIS. UM, AND, UH, AND THEN WE'VE ALSO GOT, UH, WE ADDED SOME NEW CROSSWALKS. UM, THERE WERE PREVIOUSLY NO CROSSWALKS ACROSS MADISON AT VALLEJO STREET, SO WE'VE ADDED CROSSWALKS TO ALL LEGS OF THAT INTERSECTION. UM, AND THEN WE ARE ADDING PAINTED BULL BOUTS AT, UM, ALL OF THE, UH, ALL OF THE INTERSECTIONS WITH CROSSWALKS. SO WE'LL HAVE PAINTED BULL BOUTS IN AT VALLEJO, UH, PAYAN SAN CARLOS, WHICH IS ON THE BACKSIDE OF MCKINLEY AND ELLIS STREET, WHICH IS, UM, RIGHT UP, UH, BY MCKINLEY. SO LOTS OF IMPROVEMENTS WITH THAT. THAT WAS, UH, REALLY, I'D SAY OUT OF ALL THE SLURRY SEAL PROJECTS, THAT WAS OUR, UH, WE IDENTIFIED THAT AS THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY FOR TRAFFIC CALMING AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS. AND I'LL, I'LL SHARE SOME, THEY'RE STILL WRAPPING UP THAT WORK, UM, ADDING ALL THE, UH, THE COLORATION TO THE, TO THE BULL BOUTS AND, UH, MAKING SIGNAGE UPDATES ON MADISON, UM, IN THE COMING WEEKS. SO I'LL SHARE SOME PICTURES OF THAT ONCE IT'S COMPLETE. ARE THERE CONSIDERATIONS FOR ANY RAISED ELEMENTS FOR THOSE BULB BOUTS? UM, YEAH. SO THE SIGNS WILL BE MOVED OUT INTO THE BULB BOUTS, UH, TO SLOW THE TURNING MOVEMENTS AND THEN ALSO JUST TO KEEP, UM, KEEP CARS OUTTA THAT SPACE. UH, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO, UM, WE ARE, WE HAVE HEARD SOME REQUESTS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC CALMING. AND SO, UM, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE WILL, UM, POTENTIALLY LOOK AT, UH, AS WE WRAP UP THE SCHOOL, ALL THE SCHOOL PROJECTS, AND SEE HOW MUCH, UH, MONEY WE HAVE LEFT IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, UM, AND ALSO SEE HOW THINGS ARE GOING ON MADISON NOW WITH THE, WITH THE NEW CHANGES. UM, THERE IS POTENTIAL FOR SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, SPEED CUSHIONS, UH, IF WE STILL HAVE SOME BUDGET AND, UM, AND SEE A, A NEED THERE. UM, SO LOOKING AT OUR UPCOMING AGENDA ITEMS, WE'VE GOT THE AD HOC, UH, PRESENTATIONS FOR ALL THREE GROUPS, AND I REMEMBER MENTIONING AT OUR LAST MEETING, WE WERE HOPING TO, UM, UH, DO A DEEP DIVE ON WAY FINDING AT OUR NEXT MEETING IN JANUARY. SO I'LL, I'LL BE REACHING OUT TO THEM AND, AND TRYING TO KEEP THAT ON TRACK AND SEEING WHAT I CAN DO TO SUPPORT. UM, AND THEN ALL OF THESE OTHER ITEMS I THINK SHOULD LOOK FAMILIAR. UH, THESE ALL WERE ON THE LIST AT OUR LAST MEETING. I DID ADD A NOTE DOWN HERE FOR, UM, CALL FIELD LANE. SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE FUNDING FOR, UH, PAVING ON CALL FIELD LANE BETWEEN PARENTS STREET AND GARFIELD DRIVE, UH, THAT PROJECT SCHEDULED FOR CONSTRUCTION IN 2027. SO, UM, WE'LL BE STARTING OUR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT FOR THAT PROJECT, UM, UH, EARLY IN 2026. THE CURRENT PLAN IS TO HAVE A PUBLIC WORKSHOP IN FEBRUARY, COME TO PBA IN MARCH, GO TO CITY COUNCIL IN APRIL, UM, AND GET ALL SORTS OF INPUT ON THAT PROJECT AND THEN, UM, AND THEN TAKE IT THE REST OF THE WAY AND, UH, HAVE IT, UM, READY FOR BID, HAVE THE PLANS COMPLETE, AND HAVE THE PROJECT READY TO BID, UM, AT THE, BY THE END OF 26 AND GET IT INTO CONSTRUCTION IN 27. SO, UM, PBA FOR PBA, UH, THAT'S THE TENTATIVE PLACEHOLDER. THAT WOULD BE THE FOCUS OF OUR, OUR MARCH MEETING AND A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES WITH THAT PROJECT. OBVIOUSLY, GIVEN THAT CALL FIELD IS, UM, SIGNIFICANTLY, UM, UNDER CAPACITY, SO REALLY NO NEED FOR FOUR LANES OUT THERE. UM, UH, THERE AREN'T, THERE'S NO NEED TODAY AND THERE WILL NEVER BE A NEED FOR FOUR LANES ON CALL FIELD LANE, I CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY. UM, SO WITH THAT, HAPPY TO, IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL ITEMS YOU WANNA ADD TO THE AGENDA, WE CAN, I CAN TAKE THOSE COMMENTS NOW OR HAPPY TO TAKE THOSE OFFLINE AS WELL. CAN I JUST SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY FOR THE WORK ON ELI? AS SOMEONE WHO LIVES OUT THERE, WALKS MY KIDS TO SCHOOL ON THAT, THOSE IMPROVEMENTS THAT STREET ARE EXTREMELY NOTICEABLE IN TERMS OF HOW DRIVERS UTILIZE IT, OF THE, UH, JUST ABIL THE VISIBILITY OF THE LINES, PEOPLE NOT TREATING IT AS A BACK COUNTRY ROAD BECAUSE IT ISN'T, UM, IT VERY MUCH DOES FLOW THROUGH AS A CONNECTING POINT FOR THE COMMUNITY OUT THERE, AND IT JUST REALLY ENHANCES THE SAFETY AND, UM, VISIBILITY ELEMENTS AND THE ADDITION OF [02:15:01] THE, UH, BIKE LANES AS WELL IS MUCH APPRECIATED. SO JUST VERY, VERY GOOD JOB ON TO THE CITY AT LARGE FOR IMPLEMENTING THOSE CHANGES. AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THAT SORT OF PHILOSOPHY CONTINUE TO DRIVE THE ADDITIONAL CHANGES GOING FORWARD. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THAT IT? THAT'S IT. OH, SORRY. YEAH, GO AHEAD. UM, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO DISCUSS, SEE A PRESENTATION, ANYTHING AROUND THE, UM, SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS? YEAH, UH, WE CAN, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT? YEAH, WE CAN FIND A, A TIME FOR THAT EARLY IN 2026 PROBABLY. UM, YEAH, AND SO FOR THE REST, FOR THE COMMITTEE'S KNOWLEDGE, UM, THERE'S A LOT, WE HAVE A FEW THINGS GOING ON WITH OUR SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL GRANTS. SO WE HAVE THE, THE LAKEVILLE STUDY, WHICH IS UNDERWAY, AND THEN, UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, A POT OF MONEY SOMEWHERE IN THE REALM OF $1.25 MILLION, UH, TO DO, UH, QUICK BUILD PROJECTS. UM, UH, LIKELY, I DON'T KNOW, I STILL HAVEN'T REALLY GOTTEN CLARITY ON THE SCHEDULE OF THAT FUNDING YET. THERE WERE A LOT OF DELAYS WITH, UM, WITH THE CURRENT ADMIN, FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION. UM, BUT WHEN IT MAKES SENSE AND WE HAVE SOME CLARITY, UM, WE CAN BRING THAT BACK. SO WHAT WE INITIALLY APPLIED FOR WAS, UH, MONEY TO FUNDING TO IMPLEMENT TOP SCORING PROJECTS IDENTIFIED THROUGH OUR, UM, OUR, UH, SAFE, SAFE STREETS NOMINATION PROGRAM. SO WE INCLUDED THE TOP 10 SCORING PROJECTS. I, I REMEMBER BRINGING THAT TO THIS COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW. UM, WE ARE, UH, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T GET THE FULL, UH, FUNDING REQUEST, UM, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO KIND OF RE-SCOPE IT AND, AND WHITTLE IT DOWN AND FIGURE OUT, UH, WHAT TO PRIORITIZE AND, OH, UM, SO YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE. THERE'S ALSO A SEPARATE, UH, SS FOUR A FUNDED, UM, EFFORT AROUND SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. CERTAIN SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN PRIORITIZED, UH, FOR SAFE ROUTES IMPROVEMENTS, AND, AND WE'RE ALREADY KIND OF AHEAD OF THE CURVE IN THAT REGARD BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY DONE WALK AUDITS AT ALL THESE SCHOOLS AND, AND, UM, HAVE, UH, DESIGNED OR IMPLEMENTED QUICK BUILD IMPROVEMENTS. SO YEAH, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD, UH, A GOOD TOPIC FOR EARLY 26. DID DO SOMETHING ELSE, UH, JUST REAL QUICK, ALSO SIMILAR, JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AND VERY WELL DONE ON, ON WINDSOR. I JUST RODE THAT TODAY ACTUALLY FIRST TIME ON MY BIKE IN THE ROUNDABOUT, AND IT'S, IT'S EXCELLENT. GREAT JOB. UM, ALSO JUST KINDA REFLECTING BACK ON THE PILOT, UM, D STREET PILOT RESULTS, UH, COUNCIL MEETING, UM, I GUESS WHAT I WAS HEARING, JUST SOMETHING I WAS KINDA REFLECTING BACK ON WAS FOLKS, FOLKS ASKING FOR MORE, AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF, IF THERE'S OTHER, WHILE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WAITING FOR THE LONGER TERM PROJECT TO BE DESIGNED AND, AND GOING TO CONSTRUCTION, UM, ASKING FOR LIKE SIGNALED UM, OR FLASHING LIGHTS AT THE CROSSWALKS, RED CURBS. I'M JUST WONDERING IF ANY OF THAT, UM, OTHER, OTHER KIND OF IMPROVEMENTS COULD BE MADE IN THE INTERIM. UM, UH, LET'S SEE. AND THEN, UH, AS FAR AS FOR THE AGENDA FOR NEXT MEETING, I'M WONDERING, UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE NEXT MEETING NECESSARILY, BUT AT SOME POINT I THINK IT'D BE NICE TO HAVE KIND OF A 50,000 FOOT VIEW OF ALL THE A TP PROJECTS AND KIND OF WHERE, HOW ARE WE DOING COMPARED TO WHAT WAS IN THE A TP. UM, YOU KNOW, IT, I THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO GET, YOU KNOW, UPDATES, UM, ON THE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, BUT I DON'T HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF KIND OF THE OVERARCHING, UM, HOW ALL OF THOSE FIT INTO LIKE, THE ENTIRE PLAN. UM, SO THAT'S A PROBABLY MAYBE A BIG ASK FOR A MONTH FROM NOW, BUT, UM, AT SOME POINT, I THINK WHEN IT'S TIME APPROPRIATE, MAYBE WHEN THERE'S, UM, FEWER OTHER AGENDA ITEMS, IT'D BE NICE, I THINK TO HAVE A, AND THAT'S PROBABLY A REGULAR THING, RIGHT? YEAH. LIKE, NOT EVERY MEETING, BUT A QUARTERLY OR SOMETHING, LIKE CHECK IN ON HOW ARE WE MEETING OUR, YOU KNOW, GOALS TOWARDS, UH, IMPLEMENTING A TP. YEAH. AND I WAS ENVISIONING THAT WOULD BE SOME, YEAH, PROBABLY, I THINK QUARTERLY MAKES SENSE. UM, WITH AN UPDATE ON, UH, TO ALL OF THE, ALL 43 OR HOWEVER MANY ACTION ITEMS THERE WERE. UM, A LOT OF THOSE WERE QUANTIFIABLE WHERE WE COULD TRACK THE, THE PROGRESS ON THOSE. AND THEN ALSO LOOKING AT THE, UH, BUILD OUT OF THE OVERALL NETWORK, UM, AND ALSO THE, AND THEN THE PRIORITY PROJECTS AS WELL, SINCE WE HAVE THOSE TABLES OF PRIORITY PROJECTS. UM, ALL, ALL DEFINITELY ACHIEVABLE, AND THAT WAS ALWAYS THE INTENT, UM, TO, TO BRING THAT BACK. [02:20:01] THANK YOU. YEP. GO AHEAD CODY. ALRIGHT. I JUST REALIZED BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT THAT UP MY FIRST TIME OUT HERE, THIS IS, I WANNA HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS MORE AT SOME POINT, BUT I WANT TO ECHO ABOUT THE FLASHING LIGHTS ON D STREET. UH, DAY BEFORE, UM, THE PARADE, MY BEST FRIEND WAS HIT IN THE CROSSWALK THERE BY A DRIVER THROWN ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW, WAY OFF AND BROKE BOTH HER LEGS. AND I, I REALLY THINK THAT IF THERE HAD BEEN FLASHING LIGHTS THAT MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED. SO I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE OF A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT AT SOME POINT. THANKS. THANK YOU. YEAH, AND I, I KNOW THAT THE COLLISION YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, AT LAUREL, LAUREL STREET, UH, OR LAUREL AVENUE, UM, AND I KNOW UNFORTUNATELY THAT WAS A-A-D-U-I COLLISION, BUT, UM, BUT UH, YEAH, DEFINITELY, UH, HEAR YOU GUYS ON THE, ON, UM, UPGRADING TO BEACONS. YEAH, THAT'S AN INTERSECTION THAT I TAKE COMING BACK UP WITH MY KIDS AND IT'S ALMOST, SOMETIMES IT'S SIGNAGE TOO. I DON'T KNOW, I WA WASN'T PRIVY TO THE CONVERSATION AT CITY COUNCIL, BUT JUST SOMETHING PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW, LIKE YIELD TO BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS. I DON'T, I'M NOT EVEN SURE IF PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT, TO BE HONEST. 'CAUSE I'LL FEEL LIKE JUST WAITING RIGHT THERE AND CARS WILL JUST KEEP ZOOMING THROUGH AND I'M JUST LIKE, YEAH, HEY, I FEEL LIKE IT CREATES CONFUSION TOO 'CAUSE LIKE YEAH, SOME OF THE INTERSECTIONS HAVE THE, THE BEACON, SOME DON'T. AND I, I ACTUALLY PUT IT, I USE THE, UH, UH, REQUEST THING ON, ON THE CITY WEBSITE OR ON THE APP ACTUALLY FOR PUTTING ONE AT THE, UM, ACROSS THE BOULEVARD WHERE THE, UM, THE NEW DANCE STUDIO JUST WENT IN, UH, JUST NORTH OF BREWSTERS. UM, SO, SO LIKE, MAYBE IT'S A MORE GENERAL QUESTION THEN IS HOW ARE, IS THIS A QUICK BUILD THING? LIKE HOW, WHAT'S THE PROCESS? IS IT HOW EXPENSIVE IS LIKE, IS TO JUST ADD BEACONS? YEAH, ALL EVERYWHERE. YOU KNOW, LIKE WHEREVER THERE'S LIKE USED CROSSWALKS, JUST, I MEAN, FOR THAT REASON, RIGHT? THAT LIKE, PEOPLE IGNORE THEM, IT'S CONFUSING. YOU DON'T, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THE FLASHING LIGHTS MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN IT, FOR THE MOST PART WE ARE DOING SOLAR, UM, BEACONS. THEY'RE A LOT MORE COST EFFECTIVE THAN GETTING SOMETHING WIRED. UM, BUT IT ALSO DOES ADD, OBVIOUSLY SOME, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU DO WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE IN A SPOT WHERE THEY'RE GETTING SOME SUNLIGHT. UM, AND IT DOES REQUIRE A SLIGHTLY BIGGER FOUNDATION THAN, UH, A TYPICAL STREET SIGN. BUT, UM, I I BELIEVE WE'RE CURRENTLY RUNNING A, IT'S ABOUT $10,000 PER, UH, PER BEACON. SO PER, UH, IT COULD, IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT MORE. I, I CAN, I'LL DOUBLE CHECK ON THE NUMBERS. I, AND AS A COUNCIL MEMBER MENTIONED, WE ARE, WE ARE GOING INTO A, A PERIOD OF, UM, SOME, SOME BUDGET CONCERNS. UM, WE CAN CERTAINLY, UH, EVALUATE WHERE, UM, UH, WHERE THINGS ARE WITH, WITH THE, WE HAVE A COUPLE DIFFERENT, UM, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT CAN POTENTIALLY HELP, UH, FUND BE BEACONS AND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS. SO TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE AND IT'S, UM, WE'RE AGAIN, I THINK OUR TOP, OUR TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW FOR OUR QUICK BUILD BUDGET IS GETTING THROUGH THE REMAINING SCHOOLS WITH OUR, UH, ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN OUR AUDITS. UM, AND THEN IT'S, I THINK A KIND OF A QUESTION OF, OF WHAT ELSE WE CAN TACKLE THIS YEAR BEYOND THAT, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL LOOK AT WHAT WE CAN DO. YEAH. ANYONE ELSE? UM, THE 1 0 1 CROSSING STUDY, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S THE NEXT KIND OF INFLECTION POINT IN DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE PROJECTS? UH, BUT, UH, IT, I WENT THROUGH IT, IT, UM, SEEMS TO MATCH THE PRESENTATION WE SAW MONTHS AGO, UM, AND, AND YOU KNOW, ELABORATE GREATLY ON THAT. UM, IT SEEMS LIKE WE SHOULD REVISIT THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THERE IS NEW TO DISCUSS. WE ALREADY GAVE FEEDBACK ON THE PRESENTATION. UM, BUT YEAH, BEFORE IT COMES TO THE NEXT INFLECTION POINT OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER'S GOING ON WITH THOSE PROJECTS, I'D LIKE US TO, UM, YEAH, CONSIDER THAT FOR AN AGENDA ITEM IN THE FUTURE. YEAH, THAT SOUNDS GOOD. UM, AND THAT MIGHT MAKE, WE HAVE, UM, OUR CURRENT CIP HAS THE, UH, THE CORONA ROAD CROSSING OVERCROSSING IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN THE CIP. UM, BUT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, WE DON'T HAVE, NONE OF THE OTHER IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN THE CURRENT CIP. SO OKAY. UM, ANOTHER CONVERSATION THAT I THINK YEAH, MAKES SENSE FOR EARLY, EARLY 26, THERE'S SOME LAND ACQUISITION IN THERE. IS THAT ONLY EVER DONE, LIKE ONCE THE PROJECT IS GREEN LIT OR CAN THE CITY LOOK AHEAD, SEEMS LIKE GETTING AHEAD OF THAT, UM, SOMETHING THAT TAKES A REALLY LONG TIME AND, UH, GIVING THE CITY MORE OPTIONS WOULD BE WORTHWHILE. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS IN TERMS OF PLANNING. UM, BUT UH, YEAH, [02:25:01] IF YOU, IF YOU WAIT, IT ONLY GETS MORE EXPENSIVE, RIGHT? YEAH. UH, A GOOD QUESTION AND, AND ONE THAT REALLY IS, UH, I THINK ULTIMATELY UP TO, UP TO COUNCIL AND, AND THE DECISION MAKERS WITH JUST HOW OUR BUDGET IS. YEAH, SURE. WHAT, WHAT THE PRIORITIES SPELL OUT. OKAY. WELL THAT'S ALL I GOT. YEP. UH, WITH THAT, UH, WE ADJOURN AT 9 0 2. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.