 It's 4pm. We call on this meeting to order. First, a little bit of housekeeping. Members of the public can participate in this meeting by attending in person at room M at the utility field operations building on 36 Stony Point Road or via Zoom by visiting HTTPS-4-4-SRCITY-ORG.Zoom.US-J-8221-3900996 or by phone by dialing 669-219-25994-877-853-5257 and answering webinar ID 822-1390-0996. May we have a roll call, please? Present in the room are Chair Battenborg, Vice Chair Riddlington, Board Member Schwartz, Board Member Prindle, Board Member Narath, and Board Member Kyle. In participating remotely is Board Member McKenzie. Thank you. So as mentioned that members of the public can join the meeting in person or here by Zoom. You'll be participating as attendees on Zoom so your microphones will remain muted and your camera will remain off. If you're calling in from a telephone and choose to speak during the public comments portion of today's agenda for privacy concerns, the host will rename your viewable phone number to resident and the last four digits of your number. The City of Santa Rosa is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption, will not tolerate any hateful speech or actions, and are well staffed to monitor that everyone is participating respectfully or they will be removed. If necessary, we will also immediately end this meeting. Okay, moving on to item number two, Statements of Abstention by Board Members. Do we have any statements of abstention? I'll be abstaining from the minutes approval because I wasn't here last time. Seeing no one else. Thank you Paul. We'll move on to comments on the agenda by Board Members. Do we have any comments on the agenda? Excellent. Seeing none, we'll move on to approval of the minutes. Do we have a motion to approve? I'll move to approve. And a second. Thank you, China, for seconding. Any comments on the minutes? No. Excellent. We'll move on to a vote. Please raise your hand if you are in favor of approving the minutes or in favor except Paul who is abstained. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item number five, public comments on non-agenda matters. Rob, would you explain how this works? Yes, at each agenda item the item is presented. The chair will ask for board comments and then open it up for a public comment for both in-person and Zoom attendees. The host in Zoom will be lowering all hands until public comment is open for the agenda item. Once the chair is called for the public comment, the chair will announce for the public to raise their hand if they wish to speak on the specific agenda item. If you're calling to listen in remotely from, audibly from a telephone, you can dial star nine to raise your hand. The host will then call on the public who have their hands raised. Public comment will be limited to three minutes and a time will appear on the screen for the board and public to see. Thank you, Rob. So now we'll take comments on non-agenda items. And if you're in the room, you can go right over there to the microphone. And if you're on Zoom, you can raise your hand or if you're calling in from a phone, dial star nine. Please go ahead. Hi, Iris Weaver from Snowman County Bicycle Coalition. And I just wanted to announce a few things that we have coming up. Week from Saturday on the 30th. Oh, yeah, just bring the whole thing up. Yeah. I know I'm pretty loud. I'm not usually one. I'm usually the one who needs other people to use the mic rather than I needing the mic. On September 30th, we're having our first ever Golden Spoke Award Scala, which will both be a fundraiser, but also we're giving away some awards. And actually some of the people who are getting some of the words are actually in the room. And most of them are actually Santa Rosa. So our bike advocates of the year are Bikeable Santa Rosa. And both of our, we had a tie for Bike Friendly Business of the Year, both of which are in Santa Rosa Sonoma Clean Power and Shady Oak Barrel House. So you can find out more info about that at bikesanoma.org. Get your tickets soon. And even if you can't go to the event, we have a really cool auction. So we got bikes, vacations, wine, all kind of cool stuff. So you can take a look at that. In October, we have two different events come well, three different events rock, walk and roll to school day is October 4. So there will be kids out in droves all over the county walking, rolling to school. We're also having our monthly smart cycling class. And then we kind of go dark for the winter. So this might be the last chance to get in on that before before the winter happens. And then on October 21, we're having our first ever bike advocacy summit that will be bringing together folks who are already our advocates, but aren't and would like to be to do some education and inspiration and sharing information among folks. So that again is coming up October 21. And all of that info is on bikesanoma.org. Thanks. Thank you, Iris. Anybody else in the room? Rob, do we have anybody on Zoom or phone? No one on Zoom is raising their hand. Okay, we will move on to item number 61, the access to transportation plan vision goals and draft scope of work. So Torina. So Torina is remote. Hi there. Thank you very much for allowing me to present to you virtually. COVID cannot and will not keep me from this presentation since it's effectively our kickoff for the active transportation plan. It's just far too exciting, right? I want to ask either Alyssa or Rob, if anyone from Ulta is in our waiting or in our attendees list. Yes, let me get. Okay, so while you're on them, I can let everyone in the room know that we have gone ahead and we have chosen a consultant for the update to the active transportation plan. After interviewing three firms, we chose Ulta Planning and Design and you may recognize that name because they did our 2018 Bike Ped Master Plan update. And so we're really excited to have them back. And I know there's one, maybe two people from the consultant team who are attending today to listen into the discussion. As I've said before, we're doing, we're finalizing our scope of work this month. So they're attending out of the excitement and goodness of their hearts so they can hear what we have to say today. And I see, yeah, Mauricio has joined. Mauricio, you want to introduce yourself and say hello. Hi, everybody. Mauricio Hernandez. I'm a senior planning associate here at Ulta Planning and Design. I also help lead the Oakland Planning Office. We're super excited to come back and present to you our ideas. I'm very excited to hear the ideas that you have today. So again, thank you again for inviting us. And Torina, I had no idea you had COVID. Thanks, Mauricio. Yeah, that's what I get for attending a really, a really fun conference, which, you know, I've been to it five or six times and never have gotten sick. So it got me this time. Yeah, thank you, Mauricio, for attending. This is the PowerPoint that I will be giving today. Before I start, I wanted to give a huge thank you to Christina Panza at the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. She submitted a very large chunk of really cute photos from their Safe Routes to School program. And so in this PowerPoint and in the next PowerPoint that Rob's going to give, there's just, there are a lot of stinking cute pictures and I'm so happy that we have these for really any presentation, but also because we can use them in our active transportation plan to highlight a lot of the good work that we're doing as well. Rob, you can go to the next slide. I'm trying. Sorry. That's all right. It gives me a little time to breathe. If there's an awkward silence, it's because I'm just trying to breathe. Sorry. Today, I'm going to be covering the existing vision and goals that are in our Bikeped Master Plan. I'm also going to show you vision and goals that are adopted in other active transportation plans and similar documents in the Bay Area. And then we're going to go through the consultant scope of work that Alta submitted as part of their proposal. I'll let you know of our next steps. And then we're going to have a discussion on what vision and goals you'd like to see in the active transportation plan update and then any comments that you have on the draft scope of work. Next slide. And then next slide. So the reason that we're presenting these items is one agenda item. I did have you advanced too fast. I had one more thought, but it's all right. You can stay here. So the reason that we're presenting these items as one agenda item is because we want to foster a broader conversation about the direction that you want the active transportation plan to go. So the vision statement and our goals should directly reflect the desire that you have for the whole plan overall. And then the scope is how we're going to make sure that Alta helps us get to a plan that is a blueprint that will help us meet that vision and goal. And that is also true for the next item that we're going to talk about today that Rob will present on, which is the work plan. But it's all interrelated. So I just wanted to give a heads up that as we go into vision and goals and the scope, these two things are really closely aligned with one another. And so this is going to help us go in the direction that we'd like to. Now next slide. Thank you. You take a deep breath here. Okay. Thank you very much. So on this slide, you're going to see the existing vision and goals that we have in our 2018 bike, pet and master plan. I usually don't like to read directly from slides that I present, but I think in this case, it's going to be pretty important so that we can all understand what we have and what's in the next examples that I'm going to be showing you. So the vision that we have in our plan right now is Santa Rosa is a community where walking and bicycling are comfortable, convenient and common for people of all ages and abilities. And then we have three goals. Our first one is increase access and comfort, design bicycle and pedestrian facilities that are accessible and comfortable for people of all ages and abilities to use. The second one is maintain and expand the network, identify, develop and maintain a complete and convenient bicycle and pedestrian network. And our third one is support a culture of walking and biking, increase awareness and support of bicycling and walking through programs and citywide initiatives. So you'll see that with our vision and our goals, we already talk about a lot of the things that this board in our community talks about on an ongoing basis. We talk about comfort, convenience. We talk about all ages and abilities. We mention it twice within these items. And then we also talk quite a bit about in this last item about programming. So we talk a little bit more. We talk about a little more than just infrastructure. We also talk about programming, which is things like outreach and marketing that is going to help us shift behavior a little bit more than just infrastructure would do. We can go to the next slide. So this is the first example that I have for you. I did get a comment from one board member asking if there were some more updated examples that I could show you. And I was really not able to find very many. I have one example in here from 2022. I'm suspecting that COVID may have something to do with that, that there may have been a bit of a delay on some ATPs undergoing the process. But when we get to discussion, I might have Mauricio chime in to see if he has any more ideas of more up-to-date vision and goals, examples. But this is the first one that I have for you. This is from the Sonoma County Transportation Authority there 2014 Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. They have what's called a principal goal and it states to develop and maintain a comprehensive countywide Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation System, which includes projects, programs and policies that work together to provide safe and efficient transportation opportunities for bicyclists and pedestrians. And then they do not actually have goals. What they have is underneath this principal goal is the sentence in Sonoma County Bicycling and Walking R. And then there's a long list of bullet points and I'm not going to read all of them, but they talk about quality of life. They talk about interconnection, safety and convenience, encouraging easy connections to transit to help increase the reduction in single occupant vehicles, supporting education and enforcement, and then overall just fostering an environment within the county that helps reduce vehicle miles traveled and greenhouse gas emissions. We can go to the next slide. This example is from the 2018 Petaluma Bike Ped Plan. I know that they are undergoing an update right now, but their draft goals and vision are not currently on their web page. So I did have to pull from their 2018 example and they only have one overall goal and it is to create and maintain a safe, comprehensive, and integrated bicycle and pedestrian system throughout Petaluma that encourages bicycling and walking and is accessible to all. Like I said, the update is not currently or the update that they're undergoing currently does not show what their updated vision will be, but I do suspect that one change to this goal would be that they would expand that last little section to say and is acceptable to people of all ages and abilities to be a bit more inclusive. Next slide. So this is the most recent example that I have. It's also the last example that I have for you today. It's from Contra Costa County. It's their active transportation plan, which was adopted in 2022. And they're similar to us. They have one vision and three goals. So their vision states Contra Costa County will have an equitable transportation system that supports active transportation for all ages and abilities, allowing all to travel conveniently, reliably, and free from harm. And they've got three goals and they are prioritized active transportation investments based on factors such as collision history or systemic risk, location in an impacted community, location near key destinations and funding opportunities. The second is shift trip modes in Contra Costa County residents and visitors from motor vehicles to active modes such as walking and biking to create a more sustainable community and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And the third is provide a vision for arterials and collectors within the unincorporated county roadway network to assist county departments in planning for private development capital projects and maintenance efforts. You can go to the next slide. So that was the end of the vision and goals. I am going to go over the draft scope of work before we go into the larger discussion. Those three examples are also in your staff report. So you can you can review those at any time throughout the discussion as well. Next slide. So the draft scope of work, which is also in your staff report. This is what Alta submitted as part of their proposal. There have been no changes to this since Alta did provide this in the proposal. There are seven tasks and there are a few optional tasks. City staff does have some comments on this draft scope of work. They're not very substantial. And so we're really hoping that you have some comments today. You know, if you have any specific preferences of things that you would like to see or things that you think we could add it a little bit, we'd like to hear from you. Next slide. And I'm going to briefly go through each of the tasks here. There are, let me turn to my notes, there's two specific items within the scope where I'm going to give you a little bit of background of what they are, particularly because I found them to be really intriguing and I'm excited to be able to see something like that. So task one is very standard. It includes our kickoff meeting with the consultant and ongoing meetings that would be similar within any scope. Task two is existing conditions and data collection. Again, this is something that's pretty standard in a lot of scopes of work for any project, but there's a couple items in here that I think are very interesting. So one thing that's pretty standard is an active transportation network inventory. A few things I thought was interesting was the safety analysis and then also an analysis of equity priority communities. Another pretty standard item is a bicycle pedestrian level of stress analysis. So we can understand of the existing facilities that we have, what's the level of stress on those facilities. There's also an active trip potential. This is one that I wanted to highlight because I thought that it was pretty interesting. So the active trip potential is an analysis to identify trips where the distance to a destination is short enough that someone could make it by biking or walking, but they're not. So what Altwick would look at is what services or land uses are near those trips to help us determine where we have community members living in or near a high activity area that are not walking and biking. And we could use this data to see where we could prioritize improvements because of behavior shift in a location like that could potentially be easier than elsewhere. And then all of these items are going to coalesce into an existing condition summary that will then inform the rest of the plan. Next slide. Task three is public engagement. We always start with undergoing a public engagement plan, which is going to help outline the entire public engagement process. There will be several times that we come to the BPAP for discussion of items that we have just finished up a draft of or if we're moving into another item when we'd like to have some of your feedback. There's also going to be a series of pop-up engagement. Pop-up engagement is where you go to where the community is. So they're rather informal events. If you've ever been at a farmer's market or some other event where there's a city tent and a table and there's information and they ask you to take a survey, that's usually what a pop-up is like. There would also be a series of public meetings. These would be the more formal community engagement meetings like workshops. There would also be online outreach, which would include a project survey and then it would also include a web map. And our goal for that web map would be that it's a map of the entire community and then residents would be able to drop a pin and they could make a comment. So maybe they could drop a pin and say, you know, there's a gap in the sidewalk right here. And then ideally it would be in a platform where someone else could then comment and say that they support or, you know, maybe have an edit to somebody else's comment. And then there would be a series of stakeholder engagement as well. Task four, city staff will have some edits to this task. The way that it's written right now is that ALTA will help us draft goals and objectives and then they would finalize those goals and objectives. Obviously tonight we're talking a little bit about or not a little bit, we're talking a lot about vision and goals for the ATP. And so some of what's written in this task right now we're not going to need. So there will be a little bit of changes to that task. Next slide. So task five is an analysis of our overall active transportation network. One of these items is a 15-minute city analysis. This is another item that I wanted to highlight because I was particularly excited when I saw this in the scope. So a 15-minute city analysis is a mapping exercise where ALTA will identify important services such as schools, libraries, and grocery stores, and then compare those land uses with their previously mentioned low stress analysis to see where we have these uses and whether they're accessible with low stress active transportation infrastructure. So a 15-minute city is a movement, if you haven't heard of it, it's a movement where that advocates for all residents being living within a 15-minute walk, bike, or transit ride from all essential services. And so the idea behind this task is that if we know where there's potential for us to have 15-minute city nodes within Santa Rosa and we can figure out whether or not the trips to the services from each residence are low stress or not, we can figure out where we need to prioritize improvements because again those are going to be trips where it might be a little bit easier to influence a behavior shift. The second task, subtask within task five, is a climate mitigation benefit scenario and then these two items they would coalesce into a summary of our active transportation network which would then move us into task six which is ALTA would give us a list of their network recommendations for both bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. They would give us policy recommendations, a network prioritization and then as part of that network prioritization there would be cost estimates, a list of potential funding sources, and then a maintenance strategy. So that would help us continue to figure out how we would prioritize improvements but then also making sure that we can maintain all of the changes that we make over time. Next slide. I think you might have went ahead one, yep there we go. So task seven is very standard again so this is just the putting together of the plan so we're going to have a couple drafts of this plan there's going to be the administrative draft which is where city staff reviews it make sure that we feel like all of the comments that we've been giving to ALTA over time have been received and accommodated and then they send a second draft back that addresses all of our comments and that becomes the public draft plan and then you have the final plan and the final plan presentation and then there's also a list of optional tasks within the scope. I'm not going to go into these at this point but these items are project data sheets, warrant analyses, project branding and logo development, active transportation audits, and then conceptual plans for proposed projects at this point city staff does not think that we need many or if any of these optional tasks we had some specific questions for ALTA on you know does any of these items get us farther than what we would get within the scope and we feel pretty confident that what's already in the scope that's not optional is very strong so we're pretty excited about that. Next slide. Now for next steps city staff is going to be working with ALTA to prepare prepare the final scope of work and to draft the first iteration of the vision and goals. As I said in the beginning scope edits are not going to be too substantial it's largely largely going to consist of moving hours around and adding and removing small components and then the final scope of work and the draft vision and goals we're going to present to you at the November meeting so you're going to see them again and then the vision and goals throughout the project process they're going to be working draft and so when you see them in November it's by no means the final thing that's going to be included in the plan because there's always the chance that we learn something along the way and we decide you know we want to make a little bit of a word tweak which is entirely possible. For a recommendation for today there's no action needed all we'd like from you is to provide input on the active transportation plan draft scope of work and then also provide direction to us that will help us draft some vision and goals for you to review in November. That's all I've got. Thank you Torina. So we'll start by taking questions from the board then we'll go to the public for comment and then coming back to the board for for the comments so are there any questions about any of these things from the board before we go to school? As I was listening to Torina talk it occurred to me I'm not fully clear on the difference between identifying the active trip potential and identifying the 15 minute city potential. Perhaps I can tackle that Torina is that okay? Yeah so the active trip potential really is basically looking at which trips that are already being done right now and any type of trip that are less than one mile for people walking and less than three miles for people biking. Which of those trips can we actually transform into biking and or walking if we make improvements into the different facilities that are there? Currently most people may not be walking in that one mile trip they may be taking a single occupancy vehicle because they may not have facilities or appropriate facilities so that's what we're looking for in that particular analysis. The one that's it's very much related but a little different is really figuring out whether there are correct routes and this also provides us an understanding of where there are any gaps in the what is it called in the network that we can address that those locations so for example the schools grocery stores those are things that we look into or packs if they all have ways for them or for people to access them within their neighbourhoods. So basically we're looking at neighbourhood destinations providing those locations or providing good routes for those locations to neighbourhood destinations. Does that make sense? Any other questions from the board? Nope I had one question Ruizio maybe you can explain to me the project data sheets. What's that about? The optional component? Sure so we tend to do that for many plans nowadays. We are seeing more and more Caltrans requiring just basically basic explanations of the projects providing some additional context perhaps some 10% design concepts for each of the projects that are being or for the top five projects that are being promoted in the plan. So following our recommendations we would be developing 10% concepts for each of the top five so projects and we would include some details in those data sheets basically and those data sheets can actually be used to apply for or to go after ATP they're very much ready to use. So we would the cities that we've worked with in the past are now trading them as ready ready to apply for grants so you don't really need to do any additional details on that because you have all of the details there like how long how much what it would look like and some additional data related to public engagement that is now required by ATP and other grant programs. Thank you. Any other questions from the board? No then we'll go to public comments so if you are in the room and you have comments on this you can line up over by the microphone and if you are participating we assume you can raise your hand or from a phone you can dial star nine. They're active people. I mean just a little word about the microphone. Go ahead. Hi I'm Jim McAdler I'm a volunteer with the Southeast Greenway Campaign. I'll take it this on. Many people are hesitant to take a bike or pedestrian path because it's not safe. Does that part feel wrong? I think it's a little closer. Sorry. As I was saying I believe many people are hesitant to take a bike and safe bike and pedestrian path because it's not safe and or it's not comfortable or easy. If you're walking or running you have to be especially cautious of passing bikes. Likewise if you're on a bike you have to be especially aware of walkers and runners. Add equitable access and safety becomes even a much more important issue. This is why we need two separate bike and pedestrian paths on the Southeast Greenway and wherever else possible in our updated active transportation plan. I do not own a pedal assist e-bike yet but it's clear that e-bikes are becoming more prevalent because they help riders pedal easier and go faster. In fact e-bikes are a great way to help people get out of their cars and to help protect our climate. I'm thinking about the impacts of e-bikes on the future Southeast Greenway which by the way in case you don't know is a two-mile long swath of land someday to be a city park. Currently the Southeast Greenway has in the city's bicycle and pedestrian master plan a connecting class one bike path from Montgomery High School to Spring Lake Park. This path became part of the master plan in 2011. The Southeast Greenway will provide a beautiful outdoor excursion for pedestrians and cyclists alike but we need paths that are safe and easy for pedestrians as well as for cyclists in particular taking to an account e-bikes. This can be done by having two separate paths one for pedestrians and one for cyclists. One of the paths can also be used for emergency access vehicles. Thank you for your consideration of considering separate paths in your active transportation plan. Thank you. Go ahead. My name is Vincent Hogland and I am a member of the Sonoma County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and I'm also as you can see where I get a greenway shirt and I'm sort of the bicycle advocate for the greenway. I live in the county but I also frequently ride my bike into Santa Rosa to do different kinds of errands. The staff report concerning the active transportation plan update has visions and goals and that there are three goals and two of which I wanted to talk about specifically. Design number one design bicycle and pedestrian facilities that are accessible and comfortable for people of all ages and abilities to use maintain and expand the network identify develop and maintain a complete and convenient bicycle and pedestrian network. Now as Jim just commented about there we are the city has approved making the southeast greenway into a park in perpetuity and so that's one of the things that I'm really concerned about as he's commented that we're going to have parallel bicycle and pedestrian paths. My concern is that the city design safe routes through the city streets to make this a continuous pathway from the west county to the east county. They connect the west county trail, the Joe Rodota trail, the Prince Greenway, the Santa Rosa Creek trail. Be able to connect that basically at the end of Santa Rosa Avenue and being able to get through the city streets over to where the greenway will start because then on the east side of the greenway pathway through Spring Lake Park there are planned to be county class one bike lanes separated from highway one to be able to get all the way into Sonoma. So I think that this would be a valuable and safe way to connect the west county with the eastern part of Sonoma County using active transport. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Hi Chris Eggers, Santa Rosa, member of Bikeable Santa Rosa. I am wondering if Alta has read the city thread report. They just did an analysis of our bike network and active transportation and they had some recommendations in there and number one being having created 25 miles of contiguous low stress bike network in Santa Rosa and I would like to see some specific numbers in the active transportation plan. I understand we're just in the beginning parts of it but I'm very excited about this process. It seems like an opportunity for us to have very ambitious goals and to achieve them. I see it as an incredible opportunity. So I'm hoping that Alta if they have not already would take the time to read the city thread recommendations. Thank you. Thank you Chris. Harris? Looking at the existing vision and goals I've got to make this taller. Do it this way. Looking at the the existing vision and goals there there's nothing bad or wrong about them but they're just so bland right. I want I want us to go bigger. You know the city the draft of the general plan talks about prioritizing active transportation over vehicles. They're being more visionary about active transportation and that plan than this plan is that's supposedly about active transportation so I really hope that that gets more expanded you know because comfortable convenient common that's just it's just bland. I loved the the mention in the Contra Costa vision about specifically calling out mode shift. We don't just want to make this easy. We want to get more people to actually do it right. We want to get more people in trips that are under three miles using active transportation. The third goal in talking about culture shift and and Tarina mentioned you know other kinds of programming and education stuff you know when we're talking about you know public health behavior change we talk about the five E's education encouragement engineering evaluation enforcement and equity by coalition and the bike clubs and a lot of other organizations around the taco Tuesday folks we got the education and the encouragement stuff down pat what we can't do is the engineering and the enforcement we need the city to do that so we don't need more education programs done by the city unless you want to give us money to do it because we already know how to do it well but we need you to fix the streets because we can't do that right um let's see what else did I have to say I think that was it thank you thank you Iris hi my name is Thea Hensel and I'm co-chair of the southeast greenway campaign and I'm also on the bike coalition board I have just a couple of things and first I want to say as Vin mentioned before thank you for putting the class one bike lane on the greenway before it was ever even zoned so that sort of set the model for everything else that has gotten us to the place right now where the city is going to own that property soon and it's going to become vital for us to partner with you folks as we go through a park plan to make sure it's in sync with whatever your plans are as well we think it's really important again it was mentioned for there to be two bikeways and we really bike in a pedestrian pathway and we understand that's a heavy lift we're going to have to raise a lot of money to get that done but we feel like we really want to take this 2.2 miles of pedestrian and bike pathways and make it as usable and friendly as it possibly can be I want to because the connectivity is so important when you do plans if you could take a look at Summerfield at the entrance through the park at Franquette at Yalupa at all of those busy crossings and say how can we make these easy for people to get on the greenway I think some of this would be ideal and wonderful if these could be looked at as class four bike lanes but certainly some sort of a protected way so people can get to the greenway connectivity is really important so I hope that there are links I don't know if farmers lane extension is ever going to happen but if it does we want to make sure that Cooper Creek and whole that whole area down there around Kiwana Springs is easy and safe to get to as well I think oh the other thing I wanted to say is that there are six schools high school middle school elementary schools within a few blocks of the greenway it makes total sense to cut down vehicle miles traveled and get these kids on bikes and the way to do that is to make it safe and easy for them so please consider that and look at all the surrounding areas of the greenway because there's ideal situations to really make that area safe and certainly shift traffic modes thank you thank you Chris go ahead thanks Chris Gunther with Michael the Santa Rosa I my thoughts are extensive time is short and I'm sleep deprived so I'm probably going to do a bad job at this but I'll sort of rattle off as quickly as I can so on the vision I think you know to the extent that the vision is useful I think the the examples that were shown that were more specific are quite encouraging I really like our existing vision but I think one of its weaknesses is that it talks about biking as an end in itself rather than something that enables a lot of other things I liked the county plan in the way that it made some of those connections so for what that's worth I think we should try to make it strong and make it connect to other attributes the other community goals that I think are essential I also want to shout out for walking we're going to talk a lot about biking that's who we are and that's really key for sort of longer distance mobility but I hope that some of the community engagement can really get after walking advocates so we can flesh that out more as well but also on the vision you know I said before I like the current vision unfortunately it feels like there's a lot of work to do to realize it and I would really hate if we're standing here in five years or in 10 years and liking our old vision but still being frustrated with what the conditions on the streets are so I think what I really want to ask as part of this process is how do we use the plan to really think about what is possible or even better what is likely as a result of this process the vision only goes so far in that respect and so I think the the actual fundamental outputs of the plan are more important which I'm sure everybody agrees with as regards that you know on the scope I think some of the components in there are really really great really encouraging the active trip potential and the 15 minute city analysis are especially interesting to me there's been some comments about some of the off-street paths I think they're really important they're sort of backbones of the network they're great for longer distance continuous travel when you need to connect across the city and that's really part of this vision that's part of the making the network viable they're not useful if they don't connect to anything else so I can ride all the way across town on the Joe's Trail but then I have to at some point get off at Sony Point or Dutton or any of a variety of other places and face the gauntlet so I hope that we can address that the last thing is on the process I am really hopeful that something bold comes out of this plan I hope that we are thoughtful about what is necessary not just what is possible but I'm worried about what happens if it seems too radical and it gets constrained before we finish the plan so I hope that we can be thoughtful about how to navigate that thanks thank you I'm Abigail Zoger I teach at Santa Rosa Junior College and I would like to stress the urgency of this problem and it's it's because first of all I see my students who need a car to get everywhere and cars are expensive and it drains away their time and money that they have for focusing on their education because they have to work jobs to support the car and support the insurance so they can get the car so they can get to work and they can get to school and those are people's lives that are happening right now in this moment in our extremely financially challenging county so these are real problems that we can solve the second thing that I want to point out because of a project my students are doing that I don't know if you're aware that UCLA did a study of diabetic rates by county ethnicity etc across the whole state Sonoma County in 2016 had 49% of its population was pre-diabetic that's huge 10% is diabetic in that time and then they said within the next five years 30% of those pre-diabetic people will become diabetic oh we're already five years past that and the county and the city spend a lot of money to try and help people with pre-diabetes and what they want people to do is eat healthy food and they want them to move and it's really hard to move in an easy way in this city in this county because cars dominate and it's too dangerous and so I wanted to call attention to research that was done by the New England Journal of Medicine where they looked at a 15-year study in Europe of diabetics and the risk of diabetic complications based on their bicycling behavior and there was a significant drop over 30 drop in diabetic complications with people who bicycled one to five hours a week that's what you do if you're going to work or to school and we spend so much money and lose so many people's health and lives to diabetes and other health problems that could be solved by things as simple as being able to walk to your grocery store walk to school bicycle to your job get exercise we've engineered all the exercise out of our lives and as a consequence the health of our county is suffering right now so I love this plan but it all has this leisurely tone to it of well we're going to have these studies and we're going to talk to these people and then we're going to try and build these things and meanwhile people's lives are being destroyed right now by things that we know how to solve and frankly we're spending money on in other ways so a prudent way to spend our money is to make it healthier and easier for people to live their lives so we don't have to spend money on horrible medical you know interventions later on so that is what I'd like to say thank you thank you hi I'm Laura niche I'm the Executive Director of 350 Bay Area which is a climate change organization and one of our local groups is 350 Sonoma and we have sort of this huge opportunity in front of us to make a real difference both Santa Rosa and the state have ambitious climate goals and Santa Rosa is officially declared a climate emergency and right now our biggest source of emissions is coming from transportation because we've done a pretty good job reducing emissions coming from generating electricity and we're working our buildings and all the other sectors but this is a really exciting opportunity to get people out of their cars with all the health benefits that Abigail pointed to and the the plan should really there's no such thing as too bold a plan at this point in time when you have a bikeable walkable community you have a vibrant active community that makes everybody feel better so it's not just healthier it is better at driving community as people are out on the streets that are safe for them to be on so please be very ambitious with this goal and don't just think about you know the the counting the emissions impact but think about driving the vehicle miles travel down as quickly as possible with this plan thank you thank you hi I'm Jenny Bard and I am president of the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition and a member of a bikeable Santa Rosa and I think I consider myself a member of the Greenway certainly support I support them and I served on I think the city's first bicycle and pedestrian advisory committee back in the early 2000s so I think this is my third plan and I'm really excited to be here and to hear this discussion the vision and the goals and the very specific things that need to be in this plan to make sure that we're going to really get there because we've had many plans and we have a long way to go so this plan has to get it right and I totally support what Aira said and others about the need for boldness I was listening as you read or we read the Contra Costa the latest bike and pet vision that's just been put up 2022 Contra Costa will have an equitable transportation system that supports that word has to be one of the worst words to ever appear in a plan because it has no teeth and as you heard our general plan now is stating we're going to be prioritizing over vehicle travel investments in active transportation so I would encourage you to make sure that every word in this document strengthens that that prioritization in every way that you can also obviously the equitable investments in our city's working class neighborhoods that came out of the city thread report which is so important and I would just add to that if there can be an analysis of high crash areas of the city for bicycles and pedestrians and prioritize those improvements to those areas to reduce injuries and save lives also just looking at protected intersections it's a sort of a thing what I've read about them their Dutch style and it's a type of at grade road junction in which cyclists and pedestrians are separated from cars and the primary aim is to help pedestrians and cyclists feel and be safer at road junctions so that would be an important piece I would love you to look at and what you're doing on looking at best practices around the country the world to incorporate in this plan and Mauricio I just want to say hello Iris and I met you at the San Jose Seaclovia event and I would encourage our plan to have to incorporate regular Seaclovia events in our city as a key way to educate and engage and incorporate our neighborhoods into getting on their bicycles and showing them how fun it can be four times a year every single neighborhood let's do Seaclovia events thank you thank you go ahead my name is Chris Bencomo and I'm a new resident of Santa Rosa from Sebastia Pole okay I am I'm an avid bicyclist and a member of the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition and I've just become aware of the Greenway project I took a great walking tour led by Thea and I learned so much I love the idea of the Greenway connecting to Spring Lake I can just see so many people taking advantage of that but I do think it's important to have a separate bike lane and pedestrian lane because of the incline up to Spring Lake and I can just see those bicycles zooming down and it would be good to have a separate bike lane pedestrian lane thank you thank you doesn't look like we have any more comments from the room Rob do we have any on Zoom we do I will start with Adrienne Adrienne I'm giving you ability to speak great thank you hello everybody my name is Adrienne Covert I'm a resident of downtown at local lead for Santa Rosa Yimbi that is yes in my backyard to pro housing and the transportation infrastructure that we need to make housing possible and to keep Santa Rosa affordable and accessible for future generations and so housing is obviously very important to us that's we are primarily a housing group we just completed the housing element a few months ago the city did which calls for about 4,000 new homes in this city over the next eight years mostly centered in the downtown station area and to make this work we really need a world class pedestrian and bike infrastructure to make it so safe and pleasant to walk and bike in the city people won't want to drive the old bike and pedestrian master plan called for just one new mile of protected bike lanes over the next two decades and that is just not going to cut it so we have to be very we have a very important opportunity here to correct course and I'm really encouraged by the actor transport station plans goals that I've heard today to focus on comfort and supporting a culture of walking and biking but it sounds like biking is mostly about recreation or health which of course it does support that but the need is even bigger and that biking and pedestrian infrastructure is essential for meeting the city's housing goals and economic future and that's that element of it is not really reflected in the current goals that we've heard today so let's expand and be bold with the goals and just as important let's be specific with the actions needed to accomplish the goals for example if we're really truly focused on comfort and supporting culture of biking walking we have to focus on creating more class 4 protected lanes I'm afraid there is no other way no amount of education is going or outreach is going to shift the needle we need the infrastructure that's going to involve some hard discussions with the city council and with the fire department but that's a hill we got to die on and I bring this up because we're running into this same problem with the circulation element in which case as several people mentioned the narrative makes plain the goal is to reduce VMTs but then several of the actions include recommendations that would specifically increase VMTs so we're going through that process there too so the actions are at least as important as the goals so in short I just want to emphasize that the discussion here with bikes and the opportunity here isn't just about recreation or making it a way of life for health reasons it's an essential component to meeting the city's housing goals and its economic future so thank you thank you adrian do we have any more yes we have several next would be chops teen club hi friends Kevin Anderson here father partner program director at chops teen club youth mentor climate educator someone that absolutely thinks we have an opportunity here in santa rosa to be a world-class city we are not there yet but the bones are good here our creek system while underutilized connects a lot of parts of the city parts of the city with a bold plan as many have already mentioned today we really could be a world-class city not just cycling the pedestrian oriented as well I think both of those are very very important I've heard it called a walkable city obviously today a 15 minute city there has been mentioned but we have quite an opportunity yes I want something that's achievable but I don't think it's too lofty or too bold to to talk about being able to get to any public school any school any library any park in santa rosa as big as the city as it is it's flat the weather's beautiful here year-round we don't have to and thank god B-Pab you brought ultra planning in they have plenty of examples throughout the county or out the country I lived in Palo Alto that's when I became a utility cyclist because Palo Alto has some very basic bike boulevards Berkeley is another good example but Palo Alto some bike boulevards with bollards in the middle making it very easy 50 percent of K through 12 youth bike to school in Palo Alto Santa Rosa could be doing that too I say this as someone that has led hundreds of rides over my young life both in the in San Mateo County and now also in Sonoma County and I say this with a very heavy heart I cannot recommend my own child ride to school by herself so I would encourage B-Pab to borrow and adapt best practices but recognize that it should be safe all ages and this is someone that breaks my heart to say it but I can't recommend my father-in-law and my mother-in-law who we do some care taking for to ride as well many places are okay and and they're fine with me as a four-year-old male that can pretty much get anywhere including Hills in San Francisco but not certainly when you're talking about youth or elderly so please be bold reach out to our community community partners and one more plug here involve the youth in this process and I'm not talking about tokenization I'm talking about authentic engagement ask them ask them what would make it feel more safe for them get get them out on their bikes when they when they do those rides thank you very much thank you next we have Lauren Lauren I give you permission to speak hi good afternoon members of the board and other people from the community thank you for your time today and your commitment to this critical work on behalf of the people of Santa Rosa my name is Lauren fury and I'm a Santa Rosa resident a daily dog walker a bike commuter an affordable housing developer and also a member of the local EMB chapter I'm here today to ask you to heed our community's cry to create a bold vision for Santa Rosa's future um and a vision that leaves behind the car-centric development of the last century as several other people have said we live in a remarkable and lovely place we enjoy great weather year-round we have not one but two downtowns and unlike almost anywhere else in the north bay we have neighborhoods with distinct characters spread across a mostly flat city Santa Rosa could and should be a walking and biking paradise but currently we don't have a safe convenient or most importantly a fully connected network of bike and pedestrian infrastructure in our city piecemeal improvements to the existing networks are simply not enough to encourage the vast majority of people to leave their car to walk or bike the street instead I'd be remiss not to point out that active modes of transportation directly support our city's goals to build and build and enhance equity for all of our residents greater walkability and bike ability increases access to job opportunities education healthcare and recreational spaces active transit improves health outcomes and air quality so this isn't just a matter of convenience it's a matter of social justice and inclusivity lastly our city is growing and the future is density new local and state laws strongly prioritize mid and high density infill developments with no or low car parking requirements while this is great news for our planet and for the many members of our community who struggle under the high cost of housing it poses challenges without the correct bike and pedestrian plan in place these changes and create opportunities for vibrant connected neighborhoods but once again only if we have a safe convenient and fully integrated network for people to use when walking or biking around the alternative is air pollution traffic congestion and in Joni Mitchell's eternal words a paved paradise so please I ask you to dream big and setting an ambitious vision for Santa Rosa's active transportation plan and mapping the path to a just and resilient future for our city thanks again for your time today thank you okay we have mark i'm giving you permission to speak oh thank you yes as you know my name is mark franzek i live in east santa rosa i want to say i really like the active transport plan we just went through i really like the goals but my concern is at the end of five years that's pretty much all we're going to end up with is just a beautiful plan and barely anything done you know maybe there'll be you know two three more miles of protected bikeway a few more safe crossing places but nothing that approaches a usable active transport network so what i'd really like to see in the plan would be numeric goals so there can be some accountability so instead of saying we're gonna encourage walking and biking you know say we're gonna set a goal by 2028 to add 30 miles of protected bikeway and 50 miles of low traffic you know safe multimodal streets um at least that way you know in 2028 there can be some accountability and you know we can look at our strategy of planning if this just is not getting done you know maybe the current planning procedure with where we have endless meetings and polls and you know round and round in circles for like a whole year um you know we can have something like quick build where we can just slap down some ballards and see how it goes um but anyway that's kind of neither here nor there for the purposes of this comment but um again i want to see some specific goals in there because otherwise we just have a beautiful plan and probably not a lot to show for it at the end of five years and uh i think it's my whole goal i mean my whole comment so thanks very much thank you mark thank you minona i've given you permission to speak hello can you hear me yes yes my name's minona havalin and i live in santa rosa i have two kids that go to school and i was actually pleasantly surprised to see that you have a picture of my daughter on the front of the plan that was the fact that she was in first grade just missing her two front teeth we did some safe routes to school um advocacy events and um um i've been um looking forward to improvements in biking and and walking in santa rosa for several years now and sadly not that many improvements have happened since in the last well she's my daughter's in middle school now so i think that was five or six years ago um anyway uh that threw me for a little bit but i'm pleasant i'm glad that everyone's here now and um i just had a couple points to make about the plan one is that i would really like to see there be a goal of having connected routes across town that are are clearly marked and connected to um north south routes on either side of 101 and two east west routes on either side of 12 um which means improving the crossing of the 101 um so keeping that um pedestrian bicycle over crossing and trying to actually implement that um and then having connected routes and when i think connected routes i mean addressing the problematic intersections that make it unsafe for people of all ages to um do bike routes i um i uh i bike to work a short short distance um and there's there's just some um you know i think everybody who knows where the problematic intersections are particularly on the um multi-lane through roads in santa rosa um some call them stroads or neither a street nor a road um so addressing some of those making um crossing safer and then the other thing that i'd like to see in the plan is really looking at our schools and working out from the schools of how to make it safer for children to bike and walk to school they're um just looking at the the high schools the approach to um montgomery high school there's several improvements that could be made the approach to santa rosa high school improving bike routes and crossings of um mendicino avenue um i there are lots of things to address but i just want to give some specific ideas and particularly this idea of making connected through routes for bicycles through town and having a goal of them really being clearly marked and um all the intersections addressed within those connected routes thank you thank you and that concludes the uh zoom comments i do have one email to read through so class two bike waves are usually a waste of time for everyone sonoma avenue is a good illustration of why class two bike lanes are a distraction from building safe effective infrastructure the bike lanes on sonoma avenue are wide straight well marked and in a city that has nearly continuous good weather for cycling despite these cleared advantages they're seldom used with only paint on the ground for protection citizens can hardly blame this for lack of interest only one out of ten cyclists slash pedestrians will survive the collision with a car going just 40 miles an hour furthermore uh sonoma avenue provides the added distance end of being doored uh when a car door suddenly opens into the path of a cyclist it's no surprise people are staying away we need to end this first that paint on the ground or empty buffer zones constitute a protection from fast moving 510 vehicles instead santa rosa should comply or should copy its infrastructure ideas from the cities where cycling is widely used for transportation like copenhagen or munster they have developed a network of low stress streets where bikes and cars can safely mix this works because at speeds below 20 a collision with a car is not a death sentence it's worth noting that the probability of death for a cyclist or pedestrian goes up exponentially as a car's speed increases so at lower speeds mixing is quite safe on streets with faster moving traffic real protection is deployed in the form of ballers concrete planners and lines of parked cars to create a substantial barrier protected protecting cyclists and pedestrians the upshot for this is that people are safe so all ages abilities engaging in cycling transportation so all ages engaged in cycling transportation in the city of copenhagen nearly 60 of all daily trips are done with bicycling i believe this is the direct result of good cycling infrastructure and not perpetuating the failed transportation ideas of north america cities as a resilient a resilient resilient on class two bikeways being one of the most uh precocious uh if you want people to use active transport class four bike lanes are in low stress traffic streets are the name of the game anything else is just a version thank you for your time and that concludes all the messages thank you rob so that brings us back to discussion by the board uh dylan do you want to grab that microphone for your side over there anybody want to start all yeah i was thinking as eras was talking about all the education programs that they've got going on it got me thinking well why are people still riding the wrong side of the road and on sidewalks and so it's not the fault of the education it's people being people and we're talking a lot about infrastructure to avoid bicycle auto conflicts but i would i still like to see some elements in this plan to mitigate and minimize the bicycle bicycle conflicts and bicycle pedestrian conflicts because people get get hurt being hit by a bike at 20 miles an hour if they're walking and don't see it coming so i think that we don't want to be just focusing on the auto bicycle conflict but also these other modes of injury and death thank you paul anybody else the other side maybe tanya is that on yes all right so first i want to just say a huge thanks to everyone who shared public comments today i feel uh very inspired and actually was feeling a bit emotional by some of the comments just because i hear people talking about a vision of what santa rosa can be and will be um hopefully with this plan so that is very exciting and inspiring to me so i just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who was here on zoom and in person um i heard several people comment about wanting our vision and goals to be bold and ambitious and i i should say here i don't have like a proposed vision and goals right now i would have to think more about it but i would definitely like to see reflected in that vision and goals something very bold and ambitious that we really set our our sights high um i also resonated with the comments about the plan helping santa rosa become a world class by biking and walking city i think that's very important i also appreciated the connections that were made to our other goals like helping the importance of this plan helping us meet our housing goals our climate goals so perhaps putting the vision and goals putting something in the vision and goals that sets that context as well um our current goals don't address safety directly so i would like to see safety mentioned in the goals and also reducing vmt um and i think those were my comments related to the goals and then on the scope i don't recall if if we have anything in the scope about addressing the impacts of our e mobility solutions like e bike scooters so making sure that in our plan we're addressing and thinking forward about how those new modes of mobility could impact our transportation network and how we need to take those into into account so those are my comments thank you tanya maybe orisho do you have anything to say about those e mobility solutions in the scope not overt i should say not overtly but yeah a number of jurisdictions have pushed for this to be included as part of their plans more and more jurisdictions particularly those that our e bikes are already pushing more cars i think palo Alto is one of them that are they really brought that up when we uh talk to them thank you any of the comments lispet i wanted to thank everybody for coming today and for all the comments i think this might be the most commenters we've ever had at the b-pad meeting and that is exciting um so i really like the level of engagement because i think that that the engagement here and throughout the update of this plan is going to be really important i hope to making specific projects go faster so i'll come back to that in a second but i just first want to say thank you to everybody for coming and then um minor and specific and i'll mention it before i forget about it chris eggers you asked if um alta had seen the city thread plan and i know they have because they mentioned it during their interview and that was one of the things that made me think oh they've really been reading and thinking about the challenges of not just updating a plan but creating a plan that can actually be implemented because one of the things that the city thread report does is identify obstacles and alta i know is aware of those and already thinking about them some um then some of my specific questions about the goals and then the scope of work so like tanya i would like there to be something more specific about safety in the goals i think that we didn't necessarily see that in the we certainly didn't see it in the old vision it's just covered by the concept of comfort um but i was looking around last night online trying to find a better example of some specific set of vision and goals that's fairly new and city of cambridge massachusetts i believe does reference safety so that might be one place to look for language on that um so in referencing vision zero somehow in here will be important i in particular also been was thinking about safety for non voluntary users just because on my way driving here today i saw two different people in motorized scooters puttering along through bike lanes on gernville road hoping that their little orange flag was going to be enough to keep them safe and um i chose to drive here because i don't want to be out on gernville road riding my bike um and so but anyway that's sort of put safety top of mind for me um let's see so then on the overall goals i didn't come prepared today to put out specific numeric goals but i think that those feel really important and one of the things that i liked about the cambridge plan that i looked at last night was they had maybe only a sentence or two of vision but then they had a bunch of really specific goals by 2020 20 or by 2030 here's how many people are going to be biking and by 2035 here's how much it's going to go up and so maybe we're still more to the big picture and i'm just jumping the gun but i'm eager to get to those specific goals of what do we aspire to and i know we talked about this with the general plan and it would be great to have this plan be at least as ambitious as the general plan and to be supporting the vmt reduction goals that the state has laid out and that i know we were advocating for including in the general plan okay then i wanted to talk about the scope um some of these things are big some of them are small one of the outreach strategies is to do web surveys i feel like i have filled out so many web surveys in the last five years some for the county some for the city is there some central repository of those rob tarina somebody can you pass those on to alto before we start asking people or is there a way to put them online so we can just upboat yep that problem was a problem five years ago and it's still a problem now so that's otherwise it feels like we're going back to the public and asking them over and over again to tell them about the problem but we don't fix it and it feels a little dispiriting so if there's a way to tap any of the existing surveys that would be great then mentioning this question of getting enough engagement with the active transportation plan update so that it covers some of the required outreach for future grant fundraising which i think maricio referenced um but also so that the public engagement process on specific you know this is like we're going to add two blocks on ridgeway and the neighbors are outraged because they haven't heard about it till the last minute but if can we do sufficient outreach on the active transportation plan update that to some extent it covers checks that box that it gets us one step farther along and doesn't you don't get held up on projects because there wasn't enough public engagement so i don't know what that is and then i was going to suggest and volunteer that i love to weigh in on all these things i'd love to have alta come to bpab every month and give us an update but in terms of public engagement if there are better ways to spend the public engagement hours then maybe we don't need as many updates from bpab and we can get a written update and submit written comments through staff maybe that's a way to ensure that there's more time available for outreach into communities that are less likely to be here today because for example i didn't hear anybody here in the room or online who lives in um districts one or seven or lives in southwest santa rosa and i want to make sure we get lots of involvement from that part of town thank you lesabeth dylan emily you have something to say sure no sorry to put you on the spot so yeah just wanted to thank everybody for coming public comment a lot of the same things were said which is a really good thing that is the big opportunity this master plan and that we all want a really bold and ambitious master plan to come from this so that it's really good engagement so i'm hoping that yes we do come up with a bold vision thank you thank you dylan i also want to thank everyone from coming and i think the big uh words we've heard is safety especially because of all the accidents lately so i would just say that safety is one of our top concerns when we're working on this thank you emily um i think we're pretty much all on the same page of both up here on the board i know from all the comments we're hearing here but i do want to say also thank you to all the comments and i heard some things that um really resonated with me i also actually like the the current vision and and the goals we have but i do agree that they're not visionary enough and we can put a little bit more vision into them even if it's just uh you know signaling in the language that we're serious about this i'd like to see that um i also heard a comment about connecting this to other community goals like health and safety and equity and i think that that's something that we could probably work into that vision as well and let me see you have any other scribbles i can read here oh climate of course that's one of those things as well we have climate emergency um and i think that's really ties it up for me but Mauricio and Torina are there any additional things that we can weigh in on here that will help you or if questions for any of the comments that we've made well Torina asked me to also provide you all with a little bit of a what's going on in the industry and particularly in the Bay Area on goals and objectives as visions um as many of you mentioned in the public as well as the VPAB the vision itself can be very general but there should be a focus to it where really the specifics go is where we talk when we talk about the goals and objectives and i think that's where a lot of jurisdictions here in the Bay Area have really moved forward to one thing that we are seeing more and more particularly in California as we do work in other places the emphasis on equity and equity not just for different types of users but also access to different languages for example being a little bit more overt on those goals being focused on equity and then as you mentioned the climate resiliency is extremely important particularly you know i don't know if i'm in Oakland right now and there's still some smoke over here so it's a little tough to breathe today i thought we were done with that this year at least so climate resiliency is really really big on that end so yeah just wanted to give you those kind of goals of course safety as prime component of everything that we have been doing for the past 25 years so safety is should i would recommend that of course i'll leave that to our staff but just wanted to provide you with some overall overarching trends that we're seeing thank you Mauricio Serena do you have any notes i don't need anything in terms of that will help me move forward i think your input has been very clear and helpful i there were two things said during the board discussion that i want to follow up on one is a lot of mention of having a vision and goals that have clear numerical or quantitative goals behind them these we call performance measures or performance objectives and that is something that will be part of the plan it won't be something that you see in november when i bring you the draft vision and goals those quantitative objectives are something that we come up with once we have all the existing conditions together so at that point we'll know here's what our mode share is how many miles of bike lanes do we have and then based on that we can make an informed decision and say here's what our numerical goal is going to be here's the percent that we want to shift our mode our mode share here's the number of more miles of bike lane or sidewalk that we want to put in things like that the second one is related to outreach um elizabeth mentioned i or asked can we in this plan do outreach that is specific enough that you know when we go for a grant we can say that we've spoken to a neighborhood about a specific project um there we would need a lot of funds and time to be able to do something that specific what my goal is for this plan is that not only does it help us identify what projects and programs we want to pursue but it also sets city staff up in a way that we have a really clear framework of how to move forward and so my hope is that when we work with Ulta we'll have very clear recommendations so you know when we have a project like that we have a like one page guidebook or something like that that says here's the order in which you engage with the community um and here's the best way to do that and the purpose of that would be that you know city staff is not sitting around kind of scratching our heads figuring out the best way to engage with the community so um it will take a little bit more time after the the plan is adopted to then go through outreach for those projects but there will hopefully be a very clear um guide on how we'll do that that's all I've got and Doug has some comments his hand raised go ahead Doug uh yeah I I want a second or third that the safety issue um as many of you know I was hit by a car a couple years ago and left for dead and of course I will never forget that and then another thing that came up was a friend of mine who who has been riding probably as much as I do using cycling as transportation mode which is our goal here sounds like which I completely agree with and I really enjoyed everybody's comments I want to say that I think that everything was right on the money um but what happened to him was he he got cut off by a city bus so he calls the city to complain about it and the reaction he got was well that's why I don't ride on the road anymore and and and I found that pretty disgusting when our when our goal is to try to get more people on so what I'm asking is that we make sure that our goals for alternative transportation are known throughout our whole transportation system so when somebody gets a call saying hey such and such bus cut me off when I was in the bike lane that um that we we take action and let the driver know please be aware of cyclists um I the main thing we have to do is make the streets safer for cyclists then we'll get more people riding I'm I'm positive of that okay that's it thank you doc what hey Rob you have muted the room so we can't hear anything thank you sorry about that I don't know what I hit is that better I can hear you great thank you um so um as I mentioned I'm gonna uh take a center in a please jump in if you like or if I mess something up on your presentation so um annually we do come to the bike board and present some of the projects that we've completed some of the projects that are in the queue and go through where we are um as far as status and what we're planning for the upcoming year so that's this is the preview to that the next meeting in November will actually be where the board can give us feedback and decide if there's reprioritization that they'd like to see as far as the projects that we're working on um but at this point well I'm gonna go through the presentation and and let you know where we are and where we've we've come over the last year and what's in progress hey Rob just a quick question for you and Terina I I wonder if you all need me for anything else I don't think so Marcio I appreciate your time thank you for the invite well thank you this is not forwarding hold on a second okay so for the agenda we're going to go over some of our completed projects ones that are currently under construction look at the studies we've completed over the last year or two to remind everyone also look at projects that are waiting construction partially completed in the planning and design phase and some conceptual projects that are on our on our minds we're also going to talk a little bit about the grants and our next steps so looking back at our last year of projects that were funded we had funded 1.6 miles of class 2 2.9 miles of class 2 buffered a small portion of class 3 about a mile of class 4 and then we've added nine different RFPs and one new hawk into our systems and now the nine new RFPs those are these are ones that are in progress and funded so this is what we have money for currently and that are in the pipeline so and if and I could go through the different locations that I think would that might be on a slide coming up here something else that the Terina and Alexander have been working on is adding this new web page to our website which is under the URL listed here and it's can be found if you type in Santa Rosa Medical and Transportation projects I believe to our search bar and it's interactive map this one isn't is just a clip of it but it's an interactive map that identifies where bike and ped projects are their status and I don't believe that's is there anything else Alexander that they include so okay thank you so it's a great tool if you're interested in what is currently going on or currently on the books to to move forward so some of the completed projects are ones that are under construction currently most of you know of the army armory drive cycle track that we've recently installed we also installed class two bike lanes on range avenue between Russell and Vicentennial and then also between Guernville and Edwards to help make the link when we do the bike ped over crossing on College Avenue we've put in a small section of class two buffer bike lanes through a development project over here where the old water agency used to be and then on Santa Rosa Avenue we're in the middle of construction of new class two buffer bike lanes with the Santa Rosa Avenue corridor project some of the pedestrian projects that are currently under construction include or have been completed to conclude the Hone Avenue Sierra Creek that are wrapped with rectangular flashing beacon another flashing beacon at Sebastopol and Laurel Grove the the hawk that was installed at on Fulton Road at the high school in the park and then additionally we're making a lot of different improvements related to crossings and bullbouts on Santa Rosa Avenue as part of that corridor project again so some of the studies that I think most of you have been involved in and that were completed over the last probably year and a half include our our 4th Street to East Street to Brighton bike lane project or road diet project our College Avenue from Cal to Morgan review as well as LA Avenue Armory Drive to Mancino, Lincolnry Drive from Alderbrook to Holman, the Northeast Trail Connectors or Connections and that's the area up in the Oakmont area where we have we're working to make different connections in that location with the upcoming El Moga subdivision also a Rosalind Creek Trail from Stony Point to Burbank and then Stony Point Road from 3rd Street to Sebastopol some of the bike projects that are waiting construction that we have in the queue include bike lanes on Healdsburg Avenue, Buffer bike lanes on Healdsburg Avenue, Avenue B Street, Buffer bike lanes on Sonoma Avenue that goes from Bobby Lane to East Street, Mendocino Avenue on between 10th and 4th and then we're adding bike lanes also that are not buffered between 10th and College on 1st Street we're adding bike lane buffered bike lanes from A Street to Center Rose Avenue on 7th Street between B Street and Mendocino Avenue and then on 4th Street from East Street to Brighton Lane as mentioned before so also adding class 2 bike lanes on Montgomery Drive and on Healdsburg Avenue near B Street and a small section of class 1 on 1st Street so let's see I don't know if you guys want me to read these whole slides or not but I'll just I'll just try to jam through them real quick we're also adding class 4 on Santa Rosa Avenue this is part of the Santa Rosa Avenue it's actually in conjunction with the Santa Rosa Avenue corridor project we're going to add a section of class 4 bike lanes as you exit the Prince Murrow Greenway to get on to Santa Rosa Avenue we'll have a protected bike lane there and then on 4th Street westbound between Hope Street and East Street we're installing the protected bike lane if you recall during that study that section was removing the parking out and having parking protected bike lane there then on 6th Street there's a small section between near the curve where the if you go straight you go into the mall we're putting a protected bike lane into that section to help differentiate where the the curve the turn should take place for vehicles and then on Heron Avenue over across E so these are this is the list of the RFBs that I mentioned previously I think we've gone over these before so I won't read all through them all projects partially completed as mentioned we have a section of range that we still need to complete between we did between Russell and Bicentennial and we also completed between Steele and Edwards as Gerneville and Edwards but we still have an incomplete section between Bicentennial and Piner there's one small segment there that's going to be really tough to install some bike lanes but we're gonna have to probably get some right away to do that on Piner Road there's also a section just to the west of range that it still needs bike lanes for the completion of Piner Road from basically Fulton all the way to Cleveland so I have a lot of projects still in in planning mode that are being designed currently the Heron multi-use path is one of them from the overcrossing interchange over to the smart multi-use path that we do have a grant for that and that's beginning design soon Hopper Avenue we've had three community meetings at Hopper Avenue to look at the different configurations out there and we had our last meeting they got a lot of positive impact or feedback excuse me from the public on our final design there Santa Rosa Creek access on the west side of the street that's a Measure M project where we will be connecting Dutton Avenue down to the creek and we are getting ready to go to out to bid this spring for that project the Jennings Avenue smart crossing is still on our list everyone I think remembers that one Roslyn Creek Trail that needs that's a pavement project that needs to be completed we have the 101 Bison pedestrian overcrossing that's our number one bike and ped project that is still on our list and we are looking to finalize and finish that funding gap we'll actually have a grant next week that we're turning in for for the ask of the rest of the funding for that smart trail segments or several smart trail segments that are being done by smart going north from Gernville all the way out to the city limits and then from south they will connect to Bellevue to the south and that would then complete all of the segments within the city Santa Rosa minus the six-street segment and that one's also under design to be doing six-street in the station as mentioned earlier the southeast Greenway is another project that's on the books and is we don't have the property yet but it's conceptually we do have that as a project we also have to the Taylor Mountain park trail which would connect as part of our multi-use path system from all the way from Herne Avenue interchange over to Taylor Mountain up through Taylor Mountain over to the hopefully over to then the Prince Morrill Greenway to make a really nice loop and multi-use path connection we have let's see third-street pedestrian improvements the project is actually escaping my I remember sorry so that's connecting the Georgia trail at this at the new Canary site with a pedestrian and signal crossing there to get people from the Georgia trail that will connect actually along the the rail a new path will be installed there and we will make a connection over to the over to the station um Sonoma Avenue sidewalk improvements between homin and farmers lane extension or farmers lane farmers lane excuse me um there's currently a lot of gaps there near the the bus stops there so we're going to making sidewalk improvements to make that connection all the way from homin to farmers lane and then we also have a project to install bike lanes on the fossil road between Avalon and Dutton which is one of the last segments on that street so we have a lot of conceptual projects that we're looking at in the city and these are ones that I would love feedback on if they're of interest to the to the board or have less interest of the board um so this is the Brookwood Avenue to be done by the development oh this is this is sidewalk completion to be done by a developer um Cleveland Avenue corridor improvements so we have a concept design here to put in a road diet on Cleveland Avenue to put in protective bike lanes from industrial down to Gernville which would be a nice um nice long segment in the northwest side of town there on the west side of the freeway um steel lane improvements this we're looking to do a pilot test here to look at um what could happen if we reduced the travel lane here so we did mention this in the um I think we mentioned in in this group and actually I would look some feedback on this because this is something that um I want to get clarification on is we do have a project in front of steel lane to widen the road put in a room for the buses to pull out and continue the class 2 bike lane this project what we're proposing to do is actually a pilot project to actually take away a lane of travel in that direction to see if we could actually do that without taking the right away and see if we could slow cars down by taking the lane um and uh put in a the bike lane and a loading unloading zone kind of for the the parents who are currently using that that area um yeah in the long one yes in the long run it would be a protected bike lane we're looking to do a the pilot project to to see what the effects of that would be another pilot project we have is parking reduction study on Sonoma avenue between Ylupa and Haman so that's the section that we currently have that is um Sharos so there's that one segment between Ylupa and Haman so we can do a traffic star parking study to see how we could maybe better utilize that area um pedestrian improvements so sidewalk improvements on Shanae between medicina Lomitas there's some gaps in there that we're looking to um connect on the south side of the street and then the addition of a hawk at piner creek at uh piner creek trail on Fulton and I've mentioned that project in the past as well to me going through all these projects is this is good or is this a waste of time or is this I feel like I'm just yabber and keep going um we are a little bit limited on time now so I would see if there are some specific ones you want to pull out pull them out and mention them and otherwise we can let me let me scan real quick then and these I'll just like start by saying all these projects are listed in the attachments that are in in the um in your packets so this is not new information it's just presented information so in going through the packet and going and looking at the different uh attachments and options that are in there that's what we really want to get from you is what your feedback is on those projects if you think that they need to be re-ranked if you think that they if some projects need more attention than others obviously our our largest largest project and biggest project is the bike pit over crossing that we're looking to fund that is and once we get that done we're we will be able to shift our funding and resources to a lot of these other projects so that's that's super exciting for me um so as we do that shift and get to some of these other projects that are smaller in scale I think all the projects are smaller in scale um we'd like to hear guidance from the board on what on what ones or or if it's not even what project maybe what criteria we should use to help us prioritize the projects in your minds should we look at completing gaps should as a high priority or should we look at locations that we can lower stress or crossing improvements I mean if there's a way to help us prioritize where and be on the same page as the board moving forward on those things that would be super helpful um I will touch a little bit on the grants and again that's in your packet as well um we do have we have an award some TFCA grants through SCTA we've also um have OBACC three grants which are funding the herd multi-use path and some paving in the downtown area where we're doing restriping as well for Mendocino Avenue um and then there's also um additional RFB locations that are not additional there's the TDA location the money we got from TDA this last year for the RFB our RFB locations and we're still looking for grants for the the BPAC so real quick recommendations no action is required tonight but we would really enjoy if you could go through the attachments look at the different projects see which ones are um seem the most important to you that you want us to help focus our resources on we do have limited resources and limited money so um we want to make the best step forward in in attacking some of these projects that will make the most difference so if you have like I said criteria anything like that you want to bring back to the board um from the bring back next uh next meeting that'd be super helpful for us to help prioritize these that's it thank you Rob I'm sure Trina would add a much better presentation sorry okay so as mentioned we are getting a little short on time um but this item is coming back at the next meeting for another review and decisions so I want to start by just looking to the board and see if you have any questions about any of the projects that Rob mentioned here no okay oh Rob can we just email you comments on specific projects absolutely okay Dylan would you put the mic over there again okay so with no more questions from the board for now we'll go to public comment so if you're in the room you know the drill over here and if you're on Zoom you can raise your hand or I'll star nine from a phone so Aris what do you got I am underwhelmed first of all this is referred to as a work plan but it looks like just a list of projects and to me the the word plan uh connotes timelines and priorities so I'm not sure if this is all what's supposed to be done this year or if this is being presented as a list and the board's being asked to say which ones should get on this timeline so so that's a little confusing I also noticed that some of the the numbers are in the packet of miles of different things and what you showed on the slides don't match so I'm not sure how much of what really is happening because what you showed us on the slides and what here when I was adding things up here they didn't match so so that's kind of problematic to me so there were you on the slide you said something like 5.6 miles of bike facilities and I didn't get a chance to add those all up on here but only one half mile listed in the packet is is class four as we've all been saying class two class three don't change behavior they don't change behavior they don't make the road safer if if I were the queen and could wave my wand we would not be building anything except class four um and then again on the ones awaiting construction there's uh like less than half a mile my other other thing that always frustrates me with these lists of projects is they're all so teeny like the one on Sebastopol road which I don't know if you've written Sebastopol road but I ride it frequently and it's a mess um one of the things listed on there was like one block you know and and another one is just a really short piece I Sebastopol road needs a decent bike bikeway all the way from Dutton going west you know through the heart of Roseland not a little piece by you know in one piece here in one piece there the whole down road needs to be redone uh and Guernville road you know just a little piece between range and the smart station one of my staff members went to school at Steele Lane school and talks about how terrified she was every day having to walk from on the other side of Mendocino over to school and it's still terrifying all of Guernville road from Mendocino to the to the train station needs to be protected even if I'm going somewhere that's near that train station I don't and I'm taking the train I don't get off there because walking and riding around it is suicidal I get off downtown to come up Mendocino which seems stupid but um you know forget all these class three throwing shadows down here and there and then what about stony point nothing about stony point we've studied it it's been five years people have died it's high injury network stony point needs to be addressed sooner rather than later and it's not even in here except you know oh as a study that's waiting so priorities just are so wrong thanks thanks Harris Alexa hi um I just want to make a quick comment because I've been riding a lot even more than I used to ride because I got a new electric bike and it's changed my life and I never drive anymore um but I just wanted to put it out there that on any projects that are in the pipeline for the coming year if we could really focus on daylighting the corners it has happened to me multiple times in the last month that I've come to a corner and I can't see the traffic coming and I have to pull almost out into the traffic lane to see around a truck or a delivery van that's parked on the corner and it's a low cost at only the cost of some few angry neighbors who have lost a parking spot um and I'd also like the daylighting to take into consideration the speeds on the road because you need to see further if the cars are going faster so um I just wondered if that could be looped into the projects that are in the pipeline thanks thank you very much hi Jenny Bart again and um I I'm happy this item came up actually because I wanted to talk a little bit about um things that the city could be doing now which didn't really pertain to the development of the active transportation plan and um as city thread report has noted uh focus on identifying 25 new miles and mobility projects and a three year strategy not a 20 year so I guess I'm looking to see in terms of prioritization if there can be some kind of pilot project um done to maybe do five miles which is way more than we have right now but could that be moved up the uh the list uh to be a pilot for our city to really understand what it's like to ride long miles in a protected bike lane to get north south east west so that was my thought and I just want to thank the staff for all the grants you're writing I know we live and die by grants I work for a nonprofit organization and I commend you for all the grants you're putting out there I know it's hard when you don't get them but thank you and keep up the great work on that so um that's just what I wanted to suggest if that could be a a pilot project could be put into the mix maybe looking at some all the all some of what's already there and just knitting it together to make a mini network and with unprecedented I know you know this but seizing the moment climate change helping people to connect the dots on that and having fun at the same time and with so you know 2024 is the election we have unprecedented funding right now available to us through the federal government and state grants and such and you all know that you're going for it so the more we can push for that now I think the better thank you so much thank you do we have any comments from soon yes manona I'm giving you permission to speak hi um I just wanted to comment that I think it's really an impressive number of projects that are under construction right now and um underway to be constructed soon so I think that there's a lot of um great changes underway to Santa Rosa and I'm optimistic about it becoming a more bikeable um city and um specifically about the upcoming projects if the 101 is a really big project I know a lot of resources are being put into that I would encourage city staff to look at a connected east west route that um so includes looking at the Jenning over crossing I know that there's been some controversy about that but looking at how from the 101 folks can get west for several miles and how folks will go east for a significant route and really um thinking about doing um projects that are connected to each other because it's really a lot of work that is underway but um as Aris was saying it feels not significant with you see just one block done especially when you're bicycling you know one block goes pretty quickly so um having um more projects that are lined up to connect with each other and then highlighting that work and I think that uh I write a lot on the smaller um you call kind of collector streets if it's if cars are not going very fast um it feels safe to ride with kids as long as cars are going you know less 20 miles per hour or less and so connecting some of those streets making improvements to the intersections and then um showing it as a connected route would be really beneficial and I would encourage if the 101 is really going to move forward run a one overcross you're going to move forward um building on that to do the connection with Elliott I've been over at Coddingtown a lot of students from the JC go over to Coddingtown and I'm sure most of them drive so making sure that the the rest of the the network approaching and leaving the 101 um has a clear and safe route that is also communicated to people so that's it and thank you for all the um great work and projects you're doing thank you Minona are there any other comments no that concludes the comments online thank you so we'll bring it back to the board and see if you have any insights you can share with Rob on any of the projects or priorities for the upcoming projects I have a handful of thoughts that there's no clear answer here but when I first looked at this list of projects I was feeling well and I still am feeling overwhelmed by having no real way to evaluate them and I was wishing that there was a map either overlaid on the high injury network so I could go that one's a priority because that's a particularly problematic area or on a map that somehow indicates gaps or opportunities that are currently missed so building off of the city thread recommendations to create a network of low stress connected routes through town so city thread isn't saying that we necessarily need to add 25 miles of protected bike lane we could tap existing low stress streets like some of the ones that Minona referenced writing on with her kids if we can identify the crossings or the gaps and so getting best bang for the buck might be finding that really gnarly intersection and dealing with it and then you can tap and activate the mile of low stress streets on either side but with the list presented this way it's very hard to see where those opportunities lie I can't imagine that making such a map is simple but that is what would help me give better feedback about what to prioritize and then my last thought was are there any projects here that would help bolster the case for the overcrossing I don't I was just imagining if you put in a grant proposal and you said we've got this gorgeous three miles in one direction and two miles in the other direction and all we need is a bridge in the middle does that make the case for the overcrossing better and just a thought thank you Elizabeth any other comments from the board Dylan will you grab that again go ahead Sonya thank you I would like to second Elizabeth's comment about the map because I was thinking the very same thing it's like if I could just see even having a paper map here in the room that we could look at and you know draw on or scribble on I think would be really helpful to put these projects in a better context I really liked Minona's comment about in terms of our prioritization looking at some of our existing high priority projects like the highway 101 overcrossing and what should our priority projects be to make sure that you can get to and from that overcrossing in a safe and comfortable and easy way and so I'm intrigued by that idea and I'd like to give some more thought to that between now and the next meeting and then I guess one other thought in terms of prioritization which is similar is thinking about our different corridors like the stony point road you know we did the study there we know what needs to be done so looking at stony point in as a whole kind of road and what other kinds of projects should we be considering along there college avenue is one that you know certainly we know could use a lot of help so I'm thinking in terms of our major corridors could be another way to help us prioritize so thank you Tanya any other comments from the board no but I just want to echo Tanya's echo of Elizabeth and I think that Robert from what I was hearing here is that the connectivity and the network building is one of the big priorities that we have here and also you know Elizabeth comments about creating support for the big projects that we want both the 101 overpass but also stony point where we didn't get the grant we'd hoped for but if we can do some things around it that support that things great idea to do that too thank you anything else rob or torina nope i'm good thank you then we'll finish item 6.2 and move on to item 7 uh chair and board member announcements do we have any announcements from the board okay so none we'll move on to item number eight staff announcements do you want to do those torina or we like me too um I have I can do two of them and then alexander I know has one one is I wanted to reiterate what rob had said about there being a project list web page this was in response to um biker bull santa rosa requesting that there was an easier way to see where um uh current and future projects are happening um so anyway that project web page is a um just coalescing a lot of that information and then it also on the bottom of the web page includes a table that um uh lists in a little bit more detail the types of projects that are going on so there's a second spot that you can see that information my second item is that um unfortunately we've heard from bird and they are um discontinuing their service of their shared scooters in santa rosa um about three three and a half weeks ago they had reached out to bird saying that um it was clear on our internal city dashboard that uh a lot of the scooters were non-operational um and had been for several uh weeks and they let us know that the fleet manager was unable to complete the job so they started interviewing to replace that um that person and we're not able to find anyone so they've discontinued their service as of i i believe it was a week ago although the scooters have not been here for um several weeks so uh we are looking at edits to our um our scooter share uh program language so that we can open it back up and we can go out and hopefully find another vendor that's it for me thank you alex thank you uh i just wanted to put in a plug for our bicycle friendly communities uh application that we submitted we have uh through our city connections which is live now um a survey that you can take so that you could add to hopefully getting us to gold um so yeah just put in a plug for that they have it in english and in spanish uh the the spot to connect to the the spanish language is a little tiny little spot in the far left corner so you got to really look for it but it's there um but yeah so if you could all do that that'd be great thanks thank you anything else nope okay then we now have 609 and we are adjourned thank you all