Um so we have one person raising their hand online so they can hear.

If you cannot hear, well, then it doesn't help.

Raise your hand.

Sheila has gone into the other room, and she's listening to hear if we are coming through on the Zoom meeting.

Sheila, can you hear us?

We'll be back to the meeting shortly.

So hopefully those online who cannot hear can work through the computer issues on their end.

Okay.

Now we enter the public discussion period of our meeting.

This is where items that are not on the docket.

Um are addressed.

So if you are do we have any in the room, Sheila.

Okay, um, written staff updates.

Does anyone have any questions on the written staff updates?

A CI have one on the uh item E.

And actually item G.

Let's do it G first, uh, because I suspect it might be easier.

Um I I'm really glad to see City Council uh finally was able to get uh get to this one.

It seems to me though that there were a couple other parking increases we talked about.

Were those addressed differently?

Um, or is my memory just vague?

Um let's see.

So I know in I think it was May, we came to the board and talked about the parking meter increase.

Um I think that was the only thing that was on discussion then.

Um the month prior, we had talked about the residential permit parking fees, and that was approved with last year's budget, those increases to the fees.

So I think those were the only two fees that we have talked to the board about the was the parking permit one.

So okay.

Uh and uh that was approved by city council and adopted in last year's budget.

That's correct.

So the permit fees that went out this fall uh reflected the new fees.

Okay, good.

Thank you.

And then uh on item E.

Uh it says city clerk received appeals.

That sounds like there was more than one.

That is correct.

Um were they from four citizens' groups?

Or I mean, do we know kind of the thrust of the appeals?

Um yes, I think that the city clerk has all the details of who submitted the appeals.

Um and I do have an update for you all on this one.

The city clerk can confirm today that they have scheduled the public hearing um for May.

It's gonna be the Saturday public hearing date in May, which is May 16th for the Braddock Road to go before city council.

Okay, thanks.

Okay, any other questions?

As always, thank you guys for the written updates.

Okay, we enter our public hearing items.

Um starting with docket number item number five.

Um, who's gonna do that one?

Oh, I must say it's a little dark back in the room.

Thank you.

Uh Max DeVillers parking and curbside management.

Uh, today I'm bringing a request before you um provided by residents of the 300 block of commerce street, which is uh just you know a block from King Street on the uh western end of old town um for residential pay by phone on their block.

So here is the location in relation to other metered blocks around them.

So obviously all of King Street is metered, and then we have several blocks or half blocks uh nearby that are also metered as well.

So um, in terms of eligibility, the block is eligible for that reason.

Um there's also only parking on one side of the block.

It's on the south side where the residences are.

On the north side, there are um some offices and some parking lots, uh, but there's no parking um permitted on that side.

So this request is just for the south side between South Payton and Southwest Streets.

Uh, and there are um about you know 20 households on that side.

Um and uh 23 households, and the um project champion received 12 uh signatures of support from those homes.

So 52 percent.

So they met the requirement there.

Um the restrictions on the south side of the block are two hour parking, 8 a.m.

to 11 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

Uh there are some bars and restaurants nearby, so it warrants the later later hours.

Uh the metro is also very close.

Um staff did conduct a parking survey at 11 30 a.m.

on Thursday, March 5th.

So after all the snow was melted and things were back to um to regular conditions.

Uh and did find that 14 out of the 16 legal parking spaces, so 88% of the south side of the block was occupied by vehicles.

Um that being said, I will note that 71% of those vehicles parked uh did have uh district valid district four um RPPs on their vehicles.

So excuse me, can you go to presentation mode?

Um the letter is a little hard to read here.

Thanks, Katie.

Oh, it's all the way back there.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, the setup is difficult here.

Yep, sorry about that.

Thanks, Katie.

And um, as for outreach, we did reach out to the old town civic association and the upper King Street Neighborhood Association, which I don't believe is active anymore, but we did have a uh contact for that.

So we emailed them, no response.

Um the OTCA did respond with some questions about residential pay by phone, but um never indicated their support or opposition.

So um this is a pretty straightforward request that meets all the requirements laid out in city code.

Um didn't see any issues with with the request in terms of its you know it being reasonable.

So uh with that, we recommend that the board recommend the director of TNES implement a residential pay by phone requirement for three-inch block commerce.

Thank you, Max.

Are there any questions for staff on this item?

Dayton.

I have a quick question and then kind of a comment.

So um I couldn't quite tell from looking at this.

Um I'm familiar with this, and I've seen cars parked along that kind of cul-de-sac area.

Is this covering that?

Or is parking technically not allowed there and people just park there anyway, or yes.

So as you know, people will park um pretty much anywhere, uh, even if it's prohibited.

And so in that circle, there is uh loading zone, and then the circle is also used uh for pick up and drop off for the daycare there, which is rather large.

Um no parking itself is not permitted in the circle, and this uh change would not affect that circle.

All right, I just wanted to confirm that because I did see it kind of squared off right before that, and I wanted to double check.

I I think just from kind of a general comment, I will say, as far as these uh metered parking goes, I think we should loosen these criteria.

We have a lot of problems with people and and parking in the city, and metered parking is one of our best tools for addressing it, and having such strict criteria as far as what may be metered and what's paid by phone, does hamper our ability to address parking issues and make sure that those that parking is appropriately done within the city and and limited or or metered if that is the appropriate response for no matter where it is.

Thank you.

Yeah, we can definitely look at uh maybe making some tweaks to that in the future as part of our work plan.

Okay, thank you.

Um, do we have any speakers on this?

If you're interested in speaking on this item and you're online, please raise your hand.

We have one speaker.

Okay, Rick Plotkin.

I'm gonna allow you to speak.

I live on the block, and it's more of a question.

And will there be something on the sign that says residents for uh permits allowed, or is there some sort of action that we'll have to take, even if we live there, and there's the meters?

Yes.

So the signs will all be updated, and on the signs will say, similar to the signs today, that um any district four permit holders will be exempt from the restrictions, which includes paying the meter.

But you have to have uh you have to have a district four permit.

You can't just be a resident.

Thank you.

And we often have vendors that come to do home repairs, uh, clean houses.

Can we still use the guest parking to for them to put on their dashboards so that they're allowed to park there as well for the for the day for the for the hours?

Yes.

So the guest and visitor permit system that you use today for for that reason, it will still be valid in the same system.

Moving forward.

Okay, thanks.

And is there gonna be any sort of an increase in enforcement as a result of the parking pay by parking?

Uh enforcement will stay at the same levels.

Of course, you can always call parking enforcement or the police on emergency number uh to have parking enforcement dispatched to the area, but having the block be metered makes it much more ease, like much easier to um to enforce that and doesn't require as much uh as much time for the park enforcement officers.

Yeah.

But I understand.

I and calling someone, it doesn't have any impact because by the time they get out there, person's most likely left most likely has left their doctor's appointment or whatever they were doing business for if they they were just not you know just out there.

Uh so it's it's a block that I've been living there for probably twenty fourteen years, and it's just constantly a problem.

So if there's any way to flag it, uh hey, you all make a lot more money that way too.

But anyway, thank you.

I'm gonna go off uh offline now.

Yeah, so what we often do once uh a change is made to the on-street parking restrictions is we notify police uh after the signs change and we ask them to uh keep an extra eye out on that specific block or area uh for the two weeks following the change.

And usually that helps to show people that we change the signage, but as well, like your enforcement is is happening as well.

Okay, thank you.

Any other speakers?

I'm not seeing any other hands raised online to speak on this item.

Okay, that closes public discussion.

Are there any motions or discussion from the board?

I can make a motion.

I move that we recommend the director of TES implement a residential pay by phone requirement for the 300 block of Commerce Street.

Okay.

Second seconds, okay.

Any discussion?

No.

All in favor?

I thank you.

Okay, we're now um item number six, parking removal for the Capitol Bike Share Station relocation on West Reed.

Who's gonna be uh yes, I'll be presenting that.

Okay, thank you, Shana.

Um, so I'm gonna be speaking to you this evening about parking removal um for a capital bike share temporary relocation onto the unit block of West Reed Avenue.

Next slide.

Um, as you can see in the graphic here, there's uh bike share station that's on Commonwealth Avenue.

And due to the um Commonwealth Ash Ashby Cleave flood mitigation project, we are relocating the station around the corner for right now for utility work associated, and then it'll be the whole project.

Um so relocating it, wanted to keep it close to its current spot, but be out of the way of all of the activity associated with that project.

And then once the project finishes, it would be moved back to its original location.

Next slide.

Um, so just a tiny bit more background, as I mentioned, this flood mitigation project.

Um is uh most people in that area are aware of this project, but um it's uh focused on reducing flood risk.

Um there's many steps involved in that project.

So the first thing that happened is um there's utility relocations that are happening right now associated before they begin some of the big work of that project.

Um and then we received or when thinking about okay, should we move it, move it back, move it again for the project?

Um we talked through a bunch of these with the project manager and felt it just made sense to leave it there because as it details here, the few future culvert construction um will require things to shift around.

So we just thought it made most sense to just relocate it the one time, have it stay there till about at this time it's looking like mid-2029.

Um, and then it would move back.

So it'll be in this quote unquote temporary location for quite some time as that project is is taking place before it would move back.

Next slide.

Um so in coordination with the project manager for the flood mitigation project, reached out to ACPS, RCP, our PCA and uh Linhaven Civic to notify of them of this change and that it would be coming to you all for consideration tonight.

And we uh didn't hear any comments for or against in relation.

Um next slide.

So okay, there was actually one thing I didn't have that this is transpired.

So we actually had to move the station last week because of the water utility had to be um moved immediately.

Um and I originally thought we were going to be able to fit there was a bike share station and then on the end of it a dockless corral.

Um I originally thought we were gonna have enough room to fit the Dawkins Corral in there on the side.

I'm gonna have to find a new location for the dockless corral.

This is just an FI.

We're gonna find a location where we don't remove any parking, but that's more of an FYI and doesn't affect the recommendation at all.

But just so you all know.

Um, and so with that, we're recommending the board, the board recommends the director of TNES remove two parking spaces for the Commonwealth and Read Capital Bike Share Station during the Commonwealth Ashby Cleave flood mitigation project.

Okay, thank you.

Um are there any questions for staff?

Casey.

Thank you.

Um so if I understood this correctly, it's nice uh 2029 before this project's gonna be completed, which means Commonwealth is not going to be repaid until 2029 or after.

If in fact that's the answer, um I've got a follow-up.

Um I I can get with the project manager.

I mean, there's gonna be utilities will be done.

They'll have to do some repaving, you know, between steps.

Reason I'm asking is right now Commonwealth is falling apart and riding a bicycle on it is just horrendous.

You're just dodging potholes and uh and I was tolerant of it because I kept thinking, okay, this is gonna be soon, but now when I see 2029, um, that's a long time for that road to be as in bad a condition.

And it is kind of a main uh connection uh for people moving on beyond Alexandria on bicycle.

So I would like to see some effort to perhaps uh create a uh you know, a bike lane that they pave and properly maintain through this because uh that's gonna be very challenging uh to negotiate.

We'll follow up with the project manager.

Go back to you.

Can I ask about the current utilization of that um the bike share of the station?

Um, how busy is it kind of you know, because when we move it, it seems to me it's like an opportunity to either like downsize it or upsize it, right size it.

Um, you know, if it's not being used or it's being very it's very popular.

Um I guess I would like well, maybe it might be helpful to a future board uh to have that info when we're moving uh talking when they're talking about moving a station.

Do you guys have do you have it easy?

Um we we don't have it right now, but I that is a really good point.

And it is um just so you all know, and maybe the board knows one uh we look at right quote what we call right sizing our station.

So the the equipment has uh 10-year useful life.

And so a moment at which whenever we are looking at replacing a station, and and we just had a bunch that reach that, and we just replaced uh a bunch of them.

And so that's the point at which we will look at their utilization and when we're getting the new equipment to make sure they are uh the most suitable size.

Um we have another big set that are coming up for that again, and that'll be another opportunity at which we decide, okay.

Do we need to make it bigger?

Do we need to make it smaller?

Can we get back some parking?

Do we need any more removed, for example?

Um, but I can get you the um notes on this one as well.

And also to Casey's point, I know it's available online, but often you guys will just give kind of a heads up on the next any of the big paving projects.

Um, because often some of them come with an opportunity to make changes or fix a lot of the little armadillos are just absolutely destroyed all over the city after this winter.

Um maybe that was one of the downsides of the Amadillos, but um, yeah, they in the past you guys have given us the major paving schedule as a heads up, especially if you're gonna be doing stuff this summer uh that's gonna come onto the docket in the future.

Annie.

To sort of make a point about what both and you and and Casey were saying, I get the impression riding like on the taking Commonwealth to the four mile run trail every day that um it is um not a lot of thought is being put into the fact that cyclists use it because it is a dead end street for cars, and so like kids, you know, like schools are doing drop-offs there, and they keep putting potholes in and then sort of patching them over, which makes a really unpleasant bike ride.

Um, and I would like a little bit, I know it's not you guys, but like a little like a little bit more attention to yes, the fact that many, many cyclists use it every day, and it's not just because it's a road for cars and there's like share rows on it, doesn't mean um I would say it's primary use as cyclists and a connection to the trail.

And I hope that it won't be three years before it's a pleasant ride again.

Note and I'll provide a written update next month.

Okay, any other questions?

Okay, if we're all bouncing ideas off this, I do want to double check the because we've had problems with utilities in the past.

Have we made sure that these utility relocations aren't gonna impede the redesign potentially of this road or these roads in the future?

Is this a a place where we're where they're being placed in a position where it's it's not going to interfere with our plans in the future?

Um yes, this is this one is specifically for they have to move the this was a water utility specifically for the the larger project.

Um I I think that this this project has been very thought out.

So I'm not concerned about it.

Okay, Ashley.

Just a process question.

So would would the recommendation be need to be revised to reflect the temporary removal of parking spaces, or would this board vote on the recommendation as is, and a future board might be able to wreck add them back if it's booed?

We don't have to add them back, I don't think, do we?

No, no.

Okay.

So it doesn't I think the way the motion is written, it doesn't reference temporary.

So I don't think it right.

Um I mean, it is gonna be several years, so there's I think if we wanted to move it back as part of that project, that there's no parking that's being removed as part of it.

Um, so we could move it back to that location.

Okay, anything else?

Okay, just um, do we have any speakers on this?

If you're online and interested in speaking on this item, please raise your hand.

Okay.

There's no one in the room that wants to speak.

Okay.

So public discussion is closed.

Is there further discussion or a motion?

Make a motion.

Kirsten.

Uh I uh move that the board recommend that the director of TNES remove two parking spaces for the Commonwealth and Reed Capital Bike Share Station during the Commonwealth Ashby Glee flood mitigation project.

Andy seconds.

Okay, all in favor.

Okay, on to docket number item number seven.

Parking removal and additions, two and three hundred blocks of North Fairfax Street.

Testing.

All right, thank you.

Um Chair Tucker, last time.

Um Vice Chair Kane, members of the traffic and parking board.

Um tonight I will be presenting on to you guys on um parking modifications on the 200 and 300 block of North Fairfax Street.

Next slide, please.

Um a little bit of background.

So last month I came before the board um and sought approval for parking modifications along the old town circulator route between Market Square and Braddock Road Metro.

Um the board approved this um this project at the February meeting.

Um as a result of this project system background, um 26 parking spots were approved to be removed, um, as well as 26 parking spots were approved to be added as well along the corridor, kind of creating a net even um change.

Um in total upon implementation, there will be the rebalancing of 10 bus stops will be removed and five will be added.

Um so currently um with the existing condition, there are 26 bus stops along this corridor, only 10 are ADA compliant, 38%.

So after implementation and rebalancing, um every bus stop along this corridor will be ADA compliant.

So ultimately, the project will improve on time bus performance.

Um it will enhance passenger mobility, creating more optimal stop locations and stop pairs for lines 30 and 31, um, as well as a short segment of line 34 before it departs the corridor on Pendleton Street.

And also, like previously said, um, all bus stops along the corridor will be ADA compliant upon implementation.

Um and just for reference here, um, on the left is the existing stop map um as of well right now.

Um, and to the right is what will be um implemented as was approved.

Um so after approval, um the team received some requests from residents to meet on site to further discuss um conditions at the intersection of North Fairfax and Queen Streets.

Um staff, project team from Tess and from Dash went out and met with um the residents, received some valuable input, um, heard the direct feedback about some of their concerns about the planned southbound location on um the 200 block of North Fairfax Street.

Um that's what you can see in the picture at right on your screen.

Um, the team was able to go out, analyze all of the planned stop locations, performed additional analysis on where the appropriate AD, as you can see at the picture at left at one location, um, we're able to test bus movements at all of the new stop locations, see where the with some operators see where they would properly board and light passengers, um, see how turning radii were, see if any additional modifications had to be made.

Um after meeting with the residents and hearing their concerns, um collaboratively, TNES and Dash DAF decided that uh we would like to modify the approved recommendation for this one specific location and relocate the planned stop from the 200 block of North Fairfax Street to the 300 block of North Fairfax Street.

Both locations um meet the project goals of uh supporting better on-time performance, enhancing passenger mobility, and um improving ADA accessibility.

Um, but in the interest of being good neighbors with concerned residents, um and in light of some of their additional concerns that we heard um the project team collaborately decided that it was appropriate to make the change to the 300 block.

Um next slide, please.

So just for reference here, um, and I'll show it further on the next slide, but um at bottom left, southwest corner of the intersection you're looking at there, that's where the planned stop was to go, and then where we're proposing to relocate it is the northwest corner.

Next slide, please.

You can better see it there.

Um, so on the bottom left is where we propose to have the parking that was approved to be removed um instead be retained.

So those two parking spaces um between the driveway and the intersection of North Fairfax Street and Queen Street.

Next slide, please.

Um, and instead where we propose to remove parking for the stop location is on the 300 block here.

So as you can see on the left there, roughly from the driveway, which is in front of that red truck on the street view image, um, down to the crosswalk.

So just some outreach summary.

Um for the general OTC stop rebalancing effort, um, both TNES and Dash performed outreach in January 2026.

Um as I previously said, after the February board meeting, TNES and Dash staff met on site from residents of the 200 block of North Fairfax Street.

Review site conditions, performed additional analyses.

Um response staff are proposing to modify the approved recommendation at this location.

Um further, public notice signs were posted ahead of this meeting.

Um and staff did not receive any um comments.

Okay, thank you, Silas.

Are there any questions for Silas?

Dane?

So I first of all, thank you for doing this.

I I think it is a good idea to be a good community neighbors, and I do want to voice that appreciation first.

I'm looking at the south side of this Fairfax, and it's awfully close to that crosswalk.

Um, as far as daylighting goes, since we've already sort of adopted this, um, could we maybe consider whether that crosswalk might deserve a little more space for people who are crossing?

There's a lot of pedestrian activity.

And I'm not quite sure if I'm comfortable having a parked car within inches of the crosswalk.

Of course, we can consider any additional treatments the board sees fit.

Um, additional site lines, improved visibility for pedestrians crossing, especially in this area near the restaurants down there, the Commodore just opened.

Um those different restaurants.

I definitely see a benefit to that.

Casey.

Uh yeah, thanks for uh revisiting this.

Uh though I'm I'm must say I'm a uh a tad frustrated that we're having to kind of revisit this.

I mean, I'm I'm glad that you were able to uh get out there with the the citizens, but you know, kind of the question that had been asked when we gotten all that feedback last month was you know, how how would you guys work with the the residents?

And I didn't get a real sense that there was a lot of um doing the effort that you've done this time, which is good.

But you know, one of the things that I was struck by was the fact that you had both uh Dash and D and ES step out there looking at this.

You had a bus brought in.

Was that bus brought in before when you were looking?

Not to my knowledge, no.

Um so that sort of argues that if we're gonna do this kind of thing again, that should be part of the projects and not just come in with this.

We think this works uh and you know, especially when you've got you know residents who are saying no, we don't think this works and it oh, sorry, it makes us look kind of awkward having approved something now we're coming back to to revisit it.

Again, I'm glad that we're able to do it, but it there is a level of frustration.

No, I completely agree there.

And I will say that um I can speak to Dash about getting ahead of that a little bit more.

Um, but I do want to say that this stop location still is safe for the parameters.

Yeah, I don't quibble with the safety, but it it's really just understanding how the stop works and bringing the bus there was sort of a compelling picture to see.

Um we didn't see that before.

And so I I think that argues for making sure that's done in the uh a future, and also to sort of what Dane raised is um when we're out doing this, we should be sure that daylighting is part of this effort um and not just sort of, yeah, we'll look at it.

Um it it should be part of the uh the effort going forward that as we uh try to introduce um uh safe access for people riding a bus.

We've also got safe access access for them to get off the bus and get across the street or something.

So I think that's all important.

Completely agree.

One thing that I was really intrigued by was your reference to the fact that um all of this route will now have ADA compliance, you know, 100%.

So, how many other routes in the city are at 100% compliance?

I would need to look back at my bus stop audit in the inventory to get you that figure.

Do you think there are any?

To my knowledge, not completely.

So is that the effort going forward to make a route ADA compliant uh with this level of um uh rapidity?

Yeah.

Um that is the dream goal, the ideal standard.

Um, I will say we do go, we have a threshold that we meet for reaching ADA compliance, and obviously 100% ADA compliance is what we are searching for.

And obviously 100% ADA compliance is what we are searching for.

Um at first though, we really have to go by ridership frequencies, ease of construction, um, right of way, factors like that.

Um, but again, rebalancing is one of those key things we're trying to do where it's like, okay, hey, every existing location, maybe it's not optimized, and maybe we can't reach ADA there, but um, going corridor by corridor is a more holistic way of doing it.

What we're trying to do instead of just going, all right, we have a list of 30 stops across the city, let's just make a media compliant and coming back later on and saying it doesn't fit into those corridor plans going forward.

I think this was very compelling to see sort of the holistic look at the uh the corridor.

And I know with the Duke Street Motion Project that that was one of the efforts there to consolidate bus uh bus stops into bus stations and to uh you know make an effort to make it a uh more functional and usable and allowed to have the money that to be spent on uh making uh stop successful.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, any other questions firstly the visual that shows the parking, if you could just switch back to the yes.

Um I wanted to ask what is the distance from a stop sign that a car is not supposed to park at all.

So in the in the visual, that car looks like it's what four or five feet from the stop sign?

It's from the corner.

It's from the it's not from the sign.

Correct.

Oh, it's a type of spectacle.

It's it's a complicated requirement, but it's 20 feet from the intersection of the curbs.

So looking at that, I I would guess that the car is like many of the intersections in old town is not um complying with the daylighting requirement already in effect with the code.

Um, and then I was curious if if it came up in the discussion in the meeting, one of the arguments that the comment I believe what the car mentors made were that in the proposed, well, I guess the formerly proposed spot, um, because it was on the other side of the intersection, they claimed that there was a safety issue because the bus would be stopping in the middle of the intersection.

And I was curious if there was any merit to that argument because it looks like there's maybe other spots along the route where that occurs, and I can think of ones in my head where the bus stop is after the intersection, but I would think that so long as the bus stop is enough after the intersection, that shouldn't be an issue.

No, yeah.

So in this location, no, it did not portray into the intersection.

And typically, honestly, far side stops, which are those after the intersection, are considered safer because you hold passengers crossing the street until after the bus has departed the stop.

Um, but no, at this location, the bus would have fully clear the intersection before making those movements.

Thank you.

Okay, any other comments?

Okay.

Do we have speakers on this topic?

We have a speaker in the room.

I'm gonna call you up to speak, Scott Corzine, and then if you're interested in speaking on this item online, please raise your hand.

Good evening.

Uh I'm Scott Korsman at 300 Queen Street, and I just want to thank TNES Silas and his colleague from Dash for agreeing to come out and have a second look and reconsider uh the stop and and make the this the second recommendation.

We appreciate that that collaboration and that willingness to to hear us out.

So thank you, Silas, and thank you for the to the uh to the board.

Okay, well, thank you.

Um has anyone online if you'd like to speak?

Please raise your hand and Sheila will unmute you.

Okay.

No one uh seeing anybody with their hands raised online.

Okay.

Last chance online if you'd like to speak.

Raise your hand.

Okay.

That concludes the public discussion period of this item.

Are there any um discussion among the board or a motion to be made?

So I would be in favor of changing the recommendation.

Um in our to to allow more daylighting on that south side to remove only one parking space rather than to print the staff recommendation.

Um, but I'm not sure if we should adopt the the staff recommendation and then motion to amend or simply motion to remove the one parking space.

Right.

I think we we often say distance because that since the spaces aren't delineated here, it's up to two.

So I guess the question is does the 40 feet give the end of that 40 feet?

Is that the adequate daylighting of that intersection?

I believe the length from the driveway curb or the driveway to the crosswalk is 40 feet.

Okay.

But that the end of the crosswalk would not be the 20 feet from the curb point.

No, I believe it's the um the curb inside of the crosswalk.

Probably.

Okay.

So I believe if you wanted to give them the flexibility, you just um maybe say something about making sure that that is adequately daylighted to the 20 foot from the curb point or something like that.

I I guess I will ask then because we see two parked cars there.

And they're they look relatively small, um, all things considered.

If you keep two uh parking spaces there designated, is there enough room to daylight adequately?

Um that that crosswalk has more visual view up and down the street than it currently does.

Or should we move to reduce that parking to restore only one parking space at this location to allow you to have that space for daylighting?

Um I would defer to the board's judgment.

I will say based on the short length of that section.

Um the current configuration probably does not provide the additional space needed for um daylighting properly, but I would defer to the board's judgment.

Um I don't I mean we we generally don't I mean if there's one big car, then it's one, it's two up to two.

So if you want to make a motion to ensure that that intersection is sufficiently day lit, then however many cars want to park there, you know, they can.

But we don't they don't do a lot of they don't they aren't gonna paint the so I I don't know how you would unless you put a do no parking here to corner.

We probably have to do a no parking here to corner from which is hard in old town because then you'd have to put it through the brick or if there's I don't know if there's brick right there or grass.

Kind of block by block specifically.

Okay.

Don't we have measures for like a whole administrative process through which we can just approve parking to be removed for daylighting?

And so I think we could just ask city staff to go and measure it and determine whether a sign needs to be posted there.

Um like no parking here to corner for it to be appropriately daylight.

Staff can do that.

I mean the docket is in front of us, so we have an opportunity to just make it happen.

But we don't know what the measurement is, like we don't have the facts in front of us regarding the parking spot, right?

If we specify that we are proposing additional parking with the contingent making it contingent on adequately daylighting that corner, then it's done.

I'd be fine with that.

Yeah.

Then they don't have to go through an admin process, we just make it happen.

So is that Dan?

What's your motion?

Um I'm going to um given it says up to two.

I'm gonna uh encourage you to look at this for daylighting purposes, but I'm going to motion to retain up to two, although it can be less depending on how your daylighting goes on-street parking spaces that were previously approved to be removed along the 200 block of the North Fairfax Street and remove up to four on-street parking spaces along the 300 block of the North Fairfax Street.

Second.

Or alternate.

Okay.

Um all in favor?

I all opposed.

Okay.

Do you feel like you have to do that?

Yeah, I think I have the gist of it.

We'll go out and we'll make sure we measure um appropriately.

Okay.

Great.

Thank you, Silas.

Okay, we have some staff updates.

Yes.

So we have a couple of staff updates for you all.

Our first is that we have a new director of TNES who's starting a week from today, next Monday.

Her name is Leah Riley.

And she brings experience from DC, Portland, and Chicago.

So we're excited to have her start next week.

And I'm sure you know we'll have her you'll meet her at some point.

So that's exciting.

It's been a while, been a while since we non-interim.

And the next item I will kind of talk through in conjunction with Casey.

But as you all may be aware, we have a couple board members who are reaching the end of their tenure who've been on this board for close to 10 years, which is our board chair whose last meeting it is tonight.

And another vice chair whose last meeting will be in June.

So with that we are going to be losing a lot of experience and tenure on the board.

But one of the other things I just wanted to talk through with you all so you're aware and what these changes might mean for some of you a newer board members is that chairman or vice chair Kane has been sitting on the Transportation Commission as part of his duties on to the traffic and parking board.

And so once he leaves the traffic and parking board, he'll also be leaving the transportation commission.

And so then working backwards from a timeline.

So his last meeting for both will be in June.

And so how it would work for somebody to serve on the Transportation Commission.

And we actually we need somebody from Traffic and Parking Board to also serve on the Transportation Commission.

We would need somebody to be elected at our next meeting in April.

So then they can apply and get approved by City Council in May.

But then their first meeting on Transportation Commission wouldn't be until September, but it's just to get all the paperwork in order so that there wouldn't be a gap in service.

So I just wanted to tell you that timeline.

And then it was maybe I was going to open it up for Casey to speak maybe about his experience.

And so you guys would have a month to think about this.

And you know, if you might be interested, you can speak to him about his experience and uh then we'll have to make some action on this next meeting.

So maybe Casey, do you want to talk about your experience?

Sure, I'd be happy to do that.

Yeah, I'm getting there.

Sorry about that.

Um so the uh way I've always described to people uh the difference between the Transportation Commission and uh traffic and parking board is that I think traffic and parking board is more tactical and just like now where we're you know quickly talking about parking or something and uh and then approving whether it'd be done or not.

We're on the transportation transportation commission, it's more strategic, and it also has the ability to have influence uh on money, particularly in approving um uh a request from the city to get approval from the city council to uh apply for grants um, you know, kind of across the uh border on uh um uh transportation related things from safe routes to schools to uh metro funding to um uh uh complete streets funding and and so it it really has an opportunity to be impactful to the uh uh community as well as to you know provide some level of uh opportunity for the traffic and parking board then to be involved um having a representative there, but also uh as the things come to fruition, uh being able to vote on uh things like removing a parking to put in a bike share station.

The one of the nice things about the Transportation Commission is they rarely, rarely rarely go longer than two to three hours.

Um I've I've never been in a meeting that went past midnight.

Um so you have a much more um firm grip of uh your time uh on serving on it.

Uh one of the cool things that I have found on being on the transportation commission is it opened more opportunities to be involved.

So I was um on the Duke Street Motion Um advisory committee uh to help uh provide input on the um uh Duke Street uh transit way, which I thought was really a pretty cool opportunity.

Um another uh uh committee that I've been on is the uh I can't remember the complete title of it, but it's the Ed Hawk, Eisenhower West, Landmark Van Dorn advisory group, something to that effect.

But it's really useful for somebody on who lives on the West End to sort of again have some um influence on on what projects are uh coming forth on that.

Those two uh committees are not required of you if you choose to be on the Transportation Commission.

I happen to have the time and I saw them as things that I actually had a passion for, so it was nice to be uh part of that.

Um the reason uh you won't actually have to start serving until September is the Transportation Commission won't be meeting in July, July or August.

So uh again, they don't have quite the uh hard schedule we have in terms of you know having meet almost every uh every month.

In fact, I think sometimes we haven't even met in December unless there was something uh compelling that needed to get to city council for uh for for approval or stuff.

So um it's been a uh a very fun experience for me to be on both of these, and I would encourage one of you to uh kind of think about doing it.

Uh one of the if you read sort of the the bylaws, um your term is only for two years um on the transportation commission.

So if you only wanted to do this for two years, it'd be you know, and you still want to stay on the traffic and parking boards, you could step down and then have somebody else uh replace you.

So it's not kind of a life life term to be on it.

Happy to answer any questions if anyone has them now, or if they come up later, if you look at the um uh website and look at the docket item, you can see some of the stuff that's uh been going on there.

I just want to mention that it's so important for this group to have someone with some insight into some of the stuff because I don't know if you've but we often have great frustration when things happen in the city and they do not take into account um parking or flow or method of method of method of travel travel T.

And it gets comes to us and we get jammed on it.

You know, they approve a thing, but they have to have the parking elimination or they, you know, it just and having someone on um the commission does give us a voice into the commission and also some heads up on some stuff.

So it is um very complimentary to what we do here.

So I hope somebody who is passionate about it can get on the board.

Yeah, I'd add one more note to that, which is that when the transportation commission was created, um one of its representatives uh was supposed to be from the traffic and parking board.

So it's spelled out in their uh charter that we need to have a representative uh from the traffic and parking board.

Okay.

Um yes, and then uh we just talked about Casey's meetings will be in June.

Um, but then we have our chair Ann Tucker.

It's her last meeting this evening.

Um she's been serving on the board for 10 years at this point, which is quite unimaginable to some.

Um so we wanted to say thank you, thank you, thank you for your years of service.

And um, Katie has um your sign.

Thank you very much.

Oh, this is so exciting.

Okay, yeah, I joined the board the month after the King Street King Street bike lane.

First King Street bike lanes.

The first super controversial bike lane.

Um then we had the rest of King Street.

But yeah, it's been it's been crazy.

I can't believe it's been 10 years.

Um we in very I I'm most proud of the way that we represent the people who feel like the city doesn't listen to them and that T E N S, you know, the monolithic city just doesn't listen to the little person, and they can come here and you know, we actually listen to them.

And I am so happy with this group from T ENS over the years.

You guys have come in and it's been like a real change in how you guys interface with the citizens uh and the people in Alexandria.

It's a lot different attitude.

Only Casey really remembers mean it was they weren't all didn't always want to hear from people.

Um so it's been really, I just love this this group, and you guys are great, and you make serving on the board a lot better, and the presentations are phenomenal, and you guys have really done a great job.

So and I'm very proud to serve with everyone, and I know you guys will keep being a place for everybody to come till 1 30 in the morning to talk about uh parking issues.

It's part of the if it if it was just easy, anyone could do it.

So um thank you.

Thank you all, and good luck in the future.

I will read about it in the Alexandria Times or the packet because that hopefully not too much.

Thank you guys.

If I could add a couple of things, so um it it is remarkable.

10 years is uh flown by and what's interesting is that when Anne came on to the traffic and parking board, I'd also applied for the same position, and I think the vote was four to three.

And so uh Ann somehow got that extra vote to uh uh uh to beat me out.

And I bided my time and a couple months later, uh one board member left to go to the planning commission, and I got to then uh join Ann on the uh traffic and parking board.

But I thought for Ann, it might be fun to for her to uh kind of remember back on who was on the board when she first started.

Uh Jay Johnson was the chair, uh William Schuyler was the vice chair, uh James Lewis, who was actually representing the traffic and parking board on Transportation Commission, Randy Cole.

I just saw him on Saturday at the farmer's market.

Uh Kevin Beekman and Melissa McMahon.

And then Melissa McMahon stepped down to uh be on the planning commission, and that's when I uh I joined.

That that was the group for a while.

Yeah, yeah, until Kevin passed away.

Randy had resigned, I think before.

Um but what was really interesting is um not too long ago.

Uh so when I came to the board, Ann was the only woman on the board.

But I think two years ago, I was the only male on the board.

So it there was really been a remarkable shift on in the uh uh staffing of this uh board.

And um uh Anne was right that the uh King Street One was sort of the really most one of the more controversial uh actions that the traffic and parking board had to take up to that time.

But since then, Ann and I have had uh many pleasurable late evenings working together, and uh I must say that it's been fun uh working with you.

And um, you know, it's uh when uh James finally left the board.

I finally got to sit next to you because you were always having these cool conversations down at the other side of the table.

And I never got to be part of those conversations.

So it's the cool kids from that time.

It's been been fun for that uh short period of time.

And yeah, it it uh like you uh observed, it's been really quite a journey and uh fun to sort of see the evolution of how the board is uh developed.

So thank you very much for yes, Casey.

I I I'm sorry, you only I'm sorry, I beat you.

Um in the in the cool kid vote.

Um, but seriously, I wish you got to do this a little longer.

Um chair 10 years.

You bring a wealth of history and you know, I think Annie, you're the I know, and it's I'm four years.

So you get to be maybe chair for four years.

Anyway, yes, there's been great people, and you know, everyone it's public service, and that's why we do it, right?

But thank you all for being on the board and best of luck, and you guys too.

Thank you.

Thank you, Max.

Thank you.

Okay, now commissioner for another meeting, couple meetings.

Oh do you have a transportation commission update?

Yeah, well, actually, I'll get to be on that till June, so it uh it'll be fun.

So actually, one of the more interesting things was a written uh uh update uh through the Transportation Commission, but uh was actually talking about the repeat repaving and upcoming projects.

Um so I think to um Ann's point, it would be nice for this same information to uh be shared with the uh uh traffic and parking board, and maybe you can just claw the uh uh written written updates for that.

But the good news is that uh paving is uh ongoing.

Um there's a whole lot of projects uh that they hope to um get uh pushing forward this year, including the Holland Lane uh corridor improvements, which we approved last year.

Um the South Pickett Street corridor improvements, designs currently in progress, uh Jordan safety improvement.

Oh, uh and the constructions plan for late 2026, uh Jordan Street safety improvements, uh designs in progress.

Uh West Braddock Road and North Howard Street corridor improvements.

Um that uh commute community engagement for that is planned for spring summer 2026, and that particular project was actually uh uh partially funded from uh grant money.

So that was something that transportation uh so there's an example of that.

Um the Yokum Parkway that we approved, uh the design's underway, and they plan to implement it in 2027, and then uh the Whiting Street improvements uh planning is initiated, and they hope to have uh community engagement uh this summer.

Uh we also talked about uh the calendar for the uh current year and also on uh the operating budget.

So we were asked for input on the operating uh budget.

Uh and one of the comments I raised, um, and I think the city manager supposed to brief city council on this is sort of the snow removal, uh, how what was successful and what didn't work um during the last uh Halacious storm we got.

Uh but one of the things I raised uh that uh we're gonna include in a letter to the city manager is to make sure that they're addressing snow removal on sidewalks at the corners of sidewalks or at intersections, uh, and also to better address uh bike lanes, particularly the ones where we we have approved uh uh the uh protected bike lanes and uh they oftentimes are not getting cleared during the uh these storms and they kind of wait for sunshine to take care of uh clearing.

So in a challenging environment with uh with the current budget, it it may be uh tough, but they need to at least recognize that the city needs to do better um in terms of snow removal.

It's not just clearing the streets, but uh when the city sends out messages that we should not use cars initially uh to because they haven't had time to clear, then they need to recognize people still need to get around.

And when they have to walk in the roadway uh or try to scramble up uh a hill to get to a uh a pedestrian walk button um or try to catch a bus at a non-existent bus stop.

Uh we need to think about that.

So that was part of the the letter.

So that's enough for the update.

Okay, thank you.

Um I think that concludes this meeting.

And I will Commissioner Ruckley, yeah.

Is it open for other commissioner updates?

Sure.

Okay, thank you.

Uh I apologize.

Uh, but these are actually uh remarks that I had originally planned to make at last month's meeting.

Uh, but I decided that uh 1 30 in the morning was probably about the ideal time to speak to the room.

So I thank you for letting me claim a couple of minutes tonight.

Um Madam Chair, every year about uh 10 to 15,000 transportation professionals from around the nation gather in downtown Washington for the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, which is as some of you know, an arm of the National Academy of Science, where they exchanged the latest research results and best practices in the field of transportation.

Several Alexandria city staff made presentations at this year's meeting, notably our own Sheila McGraw, who made a presentation and participated in a panel on curbside management.

Uh and she did a great job speaking about we all know the complexities of managing the demand for curb space uh in Old Town.

And that and on that panel were people from San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, DC, and national consulting firms and so forth.

So it was a pretty high-level group.

And uh I just want to say uh that our city was well represented, and thank you and well done, Sheila.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Oh, great, thank you so much.

Okay, anything else?

Okay, is there a motion to adjourn?

Is there a second?

Second?

Okay, all in favor.

Hey.