Good afternoon and welcome.

I call the special meeting of the transportation committee to order on Wednesday, September the 16th, 2026 at 4 p.m.

Next on the agenda is the roll call.

Alderman Savage.

Present.

All of Ms.

Shandamayer.

Okay, thanks for being present.

Next on the agenda is approval of the agenda.

Do I have a motion to approve the agenda?

So moved.

All in favor, please say aye.

Thank you.

Next agenda is the business and miscellaneous approval of the minutes.

Do we have a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes from July 22nd, 2026 meeting?

So moved.

Is there a second?

Second.

All in favor?

Please say aye.

Thank you again for making a motion.

Next on the agenda is general discussion section.

The next discussion topic we have is ID 169-26 safety and mobility plan discussion.

I would like to invite a chief of court comprehensive planning, Eric Lalisky and Mike Pedestrian Michael Mobility Coordinator will round to the table.

And whenever you are ready, the floor is yours.

Everybody introduces themselves.

Good afternoon.

I'm Eric Wyshinski, Chief of Comprehensive Planning.

And actually, um I'm gonna hand it over to Alexis Robinson, our senior comprehensive planner who's the project manager for this initiative.

Um so I'm here just to support.

Yeah, we're just waiting for the presentation to get pulled up.

Um but hello everyone, my name is Alexis Robinson, senior comprehensive planner in the Department of Planning and Zoning.

This project is a safe streets and roads for all grant program.

Uh the purpose of this is to implement uh other actions that have taken place.

So as you know, the Anna Rundle County has a Vision Zero plan, has and has identified different areas and goals uh to reduce collision and increase safety around the county.

Um their plan does include the city of Annapolis, and that was a visioning process that the city was a participant in.

Uh we also have goals within the comprehensive plan, the Annapolis Ahead 2040 that outline areas of transportation improvement as well as uh safety improvement for the betterment of all of our citizens.

Um this was a grant that was awarded by the U.S.

Department of Transportation, and there are other safe streets for all program uh funds that are in different elements of the city, but this one is specifically for developing a mobility action plan.

Um partners in this include Nelson Nygard, Roadside Harwell, and Fair Peers.

They are our consultant team with expertise in multimodal transportation, safety, community engagement, and uh design for complete streets.

So as you know, our roads are not simple from our historic district all the way out to the county.

There are roads with different ownership and different levels of service as well as different levels of infrastructure.

Uh we have a culmination of city-owned, county-owned, and state-owned roadways, which makes for a very complicated process in making improvements, but this plan is hoping to include prioritization and improvement um levels for all of these roads, or at least for a way for us to coordinate between our local and regional partners for having those improvements documented and have a pathway towards funding and implementation.

This is a picture of Forest Drive, something that most of us, at least all of us are familiar with.

These are just examples of current plans that are in place that will be folded into this mobility action plan as elements to coordinate with our county partners in improving mobility.

Safety as identified in the comprehensive plan is a huge issue.

This map shows areas of vehicle crashes, and as you can see, there are large volumes of it, especially on Forest Drive, but also downtown and our outer parole area where we would like to place emphasis and priority in developing improvements that can actually be implemented.

Overall, the vision for Annapolis is to create an equitable, healthy, and resilient city.

And the safety of our roads is something that is overarching in the health of pedestrians, not just people as they are moving, but their overall health as they live in the city.

One element that was identified in the comp plan is also a map of social vulnerability.

This is linked with the density of population, but also their social economic status, housing types and transportation options, what their languages spoken at home can be, and the household composition and disability.

These things are also tied to roadway safety.

As you can see in the comparison between these three maps, our places that are most socially vulnerable are also places that have the highest opportunity for vehicle crashes.

So it is also a priority of this plan to equitably assess where safety improvements can be made.

You want to mind hopping back to the uh social vulnerability map, please?

As I'm uh sure my colleagues can see there, uh one more.

Yep, there we go.

Uh my sure my colleagues can see there.

We got uh ward four, we got ward five, and we got ward seven in the darkest parts of that.