Now is the time and place for a meeting of the Beaverton Planning Commission.

For the record, I will do a roll call to verify which commission members are participating this evening.

Commissioner Holmes.

Present.

Commissioner McAvoy.

Present.

Commissioner Speck.

Commissioner Winter.

Let the record show that Commissioners Adam and McCann are excused and absent from the meeting tonight.

We are now at Commission Communications.

Commission, any communications.

We are now at staff communications.

Staff any communications.

Good evening.

I'm Anna Slatinski, the planning division manager here in Beaverton.

I just have one kind of fun announcement for tonight.

And this is basically an event where the various businesses that sell Boba tea are going to be serving.

There's also going to be some music and some other kind of fun things associated with the phenomenon, which is Boba T.

So again, that's downtown Beaverton on June 7th.

And if you Google Boba Beaverton, you will get all the information on the website.

So fun community event.

Thank you.

The first item on the agenda is a work session on the transportation system plan update, draft networks, and policies.

The order of the work session will be as follows.

We will begin with the city staff presentation, followed by discussion and questions of staff by the commission.

The planning commission will then hear public comments regarding the work session item.

Individual comments will be limited to five minutes and must be directed toward the work session item.

The commission may ask additional questions of individuals providing comments or staff.

We will now begin the staff presentation.

Thank you so much.

Hello, Commissioners.

Just to kind of have a break to see where we're at.

Is that okay?

Okay.

Great.

So this is our project timeline.

As a reminder, uh we have finished the vision and goals and existing conditions work, and we're at a pretty critical point right now where we'll be looking for direction from city council on the policies and network maps.

With this information, when we have that direction, we can go forward with putting together a draft project list and some investment scenarios for them to consider at the end of the year.

2027 is largely going to be dedicated to developing performance measures, performance standards, comp plan changes, teeing up changes to implementing documents like the development code and engineering design manual, and taking things through the legislative process.

So as a reminder, you all are a part of that.

We will be coming to you to be recommending uh action to council.

The full adoption is anticipated in about a year and a half.

So at the end of 2027.

Tonight, our primary purpose is to introduce you to the draft policies and draft network maps and then answer any questions that you might have.

We'd also like your help spreading the word when we get them up on our project website for public review, which we're hoping to do in just a short while and within a week.

So our hope is that you'll walk away from this meeting this evening with an understanding of what these policies are.

Um and then if you have more detailed comments you'd like to provide after you've sat with everything a little bit more, you're always welcome to provide them through the general public common form and just email us directly.

So I want to back up really far and just kind of talk about why what are policies, why do they matter?

Um policies are statements of expected norms and intent.

They help us make decisions based on the impacts that we want to have.

And they do, they're really important because they inform processes, administrative actions, regulations, and investment decisions.

And maybe most importantly, that their policies are dynamic, meaning they can change over time to adapt to shifting conditions and goals.

And our TSP vision goals and objectives have shifted quite a bit from what they were 16 years ago.

And so because of that, we've adjusted the TSP policies to be aligned with our updated goals.

16 years ago, we were much more focused on projects that were about building more motor vehicle lanes that we hoped could have carried more cars and trucks and moved them along streets at faster speeds.

There wasn't a lot of mention about how different users have different needs about how the system should provide equitable access.

We didn't really talk about the quality of experience for community members when they're using the system or their ability to make complete trips when not driving.

This also wasn't addressed very much.

So as a result, most of the projects that were identified and in the TSP were relatively large, expensive, time-intensive capital projects that were very motor vehicle centered.

So where we're headed with this with these updated policies is to shift the focus really to user safety and experience rather than doubling down on that car dependent future where added motor vehicle capacity and those high speeds are actually putting a portion of the population at risk, often the most vulnerable users of the system.