Good afternoon, Everett residents and interested parties.

We got an extra speaker on, or shall I just go ahead?

Oh, there it goes.

This is the Parks and Built Environment Committee of the Everett City Council meeting the second Wednesday of each month, usually at 5 p.m.

Committee chair Ryan is away, and Councilmember Weir will be attending in her place.

I'll be chairing this meeting.

And Councilmember Burbano is our third committee member.

The public is welcome to attend these meetings in person or view them live or recorded on YouTube at the City of Everett channel.

We do not take public comment during the committee meetings, but public comment is welcome on these and other topics in the regular city council meetings, which start here in this room in 90 minutes.

We'll cover two topics today, Everett's bike master plan and also code development for e-bike regulations in Everett.

And I think first we'll start, I guess, Jennifer Gregerson.

Do you have anything to say or shall we start with Tom Hood?

No, we can well, we'll let Tom get his presentation shared.

And uh yeah, I don't have anything to add.

Just looking forward to this update.

So great.

All right.

Well, Tom, if you'll note your role with the city and we're ready whenever you are.

Great.

Thank you.

Uh good evening, counsel.

Tom Hood, City Engineer with Public Works.

Uh, thank you for having me here tonight uh to give you an update on the bicycle program and the bike master plan.

There we go.

Thanks.

Okay, so my agenda tonight uh for this uh presentation is uh a little bit of background on our current bicycle master plan.

Uh I'll then spend the bulk of the time talking about the implementation and the projects that we've done and are doing and will do in the future uh as part of the BMP.

And then I'll also touch on some of our education and outreach efforts uh in uh for the bicycle community.

So the bicycle master plan uh was adopted in 2011 by City Council.

Um it was designed to uh create and enhance a uh safe and convenient uh bicycling network throughout the city.

Uh we had a robust uh public outreach process as part of the development of the plan that included uh a host of public comments, city council administration uh was involved as well as uh quite a few city staff.

Um, as a an additional note, um as the plan is now about 15 years old.

We do have an update of the bicycle master plan um beginning later this year.

We're actually going to combine the BMP with our existing pedestrian plan uh and put them together into what we will be calling an active transportation plan as part of the update.

Uh and again, that will be getting uh that process underway later this year.

So in the uh bicycle master plan, um, what we have was an analysis of the existing conditions as of 2011.

Uh, we didn't have a whole lot of uh bike facilities in those days, but nevertheless, uh, we needed those existing conditions analyzed so that we could come up with uh proposed facilities where we needed uh connections.

Uh, some of our um our bigger bicycle generating areas uh that needed to have network uh connections and additions to make those work.

Um we also had uh a number of outreach and education recommendations uh to enhance the non-project part of cycling in Everett.

Uh we also uh brought about uh brought into the BMP quite a few design standards, and then for the projects that we enumerated in the BMP, we have descriptions of those, and those can be found in there, as well as some funding strategies, um, which uh some of which are still uh relevant today, some of which are getting a little long in the tooth and need to be updated and will be as part of our active transportation plan.

So, really, the this slide uh really shares kind of the three uh guiding principles of the bike master plan.

Um connectivity, which I mentioned a little bit, um, you know, putting those those places uh and people that need connections, giving them connections, um, suitability, which is really speaks to for a given street or route, what is the appropriate treatment for bicycles?

Um, obviously, bigger, busier roads will have different criteria or different recommended treatments than a quiet neighborhood street, for instance.

And then community need, which really um speaks to our outreach efforts um during the the master plan development, uh hearing what the community had to say and what they wanted.

So, as of this year, um we are essentially on track um for the implementation of our 30-year plan.

Um, it was originally developed for a 30-year timeline, and 15 years in, we're roughly half complete uh with building out the bike master plan.

Um, you can see some statistics there about uh the number of miles of bikeways we've built on street.

We've also built uh 23 miles of off-street bikeways, trails and such, um, a total of 25 projects completed, and 16 more are anticipated to be completed by 2030.

So, some of the highlights of what we've done in the last 15 years.

Um we created the north-south bicycle corridor that connects uh Legion Park to the Interurban Trail through the downtown core on Hoyt.

Uh so we now have a north-south connection that basically runs the entire length of the city.

We also established a bicycle connection between Everett Station and 41st, and 41st Street uh also connects to the interurban trail.

So we have that additional uh north-south connection to Everett Station there.

Uh 112th Street in the south end.

Uh that had zero bicycle lanes on it uh years ago, and and we now have bicycle lanes throughout the city uh portion on 112th Street.

And then the Milltown Trail Connection uh on West and East Marine View Drive, which you'll see a picture of in just a moment.

And then I was here uh in 2023, I believe, talking about uh the BMP implementations.

Since then, we've um added uh 28 miles of wayfinding signage that was uh funded through a federal grant.

Uh we added bike lanes to West Casino Road as part of uh our overlay program.

And then as also as part of the overlay program, we did the Madison Street buffered bike lanes in 2023, which I'll show you a couple photos of momentarily as well.