Thank you, Mayor.

We are recording.

All right, let's move on to our next item.

Thank you.

The next item is e-bikes, electric scooters in the park code revisions.

And assistant city manager Hackard is here for presentation.

All right.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

At the June 1st work session, we discussed regulating e-bikes and e-scooters in city parks.

Staff prepared an ordinance that would prohibit the operation of these devices within the city parks while allowing residents to ride to the parks and park them in designated locations at the entrances.

We have also identified proposed parking locations throughout the park system to include bicycle and scooter racks.

Serves both the city park and a regional trail connection.

Staff's presented two options for your consideration.

Recommends allowing e-bikes and scooters during normal operation and prohibiting during city events.

Okay.

So they can use the boardwalk except during our events.

Yep.

All right.

Thank you, Chris.

A couple of questions.

Like one, we talked about it like the parking locations are in the couple of parks are in like a two different so how do we treat when someone is going from one parking location to other parking location?

On the citation wise, like it's it's again would they just need to walk or like is there a well if they're they can use our sidewalks and trails around the stay in the right-of-way.

So if you want to go to the other park entrance and park, you just stay on the road and then go to that point.

Unless you're going through Cauley Creek Park, that's a little that's a different thing.

Okay.

So they should park by park, but yeah, generally you stay on the road network and go around the park.

Okay, outside, like rather than going from inside coast.

Correct.

Because that that's the other ordinance we approved was stay on sidewalks and trails in public right away.

Just don't go through the parks.

That's the intent.

So the second question, like uh for the boardwalk, the option one is pretty consistent with all the other parks.

Is there a reason why staff is suggesting option two instead of one?

For the boardwalk?

Yeah.

So on one hand, we see them every day.

Um we didn't build the sidewalk next to Medlock Bridge Road.

In this particular case, we chose to build the trail kind of off the road, and that became boardwalk parallel to Medlock Bridge.

So if you want to go up Med Lab Ridge on the east side of the road, you when you get to John Street Parkway, you follow the path in through the park and you come out the other side and you hit East John's Crossing, and then you can go left or right.

So if we the thought is let them ride through the park to get to the continue the connection through the other sidewalks and trails.

If we don't allow that, then they'd have to stay on the west side of Medlock Bridge to keep going north-south on their device.

Probably is there a way we could just restrict to use that particular pathway and stuff like other areas of the park.

So we so we could do a smaller area designated for not come around this side of the lake.

There are different ways to attack it if we if you if you want to find a different option.

Again, look the whole point of uh us not having it in the other parks is for the residents to enjoy the walk and those things.

So we just want to make sure like it's safe.

Yeah.

It's also 15 feet wide as opposed to some of the other ones are much narrower sidewalks and trails and parks.

Um I do think it would be appropriate for there maybe to be some signage that was like, hey, you know, if you're gonna pass, pass on the left and I I don't know.

I don't know that that's the solution, but something that maybe gives people a little bit of direction as to like, hey, if you're gonna walk, walk on the right, let people pass and all that.

I don't know.

That's what I was thinking, Mayor South.

If we could just roll that out to our national national highways, that would be fantastic, but that's a different story.

Bike cities actually, you know, they have those safety um seminars and information that is probably appropriate that if we become more bike friendly, if you will, um, that we would use some of that uh that documentation to educate because it's an education to the public, I think, and um it's it's trying to educate their behavior, right?

So did you say you're good with them being uh open?

No, I'm okay to go with the staff recommendation, but is there a way you could come back to us in like three months?

Not doesn't have to come to the work station, but at least like a check-in.

Yeah, check in to see like if it's working or do we need to come back in?

Okay.

Thank you, Chris.