The Lafayette City Council held a workshop on July 28, 2026, to receive updates on transportation, the land use code, and board and commission changes. Staff from public works and planning presented detailed reports, and council discussed scheduling, public outreach, and specific policy items. No new ideas were submitted.
So I didn't make sure this was going to be just a lot of people. So I'm going to go ahead and get us started. Mayor Proton Barnes is on his way. Hi everyone. Welcome to tonight's workshop. This is a city council workshop for July 28th, 2026. And we will get right into it because I know we have a few agenda items, including the first, which is a transportation update. So I'll hand it over to Seth and to our public works director. Thank you. Uh good evening, Mayor and members of council. Jeff Arthur on the public works director. With me tonight is Leslie Uwe. She's our engineering capital projects manager. So she oversees our engineering staff across water or wastewater, stormwater, and transportation. Michelle Melanakis is our principal transportation engineer. Some of you may recall that we actually added our first dedicated transportation position in 2019. And so she's, I think, actually the only city employee who only does transportation. Everybody else does a little of everything. Also with me tonight is Casey Carlson. He's a senior civil engineer. Casey manages most of our transportation capital projects as well as managing projects across the three utilities and as well as managing some capital projects for other city departments. So tonight's agenda is an update on the city's progress on implementing the multimodal transportation plan. It was adopted in late 2023 and is broken into five year phases. We're about two years into the first phase or the near-term phase. So tonight we're just going to provide a brief overview, kind of a refresher on the existing system and some of the key guiding documents. At the end. So jumping into an overview of our transportation system. So we while we spend most of our dollars maintaining our assets, a lot of our staff time ends up being dedicated to protecting the community's regional interests. We have about a hundred and twenty thousand vehicles passed through Lafayette every day, which is significantly more than our population. We have multiple state highways. I think you all saw this map at your retreat, but we are really a hub for a lot of regional transportation, and that requires a lot of coordination with CDOT as well as coordination with neighboring communities to make sure we're advocating for the city's interests. And finally, our transit service is primarily provided by RTD, so we do a lot of work to coordinate with RTD to make sure that we have accessible transit for the community. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Leslie, who is going to talk about the MMTP and the Vision Zero Plan. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, and good evening, Council. The multimodal transportation plan is the foundation of the city's transportation system. Do you have a mic? I do. It's IT might be able to turn it off. I will talk loud. Thank you. Can you hear me better now? Still not. Yeah, Jess was working quite well. How about that? That is better news. Okay, I think that one isn't working well. All right. The multimodal transportation plan is the foundation of the city's transportation program. The plan was adopted, as Jeff said, by council in late 2023 with implementation starting in 2024.