Well, everyone, welcome to our Mesa City Council uh study session for October October 23rd, 2025.

Uh, for roll call, Councilmember Adams is participating by Zoom.

And uh Miss GoForth will join us shortly.

Before we begin, I'd like to recognize uh Mayor Cordova from YMS, Mexico.

Thank you.

And your staff here, um visiting here, and Mr.

Ballmer and Mr.

Balmer, I know most of us know who you are, but he's their uh guide during this visit.

Appreciate them.

We're honored to have you here during this week, uh Dio de Los Mortos, and we appreciate I know we've been together a number of times throughout the year for that event.

But uh our sister city relationship with Waimas has been ongoing for many, many years, and we appreciate that.

Uh, it's great to see you and have a connection through business like this.

I'm gonna turn over a couple of minutes over to Francisco Hereria, our council member.

I don't know about a couple minutes, but just uh Domasquilla de Calgo in Spaniel, Bienvenidos a la uhdesa de Guaymas, uh La Señora Cordova y el staff de ella, uh Hermana King La Ciudad de Mesa, uh Collace Guaymas and in Mexico in Sonora.

Uh uh most felicitarlos uh in this day uh in this tempo para mejorar nostro vida juntos.

So we need an alter in the Festival del Dia de los Muertos cabalste fin de semana.

So I see Ustan uh Vene Safe Semana Bienvenidos a la Ciudad de Guaymas.

So gracias Caldesa.

Thank you, Councilmember.

Council members, you anything else what to say.

Pardon?

All right, very good.

And thank you for coming all the way to Mesa for the event.

We appreciate you doing that.

Um we're gonna start this morning for item one A is a presentation on a draft to downtown Mesa micromobility on parking plan.

So with that, we have uh Mr.

McVay, Jimmy, and Anthony, the team, the transformation team.

Yeah, sir.

Jack.

Uh all right.

Good morning, Mayor, Council members.

Uh again, Jeff McVay, manager of urban transformation.

Um with me this morning is Jimmy Tracchio.

Today he's wearing his downtown transformation project manager hat.

Um also with us today is Anthony Rodriguez, also urban transformation project manager.

Um, before I hand this over to to Jimmy and Anthony to present the draft plan, I kind of wanted to set the stage and talk about what this plan is and what this plan isn't.

This is intended to be a policy document, a planning document to guide the future um implementation of micromobility and transportation um interventions in the downtown area.

This is not intended to be an engineering study, so there is a you know there's a certain level of detail that is not included in here, and that will require additional study and additional engineering efforts down the road.

So I just wanted to make sure that what as we're presenting this that I set that stage that we all are are thinking about this plan in the right way.

And we'll we'll we'll definitely talk about a little bit more about the implementation later as well.

But with that, I'm gonna hand over to Jimmy to start things off.

Well, thank you for having us here today, Mary Council members.

Um with all the development that downtown is seeing and with the uh the planned growth that we're we're really hoping to uh continue for downtown.

Um we wanted to examine the multimodal transportation options within and connecting to the downtown area.

Um that's especially looking at any last mile connections as well as connections into the adjacent neighborhoods.

Um we also wanted to examine the parking supply and how to best maximize the use of that parking supply, and then uh create a plan that really enhance the visitor resident experience into the downtown area.

Um our project goals uh on this slide really come down to three things access, safety, and comfort, um, and then how do we utilize those to uh add to the downtown vibrancy?

Um parking uh is a key piece, direct uh directing people to the available spaces and even adding spaces into downtown to make it easier for people to park.

Um the multimodal aspect, uh bikes, scooters, pedestrians, riding share, um, again, as I mentioned, those last mile connections, those connections to neighborhoods, but also uh focusing on safety of bike riders and pedestrians and then comfort, things like shade and and making it easier for people to get around.

And then how do we communicate this to the public, you know, through wayfinding systems so they know where they're going and how to get to those parking garages and so forth.

Uh Stantech, our uh consultant on this project, uh had done a number a number of things for uh assessment uh for the plan.

Um they engaged stakeholders and uh residents for input.

We had four stakeholder meetings.

Um those were with groups that were community and neighborhood groups, downtown Mesa Association, uh ASU and Bike Mesa, and then also um developers who have been doing projects in downtown.

There was uh members with the uh council members and the mayor to hear both your uh feelings towards parked parking and micromobility, but also what your constituents and other districts thought as well for uh their views of downtown.

Uh we had two public meetings.

The first one was in the fall 2024.

That was the first engagement with with big groups, um, heard their input on what they would like to see and how they felt about things, and then Stantech came back in March 2025 to present their findings uh and allowed those those attendees to engage again and provide more input.

Uh we had a Mesa Listens Project page that got about 1.2,000 visits uh during its lifetime uh online.

Uh that was uh between September 24th and May 2025.