This is an open comment period.

If there is uh has it ended the agenda that allows members of the public to address the commission on items that are not on the loan's agenda as a public hearing.

If there's anyone listening on present that would like to address the commission, we step forward.

Um I've got their copies of my model to add my own just three up to copies.

Commissioner members.

My name is Mike Bakerstone, and I'm reading a letter on the app of the Zumbral Valley Autobahn Society for ZBAS.

Can serve the area for for around the last 50 years.

Rapid development, both ongoing and projected, is now having and will have future profound effects on our natural areas.

First example is the development in progress west of East Side Wildlife Management Area, also known as County Nine Marsh.

Always bottom chemical runoff, vegetation, removal, and even rolling pet cat will combine to lower the quality of that important wildlife area.

The city needs to do a better job, a buffer and these sensitive areas from developments.

They're both reclusive birds that may not tolerate the added impacts from today's developments.

Haven't seen nesting at this location.

These birds and other wildlife are important parts of this habitat, and they eat they all provide important technological services.

Another development called tech campus is being planned for the IBM area campus and surrounding lands.

Allowing for development right up to Valley High Drive, and even cutting off Green Strip, uh hosting many ponds running along the south side of 41st Street, Northwest.

We have also huge waterfall and related bird migrations in Silver Creek Reservoir and East and South Landfill Reservoir areas.

Yet there are plans to push developments towards these reservoirs.

These areas should be protected.

Rochester is a city with a lot of sprawl.

Studies show that being in nature offers both physical and also mental health benefits.

Regard feedbacks.

Okay, let's uh we're not going to set the order of the agenda.

Are there any changes in the quiet nice staff?

Commissioners, nine.

If not, I will take uh motion.

Second.

But then we're saying right things.

Moving on.

Um sent agenda.

We would now review the consent agenda items.

Item 4A with the minutes from the April A6 condition.

Has anyone had a chance to review minutes?

Any changes, concerns, questions?

If not, uh, I think motion.

Motion to approve the minutes of May for a April 8.

Thank you.

Motion made by Commission, seconded by Mission Ross.

I'm in favor, I need these motion prices.

Um that includes our agenda items for tonight.

Well, we want to reports and recommendations.

We have two staff presentations scheduled tonight.

Item by A is presentation from the city register, voice shift and transportation demand management from bench stack and we have a e-boat.

And how I'd like to frame the uh mode shift and patient management issues are as planning and development issues.

And so some definitions to start off is that mode shift is the end goal or outcome we wish to see, more trips shifting from single occupancy vehicle trips to more efficient options.

And efficiency is in terms of the exportation network overall, and transportation demand management or review is TDM, as I will put the following throughout the presentation, is the tool set or levers that we as a city and development community have to improve and diversify access to developments and destinations, which in effect maximizes the public investment.

So this is not a request for a new policy direction, and Rochester's adopted policy and goals already call for better integration of land use and transportation, uh expanded transportation options and more connected and compact development patterns.

So that to the commission this matters because these outcomes are shaped by site design, zoning, parking, frontage, connectivity, and how growth takes shape on the ground.

And so tonight is about implementation through the built environment.

So nothing I will be describing to you this evening is new policy.

The comprehensive plan you see at the bottom of the slide is the foundation, and above that sits several other plans, including the active transportation plan, transit development plan, a regional planning document, the metropolitan transportation plan from ROCOG, uh also DMC planning documents and implementation tools like the UDC or you can provide development code.

So together they point toward a more connected multimodal and less automobile dependent pattern of growth.

And Rochester will continue to need driving and parking.

Uh but if our adopted direction does not include lower single occupancy vehicle uh trip options, then these development decisions need to help create those options and not make them harder to achieve.

So if our default in response to growth is mainly warm motor vehicle access and more parking, uh we can work against those adapted outcomes unintentionally.

So the policy direction is to make walking, rolling, cycling, and transit more practical options for everyday life for trips that can happen that way, especially short trips and access to transit.

So for this commission, uh what you'll see on screen is the most useful question, is not necessarily which mode is best.

It's just the question about how Rochester's growth should function and development patterns shape travel behavior, uh site layout, parking placement, sidewalk continuity, uh multimodal parking, like bicycle racks, uh, and transit access, they all influence whether people have real options for transportation in the community.

And transportation choice is not separate from city form, it is one of the outcomes that city form produces.

So a drive first site makes walking, rolling, cycling, and transit harder, even when destinations are close, and access first site on the right side of the screen uh shows that more trips are practical in more than one way.