Okay.

Mike Schmidt, present.

Aaron Buckley.

Allah LaRochelle.

President.

David Olson, present.

Sarah Stevens.

Steve emailed me and said she was not able to make it, so she won't be here today.

Dave Pesh here.

And Paige Burris.

Yeah.

Great.

Um let's uh go into open time period.

So open time period.

Uh we try to keep uh relatively short, about 10 minutes for the entire comment period.

So we do have quite a few people signed up today, so we do request that you keep your comments to two or three minutes.

And we'll start out with Barry Sconley.

Hi everybody.

Um I'm really concerned about this.

As everyone knows who's been on this committee for a while, been here.

I've been actually pursuing this for about five years or so because we've never been able to get enforcement about moving violations relating to line.

I'm very concerned about the idea of just doing an email.

It's a really hard and inconvenient for the public to sort of get their iPhones out of their pocket and to quickly take photos of it.

And some of them have trouble quickly calling uh some email, and there's no one there at the other end if you have questions.

I just think it's very consumer difficult to do that.

But if you're gonna do something like that, I would prefer 311 out of the city and not still line thing.

Maybe you could do some kind of combination where you could feel line the information, but I don't think it should just go uh straight that way.

Um I again have the human at the other end.

Um I wanna point out that riding on the sidewalk is both a state and city law.

So lack of enforcement by the police at reaching the point where people have been asking them.

I know I have for years.

I can't get them to enforce the law.

That's a form of non-feas and civil office.

If you look up the definition and you Google it, you'll see that if they don't, if you deliberately don't enforce the law because you don't want to, that's non-feasance of office, and that's an offense that police should actually be brought up on charges for, including the police chief.

So at this point, I really think we've got to have the police enforcement.

No more, we don't want to do it because we have crime to do.

It's part of their responsibilities to do it.

And if they choose not to, they can be removed.

And I'm very serious about this because the police have to get involved in this.

It's not just letters.

Um, I also want to point out that that today, the decals that are on the sidewalk.

Uh I was responsible for the decal that said no bikes on the sidewalk, but that was before Lime Scooter was even here for that we did that.

They should fit.

I've been told by even some police officers they want to amend that.

They want to change that to say bikes and scooters should not be on the sidewalk, not just bikes, because that has to do with an enforcement issue.

It would be better to have that as well.

Um again, I I think it's very important that we have enforcement.

I really want to hear.

I'm reading a letter on behalf of the Sembra Valley Audubon Society or ZBAS.

Now ZBAS is a local environmental advocacy group that served Eric around the last 50 years.

IBAS supports robust pedestrian and bike access within Rochester.

The implementation of the related infrastructure is complimentary to our support for healthier ecosystems.

More residents can get around the city for work and other needs, and fewer streets and highways we need to be built.

And that land could otherwise serve as wildlife habitat.

We are specifically here tonight to make a case that land adjacent to pedestrian and bike trails be doubly served as wildlife habitat and specifically as a means for wildlife to safely move about through the city, a concept typically referred to as wildlife corridors.

This would be an important, this would be an important um improvement for this would be an improvement for our local wildlife, but it also could improve the quality of land for local workers, runners, and bicyclists.

Specifically, numerous studies show that being in natural areas improves physical health and mental health.

Audubon, our national organization often asks us to reach out and serve those who are typically neglected.

Our understanding is that lower income residents who cannot afford automobiles must rely more on walking and bicycling.

The Department of National Resources has principles and accompanying programs to make it more accessible for lower income residents to enjoy the outdoors.