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Chair, staff is ready when you are.

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Good afternoon.

Welcome to the May 20th active transportation commission meeting.

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I'm reading what's on my face.

To the June 20th active transportation commission, the meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Harris.

Here.

Commissioner Gibson.

Here.

Commissioner Doer Westbrook.

Here.

Here.

Here.

Commissioner Moore.

Present.

Commissioner Banks.

Here.

And Chair Hodell.

Here.

Thank you.

We have quorum.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgements in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal lands.

We welcome Patwin Winton peoples and the people of the Wilton Rancheria.

Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today.

On these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation, under God, Indigenous visible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our first business of the day is the Commission staff report.

Staff you may proceed.

Thank you, Chair.

Good evening.

My name is Jennifer Donlin-Liont and Transportation Planning Manager.

Happy to give you a brief staff report.

I have three items to report on tonight.

The first is brief just to remind everybody that annually we do not have a general report.

But annually we do not have a July meeting, nor December.

A pertinent for this evening is that there's no July meeting.

Most boards of commissions do not have a July meeting.

So just we'll see you all in August.

The next item is that we've removed from the log item and I've conferred with the Chair, the log item, the pedestrian signals on the pedestrian push buttons on Elambra.

The questions that were asked was who authorized the project.

We removed that because it wasn't a full item or the of a staff report in presentations.

We're going to give a brief overview.

They were installed as a request from community with disabilities to install accessible pedestrian signals.

They were funded through our ADA citizen request fund.

The question was why wasn't it brought to the ATC?

It was not brought to the ATC because it was delivered by the electrical engineering group who typically does not deliver projects and was not aware that they were supposed to bring it to ATC.

We've discussed that with them and now they're aware.

So should projects be come before them?

They will be brought to the ATC.

And so for the next item, my last item to report on tonight, back in February, we brought before you a grant application process for the SAICOD carbon reduction grant program.

We asked for your recommendation to council and you recommended and we got council approval and we so then applied for two grant applications, the first is the Nino's Parkway Gap Closure Project.

And then the walking and bicycling wayfinding project.

Unfortunately, we were not awarded for either project.

We've asked for feedback but respectfully disagree with SAICOD staff evaluation metrics.

Our projects are much lower costs and those were awarded and have great carbon reductions and we look forward to having discussions with SAICOD about those projects.

And those are my staff, our reports.

Thank you very much. Happy to answer any questions.

From anyone? Does anyone have any questions?

Next is the approval of the consent calendar. Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Jerry. Have no speakers for this item.

Thank you. Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

I don't see any. Is there a motion and a second for the consent calendar?

I would move.

Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you.

I'm Commissioner Doerwisper.

Just putting it out there to the group. There are several items on the log that I inherited when other people were no longer on the ATC.

So if there's an item that you're interested in and would like to maybe be the person listed instead of myself, I think there's several.

That's all me, but I took those over for other people.

So just wanted to put that out to the group. Don't need to make an action on it now.

I don't need to be the lead for everything. So yeah, thanks.

I'll move to approve the consent agenda.

Thank you. Can I have a second?

I second. Thank you. Commissioner Harris.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote.

Thank you, Chair. Commissioners, please unmute. Commissioner Harris?

Aye.

Commissioner Gibson?

Aye.

Commissioner Doerwisper?

Aye. Commissioner Lidiker?

Aye.

Vice Chair Gonzalez?

Aye.

Commissioner Hopped?

Aye.

Commissioner Moore?

Aye.

Commissioner Rasmus?

Epstein?

Commissioner Banks?

Aye.

And Chair Hodell?

Aye.

Thank you, the motion passes.

We will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Item number three is the Streets for People Active Transportation Plan Phase 2.

Workshop and we're going to take a moment here for a few people to leave the room.

Is there a staff presentation?

Yes, there is.

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Hear me?

Okay.

Yes, there is.

And you might want to wait.

Yes, come on in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good evening, commission.

Thank you for having us here this evening to discuss the Streets for People Active Transportation

Plan.

My name is Leslie Mancibo and I am joined this evening with a team from the city working on

the plan including Sherees Phidia and Jeffrey Jalzma and who you may know.

And Rachel Patton also from our sustainability group.

Additionally, we are joined by Cole Pifer from Alta Planning and Design and Matt Broughton from

the city of Alta.

We are on the board of the board of the board of the board of the board of the board of the

people and associates.

Both of these teams are on our consultant group that are helping us with this effort.

We're really excited to show you our progress and recommendations that we have been working on for a little

over a years since we last presented to you.

This plan will be unlike any other bicycle or pedestrian master plan the city has adopted.

We will have more opportunities to fund and build these important active transportation facilities.

Tonight we look forward to answering your questions and hearing your guidance about our current engagement

efforts.

But this isn't your only opportunity to participate.

We hope that you process this information that you hear tonight and review the recommendations

more thoroughly and provide location specific comments at one of our events or online using our web

tool that will give a demonstration of later in this presentation.

Sorry about that.

We have a lot to cover this evening.

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Oh my gosh, I am so sorry.

We have a lot to cover this evening, including a project overview highlighting our work so far in in depth gaps analysis that

resulted from an existing conditions analysis and community feedback.

A tree opportunity analysis that is a new feature not previously highlighted any of Sacramento's bicycle or pedestrian plans.

We will present recommendations and an overview of our current engagement activities that we hope that you will join and share.

And next steps to finalize this plan that we're really excited to get on the books.

Now I will hand it off to Sheree Spidia to go over what we've done so far.

Thank you, Leslie.

Good evening.

The Street Street People project kicked off in early 2023.

We initially presented it to the Active Transportation Commission in May of last year when we were about to kick off phase one engagement.

Since then, we have been working diligently to get to where we are now.

Presenting to you today the proposed network recommendations for the streets for people plan and kicking off phase two of public engagement to present those proposed network recommendations to the public for feedback.

To date, we have conducted an existing conditions analysis.

Phase one of public engagement, the Listen and Learn phase.

Gaps analysis based on the collected data and community input.

Tree canopy analysis and have developed the draft network recommendations for public review.

I will now give a brief overview of how we came to those proposed recommendations.

For the existing conditions analysis at a high level, the project teams evaluated citywide conditions based on health, equity, environmental and transportation safety metrics.

Jilling down deeper, the team took a layered approach to identify needs and opportunities.

We evaluated the city's street network, social needs, land use and destinations, travel patterns,

walk-in and biking facilities, transit routes and ridership, as well as crashes and safety.

After evaluating the data, city staff set out on a multi-pronged approach for phase one community engagement.

We connected with residents at over 50 events and pop applications throughout the city with focused engagement in three underrepresented communities of North Sacramento.

North Sacramento, Fruit Ridge, Broadway and South Sacramento.

To listen and learn about the community's lived experiences.

These engagements, events included, tableing or popping up outside of local businesses and community events or festivals.

Setting up multilingual surveys at local libraries, per the commission's suggestion.

Handing out flyers in multiple languages to dozens of commercial establishments, presenting at community meetings and commissions, hosting several community workshops and conducting walking workshops with community members at various schools and parks.

In addition, we gathered community input through the interactive web map posted to the project's webpage, Sacstreet for people.org.

The project was well received and we collected thousands of comments from the community, allowing us to evaluate gaps in the network, which coal from Alta planning and design will now go over.

Thank you, Shreece. I'm going to put these up a little bit so you can hear me.

My name is Cole Piper from Alta planning and design. I'm going to talk about how we took a lot of the data from that existing conditions analysis and put it together to help us focus on what roadways may act as specific barriers to active transportation in order to really bring it all together.

There were four of the primary gaps analysis. We brought together six of the key analyses from the existing conditions analysis into a single data set that helps to weigh each of the inputs equally and create a layer which identifies top gaps within the network from the data side.

These include the health equity analysis, safety analysis from the city, vision zero action plan, active transportation or active trip potential for three specific active modes looking at walking, biking and e biking.

The levels of traffic stress for people walking and people biking and then the overall access to key destinations, including parks, schools and major transit stations.

I'll now highlight what each of these analyses are and explain their key outputs. I encourage you to read the full gaps analysis and existing conditions support on the project website if you have not already.

Looking first at the health equity analysis, this analysis really leverages the Cal and Viral Screen for data set from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

The data set examines census track based on the combined indicators of pollution burden, including exposures and environmental effects and population characteristics such as sensitive populations, socioeconomic factors.

The pollution burden and population characteristics consist of a total of 21 statewide indicators ranging from low educational attainment to existing ozone levels.

And there's of course more information available on the Office of Environmental Health Hazard website there.

The census track that scores, census tracks that scored within the top 25th percentile shown here on the map in red are typically considered the most disadvantaged statewide level and have been targeted for greenhouse gas emission reductions.

And there's a mission reductions funding through Senate Bill 535.

As shown in the map, the areas with the greatest needs largely align with our focus areas with North Sacramento representing the areas area of the largest concentration of needs specifically south of Maine Avenue.

Now looking at the aspect of safety, as I mentioned before, we leveraged the work that the city had done through the 2018 Vision Zero Action Plan to identify the high injury network or the HIN.

Coredwares that are included in the HIN have the highest levels of fatal and serious injuries and collisions for people walking, biking and driving in the city.

We've focused in on the top 10 intersections that involve people biking, people walking and then people doing both.

So you see that in the map shown to the right in yellow for people doing walking and biking in orange for people biking and then in purple for people walking.

This data indicated that 79% of all collisions occur on the HIN which only accounts for about 17% of the city's roadways.

And in total, 94 or 56% of the city's elementary, middle and high schools are located with about a thousand feet of the HIN or the high injury network.

Furthermore, 35% of the HIN falls within our equity priority communities.

And the existing conditions also help to identify, as I mentioned, the top 10 intersections shown here in Figure 3 or the figure.

Another aspect that we looked at was active trip potential.

This is really focused on measuring the proportion of all trips that may reasonably be made by active modes but are currently made with a vehicle.

So we look individually at people walking, rolling, biking and then using electric assist micro-mobility, typically an e-bike.

The trip distance is really an important factor here in your mode choice.

As we know that based on the National Household Travel Survey from 2017, we use those typical trip distances of when people will be walking, biking or using an e-bike.

What this analysis allowed us to do is highlight areas where there's the greatest potential to pull in or conduct a modal shift from people driving to one of these active modes.

That's important to note that for walking, we used a mile or less. For bicycling, we used three miles or less and then for e-biking, six miles and below.

Those are typical trip distances there.

In the maps that we see here, the darker colored locations are where improved or more comfortable active transportation facilities may influence and help shift the percentage of trips completed with single occupancy vehicles.

Sorry, I'm trying not to mess myself up here on the slides down here.

The next aspect that we looked at was level of traffic stress, both for people walking and for people bicycling.

This analysis really breaks down the roadway network from a variety of factors. For bicycling, we look at sidewalk presence and completeness, post-speed limits, number of travel lanes that are present and then the sidewalk themselves and the condition of them looking at the widths, buffer and buffer widths as well.

From this, we're able to identify four different levels of stress from PLTS-1, which is really comfortable for most users all the way down to PLTS-4, which is going to be highly stressful for the average user.

Similarly, we conducted a bicycle level of traffic stress analysis that looks at the network with similar factors looking at the existence of bike lanes, post-speed limits, the presence and width of the on-street parking adjacent to bike facilities when it is included there.

The number of travel lanes and the presence of a shared use path along it. Similarly, this breaks down into different levels from one being the most comfortable for most users to four being the highest stress for most users.

Similar to the pedestrian level of traffic stress, the bicycle level of traffic stress showed that significant majority of roadways in Sacramento represent a higher stress environment for people bicycling as well as for people walking, despite the presence of conventional buffer bike lanes on many arterial roads and collectors.

Some of these roads include north-south connections like Sacken Boulevard, Trucksle Boulevard, as well as east-west connections including San Juan Road, Del Paso Road, El Camino Avenue and others.

These results really helped link together the current conditions with the existing network.

Through our phase one of engagement, one of the major things that we heard was through that outreach was a greater desire to be able to walk and bike to key community destinations including parks, schools and major transit stops.

In order to gain a better understanding of how these gaps interact with those key destinations in terms of access to them, our analysis focused on how the existing roadway network impacts an average adult's ability to reach key destinations.

So we use the bicycle and pedestrian level of traffic stress to help get a real world sense of how that stress impacts the accessibility to those locations.

What this results in seeing that from these different destinations, about 74% of Sacramento residents live within a 15-minute walk of park shown in orange on the left, and then about a similar number, a 74% of Sacramento residents live within a five-minute bike ride of a park as well.

Looking at schools, a similar breakdown and the number of individuals who live within a 15-minute walk of the school, that's about 72%.

Let me see about two thirds or 64% of Sacramento residents live within a five-minute bike ride of schools as well, and that includes public private and charter schools.

And then looking at transit, it's a fairly different story, and it's important to note that we focused on light rail stations and then the top 10 bus routes in the area.

So we see from this analysis about 15% of Sacramento residents live within a 15-minute walk of light rail bus stations and about a similar number of 16% living within a five-minute bike ride of those same destinations.

So we brought all that together to identify the primary gaps network, but first before I get into that, I am going to talk about our tree opportunity analysis.

So this unique analysis that we conducted is intended to highlight areas of the city, which have the greatest potential impact in terms of the tree canopy and aligning those with, sorry, what have I done?

Yes, great point, apologies. So now that we're all looking at the same thing.

The resources for tree canopy repair improvement projects are limited. It's really important to identify where there are synergistic opportunities for such projects to be incorporated with other public works initiatives and projects where feasible.

And that's what this opportunity analysis is intended to help us do.

So we combine four different metrics into a single score that speak to the local need for additional tree canopy as well as availability of feasible tree planting locations.

These metrics include the existing tree canopy density to identify areas where there's low level of tree canopy.

The current heat exposure, current and then future identifying areas that have a high number of future heat health events, and then looking similarly at areas with a high heat, urban heat island effect.

So areas that have a high temperature relative to urban areas.

We combine this together with areas that are suitable for new tree plantings to help us identify the overall tree opportunity index, which is intended to show areas that have the greatest opportunity.

What we're seeing here is highlighting areas that have low to no tree canopy shown in red and orange with high existing and very dense tree canopy shown in green and then kind of a lighter lime green.

What we can see here, there's a number of locations for us to really focus in on and we'll be using this and decision makers will be using this to help identify those synergistic opportunities for active transportation improvements throughout.

Okay, so there's a little aside about our tree opportunity index. We're going to now get back into the development of recommendations and how we took the how we use those metrics that I walked through earlier to help identify the primary network gaps and how those were assessed to help identify the greatest need and opportunity for improvements, which helped us kind of springboard off to develop specific recommendations.

I'll talk about how we identified improvements on major corridors looking at our materials and major collectors and then we're going to pass it off to Jeff to talk about the process for identifying neighborhood connections on smaller neighborhood streets or local streets.

So to build off of the primary gaps network, we focused on five key elements to help us identify what potential recommendations would be.

These included parallelism planning and funded projects, the roadway context and the roadway configuration and then making sure that we are providing good connections to neighboring jurisdictions including Sac County and others.

So I'll walk through each of those in more detail now to give context of that process.

So parallelism is really considering the number of adjacent facilities and it's important to note that I'm going to talk through how we developed recommendations for bicycling people bicycling and then talk through the approach we use for people walking.

So first item that we used for identifying recommendations for people bicycling was that parallelism and this element really considers the number of adjacent facilities and their overall quality and the total level of parallelism.

So what do I mean by parallelism other than being a fun word to say it really means that it is within a quarter mile of a roadway being considered to identify if there is a high quality alternative route that is a high quality.

So there is a high quality route that is parallel for a long distance along that roadway segment and then conversely identifying roadways where there is a lack of alternative parallel routes that have that are of a high quality.

So in the map showing the roadways and the primary network gaps that we had identified that have the fewer number of parallel facilities are shown in very dark purple as being roadways that lack an existing adjacent parallel facility and then shown in kind of more of an orange are primary network gaps that have a greater number of parallel facilities available to them.

Secondly looking at recommendations for bikes we wanted to incorporate the plan funded and projects underway to ensure that we were not replaning and identifying potential synergies with projects that have been funded are currently under design or be approved already to be implemented.

And you can see here on the map showing those that have basically more planned connections in dark deep red where the primary network gaps that have fewer planned connections are shown in yellow.

Next I'm going to talk about two elements together because they really go hand in hand.

The first is looking at the overall roadway context and focusing on the speed of traffic as well as the volume of traffic and focusing on using guidelines from the Federal Highway Administration, FHWA as well as CalTrans to help us hone in on what the ideal or most appropriate facility would be.

Based on the current context of the road and then we follow that up with kind of more of a right sizing looking at the context of the existing right of way what number of lanes would be there and if it is feasible basically to implement those proposed facilities to get out of a gut check of those what it would require to implement those most ideal facilities.

So that makes sense. To do that we used the current parcel data and conducted a whiskers analysis basically just jumping out from each line.

A certain distance to see what that available width is within the right of way and then assessing whether or not it would be feasible with what would be needed from the facility type.

And then item that's not mentioned here. It's not the best map for it but talking about the connection with adjacent jurisdictions and ensuring that we are creating recommendations that align with them and don't kind of but heads we have an odd mix of facilities at those boundaries.

Now switching gears and looking at how we develop recommendations for people walking. The major consideration that we focused on was to identify sidewalks on at least one side of all streets throughout the city.

And then for roadways that are adjacent to those high ridership transit areas and within a quarter mile radius of schools including public private and charter we wanted to identify those as roadways that should have sidewalks on both sides of the street.

So that's what we're seeing here shown on the map. And from there I'm going to transfer it to Jeff to talk about recommendations on more local streets.

Thanks.

So the neighborhoods connection section of the streets for people plan focuses on low stress connections for people biking walking and rowing to destinations such as schools, parks and retail.

So the neighborhood connections will integrate into the overall actor transportation network by creating low stress connections on low volume, low speed local streets and minor collectors while the larger actor transportation network will address facilities on larger arterials and major collectors.

The graphic on the left shows this and the different networks and how they align and how they facilitate connecting folks to neighborhood destinations.

And then the methodology for identifying those neighborhood connections and those routes include the following considerations, which is focus on local streets including residential and minor collectors focus on creating low stress connections utilizing traffic calming treatments and then create all ages and abilities network to support people biking walking or rowing provide convenient and direct connections to those destinations and then focus on implementation.

The process to create the network includes the following steps, which was to identify destinations and neighborhoods citywide, which were identified in the first phase of engagement, which was made through September of 2023.

And those destinations were grouped into four kind of major categories, including essential needs, which is like shopping centers, health facilities, grocery stores, K through 12 schools.

The third one major institutions such as like bigger hospitals, government buildings, colleges and universities, and then before it would be social and civic needs like museums, parks, post offices, churches and libraries.

And then from the destinations we identified connections to those identified destinations.

And number three they would select preferred connections and routes using those identified connections. And then number four we refine the network through both internal review with the city and then bring it out to the community to ground truth all those connections.

Number five we integrate the neighborhood connections network into the active translation network.

And then to achieve those low stress connections along the neighborhood connections network, the team identified a toolkit of traffic calming treatments.

So the methodology for identifying those traffic calming treatments included two broad categories. So one was to lower motor vehicle volumes along the network using horizontal vertical deflection and other tools.

And number two was to lower speeds along the network using horizontal vertical deflection edge friction and intersection calming.

So now that we went over the methodology for all the recommendations, I'll give an overview of the proposed recommendations for the people plan.

So as mentioned earlier, the streets of people plan will identify an active transportation network for people walking, biking and rolling.

So the proposed recommendations shown on the slide outline the proposed facilities for people biking in particular, including an additional 690 miles of bicycle facilities citywide.

So to put it in perspective, I did some number crunching. The proposed recommendations include an overall 300% increase and shared use path facilities.

So shared use paths are dedicated paths for people walking and biking and rolling. I think like the Del Rio Trail that just opened.

And over 800% increase in separated bikeways to expand facilities, particularly outside of the central city. So separated bikeways would be like parking protected bikeways we see in central city.

And then over overall, a 60% increase in bicycle facilities citywide.

So then moving into facilities for people walking, the recommendations include proposed intersection improvements in addition to proposed sidewalks.

So the proposed recommendations include over 855 miles of additional facilities for people walking, helping to close gaps and facilities, particularly in those cities at disadvantaged areas.

And also over 40% increase in facilities for people walking citywide.

As well as the proposed intersection improvement locations, the locations were identified utilizing desire lines, particularly to connect low stress routes across high speed roadways, or to connect neighborhoods to particular destinations or retail areas.

So the improvements at those locations will require further study for like the particular improvements, but we are looking at those specific locations.

So in addition to proposed facility recommendations, the neighborhood connections section of the plan will identify traffic calming treatments to reduce motor vehicle speeds and volumes and create low stress neighborhood connections to important destinations such as park schools.

And employment centers. So it's important to note that this plan is not identifying specific locations for these tools or treatments, but rather we are identifying different options for reducing motor vehicle speed and volume.

So five different categories of treatments are proposed for the neighborhood connections network with examples of different treatments for each.

So the preferred permeability is a treatment that restricts vehicle traffic while allowing people walking by and growing.

So this type of treatment can reduce motor vehicle volumes along a particular roadway.

So shown in the slide here, there's two existing locations, there's more than two, but we're showing two existing locations in Sacramento.

So that is doing this tool filtered permeability, so shown on the quick build, diverter on second avenue, in a park, as well as on age street 21st in midtown.

So the next one is horizontal deflection. So that's a treatment that hinders the ability of a motorist to drive in a straight line by creating a horizontal shift in the roadway.

So it forces the motorists to slow their vehicle in order to comfortably navigate the roadway.

So some examples of a horizontal deflection include a meeting island or traffic circles, as well as a chican, which is like a segment of curb extension that alternate from one side of a street to another, which shortens the driver's sight lines, making them lower their speeds, as well as including other additional benefits of a

landscaping or additional parking.

The next one is vertical elements or vertical deflection. So this refers to a change in the height of the roadway, forcing motorists to slow down or to maintain acceptable level comfort.

So examples include speed lumps or humps and raised intersections or raised crosswalks.

Raised intersections are elevated to a sidewalk level to slow vehicles and increased driver alertness and raised crossings are a variation of that shown here with an example on redding California.

Next one is using lane width and edge friction to create the perception of a constrained street. So like a dense built environment with no significant setbacks on the roadway, constrained sight lines for the motor vehicle driver, making them more alert, more aware of their surroundings.

And this is typically achieved with creating friction along the edges of the roadway. So some examples of that are street trees, which narrows a driver's visual field and creates kind of rhythm along the street, as well as on street parking, which narrows the street slows traffic down by creating that that friction along the edges, as well as narrow lanes to driver to force drivers to slow down and be more alert for their surroundings.

And the last one, reducing vehicle speeds at intersections can be done in a variety of ways, including increasing the friction that I mentioned earlier and reducing vehicle sight lines.

So some examples of that would be including curb extensions on corners and intersections or changing intersection geometry or curb radii, as shown in the middle image on the slide or creating vehicle friction by hardening those set of lines, shown in the middle image on the slide.

So now I'll give it back to cool. Talk about phase two engagement.

Thanks Jeff. Now we're going to work through get into a live demonstration that we promised on the map to show the full recommendations across the city. I'll have you some time to kind of dive into there.

First we wanted to highlight the numerous upcoming engagement opportunities that you and city residents will have to get involved in the project and provide direct comments on specific recommendations and let us know if we got it right.

So I'll run through those five different opportunities here.

First and foremost, the web map, which allows interactive functionality for you to add specific comments to those recommendations. We'll get into that in just a minute.

In addition to that, we will have conduct some focus groups, which involve residents from specific focus areas, getting together to discuss proposed network and specific destinations as well.

So we'll have public meetings to the community through pop-ins or pop-up events similar to what we did completed in the phase one of engagement, where we'll actually be kind of popping up or tabling at existing and regularly scheduled community events to help get in front of people and meet people where they are.

We'll also conduct some focused walking workshops with partners along specific case study corridors to dive into some of the specifics of each selected corridor and provide more detailed improvement recommendations.

And then finally, be hosting two virtual workshops in the middle of July to share and discuss the network recommendations and together additional feedback.

So we encourage you to get directly involved in these and help spread the word about these opportunities.

The exact dates and times for all of these are included on the website.

So we have links to those available as well for continued engagements. We're excited to get back out in front of the community and hear opinions.

So now I'm going to transition to doing a live demonstration with Doug, could nicely.

Perfect. Thank you.

Okay. Can everyone hear me? Excellent.

So this is the website that I was just talking about that has the specific details about the engagement opportunities.

Those are located way down here at the bottom, the specific times and links to those meetings as well.

So mark calendars. We love to see there.

For the interactive map itself, that's located here right in the middle of the website that you're able to click on.

And it will bring you to this landing page.

It gives you an overview of what it is. And then you can click get started.

And it gives you kind of an intro of what we're looking for.

So in this map, we have broken out the recommendations into bicycle recommendations or recommendations for people bicycling and then recommendations for people walking.

And we're looking for comments on those from you specifically.

So you just click open the map and it will drop you right into the full citywide view of what is available.

So you can zoom into a specific area as you'd like.

And you can see we already have a number of comments from individuals shown.

The important thing to note here is the legend in the bottom right corner.

These three stacked squares that allow you to turn off and turn on comments as well as recommendations and existing facilities.

As you'd like, it gets a little bit busy with everything up there. So encourage you to turn off things as you desire.

What we're looking for is really your direct comments either on specific recommendations, which include you can click on them and then you can hit like or dislike if this is something you're against or add a specific comment.

And then the comments here.

Important thing to note when you do save a comment through this function, it might not pop up immediately when you go back to click it.

But we do register all those comments and we've gotten all of them so far.

So it's already nice to see we have some likes on that specific recommendation.

So you can find the specific recommendations if you want to make a point about either a specific corridor that should be improved or a specific location.

You can do that in one or two ways.

Adding a route, which if you click on it, it's going to give you a tutorial of how to walk through each step of it.

And this is something that I'll walk through.

But if you in case you ever need to get back to it, you can come down to the show tutorial.

And it will bring you right back there and walk you through each one of the steps.

So just be free, straight forward, just being able to click on the areas that you want to improve the full length of the corridor.

And then once you're done, you can double click and then add your name of who you are and what the comment is.

I'm just going to say T Street because we know what it is there.

And then once it's there, we say thank you and you're able to go and continue to add more routes or individual points.

And then if you're looking for the points, adding that comment specifically, it will give you a tutorial.

They're a little bit more straight forward in that you get this big purple question mark and you're able to click on a specific location.

Again, put your name and your comment of what that might be.

It's save and then it is going to pop up on the map there as you like.

So you're able to delete these if they are your comments, but hopefully you don't need to make some of them delete them.

But if you do, the option is there.

Once you're done working through the section for people bicycling and actually before I move on, it's important to note there's a visual glossary for the different types of recommendations that we've included.

So give you an idea of what we mean by a shared use path, a bike lane, bifurred bike lane, bike routes and boulevards, and then separated bike lanes as well just for a point of reference.

That's you. That's fantastic.

So that's there always for reference as you'd like. And if you want, you can get this sidebar out of the way.

Once you're done with people bicycling in those recommendations, you can click on people walking.

And what it's going to do is pop up the recommendations for specific intersections as well as sidewalks.

This is going to allow you to do the same thing to provide, identify what the street is, tell you what the recommendation is, and then you can like dislike or provide a comment as you'd like for those specific recommendations.

And then again, drawing the route and then adding a specific point functions in the exact same way.

And you'll see that the comments that we get have gotten on people bicycling remain here as well.

And so you're able to click and see what those specific comments are might be.

With that, once you're done, you're able to just exit out of the map, but if you have anything additional or you want to provide a overarching comment, you can hit the contact us button.

And this will, you'll provide your name, your email, and what the specific message is, and that will hit all of the project teams inboxes and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

And with that, I'm going to transfer back over here. I think actually I'm going to pass over to Leslie.

All right.

Click her.

There we go. Thank you all.

I recognize that this was an extremely long presentation.

We had a lot of content to go over.

And with our time limits, we do ask that we don't dwell into specific locations.

That could take a very long time.

And so we invite you to join one of our events or use the web tool that call just give a thorough demonstration of.

So I will make this brief.

We just ask our call to action here is that you continue to be engaged by joining one of our events.

Or online workshops or use the interactive map, but most importantly, that you share this with your communities, because you all have a network of people that represent the entire city.

We can't reach every single person.

So we would love your help doing so.

All of the info will be on www.sacstreet for people.org.

And we will add events as well.

Our walking workshops have not been scheduled yet.

And those will show up there.

We invite you to join our newsletter as well, because we'll be giving updates there.

And again, thank you.

And now we can start a dialogue.

And we are all here to answer your questions and comments, because we're also inviting feedback about our engagement approach.

You all gave us that great idea to put comments and the libraries.

So we love hearing that kind of feedback about what you think will be effective in your communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair.

Yes, I have three speakers.

Our first speaker is Dan Allison, followed by Matt Anderson.

Good evening, commissioners.

Dan Allison, district four.

I first want to say that I like the focus of the plans on the three disinvested communities.

I realize that the plan itself has sort of moved past that, but I think there will be a lot of pushback from that.

From people who live in areas that do have effective facilities like myself.

I live in the central city.

Things are pretty good.

I think that's the appropriate thing for the city to do.

Secondly, I looked at the sidewalk information and was sort of confused by some of it.

The pedestrian network map and the key that goes with it don't match each other.

I don't know how they're related, but I can't interpret the map from the key.

Part of it may be a resolution problem, which leads me to my request that the sidewalk data be available online as a GIS file.

It is not the city has had some of the data for quite a while and is not shared with the public.

I would like to see it shared.

I noticed that in some of the three communities there are missing areas of sidewalk information.

I'm not sure if that wasn't gotten to or there was some problem there or they were not prioritized for some reason.

But if they are in fact, places where people walk, I think that those lack of information needs to be taken care of.

There needs to be sidewalk data for all of the sidewalks and those communities.

That's all. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speakers are Matt Anderson and Tucker.

Good evening commissioners. Matt Anderson, district four.

What a doozy. 377 pages.

I have a day job. It's really hard to get through that.

That said, wow. A lot of graphs.

Lucky. It's an amazing document.

I'm super excited for this. The amount of information there is fantastic.

It's going to take honestly weeks if not months to get through everything.

I do want to give all of staff a huge shout out.

This was a huge lift. I'm sure on the back end and just to get it where it is.

And it's fantastic.

I also really enjoyed the kittleson breakdown of the households without cars, transportation burden, things like that.

It's not data you see often.

But it's really important things to think about.

I had a few questions.

Oh, and then also the neighborhood connections.

I'm really excited. There's a focus on that because that's also important.

Important data point. A few questions I had as I went through.

I noticed for biking, the private streets were filtered out.

There were a lot of recommendations for improvements on private streets.

And as the city doesn't have control over those, I was wondering if potentially a plan could be put in place or if that was an error maybe to remove those.

Just curious whether this plan is going to include policy recommendations or not.

I think it would be great if it could.

Just a thought.

I also was a little unclear on the sidewalk.

Just generally one side versus both sides.

Is the adding to one side, just adding one side to make sure that there were sidewalks on both sides.

Or was it potentially just adding it to one side?

Unless there's a dangerous situation I think absolutely everywhere.

There should be sidewalks on both sides.

In 12 seconds or less, tree opportunity index has some equity issues that I'm worried about.

And I left my comment online.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you for your comment.

Our last speaker is Tucker.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Tucker.

I'm a community member in District 5.

I live off Broadway between MLK and Stockton.

So I definitely have a very high interest in active transportation in Sacramento.

I want to echo what the other public comment side of just kind of like applauding the work that's been done to put into this report.

I know that this has taken a lot of work as well.

I mean, I'm brought here because people keep dying in our streets and people getting getting hit by cars on bikes and as pedestrians and stuff.

And I know that we're all really pressed by this issue and want to move forward with this.

And I guess my only recommendation and hope is that like whatever plan is implemented, whatever recommendation is given that we're able to adapt, that we're able to respond to see the data points on the map from the corner that's we can see on fruitridge people die.

That's just like something that keeps happening.

And so like I hope that this body continues to, I don't know, promote that sort of sense of adaptability to the powers that be to be able to respond to these efficiently and you know, change incrementally but regularly.

So huge applause.

Thank you all so much for this work.

Thank you for your comments.

I have no more speakers.

Thank you. Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

Commissioner Harris.

Thanks.

I'm in district one, Mr. North Sacramento.

And it means a lot to see the amount of work that's gone in and analysis to really address the issues that we have there.

Appreciate the support from community members that aren't in district one.

I think this plan does a great job of looking at the opportunity for a larger network for everyone.

And I am encouraged that we have all taken the perspective that this is not a us versus them.

This is something we all get to enjoy because that's what bike lanes and sidewalks are.

So hopefully when this gets built and there's more opportunities in North and South Sacramento, people in the central city will come visit because it'll be something you.

All can go do because it will be comfortable because it is not comfortable currently.

I don't blame anyone for not bicycling all the way out to where I live.

It's pretty impossible.

So thank you. I think it's fantastic.

I do have a couple of questions for staff if that's acceptable that I was confused about.

Just on some of the business pieces, what it for using the online tool.

I showed a picture of the ordered projects and I didn't see that in your presentation.

I didn't see that in the PDF and we didn't see that online.

Is it in the PDF and I just missed it.

I wanted to know if that was accessible online.

There was like numbers by all the projects and I didn't see that.

Does anyone know I'm talking about it in the presentation could pull the presentation up.

I'll start and then I'll throw it to Cole.

We are not prioritizing these projects as part of the plan because they will go into the transportation priorities plan for the prioritization and I'll let Cole address what those numbers represent.

I think that might have been the primary network gaps that we had a total of like 64 different roadways specifically that were identified that in the map had numbers associated with them.

That's what that is from and that's from that compilation of data analysis and the like.

That's not part of that interactive map.

As we built off of those roadways, based on a data sign, that's what we identified but we know that based on public comment that that wasn't it.

We needed to expand from there and get to the recommendation and network that we ended up with.

Where could the commission and the public find that information?

Yes. That network gap analysis memo is on the website.

One of the very long documents.

That's what I think would be the most important to be able to do is to make sure that the public is able to use it.

The public is doing it.

It's fantastic.

As far as duty to comment on the website for the public and the opportunities for other members of the public to understand how their comments will be used.

Curious.

It's wonderful to encourage everyone to participate.

We've also heard a lot about the prioritization of North and South Sacramento.

I think that's a great recommendation.

I think we could do a better job of explaining what the next steps are as far as the comments are processed.

We'll figure out a way to integrate that information with on the website and in our future presentations.

One last question.

The parallelism.

I'm not following.

When you say there's a nearby alternate source that has the features like sidewalks that could be used or is it just another road?

That is looking at the current bicycle network and looking at the primary gaps that we identified and saying,

okay, within a quarter mile off that gap, are there parallel bicycle facilities and what's the quality of them?

So looking at in areas where there are really a lack of a good strong network currently or available alternatives, that helps us identify that problem.

Not only is this a network gap, but there's not a lot of network around this roadway to help get North, South or East, West as the gap would identify.

This might be an area where the public would be very beneficial way in.

There's some difference of opinions on what would be considered parallel depending on where you want to go to.

There could be some difference of opinions for sure, but the intent was to look just within a short distance, not look, you know, a mile off of the roadway, but identify routes that are going generally in the same direction to provide an assessment of what the alternatives are.

That answers your question.

Thank you.

Commissioner Gibson.

Thank you so much to staff, the consultants, everybody put together this plan, seeing a comprehensive thing of what a truly grand vision could be, could really inspire a lot of community action beyond what this commission's purview and what the current ambition is of our city policy.

And then the only thing about feedback, I think one thing that might be helpful on the online forum is that, you know, we solicited over a thousand comments already having some way to acknowledge that those comments were taken and received.

Because if you're asking for more comments, it's like I already said those were already made comments, I think would just be.

But helpful, because if you're asking somebody to give a comment the second time, you know, like, well, why did I comment the first time?

Do you want to address that?

Yeah, it's, that is, I appreciate that point.

Commissioner Gibson of wanting to acknowledge kind of directly, thank you for your comment.

And this is how it's incorporated.

We're really looking at first phase was saying, based on the data, this is kind of what's out there.

Tell us what recommendations you want to see, whether your issues are, and then we compiled that with the existing conditions data to say to generate this network of recommended improvements.

And now we're really asking the public, you know, to kind of give it a bit of a gut check and say, did we get it right?

Are we addressing the needs that you identified already?

And we don't ask for an email specifically as people are giving comments.

Sometimes that's a little bit of a barrier.

And the question is, well, what are you going to do with that email sometimes?

So, but that is something we can kind of consider going forward.

Thank you, Commissioner Gibson.

I think that this kind of builds on Commissioner Harris's comment that we can add this to the website and our communications that go out to explain, thank you.

And this is how we're going to use your comments.

Because most people who have commented or have come to our events, we do ask them to join our newsletter.

So I think that's great feedback.

Thank you very much. And then the public commenter also brought this up.

I did know this private roads were included because I assume that was a semi-automated analysis that happened.

And so my assumption is, is if we see something that is incorrect on the semi-automated, is click the box.

We will absolutely look into that. I think this was a GIS issue.

And thank you for pointing that out.

I've worked with large data sets before I understand.

Again, thank you guys for your work.

Commissioner Banks.

Yeah, thanks a lot, you guys.

As everybody has said, spectacular amount of work, huge lift, and lots to go through.

I did read it all 387 pages last night.

Oh my god.

I was up late. I know it was rough.

A lot of charts, though. I love those charts.

I just have a couple questions.

One of them is about, you did a lot of outreach over 1,000 people.

The Adiada came into the map and then all these other workshops and stuff.

I'm curious about, and this might be back of napkin, desirrigation of different people from different languages.

We're probably everybody, English speakers, or what?

Because as we know, if our biggest issues are in North-Saxx, South-Saxx, etc.

Was everybody speaking English?

Commissioner Banks, you really set me up here for a great response.

Because in our first round of engagement, all of the events that we hosted,

not all of the neighborhood association meetings and other things,

but all of the events that we hosted, we had interpreters specific to the neighborhood where we were.

And we do have translated materials to hand out.

And then in this phase of engagement, because we felt that at most of those events,

we didn't have a lot of non-English speakers.

And so in this phase of engagement, we are targeting specific language events

that so people feel comfortable.

Because sometimes people feel uncomfortable if they are the rare non-English speaker.

So we're saying like this will be primarily given in Chinese or in Spanish.

And so hopefully we can draw on those crowds.

And we're working with community organizations to identify those locations and languages.

That's great. A follow-up, I've got a follow-up and then another question for you guys.

A follow-up to that is sort of the same idea.

How are you capturing feedback from people who are not tech savvy and could never have managed putting points

and all that kind of stuff on that fabulous map?

Well, I'm one of those people.

And who we are trying to do a variety of events.

That's why we're showing up in person at a lot of locations.

And we're doing the, even the workshops online.

And we're going to gather specific feedback from folks.

And that's so that people who want to just go home from work and put on their PJs

and tune in on Zoom have an opportunity to give feedback as well as people that we just catch at the grocery store at their neighborhood association meeting.

So we're really trying to spread wide.

But that's why we're here is if you have ideas of how we can go deeper and reach a wider audience,

we are willing to try.

Okay, here's my last question then I'll be quiet.

Sorry, can I put you back on that?

We did during the phase one of engagement have physical boards that people could draw lines on.

Specifically, you know, put a little post at note and really get in there.

And so we digitized all that and pulled it in.

That's really helpful. Thank you.

Yeah, sure, sure.

I do want to make a point too that these thousands of comments we said were actually in the tens of thousands of comments.

So we got so many comments in all of the ways that we engaged with the community, both in person and online.

That's awesome. Super awesome.

All right, so my last question.

This is the at the end of all of this and the plan has been adopted and council is said yes.

Then what?

Is there more education?

Is there some encouragement?

What happens after the plan?

Besides, we use it to help guide the work of changing infrastructure.

Yes, I just go back to the, sorry, my fault.

How does it go back to the community that last time?

Like, this is what we all created.

We are super excited to celebrate the plan.

So we absolutely will reach back to everybody and thank them for their involvement and or everybody who has signed up for the newsletter.

And we will follow up with neighbor associations and other partners and make sure that they know that it's been adopted and identified next steps.

We will make policy recommendations in this to answer a previous question.

And those some may take time to implement and some may be more implementable.

And as far as the network goes, we are planning to segment that network into pieces that make sense that we can put into the TPP.

The transportation priorities plan so that they can be fundable.

And that's our goal is to identify priorities that we can then go out for grants or we can work with developers to require them to build the stuff that is in the plan.

And so there will be opportunities for funding once it is approved by council.

Commissioner Rasmus.

Yeah, thanks.

And I go, my colleagues in the gratitude for the great and very in-depth presentation.

And I unfortunately could not open it on my end.

So I was seeing it kind of for the first time here.

And I didn't know that it was on the website.

Maybe it's easier to open on the website than in the agenda packet.

I had to like download it.

Yeah, you can contact us and we can get it to you in whatever way it works for you.

And I apologize for that tech issue.

No, no worries.

And fun to see myself 10 years ago when I was digging a stock photo for Vikis Bay.

You just never know where you're going to end up.

But I actually had some questions kind of similarly on the engagement side.

Obviously there's been a ton of engagement.

You guys have been working really hard.

But I would really love to hear more about how you are working with communities with folks who are disabled, especially.

You know, these tools are really great.

But I can't really imagine a non-sided or visually impaired person really utilizing it effectively.

So how are you doing that and also recommending that you uplift that in your kind of future engagement?

Yes, I apologize.

Trace is looking up the organization's name we were working with because it's been a long day.

But we have been contacting advocacy groups for people with different abilities and learning about their needs and gaps in the network that affect them.

We aren't focusing on ADA issues specifically in this plan.

But it's really good to know what their destinations are and many of them use transit.

And so it's really important for us to know how they get to transit stops.

And so we are doing one specific workshop for other abled people.

I wish I had the date.

Shreece was looking it up for me right now.

But it's on the website.

And I guess similarly youth, because I know on other inspectors, there's a lot of very active youth.

And probably you're like with them.

Yes, Dave's group and things like that.

I think one of my favorite workshops that we did in phase one was with the youth commission.

This is the youth commission.

And they gave such good feedback.

We learned so much about destinations.

I was so surprised that they want to go to the mall.

I don't know if it really goes to the mall anymore.

And Taco Bell and things like that.

And so we did a couple pop-ups also where we heard a lot from youth.

And our community planning team that we've assembled also has youth representatives on it.

All my questions.

Thank you.

Commissioner, door whisper.

Great.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Fantastic presentation and really just value the time that you all spent putting this together and presenting to us this afternoon.

Sorry, my computer is freaking out.

Yeah, I've just had a couple questions around the engagement.

I noticed on the web map that it was available in English.

And I think my computer was saying Spanish as well.

But is there any additional languages that the web map is viewable?

Yes, there is at the beginning a button to click for Spanish.

And then in the top right there is Google translate a long list of other potential translatable languages.

Good.

I'm seeing that.

The Spanish really stood out to me.

So I'm wondering if there's a way to make the select the language stand out in orange too or something.

Yeah.

So you notice that the Spanish right away but didn't see the other languages.

So I appreciate you calling that out.

I did a question around the focus groups.

And I know another planning products that this team's put together.

You've invited certain people to be a part of focus groups.

I was wondering if you could expand expand a little bit more on that.

Is that how the streets?

Yeah.

I'm asking Jeff to join me up here.

It's you.

Oh, we can.

Oh, I didn't even have to get a mic there.

Jeff, may you answer a commissioner in a jitter west of expression.

Yeah, absolutely.

Oh, I'm glad the maps are yet.

So the focus groups were really focused from the phase one engagement kind of thinking about the areas that we sort of kind of missed

or didn't get to.

And so we thought about these areas that we could invite.

We did invite CBOs and stakeholders or partners from those various areas.

So there's three focus groups in total.

There's one focusing on the college or CSUS area.

So it's like Canvas Commons, East Sacramento, Tahoe Park, that kind of area.

And then there's an area, Nautilus, or Nautilus, Nautilus and Northgate area.

So that kind of larger area for all those different neighborhoods.

And then South Sacramento.

But it's not the entirety of South Sacramento.

I would say it's probably South of Fruit Ridge or the three focus groups.

So we are inviting partners and community-based organizations and folks like that.

But we're also opening it up to the public so that folks in those neighborhoods could also join and have that conversation.

So it's not just the partners. It's also anyone who lives in those neighborhoods.

I'll add that Jeff did a lot of work with like analyzing where we got a lot of comments and where we had gaps.

And now he's working with those CBOs and neighborhood associations to get the word out on that personal level for the folks that maybe didn't engage for a reason that we don't know.

And so we're trying to fill those gaps.

Got it. Okay, I really appreciate that. And knowing that it is a little bit open and not just to select groups.

So it's going to say if it was a select group, I was wondering if the city could be more explicit on the website of who you're engaging with.

Because I know I've been a part of groups that weren't invited to some of the meetings.

And then there was this feeling of like, oh, the city doesn't want to hear from us.

So I just wanted to avoid that type of feeling from CBOs in the city if possible.

So it's good to know that it's an open meeting.

The other question I had was around the opportunity for incentives for people to take the survey.

I know there's quite a few different planning projects happening across the city were asking folks to respond to different projects.

And just was wondering if the team had built in any line item in your budget to provide incentives for folks taking the survey.

So yeah, that's my question.

For general engagement, no.

But our community planning team is given a stipend for participation.

And of course, like in-person meetings, we have bike bells and lights.

I know that's not much of an incentive, but it gets people over to our table and we can talk to them.

Yeah, no worries.

It's going to say, I think that's always a great tool.

But yeah, bike bells are good too. So it's pretty pizza.

So thank you for trying.

Oh, and I had one other thing and it's totally totally.

Oh, I know what it was.

I know the last time that you presented to us for phase one, I made a recommendation around creating maybe like a social media toolkit or some kind of engagement documents so that members could easily advertise the Street for People Plan and opportunity of comment.

So I was wondering if that was something the team will be pursuing or not.

Yeah, go ahead.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I believe through the CPT, we're planning to send out the QR codes that kind of link to the website and the link as PNGs to them directly to help encourage them.

But we can connect them with CBOs as well.

Yeah, so we're keeping it pretty simple with basically the local and the QR code, but we're also working with the council offices to get that out.

Making little business cards that we can just hand out everywhere we go and I guess that doesn't answer your question that we guys that's not online.

But we don't have a huge social media presence as a team.

And so we are really relying on community members to share organically.

I think Oak Park Neighbor Association already posted it.

Well, I'm just wondering if that package of materials that you're getting the CBOs and your partners can you just post that on your website.

So then if any one of us wants similar to what May is bike month does, they have a partner little folder.

I think it's a Google drive where you can go in there and you can see flyer or social media, like everything and you can download it yourself.

That's a great recommendation because there's a lot of folks that aren't that are very engaged and have big networks that might not be known to us.

I will look into it. I cannot guarantee anything because we have a lot of rules and regulations for what we do with our website.

We'll take a look.

Thank you so much and again appreciate your presentation.

I will be diving much deeper into it. Now that the ATP deadline has passed. So thank you.

Thank you.

I noticed you had a slide up that showed in your I believe it's your overall recommendations citywide.

And I'm going to be talking about the bicycling only because that's what I looked at sort of in detail. I didn't look at walking.

But it was for the city. So it was what exists? What's planned and what's the total.

So that was the slide that we were presented but in our packet. It was then further broken down by fruit rich Broadway, South Sacramento and North Sacramento.

So as I was looking at the North Sacramento compared to the other two areas, it sure seemed to me that they were getting a lot less.

So they have less to start with. We shared use paths, bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, etc. And then what is proposed to add to that area is not always as much as the other two areas.

So North Sacramento starts out with less and then they get less. So this gap between what they what they don't have, the gap is widens.

And so it just didn't seem quite equitable to me that it seemed like North Sacramento was being short changed.

So and one more addition. And when I looked at some of your charts, it also seemed like North Sacramento ranked really high in the housing burden environmental health pollution, although they were equal to South Sack in that area.

They had the highest heat index number projected heat events and the heat, Boulder and Billy, they were out way out ranked the other two areas.

And yet they seem to be getting less projected or recommended infrastructure.

Thank you, Chair Hodele. First of all, is this the slide that you would like to reference?

Yes, we do not have the breakdown in the slideshow of the areas. We can absolutely dig deeper and look at that because you are correct that the gaps analysis did show that North Sacramento, South Sacramento and

North Sacramento have the most burden. And we really focused a lot of our outreach in those areas. So we want to get this right. So we'll take another look and see what we can do.

Thank you.

And thank you all for your great report to thank you.

May I just add one thing for Commissioner Erasmus? Commissioner Erasmus is we are having a in-person workshop at resources for independent living on the 27th.

And that we have invited other advocacy groups that represent communities with mobility issues.

Thank you.

So this item is received in file. So no vote is required. And we will move on to the next item. But we need to.

Okay, good. We need our other commissioners to come.

I'd like to see. Thank you for all of your feedback. And please reach out if you think of something else.

If you have a bright idea for how we can reach communities, we'd love to hear it.

What was that?

We do have a general website that comes to the entire team or a general email address. It is on the website and.

So we have a general website that has a general website that comes with the commissioners.

So what can't be through the general?

Well, as a commissioner, if you have an idea, you can put them through the website.

But if you have comments as a commissioner, they need to come through Jeff and I and Jeff as staff commission.

So we want to make sure that things are properly filtered through.

But of course, if you want to go in and put comments in through the website and on the map you can.

But we want to make sure that you're not directing comments to staff outside of staff.

Jennifer, do you clarify that that means that it's okay if comments are provided to draft Jeff directly?

They have to include me.

Okay. And we don't want to have conversations. And so there's this great area.

And you folks can come back. It's okay. We're just talking about how to comment.

We don't want Jeff is a great area because he's staffed to the project and staffed to the commission.

We want to make sure that you're we want to avoid brown and I can choose. We want to avoid commissioners emailing staff to projects outside of community.

And so if you have a question, what we're trying to do is keep things to the commission and not have conversations outside of the commission.

And so if you have a specific question, we'd be like, hey, what's going on with that? We can direct that.

But really, we want to keep things to this level here.

Correct.

Clarifying question.

Sure. Does this include like the comment bubbles on the map?

Oh, no, please put in comment bubbles.

Okay. I'm going to put a lot.

As many in lines and bubbles as whatever it is that you'd like to do.

But we want to avoid you emailing Jeff Leslie and Sherice with I want to see a shared use path here. I want to see a sidewalk here.

Yeah.

And we want to thank you, Jennifer.

And just to clarify, the whole commission is still welcome to come to events and comment.

Right.

As long as you avoid a quorum.

I was going to suggest perhaps in the North Sacramento light rail stations to have pop-up events there to get where commuters are coming from.

And I would I provide that.

So thank you.

And I just want to avoid having these conversations outside the commission.

Thank you for that, Jennifer.

Thank you.

The next item is member comments, ideas, questions meeting conference report.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak?

Vice Chair, can solve this.

Thank you, Chair.

I have a couple items to bring up tonight.

Number one, I received a message from a constituent Brian Kylie who asked that I bring this up to the commission.

He's concerned that you would like to see a three-one-one bike lane policy that would treat parking enforcement blocked by bike lanes as a safety issue that requires immediate attention.

He feels that parking enforcement currently is a matter of convenience.

When reporting blocked by bike lanes on three-one-one, he has an experience that it takes several hours for there to be response.

And every time that a bike lane is blocked, it creates a dangerous situation where bicycles are forced into the streets.

He would like the city to consider changing its policies to prioritize reports of blocked bike lanes.

And like any immediate public safety issue, an officer should be immediately dispatched to location rather than waiting to encounter it later on route.

So that's his request.

And I concur with Mr. Kylie, so I just want to bring it to the commission's attention.

Second item I want to bring up is actually more prescriptive to how we do business here.

A few weeks ago, actually, I'll just pull up on the calendar, at a city council meeting on June the 7th, when the city council agenda was noticed for the June 11th meeting, there was actually significant changes made to the active transportation commission in the way that we do business.

As proposed by the city clerk, and I have the ordinance here with the red line marking in it.

And again, if you go to the city council meeting for June 11th and look at item 15, you will see the proposed changes to the active transportation commission.

And for the most part, they're actually pretty predictable.

They have a lot to do with the addition of the youth commissioner that we're going to be receiving, which is awesome.

That's going to be happening across commissions.

But others are the powers and the duties of the commission.

And currently the powers and duties commission include advising staff and city council and the implementation criteria and priority of pedestrian, bicycling and related policies.

And that repeats a couple of times.

Advise staff and city council.

Advise staff and city council.

And we know that happens here quite frequently.

We had a great staff presentation, which a couple of commissioners watched streaming in the lobby there.

But most meetings we have two or three staff commissions and we advise.

And that advice is non-binary.

It's advice.

But it comes from our own shared experiences.

Tonight I heard just a short while ago, Ali gave some great advice about how we could get some information on the website with social media toolkits.

Advise that was well received by staff.

Advise.

Non-binary, but advice.

The changes in the ordinance as prescribed remove staff in every instance as our duties.

We would no longer by statute, advise staff.

And that gave me significant pause when I saw this proposed change that was on the consent calendar for the June 11th meeting.

Enough pause that I came down to the meeting and requested to speak on it and asked my council member to consider pulling the item for further discussion.

Would like clarification.

Because my recollection at the moment was that this proposal had not come to the commission for discussion.

And it had so we could probably have discussed it at length and we received that clarification which we liked to know.

My council member actually ended up pulling the item altogether and asked that the item not be voted on the consent calendar whatsoever so that we could have more time.

And I think my council member Eric Garrett district six were doing so.

In the time since I've actually had communications with the city clerk asking if I had any questions and I asked the city clerk as the vice chair of that transmission mission that I have some request for clarification regarding the recent amendments to chapter 2.100 city code asking about the removal of the word staff in the document.

Towing the clerk it's been our practice during my 14 months in the commission that commissioners review on average three to four staff reports per meeting.

Then we provide non-binding advice on these reports.

And if the word staff is removed will we still have the ability to advise that or will that be revoked.

I think and I wrote in my email that this is a critical aspect of our role and clarification on this point is essential.

Additionally I asked the clerk were those proposed changes shared with the commission prior to being presented to council.

I might have missed it. I've missed a couple and I would apologize if I had missed it but I asked to clarify and I received this communication from the clerk.

Proposed changes were not shared with commission because they're policy decisions of council.

Which might be right but as matter of practice could have probably cleared up the confusion.

We're not proposing to change the enacting code to remove sections that are duplicative and elsewhere in the city council.

This is communication from our city clerk.

Regarding the removal of the word staff, that is consistent with council policy decision.

You will absolutely have the ability to advise staff as you always have but you cannot direct staff.

I thought that was odd because I never asked if we could direct staff or not because clearly directing staff is not in our charter.

It's not in our purview to direct staff. We provide non-binding advice on our experience.

So I asked on Friday June 14th I asked the clerk again if they could please explain since the previous code language used the term advise staff rather than direct staff.

Why are we removing staff from the advisory language?

I stated in my email this change raises questions about our potential impacts on our ability to effectively communicate and provide input to staff as part of our advisory role.

And the understanding the council's policy direction is crucial but ensuring that the commissioner's advisory capacity remains clear and attacked is equally important.

And I asked for further clarification to this date. I have not received that clarification.

I would advise or I would just state that commissioners that wish to also receive that clarification may want to reach out to the clerk's office to determine whether or not we will have the ability to advise staff if their proposed changes are amended by council at a future date.

And I hope that we can have that clarification. If I am an error and we will still have that ability to advise staff, wonderful.

But I just find this a bit confusing and wish that the process had been more inclusive of the commission's process as well. We could have answered those questions in this round.

Commissioner Gibson.

Unfortunately, since our last meeting, there has been four fatalities of people either as pedestrians or cyclists.

On May 20th, late night, unfortunately on I-5, a woman 22 years old was struck and killed.

And then three people died in a 12-hour period, roughly a pedestrian near Ardenfair Mall. He was 76. Then a cyclist off of Fruit Ridge Road. He was 36.

This very sad fatality, Sal Wong, his family spoke at that event, was using cycling as a way to recover from depression after the passing of his wife 100 days ago as of a few days ago.

And thanks to the people on slow down SAC and all the community members coming together. And although we saw a very ambitious plan as presented in the last couple of minutes, unfortunately we still lack the funding to execute nearly all of those options.

I wish to thank council member Kaplan and Gera calling for a chance to raise revenues so we can actually meet this plan. But all these amazing plans that the heart and soul of our staff put into that are very good to excellent.

Just don't happen unless we have the resources to execute those. Thank you.

Commissioner helped.

Thank you chair. Briefly I want to thank Jeff and Jennifer for the city bike ride last month. I thought that was quite informative. Thank you for putting that on. I thought it was a great tour.

And I'd like to thank you Deb for sob as support for the ride. I thought that worked very well.

Commissioner Erasmus.

Thank you chair. Yeah, I just wanted to make a note that I am very sad that my day job working at the California Transportation Commission often takes me on work travel trips on the same days as this commission.

And I just implore staff or the powers that be to look into some way for me to continue.

Being a part of this commission, I'm really excited about it. I want to continue to contribute to it. And if there's a way I can attend remotely or just we can find some way for me to continue.

I do have a couple more meetings this year that are going to be conflicting with this meeting and I would just be really sad to not be able to continue.

And I know that sometimes there are things outside of our hands, but maybe there's some things that are in our hands. Thank you.

Commissioner Dorwisbrook.

Thank you. Yeah, I want to second Commissioner Erasmus recommendation. I think I know this is a decision made affecting all commissions and city council.

But we saw huge benefits by allowing people to participate in our meeting virtually. And I think we've all adapted to a hybrid working environment.

And so it would be really great. And then if we could figure out a way to bring that back to commission. So I think we just have to keep advocating for that to our council members and to the city clerk or something.

I really do think it's a huge disservice to the community members and also to commissioners who have had to step down because of the change of meeting dates and the inability to participate virtually.

But that wasn't my comment. My comment was, you know, the city approved their budget just a few weeks ago.

And unfortunately did not find any of the active transportation commissions recommendations.

So I did want to get some clarification if we're going to ever receive response from city council on what they are going to do.

We saw this year they're not willing to fund, but in numerous work or presentations that we made to city council they express their support for our recommendations.

I just found it a little bit confusing that they said they really support the work and that they want to see more people walking and biking get our budget still continues to not reflect that we're going to do anything to help address some of the challenges that we have.

So I know this is not really a pointed question that Jennifer, but just like, are we ever going to get a response or hear anything about what we produced for them?

Commissioner do a rest book. I really can't.

That's interesting.

I can make sure to do a rest book. I really can't speak for council.

What I can say is that, you know, we, I think that you already know. So you do your annual report.

We submitted to council. We'll start the next process for your annual report when we join come back together again in August.

I will say that your annual report, this commission's annual report probably at the most attention of all the 20 some odd boards and commissions who do annual reports.

So that's a good thing.

And in a year of budget deficit, the attention that I got is significant. I will warn you though that the projected budget deficit for next year is more significant than we had this year.

And so the forecast is not looking great for the finances for the city.

Thank you for that. I guess maybe it's something that we need to bring forward then to the PNPE of what can we expect of council after producing a report?

I know like when other projects happen, usually when comments are received, there's an expectation that the city will respond to those comments received.

In this case, it felt like we created something for them, provided recommendations. They said, good job. And then we didn't, yeah, okay, next report.

I don't think that's what they intended these reports to be. So maybe it's just something for us as a commission to further talk about.

And then again, maybe go to PNPE, since they're the ones that approve our annual reports. But I just found the process to feel a little disingenuous.

We've gone through all this work to provide you recommendations and like what do you want to do now? You don't want to fund them.

So I just would really hope that maybe the council can be a little bit clear with us of like what kind of response can we expect?

I know they have a lot going on, but to just receive something and never really get a response on whether or not they're going to act felt a bit frustrating.

I'll say. But anyways, sorry, Deb. I'll let you go next.

Commissioner Banks.

To carry on to both of both commissioners Gibson's and yours alleys.

I would like to put a pin in our report for this next year. As most of you know, dangerous by design came out. Sacramento comes up as the 20th, deadliest city.

And as Don regularly lets us know our death count is ticking up all the time. And it's it is in my opinion a public health crisis.

It is no longer just about streets and active transportation, which is what.

Our purpose here is but we know that the work of the active transportation anything that we do as a commission and around active transportation helps make our streets safer for everybody.

Not just cyclists, not just walkers for everybody. And so I would like for our next report to really hone in on this type of messaging and these types of issues.

We had a lot of things in the in the last couple of reports and they were all really good things. But I think at the end of the day, the biggest problem we have are our dangerous streets.

And that if we can work to focus our next report on really tackling that, we might have a better chance with city council and their.

Transparency with yes or no or why.

Commissioner helped.

But I should point out we will get the construction detour policy this year.

Maybe.

Commissioner hopped just to note we've been presented with a possible policy on policies.

Which might create a process process on policies.

Which might create some hurdles for us to bring it forward.

We have a near 99% final draft.

And we are figuring out a way to move it forward.

But I we will endeavor to get it done.

And we just have to identify that process and it's sitting with our colleague in the city attorney's office to help us figure out a path forward.

Thank you.

The last item is public comments matters not on the agenda.

Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on public comments matters not on the agenda?

Thank you chair. Yes, I have three speakers. Our first speaker is Talen, followed by Kevin.

Hi.

Four and a half years ago my 12 year old daughter was hit by a car while she was crossing at a marked intersection on her way to school.

This resulted in multiple broken bones, a traumatic brain injury and six surgeries so far with more in her future.

She was still in the hospital learning how to walk again. A community meeting was organized to talk about safety at her intersection.

City leaders, including Jennifer spoke about safe routes to school and vision zero.

And I left that meeting feeling that I had been heard and hopeful that the city would fix the intersection.

Unfortunately, despite my best efforts since that meeting four and a half years ago, nothing has happened to improve the safety at my daughter's intersection.

My children and I still risk our lives twice a day at that intersection trying to get to our neighborhood school.

We have to cross that or will road. There are three places to cross and all of them children have been hit by cars.

While I look, while I love dreaming about and looking at this beautiful plans that you that we saw tonight, I see that there is a need for something faster and something cheaper.

And so I have been working with a community group that has been researching module, sorry what are they called, many modular roundabouts, which are really cheap and they can dramatically decrease the risk of severe injury and death.

And not only that, they found a grant that will fund it. It's free money.

But we can't find anybody at the city who's willing to apply for the grant.

And so my request of you, excellent advocates, people with connections and people who know what is going on, I would love for you to connect us with the people who have the power to apply for grants like this to make our streets safer so that you can transform all of my hot air into safety for my children.

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Kevin, followed by Jerry.

I think what I am about to share isn't any news to you. I mean, we've heard it from many people, but there's a lot of rep tape.

I'm new to politics. I didn't really know much about this. And what we're trying to do is talk to the right people.

The neighborhood group that we've been working with have reached out to different city council members who promise things but never deliver.

And we've reached out to different people like Jennifer. And what we're looking for is just who do we talk to?

Who can make a difference and who can not just promise but actually, I mean, meet. And then because that, of course, to deliver, we need to meet first.

I know that you're all busy. I know they're all busy. And there's a lot of competing priorities.

This grant for many modular roundabouts is recommended by CalTrans. They've done all the work. They are providing the money through grants.

And we know we've heard that we are not getting the money from the city.

When I talked through or to Jeannie Ward-Waller, formerly of CalTrans, her recommendation was to be real annoying with the city council.

And we're prepared to do that. But we don't want to direct it to the wrong people. If you could somehow help us direct our comments, our phone calls, our communications to the right people so that we can meet with them.

And help make change happen now, not in 10, 20, 30 years. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Our last speaker is Jerry.

Thank you, Jerry.

You see me before. We're all on the same page. We need resources.

Resources are currently available through two state and federal grants.

Can't find out if the city is applying for a grant. Don't know what they're applying for. So everybody's in the dark.

I have good news and bad news. The percentage of head and bike fatalities and severe injuries has decreased.

Hard to explain. Have to do that at another time. But we all know that we do have a problem of public health and safety problem.

And that has to do with this traffic safety epidemic.

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are apparently become the single most effective intersection countermeasure for reducing fatal

severe injuries. So the solution, I just want to kind of say this in one minute.

Galtran's hosted a webinar. It was for all the potential applicants for the grant money.

Well, 400 attended a webinar on roundabouts. Okay. So I'm going to give you one minute what happened

in two hours. Okay. As I said, this has been recognized as probably the best countermeasure because

it not only reduces crashes, it reduces vehicle speeds, reduces vehicle emissions and and a lot of

other things. Traffic signals are not approved in safety countermeasure. Okay. Roundabouts are.

There are no many roundabouts in Sacramento. It needs to start doing something to change the

trajectory. Okay. So the question is you can apply for as many as 20 intersections in a single grant

and you now have a list of 20 out of about 35 that are potential. I'd love for every city council

member to pick one or two put up an application forward before the deadline which is fast approaching.

Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Chair, I have no more speakers. Thank you. This concludes

today's agenda. Thank you everyone out there and in here. For your participation, the meeting is

adjourned.