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Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner, please unmute.

Commissioner Harris?

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Commissioner Gibson?

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Commissioner Wadwani?

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Commissioner Littiger?

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Vice Chair Gonzalez?

Is absent?

Commissioner Haad?

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Commissioner Hayat?

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Commissioner Moore?

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Commissioner Cruz?

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Commissioner Banks?

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And Chair Hodell.

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Thank you, Wabakorn.

Thank you.

I would like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

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

To the original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Mewak, Patwin, Windton 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 people's 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 it stands one nation, individual, liberty and justice for all.

Oh, we'll do the staff report now.

Our first business today is the Commission staff report.

Staff you may proceed.

Thank you, Chair Hodele, Jennifer Donlonwoyant, Division Manager for Mobility and Sustainability.

Glad to be here with you this evening.

I have a short update for you.

If you get our Transportation Planning newsletter, which I know everybody here does, you would have seen these updates, but I'm going to reiterate for everybody.

The Northgate Mobility or Transportation Plan, I see that Commissioner Gibson is very excited for that.

We are glad to announce that we were selected by Saikov as part of the Regional Active Transportation Program for funding for preliminary design and environmental clearance.

Very excited for that.

You saw the Northgate Plan in 2023 when you voted to support it and recommend to Council for approval.

So we'll be working with Saikov to move that forward.

Another update is that this week we published our crash dashboard.

We have crashed data from January of 2013 through September of 2023.

And that includes all crash data, including data for severe injury and fatalities throughout the entire city.

I encourage you to take a look at that to get a good idea.

And if you have other questions about that, we're happy to answer them.

With that, that is my staff report, Chair. Thank you.

I would like to welcome our new Commissioner Simon Hyatt, who is here today.

Happy to have you on board. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Thank you, Chair. And what a privilege it is to sit amongst you all.

I've been doing my homework and trying to catch up on past meetings.

And so I know a little bit about some of you.

So thank you for having me.

And just I'll try to be brief, but I do want to want the commission and the public to know who I am.

And why I'm sitting in the seat appointed by the mayor.

And I'm pleased to represent not just my own district, but the entire city of Sacramento.

I have been car-free in the city of Sacramento now for eight, nine years or so.

And I'm glad to be here for that. I settled in Sacramento specifically because I wanted to be able to take transit to Sac City College.

I thought that was really cool that Sac City had a light rail station on campus.

And so that enticed me to stay here or to settle here and go to school there and transfer to Sac State.

And continued to take transit, the gold line, the 30.

And as far as my lived experience, I was riding my bike home from work at the East Sacramento Trader Joe's about eight and a half years ago.

When I was struck by a vehicle, hit and run and had my patella shattered.

So I've had hospital stays due to the unsafe streets and unsafe drivers in this city.

Years later, the medical implants from that hit and run malfunctioned, which caused a whole nether.

Six to eight months of handicap and then another surgery.

And so I recognize I've lived experience of having been injured on these streets.

Yet I'm just, I'm lucky to even be alive. I know we had 37 people were killed last year walking, scooting or riding their bike here in Sacramento.

And Vision Zero is coming up. We got to find the ways that we can, that ends.

Of course, the loss of life is the most tragic. But sometimes it's not even that.

It's people's lives are changed and shattered. They become handicapped. They become paralyzed.

And this shatters not just individuals, lives with entire families.

And that was a little bit more than I expected to say, but I'll just say one last thing that about why my pleasure of serving on this commission.

We're at a four way intersection of public safety, public health, the climate emergency and economic resilience.

Working families, children, disabled people in our unhoused neighbors deserve a city where they don't have to fear their safety as soon as they step on the city streets.

And the mayor is appointed commissioner. I can pledge to the community that I will represent the whole city, especially those areas outside the central core that have been historically marginalized and underrepresented.

It's my privilege to serve with you all and I look forward to getting to know you over the next couple of years. Thank you.

Thank you. 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, Chair. I have no speaker slips on this item.

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

Commissioner Gibson?

Just briefly thanks for the vision zero dashboard. Dashboard has been something we've had in our annual reports before.

So happy to see progress. It's not always easy. So I just want to thank these staff who did that.

Okay, I see no other speakers. I move to approve the consent agenda.

Thank you, Commissioner Help for the motion. I'll second. Second by Commissioner Harris.

I have a motion by Commissioner Helpton, the second by Commissioner Harris. Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote.

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

Aye. Commissioner Gibson?

Aye.

Commissioner Wanwanne?

Aye.

Commissioner Litiger?

Mr. Stain?

Vice Chair Gonzalez?

Yes.

Commissioner Haad?

Aye.

Commissioner Hayet?

Aye.

Commissioner Moore?

Aye.

Commissioner Cruz?

Aye.

Commissioner Banks?

Aye.

Chair Haldell?

Aye. Thank you, the motion passes.

Thank you. Well, now proceed to the discussion calendar. Item number three is the airport South Industrial Anxiation Amendments to the Bicycle Master Plan.

Is there a staff presentation?

All righty. Good evening commissioners. My name is Garrett Norman. I'm a senior planner in our community development department.

I am here tonight to ask for this commission's recommendation to the City Council on the proposed Bicycle Master Plan amendments associated with the airport South Industrial Anxiation Project.

On the screen, you can see the outline of the project area in red. It is located in the North Natomas area, specifically south of interstate five, east of power line road, west of the current city limits,

and the West Lake neighborhood and north of an RD-1000 canal.

The entire annexation area is roughly 475 acres and is intended to accommodate up to 5.2 million square feet of light industrial uses and almost 100,000 square feet of highway commercial uses.

On the screen is the proposed tentative master parcel map. This map proposes to subdivide the property into several parcels in addition to securing the right of ways for proposed streets.

The main east-west connecting street is known as airport South Industrial Drive. There is an metro-air parkway which is part of the interchange from interstate five.

You have Bayou Way which is an existing roadway and a portion of that is proposed to be abandoned with this parcel map.

And then you have two new drives which are just named as A and B for now as part of this.

We are here tonight to discuss the proposed bicycle network with this application. The proposed project includes a class one, class two and class three bike lanes.

The bike paths as noted on the screen are color coded. The green line shows the class one multi-use path which runs parallel to the east-west street named Airport South Industrial Drive.

On street class two bike lanes will also be provided on airport South Industrial Drive as well as metro-air parkway and proposed A and B drives.

Lastly, there will be a class three bicycle lane on the existing portion of Bayou Way that will remain and will ultimately be converted into a one-way street as part of this parcel map.

Along the screen you can see how the proposed bicycle lanes within the annexation area would connect to existing and planned facilities within the city limits.

Specifically, the class one multi-use path would run perpendicular into a planned class one path on the eastern edge of the project area.

Also, the class two lanes will connect into an existing class two lane along Bayou Way which ultimately turns into L Central Road as it curves south there into existing atomas.

Lastly, I wanted to show the various street sections proposed within the project area. While this slide does not illustrate all of the cross section, it provides an example of the ones I've discussed this evening.

Specifically, you can see the 12 foot wide class one trail along the Airport South Industrial Drive street section in the upper left-hand corner which also includes five foot on street bike lanes on both sides of the roadway.

On the bottom left-hand side of the screen is a street section for Metro Air Parkway which includes six foot on street bike lanes.

And the street sections on the right-hand side of the screen show on street bike lanes for A and B drives as well as the Bayou Way.

The staff is recommending the commission forward a recommendation of approval to the city council for the proposed bicycle master plan amendments.

The proposed bicycle circulation is the result of community input and coordination with the city's department of public works and has been designed to comply with city standards.

The amendments are also consistent with the goals and policies of the 2040 general plan.

The staff and the applicant is here to answer any questions that the commission may have. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair. I have one speaker slips. Our first speaker is Matt Anderson.

Good evening commissioners and staff and everyone here. Wonderful to see you.

Interesting project. Learning a lot about this recently. Excited that there were class ones put into this.

A little bit worried on the east side. It just kind of terminates into a ditch which is city property in a future planned trail.

I'm not sure if this will be connected in a timely fashion.

If this does happen, that might be a concern.

Also, if this is going to be an industrial yard, it's going to be a significant increase in trucks causing a lot of wear and tear on our roads.

I think the streets or people plan which is coming up next, as a whole section on maintenance and costs and essentially a bunch of bullet points that say,

we're going to need to develop a plan for this because we don't know how to pay for this over and over again.

I would like to throw out something that should be considered now.

I don't know. There might be some ways that it could be discussed or looked at hopefully internally.

The ongoing maintenance because these trucks will especially because they are trucks with heavier weights and more axles cause significantly increased damage to the roads.

I'm hoping that's something that the city and that the county and that staff look at while this is under consideration.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for your comment. Chair, I have no more speaker slips on this item.

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

Come on.

I had a quick question. I don't know if my hand is showing.

I just, they were popping on my screen. I'm going.

I know you want to talk about this.

Okay.

Just wanted to mention or what, Lonnie.

Thank you.

I wanted to start by asking my second meeting only so I'm trying to understand.

There is a comment letter from Ecos on this and I was wondering.

Seems to be directed at the project rather than the bike improvements but I was wondering if staff had any response to that.

I'm going to have to ask the committee to be helpful.

Commissioner, may I interject beforehand.

The purview of this commission is only in the act of transportation.

It wouldn't be appropriate to respond to things outside the purview of this commission.

I'm correct in understanding that those comments are outside the purview.

Correct. Yes.

Thank you.

Commissioner Littaker.

Thank you, Chair. I guess my question is a little bit more clarification on what is the scope of what we're voting on.

Exactly. Are we voting to approve this entire project?

The industrial complex itself or?

Commissioner, you're voting on the plans of bikeways that are in the development for incorporation into the bicycle plan.

But you're not voting on the merits of the development itself.

Only the bikeways that are included within it.

If I have another question, should I just...

Okay.

So the bicycle plan that we have now that we're amending, does the plan go all the way to the airport?

The bicycle plan doesn't consider this area because it's currently outside the city jurisdiction.

Part of the effort that City staff are working on is to incorporate it into the city.

So at this point, this area wasn't considered in the current bicycle plan that was approved in 2016 and reaffirmed in 2018,

nor in the streets for people plan that you'll be hearing about soon because this area is not part of the city of Sacramento until this effort with planning the community development department incorporated into the city.

So just for my understanding to clarify what you're saying that we can vote on this particular parcel,

but any parcel in between this parcel and the airport is outside of the jurisdiction because it's not part of the city.

Exactly.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Commissioner Gibson?

Actually, my comments are just more processed to fall upon Commissioner Liddaker's.

So a vote today in favor, just to make sure we all know processes as we start before we vote,

would be to vote to, is this a recommendation to Lafkoe saying, and the City of Sacramento, or is this a more, sorry, the words are escaping me at the moment?

Can you just clarify what a vote in favor would be in a vote against?

A vote in favor would support adding the proposed bikeways that you saw here, the purple, green, and yellow bikeways that were proposed in this development project to incorporate it into the city plans for biking improvements.

So that would help us, for example, so let's say this development moves forward, and it has a class three, class two, and a class one bikeways, then we could say,

we're building something to connect to something that is part of our bikeway network.

So votes to support it would support the plan bikeways.

A vote against would not support the plan bikeways, and that is the only question before you this evening.

Okay. Thank you for the clarification. That informs the discussion for everybody.

Commissioner Harris?

So what is the staff burden if we vote yes? What's the next step that would occur if we say yes for staff?

Are they going to be taking us on as plans? And also, a subsequent question, I think I'm understanding that this is not currently within the city limits.

So this is a bit of a strange question, but if it were part of the city limits, which is the plan, which is why we're voting on it, which seems a little bit early,

would this be an area that would be expected to be disadvantaged, which I'm assuming the question, the answer is no, since it's not, doesn't have anyone living there because it's not, anyway.

And what would its prioritization be, and how would that be determined for future building?

Yes, I could speak to the process. So the next step with this application is actually go to the local agency formation commission or Lafko for short to include this area within the city's sphere of influence.

And then the city council will be asked to vote on all of the city entitlements. And then once that package is complete through city council, then we will go before Lafko for a decision on the annexation component.

And at which point it will be up to the city or the developer to build these bikeways.

The developer will be building the bikeway infrastructure as part of the entitlement approvals.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Sorry, I was looking at the schematic. Thanks for the presentation. Like everybody else, I'm a little bit confused as well.

I mean, I have opinions about the bicycle infrastructure, but I don't understand why a city commission is talking about the planned bicycle infrastructure when it's not yet part of the city.

It seems like this is a chicken in the egg and we've got the egg before the chicken.

Yeah, good question. This is part of the process. It's a formality. So like I said, we even before it's even annexed into the city and through Lafko, the city is going to act on all the components of the project will include the bicycle facilities.

So ultimately, if Lafko denies the annexation, then all the work that we've done is just sort of void. It just doesn't happen. It's not annexed into the city.

But in order to prepare that package to Lafko, we have to have all these entitlements in place so they know that we're presoning the property and that all of the infrastructure and all the stuff that's going to go into it has been satisfied and taken care of from the city's perspective.

Okay. Now, can I ask you a question about the actual bikeways themselves? Can I do that?

Can you also bring up the schematic that showed the width of bikeways? Because I think I saw something that was five feet, bike lanes were mostly five feet everywhere except on by you way, which is six feet, I believe.

And then the B drive, which is the protected, well, the class one bike lane is am I seeing that right? No, that's also five feet. Can you speak a little bit about the differences between five feet, why five feet in some places, six feet in the other?

Because five feet is pretty narrow bike lane.

So my understanding and working with our public works department, the entitlement group is our industrial street classification actually does not have a bicycle lane standard requirement.

So this is something that the developer has offered to provide. And so what works for them is to provide a five foot, but the other roadways like the the by you way and the metro air parkway, those are not considered industrial classifications.

And so they're meeting the minimum six foot standard requirement per city code.

Is the travel lane that works the library because it's for industrial like just the other person's. You know vehicles.

Yes, I think so. Thank you. Commissioner Banks, if I may interject for a moment, if you zoom in to the area, the cross sections that have five foot bike lanes, that excludes the gutter pan.

So it's got a pan of three feet and bikeway of five five feet, which was a total of eight feet. Okay. So so if you zoom, you can look in. I'm zooming in on my computer here because it's easier for me to see than up there.

It is three foot gutter, five foot bike lane. So it's not a five foot bike lane that includes gutter next to a curb.

So it's very helpful. Thank you. You're welcome.

Where is the class one?

The walk where it says walk. Okay. Thank you. I apologize. I just.

Are you done? Okay. Vice chair, Gonzalez. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I did.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's commissioner hopped. I accidentally hit the button that said next speaker. And then I lost you. So thank you for coming back.

I appreciate that. Thank you. I have to agree that Ecos makes really good points about this. I've been impressed with Ecos positions in the past, but I also appreciate that that is not our concern.

What I am concerned about is if we voted not to make these changes, what are the risks? I'm concerned that if this goes forward despite opposition, are we then excusing the.

Are we potentially excusing the developer from making this a bike friendly project?

I take it by the silence. There's no good answer to that.

Commissioner hopped. I think that the project sponsor wouldn't negate all the plan bike ways that we've identified here. But when we went to.

When Garrett went to all the next places he needs to go to such as planning design commission, it would be noted that the act of transportation commission did not support the plan to bikeway network, which then cause a lot of ruffle and questions about why not what is wrong with this network and why did not the act of transportation commission supported.

And so I am concerned that a no vote might be misinterpreted.

You know, well, if this project does go forward, I certainly want to see all the protections for bicycleists that we can get that we can get into this.

I would probably not be willing to recommend that we that the city council oppose this. I think it's it's incumbent upon us to lay the groundwork for adequate bicycle facilities.

And I think this is a necessity should this project go forward.

Commissioner vice chair Gonzalez.

Thank you chair. Thank you staff for the presentation. Thank you to the project applicant who is easier to night to answer any questions. Appreciate you being here as well.

I have my own questions, but before that I want to go back to commissioner hopes statement and ask this clarification. Could this commission instead of passing a motion to recommend city council approve the amendments proposed by the airport south industrial and station project.

Could we make our own recommendations tonight counter to that different than that.

Repeat that. Could we make our own motion instead of denying or passing motion to not recommend could we pass a motion to recommend different standards.

Or could it be conditional.

I mean, is it just yesterday or is there great.

Well, I'm saying I mean, this point, I mean, I would rather I.

I mean, I'm just sympathized with Jim's points because I did not want to vote for nothing in potentially is everything.

But I'm asking this commission vote on something totally different.

Like beyond what's proposed tonight and say that's our recommendation rather than with the project applicant and staff is recommending tonight.

Vice chair, are you asking if I'm going to bowl spaghetti of class one bikeways in this entire development.

That's what the commission was voting for. You could make that recommendation the feasibility of funding that I think would be a bit challenging for the developer.

If you all supported, you could say we vote to support this with changes of the A.V.R.C.

Okay. Thank you. Appreciate that. Now I'll get to my own questions.

Number one. I've attended several meetings over the past couple of weeks actually, very, very recent.

Where advocates have asked questions about large developments. Something come to mind include Delta Shores and Atomis.

And these advocates have asked why do we have such substandard bicycle facilities and these brand new developments.

And what I've heard from staff often is these entitlements were passed a long time ago.

And now they're legally binding and we have no recourse to change them. Is that accurate?

Okay, that's accurate. So what we do today, the recommendations we make today that then get passed along to city council in the future are in fact going to be legally binding.

So we have any recourse to change them then. So when this does get enacted, the things that we're going to decide on tonight could really make a big impact in the future decades from now.

So that's my first comment on this thought. Second, again, I'm not going to get into the merits of the actual development itself as Ecos has.

And that sounds like a fight for another day. But I am going to acknowledge the fact that this entire development seems to be focused on industrial use.

You know, your average vehicle on the roadways in Sacramento is about 4,000 pounds, two tons.

The average fully loaded 18 wheeler is 40,000 pounds.

What are the speed limits on these roads?

That I do not know off top of my head. I think that is determined once improvement plans are prepared and submitted.

Okay, so we have no speed limits on these roads. We're going to have 40,000 pound vehicles with a buffered bike lane.

80,000, thank you. 80,000. There is no way anyone's ever going to feel comfortable riding a bicycle on a buffered bike lane with an 80,000 pound vehicle traveling above 15 miles per hour.

If you don't know the speed limit, how am I going to know what's the safe bicycle facility? I mean, I'm just saying that I'm speaking that out loud. I don't want to answer that question.

I think, yeah, that's at speed limits, facilities. I mean, personally, I would make a recommendation that we do all class one bike lanes and make them all separated.

Without knowing any more information, that's the only way I would ever say that these bicycle facilities would be comfortable and safe for anyone to use. Thank you.

Commissioner Littaker.

Thank you, Chair. And I apologize for my next clarifying question. So the plot looks like it's against a residential neighborhood.

Is that residential neighborhood part of the city or would this be just an island out in the middle of nowhere that's part of the city and not connected to anything else?

That residential neighborhood is within the city limits, so it'll be connected. It'll be a continuous boundary.

Thank you.

Commissioner, help.

Skip you.

Okay.

Commissioner Banks.

I have another question. Can you go to the other slide that shows where the bike lanes connect, proposed, and real? Okay.

Perfect. I need a little help with this. This one that's, that's, that's coming out from the lower purple line and I can't read the street.

Oh, it looks like Del Paso Boulevard. That's kind of coming up and angling towards the, what, what is that?

Not sure. I'm sorry. This one on the bottom that's sort of in the middle of the bottom part of the slide that's kind of angling up towards the, it doesn't even completely connect.

Yes. No, not the purple one, the green one that's jetting out going north from there. Yes, that one. What is that?

That is, according to the map, a planned class one facility.

Currently, it's a canal that has a dirt lane, a bumpy dirt lane, so that's along a canal that when you're pointing at.

The other one I believe goes past Paso Verde school, the other more vertical dashed green line.

Okay. Correct. Yeah. They do not exist today. I think they do run along canal features along that property.

And they're part of the bike plan, not part of this effort. Part of the bike plan, but not part of this effort. Correct.

So, okay. Thank you.

Vice Chair, Gonzales.

Thank you, Chair. Rather than just relaying conjecture, I'm just going to ask if the project applicant wants to answer this question.

Would you be willing to make all of the bike lanes within this project class one?

Commissioner Gonzales, members of the Active Transportation Committee. Nick Abdes with the offices of Abdes Kushi on behalf of the applicant.

So, obviously, we work very hard with the city public work staff to determine an appropriate, because it is an issue, right?

We have heavy trucks in sort of a distribution center logistics setting and obviously trying to accommodate bicyclists.

We've been at this for, I think we're on year four now.

We're lengthy discussions with your public work staff. What we determined and what we have proposed is the best that we can do relative to the cost of class one bike trails.

So, we feel that the class one bike trail that we do have in the project site is a comp, we think sufficient to accommodate the demand for such facilities out in this area, which is really at the edge of the city.

So, I think we're going to have to do that for the next four years of work. I appreciate that in the answer.

Commissioner Gibson.

Since we're having a chance to talk about the specific bike trails, one thing specifically is I'm looking at the design a little more in depth right now.

It looks like at least there are two intersections. So, can we advance one more slide? I just want to make sure everyone's looking the same thing.

Yes, thank you very much. Thank you very much. So, appears to me that the class one bike trails on the north side where there is at least two street intersections, while the south side there would be no street intersections.

I know these parcels will eventually be sold or leased out and then driveways will have to be built.

But it seems like to me when you think about intersections will be safer on the south side versus the north side, just evaluating this right now.

Although I'm sympathetic to commission or vice-chirgendalls is to make them all class one. And I think that would be great. And if we're here just to recommend, you know, I would smile upon that.

But if we wanted to do one thing specific, which is hopefully would not increase the cost, that could be a potential compromise too. If that is possible.

I know this is designing a project from the diodes is not fun. And I guess this is the staff in the applicant.

One of the challenges and perhaps the applicant wants to expand on this is we have some nonparticipating landowners in this annexation area.

So we run out of space essentially because we don't have cooperation from those landowners to build a bike trail on that property.

So in the lower right hand corner kind of around that dash area that larger parcel there is nonparticipating with this annexation.

So we can't propose any facilities within that boundary. And so it really kind of has an influence on the overall design of the project by kind of shifting everything.

And it's trying to plan for that potentially what would be a future development there. So I think that's one reason why it was strategically located on the north side is just for the right away.

And then also because it leads to the other proposed bike pass within the area specifically off of Metro Airport way both a and b drives and then also up to to buy you.

So it kind of has more connection points that way too.

Okay. Thank you.

Commissioner Liseya Cruz.

So my question is why is there a class two bike lane and a class one shared bike path under the same road. I'm just very curious about why that is the case.

Yeah, so that was actually the applicant offered to provide a class two and a class one on the same roadway originally it was just having the class one and then they came back and offered both on that same roadway.

So again, our industrial streets don't have a bikeway requirement. So that was something above and beyond they provided.

My thing is I love redundancies but this seems to be something that could be possibly repurposed.

In my opinion, I would even argue that I don't know how the economics behind this would work but maybe removing the class two bike lane on that and then maybe transferring it over as a class one shared bike use path to the other two roads would be a better use of money and even a better way to repurpose our modal use here in my opinion.

But that's just a suggestion that I have.

Thank you.

Well, I live in this area and I've been attending the meetings for four years and I remember the very first meetings had this wonderful enticement of a fully developed class one bicycle trail from the end of the

separate park, the west end of the park all the way to buy you road and that was one of the things that I believe the developers were saying look this will enhance our project, etc.

That's nowhere to be found anymore.

I am an avid cyclist and I actually think on airport south industrial road you're overbuilt.

That is not a good commuter route.

If I could I would keep the bike lanes and move the class one over to buy you road.

That is the way that people are riding in that area when we go into our rides.

There would still be access to the industrial area.

It would be such a gift to the surrounding neighborhood to have a class one between the development and the freeway.

It also would match the rest of what it looks like in North Atomas when you've got bike trails along the freeway between the development and the freeway.

I don't think this gives the residents or bicyclists very much.

I would say redo it. I don't like the class one there.

I'm not in favor of the project either but I really don't think that your bikeways are good for the community and cyclists.

I think that's the way it's designed.

By opinion.

I plan to vote no in case that influences anyone.

Vice Chair guns all this.

Before we vote no, I would like to make the motion that we make a recommendation to city staff that we make all of the bike lanes in this project class one.

Where they're located.

Yes.

Second.

I have a, oh, I have a couple, Commissioner Littaker.

Yeah.

I just want to say that I'm not in favor of the city staff.

What about the possibility of converting all of the twos to ones?

It looks like that yellow might be physically restricted and off a lot as a middle ground.

I've just been taking that amendment.

I'm not going to say that yellow twos to ones.

So my motion is to recommend the city staff that you change all the class two bike paths in this development to class one.

Is there a, uh-huh.

Commissioner Morn.

Thank you.

I first want to comment on a couple of additions.

So when this was last routed a couple of months ago, either I missed it likely, or the addition of the class one on the east end that takes it from a drive to the future planned connector.

I don't think that was there.

I think that essentially terminated the class two.

And if that's right, I appreciate that extension.

So we think about the context of this whole development, which even with all class ones isn't going to incentivize very many riders.

It's probably going to have really low with any ridership to the actual facility, though maybe some and I do want those people to be safe.

I think we just heard that class ones everywhere where we're proposing them aren't going to be financially feasible adopted used.

I mean, we consider that as well.

Also the access and I wrote this in civic threads letter.

There is that class one thing through the e-Ret Park there, which would in the future that all came together, tee up with the planned one class facility, which I'm guessing is going to then re-route people off of by you where maybe they currently are without any facilities.

And then right if you're taking that, yeah, existing class one, let's assume it gets built out.

You take the North Class one, you're not going to keep riding to buy you when you have a Class One path that intersects sooner there.

So you're going to use probably that and then probably access all of the major development or industrial aspects of that development in the middle.

There would be no reason to go around and come over.

The other use case for this would be to access the airport if and ever that gets done.

I believe North of this is either limited to no development due to the airport or it's currently the county's agricultural area and south of it is, I believe wetlands and maybe those are protected.

So you're not going to see development south.

So everybody's going to be coming from a bicycle from the east.

Again, ideally using that class one, if they're going to the airport, they now have a class one across this entire development.

Be curious to see where it connects on the other side.

I think the class twos are not comfortable.

It would be great to have them all buffered or eight feet of space.

But I think that that's a fairly adequate and a realistic expectation for a heavy industrial use like this that currently goes nowhere.

And when it does go anywhere, it's going to go to single-family homes to the North or to the airport.

So I'm okay with it.

I would vote yes.

If it comes before us.

Commissioner Wood-Wonney.

Thank you.

I just wanted to follow up on the chair suggestion about the moving the lane, the class one is from an engineering perspective that is maybe asking staff if that is a viable option.

Specifically the by-way class two.

I believe that was the recommendation.

And converting that into a class one.

I'll see you.

Because you're abandoning the roadway, right?

No, we're not.

Not that portion now.

Oh.

So I appreciate the question, Member Wood-Wonney.

So what's in yellow is going to remain public right away.

Those parcels to the west as that yellow line goes north and south from south by you.

And then when it goes east west, that little pocket of parcels are non-participants.

So they're not involved in this entitlement process.

One of those pieces is owned by CalTrans.

And so the idea of a class one bike trail up there.

Certainly you could try to plan it, but there is not enough right away to accommodate it.

Right now the right where south by you way is snug up against the I-5.

That's the extent of the right away.

So there's no way to include a class one bike trail adjacent to the existing roadway there in public right away.

Thank you.

Can you turn the abandoned roadway into a class one?

I'm sorry, what's that?

Can you turn the abandoned by you section into a class one?

I could be, I suppose, in the future.

But those landowners up there made it clear that they want...

We had proposed at one point, obviously like we mentioned quite a bit of time spent in this process.

And we had at one time talked about abandoning a south by you way,

which would provide certainly an opportunity for that.

But the non-participating owners, there are private owners there,

who are insistent that they want it to continue to have public right of way to access their property.

And we cannot force them to basically abandon the right of way that currently provides access.

So that's the wrinkle there.

I will mention it will take the opportunity to touch on the expansion of EGRIT part.

Now that's something that has been talked about, but to be clear that it's something separate apart from the airport south project,

we do not own that property.

It's owned by the city.

And I know city parks, city council initiated a park's amenities amendment, master plan a minute.

And there was a community meeting last week in Atomas,

in North Atomas at the Aquatic Center.

And the purpose of that meeting was to discuss various concepts for potential improvements to that,

in essence, 200 plus foot space that's currently, you know, frankly a moonscape there.

That would be an expansion of EGRIT park.

So we have not met with the parks department to understand how that meeting came out

and what it means in terms of what may go to youth community and in community enrichment.

Right, Yipsey?

Anyway, the commission.

So I would like to add a little bit more to that.

A little bit more to that relative to a recommendation on a plan for improvements.

But that again is a totally separate project and apart from, from our project.

Now our project is going to generate significant amount of park fees.

What the city does with those certainly is up to the city, not up to us, and what we've certainly suggested is,

the expansion of EGRIT park that certainly those proceeds could be used for those improvements.

But that's entirely up to the city.

Thank you.

So hopefully that clarifies.

Commissioner Halt.

Just briefly, I just want to make sure I understand the intent of the movements here.

As I understand it, it is to recommend approval of revisions to the bicycle master plan

but revisions that are an improvement upon those that the developer proposed.

Is that my, is that understanding correct?

Do we have counter motions?

Well, you have no one's proper forward, but you have more motion.

And then no one has proper forward to the motion.

General motion.

Yeah, for this.

Yes, so an improvement on the class two's, the class one's, is the motion on the table.

Okay, I would certainly vote in favor of that.

Wait, you want to give me a second?

I don't have a second yet.

I mean, a motion, but I don't have a second.

Yeah, do you have a second?

Yeah, we did have a second.

I seconded the first time.

And so I will second the second time.

So second.

Okay, when we finish, I'll have you repeat.

Okay, thank you.

So we did Commissioner Halt.

Commissioner Lee Sayakruz.

Commissioner Vice Chair Gonzales.

My question is for your motion, are you suggesting that both sides of the street be converted from class two to class one?

I'd be willing to just take the Salis and Abandoned North that's already next to the class one.

That's what your antenna?

Okay, because as someone who has biked to volunteering events in industrial areas or even to one time badminton, having at least a class one trail in at least one side of the day.

I just want to say that the next one is just one side of the street would be very much favorable as to having a non-bolts side if financial constraints are the big motivator here.

Thank you.

Commissioner Hyatt.

Thank you, Chair.

Just for the public record, who are you mentioned your law firm and who do you represent?

Yes, so I represent AKT development and our development partner is North Point development, who is the project proponent?

AKT development is Angela Cicopoulos.

Correct, thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

I have mixed feelings on the original request to approve the plan as is.

But I do have additional concerns about us making the recommendation to include and change this plan given the stated financial concerns.

Do we believe based on what we've heard that the financial concerns aren't legitimate?

I don't think this is a bad route and I understand that flow is different right now.

But what I look at this, not having been to this area, I don't know that it's necessarily preferable to bike next to the freeway and have that be the primary means.

I like what I see about having it offset.

I have actual concerns about how much time and effort and I want to be clear that this is going to be additional staff time, additional processing to send it back.

So we have a motion to change.

I don't think I am mixed feelings on the plan as it's before us.

I actually have greater concerns about the motion to change all the class to class one because we just think it's a good idea.

Having heard financial concerns and having seen that not being an expert, I don't think this is a bad plan.

Commissioner Moore.

So can I make a motion to recommend the original motion?

How do we?

I want to do the, I just want that to be in play right now.

I'm going to have one motion which is to convert all the class to use the class ones.

I share concern.

I would like to see a motion at some point I guess for the original plan to vote on this network.

Okay, it's already proposed.

So I don't need to do it.

Oh, as proposed, yes.

Okay.

So I'll second because I feel like that's the way I was going even though I have concerns about the whole process where we are.

But I will second the original as proposed plan.

Okay.

So I believe we have a motion on the floor from vice chair Gonzales which you can read and seconded by Commissioner Halft.

And would you mind repeating that?

Through the discussion, it is to amend the class to class ones.

Okay.

And I have a second from Commissioner Halft.

Commissioner Hyatt.

Commissioner Hyatt.

Thank you very much.

I end.

Commissioner Banks.

My biggest problem with this is that we've got this class one and then adjacent to it this other class two on airport boulevard south.

I think it is the big one that's going across.

For some reason, my eyes aren't working tonight.

I can't read the screen.

So I don't really understand why we have two bike paths one that's protected and then what would look like paint on the road.

So I am more in favor of the original minus the redundancy of those two bike paths.

I would just make that a class one facility.

Okay.

This is going to be interesting.

We have a motion and a second and we're going to let me make sure there are no more names up there and we're going to vote.

Clerk, would you please call the roll?

Thank you chair.

Commissioner, please unmute.

Which one?

What are we voting on?

First, we're doing my first one.

This is to make everything a class one.

Make all the class two's a class one.

Make all the class two's a class one.

Okay.

Commissioner Harris?

No.

Commissioner Gibson?

Yes.

Commissioner Watwani?

No.

Commissioner Littiger?

Yes.

Vice Chair Gonzalez?

Yes.

Commissioner Hop?

Hi.

Commissioner Hayet?

Aye.

Commissioner Moore?

No.

Commissioner Cruz?

Yes.

Commissioner Banks?

No.

Chair Haudel?

No.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

No.

Okay.

And now.

I'd like to clarify for the commission that you're taking your vote.

Your advisory only.

So whether or not the developer moves this forward or not,

you know, that will be taken your vote and your input will be taken under consideration.

It will go through the process that Garrett described earlier,

and then ultimately planning design commission and council.

Just want to make sure everyone was clear.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

We can push.

We can push.

Do we have another motion that so we can just move on?

All right.

Item number four is streets for people draft plan.

And the phase three community engagement approach is there a staff presentation?

Thank you.

Okay.

Sorry.

Getting oriented.

Okay.

Good evening.

Thank you for having us today.

I'm Shree's Patia, Transportation Planner with fellow transportation planner on the project team Jeff Jelzma

with division of mobility and sustainability.

We're also joined by Cole Piper of all to planning and the consultant for this project.

We'll go through a project overview, the streets for people draft plan, and finally next steps.

Okay.

As you all know, the streets for people plan is a plan to improve walking, biking, and rolling in the city.

The overarching streets for people plan is made up of two complementary networks.

The streets for people network focuses on major collectors and arterials.

While the neighborhood connections network focused on residential streets and minor collectors,

that connect neighborhood destinations or connect to neighborhood destinations such as parks and retail.

So the project kicked off in early 2023.

Since then, we've been working to engage with the public to listen and learn to their needs and wants.

Analyzing data, developing a recommended network, seeking more feedback from the public to get us to where we are now presenting to you the streets for people draft plan.

As you know, neighborhood connections was separated late last year from the main streets for people plan due to grant timeline requirements and was just adopted by City Council last month.

The goals for both plans align with city goals of access, providing and improving access to destinations like jobs, schools, and parks.

Equity by benefiting communities that lack basic infrastructure and have been recipients of racism and bias.

Maintenance by focusing and on fixing and maintaining the transportation system.

Safety by improving transportation safety focusing on streets identified in the city's Vision Zero High Injury Network.

And sustainability focusing on improving air quality, climate, and health.

A brief review of the neighborhood connections plan so we can illustrate how it all fits together.

The neighborhood connections included a network focused on local and minor collector streets, with the purpose of creating low stress connections, utilizing traffic calming treatments in order to create and all ages and abilities.

Network to support people biking, walking, and rolling and to provide convenient and direct connections to destinations, including essential needs like health facilities and grocery stores,

schools, major institutions like hospitals, government buildings, or colleges, and social and civic needs such as parks, post offices, and religious services.

The neighborhood connections plan is part one of the streets for people plan.

It's a network of traffic calming neighborhood streets, policy recommendations, traffic calming toolbox with a variety of treatments to be considered in future planning, and was adopted, like I said, by Council just last month on February 25th.

The approved neighborhood connections plan, excuse me, will now be re-incorporated as part of the current streets for people plan so they will be brought back together.

So how does the neighborhood connections and streets for people fit together?

The streets for people network serves a longer or serves longer distance trips on major collectors and arterial streets while the neighborhood connections is a city wide network of neighborhood streets that connect to destinations.

Oh, sorry. Thank you.

Together, the two networks will provide a connected network of low stress comfortable routes for people walking, biking, and rolling.

For example, as you can see in the graphic, a proposed separated bikeway on Mary'sville Boulevard and a neighborhood connection with traffic calming along South Avenue, part of the planned network, could bring a student to grant high school along low stress routes.

And this brings us to the streets for people draft plan, which is the focus of the day.

Okay, so for the streets for people plan, we conducted engagement activities across the city.

And as you know, special attention was paid to activities in the plans, focus areas of North Sacramento, South Sacramento, and Fruit Ridge Broadway to reach broader and often underrepresented audiences.

So, the communication materials were provided and made available in English, Spanish, simplified Chinese, Hmong, and Vietnamese with targeted engagement activities in these languages.

Engagement activities included over 69 in-person events such as pop-ups at festivals, local events, and establishments, numerous walking workshops, and three commission presentations.

We also held multiple online events like virtual workshops and presentations.

So, in order to connect with the greatest number of people, we engaged through an interactive map on our webpage, pop-up events, workshops, focus groups, walking workshops, and community planning team.

There were several common themes that we heard from the community throughout the project, make it safer and more connected, such as addressing safety concerns related to traffic conditions, user behavior, and network gaps.

Make it more comfortable, such as providing wider sidewalks and bikeways along major streets, and including more shade along sidewalks, bike facilities, and at bus stops.

So, we also have a lot of work to do with what we have, or focusing on maintenance of existing infrastructure, including pavement quality, lanes, and reflective features.

Provide supportive amenities and programs like lighting, bike parking, and wayfinding, as well as inter-departmental collaborations to support people experiencing homelessness.

The project has been so well received by the public throughout its entire process, and we collected thousands of comments from the community, allowing us to evaluate gaps in the network and community needs, synthesize the public comments and the data to land at the project recommendations presented in the draft plan.

And that coal from all to planning will run through what is being proposed.

Thank you, Sherees. Thank you everyone. It's a pleasure to be with you again. Let's see some new faces and some old from last time we're here in July.

As Sherees mentioned, we got data from the public to hear what was wrong. We got data from different data sets, look at the context of the roadway, and combine that together to develop recommendations to make better network for walking and biking.

So at a high level, what we propose is in direct response to what we heard from the public of what we need to do.

Looking at increasing separation, closing network gaps, and creating better connections, East, West, within the neighborhoods.

Identifying where intersections need special attention, and identifying those for safety improvements.

So we're going to have a lot of progress, an increase in shade cover along those corridors as we're able to, and then making sure we're focusing improvements historically under invested areas, and enhancing and expanding our supportive policies and programs as we have them available.

So that means and how that translates to what's in the plan. We start with people biking, the facilities recommended for that network there.

We have about 445 total miles of existing bike facility in the city as it stands now, and that's city wide.

So included within this plan, we have a total of 687 miles of planned new facility that would make an increase of 154% in the total coverage of bike facilities city wide.

As Sherees mentioned, we had a particular focus on three areas that were historically under invested in, and we wanted to focus on those areas as well.

We had mentioned those in July, and so again, touching on those here, we see in the South Sacramento area starting with about 58 miles or so of bike facilities in that area.

This plan identifies 83 miles of improvements for a 142% increase in bike facilities within the South Sacramento area.

Looking at Fruit Ridge Broadway, we see we go from about 48 miles of existing facilities within the area.

The plan proposes about 96 miles for an increase of 200% of bike facilities within the Fruit Ridge Broadway focus area.

And then in North Sacramento, we start with 26 miles of bike facilities and look to increase that by 251% up to 92 miles within that area for people biking.

For people walking across the city, we have with Sherees Paths and sidewalks about 2200 miles of those facilities.

This plan looks at adding or improving 1000 miles of sidewalks and paths combined for about a 50% increase total coverage for those facilities across the city.

Again, looking at our focus areas in South Sacramento, we see going from about 410, adding 68 miles or so of facilities with a 17% increase in that area.

For the Fruit Ridge Broadway area, starting about 320, have 73 miles or so included in the plan for a 23% increase in that neighborhood, in that area.

And then in North Sacramento, we see a 30% increase going from 238 to about 311 total miles at the end of the day with this plan.

So that's what we looked at for infrastructure improvements, what we're going to do on the road.

We also wanted to look at the supportive policies and programs that kind of book end the infrastructure on the road.

We did that in the 6Es, as they're called, through equity, education, engagement, engineering, evaluation and encouragement.

This includes supporting and expanding upon some of the existing programs that the city already has in policies, such as investing equity, promoting greater use of TDM by employers, continuing the sidewalk bike riding ticket diversion program, for example, and then looking to engage with some of the recent updated guidance for design and ensure that that's incorporated into the city.

And then underpin through the entirety is ensuring that we're investing equitably along with the transportation priorities program.

Sorry, excuse me when I fail at technology for a second, apologies.

So the next steps from where we are today.

We're currently in phase three of engagement. That's open through April 6, taking comments on the draft plan.

We have that up available online through an online PDF comment tool, which is a pretty snazzy way to add any and all comments there.

A pretty easy document to navigate around through. We also have all of the appendices available on there as well.

And then executive summaries that are in English, among Vietnamese, simplified Chinese and Spanish, as well as English for the quick and easy view of the plan.

We're looking for you guys today, obviously your comments and input on the plan itself, but we also would look for you guys to help us spread the word about the plan.

Available online are the social media toolkits, which you can help, so easy package way to help spread the message.

So we would look to you guys to help get the word out so more people can take a look at what we're doing and provide comments from there.

Additionally, we will also, through this period, be popping up at some events throughout the city.

So look for us showing up at event near you, and we look forward to engaging with you.

And then finally, as we are getting to the end of this plan here, we're sitting right in the middle of that graphic.

Sorry, we're sitting just to the left in that graphic. We'll be coming, this speech for people back in May to this body.

And then in June, we'll be coming to the city council for approval, tentatively there.

And then finally, prioritize the projects that come out of this plan that are identified in both those networks through the transportation priorities plan.

So that is the plan, and that's what we've got.

With that, happy to take any questions that you have from there.

Thank you very much. Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you, Chair. I have two speaker slips. Our first speaker is Matt Anderson.

Good evening, commissioners. I want you all to know that if I weren't here tonight, I'd be at my neighborhood association board meeting.

So I really appreciate being here tonight and seeing all of your lovely faces. That said, BPNA, you're great.

I want to say thanks to all the staff, the consultants. Excited that this plan is rolling out. Excited about the draft.

Did give a chance to skim it, haven't read through everything, but would love to see some measurable goals.

I kind of not sure what it looks like for success. It's good that we have mileage targets, I guess, of what we want at build out.

But, you know, in 2028, how will we know is this plan being implemented successfully?

When we check back in, what is that going to look like? I guess the other thing, I know the city and the consultants have been doing a lot of great work.

There's a cool tree study that was done. I think there's a lot of great recommendations that could come out of that.

They seem to, I may have missed it. They seem to be hanging out in one of the appendices.

We'd love to see that actually get incorporated into the document because we need trees.

We need lots of them now. And last but not least, I think it'd be really good to take a victory lap for the city for the transportation safety team that's coming to council on Tuesday, which is the kind of quick build safety team that's coming out.

That's both really important for active transportation, but I think it also marks a fundamental shift in how the city's approaching projects like this.

And that is something that I hope is incorporating into the plan and that the city, I mean, that the city continues to identify as a priority.

Minor nitpick thing, it'd be great to change all of the city should in the policies through city shells and the policies because it's a little more, you know.

We're going to do this, but otherwise great plan appreciated. Thanks everybody.

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is Andrew Bessel.

Hi, good evening. My name is Andrew D. Basel. I am a 20 year act transportation planner with a master degree in civil and regional planning for Rutgers University.

I only heard about this two days ago. I live in the city. I work in act transportation for state agency.

I live in midtown, not one of focus group focus areas. Why am I just hearing about this today? I have my ear to the ground on these things.

Why? I don't understand this. I am shocked that I'm just hearing about this today.

Moving along, I am concerned about the biking philosophy of this plan. It contains that cyclist will, longer distance cyclist will seek the,

the arterial route first on the higher stress arterial roadways and then try to find their route via low stress streets.

My experience is a 20 year cyclist and I'm shooting 40, 45 year old cyclist with over 100,000 miles of experience is just the opposite is true.

You go for the low stress street first, finishing your route on the high stress street just to minimize your exposure to high stress.

I might be an experienced cyclist, but traffic stress is traffic stress. Third, the base map of existing conditions for bikeways is highly inaccurate.

How can you sit there and then plan off of this map where it is not true, where the ground conditions are not true.

The base map has bike lanes that do not exist. It has bike routes that are not marked. And we are building off of that.

I am shocked by that. I think there's some good ideas this plan. But I am just, I am very surprised by all this having lived in the city since June of 2023.

Thank you. I roll my bike here.

Thank you for your comments. Chair, I have no more speakers on this item.

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

Vice Chair, consult us. Before we discuss this any further, I just want to disclose that I'm a paid consultant on this project.

I was told by city staff that it was okay for me to be here because this is advisory tonight and I will be abstaining in May.

Thank you. I do not see any. Thank you. Commissioner Hyatt.

Thank you, Chair. And I have been to the website and reviewed and I think that city staff has done really well to try to make this something that the community can respond to.

So I just want to thank them for that and to any community members out there that have not yet been to the website, get on there, explore the map and anywhere on the map you can make comments and let city staff know before this thing gets through.

And actually, since I can speak and ask questions now, my assumption is that when community members make comments that you guys can still adjust things to this plan before it comes to council or back to us.

Without giving a blanket, yes, to any and all changes. There, we are in the public comment period of looking for, do we get it right? Are there any changes? So if there are tweaks that are to data, something like that, we can certainly accommodate.

So in some spaces where there's like, you know, there's no change on a road. It's not turning to a bike route at the very least. Someone can say, hey, like this street isn't, isn't being included and in my experience, this street is actually pretty fast and dangerous and should at the very least maybe become a bike route.

And so we went through a pretty involved process during the recommendations period. We had some draft recommendations that we've had out in the community since July of last year, where we've been going out of the community for getting input of, is that the right way to approach the network in that way.

So at this point, the network itself of kind of where we're looking for planning represents our almost completed idea of what that should be. Also, it's not to say no, but taking into account the context of the roadway, the network that's nearby, maybe there's an alternative, you know, a block to the east or west or something like that.

That's included in the plan that might accommodate it. So hopefully that answers the question. I don't know if Jennifer, you want to tag on.

Happy to call. Thank you in Commissioner Hyatt. Yes. This is the point where we took the network out last summer. Recently, I can't remember when too much going on recently to get the draft network. We said, hey, communities, what do you think? You wait in.

We heard comments came in. We made revisions based on those comments. Now we're in the final stages of this is the draft plan. Did we get it right? But absolutely, if you say, you know what? I, I bike on F street. I actually do bike on F street and awful lot. And you know what, be really great if it was a designated class three bikeway, for example. We want to hear that. That's the whole point of us asking right now.

Thank you.

Commissioner Banks.

I have two questions. One is, I've skimmed this, but I don't remember. Is there a price tag associated with building this whole thing out?

There are cost estimates associated with kind of a planning level for different facility types.

Is it built into the plan? Like is there some place where we can find that in the plan?

For kind of one over our chain, if we snap their fingers and to build everything today, what would it cost?

I don't think we have a final number in there with the understanding that, well, in the past two, three, four years, the costs of almost anything has fluctuated significantly in the time in which they get built.

The cost will be a little bit different. But that's kind of where that sets.

Thanks. I can add something to that. There is an appendix that has cost estimates for each facility type that is being proposed in the plan.

So we do have some actual numbers in there.

We would have to do the math. It's basically X number of class ones at X amount times how many miles equals tally it up.

Correct. Yeah. So we don't have it on like, for the, on like our network type of scale.

Okay. That's helpful. Thanks you guys. Here's my other question.

And it's to this gentleman's point about engagement.

We often build new things and then we're done and we take a lap, the victory lap.

And we create plans in there. Fantastic. And I'm really excited about this plan.

But I'm curious about the engagement afterwards. Science, children delivered. City Council says yes. Then what?

It would, I'm hoping that there's some engagement that then goes on that's like, hey, we've got this plan.

Here's what it looks like. Here's how it rolls out. Here's how much it's going to cost and all that kind of stuff to help the community understand.

A, we have a new plan for those that might have missed it during some of that engagement prior.

And then afterwards so that we, you know, keep the energy up around something that's a very good plan that we're all excited about.

How do we get the word out and is there anything associated with that in terms of a plan to do the engagement post, post adoption?

If I may, Commissioner Banks.

We don't have the funding to do that. The city's facing a significant budget shortfall.

We are counting our pennies everywhere we can. We're trying to avoid layoffs. All those really big important things.

So I think that what we can commit to is that we will, as we do other engagement, talk about this plan.

After this plan is approved by council, it will be run through the TPP. It sounds like a wash machine.

But everything will be prioritized in the transportation priorities plan.

And again, we'll engage folks about that process and let folks know that we're doing the prioritization.

But I can't commit to a program that does specific engagement for this plan after it is approved because we are really tight and funding and really tight on staff.

But as we do other things for sure.

I might add to that too. We do have our transportation planning newsletter that it will absolutely be announced in.

And then as it will go as it's going through the TPP, we will probably announce it again.

Both are helpful. Thank you.

Commissioner Harris.

On behalf of District 2, which is I know one of the focus areas, I want to say how much I appreciate all the outreach you did that we saw in our community meetings.

It definitely was noticed.

I can't wait to see what comes from it.

And I want to personally thank you for what I thought was a great presentation.

I really appreciated the way that you demonstrated the maps.

And they had Mary's bill boulevard on there in one of those areas.

So I noticed I just want to say thank you.

And I was happy to see I look at Commissioner Harris when I say this.

Is that in some of our previous projects, it seems like.

And we have our disadvantaged three disadvantaged areas that are mentioned.

And it always seems like North Sacramento is getting less than the other two, not this time.

So thank you.

Thank you.

This was a review, discussion review, so there's no.

Thank you very much for your presentation.

And I would like to suggest to the member of the public, all members of the public, sign up for the transportation newsletter.

Really, you learn a lot and you're up on all the things that are going on.

Okay. We're going to move on.

The next 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.

I have one speaker.

Our first speaker is Michael Bevitz.

Hello, everybody.

My name is Michael Bevitz.

I'm district two.

I kind of knew this community engagement thing.

I'm somewhat affiliated with slow down Sacramento as an advisory.

Slow down, sorry, also affiliated with Project Zero as a task force of some sort.

I'm part of that.

But I'm also a former city management academy graduate.

So say hi to my fellow Simon over there.

I'm, first of all, the streets for people playing, I'm all for it.

But I remember bringing the house down on those some seniors.

But I was awoken to why I'm here today.

I'm sure you'll probably know it.

There was a case where I had a bulletin.

There was a bicyclist that was killed on Fritz Ridge Boulevard.

And that prompted me to say, I've always had this idea.

And I want to bring it to you to see what you guys think of it.

That's not all your per view.

But I just want to see if it's good idea.

We, two issues I want to bring up.

One, the first one, if you're outside your home or your apartment

and you want to go wherever across town, you should be able to a walk

which you can or to drive a car, which is obviously a car, which you can.

But the third one, you don't have it built properly yet, is you want to take a bike

or something like it.

Golf cart or a micromobility, some sort of other.

We need to make a path for that.

And it has to be either slow down the traffic so you can go with the cars

or it has to be separated from the cars so you're safe.

The other part of the thing I want to talk about is our streets, our roads.

What if we simply, in this example, Fritz Ridge Boulevard, what does that happen?

It's a major std.

What if we simply divided the lanes?

The left lane of cars is through traffic, as far distance.

Right lane is street, slowed down by design and by law to make traffic more feasible.

I'm around time.

I got a whole much with the story, but I'll say it for another day.

Anyway, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're welcome to the world of advocacy.

Okay, the last item is Commissioner comments, ideas and questions.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak?

Commissioner Gibson.

I wish to thank the public commenter for acknowledging that there was one cyclist

killed two days ago off of Fritz Ridge Boulevard right at the city county lines around 5 p.m.

That was, unfortunately, but only one person lost their lives since our last meeting

in the city limits who are biking, cycling and rolling.

Commissioner Banks.

Well, it's almost April and that means it's just about May.

So, it's May for me anyway right now.

As every year I say this, I'm going to say this again to our commissioners.

If there is anything that you would like to do surrounding May is bike month,

please get in touch with Saba HQ and anybody that's affiliated with Saba Alley,

other people that are a part of the organization because we would love to make

something happen in your neighborhood with your group, with your friends,

your family, your pets, you name it in May if it connects to bikes, we're all in.

So just get in touch and do it soon because May is already kind of filling up.

But we're all in.

So get in touch and we'll try to make something happen.

Thank you, Chair Gonzalez.

Thank you, Chair.

A couple things I just want to bring up.

I keep trying to remember to do this.

Our meeting in June is a week early.

I'm just trying to get everybody's, I know I'm already making summer plans.

Our meeting in June is on the 12th, which is a week earlier than normal.

I don't know why but that was only calendar when it came out we confirmed that.

So, and I know we might have some other updates about next month's meeting maybe at some point.

Besides that, as a courtesy, I would like to share the following with you all because often we talk about things we would like to see,

things that are impossible to happen.

But I want to share with you a quick tale of something that actually did come to fruition rather quickly.

I'm sorry for the size of this map but this is a, this is, I'm going to see it on here.

So don't look at the stock and boulevard and prickly pair, which is a new,

emergency housing complex and affordable housing complex, long needed in this community,

filled up former car wash.

So a great replacement of use for sure.

And that exit driveway from prickly pair to stock and boulevard is quite an interesting thing.

You cannot, you can only go north on it.

You can't go south.

And that's because there's a meeting in there and then south to that where you can see a crosswalk,

there is a signal there.

So city staff was correct in not putting two intersections too close to each other.

And creating some, some, some, some conflict, conflicts there.

Many of us from strong sack towns did a walk out it here just a few weeks ago.

And we identified all kinds of issues of potholes and paint and missing infrastructure.

And one thing we noticed here, really, where am I?

Okay. So this is, this is if you're coming out of this, this driveway coming out prickly pair.

What I've noticed that I've seen it because I go to the gym right by here,

Planet Fitness, this is my neighborhood.

Is as you're headed out of this driveway, you're told you can only go north.

But sometimes people decide to go south anyways.

Because it's not that long of a distance to get, you have to go against traffic.

You have to enter the south down lane and go against traffic.

Obviously you go north on the south, go south in the north down lane against traffic and cut off.

And you can see why people might be wanting to do that.

So on our walk out it, I took a picture of this and I created a through one report.

So this is February 16th and I asked in my report, I said, you know,

it would be great to have some vertical delineators right there so that we wouldn't see,

are you laughing because I have an AOL.com account?

I'm good enough.

Anyways, I said, you should put some vertical delineators there.

There's another section of Stockton Boulevard at eighth avenue where vertical delinears have been put up

to prevent people from doing very similar thing driving in a way that they should not.

This was, I get it, February 16th, the day of the walk out it.

February 19th.

Thank you to Jared, Mascardi, traffic investigator, asked me to give him more information.

Followed up, you know, just that we were out there on a Saturday.

So this must have been Monday or Tuesday afterwards.

A very fast follow-up, I do appreciate that so much.

He has for more information when I typically see this kind of behavior so he could go find out for himself.

Thank you very much for that.

Boom.

Delineators are up.

You can no longer...

APPLAUSE

Hopefully, it deters people from heading south in the northbound lanes on Stockton Boulevard against traffic

and persuades them to go in the right direction.

This is one of those things that I wish the city would have done from the onset.

You know what? We probably have a conflict there.

But I'm so glad they took the suggestion from just a member of the public through the three-one-half.

I've never talked to him on, you know, in person, all by digital communication.

And boom, it's done.

So I sent him an email. He's at office for the rest of the week to tell him thank you.

But if you see him...

What was the timeline from Stockton?

So there you go.

February 19th, I turned it in.

I saw this yesterday.

I don't know if it was up before yesterday.

But one month.

One month.

Which, to me, is, you know, incredible.

I really appreciate it.

There's definitely other things I've asked for that are.

I've been sold yet.

That have been a lot longer than a month.

But I just want to give credit where credit is due.

We don't always need to do that.

But I think this is a good chance.

So if you see something in your community that's deficient, that might be remedied with vertical delineators,

I definitely recommend you put in a request with your one-one and make the same request respectfully as I did.

And hopefully you'll talk to a traffic investigator who's willing to hear you out and give it a shot.

That's all.

Thank you and congratulations.

Commissioner Harris.

Yeah, I do want to follow up.

So I had an item that we added to the log.

So I want to verify that that was added to the log in this process.

This was regarding the request for information from the city on what sort of pedestrian safety considerations and analysis were undertaken before placing the Roseville Road homeless facility.

At that location where there's been two deaths that we know of.

I just want to make sure that was added to the log.

We're good.

I can confirm it's on the log.

All right.

I will let everyone know on this.

I'm just going to stay on the log for now.

We did receive a response, but a non-answer.

And given the non-answer and the literal life or death situation,

I don't feel that that is sufficient.

So I'm asking again.

And I will be on my own going out and taking a look at that facility and providing pictures.

So we can talk about it because if the city will not respond, we can assume they did not do something.

And we'll also say the reason for doing that because we can't force an action of city staff.

And I do understand our purview there.

What we can do though is, and I'm asking the commission, that we start thinking about what a recommendation would be to city council.

Regarding pedestrian facilities when they place homeless shelters on city property.

I personally feel it is irresponsible for the city to use their facilities as the landowners

and place people who often do not have the opportunity to be in a vehicle and must use active transportation to get to their locations.

And if you are not aware, the language that's being used now, which I don't disagree with, necessarily, is you must relocate to a shelter or face incarceration.

So these are non-options. We are putting people in places that are unsafe for them to leave because they don't have cars.

And the response that we have gotten talked about, oh, well, it's fine. There's a gravel shoulder.

Well, that's where people die on a high speed place.

So I'd like us to be thinking as a commission about a recommendation for an extra port on suggesting that if the city is going to place a homeless shelter on their land,

then they fund a way to get out of it safely.

Sidewalks, at least.

So that's my update. Thank you.

Commissioner Hyatt.

Well, thank you, Commissioner Harris, for bringing up what is one of the most important issues in this city and this commission is at the intersection of equity and transportation.

And I, on the day that council confirmed me a few weeks ago, I spoke to this issue and specifically about Wendy Connell resident that was killed there back in January.

There's a great article. I don't have my notes on me right now, but a great article in the Sacramento Bee that I can get to you that tells the story about Wendy Connell her experience.

And she's on her way to a dental appointment. And she was also on her way to getting housing.

One thing that we heard in the mayoral race last year, quite frequently, was first from flow. And then the mayor adopted it is that we can't tell people where they can't be without telling them where they can be.

We can't tell people where they can be if there's not safe access to these locations.

And safe access out. They need to be able to go and get food and go to doctor's appointments and go see their families.

Any types of things that human beings need to do outside of the home.

So thanks for bringing this up. And I hope that we as a commission might be able to come up with some type of advisory to the council.

One idea, and this isn't an end all, but one idea that I had is to treat our homeless facilities as we would schools with a 25 mile an hour speed limit.

And I would welcome any other ideas. That was just something something simple to come up with.

But thanks very much for mentioning that council commissioner Harris. And I'd be pleased to visit the facility with you.

And another thing I would like to visit all of your districts at some point over the next year.

So let's get together and see what we can we can do to work out.

One last thing, just an event coming up next Wednesday.

There's a new concert and theater facility in district four that's going to be at 2420 N Street, which is directly adjacent to the 23rd Street light rail station, which is awesome.

And I think that's what we're going to have this big facility that's right next to a light rail station.

However, one issue in Sacramento is that we have light rail not running late enough.

Many people that don't normally use light rail aren't potentially going to do that.

And I know that they will be doing at the Clara E. Claire Rayleigh Studios for performing arts a transportation plan next Wednesday.

So to any commissioners that might want to give some comment or go at least here from the public to hear how the here from the public and here from these business, how they plan to ensure that

this will be a safe facility and people can come and go because it's my assumption that we're going to end up with a mass amount of cars coming through that facility.

So that's next Wednesday 530 2420 N Street Sacramento.

Thank you all and what a pleasure it is to sit with you.

Thanks. Thanks Commissioner Hyatt for bringing that up.

It's very likely that there will be bike delay services for Channel 24 of this new event space going forward.

So we should be encouraging many, many, many, many people to ride their bikes to this space.

I can't call you a commissioner. Jennifer Donlin White.

He just called me. Thank you. I just wanted to know Commissioner Hoppe was just asking me about our June meeting.

And I wanted to make sure all folks were aware that normally we are on the third Thursday, but in June, we're on the second Thursday.

So our meeting in June is June 12th. And so I just want to make sure everyone was aware on the commission as well as in the audience.

And we will remind you again next month and the month after so that we all are here to talk about great things. Thank you.

Thank you. This concludes today's agenda. Thank you.

Everyone for your participation. The meeting is adjourned.