Good evening and welcome to the May 6, 2026 Disability Advisory Commission meeting.

The meeting is now called to order.

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

Yes, thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, if you can please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Greenbaum?

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Commissioner Barnbaum?

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Commissioner Patel is currently absent.

Commissioner Guerrero?

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Commissioner Wilson?

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Commissioner Dyson is absent.

Commissioner Knapper is also absent.

Commissioner Poland?

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Commissioner Iguigbe is absent.

Vice Chair Ellis.

Present.

Commissioner Carr is currently absent, and Chair Kramer present.

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Next is the is approval of the consent calendar.

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

Thank you, Chair.

We do not have any uh members of the public who wish to speak.

Are there any commissioners wish to speak speak on this item?

Motion to approve the consent calendar.

I'll second that and let the record reflect Commissioner Patel 1733.

Thank you.

We'll now vote on the consent calendar.

Do you want to do a whole call with you want to do all in favor?

We'll do all in favor.

Do we have a motion uh by Vice Chair Ellis and a second by Commissioner Barnbaum?

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any abstained?

Any no's the motion passes.

We will m now move on to the discussion calendar.

Our first item on the agenda today is the Floor and Road Vision Zero Safety Project.

I'm sorry, just wanted to make sure.

Was that a vote on the consent calendar combined?

Correct.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

Good evening, Commissioner.

Commissioners.

My name is Ricardo Navarro.

I'm an assistant civil engineer for the city of Sacramento.

And I will be presenting on the Florent Road Vision Zero Safety Project.

Alrighty.

So this project is uh 1.3 miles.

It's between 24th Street to Franklin Boulevard along Florent Road.

Um it is located in District 5 and District 8.

And so the project goals is to improve safety for all the users along Florent Road.

Um the location was selected, and it started off.

The story behind the location was starting off with the Vision Zero Action Plan, which was approved by council in August of 2018, and that initiated a stud uh study to see where around the city of Sacramento where there's a high there's a lot of frequent uh traffic incidents.

And so along with that, it came shortly after was the top five corridor study where Florin Road was um was selected as no as one of the top five, and so just to give a little bit about the funding source.

Um the first phase of the project, which was known as a pavement re uh rehabilitation project, uh came through LPP funding, the local partnership program, and then this is the second phase where it's being funded through the regional surface transportation program.

And so some of the existing conditions of what's out there now, um there's two lanes, eastbound and westbound.

Um, there's also class two bike lanes, uh, eastbound and westbound.

There's a railroad crossing located just west of Luther Burbank High School.

Um, the postage speed limit is currently 440 miles per hour, and track our staff has deemed that there's a limited crosswalks, which this project aims to fix.

And so some of the proposed improvements done through this project will be bike lane gap closures, um, bow-outs, 88 compliant curb ramps, uh leading pedestrian intervals, also known as LPIs, uh, updating and realigning crosswalks and new traffic signals.

And so I start off with location two.

Location one was taken care of through another project where they updated ADA ramps to standard and also implemented new traffic signal equipment.

And so with location two being Florin Road and Woodbine Avenue, some of the main improvements going on in this intersection is the new APS push buttons being installed, uh new safety lighting to help illuminate um the crosswalks at the intersection, and uh some signal head modifications, specifically uh pedestrian indications to be updated.

Uh location three is Florin Road and Loma Verde Way.

Um will be a brand new signal that'll be uh installed along Florin Road.

Um there will be new crosswalks, new ADA curve ramps, and it's there will be eastbound and westbound at the traffic signal will be restricted to U-turns.

Um location number number four is Florin Road and 29th Street.

Um, this is a signal modification, and one thing to really note is there will be implementations of a protected left turns for Indian Lane and 29th Street, and so therefore the phasing timing will be a little bit different, but it'll help improve the safety of left turns coming in and out or going on to Florin Road.

So location five is Florin Road at the railroad crossing.

Um it will be they implemented two new crosswalks on each side of the tracks, and on the on the west side of the tracks is supposed to service the RT bus location, uh just north of the of the crossing, and for the east side, it's where it will service the Luther Burbank High School.

And so there was a there was a little bit of back and forth when trying to get this project uh get this design approved, but we managed to get it in.

Uh there will be uh pedestrian refuge meet uh median as well, and uh another another new design element for this railroad is that they will be seen as a cue cutter, meaning there will be detection along eastbound and westbound traffic so that way there's no cars being cued along the tracks.

So in location six is Florin Road and Hisperry Lane, uh just right in front of Luther Burbank High School.

Um, big thing to note is that Hisbury Lane will be signalized.

And there will be equipment being currently updated to standard, and there'll be a couple of uh ADA ramp, directional ADA ramps being installed as part of this project.

So, location seven, Florin Road and Luther Drive.

It's a lot going on here, but really what's being implemented is a new safety lighting being placed just uh near the crosswalks to help improve visibility of uh pedestrians crossing.

Uh location eight.

Uh location eight is flooring road in Munson Way.

Um this will be a pedestrian signal.

It will be reconstruct a little bit of the uh the concrete median currently at the intersection.

Um we would like to have it so that um there's a pedestrian crossing there at the at the west side, and in order to keep the south crossing safe, we will be signalizing the left turns going onto Munson Way so that there is no conflict being uh occurring uh at the south crosswalk.

And so with that, it would include some AD new ADA ramps, uh, some push buttons also as well.

Um and there will be push buttons also placed at the refuge medium.

Uh location nine, it's the final location.

Uh, Florin Road and Franklin Boulevard.

The main the main focus of this intersection is the implementation of the closure of the bike lanes, and that's because we are expanding to the north um on Florin Road.

About 400 feet, a little over 400 feet, um, to be able to close the gap of the bike lanes.

Um, and what I mean by that, the county did a bike lane project along Florin Road heading east, and so there was a little bit of a stretch where it was uh there was no bike lanes, and then it jumps into another class two bike lane.

And so what the city decides that we will go ahead and get obtain a little bit of right away, expand the road a little bit so that we can implement the bike lanes and close that gap for bicyclists.

And along with that, there will be uh new traffic signal equipment to kind of realign the signal heads if um with the expansion along with new pedestrian push buttons and street lighting.

Um along with that there will be a repurpose of the the right turn as you see the right turn pocket at the bottom.

Um, originally it's still a travel through, straight through, and so we decided that it would be the best to make convert into a right turn pocket and and highlight the bike lane uh implementation to kind of make it flow a little bit better and have connectivity going east, and so along with that it will be having a green bike bike lane treatment.

And so this is a little bit about the project timeline.

Um the design and the ride of way will be completed by February of 2027, and we will be going into construction of July 2027.

Um this is my information if you need to get a hold of me if you have any more questions.

Um but that is the end of my presentation.

Thank you so very much for that presentation.

Um before I turn turn over to my fellow commissioners, uh I will for the crossing on the on the railroad.

Um I just have little concerns about the like rail safety.

If like is the railroad, is that rail line still act active or is it deactive?

Uh can you rephrase that please?

Okay.

Um if it's active, my concern is of mobile devices getting stuck on the on the rail lines.

Oh, oh no.

Um there's advanced detection being placed, and so that there will always be um cars being funneled out of the off the tracks, and so that way there's not that issue of you know when when train tracks come in, there will be nobody queued onto the tracks.

So the idea with the detection is purely just to make sure that there's no queuing going along the tracks.

But I'm let's say someone using an ADA mobility device is crossing crossing the the road across the so you're talking about across the tracks specifically and not across the street, right?

We'd be able to pull up the um the slide.

Yes.

Over the rails.

That's my concern is that sometimes are I for stories or tales of people in mobile devices getting their devices stuck on on the on the tracks.

Right, and I I believe there is standards to make sure that the gap between the rails is not um does not allow us for uh wheelchairs to be getting stuck.

Um it's pretty sure it's a design standard when it comes to um pedestrian crossings at the tracks.

Okay, thank you so much.

I'm gonna turn turn it now to my fellow commissioners.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes.

Uh so actually Commissioner uh or Chair Kramer, um, I was gonna answer your question um about the tracks.

Uh you asked if they were active or not.

Um, so the flyover is the light rail tracks, and there's no worry or issue about crossing those.

When that was built uh in the early 2000s, they knew Floor and Road was going to be a very heavily traveled uh road, and uh there will be frequent 15-minute service on the trains.

So in that section, a flyover was built so the uh uh tracks uh gates wouldn't come down so often.

But as far as the tracks that are what's called at grade versus those above grade in railroads speak, the tracks that are at grade have freight trains today.

Uh however, this brings me to my next point.

By 2031, we are expecting in this region the Altamont Corridor Express or Ace trains to come into Sacramento uh as far as real Linda Natomas on that alignment that's the old SP alignment uh along with uh existing train service today called the Gold Runner uh that travels as far south as Bakersfield and currently up to Sacramento Valley Station, but any new additional trains because Union Pacific said no more on the UP alignment by SAC State and Power In and Fruit Ridge, but they've given the okay to make the alignment uh next to the uh light rail alignment, so eventually they could build a station uh in the next five years at City College.

So there's gonna be a lot of construction in the next five years over in that area, and that's the alignment that you were concerned about that it is gonna have added passenger train service, uh, but more in the terms of heavy rail equipment versus light rail equipment.

If that answers your question there, um but what I wanted to ask uh to staff was there were I was just on floor and road today, um just got my ballot in the mail last night, and not 24 hours later I uh rode down to the elections office and took care of business because I'm flying a red eye tonight, and I needed to get that done.

Didn't want to forget about it.

So I was on Floor and Road uh leaving the office today from the office to the light rail station we were just referring to.

And I wanted to ask in the first question in the slides you're presenting.

I know I think we had a project um Jesse might remind me of this uh by a creek or a canal uh near Del Paso Park, Auburn Boulevard, and Wad Avenue, where we were partnering with the county.

Due to the geographic location you are giving in this presentation, do you find it that you uh that it will be necessary to partner with SACDOT along with the Office of Supervisor Patrick Kennedy and his staff?

Because that's his district.

Um we can certainly look into it, um just at the time when we did our our coordination, um, we partnered with County to get the improvements over at Floor uh Florin and Franklin, and of course uh Union Pacific.

And so we could definitely look into it and see if we can if coordination's required.

Okay, and then one of the um locations you said was Florin at Indian slash 29th Street.

Correct.

Okay, yeah.

So just to remind the public, that's also the entrance or the gateway when the 81 goes into the Florin or out of the Florence station is that intersection, and that's a very frequented um intersection for transit use, as well as general traffic.

Uh but you talked about the crosswalks over by the actual railroad crossing.

Are you taking into account what I had mentioned earlier that by the hope of 2031 that we have what's called the valley rail uh project in service for the public uh at that time when this project goes to construction, or are you needing to make coordination and contact with the staff responsible of that which is based in Stockton?

Uh we could definitely do the coordination with the staff.

Um we have been we're still in the middle of uh coordinating with UP as we speak, so um we could definitely make that coordination effort if if it seems okay, yeah.

So if uh when time allows, if you could reach out to San Joaquin Regional Rail Um Commission Executive Director Chris Orlando and his deputy executive director David LePerry.

And I have a meeting with them on May 15th after I come back uh in Stockton of the San Joaquin uh joint powers authority at 10 o'clock in the morning in their chamber in Stockton.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Uh Commissioner Knapper.

It's either Knapper or so that's that's me.

Um we have we're sharing for some reason.

Um, my my name is also spelled wrong on this, by the way, just in case anybody's anybody cares, okay.

Anyway, um, so I think to get to the chair's question about the crosswalk specifically.

Um, so uh you you mentioned a lot in your in your uh presentation, you just said ADA ramp or ADA curb ramp.

Um there are a lot, this is the disability advisory commission, right?

Um and the questions that we're gonna have are very specific to the ADA.

Um, and what uh my chair is is talking about is for example flangeways that make it so that there is not a bump over the track, right?

That it is flush so that somebody with a cane doesn't get stuck, um I think you had said well the cars won't won't cue up.

That's not the issue.

Um, you know, there are a lot of detectable warnings, for example, that need to be done, you know, truncated domes and and gap management and flush surfaces, um, that I didn't really hear much about in your report.

Um I'm curious about those curb ramps, the ADA curb ramps.

There are a bunch of different kinds.

What kind are you guys uh looking at?

You know, there this is the disability advisory commission.

This is what we got.

Um, so I would really appreciate um sort of that specific um guidance and details.

Do you have you guys planned that yet?

Is it just kind of up in the air?

Uh no, we mean we we do have curb ramps is currently this is a 30% plan as you're seeing.

So it's still very preliminary.

Um, so it it there are subject to change, but for what I understand uh the ADA curb ramp is uh uh illustrated based on ADA standards, and I try to make sure that it's uh too standard per ADA.

So when I mention ADA curb ramps, that's that's what I mean.

Sure, I mean, even in the ADA, the ADA specifically says that different rates uh depending on where the sidewalk is and depending on where the the entry is, right?

There is needing there's diagonal curb ramps, so there's different curb ramps in the ADA specifically.

Um so if you you don't have that yet, I would really appreciate um in in the future having that as something that you that is ready.

I mean again ADA curb ramps isn't a s that's not like a brand.

Like it it's there's there's more there.

Right.

That's good.

Maybe I can uh interject help help answer, but I think Ricardo is I'm just getting to the point that um um that through the evaluation of these site conditions that we are able to install the um city adopted access accessible standard for a curb ramp, which is in the city standard specs.

So it has all the the slopes and that sort of thing um defined in this in the standard spec.

So we haven't seen anything that would uh mean that we'd have to deviate from that.

Okay, and is the um is that crosswalk with the the tracks and things like is there are those ready to be put in that that walking across a sidewalk or a crosswalk that is directly on light rail tracks is gonna be good?

I mean, well we're still in the 30% phase, so it's we're still have to go through the final design, and so there's there's still a lot of floating details about the design itself.

So, um so your comments are gonna be considered.

Make sure that everything is um acceptable per city standards.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you very much.

Uh Commissioner Wilson.

Thank you.

So thanks for your uh presentation.

Just was advice, uh Quint as I did the uh the curb ramps.

Sometimes those uh textured metal plates uh kind of tell you the to recover to uh, like uh street, you know?

Sometimes they don't uh sometimes they're uh good, like diagonally towards uh towards the street instead of straight towards the other like size of crosswalk, especially other more uh curved areas because it's free.

That's a good idea to make sure those plates are currently to the several with the visual could curve it as a correct direction.

So there needs to be uh oriented straight, or have some type of cards or somebody with the visual pair of it?

For the government, so that's considered.

Okay, thank you.

Yep, we'll be sure to review the design and make sure that the alignments of the crosswalk and the truncated domes that you're talking about will be aligned properly.

So we'll definitely make sure um that's taken into consideration.

Thank you, Commissioner Wilson.

Uh Commissioner Greenbaum?

Okay, Chair.

Um I think my fellow commissioners share the same sentiment, and in terms of when you're looking at these conditions, um it's important to have the mindset that you know the ADA is not necessarily the ceiling.

It's the floor.

And I I think that will help and assist um engineers in terms of deciding on specific branding and um what commissioner um pull in had been um alluding or speaking about.

Um my question is, and I I often do ask that ask this when um I hear that new traffic signals are being put in.

Um are they bilingual?

I believe they use pri primarily um symbols.

So I guess the answer to your question would be no.

Okay.

Oh, uh so it's um, and rather than um walk, it's it states it's just a a certain signal for walk.

Correct, yeah.

When it comes to the pedestrian indicators, there's uh usually the stop pan uh symbol or it's the walking person.

Uh usually we do not try to go with the lettering.

Got it, okay.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum, Commissioner Bornbaum.

Yes, uh one thing I overlooked um in stating, um, since I'd mentioned about the different railroad services that are being uh used or will be used in the future.

Um, this evening um during our meeting, there is also a meeting at Woodlake Elementary School, which the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission is hosting uh in prepping the old North Sacramento area for the introduction of the ACE and the Gold Runner train.

Um I'm appointed to this commission by council member Dickinson, and we traded texts, and he said uh on my behalf, he will attend that meeting uh while I attend this meeting and we'll be exchanging information.

So little did I know that uh this new railroad service was gonna be uh mentioned even in this uh in this project, uh, but the fact that it's coming on those tracks uh where we need them to be, you know, in an ADA accessible way, uh, simply because there will be a lot of increased uh train traffic besides freight on the at-grade um tracks, um, which I hear this commission is uh very concerned about on the um ADA accessibility um things, and not so much on the flyover because that doesn't interfere with the sidewalker getting across uh anyway with those trains over there being so frequent.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Baumbaum.

Uh Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh thank you.

I I really appreciate your detail in this report, and I think um to my fellow commissioners, it's kind of incumbent upon us that all these presentations that we receive on these projects, the reason why there's not a lot of finality to the detail is they bring them to us at a point where we're able to add input and add our perspective in the planning process.

So it's keeping that in mind that when we bring in things, we're like, you know, this other project, we really like these aspects of it and think they could fit into this project.

So we're bringing our kind of lived experience and our representation to these projects, and you know, the also the city has uh more or less established standards that in some ways exceed the minimal of the ADA, and then other ways they meet that, and yes, to the point that that is the floor, we should do more if we can.

And I think in this instance, there are there are several players that are in alignment, and there's they're the that coordination can be challenging for a myriad of reasons.

You know, we have the county where we got to a point and then there's a gap, you know, something like that.

And then you know, you have these uh the the rail tracks and such, so uh, you know, these these projects get complicated, and trying to do you know everything the best way we can do it with the technology we have at the moment can be the challenge and getting it in there at hopefully a decent price for the project and with all the concerns.

So I just like to highlight that.

Because like with the pedestrian buttons, and that always comes up with these projects with the intersections, as it should, uh, but keeping in mind the city has not changed that standard since the last meeting we've had, right?

So it's kind of keeping those details in mind.

It's a fair point to bring up, and we should voice it that you know we want to have the evolution of these standards, and we should do that, but keeping those kinds of things in mind as we as we review these projects.

And I think by and large, this one is one that's been uh long overdue, especially the proximity with the high school and the different that there are several um you know lighted intersection upgrades in this project that have been long overdue for the community that this commission has heard about too.

Um so I do applaud the effort on the part of staff to bring this forward to us and to give us the opportunity to um, you know, add our our perspective into it, and I think it's been valuable.

So uh thank you for everything you've done to bring out this project to this point.

Thank you, uh Vice Chair Ellis, uh Commissioners Pull in Guerrero Rero.

Sorry if I'm if I pronounced that wrong.

Hi, it's it's me.

Um I was I think my questions, I have a few questions.

Um on the crosswalk, you know, across the city as they continue to upgrade different ones.

They the version of upgrade um it is super variable, um, which means that some are very visible and some you don't notice the upgrade.

Um I know the Commissioner Ellis just shared, you know, the we're kind of in the beginning stages.

What is what are the thoughts around the visibility and the colors that are being used?

Um, you know, as far as the paint colors and stuff that go into all of these crosswalks, are they one?

What are they?

What are they being considered?

But then are they all the same?

Because it's along a long corridor, right?

So are they all the same or there is there variation?

Because I've seen that too.

Sometimes there's a better upgrade here, and down the road, like it's not as visible.

Okay, so to answer your question, um, let's start with the color.

Typically with the M U T C D a lot of the colors that are predominantly being used is white, but you may see some instances where you see the crosswalks is yellow, and that's usually because the school is located nearby.

And so those are typically the two colors you're gonna see.

Um now the styles you can see is with the um they call it the four by four by four, which is the um if I I think I have a slide on that actually that you can see it.

So it kind of looks like the almost I guess like little bricks, I guess with spacing in it.

Um there's that style, but I know the city as of lately in a lot of our projects, we're progressing more to a ladder style, which is uh the longer vertical lines you see along the the crosswalks.

And so um we with going with that route, uh we believe that that's the best um visibility that gives to drivers when approaching a crosswalk.

Gotcha.

Um I uh so that kind of leads, thank you.

Um that kind of leads to my second comment.

Um it was hard for me to picture this in pieces, so I pulled up Google Maps, and because what I wanted to see, I was hoping to see is that all the crosswalks around the school are being upgraded, that we're not just doing one or two, and they are so six and seven are the whole high school piece, right?

It's that corridor.

Um I would highly, highly recommend, like for the notes that those are yellow, but then additionally, um there have been some because this is for safety, right?

Um there have been some safety upgrades in our city that have done the lower level, and then we go back and we go back and we go back because it's still not safe enough.

And so the the corridor of um club center and Banfield uh in North Natomas is a great example of that, unfortunately.

There were three lives lost before we got to the level upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, and that we are at now, and I really think that the corridor of Club Center and Banfield is a model of what safety should be when especially when students are present.

So it's yellow, but it has the um the bars that force people to slow down.

It has, you know, the two I don't know your technical term for what they are.

I actually asked in the past and I don't I don't have the technical term.

Um but the bars are about two and a half feet tall, probably three feet tall, and they're they're planted in the road.

And so when we look at location five with that, you you had the right name for it, the center place where they can stand.

What was that called again?

Um, refuge media.

There we go.

When we look at that option, but then also um uh location six and seven have something in the center of the road there, it's a great opportunity to put those bars, which increases the visibility.

There's reflectors on the top, and we're you're going at it at safety, so we should do a small cost when we're in a project to make it as safe as possible, especially when high high traffic of students are present in a high in a you know busy time of day.

Um so just some recommendations that I have on that.

Um I do think that that corridor is and I the neighborhood I think helped kind of fund that because it just wasn't safe enough, and people the efforts of the white wasn't good, and so then we went to yellow and now we're at that the level that it is very safe.

Everybody slows down, and it should be sort of the model when we're going in for safety because the cost of three times versus let's just throw a couple extra bars where we're already construction, is I can only imagine vastly different for our city.

Okay.

Um, but then my other question was the signal modification.

Can can you talk more about what that is?

You might have said it initially and I was just taking notes and maybe I missed it, but on for the six and seven, there were a few things, but what is the modification that is planned there?

Okay, so for number six, we'll start with number six.

Uh there's an added phase, meaning um allowing another uh leg of the intersection to be uh actuated is the term.

Um so meaning out of Hisbury Lane, I think in currently as it stands, it's not signalized, um so it's kind of like a treat it as a stop and then you know look look left and see if everything's okay and then turn right.

Um but in this instance it will be um you will see you know a red ball, and you're gonna wait for that green light to come in and um be able to, you know, choose which direction you would like to go right or left.

Um so that that is the modification that's being done there.

Um there's also I think traffic traffic central equipment that's gonna be upgraded due to that to be to keep it up to standard and also um be able to accommodate some coordination um along the whole corridor itself, not just this intersection.

Um does so do those locations, especially with them being with high influx of traffic when there's a school event, start of school, end of school, those sorts of things.

Do they have the push button?

Is that part of the signal modification?

Will there be a push button signal available in those crosswalks?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Knapper.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your presentation.

Thank you for your questions.

Um do these signals have sound?

Yes.

So um typically when you approach it, it has that beeping sound.

And obviously, if it if in a busy street like uh Florin, um you're gonna hear a lot of the cars going by, it's really really loud.

That beep will be able to be louder as it adjusts to the noise level.

And then um if you press the button, it'll tell you you know, wait.

And then there's the option to if you hold the button, it can give you information on where exactly you are crossing at what street, and um, provide information that way so you um those who are visually impaired can have information on where they're going.

Thank you so much again for your pre presentation.

Thank you.

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

Thank you, Chair.

We do not have any speakers for this item.

Thank you.

We'll now move on to our second item, L and N Street bikeways project.

Hello, Commission, it's nice to see you again.

I'm Luke Fusen, a senior engineer in Public Works.

I'll be talking about the L and Instreat Bikeways project today.

Um today we're gonna go through a quick introduction to the project and a little bit of the project background, the coordination that's gonna go into making this project successful.

Um, show you some of the preliminary design, and we'll talk about the funding and timeline and open it up to discussion.

The limits of the L and Street Bikeways project are shown with the orange lines on the map.

The purpose of the L and Industry Bikeways project is it is to extend the separated bikeway network within the central city between the existing and other proposed bike facilities to improve connections between neighborhoods and key community destinations at the downtown core and keep and encourage more bicycle trips.

The state of California is currently constructing the Capitol Annex project, which is shown with the blue lines on the map and the state capital and the Capitol Park is shown on the map as well.

That project will install separated Class 4 bikeways and associated modifications to the roadway lane configuration, parking and traffic signal operations along L Street between 10th Street and 14th Street, and along N Street from 9th Street to 14th Street.

This project, the L-And Street Bikeways project, will implement separated Class 4 bikeways along L Street and M Street from 5th Street to the beginning of the proposed Capital Annex improvements, and on L Street as well from 14th Street to Alhambra Boulevard, and on In Street from 14th to 15th Street and from 5th Street, or on in street from uh 10th Street, where do I and on in street in Street from uh 5th Street to 9th Street?

Sorry about that, and 14th Street to 15th Street.

This project this project will provide a continuous low stress bikes bikeway couplet along L Street and M Street, enhancing bicycle access to downtown amenities during the design.

Individual blocks may include buffered class two bike lanes if parking separated class four bikeways are determined to be infeasible due to curbside uses or driveway spacing.

The project will also upgrade all non-standard curb ramps within the project footprint to be ADA accessible and will install accessible pedestrian signal upgrades at every um signalized intersection within the project limits, and there are a over 20 intersections.

And I think we're in the project.

I think we're gonna do APS upgrades to 17 um separate intersections with this project, providing APS throughout throughout the throughout the project on L Street from 5th Street to Alhambra Boulevard, and on N Street from Fifth Street to 15th Street.

The project was initially scoped to end at 15th Street on both L Street and N Streets.

Um I'll explain the city was recently awarded an affordable housing and sustainable communities grant that allowed us to extend the project on L Street from 15th Street to Alhambra Boulevard.

So we'll be able to project background.

Um, the L and Street Bikeways project meets the goal of the central city-specific plan to increase mobility and allow safe and convenient movement of pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and automobiles while managing parking.

This project is similar to the recently constructed Central city mobility project, which expanded the protected bikeway network on I Street, P Street, Q Street, Fifth Street, 9th Street, 10th Street, 19th Street, and 21st Street.

So it's essentially, it's kind of like that, and we're expanding the bikeway network on the downtown grid.

Some of the benefits of this project, it'll approve accessibility for all users.

Uh fill fill gaps in the existing bicycle network by adding new facilities through travel lane reductions, provide new parking and protected bike bikeways, establish a more complete continuous bicycle network with approach appropriate crossing treatments, and provide low stress bicycle connections between the Capitol and DOCO and into Midtown.

Some key considerations for this project.

We are evaluating potential on-street parking impacts.

We expect some parking losses, but we'll do our best to minimize those.

This is a multimodal project and will benefit transit users and uh and all users.

Solid waste pickup is always a consideration when installing separated bikeways, so we'll be coordinating with solid waste pickup and accommodating locations for solid waste, and then finally uh Union Pacific does operate railroad tracks within the project limits on that run north-south between 19th Street and 20th Street.

So there will be UPRR railroad coordination with this project.

We also will be uh coordinating with the community.

The project includes a robust outreach plan.

The project installs improvements along L Street adjacent to the Golden One Center.

So we will coordinate our events with the with the events team and consider the arena's traffic management plan, and we'll consult with PBIDs and community organizations like CADA, Downtown SAC Partnership, and Midtown Associated and other community organizations.

So let's get to the project.

The proposed improvements include, as I said, accessible pedestrian signals at all intersections.

I think there's 17 intersections within the project limits, and those upgrades will include the audible functionality, the virotactile functionality with the push buttons, countdown heads, and all the kind of modern modern APS upgrades that come along with upgrading signals for accessibility.

We also will be all upgrading all non-standard curb ramps throughout the project limits to be ADA compliant, and we'll evaluate the appropriate type of curb ramp through the design.

But they may be plaza style ramps, K-A, KC, or the bi-directional corner corner, ADA ramps, whatever is the most appropriate solution for the given location.

The project does include a lane reduction in certain locations, reducing the number of traveled lanes from three to two in order to install those protected bikeways.

And in some locations where the roadway is currently two lanes, we'll be doing some upgrades to the striping, refreshing the striping for visibility and those types of things.

So the state capital annex project, which is going to be constructed around the same time as ours, probably just slightly before, is current is currently in design.

And the state capital annexed frontage improvements are shown on this slide.

The top view shows L Street between 10th Street and 11th Street at Capitol Park.

The existing road is a three-lane, one-way road, although one lane has been blocked for quite some time due to annex construction.

Between 10th Street and 11th Street, the Annex project will maintain three lanes of traffic with a buffered bikeway, but the remainder of the project will have two traffic lanes and either a buffered bikeway with delineators, raised concrete median, or parking protected bikeway.

The Capital Annex project will upgrade the traffic signals to APS signals as well and upgrade curb ramps.

And the bottom view shows in Street where the Capital Annex project will reduce three lanes of traffic to two lanes and install parking protected bikeways, APS signals, and upgraded curb ramps.

So I just wanted to show that to give a picture of kind of what the state is doing and how our project will tie into it.

This slide shows a representation of the improvements that we'll be making on L Street.

The view at the on the top shows the proposed improvements for L Street from 7th Street to 8th Street.

This is intended to show the typical improvements that will be implemented throughout the L and Instreet Bikeways project.

As shown on the typical cross section on the bottom of the slide, the existing road is a one-way, three-lane roadway between 5th Street and 14th Street, and a two-lane roadway from 14th Street to Alhambra Boulevard.

This project will remove one lane of traffic where there are currently three lanes to create space for a six-foot to seven-foot parking protected bikeway.

The project will update the class two bike lanes where the road is two lanes.

The traffic signals again will be upgraded to include APS, including countdown ped heads, new APS push buttons and ladder crosswalks.

The project will upgrade all non-standard curb ramps to be ADA compliant.

The project will incorporate green conflict pavement marking at driveways and other required locations, such as bus stops and loading zones, will be identified, and the design will make sure that loading zones are accommodated with the project.

So the project is early in development right now, and the design of the extension of L Street down to Alhambra Boulevard has yet to be designed.

We are currently working on a council action to award grant funding and increase the scope of the project.

So we don't have a design for that section yet, but I'll be sure to take your comments into consideration.

The view on top of this slide shows the proposed improvements for in-street from 7th Street to 8th Street.

As shown on the typical cross section on the bottom of the slide, the existing road is a one-way, three-lane roadway between 5th Street and 15th Street.

The design is similar to L Street.

The project will remove one traffic landing, create space for a six-foot to seven-foot parking protected bikeway.

The traffic signals will be upgraded to include APS, including countdown pet heads, new APS push buttons, ladder crosswalks, upgrade all non-standard curb ramps to be ADA compliant, and again incorporate green conflict pavement markings at driveways and other required locations, such as bus stops.

So similar improvements for L and N Street.

This project was initially funded locally by the city's transportation corridor program.

The funding was intended to cover the initial scope of work from Fifth Street to Capitol Park and from 14th Street to 15th Street.

Last spring, the California Department of Housing and Community Development issued a notice of funding availability for the affordable housing and sustainable communities program, which is AHSC.

The city partnered with Community Housing Works, which provides affordable apartment affordable apartment communities on a grant application that would assist the I Street apartment development and allow the L and N Street bikeways project to increase in scope.

The project was awarded $3.4 million, and that's how we were able to add the additional work down to Alhambra and the additional APS at intersections and curb ramps and those type of things.

We're working on the cost estimate.

Again, this is this project's in very preliminary at the moment.

So we're working on the estimates, but the current estimated construction cost is estimated to be approximately 5 million.

Around $5 million for now.

So here's the project timeline.

We're currently in the preliminary engineering phase, and uh we're working on that.

Um, during the preliminary engineering phase, we'll be um initiating our community outreach and public engagement um efforts on this project to get out in the community and talk to talk to businesses and the side of things with the goal of completing our environmental documentation, preliminary engineering, and our city's project report by the end of this year.

Throughout the process, we'll be working with uh UPRR and the California Public Utilities Commission and Sacramento RT on all the various railroad coordination and transit coordination that this project has.

Around the start of 2027, we'll transition into final design with the with the goal to complete final design and advertise the project for construction in 2027 and then um you know hopefully be in construction in 2028.

So with that, um, open it up for our discussion.

Thank you so very much for your presentation.

Before I allow that before hand it over to the other commissioners, um, I just had a concern with the with um the buffers taken of space space where like vehicles with ADA equipment like for loading and unloading, possibly being blocked by the buffers.

Um handy uh ADA stall parking stalls will will be incorporated into the into the parking um similar to the project that's shown on the screen here, which starts with which was our central city mobility project that was recently constructed, and um that it'll it'll kind of you know they'd be very similar to to how those um stalls were installed um on that project.

Okay, okay, thank you.

Um Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh thank you.

Um I was on the DAC ten years ago when the parking protected bike lanes were first coming around, and at the time I like them, and then in practicality I'm like got mixed feelings about them.

Number one my number one feeling is I feel people don't use them when they should.

They're on the sidewalk still, and it's like we spent all this money to create these, and it's like the scooters and the bike should be over there, and I'm on the sidewalk, so that I'll get off that soapbox for a minute.

We spend this money, let's use it.

Come on, they're there.

My other kind of gripe with how it was implemented, you say you're gonna minimize parking, the impacts on the parking.

I would say maybe not minimize it so much, because my interaction with them with these is when you're trying to cross the street with the bike lane there at the down curb.

Now it's hard for oncoming traffic to see that somebody is trying to cross the street.

It gets a little precarious.

I feel like we need like one less car, possibly maybe more.

I don't I don't really have a great solution for this because of the visibility, it's like you're too far back, and I'm it's like I don't want to necessarily venture that far out.

So there's kind of a dichotomy on that side of the street.

On the other side of the streets, not so bad.

So uh that's just kind of my I've been like racking my brain on this one.

So I don't have a great solution for you.

So um, so I just toss that out there as you're trying to design this, keeping that in mind of the visibility of someone, and especially somebody, you know, utilizing uh a mobility device like a wheelchair or power chair, they may be lower and there could be a big truck, so then they're not gonna be seen.

You know, there the there's there's some kind of sight line issues that I think I don't really have great solutions.

I'm gonna be honest on that.

So I just asked to consider um the creativity of our engineers on that one.

Um the last question I have, and it may be more towards the state project, if I'm right, given where I'm gonna ask, versus what you're talking about here, but since you brought up both, I might as well.

Um at I believe it's 13th and N is kind of been a precarious, you know, precarious um intersection.

So there is a light at 12th and end, and to get, you know, right now there's with the project, there's that's where the Capitol Garage is for the legislature usually, but and then at so I see why there's not a lighted intersection the next block up, you know, but there is the Westminster church on one corner, and then there is um uh senior, forgetting the name of it, but like a senior living facility on the other corner, and then you have Capital Park on the other side, obviously.

And so many times there's a lot of, you know, especially when there are church activities, and then there are a lot of residents living on in that corner trying to cross, you know, they want to go hang out in the in our beautiful Capitol Park, and it gets a little precarious around I would say heavy commute times like around between four and six in the evening, you know.

Um people are you know probably driving a little too fast down M Street in my opinion, that's a whole nother thing.

Uh the I mean, the speed limit's the speed limit, but they're clearly not going to speed limit, so that's a whole nother, you know, issue.

But I'm wondering if a similar signal like what's at um near target on um J and 18th with the Oh the R RRFB.

Yeah, yeah.

No, whatever it't know what I was talking about.

Yeah, if something like that could be, because I'm a full-on lighted intersection may not be necessary at that, because then you have another one at 15th.

So I get that the traffic flow may not warrant a full-on you know, signalized intersection here, but something more than just a crosswalk, I think is needed given what is at that corner with the church and the residents and such.

So I just figure I'd toss that out.

If we can add that into this project, that would be great.

Okay.

Well, thanks for your input.

I'll we'll look into that.

Thanks.

Thank you, Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes.

Um on the slide that had showed the map of the Capitol Annex.

And you were showing, I guess, the whole project, um, all the way to Alhambra Boulevard, and then the capital annex was in um this map.

Okay, yeah, yeah, this map.

Okay.

So we have the light blue and then the orange.

Right.

So when the Capitol Annex project segments are finished by the state.

Will you and the city then be able to jump in and conclude this project and hole with the ADA bicycle lane improvements and such, but currently you have to wait for the state to finish the annex project, or is that even after it's finished gonna be untouched?

We wouldn't necessarily have to wait for them to finish.

They're there, I think they're a little bit ahead of us in project development right now.

Yeah, so they're they're the city's actually re reviewing their develop their their frontage improvement plans right now in our development engineering group.

And so they're they're on I think their second or third plan review, and they're their project right now is uh plan to go a little bit ahead of ours.

So if the way the timing currently works out is um on the schedule, we'll be going to construction around the same time they're potentially finishing.

It could the projects could overlap.

Um if we were to go first, we would just need to coordinate with them because there's coordination to how we tie into each other.

Um but as of right now, it's looking like their project price start first, and then we'll come in and tie into it.

It'll be a but it'll be a seamless, it'll look you know, seamless project when it's complete.

Um, two projects are very similar.

Okay, and then on the um part of the city segment, particularly L Street, crosses, looks like it's here 19th and 20th Street.

Correct.

And in that section, you uh indicated coordination with the California Public Utilities Commission and the Union Pacific Railroad.

That's right.

Uh let me also remind uh staff, the public and the commission, much as like I did on that last item we heard about Floor and Road and the railroad alignment that I mentioned at grade.

This is the same railroad alignment and not far from the planned midtown station for Altamont Corridor Express and the Gold Runner before they head north to uh either old North Sacramento, which is the subject of that meeting this evening at Woodlake Elementary School or their terminus at Rio Linda and Natomas off of Elkhorn and Blacktop.

So with that in mind, uh would you be able to include any coordination uh on this with the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission and San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority since by 2031 they're planning to run passenger trains through here, increasing the heavy rail traffic uh through this area in addition to the existing freight train schedule that UP runs.

Okay.

Um I think that that would be a public benefit.

Um and certainly uh what I mentioned earlier about the sections in light blue, uh, which I know doesn't have anything to do with the railroad, but has more a lot to do with the ADA accessibility directly and the protected bike lanes uh and to Vice Chair Ellis' point uh about separating um scooters at and E of vehicles um that are non-motorized from pedestrians and the sidewalk, I think is gonna be uh critical thing.

So that's part of his comments that I'll second uh here on uh on the podium.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum.

Um Commissioner Pullen.

Uh I just wanted to thank you for the uh the very specific as specific as you can, ADA stuff.

Um uh I also appreciate specifically naming like the vibr tact tactile stuff and things like that that's um really important.

I think um obviously you guys are the experts um with when it comes to engineering and making this stuff happen.

So it's one of those things where when I just see like just ADA ramp, I have I assume that that somebody knows, but it's really nice to specifically name it.

So I really appreciate that.

Um, and yeah, that's basically it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Pulling, Commissioner Carr.

Thank you for your presentation.

My questions aligned with um uh uh Vice Chair um Alice's comments, and um my question was to two points.

Um one is like you were you mentioned minimizing um parking spaces.

Are there any existing uh uh spaces that are accessible parking spots?

Uh are there any available right now?

And if they are if they're moved, will they remain um compatible distance that they are currently?

That is the first one.

And then second is that um, you know, you said public outreach will happen historically, public outreach does not have that, you know.

Um don't get that many good results, so what will be the will there be any specific um steps you'll take to make sure that you get uh because this is such a being such a um uh you know centralized location and uh being a huge uh space which affects so many people.

So will you have some specific steps to make sure that you get a lot of uh public input on these topics?

Thank you.

Yeah, I guess to your second question, we have a public outreach uh consulting firm on our team that has an outreach plan plan for the project that includes um meetings, meetings with the public and and business owners, and like you said, like the you know, the different associations and those type of things around the downtown area and midtown area.

We're currently in the process of getting that getting that getting that started.

Um so we will be planning meetings um with this project, and I can let the commission know, you know, when those meetings um will occur if if that's um desired.

But we have we have an outreach plan um for this project and to your first question um I don't have the number of the existing uh ADA stalls off the top of my head, but we will be installing um standard to two standard, the number of appropriate um ADA stall parking stalls um per the regulations and guidance.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr.

Commissioner Wilson, too for the presentation.

So uh, this uh target protection to all the types, credit opportunities to increase the availability of accessible to target for the accessible vehicle.

Expressive with uh, the roadside.

Cause long as uh there's no barrier directly text to the vehicle.

Like uh crazy car creates so it's usually uh because it makes it easier to look at it because uh good card parking cutified uh because there's uh specific set of circumstances, so there has to be our tree there, so utility plan for the type of fence.

Cover with these uh barking protect your bike lines, because there's a barrier directly for a reds to use a fixer for excess of the cause log as uh the curve of the street because they're too steep because it is your tour extra.

So I keep it there, yeah.

Okay, no, I appreciate that.

Take that into consideration.

Okay.

Thank you, Commissioner Wilson.

Uh, Commissioner Patel.

Oh, hi, thank you so much for your presentation.

I'm gonna echo back into Commissioner Ellis and go back to the bike lane and the scooter.

And I don't know if it's something you can do in um in your capacity as somebody who lives in district four.

There are tons of people with their scooters just speeding away.

And is there a possibility of saying, you know, bike lane, bike and scooter lane just to try to encourage them?

Because you know, downtown is very there's a lot of traffic.

Um I walk to work, a lot of people walk to work, it's very congested already, and then you just got all of a sudden somebody zooming in with a scooter.

Imagine if there's somebody walking, um, there is a lot of people with disability walking, especially those who are blind, those restrained to wheelchair, and you have to, you know, you have all these scooters just going left and right.

I think there's a very increase of scooter ri uh like s people riding in scooters.

I don't know how to explain it.

Um, but is there a way to not only name the lanes as bike lanes but also bike and scooters?

That's interesting, interesting comment.

I I think, you know, I wanna say that I've been to uh other cities where they might have had some signs that that um recommended that the scooters use the bike lane.

Um I don't know about painting on the on the paint itself because that's kind of a um standard uh paint you know, symbols that are adopted.

But um signage is something, you know, I c I can take a look at.

I'm not sure if that's been done in the city, but it's something I can maybe look into.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, there's just so many, and it even at myself I have even tripped.

I hear you, yeah.

I yeah.

Hi, um thank you so much for for all of this.

I'm a visual person, so I especially appreciated the real pictures too to help me kind of visualize what is gonna be going on down here.

Um I think my question kind of echoes these, or maybe idea, um I've ridden in some of these newer bike lanes that have been painted and so I so appreciate them.

I've taken my family and what my experiences and when I've talked to other families who have done the same thing, is that um licensed drivers can understand the nuances of some of these new um like the one picture that was up a few minutes ago, um some of these nuanced ways of making the bike lanes work.

Um it makes sense because we have this training as a licensed driver, but our our children are teenagers go and they're like, whoa, where where am I where what am I supposed to do now?

'Cause they approach something that looks very different than a bike lane that they're used to.

Um and I can imagine that if teenagers who aren't quite licensed drivers that maybe licensed drivers who haven't had drivers' training might be approaching it the same way, and potentially drivers may also be not realizing oh that's this bike lane has this thoroughway.

And so I I really think that there is an opportunity and wonder and roll those scooters into this idea.

Um if there is an a place where maybe your team partners with Jive who does so much education and outreach for for uh you know active activity in biking and things in the community to create some training and educational videos um on how do I negotiate how how do I use this pathway when you know your your designs I'm reading them and I'm looking at the little nuances, I'm like, oh, that's how that works.

But that looks totally different than anything I've seen before in an intersection.

And so when a biker approaches it or a student um on their way to school approaches it, it's a safety it might be a safety concern.

So I just I wonder about some training and educational outreach videos might be something that can roll as commercials if they're short, it might be something that could play on the TV screens and the bus stations that have them.

Um but I think there's an opportunity to help educate our community here as part of that public outreach.

And so I just I wanted to share that idea and that wondering.

Um maybe we get some of the scooters off the sidewalks that way too.

Um and AI will do it all for you now.

So there's there are some really cool chatbots that'll just make the video for you.

It's kind of crazy.

Um but then my question is um the the section, uh and you guys have probably already thought about this, but the section um of uh what is it, Fifth Street, Fifth Street, maybe to 10th or in that that area on L.

Um sometimes when we are improving our city, it becomes a public danger a little bit while the construction phase um my husband's garage was on Fifth and L and it moved to 9th and L.

And when there's an event at DOCO uh at Golden One, he it is we are four blocks and it is increased his commute home by 25 minutes just by moving parking garages four streets up because now he has to cut through it.

Um and so I'm wondering about when those blocks are being uh in construction, is there a discussion or an idea about more of a quick build um phase so that that gets done more quickly, and is there some really good thought about like the prime season and the really really increased peak season of events that are uh that are at Golden One maybe not being when you're working on those blocks.

Yeah, um I understand your your point there.

Um we're we're really early in project development, so we haven't started laying out you know uh detour plans or traffic handling plans and that kind of those types of things yet.

Um I understand, understand that issue.

Um, all I can say is uh once we get closer to um I'll be closer to having final design and start looking at at those things.

I'll you know I'll remember your comment and uh I think that like winter season, I mean there's a couple months there where it is every other night or five of the seven nights a week.

Um and so that can be pretty hazardous for the public right-of-way if it's being constructed during that really peak time.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, no, thank you.

Commissioner Patel, uh Commissioner Natcher.

Yes, thank you.

I hope you can hear me okay, it's just Leslie now for speaking.

Thank you for your presentation.

Also love the visuals.

Um I think um thank you, Commissioner Patel.

I appreciate that I love the PSA training video.

Great, love it.

Um also concern around the the fifth the DOCO area, um, particularly for events as a person with disability, and sometimes drop off is challenging if it's not thought through.

So as you expand this, I hope there's consideration for drop off for those of us that may need that um accessibility access way to do so.

Yeah, you're referring to at the arena.

Yeah.

That area.

As you expand the lane or in those PSA videos, you guys can let us know um where we should be going.

Yeah.

We have started thinking about how that coordination is gonna work with um specifically loading and unloading because I know there is loading and unloading right there on L Street, yeah.

It's already kind of tough.

Um, and then um another consideration, um, I think somewhere in the mid area, midtown area on the L Street, I think there's another big church over there.

Don't quote me.

Please forgive me.

Center appraise if it's you, I'm sorry if I got it wrong, but um, you know, parking is gonna be interesting for them.

Also, maybe as an outreach, maybe connect with some of the larger churches and okay in that area as well.

And then the other consideration I'm very concerned about is the around um 25th and all the way to 29.

Actually, I hammer, but there's um there's a housing.

There's housing product, you know, um housing there, and um that's um how disability community community neighbors there, um, older adult community there, and um navigating Cetters Fort, Center Hospital, trying to go to Fafeway, all these other things, and so um that could be another operator community outreach to their, you know, to their tenant residential counselor, whatever that looks like for them, how would they name it?

I think that'd be a really good idea.

They may be wonderful thought partners um with um ensuring that they have you know access and are comfortable with um you know with crossing streets and etc.

etc.

I I received what um um vice commissioner um vice chair Ellis um shared around, not sure what to do because sometimes the broader um curves make it hard for cars to see us, but the bars work really well, but what does that look like, right?

Because the bars sometimes are a little taller than me, but um, it feels like so.

But I think for the older adult community in this area that I know um are and our our disability neighbors that live around this area, they they're mobile, they're you know, they're outside, also um lots of drop slot drop-offs and pickups too, and that includes medical transports, and so I just wanted to throw that out there.

They may be really good thought partners as you can.

Yeah, I agree that's gonna be an interesting part of the project by the hospital and setters for it and through that area, you know.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Knapper.

Uh, Commissioner Bronbaum.

Yes, um, Commissioner Knapper brought up a good point about the loading and unloading around the DOCO, the arena and events, and you know, we're it's part of the project area, and it made me think that we're also gonna have a similar challenge uh, including with uh ADA uh items, I'm sure, uh, coming up on North 7th around Rail Yards Boulevard, when the 20,000 seat plus pitch is going to open in 2028.

We're also gonna need to discuss some of the similar things there as Commissioner Knapper uh brought up that are existing today around DOCO in the arena uh because that's gonna affect in our um expanded downtown core, if you will, uh, once that opens.

Um but to the sediments I'm hearing, and uh I kind of raised it earlier um that commissioners uh Ellis uh Patel and Guerrero uh brought up and I mentioned too about uh scooters uh and bicycles and motorized vehicles being separate from pedestrians, uh persons in uh wheelchairs, um persons in uh motorized uh type type scooters like the hove around or you know and things like that.

Uh it seems to me, and maybe I can um uh Jesse put this in a um motion of directing staff to look at crafting an agenda item after the recess.

Because I know they're in budget talks right now, and that's their focus.

Uh, but bringing an item to the full council after recess, declaring similar to what Katie Maple said, um, this issue that we're discussing uh on the separate things of roads and sidewalks, uh a uh an ADA um emergency, and where we c introduce ordinances and laws and city limits uh to enforce who is to use the sidewalk and who should not be using the sidewalk particularly first and foremost from a safety issue so I'd like that to be a motion and be brought to council in late July or later after they finish their uh budget proceedings.

Yeah so just to respond uh Commissioner Barnbaum um I think like I can discuss with the chair and vice chair on um bring in an item I think if I heard you right it's just it's about the the laws around the sidewalk usage and the scooters and you know the uh speeds between the various modes of travel and I'll I'll go back and listen but yeah or or that essentially I think and I think that might come I can maybe I know our our planning division is probably doing some work on that and see if see if there they might have a have an item they can bring forward but um I'll I'll I'll work with the chair and vice chair and see if there's an item we can bring forward about that.

Yeah because it it often comes down to you know whoa like can you please walk your device if you're gonna use the sidewalk and that's and it might be just a simple report back.

I'll I'll check in with our I I've talked to our planning staff about that very issue just you know water cooler and they'll tell me oh yeah and they'll rattle off some things right but it's just not on my mind right now but um I don't know I don't know Luke have you have you come across what planning's saying about that just with regard to the scooters in the back lanes yeah I mean I I don't want to speak necessarily on behalf of the commission but if the commission here agrees with with me that this should be a motion and something that goes to direct staff to bring to full council then we definitely could speak as a group.

Can I comment real quick?

Just to make clear this is a specific agenda item yeah on this specific project and it sounds like what you're bringing up is something you might briefly mention during uh um commissioner comments because it's it's not specific to this it sounds like it's more of a broad issue that you're raising so that might be a brief mention during uh commission comments um and then Jesse would have to examine what means there are um if if staff wants to agendize something how they're going to then do that and and what what uh what process is allowed through uh the the council rules um for uh well the council rules of procedure yeah so so I mean to your point yes it is a broad issue but also it kind of started in this item itself it it was it was referenced in this item but it sounds like it's a general um discussion that you're raising yeah about uh scooters right which for all eight districts yeah so that may be something be more appropriate to to briefly mention yeah during um uh the uh commission comments okay I'll we're gonna and then uh Jesse at that point can can respond or or or take an under advisement how how best to approach that okay thank you thank you thank you for your presentation okay thank you uh clerk are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item thank you chair we do not have any speakers for this item.

Thank you.

And we will now move on to or first we will we'll now move on to commissioner.

Commissioner.

I think it's Jesse's report.

Then Commissioner Commons.

Okay, and so we have a report from JIT.

Yeah.

So I'll give um staff report out.

So January 14th, DAC approved your annual report.

It was forwarded to the PPE committee.

That was heard on February 24th, approved by the PPE and forwarded to the city council for full approval.

And then the recommendation for the citywide ADA coordinator was forwarded to budget and audit.

So on um March 24th, 2026, the annual report was approved by the city council on consent, and on May 5th, yesterday, uh budget and audit committee heard a presentation on the uh citywide 88 coordinator position.

So it was a good discussion, and there was some follow-up in the afternoon.

And I'd encourage you if you want to continue to follow that item that council will be discussing the budget on May 12th, and also I think adopting the budget on June 9th.

So yeah, so that's that's a um that's my report.

And then I'd like to turn it over to Stephanie Sies, and she has done some uh she has a report out on just other activities in the Department of Public Works.

Yeah, so hello.

So for May, you wanted to give you all updates on things that have been accomplished and things that are coming up.

So HCP 10 pedestrian crossing improvements project started construction last month, and this project was reviewed by the DAC on October 4th, 2023, and then the Morrison Creek had a ribbon cutting this last weekend on May 2nd, commemorating the completion of the planning study, and the city has started pursuing funding for the Morrison Creek Shared Use Trail.

And this project was reviewed by the commission on February 5th, 2025, and something I don't think the DAC has reviewed this, but it's an update on things that our partner DE has done.

So the city is supporting the grand welcoming ribbon cutting for the San Juan apartments, a new affordable housing community at Stockton Boulevard and Fruit Ridge Road, and the event will take place on May on Monday, July 7th at 9 30 a.m.

And we'll celebrate the opening of a hundred and thirteen units serving households earning 30 to 60 percent area median income.

The city contributed 2.5 million through its pro housing incentive program to help deliver this project, and the city's participation includes joining partners, residents, and community members for remarks or a ceremonial ribbon cutting insight towards to mark this milestone and highlight the city's commitment to expand access to quality and affordable housing.

And thank you.

That's all any questions.

Okay, thank you.

And if that is if that is the end of Jesse's report, we'll now move on to Commissioner Comments.

Commissioner Barnbaum.

Yes, um, thank you.

So yeah, just to follow up to our attorney's point, um, I would like to uh make the recommendation based on the rant I made in the last item uh that an item come to the city council uh after their uh July recess uh so they can, as you pointed out in May and the rest of June, they could focus on the budget uh and then bring an item of concern that um a few of us have raised um to the council and see if that water cooler talk can actually become action of the nine members um that uh were appointed by.

Um I think that they will appreciate that that discussion happened.

Um second thing I wanted to bring up.

Um last month I was working some bus bridges in uh old North Sacramento, and there was a flyer on one of the polls, which uh had the logo of the city of Sacramento on it, and the date had already passed.

So I pulled it and I said, We haven't discussed this that I could recall.

So it's called the and I'll I'll give this to uh uh Jesse when we adjourn.

Um so I like to request that um the DAC have a presentation at an upcoming meeting before the end of the year if we don't have one yet on the Arden Auburn Mobility Plan.

Um they had a pop-up location apparently on Tuesday, March 24th, to discuss with projects, share your experiences, and provide input on how the city can improve safety circulation and access along these corridors.

And they're the city's question was what's it like traveling on Ardenway and Auburn Boulevard?

And apparently there's a project website, city of sacramento.gov forward slash Arden Auburn plan.

Um I don't know if uh Chair Kramer if we've had this particular discussion, but I told myself save this flyer and bring this up at our next meeting, so it's today, and if that's something we can agendize or put in the follow-up log, I would appreciate it.

So I can respond to this.

Yes, on this one.

Yeah.

I don't think we've discussed any anything in the Arden area this year, or right.

So um I'll respond to that.

This this is uh project being in our planning group, and so it's not in engineering services yet.

Okay, uh, you know, engineering services manages uh the projects and we bring for our projects because they're at a they're at a development level that we think is beneficial, like kind of like what was said in some of the earlier comments uh where you have enough detail you can give guidance and give and we and we as staff have time to incorporate those comments.

Planning uh typically doesn't uh want to bring projects to the DAC.

Um there, but I what I would say is I would encourage you to get involved at their outreach meetings and express your um comments there, because if they are funded to go into implementation, they'll come here.

So they'll come here.

So you're getting so I think you would just be getting on a very early look.

Oh, but um uh they typically uh don't don't want to um come present projects here.

Um that's not to say they never do, but certain certain efforts do come before the DAC, but they typically um don't bring things at that high-level planning.

Um, so I'd encourage you though to comment on their and go to their outreach events.

Okay, so this currently, like you said, is in planning and hasn't gotten to engineering level yet.

No, okay, so hang on to this.

Then uh last thing, uh, just an announcement.

Uh starting tomorrow, at least through May 2nd, um, the Florin and Meadow View stations will be closed due to construction.

Uh a bus bridge or shuttle buses will be in effect uh from 47th Avenue station to the Franklin station, and they will not be stopping at the Morrison Creek station.

So please plan ahead.

Um shuttle buses cannot run uh as fast as or the exact alignment or speed uh as as a train.

Uh and so if there's any concerns about uh this coming up starting tomorrow, uh the phone number to contact is uh 916-321-2877.

If you had any follow-up questions about um the Florin and Meadow View uh platform modification project, uh and then it looked like uh we have on the calendar election day is June 2nd.

Please don't forget to vote.

And then the DAC meets immediately the next day after the election, it looks like at uh 17 30 here in the chamber.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Barnbaum, Vice Vice Chair Ellis.

Um yeah, first I just want to thank everyone for all the um feedback and the questions for the projects we've received tonight.

I think it's really important.

That's what that's the value we bring.

And like Jesse was saying, like, there's a lot of projects, but we get them at a point where we can add value to them where they're not that you know it's not saying that they wouldn't be value, but there's no like if it's in planning, it may it could be 10 years from now before this is these are projects that are eminent.

So, um, and I want to say I think it's really promising to see where we're at with the um citywide ADA coordinator.

This has been long overdue, long time coming, and um, at least my impression of the comments from the budget naughty committee yesterday, you know, I'll count I'll characterize it as cautiously um supportive.

You know, uh I thought I was shocked that it was referred to committee in the first place.

Number one, and then number two, I figured it would get there and they would say something like we would love to fund this, but we just don't have the money, but it's now being included in the larger uh full council budget discussion, and there's a lot of things going on, you know, with that.

There are a lot of moving parts, a lot of different funding streams being talked about, and a lot of pressures on the city budget, but the fact that this is at the council and it's being discussed, um, I think says a lot about what we're doing and how we're doing it here, and being mindful of that, our annual reports matter.

They are being reviewed, they are being discussed, they are being considered, and a lot of that has to do with the work and contributions of everyone uh on the commission.

So I appreciate everyone in the past who's contributed to these efforts because there's been many before us, and those of us here and those of us to come in the future.

Um, and then the other item that they did bring up also in conjunction with our ADA coordinator was about the public comment process, too.

That in July they are they they have procured a system.

Hopefully, there's some testing going on, and um there it'll it will be accessible.

I'm hopeful.

I have slight concerns there, but you know, I'm um, you know, cautiously optimistic about that implementation, and that you can sign up, you know, in chambers with your mobile device for public comment, uh, in addition to um doing public comment remotely as well, again, like we did like they had a few years ago.

So I think we've made a we've made a tremendous impact on the city as a commission.

So um, and I know sometimes it seems like there should be more, but I think you know, our approach is working, and I think it's you know, being collaborative with staff and being gracious and grateful for all the work of Jesse and the team uh of Public Works and what they're able to bring it before us and how we're able to add value to these projects is immensely important.

So I appreciate the staff and every and everyone on the dais.

So thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair Ellis.

Uh Commissioner Carr.

Thank you.

Um so I just wanted to bring highlight to um this is the national um military appreciation month, and I wanted to thank everyone who has served and um in our military and kept us safe.

So thank you so much, everyone.

And um also national Mental health awareness Month.

So we gotta make sure that we take care of ourselves, and I know um Commissioner uh Napra will obviously talk about this a lot, but I just wanna make sure that we take care of ourselves and each other.

And one thing I didn't know about, but uh May is also National Wildlife Awareness Month, and we as we have been highlighting and we have been talking about about co-designing emergency response plans for um the disability community to ensure that um accessibility is an integrated part of um planning rather than an afterthought.

So we need to keep promoting inclusive disaster planning.

Thank you so much, everyone.

Thank you, Commissioner Carr, uh Commissioner Pullin.

Well, I had a whole journey yesterday.

Um, so uh my I was there for the 11 o'clock um to do public comment.

Um and uh Vice Chair Ellis and I did a a good unplanned bad cop, good cop.

I was the bad cop.

I don't know if that's shocking.

Um, but um uh we did get some a lot of good response from the council members.

Um something that I think we should be aware of is that the council members were really um really interested in it.

Uh however, they did um really point to the city manager a lot, um, in that the city manager's job is to manage how all of these different departments because the biggest issue um and the argument in the annual report is that one ADA coordinator allows for cross-departmental work, right?

We have fantastic people in public work.

Um, I mean, the the we are very lucky in the city of Sacramento that we even have a staff member that whose job it is to deal with us, um, and the public right-of-way and the everything that comes forward in front of us is really really important, um, and a lot of cities have a lot less when it comes to accessibility in mind with the public works.

Um, however, I'm just gonna be a stick in the mud and point out that um that how how fantastic that is not even the bare minimum.

We are we are not even close to where the federal regulations require us to be as the city of Sacramento, and my fear is that currently what's happening is the good people at public works are being put as the um the figurehead of ADA accessibility, which is fantastic, up until it gets out of their job description, and um literally the assistant city manager uh looked us all in the eye and said, Well, we don't have well, we actually do have a cadre of of subject matter experts, um, and uh that's great, except they don't have a subject matter expert in disability.

Um, and so um uh I I think as much as this is fantastic, and I know I'm new to this commission, I know you guys have been hitting your head against a wall over and over and over trying to trying to push this forward, push this forward, and this is great progress.

Um, and I completely agree.

Uh, but we are to the point where um you know the idea that we are requesting or recommending to a city council to follow federal regulations, problematic uh to be honest, and so um, you know, at the end of the day, this this commission is really good, and it's really I'm glad that the city even has it and that we are paid a meager sum, but the there is um, you know, we have backing here.

Um I think it's so important to keep the heel down on we this is we here are doing everything we possibly can, but at the end of the day, we're lay people.

Um, and um our job as a commission, it literally says that our job is to uh recommend on policy to help the federal compliance.

Interesting, interesting.

I'll just say that.

Um, so uh we have a lot of good work that was just done.

Um my hope is that we can really still keep um keep the the pressure on um even if we can't get an ADA coordinator this budget because of the deficit, I think there's a lot of creative solutions that we could push to make the city at least talk to each other better.

What the city manager said was that we have great people here.

That is absolutely true.

But we need to the city needs to provide those great people with the backing to do the work that we are asking for.

And so, as much as again, the individuals are fantastic, and nobody can say that they're not.

You know, we as a commission need to keep pushing forward as far as supporting the staff members who are doing the best they can in a job description that does not say anything about us, right?

So um yeah, I really appreciate it.

And thank you, uh Vice Chair uh Ellis for for being my good cop.

Um as you can tell, I'm very cop-ish in my approach.

I don't see him as a bad company.

It's fun.

Thank you, Commissioner Pullen.

Uh, Commissioner Knapper.

Yes, thank you.

Um hope you can hear me okay, this Leslie Knapper.

Um thank you so much, Commissioner.

It's amazing.

Um lots of motivation behind that.

I appreciate it.

Um, yes, uh May of Middle Health Fund, but I want to address something really quickly.

Um, Commissioner Barnbaum, um, around the uh not necessarily directly towards you, but I I want to just out there.

Um regarding the enforcement pieces around you know how we're using the sidewalk, right?

Community, I think that that education awareness piece really should be prioritized, and then in the educational piece, right?

And so um, and then you know, I think think about enforcement, but enforcement already exists.

So the part of the education is hey, you know, you're not supposed to do this, right?

And then I think I think at some point um have a discussion around um what that looks like.

I think that's a great idea.

Um I think it's it's it kind of compliments with um Commissioner Patel mentioned around the PSAs on education, um, how to use the how to use the sidewalks, how to use the bike lanes, how to use the the new parking and all these things that are happening right now in our in our great city.

Yeah, says May's Middle Health Month, and um the theme of this year is more good days together.

And I really am honored to be in the community with all of you today.

Thank you so much.

And it made me, you know, and by the way, I'm wearing um my green ribbon or May's Middle Health Month, and I have some extra for you guys.

But I think um I wanted to share with community on the on the city of Sacramento's website, there's a segment um activities, and one can go on to if it um and the city of Sacramento through our community center parks and recreations, and I there's some wonderful opportunities for those of us um living with disability, like adaptive cycling, and I mean these amazing courses that um that also cater to our disability community, support our older adult community, like aqua size.

I mean, I think I there's there's wonderful things that are there, and for those of us that are senior, there's even opportunity to possibly have any fees if they're attached, maybe reduce through the heart program, HRT.

So I wanted to thinking about the theme for May's Mental Health Month and thinking about our wellness.

How lovely to participate in a community event through um what the city of Sacramento offers.

I think if you have any questions, I don't know where we would direct one to if they do, but on the City of Sacramento website, um, please check it out to all listening.

Thank you so much.

And um, happy May's Middle Health Month.

Thank you so much, Commissioner Knapper.

Uh Commissioner Greenbaum.

Thank you, Chair.

Um, and thank you, Commissioner Pollen, for your um your comments and your representation at um the meeting yesterday.

I um completely agree with you, and it actually kind of segues into um what I had been planning to bring up.

And um, and then when having the great staff report about um the affordable housing projects as well as um the development of tiny homes.

I'm wondering if um we can have well because I know the tiny homes are not accessible, um, I um I'm wondering if we can have some sort of presentation.

When when when the city is undertaking these um these projects, whether it's for an afford, you know, for affordable housing or for um housing for the unhoused, I think it's important that you know that perhaps we have some role in advising on that or providing um, you know, um comments, especially I I spend a lot of time with this population, and um, you know, of course, as we know, disability transcends all race, socioeconomic status, etc.

And um, I think there'd be some good considerations we may have for them um to to undertake in these projects.

I'll second that.

Thank you, Commissioner Greenbaum.

Uh Commissioner Pullen.

I promise I'll be quick.

Um access leisure is the exact, it's access leisure, and I will say that Sacramento, the city, um Access Leisure is genuinely studied in recreation therapy courses um across the actually the world.

Um we we are very lucky as a city to have certified recreation therapists whose job it is, is it to adapt sports of all kind.

We have a wheelchair softball team that works with the giants, I'm pretty sure if they're still doing that.

I mean, there is Access Leisure is an incredible program, and SAC State has an incredible recreation therapy program that works with Access Leisure as well.

Um and uh genuinely is like the first of its kind.

Um Sacramento State has a certified uh recreation therapist who works at their well at their gym that helps disabled students and that goes into the community.

So Access Leisure is exactly what you're talking about, and it's incredible.

Please check it out.

Um the second thing is yeah, as Commissioner Greenbaum says, Um the biggest thing that I'm struggling with with this commission is how do we reach out to all the rest of the city explaining, we all know here that disability is the most intersectional thing in the entire world, right?

Um I tried to tell the the city council at the 2 p.m.

that all of their priorities homelessness, uh economic development, public safety, I think was the third one, that they said this is what the budget is for.

I said disability is inherent to all three, and currently there is nobody on the city whose job it is to say, hey, I wonder how disability connects to that.

And we as a commission, we can only really act on what's in front of us, right?

And so it's really difficult to say, hey, for example, contracts and procurement, you guys did that electronic speaker slip, that's fantastic.

Who has checked that it's accessible?

IT maybe.

Okay, great.

Can we talk to them?

I don't know.

So if in the future, if there's a way somehow, maybe I just like wear a shirt that says talk to me and like walk through the halls and like uh I learned about Lambert today.

Maybe I bring cheesecake, I don't know.

I'm I'm feeling inspired.

But um if there's a way that we can like do a little song and dance to to bring people into that um and invite them to come talk to us about the tiny houses, about basically anything that the city ever does.

Disability is a part of it.

Um, and it's really hard for us as a commission to reach out in that way.

When especially like I said at the beginning, we are essentially a public works commission right now, which is again fantastic.

It's great that we exist.

Um, but how do we branch out?

That's it.

That was longer than I thought it was, anyway.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Pollen.

Uh, Commissioner Patel.

It's me.

Um I, as the fellow commissioners were speaking, I two things came to mind.

Um May is bike month, so I thought it was really fitting that we talked all about the bike path that they're gonna make better and more extensive in uh our downtown area.

Um it reminded me about uh something that happened uh something that came up during uh Vice Mayor Talamante's town hall that is actually part of uh some it's super early stages but it's a little bit about what's been being discussed here.

Um so we had the new law AB something I will not remember that went into effect uh in January about um the classes of bikes and who can ride them and where they can be written and the the whole um more detailed uh with so at her town hall that came up and scooters were rolled into that discussion and um it was shared that GIB is partnering in very early stages of partnering with uh the police chief to start to do the community outreach to figure out how we can um clarify the rules enforce the rules and I feel like we have been kind of that has recycled and come up in a lot of discussion today so um I just want to share that there are some entities who are like these are our specialties let's partner and figure out how we can get information out.

During that time I spoke to both of them and and said hey a lot of the offenders are kids because they don't know and so when you get to a place how are we partnering with schools to make sure that they can uh they know where they're where they reside within those uh rules and how can they help educate their their students um so just for the commission to know some of the concerns there it's early but it's being talked about um and I wonder if maybe uh Jesse if maybe as we hear about what they're doing maybe at some point they come present here to to um get some feedback on what they might be presenting to the public or moving forward with um and then you were talking about access leisure so I just I want to celebrate the cities uh since the last time we met they had a huge um YPC the youth park and community enrichment fair um here at City Hall you you could not walk it talk about right of way it was there were so many students in around from our community that were here to get information on jobs on uh volunteering on uh various um opportunities through our city um and the access leisure interweaves with that because there are some youth opportunities within that as well but I think some of that is posted on through the YPC right now is when a lot of those applications or enrollments are now opening so it was a lot of information a month and a half ago and now everything's opening up for for the youth so as we're thinking about it for our um older population know that there's just as many um opportunities for our youth opening up across our city and so just celebrate that for for our for our kids thank you commissioner patel uh commissioner carr I just had to say it I can't let this meeting end but I just love your passion I just love it I love how happy you are with these things and um I second the song and dance rookie.

Thank you Commissioner Carr um for my final words I do agree with Commissioner Pollen or that there should be some sort of connection between the the DAC and the re the rest of the of the government like some sort of like middle middle person that can focus on every the every disability or everything in the in the discipline community that needs to be done in in Sac Sacramento.

Because there's a lot of things that like like she said we're not able to to get to or to cover because we're on a schedule or we already have a pre-existing establishments with other with other area areas and b businesses and what whatso.

So I believe that we should try to put put that on agenda or try and or at least talk more about having a middle person person between the DAC.

Anyway, if if this if that is all for commissioner comments, we'll now move to public comments.

Um Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak?

Thank you, Chair, we do not have any speakers for matters not on the agenda.

Thank you.

And if that is everything I believe that we can now bring this bring this uh meeting meeting to an adjournment.

Thank you so very much everybody for attending today.

This meeting has been adjourned.