Good afternoon, and welcome to the Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee meeting of May twenty-second, twenty twenty-four.

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Sarah, please proceed.

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Council Member Foster.

Councilmember Von Wilbert.

Chair Whitburn.

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Thank you, Sarah.

A quorum is now present.

We will now take up the approval of the committee minutes of April 25th, 2024.

Sarah, please proceed with public comment.

Thank you, Chair.

We've not received any speaker slips here in chambers, and I don't see any hands raised in the virtual queue.

So that concludes public testimony on the past committee minutes.

Thank you, Sarah.

We will now vote on the approval of the committee meetings of April 25th, 2024.

I'll turn it over to the committee members for any questions or comments, and we'll be happy to entertain a motion.

And we have a motion to approve the minutes by Councilmember Bon Wilbert.

And we have a second by Council President Pro Tem Lakaba.

Seeing no further discussion, Sarah, please call the roll.

And Chair, that passes unanimously 4-0.

Thank you, Sarah.

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Thank you, Chair.

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We've received one speaker slip here in chamber, so we will uh begin public testimony with Miss Lori Saldania.

Good afternoon.

Um I wasn't really sure which committee this actually falls under, but I was going to start with this one regarding infrastructure.

Um there have been a lot of improvements to outdoor spaces last year as a result of uh this council that uh approval of using outdoor spaces along public right of ways into turning them into things called uh streeteries, for example, where they build a platform adjacent to the sidewalk.

Um, unfortunately, those have taken a beating in the rain over the last two wet winters.

And I found that out when I landed on my back on the sidewalk after stepping into a broken streetery platform a week ago in Little Italy.

Um I wound up in urgent care with x-rays and medical bills.

Um I'm sure they will want to know who is responsible for that, and I will be letting them know because it is a registered business under the Spaces as Places uh licensing program.

Their permit was approved a year ago, over a year ago, and they're supposed to be inspected on an annual basis.

And I went back and took pictures of the damage.

I did carpentry many years ago, and I will say that if anyone had within the last few months inspected the place that collapsed when I stepped on it, um, they would have repaired it.

But instead they waited, they simply covered it over with astroturf fake grass.

Um, so it looked like a solid place to stand or walk, and it wasn't.

Now, I've testified in the past that my mother died as a result of injuries from a similar fall on a broken sidewalk only a block away from City Hall.

She was 80 years old.

I'm not there yet, but I want to be.

And I'm trying, I'm I'm actually downtown uh pet sitting for a friend, and I'm trying to see what it would be like to live downtown and do more walking and do more active mobility.

And when this happens, um, it's discouraging because I've if somebody who was older, they asked me a lot of questions what medication I was on and I hit my head.

Um, falls like this are nothing to ignore.

So I will be reporting this and making sure that the repairs are done as quickly as possible.