San Leandro Facilities & Transportation Committee Meeting - June 18, 2025
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San Leandro Facilities & Transportation Committee Meeting - June 18, 2025
The Facilities & Transportation Committee met on June 18, 2025, from 4:08 PM to 5:30 PM, chaired by Mayor Gonzalez. Council Members Gonzalez and Boldt were present; Council Member Azevedo was absent. The committee received two informational presentations: an update on the Sonic Telecom fiber optic project and an update on the city's Vision Zero traffic safety efforts. No public comments were made.
Discussion Items
Sonic Telecom Updates
- Senior Engineer Dane Rogers presented an update on the Sonic fiber optic deployment. Approximately 20,000 addresses (about 60% of the city) are now able to receive service. The project required evaluation of 3,200 poles, with about 10% structurally inadequate, necessitating temporary poles.
- As of June 2025, 75 out of 80 temporary poles in Mornet C area have been removed; restoration is ongoing. Mornet A removals are expected by August 2025. Mornet B is awaiting clearance from PG&E, with an estimated five-month timeline.
- Council Member Boldt expressed concerns about poor placement of temporary poles, prolonged duration (some in place since summer 2023), and the quality of restoration. She asked about pole inventory tracking, costs recovered for inspections, and disputes with PG&E over pole assessments. Staff agreed to follow up on whether any pole structural disagreements remain unresolved.
Vision Zero Update
- Public Works Director Sheila Marquises and Senior Engineer Nicole Kestalino presented the Vision Zero update. Since the policy's adoption in March 2022, the city has focused on reducing fatal and severe injury (KSI) collisions by targeting hotspots.
- Data showed a significant decline: 51 KSI collisions with 28 pedestrian and 3 bike involved before Vision Zero (2018–2022) vs. 15 KSI collisions with 8 pedestrian and 0 bike involved after (2023–2025). For 2025, there is 1 fatality and 1 serious injury to date.
- Project highlights included speed management on Best Avenue and Manor Boulevard, Class 4 bike lanes on Grand Avenue and Marina Boulevard, HAWK signals at Davis/Carpenter, and RRFBs at Lewelling and other locations. The city also adopted speed limit reductions on 30 street segments in 2024, with 26 segments reduced by 5 mph and 3 by 10 mph.
- Council Member Boldt asked about the absolute numbers behind the collision factor percentages, the definition of KSI, the weighting of hotspot map circles, and the effectiveness of speed treatments over time. Staff clarified that while percentages changed, absolute numbers for DUI and vehicle right-of-way violations did not necessarily increase; severity is defined by life-altering injuries requiring long recovery.
- Council Member Boldt praised specific projects (e.g., the new HAWK signal at Wicks/Manor scheduled to go live end of June) and urged celebration of successes. She also noted safety concerns about the Washington Avenue underpass and suggested leading pedestrian intervals be adopted more widely. Staff confirmed 125 data collections using traffic study cameras since March 2024.
Key Outcomes
- Presentations were received for information only; no formal votes were taken.
- Staff was directed to provide follow-up information on: (1) absolute collision numbers versus percentages for the collision factor slide, (2) status of any unresolved pole structural disputes between Sonic and PG&E, (3) timeline for temporary pole removals in Mornet B, and (4) criteria for replacing damaged bike lane delineators on Davis Street.
- Staff will also continue to explore leading pedestrian intervals at high-pedestrian locations and coordinate with ACTC on the East Bay Greenway funding and design.
Meeting Transcript
Okay, it's 408 order of the City of San Diego Facilities and Transportation Committee. Today is Thursday, June 12th, 2025. And those listening to this, sorry for the delay. We've had a watch poll challenge here. Madam Current, would you please take our role? Council Member Civil is absent. Council member bowl. Present. Present. Could you please make your announcement? After each agenda items presented, the mayor asked for any other comments and take all the comment members of the public will have two minutes to share their comments. Thank you. So at this point in time, we'll take a look at comment for items that are not on our chip. No public comment. Yes, but one comment to move to our discussion items. We begin with the Sonic update. And then we've got senior engineer name at Rogers presenting the site. Well thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Manager, Deputy City Manager. Thank you, Council Weber. My name is Dane Rogers. I'm the senior engineer for land development and the engineering on the marsh department. So I'll be presenting on the fiber optic of the sonic fiber optic project that they came to the city and just giving them an update on that project. So a couple years ago, Sonic came in, they presented to the FTC, and um they went and met with the engineering department. We worked with them to do the poll evaluation, so they pulled several cushion permits, went through that process. Noted that a lot of the PGE and ATT poles were not suitable for fiber optics. So what they ended up doing was placing some temporary poles throughout the city to help make those connections. So it's part of that scope was aerial and underground work. And they provided uh the fast service uh that our uh constituents and residents would would be would be would be happy with. Uh that so that's kind of a brief overview of the coordination we did with them and the project. So I'll get in a little bit more details on the next ones uh coming up. So the next uh is uh is a map of the three different areas that they um their uh deployed their system. So the the middle part which is the green area is um they assigned the butternut to the C of C Landow, so that's what they call uh the different areas of butternet A, B, and C, C is on the south side, B is on the north side, northeast side, and so that as you can see on the uh presentation, I those numbers add up to about 20,000 addresses. For the whole city, there's about 37,000 addresses, so it's a little bit around 60 percent, 50, 60 percent of the uh addresses served for the city of City Room. So as part of the evaluation, they evaluated 3200 polls in those three different areas, and about 10 percent of them were not structurally strong enough to handle uh additional loads uh per their calculations. So again, those uh were given back to PGE and ATT and uh uh sonic, even though it's more costly for them, they needed to place those temporary poles in adjacent to the joint polls uh they were in place and kind of strategically locate them so that way the wires were in the right spots and that way when they do remove the template polls that they can slide over the um the fiber optic with with uh with ease. Um so roughly about 43,000 linear foot of aerial is installed and about 30,000 line feet of underground is installed, and then as of December 2024, January 2025, they were able to go live with the whole system, and so everybody in in those the area of the 20,000 addresses is able to get internet uh service if they so need it. Um a little bit more uh updates on the temporary polls. So um this is where we've got most of our calls, which is understandable. Um but uh in MotherNet C, um, they were able to be basically all of them. I just called them today, and they did say they didn't quite get to all 80 of them, they got about 75 done, so they still have about five or so to finish up there. We'll do the restoration, in some cases it'll be temporary restoration, and then they'll come back with the final restoration with their sub to finish out that and put it back to incoming services. Uh Butternette A, uh, they're currently working on those locations, and they like to be done by the end of August of this year. And Butternut B, uh they're waiting on PGE to do all the clearances to make sure that um they're ready to go and they can take down the temples and switch things over. So it's still in process. I don't have an exact date for that, but I do know that uh we've been to one of the pushier cities out of all of them. They told me that nicely, of course. They were like, there's this guy that keeps pushing us to get this done, but but we wanted to make sure I get all the temporary calls out as quickly as possible, so that's what we have done. They have given themselves about um five months to try and go through that whole process, which is quite an ordeal because you've got to go back to PGB, gotta go back to ATT, whoever the poll owner is, and you've got to work with them, and there's lots of engineering on their end that they have to make sure that everything's in place, and it does take about that long.
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