I'm gonna ask her for public comment.

But then if you say 42, what's enough to say 52 or 62?

I think I'll be all right.

Hello everyone, good evening.

We have a full house and a full agenda.

So I would like to make sure that we're all prepared and moving through the agenda quickly.

So I would like to call the meeting to order for the city council meeting of February 28th.

Could we get a roll call, please?

Councilmember Adiego.

Here.

Councilmember Nogales.

Here.

Councilmember Nicholas.

Present.

Vice Mayor Flores.

Present.

Mayor Coleman.

Here.

Thank you.

Now can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by our assistant city manager Richley?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

Thank you.

Agenda review.

Thank you.

And do we have any announcements from staff?

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmember Scott Campbell, your chief of police.

This event will include an in-depth discussion about public safety in our city and provide an opportunity for any questions.

Hope to see you there.

Thank you.

That is all.

Thank you.

And do we have any questions or moving on to our next presentation?

Item number two is a presentation on the downtown and old town lighting study.

Good evening Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Council members.

My name is Jeffrey Chow, you're a senior civil engineer.

With the direction of City Council, staff has prepared a uh a lighting study to be the existing lighting conditions around the downtown and Ltown area and options for improvements.

I have here tonight with me Daniel Cunningham from SWA who is our lighting expert and designer and he'll be presenting the findings of the study.

All right good evening mayor, vice mayor, city council Daniel Cunningham with SWA group worked with city city staff and engineering on this project and here to talk to you tonight about something related to design that not a lot of people think about which is lighting.

Do I have oh here's my clicker all right so the particular area of focus on this project in this study area was the old town district which encompasses Grand Avenue, Linden Avenue and the residential districts adjacent to downtown South San Francisco.

So specifically within this area the study encompassed Grand Avenue from Airport all the way to Spruce Linden from Baden all the way to Armour and then the residential streets that are north of Grand Avenue as well as the lanes that abut the back side of Grand Avenue.

So there's some differences between these types of streets of course Grand Avenue and Linden are commercial streets so the type of lighting that we're looking at on those are different from those types that we would recommend for residential streets.

The alleys are the small alleys that again are the back side of the businesses so these typically don't get a lot of use in the evening so the lighting again there is different from what we would recommend for residential.

So there's about 60 feet between building faces within those within those streets and then there's the residential lanes and these are the the smaller streets where there's only about 22 feet of right away between those buildings so specifically there's lots of different types of lighting zones but specifically what we're looking to achieve and what the baseline for these types of streets are there's two.

So lighting zone one is what you'd like to see ideally in a residential type of atmosphere.

Lighting zone two is what we'd like to see ideally in a commercial zone.

And the lighting zones continue higher and higher for different types of uses but these are the two specifically for the types of streets and uses that we have within these districts so starting specifically with the historic commercial so this encompasses Grand and Linden.

And so this team we chose typical blocks within this entire study district within inside this entire district and we studied the lighting levels that exist today.

So literally went out there with light meters and mapped the light of these these streets to give you an accurate idea of what the lighting levels are out there today.

So Grand Avenue the historic commercial is in is generally only 35% of the studied area is with only 35% of the areas meeting the levels that we'd expect to see in a commercial district.

So there's one thing to consider is you know with lighting there's a lot of nuance but there's additional light that that hits the meter that comes from businesses.

So for example if a business has their light on then that makes the street appear lighter versus if a business doesn't and those things are out of control.

So 35% is what we saw in the the night that um was studied so we provided we studied multiple options on what potential strategies could be to uh increase the lighting closer to the zone that we're trying to achieve within these areas so specifically on grand there's the recommendation to preserve the historic poles because there's historic poles that line grand and linden and rather than replacing the poles we're just replacing the luminaire and the glass that is atop that so we retain the historic look but we're just replacing the actual fixture and the replacing with a high efficiency LED.

So those some of those lights today are there's kind of a a mix a mixed bag of light lighting solutions there's some high pressure sodium some bulbs in there so the color and temperature within those within those currently is non-uniform.

The second option and it could be additive to this option is to provide fashion lighting.

So the amount of light that this adds is kind of it's hard to calculate but this also adds a kind of welcoming sense of atmosphere for your retail district on Grand Avenue as well.

And so and as part of this there's been a kind of pilot program for these lightheads so this is the intersection of Grand and Linden and so these new fixtures have been installed at these poles and you can see the different color temperature that's off put by these which gives a higher level of light as compared to the his the existing high pressure sodium that's out there today.

And so as part of this, we also had a cost estimation done, and this the costs that we're uh sharing with council tonight have been applied through the entire district.

So this represents what it would be to install both of these solutions for the entire district.

So the commercial, the commercial alleys, again, these are the alleys that abut the businesses and are on the back side of the streets on Grand.

And so the light levels here, you know, only 19% were achieving what you'd expect to see in a commercial district.