Co-host, if you could please.

I'm gonna do that now.

He can get started, David.

Okay, thank you.

I'd like to welcome every like to welcome everyone and call tonight's zoning board meeting to order.

I'm David Stein, chair of the zoning board, and it is 634 on May 20th, 2024.

The members of the board and the staff are holding this meeting by Zoom video conference.

The public is in attendance both on video conference and by teleconference.

I'd like to do a roll call of the board and the staff.

Bill Morris.

Raquel Smith Anderson.

Here.

And um Vanita Mater.

Yeah.

Rosanne McManus should be joining us shortly.

During tonight's meeting, the microphones for the board will be on throughout.

The applicants' mics will be open during the public hearing for their application.

However, I would ask the applicants to please mute their microphones when not speaking in order to reduce background noise.

After we hear the presentation from TTP, the next part of the meeting will be the public hearing during which the public has an opportunity to speak.

Each member of the public will be muted until it is your turn to speak.

Here's the procedure for the public to let us know that you'd like to speak.

If you came in through Zoom, please use the raise your hand function and you will be unmuted when it is your turn to speak.

If you called in on one of the telephone conference call phone numbers, please press star nine, and this will raise your hand and then press star six to unmute when you are called on.

If you have a problem uh getting in, um please send an email to Benita.

Uh her email address is Vinvictor Matter, M-A-T-H-U-R at Stanford C T.gov.

Uh when members of the public speak, please state your name and address for the record and whether you are in favor of or opposed to the application.

The board requests that members of the public limit your comments to three minutes so that everyone will have a chance to speak.

This meeting is being recorded and will be posted at the zoning board's website.

You can find the agenda for tonight's meeting and the meeting applications and other materials at our website, www.stanford ct.gov slash zoning.

Now the first uh item on uh tonight's oh, before we get there, I'd like the record the minutes to reflect that uh Raquel Smith Anderson is seated as a voting member for tonight's meeting.

Um this the first item we have uh tonight is a presentation on vision zero action planning process by the city of Stanford's traffic and transportation bureau.

Um parking.

Uh so uh I see we have uh Luke Buttenweiser and Frank Patisse, who are both from TTP.

Um you guys look like you're down at the train station.

Um anyway, um whoever is going to uh kick this off, please uh take it away.

But you're both uh okay, there you go.

Thank you.

Uh yeah, so uh I'm Frank Batisse, the Bureau Chief of Transportation Traffic and Parking.

And uh we're here tonight tonight to get an update on really three initiatives or three things.

Uh the first is uh Vision Zero, which uh as many know we've launched, but we also we'll give a brief overview and also get into how we look at uh developments uh throughout the city as they pertain to Vision Zero as well.

The second thing will be the parking study.

Uh so we launched, we completed a citywide parking study in partnership with the land use bureau.

Um, you know, it started before COVID and we had to kind of delay our data collection during that and ultimately finished at the end of last year.

And it was approved by the planning board in January.

And then the third thing we want to discuss is um, you know, with all the questions related to traffic around the city.

We've done a lot of uh digging into our old files and comparing some historical traffic data.

So we just want to show you some of those trends uh we're seeing throughout the city as well.

And then for those who don't know, the main mission of our department is to ensure the safe and efficient movement of people and goods in the city of Stanford uh with the emphasis on safe.

Uh, we're a safety first department, uh, and we look at data to to drive our safety initiatives.

And then with that, we'll go into the three items I outlined.

Uh, I'll turn it over to Luke who will run through the presentation for you.

Uh Luke is our transportation planner with the department.

Great.

Thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

As Frank mentioned, my name's Luke Buttenweezer.

I am the transportation planner here in the transportation traffic and parking department.

Um, the first kind of uh section of this presentation tonight is gonna be about vision zero.

So I I manage the project of Vision Zero for the city, which is our citywide roadway safety initiative to eliminate all fatal and serious injury crashes on Stanford streets by 2032.

Um, so I mentioned it's really a fundamental rethinking of street safety, moving beyond the traditional um ways, maybe like the three E's you might have heard of before, engineering education enforcement into really much more of a systematic, holistic approach of how we do street safety in Stanford.