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Monday, January 27, 2020

6:00 PM · 1h 35m · Council Chambers, 135 E. Sunset Way, Issaquah WA
Topic tracked across meetings:
Mobility Master Plan (MMP) Update ID 1507 11/22
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Board Membership
packet pp.3
Staff report:
Transportation Advisory Board About Created in 2017, this board — yet to be Staff Liaison initiated — will provide additional expertise and Stephen Padua, advice on the City’s transportation system and Senior Transportation Manager goals. Email Membership Regular Members The Transportation Advisory Board will be 2020 – Cynthia Krass comprised of nine regular members, and up to 2020 – Kyle Ochs three alternates. Initial terms will be staggered. 2021 – Tom McDonald All members are appointed by the Mayor and 2021 – Nina Milligan subject to confirmation by the City Council. Terms 2021 – Kobi Sunday* expire April 30 of the year listed. For more 2022 – Sujata Goel information, see IMC 2.92. 2022 – Stephanie Salemann 2023 – AJ McGauley 2023 – Marisol Visser
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2a
Minutes of October 28, 2019
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
a) Board Schedule, (I)
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
2020 Board Workplan
Discussion · 35 min · Stephen Padua, Senior Transportation Planner · packet pp.7–19
Staff report:
2020 Board Workplan JANUARY 27, 2020 TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY BOARD
4b
Mobility Master Plan Feedback - Board Homework, (D)
50 min · Stephen Padua, Senior Transportation Planner · packet pp.21–23
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
Issaquah Mobility Master Plan (MMP) Current Schedule 2019 2020 Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
5. REPORTS
5a
Staff Report
5b
Chair Report
5c
Youth Report
6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
6a
The next meeting is scheduled for February 24, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers
0:00 there we go okay all right so I will now
0:03 call to order at six o'clock the January
0:08 meeting of the transportation Advisory
0:10 Board
0:14 we just approve the minutes we don't
0:20 approve the agenda
0:21 I guess all right so I will entertain a
0:26 motion to approve the minutes from last
0:29 month anybody opposed
0:46 okay so minutes are approved from
0:48 October 28th do we have any public
0:50 comment this evening okay
0:54 okay so I will turn it over to Stephen
0:57 to start with the substantive agenda
1:00 items starting with the 2020 work plan
1:15 thank you so what we wanted to talk
1:19 about tonight it was primarily all the
1:21 work item items for 2020 a lot of them
1:25 you've already heard before but we're
1:27 gonna continue all of the same
1:28 conversations and hopefully go to
1:31 finalize most of those policy updates
1:33 that we had talked about but more
1:34 importantly the mobility master plan but
1:38 I also want to talk to you kind of near
1:40 the end of the presentation about other
1:42 topics that you might be interested in
1:43 including as part of your work where
1:45 some of that we'll talk about as part of
1:47 the mobility master plan as part of
1:50 implementation but is there any other
1:53 topics that we haven't talked about or
1:54 is there something that you want to
1:57 explore in your particular interest so
2:00 I'll have that question for you later on
2:01 let you contemplate on that so as you
2:04 know the mobility master plan is going
2:07 to be the city's long-range planning
2:08 document
2:09 looking at 20 plus years of investments
2:12 for transportation it's going to replace
2:14 the translation element in our
2:16 comprehensive plan so it'll hold all of
2:19 the guiding policies that that currently
2:21 has and they'll basically be two
2:23 mirrored documents we have to have a
2:26 translation held in the comp plan as
2:28 part of completing the whole complan and
2:32 what's required for the growth
2:32 management act and as you remember in
2:36 2018 we took on a big public engagement
2:39 process to develop guiding principles
2:41 which helped us develop essentially the
2:45 primary policies that are going to fill
2:47 the mobility master plan and with the
2:51 help of the other boards and commissions
2:53 we formed Network policies that will
2:55 help us define how we want a future
2:57 network to look like for all modes not
2:59 just specifically proposed and then for
3:02 2020 where you can probably look at
3:06 attachment a an attachment B and your
3:09 handouts and it shows the current and
3:11 old schedule there's a couple there's
3:14 changes I want to point out between the
3:17 two and the first being that there's
3:23 been a couple delays the first being
3:25 when the tab was working on the policies
3:27 it took a little extra time just to make
3:30 sure that everybody was comfortable with
3:31 the policies moving forward and so that
3:33 created a very small delay on the
3:34 schedule the other part was council
3:36 availability near the end of the year we
3:38 originally planned to go to council
3:40 before going to drafting of the plan but
3:44 that didn't that wasn't available to us
3:46 because council needed to focus on the
3:47 budget so that actually is creating a
3:51 kind of a three month delay in the
3:52 project schedules so it went from June
3:54 adoption in 2020 to September adoption
3:57 in 2020 it's not a huge delay or major
4:01 change in terms of how we're gonna be
4:04 operating later on but it is a change in
4:06 the schedule from what you originally
4:07 saw the other part that's changed
4:10 compared to what was originally the
4:13 schedule back in like June of 2019 is
4:17 the sequencing so if you look at the old
4:19 schedule there's like two or three
4:21 touches with city council that's changed
4:23 so that we can Aksum eyes the efficiency
4:26 of not only the tab but also with
4:28 council because if you look at the new
4:30 schedule the current schedule there's
4:32 gonna be in touch with council pretty
4:33 much every month starting in April and a
4:36 lot of that is gonna have lead time with
4:39 the tab with the previous month so in
4:41 April we'll have a policy discussion
4:43 with council in March we're gonna have a
4:46 policy discussion with the tab to kind
4:48 of prepare for that council discussion
4:50 and in April that'll be a joint session
4:53 with the tab chairs and City Council to
4:55 talk about all the drug policies that's
4:58 being proposed for the mobility master
4:59 plan and kind of the reasoning behind a
5:01 lot of it
5:03 any questions before I move on we have
5:06 dates for these meetings I'm on the
5:08 calendar yes I will send all the dates
5:10 out once they're finalized
5:14 right now they're looking at the first
5:16 study session of each month but once I
5:19 have that finalized I will send it out
5:20 all out to the next any other questions
5:28 I'm sorry before I would complete
5:29 streets the other major policy that
5:35 we're gonna be looking at updating this
5:36 year's Complete Streets this is in line
5:38 with the mobility master plan and
5:40 developing the tools that we need to
5:43 implement the mobility master plan the
5:45 Complete Streets policy is the city's
5:46 commitment that we're gonna have a
5:47 balanced system or balanced network of
5:50 modes using our roadways and that we're
5:52 gonna prioritize all the modes equally
5:55 it's not to say that's gonna happen
5:57 everywhere but it's really defining in
5:59 giving us direction how to really do
6:01 that because the current policy that's
6:03 in city code just says we want a
6:05 balanced roadway and doesn't really give
6:07 much direction so it hasn't really been
6:09 that helpful and so we're updating a lot
6:11 of that we're gonna provide correction
6:13 what that actually means for staff and
6:15 the community and you all saw a draft of
6:17 that back in October so you'll see
6:19 another chance of that next month prior
6:22 to the council meeting that we're hoping
6:23 to get reviewed by Council
6:28 any questions on that before I move on
6:32 okay
6:36 the next is the pedestrian crossing
6:39 guidelines this is a document that the
6:43 city uses to first design of many of our
6:46 crossings for pedestrians bicyclists in
6:48 our roadways but also has the policies
6:51 on says where we should be putting those
6:54 type of crossings currently those
6:56 policies aren't well defined and that's
6:58 part of what this update is is to give
7:00 us more detail on what those policies
7:04 should be but also in more updated tools
7:07 on what type of crossings we can have
7:09 currently it doesn't even it doesn't
7:11 identify any of any bike or green paints
7:16 any of the newer type of crossings that
7:18 we've seen in the last five to six years
7:20 that's become available to a lot of the
7:23 cities so a lot of that's gonna be
7:24 included in this new planning we're not
7:27 planning new guidelines to help staff
7:30 identify where and how things will get
7:33 installed that's something that you
7:36 we've talked about before but you
7:38 haven't really seen a draft with that
7:39 yeah that's gonna be coming later on
7:45 any questions on that
7:51 I was expecting more questions for you
7:53 guys I have a general question yes at
7:54 the end but when oh well okay I'll just
7:58 ask it now I guess and that's so the
8:02 complete streets the crossing guidelines
8:04 and the traffic calming policies just to
8:08 be clear - I understand our role I feel
8:11 like I'm always asking the same
8:12 questions over again but because we
8:14 don't meet that often and they seem to
8:15 forget from one meeting to the next but
8:18 yeah I guess it feels like a silly
8:20 question but just you're we've seen some
8:23 of this material are we is this body
8:25 actually making a recommendation to
8:27 Council or are you just kind of running
8:30 that bias to get it it's really a staff
8:32 recommendation that this board has seen
8:34 I mean are we putting forth something to
8:38 Council and what does that transmittal
8:39 look like or is it just something we
8:41 just give you some feedback but it's
8:42 really a staff recommendation to Council
8:44 that's I just want to clear what our
8:46 role and so when we ask you so when we
8:48 bring these policies to you like the
8:49 complete streets has a policy that we're
8:51 gonna update we're gonna be asking for
8:53 your recommendation that's something
8:55 that you'll vote on that will that we
8:57 will transmit to the City Council when
8:59 we bring it to the council and you
9:00 usually have somebody from the
9:02 committee's as part of that transmittal
9:04 process or is that just not defined it
9:06 arose that well we haven't done this
9:08 with you yet so it's really it's gonna
9:11 ask a question this would be our first
9:12 actual aside from our bylaws which we
9:16 get to kind of choose a month for
9:17 ourselves would this not be the first
9:19 thing we've actually formally first
9:21 product we would be transmitting to
9:23 Council it would be and so I just want
9:25 to be kind of mindful of that process
9:27 and
9:29 we don't want to make it overly resource
9:31 intensive and yet if it is gonna
9:33 represent you know this Ford and perhaps
9:37 that's there's a role to then be part of
9:40 that transmittal as I know right now
9:41 there's no formal expectation that you
9:44 either attend or you transmit the
9:48 recommendation yourself typically it's
9:50 done through staff staff will go to
9:52 Council and say this was the board's
9:54 recommendation and and answer any
9:55 questions that the council may be how
9:58 about our conversations but typically
10:01 it's not you going to council meeting
10:03 and handing it to I wouldn't expect it
10:05 to be us going to council may be
10:07 presented if it just seems like that
10:08 transmittal might be something we would
10:11 want to be involved in I mean that's how
10:12 we return I worked on the Planning
10:14 Commission before usually the chair of
10:16 the vice-chair which I'm not trying to
10:18 sign up for any more work but I just I
10:20 don't know what the rest of you feel but
10:21 it feels like if we're gonna be an
10:24 influential body that brings
10:26 recommendations that we put work into it
10:28 seems like attaching a representative
10:31 from this board sort of would be prudent
10:34 but maybe that's just not how things are
10:35 done in the city I don't know yeah or
10:38 like a letter of recommend there's
10:41 something about the transmission and the
10:44 interchange and like carrying back and
10:47 caring forth some messages that not that
10:49 the staff can't do it but it just seems
10:51 like it's a richer conversation if it's
11:00 so if it is in fact our recommendation
11:04 which obviously is heavily influenced by
11:05 staffs hard work anyway so I just wanted
11:11 to get clear on them and certainly not
11:15 insistent but I would guess I would
11:17 consider ask us to consider whether we
11:19 want to do that it'll be entirely up to
11:23 the board how you want to do that but I
11:24 will talk with the city clerk if there's
11:25 any expectations in terms what's
11:28 customary yeah like does the parks board
11:31 when they do their pro plan do they know
11:37 we're green hats you know I'm not sure
11:43 how the parks board has actually
11:44 transmitted to this I'll have to check
11:46 with them and the city clerk interests
11:48 like how that's been transmitted to from
11:50 board and Commission to City Council but
11:52 typically the way I've seen it is a
11:54 letter get letter of recommendation or
11:56 something gets submitted as part of the
12:00 staff report formalized formalizing that
12:02 transmittal to City Council and the
12:04 staff report and then someone might
12:06 attend as part of the public comment and
12:08 speak on that otherwise there's no any
12:11 other way to do it that I know of
12:15 so we can touch base with you on that
12:18 okay later once once I talked with the
12:20 city clerk thank you I know that I
12:24 wasn't a sheriff I sure but I know they
12:25 generally transmitted our
12:27 recommendations when I was on the
12:28 Planning Commission and I just remember
12:30 there was a lot of rich discussion about
12:32 some of the more I don't want to say
12:35 controversial but things that were that
12:36 were more involved and had more there
12:39 was more background there was more like
12:41 consider eight things that we considered
12:42 it was just a rich discussion on some of
12:45 the harder questions and if we're gonna
12:47 set up for delivering the mobility
12:49 master plan and we want them we want to
12:51 build trust and confidence in us as a
12:53 body that's all anyway just purchasing
12:59 the transportation manager just to add
13:04 on to some comments Steven made so first
13:07 of all this is a you're a new board and
13:09 we've never really we're still
13:12 developing our relationship with the
13:14 council so I think one thing for sure we
13:17 want to make sure we're following
13:18 process when we'll check on the clerk
13:20 without as far as how or is what their
13:23 role is in presenting the council but I
13:25 think you know back to what Steve was
13:28 saying you all should think about what
13:30 how you like to do that and propose how
13:33 you'd like to do that I don't think
13:34 would be out of line especially with
13:35 these first couple of things to at least
13:37 be there at the council meetings in case
13:40 some questions come up it's you are
13:43 after all the the recommending body on
13:46 all transportation issues to the City
13:49 Council so it shows commitment and
13:52 interest for you to to be there whether
13:53 you actually make a presentation or not
13:56 so I'd encourage that personally but I
13:58 think again that Stephen says it's up to
14:00 you and the city clerk sure
14:08 that help answer your question okay
14:12 so we'll follow up with you on how what
14:15 kind of our options are and then Stephen
14:18 is on this point but actually on the
14:20 crossing guidelines and if we're ready
14:22 to so I think I vaguely remember at the
14:27 end of the October meeting we had gone
14:29 through some of the sort of the
14:31 documents we were going to use to define
14:34 how how we implemented some of this and
14:37 I remember we were talking about like
14:39 you know whether it's October and you
14:42 know whatever the standards were that
14:44 we're out there so when you bring us
14:48 stuff around like crossing guidelines
14:49 and stuff is that is that sort of the
14:52 source data you're gonna be bringing us
14:54 as like these are sort of the different
14:55 types of recommendations we have and
14:58 what these you know what sort of the
15:02 know the best in the business or the
15:05 brightest brains in the business think
15:06 we should be doing as far as
15:07 implementing it's gonna be sort of more
15:10 like recommendations that come out of
15:13 those kind of bodies yes in terms of
15:17 like the engineering standards or the
15:19 technical side of it we're just pulling
15:21 all we're just updating all the modern
15:23 tools that we have available to us we'll
15:25 bring to use the policy questions of how
15:28 often should we put a crosswalk in or in
15:30 what locations should be prioritized for
15:32 crosswalks
15:34 okay thank you
15:36 verses like this versus should we put in
15:38 a rapid flashing beacon or flags like
15:43 those those kind of things there's a lot
15:45 more technical yeah okay we can use to
15:47 us to guide us on those okay for the
15:51 policies of okay so we're gonna take a
15:53 step back and talk more at the policy
15:55 laughs okay thank you
15:59 we would need a few more meetings to
16:00 talk what level of detail are we going
16:05 into we want green crossings or blue
16:07 crossings getting any of this
16:10 color-coded for a reason any other
16:16 questions okay along the same lines and
16:24 one thing I should mention is a lot of
16:26 how we move forward and all these other
16:29 policy updates and updating our tools
16:31 it's kind of working around the mobility
16:33 master plan so if if one meetings gonna
16:36 take need a longer conversation the
16:38 bully a master plan this might get
16:39 pushed to another meeting or delayed
16:42 which is okay because a lot of this a
16:44 lot of these policies ideas are part of
16:46 the implementation of the mobility
16:48 master plan anyway so we want to make
16:50 sure that we have enough time for the
16:52 mobility master plan and save these four
16:55 times where we have extra time with the
16:59 traffic calming policy a lot of what we
17:01 had talked about last last time last
17:04 October was a general direction and
17:08 general feeling of approach we want to
17:11 have with this policy and and a lot of
17:14 what this policy is gonna do is update
17:16 how we address traffic calming issues
17:18 right now there is a process to find in
17:21 our policy but it's very difficult to
17:23 implement and pretty much no one is
17:27 happy with it which is which kind of
17:29 stemmed and led to updating the policy
17:32 in the first place so when we come to
17:34 you with the policy update we're gonna
17:36 be talking about an approach that we
17:37 want to go with that we think addresses
17:40 a lot of the major concerns that people
17:41 have brought up about the policy in the
17:43 first place
17:46 any questions on that okay
17:51 and there's other topics that we haven't
17:54 really touched on that well you might
17:56 actually see this year and the first
17:57 being the transportation Paul
17:59 translation Improvement Program and what
18:03 this is is a state right requirement
18:04 that we submit a document the tip that
18:08 has all of our transportation projects
18:11 that comply with state regulations this
18:13 is part of the growth management Act and
18:15 making sure that we are complying with a
18:18 lot of the state and federal regulations
18:21 around transportation typically this was
18:26 shown to the Planning Policy Commission
18:28 but now that we have you all the
18:31 translation visor e board he actually
18:34 seems more fitting for you to be
18:35 reviewing this document when we put it
18:37 together and then send it into the state
18:39 every year and the same goes for the
18:42 capital improvement plan the the two are
18:44 actually identical we use what we
18:46 developed in the capital improvement
18:47 plan which is developed actually every
18:50 two years to submit that information as
18:54 our test station provement program to
18:56 the state each year how they all get
19:02 formed might get impacted by the
19:05 mobility master plan we don't know that
19:06 yet until we start to implement the
19:09 mobility master plan into a lot of that
19:10 other planning processes so that's
19:13 something about we will talk about later
19:17 any questions on those two those are
19:19 ones are a little more info okay
19:22 other major topics that we might
19:24 actually talk about this year is gonna
19:26 be transit and Light Rail two major
19:28 topics for us primarily because they're
19:32 gonna be moved that's gonna be our
19:34 primary mode to move the most people
19:36 most efficiently and a lot of that's
19:39 gonna be depending on relationships with
19:40 our transit agencies but also how we
19:43 develop our plan for what we want our
19:45 transit system to look like in the
19:46 future
19:47 we're not slated to be developing a
19:49 transit plan until later next year 2021
19:52 but we actually want to start that
19:54 conversation sooner so that we get a
19:56 little bit of a head start and using
19:58 some of this mobility master plan work
19:59 to start some of that but have those
20:02 conversations of how to answer that
20:04 question what do we actually want to
20:05 transit network to look like because
20:06 currently what it looks like nobody who
20:08 likes that much we people that use the
20:11 transit centers but we don't really know
20:13 if they're all is well residents so is
20:15 it really benefiting this community we
20:17 want to answer those kind of questions
20:18 when we look at transit later on
20:22 and then another major work item for the
20:26 city this year is gonna be the
20:27 implementation of the citywide strategic
20:29 plan a lot of that relates to how we
20:31 implement the mobility master plan but
20:33 we might come to you with policy
20:35 questions related to implementation of
20:38 transit of near-term projects how to
20:41 prioritize some of those some of that
20:43 will be kind of driven by the mobility
20:44 master plan but will come up to you with
20:47 those kind of policy questions
20:50 any questions on those two I'm welcome
20:55 thank you are there any topics that and
21:05 I kind of want to open the floor a
21:07 little bit someone going to the mobility
21:09 master plans schedule a little more
21:10 detail are there any other topics that
21:13 you all are interested in or and don't
21:16 see on this list and that could be
21:20 related to somebody review of the the
21:22 planning documents down and you kind of
21:23 looked as pretty homework but and we'll
21:26 talk about that later but I just wanted
21:29 to open the floor for any other topics
21:31 that you would want to see um I actually
21:37 did have a comment yes so I was looking
21:40 at the Redmond master mobility plan and
21:43 they had a section dedicated to parking
21:45 and I thought that would be beneficial
21:48 to add into our policy development so in
21:55 terms of other topics for the tab are
21:58 this is there anything do you want to
22:01 have a meeting or an agenda item on
22:05 parking where you learn a little bit
22:06 more about what the city is doing
22:10 let's say yes looking at some of the
22:12 others they addressed parking okay and I
22:15 think it'd be good to talk about what I
22:17 can we have here and how can used or
22:20 changed or rest okay any other topics
22:31 that you can think of right now we'll
22:33 talk about elements of the master pilot
22:36 later for in terms of like our meetings
22:38 and then agendas stand anything else
22:40 that you might want to see
22:44 okay I bet and I know we'll have
22:48 something I'm sure and I don't have some
22:49 some topic she would like to bring up
22:51 with her later I do have a question
22:54 about traffic calming with other modes
22:58 of transportation such as transit and
23:00 light rail are we talking about possible
23:02 line bikes or stuff along that we're in
23:06 that vein or is that just walk and roll
23:08 when that when that comes into play like
23:10 how are we incorporating that if at all
23:12 cuz I know it's come up a couple times
23:13 do we want to plan for you know not
23:17 pedestrian but not a normal bike right
23:22 it's part of what might get recommended
23:24 recommended out of this plan and what we
23:26 heard from a lot of people is they just
23:28 want to see a lot more options
23:29 so how line bike or bike share or
23:32 scooter share or whatever whatever it
23:35 might be that would be something that we
23:38 might tackle separate from even the walk
23:40 and roll plan okay because that is
23:42 something that's available now and
23:44 something that a lot of people are
23:45 trying to take advantage of so it might
23:48 be something as soon as we adopt this
23:50 plan that there's a demand for scooter
23:53 share bike share then staff and we'll
23:55 start looking into it and work with you
23:57 in terms of like any policy questions we
23:59 might have around that okay
24:04 okay so I'm gonna take a look a little
24:09 closer at the mobile a masterplan
24:10 schedule what we're gonna be doing this
24:14 year and for the next couple months I'll
24:17 just start with that following this
24:19 meeting we're gonna be kicking off
24:20 engagement in February through March and
24:23 then into early April leading up to the
24:25 April meeting April 14th meeting with
24:27 City Council where we talk about
24:29 policies that we're proposing to put
24:31 into the plan and what my that may look
24:34 like is looking at the major policy so
24:38 vision zero being one of those policies
24:41 that this part is brought up a couple of
24:43 times of having emphasis on safety how
24:45 do we do that and what that policy might
24:47 look like in the and talk about kind of
24:49 the impacts of those policies maybe have
24:52 example projects of what that may mean
24:55 and have that conversation with City
24:57 Council and that way we get a little
24:59 better direction to now work on a
25:01 project list and set priorities on
25:07 priority criteria so we can prioritize
25:10 that project lists and and eventually
25:12 lead to the draft plan and that's that's
25:15 essentially the sequence that'll start
25:16 in April so April's that policy
25:18 discussion may is finalizing the policy
25:21 and then start talking about projects
25:23 June will actually start talking about
25:25 our prioritized project lists and then
25:28 July August we'll have a draft review
25:30 conversation with City Council leading
25:32 up to adoption in September and a lot of
25:36 that is gonna be having you know the the
25:39 May meeting with council we'll have the
25:41 April meeting with the tab to talk about
25:43 the same topic so we can go to Council
25:44 with the tabs recommendation each of the
25:46 topics
25:49 you're gonna have a question yes would
25:51 the public outreach that's happening in
25:53 february/march what like what is that
25:57 outreach or what does it look like her
25:59 mm-hmm
26:01 right now we're looking at several
26:03 stakeholder meetings a lot of the people
26:04 that have been interested in the in this
26:06 process and developing the master plan
26:08 we're gonna go to them and talk about a
26:10 lot of the policies that we talked with
26:12 you and the other boards and commissions
26:13 so the network policies of what what it
26:16 might look like for cyclists versus
26:18 pedestrians versus the auto Network and
26:21 answering questions that groups might
26:24 have about Freight or transit access so
26:26 it's it's going to them and saying these
26:29 are the kind of policies that the boards
26:30 and commissions that helped us kind of
26:32 refine this is how it may impact you so
26:35 maybe having example projects explaining
26:38 okay this is what the policy may say
26:40 this is the projects that may come out
26:42 of that and we can't really say when
26:44 that might happen but this is kind of
26:46 the impact on the community on on the
26:48 stakeholders and get feedback on if
26:53 that's in the direction of what they
26:55 originally told us or if if they meant
26:57 something else okay and then so before
27:00 you go out will we have an opportunity
27:02 to see what they're gonna be presenting
27:06 or what policy questions you're gonna be
27:08 trying to address sir yes yes we're
27:15 hoping to start many of the meetings in
27:18 mid-february okay so it's between now
27:20 and our next meeting in February oh yeah
27:22 okay so we will yes I can update you in
27:26 terms of like the kind of information
27:28 that'll be going out to everyone even if
27:30 you just email us and like yeah thank
27:33 you
27:33 after that it's at an open house for is
27:36 it internal it was a really a open house
27:38 for public to come in something that we
27:40 can attend
27:42 most of the meetings will be public that
27:45 we'll have in terms of like this
27:46 stakeholder meetings right now we're not
27:47 planning to have a big open hall meeting
27:51 because that hasn't really been very
27:52 successful here and we're trying to
27:54 think about staff resources and making
27:56 sure that we're efficient and effective
27:58 with what we're planning for our
28:00 engagement and so far the smaller
28:01 stakeholder meetings multiple smaller
28:03 stakeholder meetings seems to be more
28:05 effective for a lot of getting feedback
28:07 for our projects okay that may change
28:12 later on if let's say Neighborhood
28:15 Association says they would like to have
28:16 a big public meeting we would we would
28:19 do that question yes can you tell me
28:29 more about the council study session in
28:30 January of 2020 yes that was a week and
28:35 a half ago and it was cancelled because
28:36 of the snow so we are updating Council
28:40 with a memo on a lot of the information
28:41 that we were going to provide them in
28:43 that study session so I didn't then but
28:46 we are still giving council the
28:47 information about where we are in the
28:49 process and a lot of what change in the
28:52 schedule what we're gonna be talking
28:54 about in April and how to prepare for
28:56 that okay we'll be good to if there's
29:00 any substantive feedback that we should
29:02 consider just to understand where
29:04 they're like it's a little I'm not
29:07 really clear on where they stand on all
29:09 these issues so sounds like it's gonna
29:11 be more process mm-hmm substance but
29:15 yeah it'd be interesting to hear what
29:17 they have to say when it gets to the
29:18 substantive issues and I think a lot of
29:21 what we make is gonna be coming at that
29:25 April meeting we're gonna try to build
29:29 up to that as much as possible to make
29:30 sure that we have enough information for
29:32 that conversation to be effective but at
29:34 the same time we have to follow the
29:36 council process on their conversations
29:38 and use the study sessions that are
29:40 scheduled
29:44 any other questions on the schedule okay
29:55 so for the tab we have your meetings at
30:00 least planned out until June and a lot
30:03 of that is kind of depending on how the
30:04 work progresses on the mobility master
30:06 plan but so far next month we're hoping
30:09 to bring to you a draft of the Complete
30:10 Streets just a refined draft of what you
30:13 saw last October because we took a lot
30:15 of your feedback and incorporate it into
30:17 the language and we have staff that's
30:21 gonna be reviewing that soon so well I
30:23 would drive hopefully for you by the end
30:25 of February and then the crossing
30:27 guidelines is if there's time to have a
30:30 conversation about the crossing
30:31 guidelines otherwise that might be that
30:33 might get moved to another meeting and
30:35 then March will start talking about the
30:38 draft or the draft policies for the
30:42 mobility master plan and then talk about
30:44 some of our engagements this engagement
30:47 will have just ended before this meet
30:49 the March meeting we might not have the
30:51 full results but we'll talk about a lot
30:53 of this to what we heard in the
30:54 stakeholder meetings as part of our
30:56 March meeting
31:01 and then April we'll talk about
31:05 finalizing those policies following the
31:07 meeting with City Council on April 14th
31:09 and then kind of introduced the draft
31:12 project list which will help our
31:15 conversation with Council in May and
31:17 then we'll talk about a prioritized
31:19 project list and melee are the tab
31:21 meeting in May leading up to the June
31:25 conversation with the City Council and
31:27 then the same goes for the June talking
31:29 about a draft and recommendation for
31:31 City Council on the mobility master plan
31:33 any questions on at least the draft
31:37 schedule okay any expectations that you
31:45 were hoping to see maybe in at least
31:47 early this year
31:52 okay
31:54 well do you want to just go into the
31:55 board homework or open up to general
31:57 questions all right let's move on to 3b
32:08 okay
32:09 oh yeah there's two twos that would make
32:12 it for the to choose okay well so over
32:28 the winter break we cancelled the
32:29 November and December meetings to
32:33 replace that we asked the board to
32:34 provide homework we've provided you with
32:37 homework and asked you to talk with
32:39 friends colleagues anyone in the
32:43 community about mobility and ask them
32:46 some questions about what they know and
32:48 talk to them hopefully talked about some
32:50 of the work that we're doing at least
32:51 they came for a lot of the work
32:52 particularly with the mobility master
32:54 plan and what we were hoping to get from
32:57 you is one getting a couple more
32:59 perspectives of other people who use the
33:02 system and how they use it and maybe
33:05 identify major issues that you got out
33:07 of those conversations with other people
33:08 in the community the other part that we
33:10 wanted we're hoping to get out of that
33:14 is potentially things that we haven't
33:19 thought of before or they haven't talked
33:20 about yet that we would want to identify
33:22 as part of the mobility master plan and
33:24 so we were just hoping to use your
33:28 winter break to talk to more people and
33:31 now I'd like to kind of open up the
33:34 floor to what you heard oh the other
33:37 partner I'm sorry the other part of your
33:38 homework was to review planning
33:40 documents existing city planning
33:42 documents as well as the other planning
33:43 documents from other agencies so the
33:45 translation master plan for both for
33:48 city of Kirkland City of Redmond and
33:50 City Olympia
33:51 provided the city in Libya because that
33:53 was actually the most most recent
33:56 translation master plan that I could
33:57 find and for some of you who went to the
33:59 website and look through it they have a
34:01 really cool story map instead of the
34:04 planning document that you look through
34:05 explaining all of their chapters and
34:07 exactly what they're trying to do which
34:09 is part of the reason why I wanted you
34:11 to go to that just kind of see what a
34:14 lot of the newer are for presenting a
34:17 lot of those master plans so back to my
34:21 another question what did what did you
34:23 hear in your conversations have
34:34 something to say just taking them to
34:37 muster yeah it's yeah in terms of like
34:45 my interviews I talked a few family
34:49 members and then also a friend who just
34:51 moved back from Korea so Seoul and so
34:55 she gave me a lot of insight about how
34:58 in Seoul they used transportation in
35:00 there she said it was very intuitive to
35:04 use different modes of transportation
35:07 and so it would be like letting the
35:08 subway and then getting on a line bike
35:10 and then maybe riding a bus to where you
35:12 need to go versus here it seems that the
35:15 most intuitive form of transportation is
35:17 just to get into your car because that
35:18 is the most accessible and easiest for a
35:22 lot of people and so that was something
35:24 that I just wanted to bring to the board
35:26 about thinking about how we can advise
35:29 to make transportation more intuitive
35:31 for other people
35:35 all right so I talked to a few family
35:39 members a few from Minnesota and a few
35:44 students at the high school and so what
35:46 I got from like my family members they
35:50 mostly just said widen the roads and so
35:52 I tried to like explain how that
35:53 wouldn't really work but they a lot of
35:56 people are kind of stuck in that mindset
35:59 so then I also talked to a few students
36:02 at the high school and they were saying
36:04 how if you just tried to do something
36:07 with the high schools traffic like a lot
36:09 of the other traffic would be alleviated
36:11 they were like make a road behind the
36:13 high school try to like make more exit
36:15 stuff like that build new roads build
36:18 different roads like they just want a
36:19 solution to the traffic around the high
36:22 school and then I started asking about
36:24 like other parts of the city and talked
36:28 about Front Street a little bit and they
36:30 said well widen the roads and I'm like
36:32 okay well would you have to push off the
36:35 buildings back and then like okay well
36:36 maybe you can't do that and so that's
36:39 kind of the farthest I got with them
36:41 just widen their oaths new roads other
36:44 places
36:49 so yeah I talked to a lot of my
36:52 neighbors and I was trying to find
36:55 people who lived in this a quest
36:56 attached to a lot of neighbors in the
36:58 community and traffic was definitely a
37:02 big frustration for people and living on
37:07 you part with all these new communities
37:12 being built up so the question about you
37:15 know can our roads handle this kind of
37:17 traffic and we have room for more people
37:19 on the roads etc so a lot of kind of
37:22 those kind of comments around that and
37:24 then it's good you brought up parking
37:26 because parking was another thing I
37:29 think more and more people well and then
37:32 it was funny because I wound up talking
37:33 to somebody from North Bend about this
37:34 too but more and more people really see
37:37 it's akua's sort of where they go on a
37:39 Friday night to go out and enjoy so
37:42 people will come from like North Bend or
37:44 carnation or wherever and they come into
37:46 it's a quad to have a night out and they
37:49 felt like the parking in our commercial
37:52 district was sorely lacking so that was
37:57 one of the other big comments yeah and
38:00 then people were a couple of people I
38:02 talked to who use the car park and ride
38:04 we're really happy with the location of
38:06 the park and ride and with the capacity
38:08 of the park and ride as long as you get
38:11 there before nine o'clock but and then
38:16 the frequency of bus routes and the
38:19 efficiency of those bus routes at least
38:21 to get to downtown Seattle cuz over
38:23 downtown Seattle commuters so the
38:25 efficiency of the bus routes from our
38:28 Park and Ride to downtown Seattle is a
38:30 very convenient connection
38:35 okay so the first thing I was just gonna
38:38 say is I'm glad we did this because it
38:40 made me realize is that for the people
38:43 that I talk to then they now know about
38:46 this committee and then I served on this
38:48 committee so and I finished by saying if
38:51 there you have anything else come up
38:52 don't hesitate to give me a call you
38:54 know we don't have that much influence
38:56 an advisory body but I just it's just
38:58 kind of nice to give people one more we
39:00 know in touch point into the city to
39:03 make it feel more like they have think
39:07 about that was a surprise and I
39:09 appreciated that so I interviewed two
39:12 one my neighbor and another not too far
39:15 but also also downtown is tapaa so it's
39:18 not super surprising what their
39:19 questions were and then I interviewed a
39:22 woman who for the past six years have
39:24 lived in Snoqualmie incarnation but
39:27 commuted into a saccade daily for day
39:30 care and so I thought that would be a
39:33 good mix of people and so the first
39:37 person I talked to talked a lot about
39:39 trying to find an equitable way to
39:41 figure out what to do about the past
39:44 through traffic primarily front street
39:45 in Issaquah Hobart Road and recognizing
39:49 there's no simple answer but about how
39:52 to fix it and also just really sort of
39:54 asking the question about what is our
39:57 responsibility because he had the
40:00 general sense that it was that we have
40:03 an unfair burden that we're having to
40:05 build you know specially down that you
40:07 know the front street corridor to
40:08 accommodate traffic did for people that
40:11 aren't originating Issaquah and if I
40:13 remember correctly there is technology
40:14 out there that can help us answer that
40:16 question but we don't ever use that yet
40:19 to get some definitive answers or do we
40:21 we don't have a sense of the percentage
40:23 of people that pass through so primarily
40:26 front street is what comes up all the
40:28 time that are passed through what their
40:29 origin and destiny
40:30 is right we can but we don't we haven't
40:34 done we're actually in that process
40:35 right so one thing this can be released
40:38 in the next week or two is our transit
40:40 conditions report and that's gonna
40:42 include regional passenger traffic
40:43 analysis on a lot of that so we'll have
40:45 percentages of people who either
40:48 originated or end their trips in
40:50 Issaquah and during the AM or PM peak
40:53 travel times or people who don't stop
40:55 and just call it all and so we'll have
40:57 those percentages as part of this
40:58 analysis so then so that would be I
41:01 mentioned that and that was very and the
41:04 way the way it works is we're using the
41:06 company called street light which uses
41:07 cell phone GPS data and so
41:51 you
43:10 wouldn't have so much gridlock at
43:12 certain times of the day and people
43:13 could continue on their way so I thought
43:15 that was interesting another interesting
43:17 point that somebody brought up which I
43:19 thought was worth mentioning
43:22 when we do fill vacancies in this
43:25 committee we should and maybe you've
43:26 already thought of this but thought was
43:27 worth mentioning make sure that large
43:29 employers have representation on this
43:32 committee so some of our gaming at
43:36 Costco right right and I know you have
43:38 other outreach mechanisms to them
43:40 directly but it might be interesting for
43:42 them to have representation on this
43:44 committee
43:47 yeah people walk in the intersection was
43:50 a big hot button and then just an
43:54 interest in maybe some smart technology
43:56 to help inform people that maybe not
43:58 don't come here often about when the
43:59 best time is to come but and not come so
44:03 like people are mindful of school you
44:05 know let's not try to drive down Front
44:07 Street at 3:30 in the afternoon us types
44:09 of things
44:11 [Applause]
44:18 I'm kind of in a unique position because
44:20 I run the restaurant so I get to kind of
44:22 pick people's brains all the time which
44:24 is kind of cool so I got a lot of the
44:26 same feedback but I thought it was
44:29 really interesting that the first thing
44:31 anybody said to me was parking that's
44:33 all anybody cares about downtown as far
44:36 as the relation to being in the
44:38 restaurant if they're on the way home I
44:41 have a lot of guests that would rather
44:44 sit at happy hour with me then sit on
44:46 Hobart for an hour to try and get out of
44:48 town
44:49 so I noticed just for my own personal
44:52 information but my happy hour numbers
44:54 have we get a hit because of traffic
44:57 which that's kind of the idea but but be
45:02 on both sides of the issue right now
45:05 it's something that I didn't think about
45:07 until we were talking about it because
45:09 people would much rather sit and watch
45:11 the ESPN for an hour than sit in the
45:13 traffic just to get through town kind of
45:16 touching on how you know how many people
45:18 are just trying to get home versus I'm
45:21 trying to get home but it's still gonna
45:22 take me 45 minutes to get home because I
45:24 live in this quad another one with
45:29 people that live downtown they want it
45:31 to stay looking like old town but they
45:33 want us to build more roads but they
45:36 don't have any options like well where
45:37 do we put a new bro if you want to build
45:39 it you know so flyovers is just what
45:45 we're paying for stuff so I want to see
45:47 stuff in front of me and I want to be
45:48 able to use it versus actually thinking
45:50 through you know how can we calm traffic
45:53 or can we push it somewhere else if we
45:55 provide a Transit Center in a different
45:57 spot adding lanes especially in front
46:02 street and I had the same conversation
46:03 that's like its historical building site
46:05 where would you like this extra
46:13 but safety was never an issue nobody
46:15 really was concerned about walking
46:17 around downtown I think it's a little
46:19 dark personally just working in old town
46:22 where I'm at if you have to walk around
46:24 the back of a building it sometimes can
46:26 be a little dark but as far as getting
46:28 around safely I think we're doing an
46:30 okay job at the moment downtown as far
46:32 as the public is concerned I don't think
46:34 that I didn't get the feeling that
46:36 people were really concerned about just
46:37 being a pedestrian it was more I can't
46:40 find a parking spot when I try and come
46:42 down and hang out I thought that was a
46:45 little bit interesting that non moving
46:46 vehicles were more important than
46:48 anything else in Old Town specifically
46:54 now all the tests in the parking just
46:59 for example coming down with the open
47:00 mind here at the at the positions you
47:03 can't find a parking spot so people
47:04 don't want to park a couple blocks away
47:06 and carry their instruments and stuff to
47:07 it so it's just amperes like little
47:10 community things that happen downtown
47:14 the feel of this probably the three
47:18 major things one is they all everybody
47:21 wanted to fix the right turn lane at
47:23 Newport going on the Wildwood and then
47:27 it's making that there are two lanes
47:28 there and making the right lane I'll
47:31 brake turn it only so people could live
47:32 all up squat Mountain can make a right
47:34 turn I'd have to sit behind everybody
47:36 else that's like to find that lane
47:37 there's blocked by a intersection
47:40 between there and let's go hurry ready
47:42 to go out that way
47:43 like everybody that's can why can't that
47:46 be done and the other complaint was just
47:48 being able to get across town to the
47:51 other side where there's a Costco PCC
47:53 Home Depot Lowe's stuff on the outside
47:56 or to go out to 900 to get on the
47:58 freeway to go into Seattle that the
48:00 traffic has just backed up almost more
48:04 so on the weekend for a longer length of
48:05 time than it is during the day during
48:07 the peak are you talking north-south get
48:11 across so get on the other side I ninety
48:13 or he's two one
48:15 thank you from the side of the 90 to the
48:17 other side an idea it's just that both
48:20 the front Street intersection or
48:23 intersection interchange and that 900
48:26 interchange just all be backed up and
48:29 it's general feeling that the new under
48:31 cost is kind of like our secret way to
48:33 get to there and don't let anybody else
48:35 know say that's a great cheap way to get
48:38 across because that allows access to to
48:45 the other side and has been discovered
48:47 by everybody else yeah those are there
48:50 the main thing was just the traffic and
48:53 I think the thing on newport is because
48:54 of all the pass through traffic that
48:56 people will start going home by when
48:59 they're coming from seattle from the
49:01 parking lot up over the mountain like
49:04 mountain in the back roads mountain side
49:05 view drive and coming down the backside
49:07 because they can't do new part then the
49:10 other thing that probably take from my
49:12 wife has just been l to like what you
49:15 need to be downtown sometimes it's like
49:17 very flustered about how they get to the
49:18 Tran Center where to park how to take
49:20 the bus what a for the bus and use a
49:22 card I'm thinking education so people
49:28 can understand how they can use multiple
49:30 modes and where they can park and use
49:33 transit so and just being able to
49:36 understand how it works on the other
49:37 thing they're supposed to not knowing so
49:39 therefore not use it I'll Drive because
49:41 I know how to do that that's supposed to
49:43 making it easier for them to use another
49:46 mode
49:49 in any of your conversations to first
49:52 thank you that's actually a lot of took
49:54 a lot of notes on all of that did in any
49:57 air conversations did anyone talk about
49:59 transit was it more the positive or the
50:05 negative side of things for the people I
50:07 talked to they were their regular users
50:10 of the parking right and then they go
50:12 the two people I spoke with they were
50:15 two of the people I spoke with they
50:16 commute daily to downtown Seattle from
50:19 the Issaquah parking right so you know
50:21 they're commuting in the peak windows
50:23 Monday through Friday they can always
50:26 find a parking spot and the bus transit
50:30 system to be very efficient because
50:33 they're they've been commuting forever
50:35 they kind of you know they have past
50:37 they know the drill so they really liked
50:40 that one of them was not excited about
50:43 light rail because he was saying that he
50:47 was looking at the travel times and the
50:49 travel times were supposed to get longer
50:51 after all a rail is put into place and
50:53 he's like how is that 20:41 hopefully
51:00 you'll retire but so far I mean they're
51:05 very happy with the bus system and the
51:07 bus service but again they're you know
51:09 peak commute it's kind of a different
51:12 thing they're trying to get somewhere in
51:13 the middle of the day answer that
51:19 question actually the delay or the
51:22 difference in time is actually has to
51:23 deal with there's a transfer now at
51:25 Eastgate where in bellevue light rail
51:28 it's not going directly to Seattle that
51:29 stops in Bellevue and so I think to do
51:32 that transfer it's actually quicker now
51:35 to get to Bellevue with light rail but
51:37 once you get to Bellevue you have to
51:38 transfer and then there's their
51:40 expectation for traffic it's gonna get
51:41 worse by 2041 so the distance between
51:45 Bellevue and downtown Seattle is gonna
51:47 get worse and so that's where that time
51:49 oh that little extra piece is coming
51:52 it's not a huge decrease but if there is
51:53 a decrease yeah actually
51:57 in my conversations I found that a lot
51:58 of people mentioned transits really nice
52:01 for getting out of Issaquah or coming in
52:03 as far from faraway places but getting
52:07 around it so quiet public transportation
52:10 isn't as nice as they want it to be
52:23 did anyone talk about non motorized
52:28 travel so there was some kind of safety
52:31 cards expressed but in terms of access
52:33 to a bike or having access to sidewalks
52:37 or facilities like any using the
52:40 infrastructure was there any concerns or
52:42 anything talked about in your
52:44 conversations with other people yeah I
52:47 would ride my bike but there's no bike
52:49 lane near my house I don't that kind of
52:51 that kind of conversation yeah one of my
52:53 one of the people that I talked to they
52:55 ride a bike to and from school every
52:57 single day just because because traffic
53:01 is so bad and they can get there faster
53:02 and one of their concerns was he lives
53:09 up squak mountain and then there are no
53:12 trails and it's hard to see when it's
53:14 darker and that the drivers are kind of
53:17 mean he's biking around so
53:27 the Z bike does he go down all the way
53:29 down to Wildwood to Newport and over
53:30 here does he cut it back through the
53:32 trail through sycamore um he I think he
53:35 goes all the way down yeah okay anything
53:42 else kind of highlights from the
53:43 conversations we'll move on to the
53:45 planning documents next but I want to
53:46 make sure get everything else the only
53:50 other comment was there's a fair number
53:53 of people in our neighborhood it's about
53:56 a mile from where we are to downtown as
53:58 well but they all walk it you think I
54:00 went by the back trail that's backed by
54:01 the over train trail or just down
54:05 Wildwood is fairly pleasant walk and
54:07 there's the separated sidewalk that's
54:09 separated from the road for most of them
54:11 pieces come down
54:19 okay yeah daddy I think this was
54:21 something that was pretty apparent in a
54:23 lot of our conversations just like a
54:25 lack of education about transportation
54:27 and I'm sure this is a problem for every
54:30 single like city council board there it
54:32 is out there about education about their
54:34 topics but for a lot of my interviews
54:37 too and I asked about like how is
54:41 traffic and a lot of people mentioned
54:42 like widening the roads and it isn't
54:45 like known to them that that's not
54:48 always the most viable option and so
54:50 just something I noticed was an area of
54:53 improvement in helping people better
54:56 understand transportation in Issaquah
54:59 and what's being done right now
55:03 okay thank you all do you want to move
55:13 on to finding documents no that's good
55:16 however you want to do that yes good
55:22 work I think we should I don't know do
55:25 it every year at least again or just to
55:28 have it routine but I think it's good
55:30 outreach in general and yeah yeah we can
55:35 we can look at trying to think of it it
55:44 would be good to do every time when you
55:45 have a winter break asking other people
55:52 other people you know you talk to your
55:56 these people from freezingly all the
55:58 time but you know if you're bothered to
56:00 tell them that you're serving and you
56:01 know you're asking about these specific
56:03 things you know
56:04 I thought it was really useful okay well
56:12 let's move on to kind of the first
56:14 question did you find any opportunities
56:17 when you were looking at other planning
56:19 document since there's like coordination
56:20 with other planning documents where
56:21 their goals or anything specific that
56:24 you saw on other planning documents that
56:25 you saw hey we would love to work on
56:28 something like that or we would want to
56:30 coordinate what something like that did
56:31 you see anything like that you're
56:33 looking to the other plans
56:38 let me start the frit just talking about
56:46 probably be more like us as far as more
56:49 of I think Gretchen's got a bigger
56:52 employment oh and it's kind of they've
56:55 got the mall they've set up a little
56:57 differently so it's kind of thinking
56:59 that mind in the curve they both have
57:01 some really interesting ways they put
57:02 together but Kirkland they emphasize
57:04 there is the safety is number one just
57:06 like number eight and Redmond than safe
57:09 sidewalks and so this is their priority
57:12 simple safety safe sidewalk so it's
57:14 almost like poverty of of safety to with
57:20 the most dangerous thing you can do so
57:21 safety sidewalks biking transit vehicle
57:23 circulation transportation systems the
57:28 put my glasses on so you can read my
57:30 writing
57:37 kind of just of the matches there their
57:41 land use and then environmental
57:43 sustainability which I thought was a
57:45 little kind of far down the road and
57:46 then being an active partner with
57:48 everything else that's going on in the
57:50 area as well but I like the way that
57:54 they they had it laid out I like the way
57:56 that I noticed that their parks broken
58:01 up and there's no connectivity between
58:03 those and I like the way that I think
58:05 we're trying to look at how to connect
58:07 the parks in heaven yeah both continue
58:10 apart but also a way to walk through a
58:12 park to go someplace to another place
58:19 like I'm there they talked about like
58:28 Kelly but some of the bikes things and
58:29 whether the classified as being a
58:32 shoulder or a lane or a share of lane or
58:34 a bike specific lane and they also
58:38 talked about the parking which is kind
58:40 of making me think about the downtown
58:41 this COIs parking and they had the
58:47 neighborhood concept where you can walk
58:50 from someplace and be ten minutes with
58:53 to be within downtown which is about a
58:55 quarter mile walk and I was trying to
58:56 think how that worked here if you have
58:58 of a downtown core but then you got
59:01 people up in the hill and then you got
59:02 people up on that hill so you kind of
59:04 you know build a mess out yeah clear
59:07 Kirkland once you kind of go up 100
59:09 things one hand there it's just kind of
59:11 a graduates little bro the tip of fat on
59:13 the side does not like a major hill
59:15 valley in our major hill kind of like
59:16 what we have so I'm gonna stir how that
59:18 work but I like how the address as far
59:20 as that being important so if you live
59:22 someplace you'd be 10 minutes from going
59:24 to get something to eat or going
59:25 downtown to walk went to library
59:28 whatever it might be but I liked how
59:30 they I think that's not an important
59:32 thing to think about
59:36 and then it's also Kirkland's kind of
59:39 linear I think going north to south and
59:41 so it's very different how they can
59:43 stretch things out like that and look at
59:45 their total make neighborhood in the
59:46 downtown mmm and then the kind of the
59:48 Bothell I'm not sure if it's called the
59:50 Buffett landing so kind of three
59:53 different areas but we're kind of more
59:55 of a circular oblong kind of a square
59:59 blocks circular so it's not really a
1:00:02 everything would be coming to a center
1:00:03 point then let's go if we just want
1:00:16 talked a while one town and then I'll
1:00:18 talk about the next town or just go on
1:00:19 to other I don't want to occupy the
1:00:21 whole time we have plenty of time and I
1:00:26 guess I would just propose that we just
1:00:28 do what we just did but just do it in
1:00:29 reverse and share all your thoughts is
1:00:31 that okay or did you want well I guess
1:00:34 you wanted to have my opportunities and
1:00:36 advantages and disadvantages I was
1:00:38 trying to put just questions in your
1:00:40 mind of highlights of what you saw out
1:00:43 of the plans things you liked things you
1:00:44 didn't like just to help us identify
1:00:47 major themes whether it come for the
1:00:50 planning documents or what you kind of
1:00:51 are expecting from the mobility master
1:00:53 plan for us
1:00:55 I have one just real quick from an
1:00:58 opportunities perspective the changing
1:01:01 the valley for the green necklace plan
1:01:04 the city I think the parks department
1:01:06 put this together the center aquapark
1:01:08 plan and so it was kind of cool going
1:01:10 back to cuz yeah I noticed in Kirkland
1:01:12 it was a little disconnected from the
1:01:15 way they do their green space but this
1:01:16 is sort of this idea of taking our green
1:01:20 space in the city and connecting it and
1:01:22 so you know it's for recreation but
1:01:26 could it not be used for mobility as
1:01:28 well and they have all these great
1:01:31 little routes they've identified and
1:01:33 priorities they've identified and I just
1:01:35 wonder if you know well some of us got
1:01:37 together to talk about non motorized
1:01:40 mobility options I was thinking oh I
1:01:42 wish I may be helpful because I guess
1:01:46 they hired a consultant to do some of
1:01:48 this work so and I can't remember if
1:01:50 we've talked about this in this meeting
1:01:51 before but it felt in you to me so
1:01:54 anyway that could be a potential
1:01:56 opportunity the coordinators do think
1:02:09 about these have a say there's an
1:02:10 opportunity just observations that's
1:02:12 what's going through it okay and it
1:02:13 doesn't necessarily need to be
1:02:14 opportunities it's just highlights and
1:02:20 we do have we're doing just great on
1:02:22 time if you want to do just highlights
1:02:25 of what you saw yeah each city that's
1:02:27 fine too it worked on the line that
1:02:29 probably easier Kirkland's comment in
1:02:33 there diagrams and figures of pollutions
1:02:36 and particulates was a little bit better
1:02:37 done than the city of Redmond's was can
1:02:40 I had to dig very well to find it in
1:02:42 Redmond's
1:02:44 [Music]
1:02:46 and in their party's dress by modes and
1:02:49 Redman it's very intricate they're both
1:02:51 had similar information but it was
1:02:54 sended very differently and I thought
1:02:56 Kirkland's flowed better I like how
1:03:00 written and had at the very beginning
1:03:02 had their table of contents of tables
1:03:06 and figures so in three separate figure
1:03:09 so it's very easy as we go find
1:03:10 something that you're looking for and
1:03:14 then redmond did have an OD and study in
1:03:17 theirs which i thought was interesting
1:03:18 as far as how many people coming in and
1:03:20 going out between communities and areas
1:03:22 did you call Odin D or gelatinization
1:03:25 okay yeah a long time ago we used to do
1:03:27 those manually where we would basically
1:03:29 tag license place and they're going to
1:03:31 go through the state to find a resident
1:03:35 of the license plate so we know we'll be
1:03:36 coming from yeah took a little more work
1:03:41 than al fun technology of today
1:03:50 okay let's right now
1:03:53 but you stuffy I have to talk on this
1:03:56 one I did not have time to get back and
1:03:57 go through the plans I apologize
1:03:59 well done you said it for me I actually
1:04:01 spent most my time on Kirkland and I
1:04:03 didn't do the rest so thank you for
1:04:08 saying that and you know I'm sure we can
1:04:11 submit other comments if we want to
1:04:13 later on I didn't want to say that I
1:04:19 said what I liked a lot of things about
1:04:22 the Kirkland plan I like this I'd like
1:04:25 to have our initial conditions was
1:04:27 represented spatially with a lot of
1:04:28 graphics I thought that made it really
1:04:30 easy to understand what they're even
1:04:32 talking about I thought that chapter
1:04:38 beginning chapter one was a good
1:04:41 organizing principle I thought that
1:04:47 let's see I thought a couple of things
1:04:50 to think about that I want to make sure
1:04:51 that we're conscious of and that's this
1:04:56 is my communications background coming
1:04:58 in here but I think it's really
1:05:00 important to understand who our audience
1:05:01 is and I think as the plan is being
1:05:04 developed in a way the audience is
1:05:06 counsel because they have to adopt the
1:05:08 plan but in the end the audience is
1:05:11 going to be staff and anybody that just
1:05:14 wants to you know the casual observer
1:05:15 this wants to look at it but I think the
1:05:19 reason I mentioned that is because what
1:05:21 I didn't like about the Kirkland plan
1:05:23 was the opening drove right into the
1:05:27 purpose but the purpose was kind of
1:05:33 muddled and it kind of went right into
1:05:37 multimodal it kind of went right to the
1:05:39 solution in the opening of the purpose
1:05:42 and I think the reason I'm mentioning is
1:05:43 does they think it's this is a piece of
1:05:46 it's a planning document it's a
1:05:48 guideline it's also a piece of
1:05:49 communication and I think that what's
1:05:51 really important
1:05:52 is framing the problem we're trying to
1:05:54 solve and I think that most many of the
1:05:58 people we endeavour to serve have that
1:06:01 mentality of it's all about getting my
1:06:03 me getting my car through and the way we
1:06:09 are going to be successful is if we
1:06:12 frame the problem and then the solution
1:06:14 then becomes these other investments in
1:06:18 these other modes but when you lead with
1:06:20 the solution I think it's off it could
1:06:23 be off-putting and it could be like I
1:06:25 don't I don't know what the rest this
1:06:27 document is but it sounds like it's it's
1:06:29 about other things besides what I care
1:06:31 about and I think that if we can scroll
1:06:34 back to the goals and that we started
1:06:37 with at the beginning and really frame
1:06:38 the problem that this document so
1:06:40 there's two ways to approach the purpose
1:06:42 page and one is functionally what is the
1:06:46 purpose it's a guiding document is
1:06:47 required by GMA bla bla bla like just
1:06:50 institutionally what the purpose is but
1:06:52 also what the goals are of the plan and
1:06:55 general and the vision and I think to
1:06:57 launch right into solutions and that's
1:07:02 really what talking about multimodal is
1:07:04 really about your answer but I think we
1:07:07 have to make sure we understand where
1:07:08 our audience is coming from and I think
1:07:09 if our audience is sitting in a certain
1:07:13 place than if we start with that we that
1:07:16 approach it it is gonna be hard to get
1:07:19 anybody to continue to wade through this
1:07:21 material and I think that it matters how
1:07:24 we characterize what it is that we think
1:07:27 should be done and really be mindful of
1:07:30 the goal is to move people through the
1:07:34 goal isn't to get every out of the cars
1:07:36 right so are you thinking like getting
1:07:39 their table of contents where they have
1:07:41 the goal and the policies just like
1:07:42 right off the bat I was talking about
1:07:44 the one of the first narratives I don't
1:07:47 it printed out here was just looking at
1:07:49 it online but is purpose in the Kirkland
1:07:51 plan it's like one of the first places
1:07:53 you just can start reading I mean
1:07:55 there's you know there's table of
1:07:56 contents and lists of figures and so
1:07:58 forth it when you first start reading
1:08:00 you go right to purpose and it goes
1:08:02 right into what I would argue is more
1:08:04 the solution as opposed to really I just
1:08:06 think it's really critical we frame the
1:08:07 problem in a way that is going to be
1:08:11 inclusive and I'm not a really good
1:08:14 awareness of who our audiences and so
1:08:20 recognizing that there's content that's
1:08:23 driving policy but there's also a it's
1:08:24 also a communication piece right and so
1:08:27 it I do think it matters and there's I
1:08:31 had lots of notes about specifically
1:08:32 where I thought like kind of recognizing
1:08:34 that congestion like what we can expect
1:08:37 that congestion is inevitable and that
1:08:39 solving congestion in and of itself
1:08:41 isn't necessarily the goal there's
1:08:43 always gonna be congestion that can't be
1:08:45 the metric right there's always gonna be
1:08:47 congestion on Front Street if you add
1:08:49 more lanes and ten years there's gonna
1:08:51 be the same at a congestion because
1:08:52 there's gonna fill up again so just yeah
1:08:56 there were a lot of I wrote a lot of
1:08:59 notes about where I where I thought that
1:09:04 would come into play if we were thinking
1:09:07 about our audience and what we were
1:09:09 trying to communicate and how we were
1:09:10 trying to as we were trying to frame the
1:09:12 problem and then lead to the solutions
1:09:18 [Applause]
1:09:26 so for me I completely spaced and then
1:09:30 read the Olympia one I only read the
1:09:31 Redmond and that Kirkland why Knight
1:09:33 I don't know talking about it there's a
1:09:39 limp you would have missed it but then I
1:09:41 you know but then I read the green
1:09:43 necklace and you could job on that one
1:09:47 the one I thought flowed better and read
1:09:50 better just in general I liked all their
1:09:53 graphs and pictures I don't think a lot
1:09:55 of people have a lot of time to read a
1:09:56 lot of text anymore so they're just kind
1:09:59 of visually the way not what they were
1:10:01 communicating but the way they were
1:10:03 communicating in the Kirkland plan was a
1:10:07 lot more compelling and I was more
1:10:10 willing to try to dive in because I was
1:10:13 like oh there's a lot of pictures okay I
1:10:14 can try to get through this and a
1:10:16 reasonable amount of time versus you
1:10:19 know a lot of dense text but the Redman
1:10:22 plan I agree the I think the Redmond
1:10:25 plan was so that's the heart therein
1:10:28 lies the rub the Redmond plan had a lot
1:10:31 more information about the why why we're
1:10:34 doing this you know why we asked these
1:10:37 compelling questions why it just felt
1:10:39 more as you know as a person who sits in
1:10:42 traffic you read this plan and you're
1:10:45 like okay they understand what my
1:10:47 problem is and now so they shape the
1:10:49 problem better and now these are the
1:10:51 different kinds of solutions they have
1:10:53 and I thought I can't remember if it was
1:10:55 Redmond or Kirkland who talked about
1:10:59 like kind of that climate impact stuff
1:11:01 as far as carbon emission all the you
1:11:05 know kind of the health impacts of I
1:11:08 can't remember which one of those two
1:11:09 plans talked about that or maybe it was
1:11:11 both of them
1:11:14 okay but I thought that information was
1:11:17 also you know as much as you want to
1:11:21 talk about you know making sure your
1:11:24 system is built safe or your making sure
1:11:26 this or that just sort of that
1:11:27 definition of safety and including that
1:11:29 human health impact or human health
1:11:32 element to it and climate element to it
1:11:34 was I think really important especially
1:11:37 when we're talking about twenty years
1:11:39 into the future so I thought I had a
1:11:43 better explanation I think when you're
1:11:45 thinking of as far as maybe it was
1:11:46 Kirkland yeah it was with the carbon one
1:11:50 cuz I felt like I only saw it in one
1:11:52 plan but I can't remember which one so
1:11:53 it must have been Kirkland that did a
1:11:54 better job but yeah so more pictures but
1:12:00 more information I mean it was
1:12:18 ridiculous I mean really comprehensive
1:12:20 at the same that's where I was like oh
1:12:22 I'm torn yeah I also noticed the safety
1:12:27 aspect and so I think it's really
1:12:29 important that you have that human
1:12:30 element into it that like some of the
1:12:34 documents seemed to prioritize like
1:12:36 people and health and like their issues
1:12:39 that were in their cities I did like all
1:12:44 the pictures though I was I'm a very
1:12:47 visual person but I also like all the
1:12:50 statistics so like when I see numbers I
1:12:51 really like grab on to them especially
1:12:54 like in a sea of words I'm like oh like
1:12:57 they're talking about emissions they're
1:12:58 talking about like how this will affect
1:13:00 the future in these ways and so I think
1:13:03 also having a lot of background like you
1:13:05 mentioned is really beneficial I liked
1:13:09 that and then also looking at
1:13:11 it's a close strategic plan kind of I
1:13:15 liked how that flowed a lot so I don't
1:13:18 know if there's like some way to
1:13:19 incorporate our strategic plan is kind
1:13:24 of based like structured into the way
1:13:27 that our master mobility plan is
1:13:30 structured but I thought that that one
1:13:34 was the easiest to kind of follow to
1:13:37 read I liked all the colorful circles
1:13:39 all of like yeah that was laid out and
1:13:43 then I did like the parking I saw the
1:13:45 parking well
1:13:54 I focused a lot on the Olympia master
1:13:56 plan actually and I think my first
1:13:59 comment about that was just the layout
1:14:01 of it so when you click on it it leads
1:14:03 you to a separate page and it's just one
1:14:05 continuous scroll through page and it
1:14:07 leads you through the problems and in
1:14:09 that sense it was really accessible and
1:14:11 I think if we want to increase education
1:14:14 about transportation about what our
1:14:15 board is doing that is a really easy
1:14:17 format for people who might not be
1:14:19 motivated to read 200 pages to kind of
1:14:22 get an understanding but I think it also
1:14:24 was not as detailed as some of the other
1:14:28 plans were and that's something that I
1:14:30 do think is important as well and
1:14:33 something I also notice about Olympia
1:14:35 was they constantly referred back to
1:14:37 performance metrics so they had a few
1:14:40 sample projects and then gave the rating
1:14:44 on their performance metrics scale to
1:14:46 show why those projects were important
1:14:48 to their goal and so constantly kind of
1:14:51 bringing it back to their goals through
1:14:53 the performance metrics and so I thought
1:14:55 that was really cool too
1:14:59 and they had a part about because I
1:15:04 remember earlier we were talking about
1:15:05 how a lot of people would mention that
1:15:07 they wanted to ease traffic by adding
1:15:09 lanes and actually Olympia talk
1:15:11 specifically about adding roundabouts to
1:15:14 each traffic rather than adding lanes
1:15:16 just adding roundabouts so I thought
1:15:18 that was interesting and specific to
1:15:20 Olympia for those who didn't see the
1:15:25 look at the end the via one they they
1:15:27 have an interactive website showing a
1:15:29 story map of their plans so instead of
1:15:31 clicking on and you open up a PDF or for
1:15:33 the planning document the website itself
1:15:35 actually has each of the chapters and
1:15:37 policies laid out which is what Manny
1:15:40 was talking about so it's really easy to
1:15:42 explain
1:15:42 really easy to follow and it's very
1:15:45 visual so as it's an option that we can
1:15:49 look into kind of the future not right
1:15:51 now but as part of the plan is how we
1:15:53 visually communicate how this document
1:15:56 is really planning for the translation
1:15:58 system for the future I thought that was
1:16:00 kind of interesting because I had all
1:16:02 the way down through thinking looking
1:16:04 for maybe the PDF links at the bottom
1:16:10 [Laughter]
1:16:18 okay is there anything else that you
1:16:25 want to go through when in terms of like
1:16:27 your document review is anything that
1:16:30 stood out to you when you look at the
1:16:31 existing planning documents of hey we
1:16:35 didn't actually talk about that yet that
1:16:36 was those kind of light bulb moments I
1:16:42 think that the climate one I mean we
1:16:45 haven't talked about kind of impacted
1:16:47 climate or you know the cities I don't
1:16:50 know if the city's part of k4c or
1:16:52 weather climate goals are any of that
1:16:54 but the tide of Transportation and
1:16:56 climate I don't think we've discussed
1:16:59 that yet
1:17:00 then I think working to just down there
1:17:12 for about four and a half years about
1:17:15 the Amtrak station oh and if they're
1:17:18 gonna go inner-city you know there's no
1:17:21 communicate it's all seem to be about
1:17:23 the town but not you know what are they
1:17:25 doing if they're going elsewhere
1:17:26 so I was thinking no careful I know we
1:17:29 don't have an amtrak station here rail
1:17:31 station but there are the things that
1:17:33 are local that we could have might have
1:17:37 a couple years down the road that we
1:17:38 should be thinking about now and include
1:17:40 that in it those two I was kind of
1:17:43 thinking that that's company on the
1:17:44 outskirts of town so that's not really
1:17:45 where we're talking about just the
1:17:47 downtown that's opposed to looking at
1:17:48 the bigger picture anyway
1:17:58 so I do have feedback from Nina even
1:18:00 though she wasn't able to come today I
1:18:02 don't know Cynthia if you wanted to read
1:18:03 her notes or if you want me to she
1:18:06 strongly emphasized safety as well else
1:18:09 maybe you did she really liked
1:18:11 Kirkland's emphasis on safety where it
1:18:15 was the number one chapter it was
1:18:16 addressed in each of the chapters
1:18:17 following the number of the first
1:18:19 chapter of you know safety is important
1:18:22 this is why it's important this is how
1:18:23 we're gonna address it and then each of
1:18:24 the following chapter is talking about
1:18:26 Auto movement or bicycle or pedestrian
1:18:29 this is how we're gonna address safety
1:18:31 for each of these modes and this is the
1:18:34 steps we're gonna follow and she
1:18:37 definitely liked the chapter on motor
1:18:42 vehicles in the coordination with land
1:18:43 use and but also making sure that safety
1:18:46 is emphasized as part of that so that's
1:18:48 one thing that's always forgotten when
1:18:50 we're having a conversation about auto
1:18:52 it's you know it's typically delay or
1:18:54 lower volume and not everyone talks
1:18:57 about the safety element of well if
1:18:59 we're gonna have that as the number one
1:19:00 priority we needed to come we need to
1:19:02 talk about what the impact is on those
1:19:04 other aspects people talk about she in
1:19:08 the Redmond planning document she liked
1:19:11 the multimodal chapter where I talked
1:19:13 about the coordination between the
1:19:15 different modes and the right-of-way how
1:19:20 it's used but also how Redmond
1:19:22 prioritized maintenance and not just
1:19:24 capacity when it came to maintenance and
1:19:27 again safety for all users and she liked
1:19:31 the environmental section where water
1:19:34 quality was noted as the number one
1:19:36 priority is making sure it's healthy
1:19:40 and the last as far as emphasis on
1:19:44 parking that is that's a major concern
1:19:47 for everybody that's something that we
1:19:48 heard last year when we were going
1:19:50 through engagement was know we need to
1:19:53 address parking or at least we need to
1:19:55 do something about it because people are
1:19:57 getting frustrated when I'm trying to
1:19:58 access like way you all experience where
1:20:00 what you heard in your conversations
1:20:02 with your neighbors or your colleagues
1:20:05 and then that's it
1:20:09 I'm sure she'll tell us more later but
1:20:11 that's at least what she sent me are
1:20:15 there any questions about the homework
1:20:19 or anything that kind of stands out when
1:20:21 you're going through a lot of this all
1:20:23 the planning documents anything you
1:20:26 would like to see in our planning
1:20:28 document in the mobility master plan I
1:20:30 know you talked about Park he talked
1:20:32 about climate and the human element and
1:20:35 attended all of is there anything
1:20:36 specific that you saw that you really
1:20:39 liked
1:20:42 just to comma so the fears and peers was
1:20:44 doing some of the other ones so do they
1:20:45 have a lot of input as far as traffic
1:20:47 into bars as they do on the other ones
1:20:49 as well yes and fare abuses our
1:20:59 consultant helping us develop the
1:21:00 plantus I know what I was gonna say I
1:21:05 did make a comment that I liked the
1:21:06 graphic representation of initial
1:21:08 conditions but I also felt like and
1:21:11 maybe I just didn't read thoroughly
1:21:13 enough but sometimes it didn't was
1:21:16 didn't make clear what the implications
1:21:17 were of that so it was really easy and
1:21:23 accessible because it was graphical but
1:21:25 then it sort of left me like except a
1:21:27 little bit so what and so maybe
1:21:29 embellishing a little bit longer like
1:21:36 drawing some conclusions so kind of a
1:21:42 hybrid would be kind of nice so visual
1:21:48 communicates everything but not as long
1:21:55 I also really liked and you mentioned it
1:21:57 on the there was the hierarchy the
1:22:01 safety and the way that the modes and it
1:22:05 to me when I was reading then I was
1:22:07 thinking Mike it was like a hierarchy of
1:22:08 vulnerability yeah you know you're the
1:22:11 most vulnerable if you're walking or you
1:22:15 know we're writing and and that's easy
1:22:19 to understand and easy to understand why
1:22:22 you would prioritize that especially in
1:22:24 the context of safety
1:22:31 I'm wondering for documents we were
1:22:35 talking about layout just now I think is
1:22:37 it possible to do like a version similar
1:22:42 tool and feels like the easy to read
1:22:43 scroll through but then also have a
1:22:45 comprehensive document in case you only
1:22:48 want to read about the safety or the
1:22:51 parking aspect of it and it can go into
1:22:53 depth in just the area in a PDF but also
1:22:56 have a overall like very visual website
1:23:04 type thing I like the strategic plan
1:23:07 almost like where you click a tab and it
1:23:10 opens up a specific area but it also
1:23:12 gives a general overview yeah yeah we
1:23:18 can take a look at that
1:23:29 okay so everything else
1:23:33 well I'm impressed with this group and
1:23:36 the depth that you guys went Jesus
1:23:38 that's great
1:23:39 I imagine yes I was not here this
1:23:44 evening
1:23:45 nightmare saw on Kobe okay did he I know
1:23:49 he said he wasn't gonna be able to make
1:23:50 it did he send any yes he did but I
1:23:59 think of it was all probably summarized
1:24:00 my notes to send them to Steve and CeCe
1:24:02 you and I know Aaron I mean there's no
1:24:06 reason we can't submit additional yeah
1:24:10 no more not to connection anything so if
1:24:13 you have follow-up comments or questions
1:24:14 I'm happy to answer no I'm going to
1:24:18 discuss good well something we're ready
1:24:21 to move on to item four or five of
1:24:26 course do we have a staff report for
1:24:30 staff report two things kind of related
1:24:33 to each other
1:24:34 Sheldon is retiring our public works
1:24:36 director is retiring and Kirk is gonna
1:24:39 be filling in for him as our interim
1:24:41 director for the next
1:24:50 I don't know is there anything else
1:24:52 Kurt that you wanted to okay so I do
1:24:57 Sheldon's last day this is this Friday
1:25:00 Wow this Friday yeah he made that
1:25:03 announcement right after our last
1:25:05 meeting so there's been no opportunity
1:25:07 to tell you so he did make it a while
1:25:10 ago wasn't two week notice chairs report
1:25:19 we don't have a sheriff's report there's
1:25:24 a report didn't I have anything that she
1:25:26 wanted to she didn't have anything to
1:25:28 share at least not in the email and for
1:25:32 a youth report cope he's not here but if
1:25:34 you have anything sort of hard on Maddie
1:25:38 or mo in terms of like what's going on
1:25:40 the high schools or anything related
1:25:42 going on in the community yeah
1:25:44 so this isn't particularly high school
1:25:47 related it's just something that I've
1:25:50 been working on with this the artist
1:25:52 coordinator Amy dukes we're in the
1:25:55 process of putting a pedestrian mural in
1:25:58 the trail that goes under the new
1:26:00 roundabout and then we're still working
1:26:04 out a few of the details but we're
1:26:06 hoping to get everything going and get
1:26:09 painting started by spring and we're
1:26:11 hoping to get a big community turnout
1:26:14 for that and so hopefully to increase
1:26:18 like youth awareness of like the new
1:26:19 trails and then also that it's option
1:26:22 for them to use and then hopefully
1:26:25 through a mural that we can promote
1:26:27 pedestrian traffic as well in this clay
1:26:30 area yeah
1:26:34 thank you okay are there any other
1:26:38 business is there any other business or
1:26:40 announcements nothing for me
1:26:49 unless there's nothing else just next
1:26:51 meeting is December 24th yep right here
1:26:57 never other names of these terms this is
1:26:58 council chamber but you'll tell us in
1:27:09 bold in the subject line you'll remind
1:27:12 us yes there's a meeting somewhere else
1:27:14 and there was some talk at some point
1:27:15 about changing our react meeting nice so
1:27:18 I was actually gonna ask about that for
1:27:20 we were trying to look at different days
1:27:23 that don't conflict with council
1:27:25 meetings on any other boards or
1:27:27 commissions being that meet in this room
1:27:29 and there are a lot of options and the
1:27:31 best date that works for you that in the
1:27:35 survey that we had put out the best
1:27:36 state that works for you actually is it
1:27:38 with the council meeting so it's it not
1:27:45 sure if changing the day is really nice
1:27:49 for certainement we're trying to reduce
1:27:50 the leaven the number of conflicts we
1:27:52 were having with these accounts meeting
1:27:54 our holidays this year we're having a
1:27:57 conflict with two holidays and maybe one
1:28:01 or two council meetings and that would
1:28:03 push us either to the pickering room at
1:28:04 City Hall Northwest or over across the
1:28:07 street at the Eco room so if you want me
1:28:11 to look more into just moving us to a
1:28:13 different date but I know people's
1:28:17 availability decreased as we get away
1:28:19 from moves
1:28:20 that was also the other issue is anytime
1:28:23 we try to go to Tuesday or Wednesday the
1:28:25 number of people available decreased and
1:28:27 I didn't want to I didn't want to
1:28:29 propose something what happened people
1:28:30 couldn't go one question I have is I
1:28:33 mean two meetings is one sixth of our
1:28:35 meeting schedule which it's probably not
1:28:39 good if we're trying to get a mobility
1:28:40 master plan out do we maybe want to
1:28:44 Academy and should we move those just
1:28:48 those meetings to the third Monday yeah
1:28:52 we can look at it we can look at that
1:28:54 yeah how does that yeah we're pretty
1:28:56 easy for some there now this is a Monday
1:28:58 I can make that work okay it didn't seem
1:29:00 here's this sounds like oh there's six
1:29:03 of us saying that the third Monday as an
1:29:05 alternate for when it falls on holiday
1:29:08 mm-hmm and if we get that on the
1:29:11 calendar in advance
1:29:14 that we don't lose a whole month nine
1:29:17 days that's kind of that's the council
1:29:21 meetings okay that's why I was wondering
1:29:25 if there was a conflict that was a
1:29:27 conflict with that day that was the that
1:29:29 was the conflict okay so maybe I don't
1:29:32 know so scratch that the third Monday is
1:29:40 a conflict is it an issue if we look at
1:29:43 the Pickering room for that third Monday
1:29:53 early on from everybody it was that this
1:29:55 location worked best for everyone
1:29:58 just because of access to the transit
1:30:00 and the bike facilities leading home
1:30:02 care auto it doesn't really matter
1:30:04 because you drive to both places but
1:30:06 that was I was trying to respect that as
1:30:08 much as I could
1:30:09 well this rumor across the street is
1:30:12 that where the Pickering room is that
1:30:17 one just because if you don't get there
1:30:19 on time you can't get the day after the
1:30:38 conflict or the after the holiday which
1:30:41 would be the Tuesday is that even an
1:30:42 option is that better and is this room
1:30:44 available would rather stick with the
1:30:45 same room but a different night what
1:30:47 month what month is that
1:30:51 the conflict with those states is it
1:30:53 because what would the next available
1:30:55 day is Tuesday that's when council has
1:30:57 their study sessions okay so nevermind
1:30:58 so well just those back to the third
1:31:01 Monday those will be is it Memorial Day
1:31:05 and one other do you member what the I
1:31:07 don't remember what the other holiday is
1:31:08 I think of them holidays that are at the
1:31:11 end of the month anyway I'll update the
1:31:17 calendar invites that I have to all you
1:31:18 with locations thank you is not
1:31:23 presidents no it's not that's what I had
1:31:25 just asked I was like it's February 24th
1:31:27 presidents I know I think
1:31:35 yeah I think it's easier to get us all
1:31:37 to the Pickering room than it is to try
1:31:39 to find it different data I think that's
1:31:41 what the KA 3 is here okay so keep the
1:31:44 same time third Monday picking room yeah
1:31:47 okay and then for the two holiday weeks
1:31:51 we can just try to two times in 2020 the
1:31:58 only one I found on my calendar was
1:31:59 December 28th and May 25th yeah those
1:32:05 are the two to two holidays and I think
1:32:07 two or three council meetings those are
1:32:10 the conflicts okay
1:32:12 yes for the holidays we should try to
1:32:14 calendar your the end of December is the
1:32:20 May meeting maybe we can yeah so the
1:32:23 December would be the 21st which isn't
1:32:26 as bad as right in the middle but we
1:32:28 should pencil it in and then if the
1:32:30 schedule allows us and everyone just
1:32:32 seems to want to have a mm-hmm break
1:32:34 again or okay we don't know where we'll
1:32:36 be December 2020 in terms of like this
1:32:39 these deliverables and we may just want
1:32:41 to finish powering through so be good to
1:32:43 pencil it in okay
1:32:47 alright that works
1:32:55 yeah they would be the third it'll be
1:32:58 third Monday in May they'll be the 18th
1:33:08 and if I know you're not looking at your
1:33:10 calendar so if something comes up we can
1:33:12 revisit this later on too okay for now
1:33:17 should we say that's our unless
1:33:19 otherwise we're not changing we're gonna
1:33:37 continue with the fourth Monday mm-hmm
1:33:40 except in May we're gonna move to the
1:33:42 third Monday and in December we'll move
1:33:44 to the third Monday don't otherwise no
1:33:50 17th is not we don't meet on that day we
1:33:53 weren't scheduled to meet on that day
1:33:54 that's a third Monday yeah we're just
1:33:58 changing location 24th on the conflict
1:34:06 days right okay that's all the questions
1:34:08 that go oh right
1:34:10 I had one more question just about
1:34:12 membership renewals so yes for the new
1:34:16 year yeah important if we're expiring
1:34:19 2020 is that when does that technically
1:34:24 expire and what is the process to so
1:34:26 there's application that I think the
1:34:29 same application yinz is submit for the
1:34:30 city clerk and even though you're two or
1:34:35 four-year hasn't been fully extended we
1:34:38 still have to submit that occasion
1:34:39 because the expiration date but we
1:34:41 submit as part of the location review is
1:34:43 that you have not actually gone through
1:34:45 your full two or four year process and
1:34:47 that'll be included as part of the
1:34:48 application review process
1:34:51 one of us do I'm gonna send the links
1:34:54 out to you following today but they're
1:34:57 doing February okay and if you're but if
1:35:01 you're not expire until like 2022 d you
1:35:03 you don't need to worry about it okay
1:35:05 they're just staggered terms I'm in the
1:35:11 same boat yes with the expirations
1:35:18 and the three vacant positions that's
1:35:20 what we're working with
1:35:23 okay I'll entertain a motion to adjourn
1:35:29 motion to adjourn okay
1:35:39 the gavel I don't know