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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

6:00 PM
Topic tracked across meetings:
Mobility Master Plan (MMP) Update ID 1507 22/22
Section
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
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Minutes of July 24, 2024
packet pp.3–4
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 07-24-24 Transportation Advisory Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Transportation Advisory Board 6:00 PM Tibbetts Manor, 750 17th Ave. July 24, 2024 MINUTES NW, Issaquah
4. REGULAR BUSINESS
4a
Mobility Master Plan (MMP) Update
Discussion · Thomas Valdriz, Senior Transportation Planner · packet pp.5–431
Topics: Transportation
Staff report:
The Administration is requesting Board feedback on proposed updates to the Mobility Master Plan (MMP) to better align the plan to the City’s Comprehensive Plan, Transportation Element. The Administration has the following questions for the Board to consider:
5. REPORTS
5a
Board Work Plan
5b
Staff Report
5c
Chair Report
5d
Youth Report
0:05 good evening everyone uh this is julan
0:08 mid this is the transportation advisery
0:10 board meeting for August 28th we're
0:13 going to started at 6:05
0:16 pm. and we will kick off with an
0:20 approval of the minutes um of the July
0:24 minut there any comments or suggested
0:28 revisions um
0:30 let me
0:33 know there's
0:37 none in that case we will
0:41 unanimously pass these minutes by
0:45 consent okay and now we will move on to
0:49 public comments um I'll note we can
0:53 start with this email that we received a
0:56 couple days ago from Connie Marsh she
0:59 I'm just highlighting a couple of the
1:01 topics she uh wrote about in there um
1:04 terms of synthesizing the parts of
1:06 Mobility plans together um you know walk
1:10 on experience you discussed walking
1:12 experience and destination
1:15 walking that into um our clients so we
1:19 encourage everyone to read that if they
1:22 haven't
1:24 already but
1:26 now online there's new online online
1:31 okay there's no one in here so at that
1:34 point we will get started with the
1:36 regular business um and item there is
1:39 mobility Master Plan
1:41 update get started
1:55 that thank you chair um hello everyone
1:59 my name is Thomas shz I think I've met
2:01 most of you by now um but I'm the senior
2:04 planner at isqua and I will be talking
2:07 about the mobility Master Plan
2:10 update so I here to get your feedback on
2:14 the proposed updates to the mobility
2:15 master plan and I have a couple
2:18 questions first just wanting to get your
2:21 feedback on if the proposed changes to
2:23 the implementation actions um are
2:26 agreeable to the board this is part of
2:29 the pack as attachment Fe and second
2:32 question is are there any additional
2:34 changes that theard would like to
2:38 see just to
2:41 summarize uh at a very high level the
2:44 first thing you'll notice is that the
2:46 proposed uh document we're proposing a
2:49 change the DAT this is related to many
2:52 discussions that we've had internally um
2:55 as isqua staff but also it's been
2:57 brought up by the equity board um making
2:59 sure that that we are uh using words
3:02 correctly um that we're not uh sort of
3:06 uh using words that have other meanings
3:09 and might uh be considered uh that form
3:13 uh so the name itself we're proposing to
3:16 update um and this is just sort of
3:17 aligned with best practices being
3:19 inclusive in this squa um second we're
3:22 hoping to just do some minor updates to
3:25 housekeeping uh items um you know the
3:28 the document was last updated a couple
3:29 years ago so imagine there's just been
3:31 some little changes that we need to to
3:34 meet make to to tweak the document um
3:37 we've updated our existing and future
3:40 conditions analysis a lot of this was
3:42 related to the transit study um and sort
3:44 of uh knowing more about what Transit is
3:47 going to look like in the near term in
3:48 the future um and sort of access to
3:51 Transit there's also revisions uh mostly
3:55 related to the implementation actions as
3:57 part of attachment B these are related
4:00 to Transit and Equity sustainability and
4:04 climate resiliency these are all topics
4:06 that we brought to the board in October
4:09 um as part of the transportation element
4:11 discussions so these are sort of flowing
4:13 um from from the Transportation element
4:16 and then are actions that we're hoping
4:21 propose there's new updates to the
4:23 transportation element goals and
4:24 policies that we uh you know mentioned
4:27 back in October this board had that
4:29 opport to provide feedback on um so we
4:32 we're literally just like referencing
4:34 that document um which is this document
4:37 implements the
4:39 lad excuse
4:46 me then finally um amendments to the
4:50 actions just to better Implement that
4:52 transation
4:54 element so jumping right in um I think
4:58 I'm going to defer to the chair on this
4:59 one but my my goal here is just to go
5:02 Slide by
5:03 slide um and really go through each of
5:07 these actions and then I'll pause and I
5:09 think if the chair is avable to that we
5:11 can just stop there and then we'll get
5:13 uh board feedback so okay so just right
5:18 off the bat the title um the intention
5:22 of changing the name of the document is
5:24 just to reduce unintentional harm the
5:27 word Master is has negative con ations
5:30 uh to many folks so we're just trying to
5:33 use more inclusive language here um
5:36 implementation uh really does say what
5:39 the document adds uh so we feel that the
5:42 title change uh just implementation
5:45 instead of master um sort of speaks for
5:48 itself and um just reduces uh words that
5:52 have double meanings and negative
5:54 connotations yeah I have a question
5:56 about both that one and stakeholders as
5:59 far as
6:00 um data supporting that and what it's
6:03 changing as opposed to master time and
6:07 master tram those are all from an
6:09 engineering standpoint you know kind of
6:11 a the lead one and so I
6:16 feel
6:18 um I just get conern we change some much
6:21 language of certain words
6:24 without and maybe I'm picking on one
6:26 that's simple but just changing words
6:29 because someone might think it is as
6:30 opposed to might be more database as far
6:36 what yeah and it is really hard like um
6:39 in the project management field which is
6:42 a whole field in its own like that word
6:44 stakeholder is just that is everywhere
6:46 um and it's something that I am trying
6:49 to unlearn myself uh
6:51 but uh these words to certain uh people
6:55 that live in the community really do uh
6:59 it creates like a negative feeling and
7:02 in many ways it just like it's one of
7:04 it's one of many little microaggressions
7:06 that prevents someone from like actually
7:08 engaging with the community or like the
7:10 government that is supposed to serve
7:12 them so uh yeah there's a couple
7:15 instances that I've highlighted
7:16 throughout the document and I'm glad
7:17 that you caught that because that was
7:18 probably in page 400 or something um but
7:21 yeah like the these words uh there
7:23 there's a couple instances where we did
7:25 catch that um and we've done a lot lot
7:29 of work uh in the equity space and we're
7:31 just trying to like really Implement
7:33 that starting in the document level and
7:36 then hopefully like these words will
7:38 like transform into actions that we take
7:40 later so um yeah we're just trying to be
7:43 choice we're trying to use our words
7:45 carefully um and that really just starts
7:47 with like the documents that are sort of
7:49 finding what we're doing but I do
7:51 acknowledge that yeah that word that
7:54 word is like it is useful in many ways
7:56 but we can find other words to say the
7:58 same thing
8:10 yeah that's a good question
8:13 um yeah there's I want to say that
8:17 Seattle does this um I think King County
8:19 does this as well um I am very much a
8:23 transportation planner and like I do my
8:26 best to like keep up to date in this but
8:28 uh this is like I'm just trying to
8:30 implement it in my own way um so I know
8:33 that we have an equity board so maybe I
8:34 can bring that to them next week when I
8:36 talk to them and like sort of see who
8:38 else is doing this um but it is a best
8:40 practice and my understanding is that
8:42 we're all doing our best to like be more
8:45 inclusive
8:48 yeah uh was did this come did this
8:51 request for Equity board from out in the
8:55 community or like inter sta yeah so
9:00 I think I think the way I would answer
9:02 that is uh so staff internally we have
9:05 an equity team which I'm a part of uh
9:10 and part of the team created a glossery
9:13 of words that are considered harmful um
9:17 that was brought to the equity board I
9:19 believe in like April or May or
9:20 something so they've had that
9:22 opportunity to like comment on it um I
9:25 think it's
9:26 nearly uh approved or maybe it is
9:28 approved at this Point um but this is
9:30 really like the first document that
9:33 we're like sort of using the glossery in
9:37 so I expect this to flow into other
9:40 documents but this I guess this is
9:41 probably the first one that we're
9:44 doing so I consider myself pretty
9:47 sensitive to the language I use and I
9:49 try and be very thoughtful and I'm open
9:52 to hearing things something came out
9:54 work probably two years ago about not to
9:57 talk about something as a final solution
9:59 right
9:59 I'm Jewish I'm not bothered by that at
10:02 all I recognize some people may be some
10:03 people are not but the the people that
10:05 were doing this they're not Jewish
10:08 they're not they're just like oh we read
10:10 on something this is not a good thing to
10:12 use and it's
10:15 like in every other connotation it means
10:20 you know you've worked on a bunch of
10:21 solutions this is the final one you're
10:22 going right uh and so
10:27 I'm I consider myself I go out of my way
10:31 to be thoughtful about the language I
10:32 use but I I also recognize sometimes
10:35 you're just looking for problems and I'm
10:38 honestly kind of disturbed that our city
10:40 spent so long even talking about it it's
10:42 like change the word okay like okay
10:45 whatever like it doesn't it doesn't
10:47 matter it's the title I can't believe
10:48 we've been talking about it now and I'm
10:49 talking about it it's like I disagree
10:52 that that that's not even the the
10:55 history of the word I just looked it up
10:57 it's teaching is actually history of it
11:00 but if it's more welcoming to people use
11:02 different word fine I just don't think
11:05 there needs to be discussion just like
11:07 okay implementation good let's talk
11:10 about the content which is what
11:14 actually secondo to move on yeah yeah I
11:18 mean I think we can move
11:21 on discussion of this you I think there
11:24 is totally you know negative connotation
11:27 um about master I mean it l does Come
11:32 From Slavery it's
11:34 not I
11:36 me it's can be ConEd with that lots of
11:41 things can be ConEd with a lot of things
11:43 but I think implementation is is
11:45 something that's you know more neutral
11:47 obviously and actually is what we're
11:49 trying to do with this plan which is
11:52 actionable master plan justes off this
11:55 okay this is
11:57 just overline plan
12:00 and but implementation is something that
12:02 actually has an actionable word with it
12:04 and I think it's just a better word to
12:07 use that and so that uh and stakeholder
12:11 I was surprised about stakeholder for
12:13 example but I think all this just
12:17 evolving process for
12:20 learning unlearning as well just one
12:22 last comment I think implementation is
12:24 good I just think the reason for master
12:26 might be connotated bad like we start
12:28 piing words right left has a bad meaning
12:31 stakeholders is kind of overused term
12:33 but it really means who has a state as
12:35 parties doesn't have that same so the
12:38 reason for doing it I think that could
12:40 be a discussion but the reason for doing
12:43 that is concerned as far
12:45 as people might think word means when
12:48 90% of the other people it's the basic
12:51 conation something so that's
12:53 implementation implementation I think is
12:55 good as far
12:57 as just the reason we got to it always
12:59 amazes me when someone uses the word for
13:02 a really long time and all of a sudden
13:04 it's like oh I actually had a
13:06 problem to me that says they didn't have
13:09 a problem up there they're just trying
13:11 to follow what someone else has problem
13:17 so I think we
13:23 can0
13:25 about but we can I think it safe to well
13:29 okay sounds great um so first action uh
13:34 1.1 uh this is basically making it a a
13:39 more actionable uh action so you know
13:44 previously we didn't talk about when
13:46 evaluations would be done we're just
13:47 saying annually we should look at
13:49 evaluations so pretty straightforward um
13:53 just trying to make sure that we can
13:54 sort of track these things in the future
13:57 and we know when we're going to be doing
13:59 them when it's expected to be done um
14:03 the second one is just adding a word
14:06 Improvement um so just making it clear
14:08 this is related to Transportation
14:10 Improvement
14:12 projects
14:14 1.1.3 is related uh to a new action
14:18 which is a annual Collision monitoring
14:20 monitoring report um so a new action but
14:23 again just to support um tracking and
14:26 implementation um making sure that we're
14:27 being transparent when uh with data um
14:30 and just better supporting how we're
14:33 thinking about um collisions that happen
14:35 throughout the
14:37 city about that
14:40 one the
14:48 traffic yeah they're they're they're
14:51 related in a sort of adjacent way um so
14:55 collisions would sort of support uh a
15:00 traffic calming program um that's that
15:02 someone from the community is asking for
15:04 so if uh you know someone from the
15:06 community says hey I'd really like
15:08 something to be done here um collisions
15:10 would be part of that like um uh
15:14 analysis of you know thinking about what
15:16 what to do so if there's a if there's a
15:18 collision here and the primary factor
15:21 for that Collision was like speeding
15:23 that would be another consideration
15:25 versus like if it was something else so
15:27 yeah
15:31 and then the the next three are related
15:33 to Vision zero uh these are really minor
15:36 updates and it's uh mostly just to
15:39 improve uh how it reads reducing some
15:43 redundancies um and the last part is
15:46 about a banal U report so that's just
15:50 sort
15:52 of more clear what the intention is with
15:55 that so um there's an inter between the
16:00 one3 theion Monitor and the vision zero
16:04 yeah where in order to be effective in
16:08 reducing the the
16:10 casualties injuries we need to know
16:13 causes we need to know whether these
16:16 things are going going to be impacted by
16:18 any actions that we take should that be
16:21 more explicit weing those together where
16:23 the report is going to tell us enough
16:26 information so that we can make
16:28 effective
16:31 actions yeah so like you're saying uh
16:34 you know what do we do with the data
16:35 once we have it yeah so as I read
16:37 through the VIS zero aspects there's a
16:39 lot of that that is somebody has an
16:41 accident kind of doesn't matter if
16:43 they're you know drunk night or you know
16:46 there's a really dangerous slick road
16:49 that people die on one AR rigns and
16:52 those are VAR different causes that are
16:53 going to be impacted differently by
16:55 actions that we take right so
16:59 those things together maybe the feeding
17:01 met into the actions that we take for
17:03 visioner yeah we can do that yeah yeah
17:16 okay any other comments for this
17:23 slide moving on
17:26 1.3.1 um so this is related to the
17:30 traffic calming program uh this is just
17:34 pretty minor update um just making clear
17:36 that uh reporting would be by anual
17:42 um and sort of the the result of that
17:46 would be part of the transportation
17:48 Improvement program um which we do every
17:52 year um after that we have a new action
17:57 this is related to speed limit setting
17:59 um so
18:01 um just sort of thinking about you know
18:04 traffic calming and like sort of
18:07 establishing safer vehicle speeds uh one
18:10 action could be that we take a look at
18:13 the speed limits that we do have and
18:15 sort of think about the context and and
18:18 sort of what the overall priorities of
18:20 the street are relative to um how
18:24 streets function throughout the city so
18:27 yes you could finish your say that's
18:30 that's raason sure yeah so um you know
18:33 just I I drove over here from City Hall
18:36 and one thing that I noticed as I was
18:37 sort of thinking about my presentation
18:40 um was Newport how there's like a school
18:42 zone right um and so During certain
18:44 times a day you're supposed to drive
18:46 slower because there's children present
18:48 and that's sort of an example of like
18:49 how the context and the speed limit are
18:52 sort of related um
18:54 so that that is like a pretty
18:56 wellestablished thing that the state
18:58 requires is like the the school zone um
19:01 but that's just sort of an example of
19:03 like ways we can think about how the
19:05 speed limits are set throughout the city
19:07 um if we want to prioritize uh you know
19:11 access to uh you know a facility like
19:15 near someone's home or we want to really
19:17 prioritize like uh throughput and like
19:20 you know getting goods from here to
19:22 there so just another sort of thing that
19:26 we could look at is like how speed
19:29 limits are set and if they're aligned
19:30 with our greater
19:33 goals so my question was when I read
19:35 this it almost makes it sound like our
19:37 current speed limit setting policies
19:39 don't prioritize the C to people I'm
19:42 just curious like do we not do that
19:45 already yeah I would say that speed
19:47 limits um so they're set I think this
19:51 was mentioned maybe at the last meeting
19:52 like we looked the 85th percentile speed
19:55 and like that sort of dictates uh you
19:57 know there's reduction factors you can
19:59 add to that but like it's really sort of
20:03 hard and fast like this is how people
20:05 are driving right now and then you can
20:08 reduce it based on the context but maybe
20:11 um there's like better ways to look at
20:14 it and other cities have started to do
20:16 this in the area where like they they
20:19 have reduced uh for instance uh the
20:21 speed limits in certain areas based on
20:23 like the the needs of the area and like
20:26 what we're trying to achieve in that
20:28 area so um
20:31 yes can the city change their own speed
20:33 limits or do they have to have state
20:35 approval a great question the city
20:39 council can approve it now in order to
20:43 do it it takes traffic study or there
20:46 are certain types of streets where if
20:49 the city had a policy we could Implement
20:53 um but it all has to begin with the city
20:56 council it's the city council's policy
20:58 that we need well
21:01 it I'm going off memory because it's
21:03 been six plus months since I've read
21:05 this part but I believe if we wanted to
21:08 set the speed to 20 mil an hour on
21:12 certain residential streets that the
21:14 city council could adopt a policy for
21:18 how to go about doing that rather than
21:20 take each of those to council but if we
21:23 wanted to
21:26 isolate I just say Northwest Gilman we
21:29 wanted to change the speed limit to
21:31 whatever we'd have to do a speed study
21:34 and then have the council adopt the new
21:37 speed
21:44 limit you said like streets as example
21:48 was just Googling is basically where do
21:50 traffic
21:55 fatalities AI response is not very good
21:59 I'm
22:00 trusted I um is that is that like his
22:02 neighborhood streets where that's
22:05 because I guess I would have assumed it
22:06 actually wouldn't be in the neighborhood
22:08 street maybe bad assumption but I would
22:10 have assumed it would
22:12 be places where people
22:15 are be Crossing more to get to a store
22:20 or rather than just like I'm picturing
22:22 like a BAC type neighborhood street um
22:29 I guess I'm surprised that that would be
22:31 where you would have the most impact to
22:33 spe so i' expected it to be
22:36 currently higher speed streets that were
22:39 fatalities happen and therefore where a
22:41 policy would
22:44 happen yeah um to be honest there's not
22:47 too many collisions that happen
22:49 throughout the city but we do have some
22:51 um I don't know that we have enough to
22:53 like really create like a cause and
22:55 effect kind of situation um but each one
22:58 is an individual incident um and I guess
23:02 that's just part of the the thinking of
23:04 like speed limit setting is um you know
23:07 that that could make the street uh more
23:10 comfortable for biking for instance like
23:14 this is a just an example that I thought
23:16 of in the moment but if the speed limit
23:18 is 35 miles an hour and we want to have
23:24 cyclists use the facility maybe it makes
23:27 sense to reduce the speed limit because
23:31 if you're riding your bike on a 35 m per
23:33 hour Street maybe that's not super
23:34 comfortable um so there's there's other
23:37 sort of things to think about but I
23:39 think it relates to our over option
23:42 goals um for like the streets that we
23:45 have um relative to like the
23:48 transportation element um but also
23:50 within the parameters of what's possible
23:53 because speed limits are set through
23:54 like traffic engineering
24:04 um I'll just keep moving on
24:06 um the commute Tri production plan uh
24:11 2.1.1 um this is
24:14 uh basically summarizing previously
24:17 stated items that were in the mobility
24:19 master plan um there were just a couple
24:22 here in there but uh we're currently
24:24 working on an action an action plan
24:27 specific to the commuter ction plan um
24:30 this is like a state requirement and it
24:32 has specific things that we do so this
24:34 is just pointing rather than being
24:36 redundant with our actions just say okay
24:38 look at that plan and then implement it
24:40 as it
24:43 says in case other folks don't know
24:46 particulars you go through a little bit
24:48 about CTR sure um yes so the commute
24:52 trip production plan is for employers
24:54 that have over 100 employees and
24:58 basically says if you have this many
24:59 employees you should think about ways to
25:02 reduce um like commuters on the road uh
25:05 so examples of things that a CTR program
25:08 could have is like uh you know remote
25:11 work for employees or maybe instead of
25:14 having your employees show up uh like in
25:18 a world where like a business is right
25:19 next to a school you wouldn't really
25:22 want your employees to also be in that
25:24 school traffic it would just be like
25:26 crazy for for an intersection so you
25:27 could say
25:28 okay we're going to start um you know
25:30 employees will come to work like 30
25:33 minutes or a half hour or like an hour
25:35 um after school uh is is let out so
25:38 these are just like all these um ways
25:41 that we can ensure that intersections
25:44 and like the roads are functioning
25:46 properly um if you can imagine if 100
25:48 pyes all came in at once that'd be like
25:51 depending on the context that would be
25:53 really crazy uh so
25:56 UMES yeah yeah so yeah in some cities
26:00 where you know there's larger employers
26:02 uh you know they provide shuttles like
26:04 we've seen the Microsoft connector
26:06 that's a CTR program type thing um where
26:09 it picks up people that live in
26:12 different
26:13 areas so we have a CTR program
26:17 throughout the city um and we implement
26:19 it and the actions that we do would be
26:22 part of that
26:23 plan so since there's so much uh traffic
26:28 impact in
26:30 CTR is that something we're reviewing on
26:32 this board the CTR
26:35 plan and is it in scope for this
26:38 discussion like the details of the CTR
26:39 plan yes that is my plan yeah because
26:43 I'm I'm the CTR foring um so I uh I'm
26:47 actually in the midst of uh writing a
26:49 four-year plan which the state has never
26:51 mandated before so we're starting
26:53 scratch um and I will be I'm in the
26:57 midst of figuring out exactly what
26:58 public engagement I need to be doing
27:00 because there's some legally required
27:02 public engagement so tab is on list of
27:06 stops so so we pull a few elements of
27:08 CTR just the organization of it
27:11 into this master implementation PL sorry
27:14 not master
27:16 Mobility I'll learn one of
27:19 these do do we want to dig into more of
27:22 those details like do we want to pull
27:24 out things like uh reducing length of
27:27 commute by studying the impacts and
27:29 proposing changes to things like zoning
27:33 or things that impact so that sort of
27:36 spans beyond the reach of what the plan
27:39 is for it's it's really like we don't
27:41 want
27:42 to we don't want to prevent someone from
27:44 doing business here but we do want to
27:47 say within reason like these are some
27:50 legitimate things that you can do for
27:53 your business that also have the mutual
27:55 benefit of like reducing traffic so we
27:57 don't want to say like
27:58 okay like you can't come and do business
28:01 here because like we don't like the way
28:03 that you are doing your business but it
28:06 could just be um well your employees
28:09 need a way to get to work and like uh
28:12 the state requires you to think about
28:15 this and you have a menu of options that
28:17 you can choose from so like pick pick
28:19 the one that best fits your needs and
28:22 your employees
28:24 needs trip production is also secures
28:28 like we provided
28:29 showers we build showers in our building
28:31 so people could buy the bikes bike area
28:33 and shower so they could actually buy
28:34 the so get
28:37 people alternate modes whether it's the
28:39 timing of the
28:42 day and I think it' be hard to I mean
28:45 interesting com I how you can take traic
28:49 I mean
28:50 versus ride a bike and take them off the
28:53 road get
28:55 alled yeah I was thinking about like the
28:59 U smart growth aspects where you know if
29:01 you're combining the the zoning
29:04 residential commercial you're going to
29:07 naturally reduce some of commute tax
29:09 from that commute distances and so if
29:11 those aspects should show up in this
29:13 plan or not I didn't really see them in
29:16 there but it seems like that can be
29:18 relevant that's uh that's also beyond
29:21 the scope of CTR so the way the
29:24 CTR law works is uh the term is good
29:28 Faith efforts we have to work with these
29:29 companies these work sites that have
29:31 over 100 employees and we have to make
29:33 contact with them they're required to
29:35 survey their employees every two years
29:37 we're required to get a program report
29:38 from them and that's about it there's uh
29:42 there's no actual like threshold you
29:44 must reduce X by every two years it's
29:48 more just the uh the tracking and
29:51 working with me to see what kind of uh
29:56 things they can do but if they if they
29:58 choose not to we can't go after them per
30:02 se but we can talk to them which you
30:06 know for better for worse how successful
30:08 does that me it's pretty it's it's
30:11 relatively successful um even just
30:13 raising wareness uh goes a long way um
30:17 so yeah I have I have good working
30:19 relationships with those companies
30:21 there's there's some motivation built in
30:22 for employees there they employees want
30:26 shorter communs more
30:29 efficient this is one way to achieve it
30:31 how many work sites in have more we have
30:35 eight at the moment yeah our largest is
30:38 Costco with 1,700
30:41 employees and they have a really high in
30:43 office requirement so traffic you see is
30:48 a large part of
30:50 them parking Interruption so
30:53 anyway oh we don't want to interrupt
30:56 their economic activity because them are
30:59 going to hurt the city far far more than
31:01 making someone happy because they got
31:03 extra so I think it's I think it's good
31:06 I think encouraging them finding
31:09 guidance meing them I think those are
31:10 all really
31:13 positive yeah we just as an anote then
31:15 I'll keep moving um we did a bike to
31:18 work day event at Costco two years ago
31:20 uh so we bring it to them and like we
31:23 we're doing what we can um and but again
31:27 like Costco
31:28 uh the way that they've structured their
31:30 business it just doesn't work the same
31:33 way that like we might think we we could
31:37 have a mutual benefit but like we're
31:39 just continuing those conversations and
31:40 we certainly don't want to like have
31:42 them stop what they're doing so yeah
31:46 um uh so this is yeah just going back to
31:49 what we're talking about um CTR program
31:51 uh we have an action plan that uh we're
31:54 developing
31:56 um and then
31:58 the second one is related to
32:01 transportation management plans these
32:03 are for private development
32:06 um sometimes a development comes in
32:09 and for instance they might bring a lot
32:13 of trips so let's take for example an
32:15 apartment building that has 200 units um
32:20 if that if that comes into Central isqua
32:23 it might trigger um some improvements
32:26 that might be needed so one way to
32:30 reduce the burden of a Development
32:32 coming in is to say okay well you can
32:35 reduce how many people are likely going
32:38 to pass through an intersection by um
32:41 managing it in these ways and there's a
32:45 we we currently do this so it's not
32:46 really a new thing but um I just have
32:48 relocated it here um and it's yeah it's
32:52 just something that is very successful
32:54 in making sure that the transportation
32:57 Network continues used to operate um
32:59 efficiently as an example did wasn't
33:01 that done with Costco corporate like
33:03 when they moved their headquarters
33:04 wasn't there a bunch of like renovation
33:07 and uh like making the that area more
33:12 robust Transportation wise yeah that's
33:14 related so they um there's development
33:16 agreements which is basically you have
33:18 the you have the area that you're going
33:19 to develop and as a condition of getting
33:23 uh the ability to build it uh we say
33:26 okay well you actually need road because
33:29 uh there's going to be a lot of trips
33:31 coming here lots lots of people getting
33:33 to work so we need a new road uh to help
33:36 you um but also to make sure that the
33:38 other roads that are existing aren't
33:40 like completely congested and not useful
33:46 anymore um cool so continuing
33:53 on mature production uh so there's two
33:57 new actions related to commun production
34:00 and uh trans Transportation demand
34:03 management
34:04 um these are just uh they're really
34:08 inclusive of previously listed actions
34:10 um but so the first one is ensuring that
34:13 the program is compliant with state
34:15 requirements that's sort of uh that's
34:18 sort of the reason why we have the CTR
34:20 program and then the other one is Mak
34:22 sure to collaborate and like sort of
34:24 sharing learnings and um you know
34:26 acknowledging that other C cities have
34:28 uh commute your production plans and if
34:31 there's ways to improve efficiencies and
34:33 Effectiveness
34:35 um super minor but looks like TDM that's
34:39 the first time you Ed that acronym so
34:41 okay yeah
34:55 sure and then
34:58 2.3.1 uh incorporating climate
35:01 considerations into infrastructure
35:03 evaluation and
35:04 prioritization this is something that uh
35:08 I believe the tab looked at in the
35:10 previous Transportation Improvement and
35:12 process um is just uh you know
35:15 incorporating climate
35:18 into how we plan and like build projects
35:22 do you want to call out then the CIP
35:24 instead of just saying climate
35:28 I don't I don't know it seems like
35:30 climate might just be like a depending
35:33 on how much you're going to use this
35:34 document to be like it says this I must
35:38 now do this I you know want you have a
35:42 plan for how to address climate so
35:45 yeah yeah we could do that so you're
35:48 saying like within that phrase uh
35:50 Capital
35:52 Improvement plan instead of just saying
35:55 infrastructure generally oh no I
35:59 climate sorry sorry
36:03 wrong yeah just call calling out city
36:07 has that
36:08 so what else think that's yeah I was
36:12 gonna say that it's it does seem a
36:14 little bit vague like incorporating
36:17 climate considerations is yeah very very
36:20 vague that doesn't actually tell me
36:21 anything about what is going to happen
36:23 and having a reference of like we don't
36:25 have space for that in this document
36:27 there's another that says what we're
36:28 going to do that is very good okay
36:32 yeah um and then yeah the last one on
36:35 this slide is evaluating critical needs
36:38 for alternative transportation Network
36:40 projects um so this is a requirement
36:43 that we have but we have a comprehensive
36:45 emergency management plan um and so one
36:48 of the things that we're doing currently
36:50 is we're considering if there's a
36:52 wildfire in the city like sort of what
36:56 how that might play out and things we
36:58 can do to like better plan for that um
37:00 so this is that's sort of related to
37:02 this is um looking to see if there's
37:06 other Transportation Network projects
37:08 that could um support
37:12 evacuation quicker in like yeah like
37:15 alternative transportation doesn't mean
37:17 like bus and stuff like that it could be
37:19 yeah yeah it could be that um it could
37:21 be like if there's a
37:24 um you know if he lives in the mountains
37:28 if if there was like a fire access road
37:30 that could be opened up like if if oh
37:33 for like firefighting right so if if
37:35 that could be opened up and potentially
37:37 used as for anybody if if you lived on
37:40 the top of the mountain and you could
37:41 use that to get out that would be like a
37:43 quicker so alternative H can mean many
37:47 things but it could be like coordinating
37:49 with King County Metro like to get buses
37:52 like rushed over here or you know just
37:54 all these all these other ways yeah um
37:58 is this to point oh I guess it'll be on
38:01 next slide for the emergency
38:04 transportation fire work yes yeah yeah
38:08 so just to sort of stop here um I think
38:11 I received a couple comments here but
38:12 any other
38:14 lasts for
38:21 this are right like it's very real
38:24 reality that as like dry fire um and I
38:28 know that this has been I'm just seen it
38:30 like you know Highland Facebook group
38:33 things like that like like big concerns
38:35 about there the higher up you go the
38:37 hill on the islands that like kind of
38:39 the more limited your like exit route
38:43 is yeah very very important very timely
38:46 right
38:49 um there's already plant for other sorts
38:52 of disasters like I think probably
38:56 Wildfire is the most likely we also live
38:58 in an earthquake so yeah yeah the the
39:02 document the comprehensive emergency
39:03 management plan um it talks about
39:05 generally the things that we would do
39:07 the actions that we would take um but
39:10 actively we are looking specifically at
39:13 a wildfire event
39:16 um I I don't really work in the space of
39:19 like Emergency Management but I I do
39:21 know that like there is there is a
39:23 desire to just prepare generally and
39:25 like yes fires are like the most likely
39:28 this
39:36 area
39:47 house
39:49 okay um so moving on
39:52 2.3.3 uh this is a emergency
39:54 transportation provider Network um this
39:57 something that we don't currently do but
39:59 uh we are planning on uh joining it's
40:03 basically like a mutual Aid situation
40:05 with uh
40:07 Transportation uh providers um and this
40:10 would just yeah be like coordinating
40:12 buses or like um if there's you know
40:16 vans that are available this could be
40:19 just like other cities helping the city
40:22 that's currently affected by something
40:25 um so kind of scared to think about but
40:27 like we do need to be thinking about uh
40:31 you know how we support uh others in a
40:35 like extreme weather event or an
40:37 emergency so this is
40:39 um not something that I typically dwell
40:42 on too much but we do need to be
40:43 thinking about this and there's a plan
40:46 that we update every five years it's
40:47 sort of related to
40:49 that natural to the
40:52 rescue you know it it unfortunately it
40:55 could happen so
41:04 yeah great so this next set of four
41:08 these are all brand new
41:10 um the first one is about collecting
41:15 data and then the second one's about
41:17 using that data for
41:19 maps and then partnering with uh federal
41:23 agencies um state and local emergency
41:26 management teams and then um that fourth
41:29 one is related to that study I was
41:31 talking about
41:32 so this is specific to wildfires
41:37 um but yeah we certainly want to be
41:39 thinking about ways that we can
41:41 adequately evacuate um in the in the
41:44 event that there's a hazardous event um
41:48 we want to be thinking about ways that
41:49 we can uh take care of that and like
41:53 have good strategy for that that's all
41:57 good
41:58 good um
42:00 we similar to the other ones um for the
42:05 2.4 four would it be helpful for us to
42:09 specify like
42:11 a timing for these exercises um instead
42:16 of just saying we we exercise them some
42:19 TT it would be helpful
42:22 to do like you know we we'll do like a
42:25 mock exercise like every year or every
42:28 other
42:29 year of these
42:32 situations yeah that's a great question
42:36 um I'm not sure when this will occur I I
42:40 just don't work in this world so um you
42:43 can I I can forward the feedback but I
42:47 yeah if if you want to let me know what
42:50 you think about that and like uh sort of
42:54 um how to make you want your saying like
42:57 how do I make this more actionable and
42:59 like yeah I mean just like similar to
43:02 the other ones right say you know adding
43:05 the clarifications how often you do the
43:08 reporting and all that stuff those sort
43:11 of situations when it comes to you know
43:15 doing tactics
43:18 ofation how often should we do it it's
43:21 like every other
43:22 year Regional practice simulation yeah
43:26 this is how we
43:29 the buses all that to one area back have
43:32 one out so I'll make a note to look into
43:37 like how often this should realistically
43:39 be done does that is that
43:46 fair for
43:47 2.4.1 and two what Maps exactly is it
43:51 referencing so these are uh requirements
43:55 that we have um that so that the map is
43:58 related to critical areas and U mapping
44:02 where like sea level rises and like
44:05 flood risk and uh there's uh there's
44:10 like environmental maps that show like
44:11 where certain areas of the city are more
44:15 likely to be affected by certain
44:20 things shows everything from G
44:24 to right yeah um my comment is kind of
44:29 tiing on what Julian was saying as far
44:31 as uh to be at some point uh base
44:35 simulation or modeling of an evacuation
44:38 to some point and then updated every
44:41 whether it's every couple years or every
44:42 time any major new development happens
44:46 oration to though like five years down
44:49 the road simulated again but that same
44:52 evacuation around option
44:57 and I'll jump in there just a little bit
45:00 which is even if you don't put you know
45:02 have to do it every two years in this
45:04 plan you can phrase it differently it's
45:06 phrased as in do it once and if this is
45:09 a 20-y year plan that's like once in 20
45:10 years but you know conduct an evacuation
45:14 time estimate or could be maintain time
45:17 estimates for
45:19 evacuation maintain accurate time
45:22 instead of update Maps could be maintain
45:25 Maps right
45:28 supporting a map of regional hazards
45:30 support mapping Regional
45:33 hazards so a little bit different phras
45:36 sure and for the specific time frame to
45:40 whatever documents prog makes sense so
45:43 so I almost think that that might be
45:45 best cross all of the ones that there
45:48 are some time frame called out my
45:50 question was really going to be although
45:53 after hearing that I think that's the
45:54 best way to handle it my pression is
45:55 going to be
45:57 you know writing annually does that
45:59 create some future budgetary commitment
46:02 or is this just a guiding policy
46:04 document
46:06 us it doesn't right because what I don't
46:08 want to do is us just for discussion and
46:12 then it's half million dollars right
46:14 it's like oh don't do that right so one
46:18 does does this actually create a
46:21 commitment if you know we suggest
46:23 language and then someone doesn't read
46:24 that exact cell and doesn't check the
46:26 budget for and then improves it and two
46:30 is it possible to just have some
46:33 language that doesn't nail down exactly
46:35 the frequency so that it doesn't put us
46:38 in that position regardless of how much
46:40 it's comp yeah these are uh these are
46:43 actions so they there will be you know
46:45 assuming that Council approves this uh
46:47 this will be sort of things that we need
46:50 to do every year if that's what it says
46:52 or every two years um so yeah it it is a
46:56 it is a
46:57 well I'm going to say to answer the
46:59 question directly it is not a budget
47:01 commitment because only Council can do
47:03 that through the budgeting process and
47:06 so we may tell now this is not what we
47:09 want to do but we could tell the
47:11 community we're going to report this
47:13 every year but then Council doesn't
47:16 authorize funds in the budget then we
47:18 just can't do it so then they could look
47:21 at and go you said by any but what we
47:24 got is can't afford it this year do next
47:27 year that'll be fun right
47:36 okay um yeah so moving on to
47:40 2.5 uh just some minor revisions for the
47:43 first yes so why do we say people with
47:46 and then folks
47:49 with shouldn't it be either folks with
47:52 for both or people with for both sure
47:55 yeah I don't
47:57 you talk about words that possible I've
47:59 heard people claim folk does so um
48:02 people maybe just sa okay yeah sound
48:08 good actually thought users would be a
48:11 reasonable term there but maybe that's
48:13 because I'm too much a
48:16 geek yeah you know I as as word smithing
48:19 happens there's everybody has an opinion
48:22 on it which I appreciate so I'm happy to
48:24 hear all these opinions um we also heard
48:27 comments that uh there's not enough
48:29 emphasis on the people uh so users might
48:33 remove the human aspect so yeah all
48:35 these things I'm happy to hear all that
48:38 and just sort of dogs could use the
48:40 trails
48:42 too
48:45 people I preer people versus folks folks
48:47 sounds like
48:51 too I feel like people sounds sounds
48:54 more professional
48:56 yeah
48:58 okay yeah and I'll look for uh you know
49:02 any any reference to folks and I'll swap
49:05 it with people
49:09 um so that's that first two uh the next
49:12 One is updating the 88 transition plan
49:16 um so this was brought to the board I
49:20 think
49:22 in was it
49:24 March um yeah so the city has a
49:29 Americans with Disability Act which I
49:31 believe was 1990 um transition plan and
49:35 that basically says um you know any any
49:38 City facilities um and this is inclusive
49:41 of like crosswalks with curb ramps uh we
49:44 need to you know acknowledging that
49:47 there's a lot of things out here that
49:48 are not uh accessible to uh people with
49:52 limited Mobility we need to plan to swap
49:56 that out like uh show that we have a way
50:00 to take care of these over time um so
50:03 this is a state requirement um actually
50:06 it's a f requirement and we are required
50:09 to do it every five years so this is
50:10 just sort of
50:12 saying we should do
50:14 this um next we have Park systems so the
50:19 first one is just some
50:20 minor uh revisions to improve sentence
50:24 flow the second one is a new policy
50:29 um the city has trail design standards
50:33 that
50:35 um we should update we haven't updated
50:38 them in a long time uh so this is just
50:40 saying we should do that to promote um
50:45 different pavement types and uh sort of
50:48 help uh with water quality impact and
50:51 maintenance so that there there are
50:54 um there are like economic Reas reasons
50:57 why you would want to do it because it
50:59 can it's easier to clean up and it like
51:01 is more permeable but it also helps with
51:04 like water quality and like the water
51:05 table and like just cleaning up uh from
51:08 runoff so there's different pavement
51:10 types that can help with that we can
51:12 just update the trail standards to
51:15 reflect the newest like technology um
51:18 like I really like this I almost wonder
51:21 whether water quality is not B enough we
51:23 want to impact the environment or some
51:26 to is there more than just water I'm
51:28 fine with it as is so I'm not like we
51:31 really need to update it
51:34 but there's more than just water we
51:37 want I think things Beyond water would
51:41 be covered by other regulations I'm here
51:43 with I think it's great
51:48 okay the next
51:50 two just minor
51:52 revisions um just to improve sentence
52:04 one um have come taking out the we're
52:08 not calling out the GRE necklace
52:09 specifically that change name to yeah
52:12 great question um so the name has
52:15 changed or it will change as part of the
52:18 parks uh plan um so we're now calling it
52:21 Creeks to Peaks
52:24 um yeah so
52:27 um I think there's a draft online it's
52:29 not like I'm saying anything out of turn
52:31 but
52:32 um that is the latest so green necklace
52:36 out Creeks to peaks in Yeahs to Peaks
52:40 yeah so this this whole strike out it's
52:42 really just like making sure that that
52:45 pointer the reference to that document
52:53 consistent okay so now we're on
52:57 2.6.4 uh another minor revision
53:01 um just ining sentence flow adding some
53:05 clarity
53:09 um any other comments for this
53:18 slide for this whole
53:21 section one of the ways document is
53:23 Factor over that got these elements
53:27 creating access to things like Trail
53:30 ands and then we've got things
53:32 like we've got sections on modes of
53:36 transportation so non motorized Transit
53:39 Etc and those are sort of the separate
53:42 sections here but we pull a lot of that
53:44 into explicitly this section
53:50 2.6 uh which I think is fine but we we
53:53 also kind of leave out emphasis on
53:55 transit kind of there's a little bit of
53:57 dis sentence here for me where um you
54:00 know we explicitly call out the
54:01 non-motorized access we don't explicitly
54:03 call out Transit here as access to
54:07 it is there a reason for that are we
54:09 missing something so just so I
54:12 understand so in policy 2.6 that area
54:17 you're wondering um how we can
54:19 incorporate like access to Transit via
54:23 Trails yeah for the same reasons that we
54:25 call out specifically we add creating
54:27 and activating on M connections for yeah
54:30 should be in the same Spirit call
54:33 breathing Transit connection students
54:36 yeah I I do think that's it's covered
54:38 elsewhere in the document but I can see
54:40 if there's a logical way to like fit
54:42 that in to this
54:51 yeah just looking at
54:54 the King County shuttle program Trails
54:59 yeah yeah related to the um the trail
55:03 head direct kind of thing yeah okay seen
55:06 it now okay
55:10 cool especially since they implemented
55:12 it took it away and then gave it back to
55:14 us this year
55:17 again it is such a seasonal offering
55:20 that sometimes we forget about it so
55:22 yeah that was good comments okay but you
55:25 know I think that this mendous service
55:28 especially since overing a trail has is
55:31 a serious
55:33 issue there are many possible others
55:35 right that's not the only potential
55:40 they great
55:45 okay thought here okay so I think we
55:47 were done with this section right and
55:49 then we're on to
55:52 okay so
55:54 3.1.1 uh minor updates uh just updating
55:58 the figures uh say if you read that far
56:01 through the uh Mobility master plan
56:04 you'll see that some of the figure
56:06 numbers were changed and the pendencies
56:08 were updated
56:13 31.2 is a new
56:16 action uh this is related to um a future
56:21 discussion we're going to have with this
56:23 board uh related to transportation conc
56:26 currency um so this is related to a
56:29 multimodal concurrency action um in
56:32 which we would uh
56:34 develop sort of performance metrics for
56:38 um the phrase all ages and abilities
56:41 facilities which is also related to U
56:44 complete streets so uh this is basically
56:46 saying as we do concurrency um take a
56:49 look at this which we we plan to do
56:54 um this year and next
57:00 um three is just some minor updates uh
57:04 this is really just showing like uh we
57:08 do this action via the neighborhood
57:10 planning process it's just specifying
57:12 how this is uh
57:15 implemented the fifth
57:18 One is updating the street standards uh
57:22 and the so this is a new action this is
57:24 something that we currently do is
57:25 updating Street standards um we updated
57:28 our just for context the street
57:31 standards is the engineering and design
57:34 guidance for how we build roads um and
57:37 so the not only is this a new action for
57:40 the mobility ma master plan but we're
57:43 Mobility implementation plan uh we're
57:45 specifically saying every three years um
57:48 at a minimum we should be updating it
57:50 I'm just so that we're keeping it fresh
57:52 making sure that the latest engineering
57:55 guidance is we build
58:03 ours that not connected to a specific
58:07 process is that time is that
58:16 every putting the Cadence in there sure
58:19 so specifically we're talking about
58:21 3.1.3 which is the neighborhood planning
58:24 process one is that yeah
58:27 so yeah we're starting that off I
58:30 believe next year uh and the goal is to
58:34 do a a neighborhood every year um okay
58:38 that's just sort
58:40 of yeah so it is yeah it is like time
58:44 bound but it's not specified so
58:48 um the the sorts of projects they in
58:51 order to do it right it could like span
58:54 more than a year so it's kind of hard to
58:55 like put it time stamp on it because
58:57 yeah so
59:02 um what what's the relationship between
59:05 Street standards and complete
59:08 streets yeah so complete streets is a
59:10 policy that we have which says um design
59:13 your roads to accommodate all users and
59:18 abilities um the street standards is
59:20 like the uh it is like the engineering
59:24 details there's uh
59:27 a snapshot of a typical Road and sort of
59:30 what that should look like um so they
59:33 are related but the street standards is
59:36 like literally like the guidance that an
59:39 engineer would hand off to the next
59:40 engineer whereas the policy of complete
59:43 streets is more of a it's a framework of
59:46 thinking um which then feeds into how we
59:49 design the
59:50 roads okay just complete streets feed
59:53 into other things like how we design
59:55 networks of Roads more than just a it
59:58 does and yeah so the way that the
1:00:00 mobility master plan is laid out is we
1:00:02 have a layered Network approach where we
1:00:05 say um buses will go on this road we
1:00:10 don't want a bus going through a
1:00:11 neighborhood but we have it over here
1:00:14 because that makes sense for like the
1:00:15 way that the road was designed um we
1:00:18 have a bike route that goes over here um
1:00:21 so uh you're not having a bus and like
1:00:25 large cars going through certain streets
1:00:28 um but you accommodate those on other
1:00:30 streets that are adjacent to it so um
1:00:33 you're able to get East you know east
1:00:36 west north north south um using
1:00:39 different roads in the network they just
1:00:41 may not be on that same
1:00:44 road okay so for uh
1:00:47 315 Street standards updates one of the
1:00:50 things I think might be missing here
1:00:52 potentially we can talk about this is uh
1:00:54 climate impact so given that the paving
1:00:58 of the city the percentage of the city
1:01:00 that's paved is a huge impact on a lot
1:01:03 of the the climate initiatives should we
1:01:05 call that out explicitly
1:01:09 here we call out M multimodal goals we
1:01:12 don't have climate action plan
1:01:16 goals so yeah so Street standards would
1:01:20 be things like how wide do we make a
1:01:22 street you make a street wider and
1:01:23 Paving more of this in all right there's
1:01:26 a direct relationship between the stream
1:01:27 standards that we pick so yeah just to
1:01:31 clarify so you're you're saying like
1:01:32 look at the materials that we use
1:01:36 to build roads or like I guess that
1:01:39 complete streets ties into that street
1:01:42 let say you don't need necessar 24 foot
1:01:44 Black Street you could do two 11 foot
1:01:47 lanes that would play as far as make it
1:01:50 a little more friendly for less streight
1:01:52 more sidewalk so you have less p
1:01:56 yeah I think I think in terms of like
1:01:57 Street standards that would include
1:02:00 things potentially like leaving room for
1:02:02 trees preserving existing
1:02:04 trees yeah hold those industry standards
1:02:08 and those are direct me so yeah I say
1:02:11 that is in the street standards so I
1:02:14 don't know but we're also going to have
1:02:16 a conversation about it um coming up as
1:02:19 future tab
1:02:21 item I would lean towards not going down
1:02:25 that r hole with this update of the
1:02:28 mobility implementation
1:02:35 plan but I just feel like if we were to
1:02:37 go down that rabbit
1:02:40 hole that would take up more time than
1:02:43 we have for the
1:02:45 MIP and we do have an upcoming
1:02:48 discussion on my dad with streets in the
1:02:52 past still working with very
1:02:54 systemat just think of vision the design
1:02:57 Manual of how you're going to build
1:03:02 it the vision from street is really
1:03:06 taken from Health secret design in the
1:03:07 50s 60s just like massive Rose to move
1:03:12 like 20 foot long by 10 foot wide cars
1:03:15 to now like totally screwed up the
1:03:17 community side back and and have like
1:03:21 pedestrians and bikes and everything in
1:03:23 that street just
1:03:26 the pleas read is kind of how to have
1:03:27 that Vision left
1:03:30 section and
1:03:34 then support the weight ofu yeah so the
1:03:37 street
1:03:42 stand so you
1:03:45 were Clos on so you were thinking about
1:03:50 the yeah
1:03:52 3.1.5 and you want to add climate goals
1:03:57 as well mul yeah in alignment with the
1:03:59 city's multier goals and action plan
1:04:03 goals I think something generic like
1:04:05 that would work I didn't want to get
1:04:07 into details of right things that we
1:04:11 have discussions
1:04:12 about okay
1:04:18 great
1:04:23 33.2 including equity in the Val Val
1:04:25 ation of needs and priorities of new and
1:04:28 existing infrastructure um so this is
1:04:32 something that we currently do as part
1:04:33 of the transportation Improvement plan
1:04:36 program
1:04:38 um tab has looked at so we sort of
1:04:41 include that as to um our project list
1:04:45 that is brought forth um so this just
1:04:48 sort of memorializing uh that and then
1:04:51 just sort of promotes our Equity goals
1:04:53 uh throughout the city
1:04:56 uh complete streets is the next one so
1:04:59 just a really minor update changing the
1:05:01 name uh from MMP to
1:05:05 MP and then
1:05:07 3.4.1 is uh something that I brought to
1:05:11 this tab
1:05:13 like so long ago a year and a half ago
1:05:16 um it's so this is just a a new action
1:05:19 this was developed as part of the
1:05:21 transit study so this is
1:05:23 um continuing that convers
1:05:26 on bike and scooter share programs and
1:05:29 developing one that's tailored to the
1:05:31 needs of the
1:05:34 community forward to the city spending
1:05:36 millions of dollars on replacing bikes
1:05:38 they get stolen and we don't police it
1:05:40 scattered all over the side of the road
1:05:43 it's there's different ways to um
1:05:47 develop the program where the city uh
1:05:50 has more or less skin in the game so
1:05:51 that that'll be part of that
1:05:52 conversation as well um
1:05:56 it's worth having then there should be a
1:05:59 business willing to fund it it shouldn't
1:06:02 City so studying it
1:06:14 I'm so moving on
1:06:19 3.4.2 uh this was mentioned uh as part
1:06:22 of the transit study uh process uh so I
1:06:27 believe this was brought up by a member
1:06:29 of the council um this was one example
1:06:33 of another sort of um transportation
1:06:36 alternative is looking at electric
1:06:39 bicycle library programs um and so just
1:06:43 looking into this and seeing if this is
1:06:45 an option that the city would like to
1:06:47 pursue um similar wording as like the
1:06:50 bike and scooter share program just
1:06:51 looking into it so could you elaborate
1:06:53 go the electric bicycle
1:06:56 Library yeah so it could be that
1:07:02 um an entity purchases ebikes and then
1:07:06 it's to promote ebike usage it could be
1:07:09 like use this for a week and if you like
1:07:12 it then like okay give it back but you
1:07:14 should think about getting an ebike
1:07:16 because it was useful to you um so it's
1:07:19 just like a way to promote um
1:07:21 alternative modes and I know like on a
1:07:24 in many of our your neighborhoods having
1:07:26 an ebike would be really successful um
1:07:30 uh mostly for getting up that'd be it's
1:07:32 it's difficult to write just a typical
1:07:34 bike up the road so like an E Bike could
1:07:35 help with that so the like Library thing
1:07:38 is isn't like a line bike kind of thing
1:07:41 you like scan it on your phone and it no
1:07:43 yeah so that that would be the first one
1:07:45 which is like the scooter share program
1:07:47 but it's similar in that um it's you
1:07:51 know whatever the terms of the program
1:07:52 could be it could be like you can use
1:07:55 this for like the week um but then like
1:07:59 yeah so this would it's kind of hard to
1:08:01 say like what it would entail because we
1:08:03 haven't uh dug into it but it could be
1:08:06 that the city um you know owns three
1:08:10 bicycles that we lend out and the
1:08:12 expectation is that you give it back um
1:08:14 but it's like on a trial basis so that
1:08:18 um you can see what it was like to own
1:08:20 an ebike for a week so then in doing
1:08:23 this would they like study doing Bike
1:08:25 Share program and then study doing the
1:08:28 bicycle Library program and then decide
1:08:30 which they want to do or could be yeah
1:08:34 or they could be separate um
1:08:37 yeah okay
1:08:43 sense have to on
1:08:45 W these are all details that yeah
1:09:01 so moving on 3
1:09:05 point4 um this was another thing that
1:09:08 was brought up so the city currently has
1:09:11 ebikes as part of our Municipal Fleet um
1:09:13 so this is sort of uh saying we will
1:09:17 continue doing that um ebikes have been
1:09:19 really successful specifically with the
1:09:21 park staff um there's lots of trails
1:09:23 that they can write it on um
1:09:26 they've also been used for like other
1:09:28 visits that you need to do so
1:09:30 inspections could be done on a bike if
1:09:32 it's like nearby um you don't need to
1:09:35 like bring a bunch of gear so there's
1:09:37 ways that you can uh use other uh
1:09:42 vehicles that are like less um
1:09:45 maintenance heavy um it's just like a
1:09:47 better use of like City funds and they
1:09:49 could be they could be used uh in a
1:09:52 pretty good manner so um this is just
1:09:54 saying continue doing that um it's been
1:09:57 successful that probably would have been
1:09:59 nice to get here from City Hall
1:10:03 today yeah we only have a couple I yeah
1:10:07 we could we could probably
1:10:10 more again going back to like the
1:10:14 actionable timeline issue obviously this
1:10:16 is not commitment test
1:10:20 but includ some language fut Council
1:10:26 or someone interpreting St future might
1:10:29 think great not very strong so perhaps
1:10:37 instrumentals not just as a little tiny
1:10:41 two bike part something where staff are
1:10:44 able to consistently where there's a
1:10:46 bike available staff to
1:10:50 use another thing with that that you
1:10:52 could do is like partner with like local
1:10:55 bike and stuff to see if you could get
1:10:57 good discounts for Stacks puras their
1:11:00 own ebikes that could work well
1:11:03 too I'm gonna push back on that one
1:11:06 because uh well I would love that um as
1:11:09 a Public Employee I can't do that
1:11:13 oh that'd be great um but I can't like
1:11:16 we can't be getting benefits from
1:11:21 our the city wanted to do something like
1:11:23 that the city could provide to city
1:11:26 employees to cre a credit to buying
1:11:30 a yeah I like that idea sounds great um
1:11:35 yeah so and that that's really like in
1:11:37 that in that like instance for example
1:11:40 that that could be like a CTR program
1:11:42 thing because the city itself is a large
1:11:44 employer so maybe the way that it
1:11:46 reduces its like traffic load is that
1:11:50 they provide like ebike credits or
1:11:54 something so that you know all these
1:11:55 things feed into it but um yeah it's
1:11:59 good thought though yeah yeah so just
1:12:01 com back to the language of I think
1:12:04 investing I think that's great I think
1:12:07 that the city should look at the the use
1:12:11 cases and invest for the use cases I
1:12:13 don't think we should describe as an
1:12:14 instrumental part of the fleet or
1:12:16 anything like that because that's
1:12:17 defining the the vehicles they have
1:12:21 based on the vehicles you want them to
1:12:23 have not based on the use cases if it's
1:12:25 like there's more use cases for them
1:12:26 great like I think they're more cost
1:12:28 effective than cars for for the city so
1:12:31 go get more but if they're not use cases
1:12:33 so we shouldn't Define a fleet size we
1:12:35 should say you know heading in that
1:12:39 investing I think the language is good
1:12:43 okay is there a way to
1:12:48 combine c b
1:12:51 like with the like
1:13:00 liary yeah I like that thought though
1:13:02 like um it's almost related
1:13:05 to policies we have about like um
1:13:09 electric vehicle charging facilities and
1:13:12 like sort of if other people can use it
1:13:15 when it's not being used so
1:13:17 yeah that's that's a policy question
1:13:20 that will probably be addressed as we go
1:13:22 into that eik program but yeah that's
1:13:25 these are good thoughts
1:13:27 yeah anyone else have any thoughts about
1:13:30 the language in terms of instrumental
1:13:32 vers leing it out or
1:13:38 high I would like to nudge more
1:13:42 but don't want to prescribe a specific
1:13:48 set or we could put it in there
1:13:50 reminding that it's always rephrased
1:13:53 like a use case
1:13:57 I mean I guess what what does that do
1:13:59 with what does that do more that say
1:14:00 invest
1:14:01 in I think what I would suggest uh is if
1:14:05 you were going to add any kind of extra
1:14:07 emphasis you say something like order
1:14:10 to um in order to make Transportation
1:14:15 I'm trying to say like say something
1:14:18 about like how it affects the cost
1:14:20 Effectiveness slash like carbon
1:14:22 emissions of the city like like in order
1:14:25 to reduce carbon emissions or reduce the
1:14:27 cost of transer
1:14:29 transporting emplo like you could put a
1:14:31 reason if I don't know if that's
1:14:33 appropriate document
1:14:35 but yeah we can throw the intent there
1:14:37 yeah throw an intent like this there's
1:14:39 these specific things we're trying to
1:14:40 achieve with the SC to make it clear to
1:14:42 people why right yeah it sounds good the
1:14:46 overall section is know basically about
1:14:49 researching these options so it's pretty
1:14:52 clear that
1:14:58 seems like Clos is just us is with
1:15:03 adding
1:15:05 some motivations for that you're happy
1:15:10 that okay that's good
1:15:13 3.5.1 um this is pointing to the light
1:15:16 rail planning guide that the city um
1:15:19 adopted in March and there's a whole
1:15:22 list of actions that the city will be
1:15:24 taking as we plan for light light rail
1:15:27 so rather than uh copying and pasting it
1:15:30 just makes more sense to just point to
1:15:32 that guide um this document is something
1:15:34 that we're going to update every year
1:15:36 over the next three years just to make
1:15:37 sure that our assumptions are correct um
1:15:40 so it'll sort of live elsewhere um but
1:15:44 this is pointing to that
1:15:49 um the next one is just yeah reviewing
1:15:54 maintaining it regularly updating it um
1:15:56 this is uh we don't have a specific time
1:16:00 frame in here but internally it is a
1:16:03 annual thing um and then beyond that uh
1:16:07 once we've talked to Sound
1:16:10 Transit uh like every two years once
1:16:13 things are really moving
1:16:18 that's those
1:16:21 two the only comment I have is regular
1:16:23 updating I kind of get what you mean as
1:16:26 far as want to make sense to upd but I
1:16:28 don't
1:16:32 exp yeah to to phrase it correctly would
1:16:37 be every year between now and when Sound
1:16:41 Transit approaches us and then every two
1:16:42 years after and that doesn't really flow
1:16:44 very well but I'll try to figure out a a
1:16:47 way um it's like two sentences to say
1:16:56 in yeah yeah I I'll find out a way to do
1:17:00 this in a way that makes sense
1:17:08 um the other the other issue is like
1:17:12 yeah it really is about the Cadence
1:17:14 right yeah so okay
1:17:31 I'm missing something in the slide deck
1:17:34 um there's
1:17:36 also 3.6.1 so that's unfortunately not
1:17:40 in this list but I'll just say this um
1:17:43 it was relocated from a previous MMP
1:17:47 6.1 so this is developing safe and
1:17:50 comfortable walking like facilities in
1:17:52 the Central Supply area um and
1:17:56 supporting 90 Crossing so this is just
1:17:59 it's not new but it's just uh was
1:18:02 relocated from one spot to another is
1:18:04 the light R supposed to
1:18:07 be we don't know yet
1:18:10 yeah you're gonna start paying taxes
1:18:15 on um so we know that it's going to be
1:18:17 in central isqua which is uh just a
1:18:20 neighborhood that's basically like uh
1:18:24 you know
1:18:25 the state park to the North and then
1:18:28 Newport to the South um and then it's
1:18:31 basically it's a little bit more west of
1:18:34 I90 or sr900 um so near here
1:18:40 or so it'll be north of here but yes
1:18:43 roughly yeah so like around where the
1:18:46 existing Transit Center is it could be
1:18:49 that it could be further north it could
1:18:51 be East or West yeah um I have a map
1:18:56 that I showed in the previous on Tab
1:18:58 meeting but there's like a green BL
1:19:01 that's that's all we know at this point
1:19:03 somewhere east of 90 just east of FR
1:19:06 Street
1:19:08 oh yeah so
1:19:10 next next year we're going to start uh
1:19:13 looking into potential options for like
1:19:16 where the station could go um and we're
1:19:19 going to come up with our best best
1:19:22 approach for like what the community
1:19:24 wants
1:19:25 um and then we're going to give that to
1:19:27 sound transit and they're going to do
1:19:29 their own study but we're gonna we're
1:19:31 going to look at a bunch of options and
1:19:33 then we're going to hopefully come
1:19:35 together and agree upon one
1:19:37 location that's going to be our
1:19:39 preferred location that they
1:19:47 yeah pay for limited busets all the
1:19:57 all right uh
1:20:00 4.1.3 think the number
1:20:07 okay like an office thing where
1:20:10 continues the numbering Asad of
1:20:11 restarting yeah at least because when I
1:20:13 go to page nine it goes 3 four and then
1:20:16 5 six and the next
1:20:19 one I think just yeah it's just
1:20:22 a classic yeah
1:20:28 Chang it you type something and then it
1:20:30 changes it back for you yeah
1:20:34 that um okay so
1:20:41 4.1.3 yeah unfortunately just
1:20:45 unavoidable so this one is a new action
1:20:48 determining critical needs for The
1:20:49 Pedestrian Network um to
1:20:52 support uh multim access to different
1:20:56 locations
1:20:59 um what that doesn't make sense why
1:21:03 would you determine critical needs of
1:21:04 The Pedestrian Network to support
1:21:06 multimodal access so pedestrian network
1:21:09 isn't
1:21:11 pedestrian it is but it's also you know
1:21:14 access to bus or it's access to
1:21:18 um where you're parked where you're you
1:21:20 know yeah
1:21:26 fourth one is implementing small scale
1:21:28 capital projects so this would just be
1:21:30 spot treatments so like for instance if
1:21:33 there's a break in the sidewalk and we
1:21:36 could easily connect it very small
1:21:39 projects um typically how this would be
1:21:42 handled is we lump a bunch of small
1:21:44 projects and we put that up to bid and
1:21:46 then have one big project of five small
1:21:50 projects so this this would just be
1:21:52 implemented VI the trans
1:21:55 Improvement
1:21:57 program it work similar to a bunch of
1:22:01 the sidewalk we were seeing the some
1:22:04 right yeah
1:22:08 exactly cool so moving on
1:22:11 to bicycles um so
1:22:15 51 five uh this is just the uh you know
1:22:22 it's related to the the transation
1:22:24 network is just for bicycle so
1:22:26 determining the critical needs of the
1:22:27 bike Network to support uh access to
1:22:31 Transit so this is something that was
1:22:32 brought up through the transit study um
1:22:34 it's just making sure that the bike
1:22:36 network is connecting to where uh
1:22:39 Transit stations
1:22:41 are next one is a project that we have
1:22:44 in the capital Improvement project um
1:22:48 reducing and resolving conflicts between
1:22:51 buses and bike Lanes um this is
1:22:54 something that we realized as we're
1:22:56 studying Transit that um buses are
1:22:59 currently parked in bike Lanes to pick
1:23:02 up people um so making sure that we can
1:23:06 resolve those we have some projects that
1:23:08 are in the Cal Improvement uh program
1:23:11 and it's just make sure that the the
1:23:14 bike lane is no longer like part of
1:23:17 where the bus is picking up hope we're
1:23:19 being thoughtful about that I've seen
1:23:21 some other cities do sometimes they to
1:23:25 like cease all traffic flow and they
1:23:28 like we Sal it you see the bus no longer
1:23:30 stops and that because they stop in the
1:23:33 middle of
1:23:35 traffic and then the bike lane is just a
1:23:40 sad yeah the the projects that I'm
1:23:45 thinking of are on um major roads where
1:23:47 there's multiple lanes that other people
1:23:49 could use so there's there's room for
1:23:51 that and uh we have a spef specific
1:23:54 design I think it's called a bus
1:23:56 boarding Island for some of the options
1:23:58 where it like raises uh pedestrians out
1:24:02 of the bike lane and then there's also
1:24:04 like an option for uh bikes to get
1:24:06 through so it it accomplishes many goals
1:24:09 and there's also a way to like drive
1:24:11 around
1:24:12 it you know Seattle yeah there's some
1:24:16 examples in Seattle yeah cap
1:24:20 Broadway yeah next to the Roosevelt
1:24:22 Station as well there's yeah
1:24:26 one of the things that come up in in
1:24:28 this board in the past has been safety
1:24:31 of ebikes so ebikes are pretty new we're
1:24:33 still kind of figuring out how they fit
1:24:35 with every um they're mostly gording off
1:24:38 into the section of bicycling uh terms
1:24:40 of how the city thinks about them but in
1:24:43 terms of you know speeds and all that
1:24:46 some of that is State
1:24:48 regulated it might make sense for us to
1:24:50 think about you know how do we think
1:24:52 about safety bikes
1:24:54 on the bike Network specifically yeah
1:24:58 this topic has been brought up a couple
1:24:59 times
1:25:01 um like about a year ago is about
1:25:05 like uh is it a bike or is it like
1:25:09 motorcycle yeah yeah yeah I was about to
1:25:13 say because I know there's there's this
1:25:14 thing called sirons I don't know if you
1:25:16 heard of them they're basically like
1:25:18 electric dirt bikes and then everyone
1:25:19 says they're they're mountain bikes even
1:25:21 though they're really not at least like
1:25:24 perspective so I don't know like there's
1:25:26 probably a similar problem with ebikes
1:25:28 or there's like know different like but
1:25:31 there's class one which just pedal
1:25:32 assist class two and three we have
1:25:34 throttles right so I wonder something
1:25:37 like defining of what is an ebike that's
1:25:40 okay to use on the bicycle Network could
1:25:43 useful that might be more State issue
1:25:45 though yeah State issue with their
1:25:48 elements of
1:25:52 enforcement just generally
1:25:58 I would I would throw another
1:26:00 consideration like balancing
1:26:02 conversation it's like um there's
1:26:06 also a approach which goes a little bit
1:26:09 too far in this um so looking at 9 for
1:26:13 example which is really overa use of
1:26:17 ebikes within their orders um so just
1:26:24 think about that
1:26:26 balance what are they doing what they're
1:26:29 doing that
1:26:30 over they've I I believe that they
1:26:34 have they
1:26:36 have and that is a very popular you one
1:26:40 that one road
1:26:42 to is a very popular route you know
1:26:46 going across the 520
1:26:50 Trail I think one of the one of the
1:26:53 reasons people get that when they decide
1:26:55 to ban e bikes is because there's it's
1:26:57 sort of wild west and you get people on
1:26:59 start bikes think 40 miles an hour if
1:27:02 that's totally unregulated then you get
1:27:04 kind of the pendulum swing so finding
1:27:06 the the good compromise is pretty
1:27:08 important think there are sub Trails of
1:27:10 isquad that have speed limits on the
1:27:13 bike um I'm thinking of the one that
1:27:15 puts a along L of Amish out
1:27:18 to that one I believe that there's
1:27:20 always speed like a speed limit that
1:27:24 yeah so that is one resolve that issue I
1:27:28 think that that could especially if
1:27:29 that's becoming an issue setting a speed
1:27:31 limit on the trail than expecting people
1:27:32 to follow it if people aren't you do
1:27:34 traffic coming as you would anywhere
1:27:36 else right yeah so I think specifically
1:27:38 because we have more ebikes and because
1:27:40 there new situations where people might
1:27:42 be exceeding this spe that's never been
1:27:44 enforced before yeah I think yeah it's
1:27:47 definitely a consideration calling
1:27:49 that a separate sub under bicycl makes
1:27:53 sense
1:27:55 could you frame it as inorder
1:27:59 toing
1:28:07 enaging traffic uh CLS while also
1:28:11 maintaining the sa encouraging the safe
1:28:15 use of ebikes on on the bike Network
1:28:20 right studying new concerns that pop up
1:28:23 Point City
1:28:25 while
1:28:26 encouraging I'm gonna I'm going to chew
1:28:28 on this idea a little bit because this
1:28:30 is an action plan so I want to make sure
1:28:32 that we're like we can measure how we
1:28:35 would take care of this and it is like a
1:28:37 broader issue it could be like a state
1:28:39 issue um so I'm gonna I'm gonna make a
1:28:42 note of this but I'm gonna think about
1:28:44 like realistic ways that we could tackle
1:28:51 and saying was classifications
1:28:54 eike started off with uing something
1:28:58 pedal the bike You' be able to go to
1:28:59 speed and now it's was like some really
1:29:01 cool things with and that one youve got
1:29:03 some bikes and so uh her regul one
1:29:06 that's really assisted some to use the
1:29:08 bicycle like a bicycle somewhere
1:29:12 versus
1:29:15 using because there's a guy that lives
1:29:17 down there there's a trail by air house
1:29:18 and comes by going like 20 miles hour on
1:29:21 his on the gravel Trail or
1:29:28 Ander I would be hesitant to put
1:29:31 anything in here that talks about
1:29:34 specific ebike limitations because we
1:29:36 don't know how it's going to develop
1:29:38 like on our Trails not not just the plan
1:29:42 but how you deal with that is the speed
1:29:44 limit on the trail right it's like at
1:29:46 some point you're going 30 miles on a
1:29:50 bik probably shouldn't be on the same
1:29:52 Trail as someone walking
1:29:55 go to the vro um but it was so a little
1:29:59 bit I did find di it seemed like they
1:30:02 were I think some of the parks you're
1:30:04 thinking of are not actually city parks
1:30:06 they're one by the state so it wouldn't
1:30:08 have anything with in place um but they
1:30:11 want them off their Trails their dirt
1:30:13 trails because they're getting they're
1:30:15 so much heavier getting damage on
1:30:22 them I'm just goingon to be cognizant of
1:30:25 much time we have together so um these
1:30:27 are all good thoughts I'm GNA look into
1:30:29 this a little bit more but I think for
1:30:30 the sake of time I'm just gonna keep
1:30:32 cruising
1:30:35 through think we finished this slide
1:30:40 right
1:30:43 good oh sorry last one uh proactively
1:30:47 resolve yeah conflict between buses and
1:30:49 bik LS y about that okay
1:30:54 um so moving on to
1:30:56 6.1 uh we have a new these are all
1:30:59 related to the transit study that we did
1:31:02 um engaging with uh discussions with s
1:31:06 with the PJ Regional Council um and
1:31:10 other public transit providers to ensure
1:31:12 that there's forward compatibility with
1:31:15 future uh high high capacity Transit um
1:31:19 expansion so this is just saying you
1:31:21 know take a take a leadership role um in
1:31:24 Regional public transit
1:31:30 planning or there something or is there
1:31:33 something more specific that's already
1:31:34 happen
1:31:38 specifically yeah so the city staff we
1:31:41 we go to lots of these um sort of
1:31:44 meetings that that Transit agencies and
1:31:48 P Regional Council are at so this is
1:31:51 something that we just like are
1:31:53 constantly are doing um but again the
1:31:56 light rail uh planning guide does talk
1:31:59 about like when we need to ramp up sort
1:32:01 of that effort so um it's sort of it's
1:32:05 sort of saying continue as we are
1:32:07 currently doing um but then like another
1:32:10 action will also flow into that and say
1:32:14 you should
1:32:15 start uh developing those relationships
1:32:18 and making sure that you're more
1:32:19 involved as we approach those
1:32:22 discussions FL yeah
1:32:24 just to comment the the bus in picture
1:32:26 Transit Express bus that bay that's
1:32:28 Metro bus
1:32:33 that's is figure number figure
1:32:41 number it's on page
1:32:47 uh sorry I don't I don't think I caught
1:32:50 what what was mentioned yeah
1:32:54 uh 46 of
1:32:57 394 could you mention again oh yeah
1:33:00 there's a picture of a metro bus at a
1:33:03 bus stop and the caption below says
1:33:04 Sound Transit at bus 556 at bay6 okay
1:33:11 right there actually is a picture of
1:33:13 that up above so there's two pictures
1:33:16 there it's the opposite it might be true
1:33:22 interesting Transit bus could actually
1:33:24 be a Metro
1:33:26 Bus it could have been so this document
1:33:28 is in track changes so I think what
1:33:30 probably happen is that like the actual
1:33:31 version is correct but maybe that photo
1:33:35 was yeah yeah a photo above a sound
1:33:37 Trans Bus and then a metro bus and yeah
1:33:40 yeah I'll fix that yeah thanks for
1:33:42 flagging that
1:33:48 though um Okay so 6.1.1
1:33:54 talked about that uh next is partnering
1:33:56 with local with other jurisdictions in
1:33:58 King County to coordinate Regional
1:34:00 Transit improvements um this is
1:34:02 something that we already do uh really
1:34:05 but yes it's again taking that
1:34:06 leadership role with public transit
1:34:09 planning
1:34:13 6.21 investing in capital Improvement
1:34:16 projects that develop appropriate Street
1:34:18 Crossings complete bike and pedestrian
1:34:21 Network gaps and traffic common to
1:34:24 promote Equitable and sustainable access
1:34:26 to Transit service um so these are all
1:34:29 reflected in uh the capital Improvement
1:34:32 and transportation Improvement project
1:34:34 development these projects go through
1:34:42 6.41 uh supporting yes so I think that
1:34:45 should be
1:34:50 6.4 6.2 6.4
1:34:54 these are only or we just you could be
1:34:57 right um but this uh this document is
1:35:00 just reflecting things that have changed
1:35:02 so so the other thing is um I don't
1:35:07 think we should call out Metro Flex
1:35:09 specifically we don't know could be that
1:35:13 King County King County Metro comes out
1:35:15 with a new program that's better and
1:35:17 they roll all Metro Flex into it and
1:35:19 we're like oh wait our PL say we got to
1:35:20 support this okay I think the first m l
1:35:23 well solution
1:35:24 covers the intent and doesn't Vision
1:35:28 hole us into something that could just
1:35:30 change for the better and we're missing
1:35:31 out on it because described a specific
1:35:34 program so I like the intent of it I
1:35:37 just don't want to name a specific
1:35:40 thing we want to sustain the rest of
1:35:44 just like the entire sentence and
1:35:47 Metroplex say
1:35:50 m I have a question relevant to that is
1:35:54 you familiar with the bellhop program
1:35:56 yeah like would this give us enough
1:35:58 flexibility to run program s
1:36:04 that uh interesting is that
1:36:08 look I'm not sure who operates bhop
1:36:11 specifically I I we've all seen how that
1:36:14 looks um yeah I'm not sure I I would
1:36:18 imagine that as written that would not
1:36:20 bhop bhop is the on demand service is
1:36:23 there's like a little electric cart that
1:36:25 goes around Val you oh basically
1:36:30 golf big golf carts it's meant as like a
1:36:33 Last Mile solution right so it kind of
1:36:35 fits into space but it's it's on demand
1:36:38 somewh Flex I heard a great joke about
1:36:41 this we would have to call it
1:36:45 IHOP have to repeat that anyways
1:36:48 um good advertising
1:36:54 anyways yeah so as written I can change
1:36:56 it to generally microtransit in case the
1:36:59 name changes but yeah I think the intent
1:37:01 is just to support uh the program yeah
1:37:05 so I think we could have continued
1:37:07 partnership with Kang Metro and
1:37:09 sustaining microtransit or first
1:37:12 Solutions I just we named something
1:37:15 specific we said at on a name of a
1:37:19 program metlex currently as is is like a
1:37:27 name we had to change their company name
1:37:29 to oh I didn't okay oh at least our
1:37:33 website says that I will note
1:37:36 that system it's very popular like it is
1:37:39 expanded to other places
1:37:42 ining so yeah I'll say um right they
1:37:48 might change the name again it's easier
1:37:50 if you don't have to
1:37:51 change so we'll say um sustaining
1:37:54 microtransit such as Metroflex or you
1:37:57 know just whatever uh they call
1:38:02 okay um
1:38:05 642 encouraging Sound Transit in King
1:38:08 County Metro to purs to pursue uh travel
1:38:11 demand management strategies at their
1:38:13 park and ride facilities so this this
1:38:15 came about through the transit study
1:38:17 it's basically saying like we don't have
1:38:19 any control over their parking ride Lots
1:38:21 but um if they
1:38:24 promote uh other uses um so like one
1:38:28 example classic example is like uh if
1:38:32 Microsoft buses could use that facility
1:38:35 too and like currently not but maybe in
1:38:38 the future um they do that in many other
1:38:42 cities but
1:38:44 like they don't do that around here
1:38:47 sometimes so there's there's like
1:38:48 operational issues that occur so maybe
1:38:50 like working through some of those
1:38:51 issues um other trans comption demand
1:38:54 management things could just be like U
1:38:56 you know better monitoring their
1:38:57 facilities and like
1:38:59 helping better use them so this is just
1:39:02 an encouragement action um it's not
1:39:04 something we have direct control over
1:39:06 but it would certainly help the network
1:39:08 if they did
1:39:09 that is that a CTR thing or specifically
1:39:13 the Microsoft thing would be potentially
1:39:15 C that could be yeah yeah Transportation
1:39:18 demand management is like Beyond CTR
1:39:20 they're they're related but this this
1:39:21 would just be any Beyond like not just
1:39:24 commutes
1:39:28 yeah and then lastly on this slide
1:39:32 651 uh yeah working with Metro to ensure
1:39:35 bus stops are located at Key
1:39:36 destinations this is something that we
1:39:38 currently do um one thing that we'll see
1:39:41 next year uh when light rail connects
1:39:44 all the way to Seattle um there's going
1:39:46 to be changes to bus service and how
1:39:49 that's delivered um that's something
1:39:51 that we've worked with Metro on so uh
1:39:53 we're constantly thinking about how uh
1:39:57 Services provided and if there's any
1:39:59 ways that we can like ask Metro politely
1:40:02 to adjust things um to better serve our
1:40:08 needs next one
1:40:11 652 uh working with Metro to ensure that
1:40:15 bust off amenities are provided um so
1:40:18 this was mentioned during the transit
1:40:19 study um you know one example is that uh
1:40:23 there's a 554 bus stop that does not
1:40:26 have a shelter um so that's something
1:40:28 that we've actively been working on
1:40:30 job's been working on that um to see if
1:40:32 we can get like a a shelter so that you
1:40:35 don't have to wait out in the brain so
1:40:37 uh bus off amenities are really related
1:40:39 to like how Services provided and if it
1:40:41 feels right to like take the bus or not
1:40:42 so um things we can do to like make that
1:40:46 a little bit better for Transit Riders
1:40:48 is helpful that's one city yes coming y
1:40:55 coming um okay moving on to auto travel
1:41:00 711 um I yeah we we removed the number
1:41:04 of concurrency intersections just to
1:41:06 keep it compatible in case there's more
1:41:08 or less in the
1:41:11 future
1:41:18 is revising it in existing action but
1:41:21 it's making it related to the park study
1:41:24 um so the previous one was just talking
1:41:26 about evaluating parking demand using
1:41:28 methods as part of this older study um
1:41:33 and this one is specifically looking at
1:41:35 a parking policy uh making sure that
1:41:38 parking is Right sized as a condition of
1:41:40 development so it's it's more actionable
1:41:42 and it gets really to the same ends um
1:41:45 it's something that we will be
1:41:47 developing this year and it will end by
1:41:50 the end of next
1:41:52 year this another place
1:41:54 where we're talking about 731 here uh
1:41:58 yes this another place where it
1:42:00 basically says us stud
1:42:02 once versus update
1:42:05 stud yeah it's it's a good point yeah um
1:42:09 these These are regulations that will be
1:42:12 updated uh regularly um but yeah we can
1:42:16 we can add some like time uh time to
1:42:23 we do annual updates of our code so
1:42:26 um yeah
1:42:34 732 is updating development requirements
1:42:37 based on recommendations from that part
1:42:39 study so it's do the study and then
1:42:42 change the development requirements
1:42:44 based on
1:42:46 that 741 is developing a curb Space
1:42:51 Management plan um
1:42:54 and this would look at the different
1:42:56 needs that
1:42:57 they parking on the
1:43:00 street would have such as loading zones
1:43:03 um on street parking uh like if there's
1:43:06 bike lanes for example um if there's
1:43:09 storm water facilities so uh this would
1:43:12 be context specific and this really came
1:43:15 about through the transit study because
1:43:16 as we know like as Central isquat grows
1:43:19 there's going to be more competing needs
1:43:21 for that limited on street parking so
1:43:23 it's thinking about like in specific
1:43:25 context not the whole city but just like
1:43:27 where it matters like if we can improve
1:43:29 efficiency of how things are used
1:43:33 um this is kind of thinking on of B
1:43:37 Because B just recently couple year ago
1:43:41 they adopted something they did yeah
1:43:44 they did
1:43:47 yeah this one struck me as being like OB
1:43:50 placed in the
1:43:51 document but I'm sure it was hard find
1:43:53 the right place with that it's it's
1:43:55 related in that it's for auto
1:43:57 travel yeah non liiz use of space I
1:44:02 acknowledge that yeah suggestion yeah
1:44:11 Yeah thoughts this
1:44:15 slide no um well at this point I guess
1:44:19 it would be
1:44:20 helpful to read if here like what you
1:44:24 heard sure
1:44:30 not to
1:44:38 easier must sure
1:44:43 um I also have more about things I took
1:44:46 out did you want to cover that first or
1:44:49 have to do with redundancies but if you
1:44:51 want to cover like stuff that didn't
1:44:53 have to do with redundance
1:45:01 necessarily yeah lot is just redundant
1:45:04 right it's redundancies and then things
1:45:05 we've already
1:45:07 done um okay so going through uh we're
1:45:10 good with the name change
1:45:16 uh we talked about tying things in with
1:45:20 uh actions so like for instance one
1:45:23 13 um BR that into the next steps with
1:45:28 uh Vision
1:45:34 zero spelling out
1:45:37 acronyms uh tying things to The Climate
1:45:40 action
1:45:43 plan yeah just adding lots of time
1:45:46 aspects to many of these policies
1:45:48 changing the words folks to people
1:46:00 in respect to ebikes we heard some
1:46:03 things about uh making sure that we have
1:46:05 the intent behind the M the municipal
1:46:08 Fleet um adding a time frame with light
1:46:11 Ro planning
1:46:15 guide we talked about ebike safety and
1:46:19 encouraging that
1:46:24 there's a comment about a photo that was
1:46:26 the caption was
1:46:27 wrong um changing Metroflex to be more
1:46:32 generic uh potentially stating Metroflex
1:46:35 but specifically the microtransit is
1:46:38 provided by
1:46:40 Pro yeah just add Tim timing stamps
1:46:44 associated with
1:46:48 different
1:46:51 um overall
1:46:59 thoughts I did yeah I got got lots of
1:47:03 great feedback appreciate it um so just
1:47:05 so this board is in the know next week
1:47:08 I'm taking this to equity board so the
1:47:10 4th next Wednesday um then it's going to
1:47:13 mobility and infrastructure Council
1:47:15 committee and then to council um
1:47:18 alongside with the transportation
1:47:19 element
1:47:24 394 of the the plan here there's a
1:47:28 definition of trans Advisory board that
1:47:31 includes a transportation Improvement
1:47:34 board segment there and it's some typos
1:47:37 in it okay yeah take a look at
1:47:39 that that's as far as I
1:47:47 else make it
1:47:53 well in that case I think we've covered
1:47:57 our discussion
1:48:02 and okay um now we'll move on to reports
1:48:07 with board work
1:48:08 plan yes uh nothing too surprising other
1:48:13 than uh next month we have I9 Crossing
1:48:16 Greg will be coming in chat about that
1:48:19 and then we also are proceeding with the
1:48:22 equity training is requested um I will
1:48:24 be giving that
1:48:27 training after a lot of deliberation
1:48:30 with uh HR and all these different
1:48:33 parties so
1:48:36 yeah in terms of the things that came up
1:48:39 to say CTR be great to get that on
1:48:42 schedule at some point yes uh CTR is uh
1:48:47 let me think about this so the CTR plan
1:48:50 is softly do to
1:48:54 psrc late
1:48:56 September so I need to decide if I'm
1:48:59 going to bring it to you next month or
1:49:02 just tell psrc by the way we're getting
1:49:04 some more feedback in October or
1:49:06 something like that um but yes I do
1:49:08 intend to to bring it the other thing
1:49:10 that I think might be interesting to
1:49:12 cover with vision
1:49:13 zero that you know pretty pretty big
1:49:17 showing in this document so yeah and
1:49:20 there's there's a lot of different
1:49:21 opinions among City staff too so you
1:49:23 good to look at
1:49:26 that thank
1:49:29 you yeah well definitely talking about
1:49:32 the time after all these our pre
1:49:34 meetings
1:49:36 so add to that since emergency things
1:49:40 were covered uh in the Mi and I don't
1:49:45 know how much we talked about that as
1:49:47 board before so need to Happ I'm curious
1:49:53 that's something we could look
1:49:55 at yeah I did some emergency management
1:49:58 stuff in grad school so I'd love to talk
1:50:00 about but yeah we we could ask to see if
1:50:03 anyone has anything to talk about
1:50:05 there's City that c there's like a
1:50:07 department of Staff but
1:50:10 not I don't know I know we are doing a
1:50:14 evacuation study and I don't know if it
1:50:18 I don't think it'd be one where there'd
1:50:19 be a policy discussion but if the tab is
1:50:22 interested it might be something that we
1:50:24 could present we we down from
1:50:34 yeah yeah the tradition is that we like
1:50:37 to get things that actually
1:50:40 discuss so and maybe
1:50:43 it an email or memo to the tab about
1:50:48 it that way you guys can get information
1:50:50 and still utilize your meeting time
1:50:53 most efficient
1:50:59 possible St report St
1:51:03 staff uh I only have one thing which is
1:51:05 a correction from my presentation on
1:51:08 traffic cing last month um I
1:51:11 realized two three weeks ago that uh I
1:51:14 was conflating some some terms which led
1:51:17 to some different opinions on the on the
1:51:19 board so I use the term ballards when I
1:51:22 met plastic delineators uh for me this
1:51:25 goes back to grad school we use ballards
1:51:28 for everything um so I didn't realize
1:51:30 you were you all meant the concrete
1:51:33 metal things that you not with the
1:51:35 plastic on so um as such John and I have
1:51:39 decided to keep those in level one since
1:51:41 they're very intrusive yeah ballards
1:51:44 themselves I wasn't even
1:51:48 considering delineators are the things
1:51:50 that like you can smack into kind of
1:51:52 hurt but like they'll just flop over
1:51:55 just like AR breeding
1:51:58 great
1:52:01 wedging they actually just my impression
1:52:03 is it's just like tar around the bottom
1:52:06 it can be a combo it's like things on
1:52:07 Newport right at the ones of squ
1:52:10 mountain I know it's just tar because
1:52:11 some of them have already been knocked
1:52:13 off of the road and I looked at the
1:52:15 bottom of it it was just tar there's
1:52:16 different
1:52:18 ways depends on how
1:52:22 yes so that's my that's my only
1:52:25 correction s
1:52:28 report I don't have a chair
1:52:31 rep uh I just want to say that like
1:52:33 school starts tomorrow so yeah just
1:52:37 every day from you know like
1:52:41 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and then from
1:52:45 like 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. expect a lot of
1:52:49 traffic in downtown is SP
1:52:52 does this mean we can give you
1:52:59 homework what you already get homework
1:53:01 from the top right there's all those
1:53:02 emails
1:53:08 yeah and are there any other business
1:53:12 announcements the business I was I was
1:53:15 just going to mention the equity board
1:53:17 um 94 but
1:53:31 everybody