* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:37] LET'S, ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. WE GOT A FEW TECH ISSUES WORKED OUT. IF, IF FOR SOME REASON THEY COME UP AGAIN, WE'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND, UH, CONTINUE THE MEETING LIKE WE DID WAY BACK IN THE OLD DAYS IN 2016. UM, SO, UH, WE [1. Post-Solicitation Briefing for the construction of street improvements related to the Zona Cultural Streets; Commerce, San Saba, and Santa Rosa (2017 Bond Projects). [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Razi Hosseini, Director, Public Works]] HAVE ONE ITEM TODAY. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL OUR MEETING TO ORDER. THE TIME IS 2:16 PM ON THE 17TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2021. UH, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE ROLE? COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. PRESENT, COUNCIL MEMBER GAN HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GAO BERDA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PLI. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. HERE. MAYOR NIERENBERG. HERE. MAYOR, WE HAVE A QUORUM. ALRIGHT, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. LEMME TURN IT OVER NOW TO CITY MANAGER ERIC WALSH TO KICK OFF OUR B SESSION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL THIS AFTERNOON, UH, PUBLIC WORKS. RAZZI WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR ZONA CULTRAL, UH, PROJECT AND THE ASSOCIATED SOLICITATION PROCESS. THIS WAS A HIGH PROFILE, UM, SOLICITATION THAT WAS IDENTIFIED BY THE COUNCIL, UM, LAST YEAR. AND, UH, SO WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE PRES SOLICITATION. UH, TODAY IS THE POSTS SOLICITATION BRIEFING FOR THE, FOR THE, UH, FOR THE COUNCIL. THE SOLICITATION VALUE IS, UH, UH, JUST OVER $30 MILLION, UH, FOLLOWING TODAY'S BRIEFING. THE CONTRACT, UH, AWARD FOR THE PROJECT, UH, PENDING THE CONVERSATION TODAY IS ANTICIPATED TO BE PRESENTED TO YOU DURING THE DECEMBER 16TH A SESSIONS. SO, UH, WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO RAZZI. THANK YOU ERIC. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I AM RAZZI OI, DIRECTOR CITY ENGINEERING PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. THIS PRESENTATION AS CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, IS FOR POST FACILITATION FOR ZONE OF CULTURAL, ZONA CULTURE IS HISTORIC AND CULTURAL DISTRICT AREA ON WEST SIDE OF THE DOWNTOWN. ZONA CULTURE IS ONE OF THE 28 CERTIFIED CULTURAL DISTRICT ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS. ZONA CULTURAL EVENTS LEADING TODAY, 2013 ZONA CULTURAL DEVELOPED BY CITY STAFF AND STAKEHOLDER THROUGH MULTIPLE WORK SESSION 2014, CULTURE OR CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE APPROVES CREATION OF ZONA CULTURAL HISTORIC DISTRICT. 2015 TAKES US COMMISSIONER ON ARTS APPROVE ZNO CULTURAL AS A, AN OFFICIAL DESIGNATED STATE HISTORIC DISTRICT. IN 2016, CENTRAL SAN ANTONIO PRESENTED ZNO CULTURAL REVITALIZATION PLAN AT CITY COUNCIL B SESSION IN 2017 AND 2022. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO DEVELOP IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE BOND PROJECT Z CULTURAL PROJECT, COMMERCE STREET, ST. MARY SANTA ROSA. THE ONE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION FRONT OF OUR BUILDING, COMMERCE CENTER, COMMERCE STREET, , SANTA ROSA. THAT'S THE ONE'S GOING TO BE PART OF THIS PACKAGE. THE SECOND PROJECT, SANTA ROSA STREET, CAESAR CHAVA TO MARTIN. AND LAST ONE IS SBA NEVARA TO MARTIN URBAN [00:05:01] AND STREET ESCAPEE. KEY DESIGN ELEMENT IMPROVE MULTI-MODEL STREET ESCAPEE, WHICH IS SIDEWALKS, CROSSWALKS, BIKE FACILITIES AND ACCESSIBILITY. ESTABLISH HISTORIC BRANDING AND IDENTITY DESIGNED TO ENHANCE AND IMPROVE Z CULTURAL, MULTICULTURAL HISTORY. THIS MAP SHOWS THE PROJECT IS HAPPEN TO BE IN Z CULTURAL COMMERCE STREET. FARTHER RIGHT OF THE MAP IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND COMMERCE STREET, WEST COMMERCE FARTHER. THE BA LEFT OF THE MAP IS ALSO UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THEY WILL BE FINISHING YEAR, NEXT YEAR AND YEAR AFTER THE PINK AREA IS THE THREE PROJECT WE ARE PROPOSING TO DISCUSS TODAY. COMMERCE STREET, RIO, SANTA ROSA. AS YOU CAN SEE, WIDER SIDE OF 17, 21 FOOT EIGHT FOOT PARKING, TWO 10 FOOT TRAVEL LANE AND 11 FOOT SHARED BUS LANE AND OF COURSE ANOTHER 12 FOOT SIDEWALK ON THE RIGHT SIDE. THIS IS THE RENDERING OF THE B FOUR AND AFTER COMMERCE STREET RETURN, WIDER SIDEWALK, PARKING LANE, TRAVEL LANE, SHARED BUS LANE, CROSSWALK AND LIGHTINGS. THIS IS LARGER IMAGE OF A COMMERCE STREET AFTER DAWN BETWEEN A MARKET SQUARE AND MILAM PARKING. AS YOU CAN SEE, MIDBLOCK RACE, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING SAN SANTA ROSA FROM CAESAR CHAVA TO MARTIN. 10 FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK, FIVE FOOT PROTECTED BIKE LANE, EIGHT FOOT PARKING TWO TRAVEL LANE. ONE IS 10, ANOTHER ONE IS 11 FOOT AND 16 FOOT MEDIAN. AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE IS SAME GEOMETRY ON THIS SIDE, THIS IS THE LARGER RENDERING OF THE CAESAR CH SANTA ROSA, WIDER SIDEWALK BIKE LANE, TRAVEL LANE MEDIAN AND PARKING. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BIKE LANE, PROPOSED BIKE LANE ON A SANTA ROSA IS PROTECTED BY ON STREET PARKING AND ALSO THREE FOOT BUFFER. AND THEN WE HAVE ON THE LEFT OF THAT IS A WIDER SIDEWALK. SANTA ROSA STREET, NEVARA TO MARTIN IS GOING TO HAVE EIGHT FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK, EIGHT FOOT PARKING AND TWO 10 FOOT TRAVEL LANE. AND ANOTHER EIGHT FOOT PARKING. THIS IS THE RENDERING B FOUR ON THE LEFT. AND THE RENDERING ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS AFTER CONSTRUCTION IS DONE WIDER SIDEWALK PARKING LANE, TRAVELING LANE AND LIGHTING. THIS IS LARGER RENDERING OF SANTA ROSA STREET. OTHER DESIGN ELEMENT INCLUDES PAVING, LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPING SITTINGS, BIKE RACKS, BUS STOPS, WAYFINDING AND OTHER SIGNAGE. N H WHY WHY C S P PROJECT IS LOCATED ALONG THE MAJOR CORRIDOR. MULTI MOTHER TRANSPORTATION USER WITHIN HISTORIC TOURIST DOWNTOWN AND BUSINESS DISTRICT. HIGH IMPACT TO STAKEHOLDER, COMPLEX SCOPE AND CONSTRAINED WORKSCAPE. CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE USE OF R F C S P FOR ROADWAY AND DRAINAGE PROJECT IN SEPTEMBER, 2018. PROJECT TIMELINE DESIGN START MAY, 2018 COMPLETED MARCH OF THIS YEAR. B SESSION WE HAD MAY OF 2021 AND TODAY IS A POST SOLICITATION B SESSION AND WAITING TO COME TO COUNCIL IN DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR. CONSTRUCTION START JANUARY, 2022 AND WILL COMPLETE JUNE, 2024. THIS IS THE BUDGET FOR ALL THREE PROJECT. COMMERCE STREET IS 9.5. SANTA ROSA, 3.5, SABA, 3.5 SANTA ROSA, 8.1 COMMERCE CORRIDOR IS 1.5 AND CESAR JAVA CORRIDOR 1.5. CITY FUNDING IS 23.7. UTILITY IS 6.4 ALTOGETHER 30.1 MILLION. CONSTRUCTION BUDGET FOR THIS PROJECT. S STATION TYPE IS R F C S P. ESTIMATED VALUE 30000000.1 IS THE TERM OF THE CONTRACT FOR ESTIMATED TO BE JUNE, 2024. AND OF COURSE IS A NEW CONTRACT EVALUATION. VOTING MEMBER ROD SANCHEZ FROM CT MANAGER'S OFFICE. MYSELF, DIRECTOR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. SEAN RICH, SENIOR ENGINEER. KATE OTO, SENIOR ENGINEER, [00:10:01] PETE CORTEZ STAKEHOLDER AND GAIL HAMRICK PIG FROM SAN ANTONIO. WATER SYSTEM SOLICITATION REQUIREMENT. EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND QUALIFICATION OF THE PRIME FIRM, KEY PERSONAL AND KEY SUBCONTRACTOR, 25 POINT UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROJECT. PROPOSED MANAGEMENT PLAN, 25 POINT EXPERIENCE IN SAN ANTONIO REGION AND POST PERFORMANCE AND PAST PERFORMANCE. 15 POINT PRICE PROPOSAL, 15 POINT SDA, 20 POINT, 10 POINT FOR SS, P E AND 10 POINT FOR M W SS P E. AND ALSO WE HAD REQUIREMENT REGARDING THE SUSTAINABLE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE EXPERIENCE WITH THE CONTRACTOR. IS SBIT A SUBCONTRACTOR REQUIREMENT 29 POINT M W B E FOR SUBCONTRACTING AND 5.4 A A B E SUBCONTRACTING LOCAL PERFORMANCE PROGRAM. NOT APPLICABLE. VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PERFORMANCE, NOT APPLICABLE AND AUDIT FINANCING STATEMENT NOT REQUIRED. WE HAD RECEIVED A PROPOSAL EVALUATING TEAM EVALUATED AND RECOMMENDING SON TO BE RECOMMENDED FOR CITY COUNCIL FOREVER OF THIS CONTRACT. DUE DILIGENT DONE BY FINANCE AND AUDIT DEPARTMENT. NUMBER OF THE VENDORS NOTIFIED 641 NUMBER OF THE VENDOR AT PRE-SUBMIT. ALL 13 AND NUMBER OF THE RESPONSE RECEIVE THREE RESULT OF MINIMUM REQUIREMENT REVIEW, NO MATERIAL FUNDINGS RESULT OF DUE DILIGENCE REVIEW, ALSO NO MATERIAL FUNDING, SOLICITATION TIMEFRAME, GOAL SETTING COMMITTEE MARCH 11TH, 2021. CITY COUNCIL B SESSION PRE-SALE STATION BRIEFING. MAY 19TH, 2025. RELEASE DATE WAS JUNE, 2000. JUNE 21ST, 2021. AND CITATION PRE-SUBMIT OUR CONFERENCE JULY 15. DEADLINE FOR QUAL QUESTION JULY 28TH. DUE DATE WAS AUGUST 27. EVALUATION WAS DONE IN OCTOBER 8TH, 2021. NEGOTIATION WAS DONE NOVEMBER AND CITY COUNCIL B SESSIONS. TODAY WE ARE AN ANTICIPATING TO BRING THIS ONE TO COUNCIL IN DECEMBER AND CONSTRUCTION WILL START IN JANUARY. STAFF RECOMMENDED STAFF RECOMMENDS TO A, TO PROCEED SCHEDULING THIS ITEM FOR CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION OF THE CONTRACT AWARD TO ZONE OF CULTURAL PROJECTS STREETS. THIS IS INAM MY PRESENTATION. I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. RAZZI, UM, HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, UH, PROGRAM, UH, IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. SO I I DO WANT TO GET TO COUNCIL MEMBER. BRAVO. MY ONLY, MY ONLY ONE QUESTION IS HOW MUCH, UH, COMMUNICATION, CONSULTATION HAS, UH, THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR BEEN IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STREET ALTERNATIVES, UH, THAT ARE IN THE, UM, REQUEST SINCE, UH, TAMIKA JOINED US, UH, FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH HER TO ASSIST ON, ESPECIALLY ON MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION BIKE LANE AND OTHER, I THINK SHE HAS HELPED US ON SANTA ROSA SINCE WE HAVE THE BIKE LANE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE DESIGNING SAFER BIKE LANE AND COMMERCE HISTORY SINCE EXISTING DOESN'T HAVE A BIKE LANE. AND THAT'S THE REASON WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ON THE FUTURE. BUT WE ARE ALSO WORKING WITH TOMIKA, LOOKING TO HAVE A BIKE LANE ON MARKET STREET TAKING BASICALLY U T S A GOING FARTHER TO EAST. GREAT. UH, WELL THAT I SEE IN THE, IN THE STREET RENDERINGS, THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR YEARS, UH, IN TERMS OF COMPLETE STREETS AND AVAILABILITY OF SAFE BIKE LANES. SO I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT. UM, I WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT THIS IS, UH, A PROGRAM THAT, UH, TAMIKA WOULD BE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF IN TERMS OF WHAT SHE WANTS TO SEE ON THE STREETS. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THOSE, UH, CONNECTIONS ARE BEING MADE. UH, THANK YOU RAZZIE, SIR. COUNCIL MEMBER. BRAVO. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU RAZZIE. UM, SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT. UM, AND I, YOU KNOW, A WEEK AGO I PROBABLY WOULD'VE SAID I SUPPORT EVERYTHING ON IT. UH, BUT WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE LAST WEEK IS THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE BROUGHT JEFF SPECK DOWN TO SAN ANTONIO AND WE TOOK HIM AND WE DROVE HIM AROUND DOWNTOWN AND WE DID A TOUR. AND HE, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, HE'S AN URBAN PLANNER. HE'S, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, HE'S AN AUTHOR OF SOME BESTSELLING BOOKS ON URBAN PLANNING AND HE'S ACTUALLY GETTING THE SEASIDE AWARD NEXT YEAR, WHICH IS LIKE THE MOST [00:15:01] PRESTIGIOUS, UM, AWARD FOR URBAN PLANNERS, BUT FROM URBAN PLANNERS. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, YOU KNOW, HE, HE TALKED ABOUT WHAT MAKES STREETS SAFER. HE TALKED ABOUT WHAT MAKES, UH, AN URBAN CORE AREA, UM, MORE WALKABLE, WHAT MAKES IT MORE LIVABLE, MORE VIBRANT. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, WELL, I GUESS A CORE PART OF HIS CONVERSATION THAT WE NEED TO CONVERT MULTI-LANE ONE-WAY ROADS. I MEAN, I MEAN ONE WAY, UM, MULTI-LANE, ONE-WAY ROADS TO TWO-WAY ROADS. AND IF YOU DON'T DO THAT, THEN YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DEVELOP, UH, THE RETAIL LIKE WE SEE IN THAT PICTURE RIGHT THERE AS WELL. AND IF YOU DON'T DO THAT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT PEOPLE LIVING DOWNTOWN AS WELL. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE WAS A ROOM FULL OF THAT. WE FILLED THE TOBIN CENTER, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH URBAN PLANNERS, WITH TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE, STAFF WITH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE DEVELOPERS DOWNTOWN. AND, UM, SO I REALLY HOPE THAT WE CAN, UM, TAKE A HARD LOOK AT MAKING, YOU KNOW, COMMERCE AND WHAT IS THE OTHER STREET THERE? MARKET. MARKET, YEAH, I MEAN MARKET, YEAH. SO THAT WE CAN MAKE THEM MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONVERTING WHEN WE TAKE ON THESE BIG PROJECTS DOWNTOWN THAT WE CAN, WHEN THERE'S MULTI-LANE ONE-WAY ROADS, THAT WE CAN CONVERT THEM TO TWO-WAY ROADS. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK WITH TAMIKA. TAMIKA WAS ACTUALLY ON A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH HIM RIGHT AFTER AFTERWARD. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE I'VE GOTTEN INTO OFFICE, TAMIKA AND I HAVEN'T AGREED ON EVERYTHING. AND WHEN SHE GOT UP THERE ON THAT PANEL, SHE DIDN'T AGREE WITH JEFF SPECK ON EVERYTHING. BUT I SPOKE WITH TAMIKA AFTERWARDS AND SHE SAID SHE ABSOLUTELY DID AGREE THAT, THAT, UM, WE NEED TO START DOING, CONVERTING OUR ONE-WAY MULTI-LANE ROADS TO TWO-WAY. SO I JUST WANNA PUT THAT OUT THERE FOR CONSIDERATION AND I, I HOPE THAT WE CAN MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. I'M VERY INTRIGUED BY EVERYTHING THAT COUNCILMAN BRAVO JUST SAID, AND I, I DO HOPE WE TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. I, THAT IDEA AND SUGGESTION. UM, I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT ARE GONNA BE IMPACTED. AND I'M WONDERING HOW LOCAL BUSINESSES WITHIN MARKET SQUARE WILL BE ENGAGED AND KEPT IN THE LOOP THROUGHOUT CONSTRUCTION. AND BEFORE. I THINK ONE OF THE REASON WE HAD A PETE CORTEZ TO BE PART OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE CONTRACTOR WE ARE SELECTING TO BUILD THIS PROJECT. WE HAVE WORKED DURING THE DESIGN VERY CLOSELY. ONE OF THE REASON THIS PROJECT'S STAYING LONG TIME TO GO UNDER CONSTRUCTION BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY MEETING, WHICH MAKE SURE, MAKE SURE WE ADDRESS ALL OF THE CONCERN ANY BUSINESSES HAS. AND WE WILL DO SAME THING DURING CONSTRUCTION, GET INPUT FROM THEM, MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT AFFECTING THEM NEGATIVE NEGATIVELY CONSTRUCTION'S INCONVENIENCE, BUT WE DON'T WANNA REALLY AFFECT THEIR BUSINESSES. THANK YOU. AND I KNOW, I KNOW THE CITY TAKES, UM, ENGAGEMENT VERY SERIOUSLY. UM, BUT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S LIMITATIONS. AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THIS IS BECAUSE WE HAD OUR ARPA TOWN HALL ON TWO ON MONDAY AND SOME BUSINESS ME, SOME MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY WHO WORKED WITHIN MARKET SQUARE CAME OUT AND THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY HADN'T INVESTED IN THE AREA. AND, UM, THERE IT SEEMED, THERE WERE NO PLANS TO, BUT THIS IS AN OBVIOUS PLAN. AND SO THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS CONCERNED ME. UM, AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY, YOU KNOW, REALLY, REALLY ENGAGING EVERYBODY THERE, COUNCILMAN, WE, WE ARE, UM, WE'RE VERY ENGAGED WITH THE MARKET SQUARE TENANTS AND THE ASSOCIATION. THEY'RE CERTAINLY ALSO AWARE OF NOT ONLY OF THIS PROJECT FROM THE 2012 AND THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM, THEY'RE AWARE OF THE EFFORTS TO FUND THOSE PROJECTS AND MAKE FACILITY UPGRADES TO THE, TO MARKET SQUARE THROUGH THE TURS. UM, AND, AND YOU KNOW, FRANKLY, WE, WE HAVE, UM, WORKED WITH THEM VERY CLOSELY OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS THROUGH COVID AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, REGARDLESS OF, OF WHERE THIS $30 MILLION PROJECT IS GONNA BE. UM, REGARDLESS OF THE SIDE OF TOWN, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC AND THE, AND THE BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA, UM, IS GONNA BE KEY. AND, AND FRANKLY, WE'LL RELY UPON THE CONTRACTOR TO HELP US WITH THAT, UM, AS WELL AS, UH, THE CITY. SO WE'RE, WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING THAT. IN ADDITION, WHAT CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, ONE OF THE REASON WE ADVERTISE THIS PROJECT AS A COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSAL, NOT THE LOW BID TO HIRE, REALLY A BEST CONTRACTOR HAS THE RESOURCES TO MEET THIS REQUIREMENT. WE DON'T WANT TO GO LOW BID ON THIS PROJECT AND WE END UP BEING, HAVING THE ISSUE WITH NOT PROVIDING THE SERVICE WE REQUIRE. I AGREE. . I AGREE. NO WORRIES. UM, I THINK THAT'S IT. A LOT OF THE OTHER [00:20:01] QUESTIONS I HAD WERE ANSWERED THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION AND I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND I DO WANNA REITERATE MY, UM, SUPPORT OR AT LEAST INQUISITION OF, UH, COUNCILMAN BRAVO'S, UH, POINTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU OZZIE, FOR THE PRESENTATION. I'M PLEASED TO LEARN THAT THE MARKETS WHERE TENANTS WERE INVOLVED, UH, IN THE PLANNING PROCESS OF THIS PROJECT. UM, THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE, UH, WITH SAN SABA STREET, UM, I SEE IN THIS, IN THE PRESENTATION, THERE'S TENANTS. DO WE KNOW WHO THOSE TENANTS WILL BE REPORTING TO IF THEY INTEND TO RESERVE THE SPACE? UH, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT SPACE? IS THAT THE CITY? UM, WHO WOULD THEY GO TO TO RENT THAT SPACE AS A VENDOR? UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, JOHN JACKS WITH CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT. THOSE, UH, SPACES, IF WE WERE TO LEASE THOSE WOULD BE SIMILAR TO, UH, PATIO SPACE LEASES THAT WE HAVE IN OTHER PARTS OF DOWNTOWN. 'CAUSE IT WOULD STILL BE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. UM, IT COULD BE A MULTIPLE, UH, DIFFERENT THINGS. IT COULD BE TEMPORARY VENDORS, UM, THAT, THAT SAN SABA WOULD BE STILL OPEN THE TRAFFIC, BUT IT'LL HAVE BOLLARDS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO CLOSE FOR EVENTS OR MAYBE ON WEEKENDS WHEN THERE'S A HIGH VOLUME OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC WHERE WE WANT TO CLOSE THAT. SO I THINK IT'LL DEPEND ON HOW WE PROGRAM THAT AREA, WHETHER IT'S A, A PERMANENT TENANT, UM, IT'S GONNA DEPEND PROBABLY ON THE BUILDING. UM, WHAT'S THERE NOW. UM, I SEE IT MORE OF A, OF A ACTIVATION AND PROGRAMMING. SO IT'LL PROBABLY BE A ROTATION OF DIFFERENT, UH, VENDORS OR, OR TENANTS IN THOSE SPACES. BUT THOSE WILL BE MANAGED OUT OF OUR OFFICE. OKAY. AND WE CURRENTLY MANAGE ALL THE LEASES IN SQUARE. THANK YOU. HAVE THOSE DETAILS BEEN TEASED OUT? IF IT'LL BE, UM, KIND OF TO, SIMILAR TO THE RIVER WALK WHERE IT'S A RAFFLE SYSTEM, UH, TO BE A VENDOR ON THE RIVER WALK OR WILL IT BE DIFFERENT OR HAVE WE NOT WORKED ON THAT YET? IT, UH, WE HAVEN'T WORKED ON IT, BUT I, I DON'T THINK IT'LL BE SIMILAR TO LIKE, OUR STREET VENDING PROGRAM, WHICH IS A, A LOTTERY LOTTERY. I THINK IT WOULD PROBABLY BE MORE OF A, UH, HOW WE CURRENTLY PROGRAM MARKET SQUARE. UM, WE HAVE KIND OF A, A, A CALL FOR VENDORS, IF YOU WILL, AND WE TRY TO, UH, KIND OF CURATE THAT AND ROTATE THEM TO MAKE SURE WE'RE HAVING A GOOD, UM, MIX OF VENDORS, YOU KNOW, DE DEPENDING ON, UM, WHAT RE RETAIL PRODUCTS THEY MAY SELL. SO IT'S A GOOD VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THINGS. OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU. SO, UM, UH, LIKE MY COLLEAGUES, I APPRECIATE THE MULTIMODAL DESIGN. UM, I, I THINK IT COULD USE SOME MORE TREES. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A PLAN FOR HOW MANY TREES WE INTEND TO PUT ALONGSIDE, UM, THE BRICK WAY. UM, UH, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WITH FUNDING, I KNOW THERE'S SOME FUNDING COMING FROM SPECIFIC TOURS, BUT DO WE INTEND TO GO BACK TO ANY TOURS REQUESTING MORE FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT? THAT'S NOT OUR INTENTION. WE'LL BILL FOR THE BUDGET. OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU. RAZZY. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU SIR. RAZZY, WHERE ARE WE ON THE, UH, THIS IS READY TO AWARD, RIGHT? YES, SIR. SO THE DESIGN IS COMPLETELY DONE. DESIGN IS DONE. WE BID THE PROJECT, WE ARE NEGOTIATE THE CONTRACT. WE NEED TO COME TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT IN NEXT MONTH. SO IF WE WERE TO GO BACK AND MAKE ANY SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES AT THIS POINT, WHAT WOULD THAT DO TO THE PROJECT? IT WILL COST TIME AND MONEY. TIME AND MONEY, CORRECT. ANY GUESS ON TIME AND MONEY? DEPEND ON WHAT WILL BE THE CHANGE. IT COULD BE AS LITTLE AS ONE MONTH, COULD BE AS LITTLE AS SIX MONTHS. DEPEND ON WHAT WILL BE THE CHANGE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO, AND HOW LONG IS THIS? I DIDN'T, I DON'T SEE THE TIMELINE, BUT WHEN DID WE START THE, WHEN DID WE START THIS PROJECT? THE PRE PRE THE PRES SOLICITATION WAS, WAS IN MAY. YEAH. DESIGN STARTED IN MAY. SO OVER A YEAR THE PRES SOLICITATION FOR CONSTRUCTION WAS TO THE COUNCIL IN MAY OF 21. THE DESIGN STARTED BEFORE THEN, RIGHT? CORRECT. MAY 18. OKAY. SO WELL OVER A YEAR. CORRECT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. GREAT. UM, DID HAVE ONE, ONE ASPECT OF THE PROJECT AND I SEE IT GOING ON OUT HERE. AND, UH, RAZZI, I TALKED TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT AND I DID TALK TO CENTRO ALSO, UM, ABOUT THE, THE, THE BRICK PAVERS THAT WE'RE PUTTING DOWN. UH, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BRICK PAVERS ALL OVER DOWNTOWN AND THAT'S WHAT HAS LED INTO REPLACING A LOT OF THESE STREETS BECAUSE OF THE REDDING CAUSED BY HEAVY TRUCKS, BUSES AND THAT KIND OF THING. IS THERE A DIFFERENT TREATMENT THAT WE CAN PUT ON THAT VERSUS THE ACTUAL PAVERS THEMSELVES? BECAUSE I GOT A CONCERN ABOUT THAT KIND OF THING HAPPENING AGAIN, OR THE CONSTANT VIBRATION AND WHAT HAVE YOU, PULLING THOSE BRICKS UP AND HAVING TO GO BACK AND DO A LOT. I I'VE SEEN ASHLEY, WHERE YOU CAN TAKE CONCRETE COLORED CONCRETE AND STAMP [00:25:01] 'EM WITH DIFFERENT DESIGNS, THAT KIND OF THING. THIS STILL PROVIDES THE STRENGTH OF A SOLID CONCRETE BASE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE BRICKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT? I, I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE PAVERS AGAIN, THAT WE'RE GETTING AWAY FROM, BUT NOW WE'RE PUTTING 'EM BACK IN AGAIN. YEAH, COUNCILMAN, YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED THIS ONE A FEW MONTHS AGO. THIS PAVER IS NOT SAME THAT WE HAD MANY YEARS AGO DONE BY TRI-PARTY LESSON LEARNED. THEY WERE DONE ON TOP OF REALLY NOT SOLID FOUNDATION. RIGHT. AND THEREFORE THEY WERE REALLY SINKING. THESE PAVER IS DONE BASED ON VERY SOLID CONCRETE, REINFORCED CONCRETE. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GO MOVE ANY PLACE. STEM CONCRETE DOESN'T REALLY LOOK AS GOOD AS WHEN ZONA CULTURAL AREA BECAUSE THIS LOOKS MORE NATURAL OLD FASHIONED WAY. BUT WE CAN LOOK FOR FUTURE, MAYBE WE MAY DO STEM CONCRETE. WELL, I, I'D STILL LIKE TO LOOK AT THAT EVEN THOUGH, AND YES, I AGREE IT'S ON A CONCRETE BASE, BUT EVEN WITH THAT, PAVERS ARE GONNA SHIFT AND MOVE THAT KIND OF THING. AND I WOULD SAY EVENTUALLY COME UP AND CAUSE MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS AGAIN, FOR THOSE, FOR THOSE CROSSWALKS AND WHAT HAVE YOU. SO JUST MY REQUEST ON THAT. OKAY. AND THEN, THEN THE OTHER THING ON THE RECOMMENDED AWARD, ON THE COLUMN THERE, THERE'S A DOUBLE ASTERISK, UH, LINE, UH, UH, ON THE VERY BOTTOM AND IT SAYS SUB BETA SUBCONTRACTING WAIVER APPROVED. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THEY HAD SUBMIT FOR WAIVER. THEY, I THINK, MICHAEL, YOU WANNA ADDRESS THAT? YEAH, MIKE, GOOD AFTERNOON. MICHAEL SENDEN, ADMINISTRATOR WITH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. SO WITH EVERY THAT WE SET SUBCONTRACTING GOALS ON, WE HAVE TO ALLOW THE VENDOR TO SUBMIT A WAIVER SHOULD THEY NOT BE ABLE TO FIND THE VENDORS TO MEET THAT GOAL. HOWEVER, THERE'S A VERY RIGOROUS PROCESS BEHIND THAT, THAT WE IN FACT VALIDATE OURSELVES. SO THIS VENDOR SUBMITTED THAT WAIVER AND PER THE GOOD FAITH EFFORTS THEY MADE TO CONTACT THE VENDORS THROUGH MULTIPLE TIMES HOW MANY, UM, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. WE, IN FACT, UM, GRANTED THAT WAIVER, OKAY. AND NOT FOR THIS PROJECT SPECIFICALLY, BUT ON A NUMBER OF PROJECTS IN THE PAST THAT I'VE SAID, WHY DIDN'T THAT PROPOSAL INCLUDE A LINE ITEM TO GET THAT BOX CHECKED? AND I'M STILL CONCERNED ABOUT THAT, THAT CONTRACTORS ARE GOING THROUGH, PUTTING TOGETHER PROPOSALS THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY'RE THROWN OUT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT DO SOMETHING TOWARDS A SMALL BUSINESS, UH, CATEGORY. AND I, I WANT TO SEE THE DETAILS OF WHAT'S BEING PRESENTED TO THESE CONTRACTORS DURING THE PRES SOLICITATION CONFERENCES, THAT KIND OF THING ON WHY THEY'RE STILL PUTTING PROPOSALS TOGETHER WHEN THEY'RE NOT GONNA EVEN BE EVALUATED. THEY'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY AND THEN THEY, THEY'RE THROWN OUT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MEETING THAT REQUIREMENT. AND IF THEY CAN SUBMIT FOR A WAIVER TO THAT, YOU KNOW, IS THAT A STEP IN THERE THAT THEY REALLY KNOW ABOUT TO BE ABLE TO BE COMPETITIVE? SO I, I REALLY WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT VERY CLOSELY 'CAUSE I, I'M, I'M STILL CONCERNED THAT WE GOT CONTRACTORS OUT THERE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY TO PROPOSE ON SOMETHING AND THEN WE THROW 'EM OUT. GOT IT. COUNCILMAN, UM, I, WE'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO KIND OF WALK THROUGH THAT SOLICITATION PROCESS. I I, I, I WOULD, I WOULD ARGUE THAT MOST CONTRACTORS DO KNOW, AND THAT THE REASON WHY THE POLICY ALLOWS FOR THE REQUEST FOR WAIVER WITH THE ABILITY TO PROVE AND SHOW THAT THERE'S, THAT THEY'RE MAKING LEGITIMATE ATTEMPTS, YOU KNOW, IS A USEFUL TOOL AND AVENUE FOR THOSE CONTRACTORS. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I, I, I, I'M, I'M, UH, UM, I'M STRUGGLING TO THINK THROUGH, UH, PROPOSALS THAT WE JUST DROPPED, UH, FOR, UM, FOR MINOR ISSUES, RIGHT? EVERYBODY WORKS REALLY HARD TO DO. AND THE CONTRACTORS, IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK TO PUT TOGETHER A PROPOSAL. BUT WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF OUR, OF OUR ORDINANCE, WE DO, I THINK WE DO A REALLY GOOD JOB. AND I THINK FOR THE MOST PART, MOST CONTRACTORS THAT ARE SUBMITTING NOW, THERE ARE OTHER MISTAKES TO GET MADE. YES. AND THEN WE DEAL WITH THEM. BUT, BUT I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY. MAYBE WE COULD TALK ABOUT THAT ON AN AUDIT COMMITTEE AND WALK THROUGH THAT PROCESS AGAIN. YEAH, I, I THINK THAT'D BE GREAT AND KIND SHORE THAT UP. AND, AND I'VE ASKED FOR THAT ON THE AUDIT COMMITTEE ALSO BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF CONTRACT CONTRACT PROPOSALS THROWN OUT BECAUSE OF THE SMALL BUSINESS PORTION NOT DOING WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING. SO WE JUST NEED TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THAT. AND, UH, THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. COUNCIL MEMBER KIO. HDA. THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, UH, RAZZI, UH, WE'RE, IF I'M CORRECT, WE HAVE BIKE LANES ON SANTA ROSA, CORRECT. BUT NOT COMMERCE IN SAN SABA. CORRECT. [00:30:01] WHY IS THAT? COMMERCE, BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF THE SECTION DOES NOT HAVE THE ONES UNDER CONSTRUCTION FRONT OF OUR BUILDING. WE LOOK FOR THAT ONE. WE WALK WITH THE STAKEHOLDER. WE DIDN'T HAVE A ADDITIONAL RIGHT OF WAY TO PROVIDE WIDER SIDEWALK AND LANDSCAPING AND THREE LANE TRAFFIC AND PROTECTED BIKE LANE. THE DECISION WAS, THE IDEA WAS WE DO ON MARKET, WHICH IS THE ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF COMMERCE, WE HAVE WIDER, WIDER RIGHT OF WAY WE CAN DO PROTECTED BIKE LANE. UH, IF I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY, THE FIRST FACTOR YOU MENTIONED WAS THAT THERE'S NO, UM, THERE'S NO BIKE LANES FOR, FOR, I'M GONNA SAY AWKWARDLY, BUT IF WE HAVE BIKE LANES ON COMMERCE AND SABA SAN SABA, THERE'S NOTHING TO CONNECT THEM TO, RIGHT? CORRECT. IT'S JUST ONE, ONE PIECE OF IT. BUT I MEAN, I WOULD MAINTAIN THAT IF WE, WE BUILT THEM HERE, THEN WE WOULD HAVE, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO CONNECT THEM EVENTUALLY. WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE. RIGHT. UM, SO I, IS THERE A POSSIBILITY TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A CONSENSUS OF THIS COUNCIL, BUT TO ADD BIKE LANES ON THESE TWO, THESE TWO, UM, NOT WITHOUT RE GOING BACK THROUGH THE REDESIGN AND WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS AND, AND, AND I THINK PROBABLY THE KEY PART, WHICH IS NOT PART OF THIS PROJECT, BUT RAZZI MENTIONED IT, IS THE OSA PROJECT FROM U T S A ALL THE WAY TO FLOORS. 'CAUSE YOU'VE GOT A WIDE STREET. AND THAT GOES BACK TO WHAT COUNCILMAN BRAVO WAS TALKING ABOUT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE USE, WE PROVIDE, UM, KIND OF A BACKBONE APPROACH FROM A BIKE LANE. 'CAUSE YOU'VE GOT A MAJOR EASTWEST CORRIDOR AND THEN BEING ABLE TO BUILD THOSE, THOSE RIBS OFF, OFF THAT DOWN THE ROAD. BUT ON THIS PROJECT THAT WOULD REQUIRE US TO REDESIGN AT THIS POINT. CORRECT. SO I CAN UNDERSTAND IF, IF YOU HAVE, IF YOU'RE GONNA DO THAT ON ZA, THEN WE, THAT'S PARALLEL TO COMMERCE. UM, SO WE CAN BIKE RIDERS CAN MOVE OVER A BLOCK. RIGHT. BUT, UM, I'M TRYING TO GO BACK TO THE MAP. DO YOU MIND BRINGING UP THE SLIDE FIVE? BUT SAN SABA, IT'S NOT JUST ONE BLOCK OVER. UM, I DON'T KNOW. I I, I WOULD, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE BIKE LANES ON THOSE TWO. I, HOW TO SAY IT, I'M GONNA SAY IT VERY PLAINLY, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE BIKE LANES ON BOTH THOSE STREETS BECAUSE, AND I DO GET COMMERCE, I GUESS I WOULD PUSH SAN SABA A LITTLE MORE BECAUSE IT'S UM, A LITTLE MORE OUT OF THE WAY, UM, TO GO TO SANTA ROSA. AND I DO THINK THAT IF WE BUILD THEM HERE, WE CAN EVENTUALLY CONNECT THEM, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE OF, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANTA ROSA AND SAN ARE JUST ONE BLOCK APART. WE HAVE VERY WIDER RIGHT OF WAY ON SANTA ROSA. WE CAN PROVIDE PROTECTED BIKE LANE ON SAN SBA. IT'LL BE VERY CHALLENGING TO PROVIDE WIDER SIDEWALK TRAVEL, RAIN AND BIKE LANE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE'S JUST ONE BLOCK APART. I RESPECT IT THAT IT'S, IT'S CHALLENGING BUT I I I, IT'S JUST, I THINK IT'S A BIG PUSH FROM, FROM MY CONSTITUENTS, FROM WHAT I HEAR IN TRANSPORTATION, WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE ORGANIZATIONS IN SAN ANTONIO ARE TALKING ABOUT. WE HAVE A CHANCE RIGHT NOW TO TO ADD BIKE LANES, EVEN IF IT'S CHALLENGING AND IT'S DIFFICULT AND YOU KNOW, MAYBE JUST ONE BLOCK OVER THERE ARE BIKE LANES. UH, BUT I, I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE. UM, AND I, I GET IT, YOU KNOW, GOING BACK TO DO A REDESIGN IS GOING TO COST MORE MONEY. AND, UM, BUT IT, I DON'T, I DON'T RE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'M SEEING THIS DESIGN. CORRECT. WE HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE WE HAD PRES SOLICITATION, THIS IS POSTS SOLICITATION. WE HAVE BEEN IN B SESSION COUNCILWOMAN. WE REALLY WANNA WAIT FOR OUR BIKE MASTER PLAN TO COMPLETE. OKAY. I'M NOT SURE REALLY EFFECTIVE TO GO BUILD BIKE ON ONE BLOCK, ONE BLOCK THERE. IT DOESN'T GO ANY PLACE. WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE A GOOD PLAN THEN WE STICK WITH THE PLAN. AGREED. BUT I THINK THE PLAN COULD START WITH THIS STREET. UM, AND I, UH, I'M NOT OBVIOUSLY A, I'M NOT A DESIGNER OF STREETS. I KNOW THAT'S, THAT'S Y'ALL'S JOB, BUT, UH, BUT THE, THE, THE AFFECTING THE, THE POLICY OF, OF BIKE LANES AND WHERE WE PUT THEM IN, UM, THAT WE WANT THEM AT ALL IS, IS MY JOB. SO, UH, I JUST WANNA ADVOCATE AGAIN FOR IT. I DON'T WANT TO SPEND MORE MONEY, BUT I I, AND I DON'T, I'M NOT EVEN SAYING THAT YOU SHOULD RUN THE DESIGN BY US, BUT WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING THIS BIG THAT WE'RE, WE'VE BEEN PUSHING, I SHOULDN'T SAY WE, I'LL SAY ME AND I THINK MY COMMITTEE IS TRANS TRANSPORTATION. WE HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR THESE THINGS. UM, IT, I THINK IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, AT LEAST THERE WAS, SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN OPTION FOR IT. SO ANYWAY, I'LL LEAVE IT THERE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER KEO. HDA. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, THANK YOU RAZZY, OBVIOUSLY LOTS OF HARD WORK AND I'M GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT THE INCORPORATION OF STAKEHOLDER, UH, INPUT. UM, I DO THINK, UH, I'D LIKE TO SUPPORT THE CHAIR OF THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE IN HER DIRECTION REGARDING, UH, ACTUALLY COMMERCE STREET. YOU'VE GOT A SHARED BUS LANE AND I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT TWO, UM, [00:35:01] TWO TRAVEL LANES THERE AND THOSE ARE BOTH DIRECTIONS. ONE DIRECTION. OKAY. SO IT'S A, IT'S STILL GONNA BE A STREET. CORRECT. AND WHO IS THE BUS SHARING THE LANE WITH? JUST REGULAR TRAFFIC. OKAY. IT'S NOT DEDICATED BUS LANE ANYMORE. MM-HMM. . SO I, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE GO THROUGH, WELL, ARE WE GONNA DO DESIGN BUILD TOGETHER? ARE WE GONNA DO DESIGN BY ITSELF AND THEN BUILD, UM, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GO BACK AND EVALUATE THE DESIGN ALONG WEST COMMERCE FOR A PROTECTED, UH, TWO-WAY BIKE LANE? WE JUST HAVE TO RE REDESIGN IT. FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE TO LOOK TO SEE CAN BE DONE ON HOW IT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE TRAFFIC. ALSO EXISTING IS FOUR LANE. WE ARE REDUCING FOR THREE LANE. AND IF WE ELIMINATE ADDITIONAL LANE FOR PROTECTED BIKE LANE MM-HMM. , HOW IS GOING TO AFFECT THE TRAFFIC. SO TELL ME, WHAT'S YOUR, WHAT'S YOUR TRAFFIC THAT YOU CARRY YOUR VEHICULAR COUNT ALONG THAT ROAD? LEMME LEMME JUST STEP BACK A LITTLE BIT. UH, WE DID LOOK AT A BIKE LANE PRETTY HARD, UH, SOMETIME BACK. UH, ONE, IT WAS DIFFICULT AS RAZZY SAID. AND TWO, UH, THE FOLKS THAT OWNED BUSINESSES ALONG COMMERCE, THEY CAME IN PRETTY STRONG, UH, ADVOCATING AGAINST THAT. SO THE IDEA OF COMMERCE IS WIDER SIDEWALK. LET'S GET THE BIKE LANE ON, ON OSA STREET. SO THIS IS NOT NEW. THIS WAS, THIS WAS A, A CONVERSATION WE HAD, LIKE I SAID, SOMETIME AGO. UH, AND THIS IS WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT PROCESS. OKAY. THANK YOU. I, I APOLOGIZE. IT'S NEW TO ME AND YOU'LL BE ASKING FOR US TO VOTE ON IT TOMORROW. SO I THINK WE JUST WANT TO MAYBE UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT PROCESS OH, SORRY. AT SOME POINT, RIGHT. WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE VOTING ON IT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. SO, UM, SO THEN THE, THE PARALLEL BIKE LANE WOULD BE ALL ALONG. DO LA ROSA FROM WHERE TO WHERE? DELAROSA FROM THE LIMIT OF THE PROJECT, THE WHOLE LIMIT OF THE PROJECT? CORRECT. OKAY. UM, OKAY. COULD WE TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PARKING ALONG THE STREET? CAN YOU CALL SLIDE NUMBER 10? MM-HMM. ? YEAH, WE HAVE LIMITED PARKING WITH SOME MEDIAN, AS YOU CAN SEE ON NUMBER 10. OKAY. GO. ONE MORE PLEASE. GO 11. I THINK 11 SHOWS BETTER. WE HAVE A SIDEWALK THEN BIKE LANE AND THREE FOOT TO PROTECTED ZONE, THEN PARKING. OF COURSE PARKING IS SEPARATED BY MEDIAN. UH, OKAY. SO WHAT, UM, ARE THERE ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE, I GUESS THE HOURS THAT PARKING IS GOING TO RUN? IS IT GONNA BE THE SAME FOR WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW? CORRECT. THE REST OF, UM, DOWNTOWN MM-HMM. . OKAY. CORRECT. YES. OKAY. UM, ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, OR ADDITIONAL ANTICIPATED REVENUE FROM THAT? ANY THOUGHTS? HI AGAIN. JOHN JACK, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, UH, CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT OPERATION. UH, IN ADDITION TO OPERATING MARKET SQUARE, WE ALSO OVERSEE PARKING, UM, DOWNTOWN, AS YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK THERE, THERE, RIGHT NOW THERE'S CURRENTLY NOT PARKING ON STREET PARKING IN THIS AREA, SO IT'LL BE METER PARKING OR UH, OR KIOSK TYPE PARKING PROBABLY. UM, IT WILL BE ADDITIONAL REVENUE, BUT, UM, I THINK AS, AS YOU ALL SEE, THERE'S A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION. PARKING DOWNTOWN IS PRETTY FLUID, UM, WITH DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY LOSING, GAINING PARKING. SO I, I DON'T, WHILE WILL BE ADDITIONAL REVENUE, I DON'T THINK IT'LL BE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF REVENUE AND WE'LL PROBABLY JUST MAINTAIN THE, THE EXISTING ENFORCEMENT TEAM THAT WE HAVE NOW. I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA REQUIRE US TO ADD ANY MORE, UH, ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. OKAY. SURE. THANK YOU. UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO GO BACK TO, UM, AND IT, IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO THIS PROJECT, BUT I THINK TO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT BIKE LANES. AND I THINK IN AN IDEAL WORLD, WE WOULD WAIT UNTIL WE HAD THE BIKE PLAN DONE. UM, I JUST, IN, IN THAT IDEAL WORLD, WE'RE NOT HERE ON THE DAIS WHEN THAT, WHEN THAT HAPPENS. AND I THINK THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES, UM, THAT WE CAN ADDRESS, UM, THAT ARE SHORTER TERM WINS, UH, THAN WHEN IT'S ALL DONE. SO I WOULD, UH, CHALLENGE STAFF TO, UM, TO CONSIDER, UH, SOME OF THOSE. I KNOW AGAIN, THAT'S, THAT'S A PERFECT WORLD, BUT, UM, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO DELIVER FOR, FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL HELP US WITH THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER [00:40:01] EZ. THANKS. UH, A COUPLE OF THINGS. I I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM TAMIKA IF POSSIBLE, IF YOU DON'T MIND TALKING TO US. UM, WHERE ARE WE ON THE BIKE NETWORK PLAN, UM, TO, TO WHAT EXTENT, UM, ARE WE GETTING AHEAD OF OURSELVES OR ARE WE ON TIME, UM, AS IT RELATES TO THE BIKING PLAN AND, AND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? UM, AND, AND THREE, COUNCILMAN BRAVO MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT THE, THE AUTHOR OF WALKABLE CITIES, UM, AND TWO-WAY STREETS BEING THE, THE WAY TO GO. AND SO I'LL, I'LL JUST PUT THAT OUT THERE FOR YOU TO UNPACK, BUT I'M CURIOUS TO HEAR YOUR REACTION. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. TAMIKA MONVILLE, DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. YOUR FIRST QUESTION ABOUT THE BIKE NETWORK PLAN UPDATE. WE ARE CURRENTLY FINALIZING THE SCOPE OF WORK AND IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS CONVERSATION, WHEN WE HAVE PLANS THAT WE VETTED AND, AND SHARED WITH A NUMBER OF STAKEHOLDERS, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE CONTINUE TO MOVE THEM FORWARD. AND GOING BACK AND TAKING THIS SMALL PIECE IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR CITY AND DELAYING THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WILL REALLY IMPROVE SAFETY, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IN PARTICULAR DOWNTOWN. I WOULDN'T SUGGEST THAT RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE BIKE NETWORK PLAN UPDATE IS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CONTEXT OF OUR ENTIRE CITY AND THE ROADWAY NETWORK TO DETERMINE WHICH ROADWAYS BASED ON THEIR WIDTH, BASED ON THEIR DESIGN SPEEDS AND OPERATING SPEEDS AND THE LAND USE. AND WE WILL BE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO WHAT TYPE OF BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE SHOULD BE THERE AND DEVELOP A STANDARD SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DO WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW AND JUST TAKING PIECES OF OUR CITY AND APPLYING DIFFERENT TYPES OF BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE AND NOT REALLY LOOKING AT THEM AS A SYSTEM. AND SO WHAT WE HAVE TODAY IS WE'VE PUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN, BUT SOMETIMES WHEN YOU RIDE, IT'S LIKE THE LAND TO NOWHERE. YOU, WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT WE HAVEN'T MADE THOSE CONNECTIONS. SO OUR, OUR GOAL TENTATIVELY, WE MAY BE ON THE DECEMBER AUDIT COMMITTEE FOR THE BIKE NETWORK PLAN UPDATE, AND THEN IF NOT, DEFINITELY JANUARY BASED ON THE SCHEDULE. BUT THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE IN THE WINTER SPRING, AWARDING PUTTING THAT CONTRACT ON THE STREET FOR, WE'RE GOING TO GO FOR IN HAVING THOSE DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR CONTRACTS TEAM, A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS BECAUSE THAT SPEEDS UP, WE KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF FIRMS OUT HERE DOING GREAT WORK IN THE BIKE UNIVERSE. AND SO WE REALLY WANT TO GET THIS PLAN GOING, HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THERE ARE PLACES IN THE CITY WHERE I WOULD NOT ADVISE THAT WE HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE. AND FORTUNATELY, THE STATE D O T TEXDOT IS ALSO DOING A BIKE PLAN AND, AND PLAN FOR THE DISTRICT FOR ALL OF THEIR BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF THE TWO-WAY STREETS, HAVING BEEN A MAIN STREET MANAGER AND REALLY CONNECTING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION, THE KEY FOR DOWNTOWNS IS TO HAVE TWO-WAY STREETS. BUT AGAIN, CONTEXT IS VERY IMPORTANT. WE'VE INVESTED HEAVILY IN THE DESIGN AND THE BOND PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR DOWNTOWN. AND THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES NOT JUST ON COMMERCE OR MARKET TO MAKE ROADWAYS TWO WAY, BUT THE LONG-TERM VISION IS TO SUPPORT RETAIL IN OUR DOWNTOWNS IN ANY DISTRICT WHERE THERE'S GROUND FLOOR RETAIL. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT BECAUSE ONE STREET IS NOT TWO WAY THAT OUR RETAIL IS NOT GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL. BUT THAT'S A LARGER CONTEXT CONVERSATION WE NEED TO HAVE IN TERMS OF WHAT OUR FUTURE MOBILITY LOOKS LIKE IN PRIORITIZING STREETS FOR CERTAIN LAND USES. YEAH. AND, AND SO I, AND THIS IS IT, RIGHT, THAT IF WE'RE GONNA BE RECOMMENDING THAT ROZY BRING THIS TO A SESSION WHEN JA, ERIC JUST MID DECEMBER. YEAH. UM, AND WE'RE UNCERTAIN AS TO WHETHER OR NOT TWO-WAY STREETS OR STREETS IS THE BEST WAY TO GO HERE BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT, YOU KNOW, AND YOU KNOW, WHAT AND WHAT WE'RE HEARING. UM, I HOW DO WE SOLVE THAT? I THINK THAT THE SOLUTION IS TO MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE THIS IS A GREAT PLAN. AND I THINK WHAT WE'VE LEARNED WITH THIS CORRIDOR, IT'S GONNA CONNECT TO THE SANTA ROSA PROJECT, WHICH IS 100% DESIGNED, WHICH IS GOING TO MAKE A CONNECTION FOR CYCLISTS THAT WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE. I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO, WE'VE PUT THE PAUSE ON RES STRIPING LANES THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE. SO I BELIEVE WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PLAN BECAUSE THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNERS, THEY'RE [00:45:01] LOOKING FOR THIS PLAN. THERE ARE MANY RETAILERS, THERE ARE MANY POP-UPS SHOPS. THERE ARE GOING TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE FOOD TRUCKS OR OTHER TYPES OF POP-UP SHOPS WHO ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE IMPROVEMENTS TO CATALYZE AND BE ACTIVE IN THIS AREA. I THINK THIS IS A GEM IN OUR DOWNTOWN AND MAKING THESE IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE AN ATTRACTOR. SO FOR ME, I THINK MOVING FORWARD AND INVESTING IN PRIORITIZING WHAT THE LAND USED TO COMPLIMENT THE BIKE NETWORK IN THE FUTURE AROUND ALL PARTS OF OUR CITY ARE GONNA BE INTEGRAL. I DO NOT SEE OUR TEAM HAS REVIEWED THESE PLANS AND PROVIDED FEEDBACK AND I'M, I'M HAPPY WITH WHERE WE ARE MOVING FORWARD. IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY WHERE WE NEED TO DO SIMILARLY, AND THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE BIKE NETWORK UPDATE, IS TO LOOK AT THE LAND USE, TALK TO THE COMMUNITY AND IDENTIFY WHAT PARTS OF THE CITY MAKES SENSE TO HAVE PROTECTED AND SEPARATED INFRASTRUCTURE. WHERE DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A LARGER CONVERSATION ABOUT THE SPEEDS ALONG OUR ROADWAYS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE USES OF THE ROADWAY? YEAH. AND, AND I GUESS THIS IS MORE OF A ACADEMIC, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATION TO HAVE ABOUT WHAT'S FASHIONABLE AND, AND YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO LAND PLANNING, RIGHT? I MEAN, ERIC, YOU WERE, OR, AND YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK YOU'VE BEEN HERE A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN, THAN ROD OR ROD WHO'S BEEN HERE LONGER. YOU OR YEAH, ROD, I MEAN, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU REMEMBER IN THE LATE, OR ACTUALLY DURING THE ENTIRE NINETIES, RIGHT? THE WORD NEW URBANISM WAS SORT OF WHAT EVERYBODY TALKED ABOUT. AND THAT'S WHAT ALL LAND PLANNERS AND TRANSPORTATION EXPERTS LIKE YOURSELF WERE, YOU KNOW, WERE PEDALING. UM, AND, UH, UH, I CANNOT CONFIRM THAT , BUT NOW, NOW NEW URBANISM MEANS EVERYTHING. AND SOMETIMES IT'S EVEN TALKED ABOUT PEJORATIVELY. I MEAN, THE, THE URBAN INSTITUTE, UM, YOU KNOW, WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROPONENTS, AND NOW I DON'T THINK THEY EVEN UTTER THE WORDS, YOU KNOW, NEW URBANISM. AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT I DON'T WANT IS TO MAKE SURE TO LOOK BACK ON THIS THE WAY WE'RE LOOKING BACK ON THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT AND SAY, WELL, IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, AND, YOU KNOW, NOW WE GOTTA GO BACK AND POUR MONEY INTO IT SO THAT WE CAN BE FASHIONABLE. YOU KNOW, UH, AGAIN, UH, AND I GET THAT, THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GONNA BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S NEW AND HIP WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE LAND PLANNING AND THE, YOU KNOW, THE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPORTATION FOLKS. BUT, UM, I, I JUST SEE THIS PLAN PRESENTED BY RAZZI AND IT OCCURS TO ME THAT THIS IS HEAD AND SHOULDERS MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT WE GOT RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT. ZI, I MEAN, IT MAY NOT CHECK OFF ALL THE BOXES THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF OUR WONKY, UH, YOU KNOW, THEORISTS MIGHT WANT US TO CHECK OFF, BUT I THINK THIS IS BEAUTIFUL AND, AND I'D LOVE TO SEE IT TODAY'S SESSION. THANKS. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PALAI, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, VRAN. THANK YOU. UM, SO I'M GONNA GO BACK TO THE BRICK PAVERS, RAZZIE, YOU KNEW THAT WAS COMING BECAUSE LIKE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE PERRY, UM, IN SOME AREAS, AND I THINK ABOUT HEMISPHERE IN PARTICULAR, IT, IT'S JUST NOT THE EASIEST THING TO, UM, TO NAVIGATE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE IN HIGH HEELS. SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT UP. BUT I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE PLAN AS WE LOOK AT THAT. 20 12, 20 17, THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING IN THE MARKET'S, UH, VISION IN, UM, LA FAMILIA CORTEZ HAS, HAS BEEN A HUGE ADVOCATE FOR THIS. SO I LOOK, I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. UH, I, I THINK VENDOR WISE AND, AND CHANGES WILL PROBABLY BE MADE. BUT AS THE PLAN SITS NOW, I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, HAVING THIS ON OUR, UH, AGENDA IN DECEMBER. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, AFTER, EXCUSE MYSELF, I ARRIVED A FEW MINUTES LATE, SO I DIDN'T SEE ALL OF THE PRESENTATION, BUT I THINK ONE OF THE IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS WE WANNA MAKE DOWNTOWN MORE WALKABLE. UH, BUT WHO'S GONNA BE WALKING? UH, IS IT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE RIGHT AROUND DOWNTOWN, OR ARE WE TRYING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY, LET'S SAY OUTSIDE OF 1604, OR AT LEAST OUTSIDE OF FOUR 10? UH, ARE WE TRYING TO ATTRACT THEM TO BE DOWNTOWN TO WALK? AND, UH, I, I AM, UH, REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF WHAT VIA DOES AS A TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY FOR US, BUT THEY'RE VERY LIMITED. THEY DON'T GET OUT TO OUTSIDE OF 1604 VERY MUCH AT ALL, OR EVEN OUTSIDE OF FOUR 10 IN MANY AREAS. SO I'M WONDERING, UH, IF PEOPLE, WE WANT TO HAVE THEM COME DOWNTOWN, THEY MAY HAVE TO PLACE A, THEY NEED TO HAVE A PLACE TO PARK BECAUSE THEY'LL DRIVE DOWN TO WALK. AND SO I GUESS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS WHAT, WHEN WE REDO ALL THESE STREETS, HOW MUCH PARKING [00:50:01] ARE WE GOING TO BE ADDING OR ELIMINATING, OR HOW ARE WE GONNA ACCOMMODATE MORE PEOPLE COMING DOWNTOWN TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WALKABILITY? UH, IF, IF THEY'RE COMING FROM PRETTY FAR AWAY AND THEY'RE MORE LIKELY GONNA DRIVE THEIR CAR SO THEY CAN COME AND GO AS THEY PLEASE. SO WHAT'S THE PARKING SITUATION RELATED TO THESE COUNCIL? MAN, THAT'S A GOOD COMMENT. UH, WE DO CREATE SOME ON STREET PARKING, BUT MOST OF THEM IS REALLY FOR SHORT-TERM PARKING, LIKE TWO HOURS OR SO. BUT FOR LONG-TERM PARKING, JOHN, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT? YEAH. YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, I KNOW WE'RE BUILDING ON A LOT OF THE PARKING AREAS THAT WE'VE HAD DOWNTOWN. WE'RE SELLING THEM, WE'RE BUILDING NEW BUILDINGS. SO THAT'S WHY I THINK PARKING'S STILL A CRITICAL COMPONENT. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND. UH, COUNCILMAN I I OBVIOUSLY WE'RE ADDING A LITTLE BIT OF PARKING HERE, BUT THAT'S NOT, UM, A LOT OF PARKING. UM, I THINK WHEN THEY'RE, WHEN, UH, PUBLIC WORKS WAS WORKING ON THIS, THEY LOOKED AT THE DESIGN, PARKING HELPS WITH PEDESTRIANS, UM, AND IN THIS PICTURE THAT ACTUALLY HELPS CREATE, CLIMB AN ARMOR FROM THE TRAVEL LANE, UM, TO CYCLISTS, SO IT HELPS PROTECT THEM TOO. SO THERE'S OPPOR, THERE'S KIND OF DUAL PURPOSE, IF YOU WILL. UM, AND THEY'VE BEEN THOUGHTFUL IN THEIR DESIGN AND ADDING THIS PARKING IN HERE. UM, I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING DOWNTOWN, IT'S, IT'S, LOOK FOR ANOTHER WAY TO GET HERE OTHER THAN JUST DRIVING YOUR CAR AND PARKING. THERE'S, YOU KNOW, ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION YOU MENTIONED VIA, UH, RIDE SHARE, BICYCLING, THINGS LIKE THAT. SOMETIMES TAKING PARKING OUT OF THE EQUATION ACTUALLY MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO COME DOWNTOWN, BUT OBVIOUSLY THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA DRIVE DOWNTOWN AND, UM, AND SO WE ARE, UH, WE HAVE ADDED SOME CAPACITY. UH, WHEN THE NEW FROST TOWER WAS BUILT, THEY ADDED A GARAGE AND WE OF COURSE TOOK OVER THAT GARAGE. SO THERE IS SOME ADDED CAPACITY FOR, FOR PARKING DOWNTOWN. UM, BUT I, I THINK WITH THE, THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF, WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGES. UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE WORKING FROM HOME, WORKING REMOTELY, SO THE DEMAND ON PARKING HAS BEEN LESS. UM, SO I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO STEP BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AT, UH, HOW WE FORECAST THE NEED FOR PARKING AND, AND, UM, START LOOKING AT OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE MORE, UH, SHARED PARKING OPPORTUNITIES, A LOT OF SPLIT SHIFTS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO, UM, RIGHT NOW WE'RE KIND OF IN A NEW, UM, UH, A NEW PARKING SITUATION THAN WHAT WE SAW MAYBE TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO. SO I, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION OR, UM, WELL, SOMEWHAT IT DOES, BUT I GUESS MY QUESTION KIND OF REALLY REVOLVED AROUND WHAT COUNCILMAN, UM, BRAVO WAS SAYING ABOUT MAKING STREETS. TWO WAYS ARE BUSINESSES AS, AS WE HEARD EARLIER, OBJECTING TO SOME OF THIS BECAUSE PARKING, IF YOU PUT IN A BIKE LANE, THEN HOW DO PEOPLE PARK TO GO INTO A BUSINESS BECOMES PART OF THE DISCUSSION OR THE CONCERN. SO I JUST THINK THAT THIS HAS TO BE ANOTHER FACTOR THAT WE CONSIDER, MAYBE NOT JUST FOR THIS PROJECT, BUT I THINK THIS IS A CONTRIBUTOR TO WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THAT AREA. SO, SURE. THAT'S WHY I JUST WANTED TO BRING IN YEP. UH, YOU KNOW, FOR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN COURAGE. UH, COUNCILMAN BRAVO. THANK YOU. AND SO I HEARD, UM, THE WORD UNCERTAIN USED AND WHETHER WE'RE UNCERTAIN ABOUT WHAT ONE WAY VERSUS TWO WAY DOES, I DON'T THINK WE ARE UNCERTAIN. I THINK THERE'S DATA OUT THERE THAT SAYS THAT WE ARE CERTAIN THAT TWO-WAY TRAFFIC WOULD BE SAFER AND IS BETTER FOR RETAIL. AND I THINK THAT MULTI-LANE, ONE-WAY TRAFFIC IS, UM, IS NOT IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CITY'S POLICY ON VISION ZERO. AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE THAT UNDER CONSIDERATION. UM, AND I REALIZE IT'S, THIS IS NOT IDEAL TO STOP AND REVISIT SOME OF THESE THINGS AT THIS POINT, BUT IT'S ALSO, IT'S $30 MILLION AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT RIGHT AND THAT WE'RE BUILDING THE BEST DOWNTOWN AND THE MOST VIBRANT DOWNTOWN. UM, AND I'D REALLY ALSO LIKE TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, IS, IS THAT PARKING LANE MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAVING ANY SAFE BIKE LANES? AND YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THIS COMMERCE STREET AND IT'S 68, IT, IT RANGES FROM 68 TO 73 FEET WIDE. AND YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT ANYWHERE FROM 29 TO 33 FEET OF SIDEWALKS. WE'VE GOT THREE VEHICLE LANES AND A VEHICLE PARKING LANE, AND NOTHING FOR CYCLISTS. AND SO THAT TELLS ME THAT CYCLISTS AREN'T IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY AND I DON'T WANT US TO CONTINUE TO BUILD OUR CITY. THAT'S NOT WHERE CYCLISTS AND CYCLING IS NOT VALUED. AND YOU KNOW, I I JUST, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK ABOUT, OR COUPLE, I GUESS SOME OF MY LENSES AND IN MY APPROACH AS A COUNCIL MEMBER IS SUSTAINABILITY. [00:55:02] HOW IS THIS GONNA BE MORE SUSTAINABLE? ARE WE GIVING PEOPLE OPTIONS TO TRAVEL AROUND OUR CITY WITHOUT USING THEIR CAR? RIGHT? AND THEN, UM, A ANOTHER THING IS HOW ARE WE BUILDING A CITY SO THAT OUR CHILDREN AFTER THEY GO OFF TO COLLEGE, WANT TO COME BACK TO, AND SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE NOW DON'T EVEN WANNA BUY A CAR. WHAT KIND OF OPTIONS ARE WE GIVING THEM TO BE ABLE TO GET AROUND OUR CITY? WHAT KIND OF CITY ARE WE BUILDING FOR THEM SO THAT WE CAN RETAIN TALENT AND SO THAT WE CAN ATTRACT TALENT? AND I THINK HAVING BIKE LANES IS A BIG PART OF THAT. HAVING SAFE BIKE LANES. I USED TO RIDE MY BIKE ALL THE TIME WHEN I LIVED IN AUSTIN. I, YOU KNOW, I RODE MY BIKE. I LIKE GROWING UP HERE IN SAN ANTONIO IN THE SUBURBAN AREA. I GREW, I RODE MY BIKE EVERY DAY, THEN I WENT TO COLLEGE IN AUSTIN. I RODE MY BIKE EVERY DAY, THEN I CAME BACK AND NOW THAT I LIVE IN TOWN, I DON'T RIDE MY BIKE AT ALL. MY, MY BIKE IS DUSTY. I RARELY RIDE IT RIGHT, BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL SAFE BIKING HERE. AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME THAT WE START BUILDING BIKE LANES, PROTECTED BIKE LANES NOW. AND I, YOU KNOW, I PERSONALLY, I DON'T, I DON'T NEED A STUDY. I, I WANT TO SEE BIKE LANES EVERYWHERE AND I WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE THAT OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MEN. UH, LET'S SEE. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN BRAVO. DO OKAY. COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. I'M JUST GONNA BE AN ECHO OR TODAY , BUT I, UM, I AM A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED ABOUT THE ONE WAY STREETS AS WELL. I THINK THE ONE WAY STREETS ARE GREAT FOR THE TRANSIT ON THERE, SO YOU CAN HAVE TRANSIT GOING IN ONE DIRECTION ON ONE AND IN THE OTHER DIRECTION ON THE OTHER WITHOUT, UM, CONSUMING AS MUCH, UH, SPACE ON BOTH OF THE STREETS. UM, BUT THERE WILL BE SOMEONE WHO RIDES THEIR BIKE ON THAT STREET, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS ANOTHER STREET, YOU KNOW, A BLOCK AWAY. THERE WILL BE SOMEONE WHO DOES IT AND IT'S NOT ILLEGAL TO DO SO. IN FACT, UH, BIKES ARE ALLOWED FULL USE OF THE LANE. RIGHT. SO THAT LANE THAT, SORRY, THAT ROAD THAT'S GOT THE TWO ONE WAY OR THE THREE ONE WAY LANES, THE TRAFFIC IS GOING TO MOVE FASTER THERE THAN IT WOULD OTHERWISE IF YOU HAD TWO WAY TRAFFIC. IS THAT RIGHT? IS POSSIBLE. THAT'S, UM, THAT'S WHAT SPEC TOLD US. NO . BUT THAT'S ALSO WHAT, UM, WHAT THE DATA, WHAT THE STUDIES SHOW. SO, UM, IF YOU ARE, IF YOU GUYS ARE ADAMANTLY AGAINST MODIFYING THE DESIGN BASED ON THE DIRECTION OF THE COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE AREA AND SOME OF THE INTEREST OF OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, I WOULD KINDLY REQUEST THAT AT LEAST WE INCLUDE SIGNAGE ALONG THE CORRIDOR. IT'S GONNA MAKE IT VERY MESSY. I KNOW IT MIGHT GET COVERED BY THE BEAUTIFUL TREES THAT ARE GONNA GET PLANTED, BUT THEY THAT SAY BIKES, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVE FULL RIGHT TO USE THE FULL LANE ON THEIR FOR, FOR THEIR PROTECTION BECAUSE THERE WILL BE RIDERS ON THOSE ROADS AT SOME POINT. UM, ALSO, I, I GUESS SOMETHING DOES SEEM A LITTLE BIT IN CONFLICT TO ME THAT IF WE WANT THE WIDE SIDEWALKS, IT'S BECAUSE WE ALSO WANT PEOPLE TO ENJOY THAT SPACE TO, UH, PATRONIZE THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE THERE. UM, AND THAT'S MUCH MORE LIKELY TO HAPPEN WHEN THE TRAFFIC IS AT A FRIENDLIER LEVEL THAN IF IT IS WHIZZING BY, UM, ALSO WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE, THE PARKING THAT'S, THAT WILL HELP SLOW IT DOWN SOMEWHAT. UM, BUT I, I THINK WE MIGHT, I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE SAFER, LIKE ALL THESE LITTLE FACTORS WHERE IT, IF YOU'VE GOT TRAFFIC WHIZZING BY AND PEOPLE TRYING TO, TO PARALLEL PARK, UM, I, I JUST THINK THAT CREATES POTENTIAL POINTS OF CONFLICT AS, AS WELL. SO, UM, JUST JUST FOR THE RECORD, I, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE, THE ONE WAY LANES AS WELL. SO, UM, I GUESS IF, IF I MAY ASK MY QUESTION AGAIN , WHAT WOULD IT TAKE IF, UH, THE COUNCIL SAID COULD YOU EVALUATE DOING ONE WAY LANES? WHAT WOULD THAT PROCESS BE ON ONE WAY AND VERSUS TWO WAY? MM-HMM. , WHEN COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ WAS IN THE OFFICE FOR WASTE COMMERCE, WE SPENT MORE THAN A ALMOST A YEAR TO STUDY BECAUSE SHE WAS ALSO REALLY FAVORING TO CHANGE COMMERCE FROM ONE WAY TO TWO WAY. AND WE DID TRAFFIC STUDY, WE GOT A LOT OF COMMUNITY INPUT AND IT WAS NOT RECOMMENDED TO CHANGE COMMERCE BASED COMMERCE, WHICH IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION FROM ONE WAY TO TWO WAY. IF THE PLAN IS TO MAKE MARKET AND OSA ON COMMERCE ONE WAY, WE REALLY HAVE TO LOOK FOR ENTIRE LENGTH OF IT. THEY START FROM 35 AND GOES FARTHER TO WASTE IS NOT REALLY ONE BLOCK, BUT, BUT SANTA, OH NO, SANTA ROSA IS TWO WAYS ANYWAY. THERE ARE TWO WAY COMMERCE IS THE ONLY ONE IS ONE WAY, ONE BLOCK, ONE ONE WAY, TWO WAYS. NOT GOING TO DO ANY GOOD. WE HAVE TO DO ENTIRE LENGTH OF IT, WHICH WE'RE TALKING ABOUT [01:00:01] THREE MILES OR SO EVEN LONGER. OKAY. SO WHAT ABOUT THE SIGNAGE? LIKE HOW, HOW WILL YOU KEEP CYCLISTS WHO END UP USING THAT ROAD? WHAT CAN YOU DO? WE CAN LOOK FOR ANY PROPER SIGNAGE WORKING WITH TAMIKA. WE ARE NOT AGAINST THE ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE. WE HAVE TO SEE WHAT'S THE PROPER SIGNAGE. OKAY. THANK YOU RAZZIE. ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY ELSE? I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE QUEUED UP. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? THANK YOU VERY MUCH RAZZIE. WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. UH, MR. WALSH, ANY, ANY FINAL COMMENTS HERE? COUNCILMAN? YOU SCARED ME? I THOUGHT MY DAD WAS IN HERE WHEN YOU SAID MR. WALL. SO , UH, NO SIR. UH, WE JUST HAVE ONE EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, AND YOU'VE GOT THE LANGUAGE THERE IN FRONT OF YOU. YES SIR. WELL, WITH THAT, UH, UH, THE TIME IS NOW 1515 FOR THOSE OF YOU ON MILITARY TIME HERE IN MILITARY CITY U SS A, UM, ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17TH, 2021, [EXECUTIVE SESSION] THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW RECESS AND RECONVENE AT FOUR IN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 5 5, 1 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE AND DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.087, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE AND LEASE OF, OF OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.072. CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ISSUES OR ADVICE RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION INVOLVING THE CITY AND C OVID 19 PREPAREDNESS UNDER SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 AND LEGAL UPDATE AND ANALYSIS ON C P SS LITIGATION AND INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO THE WINTER STORM PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.071. THAT'S IT. GOOD AFTERNOON. THE TIME IS 5:26 PM ON THE 17TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2021. THE CITY COUNCIL IS RECONVENED FROM ITS EXECUTIVE SESSION. NO OFFICIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN. OUR CITY COUNCIL B SESSION IS NOW ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.