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UM, DO WE HAVE, UH, MINUTES TO APPROVE? NO MINUTES.
UM, WHY DON'T WE, UH, WE DO HAVE SOME SPECIAL GUESTS HERE IN THE ROOM AND A FEW CITIZENS WHO'VE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
SO WHY DON'T WE HAVE OUR PRESENTATION FIRST, AND THEN WE WILL HEAR FROM OUR CITIZENS.
UH, AND THEN WE'LL GET SOME, UH, COUNCIL COMMENTS.
SO ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A BRIEFING BY ON-CALL ENGINEERING CONSULTANT P DAWSON ENGINEERING ON THE COMPLETED TRAFFIC ANALYSIS RELATED TO THE LOWER SEGMENT OF THE 2017 BRO, UH, BOND BROADWAY CORRIDOR PROJECT.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, JEAN, FOR BEING WITH US THIS MORNING TO SHOW US SOME OF THE, UM, WORK THAT Y'ALL DID ON THIS LOWER PORTION OF BROADWAY.
UH, AND THANK YOU FOR BEING AVAILABLE THIS MORNING SINCE THIS MEETING WAS RESCHEDULED FROM ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.
SO, WELL, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
UM, I'M GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS VERY QUICKLY 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU LIKE TO STAY ON, UH, SCHEDULE COUNCILWOMAN.
AND SO I'LL GO KIND OF FAST AND THEN AFTERWARDS, IF YOU GUYS WANNA BACK UP, IT'S ABOUT A 20 MINUTE PRESENTATION, AND THEN ROD IS GOING TO, UH, FOLLOW UP AND, UH, CLOSE OUT WITH SOME CITY, UH, ACTION.
UH, AND SO WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT LOWER BROADWAY, UH, AND, UM, HERE WE GO.
THERE WE, OKAY, SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BROADWAY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOUR SECTIONS OF BROADWAY.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO, UH, REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE THE, UH, SECTION THAT IS REALLY SOUTH ALAMO.
THEN YOU HAVE LA SOYA, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE SECTION WE CALL LOWER BROADWAY, WHICH IS REALLY KIND OF THE MIDDLE SECTION OF BROADWAY.
AND THEN YOU HAVE UPPER BROADWAY, AND IT'S THE LIGHT BLUE, UH, ON YOUR EXHIBIT RIGHT THERE.
THE REASON WE TALK ABOUT BROADWAY IS BECAUSE, UH, FROM THE BEGINNING OF SAN ANTONIO, BROADWAY WAS KIND OF THE NORTH SOUTH CONNECTOR OUT OF DOWNTOWN, AND IN FACT, IT'S HIGHWAY 360 8, WHICH TURNS INTO AUSTIN HIGHWAY.
AND, UH, THIS IS THE WAY YOU USED TO GET TO AUSTIN WAS, UH, OUT THROUGH, UH, BROADWAY.
SO IT'S ALWAYS BEEN AN ARTERIAL.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT TODAY BECAUSE YOU SEE, UH, ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN THERE IS, YOU HAVE THE, UH, HIGHWAY SURROUNDING DOWNTOWN, UH, AND THEY'RE AT CAPACITY.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT CAPACITY.
AND SO IN OUR 2012 TRANSPORTATION STUDY IN 2017 UPDATE, WE EMPHASIZE THAT OUR ARTERIALS INTO DOWNTOWN WOULD TAKE THE LOAD OF THE NEW TRAFFIC, UH, COMING IN AND, AND HANDLING THE NEW GROWTH.
OF COURSE, BROADWAY'S ON THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE PLAN, UH, IT HAS BEEN FOR A LONG TIME.
AND THEN IN THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED 2012 DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION STUDY, UH, BROADWAY AND COMMERCE AND MARKET, BY THE WAY, YOU CAN SEE THEM IN THERE.
THEY'RE KIND OF DASHED, UH, BLUE, UH, PURPLE AND YELLOW STREETS.
THEY WERE DESIGNATED AS SPECIAL, UH, MAIN CORRIDOR.
SO BROADWAY'S ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT, UH, TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
AMAZINGLY, UH, SINCE 2012, WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THE GROWTH IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, AND THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR HAS SEEN GROWTH AT ABOUT 4.2% PER YEAR.
UH, THE DOWNTOWN AREA IS ABOUT 2%, AND SOUTH TOWN'S ABOUT 3%.
UH, GREENFIELD DEVELOPMENT LIKE ALMA RANCH, UH, OUT ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN, UH, YOU'LL SEE ABOUT 3%, UH, TR TRAFFIC GROWTH A YEAR.
TRAFFIC GROWTH IS EXTRAORDINARY IN ANY AREA.
AND THIS IS THE GROWTH THAT WE'RE SEEING, UH, TODAY IN, UH, THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR AREA.
UH, YOU, THE DECORATIVE DOWNTOWN, UH, REALLY CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN, UH, SAN ANTONIO.
AND, UH, SO WHAT YOU HAVE UP HERE ON THE, ON THE SCREEN IN BLUE, AS YOU CAN SEE, BROADWAY, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THREE COLORS THERE, PURPLE, GREEN, AND BROWN.
THE PURPLE IS DEVELOPMENT THAT'S ALREADY OCCURRED IN THE, UH, BROADWAY AREA, THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR AREA THAT'S CONTRIBUTED TO THAT 4.2% INCREASE IN TRAFFIC PER YEAR OVER YEAR.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A GREENFIELD DEVELOPMENT.
NOW IN THIS AREA, THE OF, UH, OF BROADWAY, YOU HAVE, UH, OVER 3 MILLION OR CLOSE TO 3 MILLION, UH, SQUARE FEET OF OFFICE PLANNED, UH, OVER A MILLION OF RETAIL AND RESTAURANT AND, UH, NEARLY 6,000 APARTMENTS, UH, PLANNED IN THIS AREA.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WON'T END UP EXACTLY LIKE THAT, BUT THIS IS THE AREA THAT, AND THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, UH, THAT COULD OCCUR.
AND THIS IS WHAT PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE COME TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND SAID, WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THIS.
SO, UH, THIS IS WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPERS SAY THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD.
SO THE NORTH AREA, THAT'S THE AREA NORTH OF 35.
I'M DEVELOP, I'M DIVIDING THE LOWER BROADWAY.
NOW, BETWEEN NORTH OF 35 AND SOUTH OF 35, YOU
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HAVE OVER A MILLION AND A HALF.AND, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE, THESE ARE REAL PROJECTS.
THIS IS A GRAY STREET DEVELOPMENT, THE ALMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE, THE NEW, UH, PEARL BUILDING, UH, THE 300,000 SQUARE FEET GOING IN.
THESE ARE ALL REAL PROJECTS GOING IN THE APARTMENTS, THE 3000, UH, DWELLING UNITS.
AND THEN ON THE SOUTH, UH, SECTION OF, UH, LOWER BROADWAY, THAT'S SOUTH OF 35 DOWN TO HOUSTON STREET, WE'VE GOT 1.3 MILLION OF PLANNED, UH, 300,000 OF RETAIL AND ANOTHER ALMOST 3000, UH, UNITS.
AND SO THE QUESTION IS, WE HAVE BROADWAY TODAY THAT WE ALL DRIVE IN AND WE THINK, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS TO BROADWAY.
AND THEN WE HAVE ALL OF THIS GROWTH COMING TO THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR THAT'S GONNA GENERATE, THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT'S GONNA GENERATE 128,000 NEW TRIPS IN THE CORRIDOR AROUND BROADWAY.
NOW, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE A TRIP IS NOT NECESSARILY A VEHICLE TRIP, IT'S A TRIP GENERATED, UH, BY A VEHICLE, A BUS, A BICYCLE, A MICRO MOBILITY, UH, A PEDESTRIAN.
AND OF THAT 128,000, UH, 19,000 ARE ALREADY UNDER CONSTRUCTION TODAY.
THIS GROWTH IS COMING AND IT'S ALREADY, UH, UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
SO THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR'S GONNA SEE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.
SO WHERE'S ALL THAT TRAFFIC GONNA GO? WHERE'S THE 128,000 TRIPS GONNA GO? WHAT WE DO IS WHEN WE GO IN AND, FOR INSTANCE, THE PEARL 300,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING, WE'LL GO IN AND SAY, WHO'S GONNA WORK IN THAT BUILDING? AND THEY'LL GIVE US THE ZIP CODES OF THOSE EMPLOYEES, AND WE'LL CREATE A ZIP CODE MAP LIKE YOU SEE HERE, AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHEN THEY COME OUTTA THAT NEW PEARL BUILDING, WHERE ARE THEY GONNA TRY TO HEAD? AND WITH THAT, WE DO A TRIP GENERATION TABLE, AND WE SEE, OKAY, HALF OF 'EM ARE GONNA GO THIS WAY, HALF OF 'EM ARE GONNA GO THAT WAY, THEY'RE GONNA IMPACT THIS INTERSECTION.
HOW BIG DOES THIS INTERSECTION HAVE TO BE? AND THIS IS HOW EVERY INDIVIDUAL TRAFFIC STUDY THAT'S SUBMITTED TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, UH, IS SUBMITTED.
UH, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT 128,000 TRIPS, HOW DO YOU DESIGNATE THOSE TRIPS OVER THE ENTIRE CORRIDOR? WELL, A LOT OF IT IS, UH, YOU'VE GOT TO, UH, MAKE A GUESS.
AND, UH, SO WHAT, UH, WE HAVE DONE IN THE TRAFFIC STUDY THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN HEARING ABOUT, OF THOSE 128,000 TRIPS, WE'VE DESIGNATED ONLY 11% OF THOSE TO THE BROAD TO BROADWAY ITSELF.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS 89% OF THOSE TRIPS WILL HIT THE REST OF THE DOWNTOWN GRID.
AND, UH, SO WHEN THIS GROWTH COMES, UH, THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF GROWTH.
THE BROADWAY, BROADWAY ITSELF WILL GET 11% OF THOSE, BUT 89% OF THOSE ARE GONNA HIT THOSE RED STREETS, THE SURROUNDING STREETS.
AND SO THE WHOLE GRID IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR AREA, IS GONNA SEE A LOT OF GROWTH AND, UH, PUT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON THE SYSTEM.
AND SO THERE WE CANNOT HAVE, FOR INSTANCE, THERE'S BEEN A SUGGESTION, WELL, LET'S JUST CLOSE BROADWAY.
UH, BUT AGAIN, IT JUST PUTS THE PRESSURE ON ALL THE ADJACENT STREETS, BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY GONNA BE A CAPACITY, BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE 89% OF THIS GROWTH.
ALSO, STOCK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT BROADWAY, BROADWAY TODAY HAS ABOUT 18,000 TRIPS.
AND I'M GONNA KEEP EMPHASIZING TRIPS BECAUSE THOSE AREN'T JUST VEHICLE TRIPS BECAUSE WE HAVE A MODAL SPLIT.
A MODAL SPLIT IS WHO ALL IS USING BROADWAY RIGHT NOW? YOU HAVE CARS, YOU HAVE PEDESTRIANS, YOU HAVE TRANSIT, AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE BICYCLES.
AND RIGHT NOW, THE APPROXIMATE MODAL SHIFT ON BROADWAY IS ABOUT 90% AUTO.
SO ABOUT 16,000 TRIPS A DAY BY AUTO 170 BUSES.
YOU AND, UH, THOSE TRIPS, 170 BUSES IS ABOUT NINE RIDERS, UH, PER BUS.
SO THERE'S ABOUT EIGHT AND A HALF PERCENT OF THE TRIPS, 18,000 TRIPS.
AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 60 BIKES A DAY.
THERE AREN'T REALLY A LOT OF BIKES ON BROADWAY RIGHT NOW.
AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT 1.7%, 300 PEDESTRIANS.
AND OF COURSE, IT'S, THERE ARE A LOT MORE PEDESTRIANS DOWN IN THE HOUSTON STREET AREA THAN IT IS, YOU KNOW, UP THERE AT JONES.
AND ALSO THE CHART THAT YOU SEE THERE, THE, UH, TRAFFIC ON BROADWAY IS A LITTLE BIT UNIQUE THAT IT DOESN'T JUST PEAK IN THE MORNINGS AND PEAK IN THE AFTERNOONS.
IT, IT PEAKS IN THE MORNING AND STAYS PRETTY STEADY, UH, THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
AND THAT WILL REALLY, UH, BE REINFORCED AS WE GO TO THE MORE OF THE, UH, ALL DAY, UH, WORK, LIVE PLAY ALONG BROADWAY.
SO WITH THE 18,000 TRIPS A DAY THAT WE HAVE, AND IF WE ASSIGN 11% OF THOSE NEW TRIPS COMING TO THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A TOTAL OF 32,000 TRIPS A DAY IN THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR.
SO AN INCREASE OF 40, 14,000 TRIPS A DAY IN THE CORRIDOR.
SO WE'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT WE'VE ONLY ASSUMED THAT 11% OF ALL THOSE NEW TRIPS ARE GONNA BE ON BROADWAY.
AND WE'RE ALSO ASSUMING IN OUR TRAFFIC STUDY THAT WE HAVE A MODAL SHIFT, THAT WE'RE ONLY GONNA HAVE 75% AUTOS.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE GOING FROM 90 TO, UH, 75%.
AND SO 25% OF THOSE TRIPS ON BROADWAY WILL BE SOME OTHER FORM OF, OF, UH, TRANSPORTATION.
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BE TRANSIT, PEDESTRIAN OR, UH, THE BICYCLE TRIPS.SO YOU CAN SEE WE'VE GONE, UH, FROM THE PREVIOUS SLIDE.
WE'VE GONE FROM 60, UH, TRIPS A DAY ON BICYCLES, UP TO 1600 TRIPS A DAY.
THAT'S EQUIVALENT OF ABOUT, UM, 80, UH, PER HOUR IN EACH DIRECTION FOR 10 HOURS A DAY.
SAME WITH WALKING, A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS.
AND SO HERE'S A GRAPHIC WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UH, MODAL SHIFTS.
SO IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT HARD FOR YOU TO SEE, BUT WHAT YOU HAVE IS A BUNCH OF CARS ON THERE, AND THAT REPRESENTS 90%.
IF WE PROJECTED THESE TRIPS OFF, UH, IN THE SAME SHIFT, YOU THE SAME PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE USING CARS, AND WE SAID 90% OF 'EM, THOSE WOULD BE ALL THE CARS ON THE LEFT.
BUT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IS WE'VE SAID ALL THOSE PEOPLE ARE GONNA COME OUTTA THEIR CARS AND IN, AND WE'RE GONNA PUT THEM IN BUSES, WE'RE GONNA PUT THEM ON THE STREETS AS PEDESTRIANS, AND WE'RE GONNA PUT THEM ON BICYCLES.
SO IT'S A 25% SHIFT ON, ON WHAT HAPPENS TODAY.
NOW, YOU MAY BE SITTING THERE SAYING, WELL, HOW ON EARTH ARE WE GONNA DO THAT? THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT IS GONNA BE A WORK, LIVE PLAY.
PEOPLE ARE GONNA LIVE DOWNTOWN, THEY'RE GONNA WALK TO WORK, THEY'RE GONNA PLAY DOWNTOWN, AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA GET IN THEIR CAR.
AND THAT'S HOW YOU GET A MODAL SHIFT.
AND, UH, SO WITH THAT MODAL SHIFT, YOU GET ABOUT, UH, UH, 24,000 VEHICLES A DAY ON BROADWAY.
UH, YOU DON'T GET, YOU KNOW, 35,000, UH, AND THIS IS HOW THE ASSUMPTIONS YOU MAKE.
AND, AND YOU KNOW, ON THE BICYCLES, THOSE AREN'T, UH, YOU KNOW, HOBBYISTS, BICYCLE HOBBYISTS.
THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE RIDING THEIR BIKE TO WORK AND TAKING A CAR, UH, OFF OF THE STREET.
SO THE EXISTING, WE'LL GO INTO A LITTLE BIT NOW WITH THAT 24,000 TRIPS A DAY.
THAT'S HOW WE GET TO THE 24,000 TRIPS A DAY.
UH, WE'VE GOT THIRD STREET TO 35, THAT'S ONE SECTION, AND IT'S KIND OF CLOUDY ON THAT SECTION OF THE STREET.
AND THEN WE'VE GOT 35 TO JOSEPHINE, UH, WHICH, YOU KNOW, SHOWS, UH, THE TWO DIFFERENT SECTIONS, TWO DIFFERENT RIGHT OF WAYS.
AND, YOU KNOW, BROADWAY IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET OUT OF DOWNTOWN.
YOU EITHER GO TO MCCULLOUGH, UH, OR YOU GO UP TO JOSEPHINE.
SO THAT'S WHY JOSEPHINE STREET IS AN IMPORTANT STREET ON BROADWAY.
SO WE STUDIED FOUR DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
OPTION ONE IS WHAT IS CURRENTLY KNOWN AS DESIGN BUILD, UH, OPTION.
AND, UH, IT'S GOT FOUR LANES, UH, ON STREET PARKING.
AND OF COURSE, MOST FAMOUSLY AT THIS TIME, IT MOVES THE, UM, BICYCLE LANES, AVENUE B, WE STATED OPTION TWO, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL A THREE LANE OPTION.
IT HAS ONE LANE NORTHBOUND, IT COULD HAVE BEEN ONE LANE SOUTHBOUND, ONE LANE NORTHBOUND.
IT HAS THE BIKE LANES AND THE ON STREET PARKING.
THEN WE STATED OPTION THREE, WHICH IS FOUR LANES, AGAIN, OF TRAFFIC AND BIKE LANES, UH, BUT NO ON STREET PARKING AND, UH, NARROW SIDEWALKS.
AND THEN OPTION FOUR, UH, WHICH IS THE THREE LANE AGAIN, BUT IT'S ONE LANE EACH DIRECTION AND A CENTER TURN LANE.
UH, AND, UH, UH, PRETTY, PRETTY DIFFICULT, UH, SECTION TO LOOK AT FROM A TRAFFIC STANDPOINT.
SO, UH, AGAIN, HERE'S OPTION ONE.
AND, UH, IT IS IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT, THAT THE DESIGN OF BROADWAY NOW GOES TO 10 FOOT LANES FOR SLOWING DOWN THE TRAFFIC.
UH, ON THE OUTSIDE LANE, IT'S 11 FOOT 'CAUSE IT'LL HAVE TO CARRY A BUS.
IT HAS THE BUMP OUTS FOR THE TREES, IT GIVES THE FULL WI WIDTH, UH, TO THE SIDEWALKS.
AND IT HAS THE OFF STREET PARKING.
AND AGAIN, IT HAS THE, UH, BICYCLE LANES OVER ON AVENUE B.
THAT'S THE CURRENT DESIGN OPTION TWO, UH, THAT WE RAN.
IT HAS, IT'S THE THREE LANE WITH TWO LANES SOUTHBOUND, ONE LANE NORTHBOUND.
IT DOES PUT THE BICYCLE LANES, UH, ON BROADWAY.
UH, THE CHALLENGES HERE, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BICYCLE LANES AREN'T, UH, UH, ON THE LEFT LANE IS NOT PROTECTED.
AND ON THE RIGHT LANE ONLY HAS A TWO FOOT, UH, CURB THERE AS OF, UH, PROTECTION.
AND THE TREES THEN, AS A RESULT, UH, SIT IN THE SIDEWALK AND DON'T HAVE THEIR, UH, OWN BUMP OUT AREAS.
OPTION THREE IS VERY SIMILAR TO OPTION ONE, 'CAUSE IT HAS FOUR LANES, BUT IT HAS FOUR LANES AND THE BIKE LANES.
SO IT GIVES YOU THE FOUR LANES IN TRAFFIC AND GIVES YOU THE BIKE LANES.
UH, WHAT IS REDUCED HERE IS THE SIDEWALKS AND NO ON STREET PARKING.
AND THEN FINALLY, UH, YOU'LL SEE THIS ONE, I'LL CALL THIS SOME PRETTY CRAZY ONE HERE.
UH, BUT THIS IS ONE LANE EACH DIRECTION WITH A CER, UH, THE CENTER TURN LANE AND THE, UH, BICYCLE TRACK AS WE WOULD CALL IT ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE THERE.
SO ALL OF THE OPTIONS, UH, SERVE ONE OF THE MODES BETTER THAN THE OTHER, OR SACRIFICES THE MODE.
SO THIS IS A VINCENT MODEL FOR OPTION ONE.
AGAIN, THIS IS A FOUR LANE, UH, OPTION.
THIS IS WHERE THE BICYCLE LANE IS OVER ON AVENUE B.
AND THIS, THIS FIRST PART HERE, THIS LOWER PART WOULD REPRESENT DOWNTOWN AND THE CARS TRYING TO GET OUT OF DOWNTOWN.
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YOU CAN SEE WE GET UP TO THIRD STREET.AND, UH, THIS IS A MODEL NOW WITH 24,000 TRIPS A DAY.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE, UM, AS WE RUN THROUGH THE MODEL HERE, THE IMPACT TO THE TRAFFIC, AND WE SHOW YOU THIS IS AS COMPARABLE, UH, TO THE EXISTING OR THE ADDITIONAL MODELS THAT WE'LL SHOW.
YOU CAN SEE THAT ONE OF THE CHALLENGES IN ALL THE MODELS ARE THE BUSES.
YOU KNOW, WHEN A BUS STOPS AT IT BLOCKS THE LANE.
BUT YOU CAN SEE IN THE FOUR LANE, UH, MODEL, THERE'S, UH, UH, GOOD CAPACITY.
IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THE ADJACENT STREETS, UH, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF YOUR DELAY, UH, WILL COME FROM.
A LOT OF THESE MODELS ARE HARD, UH, FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.
SO WHAT WE DO IS WE TAKE IT TO A, UH, UH, MORE OF A THREE D MODEL.
THIS IS COMING THROUGH, YOU SEE EACH OF THE STREETS ARE, ARE MARKED THERE.
THIS IS THE EXISTING, UH, DESIGN BUILD, THE WIDE SIDEWALK, UH, SIDEWALKS, THE ON STREET PARKING.
WE'RE GOING FAST, SO I'M NOT STAYING UP HERE FOR AN HOUR.
UM, BUT, UH, THIS, THIS IS THE MODEL THAT, UH, WOULD REFLECT THAT TRAFFIC.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AS WE START GETTING CLOSER TO JOSEPHINE STREET AND THAT PART OF THE PROJECT, WE GET A, A LOT MORE TRAFFIC.
SO OPTION TWO, THIS IS A THREE, UH, LANES.
AND THIS, THE MAIN THING ON THIS, YOU CAN SEE THIS IS A TRAFFIC COMING OUTTA DOWNTOWN WHERE YOU JUST HAVE ONE LANE COMING OUT OF DOWNTOWN.
ALL THOSE COURSE, UH, CARS STACKED UP REPRESENT THE CARS THAT WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET OUTTA DOWNTOWN.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC STOPPED, UH, STACKED UP ON, UH, BROADWAY.
AND AGAIN, I WANT, THIS IS WITH ONLY 11% OF ALL THOSE TRIPS COMING OVER HERE AND WITH A 25% MODAL SHIFT.
AND, UM, YOU CAN SEE QUITE A BIT OF A, A BACKUP THERE.
AND, UH, IT'S SOME, YOU CAN SEE RIGHT THERE ON THAT INTERSECTION THAT CAR CAN'T GET, IT'S GOT A GREEN, BUT IT CAN'T GET THROUGH THE INTERSECTION BECAUSE ALL THE TRAFFIC IS BACKED UP.
UH, A LOT OF IT CAUSED BY THE, UH, TRANSIT.
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE I IRONIC THINGS IS, IS YOU WANNA PUT PEOPLE ON BUSES, BUT ON A SINGLE LANE, THEN THEY BLOCK ALL THE TRAFFIC AND YOU ACTUALLY LOSE A LOT OF CAPACITY BY HAVING MORE BUSES ON A SINGLE LANE, UH, STREET.
AND THEN I'LL JUST SHOW YOU THIS IN THE, IN THE THREE D MODEL.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE SINGLE LANE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU CAN SEE HOW BROADWAY WOULD START TO PERFORM.
YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE BIKE LANES HERE.
YOU'VE GOT THE BIKE LANES ON THE RIGHT, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU DO HAVE A TWO FOOT PROTECTION CURB ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, ALL YOU DO IS HAVE A STRIPE, UH, NOT AS SAFE AS A, A DEDICATED BIKE LANE IN A DESIGNED, UH, COMPLETE STREET.
IN A LOT OF CASES, WHAT YOU SEE ON THESE SINGLE LANES, THERE'S NO TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD.
AND WHY IS THAT? IS BECAUSE A BUS STOPPED AND BLOCKED ALL THE TRAFFIC.
SO THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO TRAFFIC ON THE STREET.
I'M GONNA LET ONE OF THESE FLY THROUGH THE, UH, FLY THROUGH THE HIGHWAY INTERSECTION, JUST SO YOU CAN SEE, UH, WHAT THE MODEL CAN DO HERE.
AND AGAIN, THEN WE START TO GET TO JOSEPHINE.
JOSEPHINE, THAT AREA'S GONNA BE TWO LANES IN ALL CASES, JUST BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH TRAFFIC TRYING TO GET OUTTA BROADWAY ONTO JOSEPHINE ONTO 2 81.
I'M, I'M JUST GONNA DO THIS ONE REAL QUICK BECAUSE ANYTHING WITH FOUR LANES IS GONNA LOOK THE SAME.
SEE, YOU'RE NOT BLOCKING ANY TRAFFIC AND GETTING OUTTA DOWNTOWN, IT LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME AS OPTION ONE.
BUT THIS ONE IS THE FOUR LANE WITH THE BICYCLE LANES ON EACH SIDE.
UH, YOU CAN SEE IT'S KIND OF A NARROW CURVE SEPARATING THE BICYCLE LANE AT THE BUILDINGS.
THE SIDEWALK IS DOWN TO SEVEN FEET.
THE TREES ARE WITHIN THE SIDEWALK AREA, UH, UH, LIMITING THE, UH, PEDESTRIAN ROOM THERE ALONG THE STREET.
SO THAT'S THE MAIN DIFFERENCE THERE.
AND THEN FINALLY, THIS IS OPTION FOUR.
SO THIS IS ONE LANE EACH DIRECTION WITH A CENTER TURN LANE.
AND AGAIN, THESE CARS ON THE LOWER PART OF THE EXHIBIT OF THE CARS TRYING TO GET OUT OF DOWNTOWN.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE ADJACENT STREETS IN THIS OPTION.
UH, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS OPTION IS, IS WHAT WE WOULD GENERALLY CALL A PARKING LOT.
UH, BUT, UM, YOU CAN JUST SEE THAT THE MODEL, THE ADJACENT STREETS YOU CAN'T GET ON, UH, BECAUSE WHEN IT STOPS, UH, THE LIGHT TURNS GREEN, ALL THE LANES ARE BACKED UP.
SO YOU CAN SEE ALL THE CARS ARE ARE RAINING OUT OF DOWNTOWN.
AND THEN YOU COME UP WITH THIS AND, UH, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ HATES THIS SLIDE.
AND SO I'M NOT GONNA STAY ON IT A LONG TIME.
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DOES IS IT TAKES EACH OPTION AND IT SHOWS YOU THE LEVEL OF SERVICE AND, UH, ON THE OPTIONS, UH, OPTION TWO, WHERE YOU HAVE A SINGLE NORTHBOUND LANE, YOU INCREASE THE COMMUTE ON THAT THREE MILES BY SIX MINUTES.AND, UH, OVER ON OPTION FOUR WHERE YOU HAVE EACH LANE, ONE LANE, NORTH AND SOUTH, UH, YOU INCREASE THE COMMUTE THERE ON, UH, THAT PART BY ALMOST, UH, SEVEN MINUTES.
AND SO HERE'S A SIMPLER SLIDE.
SO YOU HAVE 75% OF YOUR TRAFFIC IN THE AUTOMOBILE.
AND SO FOR OPTION ONE, THOSE ARE, UH, THE FOUR LANE OPTION.
I HAVE AN OPEN CIRCLE ON THE BICYCLE THERE, BUT OF COURSE IT WOULD BE OVER ON AVENUE B, UH, GIVING IT A SAFE PLACE TO BE.
AND THEN 5% OF THE, UH, TRIPS WOULD BE PEDESTRIAN.
AND THEN YOU CAN GO THROUGH EACH OF THE OPTIONS THERE.
UH, YOU INCREASE THE COMMUTE BY SIX MINUTES.
THE BUSES HAVE TO SIT IN THAT COMMUTE.
UH, THEREFORE THEY, UH, THEIR LEVEL OF SERVICE GOES DOWN THE BICYCLE DOESN'T HAVE NORMALLY DESIGNATED SAFE LANES, BUT THE PEDESTRIANS HAVE GOOD SIDE SIDEWALKS.
OPTION THREE IS A FOUR LANE OPTION IS A GOOD OPTION.
UH, TRANSIT GOES DOWN A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A BIG SIDEWALK TO UNLOAD ON.
IT UNLOADS INTO THE BICYCLE LANE.
BICYCLE LANE IS GOOD 'CAUSE IT'S THERE.
AND THEN PEDESTRIANS, THEY LOSE THEIR SIDEWALK.
AND THEN OPTION FOUR, OF COURSE, NOTHING REALLY WORKS GOOD ON, ON OPTION FOUR.
TWO SLIDES LEFT AND THEN I'LL BE DONE.
SO I WANNA EMPHASIZE, YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, I WENT THROUGH THE 128,000 TRIPS AND WE'RE ASSIGNING 11% OF THOSE FROM BROADWAY.
AND I'VE ALSO EXPLAINED THAT TO GET TO THESE TRAFFIC MODELS, UH, THAT, UH, WE'RE ASSUMING WE HAVE A 25% MODAL SHIFT.
IN OTHER WORDS, UH, A 25% MODAL SHIFT, BY THE WAY, IS THE SAME THING AS SAYING THAT 45% OF ALL THE NEW DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE BROADWAY CORRIDOR, EVERYBODY THAT'S GONNA BE IN THE NEW PEARL BUILDING, THE NEW W HOTEL, ALL THE GRAY STREET DEVELOPMENT, ALL THE ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ALL THE NEW C P S, THE HIXSON BUILDING, THAT'S THE SAME AS SAYING 45% OF ALL THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT IS EITHER GOING TO TAKE THE BUS, RIDE A BIKE, OR WALK TO WORK.
THAT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF THAT.
SO THAT'S A VERY, UH, STRONG COMMITMENT TO A MODAL SHIFT THERE.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, A NORMAL, UH, TRAFFIC STUDY WOULD BE OVER HERE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, AND IT WOULD SAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE 85% CARS.
AND, UH, THAT, UH, THAT BROADWAY'S GONNA TAKE, UH, EIGHT, UH, TAKE, UH, 20% OF THAT TRAFFIC, OF ALL THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT'S GONNA GO TO BROADWAY.
AND IF THAT WOULD BE THE NORMAL TRAFFIC ASSUMPTION, WHICH IT WOULD BE, AND WE'D BE OVER AT OVER 35,000 TRIPS A DAY, UH, VEHICLE TRIPS A DAY ON BROADWAY, UH, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN THE OLD SCHOOL WAY OF DOING A TRAFFIC STUDY.
AND WE WOULD BE STANDING HERE TODAY TELLING YOU WE NEED FOUR LANES OF TRAFFIC.
WE NEED CENTER, CENTER TURNING LANES.
WE NEED, RIGHT, UH, FREE RIGHTS.
WE'RE, UH, WE'RE SHOWING YOU THE COMMITMENT.
AND AS FAR OVER THERE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, THAT'S THE ASSUMPTION.
AND ANY OF THOSE ASSUMPTIONS, IF YOU'VE GOT MORE THAN 11% COMING TO BROADWAY, OR YOU HAVE LESS THAN A 25% MODAL SHIFT, YOU JUST MOVE UP THERE AND YOU ONLY HAVE TO GET TO ABOUT 80% OF THE CARS AND YOU GET TO WHERE EVEN THE FOUR LANE DOESN'T WORK.
SO IT'S A, IT'S A, IN OUR OPINION, A VERY STRONG COMMITMENT, UH, TO THE COMPLETE STREET IDEA.
I DON'T ALSO, IT'S IMPORTANT TO SEE THERE WHY I HAVE, UH, 25,000 MARKED.
UH, IF YOU, UH, REVIEW ANY OF THE OTHER, UH, STREET PROGRAMS, UH, COMPLETE STREET MANUALS FROM OTHER CITIES, AUSTIN, SEATTLE, CHICAGO, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, UH, AT ABOUT 25,000, THEY, THEY, THEY JUMP OUT OF THE COMPLETE STREET AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH CALL IT A, A VEHICLE, UH, CORRIDOR.
UH, SO WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE TRAFFIC, THAT'S THE CONCLUSION.
AND NOW WITH ALL THAT TRAFFIC, UH, WE HAVE 78 FOOT OF RIGHT OF WAY.
AND WE NEED 122 FEET TO DO A COMPLETE, UH, UH, STREET.
SO I THINK THAT THE CONCLUSION OF THE DESIGN PROFESSIONALS HAS BEEN THE SAFEST, UH, CONCLUSION, UH, FOR ALL MODES OF TRAFFIC IS YOU CAN'T PUT 'EM ALL IN THE 78 FOOT OF RIGHT OF WAY.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE CITY CAME WITH.
AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ROD, UH, WITH, UH, INCLUDING AVENUE B, UH, FOR STREETS.
DO YOU WANT ME TO GO TO ROD COUNCILMAN? UM, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
UM, I, I THINK LET ME GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM THE CITIZENS TO BE HEARD.
AND I THINK, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT ROD IS GONNA PRESENT IS SORT OF NUANCED.
SO LET ME, LET ME GO TO THE CITIZENS.
UM, LET ME, LET ME THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MINUTE.
'CAUSE I KNOW IT'S GONNA GET TRICKY, YOUR,
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YOUR PRESENTATION.BUT, UM, WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD, ROD, UH, AND, AND, AND THEN I'LL HAVE THE CITIZENS COME UP BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS VERY MUCH A TECHNICAL PIECE.
WELL, AS DIRECTOR, I USED TO HAVE A RULE OF THUMB, NEVER FOLLOW DAVE MCCARRY.
MY NEXT RULE OF THUMB IS NEVER FOLLOW GENE DAWSON WITH ALL HIS TECHNOLOGY.
I FEEL LIKE I'M FALLING BATMAN HERE OR SOMETHING.
SO MY PRESENTATION WANTS TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT MICRO MOBILITY AND, AND JUST OVERALL WHAT, UH, T C I HAS BEEN DOING AND, AND WHAT WE'RE PROPOSED TO DO, UH, IN THE FUTURE.
SO HERE'S JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT TODAY.
LIKE I SAID, MICRO MOBILITY LANES.
UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BROADWAY, TALK ABOUT SOME EVENTS LEADING UP TO TODAY.
UH, THERE'S A ZONING ISSUE THAT I WANT TO TOUCH ON AND, AND, AND SHARE WITH THE GROUP.
UH, I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT, LIKE I SAID, WHERE WE'RE GOING, UH, WITH THE BUDGET PROVIDED FOR US, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, YOU HAD A A C C R, UH, A VISION ZERO C C R FOR US, UH, TO IMPLEMENT.
SO WE WANT TO GET INTO SOME OF THAT AS WELL.
SO FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, WHEN T C I STARTS LOOKING AT A, A PROJECT, UH, YOU KNOW, NO TWO PROJECTS ARE ALIKE.
UH, THERE ARE DIFFERENT ROADWAYS.
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE A LOCAL ROADWAY, YOU CAN HAVE A COLLECTOR, YOU CAN HAVE AN ARTERIAL.
AND THERE'S DIFFERENT, UH, TYPES OF ARTERIALS.
UH, SO NO TWO ROADWAYS ARE ALIKE.
UH, THE, THE USES THE LAND USES AROUND THEM ARE, ARE, ARE DIFFERENT.
YOU HAVE DIFFERING, UH, DIMENSIONS OF ROADWAYS.
SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE DIFFERENT.
SO WHAT WE GO TO, UH, YOU KNOW, BIKE LANES, UH, MICRO MOBILITY LANES ARE AT THE CENTER OF WHAT WE WANT TO DO.
UH, WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT THEM EVERYWHERE THAT WE CAN.
UH, LIKE I SAID, NO TWO PROJECTS ARE ALIKE.
SO WE GO TO SOME RULES OF THUMB.
UH, I KNOW COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, YOU'VE BEEN VERY BIG IN NTO.
AND, AND SO ARE WE, WE, WE TAKE THOSE GUIDELINES AND WE APPLY THAT TO EVERY PROJECT.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE TOO BELIEVE THAT, UH, ANY INJURY OR ANY DEATH CAUSED BY, UH, AN ACCIDENT IS, IS, IS TOO MANY.
SO THAT IS A DOCUMENT THAT WE, WE LOOK AT AS WELL, CONTACT SENSITIVITY DESIGN.
SO OF COURSE, LIKE I SAID, WE GOTTA LOOK AT THE AREA, WHAT, WHAT FITS IN THE AREA, WHAT MAKES SENSE FOR THE AREA, AND WE INCORPORATE THAT AS WELL.
WE HAVE A CITY'S DESIGN, UH, GUIDANCE MANUAL, AND WE HAVE A COMPLETE STREETS POLICY THAT WE ADOPTED IN, IN 2011.
ALL THINGS THAT, THAT WE CONSIDER.
I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, UH, THE LAST TWO BOND PROJECTS, UH, AND WHERE BIKE LANES FALL AS FAR AS THOSE.
SO YOU CAN SEE IN, IN THE 2012 BOND PROJECT, WE HAD 14, UH, PROJECTS WITH BIKE LANES.
UH, A LITTLE OVER EIGHT MILES WERE, WERE PROTECTED OR, OR BUFFERED, UH, BIKE LANES.
AND THEN WE HAD ABOUT SIX MILES, A LITTLE OVER SIX MILES OF UNBUFFERED BIKE LANES FOR A TOTAL OF 14 MILES.
ROLLING FORWARD TO THE 2017, UH, BOND PROJECT.
24 OF THOSE PROJECTS HAVE, UH, BIKE LANES IN THEM.
UH, ABOUT 10 MILES OF THEM ARE, ARE BUFFERED OR PROTECTED.
AND THEN WE HAVE ABOUT EIGHT MILES THAT ARE, THAT ARE UNBUFFERED.
SO WE TAKE THE TWO BOND PROJECTS.
WE'RE LOOKING, YOU KNOW, ABOUT 38 PROJECTS AND ABOUT 32 MILES WORTH OF, UH, OF, UH, BIKE LANES.
AND HERE WE JUST WANTED TO SHOW WITH YOU, UH, SHARE WITH YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF SOME, SOME RECENT PROJECTS THAT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED, UH, WITH SOME EXAMPLES OF BIKE LANES, YOU KNOW, HERE, JUST SOUTH OF WHERE WE'RE AT MAIN AND SOAD, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S AN UNBUFFERED BIKE LANE JUST IMPLEMENTED THAT, THAT WAS PART OF THE 2012, UH, BOND PROJECT.
AND THEN ON RAY ELLISON DRIVE, THIS IS OVER IN, IN D FOUR, THIS IS A, AN EXAMPLE OF A BUFFERED, UH, BIKE LANE.
UH, THIS WAS ALSO PART OF THE 2012, UH, BOND PROJECT OR, AND THEN ON HENER ROAD, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A BUFFERED, UH, BIKE LANE.
THIS WAS A, A RECENT 2017, UH, BOND PROJECT, UH, JUST IMPLEMENTED.
THIS IS ONE I LIKE U T S A BOULEVARD.
HERE'S A SHARED USE PATH, UH, THAT WAS FUNDED OUT OF, UH, SAVINGS FROM BOND PROJECTS AND, UH, SOME TECH STOCK, UH, FUNDING AS WELL OVER IN D EIGHT.
SO THIS IS, IT'S A SIDEWALK AND IT'S ALSO USED FOR A BIKE.
UH, GOOD JOB WITH T C I, TAKING A PICTURE OF SOMEONE ACTUALLY USING A BIKE ON THERE.
JUST NEXT TO THIS YOU HAVE HAUSMAN ROAD, BIG HUGE BOND PROJECT IN D EIGHT, UH, UH, A FEW YEARS AGO.
AND HERE'S ANOTHER SHARED USE PATH, ONCE AGAIN, SIDEWALK.
AND ALSO, UH, USES A BIKE LANE AS WELL.
NOW HERE'S, THIS IS, THIS IS MY FAVORITE.
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IMPLEMENTED.THIS IS IN THE MEDICAL CENTER, UH, THAT WE DID WITH THE CFOS AND, AND TECH STOP FUNDING.
YOU CAN SEE HERE'S A PROTECTED BIKE LANE.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THE SIDEWALK AND THEN THE ROADWAY.
UH, VERY NICE PROJECT THAT, UH, THAT WAS JUST, UH, JUST COMPLETED, UH, UH, A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
UH, SO EXAMPLE OF A GOOD PROTECTED BIKE LANE THERE.
AND HERE AGAIN, DOWN IN DISTRICT FOUR ON, UH, YOU CAN SEE ON 36TH STREET, UH, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A PROTECTED BIKE LANE.
SO, JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU, YOU KNOW, HERE'S, WE, WE, WE ARE DOING BIKE LANES.
BIKE LANES ARE, ARE, ARE IMPORTANT TO US.
THERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF BUFFERED AND UNBUFFERED BIKE LANES, PROTECTED BIKE LANES THAT, THAT YOU CAN SEE.
UH, HERE'S JUST A LIST OF, OF SOME OF THE, UH, THE 2017 BOND PROJECTS THAT INCLUDE BIKE LANES.
UH, YOU HAVE SOME IN D ONE ON FREDERICKSBURG ROAD, PROBAND, UH, AND D FIVE ENRIQUE BARRERA, D SIX, UH, VERDE ROAD, D 10, UM, YOU KNOW, FREDERICKSBURG ROAD, THAT'S A D ONE ON THE BORDER OF D SEVEN.
SO BIKE LANES, UH, ARE, ARE IN OUR BOND PROJECTS ARE SOMETHING THAT WE BELIEVE IN.
AND, UH, WE WILL SEE MORE OF THEM IN THE FUTURE.
AND HERE, UH, THIS IS NOT, THIS IS NOT A FUNDED PROJECT.
HERE'S A THOUGHT THAT, UH, T C I IS EXPLORING RIGHT NOW.
UH, MARKET STREET, YOU KNOW, MARKET STREET RUNS EAST TO WEST IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
YOU HAVE U T SS A ON, ON THE WEST SIDE, YOU HAVE THE CONVENTION CENTER ON, ON THE EAST SIDE.
UH, HERE IS SOMETHING WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE PUTTING SOME PLANTERS, UH, TAKING OUT ONE OF THOSE LANES OF TRAFFIC.
'CAUSE, 'CAUSE MARKET'S A ONE WAY STREET.
TAKE OUT ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC, PUT SOME PLANTERS AND PUT TWO WAY BIKE LANES ON THAT.
VERY LITTLE, VERY LITTLE COST.
AND, AND IF IT DOESN'T WORK OUT, IT'S EASY TO, TO UNDO.
SO, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A CONCEPT.
WE HAVEN'T, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET.
UH, YOU KNOW, NEXT STEP WOULD BE TO GET WITH COUNCILMAN TREVINOS, DISTRICT ONE.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH, UH, AND ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY IS, YOU KNOW, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE CAN DO, THAT WE CAN ALL GET AROUND.
AND, UH, LET, LET, LET'S SEE HOW IT WORKS THERE.
THERE'S A LOT OF SCOOTER TRAFFIC ON THIS STREET, AND, UH, WE THINK IT'S WORTH, UH, IT'S WORTH SOME TIME SPENT SEEING IF WE CAN DO THIS.
AND ON THIS NEXT ONE IS, IS, YOU KNOW, NATA, WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE TO BE ONE OF, UH, ONE OF THE CITIES THAT WE'RE AWARDED THE BLOOMBERG, UH, CHALLENGE CLIMATE CHALLENGE AWARD.
UH, AND, AND WITH THAT, UH, WE'RE LUCKY THAT WE GET TO ENGAGE NATO.
PEOPLE FROM NATO ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN IN TOWN WORKING WITH US.
AND, UH, THEY'RE LOOKING AT FUNDING THREE CORRIDORS.
UH, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, HEAVILY FOCUSED ON TRANSIT, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T HAVE TRANSIT WITHOUT PEDESTRIANS, SO MAYBE SIDEWALKS, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY EVEN SOME, SOME MICRO MOBILITY INCLUDED IN SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.
UH, WE'RE STARTING OUT WITH ZAMO.
UH, THERE'S ABOUT $7 MILLION FOR THIS PROJECT.
3.6 OF THAT'S FROM, UH, FROM FEDERAL FUNDS.
AND THEN WE HAVE SOME SAVINGS FROM THE 2012 BOND PROGRAM.
AND THEN B IS CONTRIBUTING 500,000 TO THIS.
SO WE'VE JUST STARTED SOME OF THESE, SOME OF THESE MEETINGS, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UH, VERY EXCITING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, EXPERTS, UH, FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY ENGAGING WITH US AND GIVING US THEIR ADVICE.
AND, YOU KNOW, ALSO COMMUNITY FEEDBACK'S IMPORTANT.
SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO, UH, ALONG THESE CORRIDORS.
NOW, I WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, KINDA SWING BACK TO BROADWAY FOR A LITTLE BIT.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS, AS WE WERE, UH, DOING SOME CANVASSING, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, ON COUNCIL AGENDA ON THE 14TH, UH, WE'RE GONNA ACCEPT SOME MONEY, ABOUT $6 MILLION, UH, TO DO THE BIKE LANES ON, UH, ON AVENUE B.
SO, AS PART OF OUR, OUR NORMAL PROCESS, WE, WE CANVAS AND, UH, WE, WE, WE MAKE SURE THAT, UH, EVERYTHING IS CONSISTENT WITH OUR DIFFERENT PLANS AND OUR ZONINGS AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
AND, AND WE, WHAT WE DID IS WE DISCOVERED THAT, UH, THE RIVER NORTH ZONING, AND I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY ON THAT BEFORE I TELL YOU WHAT'S IN THERE.
UH, RIVER NORTH ZONING IS, IS PRETTY MUCH OUR ONLY FORM-BASED ZONING THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY.
UH, YOU KNOW, BACK IN 2009, WE HAD THE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT TYPE OF ZONING WOULD WORK IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE EMPHASIZE FORM OVERUSE, WHICH IS COMPLETELY TURNING ZONING ON ITS HEAD.
'CAUSE USUALLY WHEN WE THINK ABOUT ZONING, WE'RE FOCUSED ALL ON USE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND WE HAVE INGRAINED IN OUR HEAD, WE DON'T PUT AN INDUSTRIAL USE RIGHT NEXT TO OUR RESIDENTIAL USE.
'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT COMPATIBLE.
AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE DISCUSSIONS YOU SEE EVERY OTHER THURSDAY ARE ABOUT THAT.
THIS USE DOESN'T GO RIGHT NEXT TO THIS USE.
WELL, FORM-BASED SAYS, FORGET ABOUT USE, IT'S ABOUT FORM.
YOU KNOW, WE CAN PUT ANYTHING TOGETHER SO LONG AS WE CONTROL THE FORM AND THE SCALE AND, AND JUST, AND HOW IT WORKS TOGETHER.
SO WE DID THAT IN 2010, AND WE PUT IT IN THE RIVER OF NORTH AREA.
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SO FAR AS TO, TO SPELL OUT WHAT THE, THE CROSS SECTIONS OF THE STREETS ARE.AND, AND WHAT WE FOUND, UH, AS WE WERE DOING OUR CANVASSING, UH, ON BROADWAY, IT DOES CALL FOR BIKE LANES.
AND IT DID NOT CALL FOR BIKE LANES ON AVENUE B.
SO THAT WAS A ZONING CASE THAT PUT THAT ON THE GROUND IN 2010.
THE THING IS, THOUGH, AFTER THAT, WE FOLLOWED UP WITH THE, THE CITY, UH, BIKE PLANS IN 2011.
SO JUST RIGHT AFTER THAT WAS ZONED, UH, WE WENT TOGETHER, UH, WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY ON ANOTHER PLAN THAT COUNCIL ADOPTED THAT CALL FOR THE REMOVAL OF SOME OF THOSE, THOSE BIKE LANES.
AND THEN FURTHER IN 2012, THE DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION STUDY, IT'S ANOTHER STUDY, ONCE AGAIN, BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER.
UH, T C I OR BACK THEN IT WAS PROBABLY PUBLIC WORKS WHERE WE STUDIED, YOU KNOW, THIS.
AND, UH, ONCE AGAIN CALLED FOR REMOVING THE BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY.
SO THERE'S NO BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY WITHIN THESE LAST PLANS.
UH, THE ISSUE IS WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T GO BACK AND REZONE, UH, LIKE, WE, LIKE WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.
YOU SHOULD HAVE A PLAN THEN FOLLOWING THAT, YOU SHOULD, YOU SHOULD REZONE.
AND OF COURSE, IN 2016, UH, WHERE WAS, YOU KNOW, BUILD YOUR OWN BROADWAY.
UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE PROJECT THAT, UH, MR. DAWSON JUST TALKED ABOUT FOR, YOU KNOW, GOING ON FOUR YEARS.
UH, LONG DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT.
AND, AND, AND I WAS ASKED THE QUESTION, WELL, IF, IF THE ZONING DIDN'T CALL FOR, FOR BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY OR CALL FOR BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY, WHY WOULD YOU GO FORWARD WITH THE PLAN? WELL, IT, THAT'S HOW ALL PROJECTS START.
YOU KNOW, EVERY, EVERY PROJECT YOU DON'T, MOST PEOPLE DON'T THINK, OH, WHAT'S THAT PROPERTY ZONE? YOU HAVE A VISION FOR A CERTAIN AREA OF TOWN.
YOU GO, YOU ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY.
IF THE ZONING'S NOT THERE, YOU GO THROUGH A PROCESS AND YOU CHANGE THE ZONING JUST LIKE WE DO EVERY OTHER WEEK, EVERY OTHER WEEK.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE 15 TO 20 ZONING CASES WHERE THE ZONING DOESN'T FIT THE PROJECT THAT THEY WANT TO DO.
YOU KNOW, 90% OF THOSE GET ADOPTED BY COUNCIL.
UH, 'CAUSE WE LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY.
THE, THE DEVELOPERS WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY.
THE COMMUNITY SAID, YEP, THIS, THIS WORKS FOR US.
SO, SO IT MADE EVERY SENSE IN THE WORLD TO GO, GO THROUGH THE PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH IN 2016.
AND WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY, WE JUST HAVE, WHAT WE HAVE IS THE ZONING IS INCONSISTENT WITH WHERE WE'RE AT.
SO IN THIS NEXT SLIDE, WE JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WILL DO, UH, GOING FORWARD.
YOU KNOW, GIVEN WE HAVE ZONING THAT, YOU KNOW, HAS BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY, AND THAT'S NOT WHAT THE PLAN CALLS FOR.
UH, SO WE WILL INITIATE A ZONING CASE, PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH COUNCILMAN TREVINO IN, IN D ONE, INITIATE THE ZONING CASE.
UH, WE'D PROBABLY BE AT COUNCIL BY FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH TIMEFRAME, UH, TO CHANGE THE ZONING.
UH, AND IT'S NOT A MAJOR, IT'S NOT A MAJOR CHANGE TO THE ZONING.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR, OUR EXHIBITS TO THE ZONING THAT HAD CROSS SECTIONS ON THERE.
THOSE, THOSE NEED TO BE CORRECTED.
UH, SO WE PROPOSE BRINGING THOSE FORWARD, UH, YOU KNOW, AT, AT THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.
AND HERE'S KIND OF WHAT MR. DUSTIN JUST SPOKE TO YOU, JUST KINDA SHOWS YOU THE, THE BROADWAY PROJECT.
UH, YOU HAVE YOUR, YOUR BIKE LANE STARTING ON ALAMO SWINGING TO AVENUE B UNTIL THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM TO BRING 'EM ONTO BROADWAY.
SO GOING FORWARD, UH, THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT TO DO AS, UH, AS FAR AS BIKE LANES.
UH, WE HEARD FROM COUNCIL LOUD AND CLEAR, UH, THIS, THIS LAST GO ROUND OF BUDGET WHERE WE WANTED TO SEE MORE OF THAT.
AND, AND, AND COUNCIL PUT, UH, THREE POSITIONS, UH, IN THE T C I BUDGET TO FOCUS ON THIS.
SO THEY'RE GONNA BE WORKING REAL CLOSE WITH THEIR PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY OFFICER, UH, TO LOOK, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE ELSE CAN WE PUT BIKE LANES? THAT'S GONNA BE, UH, IN THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS.
IT'S GONNA BE THEIR DUTY, THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO FIND AREAS WHERE WE CAN PLACE BIKE LANES, YOU KNOW, SAFELY.
UM, T C I, UM, IS ALSO GONNA BE WORKING, UH, WITH, WITH, WITH A GROUP OF FOLKS.
UH, WE, WE'VE ALREADY HAD A MEETING WITH, UH, WITH A I A WITH PEP, WITH KECK, UH, WITH CENTRO, WITH, UH, WITH, UH, H PARK.
UH, ONCE AGAIN, WE, WE WANNA REDO OUR BIKE, OUR BIKE PLAN, WE WANNA UPDATE IT.
UH, WE WANT IT TO BE MORE THAN JUST A DOCUMENT ON OUR SHELF.
WE WANT TO GET IN THERE AND EXAMINE STREETS AND EXAMINE DIMENSIONS, YOU KNOW, WHERE DOES IT MAKE SENSE? WHERE CAN BIKE LANES FIT? AND, AND, AND, AND WHERE SHOULD WE PUT THEM? SO WE NEED TO UPDATE THOSE.
AND, AND ONCE AGAIN, WE DON'T WANNA DO THIS IN A VACUUM.
WE WANNA DO THIS ENGAGING, ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY, AND ENGAGING THIS GROUP OF, OF EXPERTS AS WELL.
SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE FUTURE.
UH, ANOTHER THING, YOU KNOW, VERY IMPORTANT TO US, IF I CAN GET THIS THING BACK, I'M NOT BATMAN.
SO, UH, IS COUNCILMAN YOUR C C R ON, ON, UH, COMPLETE STREETS AND VISION ZERO.
UH, I THINK ART REINHARDT GAVE YOU A PRESENTATION, UH, A COUPLE MEETINGS BACK.
UH, WE ARE ACTIVELY, UH, WORKING ON THIS RIGHT NOW, UH, WORKING ON TRAINING, UH,
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YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE WE, WE BELIEVE THAT, UH, YOUR C C R CALL FOR THAT.AND THAT'S, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
NOT JUST FOR US, BUT FOR THE, THE FOLKS THAT WE WORK WITH.
UH, WE'RE RE-LOOKING AT OUR POLICIES, ALL OF OUR POLICIES, UH, TO SEE WHERE WE CAN IN, UH, INCORPORATE THESE THINGS.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR DESIGN MANUAL, OF COURSE.
UH, WE'RE RE-LOOKING AT OUR COMPLETE STREETS ORDINANCE.
AND, AND OF COURSE, UH, WE HAVE THE U D C, UH, AMENDMENTS, UH, COMING UP, UH, HERE IN 2020.
SO WE'RE LOOKING TO POSSIBLY MAKE SOME CHANGES THERE, UH, TO INCORPORATE THE C C R.
UH, ART WILL BE BACK, UH, PERIODICALLY TO UPDATE, UH, THIS COMMITTEE ON OUR PROGRESS.
UH, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE EMBRACE AND, UH, WE'RE GOING FORWARD WITH THAT.
SO WITH THAT, I THINK, UH, MR. DAWSON AND I ARE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
UH, THANK YOU, UH, VERY MUCH ROD.
AND SO LET ME JUST MOVE ON TO OUR, UH, CITIZENS THAT WISH TO COMMENT.
GO AHEAD, LYDIA, COME, COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE PLEASE.
UM, OH, WELL ONLY 'CAUSE IT, IT'S, UH, ALL OF OUR MEETINGS ARE NOW, UH, PUBLIC AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALLOWING CITIZENS TO BE HEARD.
UM, I WAS, I HAD SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT LONG SPEECH, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN.
THERE'S BEEN A BICYCLE MASTER PLAN SINCE ABOUT 2004, 2005.
EVERY SINGLE TIME IT GOES ON THE SHELF, EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT SOMETHING, THERE'S QUESTIONS ABOUT WHERE BICYCLE FACILITIES ARE OR WHERE THEY SHOULD BE.
THE FIRST THING THAT IS SAID IS, OH, THAT'S AN OLD BICYCLE FACILITY MASTER PLAN.
THEN TWO OR THREE YEARS GO BY AND THERE'S A NEW BICYCLE MASTER PLAN, AND THEN IT GETS PUT ON THE SHELF.
I LITERALLY WENT TO T C I ALONG WITH BRIAN AND SOME OTHER FOLKS, AND IT LITERALLY HAD DUST ON IT.
SO THE DEAL ABOUT COMING UP WITH A NEW MASTER PLAN, NO, THERE ARE GOOD MASTER PLANS THAT COST LOTS OF MONEY THAT ARE ALREADY OUT THERE.
THE BOND LANGUAGE IDENTIFIED THAT WE CITIZENS VOTED ON, AND WE SPICE PEOPLE WHO RIDE BICYCLES, NOT JUST THE RECREATIONAL CYCLISTS, BUT THE UTILITY RIDERS.
WE WERE AT THOSE BOND ELECTION MEETINGS.
WE WERE AT THOSE BOND MEETINGS.
WE FILLED UP THE LIBRARY AND WE SAID, WE WANT SAFE FACILITIES FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN TO RIDE TO SCHOOL.
AND THE BOND ELECTION, I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT WHAT IT'S ZONED AS IF IT WASN'T ZONED FOR BICYCLE FACILITIES, IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED IN THE BOND ELECTION.
IN MY OPINION, THE BOND ELECTION SAID BICYCLE FACILITIES ALONG BROADWAY.
IT DID NOT SAY BICYCLE FACILITIES ALONG BROADWAY, UP TO A CERTAIN POINT.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA RELEGATE ALL THE CYCLISTS TO AVENUE A, AVENUE B, AND ALAMO STREET, IT SAID, BICYCLE FACILITIES ALONG BROADWAY.
UH, AND WHENEVER I GET OVER MY TIME, JUST LET ME KNOW.
WE VOTED FOR THAT AND MY MONEY.
I WANNA SPEND MY MONEY ON BROADWAY, BUT I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO RIDE OVER TO AVENUE B OR ALAMO STREET AND THEN WALK MY BICYCLE ALONG THE SIDEWALK TO COME TO A COFFEE SHOP OR GO TO A BICYCLE SHOP ON BROADWAY.
COMPLETE STREET SAYS, PLAN FOR ALL USERS.
I THINK IT'S JUST A POLICY VISION.
ZERO SAYS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE THE FACILITY THE BY THE ROADWAY SAFELY.
EVERYONE, IF I CHOOSE TO RIDE A BICYCLE, I SHOULD BE SAFE.
WE JUST HAD ANOTHER CYCLIST DIE THE OTHER DAY.
WE JUST HAD ANOTHER PEDESTRIAN DIE THE OTHER DAY.
WHAT HAPPENED TO VISION ZERO? IT'S A POLICY AND NOT AN ORDINANCE.
IT'S A WAY TO SAY, OH, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE IT IN OUR MIND, BUT WE HAVEN'T GOT ANY TEETH YET.
BROADWAY IS AN IDENTIFYING ROADWAY.
WE CAN MAKE BROADWAY BEAUTIFUL FOR ALL ROADWAY USERS.
WAY BACK WHEN AUSTIN HIGHWAY WAS REDEVELOPED, I WAS AROUND TOO.
WE WERE TOLD IT'S GONNA BE GREAT.
PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO RIDE BICYCLES ON AUSTIN HIGHWAY.
SO WE AS BI PEOPLE WHO RIDE BICYCLES, WE ARE NOT CONFIDENT THAT BROADWAY IS GOING TO BE SAFE FOR US.
AND PLEASE, THE BOND ELECTION SAID BICYCLE FACILITIES ON THE ON
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BROADWAY.UH, DANIEL DAY, I, UH, YIELD MY TIME TO, UM, BRIAN MARK.
OKAY, BRIAN, NOW LEMME SEE WHO'S NEXT.
I AM A AVID BIKE RIDER AND I SEE A LOT OF TRAFFIC ALREADY ON MY CORNER.
I LIVE ON THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND AUSTIN STREET.
I SEE ALL THE, UH, TRAFFIC COMING DOWN FROM FORT SAM HOUSTON.
THERE'S NOWHERE FOR THE TRAFFIC TO GO.
SO I CAN'T IMAGINE ADDING 6,000 NEW JOBS.
I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT HILL ASSOCIATION.
AND GOVERNMENT HILL ASSOCIATION SAYS THERE ARE 6,200 NEW JOBS COMING TO THE AREA BY 2023.
UM, THAT'S JUST TOO MANY CARS.
UM, I HEAR NOBODY ADDRESSING THE 6,000 PARKING SPOTS THAT ARE BEING PUT IN BY GRAYSON STREET, BY PETER FRENCH.
AND SO EVERYBODY SAYS THAT WE NEED PARKING, BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE PARKING.
UM, WHEN SS A I S D FINALLY MOVES OUT OF THE 70 ACRES THAT ARE, UM, CURRENTLY PART OF SS A I S D, THEY BOUGHT, IT WAS BOUGHT BY GRAY STREET PARTNERS OVER TWO YEARS AGO.
I HEAR NOBODY MENTIONING THE 6,000 PARKING SPOTS.
THEY'RE GONNA HAVE THREE PARKING GARAGES WITH 2000 PARKING SPACES EACH.
AND NO ONE EVEN MENTIONS THAT.
SO I'M JUST HERE AS A MEMBER AND BECAUSE I LIVE THERE AND I RIDE MY BICYCLE DAILY, I WANT SAFE STREETS FOR MYSELF, FOR MY FELLOW BICYCLISTS, FOR THE PEDESTRIANS, FOR THE SCOOTERS, FOR ANYBODY ELSE.
AND, UM, IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME.
I INVITE ANYBODY TO MY PROPERTY AT 5 35 EAST GRAYSON.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE TRAFFIC THAT THERE IS NOW, NOT LATER.
AND I DON'T WANT SOMETHING TO HAPPEN AFTER THE FACT.
SO WE NEED EVERYBODY ON BOARD TO HELP HOW WE'RE GOING TO DIRECT THIS TRAFFIC, THE PEOPLE, THE CARS, AND THE NEW JOBS THAT ARE COMING.
I HAVE A POWERPOINT WITH THE, THAT WAS PROVIDED BY, UH, FORT SAM HOUSTON.
AND, UM, THE TOTAL NUMBER BY 2023 OF NEW JOBS, UM, WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE, THE THREE BANKS, HU UH, JEFFERSON CREDIT UNION, UM, SANTON, UM, CREDIT HUMAN AND ONE OTHER BRANCH, OR 6,000 NEW JOBS.
SO LET'S LOOK TO THE FUTURE AND SEE HOW WE CAN ACCOMMODATE EV EACH AND EVERY PERSON, PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, WORK THEIR BICYCLE THERE AND WALK THERE.
I LIVE CLOSE TO THE HAY STREET BRIDGE IN DISTRICT TWO.
I LIVE THERE SO I CAN RIDE MY BICYCLE WHEN I WANT.
UM, AUSTIN'S GONE THROUGH A LOT OF GROWTH AND A LOT OF TECH GROWTH.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE POINT OF THIS PLAN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS TO KEEP SAN ANTONIO LAME, BUT NOT PUTTING BICYCLES ON BROADWAY WILL KEEP SAN ANTONIO LAME.
WE'VE BEEN LAME A LONG TIME AND YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S THE POINT, WE'LL, WE'LL KEEP IT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, YEARS AGO, A SENATOR, REPUBLICAN SENATOR BOB DOLE HELPED SPEARHEAD THE AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT.
AND WHEN WE GO FOR A WALK, I NEED THE CUT OUT CURBS, I NEED ALL THE STUFF.
I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE, THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN TEARS ABOUT GETTING THAT IMPLEMENTED, BUT I'M SURE IT WAS.
WE MIGHT NEED AN AMERICAN FINANCIAL DISABILITY ACT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAN'T AFFORD THE 20 AND 30 AND 50 AND $250,000 AUTOMOBILES.
AND IT'S LAME WHEN YOU SAY THIS GUY DRIVING DOWN THE STREET IN HIS INFINITY, TOTAL CLIMATE CONTROL, TOTAL SOUND SYSTEM, ABLE TO TALK ON THE PHONE PRO, HOPEFULLY NOT DOING ANYTHING ELSE.
HE NEEDS TO A STRAIGHT LINE DOWN BROADWAY WHILE EVERY PERSON STANDING AT A BUS STOP IN THE RAIN OR THE SLEET OR THE COLD OR ON THEIR BICYCLE.
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THEY NEED A DETOUR FOR A COUPLE.THAT'S HOW YOU KEEP SAN ANTONIO LAME.
NEW YORK CITY IS CLOSING DOWN STREETS TO AUTOMOBILES TO GET THE BICYCLES AND THE MICRO MOBILITY PEOPLE ON THE STREETS.
YOUR PROJECTIONS, I THINK ARE PROBABLY ACCURATE BASED ON TODAY'S INFORMATION.
WHAT, LOOK, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BUILD IT, PEOPLE WILL COME.
AND THE OTHER THING, YOU KNOW, IN AND OUTTA DOWNTOWN, NOT ONE WORD WAS MENTIONED ABOUT 2 81, I WAS AROUND SAN ANTONIO WHEN WE PUT THAT IN.
YOU KNOW, LET'S FACE IT, THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY AND HOWEVER MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT THEY SPEND ON ADVERTISING MAKING US WANT THESE CARS TO KEEP US SAFE AND SECURE AND COMFORTABLE AND THE, YOU KNOW, SERVICES THAT GO ALONG WITH IT, THE CONSTRUCTION, THAT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE WITH US.
YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE A TRIPLE DECK 2 81 BY THE TIME IT'S ALL OVER BECAUSE THE CAR PEOPLE WILL DEMAND IT.
BUT MEANWHILE, WE'RE ASKING FOR ONE STREET TO GO DOWNTOWN SAFELY AND MAYBE SAN ANTONIO WILL BECOME LESS LAME.
AND, UM, BRIAN, YOU DIDN'T SIGN UP, BUT, UH, I'LL GO AHEAD AND LET YOU SPEAK.
I KNOW YOU CAME THE LAST TIME ALSO AND, UM, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE THE MEETING OR YOU WERE PREPARED TO SPEAK.
SO I'LL LET YOU GO AHEAD AND TAKE, UH, THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
I KNOW EVERYBODY CARES ABOUT BROADWAY AND OUR STREETS BEING SAFER AND VISION ZERO.
UH, FOR THE RECORD, I DON'T THINK SAN ANTONIO IS LAME.
I'M, I'M AN AUSTIN TRANSPLANT, BUT I LOVE THIS CITY.
UM, I, THERE WAS SO MANY GREAT COMMENTS ALREADY MADE, SO I DON'T FEEL LIKE I NEED TO, UM, GO OVER THOSE.
BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS, UH, WE SHOULD HONOR THE BOND LANGUAGE OF 2017 AND, UH, NOT PRIORITIZE ON STREET PARKING.
I REALLY THINK OPTION THREE WAS FANTASTIC.
IT LOOKED LIKE IT KIND OF, NOT EVERYBODY'S GONNA GET WHAT THEY WANT, BUT WE'RE GONNA GET, EVERYBODY CAN MAKE CONCESSIONS, RIGHT? UH, SO I THINK OPTION THREE IS DEFINITELY THE WAY TO GO.
I'D LIKE TO SEE MORE STUDIES ON OPTION THREE.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE MORE STUDIES DONE ABOUT HOW MANY BIKES ARE ACTUALLY USING IT WHEN WE PEEL TO BUILD A BIKE LANE VERSUS WHAT IS TODAY.
'CAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO RIDE BROADWAY 'CAUSE IT'S A DEATH TRAP.
UM, LOOKING AT THIS NEXT PROPOSAL ON, WHERE WAS IT? EXCUSE ME, UM, FOR THE MIDTOWN, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT USING, UM, BUFFERS AND PLANTERS.
I THINK THAT'S A SMART, UH, DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY FOR TESTING OUT PROTECTED BIKE LANES.
UM, MARKET CERTAINLY COULD USE IT AND SO COULD COMMERCE.
UM, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO WORK WITH T C I AND FOR US TO DEVELOP THIS, THIS, THESE STRATEGIES TOGETHER BECAUSE WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER.
WE, THIS IS NOT A HEY, THE CAR PEOPLE VERSUS THE BIKE PEOPLE VERSUS THE SCOOTER PEOPLE, VERSUS PEDESTRIANS.
THIS IS HOW CAN WE ALL MAKE THOSE, THOSE THINGS WORK TOGETHER? AND I DON'T WANT THE, UH, BY COMMUNITY TO FEEL LIKE WE'RE ADVERSARIES TO ALL THOSE THINGS, WHICH WE'RE NOT BECAUSE WE'RE ALL ALSO PEDESTRIANS, WE'RE ALL ALSO CAR DRIVERS.
WE'RE ALL ALSO PARENTS AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE THINGS, RIGHT? SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, T C I NEEDS TO NOT LOOK AT, UM, CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS AND BUS RIDERS AND ALL THOSE THINGS AS, UH, OBSTACLES FOR THE CARS TO GO AROUND.
THEY NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE AS PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST ALSO TRYING TO USE THE ROAD.
UM, AND, UH, ANYWAY, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY ALL THE TIME I HAVE, BUT I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR TIME.
EVERYBODY HERE, AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE, THE, THE WORK THAT'S GOING INTO MAKING, UH, BROADWAY A MORE FAIR AND EQUITABLE STREET.
AND ALSO THE OTHER MAJOR CORRIDORS LIKE ROOSEVELT, UM, AUSTIN HIGHWAY, UH, VANCE JACKSON, UH, SAN PEDRO.
WE NEED THOSE THINGS EVERYWHERE IN THE CITY.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND START THE CONVERSATION.
I, UM, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, JEAN, FOR COMING AND GIVING THE PRESENTATION TO REALLY SHOW THE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE COMMITTEE'S BEEN ASKING TO SEE NOW FOR SOME TIME.
SO, UM, I, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS REGARDING GROWTH IN THE AREA.
I THINK I HAD ASKED THIS QUESTION, UH, WHEN WE FIRST HAD OUR PRESENTATION THAT Y'ALL WERE SUPPOSED TO GIVE A FOLLOW UP REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFFICE SPACE AND THE RETAIL AND THE APARTMENT DWELLINGS.
UH, AND, AND THERESA BROUGHT IT UP.
I THINK LAUREN OR THERESA BROUGHT IT UP IN HER COMMENTS.
I MEAN, WHAT IS THE ESTIMATED THEN PARKING REQUIREMENT FOR ALL OF THESE? BECAUSE I THINK THAT WAS ALSO WHY WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE A MODE SHIFT BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WE CAN ACCOMMODATE THIS MUCH DEVELOPMENT.
UH, IT'S PROPOSED AND PLANNED.
UM, BUT DO ALL THOSE DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDE PARKING? I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ROD OR IF THAT'S FOR
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EUGENE.I MEAN, I THINK THE DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIRES X NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES FOR X NUMBER OF RETAIL.
COUNCIL, COUNCILWOMAN E EVERY APARTMENT HAS A PARKING RATIO.
EVERY, UH, OFFICE BUILDING HAS A PARKING RATIO.
AND, AND THEN OF COURSE RETAIL DOES.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AS YOU, UH, REFERENCE IS A MODAL SHIFT.
AND SO THERE'S LESS, UH, RATIOS REQUIRED IN THE, IN THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS AREA FOR PARKING THAN THERE WOULD BE IN THE SUBURBAN AREA.
THEY'RE MUCH HIGHER IN THE SUBURBAN AREAS, BUT THE INTENT OF THAT IS TO CREATE A MODAL SHIFT AND GET PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR CARS AND NOT EVERY, NOT HAVING A ONE-TO-ONE PARKING RATIO DOWNTOWN LIKE YOU WOULD IN A SUBURBAN AREA, BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR OFFICE BUILDINGS AND THEY'RE ALL BUILDING BIG PARKING GARAGES.
AND SO I GUESS THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, SORT OF MY QUESTION REGARDING GROWTH IN THE AREA.
UM, IS THERE, UM, LIKE, UH, I I JUST FELT LIKE IT, IT'S AN PROBABLY NEED TO BE INCLUDED IN THAT.
IS THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE HOW MANY CARS DO YOU ANTICIPATE IF WE DON'T HAVE A MODAL SHIFT? I MEAN, IS THERE A WAY TO CALCULATE THAT? BECAUSE, UH, I, I THINK IT JUST LENDS TO THE QUESTION OF WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A MODE SHIFT.
BECAUSE WE COULD NEVER PARK ALL THOSE CARS.
LIKE WE DON'T HAVE THE SPACE SIMPLY, WE, YES YOU CAN, UH, BASED ON SQUARE FOOTAGE.
MOST PARKING, UH, RATIOS ARE, ARE BASED ON SQUARE FOOTAGE OF OFFICE OR RETAIL.
OF COURSE APARTMENTS, MULTI-FAMILY LIVING IS BASED ON THE UNIT THAT YOU WOULD HAVE.
BUT YOU CAN CONVERT THE, THE SQUARE FOOTAGE, THE NUMBER OF CARS, AND UH, IT'S NOT 128,000.
IT WOULD PROBABLY BE ABOUT 10,000 CARS, NOT 128,000.
BUT IF YOU HAVE A MODAL SHIFT, THEN MAYBE IT'S GOING TO BE LESS THAN THAT.
SO I, I THINK WELL, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT JUST SORT OF PROVES MY POINT.
I DO SORT OF WISH WE COULD GET A NUMBER, 'CAUSE I DID ASK THAT IN THE PRESENTATION MONTHS BACK.
IT'S LIKE, WHAT WOULD THE PARKING REQUIREMENT BE IF WE DID NOT HAVE A MODE SHIFT? AND THAT MIGHT GIVE CLARITY TO MY COLLEAGUES ABOUT WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, SUPPORT ALTERNATE MODES.
SO ANOTHER QUESTION, UM, I HAVE, UH, AND AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS, UM, ALSO, I KNOW WE HAVE SOME FOLKS FROM CENTRO IN THE ROOM.
AND I KNOW THAT MATT BROWN IS HERE FROM CENTRO, BUT YOU WERE NOT HERE IN 2010.
UH, AND I SAW EDDIE ALSO HERE FROM CENTRO.
UM, BUT EDDIE, WERE YOU THERE IN 2010? IN 2010, YEAH.
BUT THE REASON I'M ASKING, YOU KNOW, BRINGING IT BACK, YOU KNOW, FROM SO LONG AGO WAS BECAUSE IN 2010, THERE WAS A POTENTIAL FOR THE STREETCAR.
AND I THINK THE REASON WHY WE HAD THIS DESIRE TO HAVE A MODE SHIFT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS GONNA BE A PROPOSED STREET STREETCAR.
AND THE DEVELOPMENT THEN AROUND THAT WAS EXPECTED TO BE PROBABLY WHAT IT WE SHOW TODAY.
BUT JUST BECAUSE WE DIDN'T GET THE STREETCAR, WE DON'T HAVE THAT MODE.
WE STILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR B R T IN THAT SPACE.
AND SO, WHICH I THINK WOULD ALSO LEND ITSELF TO THE MODE SHIFT BECAUSE, UM, WE DO NEED THAT HERE.
IS ANYBODY FROM VIA HERE? I DIDN'T ASK THEM TO BE HERE, BUT, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE, UH, NOBODY FROM VIA, OH, CAN YOU ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR A B R T IN THIS SPACE? UM, CAN YOU, CAN YOU COME UP, UM, AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF? OH, HI LEROY.
I I COULDN'T SEE WHO YOU WERE BACK THERE.
HI, MY NAME IS ELOY LAKI ELOY.
I KNOW IT'S ELOY AND LE BUT, UM, I KNOW THAT, THAT IN YOUR LONG-TERM PLAN IN THE 2040 PLAN, ISN'T THIS ALSO A B R T SPACE? YES, WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT.
UM, BUT NO, I MEAN, YOU'RE JUST LOOKING AT IT.
YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, UM, INFORMATION ON THE B R T IN THAT STRETCH OF BROADWAY? YES, WE DO HAVE SOME PLANS ON IT.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT COUNCILWOMAN AS, AS PART OF THE VIA RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDOR STUDIES THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
AND NOW THAT THOSE, THOSE ARE EMBEDDED INTO THE AMERIS CONNECT SA PLAN, UM, THEY'VE HAS IDENTIFIED SIX CORRIDORS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT WOULD SUPPORT B R T.
UM, BROADWAY IS ONE OF THOSE CORRIDORS.
AND SO THE, AGAIN, ONE OF THE KEY FACTS OF B R T IS THAT, UH, DEDICATED LANE FOR TRANSIT.
SO ONE LANE IN EACH DIRECTION IN THE FUTURE COULD BE REPURPOSED FOR TRANSIT LANES.
UM, AND THAT WASN'T TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU ISSUED THE R F P FOR BROADWAY.
SO THE, THE R F P FOR BROADWAY WAS BASED ON THE 2016 CENTRO CONCEPTS.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE R F P LANGUAGE, IT SPECIFICALLY REFERENCES THOSE CONCEPTS.
UH, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I, WHY I MENTIONED THE CENTRO, BECAUSE I THINK
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CENTRO WAS LEADING THE DISCUSSION FOR SUPPORTIVE BROADWAY AND THAT HEAVY INVESTMENT IN THE CORRIDOR, WHICH I, I OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED AND CONTINUED TO SUPPORT THE REDEVELOPMENT OF BROADWAY.BUT THEN BROADWAY WAS ALSO THE ONE WHO LED ALL OF THE DISCUSSIONS, NOT ALL OF THE DISCUSSIONS, MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE CORRIDOR AND WHAT THE CORRIDOR WOULD LOOK LIKE.
I KNOW THAT YOU HAD MULTIPLE MEETINGS.
I DON'T KNOW, CAN YOU ADDRESS THAT, MATT, AT ALL? DO YOU KNOW, OR, UM, I KNOW THAT CENTRO LED MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS.
I, I PERSONALLY ATTENDED AT LEAST THREE MEETINGS FROM CENTRO THAT WERE, UM, DISCUSSING HOW THIS BOND MONEY WOULD BE SPENT.
EDDIE, CAN, CAN YOU, I MEAN, SO I'M TRYING TO, TO, TO, UM, UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAD SUCH A CHANGE IN OPINION ABOUT WHAT THE STREET WOULD LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT CENTRO LED THE DISCUSSION TO CHANGE IT TO THE RIVER FORM, RIVER CITY FOR, I DUNNO IF WE DID, BUT WASN'T IT CENTRO THAT LED TO THE ZONING CHANGE, UH, IN 2009 INITIATED THAT? I KNOW THAT THEY WERE A PART OF THE GROUP.
I, I'M NOT SURE WHO WAS THE, WHO WAS THE LEADER.
UM, I KNOW THE CITY OFFICE, OUR, OUR CENTER CITY OFFICE, OUR, OUR DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, PAT D GIOVANNI WAS KIND OF SPEARHEADING IT FOR, FOR US AND, AND, UH, COORDINATED A LOT OF GROUPS.
SO I'M NOT QUITE SURE OF EVERYBODY'S INVOLVEMENT, BUT I I DO KNOW CENTRAL WAS INVOLVED.
DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT, EDDIE? BECAUSE, NOT, NOT IN, IN 2010.
WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE LE LEADING THE DISCUSSION TO CHANGE THE CORRIDOR TO INCLUDE BIKE LANES IN 2010, BUT YET AT THE SAME TIME, IN 2016, LED THE DISCUSSION TO TAKE BIKE LANES OUT IN 2016.
SO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, UH, WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT THOSE PRIOR PLANS WERE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY M I G.
AND, UM, SO, AND, AND I, I THAT THANK YOU, EDDIE.
I MEAN, I'M NOT TRYING TO TOTALLY PUT YOU GUYS ON THE HOOK.
I'M JUST, WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT IS THAT THERE WAS A PARTICULAR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP THAT WAS TRYING TO LEAD THE DISCUSSION ON THIS.
EVEN THOUGH THE BOND LANGUAGE DID SAY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY, IT WAS REPEATED IN THE BOND LANGUAGE.
UM, THE VOTERS APPROVED THAT, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, APPROVED THE FUNDING.
BUT YET MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION THAT LED TO THE R F P WAS DONE BY CENTRO.
AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, THE R F P DOES NOT INCLUDE BIKE LANES.
AND SO I JUST FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A LOT OF CONFLICT IN WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED AND WHAT CERTAIN GROUPS WERE ADVOCATING FOR.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE HAD THIS CONTINUED LIKE, UM, SORT OF DISCUSSION ON THIS, THIS PROJECT THAT IS, UH, YOU KNOW, HEAVILY FUNDED $97 MILLION FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT, BUT POTENTIALLY ABOVE 50 MILLION UH, DOLLARS IN THIS PROJECT AND WHY THERE'S BEEN SUCH A CONFLICT OF WHAT SHOULD BE, UM, INCLUDED ON THE STREETS.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE DO KNOW THAT, THAT REPEATEDLY, YOU KNOW, CHERYL, UH, IN HER PRESENTATION TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE BOND, UH, AND ON BROADWAY SAID THAT THERE WOULD BE BIKE LANES.
MIKE FRISBEE REPEATEDLY SAID THAT THERE WOULD BE BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY, BUT THE R F P DOES NOT SPECIFY BIKE LANES ON BROADWAY.
AND THAT WAS, UH, I UNDERSTAND IT FROM COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS, BUT PRIMARILY LED BY CENTRO.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I, ARE YOU DISPUTING THAT? UM, IF YOU WANT TO, EDDIE, YOU CAN, YOU CAN ADDRESS THAT.
BUT ALL THE, THE, THE MEETINGS THAT I WENT TO ABOUT THIS CORRIDOR WERE LED BY CENTRO.
UM, I'M, I'M NOT DISPUTING, BUT THIS IS WHAT, WHAT I'VE LEARNED AND, AND WHAT I'VE DISCOVERED, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE PRIOR PLANNING EFFORTS WERE TAKEN INTO THE ACCOUNT WITH I'S 2016, UH, CONCEPTS, UH, VIA WAS ALSO HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
UM, AND THERE WERE A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE, UH, ADDITIONALLY, UM, UH, IN ADDITION TO JUST THE BOND PROCESS OVERALL, WHERE IT, UH, WHERE THE BOND LANGUAGE SAYS BICYCLE AMENITIES, AND THE, AS WHAT I'VE LEARNED IS THE 2016 CONCEPT DOES PROVIDE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES AND THOSE BICYCLE AMENITIES ON AVENUE B, I MEAN, UH, UH, THE, THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEMBERS, UH, THE TRAFFIC CALMING, UH, ELEMENTS ARE SPECIFICALLY ON, ON BROADWAY.
DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? UH, ED, DID YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? LEMME PROVIDE JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A CLARIFICATION.
SO, ED, BE SMALL WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
THE, UH, BOND LANGUAGE ACTUALLY REFERS TO MULTIPLE THINGS, AND IT DOES REFERENCE BICYCLE AMENITIES, AND THEN IT
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ENDS THAT PROPOSITION WITH, AS APPROPRIATE AND WITHIN FUNDING LEVELS.SO THE, AS APPROPRIATE ALWAYS GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO SHIFT AND BE FLEXIBLE, DEPENDENT UPON HOW THINGS GO AS YOU'RE DEVELOPING THAT PROJECT.
AND THAT HAPPENS WITH DRAINAGE PROJECTS WHEN YOU HAVE THE ENGINEERING STUDIES TO SHOW, WELL, IT WOULDN'T BE BEST IN THIS LOCATION, WOULD BE BETTER IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION, YOU STILL END UP WITH THE BENEFIT THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE VOTERS.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT WAS CLEAR.
UM, I, UH, JEAN, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT LANES.
UH, DID YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING, MATT? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN, I JUST WANNA CLARIFY ONE, ONE THING, EVEN THOUGH I'M A RECENT ADDITION AFTER, YOU KNOW, FOUR MONTHS, BUT, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING OF CENTRAL'S ROLE, INCLUDING SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, UM, IS A FACILITATOR.
SO WE SET UP, WE FACILITATE, WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, BUT WE ARE NOT THE EXPERTS.
WE'RE NOT THE CONTENT CREATORS, WE'RE NOT THE DECISION MAKERS.
SO I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR THAT IT'S NOT CENTRO TRYING TO STEER DIRECT LEAD OUTCOMES.
RATHER, WE'RE BRINGING ALL OF THE STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER, EXPERTS TOGETHER.
AND THEN AS I'VE SAID PUBLICLY BEFORE, UM, WE ARE SUPPORTING THE OUTPUT OF THE, UH, PROCESS AND OF THE EXPERTS AND EXPERTISE THAT'S GOTTEN INTO THAT PROCESS.
SO I JUST WANT BE VERY, VERY CLEAR NOW.
AND, AND CAN YOU TELL ME, ISN'T YOUR ORGANIZATION A MEMBER DRIVEN ORGANIZATION? WELL, IT'S BOTH.
SO CENTRO HAS, UM, THREE DIFFERENT NONPROFITS WORKING TOGETHER, ONE OF WHICH IS MEMBERSHIP DRIVEN.
AND THE PI IS FUNDED BY ALL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS DOWNTOWN, UM, INCLUDING, UH, THE CITY.
SO THE CITY MAKES A CONTRIBUTION TO IT AS WELL.
UM, SO YES, THAT'S HOW WE'RE FUNDED AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE SUPPORTED.
UM, OUR MISSION AND OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO SERVE EVERYBODY DOWNTOWN IN THE ENTIRE CITY.
SO, UM, SO OUR FUNDING COMES WITH CERTAIN SOURCES THAT DOESN'T PREDICT OR DICTATE HOW WE CONDUCT OUR BUSINESS, BUT, AND WHO MIGHT YOUR MEMBERS BE? AS I SAID, EVERY PROPERTY OWNER DOWNTOWN IS A MEMBER, BUT DON'T THEY PAY INTO EVERY PROPERTY OWNER IS A PART OF THE PIT.
SO THERE'S A VOLUNTARY ASSESSMENT THAT THEY'VE, UH, SIGNED ON FOR.
AND SO WHETHER YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE RESIDENTIAL, I THINK IT'S 9 CENTS, UM, 15 CENTS FOR COMMERCIAL.
UM, BUT EVERYONE, UM, THE ONLY EXCEPTIONS ARE NONPROFITS.
UH, THAT'S, UH, CHURCHES, UNIVERSITY.
UM, THERE ARE SOME NONPROFITS THAT HAVE JOINED THE ALLIANCE.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, CHOA, UM, IS A CONTRIBUTOR, AND THEY HELP US FUND FOR OUR HOMELESS OUTREACH.
SO THERE ARE MEMBERS WHO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THAT, UM, INCLUDING BUSINESSES.
SO THERE'S RETAIL BUSINESSES ON THE GROUND FLOOR, UM, IN PARTICULAR THAT JOIN IN.
THEY'RE JUST LITERALLY INDIVIDUALS WHO LOVE OUR AMBASSADORS AND WANNA SUPPORT CENTRAL'S WORK.
SO THAT COLLECTION OF MEMBERS IS WIDE RANGING.
I I'M VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT Y'ALL DO, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR AMIGOS, UH, AND THE AMBASSADORS PROGRAM.
SO, UM, I JUST, UH, THANK YOU.
I WAS TRYING TO SORT OF GET TO A POINT THAT PERHAPS THERE WAS SOME DIRECTION THAT LED STAFF TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, WHAT THAT WAS.
NOT NECESSARILY WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED, BUT WHAT THAT SOME PARTICULAR PEOPLE THOUGHT WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE OF ALL THE PLANNING, UH, THAT HAS GONE INTO THIS PROJECT SINCE 2010.
BUT, BUT JEAN, I, I DID HAVE A QUESTION JUST ABOUT LANES AND LANE CAPACITY, BECAUSE WHETHER A LANE IS DEDICATED TO OUR B R T OR WHETHER IT'S DEDICATED TO CARS OR EXCLUSIVELY, UH, CAN'T THE LANE CARRY JUST X NUMBER OF CARS PER HOUR REGARDLESS OF SPEED? IT'S JUST THE SAME, UH, NUMBER, WHETHER IT'S A B R T OR, OR A CAR.
ISN'T IT GONNA BE THE SAME IF IT'S A LINEAR PROJECT WITH NO STOPS? UH, IT CAN CARRY 300 BUSES AN HOUR OR 300 CARS AN HOUR.
THE PROBLEM IS, IS A BUS STOPS.
AND WHEN A BUS STOPS, THEN IT LOWERS THE CAPACITY OF THE LANE.
AND SO A LOT OF THE COMPONENTS OF A COMPLETE STREET ARE NOT ONLY ITS WIDTH, BUT ITS LENGTH.
HOW FAR DO YOU HAVE BETWEEN SIGNALS? DO YOU HAVE TIME TO SKINNY THE STREET DOWN AND THEN WIDEN IT BACK OUT AT AN INTERSECTION? SO FOR INSTANCE, LET'S SAY I HAVE, UH, 1800 CARS COMING DOWN ONE LANE, AND IT'S GOTTA STOP AND GET THROUGH AN INTERSECTION.
WELL, THEN I HAVE TO, AT THAT INTERSECTION PROVIDE CAPACITY FOR EIGHT 1800 CARS TO GET THROUGH.
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SO NOW I PROBABLY NEED THREE LANES TO GET THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, THEN I CAN GO BACK DOWN TO ONE.SO IT'S A MATTER WHEN IT COMES TO BUSES OR CARS, ARE THE BUSES STOPPING, BY THE WAY, COUNCILWOMAN 16,000 CAR UH, PARKING SPOTS UNDER THE NUMBERS THAT I GAVE YOU TODAY? AND SO WITH A MODAL SHIFT, YOU WOULD GET 25% OFF OF THAT AND YOU WOULD HAVE 12,000 CARS.
BUT THAT'S THE NUMBER OF PARKING SPOTS YOU WOULD BE DEALING WITH THAT YOU'VE BEEN ASKING ABOUT.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S, UH, IMPORTANT.
'CAUSE WE DO, I MEAN, I THINK, UM, WHAT, WHAT WE ALL KNOW IN THE ALL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY KNOWS IS THAT YOU DON'T REALLY BENEFIT FROM PARKING CARS.
YOU BENEFIT FROM HAVING ACTIVE PEOPLE IN BUILDINGS.
AND SO IT'S NOT A REAL, UM, UH, NOT VERY PROFITABLE TO HAVE PARKING GARAGES, ALTHOUGH IT'S PROFITABLE, BUT NOT AS PROFITABLE AS IT WOULD BE IF YOU HAD OFFICE SPACE OR PEOPLE LIVING THERE.
SO, UM, UH, SO LET, LET ME JUST, UM, I, I'LL, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES, BUT I, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN ON THIS ISSUE FOR A LONG TIME.
WE KNOW, I THINK IT'S, IT'S SUCH A CRITICAL ISSUE FOR US, UH, BECAUSE OF, UM, FIRST OF ALL, ALL THE COSTS INVOLVED.
I THINK THE DISTINCTION WHAT OF WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED VERSUS WHAT THE R F P UH, ACTUALLY SAID, AND THEREFORE SENT THE ONE WHO DESIGNED IT, JUST DESIGNED IT BASED ON THE R F P THAT WAS PRESENTED BY STAFF.
UH, BUT THAT, THERE'S ALSO JUST A LOT OF CONFLICTS.
YOU USE NTO GUIDE, UH, ASHT O GUIDELINES AND NOT NTO GUIDELINES.
UH, SO NOW WE'RE USING NTO GUIDELINES, BUT JUST A YEAR AGO, OR TWO YEARS AGO WHEN YOU ISSUED THE R F P, THEY'RE BASED ON ASHT O GUIDELINES, WHICH WE KNOW THAT NTO GUIDELINES ARE MUCH MORE WALKABLE.
UM, AND, UH, SO ANYWAY, I, I'LL, I'LL JUST, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, YOU WANNA GO, GO COUNCILMAN AL? SURE.
UH, THANK YOU CHAIR FOR, UH, BRINGING THE DISCUSSION.
I MEAN, IT'S CLEAR THE COMMUNITY'S BEEN, UH, TALKING ABOUT IT FOR A WHILE AND THAT IT DESERVES SOME CLARITY, UM, EITHER HERE AT COMMITTEE OR, OR LATER ON AT, UM, AT FULL COUNSEL.
UM, SO I HAVE SOME, JUST SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS FOR MR. DAWSON.
UM, COULD WE TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, THE MODELS? AND THEY, THEY LOOK GREAT.
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THEM SO FAST.
THEY'RE, UM, I LIKE TO SYNTHESIZE A LITTLE BIT, SO THANKS FOR, FOR GOING QUICKLY, BUT I, IT'S, IT'S OKAY TO TAKE YOUR TIME ON, ON THOSE.
UM, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FOR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU'RE A CYCLIST TRYING TO TRAVEL ON ANY OF THOSE OPTIONS? COUNCILWOMAN, IF, IF WE WERE TO SLOW IT DOWN, YOU WILL, YOU'LL SEE THAT.
I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE SMART OR FUNNY.
THAT'S, I REALLY JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT IT'S GONNA BE LIKE AT OPTION ONE.
IN THE MODEL, THERE ARE CYCLISTS, UH, WE SAW ABOUT 10 SECONDS, UH, IN A LOOP THERE ON EACH OF THE MODELS.
AND, YOU KNOW, SO EVEN AT 60, UH, PER HOUR, 60 CYCLISTS PER HOUR, THAT'D BE ONE PER MINUTE.
BUT IF WE WANT TO GO BACK TO A ONE OF THE MODELS, YOU WILL SEE, UH, THAT, UH, THE CYCLISTS AND THE PEDESTRIANS ARE AT THE INTERSECTIONS, AND CARS ARE STOPPING TO LET PEDESTRIANS CROSS THE INTERSECTIONS.
EACH OF THE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION ARE INCLUDED, UH, IN THE MODEL.
NOW, OBVIOUSLY, UH, WHEN YOU ARE HAVING 2000 CARS AT A PEAK HOUR AND, UH, 60, UH, CYCLISTS AT A AT A PEAK HOUR, YOU'RE GONNA SEE A, A LOT MORE CARS THAN YOU ARE, UH, CYCLISTS.
BUT THEY'RE ALL BUILT INTO THE MODEL SO THAT, UH, YOU CAN SEE HOW THEY IMPACT THE INTERSECTIONS.
I JUST, I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THE, LIKE, CONFLICT POINTS.
I DIDN'T SEE AVENUE B WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, GET OFF OF BROADWAY AND GO ON TO AVENUE B.
THAT'S, UM, UH, THAT'S ONE THING THAT I'VE, UH, I'VE ASKED, UH, WHEN COUNCILMAN TREVINO WAS KIND ENOUGH TO COME AND GIVE ME, UH, A BRIEFING ON SOME OF THIS, THAT, THAT WAS ONE, ONE OF MY CONCERNS IS WHAT DO THOSE CONFLICT POINTS, UH, OR THOSE TURNING POINTS LOOK LIKE? UM, YOU KNOW, WHETHER WE END UP WITH BIKES ON AVENUE B OR BIKES ON BROADWAY, I THINK THERE'S STILL A CHANCE THAT WE WILL HAVE BICYCLES ON, ON BROADWAY.
UM, AND, UH, I JUST, UH, AND THERE, THERE STILL MAY BE SOME ACCIDENTS ON BROADWAY MM-HMM.
UM, I HAVE A, COULD WE GO TO SLIDE 31, PLEASE? OH, GOOD.
UM, WHAT, WHAT DOES THE COLOR BLUE MEAN IN THOSE CIRCLES?
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LIKE, CARS CAN STILL MOVE COUNCILWOMAN.
LET ME, IT'S A, IT IS A SUBJECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF THIS INFORMATION HERE, WHICH IS IMPOSSIBLE, I THINK, TO UNDERSTAND IN A QUICK, UH, FLASH OF A SLIDE.
SO WHAT IT'S TRYING TO REPRESENT IS BASED ON THE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION, WHICH ARE THE, THE AUTOMOBILE, THE TRANSIT, THE BICYCLE, AND THE PEDESTRIAN.
WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF SERVICE FOR EACH OF THE OPTIONS FOR EACH OF THOSE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION? AND SO THAT'S WHAT A, AND IT'S NOT THE COLOR, IT'S THE, THE BUBBLE.
IF IT'S FULL, THEN IT'S PROVIDING GOOD LEVEL OF SERVICE.
IF IT'S HALF OF A CIRCLE, THEN IT'S PROVIDING A LOWER LEVEL OF SERVICE THAN ANOTHER ALTERNATE.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, UH, OPTION TWO ON BICYCLES, UH, YOU CAN SEE IS A HALF CIRCLE.
WHERE ON OPTION THREE, UH, IT'S A, UH, FULL CIRCLE BECAUSE ON OPTION THREE, THE LANES ARE PROTECTED, AND WHEN ON OPTION TWO, THEY'RE NOT PROTECTED, THEY'RE THERE, BUT THEY'RE NOT PROTECTED.
THEY DON'T HAVE THE THREE FOOT, UH, SEPARATION FROM THE AUTOMOBILE.
SO IT'S JUST A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS ON THE DIFFERENT MODES OF, UH, TRANSPORTATION.
I THINK, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF ANY OF MY OTHER COLLEAGUES EXPERIENCE THIS, BUT I, I WANNA UNDERSTAND THIS, BUT I DO FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A STRONG BIAS SOMETIMES IN, IN THESE PRESENTATIONS WHEN IT GOES FROM A FULL BUBBLE TO NO BUBBLE IN OPTION TWO AND FOUR FOR THE VEHICLE.
WHEN WE KNOW THAT PERSON WILL STILL BE ABLE TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B, IT MAY TAKE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF TIME, BUT I WOULD INTERPRET NO, YOU KNOW, NO COLOR AS YOU, YOU CAN'T BE ON THERE.
SO, UM, SAME FOR THE PEDESTRIAN, YOU KNOW, GOING FROM OPTION ONE TO OPTION THREE, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO WALK AS FAST.
IT JUST MEANS THAT THE, THEIR SAFE USE OF THAT DESIGN, WHERE YOU TAKE THE SIDEWALKS DOWN TO SEVEN FEET INSTEAD OF THE 11 TO 17 FEET, THEN THERE'S A REDUCTION IN THE SAFETY FOR THE PEDESTRIAN.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A SLIDE TO GENERATE THIS DISCUSSION.
IT'S, UH, TO SAY WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPTION ONE AND OPTION THREE, OPTION ONE OR OPTION TWO.
UH, BY THE WAY, OPTION TWO IS THE THREE LANE, UH, ONE LANE NORTH, IT HAD WIDE SIDEWALKS ON IT, SO IT STILL SERVED PEDESTRIANS WELL.
UH, OPTION ONE HAS WIDE SIDEWALKS.
WHEN YOU GO TO OPTION THREE, THOUGH, UH, WHICH IS THE OPTION, BY THE WAY, FOUR LANES AND BIKE LANES.
UH, AND IT, THE, WHAT YOU SACRIFICE THERE IS THE ON STREET PARKING AND THE PEDESTRIANS.
SO IN ALL, WITH THE 78 FEET TO PUT ALL OF THIS INTO THE 78 FEET, SOMETHING HAS TO, UH, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL.
I GET IT AT A HUNDRED PERCENT.
SO, SO TELL ME WHY IS IT LESS SAFE AT SEVEN FEET VERSUS 11 OR 17 FEET? UH, JUST THE AMOUNT OF ROOM.
IT'S JUST, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU STAND ON THIS SIDEWALK RIGHT OUT HERE, WHICH IS ABOUT SEVEN FEET, WITH ALL THESE CARS GOING, VERSUS A 12 FOOT SIDEWALK SOMEWHERE ELSE, YOU FEEL SAFER.
YOU WANT TO BE ON THAT 12 FOOT SIDEWALK.
AND REMEMBER, WE'RE TRYING TO INCREASE, UH, THE, UH, PEDESTRIANS, UH, BY, UH, UP TO 1600 PEDESTRIANS, UH, TRIPS.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS ON THE SIDEWALK.
WE WANT 'EM INTERACTING TO THE COUNCIL WOMAN'S PART, INTERACTING WITH THE BUSINESSES.
UH, SOME OF THESE BUSINESSES MAY HAVE, UH, UH, SIDEWALK CAFES, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM MOVING PEOPLE.
WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO I WOULD, I WOULD JUST GO TO THE VISUAL OF THIS SIDEWALK RIGHT OUT HERE.
AND THINK ABOUT 1600 PEDESTRIANS A DAY TRYING TO GET UP AND DOWN THIS SIDEWALK.
IT'S 11 OR 17 FEET THAN IT WOULD BE AT SEVEN FEET.
UM, SO YOU MENTIONED SIDEWALK CAFES.
IS THERE, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THIS PROJECT?
UM, SO MAYBE I'LL ASK YOU, ROD, IS THAT PART OF THE INTENDED USE OF THESE SIDEWALKS, UH, COMMERCE AND TRANSACTIONS OCCURRING ON THE SIDEWALKS? I, I, I KNOW THAT WAS A THOUGHT IS THAT WE WANTED SIDEWALKS TO BE WIDE ENOUGH TO OFFER THAT AS A POTENTIAL USE.
AND IS THAT, UH, I KNOW ALONG THE RIVER WHEN, UH, WE HAVE, UH, SIDEWALK SEATING FOR, FOR RESTAURANTS, THERE IS A FEE OR A RENTAL AMOUNT THAT'S PAID WITH THAT.
IS THAT WHAT WE, UH, ANTICIPATE HAPPENING ON THIS, ON THIS STRETCH? SURE.
THAT THAT'S, THAT'S CITY RIGHT OF WAY.
SO THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE SOME KIND OF A LEASE WITH THE CITY AND,
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AND I'M, I'M SURE THERE'D BE A, A FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LEASE.UH, JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, THE TRAVEL.
SO I HAVE FOUND THAT ONE OF THE THINGS, OH, SORRY.
WHAT'S THE ANTICIPATED SPEED OF VEHICLES OR WHAT WILL BE THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT? 30, 30 MILES AN HOUR, IS THAT RIGHT? 30.
UM, I, I FOUND THAT THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT REALLY SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC, AND THIS IS MY AMATEUR, UM, TRAFFIC ENGINEER TALKING IS ONE OF THEM'S LEFT TURNS AND CERTAINLY PROTECTED LEFT TURNS, UH, END UP TAKING A LOT MORE TIME AND, UH, PARKING ACTUALLY.
UM, SO, SO, UH, IS THAT ACCOUNTED FOR IN, IN YOUR MODELS WHEN YOU TALK LIKE THE PARKING? I MEAN, THAT, THAT WILL, DEPENDING ON WHAT SORT OF ROTATION YOU HAVE, RIGHT.
UM, ON, ON YOUR STREET PARKING, THAT COULD ALSO SLOW DOWN YOUR, YOUR TRAFFIC.
WELL, IN EACH OF THE FOUR OPTIONS, SOME OF THE OPTIONS DON'T HAVE ON STREETE PARKING.
SO YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PARK, YOU'RE GONNA, I KNOW, BUT IN THE FIRST ONE, IN, IN THE FIRST ONE.
AND, UH, THEN YOU ALSO MENTIONED THE, THE LEFT TURN LANE.
SO YES, ANY, YOU KNOW, ANYONE PULLING IN AND PARKING, ANYONE STOPPING RIDE SHARE, ANYTHING LIKE THAT IMPACTS THE CAPACITY OF THE ROAD.
THAT'S WHY THE SINGLE LANE OPTIONS, UH, BOTH, UH, TWO AND FOUR, UH, HAVE THE WORST RESULTS BECAUSE, UH, THE STOPPING ALONG THE ROAD BLOCKS THE ENTIRE LANE.
AND, UH, AND THEN THE LEFT TURN LANES, THERE ARE NO PROTECTED, UH, LEFT TURN LANES IN ANY OF THE OPTIONS.
AND THE REASON WE DON'T HAVE A MEDIAN, THIS IS THE PARADE ROUTE.
SO, YOU KNOW, IDEALLY WE WOULD HAVE A LANDSCAPE MEDIAN WITH PROTECTED LEFTS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT A NORMAL COMPLETE STREET WOULD LOOK LIKE.
UH, WE DON'T HAVE THE ROOM HERE, PLUS IT'S A PARADE ROUTE, SO WE'LL HAVE NO, UH, MEDIAN.
SO, UH, ART OR, UH, ROD, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT ELIMINATING THE LEFT TURNS ON STRETCHES OF BROADWAY? I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S A POSSIBILITY FOR RIGHT, RIGHT.
RIGHTS IF THE IDEA IS TO MOVE AS MANY CARS AS POSSIBLE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
O ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY, LIKE AT PLACES LIKE MCCULLOUGH WHERE THERE'S, THERE'S A HIGH LEFT TURN, DEMAND IS POTENTIALLY RESTRICTING IT DURING PEAK PERIODS.
UH, WE HAVE THAT IN PARTS OF THE CITY.
UM, IT SOMETIMES IT'S NOT ADHERED TO AS MUCH, SO IT STILL HAS THE EFFECT OF, OF CLOGGING TRAFFIC.
UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT AND, UM, IN SOME OF THE ITERATIONS OF THE MODEL, THOSE WERE LOOKED AT.
SO I, I GUESS I, I HAVE A LEVEL OF DISCOMFORT WITH THE DESIGN THAT WE'VE, THAT YOU'VE COME TO RIGHT NOW, AS YOU KNOW, AND I'LL TELL YOU A COUPLE OF THE REASONS WHY.
NUMBER ONE IS THERE'S OF COURSE, A PRIORITIZATION OF VEHICLES.
WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA MAKE THE MOST TRIPS ON THIS.
AND, UH, WE SEEM TO BE TRYING TO MOVE THEM AS SMOOTHLY AND AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
BUT, UH, I FEEL LIKE WE ONLY DO THAT IN SOME WAYS, LIKE AT THE COST OF THE OTHER MODES.
BUT WE'RE, WE'RE NOT DOING IT IN OTHER WAYS, SUCH AS RESTRICTING LEFT TURN LANES OR, UM, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY RE RESTRICTING, UH, BICYCLES.
SO I, I GUESS I FEEL LIKE THERE'S, UM, I, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY, WHY WE ONLY DO IT FOR SOME THINGS AND NOT FOR OTHERS.
UM, SO I'D JUST LOVE TO HAVE YOU ILLUMINATE ME ON ON THAT.
SO, UH, IT, IT'S HARD TO GO THROUGH ALL THE MODELS.
FOR INSTANCE, ON O ON MODEL TWO, OPTION TWO, WHICH IS A SINGLE LANE, UH, ALL LEFT LANES, ALL LEFT TURNS WOULD BE RESTRICTED ON A SINGLE LANE ROAD.
YOU CAN'T HAVE A CAR SITTING ON A SINGLE LANE, UH, ROAD TRYING TO TAKE A LEFT.
UH, SO THOSE WOULD BE RESTRICTED.
SO WE'VE TRIED TO, IN THE MODELS, PUT THE, THE REALITIES.
I WILL ALSO SAY THAT THERE'S A NO LEFT ON JONES SOUTHBOUND OFF OF BROADWAY, NO LEFT ON JONES RIGHT NOW, TODAY.
AND IF YOU'LL GO SIT OUT THERE FROM FIVE TO SIX O'CLOCK, YOU'LL SEE ABOUT 30 PEOPLE TAKE A LEFT WHERE IT SAYS, DON'T TAKE A LEFT.
SO WHEN PEOPLE WANNA TAKE A LEFT AND THEY'RE IN THEIR CARS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO CONTROL 'EM WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO TAKE A CERTAIN DIRECTION.
WELL, I, I MEAN, I'M IMAGINING A SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE, UH, SOME FOLKS PARKING, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT SOMEONE TAKING A LEFT THAT'S GONNA BLOCK, THAT'S GONNA BLOCK THE TRAFFIC.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE ONE LANE TO END UP HAVING THE TRAFFIC BLOCKED.
WELL, AND, AND THAT, THAT IS THE CHALLENGE THAT I THINK YOU GUYS ARE ALL STRUGGLING WITH.
WE KNOW SOME AMOUNT OF CARS ARE GONNA BE THERE.
AND, UH, I THINK OUR CONCLUSION IS, IS OUR VERY, UH, BEST HOPE IS THAT WE COULD GET THAT DOWN TO ABOUT 25,000 TRIPS
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A DAY.BUT THEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE ALL THESE CONFLICTS OF CARS AND BUSES AND BICYCLES AND PEDESTRIANS.
AND SO WHAT IS THE BEST ANSWER? HOW CAN WE PUT ALL OF THOSE TOGETHER? WHAT'S THE SAFEST, UH, FOR ALL THE MODES AND, UH, UH, THE, THROUGH THE PROCESSES THAT WERE LED, UH, THROUGH THE BUILD DRONE BROADWAY AND THE DESIGN BUILD WITH THEIR, THE EXPERTS, UH, THE COMPLETE STREET EXPERTS, UH, THEY'VE COME TO ONE CONCLUSION, AND I THINK WHAT YOU GUYS ARE QUESTIONING IS THAT CONCLUSION AND IS AT THE RIGHT CONCLUSION.
AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO TODAY IS GIVE YOU THE FACTS SO YOU GUYS CAN HELP MOVE THE, THE QUESTION FORWARD.
AND, AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS MAY HAVE BEEN THE RIGHT CONCLUSION.
I THINK WE JUST WANNA FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
IT'S THE SINGLE LARGEST PROJECT IN THE 2017.
IN THE, UH, 2017 BOND, IT'S CONSIDERED A CITYWIDE PROJECT.
SO OF COURSE, WE ALL WANT TO WEIGH IN AND MAKE SURE THAT WE DO RIGHT BY THE, BY THE TAXPAYERS.
UM, I THINK THE, THE OTHER DISCOMFORT I HAVE IS THAT YES, WE ARE, WE'RE ENDING UP WITH A PROJECT THAT'S, THAT'S PROBABLY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED BY SOME PEOPLE.
UM, I UNDERSTAND, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE FOLKS WHO'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE DESIGN MAYBE DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THAT.
SO I THINK IT'S, UM, IT'S APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THIS LEVEL OF SCRUTINY WHEN THE SCOPE, UH, AND THE COST IS, IS CHANGING TO, TO THIS EXTENT.
UM, IT'S ALSO, UM, IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT, UH, AND, UH, THE COUNCILMAN HAS MENTIONED THIS IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION ASPECTS.
BECAUSE WE HAD A, A NON-CITY ENTITY LEADING SOME OF THE CONVENING.
WHAT WE MIGHT'VE SEEN IS A DIFFERENT, UH, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS THAN ON OUR, THE REST OF OUR BOND PROJECTS THAT OUR CITY LED.
AND I THINK THAT ALSO JUST, UM, REALLY, UH, PUTS THE RESPONSIBILITY ON US TO ENSURE THAT IT MET THE STANDARDS OF THE REST OF OUR PROJECTS.
UM, SO IN TERMS OF, OF THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS OR SURVEYS THAT WERE DONE, UH, ROD OR ART, HOW DOES THIS MATCH WITH, HOW DOES THIS PROJECT MATCH WITH OTHER BOND PROJECTS? COUNCILWOMAN, CAN YOU JUST CLARIFY? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE, THE PRE, UH, PRE-BOND PROCESS OR SINCE IT'S BEEN, SINCE IT'S BEEN ADOPTED? SO, I'LL, I'LL TELL YOU MY BRIEF EXPERIENCE IN, UM, IN DISTRICT SEVEN BOND PROJECTS, UH, NOT CITYWIDE BOND PROJECTS, IS THERE'S A SERIES OF PUBLIC MEETINGS TO SAY, THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE HAVE, THIS, THESE ARE THE OPTIONS.
UH, AND SOMETIMES THE OPTIONS AREN'T EVEN THERE YET.
UM, THERE'S A PUBLIC MEETING THEN, UH, THE CONSULTANT WORKS ON SOMETHING, COMES BACK, HAS ANOTHER PUBLIC MEETING AND SAYS, THIS IS WHAT WE HEARD, IS THIS WHAT YOU SAID? UM, AND THEN THEY COME BACK AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF, OF THE DESIGN PHASE.
AND, UH, ALL OF THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, POSTED ON, UM, SOME, SOME CITY WEBSITE.
THEY'RE, YOU COORDINATE WITH THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN ATTEND IF THEY WISH.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE PROCESS I'VE SEEN.
UM, SO WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE PROCESS IN, IN THIS PROJECT AND OTHER CITYWIDE PROJECTS? SO, SO THIS IS FOLLOWED THAT, THAT SAME PROCESS, THE STANDARD MEETINGS, WE'VE ACT AND THERE'S BEEN ADDITIONAL MEETINGS.
UH, BROADWAY SPECIFICALLY HAS WHAT WE CALL THE DESIGN, UH, EXCELLENCE COMMITTEE.
AND SO THAT'S A SMALLER STAKEHOLDER GROUP REPRESENTATIVE.
SO THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM OTHER PROJECTS RIGHT THERE.
AND WHY IS THAT BE, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, BECAUSE OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT, UH, THE, THE COST OF THE CITYWIDE EXPERIENCE, SO WHO'S ON THE EXCELLENCE COMMITTEE AND WHO SELECTS THEM? SO THAT, THAT WAS REALLY KIND OF LEADING OFF THE, THE PAST CENTRAL LED INITIATIVE WE TALKED ABOUT.
UH, SO THAT'S REALLY LOOKING AT THE, THE MORE FINE TUNED, UM, ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT, MAKING SURE THAT THE CULTURAL IDENTITIES CONSISTENT WITH KIND OF THE DEVELOPMENTS HAPPENING ALONG THE CORRIDOR.
UH, SO IT'S MORE KIND OF IN THE WEEDS, UM, OF THE, THE DESIGN AS WELL.
UH, WE'VE HAD MEETINGS WHERE WE TALK ABOUT, UH, THE COLOR OF, OF BRICK, THINGS LIKE THAT.
OR HOW DOES THE LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT, UH, CONS, HOW IS THAT CONSISTENT WITH THE LANDSCAPING ALONG THERE? SO IT'S MORE, UH, YOU KNOW, FINE TUNED DESIGN VERSUS BIGGER PICTURE.
AND AGAIN, WHO, WHO IS ON THAT? SO THAT, THAT CONSISTS OF FOLKS, UH, DEVELOPERS ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH THE WITTY, UH, THROUGH NORTH THE HILL BRAND.
DO YOU HAVE THE, CAN YOU SEND US A LIST OF NAMES? YEAH, SURE.
AND, AND HOW DID YOU SELECT THEM? UM, AND, AND WHO SELECTED THEM? SO HOW AND WHO, IT WAS KIND OF A, I GUESS A SELF, UH, PRO SELECTION PROCESS, REALLY.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF EDDIE WANTS TO CHIME IN ON THE, THE, UM, IT'S REALLY THE PROPERTY OWNERS ALONG THERE, BUT I DID WANT TO, BEFORE EDDIE COMES UP, TALK ABOUT THE BOND LIMITS.
AGAIN, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE LANGUAGE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOND BROCHURE, IT'S FOR ALL OF BROADWAY, ALL THREE MILES, 3.1 MILES OF BROADWAY, AND THERE'S WIGGLE ROOM IN THE LANGUAGE.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT THE
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R F P.THE R F P THAT WAS ISSUED WAS JUST FOR THE LOWER SECTION.
SO THERE'S A SEPARATE PROCESS THAT'LL BE COMING FORWARD FOR THE UPPER SECTION.
SO THAT, I WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT.
UM, DID YOU WANT TO ADD A FEW DETAILS ABOUT THE EXCELLENCE COMMITTEE? THAT THAT GROUP WAS FORMED, UH, AFTER THE BOND PROCESS, UM, AND THE VOTE AS MORE OF A DESIGN OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE? UM, THAT WAS NOT CENTRAL LED.
UM, I THINK THEY WERE, IT WAS A GROUP OF STAKEHOLDERS THAT SELF-SELECTED, UM, I, I'M CONFUSED WHO CHAIRS THIS COMMITTEE WHO CALLS THE MEETINGS.
SO, SO NOT, NOT CENTRAL, THAT'S SELF-LED.
SO THEN I'M, SO WHY IS, WHY IS, UH, I APPRECIATE YOU WANTING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, BUT WHY, WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING THE QUESTION? SO IT'S A STANDING MEETING THAT, THAT WE HAVE, UM, IT'S, I GUESS T C I CALLS IT.
AND YOU SET THE AGENDA AND YOU RUN THE MEETINGS.
UM, THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS FOR NOW, COUNCILWOMAN.
UM, MR. DAWSON, I HAVE A, A QUESTION ABOUT THE, UM, THE, THE CONFLICT POINTS.
THAT WAS, UH, UM, MY BIG QUESTION EARLY ON WAS JUST, UM, EVERYBODY WAS TELLING ME THAT IT WAS SAFER FOR THE BIKE LANES TO BE ON AVENUE B, AND I WANTED TO KNOW WHY, AND I WAS MADE TO UNDERSTAND THESE POINTS OF CONFLICT AND HOW THAT MAKES, UM, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY ON BROADWAY, THAT IT WOULD BE SAFER ON AVENUE B.
SO WHAT WE HAVE IS, UH, WE HAVE THESE DIFFERENT MODES OF TRANSPORTATION AND, UH, THE COMPLETE STREET, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING AROUND, IS A COMPLETE STREET AND WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF A COMPLETE STREET.
AND, UH, REALLY A COMPLETE STREET STARTS WITH THE PUBLIC, ALL MODES OF, UH, TRANSPORTATION, PEDESTRIANS, TRANSIT, UH, BICYCLES, AND EVENTUALLY THE AUTOMOBILE.
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO THEN IS SAY, ALL RIGHT, WELL, HOW MANY OF EACH OF THESE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION ARE WE GONNA HAVE WITHIN THIS WIDTH OF RIGHT OF WAY? AND, UH, IF YOU HAVE 120 FEET, UH, THEN YOU CAN PUT 'EM ALL IN.
AND THERE'S STANDARDS FOR, UH, PROTECTION.
SO LET'S TAKE FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THE, THE OPTION THAT SEEMS TO, UH, UH, SPLIT THE BABY, AND THAT'S THE FOUR LANE OPTION WITH BICYCLE LANES.
UH, BUT, UH, NOW YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ON-STREET PARKING, UH, THE TRYING TO ACTIVATE THOSE BUSINESSES ALONG THERE WITH, ON-STREET PARKING, YOU HAVE CONFLICTS WITH RIDE SHARE AND PEOPLE, UH, TRYING TO PULL OVER TO PARK AND DELIVERIES.
UH, SO NOW YOU'VE CREATED A CONFLICT THERE.
ALSO, WITH THAT OPTION, YOU HAVE THE BUSES IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO A CURB, A TWO FOOT CURB WITH PEOPLE UNLOADING IN OFF OF A BUS DIRECTLY INTO A BICYCLE LANE.
YOU CAN IMAGINE AN ELDERLY PERSON COMING INTO A BICYCLE LANE, AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE JUST, YOU KNOW, RIDING THEIR BIKE, NOT EXPECTING SOMEONE TO JUMP OFF OF A BUS OR SOMEONE PULLS UP TO THAT CURB, THROWS THEIR DOOR OPEN RIGHT INTO THE BICY LANE.
SO THOSE ARE THE TYPE OF CONFLICTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
THEN WHEN YOU GET TO AN INTERSECTION, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS MOVE THE CURBS IN AS CLOSE TO POSSIBLE TO EACH SIDE.
SO THEY HAVE TO CROSS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF STREET.
WELL, TO DO THAT, YOU GOTTA CREATE AN ISLAND OF A PEDESTRIAN AREA TO STAND, WHICH MEANS THE BICYCLE LANE GOES BEHIND THAT ISLAND.
WELL, NOW YOU'VE CREATED A SIX FOOT SIDEWALK, A BICYCLE LANE, AND A SIX FOOT SIDEWALK.
YOU'RE CREATING A LOT OF CONFLICT BETWEEN PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLE RIDERS.
SO THAT IS THE CHALLENGE THAT THE DESIGN TEAM, UH, HAS BEEN DEALING WITH, IS TRYING TO FIND, THIS IS ABOUT SAFETY.
WHAT, AS THE DESIGN CONSULTANTS AS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, S T C I, WHEN WE DESIGNATE A BICYCLE LANE ON A STREET, THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS GOING TO SAY, HEY, SOMEBODY KNOWING WHAT THEY KNOW, KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE DOING, AND THEY SAID, IT'S SAFE TO RIDE MY BICYCLE HERE.
AND, UH, WE ARE TRYING TO FIND IN THIS VERY RESTRICTED AREA WHAT IS A SAFE SOLUTION.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE THE POINT, UH, YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT CONFLICT.
THAT'S THE POINT OF CONFLICT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY.
AND I, I, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY WHERE I'M COMING FROM.
I'VE, AFTER HEARING OUR CITIZENS TODAY, UM, SPEAK ABOUT THIS ISSUE, I, IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT FOR ME TO SEE THE BIKE LANES ANYWHERE OTHER THAN AVENUE B.
AND BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE CAN'T MAKE, WE CAN'T RISK BIKE LANES, UM, OR SAFETY REALLY AT THE, THE RISK OF, OF A STATEMENT THAT WE NEED TO MAKE.
AND I ABSOLUTELY WANT TO MAKE THAT STATEMENT.
I BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE MORE MOBILITY, MORE PEDESTRIAN AND, AND BICYCLE FRIENDLY AVENUES.
BUT I DON'T WANNA MAKE THAT STATEMENT AT THE, AT THE SAKE OF OUR SAFETY.
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OUR CITIZENS TODAY MENTIONED THAT, A, A QUOTE, YOU KNOW, UM, WE WANT SAFE FACILITIES FOR OUR CHILDREN.IF I CHOOSE TO RIDE A BICYCLE, I SHOULD BE SAFE.
WE'RE NOT CONFIDENT THAT BROADWAY IS SAFE.
I WANT SAFE STREETS FOR MY FELLOW BICYCLISTS AND OTHERS.
BRIAN SAID IT, WELL, THIS IS NOT A, IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, US VERSUS THEM.
IT'S NOT CYCLISTS VERSUS PEDESTRIAN VERSUS CARS.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A COMPROMISE.
AND WE'RE, I THINK WE'RE STILL GONNA EXPERIENCE A, A MODE SHIFT, REMIND EVERYBODY THAT TWO THIRDS OF BROADWAY IS GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA HAVE THESE BIKE LANES.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE STRETCH, WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT STRETCH.
AND I DO SUPPORT THAT MY COLLEAGUES NEED, UM, TO BE MADE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS AND, AND, UM, THAT WE NEED, I DON'T, I DON'T DENOUNCE IT THAT IT NEEDS SOME SCRUTINY.
IT'S JUST, I, I'M, I'M HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME GETTING BACK PAST THE SAFETY ISSUE FROM BOTH SIDES.
UM, AND I, YOU KNOW, I GOTTA AGREE, I'M GONNA PICK UP ON THAT.
I, GOOD DESIGN CAN, CAN ALWAYS, CAN ALWAYS, UH, WHETHER, ANY KIND OF SCRUTINY.
AND I THINK WE'VE ARRIVED TO THAT.
AND, UH, GENE, I'M, I WANT TO KIND OF ASK YOU A COUPLE THINGS, AND LET'S START OFF ON THE, THE, JUST THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS, AS WE TALKED ABOUT, IT'S PUBLIC SAFETY.
WHAT IS YOUR LICENSE OR YOUR REGISTRATION ALL ABOUT? WELL, AN ENGINEER'S LICENSE ABOUT PROTECTING THE PUBLIC.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE BEST DESIGN? WHAT ARE, WHAT'S THE FACTS? AND, UH, MAKE, UH, TAKE THE BEST INFORMATION THAT'S AVAILABLE, NOT ONLY IN YOUR CITY, OTHER CITIES, WHAT OTHER, UH, DESIGN PROFESSIONALS HAVE DONE, AND APPLY THOSE PRACTICES TO THE QUESTION THAT YOU HAVE.
SO EVERY PROJECT YOU DO, THAT'S THE FIRST PRIORITY? YES, THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF AN ENGINEER'S LICENSE.
UH, AND IT'S ALSO, YOU KNOW, PART OF WHAT WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HERE IS, IS UNDERSTANDING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO GET, UH, COMFORTABLE WITH THE, THE DESIGN THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT WAS CRAFTED BY DESIGN PROFESSIONALS, THAT WAS CRAFTED BY, UH, THE FOLKS WHO ARE GONNA STAMP AND SEAL THESE DRAWINGS.
AND AT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THERE'S A RESPONSIBILITY WITH THAT, THAT COMES WITH THAT SEAL.
UM, I'LL ASK ROD, TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE CITY LOOKS AT THAT.
I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I GUESS WE, WE EXIST IS, IS, IS TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
SO THAT, THAT'S PARAMOUNT IN, IN, IN EVERY PROJECT THAT, UH, THAT WE'RE INVOLVED WITH.
UH, IT, IT, IT'S ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY AND DOING WHAT IS THE SAFEST FOR OUR CITY.
SO IF YOU HIRED A NEGLIGENT OR NOT QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL, WHAT HAPPENS? I MEAN, WE ULTIMATELY, WE WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, UH, WE WOULD SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
AND, UH, ULTIMATELY, I, I BELIEVE THAT WE WOULD TERMINATE THEM AND WE WOULD FIND SOMEONE THAT, UH, IS BETTER QUALIFIED TO DO THAT PROJECT.
AND DO YOU SEE ANYBODY ON THIS PROJECT THAT'S NOT QUALIFIED? NO.
UM, I'M GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BOND PROCESS.
UM, MY STAFF AND I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS SINCE 2015, AND WE'VE BEEN AT ALL THE MEETINGS, EVERY SINGLE ONE.
UM, AND THEY, I THINK THIS PROCESS WAS, HAS GOT TO BE, AND I I, WE'VE NEVER ACTUALLY MEASURED IT EXACTLY, BUT I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT ANY OTHER BOND, UH, PROJECT HAD THIS MUCH ATTENTION FROM THE GET GO.
IT HAD THIS MUCH INVESTMENT, IT HAD THIS MUCH INVOLVEMENT FROM THE COMMUNITY.
WE EVEN HAD AS PART OF THE, THE BUILD YOUR OWN BROADWAY.
I, I DO RECALL WORKING WITH CENTRO AND, AND, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THE EVENT SPACE AT PEARL WAS FREE, WAS IT NOT? AND SO THERE WAS MANY ASPECTS OF THIS PROJECT THAT INCLUDED MANY FOLKS FROM ALL OVER OUR COMMUNITY, NOT NOT JUST THE STAKEHOLDERS UP AND DOWN BROADWAY, BUT WE HAD NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE RIVER ROAD.
AND YOU'VE, WE'VE HEARD FROM THEM SEVERAL TIMES ALREADY.
IN FACT, I WILL, I WOULD ALSO MENTION THAT WE WERE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT SELECTING OUR 2017 BOND COMMITTEES THIS MORNING.
I SPOKE WITH, UH, BOTH SONNY COLLINS AND ROSA VALEZ.
ROSA VALEZ IS A CIVIL ENGINEER.
WE PICKED HER TO BE ON THE STREETS AND SIDEWALKS COMMITTEE, BOTH OF THEM.
I ASKED THEM POINT BLANK ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
BOTH OF THEM EXPRESSED HOW MUCH THEY ENJOYED BEING ON THIS PROJECT, HOW MUCH THEY FELT THIS WAS, UH, VERY OPEN, VERY TRANSPARENT, VERY INCLUSIVE.
THEY COMMENDED STAFF FOR ALWAYS, UH, ACCOMMODATING THEM, ACCOMMODATING THEIR QUESTIONS, ANSWERING THEIR QUESTIONS.
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AND OF COURSE, THEY BROUGHT UP THE THINGS THAT WE DID DO AS A CITY, NOT JUST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CENTRO.THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT DONE ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE CITY.
THAT'S A DISTRICT ONE INITIATIVE.
WE ACTUALLY HELD A, A BOND BLOCK PARTY.
WE HAD, WE HAD FOOD, WE HAD BANDS, WE HAD OTHER ENTITIES COME OUT.
AND WE, WE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BOND.
UM, DAVID HURD ALSO CONTACTED ME, WHO, WHO CHAIRED THIS SECTION OF THE BOND COMMITTEES AND HAS EXPRESSED, UH, YOU KNOW, CONCERN THAT, THAT ANYBODY MIGHT SAY THAT THERE WASN'T ENOUGH OUTREACH.
THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT OUTREACH.
UM, AND HE, UH, WAS, WAS VERY, VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN MAKING SURE THAT ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, THE, THE PUBLIC, UH, IN TOTAL FELT VERY COMFORTABLE WITH HOW THESE, UH, UH, MEETINGS WERE HELD AND HOW THEY WERE ADVERTISED.
AND AGAIN, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD, UM, A VERY, VERY SUCCESSFUL BOND ELECTION.
WE KNOW THAT COMMUNICATING THE ELEMENTS OF, OF, OF SUCH A COMPLEX PROJECT WAS SO CRITICAL, BUT IT WAS ALSO PART OF A, OF A, THE LARGEST BOND ELECTION THAT WE EVER HAD.
AND, UH, AND AGAIN, I, I THINK THAT THERE WAS A LOT TO BE SAID ABOUT THE BOND PROCESS.
NOW, NOW I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT THE PROJECT LIMITATIONS, UM, FROM THE GET GO.
WE ALSO LEARNED A LOT ABOUT, UH, WHAT THE EMPHASIS OF THE BOND, THE, THE BOND PROJECT FOR BROADWAY WOULD BE.
AND THE EMPHASIS CLEARLY WAS COMPLETE STREETS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY.
OKAY? AND IT EVEN SAID BETTER AND CONNECT BETTER WITH AVENUE B AND ALAMO STREETS, UM, IN FACT, TERMS LIKE WALKABLE URBANISM AND WALKABLE CONTEXT, UH, WERE WERE DESCRIBED.
IN FACT, IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE FACTOR FOR PEOPLE TO SPEND TIME IS AN ECONOMIC DRIVER.
AND THAT MEANS, GUESS WHAT? WIDE SIDEWALKS SHADE, GOOD, SOLID PLANNING AND PRIORITIZING HOW WE DO COMPLETE STREETS.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND IT WAS ASKED EARLIER ABOUT HOW WIDE SIDEWALKS SHOULD BE.
WELL, SIDEWALKS SHOULD ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE OF ALL ABILITIES.
AND THERE'S SO MUCH THAT I KNOW WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT THE, THE, THE OPPORTUNITIES IN TERMS OF HOW WE ACCOMMODATE ALL SECTIONS OF, OF THIS BROADWAY CONCEPT.
AND THE IDEA IS THAT IT'S A CORRIDOR.
IT'S NOT JUST, WE SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT IT JUST AS A STREET.
AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT CAME AS A RESULT OF THESE LIMITATIONS WAS OPPORTUNITY.
AND THE OPPORTUNITY WAS TO GO TO AVENUE B.
THERE WAS THE OFFER TO GO TO ALAMO STREET, BUT THAT WAS REJECTED FOR AVENUE B.
AND THAT'S IN OUR NOTES, THAT'S IN, THAT'S IN THE MEETINGS THAT WE ALL WENT TO.
AND WHAT AVENUE B OFFERS IS A SIGNIFICANT, SIGNIFICANT, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE TRULY PROTECTED BIKE LANES, BUT NOT JUST THE BIKE LANES.
AND I, I'M GLAD COUNCILMAN HOER BROUGHT THIS UP ABOUT THE POINTS OF CONFLICT.
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIGGEST, UH, POINTS IS ALSO INTERSECTIONS.
AND WITH AVENUE B, YOU DON'T HAVE THESE CONFLICTS.
YOU REALLY TRULY HAVE, NOT JUST PROTECTED BY CLAIMS, BUT PROTECTED INTERSECTIONS.
AND THAT'S THE PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATION.
THAT'S THE RECOMMENDATION I'M FOLLOWING.
UM, IT WAS ASKED ABOUT ZONING, YOU KNOW, DISTRICT ONE LAST YEAR SAW 128 ZONING CASES.
UM, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF WIDE AREA REZONING, CORRECTIVE ZONING.
THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE.
AND IT'S BECAUSE THINGS CHANGE.
AND AS WE START TO STUDY THEM IN MORE DETAIL, WE'RE EXPECTED TO, TO RESPOND TO THAT GROWTH.
WE'RE EXPECTED TO RESPOND TO, TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND TO, TO THE GROWTH.
AND MAKE SURE THAT IT, IT, IT'S IN LINE WITH OUR, WITH OUR VALUES AND IN LINE WITH, UH, AGAIN, SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE CAN THINK OF AT THE TOP BEING PUBLIC SAFETY, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ZONING ISSUES COMING UP, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S PART OF A, PART OF THIS PROCESS.
AND AGAIN, I WANT TO COMMENCE STAFF FOR DOING THAT.
ADDITIONALLY, IT, IT, IT REALLY POINTS OUT THAT WE, WE ALL AGREE THAT WE WANT THESE THINGS.
WE WANT TO DO 'EM IN A, IN A VERY SMART AND THOUGHTFUL WAY.
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AND EVERYBODY THAT I TALK TO WANTS, WANTS TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE.UH, I ABSOLUTELY DO SUPPORT A MASTER PLAN, AND I HAVE TO AGREE, WHOEVER SAID, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANNA CREATE A PLAN AND JUST LEAVE IT ON A SHELF.
WE WANT TO CREATE A PLAN, AND THEN WE WANT TO EXECUTE ON THE THAT PLAN.
UM, SO I KNOW THAT, UH, ROD, YOU'RE, YOU'RE WORKING WITH SEVERAL ENTITIES, AS YOU MENTIONED, A I A U T S A PEP, UH, AND SO FORTH.
UH, I BELIEVE CENTRO AND OTHERS, UH, ARE GETTING INVOLVED.
AND I THINK THAT'S A REALLY, A REALLY GREAT THING, AND WE CAN SET AN EXAMPLE FOR HOW WE CAN PLAN BETTER AND EXECUTE ON THAT.
UM, REALLY WE'RE, WE'RE AT THE, THE TAIL END OF A FOUR YEAR PROCESS AND, UH, AND POLITICS.
IT DOES HAVE A ROLE IN DESIGN, BUT IT SHOULD BE AT THE VERY FRONT OF THE PROCESS, NOT AT THE END.
UM, THIS, UH, WILL SEND A, A TERRIBLE MESSAGE ABOUT HOW WE DO PROJECTS IN OUR CITY, HOW WE HANDLE PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS, HOW WE VALUE THE, THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS.
UH, IN FACT, WE JUST ADOPTED THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN BASED ON THOSE SIMILAR PRINCIPLES.
UM, THIS LAST FRIDAY, I HAD LUNCH WITH RAY SALDANA.
IT WAS GREAT TO SEE MY FORMER COUNCIL COLLEAGUE.
HE WAS AROUND WHEN WE'D HAD THE, THE 2017 BOND.
HE CHAIRED THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, AND NOW HE, WE KNOW HIM AS THE CHAIR OF VIA.
AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS, NOW, YOU, I KNOW VIA, SENT A LETTER TO T T C I AND ESSENTIALLY SAID IF, IF WE, UH, FORCE THE ISSUE OF BIKE LANES ON LOWER BROADWAY, THEN VIA WOULD BE FORCED TO LOOK AT MOVING OFF OF BROADWAY, WHICH RAY SALDANA GAVE HIS EXPRESS PERMISSION TO SAY HE HAS CONCERNS ABOUT THAT.
THIS REALLY IS, IS CONCERNING IN TERMS OF HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF, OF ALL ASPECTS OF, OF THE WAY WE MOVE PEOPLE, NOT JUST DOWNTOWN, BUT ANYWHERE.
AND SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THERE IS, THERE, WE, WE MENTIONED, UH, UH, RAPID, RAPID TRANSIT.
WE MENTIONED MOVING PEOPLE, UH, AND SAFETY.
AND I, I'M HERE TO SAY THAT I, I THINK THAT, UH, THAT LETTER FROM, FROM VIA, THAT CAME FROM VIA, UH, I GUESS A MONTH AND A HALF AGO, AND MY CONVERSATION WITH, WITH RAY SALDANA WOULD INDICATE AS WELL.
UM, LASTLY, I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED WITH THIS PROCESS SHOULD BE, SHOULD BE THANKED.
SO MUCH INVESTMENT WENT INTO THIS IDEA OF A PROCESS, THIS IDEA OF INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY, ALL NUMEROUS ARTICLES, SO MUCH ATTENTION THAT WENT INTO THIS SPECIFIC PROJECT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THIS.
AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THIS REALLY TRULY HAD A, HAD A VERY SPECIAL, UH, GOAL IN MIND.
AND THAT'S TO TRULY MAKE THE CITY SO MUCH GREATER THAN IT IS TODAY, TRULY IMPROVE THE CORRIDOR.
TRULY MAKE AN EXAMPLE FOR HOW WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, BOND PROJECTS AS COMPLETELY TRANSFORMATIVE AND THOUGHTFUL AND, AND REALLY LEAD WITH SOME INCREDIBLE THOUGHT LEADERS AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TO, TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
SO, UH, AGAIN, I, I THINK THAT WE NEED, WE ARE, I SHOULD SAY I'M SATISFIED WITH, WITH THE, UH, THE DESIGN WHERE IT IS.
I HOPE TO GET THIS GOING, GET IT UNDERWAY.
AND, UM, IT IS, I THINK IT'S GONNA SET THE RIGHT EXAMPLE IN TERMS OF HOW CORRIDOR PROJECTS SHOULD BE LOOKED AT.
THERE'S MANY MORE CORRIDORS TO LOOK AT, LIKE FREDERICKSBURG ROAD, SAN PEDRO, UH, ROOSEVELT AND SUCH.
AND I THINK WE, WE HAVE A 500 SQUARE MILE, UH, CITY THAT WE MUST PAY ATTENTION TO AND NOT GET STUCK ON JUST EIGHT BLOCKS.
SO, I, I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS COUNCILMAN TINO AND I ARE VERY MUCH IN OPPOSITE SIDES OF THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE.
NO SECRET TO ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM.
UH, PRIMARILY 'CAUSE I BELIEVE IT IS OUR ROLE TO ALWAYS QUESTION STAFF.
UM, I BELIEVE IT IS OUR ROLE AS PEOPLE ELECTED BY THE VOTERS TO ENSURE THAT WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED ACTUALLY GETS DONE.
UM, AND OUR ROLE IS TO MAKE POLICY, AND THEN THE ROLE OF STAFF IS TO MOVE THAT POLICY.
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HAVE A COMPLETE STREETS POLICY, WE HAVE A VISION ZERO POLICY.WE HAVE A BOND THAT ASKED FOR CONNECTED BIKE LANES.
IT WAS BASED ON FEEDBACK BY THE COMMUNITY, BUT THEN PRIMARILY AFTER THAT, AND EVEN BEFORE THEN, PRIMARILY DEVELOPER LED.
AND, UH, I APPRECIATE THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND ALL THEY DO TO MAKE OUR CITY GREAT.
WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE PROJECTS LIKE THE PEARL THAT ARE THE ENVY OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, AND I BELIEVE VERY STRONGLY THAT DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY WILL MAKE CREATIVE PROJECTS.
AND I BELIEVE THAT THEY WANT TO SEE DEVELOPMENT ON THE CORRIDOR.
I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF DEVELOPMENT OF ON THE CORRIDOR.
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF THIS INVESTMENT IN BROADWAY AND THIS INVESTMENT IN OUR DOWNTOWN.
UH, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST, I I THINK THAT THERE WAS A CONFLICT, UH, THAT MERITS, UH, A, A FULL COUNCIL DISCUSSION.
AND THAT'S WHY I WAS LOOKING FOR A MOTION FROM ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES TO JUST BRING THIS TO THE FULL COUNCIL SO WE CAN HAVE IT FULLY VETTED.
UH, BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER, BECAUSE EITHER WAY WE HAVE A ZONING CHANGE THAT IS GONNA HAVE TO GO TO THE COUNCIL.
SO LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE TAKE THIS DISCUSSION TO FULL COUNSEL AND NOW THE ATTORNEY IS COMING FORWARD.
WELL, ACTUALLY THE, THIS IS ONLY AGENDIZED AS A BRIEFING.
IT WAS NOT AGENDIZED FOR ACTION.
EVERYBODY KNEW THAT THE COUNCILWOMAN WANTED THIS FOR ACTION, AND THAT THE NUMBER OF THAT IS A PURPOSEFUL OVERSIGHT THAT THIS, THIS, LET ME, LET ME THIS BEYOND, LET MAKE EGREGIOUS, WE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH ERIC AND THE STAFF THAT WE WOULD ASK FOR ACTION ON THIS AGENDA ITEM.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE POINT THAT IT IS NOT AGENDIZED FOR ACTION.
YOU CAN ASK FOR STAFF TO MOVE IT FORWARD WITHOUT A VOTE.
YOU CAN ALSO ASK FOR ANOTHER MEETING TO BE CALLED SPECIFICALLY FOR ACTION TO MOVE THIS FORWARD.
SO YOU HAVE THOSE TWO OPTIONS AVAILABLE.
SO YOU CAN ASK THAT STAFF MOVE IT FORWARD WITHOUT A VOTE.
IT'S NOT NECESSARY TO HAVE A VOTE.
COULD MOVE THIS FORWARD WITHOUT A VOTE, PLEASE.
I, I WOULD SECOND, UM, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
ALL IN FAVOR? WE CAN'T A MOTION, BUT YES, WE HAVE A MOTION.
UH, WE DON'T, COUNCILMAN PERRY HAS LEFT.
SO WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO HAVE, UM, A, A PROBLEM IF ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES WON'T SUPPORT MOVING THIS TO THE COUNCIL FOR AN A SESSION TO BE FULLY VETTED CONSIDERING, UH, THE AMOUNT OF DISCREPANCY AND THE LARGE BOND DOLLARS OVER $50 MILLION, UH, APPROVED FOR THIS PROJECT.
SO, SORRY IF, IF I MAY, ROD, SO WHAT WOULD YOU NEED FOR US TO FORWARD THIS TO COUNCIL WITHOUT A MOTION? JUST, UM, SEVERAL OF US EXPRESSING THAT WE'RE, I GUESS THE CONSENSUS FROM THE GROUP THAT RIGHT.
SO I MEAN, WELL, WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE.
UM, I THINK COUNCILWOMAN, SO WE HAVE TWO.
WELL, UM, SO, UM, I, I SUPPOSE WHAT, WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS HERE? SO WE DON'T HAVE A FAILED MOTION.
WE DO HAVE, UM, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WHO DID ASK THAT WE MOVE THIS FORWARD.
I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S NO DIRECTION FROM THE COMMITTEE.
UM, CAN YOU GIVE US A LITTLE DIRECTION HERE? I IF YOU HAVE, UM, ESSENTIALLY THERE IS NO CLEAR CONSENSUS.
SO THERE ISN'T NECESSARILY A DIRECT, UM, SORT OF MANDATE THAT STAFF MOVE IT FORWARD.
AND IF YOU WERE TO HAVE A VOTE AND YOU HAVE A TWO TWO VOTE, THAT'S A FAILED MOTION.
YOU NEED A MAJORITY TO MOVE THAT FORWARD.
SO OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NOT AVAILABLE TODAY.
SO THIS IS SIMPLY JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.
I THINK STAFF CAN CON, UH, CONTINUE TO CONSIDER THAT CAN TALK TO ERIC AND TALK TO THE REST OF THE COUNCIL AND DETERMINE THE BEST WAY FORWARD.
BUT AT THIS POINT, YOU, YOU'RE CORRECT.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE STYMIED TO TWO TWO ESSENTIALLY IT'S A SPLIT WITHOUT CLEAR CONSENSUS.
SO WE'D HAVE TO GO FORWARD WITH THAT AND JUST TRY TO WORK THROUGH IT.
ALRIGHT, WELL, UM, WE WOULD, UH, UH, I KNOW THAT WE CAN ALWAYS REQUEST A B SESSION, UM, TO HAVE, UH, ANOTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM.
I THINK THAT THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE, I CAN MOVE IT TO BE SESSION.
CAN I, CAN I DO THAT WITHOUT A FULL CONSENSUS? AGAIN, THE, THE SAME RULES APPLY IS YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE THE REQUEST AND, AND ASK FOR THAT TO BE CONSIDERED, BUT WITHOUT HAVING, YOU KNOW, UH, A CLEAR CONSENSUS OR A MAJORITY ON A VOTE, IT'S SIMPLY A REQUEST AND A SUGGESTION TO STAFF.
UM, WELL, I WOULD REQUEST THAT WE MOVE IT TO AN, A SESSION FOR FULL DISCUSSION TO THE COUNCIL.
UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN'T DO THAT, THEN I WOULD MOVE THAT, OR AT LEAST ASK THAT WE HAVE A B SESSION CONSIDERING, UM, THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING HERE AND THAT THERE IS SOME
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CONCERN THAT THIS WAS NOT A VOTER APPROVED PROJECT.WELL I GUESS WE'RE DONE WITH THAT.
IS DID THAT COVER ALL OF OUR ITEMS? OKAY, THANK YOU.