City Council Mar 29, 2025

Mar 29

City Council Meeting Summary

Time	Item	Item Summary	Motion Summary	Comment Summary
00:00:23	None: None	Councilmember Sobieski announced that the Salcedo meeting is taking place at 420 Litho Street in the City Council Chamber and the Edgewater Room. The meeting is also available on the city's website, Zoom, and cable TV channel 29.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:00:42	1: CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL - 12:30 PM	Mayor Cox called the meeting to order (00:00:42). The roll call was taken, with Councilmembers Blaustein, Hoffman, and Sobieski, Vice Mayor Woodside, and Mayor Cox all present. The council adjourned to a closed session for 30 minutes regarding anticipated litigation (00:01:40). The regular meeting was scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Mayor Cox announced that the two-hour parking limit on the streets surrounding City Hall had been lifted (00:00:57). Councilmember Sobieski noted that speaker slips and agendas were available downstairs (00:02:22). Mayor Cox thanked the city clerk for attending on his 11th wedding anniversary (00:01:26). Mayor Cox asked people who were not seated to take advantage of the chairs downstairs because of fire hazards and lack of circulation (00:01:58).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:03:10	3: RECONVENE TO OPEN SESSION - 1:00 PM	The meeting is called back to order at 1:00 PM by Mayor Cox, following a closed session. There are no announcements from the closed session. Roll call is conducted, with Councilmembers Blaustein, Hoffman, and Sobieski, Vice Mayor Woodside, and Mayor Cox all present. Roger Taylor leads the Pledge of Allegiance.	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:04:48	4: BUSINESS ITEMS	The meeting is transitioning to business items. (00:04:48)	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

00:04:54	4.A: Provide direction to staff regarding the acceptance of OBAG3 funding for the construction of the Bridgeway Bike Lane Project - Princess to Richardson in the amount of $504,600	Kevin McGowan, Public Works Director, introduces the item, providing background on Bridgeway, its historical modifications, and previous studies regarding sea level rise and bicycle traffic. He mentions the OBAG3 funding opportunity and the need for a city council resolution to accept the funds. He notes that police and fire do not typically use the center median for access, but it can be helpful when the vehicle lane is obstructed. Traffic engineering consultant, Parametrix, studied the section of roadway and will present their findings. A short presentation from WRT will address possible issues and of this section of roadway related to sea level rise. David Parisi with Parametrics, introduces himself and his team, explaining their role in studying the feasibility of bikeways along Bridgeway between Princess and Second Streets, aligned with the $504,000 grant. He emphasizes the importance of safety improvements and mentions an assessment of reported collisions over a 10-year period. Jen Schreiber continues the presentation. She explains a two-way left turn lane and details that the center lane on the roadway is striped as a two-way left turn lane. The presentation includes curb management scenarios, showing how the delivery trucks could be accomodated if the center lane was repurposed. In particular, there are a number of parking violations in this corridor. A potential emergency staging scenario is presented. Safety data for the corridor is presented, which notes a high rate of collisions along the roadway. A variety of alternative scenarios are presented to consider the benefits, and the tradeoffs. David Parisi concludes that bikeways are feasible. Overall, Parametriks is confident the plan could address many of the safety issues of the roadway and make it a more complete street for everyone. Councilmembers asked for a screen in the back for audience members. Mayor Cox requested turning off some lights to make it easier to see. It was noted that there is a screen in the back of the room. Councilmember Hoffman asked for slide 16, also mentions street numbers. This includes next steps, including some additional ideas. Staff will also give a presentation regarding Sea Level Rise vulnerability, through the plans, through the plans, vulnerability analysis and observations of winter storm events. WRT will make a presentation to the council regarding this section of Bridgeway.	Motion to respectfully decline the grant (03:41:14). Seconded (03:38:53). All in favor (03:57:59).	15 Total: 3 In Favor 11 Against 1 Neutral
02:39:35 Jim Gabbert was Against: Objects to the plan, stating that the lack of knowledge and under utilization of the center turning lane is unbelievable. Notes that emergency vehicles use the median often in the summer and that there will be traffic jams. He presents a petition signed by 1021 residents who oppose the removal of the median lane. 02:41:16 Roger Taylor was Against: Says he'll focus on safety. Claims the previous councilmember has a correct summary. Says that with a UC Berkeley system query, there are no injury accidents along the corridor, there is no safety problem to deal with. 02:42:33 Jan Johnson was Against: Old Town resident of 31 years, who objects to the project. The plan requires increased enforcement that the Police department can not support. Citizens do not want it. The city can't attest that there will be no litigation. 02:43:49 Bert Drobness was Against: States there is incredulity in the accident numbers. He suggests they have a hidden agenda to ramp up the numbers. Also stated that the two-way left-hand turn is used as a safety release valve in traffic to relieve traffic congestion in an emergency. Notes he would approve acceptance of the money if it was just for seal coating, re-striping and adding crosswalks. States the people have spoken to keep the median. 02:45:14 Kieran Culligan was In Favor: Says that it's ironic that a Marin IJ piece was published minimizing the safety concerns on Bridgeway, and that very same day a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and had to be taken to the hospital. This happens again and again, and leaders need to act to prevent the next tragedy. 02:46:10 Cameron Duncan was Neutral: Indicates that with sea level rise coming, investment towards the future is important, and that the council should make the current safety issues a moot point. 02:47:27 Laurie Viot was Against: Lists four reasons to vote no and keep the median in place: 1. the emergency vehicles must have a way to respond to calls. 2. Traffic will be heavily congested. 3. Residents on Bridgeway will no longer be able to access their driveways and garages, adding to traffic congestion. 4. The study is unnecessary and will cost taxpayers millions, instead of addressing known issues such as those with storm drains. 02:50:20 Joris Van Menz was In Favor: Expresses concern about current uses of Bridgeway. Notes, his family bikes the route but that he dreams of a future where they can safely bike the route without concern. There could be 10 more accidents. Supports bike lanes. 02:51:33 Alice Merrill was Against: Thinks the graphic presented was a "bit much". Resident of Sausalito. Says that she believes that Sausalito is not enthusiastic about the Bay Trail and it is not the end of the world. All she wants is for drivers to be polite and the council should just lower the speed limits, rather than add crossings. 02:52:23 Annie Porter was Against: 35 year Old Town resident; does not feel there is a need for bike lanes. States that if one wants emergency services to work they want the center land there and says the proposed plan does not make any sense. 02:54:32 Adarsh Bhatt was Against: Says he lives a block from the area. Said that old part of Bridgeway is very charming and urges the council to maintain the current configuration. Stated he is in favor of crosswalks, and notes concerns regarding the safety of everyone, including cyclists. 02:56:39 Melissa Mooney was Against: Says she has lived in Sausalito since 1999 and states that there is not an actual need for the proposed plan. She notes also that the presentation did not sit well with her, since the presenters seemed to be speculating on things during their presentation. 03:07:17 Tyler Peterson was In Favor: States he is presenting for Adrian Britton who could not be there personally. He delivers a petition with almost 500 signatures to the city clerk. He is coming back to the city, notes the needs and safety for bikers needs to be considered. 03:08:10 Suzanna Suvest was Against: Is the owner of Suzette at 633 Bridgeway and 48% of the revenue is related to her parklet, in summer it jumps to 66%. So if you remove the parklet, she would loose a lot of money and may not survive if the parklet is removed and asks the members to consider this. 03:29:53 Meg Ackerson was Against: Resident of the town, claims they have used Switrs data but the data sets have been moved around and they are looking at specific incidents now to determine safety. The police also agrees with her that the current roadway is fine.
04:02:19	5: ADJOURNMENT	Mayor Cox confirmed the meeting's conclusion and adjourned the session at (04:02:22).	No Motion	0 Total: 0 In Favor 0 Against 0 Neutral

City Council Meeting Transcript

Adrian Brinton

City Council Apr 1, 2025

Time	Speaker	Text
00:00:23.40	Councilmember Sobieski	Salcedo is taking place over in 420 Litho Street in the City Council Chamber. It's also in the Edgewater Room on the first floor, and it's also available on the city's website and on Zoom and cable TV channel 29.
00:00:42.94	Mayor Cox	Thank you, city clerk. I will call the meeting.
00:00:45.31	Mayor Cox	to order and ask you to call roll.
00:00:47.99	Council member Blaustein	Council member Blaustein.
00:00:49.17	Mayor Cox	present.
00:00:49.93	Council member Blaustein	Councilmember Hoffman.
00:00:51.25	Mayor Cox	Here.
00:00:51.84	Councilmember Sobieski	Councilmember Sobieski. Here. Vice Mayor Woodside. Here. And Mayor Cox.
00:00:56.38	Mayor Cox	Here.
00:00:57.74	Mayor Cox	We are going to start off our meeting with a closed session. So we will be adjourning to close session for 30 minutes, and then the regular meeting will start at 1 p.m. I do want to let people know that during this meeting this afternoon, the two-hour parking limit on the streets surrounding City Hall has been lifted, and so people can park on our side streets without worrying about getting a ticket. And I want to thank all of you who are here already.
00:01:26.65	Mayor Cox	Thank you for your interest. I also want to thank our city clerk for being here. Today is his 11th wedding anniversary, and he has chosen to spend the day with us.
00:01:40.78	Mayor Cox	All right, so we will be adjourning to close session for a conference with legal counsel regarding anticipated litigation, significant exposure to litigation under Government Code Section 54956.9D2.
00:01:53.92	Mayor Cox	Is there any public comment on our closed session?
00:01:57.33	Councilmember Sobieski	Seeing none.
00:01:58.73	Mayor Cox	Very well, we will adjourn to closed session. We will reconvene to comment. So I'm gonna ask that city staff help me, but I can't have this many people in the room. It's a fire hazard. There's no ability of, there's not enough circulation. So I am gonna ask some of those of you who are not seated to,
00:02:17.85	Mayor Cox	take advantage of the chairs downstairs. I thank you and appreciate your cooperation.
00:02:22.10	Councilmember Sobieski	I'm going to go.
00:02:22.15	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:02:22.19	Councilmember Sobieski	I'd also like to one moment. I'd also like to note that there are speaker slips downstairs. If you haven't filled one out. And so we have speaker slips and agendas also down there.
00:03:03.50	Kieran Culligan	Balfred, are you ready?
00:03:04.63	Mayor Cox	Walford, are you ready?
00:03:06.28	Kieran Culligan	Thank you.
00:03:06.30	Councilmember Sobieski	Yeah.
00:03:06.52	Kieran Culligan	you
00:03:06.58	Mayor Cox	City Clerk, are you ready?
00:03:10.15	Councilmember Sobieski	It's 1 o'clock. Yeah, we're ready.
00:03:14.26	Unknown	Yeah.
00:03:15.66	Unknown	Thank you.
00:03:28.62	Unknown	They all are going.
00:03:41.01	Mayor Cox	Okay.
00:03:42.17	Mayor Cox	I'm going to call this meeting back to order. It's 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Thank you all so much for being here. We just returned from closed session. There are no closed session announcements. Is there any comment on closed session?
00:04:01.31	Mayor Cox	City Clerk.
00:04:02.61	Mayor Cox	Oh.
00:04:03.10	Councilmember Sobieski	See none.
00:04:04.48	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:04:05.92	Mayor Cox	All right, so then we will start with roll call again.
00:04:12.19	Councilmember Sobieski	Councilmember Blaustein.
00:04:13.88	Councilmember Sobieski	Thank you.
00:04:13.90	Mayor Cox	present.
00:04:13.93	Councilmember Sobieski	Present. Councilmember Hoffman.
00:04:16.97	Mayor Cox	Here.
00:04:17.48	Councilmember Sobieski	Councilmember Sobieski? Here. Vice Mayor Woodside? Here. And Mayor Cox?
00:04:18.62	Mayor Cox	Here.
00:04:22.35	Mayor Cox	Here. We'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. Roger Taylor, will you lead us?
00:04:36.65	Roger Taylor	Thank you.
00:04:37.61	Roger Taylor	of the United States of America.
00:04:38.11	Unknown	States of America.
00:04:39.80	Roger Taylor	and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
00:04:48.10	Roger Taylor	Bye.
00:04:54.04	Mayor Cox	Give me a second.
00:05:03.24	Mayor Cox	May I have a motion approving the agenda? So moved.
00:05:06.80	Unknown	Second.
00:05:07.38	Mayor Cox	All in favor I that motion carries five zero okay so. We're going to turn to our one and only business item today provide direction to staff regarding the acceptance of O bag three funding. For the construction of the bridgeway bike lane project princess to Richardson in the amount of 504 thousand $600 before I turn it over to the city manager, I want to give my council members an opportunity to make any announcements, they would like.
00:05:33.35	Unknown	Thank you. We received some correspondence suggesting that there might be a need for recusals with regards to this project and I just wanted to share with members of the public that I have since moved I no longer live within 500 feet of the bridgeway bike lane I now live in the hills so I will not be needing to see feel need to recuse myself from this issue.
00:05:54.68	Unknown	Thank you.
00:05:54.69	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:05:56.26	Mayor Cox	Okay, so I'm going to turn this over to the city manager. We will hear from several folks retained and employees of the town, and then we will go to public comment. Seeing how many people we have here, I'm going to limit public comment to one minute per person so that we actually can get through this.
00:06:17.96	Mayor Cox	this item this afternoon and make a decision.
00:06:24.14	Mayor Cox	Okay, I'm going to also ask that in order to keep this meeting proceeding in an orderly manner, that you not clap, applaud, boo. Please extend each person the courtesy to have their words heard in a calm manner.
00:06:39.53	Mayor Cox	All right, and with that, I'll turn this over to the city manager.
00:06:42.50	Unknown	Thank you, Mayor. Can you all hear me?
00:06:45.06	Unknown	So thank you very much. Thank you, members of the public. A couple of comments I want to make sure that are understood before this gets going in earnest. One is we received significant public comment on this matter, and sometimes up to 2 o'clock in the morning last night. So one of the things we will tell you is all the comments that were received by the city staff will be part of the public record. So whatever was sent after Friday, we will make sure that it's part of the public record on going going forward secondly the mayor mentioned the Edgewater room is available and we have proctors that will help you get back and forth if you want to testify up here and that can be arranged for you there again are 59 seats there to provide seating for people that need seating and I also want to provide a little backdrop on the actual grant itself. We have had not one, not two, but three presentations in sequence. The first presentation was to the Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee. There was a second presentation to the Sustainability Commission. And there was a third presentation to the Chamber of Commerce. And so here we are today. And today's presentation format is going to be this way from city staff and our consultants. Director McGowan will provide some comment and introduction. It will be followed by our consultant parametrics. Our sustainability resiliency manager, Katie Tho Garcia, will provide some comment and introduction of ourRT, our C-level climate change consultant that has done some work on it. And then we will take questions from Council and then open this up to how the Council and the Mayor want to run the public meeting. But I'd like to start by introducing Director McGowan. Kevin, please.
00:08:32.44	Kevin McGowan	Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council members, and everybody in the audience. I'm Kevin McGowan, Public Works Director for the City of Sausalito. It's great to be here this afternoon, and I appreciate everybody's effort to come in and talk about this specific issue. So today I have just a short little couple things to say. I'll probably foreshorten what I was originally going to say because all of this is in the staff report. But today, I've got a brief introduction of the item, and then I'll hand the presentation over to Parametrics and WRT to discuss some of the recent analysis for this section of Bridgeway. As you know Bridgeway is a main arterial in Sausalito. The section of Bridgeway from Princess to Richardson connects what is known as Old Town Sausalito to Downtown Sausalito. And as most of us know, the roadway is positioned directly adjacent to the San Francisco Bay. In the 1960s, this section of road was initially two lanes and was widened in 1968 to include a center median. The raised center median was intended to assist with emergency services access to Old Town. Over the years, the use of the center median has changed.
00:09:43.57	Kevin McGowan	The median is currently at the same elevation as the adjacent vehicle lanes.
00:09:48.60	Kevin McGowan	and is now striped as a two-way left turn lane and is used for deliveries, parking, and passenger drop-offs.
00:09:56.66	Kevin McGowan	The overall geometry of the roadway has not changed since 1968, with the exception of adding class three bike lanes, which share the lanes with vehicles, which were added after 1960.
00:10:11.02	Kevin McGowan	The concept of widening this section of Ridgeway has been raised in years past. In a study presented to the city in 2011, staff noted that this area could be impacted by sea level rise. And the report provides, or at least provided, some concepts to addressing this area with the seawall and widening the roadway.
00:10:33.91	Kevin McGowan	In 2010, the city saw a heavy influx of bicycle tour groups establishing a route ending in Sausalito and utilizing this section of Bridgeway Boulevard.
00:10:44.37	Kevin McGowan	The city worked with these with tour groups to establish a bike return system. However, this section of Bridgeway is still heavily used for during the summer months by bicyclists.
00:10:55.71	Kevin McGowan	Sausalito's Pedestrian Bicycle Advisory Committee, which was established in 2014, has discussed and developed possible schematics to improve this section of Bridgeway with the intent of improving safety for bicyclists. In December 2024, PBAC, or Pedestrian Bicycle Advisory Committee, sorry about the acronyms, received a presentation from Parametrics regarding the repurposing of the median and adding bike lanes on this section of Bridgeway. In 2011,
00:11:28.82	Kevin McGowan	Excuse me, in 2021, the city of Sausalito was awarded a grant from the Association of Bay Area Governments called ABAG. Yes, another acronym, so sorry, to develop a conceptual plan which included safety aspects for bicyclists, vehicles and pedestrians on Bridgeway in this section of Bridgeway. This city awarded a professional services contract to parametrics to study this section of the roadway.
00:11:54.94	Kevin McGowan	In the fall of 2022, city staff submitted three applications for one barrier area grant cycle three funding.
00:12:04.37	Kevin McGowan	known as OBAG 3. One of the submitted applications supported the construction phase of the Bridgeway bike lane projects from Princess to Richardson. The original concept included micro-sealing the entire roadway and re-striping the road to eliminate the center median and add Class 2 bike lanes on each side of the road. In February 2023, the city was notified by the transportation authority of marin that the metropolitan transportation commission authorized our request for funding in the amount of 504 600 to support the construction of the bike lane project no specific letter was sent to the city regarding the authorization and in order order to secure these funds, the city council needs to pass a resolution of support to accept these funds. Initially, the city was required to submit a resolution of support by January 1st, 2025. However, the city requested additional time to determine the city council's preferences regarding moving forward with the original project.
00:13:11.84	Kevin McGowan	In January 2024, the city formally moved forward with a long-term sea level rise adaptation.
00:13:18.88	Kevin McGowan	Through the plans, through the plans, vulnerability analysis and observations of winter storm events, we can see that this section of Bridgeway is susceptible to sea level rise and wave, sorry, wave run up. Sometimes I sound like Elmer Fudd when I say wave one up. the city secured the services of wrt to assist with the vulnerability assessment and we'll be making a presentation to the council this afternoon regarding this section of Bridgeway.
00:13:52.56	Kevin McGowan	The city has held many meetings on this particular issue, which are listed in the staff report. Of interest are the meetings with police and fire personnel related to repurposing the median.
00:14:04.37	Kevin McGowan	Police and fire do not typically use the center median for access, but rather use the vehicle lane. Fire has noted that they use the median when the vehicle lane is obstructed.
00:14:16.40	Kevin McGowan	emergency services are confident that as long as the present curb to curb width or the geometry
00:14:24.77	Kevin McGowan	Hey,
00:14:25.16	Kevin McGowan	is maintained, elimination of the center median will not hinder services. However,
00:14:30.58	Kevin McGowan	Elimination of the center median may have an unintended consequence and that traffic control will be needed if there is a call for services within this specific corridor.
00:14:43.13	Kevin McGowan	The current median allows for vehicles and bicycles to go around a fire truck responding to an incident. However, if the median is eliminated, additional resources
00:14:53.70	Kevin McGowan	Sources may be needed to perform traffic control while the incidence is occurring.
00:14:58.39	Kevin McGowan	As noted earlier, this section of roadway is utilized by many users, from deliveries to drop-offs to many others. Our traffic engineering consultant, Parametrix, studied this section of roadway. They have a presentation which identifies possible impacts and solutions related to the repurposing of the center median. Following Parametrix presentation, we will have a short presentation from our sustainability consultant wrt to address address the council on possible issues and of this section of roadway related to sea level rise and after that i have three or four slides to show the council to kind of tie everything back together so with that i'm sorry about my el Fudd, but I'd like to turn it over to David Parisi and his team from Parametrics. Thank you.
00:16:00.61	David Parisi	David Parisi, Okay. Good afternoon, Mayor and Councilmembers. I'm David Parisi with the firm of Parametrics, as Kevin explained.
00:16:06.09	David Parisi	We're an 800 person West Coast company with large focus on planning and designing safe streets for people, for all people, and all travel modes.
00:16:15.15	David Parisi	I'm a registered civil engineer and a registered traffic engineer with over 35 years of experience in multimodal safety and transportation.
00:16:23.03	David Parisi	and in designing streets that provide mobility and safety benefits for all users.
00:16:28.32	David Parisi	Streets, just like Bridgeway, evolve over time. And I have managed studies and designs of dozens of roadways, including many located throughout the West Coast.
00:16:36.79	David Parisi	and within rent.
00:16:38.47	David Parisi	I'm also a Marin resident.
00:16:40.65	David Parisi	I'm joined here today by Jen Schreiber, a transportation planner and public health expert
00:16:45.49	David Parisi	who has a deep knowledge and data analysis
00:16:48.97	David Parisi	safety assessments and weighing the trade offs of different measures.
00:16:53.42	David Parisi	Our firm was hired by the city to explicitly do one thing.
00:16:57.64	David Parisi	Study the segment of Bridgeway and Richardson between Princess and Second Streets and see if it would be feasible to have bikeways.
00:17:04.97	David Parisi	This is exactly what was required in our contract to scope of work.
00:17:08.24	David Parisi	including the development of a recommended plan if it was feasible to add bikeways.
00:17:14.03	David Parisi	The scope of work was aligned with the $504,000 grant
00:17:18.25	David Parisi	Public Works Director McGowan just mentioned.
00:17:20.95	David Parisi	that the city could receive
00:17:22.59	David Parisi	to install such biotech ways and provide
00:17:25.72	David Parisi	safety improvements if the plan would meet design standards in compliance with san francisco bay trail requirements
00:17:32.61	David Parisi	since Ridgeway is part of the Bay Trail. So that's the hook there.
00:17:36.69	David Parisi	During our study, we conducted some extra work.
00:17:39.22	David Parisi	particularly related to safety.
00:17:41.55	David Parisi	This included an assessment of reported collisions over a 10 year period.
00:17:45.57	David Parisi	These crashes were reported by the Sausalito Police Department, as well as allied agencies, which could include emergency service providers, hospitals, and others.
00:18:04.37	David Parisi	Is this better?
00:18:05.84	David Parisi	All's good lower.
00:18:06.76	David Parisi	Maybe I'm seated higher. I'll lean over. You're going to hear the term. Is that better? Okay, great.
00:18:14.05	David Parisi	Should I repeat that whole? Okay, thank you.
00:18:17.73	David Parisi	You're going to hear the term or acronym SWITRs today. This means the statewide integrated traffic records system, which is run by the state of California and is the crash data clearinghouse for the state.
00:18:29.73	David Parisi	Licensed professionals like us, including researchers and safety experts know to use SWITRs for comprehensive corridor studies, such as the one we did for Bridgeway.
00:18:39.65	David Parisi	Almost all reported crash records make it to Switters, but sometimes reports inadvertently do not. And then some additional analysis is needed, which Jen will get into today.
00:18:50.56	David Parisi	We discovered probably not too many people surprised that the stretch of Bridgeway and Richardson has many critical operational safety issues, not just for bicyclists, but also for pedestrians motorists and delivery vehicles.
00:19:04.60	David Parisi	Many of these issues have nothing to do
00:19:07.30	David Parisi	Many of these issues have to do with how the street has evolved since the 1960s.
00:19:12.76	David Parisi	And we did not realize the extent of the safety issues until we took a deep dive into the crash information.
00:19:19.46	David Parisi	As you'll hear, within a 10-year period, there were at least 50 reported collisions with about half involving vulnerable users, and that is pedestrians or bicyclists.
00:19:30.08	David Parisi	And I want to mention that nationally there are generally as many if not more unreported collisions to every reported one.
00:19:36.76	David Parisi	We concluded, as you will see today, that provision of bike lanes are more than feasible and in fact would improve safety.
00:19:43.74	David Parisi	Under the plan we developed, pedestrian safety would be improved for those walking along the shore and those crossing the street.
00:19:49.46	David Parisi	and vehicular collisions along key hotspots would be reduced.
00:19:53.68	David Parisi	illegal uses of the continuous two-way left turn lane,
00:19:56.42	David Parisi	which lead to safety issues would no longer happen because the center lane would be repurposed.
00:20:03.67	David Parisi	Today we're going to share that plan with you along with its benefits and its trade-offs.
00:20:08.47	David Parisi	Overall, Parametriks is confident the plan could address many of the safety issues of the roadway and make it a more complete street for everyone.
00:20:15.25	David Parisi	Again, so that is what we're scope to do. Take a look and see if,
00:20:19.74	David Parisi	bikeways compliant with the Bay Trail guidelines.
00:20:23.03	David Parisi	were feasible.
00:20:24.14	David Parisi	and could be a matter of.
00:20:28.67	David Parisi	But taking a step back and being realistic and looking at all the folks here,
00:20:33.29	David Parisi	We also realize that there are a lot of concerns about modifying the street, especially one that's been in place for 60 years.
00:20:39.95	David Parisi	Even one that has slowly evolved and no longer functioned as it was designed to do so 60 years ago. And particularly since travel modes have really shifted along this corridor.
00:20:51.55	David Parisi	And we have, of all people know that change is hard.
00:20:54.15	David Parisi	On the other hand, I think most people, including almost everyone here today, wants a safer roadway.
00:20:59.63	David Parisi	So later in our presentation, we're going to also offer some incremental
00:21:03.34	David Parisi	street change ideas that could improve safety, not as much as the full plan we developed, which is totally in compliance with our contractor's scope of work.
00:21:11.83	David Parisi	but ideas to address some of the major safety issues many people are concerned about.
00:21:16.91	David Parisi	We've added a few slides at the end for this. Some of these ideas may be in conflict with the half-million-dollar grant.
00:21:23.73	David Parisi	So you may not be able to realize that, Grant, if you pursued some of these other ideas instead.
00:21:28.64	David Parisi	but could have
00:21:30.12	David Parisi	Yeah.
00:21:31.37	David Parisi	that
00:21:32.49	David Parisi	but could provide safety for other users besides cyclists. So just wanted to give that introduction to let you know we have some other ideas too.
00:21:39.89	David Parisi	that could be considered, again, things that are outside of our scope of work,
00:21:43.73	David Parisi	But just thinking about it a little bit further to some some considerations for counsel. So with that, I'd like to get into the meat of the presentation and Jen and I will walk through these slides.
00:21:55.47	David Parisi	Cover slide, next please. Let's try to go fast. So here's our agenda. We're gonna cover the background, the study area history, what we've found out about existing conditions, the concepts that we've developed,
00:22:08.19	David Parisi	Some of the key considerations, pros and cons of those.
00:22:11.74	Unknown	I'm just noting people in the back.
00:22:13.87	Unknown	see the screen. You could turn the screen back there.
00:22:15.11	David Parisi	Thank you.
00:22:15.15	Mayor Cox	Yeah.
00:22:17.39	Unknown	Audience members.
00:22:18.98	Mayor Cox	If we turn the lights off,
00:22:20.97	Mayor Cox	While the presentation is going on,
00:22:26.52	Councilmember Sobieski	16.
00:22:29.71	Councilmember Sobieski	It.
00:22:30.64	Mayor Cox	there.
00:22:32.90	Mayor Cox	All right. I think that makes it easier for us to see from here as well without the lights on.
00:22:39.13	David Parisi	Okay, great. And then finally, recommendations as next steps, including some additional ideas. Next slide, please.
00:22:47.99	David Parisi	Next slide.
00:22:52.71	David Parisi	I'm not gonna repeat this. Kevin covered this about the grants, the,
00:22:58.14	David Parisi	both the study grant and the potential for half a million dollars for implementation of bike lanes along the street. Next slide, please.
00:23:05.86	David Parisi	Again, the focus of our contractive scope of work was to study the potential benefits impacts associated providing bicycle facilities in compliance with Bay Trail standards along Bridgeway.
00:23:17.77	David Parisi	next slide
00:23:22.11	David Parisi	The focus area of our study is shown in yellow. So it's Bridgeway from Princess to Richardson and Richardson, the short block of Richardson from Bridgeway to 2nd. And as you all know, North Bridgeway north of Princess, there are existing class two bicycle lanes that go almost all the way to gate six with a couple little gaps in each direction. Next slide, please.
00:23:45.63	David Parisi	This is an image looking north. It's simulated. We did this to save some money, because it would have cost a lot more money to do a whole bunch of simulations. But we use the same background to show some of the different ideas. But here's what we got today.
00:23:58.36	David Parisi	looking from west to east.
00:24:01.16	David Parisi	The roadway itself between the curbs is 42 feet wide.
00:24:05.29	David Parisi	and it's divided with a parking lane,
00:24:07.77	David Parisi	or parklets, depending on where you are on the street.
00:24:10.78	David Parisi	a southbound traffic lane that's 12 feet wide,
00:24:13.96	David Parisi	a striped two-way left turn lane that is 10 feet wide
00:24:18.81	David Parisi	and a traffic lane that's 12 feet wide in the northbound direction with the walkway along the bay about nine and a half feet.
00:24:28.26	David Parisi	some of the history of the study.
00:24:31.77	David Parisi	slide please
00:24:34.23	David Parisi	Kevin mentioned that in 1965,
00:24:38.10	David Parisi	a different council.
00:24:39.33	David Parisi	approved plans for widening bridgeway, including
00:24:42.30	David Parisi	from two to three lanes. So it expanded the roadway with the provision of a raised lane in the middle that was raised a couple inches. And it was actually prohibited from use except for emergency vehicle lanes and making turns across.
00:24:57.62	David Parisi	There was a sign that we found a grainy image of one. You can see that we've zoomed in there.
00:25:02.33	David Parisi	So sign that the roadway would certainly was not allowed for use. In fact, all loading.
00:25:08.34	David Parisi	was not done in the center lane, it was done against the curb, there's still some remnant mark
00:25:12.34	David Parisi	markings, green and yellow markings, along the west side of Bridgeway Curb if you go out there and check it out.
00:25:18.61	David Parisi	Next slide, please.
00:25:22.49	David Parisi	In the late 80s, paving was done to raise the northbound and southbound lanes, the asphalt, to the same level as the median lane. So now everything was flush.
00:25:34.69	David Parisi	And then
00:25:35.18	David Parisi	the striping.
00:25:36.70	David Parisi	was changed around that time.
00:25:38.93	David Parisi	So it was changed to the two-way left turn lane configuration, which has some meaning
00:25:44.01	David Parisi	There's legal things you can do and illegal things you're not supposed to do within that lane we'll get into today.
00:25:52.68	David Parisi	In 2007, there was an unfortunate fatality of a pedestrian that got hit.
00:25:57.80	David Parisi	by a garbage truck.
00:25:59.97	David Parisi	crossing
00:26:00.83	David Parisi	or using the middle lane. Here's some quotes from
00:26:04.60	David Parisi	one of the police captains at that time. Just acknowledging the lane is not permitted for use other than turning into and out of driveways, but already it was starting to be used for other purposes. Next slide.
00:26:17.94	David Parisi	So that I'm going to turn it over to my colleague, Jen Schreiber, who's going to walk through existing conditions and other features and I'll.
00:26:24.68	David Parisi	come back with
00:26:25.83	David Parisi	when we're talking about some recommendations.
00:26:33.44	Jen Schreiber	All right, can everyone hear me okay?
00:26:36.34	Jen Schreiber	Great. So like David said, I'm going to walk through the current uses of Bridgeway, some of the data analysis that we have done, as well as the concepts that we have developed.
00:26:46.87	Jen Schreiber	So first off today, Bridgeway is striped as a two-way left turn lane. The image on the left here is from the California DMV driver's handbook. And you can see that a two-way left turn lane has the solid yellow lines stripes on the outside and then dashed on the inside. Compared to what we're seeing today, it is striped as that two-way left turn lane. Next slide, please.
00:27:09.09	Jen Schreiber	However, there are a lot of different uses that people are using Bridgeway for currently outside of the legal uses of a two-way left turn lane. And you can see those up here, and I'll get into them in a little bit more detail. And this can create sort of a chaotic environment.
00:27:23.32	Jen Schreiber	That can be hazardous to all users, not just people walking and biking.
00:27:27.91	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:27:29.90	Jen Schreiber	So I'm not going to read all of this, but this is an excerpt from the California Vehicle Code, essentially outlining what is permitted in a two-way left turn lane.
00:27:38.17	Jen Schreiber	So these are
00:27:41.02	Jen Schreiber	Meant for making turns, vehicles are allowed to drive them up to 200 feet in preparation for a left turn or when they have already made a turn.
00:27:48.71	Jen Schreiber	back onto the roadway.
00:27:50.29	Jen Schreiber	And that is the legal use of it.
00:27:53.54	Jen Schreiber	Driving longer than 200 feet is not allowed. Parking is not allowed. And using the lane to pass others is not allowed. Next slide, please.
00:28:04.00	Jen Schreiber	However, we are seeing a number of other uses. So for example, vehicles use the center turn lane to pass cyclists, as we can see in this image here. And this creates hazardous conditions not only for the cyclist, but for the drivers themselves and raises the risk of a side swipe or head-on collisions. Next slide, please.
00:28:22.62	Jen Schreiber	Pedestrians are also using the center lane as sort of an informal refuge. There are, aside from the crosswalk at Princess and Bridgeway, there are no other crosswalks across Bridgeway in the study area. And so people often will just cross mid-block.
00:28:36.78	Jen Schreiber	pause in that center lane to wait for an opening and then continue on. But this really creates a false sense of security because they are potentially standing in an active travel lane. Not only that, since a lot of cars and other vehicles, including trucks, park in the lane, this can obscure pedestrians from view, creating more risks for those pedestrians. Next slide, please.
00:29:00.76	Jen Schreiber	So we're also seeing a lot of deliveries and parking used in the lane. So this slide.
00:29:07.35	Jen Schreiber	Shows data that we gathered from a Thursday, we did a one week video survey in March, looking at the number of vehicles and the types of vehicles that were parked in the lane. So on Thursday, which was the busiest weekday that we recorded, there were 63 vehicles parked in lane.
00:29:23.08	Jen Schreiber	40% of these were passenger vehicles, so folks dropping people off or taking phone calls or taking pictures. And most of the rest were trucks and other vehicles making deliveries to nearby businesses.
00:29:35.65	Jen Schreiber	You can see the chart on the bottom shows the number of vehicles over time in each direction. About 90% of trucks did arrive before 3 p.m., and at the peak, we saw four vehicles at one time.
00:29:49.47	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:29:51.68	Jen Schreiber	So looking at Saturday, which was the busiest weekend day, we saw a lot more passenger vehicles here. So 64% of the vehicles that were parked in that center lane were passenger vehicles, using it for one reason or another, aside from the legal use of making turns. All of the trucks that were recorded arrived before 2 p.m., and at a maximum, we saw three vehicles at one time. So a lot of vehicles just being in this lane and yeah, creating unsafe environment for folks using the roadway. Next slide, please.
00:30:33.48	Jen Schreiber	So emergency access is key. We all know that Bridgeway is a key corridor in the city and emergency vehicles use it to access different parts of the city. We had several meetings with emergency services personnel who told us that they do not rely on that center lane to get through in the event of an emergency, given that
00:30:52.87	Jen Schreiber	So often there are vehicles parked in it.
00:30:54.68	Jen Schreiber	Rather, they rely on lights and sirens to alert vehicles to pull over and make room for them.
00:31:01.87	Jen Schreiber	As Kevin did mention, the center lane is also used as a sort of release valve. So in the event that emergency services need to stage in one of the lanes,
00:31:13.51	Jen Schreiber	vehicles can use that center lane to get through without having to deploy staff to manage traffic. Next slide, please.
00:31:24.28	Jen Schreiber	All right, so next we're going to talk about safety, and this is a very big issue for Bridgeway and for this study. I'm going to step back a bit. I know David mentioned some of the data sources already, but I want to just step back and talk about those before diving into the data that we're seeing. So the data that we were reporting is the latest 10 years of complete data from SWITRS, which is the statewide integrated traffic record system. And this is the statewide system that police departments, CHP and others report crashes to you. So this is really
00:31:57.49	Jen Schreiber	the most comprehensive, the most reliable source for crash data. This is what planners and engineers typically use when we are doing in-depth corridor studies.
00:32:07.21	Jen Schreiber	At the outset of the study, we had initially looked at another source. This is TIMSS, the Transportation Injury Mapping System, which is a really great way of...
00:32:17.43	Jen Schreiber	quickly and easily seeing crashes and mapping crashes. This looks, or this uses injury only crashes, whereas sweaters will also record property damage only.
00:32:29.33	Jen Schreiber	And in looking at the TIMS data, starting out with that data, we realized that that data set was not complete even for the injury crashes themselves. So.
00:32:38.76	Jen Schreiber	jumped over to Switters and we use that for our in-depth analysis. So since the analysis, we have been able to get a hold of some police data, police records from the city.
00:32:49.61	Jen Schreiber	And
00:32:50.76	Jen Schreiber	We just got those recently, so we'd
00:32:53.06	Jen Schreiber	do need more analysis, but we are seeing that there are cases in which
00:32:56.85	Jen Schreiber	uh,
00:32:57.56	Jen Schreiber	Crashes that have been reported to the police along this corridor are not making it into switters. So we have reason to believe that there could be as many as 10 additional crashes occurring on this corridor that just didn't make it into that statewide database.
00:33:12.29	Jen Schreiber	We have also been able to analyze 2023 to 2024
00:33:16.33	Jen Schreiber	uh, crash data again at a high level because we just received it recently.
00:33:20.46	Jen Schreiber	Um, and.
00:33:21.42	Jen Schreiber	There were nine additional crashes involving active transportation users. So pedestrians or cyclists that have occurred since the cutoff date for our analysis. So safety is a huge issue, not only for cyclists and pedestrians, but for everyone who's using the corridor.
00:33:37.71	Jen Schreiber	So,
00:33:38.75	Jen Schreiber	Zooming back in, we looked at the 10
00:33:41.56	Jen Schreiber	most recent complete years of data, which was 2013 to 2022. And during the
00:33:46.50	Jen Schreiber	This time there were 50 collisions along the study area.
00:33:49.97	Jen Schreiber	About half of these did involve a cyclist or pedestrian, resulting in 16 injuries of a cyclist or pedestrian. And we also saw that about 40% of the crashes that were happening on the street
00:34:02.06	Jen Schreiber	On the segment of the street, I should say, were sideswip collisions. So these are, as I mentioned earlier, collisions that could be susceptible to actions occurring around the center line, we don't know for sure.
00:34:17.21	Jen Schreiber	Um,
00:34:17.80	Jen Schreiber	But these types of crashes do tend to happen when cars are trying to pass in close proximity to each other.
00:34:24.52	Jen Schreiber	I also want to mention that this corridor is part of the high collision network for the county of Marin in 2024.
00:34:31.71	Jen Schreiber	the Marin local road safety plan was completed. And this part of what it did was identify a high collision network, which is the road segments and the road,
00:34:41.04	Jen Schreiber	intersections with the highest crash rates in the county.
00:34:44.21	Jen Schreiber	Um,
00:34:44.74	Jen Schreiber	This was a high-level study with more specific analyses for each jurisdiction, and the segment from Bay Street down to 2nd and Richardson was included on that high-collision network because it did have a higher rate of crashes than what one would expect given the amount of vehicles that are traveling on it.
00:35:04.48	Jen Schreiber	All right, next slide, please.
00:35:07.18	Jen Schreiber	So this is just a reminder. I talked previously about all of the vehicles that we were seeing parked in the center lane. So this shows sort of a heat map of where we're seeing the most of these vehicles in the center lane. If you go to the next slide.
00:35:22.72	Jen Schreiber	You can see that there is somewhat of a correlation here between where we're seeing all of those vehicles, where the really clogged up parts of the street are,
00:35:30.77	Jen Schreiber	and where we're seeing the most crashes.
00:35:34.14	Jen Schreiber	just Bridgeway by itself. So, you know, discounting Richardson from our study area.
00:35:38.62	Jen Schreiber	We can see that about half of the crashes that are happening on this stretch of bridgeway
00:35:43.21	Jen Schreiber	are occurring in about a quarter of the space that's by those delivery areas or those high delivery areas.
00:35:50.28	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:35:52.28	Jen Schreiber	All right, so next I'm going to walk through some of the improvement concepts. And when we got started on this project, it quickly became clear that there were only a few ways that we could add in bike lanes. We could.
00:36:03.09	Jen Schreiber	at a seawall and built out, which I'll talk about in a moment.
00:36:06.34	Jen Schreiber	we could get rid of the parking lane, which is, um,
00:36:10.22	Jen Schreiber	you know, would be a very drastic thing to do. Or we could look at how we could repurpose the center lane and then use that for bike lanes. And so to start off with, next slide please. Yep. So that is what we were trying to do. Next slide.
00:36:27.27	Jen Schreiber	So to start off with, we went with that idea of how could we repurpose the center lane? Obviously, there's a lot of people who use it, so we need to be able to accommodate those uses. So we started off by thinking of curb management scenarios.
00:36:40.14	Jen Schreiber	And the idea behind this is that, um,
00:36:43.03	Jen Schreiber	There would need to be some, you know, pickup and drop off zones, for example, outside of the study area to accommodate a lot of the passenger vehicle uses. But the truck uses, as well as some of those passenger vehicles, could still be accommodated within the study area using a number of different curb management scenarios. So we'll walk through two that are focused on southbound loading, so trucks heading from the north.
00:37:06.89	Jen Schreiber	We'll talk about two that would accommodate that northbound loading.
00:37:10.47	Jen Schreiber	And it's important to know here that all of these scenarios would really require education and enforcement to make sure that they are being implemented effectively.
00:37:19.92	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:37:22.40	Jen Schreiber	So our first southbound loading concept, we'll call it S1, this creates three loading zones along Bridgeway. You can see those yellow boxes called out along the corridor. And this would be one smaller 15-minute zone as well as two larger truck loading zones. And these were constructed to be able to accommodate the maximum number of vehicles that we were seeing at any one time.
00:37:48.32	Jen Schreiber	So what we have here in terms of regulations is that the loading zones could be in effect from 6.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, after which point they would convert to two-hour parking in order to be opened back up to public use by the time that the parking demand really hits its peak.
00:38:07.03	Jen Schreiber	We will note that
00:38:08.64	Jen Schreiber	This timing is for illustrative purposes. It is flexible and could be adjusted
00:38:15.39	Jen Schreiber	based on actual
00:38:17.24	Jen Schreiber	needs and based on more observations. For example, we talked to folks at the Chamber of Commerce who said that the majority, if not all, of truck loading is actually done by 1 p.m. So.
00:38:27.67	Jen Schreiber	For example, that 4 p.m. ending of the loading zone
00:38:32.39	Jen Schreiber	could actually be pushed earlier and then more parking would be available sooner.
00:38:37.26	Jen Schreiber	This also provides an opportunity to create a mid-block crosswalk that would go from this loading zone across the street to help delivery workers get to the Trident and places on the other side of the street.
00:38:48.34	Jen Schreiber	Whereas currently they're parking in the middle and sort of taking their chances crossing the street without a crosswalk.
00:38:55.16	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:38:57.98	Jen Schreiber	So as I said, parking is a big premium. There's a big demand for it. So we also tried to see what we could do to reduce the impact on parking. So the previous scenario that I just showed, while those loading zones are in effect,
00:39:10.80	Jen Schreiber	nine parking spaces would be repurposed as loading zones.
00:39:15.49	Jen Schreiber	So here we tried to minimize the amount of parking that would be taken over for loading zones. However, of course, with everything, there are trade-offs. So in this case,
00:39:27.39	Jen Schreiber	This scenario would be able to create three loading zones while only repurposing, temporarily repurposing five parking spaces.
00:39:33.97	Jen Schreiber	However, it would do so at the cost of one of the parklets.
00:39:36.98	Jen Schreiber	We know that parklets are extremely popular, both for the visitors of Bridgeway as well as for businesses. So that would be a major trade-off. And this concept probably is not the most feasible because of that. But it is...
00:39:50.95	Jen Schreiber	Um, you know, just another way that we could create that space for loading while trying to balance out all the other needs.
00:39:57.90	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:40:00.30	Jen Schreiber	So we're also looking at northbound floating. So what do we do about trucks coming from the north?
00:40:07.25	Jen Schreiber	Uh, in the short term,
00:40:08.97	Jen Schreiber	trucks could be rerouted to the southbound loading zones. And there's two ways that they could do that. So trucks coming from the south on the highway, for example, could just stay on the highway.
00:40:18.24	Jen Schreiber	get off
00:40:19.53	Jen Schreiber	north of of the downtown core and then come in from the north to be able to be on the right side of the road.
00:40:26.39	Jen Schreiber	Other trucks who may not be able to do that could circle around and turn around on Anchor, Humboldt, and Bay Street.
00:40:36.12	Jen Schreiber	So.
00:40:36.51	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
00:40:39.14	Mayor Cox	I'm going to really ask that you not call out so that people can be heard. So remember that this is being watched telephonically as well. So I really ask for that courtesy. Thank you.
00:40:51.26	Jen Schreiber	So we recognize that this is not an ideal situation
00:40:54.50	Jen Schreiber	People that we talked to from the Chamber of Commerce did say that delivery drivers
00:40:58.38	Jen Schreiber	may not be willing or able to use this route,
00:41:01.97	Jen Schreiber	but it is one potential option.
00:41:05.22	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:41:07.24	Jen Schreiber	So another and a sort of longer term option to accommodate that northbound traffic
00:41:11.91	Jen Schreiber	northbound loading, I should say.
00:41:13.87	Jen Schreiber	would be to create a loading zone on the north side of the street or the northbound side of the street. And this could be done by using the pier that is adjacent to the Trident, which is part of the public right of way.
00:41:25.35	Jen Schreiber	Um,
00:41:25.92	Jen Schreiber	As this graphic shows, we could create a 60 foot loading zone to be able to accommodate those trucks. Pedestrians would be routed around the loading zone.
00:41:33.70	Jen Schreiber	And while this would obviously cost more money than simply having trucks loop around, it would be beneficial in terms of safety. Right now, there are a lot of deliveries that are made to the Trident and SCOMA, as we saw that in our data.
00:41:46.73	Jen Schreiber	And these delivery workers will park in the center lane and then cross the street back and forth with their deliveries outside of a crosswalk.
00:41:53.85	Jen Schreiber	But this would allow them to
00:41:55.97	Jen Schreiber	park right in front of their destinations, get out and not have to worry about crossing the street when they're making their deliveries.
00:42:02.37	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:42:05.48	Jen Schreiber	Okay, so now that we've talked about some of the ways that we could potentially repurposed
00:42:09.76	Jen Schreiber	um,
00:42:10.47	Jen Schreiber	move loading to the curb to free up that center lane, we can talk about some of the bikeway configurations. So I'll be talking about two near-term and two longer-term concepts that we have.
00:42:22.47	Jen Schreiber	developed.
00:42:23.26	Jen Schreiber	I should note that all of these will either retain the current curb to curb width of the street or in the case of one of the long term concepts, it will actually widen the street.
00:42:32.98	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:42:36.36	Jen Schreiber	So the first configuration, oh, sorry, this is the current configuration just as a reminder. So we have 12 foot travel lanes that are shared between vehicles and bicycles. Next slide, please.
00:42:50.51	Jen Schreiber	So our first near-term concept would, like I said, repurpose that center lane and put one-way bike lanes on both sides of the street.
00:42:59.07	Jen Schreiber	So,
00:42:59.76	Jen Schreiber	This is in keeping with the Bay Trail standards. At a minimum, they do require six-foot bike lanes, so it checks that box.
00:43:09.89	Jen Schreiber	And it also provides dedicated space for cyclists, so they're no longer sharing space with vehicles.
00:43:17.84	Jen Schreiber	Thank you.
00:43:18.09	Jen Schreiber	This could have
00:43:19.68	Jen Schreiber	positive effects on emergency vehicles.
00:43:22.73	Jen Schreiber	traveling through bridge by since vehicles would be able to pull over into the bike lanes in the event of emergency to let say an ambulance pass through
00:43:31.32	Jen Schreiber	And it's also widening out that parking lane a bit. So bumping it out to eight and a half feet to accommodate trucks that would be loading at the curbs.
00:43:39.94	Jen Schreiber	Very rarely would we expect to have trucks larger than eight and a half feet wide accessing the curb loading.
00:43:48.03	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:43:50.61	Jen Schreiber	So this isn't something that is completely new. So if you go up, travel,
00:43:56.38	Jen Schreiber	a bit north to Anchor and Bay,
00:43:58.57	Jen Schreiber	This is a configuration that is currently in place. And that's a picture that you can see here.
00:44:02.91	Jen Schreiber	This is looking south, whereas the previous graphic was looking north.
00:44:06.28	Jen Schreiber	The difference here is that this
00:44:08.87	Jen Schreiber	This part of the street between Anchor and Bay is actually slightly narrower than our study area.
00:44:13.59	Jen Schreiber	So the street that we're looking at here from curb to curb is 40 feet.
00:44:17.41	Jen Schreiber	We've got an eight foot parking lane.
00:44:19.94	Jen Schreiber	and five foot bike lanes. So the.
00:44:22.65	Jen Schreiber	proposed concept that I just went over would actually widen out that parking lane to give vehicles and trucks a little bit more space and widen out those bike lanes as well to give cyclists more space.
00:44:32.15	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:44:34.52	Jen Schreiber	So our second narrow term concept, again, repurposes the center lane, and this time would create a two-way bikeway.
00:44:42.57	Jen Schreiber	on the water side of the street.
00:44:45.28	Jen Schreiber	So this could be beneficial in that some cyclists would feel more comfortable riding in a facility like this. It would also create
00:44:52.17	Jen Schreiber	A nice big buffer between the pedestrians walking on the sidewalk.
00:44:55.83	Jen Schreiber	and the vehicles in the roadway, where currently there really isn't any.
00:45:00.27	Jen Schreiber	There would need to be some routing considerations for this concept. So cyclists who are traveling southbound would have to go from one side of the road to the other and then back to the first side of the road as they're traveling through the road.
00:45:13.46	Jen Schreiber	this area, so there would be extra considerations around that.
00:45:20.43	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:45:22.74	Jen Schreiber	So these near-term concepts, the repurposing of the center lane, provides a really great opportunity to put in some pedestrian improvements.
00:45:32.08	Jen Schreiber	And that would be in the form of crosswalks and three locations along the corridor. Like I said, currently in our study area, once you go south of Princess Street, there really isn't any formal way to cross the street for quite a while.
00:45:43.92	Jen Schreiber	But this would allow for crosswalks to be created first at the proposed loading zone at the Trident.
00:45:49.81	Jen Schreiber	another at the Sea Lion statue, and then a third at second in Richardson Street.
00:45:54.45	Jen Schreiber	All of these crosswalks would have flashing beacons and bulb outs to improve pedestrian visibility and to.
00:46:02.05	Jen Schreiber	excuse me, to shorten crossing distances, and they would all have adequate sight lines as well.
00:46:08.59	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:46:10.97	Jen Schreiber	So next we'll talk about some long-term bikeway options.
00:46:15.26	Jen Schreiber	And these provide the opportunity to keep the center lane, but like any other concept, they come with trade-offs. So the first one would essentially bump out the sidewalk, build a seawall, and build a two-way cycle track up on the sidewalk at that sidewalk level.
00:46:32.05	Jen Schreiber	Um, this is, I mean, this is really an all ages and abilities facility. Um, cyclists would be completely out of the way.
00:46:40.42	Jen Schreiber	of vehicles on a, you know,
00:46:42.63	Jen Schreiber	vertically offset from vehicles as well. So this would be the most comfortable facility for the most riders to use.
00:46:48.28	Jen Schreiber	However, construction of a seawall would be quite costly and really make this a longer term project.
00:46:56.59	Jen Schreiber	Similar to the last concept I just talked about, this would also have considerations for transitions. So how do you get those cyclists from one side of the road to the other safely?
00:47:07.08	Jen Schreiber	And then the fact that the center lane would be retained
00:47:11.20	Jen Schreiber	would preclude mid-block crosswalks, and I'll talk a bit about that shortly.
00:47:17.87	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:47:20.53	Jen Schreiber	So then our second long-term concept would again, build a seawall this time,
00:47:25.63	Jen Schreiber	we would bump out the curb to be able to retain that center lane, but add street level
00:47:32.70	Jen Schreiber	bike lanes. So this would meet those Bay Trail standards. It would create separate space for, um,
00:47:38.99	Jen Schreiber	for cyclists, but again, it would be costly and there would be implications for any mid-block crosswalks.
00:47:45.89	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:47:47.90	Jen Schreiber	All right, so next I'll talk about some key considerations that we took into account as we were developing these concepts. Next slide.
00:47:55.82	Jen Schreiber	So first off, emergency access is extremely important. It was, you know, why the center median was created in the first place back in the 60s. And, you know, we need to make sure that there are ways for emergency vehicles to get to where they need to go.
00:48:09.35	Jen Schreiber	Currently, as we've heard multiple times, emergency services does not rely on that center lane since so often it is blocked.
00:48:15.80	Jen Schreiber	Rather, they rely on their lights and sirens to get through.
00:48:20.03	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:48:21.99	Jen Schreiber	By repurposing that sensor lane,
00:48:24.71	Jen Schreiber	Um, and for example, creating bike lanes, this is our near term one concept.
00:48:29.15	Jen Schreiber	We are keeping the roadway the same. So we have heard from the fire department that as long as the curb to curb width of the road stays the same, they'll be able to get through.
00:48:37.04	Jen Schreiber	We're not touching the curb to curb with, we're keeping it the same.
00:48:40.22	Jen Schreiber	Um, and sort of opening up the street. So this way, without that center lane vehicles can pull over into the bike lanes in the case that, uh, an ambulance or a fire truck is coming through.
00:48:52.23	Jen Schreiber	And that vehicle can get to where it needs to go.
00:48:55.32	Jen Schreiber	So we do recognize that the center lane
00:48:57.95	Jen Schreiber	plays an important function in terms of rerouting traffic. If, for example, a fire truck needs to stage in one of those lanes. So in this case,
00:49:08.53	Jen Schreiber	If an ambulance, say, needs to park in a bike lane,
00:49:11.57	Jen Schreiber	there would be implications for the flow of traffic and personnel might be needed to help navigate vehicles around that.
00:49:19.96	Jen Schreiber	Next slide, please.
00:49:22.81	Jen Schreiber	So next, pedestrian crossings. Pedestrian safety is also a big issue.
00:49:28.31	Jen Schreiber	And like I said, there are very few crosswalks in the study area, so it would be ideal to have an opportunity to add more.
00:49:35.90	Jen Schreiber	Currently with the existing configuration, a crosswalk would be risky for pedestrians. So as I've mentioned, people currently will use that center lane as an informal,
00:49:45.15	Jen Schreiber	pedestrian refuge while they're crossing. And this is quite risky given that it is an active travel lane. Vehicles are allowed to travel up and
00:49:53.93	Jen Schreiber	to 200 feet in that lane.
00:49:55.95	Jen Schreiber	as well as
00:49:57.27	Jen Schreiber	you know, with trucks and other vehicles parked, they could be blocked from drivers. So we would not advise adding a crosswalk
00:50:03.68	Jen Schreiber	under current conditions.
00:50:05.62	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:50:08.02	Jen Schreiber	So one way that we could see that safely happening is if, um,
00:50:14.36	Jen Schreiber	physical concrete medians were put
00:50:17.16	Jen Schreiber	refuge medians were put into that center lane to provide an actual
00:50:21.65	Jen Schreiber	dedicated place for pedestrians to pause while they're crossing the street. So...
00:50:25.97	Jen Schreiber	That would work.
00:50:27.00	Jen Schreiber	However, that would sort of interrupt any of the emergency access or turning functions that
00:50:33.92	Jen Schreiber	this section of the street is currently serving. Next slide.
00:50:39.47	Jen Schreiber	So we really do recommend for the safest mid-block crossing alternative would be to repurpose that center lane.
00:50:48.21	Jen Schreiber	and build crosswalks with flashing beacons and with
00:50:51.98	Jen Schreiber	um, bulb outs to be able to improve that visibility.
00:50:55.39	Jen Schreiber	and have pedestrians safely get across the road mid-block.
00:50:58.96	Jen Schreiber	Thank you.
00:50:59.13	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:51:02.00	Jen Schreiber	So I presented a number of concepts in terms of loading and bike lanes, and these were not the only concepts that we thought of. We thought of a big long list and then we developed the ones that made the most sense. And we did this based on a few criteria.
00:51:16.14	Jen Schreiber	Um,
00:51:17.05	Jen Schreiber	So first off, meeting the Bay Trail standards was very important since this grant funding was coming.
00:51:23.94	Jen Schreiber	to build a portion of the Bay Trail, we needed to meet those standards. Now in an ideal situation, the Bay Trail standards are an 18 foot path that is fully separated from motor vehicles. In constrained settings, which is what we see here, six foot on street bike lanes are allowed. So that's what we were aiming for.
00:51:42.95	Jen Schreiber	We also wanted to make sure that any concept we were putting forward met basic design standards and really focused on safety. So we didn't want anything that would decrease safety.
00:51:51.76	Jen Schreiber	And then of course, parking is super important here. So we wanted to make sure that we could preserve as much parking as possible.
00:51:57.59	Jen Schreiber	So some of the other ideas that we considered were, for example, narrowing the parking lane.
00:52:02.28	Jen Schreiber	removing the parking lane altogether or narrowing the center turn lane.
00:52:06.02	Jen Schreiber	And these, you know, for one reason or another, either didn't meet the standards or would have made safety.
00:52:11.36	Jen Schreiber	or had serious safety implications.
00:52:14.11	Jen Schreiber	or just would have
00:52:15.95	Jen Schreiber	reduced parking too much. So based on all of those factors, we moved forward with the concepts that I've just presented.
00:52:23.62	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:52:26.05	Jen Schreiber	And then lastly, we wanted to make sure that we did a lot of outreach. As today shows, this is a very important topic. People have a lot of feelings about it and a lot of
00:52:39.22	Jen Schreiber	and we wanted to make sure that we were taking those into account.
00:52:42.37	Jen Schreiber	So this is a picture of a presentation to the business exchange that was done just a week or so ago.
00:52:47.86	Jen Schreiber	You can see in this picture actually a couple of those trucks parked in the center lane that I was talking about earlier.
00:52:53.26	Jen Schreiber	Next slide.
00:52:55.69	Jen Schreiber	And then this is just a slide showing all of the other outreach opportunities we had during the project, so we talked with.
00:53:03.43	Jen Schreiber	fire and police quite a bit, as well as sustainability, business owners, and then made sure that the public could get involved through PBAC and through this meeting today.
00:53:13.17	Jen Schreiber	So next slide.
00:53:15.55	Jen Schreiber	I'm going to turn things back over to David to talk about recommendations and next steps.
00:53:20.39	Unknown	Thank you.
00:53:20.41	David Parisi	you.
00:53:20.63	Unknown	Thank you.
00:53:25.45	David Parisi	Thank you, Jen. Next slide, please.
00:53:31.80	David Parisi	So we're looking at several things. Besides looking at and seeing if bike lanes could work,
00:53:38.45	David Parisi	We determined they could.
00:53:39.83	David Parisi	and they could actually provide a lot of other safety benefits not just for cyclists but for pedestrians
00:53:45.89	David Parisi	for motorists and for delivery vehicles.
00:53:48.54	David Parisi	goals. Recommend we developed a recommended plan, which is part of our scope of work. I'll take you through that real quickly in a second, it does include the six foot wide
00:53:58.36	David Parisi	directional bike lanes on each side of the street, as well as the pedestrian improvements that Jen mentioned.
00:54:04.32	David Parisi	Uh, it would require, uh, the curbside management aspects, right? Making re
00:54:11.54	David Parisi	making some flexible parking spaces for deliveries during the morning, early afternoon and then,
00:54:17.01	David Parisi	Letting those come back to parking in the later part of the day.
00:54:20.80	David Parisi	We also believe that a partial or a full segment pilot test could be implemented. We've done this many times on projects throughout Marin and the Bay Area, and I'm happy to talk more about that later.
00:54:34.44	David Parisi	There's been some confusion on the costs. The cost of the improvements is around $600,000, which would include a micro seal of the street. So it'd be micro sealing the street.
00:54:45.91	David Parisi	doing some limited dig outs, which is where some pavement has failed a bit.
00:54:49.80	David Parisi	doing all the signing and striping and the pedestrian improvements as well.
00:54:54.18	David Parisi	The $2.6 million figure is actually repaving the whole street. The streets...
00:54:59.21	David Parisi	Falling apart.
00:55:01.03	David Parisi	Peter Carr, Norcal PTAC. Either way, at some point in East lots of it needs to be repaved so long term down the line that should be done at some point in time, so we want we came up with a cost estimate for that as well. Next slide.
00:55:15.61	David Parisi	We also developed a conceptual plan of the improvements. This is all available on the city's website. It includes three sheets with two or one panel on each street to scale. It starts in the top left at Princess. It shows retention of the parklets. It also shows in yellow where the loading zones could be. Again, they could be tested.
00:55:40.32	David Parisi	shrunk if necessary over time.
00:55:43.04	David Parisi	the cross section of the street,
00:55:44.74	David Parisi	is wider as Jen mentioned, then the street is between anchor and princess where that's 40 feet. We have 42 feet.
00:55:50.61	David Parisi	which allows wider loading zones and wider parking than is on that two-block section currently.
00:55:58.61	David Parisi	You see the crosswalk that is shown?
00:56:01.30	David Parisi	with a potential bulb out.
00:56:02.83	David Parisi	right near the Trident that's showing twice because there's a match line on the plan. So it's shown on the upper right and the lower left.
00:56:09.95	David Parisi	Next slide, please.
00:56:13.16	David Parisi	This continues down the street, around the curve, by the Sea Lion, where a crosswalk could also be provided that has really good sight lines from both directions.
00:56:24.99	David Parisi	and then around the curve at Richardson.
00:56:26.89	David Parisi	as well.
00:56:28.80	David Parisi	And the next slide shows the path going up Richardson,
00:56:32.78	David Parisi	and tying into the southbound bike lane that already exists a couple hundred feet to the south of Richardson and 2nd with a crosswalk by a Golden Gate Market.
00:56:43.79	David Parisi	With adequate sight lines, this has been looked at very carefully to make sure this would work with again, flat rapid flashing beacons and high visibility crosswalk.
00:56:52.36	David Parisi	So that's the plan we developed. But I do want to take back to what, come back to what I said earlier in the presentation today.
00:56:59.80	David Parisi	Our mission, our contract was explicitly to look at potentially getting bike lanes in to follow Bay Trail standards. And we took that seriously. And we determined through the analysis that we did that, yes, it can...
00:57:13.91	David Parisi	We're very confident.
00:57:15.38	David Parisi	that.
00:57:16.10	David Parisi	It could provide a lot of benefits, again, not just for cyclists, but for all the modes.
00:57:19.75	David Parisi	And that there, yes, there's some drawbacks. We talked about those today, but those are not insurmountable.
00:57:25.25	David Parisi	Nonetheless, the street has evolved for 60 years.
00:57:27.78	David Parisi	It's where it's at right now. Sometimes change like that, taking it back to...
00:57:33.04	David Parisi	what we think it should be and if we had a blank blank slate probably what we do with the street may be difficult to do may be tough to do right away so we've come up with some potential incremental ideas for council's consideration again this none of this was in our scope of work so these are high level
00:57:48.30	David Parisi	conceptual ideas just for consideration and discussion next slide please
00:57:54.76	David Parisi	And again, our intent is to enhance safety. There's a lot of crashes on this corridor. We're actually seeing an uptick in the last two years of bike and pedestrian collisions as well. And it's real, it's a real thing that we're concerned about.
00:58:10.14	David Parisi	Next slide, please. So some of these ideas that I'm gonna share with you again, possibly would not be able to use the grant.
00:58:18.02	David Parisi	but it's something that could be considered incremented for implementation.
00:58:22.20	David Parisi	over time.
00:58:23.92	David Parisi	We strongly believe that the center-left turn lane should not be used for parking. It's an illegal use. It is causing safety issues.
00:58:31.06	David Parisi	There's...
00:58:32.17	David Parisi	At any time of the day, many times a day, you'll find cars out there with a driver in it, trucks without drivers, delivery person going back and forth across the street. As Jen showed, there's a high correlation with where the crashes are occurring in the use of this lane.
00:58:47.72	David Parisi	So.
00:58:48.71	David Parisi	We think curbside management
00:58:50.36	David Parisi	And,
00:58:51.29	David Parisi	should be installed. It doesn't mean...
00:58:53.45	David Parisi	The lane needs to go away.
00:58:54.79	David Parisi	It just should be enforced and not allowed for
00:58:58.55	David Parisi	use for parking and deliveries. Next slide, please.
00:59:04.24	David Parisi	Doing that would allow what Jen showed earlier,
00:59:07.12	David Parisi	pedestrian crossings.
00:59:09.05	David Parisi	at two, three, or even four locations.
00:59:11.46	David Parisi	And as we showed you earlier, this could be with raised pedestrian refuge islands with flashing beacons. You can see that we've re-striped how the lane could look conceptually there with two solid lines on each side and diagonal lines through it. It could look a lot different. Doesn't need to look like that. It could be more beautiful.
00:59:29.92	David Parisi	But.
00:59:30.53	David Parisi	This does mean vehicles will not be able to travel through the crosswalks.
00:59:34.26	David Parisi	which we think is a benefit.
00:59:36.22	David Parisi	if crosswalks are provided.
00:59:38.21	David Parisi	Next slide, please.
00:59:41.68	David Parisi	Something that could also be considered in this package are things such as, again, again, this does not benefit bikes whatsoever.
00:59:49.65	David Parisi	A little bit maybe, but it doesn't provide separation. And we're seeing a lot of bike crashes, but perhaps use of green charrows or shared lane use arrows throughout the corridor.
01:00:03.10	David Parisi	The striping is quite old. There's places on this segment and other parts of Sausalito where you have these old botstots instead of the thermoplastic stripes, which are much more visible. That could be considered as well.
01:00:14.30	David Parisi	And then finally, the council recently approved reducing speed limits
01:00:18.32	David Parisi	specific streets in town because of safety reasons. And this is one of them.
01:00:22.28	David Parisi	And I believe this can happen this summer, where the speed limits can be reduced to 20 miles an hour. So there's a package that could be combined with everything else I just mentioned.
01:00:31.90	David Parisi	All right, next slide, please.
01:00:35.21	David Parisi	We also have a couple of thoughts in our head about some hybrid ideas.
01:00:40.26	David Parisi	Jen showed this photo looking south again. This is between anchor and princess. It's.
01:00:46.35	David Parisi	more or less the street that we're recommending.
01:00:49.05	David Parisi	It's a little narrower, actually. Like I said before, it's only 40 feet wide.
01:00:53.37	David Parisi	The loading zone is even narrower than what we're recommending that bike lanes are as well.
01:00:56.93	David Parisi	But one idea would be to carry this through
01:00:59.41	David Parisi	Further south.
01:01:00.76	David Parisi	as a hybrid project or a pilot project, but maybe not all the way down the Richardson, maybe halfway, maybe past loading zones, past the Trident.
01:01:08.88	David Parisi	Okay.
01:01:10.33	David Parisi	The issue here though is it's really difficult to end a bike lane into mixed flow traffic in the middle of a street. So that would be a huge challenge.
01:01:20.08	David Parisi	Not impossible.
01:01:22.56	David Parisi	but it's something that would need to be considered.
01:01:26.19	David Parisi	And then we had one
01:01:28.77	David Parisi	idea that I wanted to run by you, which we just thought of. Again, does not meet the purpose of our contract.
01:01:35.01	David Parisi	or the grant,
01:01:36.14	David Parisi	but it's something that could be considered all the time. Show it on the next slide.
01:01:42.02	David Parisi	The idea, and this is looking north,
01:01:43.97	David Parisi	of using that 42 feet of space. And from the water side in, providing a really wide bike lane where people could ride to abreast, perhaps,
01:01:54.08	David Parisi	That's buffered.
01:01:55.94	David Parisi	uh... traffic lanes
01:01:58.10	David Parisi	in each direction.
01:02:00.19	David Parisi	And a parking lane against the curb that could be up to nine feet wide. And why are we bringing this up?
01:02:05.59	David Parisi	Because about 70% of bike traffic is northbound.
01:02:08.87	David Parisi	on this segment.
01:02:10.86	David Parisi	Most of the northbound bike traffic rides slower.
01:02:13.44	David Parisi	The southbound traffic.
01:02:15.53	David Parisi	Most of the northbound congestion occurs because they're behind cars.
01:02:19.26	David Parisi	So this is a possibility of addressing many of these same issues.
01:02:24.56	David Parisi	Would it provide a bikeway in both directions? No.
01:02:27.43	David Parisi	Um,
01:02:28.54	David Parisi	It would definitely require repurposing of the median lane, which we think
01:02:33.44	David Parisi	is important.
01:02:34.74	David Parisi	But again, it's just another idea.
01:02:37.39	David Parisi	we wanted to throw out there.
01:02:39.04	David Parisi	Um,
01:02:40.29	David Parisi	for potential consideration. Again, we haven't developed any of these.
01:02:43.14	David Parisi	We've stuck to our scope of work. We've done an exhaustive safety analysis.
01:02:46.84	David Parisi	But.
01:02:47.46	David Parisi	if there was other consideration to be out there
01:02:49.97	David Parisi	We wanted to let you know some thinking.
01:02:52.89	David Parisi	So with that, I think we are wrapping up our presentation.
01:02:57.58	David Parisi	And I'd love to turn it back to our
01:03:00.01	David Parisi	Next speaker. Thank you.
01:03:01.13	Mayor Cox	Thank you, David and Jen. This is at least the third time I've seen this presentation, and it is remarkably improved today from the last time I saw it. And so I really appreciate the investment of effort to make sure we have all of the facts available.
01:03:19.15	Councilmember Hoffman	Mayor, this says questions. Are we asking questions at this point?
01:03:23.62	Mayor Cox	I'm going to turn it over. So, Kev, I don't know what the staff has in mind. Are we going to hear from WRT next?
01:03:30.02	Kevin McGowan	Yes, Madam Mayor, we have WRT, and then I have a couple slides just to close everything up.
01:03:35.92	Mayor Cox	So,
01:03:36.99	Mayor Cox	it's up to the council would you like to ask questions now or wait until we hear all of the presentations
01:03:43.35	Mayor Cox	Okay. All right. We'll hear it all through. Thank you.
01:03:46.08	Kevin McGowan	Thank you.
01:03:47.79	Kevin McGowan	Thank you, Jen. And thank you, David, for that presentation. There's another component that our consultant did mention, which has to do with the seawall.
01:03:55.72	Kevin McGowan	And we have, I just want to thank Katie Garcia-Tho for being in the audience today. She is our sustainability coordinator. I don't want to step on her toes at all, but she's taken a big step into moving forward with the sea level rise adaptation study. And we have a consultant who's been helping us with that adaptation study, WRT. Now, their main lead person isn't here today, John Gibbs, but Meg Archerson is here, and she's going to do a little study, not a study, a presentation. We have a whole lot of slides in the packet for you, and just based off of everybody in the room, I think we ought to move those forward fairly quickly. So Meg's going to kind of talk about a few things that they studied, and hopefully we'll make that presentation rather short. Thank you.
01:04:47.98	Meg Ackerson	Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, counsel. I'll do my best to work through quickly here. My name is Meg Ackerson. I'm at Arup. I'm a licensed civil engineer focused on coastal
01:05:01.89	Meg Ackerson	resilience and sea level rise adaptation here in the Bay Area. I'm part of the WRT-led consultant team working on your shoreline adaptation plan. That plan is looking at the entire shoreline of Sausalito. And as part of some of our work, we've been helping you look a bit more closely at sea level rise vulnerabilities and adaptation solutions.
01:05:25.14	Meg Ackerson	along this Bridgeway Southern Provenade area.
01:05:28.28	Meg Ackerson	John and I presented to the Sustainability Council, or sorry, pardon me, the Sustainability Commission back in January.
01:05:36.04	Meg Ackerson	And today we're sharing a very similar presentation, but I'm going to move very quickly through it and keep it to about 10 minutes if I can. We want to remind council and the public that our charge is to look at climate related issues and not transportation, which is what much of today's conversation is about. We've incorporated goals to provide more space for mobility without getting too specific on what that looks like. So let's walk through our findings. Could we do next slide, please?
01:06:10.47	Meg Ackerson	have an agenda, I'm going to skip through most of the introduction and focus on the existing conditions, vulnerability overview and some of the adaptation opportunities there. So if we could go through next slide. Next slide. Go maybe three more forward to the next kind of title slide. One more, please.
01:06:33.45	Meg Ackerson	Great. Okay. So, and if we could do one more, we'll talk about the existing conditions and vulnerabilities. So here's one photo looking at northwards. We know that this corridor is an important place for businesses, for residents, for visitors alike.
01:06:50.14	Meg Ackerson	all of which we see in this photo is exposed to coastal hazards, sea level rise, wave run up and overtopping.
01:06:57.80	Meg Ackerson	It's the sidewalks exposed, it's the roads, and it's the buildings as well.
01:07:02.66	Meg Ackerson	It's also what we don't see. It's extensive critical infrastructure following the road. It's our sewer mains, water mains, electrical fiber that are all kind of key to this corridor here as well. And in the long term, this road does need to be protected.
01:07:19.47	Meg Ackerson	You can go next slide.
01:07:21.24	Meg Ackerson	The team really wanted to understand everything that's along this corridor and what's happening here between access to the water, the businesses, what the views are and how it what kind of sidewalks mobility with the look and feel of it all here. We go to the next slide, please.
01:07:42.18	Meg Ackerson	All of this work is part of a much larger study. You could see all of Sausalito's shoreline here. The impacts along the Bridgeway Corridor in the southern area of Sausalito aren't unique.
01:07:54.53	Meg Ackerson	Um, it's really smart that the city is considering and thinking about sea level rise. Um, and as it's contemplating other improvements along the road. Um, if we go to the next slide, please. Um, so one's focused, um, now zooming in on that bridgeway promenade and sea level rise vulnerabilities here.
01:08:13.75	Meg Ackerson	the road, critical infrastructure, everything going on here is at risk starting in the mid century time horizon in a more permanent way.
01:08:23.88	Meg Ackerson	Um, that,
01:08:25.35	Meg Ackerson	said we're seeing impacts from severe storms today we could see on the right an image from some of the winter storms from a few years ago 2022-2023 winter
01:08:34.63	Meg Ackerson	where we see waves overtopping and passing cars at the same time. Next slide, please.
01:08:42.22	Meg Ackerson	So I'm going to walk through a bit of the design height guidance developed by the team and walk through this diagram. On the right side here, we see different sea level rise projections in addition to today's water level in blue.
01:08:57.68	Meg Ackerson	It's showing the design height for a protective measure that considers both sea level rise and storms.
01:09:05.04	Meg Ackerson	Um, and,
01:09:06.81	Meg Ackerson	I'd like to mention that bridgeway slopes, so the height needed,
01:09:11.31	Meg Ackerson	is a little bit less towards the Princess Street end on the northern end of this section.
01:09:16.90	Meg Ackerson	That said, we need about two to three feet of protection in about 20, 25 years for that mid-century.
01:09:25.37	Meg Ackerson	century option. And then by the end of century and another 75 years, we're looking at four to five feet. Next slide, please.
01:09:34.82	Meg Ackerson	The WRT team observed a couple character changes along the road. Lots of businesses located on the northern end.
01:09:42.87	Meg Ackerson	in the center section focused on residential and more towards the southern end. We have Tiffany Park and more park area where you could really soak in the views.
01:09:53.62	Meg Ackerson	two wharf building scomas in the trident that are attached to the shoreline and would need to be considered in any kind of shoreline treatment, sea level rise adaptation.
01:10:03.59	Meg Ackerson	If you go to the next slide, please.
01:10:06.29	Meg Ackerson	I'm going to talk a little bit about
01:10:08.82	Meg Ackerson	some of these treatment options and for addressing silverized adaptation. So let's go to the next slide.
01:10:15.69	Meg Ackerson	We defined some reasonable considerations for our work, and I think the main one I'd like to highlight here
01:10:22.65	Meg Ackerson	Um, is that we did not take a position on the center median or bike lanes.
01:10:28.25	Meg Ackerson	And that
01:10:29.94	Meg Ackerson	Our adaptation responses are accommodating of all of the options explored by the parametrics team. We go the next slide, please. One thing we've heard quite clearly from the community and our engagement work on this project.
01:10:44.90	Meg Ackerson	is how proud we are all about this waterfront
01:10:47.98	Meg Ackerson	It's really world-class waterfront. And since our work is, what I'm presenting today is representing a fairly simple engineered
01:10:56.31	Meg Ackerson	solution and quite simple diagrams.
01:10:59.48	Meg Ackerson	We'd want to just acknowledge and reinforce here that there's an ability to add design elements, incorporate elegance, incorporate placekeeping, and keep that and enhance that world-class waterfront appeal. And there are lots of examples. We go to the next slide as well that many of you know. Next slide. So this sidewalk seating exhibit became an important part of our exploration. Okay.
01:11:29.40	Meg Ackerson	We sat down at the sidewalk cafe and imagine the protective walls needed for future sea level rise.
01:11:36.86	Meg Ackerson	How, what changes with that view? How do we take in the skyline differently with, um, with a wall?
01:11:43.46	Meg Ackerson	And so at one to two feet, you could see here,
01:11:46.67	Meg Ackerson	Um, no problem, like covering a little bit of the water, but not much of the view by three feet. You could still see the SF shoreline, but beyond four feet, the character is really changing. Um, and as you'll see in the alternatives, there's options to elevate the roadway and sidewalk.
01:12:05.62	Meg Ackerson	to prevent that difference being so great between a wall and being able to see out. If we go to the next slide, please.
01:12:17.21	Meg Ackerson	So this is an overview of the adaptation options explored so far. Um, there's three categories, um, for option zero. This is that mid-century approach. We're looking at a little less than a foot of, um, sea level rise at this point.
01:12:33.24	Meg Ackerson	Um, options one and options two are both looking at a more long-term solution with a more robust seawall, um, and have a couple of different iterations between them. It's too much for today's meeting. Um, so I'm not going to go into all of the detail and I'm going to keep it at a relatively high level, um, just to be able to move quickly through it. But I think that at a high level, there's kind of near-term solution and then something more robust for long-term. If we go to the next slide, please, it's about the
01:13:08.53	Meg Ackerson	just the roadway itself into the shoreline and what's happening offshore. And a reminder that it's not just the roads that are exposed to coastal flooding, it's also the buildings. You can kind of see that line extending all the way across the road. And so these alternatives are exploring shoreline protections that protect not just the road, but everything inland.
01:13:31.09	Meg Ackerson	And some of these options include raising the road in buildings and improving stormwater capture as well as part of this. You go to the next slide, please.
01:13:43.46	Meg Ackerson	This is where we start to get into a few of the options and what those cross sections look like.
01:13:49.11	Meg Ackerson	Here is our mid-century approach, which is a low wall incorporated to the sidewalk. It's keeping the cross-section width the same. It's not going to be, you know, in this configuration, an Army Corps certified.
01:14:07.56	Meg Ackerson	structure, it won't reduce FEMA floodplains,
01:14:12.16	Meg Ackerson	But it'll have some appeal because of its low cost, it does offer some protection and buys you time. Ultimately, though, it is a stranded asset and something more robust will have to be developed by the end of the century. Something more robust like a seawall, if we go to the next slide, please.
01:14:32.07	Meg Ackerson	So,
01:14:33.34	Meg Ackerson	These long-term alternatives in the cross sections are showing the bike lanes in different locations, class two, class four cycle tracks. But again, we defer to the transportation study on this. If we could go to the next slide, please.
01:14:49.86	Meg Ackerson	And one more, these are all option one, which focus on widening
01:14:55.01	Meg Ackerson	Um,
01:14:56.49	Meg Ackerson	the roadway and sidewalk to create a bit more space. If we go to the next slide,
01:15:03.11	Meg Ackerson	And one more after that.
01:15:05.22	Meg Ackerson	Um, these are now going into option two and different iterations on that, which incorporate a cantilever structure. So a bit of a sidewalk leading out over the water.
01:15:15.95	Meg Ackerson	where we've put kind of a cross section of people out on there. So we can go to the next slide, please.
01:15:25.84	Meg Ackerson	All of these long-term locations do assume a widening of that right-of-way. It's not required, but seems to make some kind of sense to, if exploring an investment like this, to also improve that world-class feel of this section of bridgeway, and accommodate multimodal transportation. Next slide, please.
01:15:49.89	Meg Ackerson	I believe that's the final one, showing kind of a separated boardwalk as an example. Let's go next slide, please. Really flying through these. Here's some examples of how we make a concrete seawall a little bit more cohesive with the natural environment and maybe prettier for people to look at as well. It's called Greening the Gray. This had huge support from the Sustainability Commission.
01:16:15.32	Meg Ackerson	There are methods available to encourage aquatic life, to
01:16:20.50	Meg Ackerson	um thrive on and with structures and concert with them um this can be anywhere from tide pools or incorporating reef balls offshore there's a lot of different ways to do that that can be explored next slide there's also um options for adjustable flood protection and kind of temporary um
01:16:41.37	Meg Ackerson	stopgap measures that can be deployed. These can go in gaps along a seawall or on top of a structure. This does require human effort to deploy during a time that may be busy for staff in responding to a major coastal storm. Individual business owners can also employ deployable barriers like this during storms. Kind of that bottom middle image is an example. Next slide, please.
01:17:16.51	Meg Ackerson	I'm going to keep the implementation strategy at a really high level as well. The next slide. We looked at different ways on how to plan and fund the work and address kind of all of these competing tradeoffs between multimodal transportation, sea level rise protection, and.
01:17:33.80	Meg Ackerson	ecological opportunities, how do you weigh all of that in these options? So I'm going to go to the next slide, which shows one of those bottom line
01:17:41.73	Meg Ackerson	values of rough order of magnitude cost estimates for these different treatment plans.
01:17:48.16	Meg Ackerson	And so...
01:17:49.19	Meg Ackerson	That option zero that I shared earlier focused on that mid-century, really low, kind of more of a robust sidewalk with a lip on it, offers the least of protection, and it is in that 2.5 million kind of dollar range.
01:18:05.90	Meg Ackerson	For longer term protection, whether you're looking at options one or two with that elevated,
01:18:11.52	SPEAKER_00	to
01:18:13.69	Meg Ackerson	kind of cantilever structure out over the water or raising the road and sidewalk with a wall
01:18:21.09	Meg Ackerson	while widening the right of way, all of these are on the order of $100 million or more for something more robust. And so all of this is quite substantial and somewhat necessary for protecting the assets.
01:18:38.47	Mayor Cox	Once again, if you would like to chat, perhaps you could step outside.
01:18:42.40	Mayor Cox	so that everybody can hear the presenter. I would appreciate it.
01:18:46.48	Meg Ackerson	Thank you. And these offer the best long-term protection, looking at that again, 70 or so years out from now. We go to the next slide, please. This is some of the background on that costing. It followed kind of cost standard to develop them. And then,
01:19:11.03	Meg Ackerson	plus accuracy plus or minus 50%. Again, this order of magnitude, and it's really purpose is to be able to compare options
01:19:18.61	Meg Ackerson	at this level and be able to kind of guide, give decision makers the information they need in terms of an order of magnitude. Next slide, please.
01:19:31.30	Meg Ackerson	um and next slide thank you um and here's kind of draft recommendation to council to
01:19:39.10	Meg Ackerson	continue exploring designs for, you know, long-term sea level rise adaptation.
01:19:44.38	Meg Ackerson	And after discussion, I think the committee may recommend approaches that prioritize all these different tradeoffs that you're considering as part of this. So thank you very much.
01:19:55.81	Meg Ackerson	Thank you so much.
01:20:01.46	Kevin McGowan	All right. Thank you, council. Just a couple more slides, which I'm hoping that
01:20:06.05	Kevin McGowan	We can bring up very quickly. It's all right. Be short. It's all right.
01:20:10.67	Kevin McGowan	A couple more folks to recognize while she's bringing this up. We have Chief Gregory who is here in the room this evening, our police chief. Thank you for being here. Chief Tubbs from Southern Marine Fire is also here as well. So very important topic this afternoon. Okay, next slide. Thank you.
01:20:26.96	Kevin McGowan	So we have seen a presentation from Parametrics regarding the analysis of the original application, which noted advantages and disadvantages with the original application to reconfigure the lanes on this section of Bridgeway to include dedicated bike facilities. Parametrics examined multiple alternatives and presented these to the council. Next slide.
01:20:52.18	Kevin McGowan	Staff submitted an application in 2022 for one Bay Area grant cycle three, OBAG three.
01:20:58.92	Kevin McGowan	Funding to support the construction of the original concept at that time a rough estimate was developed It included a micro seal of the roadway Restriping and the installation of a mid block crossing at Golden Gate market
01:21:12.97	Kevin McGowan	The construction did not include additional mid-block crossings or the construction of new delivery pullouts at the Trident, which was kind of a long-term alternative. However, signage and modifications to the curb side management plan and loading and unloading for deliveries can be accommodated with that option. I do want to mention and acknowledge that the full delivery
01:21:37.91	Kevin McGowan	Thank you.
01:21:38.14	Kevin McGowan	The full limit of the work is not necessarily the limit of the median. The median goes from just south of Princess to a little bit south of Tiffany Park, while the entire limit goes all the way up towards the Golden Gate Market. So just to acknowledge that.
01:21:57.61	Kevin McGowan	Next slide.
01:21:59.53	Kevin McGowan	And thank you for your patience.
01:22:04.14	Kevin McGowan	Next slide.
01:22:05.45	Kevin McGowan	Oh, no, way too far.
01:22:08.02	Kevin McGowan	There we go. That's the right one. Parametrics identified a long-term solution, which included adding a pullout in the front of the Trident that could be modified to create a delivery and drop-off area. In addition, the city...
01:22:21.64	Kevin McGowan	could add mid-block crossings to the original concept. However, the limited OBAG III funding at this time would not cover that cost. Now, you may ask why the high cost for a pullout area? Well, it's right next to the bay, and you're going to need sheet piles and some other things in order to protect the area. So it needs a pretty substantial wall. Next slide, please.
01:22:44.81	Kevin McGowan	Here we go. Parametrics also developed an estimate for fully reconstructing the roadway. This includes the removal of the center concrete median, and that means physically taking the whole thing out, and fully resurfacing the roadway. This cost far exceeds the original estimate and because it includes all these additional elements. Next slide, please.
01:23:08.16	Kevin McGowan	Looking at these collectively, just kind of looking at costs, the original application included a micro seal curb management to address deliveries. Parametrics noted an impact of nine parking spaces could need to be modified to provide delivery parking for parking each day. If in the future more deliveries and drop off areas are needed, Parametrics provided a concept
01:23:36.46	Kevin McGowan	and estimate to construct an area in front of the Trident in order to achieve a drop-off area and a delivery parking area.
01:23:45.64	Kevin McGowan	Parametrics noted looked at other alternatives, such as reconstructing the entire roadway. This alternative is significantly higher in cost compared to the original application.
01:23:56.32	Kevin McGowan	Next slide.
01:23:58.70	Kevin McGowan	We also had a presentation from WRT.
01:24:01.51	Kevin McGowan	and Arup, which identified this area of Sausalito as being susceptible to impacts from sea level rise.
01:24:08.73	Kevin McGowan	Their presentation showed some graphics, noting that in 2050...
01:24:15.31	Kevin McGowan	A 100-year storm event and wave run-up could impact this section of roadway. Next slide.
01:24:23.22	Kevin McGowan	There we go. All right. And that brings us to the bring us back to the council. So thank you very much, everyone, for your patience today, including those in the audience and the council for taking this item on. Really appreciate it. Staff is looking for direction regarding acceptance of the OBAG 3 funding for the construction of the noted project.
01:24:42.55	Kevin McGowan	If your council wants to proceed with the original concept and accept the construction funding, staff council would need to adopt a resolution of support for the grant. That concludes my presentation, and thank you again, everybody in the room.
01:25:00.08	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
01:25:00.31	Kevin McGowan	you.
01:25:00.92	Mayor Cox	Director McGowan.
01:25:02.26	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm going to open it up to Council questions.
01:25:05.43	Mayor Cox	um following council questions we will take a five minute break for a purpose of personal convenience before we resume we open public comment so who has questions
01:25:19.64	Mayor Cox	Go ahead.
01:25:21.15	Mayor Cox	Vice Mayor Woodside.
01:25:22.35	Unknown	These are for David or Jen, and I really have just a couple of questions regarding what you called incremental recommendations. These are not part of the original robust body of your work. These you added recently.
01:25:47.11	Unknown	Okay. Can you hear me now?
01:25:48.83	Unknown	Yes.
01:25:51.07	Unknown	So my questions are pertain to what you call incremental improvements that I don't think were part of your original robust report, but you mentioned them today and I just have a couple questions. Sure. Number one has to do with the center lane not used for parking or loading. That's a recommendation that you would make for safety reasons.
01:26:16.02	David Parisi	Yes, absolutely.
01:26:17.05	Unknown	And can you explain in a little bit more detail what the problems are that you observe?
01:26:22.82	David Parisi	Yes, for sure. There are several problems with that center turn lane. Number one is striped as a two-way left turn lane. So not only, I'll talk about the non-loading and parking elements of it first. There are pedestrians crossing through there with a false sense of security. As Jen mentioned, there could be a truck right in front of them and another car coming by. I would hate to see that happen in the future. They step out and get hit. Motorists pass cyclists using that lane as well. That's illegal. And if there's somebody in that lane, that's very dangerous. But more to the point about the loading and unloading. At any time, we can see two, three, up to four vehicles in that center lane. It's only 10 feet wide. It's actually less than it
01:27:09.59	David Parisi	It's supposed to be per standard, supposed to be 11 foot wide just for turning, but it's being used by large trucks for loading and unloading. There's a lot of, if you recall Jen's diagram earlier, we do see a correlation. Half the collisions on Bridgeway occur within that area. A lot of them are the side swipe where everything is choked down quite a bit.
01:27:36.53	David Parisi	Also, the delivery workers themselves have to cross the traffic twice when they go from the truck to the curb and back. So we're absolutely recommending that the lane, a two-way left turn lane, which is supposed to be used for making left turns and driving up to 200 feet, is prohibited from parking. And that could be done by a lot of different ways, through stripes, through signing, through some low curbs, and of course, through enforcement.
01:28:07.15	Unknown	That would not necessarily require elimination of a middle lane.
01:28:11.74	Unknown	Cool.
01:28:11.86	David Parisi	I'm going to go.
01:28:11.93	Unknown	I'm not sure.
01:28:12.03	David Parisi	Correct.
01:28:12.62	Unknown	Thank you.
01:28:12.71	David Parisi	Thank you.
01:28:13.45	Unknown	Thank you.
01:28:13.47	David Parisi	Correct. In fact, if the middle lane was retained,
01:28:18.01	David Parisi	except for
01:28:19.57	David Parisi	loading, unloading in those crosswalk areas, there'd be the ability to do raised median islands.
01:28:27.10	David Parisi	within that area.
01:28:27.66	Unknown	Okay, and that brings me to a question about raised median islands. Is it your view that you really shouldn't have a crosswalk in that vicinity where there is a median without having a raised portion of the median for the crosswalk? Or would it be possible to using the flashing beacons to cross, in effect, three lanes at one time?
01:28:52.18	David Parisi	We would not recommend that because under current conditions, it's an active two-way left turn lane. So cars can park right up to a potential crosswalk, cars could drive.
01:29:03.26	David Parisi	through a crosswalk. So for mid-block crosswalks, which these would be, not an intersection, for mid-block crosswalks, we'd highly recommend, again,
01:29:14.48	David Parisi	refuge areas and there's if there's again if the middle lane is retained.
01:29:18.20	Unknown	Yeah.
01:29:18.48	David Parisi	So,
01:29:18.97	Unknown	your understanding, my understanding of the crosswalk laws in California are that when there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk, one must stop. Correct?
01:29:34.89	David Parisi	Correct.
01:29:38.77	Unknown	I'm just asking the question. I appreciate us hearing the answer.
01:29:42.67	Unknown	Thank you.
01:29:42.72	David Parisi	Yeah.
01:29:42.80	Unknown	.
01:29:43.12	David Parisi	That's my understanding of law, but the circumstance here would be with an active
01:29:47.65	David Parisi	a crosswalk and a mid-block crosswalk through an active two-way left turn lane.
01:29:52.37	David Parisi	Vehicles could be driving through there, a vehicle could be
01:29:55.34	David Parisi	Parked.
01:29:56.81	David Parisi	in there and then another car coming by providing, again, a false sense of security for the pedestrian who's emerging from a triple threat position could get hit.
01:30:06.66	Unknown	Thank you.
01:30:06.68	David Parisi	I just couldn't recommend it.
01:30:06.70	Unknown	I just couldn't recommend it.
01:30:07.86	Unknown	I understand why you're not recommending it. I just would ask you whether the person or the driver in the left turn lane would also have to stop if, for example, there was flashing lights and a clear crosswalk.
01:30:08.05	David Parisi	Thank you.
01:30:21.40	David Parisi	if they're moving, yes, they would.
01:30:23.28	David Parisi	That's right, they're supposed to stop.
01:30:24.67	Unknown	Thank you. And then lastly, you mentioned something that your firm recommended to us recently that we adopted, and that is a reduction of speed limits through town on Bridgeway that will take place this summer, correct? Yes. Thank you. No further questions.
01:30:42.27	Mayor Cox	Thank you. Yes.
01:30:45.53	Mayor Cox	Councilmember Hoffman.
01:30:46.98	Councilmember Hoffman	Hi, Mr. Preezy. Thank you. I'm going to share my screen, maybe.
01:30:56.21	Councilmember Hoffman	I think so. I'm speaking in the micro now.
01:31:00.78	Councilmember Hoffman	Walford, I've sent you a request to share my screen.
01:31:05.44	Councilmember Hoffman	Sure.
01:31:06.22	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:31:06.32	Councilmember Sobieski	Thank you.
01:31:06.37	Councilmember Hoffman	You should be.
01:31:06.42	Councilmember Sobieski	You should be able to.
01:31:06.92	Councilmember Hoffman	to do.
01:31:06.97	Councilmember Sobieski	Thank you, sir.
01:31:08.22	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay. Hold on.
01:31:20.00	Councilmember Hoffman	Now I've got to figure out, wait, hold on.
01:31:21.44	Councilmember Sobieski	At the bottom, there's a
01:31:22.82	Councilmember Sobieski	Thank you.
01:31:22.84	Councilmember Hoffman	Hold on.
01:31:22.85	Councilmember Sobieski	Thank you.
01:31:23.27	Councilmember Sobieski	Screen, share screen.
01:31:28.03	Meg Ackerson	Sure.
01:31:30.31	Meg Ackerson	Thank you.
01:31:42.92	Councilmember Hoffman	Am I sharing?
01:31:43.37	Councilmember Sobieski	Go to slide and start slideshow.
01:31:43.41	Councilmember Hoffman	Sure.
01:31:48.44	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:31:48.45	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
01:31:48.49	Councilmember Hoffman	of the
01:31:48.60	SPEAKER_00	So.
01:31:49.31	David Parisi	Whilst you're doing that, maybe I can add to mine.
01:31:50.07	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:31:50.11	SPEAKER_00	Yeah.
01:31:50.19	Councilmember Hoffman	There we go. Hold on.
01:31:53.41	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:31:53.43	David Parisi	I've smear a mistake.
01:31:53.47	Councilmember Hoffman	I was very nervous.
01:31:54.41	Councilmember Hoffman	Here we go.
01:31:57.45	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, so just to level set, this is, I've got this, this is a, um,
01:32:02.97	Councilmember Hoffman	This is a picture of Bridgeway from Google Map. And this is just where the arrows are. This is where the median is. You'll agree with me on that one? Yes. You can see the arrows. Because a lot of this, you know,
01:32:13.02	David Parisi	Yes.
01:32:17.92	Councilmember Hoffman	A lot of this is where we're talking about some of the maps and we're expanding out to areas that don't actually include
01:32:26.78	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
01:32:27.97	Councilmember Hoffman	that don't actually include the median. Yeah, so this is just where the median is. And this is a report that you did, here you are down here, Parisi, in 2018,
01:32:39.45	Councilmember Hoffman	This is the 2018 Marin County Travel Safety Plan. So we're going to I'm going to look at some maps and Mr. Taylor, Dr. Taylor has actually there's several different sources of information that were provided to us by residents. And this is some information that that I was that actually that we discussed this week. So thank you so much for your time. Welcome. And so this is a map that I looked at this week. This is a map that you prepared for the county of Marin that actually
01:33:08.44	Councilmember Hoffman	our Department of Public Works, Jonathan Goldman, helped prepare. And so these arrows are roughly, again,
01:33:16.79	Councilmember Hoffman	the area of Sausalio that included our
01:33:20.29	Councilmember Hoffman	That includes the center median area.
01:33:23.58	Councilmember Hoffman	um that you prepared here's the
01:33:26.12	Councilmember Hoffman	This is a fairly benign area though. So this is a collision severity index that you prepared for the county of Marin
01:33:34.14	Councilmember Hoffman	And here's the severity index down here, which shows collision severity.
01:33:45.87	Councilmember Hoffman	Maybe.
01:33:47.98	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay.
01:33:49.41	Councilmember Hoffman	There you go.
01:33:51.10	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm telling you, I am so good at this technology stuff. I'm very proud of myself right now. And so here's the collision area right here. This is Anchor and Bay.
01:34:01.07	Councilmember Hoffman	And this is 2nd and Richardson.
01:34:03.99	Councilmember Hoffman	But this area along here, you would agree with me. You prepared this map.
01:34:08.04	Councilmember Hoffman	Fairly benign. Not an area of high collision. You would agree with that.
01:34:13.26	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm assuming
01:34:14.39	Councilmember Hoffman	You prepared the map.
01:34:15.67	David Parisi	Yeah, I'm happy to walk you through the SSI.
01:34:18.59	Councilmember Hoffman	Well, yeah, let me...
01:34:20.78	Councilmember Hoffman	Let's go to the next.
01:34:22.98	Councilmember Hoffman	Well, we'll get to it.
01:34:25.15	Councilmember Hoffman	Uh-oh.
01:34:26.77	Councilmember Hoffman	How do I get to the next?
01:34:30.50	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay, how do I get to my next slide? Oh, here we go. All right, here we go. Now here's a 2024 Marin County local road safety plan. Here you are again, down here, parametrics. You prepared this one too.
01:34:43.87	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
01:34:45.23	Councilmember Hoffman	And here's here's our friend Warren Wells, Marin County Bicycle Coalition. Mr. Wells also sits as a non voting member on our bike and ped committee. I want to wanted to put that out and invite him because he's invited to participate in our in our
01:35:02.75	Councilmember Hoffman	our efforts here in Sausalito. But here's an interesting thing that we also discussed on Thursday.
01:35:08.86	Councilmember Hoffman	You've expanded this map out.
01:35:12.07	Councilmember Hoffman	And you've expanded it out to
01:35:14.41	Councilmember Hoffman	This bay and anchor high collision intersection...
01:35:19.37	Councilmember Hoffman	And you've expanded it out to
01:35:22.06	Councilmember Hoffman	Richardson and Second Street. Again, I didn't have time to put little arrows, but here's
01:35:27.27	Councilmember Hoffman	Here's where the arrows would be on Bridgeway, right here. And this is a 2024 map. So we have a 2018 map that you prepared where Bridgeway is fairly benign.
01:35:40.91	Councilmember Hoffman	but then you've expanded it out in 2024,
01:35:45.18	Councilmember Hoffman	a few years later, but you've included
01:35:48.06	Councilmember Hoffman	the bay and anchor,
01:35:49.78	Councilmember Hoffman	and the Richardson and Second Street
01:35:52.82	Councilmember Hoffman	And now...
01:35:54.52	Councilmember Hoffman	This corridor along here,
01:35:57.41	Councilmember Hoffman	that we're talking about. Roughly, it goes from about here, right after Yitachi Park,
01:36:01.97	Councilmember Hoffman	to about right here, where you start to turn into
01:36:06.02	Councilmember Hoffman	Richardson the second and now all of a sudden.
01:36:08.68	Councilmember Hoffman	This is reported in a Marin County report
01:36:11.72	Councilmember Hoffman	as a high-collision network.
01:36:14.59	Councilmember Hoffman	And so we discussed that.
01:36:17.51	Councilmember Hoffman	And here's your report.
01:36:19.79	Councilmember Hoffman	Here's the accident reports that are listed in this high collision segment.
01:36:24.76	Councilmember Hoffman	Here's the accidents, two pedestrian, two bicycle,
01:36:27.72	Councilmember Hoffman	one motorcycle
01:36:29.39	Councilmember Hoffman	two vehicles,
01:36:33.66	Councilmember Hoffman	That's in the 2024 report.
01:36:37.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Let's go back and look at the I think it has a date range on it. Nope, then have a date range, but it is a 2024 report.
01:36:44.59	Councilmember Hoffman	And then here's interesting again.
01:36:48.42	Councilmember Hoffman	You can't quite see it.
01:36:50.28	Councilmember Hoffman	But
01:36:52.79	Councilmember Hoffman	This is the map that was presented
01:36:56.62	Councilmember Hoffman	at the bicycle and ped committee meeting on December 9, 2024.
01:37:03.81	Councilmember Hoffman	And the date range on that map.
01:37:07.14	Councilmember Hoffman	was
01:37:09.43	Councilmember Hoffman	Hold on a second, I can't see it because the
01:37:11.32	Councilmember Hoffman	Oh, you can say it on the screen. Oh, good.
01:37:12.98	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, so that was 6-30-2024. So you've only got, I think,
01:37:19.05	Councilmember Hoffman	nine accidents on this map, and that was just in December of 2024.
01:37:25.89	Councilmember Hoffman	And then for today, you've got this map.
01:37:28.94	Councilmember Hoffman	And you've got the date range on that of 2022. So we're going back two years and you've got 50.
01:37:35.81	Councilmember Hoffman	accidents, go back a month, and we only got 15,
01:37:40.79	Councilmember Hoffman	go back here, we've got six.
01:37:44.63	Councilmember Hoffman	All of a sudden, this is a high collision corridor when we've decided you've expanded this out to these
01:37:51.38	Councilmember Hoffman	high collision
01:37:54.23	Councilmember Hoffman	You've included those intersections.
01:37:57.81	Councilmember Hoffman	And then we go back to 2018,
01:38:00.16	Councilmember Hoffman	fairly benign.
01:38:02.15	Councilmember Hoffman	So I'm confused about the
01:38:04.14	Councilmember Hoffman	progression
01:38:07.97	Councilmember Hoffman	of.
01:38:09.19	Councilmember Hoffman	the accidents and the claim that this is a high collision network and then
01:38:14.00	Councilmember Hoffman	And then we have another, and we also talked about this too,
01:38:18.35	Councilmember Hoffman	We have another...
01:38:19.92	Councilmember Hoffman	public comment from Dr. Johnson, Jan.
01:38:23.35	Councilmember Hoffman	and Johnson and our police department that lists the number of accidents along this corridor as 15 in the past 10 years. And so I'm confused about that.
01:38:33.67	Unknown	their
01:38:34.47	Councilmember Hoffman	THE FAMILY.
01:38:34.65	Unknown	I'm-
01:38:34.80	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:38:39.31	Councilmember Hoffman	That's my question. I'm confused about that. And now here's your chance.
01:38:43.54	David Parisi	Thank you.
01:38:44.08	Councilmember Hoffman	Happy Thanksgiving.
01:38:45.45	David Parisi	I'm very happy to answer that question.
01:38:47.66	David Parisi	I'll start with where we are now.
01:38:49.18	David Parisi	The SWITRs data is the most comprehensive database, as Jen mentioned.
01:38:53.20	David Parisi	It's one we use for specific corridor studies. It's data.
01:38:57.20	David Parisi	police records.
01:38:58.85	David Parisi	et cetera, that comes right from the city to the state.
01:39:01.53	David Parisi	It includes not just injury collisions, but all collisions.
01:39:05.55	David Parisi	And we've discovered not just 50, but there's been 60
01:39:09.40	David Parisi	collisions within
01:39:11.51	David Parisi	the 10 years.
01:39:12.81	David Parisi	including just some in the last two years.
01:39:15.42	David Parisi	including I think with four or five
01:39:17.46	David Parisi	bicycle collisions in 2024.
01:39:19.98	David Parisi	But let me step back to the sources that you're
01:39:23.64	David Parisi	talking about here.
01:39:24.60	David Parisi	The first one, which is the Marin Travel Safety Plan,
01:39:28.16	David Parisi	which was, I think,
01:39:29.83	David Parisi	2016 to 2020.
01:39:32.13	David Parisi	That relied, as Jen mentioned, as I discussed with you the other day,
01:39:35.74	David Parisi	Soleant
01:39:36.68	David Parisi	data from Tim's, which is a subset
01:39:39.81	David Parisi	of the Switters database.
01:39:41.29	David Parisi	And it's a subset that only includes some
01:39:44.28	David Parisi	of the
01:39:46.05	David Parisi	injury collisions. Most researchers know this.
01:39:49.27	David Parisi	And what we discovered early on
01:39:51.41	David Parisi	is that TIMS actually is missing a lot of data
01:39:54.72	David Parisi	from Sausalito.
01:39:56.60	David Parisi	And that's why
01:39:58.00	David Parisi	And what we presented to the VPAC
01:40:00.75	David Parisi	We said, oh my gosh, there's a lot of information missing.
01:40:03.90	David Parisi	let's do like we usually do for specific quarter studies and not for planning level studies quarter wide or county wide, let's look at the SWITRs data because it's super reliable, it's coming from the city,
01:40:15.82	David Parisi	is coming from emergency service providers, and it's accurate.
01:40:19.65	David Parisi	So that's what we are using now. That's what we're relying on.
01:40:24.05	David Parisi	The other map you had,
01:40:26.36	David Parisi	said we've expanded the study area
01:40:28.96	David Parisi	This study area on this map existed before we even got under contract for this project.
01:40:34.26	David Parisi	and we were able to determine
01:40:36.00	David Parisi	that yes,
01:40:37.11	David Parisi	the second highest
01:40:38.70	David Parisi	area of injuries for the incomplete Tim's data at the time is the stretch of Bridgeway
01:40:46.46	David Parisi	from Bay to 2nd and Richardson.
01:40:49.31	David Parisi	So none of these are really
01:40:50.77	David Parisi	They were relying on the data we had at the time, but the most accurate data and the most important data for what we're doing right now is the SWITR's information.
01:40:59.69	David Parisi	So we,
01:41:01.30	David Parisi	The data is the data.
01:41:02.46	David Parisi	It came from the city.
01:41:04.10	David Parisi	It's 50.
01:41:05.19	David Parisi	and an additional 10 we just found of collisions for a 10 year period.
01:41:09.60	David Parisi	on the stretch that we're studying right now.
01:41:13.75	Councilmember Hoffman	But you would agree that changing out
01:41:18.22	Councilmember Hoffman	changing the configuration of the bike lanes versus the center median in this core. Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
01:41:28.61	Councilmember Hoffman	in the corridor.
01:41:30.23	Councilmember Hoffman	notwithstanding
01:41:31.97	Councilmember Hoffman	Anchor Street, because it didn't have anything to do with Anchor Street, nothing to do with
01:41:36.33	Councilmember Hoffman	Richardson and Second Street,
01:41:38.03	Councilmember Hoffman	This corridor here is not going to have anything to do with the high collision
01:41:41.56	Councilmember Hoffman	In this area, it's not going to have anything to do with the high collision, actually, at Princess Street because it doesn't have anything to do with Princess Street.
01:41:48.02	Councilmember Hoffman	and it's not going to have anything to do with
01:41:50.82	Councilmember Hoffman	Second and Richardson because there's no center meeting at Second and Richardson.
01:41:51.89	SPEAKER_00	because
01:41:56.15	David Parisi	I'd agree, but again, this study was done before we were in our contract, but this was for a different purpose. It was to identify the starts and ends of high injury
01:42:04.71	David Parisi	you know, roadway segments.
01:42:06.92	Councilmember Hoffman	And you had a meeting with
01:42:10.95	Councilmember Hoffman	the Sausage Police Department and the Southern Marine Fire Department on June 30th of 2023, correct?
01:42:18.50	David Parisi	Not sure about the date, but
01:42:20.56	Councilmember Hoffman	Sometime in 2023? Yes.
01:42:22.18	David Parisi	Mm-hmm.
01:42:22.51	Councilmember Hoffman	And do you recall that there was a memo of that meeting?
01:42:25.50	David Parisi	I do recall, yes.
01:42:26.90	Councilmember Hoffman	Do you know or understand why that memo
01:42:32.15	Councilmember Hoffman	Well...
01:42:33.16	Councilmember Hoffman	Do you recall that at that meeting, the police
01:42:40.77	Councilmember Hoffman	the police department's input was that there would be regulating
01:42:48.55	Councilmember Hoffman	The police department's recommendation was to retain the center median.
01:42:52.55	David Parisi	I don't recall that. I do recall the police department was concerned, as Jen mentioned,
01:42:57.09	David Parisi	And as Kevin has mentioned that if there's an incident
01:43:00.31	David Parisi	they would have to
01:43:02.44	David Parisi	you know, they'd have to direct traffic around just like on
01:43:06.03	David Parisi	East Blightdale or Magnolia Avenue or Corte Madere Avenue, which is common. And these streets have three times more traffic, but they'd have to maneuver traffic around.
01:43:14.62	David Parisi	But I do not recall anything about
01:43:18.34	David Parisi	any opposition to removing?
01:43:20.41	David Parisi	The median.
01:43:21.91	Councilmember Hoffman	As part of your report, did you do any traffic counts?
01:43:26.10	David Parisi	You know, our report was very limited and
01:43:29.03	David Parisi	However,
01:43:30.39	David Parisi	We did prepare the circulation element for the city.
01:43:34.57	David Parisi	And we prepared a study a number of years ago, looking at the whole Alexander second and Richardson corridor.
01:43:41.22	David Parisi	We do know that traffic volumes, current traffic volumes, are lower than they've been in 10 years.
01:43:46.25	David Parisi	So what we did cite was the higher volumes of about 10 years ago.
01:43:50.90	David Parisi	which I have right here if you want me to walk through those.
01:43:53.82	Councilmember Hoffman	No, that's fine. Did you do any studies on how the reconfiguration will affect traffic congestion?
01:44:00.71	David Parisi	Well, we looked at the, again, the traffic numbers from 10 years ago, and yes, we did some traffic assessments with the traffic engineers in house to determine
01:44:10.84	David Parisi	what would happen?
01:44:11.91	David Parisi	We do know.
01:44:13.18	David Parisi	for instance, and this is important,
01:44:15.71	David Parisi	Northbound traffic.
01:44:18.09	David Parisi	You know, summer traffic,
01:44:20.45	David Parisi	On this street is about 7,200 people.
01:44:23.88	David Parisi	At the peak was about 7,200 cars a day. Springtime at about 6,700 cars a day.
01:44:30.32	David Parisi	Peak hour traffic.
01:44:31.98	David Parisi	in the summer.
01:44:33.41	David Parisi	The peak of traffic is about 700 cars today, which is about between seven and one.
01:44:38.58	David Parisi	in the afternoon.
01:44:40.50	David Parisi	Um,
01:44:41.19	David Parisi	During that same time,
01:44:44.45	David Parisi	There's about 400 of those cars are going northbound and 300 southbound.
01:44:50.19	David Parisi	And,
01:44:51.17	David Parisi	that the summer...
01:44:52.40	David Parisi	peak of bikes
01:44:54.42	David Parisi	Five to 600 bikes. So about 50% more bikes.
01:44:58.49	David Parisi	The bikes from our observations are causing a lot of the congestion because the cars are behind the bikes. So the provision of separated bike lanes certainly would improve day-to-day traffic flow on the corridor. So that was the assessment that we came up with looking at the numbers and talking with the traffic engineers internally about this.
01:45:21.49	Councilmember Hoffman	But
01:45:22.65	Councilmember Hoffman	So your assumption is that they're going to stay in the bike lanes?
01:45:28.41	David Parisi	That bicycle.
01:45:33.51	David Parisi	You know, my assumption is with a Bay Trail standard bike lane six feet wide, which is wider than any bike lane in South Salido, the slow cyclists will.
01:45:41.25	David Parisi	My assumption is that the Peloton cyclists that are coming through on a 20 mile an hour roadway are going to take the lane. They certainly are.
01:45:48.22	David Parisi	Right. And they will they slow. Yeah. So.
01:45:50.87	SPEAKER_00	I'm not.
01:45:52.30	Councilmember Hoffman	And so did you do any sort of study on
01:45:58.30	Councilmember Hoffman	whether or not the reconfiguration and the removal of the center median is going to
01:46:04.13	Councilmember Hoffman	affect
01:46:05.84	Councilmember Hoffman	either increase or decrease emergency vehicle response times.
01:46:11.15	David Parisi	We did some research looking at roadways before and after bike lanes. And every case with the bike lanes, it improves emergency response times. We talked to the fire department, who
01:46:26.46	David Parisi	And they're here tonight.
01:46:27.76	David Parisi	or this afternoon.
01:46:30.00	David Parisi	stated,
01:46:30.93	David Parisi	And he can, if I misquote him, he can tell me.
01:46:34.27	David Parisi	As long as we have the same amount of curb space,
01:46:37.34	David Parisi	Right. And the vehicles can go into the bike lanes.
01:46:40.01	David Parisi	Um,
01:46:40.87	David Parisi	And the fact that they use their
01:46:42.91	David Parisi	sirens and
01:46:45.65	David Parisi	Um, horns.
01:46:47.33	David Parisi	they can navigate and just find it.
01:46:49.93	David Parisi	So that was...
01:46:52.01	Councilmember Hoffman	Other than, but specifically other than
01:46:55.31	Councilmember Hoffman	anecdotal evidence from
01:46:57.81	Councilmember Hoffman	your
01:46:58.98	Councilmember Hoffman	general knowledge of
01:47:00.85	Councilmember Hoffman	inserting bike lanes, the specific configuration of bridgeway, and removal of the center median, and the way that it's used, and insertion of a two-way traffic system with no ability
01:47:18.52	Councilmember Hoffman	for cars to pass each other along a street with no side streets and no other outlets and no ability to pass each other.
01:47:28.07	Councilmember Hoffman	Have you done any study specific to this stretch in a... that...
01:47:34.21	Councilmember Hoffman	This reconfiguration will either increase or decrease emergency response times.
01:47:41.06	Councilmember Hoffman	from what you told me,
01:47:42.30	Councilmember Hoffman	In our previous conversation, the answer is no, you have not done that study.
01:47:46.75	David Parisi	So in our scope of work, what we did do is we looked at, as I mentioned earlier, some before and after studies, and Jen can talk more about those.
01:47:55.46	David Parisi	We also compared it to other streets throughout Marin,
01:47:58.68	David Parisi	Frank leather streets that have three times the traffic volume in our just two lanes and we also did depend on the fire departments response, they are the experts, so we take that with high value.
01:48:12.82	Councilmember Hoffman	So the answer to my question is no.
01:48:15.27	David Parisi	No, I think.
01:48:17.14	David Parisi	I feel like I'm being deposed here. I think I answered yes.
01:48:21.55	David Parisi	So, you know.
01:48:25.80	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm really going to ask people not to call out, not to clap, and I would like to recognize that this is a consultant.
01:48:36.36	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:48:36.46	Mayor Cox	on trial.
01:48:37.97	Councilmember Hoffman	a follow-up question then.
01:48:39.15	Councilmember Hoffman	One of the important aspects of this stretch of roadway is that there are no other outlets. There are no side streets. There are no other ways to exit this stretch of roadway. There are actually few other even driveways. There are some garages, but there's no driveways. There's no other flex. So you're trapped on this roadway. So that's why the center median serves so many purposes and why people are so concerned about taking out that center median.
01:49:13.54	SPEAKER_32	So.
01:49:14.25	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
01:49:15.02	Councilmember Hoffman	That's why I've liked for the
01:49:17.27	Councilmember Hoffman	I'd like for Mr.
01:49:19.46	Councilmember Hoffman	easy
01:49:20.76	Councilmember Hoffman	To answer my question, I don't think you have done the study. You were asked to do certain things in your scope of work,
01:49:27.11	Councilmember Hoffman	you didn't do this thing. And this is why I'm asking, you may have looked at other parts of Marin
01:49:33.05	Councilmember Hoffman	But I don't think you've done it for this stretch of roadway. And I am going to follow up my question to the police chief.
01:49:39.24	David Parisi	Yeah, please do. And keep in mind that we saw so much parking of unattended
01:49:44.74	David Parisi	vehicles in that center lane. So its use for emergency egress is questionable.
01:49:51.78	David Parisi	And the fire chief would say the same thing.
01:49:51.96	Councilmember Hoffman	And the fire chief would say.
01:49:55.74	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, thanks.
01:50:00.15	Councilmember Hoffman	I have no further questions.
01:50:01.07	Mayor Cox	Okay, thanks.
01:50:03.49	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
01:50:03.52	Unknown	Others?
01:50:07.82	Unknown	I guess I'm sure I have a couple. Thanks. Good day to you.
01:50:08.85	Mayor Cox	I'm sorry.
01:50:08.97	SPEAKER_00	THE BEST.
01:50:17.43	Unknown	Following up on my colleague's questions about accident data, you heard the reaction of the crowd. There is simply incredulity
01:50:26.08	Unknown	about the numbers that are being reported now?
01:50:29.17	Unknown	the 50, 60 accidents. And then I heard your colleagues say,
01:50:33.46	Unknown	rule of thumb under your expertise, they're a bunch of unreported accidents. So it's actually more.
01:50:37.86	SPEAKER_00	for.
01:50:38.89	Unknown	But,
01:50:40.14	Unknown	No, that's a genuine feeling. It's actually incredulity.
01:50:43.77	Unknown	There's a suspicion that maybe there's a hidden agenda. You know, you ramp up numbers on accidents. It makes the case for doing something stronger. Uh,
01:50:55.26	Unknown	What's going on? Why were numbers in December one thing, a year ago another thing?
01:51:02.64	Unknown	I'd like you to, if you could speak to me, but also speak to the reaction that you heard from members in the community about not believing the numbers. How can you...
01:51:13.94	Unknown	give credibility and credence to the accident numbers that you're reporting today.
01:51:19.14	David Parisi	That's a great question. So as I mentioned before, the two previous studies that were done countywide were based on information from a database called TIMS. It was a high level study. It didn't include all collisions. In fact, it was really the collisions that were included in the database were just those that involved some sort of injury.
01:51:39.98	David Parisi	we'd,
01:51:40.91	David Parisi	And that was used for a countywide studies for all cities and towns to look at injury collisions throughout the county.
01:51:48.11	David Parisi	What we determined right after
01:51:51.94	David Parisi	Oh, your microphone is...
01:51:53.11	Unknown	I think he may have turned it off.
01:51:55.62	Unknown	when I...
01:51:56.13	David Parisi	Okay. Well, we determined right after we met with a feedback, there was some questions that people were saying, these numbers aren't lining up. We think there was more collisions and more injuries. And so we said, let's look at a more reliable data source. And by the way, doing the safety analysis was not the scope of work.
01:52:13.21	David Parisi	We decided to do it anyway. So we went in to look and looked at the statewide database, the SWITRS database that Jen and I have talked about.
01:52:21.46	David Parisi	And Switters is
01:52:23.18	David Parisi	Much more.
01:52:24.58	David Parisi	much more reliable than the TIMS data.
01:52:27.79	David Parisi	Tim's actually says the Sausalito information is incomplete. So we went to the Switters data and that's usually what we go to for a detailed study of a quarter.
01:52:37.42	David Parisi	and
01:52:38.59	David Parisi	because it provides 10 years of information and provided by all the jurisdictions that may report to it, including the city of Sausalito, CHP, emergency service providers, et cetera. It includes all crashes that are injury or non-injury.
01:52:53.06	David Parisi	And it's not our data. It's from the city, it's from the emergency service providers. So it's exactly what is provided. It's the most reliable information.
01:53:01.79	David Parisi	As I mentioned, it's what we use when we're getting to this level of a study, not when we're doing an overall,
01:53:06.53	David Parisi	program for a county but when we're looking at a roadway from one side to the other
01:53:11.59	David Parisi	What's the data showing? So it's...
01:53:15.74	David Parisi	It's, uh, it's available. Uh, we may, we said we prepared a memo. We provided that whole information. Uh, the database is accessible. Anybody here that could find it would find the exact same thing with that information.
01:53:32.52	Unknown	Okay, thank you. So in your, you know, I can't,
01:53:38.02	Unknown	I guess, I mean, you're a professional. This is what you do. Your firm has 300 employees.
01:53:43.62	Unknown	something like that over a little over 800 employees and you're here representing your company
01:53:43.77	SPEAKER_00	Something like that?
01:53:48.97	Unknown	for your company's
01:53:49.28	David Parisi	Right.
01:53:51.32	Unknown	going on record.
01:53:52.97	Unknown	with your professional integrity to say that to your best professional knowledge in your work of the number of accidents that have occurred on this segment of Bridgeway, the correct number is 60 plus.
01:54:03.55	David Parisi	Yes. Not only that, keep in mind, this information, like I said, is readily available. Anybody can get it. I would love to sit down with folks here who are questioning it and show where it comes from, how you use it, how you geocode it, what it's telling. But also, I have two licenses. And to retain those licenses, I have to have a lot of it.
01:54:24.70	David Parisi	integrity. I have to be very objective. The civil engineering license and traffic license require that.
01:54:29.66	David Parisi	And so you can count that the data we're using is coming right from Twitter's
01:54:34.64	David Parisi	And it's very reliable.
01:54:36.85	David Parisi	There's no reason for me to lie, for God's sake. There's a lot of collisions and nobody should really be questioning that. In fact, the last two years, we're seeing a spike again. Yeah.
01:54:36.86	Unknown	You know?
01:54:37.10	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
01:54:46.99	Unknown	Well, okay. Thank you. You know, so, you know, I didn't even appreciate that. So you're, you're a licensed professional and also you're, um, you're, it's interesting what you just offered. You're willing to sit down with anyone here and go through the numbers to show them how you got to. Absolutely.
01:55:01.79	David Parisi	Absolutely.
01:55:02.29	David Parisi	Love to.
01:55:03.61	Unknown	Okay.
01:55:04.51	Unknown	Thank you for that.
01:55:09.58	Unknown	Could you pull that? I don't know how easy it is, Mr. City Clerk, to pull up his presentation and go back to the heat map of...
01:55:24.52	Mayor Cox	Guys, again, I'm going to start to ask people to step out if they're going to continue to
01:55:32.38	Mayor Cox	to call out. So I really appreciate your indulgence.
01:55:38.02	Unknown	I just wanted to, which slide is it that has little dots where all the accidents are?
01:55:44.14	Unknown	Do we know the heat map and the clusters that you showed? It was...
01:55:52.77	Unknown	that's the parking. So that's where people are parking. But can you go? So that's where people are parking. There you go.
01:55:58.56	David Parisi	Right here, there you go, go one back. There you go, perfect.
01:56:00.77	Unknown	So that's where the, and that was interesting. We just saw where people are parking. That's the collisions. And then the next thing is that heat graph of where people are parking again. If you can go forward one or forward, I guess the other direction.
01:56:12.86	Unknown	Nope, yep.
01:56:13.71	Unknown	Nope.
01:56:20.05	Unknown	No, it's the other direction. Sorry. Yeah, there we go. So...
01:56:25.03	Unknown	Thank you.
01:56:25.59	Unknown	One more in whatever direction that was. Okay. Well, we saw that. I saw it. Good enough to ask my question. It looks like there is a, you said there's a correlation between the loading and unloading zones and about half of the accidents in that area, in the area of Bridgeway?
01:56:43.31	David Parisi	Yeah, approximately half of the collisions that have occurred along Bridgeway within where there's a median.
01:56:50.41	David Parisi	have occurred in those loading
01:56:52.86	David Parisi	zone areas where it gets really tight and constrained.
01:56:55.52	Unknown	And are those
01:56:57.41	Unknown	Accidents involving cars are they bicyclists are they pedestrians being hit by cars what what?
01:57:02.55	Unknown	Thank you.
01:57:02.56	David Parisi	Yes. Yes. All the above. Yeah. The different color dots show what occurred. And as Jen mentioned earlier,
01:57:02.60	Unknown	Yeah.
01:57:08.96	David Parisi	Uh, interestingly enough on this quarter, 40, 40% of the crashes have been attributed to what's called a side swipe. So.
01:57:16.91	Unknown	Thank you.
01:57:16.94	David Parisi	Where cars are very close to either the center lane or
01:57:20.31	David Parisi	or trying to pass a bike.
01:57:21.97	David Parisi	Swiping them for the side, right?
01:57:23.56	Unknown	And then did I hear you write, Raderi, that this has the second highest number of per capita collisions in Sausalito? This stretch of roadway, something like that?
01:57:34.76	David Parisi	Yes. Looking back at four on a injury basis from the local road safety plan. There's, this is the second, second highest, the first highest by far, to be real honest is bridgeway between Napa and Johnson.
01:57:49.52	David Parisi	And then this is the second.
01:57:51.43	David Parisi	highest rate of injuries per vehicles.
01:57:54.65	Unknown	Okay.
01:57:55.60	Unknown	And then
01:57:57.69	Unknown	You really I mean, I know that the instigation of this work was this grant around bike lanes, but just say we didn't do bike lanes and say we didn't change the configuration at all. Just kept a median, kept the traffic lanes where they are. What safety recommendations would you recommend to make this place safer?
01:58:19.75	David Parisi	Thank you.
01:58:19.77	Unknown	Just so I understand your question, less of bike lanes? Don't do the bike lanes. Just leave it as is. Leave the median where it is. Leave the traffic lanes where they are. What recommendations...
01:58:28.71	David Parisi	What were you?
01:58:30.53	Unknown	Is it the sidewalks in the loading zones? What do you recommend?
01:58:33.13	David Parisi	Yeah, it would definitely be the elimination or the prohibition of loading and parking in the center lane.
01:58:40.13	David Parisi	the redistribution of that to manage curbside lanes.
01:58:43.96	David Parisi	the provision of refuge islands for pedestrians. And by the way, to follow back up on that question, Vice Mayor, another question,
01:58:52.08	David Parisi	thing that the Rays Islands offer is the ability to put those signs of flashing lights.
01:58:56.52	David Parisi	on them and so they're not sitting right flush in the road.
01:59:00.22	David Parisi	that.
01:59:00.97	David Parisi	And then plus some of the additional
01:59:03.77	David Parisi	Markings, perhaps like the green back shadows.
01:59:07.34	David Parisi	better striping.
01:59:08.72	David Parisi	on the street.
01:59:09.80	David Parisi	as well.
01:59:10.96	David Parisi	Um,
01:59:11.89	David Parisi	That's, that would be a good start, right? It's definitely not addressing the bike collisions.
01:59:16.60	Mayor Cox	You forgot the signage that you mentioned earlier for 20 miles an hour.
01:59:19.87	David Parisi	in the signage for 20 months, but that's a given, right?
01:59:23.32	David Parisi	Thank you.
01:59:23.35	Unknown	Yeah.
01:59:23.60	David Parisi	Thank you.
01:59:23.98	Unknown	So I had one more question for you, and then I want to ask Chief Tubbs a question, so I don't know if the chief is around. But can we put that, you had a picture of the street in front of Vina del Mar Park. Can we pull that up? It was toward the end of his presentation.
01:59:34.15	SPEAKER_00	Can we...
01:59:40.34	Unknown	And while I'm waiting for him to find that slide, sir, what role does increased police citations and enforcement of bicyclists who are breaking the law, motorists that are acting erratically have in improving safety? We've talked about the built environment here. But how much can a priority on better enforcement of our laws, speed limits and otherwise, help mitigate some of the accidents that we're seeing reported here?
02:00:07.95	David Parisi	I think the chief could probably answer that better than I can because there's such limited...
02:00:12.54	David Parisi	Such limited staff.
02:00:15.39	David Parisi	to do that.
02:00:16.39	David Parisi	So
02:00:17.42	David Parisi	In my profession, if we can design it,
02:00:20.30	David Parisi	to work better.
02:00:21.13	David Parisi	and not require as much enforcement, that is a better, better condition.
02:00:25.18	Unknown	Okay.
02:00:25.40	David Parisi	Thank you.
02:00:25.45	Unknown	Right.
02:00:26.50	Unknown	So I'm not sure where that, do you know where this picture is of the roadway in front of being at Omar park?
02:00:32.76	Unknown	Can you go back two, please?
02:00:36.62	Unknown	Okay. So this is intriguing. So this is just a point of reference. It's kind of funny. This is the actual, this is what's being proposed under this grant that actually exists right here in
02:00:46.88	David Parisi	Actually,
02:00:48.77	David Parisi	almost exactly except two feet wider.
02:00:51.23	David Parisi	This is 40 feet.
02:00:51.42	Unknown	This is too big order.
02:00:53.61	David Parisi	All right.
02:00:53.75	Unknown	Okay.
02:00:53.85	David Parisi	Okay.
02:00:53.97	Unknown	Thank you.
02:00:53.99	David Parisi	The current width.
02:00:55.35	David Parisi	concurred a curve between princess and Richardson is 42 feet.
02:00:59.32	David Parisi	So there'd be the ability to do this.
02:01:02.10	David Parisi	have.
02:01:02.91	David Parisi	a wider loading area within that two feet and make the bike lanes a little wider. So here we have, I see a car parked there. That's a loading zone.
02:01:09.78	David Parisi	That's about seven and a half feet in a five foot bike lane.
02:01:12.72	Unknown	bike lane, two travel lanes, and then another bike lane. Yes. Do you have any accident data or congestion data or just any data on this little segment?
02:01:21.93	Unknown	Um,
02:01:23.30	David Parisi	I'm going to...
02:01:23.47	David Parisi	I think Jen looked at something. I believe there was very limited
02:01:28.58	David Parisi	There were very few collisions mid-block. There was one head-on collision.
02:01:34.60	David Parisi	you
02:01:34.69	Unknown	Can we?
02:01:35.01	David Parisi	Thank you.
02:01:35.11	David Parisi	between the yellow lines.
02:01:37.29	Unknown	I'm going to ask the chief about this picture too. If chief Tubbs is here.
02:01:40.29	Unknown	Thank you.
02:01:40.31	David Parisi	The Red.
02:01:41.84	Unknown	Chief Tubbs here.
02:01:43.90	Unknown	Hello, Chief. First of all, thank you so much for your service in the department, everybody here. Thank you.
02:01:49.47	Unknown	Thank you.
02:01:49.49	Chief Tubbs	Thank you.
02:01:49.96	Unknown	Thanks for being here. Just to answer a technical question. I don't know anything about traffic management, but do you have any trouble getting through this section of sauce Lido in your experience?
02:01:59.39	Chief Tubbs	Um, not that I'm aware of it. Let me have my deputy chief of operations come in who speaks with the crews on a regular basis, but we've not, I've not received reports specifically about that.
02:02:11.29	Matt Barnes	Good afternoon, everybody. Matt Barnes, Deputy Chief Operations, your fire department.
02:02:17.25	Matt Barnes	I don't believe we have any specific data on if that specific spot has incurred limitations to our emergency response.
02:02:27.81	Matt Barnes	in general, if car that
02:02:30.92	Matt Barnes	We respond based off of the traffic flow. So if the traffic flow is congested,
02:02:35.62	Matt Barnes	it takes us longer as, um,
02:02:38.02	Matt Barnes	would be kind of just a good assumption. Um, with that, uh, marking in the center of the road, it does not pose a problem in the fact that if there was car parked on one side, we could go over it as it's plastic and movable.
02:02:56.09	Unknown	Okay, but I just meant, I mean, it's a story in the fire department that, boy, you got to watch out for this section because you can sometimes get stuck.
02:03:04.45	Matt Barnes	No.
02:03:05.26	Unknown	Right. And then I just want other question.
02:03:07.21	Unknown	I have the presumption and I'm still not convinced otherwise that
02:03:11.43	Unknown	you guys use the emergency median.
02:03:14.72	Unknown	I mean, I've seen you guys drive down it.
02:03:17.39	Unknown	Uh,
02:03:19.19	Unknown	It seems like it's used.
02:03:21.31	Unknown	And this is critical to the question here, because it is baked into people's presumption
02:03:26.99	Unknown	And I can see in the energy in the letters that
02:03:30.13	Unknown	that the bicycle, bicyclists are going to take away pavement that you need to respond to an accident and that you're going to be slower.
02:03:37.32	Unknown	because of these proposals.
02:03:39.16	Unknown	That's when my die. And I just want to know what you, I want you to kind of really address that at a human level, you know, professionally. We've heard from a traffic engineer who's a professional. I can see people saying, well, what does he know? How many fires has he fought?
02:03:52.59	Unknown	So you fight fires, you respond to a bicycle accident, people bleeding in the street.
02:03:58.01	Unknown	Is the thing we're talking about today, this proposal of doing a section like this that exists in front of Vida and El Mar,
02:04:03.66	Unknown	Is it going to slow you down in your emergency response?
02:04:06.65	Chief Tubbs	There's two things that affect our response. The first is the physical width of the roadway, which we've talked about very consistently. The reason for that is the wider the roadway, the more options are.
02:04:18.44	Chief Tubbs	or apparatus have.
02:04:20.33	Chief Tubbs	The other factor that affects our response is human behavior, quite frankly. And so not everyone will pull to the right. We see all sorts of behavior. Sometimes folks stop. Sometimes people pull to the left. And so being able to sort of maybe answer this question, I think, the way that the council and the community wants is very difficult because we can't predict human behavior. So our folks are trained to respond to that.
02:04:47.03	Chief Tubbs	meaning is they're traveling down the roadway, and normally they'll be in the normal route of travel in the lane. If there is an obstacle, they are trained to be constantly scanning for those obstacles and having alternate routes. So if they're going southbound on Bridgeway and the normal lane and there is an obstacle, they will use the center lane. If that is blocked, then they will look at going into the opposing lane, they'll have to slow down and take steps like that. But every response can be uniquely different.
02:05:19.18	Chief Tubbs	I don't know if that answers your question.
02:05:21.49	Unknown	It does. So when you, you're quoted in the stock report as saying that
02:05:26.57	Unknown	the emergency services have no issue with the change in the configuration in terms of their ability to travel and response time. But,
02:05:35.60	Unknown	What you've just said sounds a little bit different than than that. And I just want to it's so critical and I'm sorry to belabor it, but I want to really unpack
02:05:44.47	Unknown	your professional assessment of this. You respond to fires, you know, over in Bordeaux Beach, you don't know about fires, but, you know, drownings and whatnot, and you've got to report to the south end of town. There's a video the way around, around lighted boat parade where there's packed cars, right? And so you're seeing what we're talking about, and the question is, you know,
02:06:03.29	Unknown	you know.
02:06:04.05	Unknown	The real question is,
02:06:06.85	Unknown	just as a professional, do you think having this kind of configuration that we're looking at right here, that actually exists in town right there in front of Vina,
02:06:13.68	Unknown	along that bridgeway section is going to slow you down. And knowing what you know about our town's congestion and usage,
02:06:19.81	Chief Tubbs	Yeah, again, I'm not trying to be evasive, but the question feels very binary.
02:06:25.09	Chief Tubbs	And what I'm trying to say is it depends under normal conditions. This roadway, as I see it right now, would that have any impact on our emergency response? Clearly no. If there are vehicles stalled in that lane, will that have an effect on our response? Absolutely. Yes. So the striping again, the reason that we have.
02:06:43.59	Chief Tubbs	this has been a challenging issue for us to sort of answer again. I think the way that the community and the council wants to is,
02:06:50.66	Chief Tubbs	It's all dependent.
02:06:52.63	Chief Tubbs	can't predict human behavior. So striping patterns to us are guidelines for the drivers and the bicyclists and the pedestrians.
02:07:01.52	Chief Tubbs	they don't always follow those rules. And so we have to be able to adjust to that. And so for us, again, the physical roadway with
02:07:09.71	Chief Tubbs	is ultimately what's critical because that gives us the options when people deviate from those guidelines.
02:07:15.88	Chief Tubbs	try and keep our responses timely.
02:07:19.70	Unknown	Well, thank you. I just have one more. I mean, I guess just asking about this picture of two more, this and one more.
02:07:24.47	Unknown	You don't, at least on this section, it's short, but you don't find...
02:07:29.11	Unknown	It doesn't sound like this particular point is a place of congestion. So you wouldn't recommend taking out these bike lanes and putting a center median here, I presume.
02:07:37.15	Unknown	Okay. And then I'll ask you an unfair question because I know you're not a traffic engineer, but just you see what we're talking about and there's a trade off, right? I mean,
02:07:44.42	Unknown	if there are fewer accidents, there's fewer calls.
02:07:48.27	Unknown	Do you have an opinion about which one of these configure the configuration with the median or the configuration with the bike lanes is better from your experience.
02:07:58.12	Chief Tubbs	No, again, correct. I'm not a traffic engineer. We were asked to assess, based on our experience, the different striping options. That's all we've done. We've not had any sort of an analysis done on modeling. And so I couldn't tell you with definitive comfort about what that impact would be.
02:08:21.29	Unknown	Thank you very much, sir. And thanks again for your service in the whole department.
02:08:25.36	Mayor Cox	I'm going to let each council member ask questions and then I'll go to follow up. So not everyone has even asked questions yet.
02:08:33.69	Mayor Cox	I understand, but I'm going to go ahead and let Councilmember Blaustein ask questions.
02:08:33.74	Unknown	I know.
02:08:40.44	Mayor Cox	And then I'll circle back and allow follow-up.
02:08:44.38	Mayor Cox	You can ask questions of anybody you have questions of. So we're not confining questions to one person.
02:08:56.49	Unknown	Okay, thank you very much. And thank you to all the members of the public who are here with us today and staff and our consultants who have spent a lot of time
02:09:04.27	Unknown	on this issue.
02:09:05.45	Unknown	and many of you have been involved from the very beginning. So I'm trying to understand, given the amount of public
02:09:13.81	Unknown	comment that we've received and just the
02:09:16.12	Unknown	the direction and will of the community around this, given if we were to keep the, and this is for you, David, sorry. Yeah, is it okay if I just call you David? Sure.
02:09:25.70	David Parisi	Sure.
02:09:26.80	Unknown	Could you just speak to what we could do to, and I know that Councilmember Sobieski asked you specifically, and you said crosswalks with maintaining the median.
02:09:38.23	Unknown	Um,
02:09:39.05	Unknown	In terms of bicycle safety, what would you recommend to increase bicycle safety
02:09:43.62	Unknown	while maintaining the median.
02:09:46.46	Unknown	specifically.
02:09:48.27	David Parisi	So if the median
02:09:49.70	David Parisi	was maintained. Yes.
02:09:50.61	Unknown	Yes.
02:09:51.13	David Parisi	we'd still recommend that the deliveries and parking do not be allowed there.
02:09:55.76	David Parisi	Thank you.
02:09:55.79	Unknown	Okay.
02:09:56.16	David Parisi	Okay.
02:09:57.01	David Parisi	And if the median was maintained at 10 feet, that means the traffic lanes would be retained at about 12 feet each, which would be for shared use, shared use.
02:10:05.73	Unknown	But in terms of, are there steps we can take specifically for striping, et cetera? There are.
02:10:11.00	David Parisi	There are, but I'll be honest without separating bikes, they'd be marginal for bicycle safety. But there are things that could be done for awareness.
02:10:19.70	David Parisi	things such as the greenbacked shows at,
02:10:22.81	David Parisi	specific
02:10:23.96	David Parisi	Increments, the crosswalks could help, right? Because they get people consolidated with flashing lights and refuge islands, the 20 mile an hour signs.
02:10:33.07	David Parisi	And then re-striping some of the road because again, the road striping is obsolete.
02:10:39.90	Unknown	Okay, and and i'm aware that if we were all aware that if we choose not to accept the grant any of these improvements, we'd be funding ourselves so but i'd like to understand I know that the process and costs for completely repaving the road with the improvements is now at about 2.6 million what if we just wanted to do what you had just recommended, which is crosswalks and restriping and 20 mile per hour signs.
02:11:03.07	David Parisi	We'd have to look into it. I think Public Works, McGowan, Director McGowan and myself were contemplating something around 300,000, but we'd have to do some, some additional
02:11:13.05	Unknown	Okay, so potentially less money and then no additional...
02:11:13.37	David Parisi	I'm not sure.
02:11:16.47	Unknown	$2 million.
02:11:17.36	David Parisi	Rob Markman, Absolutely not because that's for repaving the street, which is needed at some point anyway.
02:11:22.70	Unknown	Right.
02:11:23.19	David Parisi	Bye.
02:11:23.34	Unknown	Okay, but there are steps we can take that we may and director McGowan, maybe this question is for you. But if we wanted to allocate $300,000 from our capital improvement plans to make some of these general safety improvements, because from what we're hearing from you and from all of staff is that everyone appreciates safety, but there are steps that can be taken to maintain the median and increase safety.
02:11:44.33	Kevin McGowan	Yes, we could add it to the capital plan.
02:11:46.63	Unknown	Okay, so we have budget to make those improvements. Thank you. I appreciate that clarification. Okay, and then now I have a question for...
02:11:51.22	SPEAKER_00	And then,
02:11:53.26	Unknown	Chief Gregory and i'm going to ask the same question of chief tubs thank you again parametrics for.
02:11:58.79	Unknown	all of our questions. Hi, Chief Gregory. So I know that everyone is going to be nuanced in their responses, and I appreciate that. And I know this is a political issue, but I just kind of want to get a yes or no type answer. You can vary if you'd like. But do you believe if we make these improvements, as suggested, the roadway will become safer?
02:12:16.19	Chief Gregory	Are you talking about removing the center median? Yes. I can't say yes or no. Same as cheap tubs. There's a lot of variations.
02:12:26.10	Chief Gregory	And so, yeah, that's my answer. I can't say yes or no.
02:12:29.29	Unknown	Okay. But do you think it would be beneficial for the community to add some safety improvements like perhaps renewed striping or crosswalks? Yes. Okay. For sure. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. And Chief Tubbs, could you just weigh in on the striping and crosswalks?
02:12:39.77	Unknown	For sure.
02:12:52.96	Unknown	Hi, Chief.
02:12:53.62	Unknown	Bye.
02:12:53.79	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
02:12:53.89	Chief Tubbs	Thank you.
02:12:55.19	Chief Tubbs	Yes.
02:12:55.51	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
02:12:56.12	Unknown	Yeah, so if we move forward with increasing, in your experience as a public safety responder and professional, would you be in favor of adding crosswalks and renewing our striping and signage there?
02:13:08.59	SPEAKER_00	Mm-hmm.
02:13:09.70	Unknown	or doing nothing. This is an alternative.
02:13:11.86	Unknown	I guess I'm trying to get to, without making you give a yes or no, what you think makes the most sense down there.
02:13:18.51	Chief Tubbs	with the issue at hand between the striping and the non-striping is what you're asking.
02:13:23.03	Unknown	Yes, I'm not asking you about the median. This is assuming we maintain the median. Would you be in favor of if we added crosswalks and increased striping there?
02:13:26.27	Chief Tubbs	Yeah.
02:13:31.35	Chief Tubbs	life, certainly, you know, crosswalks again,
02:13:36.40	Chief Tubbs	I'm, I am not a traffic engineer, so I want to be very clear about that. Um, from my experience. Striping, um, is a guide to people when I'm driving a vehicle emergency or private, and I see a crosswalk coming up. I'm aware of that. I'm watching for that. Um, does everyone.
02:13:55.82	Chief Tubbs	do the same. No, people make mistakes.
02:13:58.52	Chief Tubbs	Some people don't pay attention or they're watching their cell phone, whatever it may be. But I do think that.
02:14:04.09	Chief Tubbs	where you provide those kinds of guides or tools to increase pedestrian safety
02:14:12.76	Chief Tubbs	that's the work that we're in, right? Is a preservation of life and property. So we would be, have a tendency again, a non-expert, right? A tendency to support those kinds of things.
02:14:23.48	Chief Tubbs	that increase the safety of our residents. Absolutely.
02:14:26.67	Unknown	Okay.
02:14:27.28	Unknown	Thank you. I appreciate that. And then now I'm going to ask a couple of questions of our sustainability manager who is here.
02:14:33.96	Unknown	Hi, Katie, thank you for being with us. And thank you to WRT for your presentation. Just in the context of any changes we make without considering sea level rise, given that Bridgeway as is will likely be
02:14:45.05	Unknown	underwater in a number of years, I think it's important to continue this conversation. So we received a million dollar grant for sea level rise mitigation assessment, correct?
02:14:53.45	SPEAKER_00	for it.
02:14:53.75	Unknown	And about how much money do we have left from that sea level rise mitigation assessment?
02:14:57.64	SPEAKER_04	Once WR2 finishes their work, they're scoped.
02:15:01.60	SPEAKER_04	For Scope to have roughly $450,000 left.
02:15:04.62	Unknown	So if we wanted to direct some of that funding towards looking more realistically at option 1C as presented by WRT, we could do that.
02:15:13.19	SPEAKER_04	Thank you.
02:15:13.23	Unknown	They're going to be
02:15:13.38	SPEAKER_04	there's no current.
02:15:13.89	Unknown	assigned
02:15:14.97	SPEAKER_04	Thank you.
02:15:15.35	Unknown	fund for that okay and then can you go to slide I think it's 18 of wrt sorry for the go to slide thing I know it's really a lot to get to
02:15:28.11	Unknown	Okay, this is what it would be really great if we could eventually get to over time, right? We all want to see a world-class waterfront, so we could direct funds towards maybe prioritizing something where...
02:15:38.56	Unknown	we consider long-term what it would look like to have bike lines and a sea level rise response there
02:15:45.54	SPEAKER_04	Yes, I believe we could further develop the designs that have been presented by WRT and Arup and see what could come of them. OK, thank you. I appreciate it. Those are my questions.
02:15:58.89	Mayor Cox	Thank you. I have a couple of questions.
02:16:01.96	Mayor Cox	I'll start with David Parisi.
02:16:04.32	Mayor Cox	You've mentioned the TIMS data, you've mentioned the SWITR's data, but I believe that our police department actually provided the actual data from the Sausalito Police Department to Jen.
02:16:18.95	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:16:19.14	Mayor Cox	Is that right?
02:16:20.68	David Parisi	So what
02:16:23.12	David Parisi	Some of the data. Yes. And we, we had the Twitter's data, which is the comprehensive debt.
02:16:28.19	Mayor Cox	No, I'm separating because Twitter's data is actually the reporting agency is the Sausalito Police Department, correct?
02:16:29.86	David Parisi	Right.
02:16:36.34	David Parisi	It's the South Solidale Police Department and other agencies that may be emergency responders. So switters for this stretch of bridgeway could have more than what is provided by the police department.
02:16:47.64	David Parisi	But you're right, the city did provide some additional information. We looked it over, and there's some information from the city's police department that is not in Switters.
02:16:55.91	SPEAKER_00	Right.
02:16:56.32	David Parisi	So that's why we've come to the conclusion that even Switters is incomplete in the 50 collisions we saw.
02:17:02.59	David Parisi	is more like 60.
02:17:04.50	David Parisi	So we're going to be adding that to our database. And we encourage the city to also get that into the SWITRs database so it's more complete.
02:17:12.64	Mayor Cox	Um,
02:17:13.97	Mayor Cox	So but my point is, the police, the spreadsheets, so I saw them, they were provided a day after a Public Records Act request from a resident. And they are from 2014 to 2024. And they identify the specific location of every accident. Correct?
02:17:33.85	David Parisi	I'll have Jen jump in. She took a look at that.
02:17:35.94	Mayor Cox	I know that, and I know that she spoke with, um,
02:17:38.67	Mayor Cox	Sergeant.
02:17:39.79	David Parisi	yeah maybe jen can talk more about that because they're not as geocoded or as precise as this information that is in switters from actual police reports
02:17:40.38	Mayor Cox	as well.
02:17:52.53	Jen Schreiber	Yeah. So the police data that we received did include location, but like David said, it was a little broader than what we're seeing in sweaters. So
02:18:00.90	Jen Schreiber	Starting with the SWITRs data, in an ideal world, it includes a latitude and longitude.
02:18:06.45	Jen Schreiber	A lot of the data from South Salado did not.
02:18:08.80	Jen Schreiber	So we geocoded the data based on a few different attributes, which were the
02:18:12.05	Jen Schreiber	primary road, the secondary road.
02:18:14.26	Jen Schreiber	Um,
02:18:15.00	Jen Schreiber	was the crash in an intersection, which is a yes, no, and then the distance and feet and the direction from the intersection. So that was Switters. The police department data, on the other hand,
02:18:24.89	Jen Schreiber	It just has a location. So that could be
02:18:27.85	Jen Schreiber	550 Bridgeway, or it could be Bridgeway and Princess, you know, sort of that intersection, but not giving more detail about where.
02:18:37.11	Mayor Cox	is it possible for you
02:18:39.78	Mayor Cox	So we had a resident submit a letter that said that if you only look at the stretch of Bridgeway on which the median runs, that the number of accidents in 10 years was 16%.
02:18:55.30	Mayor Cox	um,
02:18:56.26	Mayor Cox	along that stretch, and that's the stretch from 303 Bridgeway to 629 Bridgeway, which is the address of the median. Were you able to perform that type of analysis?
02:19:06.83	Jen Schreiber	Yes, so based on the SWITR's data itself, we took off, there were 10 crashes at the Princess and Richardson intersection, we took those off. There were a few crashes along
02:19:16.08	Jen Schreiber	Sorry.
02:19:16.50	Jen Schreiber	Princess and Bridgeway intersection.
02:19:18.42	Jen Schreiber	We also removed the few crashes on Richardson and we found that a long
02:19:21.98	Jen Schreiber	the corridor of Bridgeway within our study area, we were seeing 35 crashes.
02:19:26.45	Jen Schreiber	We looked at the police department records, which, you know, again, our analysis was 2013 to 2022. We got the police data from 2014 to 2022. And we actually found an additional eight crashes that could have been along the corridor as well.
02:19:40.44	Mayor Cox	So I'm actually going to invite Nick White to come forward because I asked the police to do the same analysis following your presentation at the Chamber of Commerce. And I would like to know from the police, whomever,
02:19:53.20	Mayor Cox	the number of crashes and in
02:19:55.76	Mayor Cox	involving bicycles and also whether you were able to find out who was at fault for those crashes.
02:20:06.73	SPEAKER_00	Mm-hmm.
02:20:07.17	SPEAKER_02	Hi, I'm Sergeant Nick White, Soskudu PD. So after the- Welcome.
02:20:09.33	Mayor Cox	You're welcome. Thank you.
02:20:10.30	SPEAKER_02	Thank you, Madam Mayor.
02:20:11.58	SPEAKER_02	After the, uh, barrel house presentation, I, uh, looked at crash data, not including
02:20:16.98	SPEAKER_02	second and Richardson and not including Princess and Bridgeway, simply from the 300 block to prior work, basically the median area. And as part of that, I used our internal reporting data that we give to Switters that our records department creates every year. And so in that, it includes addresses. And I pulled up all the case numbers and I reviewed each case one by one it took me hours and uh there was 27 collisions in the median 14 involving bicycles and 10 of which the bike was at fault for the collision
02:20:51.05	SPEAKER_02	And that was the extent of my research. So thank you.
02:20:54.03	Mayor Cox	Thank you. And Chief Gregory or Sergeant White, could you tell me how many estimated, you do the bicycle reporting for us every year, so how many bicycles have traversed that stretch of roadway in those 10 years, if you can give me a rough order of magnitude?
02:21:15.57	Chief Gregory	I can.
02:21:18.69	Chief Gregory	So for an example, I use 2016. These numbers are from, you know, different...
02:21:25.73	Chief Gregory	points of counting, which is very counted bikes from our ambassadors when we were doing that, as well as parked bicycles. So in 2016, as an example, we had just rental bikes. This is not including commuters, 248,576 bikes. And this is the bike counts are from April to September. Only rental bikes. Um, and in that year we had in the center median, we had two, two bicycle collisions.
02:21:59.51	Chief Gregory	So that's the highest year. I picked the highest year. 2012, we have 110, all the way to 2019, 184,000. And then, you know, we really don't have numbers for 2021, 22, because of COVID and whatnot.
02:22:15.00	Chief Gregory	Thank you.
02:22:15.03	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:22:15.17	Chief Gregory	Thank you.
02:22:18.24	SPEAKER_52	Let's see.
02:22:20.67	Mayor Cox	Mr. Parisi, if one of your options was to utilize five parking spots and eliminate a parklet, which parklet would be eliminated?
02:22:40.50	David Parisi	Oh, that's a setup.
02:22:42.76	David Parisi	I.
02:22:45.02	David Parisi	Logistically, the one that's closest to where we're loading it.
02:22:45.31	Mayor Cox	Well.
02:22:48.58	Mayor Cox	Closest to the- Voting now, voting.
02:22:49.34	David Parisi	Voting or not voting probably.
02:22:51.86	Mayor Cox	Is it the one that's closest to a parking lot?
02:22:55.11	David Parisi	Well, there's a couple in our conceptual diagram. We selected potential locations to try to minimize the parking loss, try to provide as much site distance for potential future crosswalks as possible, right? And have contiguous three or four spaces where we remove them. So we'd have to take a look at that, to be honest.
02:23:14.91	Mayor Cox	So the reason I ask is that I know one parklet is not used right now for dining. And so that was really the...
02:23:18.69	David Parisi	Right now.
02:23:23.06	David Parisi	It would have to be long enough, right, for the type of trucks.
02:23:26.11	Mayor Cox	Right.
02:23:26.38	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
02:23:26.99	David Parisi	I want to go back real quick, if you don't mind, on the Switters. The Switters data is not just information provided by the city of Sausalito.
02:23:34.35	David Parisi	So there is information there's been collisions that have been reported by other entities. So that's why you're going to see from emergency service providers from who knows, or in general from CHP if they if they responded to an accident. So that's why those numbers are a little bit lower than what we actually see in the database.
02:23:51.68	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:23:52.88	Mayor Cox	And then I had another question for the chief, and I think this will be my last question.
02:24:01.53	Chief Gregory	Sorry, it's hard to hear.
02:24:02.33	Mayor Cox	Sorry. And thank you for standing outside so our residents could have the room. I appreciate that.
02:24:07.05	Chief Gregory	Yeah.
02:24:08.32	Mayor Cox	Um,
02:24:10.44	Mayor Cox	If the median were removed, would that impact your response to emergencies?
02:24:24.75	Chief Gregory	Yes. So when the fire department responds to whatever life saving event they're responding to, a lot of times they block the road and they have to for their safety and the safety of the people they're helping. So.
02:24:39.49	Chief Gregory	currently the center median
02:24:42.05	Chief Gregory	um,
02:24:43.13	Chief Gregory	provides a relief valve is what I'm
02:24:45.41	Chief Gregory	we're calling it, is a relief valve.
02:24:47.40	Chief Gregory	So if the fire department is in
02:24:50.33	Chief Gregory	either one of the lanes, organically, the center median becomes the lane of travel that's blocked.
02:24:57.22	Chief Gregory	and...
02:24:59.04	Chief Gregory	Our concern is when that is no longer there and available for people to use and figure out on their own in a safe manner, that we, the police department...
02:25:10.60	Chief Gregory	and the staff is going to be called to assist because then we're creating a head-on
02:25:18.47	Chief Gregory	opportunity for people as they're having to go over the center median to get around whatever event is happening.
02:25:23.75	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:25:25.01	Mayor Cox	So removing the median would increase your required presence on site during any emergency response.
02:25:34.34	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:25:34.36	Chief Gregory	I believe so, and I do believe it's any, whether or not it's a lift assist. Their engine is their toolbox, so they're parking it as close to the event as possible.
02:25:49.45	Chief Gregory	And so when that is blocked, bike lane, lane of traffic, it's going to create some some movement that could be unsafe and would have to be monitored.
02:26:00.30	Mayor Cox	If we were to maintain the median lane and
02:26:05.87	Mayor Cox	prohibit loading and unloading in the median lane.
02:26:10.93	Mayor Cox	would you be able to enforce that prohibition?
02:26:15.33	Chief Gregory	We absolutely would be able to enforce it. Are we going to be down there, you know, every day, all day long? Not possible, but yeah, absolutely. We will, you know, part of that's education too, is, you know, you know, once people get the, you know, pink slip on their car, they're going to think twice about doing it again.
02:26:32.26	Mayor Cox	All right. Thank you so much. I know Council Member Hoffman had some follow on questions.
02:26:36.56	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
02:26:37.34	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
02:26:41.54	Councilmember Hoffman	I have a follow-up question with Mr. Parisi about the number of 50 accidents. Is that 50 accidents over 10 years?
02:26:52.26	David Parisi	That was from the database, I'm sorry, the Switters query we did on their database. Yes, 10 years, exactly a 10 year period.
02:26:58.57	Councilmember Hoffman	And that is for all vehicles or just bicycles?
02:27:02.15	David Parisi	That was for all crashes reported. It could be a bicycle hitting a light pole,
02:27:06.72	David Parisi	A bicyclist getting sideswiped by a car, a car hitting a truck in the middle lane.
02:27:11.39	David Parisi	a pedestrian getting hit by a car.
02:27:14.55	David Parisi	all the crashes.
02:27:15.49	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay.
02:27:15.95	Councilmember Hoffman	All right. Thank you. And that was the only follow up I had for you. Thank you, sir. And I have questions for Chief Tubbs and just a few questions, by the way. A few questions for Chief Gregory and for Chief Tubbs. So whoever's first up.
02:27:29.92	Mayor Cox	Okay, and then after those questions, then we will take a five-minute break, and then we will turn to public comment. Okay.
02:27:34.75	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:27:34.93	Councilmember Hoffman	Thanks, Chief.
02:27:36.72	Councilmember Hoffman	And so chief, we had a conversation earlier this week and the first question that I thought was interesting was your statement that a fire department is a reflection of the community's tolerance for risk. So I thought that was a good statement. And what's, in your opinion, what's Sausalito's tolerance for risk?
02:27:56.42	Chief Tubbs	Thank you.
02:27:56.62	Chief Tubbs	I think for the community, it's pretty low. In other words, the community has a high expectation around services, certainly from
02:28:03.66	Chief Tubbs	the police department and the fire department to ensure that we provide rapid response and we can deal with whatever emergency they've called for.
02:28:11.98	Councilmember Hoffman	And the challenges, what are the challenges for, well, the response times, what are the challenges to response times in Sausalito? Yeah.
02:28:21.24	Chief Tubbs	There are several factors that can affect response times. The biggest one is traffic infrastructure design, right? The width of the roadways, stop signs, traffic signaling. And then, as I mentioned earlier, human behavior.
02:28:33.96	Councilmember Hoffman	And with regard to the section of Bridgeway that we're talking about, this is the primary emergency response route through Sausalito to Old Town, GGNRA, and Rodeo Beach, correct?
02:28:46.11	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:28:46.15	Chief Tubbs	correct.
02:28:46.18	Councilmember Hoffman	Correct.
02:28:46.48	Councilmember Hoffman	Bye.
02:28:47.26	Councilmember Hoffman	And during the summer season, which basically is from April through September, you know, conservatively,
02:28:55.09	Councilmember Hoffman	we're all aware this is a high congestion time for traversing that area correct.
02:29:00.44	Unknown	Correct.
02:29:01.03	Councilmember Hoffman	And so,
02:29:02.18	Councilmember Hoffman	when we talk about
02:29:03.82	Councilmember Hoffman	primarily the picture that Councilmember Sobieski showed you when we're talking about two way traffic.
02:29:09.28	Councilmember Hoffman	We're all aware that when you traverse that area, that's a time of high congestion during certain hours of the day, correct?
02:29:16.57	Unknown	Correct.
02:29:17.09	Councilmember Hoffman	So when you're talking about, and you and I discussed this,
02:29:19.85	Councilmember Hoffman	when you're talking about two-way traffic on a double yellow line,
02:29:23.98	Councilmember Hoffman	uh...
02:29:24.69	Councilmember Hoffman	that's going to be full during certain hours of the day. We can bank bet on it during summer hours, correct?
02:29:31.46	Chief Tubbs	I would assume so, yes.
02:29:32.54	Councilmember Hoffman	So when you're trying to get through that section of town, there's no other outlets along that section from Princess to Richardson, right? Meaning there's no other side streets either way, right?
02:29:42.42	Unknown	Correct.
02:29:43.12	Councilmember Hoffman	OK, so you're going to have to wait as you're blowing your horn for people to
02:29:48.13	Councilmember Hoffman	incrementally get out of your way as you're trying to get through that part of town.
02:29:52.33	Roger Taylor	Yep.
02:29:52.89	Councilmember Hoffman	And in your experience as a fire chief and on a fire truck getting through, how many years do you have in a fire department?
02:30:00.65	Chief Tubbs	Almost 47.
02:30:01.97	Councilmember Hoffman	And that's going to slow you down trying to get through there, correct?
02:30:06.15	Chief Tubbs	Yes.
02:30:06.91	Councilmember Hoffman	Okay.
02:30:07.69	Councilmember Hoffman	And
02:30:09.91	Councilmember Hoffman	I think you also said
02:30:11.70	Councilmember Hoffman	the other day when we were sitting down
02:30:14.35	Councilmember Hoffman	that
02:30:15.40	Councilmember Hoffman	the current configuration works pretty well.
02:30:18.49	Councilmember Hoffman	Correct.
02:30:19.87	Chief Tubbs	It's been a longstanding configuration. Our crews are used to that. They're used to the conditions. So one could say that it's sort of been institutionalized.
02:30:29.49	Councilmember Hoffman	And finally, it's safe to say that your choice would be for the configuration that would support the fastest response times through that corridor. Yes.
02:30:38.85	Chief Tubbs	Yes, yes.
02:30:39.46	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes.
02:30:40.07	Councilmember Hoffman	And absent a presentation to you of a study that shows a faster, that this plan to remove the center median would result
02:30:51.31	Councilmember Hoffman	in faster response times
02:30:53.70	Councilmember Hoffman	your recommendation would be to retain the current plan.
02:30:57.74	Chief Tubbs	I've not seen modeling of what the alternative would do to response times.
02:31:02.92	Councilmember Hoffman	and absent of showing that any change in the configuration
02:31:06.04	Councilmember Hoffman	would result in
02:31:07.17	Councilmember Hoffman	faster response times
02:31:08.74	Councilmember Hoffman	your recommendation would be to retain the current configuration.
02:31:11.96	Councilmember Hoffman	Like,
02:31:12.10	Unknown	Correct.
02:31:12.42	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:31:14.43	Councilmember Hoffman	And I have some...
02:31:18.90	Councilmember Hoffman	And I thank you, Chief. I have some questions for Chief Gargery.
02:31:27.77	Councilmember Hoffman	Good afternoon, Chief. Thank you for your time. You're welcome. And Chief, as part of this exercise with parametrics, you had a meeting with parametrics on June 30th of 2023. You recall that?
02:31:42.25	Chief Gregory	Yes. I don't know the exact date, but yes, we've met several times.
02:31:44.70	Councilmember Hoffman	That's right.
02:31:45.55	Councilmember Hoffman	It was with you and Officer Steve Viveros, sorry, Viveros, sorry. Yes. Sorry, Officer Viveros, if you're out there. And Officer Mather and Fire Chief Welch and Parking Officer Beth Delago.
02:32:04.80	SPEAKER_32	Yes.
02:32:04.82	Councilmember Hoffman	to be able to get the
02:32:05.34	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:32:05.42	Councilmember Hoffman	And also present was Kevin McGowan, Andy Davidson, and Mr. Parisi, and Jen Schreiber, and that was part of this outreach with parametrics. And as part of that, I'm looking at some notes. We were provided this as part of a public comment. I don't believe this was attached to the parametrics report, and it wasn't referenced in the report of parametrics and I did ask mr. Parise about that but I don't think he recalled this meeting and as part of that you recall
02:32:40.19	Councilmember Hoffman	that you stated as part of this, that the street right now is rather safe due to low collision numbers compared to the high number of cyclists.
02:32:48.76	SPEAKER_32	Yes.
02:32:49.70	Councilmember Hoffman	and
02:32:50.89	Councilmember Hoffman	It is incredible that
02:32:52.99	Councilmember Hoffman	the statement that you made that hundreds of thousands of bikes come through Sausalito
02:32:58.38	Councilmember Hoffman	And you're just the bike counts that we have are only
02:33:02.12	Councilmember Hoffman	rental bikes
02:33:04.06	Councilmember Hoffman	You're not even counting
02:33:07.00	Councilmember Hoffman	other recreational bikes or commuter bikes, correct?
02:33:10.29	Councilmember Hoffman	Correct.
02:33:11.59	Councilmember Hoffman	And that, and you still agree with these statements that regulating
02:33:20.20	Councilmember Hoffman	these regulating
02:33:22.68	Councilmember Hoffman	if you change the way that we regulate these in a different way from how it's working, it would add a lot more chaos. You still agree with that statement that's in this memo?
02:33:30.91	Chief Gregory	I do.
02:33:34.88	Councilmember Hoffman	And the memo also says that Officer Viveros said, the center median, as you referenced earlier in response to another question, that it's a relief out for residents, but also commercial purposes and emergency purposes
02:33:53.68	Councilmember Hoffman	that the police department needs to be able to get to the coastline along the sidewalk and that you need to park in the center median lane. You agree with that?
02:34:01.81	SPEAKER_32	Yes.
02:34:05.22	Councilmember Hoffman	And if the center median is removed, you think vehicles will park in the bike lane and users will be pushed more together. Do you still agree with that?
02:34:13.00	Chief Gregory	I do. The one thing I think we haven't talked about is that, you know, this roadway is, you know, unlike any in Marin County, right? We have the beautiful view of San Francisco. So the amount of people that see that as they come down the hill, whether in a car or on a bike.
02:34:28.44	Chief Gregory	They stop to take it in.
02:34:30.28	Chief Gregory	We're lucky we see it every day.
02:34:32.15	Chief Gregory	So that human behavior isn't going to stop.
02:34:37.28	Chief Gregory	And so that's also part of the concern is then it relies on my agency and my staff to regulate it.
02:34:44.69	Chief Gregory	And that's hard. I mean, it's busy down there often, almost all year round.
02:34:54.55	Councilmember Hoffman	and
02:34:55.44	Councilmember Hoffman	One thing that's been made much of, I think,
02:34:57.95	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
02:34:58.81	Councilmember Hoffman	that I wanted to follow up with you on, and we discussed this earlier, is that
02:35:04.08	Councilmember Hoffman	The fatality in 2007. And I know this is difficult sometimes to talk about because you happen to actually be there.
02:35:14.81	Councilmember Hoffman	And can you tell us a little bit, just a little bit about the facts of that?
02:35:20.53	Councilmember Hoffman	that unfortunate fatality that happened
02:35:25.22	Chief Gregory	Yeah, I don't think we have to talk about the circumstances. I mean, it was a garbage truck backing up, and the way the accident happened, that garbage truck could have been backing up and somebody walking behind it anywhere. It did not have any... Where it was parked wasn't a factor. The garbage truck was backing up, the gentleman was walking behind it, in a very unfortunate accident for everybody involved, that happened.
02:35:53.18	Councilmember Hoffman	And it happened at 8 o'clock in the morning. It was...
02:35:56.66	Chief Gregory	Yes.
02:35:56.78	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah.
02:35:56.83	Chief Gregory	Yeah.
02:35:56.90	Councilmember Hoffman	Yes.
02:35:56.97	Chief Gregory	Thanks.
02:35:57.03	Councilmember Hoffman	And it was no traffic. And it was, in fact, it could have happened in this new loading zone that we're talking about.
02:35:57.42	Chief Gregory	And on early.
02:36:07.01	Chief Gregory	Like I said, it could have happened anywhere.
02:36:08.93	Councilmember Hoffman	And it was just a freak accident. Yes. Okay.
02:36:14.06	Councilmember Hoffman	Thanks, Treith. I appreciate you coming in. You're welcome.
02:36:18.11	Mayor Cox	Okay, I'm so sorry, but we now have two more questions from council members. Vice Mayor.
02:36:23.56	Unknown	Vice Mayor. I have one question for each of the chiefs. So whichever one comes back first.
02:36:31.32	Unknown	Chief Tubbs, we've heard a recommendation for an incremental step, which would be to remove parking, loading, et cetera, from the center lane.
02:36:44.11	Unknown	Do you have a position on that? Would it be an improvement from your point of view? We don't have a position on that. We don't have enough data to analyze that. OK. Chief Gregory, same question.
02:36:58.76	Chief Gregory	I do have a position on it. I do think removing commercial big trucks from the center median will add more chaos. They are going to have to get along the curbside.
02:37:10.81	Chief Gregory	they are going to be, you know, there's going to be interference. Again, we talk about human nature.
02:37:15.70	Chief Gregory	Thank you.
02:37:15.99	Chief Gregory	Um, so I think, do I think it's doable for sure? Do I think it'll be better? No. Can we do some things as, um,
02:37:23.57	Chief Gregory	you know, a law enforcement agency and as a community and start using
02:37:28.85	Chief Gregory	The center median, if it stands in a different way and more appropriately, yes. And again, that involves, you know, education and communication that these changes are being made. So I think both could work, but I think the center median, you know, works pretty well.
02:37:47.80	Unknown	Thank you.
02:37:49.98	Mayor Cox	Councilmember Sobieski.
02:37:51.14	Unknown	Thank you.
02:37:52.93	Unknown	I don't have any questions, but I'll thank Chief Gregory for the service of her and the police department. So thank you.
02:37:57.39	Mayor Cox	Great. OK, we are going to take a five minute break, and then we will start with public comment. I already have a stack of speaker slips. If you would like to be heard, please fill out a speaker slip with public comment.
02:38:14.23	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:38:15.56	Mayor Cox	uh,
02:38:16.61	Mayor Cox	I'm gonna call three names at a time to give people time to come up from downstairs if they're downstairs.
02:38:22.80	Mayor Cox	We're going to limit public comment to one minute per person. I want you to know that although
02:38:30.27	Mayor Cox	The city clerk had a day off yesterday, actually, but he came in and worked all day anyway. And he posted all letters on the agenda that were received prior to 2 p.m. However, we have still received additional letters. We are continuing to receive letters during this meeting. So I want you to know, I personally have read every single letter. I have them.
02:38:51.91	Mayor Cox	in my binder here.
02:38:53.33	Mayor Cox	um i'm sure that my fellow council members have read your letters even though they're not yet all posted on the agenda and we will post them all on the agenda for the matter of public record so i just wanted you to be clear about that um i do ask that you refrain from clapping or booing or calling out during uh public comment and i am going to invite the people who come up to make public comment to share their residents. You are not required to tell us where you live, but if you would like to, we would like to know.
02:39:23.65	Mayor Cox	All right, and with that, I'll start it off with Coffee One, Jim Gabbert.
02:39:35.45	Jim Gabbert	Thank you very much. Everybody, welcome. I should be welcome. Anyway.
02:39:41.05	Jim Gabbert	I've never in.
02:39:43.31	Jim Gabbert	my life i've totally changed what i was going to say after the presentation i heard i have never heard so much lack of knowledge like you're going to have one place for trucks to park and you've got six restaurants you look at the whole thing and it's incredible and i am sick and tired of him calling it a turning lane every afternoon in the summertime every afternoon i'm going
02:40:06.83	Jim Gabbert	or three times at least a week minimum, usually five. Ambulance, fire truck, racing along because somebody got hurt someplace, we live on Bridgeway, right in front of the Sea Lion. And the emergency vehicles use it daily in the summertime. It is more than a turning lane.
02:40:21.70	SPEAKER_00	Yeah.
02:40:27.34	Jim Gabbert	really irritates me because I get the feeling these people are trying to get something true for whatever reason.
02:40:33.04	Jim Gabbert	But you look, it's going to create one of the largest traffic jams in the Bay Area.
02:40:38.17	Mayor Cox	I'm sorry.
02:40:38.24	Mayor Cox	That's the end of your one minute.
02:40:39.39	Jim Gabbert	I've got one thing right now.
02:40:42.05	Jim Gabbert	for the city.
02:40:43.45	Jim Gabbert	Council and all. Here's 1021.
02:40:47.99	Jim Gabbert	One thing to do is say
02:40:49.46	SPEAKER_00	So it-
02:40:50.93	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:40:52.13	Mayor Cox	Yeah.
02:40:55.00	Mayor Cox	So for people who are watching, we're being handed a petition signed ostensibly by 1021 residents opposing the removal of the median lane. All right. Next is Roger Taylor, then Jan Johnson.
02:41:16.86	Roger Taylor	Mayor Cox and city council members, thank you. With one minute, I'll just say I'll focus exclusively on safety. Councilwoman Hoffman...
02:41:29.03	Roger Taylor	correctly summarized the 2018 and 2024
02:41:33.32	Roger Taylor	County Transportation Plan data, which really shows that we had
02:41:36.59	Roger Taylor	almost no
02:41:37.79	Roger Taylor	actual injury accidents, a lot of bicyclists along that front area where we're going to be putting, should not be putting these bike lanes.
02:41:47.93	Roger Taylor	I've heard a lot of talk about the
02:41:50.34	Roger Taylor	Uh, it's
02:41:51.32	Roger Taylor	The data sources that are coming up, the Swiss system,
02:41:55.20	Roger Taylor	three days ago I went on to UC Berkeley
02:41:57.74	Roger Taylor	transportation injury query system. I was able to pull up the section of we're talking about in Sausalito.
02:42:05.28	Roger Taylor	And you can ask for cluster or heat map pictures of all of our injury accidents in Sausalito. You can define whatever you want.
02:42:13.75	Roger Taylor	I did.
02:42:14.97	Roger Taylor	the entire area along
02:42:18.07	Roger Taylor	Bridgeway there has almost none
02:42:20.77	Roger Taylor	And then the clusters are on each side.
02:42:22.54	Mayor Cox	I'm sorry.
02:42:23.47	Roger Taylor	So we do not have a safety problem to deal with.
02:42:26.24	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:42:27.59	Mayor Cox	All right, next is Jan Johnson, then Bert dropness then Kieran Culligan.
02:42:35.00	Jan Johnson	I, O-Town resident, 31 plus years. There's four reasons to keep the median.
02:42:41.73	Jan Johnson	per parametrics,
02:42:44.56	Jan Johnson	Sorry.
02:42:45.76	Jan Johnson	Their success of this plan requires traffic enforcement for every service call, and the police have clearly stated multiple times they don't have the staff to do this. Chaos will ensue, and while they're there, we won't have any police presence in the rest of the entirety of Sausalito.
02:43:04.90	Jan Johnson	Two, your citizens, most of us or a lot of us don't want this. 112 signatures on the petition. You've had, as far as Friday, 348 public comments. Six to one, keep the median.
02:43:19.83	Jan Johnson	Three, I'm not sure the city can attest there's not going to be pending or threatened litigation as I've heard at least one resident business owner threatened to sue during a previous meeting.
02:43:30.90	Jan Johnson	for people or people.
02:43:33.82	Jan Johnson	Pedestrians, okay.
02:43:36.34	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:43:38.67	Mayor Cox	All right, Bert Drobness, then Kieran Culligan, then Claudia Duncan.
02:43:45.43	SPEAKER_34	Mayor Cox and City Council, first let me say thank you for having this meeting.
02:43:49.68	SPEAKER_34	Council member Hoffman, you are correct. The number is 16. I requested that information directly from the police department and I have the report of all the statistics that were thrown out at the council and everybody here. The one thing that caught my ear was that in the majority of cases, the liability fell on the bicyclist. The problem is I see it is
02:44:14.52	SPEAKER_34	cyclists, not tourists, that come over the Golden Gate Bridge, race down Alexander Avenue, race through Sausalito,
02:44:23.06	SPEAKER_34	They go through red lights. Not all of them. A majority of them do stop, but a high percentage go through red lights. This is a problem. And I don't know what the solution is, but I'll say this. If accepting the grant means you are going to seal coat Bridgeway, you're going to re-stripe it and add crosswalks, I'm all in favor of that. And I'll leave you with this. President Grover Cleveland said the business of government is the business of the people. And the people have spoken. Leave the Midian Lane alone.
02:44:55.16	Mayor Cox	Yeah.
02:44:56.05	Mayor Cox	Folks.
02:44:58.23	Mayor Cox	I am so sorry, but I am going to enforce the one minute. So I'm just not going to let, please focus. We've read your very detailed letters.
02:45:08.49	Mayor Cox	Thank you, Kieran.
02:45:09.23	Kieran Culligan	you.
02:45:09.44	Mayor Cox	Yeah.
02:45:09.50	Kieran Culligan	Kieran Culligan, Sausalito resident, there's a tragic irony we can't ignore.
02:45:15.14	Kieran Culligan	Last Sunday when the Marin IJ published an opinion piece minimizing safety on Bridgeway with fake data, inaccurate data, that same day another person was hit and had to be taken to the hospital.
02:45:26.61	Kieran Culligan	This is happening.
02:45:28.17	Kieran Culligan	More than anyone wants to admit, there is a real human cost. I've talked to this person, they couldn't even make it today because they're so unwell, and their lawyer advised them not to for legal reasons.
02:45:38.80	Kieran Culligan	Hey, face it people, this is not an isolated incident.
02:45:41.82	Kieran Culligan	It's happening again and again. It's,
02:45:43.96	Kieran Culligan	It's an unsafe condition. I know about it. You know about it.
02:45:47.35	Kieran Culligan	I've heard the quote now twice.
02:45:49.67	Kieran Culligan	Someone died, it could have happened anywhere. Why not someone died, it happened here, what are we going to do about it? You face this choice today, passive acceptance of a known issue or leadership to prevent the next tragedy.
02:46:05.16	Kieran Culligan	Let's start doing something.
02:46:09.26	Mayor Cox	All right.
02:46:10.12	Mayor Cox	Uh,
02:46:11.11	Mayor Cox	Claudia Duncan.
02:46:16.73	Mayor Cox	Okay. Cameron Duncan, Patty Swenson, Dirk Rosen.
02:46:24.14	Unknown	Good.
02:46:33.39	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm not hearing Cameron Duncan, Patty Swenson, Dirk Rosen, Lori Vialt.
02:46:44.49	Dirk Rosen	Hi, I'm Dirk Rosen. I'm a bike rider and I've been riding on Bridgeway since the late 60s. It's perfectly safe with the multiple uses and the iconic views that we have. I would not get rid of that middle lane. I think the bicyclists are at fault, my fellow bicyclists, and that we have to create a new culture for. Thank you.
02:47:07.90	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:47:13.35	Mayor Cox	Billy, please.
02:47:15.22	Mayor Cox	Please. Okay. Laurie vault.
02:47:17.53	Mayor Cox	Mark Palmer.
02:47:19.31	Mayor Cox	Matthew Hartzell.
02:47:23.47	Unknown	There are several important points for voting no on funding. What's your name, please? Laurie Viot. Okay. Viot.
02:47:26.12	Mayor Cox	What's your name?
02:47:28.99	Unknown	There are several important points for voting no on funding and keeping the center median.
02:47:32.99	Unknown	One, safety. We need a way from emergency vehicles, such as ambulances, to quickly and safely get to where they need to be.
02:47:39.45	Unknown	If there is no center median and if there is a delivery vehicle or a turning car blocking the lane, the ambulance will be forced to potentially hit cyclists in their dedicated bike lane or potentially hit cars and oncoming traffic.
02:47:51.60	Unknown	Two, traffic removal of the center median will result in endless backups, making what is now a three minute trip much longer, as no one will be able to maneuver around the delivery trucks and tourists who stop and the cyclists. Three, access for residents who live on bridge way without the median, they can no longer turn into their driveways and garages.
02:48:11.06	Unknown	and their endless waiting will turn and contribute to even more traffic backups. Four, costs. This unnecessary study and work will result in millions of dollars spent. Instead, we should look into signage for cyclists who repeatedly break traffic laws and run rides. Thank you.
02:48:24.09	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:48:25.02	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:48:25.66	Mayor Cox	Okay, Mark Palmer.
02:48:27.25	Mayor Cox	then Matthew Hartzell, then Sybil Boutelier.
02:48:32.39	Mayor Cox	I'm Cameron.
02:48:32.97	SPEAKER_38	Duncan. Okay. Sprinting from downstairs. All right.
02:48:36.66	SPEAKER_38	I think this whole conversation regarding the median might be academic since the sea level rise is coming pronto, sooner than we know.
02:48:44.44	SPEAKER_38	So investing towards the future strikes me as more pertinent than wondering about stripes today.
02:48:49.43	SPEAKER_38	Hope that's considered, and thank you.
02:48:51.85	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:48:52.07	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:48:54.01	Mayor Cox	All right, Mark Palmer, Matthew Hartzell, Sybil Boutelier.
02:48:59.34	Mayor Cox	than Regan Fulton.
02:49:02.70	Mayor Cox	Okay. Dave Troop.
02:49:06.97	Mayor Cox	Joris Van Menz.
02:49:13.15	Jan Johnson	Thank you.
02:49:14.23	Mayor Cox	It's all right. I'll call again.
02:49:22.53	SPEAKER_56	So I'm Regan Fulton. I'm a longtime resident. I live at 147 Harrison and I'm a homeowner and
02:49:29.61	SPEAKER_56	and a business owner in Sausalito.
02:49:33.01	SPEAKER_56	I'm also on the BPAC, and we have studied this proposal for a long time, and we are strongly in favor of it. We have studied the issue very deeply. We're aware of a very unsafe situation, whether the data are present to your satisfaction or not. I have ridden on that stretch of road significant numbers of times with my children on the way to school. We are pictured in some of the report pictures as being squeezed to the side of the road by cars and trucks. We need to make it safer for children. We need to make the whole road safer for pedestrians and for all traffic, including emergency vehicles, by eliminating the blockades that delivery trucks provide.
02:50:24.17	SPEAKER_56	So thank you very much.
02:50:24.20	Mayor Cox	So thank you very much.
02:50:25.79	Mayor Cox	Mark Palmer, Matthew Hartzell, Sybil Boutelier, Dave Troop.
02:50:33.37	Mayor Cox	Patty Swenson, Joris Van Menz.
02:50:38.13	SPEAKER_61	Thank you very much.
02:50:38.60	Mayor Cox	And Alice Merrill.
02:50:38.62	SPEAKER_61	Thank you.
02:50:39.49	SPEAKER_61	Thank you.
02:50:40.14	SPEAKER_61	Thank you very much City Council. My name is Joris. I'm a homeowner at the southern end of this stretch. I live in Old Town together with my wife and our daughter. I bike here very often. I also drive here very often.
02:50:52.08	SPEAKER_61	It is a very unsafe stretch of road. I don't feel safe here biking with my daughter on the backseat right now, but I also dream of a time when she can bike here on her own bike without me having to worry about her safety. Just this Sunday, I saw a cyclist getting hit by a car, blood on their face everywhere. Again, this is where I am cycling with my family.
02:50:52.27	SPEAKER_00	It is.
02:51:13.55	SPEAKER_61	I ask you city council to please do something to make it safer here.
02:51:17.24	SPEAKER_61	I think the plans as proposed today
02:51:19.25	SPEAKER_61	are a good step in the right direction and there are many great solutions here
02:51:23.01	SPEAKER_61	please do something for the safety of our families in this part of town. Thank you.
02:51:27.18	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:51:28.25	Mayor Cox	Alice Merrill,
02:51:29.50	Mayor Cox	then Nancy Fleming, then Ann Porter, Annie Porter.
02:51:34.49	Alice Merrill	I'm Alice Merrill. There's a picture of a very hurt person up here. I'm not sure that we all need to see this. Um,
02:51:44.21	Alice Merrill	Yeah, I know. I know. It was left on the podium? Yeah. Glued to it. Stuck on it. Yes.
02:51:53.29	Alice Merrill	It's a bit much.
02:51:54.25	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:51:57.68	Mayor Cox	I'm we're going to start her time over. Wow.
02:52:03.04	Kevin McGowan	Thank you.
02:52:03.06	Unknown	Thank you.
02:52:03.11	Kevin McGowan	Yeah.
02:52:03.62	Unknown	Thank you.
02:52:03.67	Mayor Cox	Wow. Kieran did it.
02:52:07.78	Unknown	Thank you.
02:52:11.46	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:52:11.50	Alice Merrill	Uh,
02:52:11.58	Mayor Cox	Okay. Okay. Go ahead. Thank you for pointing that out, Alice. I apologize for that.
02:52:12.90	Alice Merrill	Go ahead.
02:52:16.20	Alice Merrill	I appreciate that you ask people to say where they live. I think it's important that people do. I live in Sausalito. And I think that it's important that we know who lives...
02:52:27.00	Alice Merrill	who speaks for, because this is our town. The next is...
02:52:32.89	Alice Merrill	The Bay Trail, the whole thing about the Bay Trail, honestly, Sausalito is not very enthusiastic about that. And it's not the end of the world. Please just be lowering the speed limits. Glad to hear that. I would like to see people be more considerate. I would love it if people would just drive a good, decent distance instead of like this just because they want to get by. It's a very small stretch of just everybody be polite, be human.
02:53:02.63	Alice Merrill	And if you put curbs in the crosswalks,
02:53:07.64	Alice Merrill	Oh my goodness, what's going to happen with the emergency vehicles? Thank you very much.
02:53:11.83	Alice Merrill	Thank you.
02:53:13.29	Mayor Cox	Nancy Fleming.
02:53:15.28	Mayor Cox	Annie Porter.
02:53:16.21	Annie Porter	Thank you.
02:53:17.04	Mayor Cox	Michael Smiley.
02:53:18.02	Annie Porter	Thank you.
02:53:20.14	Annie Porter	Hi, everyone. I'm Annie Porter. I've lived on the 300 block of Bridgeway for 35 years.
02:53:26.52	Annie Porter	It is absolutely necessary to keep the current road configuration of Bridgeway. I oppose the proposal by the Bike Coalition to remove the median. The median is a critical part of the road design that ensures the residents' safety. The median allows space for emergency vehicles to efficiently navigate the narrow portion of Bridgeway, even in the most congestive times. That median is in use from sunup to sundown as it allows space for the businesses to operate while it allows vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians the space to flow. The bicyclists should slow down and conform to the current road configuration instead of coming in and requiring the town change for them.
02:54:07.87	Annie Porter	The roadway design is working and needs to remain for the safety of everyone. Removing the median will create gridlock and it is an absurd proposal. Thank you. Thank you.
02:54:18.33	Mayor Cox	Nancy Fleming.
02:54:19.65	Mayor Cox	then Michael Smiley, then Adarsh Bahat.
02:54:26.78	Mayor Cox	All right. Okay.
02:54:29.89	Mayor Cox	And then Elina Frankiff.
02:54:32.00	Adarsh Bhatt	Hi, my name is Adarsh Bhatt. I live on the intersection of Princess and Bulkley, about a block from this area. I really appreciate living in the city. It's a beautiful area, and I find the old part of Bridge Bay very charming, and I would urge that the current configuration be maintained. I am in favor of adding crosswalks for pedestrians to cross, but not for the addition of bike lanes. Thank you. But I also feel for the safety of everyone, including the cyclists.
02:55:05.23	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
02:55:07.01	Mayor Cox	Nancy Fleming, Michael Smiley, Alina Frankiv, Sonya Hansen, Melissa Mooney.
02:55:20.11	Mayor Cox	.
02:55:23.21	Mayor Cox	Welcome, Sonia.
02:55:30.76	Sonya Hansen	Okay, so I guess the first thing I'd like to say is this process has been
02:55:36.83	Sonya Hansen	This process has been incredibly lengthy, and it didn't have to be. I don't mean today's meeting. This started in 2023. There was that safety report done by the police and fire department, and it was taken away so that we couldn't see it. If we had been allowed to see it, instead of requiring the residents to hire an attorney and come to the city for three months to get the report...
02:55:58.97	Sonya Hansen	which is right here, and anybody who would like a copy, come bring your camera and take it. This is a police report that was repressed, suppressed. And this was wrong. It's still wrong. You should have done this from the start. We would not be here today. This would have been over months ago. So, thank you. And clearly, my position is no.
02:56:17.28	Unknown	Thank you.
02:56:21.68	Mayor Cox	Thank you, Sonia.
02:56:23.09	Mayor Cox	All right. Melissa Mooney, Nancy Fleming, Michael Smiley, Alina Frankiv, Scott Robinson.
02:56:34.44	Unknown	Thank you, City Council.
02:56:36.69	Unknown	Mayor Cox, my name is Melissa Mooney.
02:56:39.74	Unknown	Thank you.
02:56:39.91	Unknown	I've lived in Sausalito since 1999. I've lived at the north end of town. Now I live in the middle of town.
02:56:48.23	Unknown	I've been a cyclist in Sausalito as long as I've lived here.
02:56:52.97	Unknown	I believe there are better ways for the city of Sausalito to spend money
02:57:02.61	Unknown	our money
02:57:04.77	Unknown	than to accept the recommendations
02:57:10.18	Unknown	of
02:57:11.20	Unknown	the Parisi consultants
02:57:14.15	Unknown	who
02:57:15.04	Unknown	I heard
02:57:16.76	Unknown	when they were being questioned by the council,
02:57:20.36	Unknown	engaging what I would call speculation to direct questions. Thank you.
02:57:27.01	Unknown	Thank you.
02:57:27.92	Mayor Cox	Nancy Fleming, Michael Smiley, Alina Frankiv, Scott Robinson, Lynn Carey.
02:57:39.23	Mayor Cox	Come in.
02:57:40.49	SPEAKER_55	Hi.
02:57:41.98	SPEAKER_55	My name is Alina Frankiv. This is Arden. She's almost two. We are Saucelita residents. Hi. I don't want her to talk too much.
02:57:46.47	Mayor Cox	Bye.
02:57:50.35	SPEAKER_55	We live at the south end of the stretch of road that is under question.
02:57:56.91	SPEAKER_55	As pedestrians and cyclists, we use that stretch of road almost daily. So we urge you to keep both us safe, but also the strolling and cycling parents and kiddos that use that stretch of road also safe by implementing all of the safety measures. Because right now there is lack of orderliness on that stretch of road and that would improve it. But also to everyone who's opposing this project, especially if you have a kid.
02:58:21.51	SPEAKER_55	I ask you to take a moment and think about the time when your kids were this age and how heart-wrenching it is to think about them getting hurt.
02:58:31.05	SPEAKER_55	Now imagine how
02:58:33.72	SPEAKER_55	sad it is to think about I know council members, but the public you guys are the ones who are voting how sad it is to think about your child and you getting sorry
02:58:44.03	Mayor Cox	Bye.
02:58:44.06	SPEAKER_55	by a car.
02:58:45.19	Mayor Cox	That's it.
02:58:45.34	Mayor Cox	So sorry, your time is up. Okay, Nancy.
02:58:49.29	Mayor Cox	Nancy Fleming, Michael Smiley, Scott Robinson, Lynn Carey. Please come forward. Then Patricia Pigman and then Sophie Pappas.
02:59:00.36	SPEAKER_50	My name is Lynn Carey.
02:59:02.89	SPEAKER_50	Hold on.
02:59:05.15	SPEAKER_50	My name is Lynn Carey. I've been in Sausalito since 1986. My question today is I've heard so much about so many things, but very little about the council doing anything about the bikers, particularly all the rental bikers, the hundreds of thousands apparently that come into the city attempting to license them in some way
02:59:27.88	SPEAKER_50	I'm a person that got hit by a bike.
02:59:30.75	SPEAKER_50	and the biker went away.
02:59:32.03	Mayor Cox	talking to the mic.
02:59:33.30	SPEAKER_50	I'm.
02:59:34.33	SPEAKER_50	I have a massive amount of metal in my spine from being hit by a bike.
02:59:40.10	SPEAKER_50	and left on the path.
02:59:42.70	SPEAKER_50	I had no repercussion because I have no way to know who hit me.
02:59:46.97	SPEAKER_50	There's no
02:59:48.74	SPEAKER_50	numbers or anything. There's no licensing. You've got all this hundreds of thousands of rental bikes.
02:59:56.44	SPEAKER_50	doing so much damage, why can't you at least
03:00:00.17	SPEAKER_50	license the rental bikes for God's sakes and give us a chance to know who hits us.
03:00:06.97	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:00:07.12	SPEAKER_50	Thank you.
03:00:07.15	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:00:07.19	SPEAKER_50	Thank you.
03:00:07.32	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:00:07.67	SPEAKER_50	Thank you.
03:00:07.69	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:00:08.59	Mayor Cox	All right, Patricia Pigman, Sophie Pappas, Mary Hudson, then Warren Wells.
03:00:19.47	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:00:20.79	Mayor Cox	Patricia Pigman, Sophie Pappas, Mary Hudson, Warren Wells.
03:00:26.51	Patricia Pigman	Trisha Pigman.
03:00:28.21	Patricia Pigman	I live at 59 Alexander.
03:00:31.67	Patricia Pigman	I moved to Sausalito in 1962.
03:00:36.95	Patricia Pigman	People have said much more eloquently than I can, why to keep the median
03:00:45.19	Patricia Pigman	I was on the first bike committee in 2014. We had the ambassador program
03:00:51.48	Patricia Pigman	which worked, bring it back, get some control over the bikers.
03:00:58.94	Patricia Pigman	and keep the median.
03:01:01.98	Patricia Pigman	Thank you. Thank you. And put in crosswalks.
03:01:08.00	Mayor Cox	Okay.
03:01:08.53	Patricia Pigman	Thank you.
03:01:08.54	Mayor Cox	Sophie Pappas, Mary Hudson, Warren Wells, Steve...
03:01:13.74	Unknown	you
03:01:13.79	Mayor Cox	Bye.
03:01:14.03	Unknown	on it.
03:01:14.38	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:01:15.53	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:01:15.55	Unknown	Sophie Pappas.
03:01:16.90	Unknown	Yeah.
03:01:17.18	Unknown	My husband and I, we manage and own the property just across the street from Skoma, where they say it's so hectic. And all that I can say, there are 12 apartments that we manage. I feel that it's safe there. The only issue is the speed of the bicycles just zooming through. And it's constantly going. They're way too fast. They should go.
03:01:42.12	Unknown	go slow and do not decrease the amount of parking. We need parking particularly for 12 people that live there. We need parking right there and move the unloading maybe somewhere else. Also, the middle lane, we use it for the fire truck. They come and
03:01:59.17	Unknown	come into the building whenever there is an issue and they park in the middle lane to help us in the in the building so do not take the middle lane thank you
03:02:08.03	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:02:08.05	Unknown	you
03:02:08.09	Unknown	Thank you.
03:02:10.10	Mayor Cox	at Mary Hudson Warren wells Steve bonick.
03:02:15.18	Mayor Cox	And
03:02:17.78	Mayor Cox	CG where?
03:02:19.62	SPEAKER_47	Hello, my name is Mary Hudson and I live at the south end of town looking right down Bridgeway.
03:02:25.66	SPEAKER_47	and the median strip.
03:02:28.19	SPEAKER_47	For 45 years, I was an environmental attorney, and 10 of those years I spent at the California Coastal Commission, where among other things,
03:02:36.11	SPEAKER_47	we were engaged in implementing the coastal trail. And one of the things we learned there is that one size does not fit all. And the standards that had been announced as the preferred standards for individual trails didn't always work. And I won't go into the details here about this project, but we already have an effective Bay Trail here. It's not up to the standards that are ideal.
03:03:04.80	SPEAKER_47	But we have a trail. It's in heavy use, as you've been hearing.
03:03:08.73	SPEAKER_47	And I think we should be content with that and move on. I do want to say,
03:03:14.06	SPEAKER_47	Years ago, I represented a bicycle coalition in the East Bay
03:03:18.82	SPEAKER_47	trying to stop or change, I-5. Thank you, Mary. We didn't succeed, but I am sympathetic.
03:03:23.93	Mayor Cox	Thank you, Mary.
03:03:26.97	Mayor Cox	Great. Thank you.
03:03:29.05	Mayor Cox	All right, Warren Wells, Steve Bonnock, CGWare,
03:03:33.08	Mayor Cox	Mike Monsef.
03:03:34.51	SPEAKER_23	I am Warren Wells with the Marin County Bicycle Coalition.
03:03:37.36	SPEAKER_23	We've heard from the traffic engineers. Bridgeway today does not work for everyone. There are no crosswalks for half a mile. Delivery trucks block potential emergency response rather than facilitating it.
03:03:46.26	SPEAKER_23	and bicyclists share the lane with cars blocking auto traffic. I've heard some people today scoffing at the number of crashes we've seen, as if the number of injuries occurring today isn't enough. I hope that we would feel an obligation to make Bridgeway as safe as possible. I suspect all of us have friends and family injured or worse in a traffic crash, and I urge you to imagine what you would say if you learned that a safety project had been planned on a road, but not implemented where your loved one was injured.
03:04:10.34	SPEAKER_23	This project, largely funded by regional government, would not make Bridgeway perfect.
03:04:14.64	SPEAKER_23	but it would be an improvement. I urge the council to move the project forward, even if on an interim or pilot basis. And long-term, the road obviously needs tens of millions of dollars for a seawall, but that is years, if not decades, in the future. Then we should not let the perfect be the enemy of the better. Thank you very much.
03:04:29.58	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:04:30.49	Mayor Cox	Steve Bonnick, CG Ware.
03:04:33.27	Mayor Cox	Mike Moncef, Tyler Peterson, Jeff Torchen.
03:04:39.40	Unknown	Hi, my name is C.G. Ware. I've lived here since 2001. We live at 171 San Carlos. And for 21 years, I've been part of a dog walking group where we walk Tuesday, Thursday.
03:04:51.31	Unknown	Saturdays and we walked the full length of Bridgeway.
03:04:55.55	Unknown	And what we've noticed, I have a son and many grandchildren who ride bikes, so I care about bicycle safety. But what I see here is a plan that finally today I heard much more information.
03:05:07.51	Unknown	information about, but I agree, keep the median lane, put in some crosswalks, because we almost got clocked about four times trying to cross illegally in the middle of Bridgeway near the seal. So you have to look right and left. So I think that we can make some improvements, make it work for more people, and enforce the cyclists to obey the rules. If they just knew they had to slow down coming down Alexander, they had to stop at crosswalks. I mean, our dog walkers group, we put our hands out like that to get...
03:05:42.51	Unknown	I understand.
03:05:43.03	Mayor Cox	Absolutely.
03:05:43.34	Unknown	Thank you, C.G.
03:05:43.39	Mayor Cox	Thank you. Thank you. All right. Mike Monsef, Tyler Peterson, Jeff Torchen.
03:05:48.75	Mayor Cox	Charles Kaufman.
03:05:52.47	Mayor Cox	Who's not here?
03:05:54.74	SPEAKER_57	I'm actually Scott Robinson. You called earlier, but then
03:05:56.92	Mayor Cox	Okay, great.
03:05:58.44	SPEAKER_57	I didn't.
03:05:58.94	Mayor Cox	I'll take it.
03:05:59.84	SPEAKER_57	So,
03:06:01.06	SPEAKER_57	I wish to
03:06:03.10	SPEAKER_57	Today has been very interesting. The issue was more complicated than I thought. I still want to keep the median.
03:06:08.89	SPEAKER_57	Median plus crosswalk seems to me the best solution. Thank you.
03:06:12.53	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:06:13.71	Mayor Cox	Nancy Fleming, Michael Smiley, Steve Bonnick, Tyler Peterson, Jeff Torchin, Charles Kaufman.
03:06:23.62	SPEAKER_06	Hi, my name's Tyler Peterson. I just want to thank the staff and the council members. I know this has been a lot of work over a long period of time. I'm here for two reasons. One, Adrian Britton couldn't be here in person, so I'm submitting this on his behalf. It's a list of nearly 500 people in support, a petition in support of the project, so I'll submit that to the city clerk.
03:06:46.48	SPEAKER_06	And then also, I've been a resident since 2008.
03:06:52.59	SPEAKER_06	I've been away temporarily looking after father-in-law with dementia. We're returning to the city here later this year. And I am a regular cyclist using Bridgeway all the time. And I would just urge the council, even if this may not be,
03:07:07.80	SPEAKER_06	the perfect proposal or the right proposal right now to consider the safety of cyclists along bridgeway. And also it seems there's definitely some bicycle anti-sediment. And I get that from bicyclists who break the law. It seems like enforcement would be helpful.
03:07:25.01	Mayor Cox	Thank you, sir.
03:07:26.05	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:07:26.07	SPEAKER_06	Thank you.
03:07:48.35	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
03:07:48.95	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
03:07:51.25	Unknown	Good afternoon. My name is Susanna Suvest, and I'm one of the owners of Suzette, located at 633 Bridgeway. I'm here today to object to the removal of parklets on Bridgeway. I'm not here to debate bike paths, emergency safety, or parking. My focus is on the survival of my business. Over the past year, 48% of my revenue has come from the parklet in front of my restaurant. In the summer, that number jumped to 66%. As many Sausalito restauranteurs know, we lose money in the winter and we rely on the summer to stay afloat. If the parklet is removed, my business won't just struggle, it won't survive. And I don't believe I'm alone with that.
03:08:31.43	Unknown	Cities evolve, but we must acknowledge the stakes. This isn't just about seating. It's about whether small businesses can keep their doors open.
03:08:39.04	Unknown	Prioritizing bikers passing through over businesses that invest in and generate revenue for Sausalito is short-sighted. I urge you to consider a long-term solution like a waterfront promenade,
03:08:51.41	Unknown	that benefits residents. Thank you so much. That's the end of your time. Thank you.
03:08:52.93	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much. That's the end of your time.
03:08:56.25	Mayor Cox	Amy Svenberg.
03:08:58.28	Mayor Cox	Jeff Torchin, Charles Kaufman, Mustafa Alami, Babette McDougall.
03:09:04.05	SPEAKER_03	Mm-hmm.
03:09:04.37	SPEAKER_03	you
03:09:04.60	SPEAKER_03	Hi, I'm Amy Stenberg. I'm speaking on behalf of Poggio and Copita on Bridgeway. I also represent the Chamber of Commerce, who has already submitted a letter. So I'm just going to speak to my businesses. You know, it's, I am in front of two of these intersections where you have actual examples. Copita, we saw the example. Poggio, we have a parking lane. We've got bicyclists. All of it is, doesn't
03:09:31.10	SPEAKER_03	It's not better. There's no guarantee that what you're going to put in will give you better results than what we have in front of our restaurant. So I really caution you before you make this move. I also would like you to consider removing any parking spaces. We've been a big partner with the city with many of these initiatives, but we do lose 44 parking spots last year. six or nine parking spaces will affect the ability for people to come to our businesses and for our residents to park at my... spots last year. Six or nine parking spaces will affect the ability for people to come to our businesses and for our residents to park at my business. So thank you very much. Thank you very much.
03:10:04.06	Mayor Cox	Jeff Torchin, Charles Kaufman, Mustafa Alami, Babette McDougal, Lily Duchampians,
03:10:12.36	Mayor Cox	and Philip Touretto.
03:10:14.20	Unknown	I don't know if I'm next or not, but I'm here. Go ahead. Oh, great. Thank you.
03:10:16.14	Mayor Cox	Sure, go ahead.
03:10:17.74	Unknown	My name is Mustafa and I'm a long time resident of Sausalito. I fully support the plan, remove the middle, add sidewalks and add bike lanes. I see safer bicycle routes everywhere in the Bay Area, but nothing in Sausalito. Why is that?
03:10:31.22	Mayor Cox	Can you talk into the mic?
03:10:31.78	Unknown	Can you talk?
03:10:32.84	Unknown	Thank you.
03:10:33.30	Unknown	Oh, I'm sorry.
03:10:35.36	Unknown	I want to hear you. Oh, thank you. Yeah.
03:10:37.47	Unknown	I use my bicycle for work, school, recreation, and grocery. And my son Omar, you know, bicycles are a local town high school in Sausalito and across from here.
03:10:47.27	Kieran Culligan	here.
03:10:47.51	Unknown	When I ride into the city, I often see families with children exuding pure joy as they ride through fog on the bridge. I smile and echo their excitement, but I can't help.
03:10:56.38	Unknown	to really pray for their safe passage through Saucerito. It's just not safe to get through.
03:11:01.26	Unknown	Surprisingly, our collective safety seems to be of little concern. Why is that?
03:11:05.95	Unknown	And furthermore, I'm an assistant coach in our local TAMH mountain bike team. We ride everywhere, we ride in Tennessee Valley to practice in the headlands, but we avoid
03:11:14.44	Unknown	But all cars just to come through Sausalito because of safety.
03:11:18.20	Unknown	Thank you. Thank you. I support the plan.
03:11:18.31	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:11:20.62	Mayor Cox	All right, Babette McDougall, then Lily Duchampians, then Philip Toretto, then Niels Carlson.
03:11:26.86	SPEAKER_52	Thank you.
03:11:28.51	SPEAKER_52	Thank you very much, Babette MacDougall, Sausalito resident. I want to thank you all very much for giving up your Saturday and doing such a thorough job in preparing and including the review of so much public input.
03:11:41.24	SPEAKER_52	And I really appreciate
03:11:44.09	SPEAKER_52	the questioning and the cross-examination by our council members. This has been a really good exercise. All right, there are two things that I'd really like to drill down on. Number one, this incremental
03:11:54.22	SPEAKER_52	Look at Bridgeway.
03:11:56.21	SPEAKER_52	Stem to stern, we need to take a big picture look at Bridgeway. And what I'm hearing is the calmer we make Bridgeway, the safer ultimately it will be. The other thing is some people have, I've got a text in fact saying, well, what are the strings attached? Why are so many people so determined to take this money? Well, that's actually a good question to ask because the truth of the matter is we can always reapply when we know a better what we really want and need. And we need to get that consensus going today.
03:12:24.47	SPEAKER_52	partly why I consider it a litmus test. I think we hear everyone saying, families, we want families.
03:12:29.09	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:12:31.37	Mayor Cox	Mm-hmm.
03:12:31.93	Mayor Cox	Lili Duchampians, Philip Toretto, Niels Carlson, Nicole Beck.
03:12:41.74	SPEAKER_26	Hi, I'm Lily de Champli, and my mother and my aunt both live in Saucelito, and I've been coming to Saucelito since I was six. Hardly enough, I survived crossing Bridgeway since her early age. I don't know how I did it, but I did. And I just wanted to raise a few things that are a bit surprising to me. First of all, I don't really understand how some experts can state in the same statement that it is dangerous and it slows down traffic to keep regular cars behind bikes, but that it would be okay to have
03:13:13.46	SPEAKER_26	ambulances and fire trucks on the bike lane where the same bikes would
03:13:19.42	SPEAKER_26	allegedly retard the regular cars. And then it's great to see that so many people seem to be concerned by this very serious issue. And I hope that the engagement keeps coming for other issues in the future.
03:13:34.43	SPEAKER_26	Thank you. Thank you.
03:13:34.76	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:13:35.97	Mayor Cox	Philip Toretto, Niels Carlson, Nicole Beck,
03:13:40.41	Mayor Cox	Leslie Hale.
03:13:42.22	SPEAKER_10	Philip Toretto, 307 Bridgeway. Excuse me, if I talk quickly.
03:13:47.56	SPEAKER_10	First to mention about this bloody accident that happened right in front of our place with the bicyclists.
03:13:53.32	SPEAKER_10	about five days ago. That was because someone did a three-point U-turn
03:13:57.45	SPEAKER_10	And U-turns are part of something I've never heard about that. Human behavior. Yeah, everyone goes into our driveway and turns. I don't know how many times do a study on that. I'm talking 100 times and they're doing U-turns. And that's how is any of this going to change someone making a U-turn in our driveway? And that is the one thing I haven't heard all day. All of these studies, all of these years, how many driveways are on that stretch of road people? How many I counted it's over 20 driveways. We back up, we look, there could be a van here. We back up. Is there a bicyclist there? Oh, the bicyclist then has to move over. The car moves over into the median lane, which is our grace for the other people whipping around that corner.
03:14:43.64	SPEAKER_10	You're making swipes into head-ons, people. Thank you. Swiping goes to head-ons. Thank you.
03:14:45.77	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:14:45.80	Unknown	THE FAMILY.
03:14:45.97	Annie Porter	Head-ons, people.
03:14:47.01	Unknown	Thank you.
03:14:47.03	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:14:47.20	Unknown	Thank you.
03:14:48.06	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:14:48.18	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:14:48.85	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:14:50.27	SPEAKER_32	Thank you.
03:14:52.82	Mayor Cox	We are. I'm just going to let you know, we are going to hear from the police about the accident that happened last Sunday. So as soon as public comment is over, we will hear from the police on that. All right. Niels Carlson. I'm here.
03:15:06.10	Mayor Cox	Yes, go.
03:15:07.18	Mayor Cox	But then Nicole Beck, then Leslie Hale.
03:15:08.28	SPEAKER_11	Yes, I am.
03:15:12.12	SPEAKER_11	I moved to Sausalito before Brightsway was expanded 50 years ago. Totally impressed of the design and the brilliant solution to a critical problem.
03:15:23.06	SPEAKER_11	It was not a change.
03:15:24.93	SPEAKER_11	It was an improvement.
03:15:27.67	SPEAKER_11	We just need to add some crosswalks to it.
03:15:30.57	SPEAKER_11	I feel a lane of...
03:15:33.20	SPEAKER_11	A bicyclist gives them a kind, I feel making a lane for bicyclists gives them a kind of privilege and a wrong way of feeling safe.
03:15:44.93	SPEAKER_11	Let us face it, the bicyclists and venturing into Sausalito has already at the entrance being forced to be careful to share the roads before they get into the relative short straights of which way that we are talking about.
03:15:60.00	SPEAKER_11	and they will have to continue to the more in critical area in downtown. And again, a couple of miles going north to Sausalito.
03:16:10.95	SPEAKER_11	creating a bicycle
03:16:12.66	SPEAKER_11	Lane.
03:16:13.94	SPEAKER_11	is
03:16:15.39	SPEAKER_11	Thank you.
03:16:16.08	SPEAKER_11	Thank you.
03:16:16.10	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much.
03:16:16.94	SPEAKER_11	Thank you.
03:16:16.98	Mayor Cox	Thanks.
03:16:18.75	SPEAKER_11	I have a lot more.
03:16:19.62	Mayor Cox	Nicole.
03:16:21.18	Mayor Cox	Nicole Beck, Leslie Hale, Matthew Hartzell.
03:16:26.86	SPEAKER_37	Hello, my name is Nicole Back, and I'm a fifth-generation Sausalito, and I also own property with many tenants on Bulkley, which is right above the stretch of water, that stretch of Bridgeway. I'm happy that you noticed that the presentation was self-serving, including discussing a truck backing up and killing someone, a garbage truck, that had absolutely nothing to do with bicycles. And I think that using that is totally not okay.
03:16:59.62	SPEAKER_37	by the
03:17:01.81	SPEAKER_37	coalition. So Bridgeway is a public street. It doesn't belong to Bay Trail, even though they say, they just mentioned that it was part of Bay Trail. We have the right to discuss and give you our opinion.
03:17:22.08	SPEAKER_37	The city should favor pedestrians who come to the city or who live here.
03:17:28.44	Mayor Cox	That was quick.
03:17:29.81	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much.
03:17:31.78	Mayor Cox	Leslie Hale, Matthew Hartzell, David Troop.
03:17:35.48	Unknown	I'm Leslie Hale.
03:17:37.86	Unknown	I love you.
03:17:39.76	Unknown	on the hill.
03:17:41.15	Unknown	I've been here since 1959.
03:17:45.74	Unknown	I've ridden bikes as a child and as an adult. So have my children.
03:17:52.89	Unknown	and please keep the median and put the money to police and fire and educate and enforce laws and get the bikes to obey the moving vehicle laws already in place
03:18:09.85	Unknown	The response time is critical to safety.
03:18:13.97	Unknown	It has made a difference in my life.
03:18:18.31	Unknown	where six minutes is what the fire department wants and it took them 15 minutes to respond to a fire.
03:18:30.64	Unknown	and it caused a lot of damage. Bikes ride three of them.
03:18:33.95	Mayor Cox	bikes ride three
03:18:36.51	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:18:36.55	Unknown	Thank you.
03:18:36.65	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much.
03:18:37.95	Mayor Cox	Okay, I'm going to call...
03:18:41.21	Mayor Cox	Speaker cards I've already called and they haven't come. And then I'm going to, is there anyone online?
03:18:46.25	Mayor Cox	Okay, so Matthew Hartzell, David Troop, Patty Swenson, Nancy Fleming, Michael Smiley, Steve Bonnock, Jeff Torchin, and Charles Kaufman. And any of those people who are still here, feel free to come up to the podium. In the meantime, I'll turn it over to Maria for online public comment.
03:19:10.47	Unknown	Sandra Bushmaker?
03:19:15.90	Unknown	Thank you.
03:19:15.92	SPEAKER_49	Good evening, council. Thank you for having this, uh,
03:19:18.91	SPEAKER_49	This hearing today. I'm a long term resident living in the south part of town against the removal of the median from Princess to Richardson, as it's been in place for decades for very good reason.
03:19:30.43	SPEAKER_49	I have heard, if it's not broken, don't fix it. I have heard no data whatsoever of a causal relationship between the proposed project and the reduction of accidents.
03:19:42.55	SPEAKER_49	You have heard that our police chief said that removal would be chaotic, along with other public safety employees.
03:19:50.73	SPEAKER_49	You have received a notice from an attorney letter in your packet, which indicates there is a threat of litigation. You cannot make the finding of no litigation needed for your resolution.
03:20:03.10	SPEAKER_49	Remember that it is Sausalito residents that put you in office. This is who you should be serving. Please say no to this grant. Thank you.
03:20:11.79	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:20:14.91	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:20:14.95	SPEAKER_49	Thank you.
03:20:14.96	Unknown	Thank you.
03:20:15.03	Unknown	area.
03:20:15.25	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:20:16.92	Mayor Cox	Even Jane, Chris,
03:20:19.57	Mayor Cox	Evan, Chris, and then can you announce who will be next, Maria, so they know?
03:20:25.86	SPEAKER_12	Yes, hello, my name is Evan Jane Criss.
03:20:29.19	SPEAKER_12	My family has owned a home here in Sausalito for 53 years. We live up on the hill.
03:20:37.02	SPEAKER_12	I, uh...
03:20:38.72	SPEAKER_12	respectfully requests that you decline the grant to remove the median on Bridgeway.
03:20:45.62	SPEAKER_12	It's unnecessary, poorly timed, misguided, and costly. It will further endanger the residents of Sausalito by making passage of emergency vehicles more difficult
03:20:54.92	SPEAKER_12	through one of the few straight routes of ingress and egress in the city.
03:20:59.46	SPEAKER_12	Sausalito already lost its insurance due to neglect of infrastructure. This is the immediate concern. The additional estimated costs of $2.8 million above the grant amount to be covered by taxpayers is unacceptable. Our tax money should be used to repair and upgrade sewage, water, and roadways. This is especially important to address in advance of the building of some 900 plus new housing units as mandated by the state.
03:21:25.60	SPEAKER_12	which will increase our population
03:21:28.13	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:21:28.15	SPEAKER_12	Thank you.
03:21:30.38	Unknown	Okay, next we have
03:21:32.67	Unknown	Adrienne Brinton, Carolyn Ford, and then India, Linda Pfeiffer.
03:21:36.98	Mayor Cox	Okay.
03:21:37.84	Mayor Cox	Adrian welcome.
03:21:44.47	SPEAKER_07	Hi, thank you for taking my comment. First, thanks to staff. I know with a huge amount of public engagement, it's been a massive effort to get everything ready and get everything online for the meeting. So thank you for that.
03:21:54.81	SPEAKER_07	This area is unsafe. Bike lanes would help organize the chaos and that would make it safer. I think in addition to that, enforcement is a huge issue. We've heard from many people about the issues with cyclists not following the rules, not stopping at lights and not respecting pedestrian right away. And that's unacceptable. Speeding and unsafe passing make the area unsafe as well. And that's also unacceptable.
03:22:17.29	SPEAKER_07	In the past, since 2008, citations issued have dropped by 95%. We issued 100 citations in 2023 for moving violations. If people feel they can do what they want without consequences, they will. And we need to understand what it will take to enforce these flagrant violations and ensure better compliance for traffic laws by everyone.
03:22:39.70	SPEAKER_07	Thank you Tyler for presenting the petition. I want to note that there were a hundred residents as well as 300 non-residents that signed our petition.
03:22:46.87	SPEAKER_49	Thank you.
03:22:55.17	Mayor Cox	Maria, if you ask them to unmute ahead of time. Okay, go ahead.
03:23:08.29	SPEAKER_54	Hello, can you hear me?
03:23:10.75	SPEAKER_54	I know Carolyn Ford was
03:23:12.02	Unknown	Thank you.
03:23:12.03	SPEAKER_54	Mm-hmm.
03:23:13.43	Unknown	Oh, sorry.
03:23:15.83	Unknown	Linda, can you, can you, Linda, I asked you to unmute.
03:23:19.14	Unknown	Linda.
03:23:19.15	Mayor Cox	Linda, can you?
03:23:20.20	Unknown	unused
03:23:20.33	SPEAKER_54	Can you hear me? Yes, we hear you.
03:23:22.38	Mayor Cox	Yes, we hear you.
03:23:23.78	SPEAKER_54	Okay, thank you.
03:23:25.58	SPEAKER_54	My name is Linda Pfeiffer. I'm a Saucedo resident. Keep the middle median lane. I've lived here 30 years, biked the route for decades. The middle median lane is safe for everyone and critical for emergency response to Old Town.
03:23:39.84	SPEAKER_54	I'd add during the November election, residents were led to believe the median was safe from being removed.
03:23:45.43	SPEAKER_54	They were told this was just a study for safety.
03:23:48.42	SPEAKER_54	Blaustein said there was never a plan to remove the median, and Sobieski said it was a manufactured issue. Five months later, we're all here on a Saturday fighting to save the median.
03:23:58.51	SPEAKER_54	The bike lobby is here. Consultant data is all over the place, shifting accident data, shifting sources, shifting boundaries on roads.
03:24:06.22	SPEAKER_54	Listen to Police Chief Gregory, who said the center median is a relief valve for people and for police response. Listen to Chief Tubbs, who confirmed the current configuration is preferred for emergency response. Counsel, listen to your constituents.
03:24:26.81	Mayor Cox	Did you cut her? Okay, she just lost connection?
03:24:30.37	Mayor Cox	OK, can you call out the next couple of people?
03:24:33.57	Unknown	The next few people are Carolyn Ford, Matthew Hartsell,
03:24:38.91	Unknown	Mark Palmer?
03:24:40.54	Unknown	Thank you.
03:24:40.56	Mayor Cox	Great.
03:24:40.71	Unknown	Thank you.
03:24:40.75	SPEAKER_50	Thank you.
03:24:40.76	Unknown	Thank you.
03:24:41.52	Unknown	Carolyn Ford, can you hear us? Yes, I can. Can you hear me?
03:24:44.93	Mayor Cox	Yes.
03:24:45.03	SPEAKER_46	Yes, we hear you. Welcome, Caroline. Thank you.
03:24:48.51	SPEAKER_46	Um,
03:24:49.66	SPEAKER_46	And I'm in the south end of town.
03:24:52.03	SPEAKER_46	So what I want to say is I have a concern about the transparency of this process.
03:24:59.53	SPEAKER_46	During last year's campaign debate, three of you pledged
03:25:03.86	SPEAKER_46	Support for the middle lane.
03:25:06.02	SPEAKER_46	You knew the police chief in the department back then.
03:25:09.84	SPEAKER_46	You knew residents were circulating a petition in favor, yet six months later, we're still here.
03:25:17.94	SPEAKER_46	This time with questionable additional
03:25:21.53	SPEAKER_46	Accident figures.
03:25:24.79	SPEAKER_46	Recognizing the safety benefits and low accident
03:25:28.52	SPEAKER_46	rights, Mayor Cox and Councilmember Hoffman have remained consistent in their support
03:25:35.07	SPEAKER_46	of the middle lane.
03:25:37.61	SPEAKER_46	But seemingly a majority of this council
03:25:41.21	SPEAKER_46	continues to resist, ignoring police expertise and overwhelming public support. I urge you to vote no. Let's move on.
03:25:51.47	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:25:54.20	Mayor Cox	We have Mark Paul.
03:25:54.93	SPEAKER_46	Homer.
03:25:55.16	Unknown	Thank you.
03:25:55.25	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:25:55.28	Unknown	Thank you.
03:25:56.24	Unknown	Matthew Hartzell, please unmute.
03:26:04.17	SPEAKER_45	Good afternoon. This is Matthew Hartzell, Director of Planning at WTB TAM.
03:26:08.58	SPEAKER_45	Sausalito has enacted a Vision Zero policy. The goal of that policy is zero collisions and zero injuries. So one collision and one injury is too much, and certainly 60 is too much. I've heard a lot of frustration today about bad behavior from bicyclists. I am a bicyclist, and I completely agree with you.
03:26:27.43	SPEAKER_45	But that's not the people who this project and these recommended improvements are for.
03:26:31.82	SPEAKER_45	Therefore, the locals of Sausalito, therefore the residents of all ages and abilities to improve their mobility within the city and improve traffic and let people get from old town to downtown, not the people who are going up the hill to the bridge, but just getting around the city.
03:26:46.73	SPEAKER_45	Mode separation is proven
03:26:48.71	SPEAKER_45	to improve safety for all modes, including pedestrians and motorists.
03:26:53.18	SPEAKER_45	The consultants and the data show that the median is unsafe and is being used for unsafe illegal activity.
03:26:59.41	SPEAKER_45	Council, please show leadership. Don't be cowed by disinformation.
03:27:03.32	SPEAKER_45	and vote for the recommended improvements.
03:27:06.85	SPEAKER_45	Thank you.
03:27:09.33	Unknown	Mark Palmer, please unmute. And is there anyone after that?
03:27:13.97	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:14.48	Unknown	After that, there will be a Scott Pansanella and Aaron Roller.
03:27:18.29	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:18.31	SPEAKER_50	RADIAN.
03:27:18.39	Unknown	Great.
03:27:19.54	Unknown	Mark Palmer, Sausalito, can you hear me?
03:27:21.90	Unknown	Yes.
03:27:22.96	Unknown	seat.
03:27:23.84	Unknown	As a lifelong cyclist, I'm 78 years old. I respectfully request you to implement the Bridgeway Safety Plan on this confusing and dangerous stretch of roadway. Having proper pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure is the hallmark of a city.
03:27:39.42	Unknown	that cares for its most vulnerable road users. Please take this long awaited opportunity to install these professionally engineered safety improvements for the benefit of all motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists. Thank you.
03:27:53.58	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:27:59.63	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:27:59.65	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:59.67	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:27:59.74	Unknown	Thank you.
03:27:59.87	Mayor Cox	Who is the one?
03:27:59.97	Unknown	Who's next? City clerk. Aaron. Oh, Aaron Roller.
03:28:04.97	Unknown	Oh, Erin Roller?
03:28:06.38	SPEAKER_24	Hello, City Council.
03:28:08.59	SPEAKER_24	Hello. This is Aaron Roller.
03:28:08.61	Unknown	Hello, welcome.
03:28:10.33	SPEAKER_24	Sausalito residence, but I'm in Switzerland now living here. And in 2018, when I joined the PBAC, I heard the residents talk and they were really frustrated with congestion. So I looked what we could do and it was add bike lanes because that would actually reduce the congestion. And that was the goal. When I looked in the general plan and the master plan of the bicycle master plan,
03:28:38.80	SPEAKER_24	And it said, remove the median. So this has been there since 1995.
03:28:43.58	SPEAKER_24	And so now that was the yes we've gotten here. Thank you so much for having us here. You're doing, this has been a lot of work. And I think that I'm very grateful for all that you've done. Please vote yes so we can move forward because we know what no looks like. And it looks like it does now with a lot of injuries. Thank you.
03:29:08.87	Unknown	Thank you.
03:29:09.90	SPEAKER_49	.
03:29:09.97	Unknown	Thank you.
03:29:12.38	Unknown	Who's next, city clerk? Next, we have Scott Banzanella. Please unmute.
03:29:17.27	Mayor Cox	And who's after that?
03:29:18.25	Unknown	And then after that? That's it.
03:29:19.03	Mayor Cox	That's it.
03:29:22.29	Unknown	Now I don't, that's, that's, that's, that's,
03:29:27.49	Mayor Cox	Okay, so that's the end of public comment. I'm going to invite the police chief back to address this accident that we got this gruesome picture about that happened last Sunday.
03:29:41.10	Chief Gregory	I'm going to invite...
03:29:41.90	Mayor Cox	Sergeant White to the
03:29:43.04	Chief Gregory	Thank you.
03:29:43.28	Chief Gregory	Mike to talk
03:29:45.56	SPEAKER_02	Thank you.
03:29:45.66	Chief Gregory	Thank you.
03:29:46.10	SPEAKER_02	Madam Mayor, Councilor.
03:29:47.74	SPEAKER_02	So the collision involved a woman who was completing a U-turn in a residential R2 district of Bridgeway 300 block.
03:29:55.70	SPEAKER_02	A, as she was completing the U-turn, her nose of her car
03:29:59.80	SPEAKER_02	was on the curb, this is her statement in short, that she couldn't complete the U-turn, had to make a three-point turn.
03:30:05.84	SPEAKER_02	As she was reversing, she noticed a bicyclist down. She did not feel any impact to her car, and the bicyclist had no recollection of the incident at all. There were no witnesses to it. The one big piece of evidence that we were able to determine was that there was the blood spot from the bicyclist almost on the southbound yellow striping, which leads us to believe, we weren't there of course, that the bicycl bicycle is either traveling to the left of the southbound roadway or driving in the median itself again there's no cameras available or witnesses. Andrew Bickford, M.D.: The case is still under investigations, a few more steps to complete, but those are the facts currently so we'd also think a big piece of it, too, is that.
03:30:45.80	SPEAKER_02	There was no impact felt by the driver.
03:30:47.86	SPEAKER_02	the bicycle stops in recollection, there was no damage to the car.
03:30:51.05	SPEAKER_02	We don't know if there was a panic break and a crash. We don't know if there was a.
03:30:54.86	SPEAKER_02	collision or not. Currently, we still need to talk to the bicyclist as he had no recollection. So there's still some more steps to take.
03:31:00.64	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much for that update.
03:31:03.32	Mayor Cox	Yeah, Sergeant White.
03:31:04.15	Unknown	Thank you.
03:31:04.18	SPEAKER_02	Thank you.
03:31:04.19	Unknown	Uh,
03:31:04.35	SPEAKER_02	Yes.
03:31:04.52	Unknown	Sergeant White.
03:31:04.97	SPEAKER_02	Thank you.
03:31:04.99	Unknown	Thank you.
03:31:05.06	Unknown	Thank you.
03:31:05.65	Unknown	Was a driver issued a citation for making an illegal turn.
03:31:08.68	SPEAKER_02	No, no. And there's a big piece of that too. So 21, 460, I believe is the code for the center left turn lane. They do in fact allow you turns. There's also a no U-turn sign prior to the area of the collision about 200 feet prior, I think at the start of perhaps the R2 zone of the residential area. So that is an impacting part. Um, but again, we don't usually issue citations, uh, after the fact of an unwitnessed events usually. So that's part of our traffic collision process.
03:31:09.93	Unknown	Oh my God.
03:31:34.40	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much.
03:31:39.45	Mayor Cox	What is going on?
03:31:43.21	Mayor Cox	Okay, public comment is closed. I'm going to bring it back up here for motion and discussion.
03:31:51.95	Unknown	I'll start. Hi, everybody. Long afternoon. And thank you.
03:32:00.52	Unknown	Maria, three minutes. Three minute o'clock.
03:32:00.78	Mayor Cox	Maria, three minutes.
03:32:03.36	Unknown	So I read every public letter and I read the big report. And there is a lot of information as you saw here today, there was a lot of information that I know was news to a lot of people because I also spoke to a lot of residents who didn't read
03:32:16.00	Unknown	the report and I don't blame them because it's pretty lengthy and there's a lot of data here.
03:32:21.97	Unknown	We only have three minutes and we're going to do a round robin, but I would just say that I hope and my real hope and ambition, among other things, is some agreement about facts that I think was loosened today, and I hope that people will take
03:32:35.69	Unknown	uh mr precy up on his offer to meet individually and to go over the data directly if you don't believe his number is about 60 plus accidents please sit down with him he said he would meet with you
03:32:46.52	Unknown	And if you're not willing to meet with them to settle that issue, then we're not going to get on the same page about something that's important.
03:32:53.34	Unknown	This is a complicated issue. Obviously, many different trade-offs. And for me, I'd like to, since I have limited time, I'll just speak about what I'm sure about. And then on my next turn, maybe things I'm less sure about. The thing I'm sure about is what
03:33:08.26	Unknown	What a lot of people wrote about is I think we should have some crosswalks. I think I support the three crosswalks that are in the proposal, and I hope we will implement those three crosswalks. That means not changing the median configuration. I think we should, I'm sure we should add the crosswalks. Dr. Taylor wrote about that. C.J. Ware mentioned it. Many of the other speakers said it too. I also think it's a no-brainer that we need to enforce the no parking, stopping, loading, and unloading in the center median. That is illegal. I mean, it's actually illegal in the code. And it just obviously obstructs the flu through traffic. If that's going to remain our emergency median lane, then it should stay an emergency median lane clear of blockages. So we should, and I think I would support, implementing S1 of the loading zone idea and ask our police to...
03:34:02.28	Unknown	enforce it by by sending the parking people down there and making sure that we educate through warnings and citations uh the loading zone uh concept uh i would think that in lieu of what the chamber's information is that should just go to 1 p.m rather than 4 p.m so it can be used for resident and visitor parking uh during our peak hours uh so those are the things i would i'm sure about. I think we should definitely ask the police to prioritize enforcement of the law for speeding and bad bicycle behavior and bad driver behavior.
03:34:35.77	Unknown	and that section and the other dangerous section of Bridgeway. I don't think there's any need to undercut
03:34:41.51	Unknown	the facts that have been reported by a certified licensed person of integrity that this section of Ridgeway is the second most dangerous and the other the
03:34:49.93	Unknown	First, most dangerous is from Napa to downtown. So let's ramp up police protection. You heard about the drop off in our citations. We should start, maybe we overdid it with not citing shoplifters or arresting them. We probably maybe overdid it with just issuing warnings. I've gotten one, I appreciated it, but I probably should have got a ticket.
03:35:08.24	Mayor Cox	I'm just going to remind the Council, our the what we have to decide today is whether or not to accept the O bag three funding for the construction of the bridgeway bike lane project.
03:35:18.65	Mayor Cox	Princess to Richardson. So I'm looking for your feedback on that issue that's before us today.
03:35:25.54	Mayor Cox	And then if you want to add other things, obviously that's great, but I need to hear from each of you regarding whether you would like to accept that grant.
03:35:33.79	Unknown	So just to answer that question, no. But I do believe that we have a problem. We have a risk, a substantial risk in this stretch of the road. And there is simply not enough room to handle all the needs with the level of safety that I think everyone in this room would like to see. That's a bottom line as I see it. I do support and we need to remove the loading from the median. If the median was intended to be an emergency and perhaps a safety valve to get around someone who's pulled over to the side of the road, as often happens, putting on emergency lights and loading or unloading something, which happens everywhere else in town, that median is a safety valve. So I don't favor removing it at this time. I'd simply say something else personally. I've been biking almost all my life, but I'm at an age now where I don't feel safe biking almost anywhere, to be honest. I'm sorry to say that.
03:36:10.48	SPEAKER_00	of it.
03:36:36.82	Unknown	But...
03:36:37.97	Unknown	I don't do double black diamonds on the ski run. I mean, there's a lot of things I don't do.
03:36:43.70	Unknown	But I do value separate bike lanes whenever you can do them. I was a sophomore at UC Davis when the very first bike lane in a public street was installed by the city after the legislature signed by Governor Reagan allowed for bike lanes to be put on public streets.
03:37:05.86	Unknown	Before that, it was questionable whether they were even allowed.
03:37:09.08	Unknown	They are an improvement where you have room.
03:37:12.71	Unknown	I also can tell you that I don't really like those narrow little lanes next to cars. I was doored once. That was enough. Okay? That was enough. Fortunately, I wasn't seriously injured, but my bike was a mess. So I'm speaking personally, but I'm also trying to be objective. To say there's no problem there is just not accurate, in my view. To say that there's a huge problem that we have an unsafe condition of public property, also I don't think is true.
03:37:44.93	Unknown	We have a lot of misbehavior by a lot of people that contributes to the risk that we all face whenever we go on that street. I walked to this meeting today from maybe the southernmost home in all of Sausalito. It took me about 30 minutes. I walked briskly. Three good friends of mine on the way buttonholed me to make sure that I didn't remove the median. Most of the people in this room that have spoken I've known. I've talked to individually with many of you. And I respect your point of view. I respect the way this meeting has been conducted. And I want to say that because we need to come together for safety. We're going to talk in a while maybe about long-term plans. That's another issue, but enough for now. Thank you.
03:37:45.04	SPEAKER_00	We have a
03:37:47.61	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
03:37:47.63	Matt Barnes	Well,
03:38:11.60	SPEAKER_00	TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO
03:38:37.34	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:38:37.37	Unknown	Thank you.
03:38:37.83	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:38:38.47	Unknown	Councilmember Blaustein.
03:38:39.74	Unknown	Yeah, I'm I'm happy to make a motion to reject the grant just so that that's officially on the table.
03:38:45.69	Unknown	And I just want to, before you speak, we need to see if there's a second. Oh, is there a second? And with some, we can all give varied direction to staff. Yes. Is there a second for that?
03:38:46.64	Mayor Cox	I want to.
03:38:48.53	Mayor Cox	Oh, is that right?
03:38:52.92	Unknown	So,
03:38:53.12	Unknown	Second.
03:38:53.41	Unknown	Thank you.
03:38:53.54	Unknown	Okay, great. So whenever we're ready, we can talk about that. But, you know, a lot of people brought up that this conversation has been going on since 2023, that I specifically was mentioned as talking about it during the
03:39:07.80	Unknown	contentious campaign that we just had during
03:39:10.25	Unknown	which time
03:39:11.41	Unknown	You know, I said,
03:39:12.56	Unknown	We.
03:39:13.05	Unknown	we're going to preserve it based on community input. And we received overwhelming community input. And I really appreciate it because I think it reiterates the role that all of us play as representatives of the community. And while I'm absolutely in favor of the Bay Trail and the North-South Greenway, and I'd like to see us be more supportive of figuring out a path forward for safety for bikers in general, our community has resoundingly spoken in favor of maintaining this median. And that's really important. And I think what's even more important
03:39:43.52	Unknown	that we've heard today from our public safety professionals is that the best path forward is to maintain
03:39:48.06	Unknown	The median with that in mind, I really appreciate the amount of research that was done here and one thing that is immediately clear. Well, two things are immediately clear. The first is.
03:39:57.56	Unknown	We can't remove the median, and also we can't do nothing because one pedestrian death, in my opinion, is too many. That's why Vision Zero has been adopted, and that's really important. So I'd really like to see us move forward, though we're not accepting this grant, which I think it's important to reiterate that that funding is now completely lost to Marin County. So we are responsible, I believe, to do something to step up for safety using our capital improvement funds. and what we heard was that it would be about $300,000 for striping and re-striping for crosswalks. For I'd like to see lighting on those crosswalks and as mentioned loading zone enforcement. And going forward from that point, we heard from Katie Tho Garcia that we actually have over $400,000 remaining in our sea level rise assessment strategy funds. and some that could be directed to create a more clear long term plan that mirrors one C which would raise bridgeway and allow for potential bike lanes that would maintain the median so I'm hopeful that we will be able to come together I don't think that we have to have all of the answers today but what is clear is that we have a need to make a bridgeway the safer to do something and to maintain our median. So I look forward to hearing what my other council members have to say.
03:41:10.68	Mayor Cox	Thank you so much. Councilmember Hoffman.
03:41:12.42	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:41:12.91	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:41:14.23	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, I would support the motion to respectfully decline the grant and thank the community for all of their input and helping us get to this position that we're at today and the tremendous amount of work that members of our community put in. I think that we're going to be able to do that.
03:41:31.74	Councilmember Hoffman	You know, there were issues with the safety numbers, I think, as I, you know, as I brought to, as I addressed with Mr. Parise. I think, you know, ultimately we may be actually on the same page with Mr. Parise, because as he said, his numbers included all vehicles, all, you know, all incidents. And I was addressing only bike incidents, and so I think it was confusing that all of a sudden,
03:41:56.97	Councilmember Hoffman	All incidents popped in.
03:41:58.81	Councilmember Hoffman	at a number 60 and yet we were addressing numbers of
03:42:02.24	Councilmember Hoffman	or he was specifically addressing numbers of 235 10
03:42:05.95	Councilmember Hoffman	As we leved up to this meeting, then all of a sudden it was 60 all vehicles.
03:42:11.65	Councilmember Hoffman	I will follow up with him later, but that was an unfortunate circumstance that all of a sudden we're talking about 60. We may be closer to the same number, actually. But overall, even if you talk 60 over 10 years, that's 10 incidents. And if you drill down and subtract out those two high-conflict intersections at each end, you subtract out. That's still a pretty low number for, you know, hundreds of thousands of just rental bikes coming down to that one small corridor. You know, that's still a pretty low number of accidents or, you know, bike, you know, bike-related accidents along that corridor. So, you know, revisiting, designating that as a high conflict corridor, I think, might merit some work as well. But, you know, revisiting, designating that as a high-conflict corridor, I think, might merit some work as well. But, you know, ultimately, we all want it to be safe. We want to be safe for everybody who comes here, not just residents. We want to be safe for everybody who comes down that corridor. And that's, you know, something that we're all committed to. That's what we were committed to when we stood up the bicycle ambassadors that had tremendous success when it was running. So maybe it's time to rethink that and standing that up again. You know, the issues of
03:43:26.19	Councilmember Hoffman	addressing how we look at that corridor and adherence to, you know, basing our decisions on facts, basing our decisions on actual metrics, and adhering to those metrics is vitally important. And when you look at just the facts of,
03:43:47.49	Councilmember Hoffman	what we already have.
03:43:49.02	Councilmember Hoffman	We know that
03:43:50.73	Councilmember Hoffman	just looking at the actual
03:43:52.97	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, other
03:43:55.35	Councilmember Hoffman	high collision areas in town, namely from Johnson Street north, we know that crosswalks, bike lanes, and stoplights, that's where most of the conflict occurs. So those things don't necessarily make it safe.
03:44:19.23	Mayor Cox	Thanks, we'll circle back.
03:44:21.39	Mayor Cox	um,
03:44:23.72	Mayor Cox	I'm a bike rider I don't think Councilmember Sobieski mentioned it, but he is an avid bike rider I know this for sure. I have a mountain bike and e bike and a scooter and I route a motorized scooter, of course, and I, at my age and I routinely ride through town I have not been scared off yet vice mayor.
03:44:43.36	Mayor Cox	And so I am very aware of some of the challenges of different stretches in town. I definitely think micro-ceiling bridgeway is a must because that will help safety. Yeah.
03:45:00.91	Mayor Cox	I was really struck by the woman who said, not one size fits all. So I have frequently made that statement myself.
03:45:11.81	Mayor Cox	And I also consider myself to be a public servant. And so between April 2024 and December 2024 and today, we've received 348 comments that I've counted
03:45:25.02	Mayor Cox	a six to one ratio to keep
03:45:27.32	Mayor Cox	the median. That coupled with the feedback from our public safety officials
03:45:32.68	Mayor Cox	Um,
03:45:33.58	Mayor Cox	convinces me that the right thing for now is to keep the median.
03:45:37.90	Mayor Cox	Um,
03:45:39.03	Mayor Cox	I...
03:45:41.04	Mayor Cox	we did spend significant funds to create bike lanes at the north end of town by restructuring the median there. Um,
03:45:49.88	Mayor Cox	And rarely, I drive through town at least twice a day, every day,
03:45:54.25	Mayor Cox	And I often see bicycles riding three or four abreast and not staying within the lane. And so I question without better enforcement, how helpful creating bike lanes in this stretch would be. We need to do a better job of enforcing bikes.
03:46:13.28	Mayor Cox	um, the
03:46:14.75	Mayor Cox	laws that we have.
03:46:16.41	Mayor Cox	I said the same thing about short-term rentals.
03:46:19.60	Mayor Cox	We need to show that we can enforce it before we can adopt a change. And so I think it's important that we focus for the safety of pedestrians, residents, and bicyclists on existing bike lanes and traffic rules, including signal lights and speed limits. So, you know, I see pedestrians.
03:46:42.19	Mayor Cox	bicyclists run the light at molly stones all the time
03:46:46.88	Mayor Cox	I, um,
03:46:48.98	Mayor Cox	And I, when I'm coming down Alexander Avenue, I get past, I'm in a van.
03:46:54.73	Mayor Cox	a huge 19 foot van and I have bicyclists passing me across a double yellow line
03:47:00.82	Mayor Cox	on the left.
03:47:01.82	Mayor Cox	And so
03:47:02.98	Mayor Cox	I would like to figure out if we can find the staffing. We used to have a motorcycle cop who enforced the bicycle rules, and it made a difference back in 2016.
03:47:15.00	Mayor Cox	18, 20, 19. I'd love to see that come back. So those are my preliminary thoughts.
03:47:23.23	Unknown	Council member. Yeah, it's totally aligned. I...
03:47:28.01	Unknown	I do ride my bike a lot. And I think people, you know, clearly there is a lot of antithoppy about a history of conflict between pedestrians and bicyclists.
03:47:37.61	Unknown	As a pedestrian, I was attacked by a bicyclist.
03:47:40.66	Unknown	when I asked the bicyclist or admonished by.
03:47:43.82	Unknown	cyclists for not stopping, but I've also been
03:47:47.45	Unknown	run off the road by a car.
03:47:49.57	Unknown	So angry and bad behavior isn't the exclusive domain of any one transportation type. Uh, and.
03:47:57.34	Unknown	And I feel some of that anger here, and it seems that it
03:48:01.25	Unknown	just gets in the way of engaging with the facts that some of my colleagues are talking about. There's no need to...
03:48:07.33	Unknown	pretend that the accident data somehow isn't real to recognize that some areas both are accident challenged and
03:48:14.36	Unknown	that there's no magic wand that'll suddenly reduce it to zero, but that we should try as best we can to engage with the facts to make things safer where we can. And yeah, I'm concerned that bicycle lanes necessarily wouldn't be filled with, you know, they wouldn't just stay in their lane and I get the,
03:48:30.19	Unknown	you know, the sense of loss that a bicycle lane then
03:48:33.62	Unknown	means the bikes can be in the lane and they can be in the traffic lane both. So the amount of space for cars is less.
03:48:41.50	Unknown	At the same time, a lot of people, Bebette and McDougall mentioned it, about being stemmed to stern. You know, we've talked about, and, you know, by the way, I'll regress to say, one great safety improvement would be to actually repave the streets from Ed Hapache's house all the way to Napa Street. So that's Bridgeway. It's a pothole mess. We should, when we talk about the CIP, organize a repavement of that. But if we're going to do that, that's a great opportunity to do, Babette and McDougall said, and think STEM discern about the correct layout of crosswalks, lines, signage, and whatnot to service everybody.
03:49:14.57	Unknown	Again, I'm supporting the motion, of course, but in terms of asking for opinions, pointing the future direction that, you know,
03:49:21.85	Unknown	Thank you.
03:49:22.07	Unknown	for we should we've talked about issuing an rfp for complete streets we should include in that when we do our commitment to repave bridgeway do it thoughtfully for all the users near term
03:49:33.34	Unknown	near term, and I hope as soon as possible, we give specific. If we can't do it today, we should agendize it for the future. Give specific direction to create to prohibit
03:49:41.96	Unknown	Parking, stopping, and loading.
03:49:44.04	Unknown	including in the same medium, so it stays as emergency travel thoroughfare.
03:49:47.04	Unknown	and hence establish a loading zone.
03:49:49.34	Unknown	And as the mayor said, we should give emphasis to the police to start doing enforcement across the whole town, but in particularly in these areas that Parisi has identified as high accident areas, as councilman Hoffman said, where there are a bunch of crosswalks and bike lanes is actually the number one, uh,
03:50:07.59	Unknown	area of damage. And just yesterday, you know, I saw a woman, uh, drive down all those turn lanes speeding past the line of traffic. Uh, she deserved a ticket, not a warning.
03:50:17.91	Unknown	They stopped arresting shoplifters in San Francisco.
03:50:20.59	Unknown	and that went too far we should issue more tickets and i do want to reiterate my support of just moving straight ahead as soon as possible on the three crosswalks that are in the proposal
03:50:30.24	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you.
03:50:32.91	Councilmember Hoffman	Sure.
03:50:34.33	Councilmember Hoffman	um sorry yes so my follow-up is um no i think we should uh my point was i think before we move ahead or give direction move ahead our police chief actually said that she thinks uh especially from the june 30th 2023 memo by the way i think that we should attach that to the agenda as the next um as the next item which i think is 13. I think that would be attachment 13 on the agenda so that other people, the public can see that clearly. It is in the agenda.
03:51:05.04	Mayor Cox	because it was attached to a public comment letter.
03:51:07.96	Councilmember Hoffman	Yeah, but you can't find it. I mean, there's 300 pieces of public comments. So I think it should actually be attached as attachment 13 to the agenda or the next item on the agenda. But anyway, the police, the point of the police is that that is a safety valve and it serves a purpose. So creating a loading zone would cost $700,000 and it would take away, I think, some parking spaces. And it may actually create more problems. So my point being, I think that we need input from our public. I'm not against crosswalks, let me just say that. Let me just say that 100%. But to the point being that inserting crosswalks doesn't make places safer. And in fact, it may have an unintended consequence
03:51:49.15	Councilmember Hoffman	in some ways making it less safe and creating more congestion. So I'm just saying don't do it. I'm just saying let's make sure we're doing the right thing. And I support this, you know, putting up declining the grant because that's the recommendation of our police chief, our fire chief, and the vast majority of our public. And so anyway, that's I didn't have time to get that out.
03:52:16.59	Councilmember Hoffman	sorry and my concern I'm a biker too I regularly bike up through south on Bridgeway up through Upper Alexander and up through the headlands and my point is Upper Alexander is much rougher and there's far more accidents up there and far more greater injuries from accidents up on Upper Alexander than along that stretch of Bridgeway and so and I've talked to
03:52:41.29	Councilmember Hoffman	The bike.
03:52:42.46	Councilmember Hoffman	Coalition about this and Mr. Wells about this, that that would be and and
03:52:47.13	Councilmember Hoffman	Dr. Fox, who lives up there and was the original chair of our bike and ped committee, that if we were going to spend money on improvements for bicyclists, that would be where we would spend our money. So, anyway, that would be my recommendation for bike improvements and improvement of bike safety.
03:53:08.95	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:53:09.03	Mayor Cox	you have it.
03:53:10.50	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:53:12.86	Unknown	just wondering if uh there if i could get some feedback from fellow council members about the idea of using some of the funding for the sea level rise grant assessment to just do further research into how we might
03:53:22.60	Unknown	potentially facilitate a safer sea level rise mitigation strategy integrating a bike lane there
03:53:27.99	Unknown	Thank you.
03:53:28.09	Mayor Cox	I...
03:53:29.15	Mayor Cox	I was about to say, I endorse that.
03:53:31.80	Mayor Cox	We have $400,000 left in the grant. I would say let's spend some of that money to perform the study that was recommended by WRT.
03:53:40.81	Unknown	I agree.
03:53:42.40	Mayor Cox	Okay, I do want to sort of poll us on some of the things that have been mentioned. So I recommend that we ask staff to come back to us with a plan for...
03:53:54.48	Mayor Cox	accommodating, loading,
03:53:56.42	Mayor Cox	on the
03:53:57.85	Mayor Cox	on the sides of the street, north and south sides of the street, including possibly creating a loading zone on the north side of the street next to Trident. So I'd like to ask that staff come back to us.
03:54:10.97	Mayor Cox	with a proposal for us to consider to accomplish that.
03:54:14.83	Unknown	Mayor, one, I support that one factual piece of information that wasn't because it wasn't just didn't come up, at least in my direct conversation with David Preece the first time yesterday, one concept that's much cheaper than $700,000 curb cutout is since it is our parking lot that we lease to Trident and we are in negotiations with them about a variety of things, the loading zone can actually be on the Trident deck and not on the street.
03:54:39.13	Mayor Cox	Yeah, I'm just asking them to come back to us with a proposal. Yeah, just wanted to offer that. With options.
03:54:41.65	Unknown	Yeah.
03:54:42.25	Unknown	When it offered that for everyone's knowledge.
03:54:43.97	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:54:44.02	Unknown	Like, shit.
03:54:44.06	Mayor Cox	He mentioned that today during his presentation.
03:54:45.44	Unknown	I missed it then. Sorry.
03:54:47.18	Mayor Cox	Support me.
03:54:48.29	Mayor Cox	Okay, everybody. Okay, good. I would like to go ahead and give staff authorization to beef up the signage that says do not pass share lane do not pass.
03:55:01.22	Mayor Cox	Good, okay.
03:55:03.35	Mayor Cox	I would like the police to come back to us with a plan for better enforcement.
03:55:08.31	Mayor Cox	whatever their budget might accommodate.
03:55:11.95	Mayor Cox	Okay, I would like staff to come back to us with what lighted flashing crosswalks could look like so that we can consider it.
03:55:23.00	Unknown	On that comment, we have a specific proposal of place and design. It's in the report.
03:55:23.04	Mayor Cox	What?
03:55:28.76	Mayor Cox	I know.
03:55:29.22	Unknown	And I'm wondering...
03:55:29.79	Mayor Cox	We have a lot of resident concern expressed about those. Yeah. So I would like us to. I understand that.
03:55:33.35	Roger Taylor	Yeah.
03:55:35.46	Unknown	I understand that we're not going to act on it right now, but rather, I just make sure it's not a big grab all. Like we have specific designs and specific placements. I would support the direction to be specific and asking for approval to do those three things.
03:55:50.75	Mayor Cox	I was I was just about to say at the Golden Gate Market at the sea lion and the Trident, which are the three places.
03:55:52.11	Unknown	Okay.
03:55:52.27	Unknown	Thank you.
03:55:54.85	Unknown	Thank you.
03:55:54.86	Unknown	Yes.
03:55:56.42	Unknown	If I could just add one thing I'd really like to explore further whether a crosswalk near the Trident can be accomplished on three lanes without having to put curbs itself in the middle and the reason I say that is I frequently go to other parts of the world or.
03:56:13.56	Unknown	this country where you get to a corner and you get a green light to cross over, in some cases, six lanes of traffic without there really being, you know, they time the lights and such so that you can make it. But I guess my point is, would it be better to have flashing lights and a clearly marked crosswalk
03:56:32.87	Unknown	Thank you.
03:56:32.97	Unknown	Thank you.
03:56:33.24	Unknown	going continuously across the street, including the median, without raised curve that would then...
03:56:39.36	Unknown	have an adverse impact on the use of the media.
03:56:41.83	Mayor Cox	I think we have that discussion when it comes back to us.
03:56:44.24	Unknown	Sure. I just want it to be.
03:56:46.08	Unknown	addressed one way or the other.
03:56:47.57	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:56:47.58	Councilmember Hoffman	Thank you. Can you also?
03:56:48.75	Councilmember Hoffman	Sorry, one more thing.
03:56:50.05	Councilmember Hoffman	Can you also include in that, included with that, a congestion analysis?
03:56:55.11	Councilmember Hoffman	Because we don't have stoplights there. We only have one stoplight at Princess, and that's it when you go south, right? So the issue being, if you have people constantly in the crosswalk, and cars have to stop every time somebody's in a crosswalk, obviously—
03:57:08.76	Councilmember Hoffman	you're going to have stoppage along that
03:57:11.07	Councilmember Hoffman	that constant stoppage along that very busy corridor, so you're going to have constant congestion.
03:57:17.69	Councilmember Hoffman	as opposed to, so I mean, it's just, I'm not saying you shouldn't, obviously, you shouldn't stop when someone's in a crosswalk, but you're creating a congestion system.
03:57:26.97	Councilmember Hoffman	you know, unintended consequences, right? Like we want to understand and the flow of traffic and keep maintaining the flow of traffic along there. I'm just,
03:57:34.41	Councilmember Hoffman	I just want to make sure that we understand the flow of traffic.
03:57:37.01	Councilmember Hoffman	and not creating three new
03:57:39.66	Councilmember Hoffman	Um,
03:57:40.57	Councilmember Hoffman	Issues.
03:57:40.94	Mayor Cox	Understood. I'm not saying it would be triggered. I'm actually considering synchronized so that they are controlled by
03:57:40.96	Councilmember Hoffman	I'm not saying it's not.
03:57:49.26	Mayor Cox	like our other lights are, so that as the light turns green on Princess, that means there would be a progression of
03:57:58.98	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
03:57:59.00	Councilmember Hoffman	Something, but that was something that was lacking in this report that we received today was a congestion analysis.
03:58:02.12	Mayor Cox	Okay.
03:58:03.10	Mayor Cox	All right, I'm going to get through my list and then others can comment.
03:58:06.44	Mayor Cox	Okay. I would like to have us at a future agenda item consider restoring the ambassador program. I'd like to hear from the police on that. And I would like...
03:58:18.54	Mayor Cox	our public works director to come back to us as part of our capital improvement plan to talk about the cost of
03:58:29.44	Mayor Cox	micro ceiling
03:58:31.58	Mayor Cox	portion different portions of Bridgeway so that we can consider them. I don't know that we can undertake right away the entirety of Bridgeway, but I'd like to hear different portions for consideration. So
03:58:43.31	Mayor Cox	Do I have anybody object to any of that? No. Okay. All right. Next.
03:58:47.33	Unknown	Just I can't remember. I'm sorry. Is your, does your list include enforcing no parking in the media in the emergency medium?
03:58:55.53	Mayor Cox	pending the not until the loading zones Set up the loading zone. So for now, there's no enforcement in
03:58:58.84	Unknown	The Loki Junks.
03:59:03.66	Mayor Cox	perhaps we can consider
03:59:05.86	Mayor Cox	only allowing it
03:59:07.73	Mayor Cox	prior to 1 p.m.
03:59:08.83	Councilmember Hoffman	And can we do that after?
03:59:10.77	Councilmember Hoffman	after we have input from the South Slater Police Department.
03:59:14.26	Mayor Cox	Absolutely. We're not taking any of these actions today. I'm asking folks to come back with the
03:59:19.73	Mayor Cox	implementation plan.
03:59:21.33	Unknown	Can we add also re-striping to the best of our ability to increase safety for, and then the other thing I wanted to see addressed that we got a lot of correspondence on, I previously lived at a building that was struck by a car and that's been struck multiple times. And there had been a proposal for bollards there that was
03:59:24.84	Mayor Cox	Absolutely.
03:59:41.72	Unknown	move to be considered through this proposal and then it wasn't. And I just would like someone to look at the safety of that corner in the context of what we're doing to improve safety.
03:59:48.33	Mayor Cox	I'm happy to give direction to staff for that as well. And then also to add 20 mile per hour signs.
03:59:53.58	Unknown	Yeah. Oh, yeah.
03:59:54.25	Mayor Cox	as recommended by Mr. Parisi. Okay, anything? I'm going to go ahead and call the question, and then anybody who has anything else to offer can. All those in favor of the pending motion say aye. Aye. Aye. That motion carries unanimously. Any further direction for staff today? Yes, just on your behalf.
04:00:06.18	Unknown	Bye.
04:00:06.79	Unknown	Thank you.
04:00:07.20	Unknown	motion.
04:00:10.91	Unknown	Yes, just on your list. The one thing is...
04:00:14.79	Unknown	that as you know, we lost our insurance and we are very risk conscious. And one comment made here today was don't let the best be the enemy of the better, or the perfect be the enemy of the better. So on your list, there is of course, the danger of these things dragging with all our other priorities. So I'm wondering if you could put some deadlines, nothing clarifies the work flow as a deadline. So some deadlines on these tasks would be helpful.
04:00:19.79	Mayor Cox	Thank you.
04:00:19.97	SPEAKER_00	Thank you.
04:00:43.48	Mayor Cox	Thank you. So these are being added to the future agenda items list, and the vice mayor and I, as the agenda setting committee, will prioritize the rate at which they are brought back to us.
04:00:55.51	Unknown	I want to.
04:00:56.79	Unknown	Sorry, just to add to that very briefly, we do have capital budget deliberations coming up fairly soon.
04:01:05.50	Unknown	And some of this might happen in that context. Not all of it, but I have a sense of urgency, as I think we all do.
04:01:14.63	Mayor Cox	Thank you. And with that, I just want to say thank you again to all of the members of the public who wrote in, who attended this marathon meeting, who provided us such helpful and wide ranging feedback. It's your participation in our government that makes us do our job better and serve you better. So thank you to everyone. And also thank you to the staff who have worked around the clock.
04:01:34.93	SPEAKER_00	Mayor?
04:01:41.23	Mayor Cox	to bring this to us today as well as a full agenda next Tuesday and for really all the work liacing with our various boards and commissions to really have this heard by the widest sector of the public possible and I think the city manager wants to say something.
04:01:57.54	Unknown	Can we also thank Parisi?
04:01:59.40	Unknown	Thank you.
04:01:59.42	Mayor Cox	Yes, I'll thank our consultant as well. And he certainly went through military duty today. City manager.
04:01:59.43	Unknown	as well.
04:02:06.94	Unknown	Yes, if I may, Mayor, thank you again. So to close the loop on this, then we'll construct a letter for my signature to go to MTC, copy to TAM that the grant is being declined. That's the direction I'm hearing.
04:02:19.11	Mayor Cox	That's correct.
04:02:22.05	Mayor Cox	Okay, thank you. This meeting is adjourned.

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