October 10, 2022 — Transportation Advisory Board Regular Meeting

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[0:00] Um we are recording now. You can start, Alex. Thanks, Veronica. I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. This is the meeting for the city of Boulder Transportation Advisory Board for Monday, October tenth, two thousand and Twenty-two and Valerie as our technical host for the evening. I'll turn it over to you to go over crown rules. Why, I share screens, all right. So these are a few of our ground keeping rules. We are pleased to have you join us today? Uh, just to start off with a few rules. This meeting has been calls to conduct the business of the City of boulder activities that disrupt delay or otherwise interfere with the meeting are prohibited. The time for speaking or asking questions will be limited to three minutes. No person shall speak, except when recognized by myself. Um! Each person shall use their uh real name to uh register for the call. Any person going to be using a name other than the one they are commonly known by, will not be permitted to speak at the meeting.

[1:11] Let's see. Uh. No video will be permitted except for city officials, employees, and invited speakers and presenters. All others will participate by voice only. The person presiding at the meeting. She'll enforce these rules by meeting anyone who violates any rules. If the chat function is enabled, there is A. Q. A. And a chat feature, it will be used for individuals to communicate with myself. Uh, and these will be for technical. And on my online platform related questions only, and only the host of the individuals does. This data by myself will be able to share their screens during the meetings. Thanks, Alex. Thank you, Veronica. The second item on our agenda is the approval of the September twenty twenty-two minutes. But since we sounds like there's a little bit of a mix up, and we just got those i'm gonna propose that we hold off on reviewing those, and we can approve them with our minutes from this meeting. A a month from now

[2:09] there are no objections. Well table those for the time being and move on to agenda. Item three, which i'm sure some unfortunate news that we've seen on in the paper or various other outlets, that there was a a fatality on Broadway. Um, yeah, Your intersection of we hill Um, I don't have any information on what I've seen in the paper, so it's not that you could share what what you might know. Yeah, thanks, Alex, and it's unfortunate. But this is the way we have to start our meeting. Um, so. Yes, Alex, said Ryan. Begonus um. He was riding his motorcycle at Broadway and Lee Hill, and he was hit by a bus driver. Um, this is back in the middle of September. I think. September fourteenth. Um. And he died, I think, about a day later

[3:04] from the injuries that he sustained. Um, I don't have further details from from the investigation. Um, but I just wanted to acknowledge You know we um. Some folks in the meeting tonight might be kind of new to the boulder transportation arena, I know, like Brad, who i'll introduce next. He's with us today, and so I think it's just worth kind of calling out the um for those that are new to our meetings. And just this um the the work that we're doing, we're making it a practice to acknowledge when people die on our streets because we're a vision, Zero city and vision. Zero starts with the ethical belief that everyone has the right to move safely in our community. Um! And with the work that we're doing like can by investing in safer streets. Or hope is that the inevitable mistakes that people will make on our roads will result in a serious crashes and no fatalities. So um you know, we'll continue to to just make that a point, and and hopefully it's less and less so. Um!

[4:09] But I did just wanna acknowledge that um. And and happy to take any questions if I can answer anything, though I I don't have a whole lot uh more information at this time. Thanks, Natalie, for sharing what you can. This is a somber reminder of how far we have to go. Um. We had several of these meetings started off last year with on this sort of note, and a a reminder of how dangerous our materials are, and i'm glad that I think it's what we've pivoted in the last year. And hopefully with that pivot we're able to address our dangerous streets like Broadway. Anything else from members of Tab open comment or questions for Natalie I have one question which is um kind of for is this the first fatality

[5:04] within the city this year. No, it is not okay. I wasn't sure no. And um, I think devin is here. Devin may have the exact statistic, but I I didn't ask him before, and so I don't want to put him on the spot, but then feel free. If you do have that information. You're welcome to share it, Natalie. I believe It's twelve. Oh, okay, Thank you. Any in Boulder County or the City of Boulder in Boulder Boulder city of Folder. The new boulder. Wow! Sounds high. Let me double check if it's county, but um! So for the city of Boulder, from January only to September fifteenth we have had no fatality, so that would be the our first fatality within the city. Oh, okay, okay, hold on.

[6:01] It must be Boulder County. I thought there was a signal driver. Um foothills highway um like on the on ramp around Twenty Eighth Street. In any event, Becky, we're not sure, thank you, Becky. I guess this is a good example of um What she raised at the retreat about transparency and data, and having um our crash data publicly available as because early it's immediately possible. Um, we help to clarify things like this. Yeah, that's that's helpful thanks for the reminder on that, Alex. I'm Becky all right. With that we'll go ahead and move forward to agenda topic, for which is a an introduction of our new planning and development services. Director Brad Mueller. Yes, thank you, and thanks, Brad, for being here. I'll just hand it straight over to you. But um, I he can give his own introduction. Brad is the Director of planning Development Services, and i'll hand it over. Thanks, Brad.

[7:13] Um, You know one of the things that's really um made a profound impact on me is just in the warmth of everybody's welcome and accommodating of all my questions. And and you know the uh uh, in variable ignorance that comes with being being the new person I've been here now for, uh welcome from everybody from um, Alex, if we have enough time, i'm happy to give a little bit about my background. I want to be respectful of um Tabs time, though, so help help me understand how much time you'd like me to spend. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. Appreciate any any thoughts on your background, and how you think that uh

[8:10] transportation and planning can work together, moving forward, and and how how tab can be of of service to not just transportation mobility, but planning as well. Yeah. Well, I I appreciate that, Alex. So um, you know, just to speak to that uh point of the relationship, planning and transportation, learning of the history of modern land use, planning, uh and and modern mobility uh technology of the importance of land use and transportation. Um. One of the early lessons, of course, learned in the nineteen fifties, sixties, and seventies, is at the time. If you built a a highway it was a built up, and they will come, and highways would get stripped out as a matter of course, and we know now, as uh both transportation and land use planners, that

[9:09] there's a better pattern uh to be sort of creating activity centers, for example, then, uh left for, uh, uh, First we were not in planning and in Florida, and then went to grad school in uh New York, and ever since then I've worked up and down the front range

[10:02] first in Douglas County, which at the time was the fastest growing county in the Us. So lots and lots of decisions to be made. Um, but a lot of preservation at the time to the open space program had uh which was modeled. If you're not aware of um folders uh boulder set evil in their counties. Open space programs uh kicked off around that time. And um. So there were these dual mandates of um developing open space and and preservation. Well, at the same time. Um, having uh directed urban development to predetermined urban urban centers. So a lot of work on both the Uh Macro regional level as well as local level Um, including other forms of transportation uh lots of site plans and and flat reviews for connectivity of trails, and and uh, the development of

[11:05] extension of to T. Rex extension of light rails, stations, or light rail line, rather to a couple of stations in Douglas County and transit or in developments uh so just a great learning opportunity uh for about a a decade or so up and really for that and um. And again I just really appreciate the opportunity to um return home in a lot of ways since I went to school here. Uh there's a lot that's familiar, and a lot that's changed, of course, over the years as well. I'll share with you the five goals that I've had for the first six months um, and share with lots of different groups at this point. The first one is to listen

[12:04] because I recognize there is an awful lot to to learn a lot to uh, understand uh, lots of different perspectives. And so listening has been uh goal. Number one is that started uh gold Number two is to build relationships. And so I just like yourself and members of the community. So I've had a fair number of people reach out, and um My third goal is to um try to um recruit and fill all of our vacancies and and support staff and staffing efforts. Uh, that has a huge impact on our operations as uh

[13:12] a tough order in this uh current environment. To the world, lots of vacancies and lots of organizations. Uh fourth goal is to um develop, and and uh discovered the latest version of my management team within the department, so that we can be successful. And um um, I have had opportunity to

[14:05] um advisors to the city and official board as part of the city system. And, uh, I appreciate you appreciate the opportunity to I get to know you and to sit in on one of your readings, and i'll we're a lab right? Thanks for joining us tonight. Um! Anyone from Tab have any any questions for. Thanks, Brett. I think you just um answered it. Uh nice to see you again. I met you last week. Um, but my my my main question was, Will you be able to stay on um through through toward the later part of the evening? Because we do intend to talk about um grand View and the Ceo uh hotel and uh Conference Center, and uh I I it's hard for tab to um

[15:03] inform Staff. So while you're here i'm just hoping you'll be able to hang out and listen to. We have no particular um task, and we're not gonna, you know, Have a public hearing or anything but to hear the discussion of where we're coming from, and concerns, I think, would be helpful. It would be a more direct way for us to, uh, you know. Let you know what we're thinking. Yeah, no, um. My intent was to stay through the meeting. It's. It's a good opportunity for me to. I understand the work you all do, and if you start pushing on one o'clock I may have to know. Oh, no, we won't do that to you. But uh, that's that's good to hear. Thank you so much. Nice to see you again. Maybe a a comment and a question. Um, it's good to meet you really glad to have you here. Um, I think you have a very enthusiastic board here on the just the subject of land Use

[16:03] as a role. I'm creating multimodal, livable, humane transportation. And it's it's great great to have you part of this dialogue, and i'm glad you can face a visit um. I, My dream is is uh you, and the and and Natalie and John from the climate uh department. Go to city Council, and you say Ipcc tells us. Ipcc tells us that we have uh to get a compact development in order, and Um Boulder has to do this more than other cities for a whole bunch of reasons. Here's all the important things that council as you to let let us make that happen. So, Anyway, i'm just um. That's my dream. But here's my question, and maybe you don't have to answer right now. But to think about um. Our It City code says that uh the job of Tab is to advise council to Guys, the city manager and to advise the planning board, and I think we've maybe had a meeting with planning board Um, and I would be interested just to think, if you have ideas on ways in which we can um better engage, or more fully engage with um with planning work. So you don't want to pass that on spot. But just as as we go along we love to think about how we can better engage with your apparatus.

[17:14] Yeah, it's nice to meet you, Ryan, and and thanks for those thoughts. And and that question Um, I think you know, consistent with my goal of listening. It would be premature for me to offer up opinions about things they don't have a very, you know, full grasp about yet. But uh, clearly. The partnerships uh between staff are really important between boards. We all, you know, at the end of the day are on the same team, so to speak um, representing the citizens of of Boulder and um a lot of that uh success comes from uh good communication and coordination, so I can't imagine you know it being otherwise.

[18:01] Thanks anything else for Brad. Alright. Thanks for joining us again. I I will be listening yet. Thanks. Awesome. Uh With that we'll move to agenda. Item five, which is public comments hopefully. People attending the meeting, if they're interested in speaking to the board on on a transportation matter can use the raise hands, toll on C Supreme Being able to raise her hand. Um feel free to message the uh assistance. If you can't raise your hand, and i'll turn it over to uh Veronica uh to host this public concrete, and you can begin speaking. I'm just gonna try to find that timer.

[19:07] Are you able to speak. Hello! Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Um, yeah. I was checking um. I A Lexi also would have raised his hand, so I don't know if he can do that. Um. So a quickly. I'm super from committee cycles, and just wanted to discuss a few things with the give you a little bit of background for what we've been working on with the C You Conference Center and the crossing at Grand View. Um, um! I have spoken with some of you. I probably emailed most of you um separately. But uh, just to provide a little bit of background for that talk, and i'll stay on the call in case you have additional questions. When you get to that point, that committee cycles can answer um so quick background, you know. See a conference I is proposing crossing at Grand You, which we do as dangerous. There's a number of movements in that crossing that. Um! All. All of them have dangerous issues with them.

[20:07] On this the the developer, which is a limelight uh a part of Aspen Skiing Company. They submit a new traffic study to Brad's group, and um! My understanding is now. There's thirty days to move on that in order to issue a right of weight, permit so well a little bit more clarification on that. Um. The second traffic study once again does not even mention bicycle, some pedestrians, and it really um it doesn't make any other recommendations other than the original uh the original traffic study. So there's not much improvement there. Um! We were out there today doing some measurements, and we're finding some issues with the Dcs compliance. And um! That is important, because Council is telling us that the city attorney's office is saying that as long as it meets Dcs they can't do anything about it. We'd been trying to get the city's attorney's office to answer us

[21:08] uh but have not gotten through the city's attorney's office to get back in touch with us. Um! We'll keep trying on that. Um. It could be noted that community cycles has been asking for a revision of this Uh. Dcs. Since two thousand and fifteen. Just exactly for this reason, because dangerous project projects keep going in, and Council washes their hands of it, saying it meets the Dcs. While the Dcs. Is dangerous. So we're building dangerous things. Um, We're looking forward to a meeting on Friday with Uh. Brad and Natalie and hopefully a number of members of their staff. We've asked for more people on their staff than just their traditional um to transportation planners that are on um on on plane development services staff, because we've had a lot of issues then with them in the past of them, really not thinking outside the box and um kind of ignoring us is. We see the Dcs uh

[22:08] discussion and um, and today we had some good other ways of looking at this, so I hope we have enough time to do that with this submittal being thirty days for the right away. Permit Um, and I know this is a lot. So. Um, this stop here. But um well, i'll stick around if if anybody needs me. Thank you. Thanks, Sue. Alexi Davies. Okay, Lexi, let me know if you are able to seek.

[23:05] It looks like he has logged out. Wait no! Do you hear me? Oh, yes, perfect! And now I see i'm here. Great um Alexei Davies Community cycles, I'm. Also speaking on Brand-new and the Cu. Conference center that's, coming in, particularly the dangers of Broadway south but Brown traffic turning left prostitute lands of traffic and the moldom like this path. Again, as you mentioned the Revised. If you study, does not even mention bicycles, you see the latest letter that we receive. Safety does not appear to be a concern. We're South Pound left turning vehicles onto Grand View. I have one question for staff on Boulder Revised code, for right away permits Section eight, D. Five, One A. Includes the words ensuring that the public safety is maintained. I'd like to understand if this applies to this project,

[24:11] and how is safety maintained? Determined without some sort of safety study? Thank you, Thanks, Lexi. Is there anyone else here to speak during public comments. No, go ahead and close public comment, and i'll welcome, mum. When would you be able to confirm? You are able to unmute? Yeah, I was wondering what um Brad did in Florida. I think it was religion, if if it's, if what I've heard from around town that was his subject. But he he doesn't have to be shy, except that we certainly can't pray for

[25:03] for a tab to do the right thing, and i'm sure that guy on the bicycle was not um in a situation, and being able to pray um that with the bus on the motorcycle um, And why, Natalie, is there nothing on that fatality in a month. Why, don't we know anything now? I have to walk around scared to death of buses. I'm. You know i'm scared enough of enough things. I only ride my bike. I drive my car every six months or so once, and so i'd like to know exactly what happened, and it seems like this, is It's like the Marshall fire. A year later we don't know, but this is a fatality we should know. Um. Oh, I guess this person says he was a musician. That's great good background. Um, let me see. So his comment build it, and they will come is

[26:01] is very striking because i'd like to see Tab as excel. She is on planning board, and Osbt and wra because these are the boards that legislate see you south and the impact on our community from Seed South is going to be phenomenal. It's going to be the end of boulder, as you have ever known it in a big way um like the Hill Hotel and the um the Hill hotel across the street from the Hill Hotel and um, and the depletion of services in Boulder. All of these things dramatically affect you as the tab driving my bike around and wanting to get around quickly on my bike, and the the longest thing for me is waiting through red lights, lights and lights and lights, and backed up traffic everywhere, and worse and worse, back up

[27:01] and um I'd like to see some automation of signaling in intersections that when everybody's just stopped, people are allowed through, You know, when i'm coming home to my place on doing six. I'm going south on nine or north, north on nine, and there's uh um, hey? Oh, wait! Excuse me. No uh Broadway um before Alpine going north on Broadway. There's uh you can push a button, and it'll let you through so I could have run through and run a light and just run because there were no cars there tonight. But instead I pushed the light I ran through long before the light even activated, and about ten cars were backed up idle behind for nothing, you know, and i'm concerned about climate change with cars sitting there idling for no reason. So if it costs something, let's get the money, and you know where the money is. With the developers

[28:05] impact these one hundred and twenty dollars per square foot, and we're only they're only paying thirty dollars per support, but they should be paying the true impact of their growth a hundred and twenty done. Lin appreciate you joining us tonight, and I think we're all curious about what happened on the Broadway crash, and we'll respect the investigation That's uh it's underway and look forward to hearing what all happened there. Uh, i'm not seeing any more hands, so i'll give Natalie an opportunity to respond to any of the public comment. If you're interested in doing so I don't think I have anything right now. Alex. Okay, I'm: Sure, we'll go back to these topics later. Okay, Um. We are joined tonight next for agenda. Item six by the Community Vitality Department to hold a public hearing on the residential access management program or ramp performance based pricing and trailhead access management. Um, or

[29:08] we will start with a presentation from staff, and then members of the Board will have an opportunity to ask questions, and then at that point we'll open it up for a public comment where any members of the public get interested in speaking on the matter. We'll have three minutes to speak, and then from there to tab will begin our deliberations. I see Chris is unmuted, and also welcome. Samantha. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Hi. Everyone Chris Jones, interim Director of community vitality. Glad to be here this evening. I'm: not again. Yeah. I'm joined by Sam Bromberg uh uh those of you that were on Tab last year will recall that Chris Haglin and I came to you um about this time last year to present the results from our uh work with Walker consultants on uh the Amps implementation. Uh, we presented to you the two preferred strategies for um uh parking management and neighborhood access management. So we had our performance based pricing strategy

[30:09] mit Ctl. And and our uh priority-based neighborhood access management, which is now been uh redubbed in the the memo as residential access management program um, and in the implementation of those strategies we committed to hiring an access coordinator, one hundred and fifty um a fixed term position, beginning at the in two thousand and twenty-two, through the end of two thousand and twenty-four. And so we hired Sam uh to implement the work plan that we described to you uh last year, And so now we just wanted to take the opportunity to update you on all the progress Sam has been making with the Cross departmental team on those two key strategies to also provide an update just on on the other changes that we made at the beginning of this year, and parking and access management. But again, yeah, just looking forward to the opportunity this evening to update you on all the great work that's been done. Um, since Sam joined community vitality, and then an update on on next steps. And what we're anticipating uh in the work in two thousand and twenty-three. So with that happy to hand it over to Sam.

[31:16] Thank you. Chris. Um, I'll just share my screen and hope I can present here we go. Can everyone see that? All right? Okay? Great. So as you'll remember from August. My name is Samantha Bromberg. I'm with community vitality, and i'm here to give you an update on the progress that's been made so far on performance-based pricing and the residential access management program or ramp um quick agenda of my presentation. Today i'll refresh your memory with a little bit of background on um What is come before the State? Uh, we'll talk about performance based pricing and some recommended changes. We'll talk about the work that's been done on the residential access management program or ramp.

[32:04] We'll talk about a new work group, trail access management, and then we'll discuss next steps, and we'll have a couple of questions for the board. So just a little refresher on what amps is. Um. These are some of the current and ongoing Amps initiatives outlined by the original guiding document. Um, As a reminder camp was one of the first action items that emerge from the work. We'll be talking about parking, pricing strategy and residential access management today, which are two and three, so to build on the original amps work and the areas that were identified for change in that original guiding document, the City of Boulders Community vitality and transportation Mobility Staff started the revitalizing access and Boulder Project in two thousand and nineteen. As Chris mentioned earlier, the project set out to rework the city's parking products, including the existing neighborhood parking, permit program and paid parking in our commercial districts to better reflect those Am. The amps vision.

[33:11] The community played an integral role in developing and refining strategies for parking, pricing, and permitting through a variety of engagement methods between polls and questionnaires, meeting with community organizations, boards, and commissions, over eight thousand seven hundred members of the broad boulder community, with many varying viewpoints participated in the process. Ultimately three strategies emerged as the best way to reflect the amps vision and goals, and these are those three strategies Um Performance-based pricing was one graduated, and safety mobility fines. The second and the last was priority based neighborhood access management. In January of this year the first steps were taken towards implementation of performance based pricing and graduated and safety mobility fines were fully implemented today. We'll be talking about the next steps uh for performance-based pricing, and also the beginning of the implementation of priority-based neighborhood access management. The strategy which was the basis for the new residential access management program or ramp

[34:15] so performance based pricing performance, based pricing entails, looking at the existing supply and demand of on street parking and adjusting pricing accordingly to better distribute parking across the available space by pricing the in demand blocks higher. We can encourage turnover and reduce cruising behavior of vehicles looking for parking. The intent is to provide a suite of parking options to the community. So each Parker can prioritize parking, price, location and availability based on their unique needs and resources. This strategy relies on key performance indicators to reflect parking behaviors and adjust pricing as a reaction to those parking demands and implementation of performance based pricing is expected to reduce overall, Vmt. And Boulder. That's uh vehicles. Mile vehicle miles traveled uh support increases in transit usage increase Tdm investment and access for active transportation modes like walking and biking on high Demand streets.

[35:12] This slide shows an excerpt from the new city manager rule which introduces the regulations for performance-based pricing rates will be in uh adjusted annually in fifty cent increments based on measured occupancy levels based on the initial results staff have determined that the downtown area is stable enough to implement performance-based pricing, but due to changes in land use and ongoing construction in both boulder junction and university hill areas, and the readily available free parking nearby staff do not recommend implementing performance based pricing until they are is stabilizing, can be addressed with a more holistic management approach. So let's take a look at downtown boulder for performance-based pricing in the downtown area. We examine data from the historic historically busiest months of April through August, using transactional data from two thousand and twenty-two.

[36:08] The map indicates those blocks where peak occupancy was above eighty-five percent in red and Those were peak occupancy was below sixty percent in blue the temporary outdoor dining expansions from April to August of two thousand and twenty-two are indicated in yellow, and those blocks which fell within the target range of sixty to eighty-five, and do not require any changes to price or indicated in gray. The highest utilized blocks and surface lots are red, and those will increase in price by fifty percent five sorry fifty cents per hour, while those lowest utilize blocks that are in blue will decrease by fifty cents per hour. You'll notice that parking utilization data is missing from the two blocks of Pearl Street between Ninth and eleven streets due to the temporary closures. Historical data indicates that those blocks are typically highly utilized, and as such city staff recommend that those be considered for an increase.

[37:05] Additionally, there's utilization data missing for city employees who are permitted to park for free, and the municipal lots between Canyon and Arapaho through December of this year, although the map indicates that utilization for those lots is below sixty, it is likely that the actual number is higher. Staff recommend no price changes to those lots until feature data can be collected. Lastly, the one thousand four hundred block of walnut on the north side of the Rtd. Station downtown is missing data from a coin meter head that was removed during the study Period Staff recommend no price. Change that block until future data can be collected. So we'll take a look at University Hill. These are the results. Um. We examine data from the historically busiest months which are during the fall. We use transactional data. From September of this year we found that peak parking utilization and the paid areas is much lower than expected. However, when looked at in connection with the data collected on nearby blocks, it becomes clear that occupancy on the nearby time, limited and free blocks is much higher.

[38:12] When the current construction projects are factored in with their impacts to parking and access in the district, it is clear that the data is not support implementing changes to pricing at this time for University Hill. And here's Boulder Junction, uh, when examining the data from Boulder Junction stuff and occupancy rates much lower than we expected, which we believe are due to low compliance through the issues of signage and ongoing construction in the district. Initial results indicate that paid parking utilization across the district, peaked at just over forty at noon. During the study period of April, through October of this year, so i'll move on to talk a little bit about Ram in a broad push to take an active approach to managing, parking, and mobility behavior. The residential access management program or ramp was introduced to the revitalizing access and boulder work to build and expand upon the existing neighborhood parking permit program

[39:15] ramp like performance based pricing, takes a data-driven approach to manage parking in our residential neighborhoods. It is built on an annual assessment of the entire city based on key metrics, such as parking, occupancy, high trip, generating land use and resident or staff identified areas of interest. The goal is for the program to be more responsive to the individual needs of each neighborhood or area as opposed to the previous one. Size fits all approach of managed parking. Over the past year staff have been busy building the ramp program from the ground up, starting with the parking management strategies which can be utilized under ramp and the annual city-wide assessment. So these are a couple of the strategies that we can uh use under that under ramp,

[40:02] and these are a little bit different from the Mpp. Before, which was just the neighborhood parking permits with time limits, staff collected parking occupancy data from thirty-eight unique study areas containing over one thousand block faces. This being a new program and having never conducted data collection on the scale, Staff turned to a consultant for help with the data analysis, to understand the trends of parking occupancy. The data was analyzed by season, Dave week and time of day, resulting in twelve categories. In each category the maps display the peak or highest observed occupancy. These occupancy trends will help staff, and the public understand when these areas are most utilized. The end result is a tremendous amount of data from which will help inform decision making and help staff track occupancy trends over the years to come.

[41:01] And this slide shows the data that we used to present, and on the right is the new map of the data that we collected this year. So we've been able to do a lot. Staff have only just begun to study the results from this first year of data collection, but found that overall the existing Npp's assistant keeping parking utilization below eighty five percent in the managed zones. Most of them are actually below sixty. Certain blocks within existing Mps have a peak utilization above eighty-five, mostly in the transitional areas, such as the residential blocks surrounding the downtown. These high occupancy areas will continue to be flagged as priority a to determine if additional management strategies are needed. Staff also noted that the blocks just surrounding several of the existing Mps were flagged as being highly utilized, and indicate that several existing Mps may need to have their current boundaries evaluated to determine if any changes are recommended.

[42:06] So we'll take a look at some of the results from the existing neighborhood, parking, permit zones and their surrounding blocks. Um! Full maps were attached to the memo, so that you can get it more in depth. But this is just to give a high level overview. Here is a sample of the results from the current Whittier, Npp. Zone, from a typical summer weekday between three and nine Pm. Note that overall. The parking occupancy is between fifty to seventy, which is in the optimal range, but that some of the blocks closer to downtown have a much higher occupancy, and might benefit from additional parking management strategies. We can see here on the unmanaged blocks that are just outside the current, what your Npp. These blocks are just east of the zone boundaries. These results are from summer weekdays. Between five and eleven Am. We can see that there is parking spill over in on several of these blocks,

[43:10] and this data suggests that we should take a closer look at this area, including expanding the scope of study to additional nearby blocks to see if the boundaries of the existing zone Um may need to be changed Next, we'll look at a couple of the blocks surrounding the general improvement districts. So here are a couple of the blocks that we studied around the existing uh downtown or Cajun district. Um. Note that most, not most many of the blocks surrounding the existing district are already in Npps. These are a few that are not in Mpp's. Um. Not all of these blocks are entirely residential um, and some of these blocks are currently time-limited parking.

[44:02] Um, but they're not paid parking at this time. Here are the blocks surrounding the paid parking and the university hill area. The high occupancy helps explain why some of the paid parking blocks have much lower occupancy than the nearby free ones, or time-limited ones that um peaked at over eighty-five percent. And this is a summer week day. So school is not in session at this. Time. Here are some of the unmanaged blocks in the Boulder Junction area, butting the paid parking blocks So again high occupancy near where the paid parking blocks are, and we'll take a look at some resident petitioned expansions next. So the original Npp program assessed the need for new Npp. Zones and extensions of the existing zones, based solely through the process of resident petition under ramp residents can still request that their neighborhoods be studied for possible inclusion in a new or existing Npp.

[45:11] Blocks identified through the petition process are automatically prioritized for study to determine whether parking mitigation may be necessary between the years of two thousand and nineteen and two thousand and twenty-two. While the city was developing ramp, three separate resident petitions were received for Npp. Expansions. The petitioned expansions include a one block addition to the University, hill and Pp. A one block addition to the Mapleton Mpp. And a sixteen block addition to the East Aurora and Pp. Following of the results from these three petitioned expansion areas. So this is uh, and a petition expansion to the Mapleton, Npp. We found for this petition block of the two thousand four hundred. It's two thousand Four Hundred Ninth Street uh the block does not meet the Kpis to be considered for inclusion in the zone peak occupancy, for this one block was recorded at fifty-seven during the fall to spring period of weekday mornings, between five and eleven Am.

[46:10] Well visitors did consist of over twenty-five of parked vehicles, observed the peak. Absurd occupancy does not qualify this for inclusion into an Mpp for the petitioned seven hundred through eight hundred blocks of Thirty-first through Thirty Eighth Street, and this is for an expansion to East Aurora. We found Peak occupancy during the fall to spring weekdays uh, during the hours of eleven to eleven am to three Pm. And aggregated across all of those blocks. It was at fifty-seven percent. But you can see that some blocks peaked at over eighty-five, while others were below fifty percent visitation to the area accounted for. Twenty Four percent of all park vehicles which is just below this recommended twenty, five percent

[47:01] um, because some of those blocks are extremely parked up and others are a little bit less. The data does suggest that this area would benefit from managed parking. And here's the third petitioned expansion. This is Um. Eight Hundred Eleventh Street, um Peak. Occupancy occurred uh during fall to spring weekday evenings between three and nine Pm. And was observed to eighty-three percent. It's important to note that the petition received for the expansion was solely for the west side of the block, not the East Side, and was signed by nine residents of five households out of the seven households that are on that block face staff determine that visitation consisted of twenty-two of the occupancy, but of note on this block on the corner um of eight Hundred Eleventh Street is a long-term rental with forty rooming units

[48:01] This data suggests that, although measured occupancy levels are high managing parking on this block may not reduce the demand for the available parking due to the high residential use. So what is next for ramp now that we have our initial results in staff can deprioritize certain areas that fell within the optimal occupancy threshold and focus in on the areas that fill outside of those optimal thresholds. The next steps will involve expanding the scope of the areas of interest to understand where the boundaries are, and what possible solutions should be recommended. Staff expect this next stage of work to take place over the next several months, and plan to return to boards with recommendations on those areas of interest next year. And so i'll talk a little bit now about trail access management and the annual city-wide study ramp aims to identify high trip generating public and community uses of budding or chasing two residential areas, such as open space access points and troll heads which can create parking impacts to adjacent residential blocks.

[49:07] Historically, most neighborhood parking permit zones have been near traffic, generating destinations such as downtown that already offer alternative modes of arrival beyond the personal vehicle. As ramp expands its approach to look at Access City wide, the neighborhood adjacent to highly utilized Os and P. Land should be studied, since many of us and P trail areas do not have access options beyond the personal vehicle, it would be Os Andp visitors that would feel the impacts of any parking management implemented in those areas as public use. Lands require special care. Community vitality cannot operate without the involvement of osmp as well as transportation and mobility staff who bring relevant subject matter expertise the table similar to the camp pilot which brought together multiple departments to implement a project that accounted for parking management and public access. Staff recommends the formation of a Troll access management work group. It can capitalize on the momentum from the upcoming camp evaluation to create a strategic plan and framework to guide future implementation and parking management and tedium strategies for impacted neighborhoods. Nero and Patrell areas

[50:10] in two thousand and twenty-two Osmp staff helped identify a list of eight trail heads and access point areas based on visitation and motive arrival data within walking distance to residential neighborhoods and city limits. These staff identified locations were included in a preliminary ramp study to determine whether there are significant parking impacts on the surrounding neighborhoods overall the initial results rate most trail access areas with lower optimal parking utilization. By creating this inner departmental work group we can further study these results, understand what other relevant studies or data should be accounted for and studying these trail areas as well as factor and community concerns frequently heard from some of these areas. Here is a sample of the results from the Shanahan Ridge trail area from summer weekends between eleven Am. And three Pm. The occupancy levels we are looking at are the peak or highest observed during the time period. We can see that some blocks have high have parking occupancy, and the higher ranges of seventy to eighty-five percent, with one block coming in at over eighty-five percent occupied,

[51:11] and some blocks have occupancy ranges. Less than fifty percent. You'll notice that we separate out each side of the street, as there is different parking availability on either side of any street averaged together all the blocks in the study areas less than fifty percent. Here we can see the Sine just in decoder ridge areas. There are ten access points in addition to the Centennial Trail head which services area overall occupancy levels are between fifty to seventy at Peak, observed Times. The certain blocks are much higher than others, especially those closest to the Centennial Trail Head, the recently published Osmp phase, One and two parking studies identified Setennial trailhead as having the second highest relative average percentage occupancy of all trail head lots, with only Chatauqua having higher occupancy based on its capacity.

[52:02] The study found that fifty-seven percent of vehicles that entered the lot were turned away during peak periods. The Chak. What area remains. One of the highly you highest utilized areas and data collected will also help them form the camp evaluation being kicked off later this year by the transportation and mobility department. So next steps for trail access management. So any locations have already been identified and studied this year. The indicator you see on the road shows where we are. In this process the final evaluation of the camp pilot is slated. To kick off this full. The work group will start by determining the appropriate path forward, including what, if any community outreach should be conducted, and where additional study may be necessary, then you can see. Camp evaluation should be wrapping up by the fall of two thousand and twenty-three, and the lessons learned from that pilot can help inform how we scale down effective management solutions to the less impacted areas.

[53:07] The trail access management work group will then develop. The recommended strategy and framework for addressing trailer is spill over into the residential areas based on measured impacts, and it'll be in the summer sometime between summer and fall of next year. That will be soliciting input from boards and commissions and providing an update on this work. And here's our overall roadmap um for for amps related to the community vitality work. Um right now we're in the process of developing a communications plan to inform the public of the upcoming changes uh the Camp Pilot evaluation will be kicked off this fall by the transportation and mobility department, as I mentioned, following the previous recommendations of the revitalizing access and boulder work, the cost for residential parking permits will increase again, starting in two thousand and twenty-three at that time. We'll also have discounted permits available for income qualified residents.

[54:03] The troll access management work group plans um begins planning out the year to come. Performance-based pricing is implemented downtown and data continues to be collected for the University Hill and Boulder Junction area and new and existing areas continue to be studied for ramp to determine where boundaries need adjusting and what management strategies should be implemented. So now i'll open it up for questions, and I have a couple of questions that i'd like to ask the Board specifically. Those tab have any questions on recommended performance based pricing changes. Does tab you have any questions about the proposed next steps for ramp and the Associated trail access management work group and does tab support staffs continued work to develop access management strategies for the East Aurora neighborhood, and i'm happy to go back to any slide as needed.

[55:01] Thanks, Samantha. Thank you. Anyone on tab have any questions. The he um take. Sam. Yeah, really appreciate how the thorough all of this is to what I have a lot of moving parts. Um, I have a couple of questions. Um! They didn't come up explicitly in the slide, so they were in the memo, so I don't know if they they're still for you or for somebody else. Um, but awesome, and you can let me know um. One of my questions was about um the cost recovery Aspect of the I think of the neighborhood parking program. Um, and I understand that it wasn't covering its cost. And and so the parking permit. Prices have been raised like i'm wondering. Is it getting to that point of cost, recovery, or kind of where that stands right now? We're still working towards cost recovery at this time, so we'll hopefully have a little bit more information for you next year. But uh looking at the numbers this year, we weren't uh quite there with the increase um yet. But

[56:12] we're still doing some evaluation in that regard, and just to chime in on that. So the strategy that was presented to Tab planning board the Community and Council last year was increasing uh residential parking permits by ten dollars uh per year per permit Um! For the next several years until we can get to cost recovery. Um! There's also an increase for the commuter uh permit as well. That's baked in every year over time until we can get to that cost recovery, and so we'll continue to evaluate Um uh, as the program is evolving and changing. Of course, if we're going to explore, creating a new or or expanded Mpp. And East Aurora. That, therefore, will increase the program expenses.

[57:03] Um. And so it's just something we need to continue to monitor um, and we will report back um next year. Got it? Okay? Thank you. Um, that's helpful. I mean, I know I like a little. I have knowledge from from last year. So thanks for I And another question I had on: this is um um regarding the racial equity instrument outcomes person. Um, it said that you know, through the instrument staff determine the program has more benefits for resonant permit holders than for the broader community visitors and workers um, and I I guess i'm a little. I'm curious kind of if there's um there any additional detail on what? How that determination was made, or what aspects of it kind of create that imbalance. Um, and then related to that. Um, there's the mention of exploring a transportation wallet is like an additional part of the program, and I guess i'm wondering. I mean, I assume that will have additional costs. And will the creation of that option like? Add me, we're investing more

[58:12] in something that disproportionately benefits certain communities. Um! So some you know, like that we're kind of having the entire city contributing more to a program that already disproportionately benefits certain communities. Um, So it's kind of trying to think through that and levity through context. There. Yeah, I can try and take a stab at this, and then Chris can fill in any gaps as well. I will say that the the original program was created specifically for spill over into residential areas. So the intent of of ramp is really to manage parking for the the neighbor, The neighborhoods, those residents who live there. So that is kind of the intention of it as it stands. The idea of managed parking is that there are benefits for all the users of the curve, because it does create a safer environment. Um. But ultimately

[59:05] that was a determination of putting it through the racial equity instrument was those those people who have a car and want to store it on the street and can participate in this program, are going to benefit the most from it. Um! And so we're. It's just a helpful tool for us to be able to kind of zoom out and look at the program and see what changes can we make to make this more inclusive to provide more benefits for more community members. So that's really the intention of putting it through that racial equity instrument. See how we can move the needle closer to um, making program better for for for all residents and visitors as well. And Chris: Yeah, go ahead, Chris. You're muted. Sorry I hit the button, but it did not actually so, Sam, Could you elaborate on the uh discount program as well? Because that's a new development in the program this year, and and Becky and I also appreciate that a lot of this is catch up uh for you and the the other

[60:11] component of your first question around cost. Recovery is after we've raised prices annually over time. Once once we are generating uh more revenue that it's costing us to operate the program. The conversation. Isn't: Then okay, we're going to stop raising prices. It's now that as we have a program surplus um. Do we want to use those resources to provide Tdm benefits to participants, The residents of the neighborhoods that are um participating in a residential access management program. So it's trying to create that virtuous cycle of Yes, collecting revenue from the folks who are parking on the street. Um! And then using those revenues to prevent, create Tdm benefits for folks who who uh might uh better be able to utilize those instead. Okay, So I So I understand it. Then something like an investment in transportation wallet option would would be given additional resources from the surplus and the money going into it correct. It wouldn't be a general fund subsidy to to the benefit. It wouldn't be the whole entire city paying for the Tdm. Wallet for Mps. It would be based on parking uh permit revenues,

[61:21] and then back over to Sam on the discounts for qualified residents. Yeah. And And i'll just also say that as a a program like a transportation wallet pilot would also benefit those um residents of Npp. Neighborhoods that don't have a personal vehicle. Um. So that's just one way that we can, you know, provide additional benefits for for people who live in those neighborhoods. So that's why we're interested in exploring the idea. Um! And then in terms of the discounted permit that was raised by council last year, as they'd like to see an option for income qualified individuals to be able to get some kind of um break on the cost for the residential parking permit if they do need one if they live in an Mpp. So that's something that we've written into the recently updated City manager rule and will be rolling out um along with that price increase, so that we don't um

[62:14] cause any undue burden on on the folks that really do need a parking permit. And um, and it's a It's a burden for them to pay for one, so they'll be able to get a fifty discount. Um if they are income qualified. Thanks. I appreciate it. Yes, I have some questions. Oh, till I go ahead. Okay, Alex. I was late. But uh, if you want to go ahead fine with me, alright, i'll. I'll see a few questions about downtown. Um. Thanks for that. These graphics are really helpful on visualizing um some blocks, a little surprising where the utilization is another until it makes sense. I was curious. If you knew the aggregate occupancy or utilization in the downtown area

[63:09] like on average, what are on street parking list or surface level parking lists? That's an interesting question. I might have to get back to you on that. We looked mostly at peak parking occupancy and not average when we found that when you average parking across all time, it it like it where things can happen. Um, especially when we did that with the residential access or sorry the Npp. Areas and some of the ramp study areas. Is it all even out to fifty? If you're looking at off peak and peak. Um! And so seeing, like the the Peak Times and the Low Times, which was more helpful for us. But um, If that's interesting to you, I can certainly get back to you, and we're hoping that we'll have some kind of interactive tool for um. The public to be able to explore and understand those trends. Um, in the future. That's something that we're working on building out. Um so hopefully that will also kind of help people be able to get into the data themselves and see what what those trends look like.

[64:13] Okay, in the downtown area. I guess i'd be curious to know how the on street utilization compares to the garage utilization. Do you have the utilization numbers for the city on garages in the downtown district? Oh, Go ahead, Chris. It looks like you're interested. I don't have them at my fingertips. I have some um I've I've certainly looked at them before, and so I can give you like my my perception of it having looked at that data. But I don't I don't. I can't say with confidence that I that I know the numbers off off the top of my head. Okay, I think there's a really important relationship between the utilization on Street versus off street and the off street garages are an asset that we should really be taking advantage of,

[65:07] and even below utilization or medium utilization on street downtown. Um might even be high high if our garages are empty, and there's an opportunity to decrease all of the circling that people are doing downtown, holding out for a good parking spot if we could just direct them to garages through tweaks and and the pricing where, I suspect maybe the garages are more on that tier, two or tier three which could create some more um, some more space uh on street, if we were to take the If we look at the relationship with those things together. So yeah, if there's any way to um sync those up, I think that'd be probably helpful for me. So as and I just, I do want to. So I want to just let Sam answer first. So yeah, we do have. We do collect and maintain all that data. You There are about eight hundred um parking spaces within the Cajun district on street.

[66:08] Um, And then the the differences, I think I think it's like one thousand Six hundred spaces are in garages, and so there are some scales. And just psychologically, people tend to uh, try to park on Street typically before they consider garage parking. This is why we are, you know, increasing the on street parking rates, especially in the highest utilized block bases. Um! But we are not raising the hourly rates in the garages, in hopes that folks will begin to learn that they can save money by parking in the garage. On average, our our garage is are getting more and more full. The spruce uh garage is regularly uh reaching capacity. Um! And certainly if you were in downtown this weekend um the rtd garage filled up for the first time uh this Sunday uh, for the first time in a long while. So it's really, you know, event uh specific, the boulder thumb. This weekend is really what brought a lot of folks to town?

[67:09] Um, and that's the That's the other component of the assets that we manage is making sure that we're able to accommodate our our peak days, knowing that on average, you know, I think that these days we're at about um sixty five uh percent utilization on average overall for all the garages. Um, on a typical higher uh use weekday, which again is more toward the weekends than um uh weekdays. We've still not seen daytime office workers uh returning uh nearly as much as they had been, So our our folks, who are parking in the garages with parking permits for eight hours plus a day. Um, largely have not returned. Um! Our Our short term Parkers are pretty much consistent at this point. We're we're back to our pre pandemic levels for short term partners. But those are more oriented towards evenings uh closer to the weekend.

[68:04] Okay, I was gonna ask if you had data on how long people are paying to Park for on Street versus Off Street. I would hope that if someone's coming down for ten hours. Their odds of using the garages would be much higher than someone who might be doing a a quick trip downtown, and that's when the the on street part is probably a better utilization of public space. Yeah. So the the purpose of our on street parking system is to generate as much turnover as possible to folks who have quick in and out um uh Aaron's, or whatever their purposes we do have time restrictions you're on allowed. You're uh legally able to pay for more than I believe. Three hours in the metered spaces downtown. Uh, and so you're not yet there. There are. There are rules against speeding the meter. And we do monitor for that. So any folk, anybody who's trying to stay longer than three hours should be parking in garages, And that's typically what we do see. Um, A majority of the the parking utilization on street is either one or two hours.

[69:09] Okay, I guess I just added myself as someone who Doesn't Park on Street downtown. Thanks, Chris and Samantha. Tila, Do you have some questions? I do thank you, Alex. Um. Couple of questions on some of the why i'm not scrolling through the right thing some of the maps in the memo. Um. First of all, thank you for all of this information. I learned a whole lot. It's a big step forward and transparency and figure out what what you're looking at, and how you're thinking about things. So Thank you for that. Um! It struck me that a bunch of the downtown garages were not shown on the maps showing parking utilization. Can you shed any light on that. Yeah, that's um. That's good feedback. It's something that we're continuously improving these the maps for performance based pricing. We're actually made by our own staff members. So that's something that we can incorporate in the future.

[70:12] Well, that I want to reiterate that the performance based pricing, we strategically are not talking about adjusting the rates in the garages. Um, because we want to keep the price lower in the garage than what then? What we have on street? Um, We certainly do have that data, and we can add that to the maps. But I would not want it to the garage utilization to to um dilute the information of the block faces that we're really for wanting to focus on. But we can. You have that data and can add, and can either um provided hopefully, very soon, in real time on an online dashboard as opposed to static maps. Um, But but uh, good question. Okay, Thank you. I appreciate that. I was just wondering why it got, you know, excluded or left out? Or was it part of your consideration, I think Alex's questions just now sort of illustrated. Why, it's of interest.

[71:07] Um! Because we do want to be encouraging longer term parking uh to be happening in the garages versus quick um things the fifteen minute free. These, uh Is that only for the on street spaces? Or is that also for the garage spaces Only for the on street spaces? Okay. Terrific. Um, i'm trying to. I'm mindful that we have a public hearing, and so i'm not gonna try to occupy too much time here. Um, moving to the npp just to help me understand what i'm looking for when there are ids of various zones, and this one to thirty-eight zones. A number of them are called Nvp. Extensions are those areas that are not currently in an Npp. Correct? And you're considering okay so I couldn't see what some of these extensions are so number twenty-two and Mapleton extension. I couldn't find I on multiple maps. I couldn't find any area in label number twenty-two similar thing was It number thirty

[72:14] there were a few where I I just couldn't. I'm like I don't see where this is. Twenty-six twenty-five, so I just had a a real hard time reading the maps Um, because I couldn't, m. I couldn't match um some of these areas with what's shown there. Um, so fourteen is an extension of Bj: but it's not showing the jazz not shown on the maps. That's why I was wondering what what the difference was between the extension and the main, and then, when it's extension versus uh a pending petition, extension means that something the staff has identified as something to look at versus the pending petition is where we've received the city has received a petition to extend. Is that the difference between those two?

[73:01] Yeah. So these I mean. So the maps are uh proprietary, so we couldn't make that many changes to them. And I would have liked to rename some of these study areas. These are kind of like our number of them, maybe initial. So our focus was, Where do we study um? Where Where should we go out and study? We've got the city Wide annual assessment. Well, the natural place to start is like. Is there spill over happening from places where we're already managing parking is manage parking, causing spill over. And So the extension blocks is really that to understand is there spill over from where there's managed parking? So some of those are Npp's, and then some of those are G Ids, which are the general improvement districts. That's why there's no be jad Npp. It's not an Mvp: It's a gid. And so yeah, it's a little confusing. That's our shorthand, and I apologize. But I also have. You know, if there's any area that's of real interest to you, I could I have um additional maps that are a little bit more zoomed in there. They're all a little bit uh

[74:10] It's It's tough to to look at, and that's Why, on some of the slides I put in, like I overlay, you know, orient you. But is there any overall lesson to learn that most of these, when we kind of zoom out and look over, even at peak parking, that a number of these are at either gray or blue. So we're like talking between zero and fifty occupancy or around fifty percent occupancy. A lot of them were pretty low, like our a lot of our Yeah, I was. I was surprised by that, too. But that's It's helpful to know um. Some of the areas that we're below. Forty percent occupancy will also flag to see whether they still need managed parking. We looked at also the spill over to see. Is there spill over? Because, you know, if it's low occupancy that might mean something that might mean it might not mean something, and that's the other reason why we looked at the spill over blocks was to see, you know. Is Is it low, because we're managing it well, and people are going elsewhere. Or is it low? Because there's not as much demand. And so that's that's part of why we wanted to look at

[75:17] those surrounding blocks. We'll get to some of that in the discussion after the public hearing, and I do want to get back to that uh thinking about that. Um. Another question that I had was looking at the Sanitis trail area. And, by the way, I do support Staff kind of thinking about um access and impacts for neighborhoods around busy trail heads. Um, i'm confused about the Sanitis trail area uh focus area because a it it says on, on! There! It excludes Dakota Ridge, and i'm wondering why. And i'll also note that um the Centennial Trail Head is within five hundred to sometimes one hundred. There's a couple of access points for Sanita trail uh, but really really close to um the Centennial Trail Head. But you're not including the Centennial Trail Head or um the No. What neighborhood is there any reason for that?

[76:10] Well, we are only I mean, we're only looking at um parking within city limits. That's the extension. It is in the city limits now, right right. But for a centennial we did include Dakota Ridge. Um, just not the entire area. Um! So you'll see there's sort of like two areas separated, and those are the ones that are closest to all those access points and trail heads. The Norwood area is an area that we make. Go back and collect some data in um. But there's that. One is There's not a lot of actually available parking. Um! It's really hard for us. That was one of the things that we also found during the study is those blocks where it's sort of. There's there's not a clear um right of way for people to park in. It's hard for us to measure occupancy in those areas because it's hard to determine. You know how many spots are there, So, um! It's something that we will continue to refine as we um work on this program, and as we kind of go through this process um year over year, but it's um

[77:14] it's. It was an area that was flagged for me after we had started doing this data collection. So certainly we're We're open to um collecting data there, and that's also the other purpose of the trail access management is for um staff members that have the expertise in those areas to tell us your hey? You're missing something. Um: yeah. So I mean, this came up last month at Ted last month was um access to to, you know. Curbside parking on in in the null wood area. Um, i'm still waiting to hear back on. But the final decision is there? But, um! But you just wanted to flag it for you, because I do think it's It's relevant um, and probably ought to be included. And of course you are aware, i'm sure, that there's a a huge construction um impacts right now with the three hundred and eleven Mapleton site, and So that's gonna make some of your data skewed about what available parking is and what you know what the occupancy is. Um,

[78:11] so just wanted to flag that a little bit um. I also wanted to clarify. It came up in the memo, and it came up again tonight in response to Becky's questions. Um about the racial equity tool, and Chris wanted to talk about the possible low income resident option. Um, I wasn't aware that city council had uh directed Staff to explore a low income Residential permit. Um! And I I am not knowing the background. I'll i'll leave it to to your expertise to to figure out what the what the direction was from council. But I will note that, uh, it is not a hundred and five dollars for a commuter permit annually that's per quarter. So if someone as a commuter is purchasing

[79:01] um a pass to park on a single block, face in an Mpp. Right now, that's four hundred and twenty dollars per year compared to be thirty dollars per year for a resident. I know that'll go up to forty dollars for a resident Um, but amortized over a year. It's simply not a huge cost. And so, if we think the cost is a barrier, it's not likely to be for a low resident income, low income resident of the area. It's much more likely to be someone who is a commuter or wants to purchase a business pass. Um. And so i'm curious whether staff um deliberately didn't look into a lower income um option for those other past products that they offer now based on um city Council direction, or if there's some other reason. But I just wanted to make sure, for for purposes of clarity, that the memo I found misleading because it's, though those are not the same numbers. Yeah. And um, I I Chris, do you have comments? Um, I was just gonna say that. Thanks for the input and we will certainly consider additional discounts. We do have a number of parking products that are oriented toward folks who who are at a lower price point it doesn't mean that they need to um park farther away, and maybe take a transit

[80:20] uh to get to downtown. But uh, we do have a number of of um strategies for that, including the three dollars um from three Pm. To three i'm in the garages for evening shift workers um part of our I mean we are. We are not providing eco-passes to residents in Mpp's We do provide equal passes to all full time. Employees who are within the cage of district. So um! That is a part of our strategy to make sure folks have um access to affordable transportation options. Um as part of their commute. We can certainly explore possibilities for um uh commuter permits, but we want that needs to be measured against all of our other uh commuter products, including our garage permits. Um! There are four hundred, some dollars a quarter.

[81:11] I do remain curious about um. The numbers of commuter permits that we've sold. I think, the last time we talked about this you admitted there were a number of Mps where there are zero commuter permits. Um that have been issued, and that indicates to me that we're doing something wrong on the pricing or the product. So um! If if you could provide me with that information, I would appreciate it. Um, because I think we need to be really rethinking about who who are allowing to park and restricting it to residents. Um is maybe just too much of an on or off switch um garages. Utilization! Is it possible? The utilization on University Hill looks a little bit low? It's. You know. I think, that that Sam brought up. Is there a possibility that people just aren't paying because our utilization is basically tied on? Who's paying for what we think? We might have more scoff laws in that area, or people just parking quickly and not,

[82:08] you know. Assuming that they'll get away, it just it struck me as really uh oddly low. Um! A bunch of these occupancy measures look really low, but that one in particular looks a little weird. Yeah, we thought so, too. Um, and we had concerns about it, and that's part of one of the reasons why we were hesitant to recommend performance based pricing in that area. Because we we wanted to kind of dig a little bit deeper and understand what's going on there. It's certainly possible. Um. But we haven't determined uh anything concrete yet at this time. Okay, Um. Is there a place that I can look to figure out the what the key performance indicators are that you refer to in the memo in particular, for how the Npp is operating. Uh we have some of those in the recent city manager Rule Um, I can also.

[83:00] Um. So This is the red line that you sent me after our last meeting. I can go back and look at that. Thank you. Okay, Thanks, Alex. Any more clarifying questions before we open the public hearing. Alex. I got to go ahead, Sam. Thank you for this. Uh, I I agree with what others have said. This. Um, it's a lot of great detail, and and I I've done a nice representing it. Two questions just uh on kind of bigger orientation um on on racial equity. So I guess kind of maybe one What's that bigger uh at at at the level that's been discussed. Um, First of all, i'm glad to see that. Um! There's There's material in here, and and you've given to some thought. I know that it's relatively new. The city and all departments and all of us are in the process of of building it in, and implementing and refining and kind of all learning how to work with it in the same way. Um, so the um

[84:08] I see that the the the the memo says it's neither pro or or or supportive of racial equity. Um and i'm i'm wondering. I I understand, that the the overall City Um Racial Equity Plan says that departments will each have their own plan, strategy, plan, or some kind of an overall framework. Um, and I guess i'm just wondering um sort of hard for me to think about this on its own. But do do. Does the does community vitality have that yet such that it would, I could sort of, you know we could understand what racial equity looks like to community vitality um in in in these transportation programs. Um, Or is that yet to be developed, or or something else so just kind of like orientation to how this fits to the overall racial equity plan for community. That's how

[85:00] um. Nothing specific has been developed for community vitality. But we do turn to the the uh sustainability, equity, and resilience framework. Uh, for all of our strategic planning to make sure that we're taking into account um various goals of the city, and all the work that we do. Okay, Thanks. Chris. Um: Okay. Then my my second question. It's also sort of big picture Um: thinking about mode mode shift uh Tmp: or Yeah, the musical and the Tmp. Um, And how how should uh we, or I think, about the um recommendations here in terms of considerations that have been given to mode shifts, I guess. Are there a factor? Do you think about that? There are factors on this type of a program that I guess both of these um ramp and trail access management do, do. Are Are there dimensions of mode shifts that you that you there, you know you could you could manage through through these programs, and if so like, just can you talk about the thinking that make me have gone into mode, shift goals, and how the recommendation falls out because of that

[86:09] mo shift has been guiding the work of the downtown district for the past thirty years since. I'd say that the one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine um transportation master plan, but guided the creation of the Go Boulder department that led to the the very first universal bus pass for um employees paid for by a parking district, I think, in the nation. So I would say that this is one, you know we've been taking steps many, many steps over the past uh thirty years to make sure that the mode shift in downtown boulder um out paces um every other uh uh community of our size that I can think of. Um, certainly across the front range when it comes to the high transit, walking um bike mode share for a downtown of our size, i'd say that performance based pricing is one other step along that way of of um,

[87:10] that virtuous cycle again, of making sure that that we reinvest the dollars that the the folks who are continue there's going to always be um intel cars disappear entirely um from the planet. There's always going to be folks who are who are coming to our special places with vehicles and using those resources Um! That they generate through paying for parking to then benefit the district to make those spaces better for everybody, no matter how they're getting there. Um! It's been part of our our approach to our work uh for many, many years, and I see this as one more step uh um in that long history of successes, and so really excited to to be able to continue that that legacy. Thanks. Thank you, Chris. That's all I have. Thanks, Sam, too.

[88:03] Okay, there are no more tab questions. We'll go ahead and open this up for a public hearing. Any members of the public, wishing to speak to Tab on the matter, will have up to three minutes to do so. If you're interested in speaking, please use the race hand tool uh the bottom of your screen Looks like only he has her hand up, so maybe no one interested in speaking for the public hearing. Welcome back, Lynn. You'll have three minutes to speak, and i'll turn to Veronica, and you should be able to speak now,

[89:00] classes or or colloquia that I'm following. And let the students ask questions first, and I like to be the last to um. I like have the last word. So that's why wait? Um! But as far as um the stratified parking, I think it's a good idea. But um! It seems like there's a lot of structured parking that apparently isn't being used, or is maybe being misused. I agree with Tila that um. I don't think the cost is high enough. I remember hearing years ago there was like a lot people were having to pay a lot, but apparently it's not enough one for them to come from out of town. I think the bottom, the bottom line on parking, and the whole issue in boulder is, we need to probably take the cageid garages and repurpose them for housing,

[90:03] and although I have a lot of resistance to creating more housing because that drives demand, and then you have um, you know. I mean that drives demand for services, and then you have more low income people trying to get in to town to service the high end. But um, I think what needs to be done is long overdue. Is electric uh shuttles, or on demand. Van shuttles with, you know, with um social mobilization. You can pretty quickly get um electric vehicles around town in large numbers of small numbers as far as the trails. Um! You don't want everybody get getting there at the same time with a bus or something. But if you have on demand vans, people can get up there when they need to, and then the the parking is not so necessary.

[91:00] Um! But all over. It seems like that would need to be a trend, for the future is to have remote parking for people that want to come into town, that Don't live here and then shuttle them in in little or bigger vans, depending upon how the type of demand that comes up Um! The three hundred and eleven see you South is gonna drive this this situation worse and worse and worse. And um! So you're kind of just picking at the edges. Um, When really a major kind of reform needs to happen, and how people get moved around, and I know, speaking from my position of writing my bike all the time. I'm just really irritated having to wait most of my commute wherever i'm going is waiting at Red Lights, and the occupancy situation might work with that. But

[92:10] that's in general what I have to say about um. What I heard of anyone else interested in speaking at the public hearing. If not, we'll go ahead and close that and start to wade through these topics from tab one to begin. Becky. Um, yeah, I guess. Um, I'm not sure if we've got any particular order. But regarding the um whether to continue on the East Aurora, Mp: that's one of the questions here. Um, I guess I I have a general concern about, If you know. If the program doesn't cover its cost and we

[93:16] depend on people to um put forth their neighborhood for consideration like it's by volunteer by request that that sort of creates an inequity because we're contributing city resources to The people who know about the program have the time and energy to, you know, request the investment in their area rather than you know. We have more and more of this wonderful data. We're seeing and ways to think about how to prioritize neighborhoods. And I would just, I think I I prefer investing those resources in an approach which uses kind of what we know about areas that have, you know, higher parking utilization rather than the sort of um um by request approach.

[94:07] Would would folks like feedback from us in this comments? But I know that we kind of try. Okay, So that's a really great question, question, Sam and I actually talked about this. There are other neighborhoods that are meeting some of our Kpis, but they don't have petitions yet. Um! And Sam, do you want to talk about the strategy of. You know the engagement that we want to have with other areas of of the community that that are meeting Kpis and letting them know about the opportunities. So if we were to proceed with East Aurora, we can also proceed with some of the other areas at the same time. This is just this is one that is meeting all of our Kpis right now at the gate. Sam, do you want to add anything more. No, I I think you covered it. Um, We we did take into consideration all of the Kpis for this neighborhood, and we know that those residents have been waiting a couple of years for a response, and so that's why

[95:00] we kind of have looked at it with um sharper eyes. But we do have a lot of other areas that we discovered that we'd like to look closer at and see where we need to change or suggest that some boundaries change. And so that's the next step, for ramp is to dig a little bit deeper. Why, in the scope in the areas where we saw all there is. There is something happening here that we want to take a closer look at, and then suggest some changes based on that um, so that we can kind of optimize the program for where it's needed, and maybe not where it's not needed. I might also add that um a lot of the work of our Enforcement team is complaint based, and we do get a lot of complaints in this area and others Um, And so that's been our strategy as we haven't been expanding new Nps um, just because we don't have an Mpp program out there where we're collecting money from residents for permits. Um! Does not mean that they are. We aren't spending staff resources, going to these high complaint locations to um try to mitigate some of the challenges

[96:03] they're experiencing with that behavior where a management strategy could help us to to change that dynamic. Yeah, thanks. And I I have. I. Yeah, I can understand that sort of resource, you know requirement that goes in. And why trying to manage it might be more effective if you think like the complaint based, Enforcement is also problematic in some ways. Um, I know I lived in a neighbor in an apartment complex. We had cars, parks in the street, which are probably mostly residents of the apartment complex, but there'd be a there was like a broken down car that was there for months and never got moved. Um, I mean at least three months, and then, and I I didn't know you could ask for those things to be addressed when I moved in there. Um, but I parked in a nearby neighborhood. Um! While I was living at that complex cause, the parking in front of my building was full, and, like I got ticketed very quickly to the extent that I told the city that I don't think this is valid, because I don't think I broke any rules, and they were. Send it the ticket. So I I see you know kind of issues there

[97:10] to just in general, with some of these sort of like, I mean. I guess I don't know it's complaints. I just kind of assume, because there wasn't like validation of the Enforcement decision. So you know, I just yeah. I just have a lot of concerns about processes that are complaint or volunteer based. So I realized, I think Becky looks like Ryan has requested that the questions select be shared again, if possible. You Wanna go ahead? Sure. Yeah. I think I was gonna raise that with uh? Ryan had put that because I don't I

[98:00] didn't see those questions in the memo, so I wasn't really kind of reading the memo. And looking at this information with those questions in mind, it would be a little helpful to have that um. So while we've been talking, I've been looking back through the red line version of Um. The city managers rules that you sent me last month. Thank you so much. Uh: I'm! Still not quite sure what the key performance indicators are that you're talking about unless they are the kinds of things like, uh, you know, no more than sixty percent, or it has to be parked up. More than sixty percent occupied, and at least twenty-five percent of those are to reside outside the study area. Those the Kpis you're talking about. Yeah, we're looking at parking occupancy. We're looking at um resident versus visitor occupancy. Um we're looking at the land. Use to see whether you know how it's zoned. Um. So those are. Some of the the key performance indicators that we're we're looking at for ramp specifically. So I recognize that, uh, in recent years you guys have changed

[99:12] um. Some of the criteria for getting a permit. So, for instance, a critique years ago was that uh, people who didn't have their vehicles registered at that address uh couldn't get a permit. Um! And so there's been some amendment, I understand, to the the the process that says, you know, if you can prove that you live there like You're a a tenant, a rent a renter, you can so at least agreement. Then you can now get an Npt. Parking permit. There, that's a help. Um! But in terms of um assessing whether a block is eligible or not. Um, or perhaps is under performing or not. Uh Enforcement staff isn't going to be able to tell if uh a renter has a car register in Colorado Springs, but they're renting here for nine months. Um Enforcement Staff is not going to be able to see that they actually do live there that they are a resident. It's just

[100:08] It's a difficulty with tying things to where a vehicle is registered, and time things to residency. Um talking about spill over parking as we had um, you know. Touched on earlier uh another long-standing critique of how this is um affecting like neighborhood residents. There probably is some spill over parking that you're seeing and measuring from non residents. Um, who Won't Park there, but it's also hindered by the fact that residents who are adjacent to an Npp. Also cannot park there, and so there is no way for people who live across the street or across an intersection from where an Np. Ends to relieve themselves of that congestion by say, paying a whole thirty dollars a year to be able to park across the street if they if they need to or want to, and that seems to be like a legitimate

[101:05] um thing that people might want to do if they're experiencing pressures from over parking. That is far less um egregious than having this like yes or no three hours or not. Um, if you live here, or don't kind of up or down um binary about who's allowed to park on a particular block face and so that's been something that um different. Members of tab uh me included, have been in encouraging community vitality to look into and to permit. Um, and it continues to be, only does your business like it. It reside in the Npp. Are you a resident of the Mtp. Have you registered your vehicle inside the Mpp. And if you're across the street you're out of luck, and you're just the same as you know, the fifty other partners who who don't want to be there. So um i'm not seeing any flexibility on that um, and that would be a way to mitigate um or to ameliorate the effects of still over parking where right now our only tool for for for um addressing it, if you choose to address it is to say, Well, you get to be in the Npp. Too.

[102:11] Um! And pushing that problem to the next block over. I kind of dispute the idea that it is pushing it over to the next block over. Because um closing parking on, you know two block faces adjacent doesn't mean that everybody is going to park on the like next hundred block of the same street, like they have the adjacent side streets, and for that reason I would also encourage, as I have encouraged you before, to relax the requirements for um. Removing um blocks from the Mpp. You don't the memo doesn't even touch on this um, but I do see that there is um still a um a mechanism in the red line, and proposed changes to the city manners. Rules. Um, let's say if you study it, and for three years you are seeing severe under parking, then Staff can consider removing um a block from the Npp. It just seems like this is a

[103:10] program that's designed to only expand on itself. Um and isn't very flexible or smart about assessing. If it's not performing properly, why it's not performing properly. Um! There are a number of blocks um in the Mapleton and Whittier districts um where houses are on the main streets, on pine, on Mapleton, um on spruce um. But there are very few homes that front the side streets, the numbered streets, and, in fact, during large portions of the day. And this is shown in your occupancy. Maps. Um. There is less than fifty percent parking in the Mapleton district. There are several blocks where there are one or two cars. Um. On these side street block faces where there are one or two or sometimes zero homes facing on the side streets, and they are reserved exclusively for people who

[104:11] live right there when um there's no parking problem that's being ameliorated and to be a little bit more flexible. Um, yes, with allowing um paid parking in such places. Uh, but also to be more thoughtful about whether um there there should be a restriction based on Residency alone. Um, i'm finding um these half measures like we'll think about it, and we'll consider it if it's after three years of studying, and it's underperforming um, frustrating because it seems it's designed to move as slowly as possible, and to not ruffle feathers. And when we talked about this with you. That um about a year ago she was pretty frank. That that was why we were moving so slowly on some of these adjustments to the Npp.

[105:00] Um. I I am, I believe, um Council members. Fear is still on um. We've had number of conversations with numbers of city Council members about enabling Staff to be bolder and be braver and not worry so much about public push back. And I would say, if we have applied the racial equity tool analysis to the Mtp. And said, Yeah, it doesn't pass muster um that we would be able and empowered um and encouraged by city council and our city manager to move more quickly to um remedy that problem. I would honestly think that if the current Npp. As it is, or ramp whatever we're going to label it as it is right now, or as it is proposed here. Um! If that would pass the racial equity tool analysis, and I doubt that it would. And I really think that we should be second guessing um how we are approaching this, because to overlay the map of most of these Mtp areas uh with um where our concentrated wealth and property values are, those maps would look pretty similar, and I think that should give us some real pause.

[106:15] I think that's all I have at the moment. Oh, my one other comment is that um I I don't see in the city managers rules, but I haven't read them carefully recently. Um! But I know that right now. Um! The restriction is, you can't park for more than more than one time a day. Um in a colored zone. Um, you can park in a red, for you know twenty minutes, and you can parking green for twenty minutes, but you can't park Red twice for twenty minutes. Um! And speaking of someone who has um occasionally had to go to a a school event or drop off, or, you know, bring stuff for the Pta and things. Um, I'm only parking to access that destination for a very brief period of time. Uh it's short turnover um, and then I can't come back again and pick up my crock pot, or whatever it is, or student later in the day um

[107:15] without getting a a ticket, even if i'm not even close to the hourly permit. I understand that that rule is to avoid people from moving their car and sort of playing the game and and getting eight hours of free parking. But the hassle, the payoff is the hassle of had when you move your car every two or three hours, and if you're still able to find a new spot, and you're vacating an old spot, I really don't see the harm in allowing the few dedicated people to play the system and do that. I just don't think that that's um something that we should be working very hard to prevent while being inflexible about people who have repeat visits. Uh and within a zone. This would be true for people who are cleaning uh people's houses, or or doing um yard work, but don't have um all of the required State licenses um that the city is requiring for you to get a mobile vendor or parking permit.

[108:08] There should be some flexibility in here, and I think one way to build in is to remove that only once a day. Requirement, that's all I have. Thank you, thanks to it. We've been at this for a while. It sounds like there's some overlap on neighborhood parking, including the racial equity piece of it. We've conducted a public hearing tonight. I'm curious if there's appetite to provide some sort of formal feedback on this, or if we want to just keep providing feedback as individual members to staff anyone feeling motivated to form some sort of motion that we could provide to counsel. Sorry, Alex, I'm sure I should know this because I his chair for two years, but with um

[109:05] doing a motion that's that's not necessarily an action by tab right. We're not precluded from doing that. We have a public hearing, anyway. So never mind. Yeah, It seems like with cost recovery, racial equity. Um, there's something forming, and we could talk about it a lot more, but where we could try to. So Nicole and her colleagues with something pretty concrete with some some next steps for that. What we would advise recommended changes in the city managers. Um proposed rule change um, I presume we're There's still time to talk about um the trail access management work group, but it are. There is a part of this where the ship is already sales,

[110:00] I would say. I mean, we are here tonight to gather tab feedback, and your advice on our implementation of policy decisions that we explored with you all and Council last year. So Sam has been working really hard to follow through, and all of those commitments from last year. Um, we're still develop It's still in development. So i'd say that um Sam's probably gotten some really good feedback on some of the nuances of the existing um approach to neighborhood access management that she can make sure we we've got a We've got a long list as well. Um, we do get a number of erez agmoni of um. There are a lot of nuances with the program that an impact individuals, and Sam has a running list of things like that that we want to not lose track of one hundred and fifty. Um! That also includes these petitions. Um that folks are under the impression we told them we're pausing. Um, but we've been working on it. We're We're going to wait till our position to have better data. We now have that better data. Um! There are some very passionate folks in the East or um area that are hoping that they that we can move forward on um as an example on some better management

[111:16] um of of parking in their neighborhood. If it is the advice of this uh board that we not be pursuing uh any expansions to the Uh Npp. Or or any residential access management, then then that is, we will take that on as advisement, we'll communicate that to council when we go to them on November third, that that whatever that motion is, if that's what you want to form um related to expansions of the Mpp. Uh disillusions of the Mpp. Or you know whatever that is. Um. We will certainly share that with council as we go to them with our uh, with our work and our follow up on all the decisions that were made last year.

[112:09] I'll also just chime in and say, Um, the racial equity instrument that we used the whole purpose is to be thoughtful and have these conversations, and so it's not. You know the intention is not to solve the problem immediately, but to try and take steps towards that end. And so I feel like It's done. It's It's done what it's meant to do by having this conversation and by staff being thoughtful about what other steps we can take to, you know, create these positive changes in the future. So um okay, that that's just my two cents. Um, And I really appreciate Everyone's feedback today as well. I know there's still more feedback to come, but it's it's been really helpful. So thank you. I think Nicole has something. Yeah, it feels appropriate. I was just going to um kind of echo what Sam just said about my understanding of the racial equity tool that various departments are still in the process of being trained, and how to use it. Um, but that really it's not so much about getting to a metric that can help us guide our decisions, but rather making sure that we're thinking about um some of the consequences for um racial equity. Different groups that we've engaged with, and that sort of thing and um I don't I I

[113:27] to sort of dancing around the edges of some of the questions I've been listening to. Um for me as the question of of where community vitality is, and just kind of um integrating racial equity work into um. Its overall goals. I think that that may sort of help, because the departments are just at different places. Um! Some of them are a little farther along. They started the work earlier than others, and and I think some have really concrete um actionable ideas on how to move us toward our racial equity, and others um are are still working on that. So I don't know if that would feels like it would be helpful Um, Chris, to kind of share with

[114:06] with tab folks here, or if that feels like it's jumping ahead, I'd say that you know Sam has done a great job of integrating the the tool and the racial equity work into the ants implementation. The challenging thing is, you know, community vitality is a number of divisions, I'd say that our arts and culture work group has been working on uh racial equity uh in incorporating racial equity um into their work uh for quite some time Now we're in parking and access. It is a bit. It's a bit more abstract. Um! But we are working to incorporate, and as Sam has demonstrated, making sure that we're being thoughtful about um, these policy decisions, and how we're proceeding with the invitation of trying to fall through, and all the things we said we're going to do, and inserting the racial equity tool into that Um, uh, I don't know that it's communicated that we should um hit the stop button and um reinvent all the work. Um, but we've been trying to make sure that we're not losing that piece, and that component of the conversation is, we're continuing to move longstanding work forward.

[115:17] Yeah, thanks, Chris. That just brings up another um point, I think, is is worth highlighting. That. Um you all are always having to operate over different councils, different priorities that take some time, and when there's a lot of back and forth um between councils that it can take a a minute to kind of catch up with that uh momentum, and I think that that's that's something. I think i'm hearing a little bit from um, Everyone on Tab as well as just that. You know. Where Where are we at? How do we get to? To where where we want to go um given where we started right because we're where we started with a ways back with a different council. So, anyway, I appreciate all the feedback tonight. Thank you.

[116:00] Thanks. Nicole feels like we've provided a lot of feedback on this grab bag of topics and not sensing any sort of formal motion or anything coming up unless someone wants to interject one. I have to. Right. Yeah, good. I I don't have a formal motion. I just remembered The one other point that I wanted to to to make after um going through the memo was that there seemed to be some discomfort and raising prices uh based on demand management, the the flexible pricing until after this uh year's holiday season. Um and again I would uh I would encourage Staff to go ahead. Now that we've wait. We've waited a long time. There's a lot of other products that you have around uh, you know the three bucks for overnight like like long stays. Um, there's there's a lot of things that are helping people out, and and

[117:00] um, I think that I don't want to have people experience whiplash now that they're getting past Covid and coming back downtown uh and getting used to the way things were. And then we try to change things up. It might actually be better to change things up. Now, now that we have data rationale, some, you know, could good reason to support some of these price changes, and to encourage new behavior that we want to see, i. E. Longer stays in the garages um, and take into account, you know, congestion and turnover and things like that. So I would. I would encourage you to to in implement that pricing changing uh now as soon as you can, and not wait to left the holidays. That's all. Thank you. And Alex. Um, I just uh look at the questions here. I I don't think I have to put on the questions uh the questions to us. Um, but maybe just to to say on number one, I was kind of asking this earlier. Um, I I think the reason I i'm struggling to have questions about more questions about the performance based pricing is Um, i'm just i'm just trying to imagine the like. What are the what are the things that I would have questions about? And if you know, if I if I was looking at the pricing strategies and some kind of a I don't know they're three years. Here's three scenarios in here, and here's what you get from each of those, and where you don't get, or some description of sensitivity like you know, we we know that if we turn the prices up here, then we get this or we don't,

[118:23] then we don't. I think that would that would. That would make it easier to to be able the way in. So I don't have. I mean It's fine for today. But um for the future. I it it's it's It's easier, for I know It's easier for me. Um! I was, I would imagine, for others to to be able to provide recommendations. If there's kind of a you know, a strategic framing of it in terms of like here. Here's the kind of decisions we had to make that you, can we, in on um? So other than that, I don't have anything else on these. But I did wanna just make one more comment on the I just. I know we're kind of circling a few things, but on the um, I think, on the just on the racial equity uh topic and the um

[119:02] just sort of like, Where where are we In sort of like? What What point do we ask? Do we include? Um the the questions. I think there's a little bit of um. It's just It's a little awkward that we are, you know, are talking about transportation, which goes across multiple departments, and I think of car dependence as a challenge that um works against well being in a lot of ways, and has disproportionate uh harms for communities of color, and that's a a super big topic, and super complicated. And what to do about it is, I mean it's. It's it's a huge conversation. But we I I feel like we don't. We're just not getting like Don't. Get to that. So if we, when we look at it like just in terms of the parking pricing, you say. Well, we look at racial equity. But um! Of of course, you know Chris made a good point earlier that. Um, he He implied the point to me that you know, if we don't have really good transit frequent buses in a super good network of bike ways that it's gonna be hard. But we need to get to that that discussion that integrated discussion, I think, to to really have this um a like a a more coherent, or, I guess, like a a big picture conversation about um some of these. So, anyway, just my

[120:14] my thoughts. But anyway, that thanks Chris and Sam for your your work on this and I'm. Uh, you know. Happy enough for you to keep going forward. Yeah, thanks for joining us tonight, Kristen, Samantha, and we'll look forward to the camp analysis that's going to pick up and the the work that that's coming up in the in the year to come and we'll. We'll see you then. All right. Thank you so much. Have a nice you, too, next up a little behind schedule agenda. Item seven, which is a staff presentation and tab feedback regarding the core arterial network. Welcome, Valerie. Hi, Um. Everything good with the screen.

[121:02] Yeah, Okay, Thank you. Um. Alright, for the record. Um Good evening, Members of Tab I'm. Valerie Watson, Transportation Planning Manager. City of Boulder I'm. Joined tonight by Garrett Slater Principal Transportation projects Engineer and Devin Joslin principal traffic engineer. Tonight i'll be offering an update on the department's work plan for the core arterial network along with some updates on active can corridor efforts where we're at with community engagement and design for our Baseline road Priority corridor, followed by an update on our funding strategy. Lastly, we'll talk through next steps. All right. So let's take a look at our work plan. First. This map remains our North Star. The can corridors and study areas that were prioritized for our department by Council in January of this year, and that we will work to initiate or complete over the next five to seven years.

[122:01] We have updated our work plan scheduled to reflect more detailed information on active corridor progress since our April twenty twenty-two presentation, and you can see both the original April version, and the revised September version in the memo attachments of note for our conversation this evening we've broken out baseline into two phases and tentatively adjusted the timeline for Fulsome Street and the downtown mobility Study with Folsom currently a candidate for tip funding. This affords us an opportunity to rethink the timeline and and overall can funding as well, and we'll talk about this um more a little bit later in our presentation. Now let's take a quick look at some project updates. We are on track with our priority corridors and kudos to the department staff and community partners who have worked diligently this year to continue this accelerated cadence, and a big thanks to all of the members of the community who have provided feedback throughout our summer and fall engagement activities.

[123:05] Baseline Road. We launched this year, and we'll go into detail tonight on the progress with baseline staff are ramping up internally to initiate community engagement after the New Year for Iris Avenue. So we're now in the pre design phase of project development for Iris and Folsom is now a candidate for Tip. Call for. So we're seeking that funding through Dr. Cog, transportation, improvement program or tip for design and community engagement, and if awarded, those funds would allow us to initiate that project as soon as quarter four of twenty, twenty-four, and free up the local dollars that we need to address our current efforts along baseline and iris, so more on funding later as detail in our memo. We also have a lot of ongoing work on can corridors that will see final construction activities over the next three years, which is really exciting. For example, early next year we'll see the completion and full opening of the Thirtieth and Colorado underpass and protected intersection.

[124:14] All right now that we have a feel for progress on the overall can initiative and work plan. Let's take a look at where we're at with Baseline Road, the first of the three can priority corridors as we presented previously. There are a wealth of community assets and populations along baseline. We've been working to reach people with the lived experience along the corridor to offer their insights on what it's like. Traveling along Baseline today, and in line with the city's racial equity framework. We also met with the community connectors and residents in September, and gained feedback on our engagement plan and local contacts and business owners in the neighborhood. The community. Connectors also provided feedback on lived experience of traveling along the corridor that we will take into consideration in the design process.

[125:06] And here's where we're at with the Baseline Project Development process. We're now in the conceptual design phase as we synthesize the community feedback that we've received to date, combined with our existing conditions, analysis and predesign work, we will start to identify potential project elements for either phase, one or phase two of the project and a little more on those phases in a moment. First let's review what we've accomplished. So far with community engagement, we had a questionnaire and an and a bunch of information materials online and the questionnaire on be heard: Boulder, Close, September thirtieth. And we're reviewing over four hundred responses to that. We also hosted our own events and tabled at other events in the neighborhood where folks could fill out paper versions of the questionnaire, or mark up maps to document their experiences. Traveling along the corridor.

[126:03] In August we held a transportation safety fair for children and adults, partnering with boulder community health, to distribute free bike helmets and lights along with nurses who help families with helmet fittings, and there was music, ice cream, face painting, and balloons as well. Um, Community cycles joined us with a table. Um! We are able to capture feedback at that event. In September we were a part of the Cu boulder bike fest, where we were able to connect with a ton of Cu. Students. We also held community walking and bicycling tours, inviting some of our community partners at older walks community cycles and center for people with disabilities to co-host. As mentioned before, we were able to speak with the city's community community Connectors in residence and in early November we will be releasing a slew of information materials on the project, along with summaries of what we've heard from the A virtual on Demand Open house.

[127:03] So what have we been hearing? Here's some initial things that that we're putting together. There are several themes that are emerging as we continue to synthesize the feedback that we've received. Folks are noting their perception of high vehicular speeds, and the large volume of vehicles traveling along baseline, and how that relates to safety for other people driving, walking, rolling, and bicycling. Several responses noted that drivers um, you know, as as someone driving, they feel afraid, turning onto or off of the corridor because of other drivers speeding. They're afraid of being rear ended or sides swiped. We're also hearing an array of comments about street crossings, things like not having enough time to cross the street, long crossing distances being difficult to navigate with all the people walking, riding bikes and scooters and skateboards, and and such in the um, you know, relatively narrow crosswalks. Comments have also indicated that people driving are not always yielding to people walking in cross box with the right of way, and that there's a lack of crossing opportunities for long stretches of the corridor

[128:07] in terms of bicycle safety. Folks are recording that they do not feel safe in the existing protected Bike lane buffered with rugly striping and flexible delineators. Those white posts they're instead writing on the sidewalk or taking circuitous routes through the neighborhood. To avoid baseline. We've also heard comments about the game of leapfrog while bicycling that happens when buses are passing and then pull over to the curb, for passengers. Community members have also highlighted that it's difficult to get to destinations along Baseline, and difficult to connect to surrounding infrastructure. Folks have noted that the sidewalk and roadway pavement condition is poor, which is particularly noted in relation to the bicycle Lane and crosswalks themselves in terms of transit. Folks have noted that there's a lack of basic amenities at transit stops, and sometimes poor visibility when waiting for the bus due to vegetation growth

[129:00] in general, many responses noted the roadway, noise and lack of comfort. Walking along the corridor and waiting for the bus, which is an indication that vehicular speeds are contributing to an inhospitable environment. We were joined by John Simmerman from active towns, a prolific ethnographer of people across the country at our transportation Safety Fair. And here are some vignettes that he put together of what he captured, either. I'm Nathan both with the city of Boulder, and we're out here at the back to school baseline, transportation, Safety Fair. Uh, we got bike lights. We got maps. We're asking folks how they got here today, and if they need me, likes or anything else for their uh bike journeys. We also are picking off a project, but we're looking at improving safety along baseline roads. So whether you're walking, biking, uh driving, or taking the bus, we want to hear from folks and really looking to improve safety for everybody on Facebook. Um. But yeah, if I have the option, if there's not a lot of pedestrians or anything. I'll ride on the sidewalk as opposed to in the street. I'll come with the biplane. Um!

[130:07] It's not it. Doesn't feel safe. Oh, Gotcha. Yeah, we got a little protection in there, a barrier between the travelling and the we definitely have. Okay, great. Well, I wouldn't travel on baseline with these guys until Um, The cars are going really fast. Okay? Yeah, they're definitely exceeding speed limit. So you have on the bike line. I I would do that on my own. But I if there was a barrier protected right, It's actually physical, Barry, because they travel in. Would you? Then, right one hundred from a safety standpoint uh side of the earlier is explaining to me that one of the things would be to potentially improve the separation between anybody's on a bike or a pedestrian in the cars. And so I think if there's a way to put up, maybe a conference there, or something to make that a clear. Delineation probably is a good move. Safety wise

[131:01] on. Yes, we had a lot of comments from about places where they like to see improvements for crossing um, and they've been discovering how they feel. Unsafe Drivers might not always be licking out their in the All right. So so much amazing feedback to work with and thanks again, to all of our community partners. So now let's talk about how this project will roll out. Since we were successful in our Dr. Cough tip call to application, which will allow just under four million for comprehensive multimodal capital, intensive enhancements to baseline. We are approaching this project in faces in phase one which we aim to complete. Next year local dollars will be used to add physical protection or hardening in strategic prioritized locations to upgrade the existing bicycle lane that is today demarcated from that adjacent travel lane with striping and flexible delinators.

[132:14] Pavement Resurfacing will also be completed in phase one along with these upgrades to the existing bicycle lane. We will also have the opportunity to restripe the roadway to narrow travel lanes a proven safety counter measure to reduce vehicular speeds. We're also looking at how to improve the buffer along the existing bike lanes west of thirtieth to twenty eight, although local dollars are limited for phase, one staff are currently synthesizing existing conditions. Analysis, along with community feedback to prioritize the strategic locations where Bike lane protection upgrades will have the most impact for safety and comfort for people bicycling as well as better organize the street for all users. The intent is to implement these prioritized locations in two thousand and twenty-three as an interim measure to gain the safety benefits. Now, while the city awaits the availability of that Dr. Cog tip funding for phase two um that would become available as early as quarter, four of two thousand and twenty-four.

[133:16] There are also some related safety projects at spot locations that will happen concurrent to phase one funded by hsip, which i'll cover in more detail on the next slide. Then phase two, the award of Dr. Kong tip funds for phase two offers that opportunity for us to deliver more comprehensive improvements, such as completing the Bike Lane protection implemented in phase, one additional intersection and pedestrian enhancements and transit efficiency improvements. We also wanted to cover that. There are some related safety projects at spot locations, either recently completed or slated for twenty twenty-three. Next year the completed projects were implemented from two thousand and eighteen to two thousand and twenty-one, including a raised crossing at Twenty Ninth Street, protected left turn phasing at Thirtieth street and center line hardening, plus a leading pedestrian interval or Lpi uh pedestrian head start at mohawk

[134:16] in two thousand and twenty-three we'll likely see the implementation of two Federal um H sip Hsip Highway Safety Improvement program projects which will begin design later this year. One will close a driveway in order to a real line and signalize an existing pedestrian crossing at Canyon Creek, and another will implement protected left term facing at Mohawk. Needless to say, this corridor has already been on on radar for our transportation operations, Engineers and these related projects will complement the bike lane, protection upgrades and other improvements that are currently in design for phase One: Okay. Now let's take a look at funding and how that relates back to our updated work plan schedule,

[135:00] as you remember, from April we repurposed funding from local streets specifically for our three priority corridors; and as we have enhanced that, as we have it advanced further in the design process for baseline. We have now started to assign funds for specific priority corridor efforts. In general. The approach for the canned funding strategy is to use local funds for design and community engagement. We will generally seek external grant funds for construction where we can. We will use our repurposed local budget for some initial installation of prioritized design elements, such as the upgrades to Bike Lane protection in phase one of baseline that we just talked about. This will likely be the approach for Iris as well. But additional grant funds or local dollars may be required for the Iris Avenue Initial construction budget. Once project design is initiated, and those corridor needs and feasibility. Considerations are explored in greater detail

[136:06] pending the results of the Dr. Cog Tip call for application to be submitted in January, Um. For the Folsom Street design and community engagement staff are considering how to initiate design on this corridor in the event that this application is not successful. In that case, staff would consider requesting funds in the two thousand and twenty-four departmental budget, or seek future grant funding opportunities. So we've really focused a majority of our grant efforts this year in response to the can. Most, if not all, of our Grant pursuits relate directly to can corridors. For example, the cycles of Dr. Cog tip are focusing on key connections in the cans, such as Thirtieth, Colorado and Folsom. Considering the projects that have been recently implemented, or are already in final design. We've made tremendous progress on securing the future of these efforts,

[137:04] and we've secured over six million and Grant funding for the can. So far this year, in two thousand and twenty-two, and we're hopeful that our applications for our remaining corridor segments are successful as well. Other external grant opportunities on the horizon could offer additional funding for remaining can corridors, such as the Federal safe streets for all C. Dots, transportation alternatives, program or tab revitalizing main streets, safe routes to School and the Federal Highway Safety improvement program. H Sip um grant funding opportunities, and we'll continue to look for moments where we can integrate can work with our ongoing programs, such as pavement management and vision zero. So, as we mentioned earlier, if our tip call for application is successful for fulsome, we will see that funding become available to start that effort up in quarter four of twenty, twenty-four. As as soon as that time which pushes this chord, or a little further out on our work plan schedule

[138:08] for consideration tonight. We'd like to hear top feedback on the idea that we discussed in the memo to advance the downtown mobility study a little sooner. It was previously slated to start in two thousand and twenty-four, to sync up with other city planning efforts around downtown, um but we could get a head start on this toward the end of next year, if our schedule on Folsom is relaxed, while we do not have funding secured for the downtown mobility study just yet. That is something that we can look into Once we have a better sense of timing, so we would need to request local funds for that study in twenty, twenty-three or twenty twenty-four. All right. Now let's talk about the overall immediate next steps, for the can initiative we will be continuing work on baseline gearing up for Iris and assembling our tip, call three and call for applications, and in November we look forward to visiting council for a study session on the Cam.

[139:09] The tip call for abstracts. Um are currently due. Um for October twentieth. That's that's the call that Uh Folsom is in, and they will be discussed at the November fourteenth tech Forum meeting. So again we're interested in hearing feedback on the updated work plan this evening to inform our conversation with Council in November, and with that we're available to take your questions. Thank you, Valerie. It's overwhelming. How much is going on right now. Not used to that. And uh, I say, things have never felt um bless siloed like things. Everyone's coordinating in a way that it's really cool to see, and there'll definitely be some efficiencies that that come up that um I

[140:01] anyone have any feedback tila on like we're being asked on work, plan funding strategy. And then this overall progress. Thanks, Alex. Thank you, Valerie. I learned so much reading this part of the memo. It was great. Um, I I love the transparency. I love the chart at the end. Um! Where I can see where things were. We're planning um. Do you have any more detail about what the protective bike lane improvements in phase one on baseline are going to look like. Are we talking cement? You're talking test in place stuff? Are we talking better flexible followed. So you don't you don't want to say yet, you know. Thanks for that question, Tila. That is exactly what we're looking into right now, as we move from pre design into conceptual design, and we're, you know, taking it to heart. All that community feedback that I mentioned earlier tonight. Um, I I think we are moving away from the white, flexible delineators, as the you know, um primary treatment for our bike lane protection on this corridor. Um, as I mentioned, we um, we have limited dollars, right? So we may need to prioritize where we

[141:16] we can implement that um upgraded protective element in phase. One, so it may end up being that there are locations that will still use the white delineators, the white posts. Um, as um, you know kind of an interim measure until we are able to start work on our phase. Two project where we can really truly complete the full length of the corridor. Um. So in phase one you may see a combination of um more hardened materials. Um, we're still working through what those those exact materials will be. We're thinking about different feasibility considerations. The flood plane. Um, that's there along the corridor. We're thinking about um maintenance. Um considerations a a lot of of factors. Um, So it will be something um more physically protective, such as a a curb or concrete element. Um that we would like to implement in strategic locations for phase one. So in in those locations we are

[142:13] looking at our community feedback to help us inform where that might, you know, be um best applied, you know, plus our our design judgment. Okay, Good hedge. Good hedge. Um, that's uh that's really encouraging. Um. I know that as part of uh Alex's tinkering with the design here that he's been um advocating uh some floating bus islands where the bike lane goes behind them. And so I guess one thing i'm wondering is is that something we think we're going to test out, as you know, to feel out um as part of phase one. Or is that something that staff is not going to pursue. Or is that something we think we might pursue in phase two at this time looking at the available budget um, and then the timeline for um, the resurfacing that we'd like to to, you know, meet up with next year for implementation um things like reorganizing the street um things like floating bus. Silence would definitely fall more into the category of phase. Two elements.

[143:18] Okay, I'm always seeking to try to not undo good work that you do so. That's the basis of my question. Like. Was there a way to to try out the geometry, even if we couldn't get things um as a solid uh infrastructure, wise as we might like to. So it sounds like there's not too much appetite for that unless we have full funding. Is that fair? Yeah, I think those that type of design element is a more capital, intensive endeavor. Um, Not something. You can necessarily um test out in a kind of interim phase like phase one certainly not in a forty mile an hour for Lane Highway. Okay, um. I had a question about the downtown mobility study. Uh, these are these are words that I've heard before. It's been a you know, one of many items on a work plan sort of distant in the future

[144:11] for years. Um! Is it rising to the top at the moment, Partly because of Council's interest in West Pearl? Or is it? Was it kind of already due to come up pretty soon, anyway. Is there any connection with um What now? We described as a light touch on on thinking about how to um reconfigure West Prol potentially for next summer. Get me to take this one, Valerie here. Okay, Um, yeah, I think there's we. We were looking at the work plan, and there's certainly um as you kind of look at future work items that one made sense for a couple of reasons, um, and and also given just the conversation and focus around downtown. I mean, aside from West pro, there's a lot that will be kind of um

[145:02] on the communities radar as far as improvements to downtown and looking at like the civic area. And um some of the projects that P. And Ds. Has. They'll be coming um to Council in November to have a conversation about work, plan priorities, or to start that conversation with Council around work, plan priorities, and some of the projects um that will be discussed then kind of fall in the downtown civic area, scope, um. And And so, for kind of those reasons and organizationally, it potentially makes sense that we're also talking about transportation and mobility in the downtown at the same time. Um, there's also, of course, kind of everything going on with the University and looking at connections to the hill and the university. Um! So I think there's just a lot going on, and it just might be an opportunity as a community that we start thinking about downtown mobility. Um. So we you know we certainly don't really have a defined scope of what that project would look like That's what we need to start talking about over the next few months. Um, but wanted to just get a sense from Tab does.

[146:15] Do you know, kind of given that. Does that potentially make sense to you as well as far as timing for that work? Okay, That last sentence was so useful, Natalie. Thank you. Um, because you're right. There's a whole lot of moving parts. Um, And you know there's a whole like civic area revitalization and all the work, you know, around the the the creek, and I I guess what I was trying to figure out is like What is the added value, or what have we not been looking at? You know this curbside management part of Am. So we didn't really talk about it in the last last, but with with community vitality. But there, there's so much effort. Um! That has already happened, and thinking that's been happening around different downtown things. Um the the bus station all of this. So i'm just really wondering what would a downtown mobility study

[147:07] give us that we don't already kind of have in the works based on all these other moving parts that are already kind of underway. That's what I don't understand. That's why I can't tell if I support something or not, because it feels like planning to plan what we're actually got the wheels moving on some of these things. Oh, go ahead. I I could maybe speak to why it was included in can. In the first place, we we have all these individual efforts that are looking at very specific things, but we haven't taken a big step back. It feels like in in many decades things like, Do we want to have two way streets and downtown instead of the one way Loop the Tmp calls for things like um protected by claims along the the one way loop around the Mall. That would have huge impact on access to business parking.

[148:03] Um! There's not a dedicated bikeway connection to the downtown bus station. And then in recent years, we've learned all about outdoor dining parklets even before the pandemic and it's hard to implement one thing without impacting other things, and without taking a a big step back, having a um, probably more of a goal oriented process than it than an outcome specific process. I think we'll be able to figure out how to make all of these things work together like Thirteenth Street alone is so complex with How do you connect people from the hill to downtown? How do we make that in the context of the East and civic area work. How do we expand the neighborhood? Green Street through there, while also managing, parking and pick up, drop off, and everything So that's that's interesting, because you know as a where the core to network, you know, impetus came from was like the the crash data. And uh, you know how much more dangerous the streets are, and this was, you know, sort of an outlier like. What is this doing here? So that's helpful. Thank you, Alex.

[149:17] Place making and and just thinking bigger than we do any of these individual. We're going to raise the price of parking fifty cents like. What if we shut this down to traffic entirely. What if we convert this to a two way street and put a two way cycle track on it like? But we we can't do those in the context of these these smaller plans. I would add, when I propose that I was not aware of the downtown visioning exercise that's wrapping up right now, or the um downtown boulder. Partnership, in conjunction to a degree with the city of Boulder, has thought through a a longer term vision for um what they hope to see downtown, and I think they couldn't be more perfect timing for us to now commence a study that looks at what happens in the public right of way and things through how we can support that effort. But then also all of our uh multimodal goals. And in the downtown area

[150:23] Tony Hi! Well, first of all, I'm really really excited about this um baseline project. I want to take it back there for a second um, and I as a person that uses that road as a commuter, as a cyclist, as a driver. I really really believe that, and I think it's the perfect time to you know for you guys to get this input. Those those polls do not make anybody feel safe, and even like from the videos that John shared. I mean, there was a a community member that does not feel safe and will not ride on that link, because, you know, the cars are going too fast. So there's a couple of things I mean. Speed management, obviously would be a part of the solution. But I think in thinking of putting something in to replace or to work along with those polls, I mean. And Becky may have some great suggestions for this.

[151:22] I mean, we have to think about something that will give that sense of security for the writers, I mean, I do not feel safe. And a lot of, For example, my my child, we're on the other side of um Broadway. So he would have to ride like you said all these intricate ways, so he would avoid baseline. There is absolutely no way on earth that I would let him write on baseline, and I think that's the thing that we have to kind of avoid. Um. We have to get people where they're very comfortable and happy, and say, Yeah, my child can go down, Baseline, and there's no issue.

[152:00] So that's my two cents. But so and and long term. Just to think of something more permanent, instead of investing on something that just might be there for a little while, until face two comes along. I don't know. I think it's worth thinking about, thanks Tony. Probably with the four million dollar budget we can, We can do something more than plastic. Yeah, any other feedback from Tab Becky. There you go. Um, I I I don't have a lot to add just that. Yeah, i'm very enthusiastic about everything this year, and I really appreciate all the integration of the resources to to focus on these on these projects. So um, you know, so thoughtful and comprehensive. Yeah, really i'm really excited for it. Um. And um, I support the um suggestion to move the downtown mobility study earlier for a lot of the reasons that um, Alex mentioned.

[153:10] Yeah, I also just wanted to to congratulate. Uh now, in gallery uh, and getting so much accomplished on such an important um project, and not a lot of time. Um, this is really exciting. Uh, and it's just the foundation that has got um a lot a lot a lot to expand from. So, anyway, I just. I am grateful for you all working on this. And then there's a whole department behind it, and um uh, I think it's really exciting. Um, I what that was going to be the end. But I wanted to also. Uh plus one on what I trying to set about um just imagining i'm imagining kids on it. And I you know I i'm not i'm not i'm sure. Valerie and the team are think, looking at this kind of the consideration. But um, you know to to the extent that um this that uh nearby residents have uh an important voice. Um, I I think there's also the category of of folks who maybe don't live nearby there. But are um

[154:05] yeah, small, or feel, you know, particularly vulnerable, and they might need to go uh to school near near the area, or to pass through, and that you would just um give that a lot of um a lot weight uh, you know. So anyway, your thumbs up in me and i'm saying like super basic things. But uh so, anyway, plus one for the yeah, hardening that that that stuff as much possible. Thank you. Thanks. Trying hopefully. We can see something that really works for ages eight to eighty, like our Tmp stripes. For how about zero. Well, right sorry i'm taking stuff out of the thing. It like zero to one hundred with my. But anyway, Sorry, I know we had that. That's something else next to the update will be a little more ambitious. Um! My my hope with can is that it's it's transformative infrastructure, and I think in recent years we've seen how transformative e bikes can be, and I think there's a big opportunity here for those to um

[155:04] to work together, and the cities and a unique position to coordinate efforts to get micro mobility stationed up and down the core. The can network um in strategic locations like where we have um intersecting bicycle infrastructure or at transit stops, and so I hope, with especially with how um successful be cycle. It's been with. See you as a partner, and how how much their people utilize the network that the city can proactively identify places to incorporate stations that that are are logical, and can really get as many people as possible on the bikes, and open up all sorts of opportunities on our materials that aren't there today, Anything else from the tab, if not. Thank you, Valerie. I don't think you're going far. Um.

[156:03] So next up under matters from board we have a a regional transportation update. I I think Valerie actually wrapped that into her can update. Um, Sorry One second. Let me just bring my. I have another presentation for you this time. One second. Okay, Okay,

[157:03] sorry. One moment. All right. So um onto matters from staff. Um, This is um A quick update on the community engagement for tip call for this evening we will offer a quick update on um the next steps as well, and offer um a chance for your feedback on this stage of the process. So let's dive in talking about call for community engagement. As we reviewed with Tab in September. These are the four projects we are advancing for tip call cycle for, and these projects, if funded, will complete those key connections along the core, arterial network and address regional connectivity, the focus of that call cycle. All right. So since our last meeting in September staff have been assembling and producing the content that will be used in our community engagement, this includes postcard mailers in English and Spanish to notify folks in the individual project areas of the applications under consideration, an opportunity to review and provide feedback

[158:08] on demand informational video specific to each individual application that can be accessed online in English and Spanish and scheduling office hours for focused conversations with staff if desired. Another opportunity to provide feedback updates to our website, to explain the process and be a home base for information and a feedback form where members of the public can enter their comments for staff consideration. We will also issue a press release and city social media to direct further interest to our materials and for call to the camera and boulder recording lab featured this as an opportunity for public engagement, which was really great. So hoping to see that again as a reminder, we are seeking that high level feedback from communities in the project area on these concepts under consideration for advancing as part of the tip application, process and more robust community engagement for each individual project would commence. If these applications are successfully funded as part of the overall project development process,

[159:13] the on demand videos are intended to offer concise, easily digestible information about each application, and folks can watch one or all four at the time of their choosing so as many of the videos as they're interested in in English and Spanish, and this is the same approach as Tip call, to which we found to be very successful. The mailers themselves will also be in English and Spanish, and sent to residential and commercial addresses in the project areas, and our website will be the home base for it all. Um office hours will be available for those that are more comfortable interface interfacing with us on video or by phone um to discuss the projects.

[160:00] All right. Let's talk about next steps. At the moment while we conduct our community engagement staff are preparing abstract for the Dr. Cob Technical Advisory Committee review, and this will offer additional feedback from that tack on the applications, competitiveness, and technical aspects. In November we'll be bringing tab updates on the design refinement that we discussed in September with you all that aim to reduce cost and address your feedback at this time. We'll also hold a public hearing, and seek your formal recommendation to Council. The endorsement of Council is a required piece of the Dr. Cog Tip application process, then schedule for December. First we'll visit council for public hearing and their official endorsement following council endorsement, we will work swiftly to assemble the four applications by that January. Define with that we invite you all to offer your feedback on this stage of the process.

[161:05] Thanks, Valerie. Did you say that the tech meeting was on November fourteenth? That's right. Um. That is also the same day as our next tab meeting. Correct, I think that happened last time as well. Um, Ryan and I attended the last ten or the the tech meeting that coincided with the the call to um abstract review. I found it really interesting to learn um what all was going on around the county what other neighboring communities were thinking about, And then also hearing from the people who will ultimately be scoring these projects that we are going to Advice Council on to hear what what some of their thinking was. So i'll hope to attend that meeting on the fourteenth. Is there anyone else from Tab that'd be interested in joining me.

[162:00] Okay, I can keep an eye on the the counties website, and that an advanced meeting. Um i'll. I don't have anything else at this time look forward to seeing that revised projects next month. Any other questions or comments from Tab at this stage of the process. No feel like we on track, and we've had a few touches at this, so I think we'll be able to provide a some advice to counsel some confidence. Thanks, Valerie, and then to follow up. We've got a Federal funding opportunity update from Karen Slater. Hey, Alex, really quick! Just before we jump into this one. Um! I just wanted to. I meant to say this at the end of the can presentation, but just acknowledge um. I know Ryan had kind of thanked me and Valerie. Um. But really I just want to acknowledge all the work that our staff is doing, and I mean

[163:05] A. As I think you can tell from the presentation. It's a huge lift for our department, and everyone is really, you know, kind of all hands on deck. And so um! I just want to acknowledge that work, and and really just lift up the staff, because really they're the ones doing all of work, and I really want to lift them up and acknowledge them for that. So um, you know. Thank you for your support, and also, you know, want to make sure it goes to the right people that it feels like a bureaucracy stopped on a diamond pivoted, and as as organized as ever, so it's. It's been really impressive to see all hands on deck approach to this, and I just like to add Um! I had the same thought as Natalie. Um I wanted to mention uh, I just so appreciate the coordination across our management team. Um with Garrett, Slater, Devin, Joslin Scott select um. It's just fantastic to be able to collaborate with them, and um kind of orchestrate our efforts. Um across our teams. Um! And really the presentation tonight is just a package of all that excellent work our staff is doing. Um. It truly is in all hands on desk

[164:13] straight team happening in the department right now. And um! It is um just my privilege to be able to present this information. Are you ready for me to uh start? Yeah, sorry, Garrett. Take it away. Uh, i'm not sure who has the control, but i'm getting a message that says I am not allowed to screen share. Okay,

[165:00] all right, Hopefully, you can see. See the screen. Now, I see the presentation slide. Okay, great. Uh, Incidentally, I uh just want to know that the looks like the tech meeting is scheduled for November fifteenth at one Pm: and those meetings have been virtual. I expect that the next one will also be virtual. So uh, uh, and once we have the meeting link, they typically make that available to folks a few days in advance. We'll be happy to share that with Tab. All right, so i'm here to provide an update uh about the various Federal grant funding opportunities that uh, some of you know well, and uh, some of you may not know as well as new opportunities that uh have come forth in just the last year. Okay, so um, the grant opportunities that are familiar to many of you uh, including the ones that uh the the on the top row here. That, uh, Valerie has just noted that we're in. The midst of pursuing

[166:04] is the transportation improvement program, or the tip that comes through the Denver Regional Council of Governments, or Dr. Cog. This, uh, historically, has been our primary mechanism of funding medium to large size projects over the last thirty years, and it's uh is the primary way that Federal transportation funds flow uh from the Federal level down to local agencies. And uh, we compete for these funds every four years uh against uh, others in our Boulder County sub region, and they have been able to uh fund projects that are currently under construction and recently completed, like the Uh Colorado and thirtieth under past the Foothills Parkway under Pass and the Twenty Eighth Street uh multiuse path um, which uh it is, uh, partly completed, as as we've discussed in recent meetings, so uh the typical range of a of a tip project can be anywhere from one to uh six million uh it that that four to five million. It has been kind of an average project size. Another category comes through C. Dot, the Colorado department of transportation called transportation Alternatives program, and it it provides funding

[167:19] for multimodal type projects. Um and It is uh intended to implement sidewalk pedestrian bike way multi-use path and transit uh, basically non-motorized transportation infrastructure for local agencies. And So this is administered, like I said, by C dot it's smaller size projects So you'll typically see this in the three hundred thousand to one million range. And this is offered typically every three to four years and projects that have been funded by this opportunity in the past, include the Nineteenth Street multimodal project, which we hope to get under construction um early next year, and then the Forty-seventh street sidewalk multi-use path which we receive funding for to implement a pedestrian facility across forty-seven streets over the Bnsf railway,

[168:12] and the uh next category we've got is um uh the the highway safety improvement program, and it's uh it provides funding for, uh, mitigating locations with a a high crash history. And so locations that we have experienced uh funding include Broadway and really uh Colorado Regent. Um. We've also got signalized intersection enhancements that are forthcoming at Broadway, Baseline Folsom Pine and baseline and Mohawk and the Uh. There will be future opportunities for us to pursue a hip funding. And and as we continue work on the vision zero action plan. We expect that we'll be able to find additional funding to to provide mitigation for those areas outlined and the the the action plan. And So the uh uh, the the funding level on H sip again, is a a smaller level, typically in the three hundred thousand up to a one million dollar range,

[169:14] and we will certainly keep our eyes open for the next opportunity for for that here in the next couple of years, and then finally see for us to school is funding that allows for us to implement enhancements making for safer routes for schools primarily elementary and middle schools and recent projects that we've been able to implement, include the Hanover Avenue multi-use path and the Lee high quarter that was completed this year, and we'll be pursuing funding a seafrost to school project near Manhattan Middle School here for applications that are due in November. Okay. Um. So that's kind of an overview of the projects we currently have. Um!

[170:00] I I hate to do this. Um, we're in a public forum, but i'm the only person on my house, and my dog is screaming for me to let him out at the moment. Um! If you can bear with me for thirty seconds, I would really like to avoid a major accident in my kitchen right now, so i'll be right back. Someone want to hum the like uh the jeopardy song when they're writing down their answers. You know I will. I will actually um talk about the work for a second, if that's okay. Um something Garrett mentioned, and we didn't mention our can presentation. Is that Manhattan Middle School safe routes. Application um is very much connected to our our baseline quarter just um east of there. So um something that I wanted to mention we're coordinating on. I also wanted to know. I saw a messages about a um, an event happening this Wednesday to celebrate the Lehigh

[171:06] Um Project finishing, and I don't know if if a tab member is able to attend that i'm attending to T left. Okay, Thank you. Excellent. That's good. Yeah, It's part of the walk enrolled. Right? Yeah, Okay, great. I just wanted to make sure somebody from Tab was there. So that's great. You can go. Thank you. Yeah, i'll be there cool. All right. Nice job talking amongst yourselves. Thank you. And as you're all aware, and the last year there's been a significant amount of infrastructure funding made possible by the Biden administration for communities all across America, and there are a variety of programs by which this funding is being placed and made available into various categories which you can see on this slide

[172:06] and um. So there are a variety of these categories that are applicable to the type of work that we are engaged with in boulder, and others that are not. And so I put some boxes around the different categories of categories That will um! What would we will be pursuing and keeping our eye on, and we'll do uh do a little bit of a dive into each of these areas now. So um! The first one is transit oriented development, the next is safe streets for all. The next category is the bridge investment program. Then we have the reconnecting communities pilot program, and then finally strengthening mobility and revolutionizing transportation. Grant, I um wonder how long and hard a group of interns worked to come up with the smart acronym for that particular category.

[173:00] Oh, all right. So uh the uh, the first category of transit oriented development. This is a Grant opportunity to make planning, funding possible for communities interested in um, providing multimodal connectivity and accessibility to transit hubs and transit multimodal areas. And I think the the example of how funding in this category would be applicable to Boulder would be the type of work that's taken place in the Bowler Junction. So um! If we were to um say, look at expanding Boulder Junction into Phase two, and I think we are um. This would be a potential source of funding. And again, This is for planning only, not for actual uh construction or infrastructure implementation, but for planning. And, as you can see, there's been funding identified at approximately thirteen to fourteen million dollars per year um from twenty-two out to two thousand and twenty-six

[174:04] and um they're also looking for opportunities to include private sector participation, which is also the model that took place with Boulder Junction base one where there was both public and private investment, and the adjacent land uses to bring the transit or in a development um vision come to fruition. So we are working with our partners in the planning and Development Services Department, who are engaged with initiating the Boulder Junction phase two where there may be opportunities for for pursuing funding. And this category of Federal grant projects The next category is six streets for all this one has been getting a lot of attention, and the uh, the vision zero communities and the um. The purpose of this is to provide funding for um division zero projects, which we know is the the goal is preventing death and serious injuries on our streets and communities.

[175:02] This has been funded at one billion dollars annually from two thousand and twenty-two, to two thousand and twenty-six and there are two categories of projects. There's action, plans, and implementation grants so um. In order to pursue an implementation. Grant, you have to have a certified vision Zero Action plan by september fifteenth of two thousand and twenty-two our vision. Zero action plan is currently in process, so that precluded us from being able to pursue implementation funding in two thousand and twenty-two. The good news is that there's one billion dollars available annually from twenty-three all the way through twenty-six, and our action plan will be completed before the call for projects in two thousand and twenty-three, and so there will be a ample opportunity for us to be able to pursue um funding for implementing vision zero actions and um safe streets over the next several years.

[176:02] Um! And uh one of the uh in the two thousand and twenty-two It was noted that uh recognizing that a lot of communities. Don't have action plans. They wanted a larger portion of the project funding, or this we need the Grant funding, going toward planning rather than uh implementation grants. So um expected sizes of projects. So a minimum grant size for implementation is five million dollars all the way up to thirty million dollars uh for A for the category that we're in for. So that's the political subdivision of a State and the minimum That local match is twenty uh against an eighty percent Grant, and no more than fifteen percent of the funds can be worked at projects in a single state in a in a given year, which I wouldn't expect to be a problem. Uh, I don't see that Colorado is likely to get one hundred and fifty million dollars year after year after year. So. Um the uh we did actually explore working on pursuing an implementation Um, our grant um for doing some of the treatments that we know that we have um some work to to be done on,

[177:20] and um the the challenge with the minimum grant of five million dollars that it was a challenge to get to that level. So um, we feel more competent about our ability to be able to get there in the next year or so with the pursuit of an implementation grant, and one of the things that we'll be exploring is a potential regional partnership and conjunction with Dr. Cog and our other communities in the Boulder County region, where we would be able to put together a suite or a package of various projects that would help us get to a a, a a a scope of work that reaches that five million dollars threshold.

[178:01] One of the key aspects that was um apparent. And um, if if you're looking for an interesting way to spend time, and your hobby is traffic safety. Um! There are a host of webinars on the safe streets for all website, and what you'll learn from the Grant opportunity uh webinars is that this is very much a data-driven uh selection. Process. They are going to be doing most of the scoring based off your ability to directly miss um safety concerns through um uh to through treatments that are documented, and um and and implementing safe streets. So uh, it's important that we have the data from our uh from our efforts to be able to incorporate into implementation grants. So uh the four selection criteria. For when we are um getting ready for pursuit is the ability to demonstrate a a safety impact as well as excuse me. Other categories of equity, effective practices and strategies, and then climate, sustainability and economic competitiveness.

[179:14] All right. The next category is bridge investment program. So the uh main criteria that's going to be a challenge for the City of Boulder. Here is that in order to get funding the bridge that is in need of funding needs to be on the National Bridge inventory and be in poor condition. So we have, uh, approximately, I think, sixty to seventy um bridges that are on the National Bridge inventory, and to clarify what that means is these are not bridges that are on the State highway system. So um uh, for example, um Twenty Eighth Street over Boulder Creek is not a city of Boulder Bridge. That's a A. C. Dot bridge. It is on the National Bridge inventory, but it's not a city bridge on the National Bridge inventory a a bridge, a a a city bridge that is on the National Bridge Inventory would be like a Folsom over Goose Creek because that's a a major structure that it's not on a State highway.

[180:16] Um, most. The The situation we're in is that in order to be on the National Bridge inventory. The bridge span has to be twenty feet or greater, and most of our bridges are there in really poor condition, have spans that are in the eight to twenty feet range, so that precludes them from this funding eligibility, and a prime example of that is the central Avenue bridge replacement that is included in the culture community resiliency and safety tax, and it um will uh be a a bridge that has a span greater than twenty feet when it's done, but today it has a span of um. I think it's six or seven feet, and it's the worst performing bridge in the in the city. So uh it's uh. It's very small, but it's in very, very poor condition. So it's ineligible for funding um. So it's unlikely that in the next four years that we will see one of our our national bridge. Inventory structures fall into a state

[181:16] of this repaired to where it will qualify for this funding. But if the criteria should open up on to other types of bridges and structures that absolutely will be looking to pursue that type of funding, the next category is the reconnecting communities pilot program, and the purpose of this grant category is to connect communities that have been bifurcated with highways or rail lines or transportation facilities. Um! So you think uh of uh foothills, Parkway, and the way it has um separated the community. Uh, And so this is a uh a an effort to try to reconnect the fabric of a community. Um that has been um separated with transportation facilities, So an eligible facility would be a transit line a viaduct um A highway arterial collector um not eligible would be um river streams, lakes, um water, pipeline, infrastructure.

[182:18] Um. So uh, you might think uh on a large large scale the uh the work that's been done, and North Denver area to uh put I seventy in a tunnel and put a park on top. That's a prime prime example that, uh, they actually have used for this reconnecting communities pilot program more locally and close to home. One example of a project that we might pursue is uh, we were successful in getting funding for the replacement of of the the overpass at foothills in Colorado, and um replacing with an underpass. And so uh, we still have a ped bridge at foothills in Sue that we know It's got about ten years of life left in it, and when it goes uh, we uh might not be in a situation where C. Dot, who owns that bridge would be willing to replace it. So it would create a barrier uh there in that stretch of Foot Hills Parkway. So this would be a potential source of funding. And that's just one example, there might be others that that come to mind.

[183:16] One of the challenges here with this one is that on capital construction grants it requires a fifty fifty split. So that means your minimum project. Size has to be ten million dollars for a construction project which we have a a project right now greater than ten million with the Thirty is in Colorado, but those types of projects are far and few between for us and with our focus on the the can network. Uh, I would say that uh the the ability to pursue a ten million dollar project is going to be uh uh It's gonna have to be a unique opportunity unless this particular set of criteria changes. Um. The planning grants under the Rcp program are a little more favorable, and that there is no minimum. And um, it's an eighty twenty split. So if we do identify potential ideas uh, we would be able to pursue planning grants to be able to identify solutions and and plan

[184:14] and preliminary designs, but not pursue construction. And then, finally, the smart grant category um, And this is uh funding to uh help make our transportation network smarter, and this is consistent with efforts that are already a foot to interconnect our signal systems. Um! That we already have funding for via Dr. Cod grants with regional technology for transportation, and this would further those opportunities. One hundred million dollars a year has been made available to provide funding for can connected vehicles, automation, smart grid, um and uh, various types of systems integration. So uh, as we continue the work of connecting all all of our traffic signals to the city broadband fiber, this currently being installed, Then there will be uh opportunities here also for the city to uh, to make our system even smarter.

[185:13] So that's an overview of all the uh, the bil the by infrastructure bipartisan infrastructure law uh opportunities, and just to provide a snapshot of where we're at with our capacity to potentially pursue some of these other grant opportunities that are brand new to us. Here is a summary of where we currently stand. So the top two rows or categories rather show, but the the the results of tip call one and tip. Call to, and then we have tip call three uh so call three is for as a regional call for projects Uh, so we are working in partnership with the city of Broomfield on the highway seven um corridor, which would go from um Boulder to Brighton, and our segment of that pursuit would provide funding for final design from foothills to sixty-threerd and um. So we will have that application submitted tomorrow

[186:11] at three o'clock uh with room filled is the sponsor, and they've done a great job working regionally with Boulder County, Lafayette, Lewisville, and Adams County, and Thornton, as well as ourselves, to bring that application um to to its final stages. We are also working in conjunction with Boulder County, who is leading the way on Highway Seven starter transit service that would provide dedicated transit between Boulder and Brighton along the highway seven corridor, and they have asked the city of Boulder to to contribute to one hundred thousand dollars, with a one hundred thousand dollars and twenty-seven. If that's funded. It would bring nine point three million dollars in transit service to to the region for those two years as sort of a starter, and, if demonstrated to be successful. The hope is that C. Dot would take it over via their busting uh opportunities.

[187:05] And then, finally, we have the highway one hundred and nineteen Brt person vital miles projects that will be getting submitted tomorrow, and that's being in done in conjunction with the city of Longmont to make connections and enhancements to um the one hundred and nineteen trunk line um for brt service, including trans signal service, priority and uh bikeway connection and enhancement. So these numbers uh on um. The one hundred and nineteen brt are still in flux, even as of this evening. I've been changing emails with our our partners in Longmont, as we try to hone in on what final numbers are going to be. Um, because we want to make this competitive uh we're getting input from Um Boler County on this application also, but that's where they were, as of uh this morning that they they they're likely to change downward just a bit. Um, And then finally, we have to call for projects. So uh Folsom uh West Colorado thirtieth uh are all shown on here, and when you look at the um demands of our line. Item funding uh what we have available is here on the top row. So in twenty-three, six hundred and fifty thousand and twenty-four, three million, three million, three million, and all the way up to twenty-seven, three point two million.

[188:22] Our local match numbers. If every one of these was funded, which they won't be. But if every one of them were funded, shows uh what the requirement would be at the bottom, and then what we would have remaining in these out years. So what that shows us is that we have um ample capacity to continue to pursue bil infrastructure grants as well as future H s tap and um safe routes, opportunity um grants, and and and if none of those come to fruition um that both these funds could be used directly as city funds on implementing can corridor work. Um, Obviously the goal is to turn our dimes and quarters into dollars. Um. But if we're unsuccessful doing that, then we will spend our dimes and quarters on implementing the can um. But to demonstrate the power of leveraging our funds. If all of these projects were to be funded, as shown, we would be putting in five point. Eight

[189:21] million dollars is, which is what you can see here, and return of thirty-three million dollars, which is, that would be just. I I mean that that that that level of of of leverage and funding and that that magnitude would be a a home run, and then some. So even if we I only get part of the way there it's It's a lot to feel good about in terms of our ability to be able to implement the can quarters through the the These. These tip opportunities, as well as the safe streets for all opportunities that are going to be forthcoming. So um! That's a brief overview of the funding opportunities we've got, and we're at, and i'm happy to answer any questions You've got.

[190:06] Thanks here, deal. Thanks, Gary. Uh! On the very last slide. I was really confused. I'm like aren't there. Four projects in tip call number four. There's a thirtieth and a rappho right there is, and I think um my my spreadsheet uh hit hit it. Um! So my apologies, I mean, I'm not going to re crunch the numbers at all, but I was just wondering if I was missing something, and the other one, I think I was wondering um if I was missing, was you said we couldn't apply for vision Zero action plan implementation funding because we can have a vision zero action plan. I know. I'm. I'm aware that Devin has been working on um an update to our vision Zero Action plan. But we did have a vision Zero action plan attached to the two thousand and nineteen say streets report right? So

[191:01] did it not meet some criteria. What? Why, why are we precluded from from moving ahead on that. So we have to. So you There's a self certification procedure that you go through in order to demonstrate that you have a vision zero action plan, and because we currently have one that's being updated, we thought it would have made sense to hold off on that. But we we actually did. Uh, we. We had conversations with other folks, including it, Dr. Cog, where we talked about the idea of trying to put together a small scale. Um sort of implementation, Grant. Um! But uh, there the the feeling from uh a and a number of folks was that we just weren't in a place where we were ready to pursue it right now. Um, and um, so it it got deferred. Uh, yeah, and i'll, i'll add deala. We had extensive conversation as a department um on this, and whether or not we should go for the Ss. For a this year. Um! It was a mix of, you know. We were in the middle of the visions or action plan update. We think we'll be more competitive once we complete that. Um, we've done a lot from the last action plan. We've made a lot of those um, you know, investments that we identified and lost action plan,

[192:19] and and then also it came down to staffing capacity when there, when there was an opportunity to potentially be a part of a regional coalition with Dr. Cog, we considered being a part of that, and we were willing to kind of like go in with the region if that was something that they were going to help do the leg work on. Um. But when they ultimately kind of pulled back from that approach for this year. Um, we decided from a staffing capacity standpoint. We couldn't kind of go out on our own right now. Okay, thank you. Do you have something? Um, no. I just wanted to thank everybody in the city for being so alert. I was. I wrote in the chat, because before you guys presented the smart grant, it was like the smart. Please look into this work right, but you guys are on top of it. And you know, thank you, because that's a lot of money.

[193:16] Yeah. And I just wanna highlight, You know we've been talking about all of this, and Garrett has been kind of shepherding, all doing all the research and making sure that we're kind of ready to go when um when opportunities present themselves, and and obviously from a funding capacity, making sure that we have the local funding dollars to be able to um come to the table. And and I think the um. You know we had identified this as a work plan item, to make sure that we're focused on, or our work plan priority that to make sure we're It's focused on in two thousand and twenty-two. And so I thought it was just be helpful for you all to get an update on that to understand that it certainly is on our radar. And as we go into two thousand and twenty-three, we'll be paying attention and going after opportunities where it makes sense

[194:01] Now, would it be appropriate? And I mean, this is kind of maybe um over the top. But would it be appropriate if I learn of things. Could I let you know Garrett or you, Natalie? I mean because i'm constantly. I mean, for whatever reason, yeah, definitely feel free. Yeah, i'll share anything else. You hear it, You, Natalie, Are there any other matters from Staff? I don't think so. I think we're good. Thank you for the it's really that we have a matter from the board that's on the agenda. But Tilor requested that we speak about the safety concerns at the intersection of Broadway and Grand View as a part of the Hill Hotel redevelopment til do you want to kick us off with a little context and a little bit about the concerns.

[195:02] Sure, Thank you, Alex. Um. Thanks for including that. Um, I actually don't have any prepared comments uh It's been a lot of moving parts and a lot of developments a lot of talking this week. Um, Brad, i'm glad that we were able to talk about this last week with the community cycles. I had some. You know questions that, and you were very um diligent, uh, and and kind of catching up on the background. Um, I don't know how much Tab is aware of where the project is at, and I don't want to mischaracterize it so really as to tell us where we're like. Procedurally, things are. But there's been a lot of questions about whether um city council or uh the city manager have any Um, what? What level of input what level of approval that they can um provide. But I just in the interest of saying the city city agencies, we serve

[196:00] this community and the residents, including the students um of of the City of Boulder and top of mine is to preserve public safety. Um! I am mindful, and I think it is entirely accurate the observations that Martha is Kowski um raised in her um recent letter to the editor in the folder camera. Um, and the daily camera. And it is true that the University says this is an existing conflict point in the existing problem, but the proposed development um includes sort of a twenty-two fold uh increase in the likelihood of of conflicts and interactions, and I think that is worthy of um some better and more um uh candid. I suppose conversations about that impact and those potential um conflicts, and whether that means that we need to reconsider how to manage access to the site. Um. I am also aware of the revised transportation study.

[197:05] Um, and in the interest of simply offering advice as a member of Tab to various city staff. Uh, and by virtue of them, you know, through them to the the city manager's office. Um! It is clear to me that that revised transportation study um was requested by Cu. Um or limelight. Um with very clear boundaries that included, not looking at um University as an access point, and appears to have instructed them, or failed to instruct them to include consideration of the multi-use path as an existing transportation facility. That this development would be impacting um That ladder, I think, is pretty egregious. The former, I think, is probably tactically smart of them, you know, as an attorney to not want to look at, and things that they really don't want to look at, but to deliberately on a second study, ignore an existing transportation facility that is pretty important has been flagged. Um tells me that I I think that the city ought to be asking, see you for a more appropriate and complete transportation study

[198:16] before making any decision on a right of way. Um permit. So I kind of wanted to open it up there. Um, I know Brad and Natalie Um. Various members of of the public and Tab and Planning Board have been involved for over a year and thinking about this. Um. But the urgency, I think, is not misplaced. Um, because we are making real preparation to to break ground here. I know that the my memorandum agreement has been revised, and so they have until something like twenty-seven now to to finish the project. But Um, ignoring some significant um transportation facilities and transportation concerns under the guys revising um. They're looking at um transportation impacts on a transportation study. I think

[199:05] it's it's beyond time for tab to weigh in and say this, that these can. These concerns are valid, and I would just like to have a general airing of those concerns in the attempt to um sort of advise Staff about how to negotiate a little bit better with you going forward? Thanks, Tila. Is there anything from the staff and this side of things that would help us understand where you think things stand now? And um, maybe that could help inform what we as a board try to do. Sure Um thanks, Alex. I'll. I'll just speak up, but I want to make sure that uh defer to Natalie. If she wants to speak first, and she and

[200:07] yeah, absolutely feel free. Thank you. But just to step back and be a little philosophical for a moment. Um been listening to the whole meeting this evening. Um, these are all things that we as care about. And are they integrated in? So um um comments that, namely, and others have made um, in which I'm. Hopefully repeating, which is

[201:01] both operating principle uh throughout my career and um also um, my my practice and my experience and and I appreciate walking into an organization that's committed to not having Silos um sharing and working together on things. And um i'm not trying to up to state or be up to in in providing this um context or or answer at this point. But the staff received this resubmal I last week, so um! I dare say that. Um

[202:06] um, but I can't say for certain that staff in Development review, because um, but I do uh, but I certainly am committed to Yeah. And confident in saying that we will be giving it a hard luck. Uh: we've heard input uh, we share some of the same observations and concerns that have been raised, which may be too low, or uh so alluded to. Um Friday uh to go over that,

[203:01] and uh, and we'll gladly take that input uh in terms of uh access points and uh reactions to the latest iteration of the study. Um. We have been informed that So you doesn't plan to break ground any earlier than December. Um, and very possibly later than that. Um, So this sense uh uh uncertainty, which I was feeling as well about how quickly things were moving is a little bit of aated. But first December is right around the corner as well, and and we certainly are. There's a little bit of a breath to to continue what is by necessity and iterative process.

[204:01] Um! I know that there's been some um uh, i'm going to try to speak to that as as directly as possible. Uh so I hope this doesn't sound um inappropriately bureaucratic um. One of the things that we have to be very careful of as administrators of regulations, and the rules, especially the role of buzz a judicial and non-fluous. I do judicial is um uh situations that don't exist. Um! The right of way permit that we are processing, and the review of of construction drawings

[205:05] counseled by the planning board tab for formal review and input. Um, we start to get into a situation where uh other entities that would be reviewed, or other entities that would be looking at other entities being reviewed, and we are always accepting your comments, whether it's written letters sitting down through them here in the world. Feedback that type of thing. That's certainly what we're committed to doing in this case. Uh, the process of Development Review is a tough one in terms of

[206:09] uh, what can be managing design uh proposals against various standards, and and we will continue to do our best to balance all those things. So I I I to give a very thorough explanation, which I hope. Um, yeah, nine, thirty didn't sound bureaucratic, but rather um as transparent and honest as possible. And i'm i'm happy to answer any questions or take any feedback at this point. It's bread. Becky. Yeah, thanks. Um. I appreciate you being here to speak to this. Um, I guess I I would say i'm having a hard time like keeping track of all the details about this um particular project. Um, but I guess my general feeling is that um

[207:07] like if it's going to be really hard to our existing processes to ensure the safety of this intersection, then that just raises a lot of questions for me about what in the processes are making it hard to to ensure safety, you know, through like after this development. Um, which seems like a bigger, a bigger issue, like if it's affecting this spot, then it's probably affecting other places in the city. And I do you know, believe that vision achieving vision here is going to require that it is embedded throughout all of our departmental work, you know, not just in transportation, but in community vitality and planning, and every other department that touches it, even just tangentially. So that that's just sort of by my thought, without kind of knowing exactly where all the pieces of this process are at this moment. Yeah, I appreciate that feedback, you know, I think, is a matter of

[208:02] standard uh the street standards and the see standards, and also come into play here. But certainly the city's adopted standards. All are focused around the idea of safety. First Um. Safety and mobility are uh intertwined, as as you all appreciate, any outcome would be approved. That would the uh certainly deliberately unsafe, and certainly um would expect that it meet or exceeds standards which are by design for safety. But but but that has been, you know, the chief question raised, and my expectation of both myself and

[209:01] Staff City staff across the across the organization. Is that Um! That is the first and foremost lens through which we ask part questions of any applicant. Uh, you know I alluded to design being that. I remember when I was in graduate school, and taking design some design courses, just the where you punch the balloon, and where it sticks out. So it is that, and that one to make sense. But um, it's safety that that that is the critical point, to be sure. So. Um, I don't know if you've been able to review some of the commentary that our friends that community cycles have provided, and all the analysis that they've done.

[210:05] And I mean that demonstrates that there's a lot of things that we really really need to think through. And like, Becky said, I mean the utmost priority should be our safety, Everybody, safety. And yeah, um. So I appreciate that. And and you know, in full honesty. I even reviewed all those comments personally, but I I know Staff has. I'll continue, ask questions and and continue to get up to speed on that. So thank you. Tila. Thanks, Alex. Um, Fred, can you help me understand? Uh, what leeway does the city of Boulder have in reviewing the right of way, permit application to say your

[211:03] transportation study is insufficient, or it is in it. It does doesn't cover what we need it to cover. Do you have the ability, if you, if you end up, agreeing that they should have included some analysis of that multi-use path as a transportation facility abiding the property. Can You hold their application in advance until they go back and reconsider that? Or is that something that is not within your party? You know. Tila, This is where i'm going to have to acknowledged my role as being relatively new. My response on this But, uh, my whole career is based around um permits, and um approval is being based on complete or compliance with the set of codes or exceeding compliance of that. So

[212:01] uh, in my you know experience in many years that means asking for the right information to get it. So when they have submitted a traffic study, do you have firm footing to say traffic includes, multi-use path traffic, And that's where my lack of experience here. I I just don't know what the community standard is in that regard, and but I think we, you know we fall back on past practice. Right? We We have to be consistent in what we've done in the past. Um, but you know there there are a a wide range of um priorities that we are expected to meet um both in the transportation master Plan

[213:00] and um, Okay, Well, I appreciate that. I also understand. You know. See you. There is no deference to the city's transportation, master Plan. Um. So you has its own transportation, master plan, of course. Um, but we do, I think, still have some leverage in the city code that says that we get to um Preserve the public safety, for instance, and I would just be who I know that you would hate to be in the position where you had a chance to protect the public interest and the public safety, and we're not able to do so. Um, or advise that it it wasn't feasible for you to do so, and someone gets hurt or killed. Yeah, um, with all equal seriousness that

[214:01] you know literally twenty plus years in my career. But then thinking about that, whether it was uh intersection with traffic or with other um land uses and competing land uses that whether it's electromagnetic radiation or um I do, I have to say, unless somebody corrects me. I I think. See you is required to show difference to the transportation master Plan in as much as um. That plan is reflected in the standards that we review for an access uh permit, or right away from that and the uh uh construction drawings for uh, maybe just maybe it's semantics. But you know that's It's my

[215:00] yeah. Well, you know. But our transportation master plan gets updated about every five years, and we've just talked last month at Tab about the first um update to our our cities designing construction standards. And uh, who remembers fifteen years seventeen or something like that. So uh it lags. It lags. Yeah, And i'll tell you that's a that's a reality and development review across the board. Right? The sewer standards are. I know that as a city we um, or on top of that we try to be on the on the tip of the spear for those two. Uh, frankly, just my experience along the front range and beyond is that folder is very much out in front of adopting the cutting edge standards and such. But

[216:01] um, you know, there will always be a new invention. And, for example, you know I just wanted to add something really quickly. Um, I know that we're kind of running over. But um the multi-use path cannot be um undefined, or it cannot not be taken into consideration in this particular intersection. It the the flow of traffic that goes through on a daily basis. It connects kids that come from boulder high um downtown to South Folder. It connects a lot of kids that are going traveling um from See you back and forth. There's so many people unlike to us, said, I mean, you really don't want to be in a position where later on, you say? Well, I could have saved someone's life. It goes ultimately. But anyway, that's just It's not any intersection that we're just speaking of. It's a very, very heavy traffic.

[217:07] All sorts of statement. That that's not being considered. I don't personally understand how it couldn't be, because that's That's kind of what you do when you look at intersections. But our designing construction standards uh specify what is supposed to be included in a traffic study and Section two point zero, two, and one of the early requirements is to identify the existing area street system uh and describe it, include the roadway, orientations, functional classifications and geometries, intersection geometries and traffic controls, including without limitation signage and striping speed with them. It's parking restriction, site, distance, transit routes in the presence of bicycle and pedestrian facilities and other things that are planned,

[218:13] and among other things that I think, see you omitted, and this traffic study as well as their See South traffic study. I can't speak to what they're required to do, but they can say pretty matter of fact, that their studies um have fallen short of our our criteria, however updated people may think they are, I appreciate that. And again, that's that's good feedback, and that's That's why we continue to iterate on the review. I would say, in reading the updated traffic study that sees consultant put together. Um. They recommended against closing the southbound left from Broadway on to Grand View, and I find that conflict point to be the most concerning, just with the the head on collision potential there,

[219:08] and the reason they really the post doing that had to do with the level of service at the University and um Broadway intersection, and the thinking was that if we close that southbound left, people will have to keep going up the hill instead of turning on grand. They they'll turn up at university, and then they'll have to use for university to take a left on to Thirteenth, and there they identified, the potential for Thirteenth being blocked off um by westbound traffic. So cars driving west on Thirteenth would be stopped at the light, and then that would in turn Block uh Thirteenth Street. That seemed to be what they really book guided their uh recommendations, and I I found that to be

[220:01] uh um, but probably something that could be mitigated. It. It showed a a growth in traffic over the next twenty years, and that modeling scenario which would be us failing to achieve all of our team goals, and we we keep planning to fail and not succeeding. It seems like there's probably some room for update, and and how we we model stuff, and what what exactly is outlined in the the Dcs. Uh. But it it showed that that intersection would be blocked by about one car only in the peak hour in the evening Five of the time. It was like the ninety fifth percentile queue length twenty years from now, if we fail to meet we, our team people will block that intersection by about a car, and that seems like a bad reason to it. To introduce this um introduce a lot of vehicles making a turning movement that is, those unsafe. And if or when someone is hurt or killed, it would not be an accident it would be by design.

[221:07] And so I think that's something that we should push back on, and one mitigation strategy could be at the intersection of thirteenth and university uh some sort of Don't block the box type treatment that is very effective and more urban settings, but also, I think, successful in a more local setting on tabled mesa where we've ensured that people exiting Martin Acres on to um table may some the camera, if it's Thirty-eight or Thirty Ninth Street. There's a big box that says Don't Don't Block this and I through observation. It seems like there's relatively high compliance that keeps an opening, and so It seems like something as simple as a little bit of paint could save the day in this hypothetical scenario. Twenty years from now, or five percent of the time one out of the twenty four hours of the day. There's about one car um blocking the intersection, so I I hope we can push back on

[222:09] some of the assumptions that went into the traffic study. I think if if you were to uh fulfill the requirements of the design construction standards, they would likely reach a different conclusion, I think, in meeting the standards more thoroughly with See South, for example, the the numbers, the numbers changed considerably, especially as they had to link their assumptions to real data. Um, let's just what I what I experience through through that project. I I appreciate that feedback. It sounds. It looks like Council Member Sphere might have a comment. You call, Yeah, thank you. Um. And i'm gonna try to put this together. My brain is starting to um. Melt a little bit, but do my best. Let me know if it's not clear uh one of the things that I have kind of learned in the last year, being on Council is just having a a new appreciation for the city attorney's office. Um, and all the expertise and things that they sort of bring to that um. And one of the things that I've recognized is that there really are legal issues with just about any decision that's touching on city, county and State rules

[223:22] um, especially for things that are touching on all of those different spaces. Um! And I think one of the things that I've been noticing and listening to um. The discussion is sort of, you know, this encouragement for Staff to think about safety, and you know, care about the safety of everybody traveling all modes of transportation. And I just want to say I I I truly believe and trust that staff always has that paramount um like like Brad was saying, and and I know that you all do, too. Um! And so there, Aren't, We're not always able to say out loud all the things that we're hearing um kind of behind the scenes in terms of legal advice and guidelines and things like that, and I should probably stop there. But they get battery. Uh, but I I just wanted. I wanted to say that. Um! I I think that everybody here shares this goal of making sure that we are all safe when we are um biking or walking, especially in these highly trafficked areas.

[224:20] And I wanted to call attention to Becky. Your question that you mentioned a little bit ago. Um, That, I think, was just the critical question to be asking here: What in the process is making this hard? What can the city change? And then thinking about? How can we change those things, especially when multiple jurisdictions and end? These are involved? Um! That to me feels like the key question there. And um hopefully, the city attorney is not going to send me a note tomorrow. There's that. But in this particular case I think there may be some value in thinking about who has the power to change. Um! What things have the ability to change that may help think about where to push

[225:03] for um some of these changes, so I know that was a little bit cryptic, and um just wanted to say that I I I see and recognize everybody's deep commitment to safety, and I just really appreciate everybody thinking about how we can try to get to um something that feels a little safer. Thanks for that perspective, Nicole. Anything else about this tonight? Seems like It's something that that keeps developing. So I hope. Um, we're all able to share information each other. All we're remote, and then um! If anyone would like to follow up on this next month, be happy to to do so, and if there are any major developments, we can add it as a as a matter from board, if if necessary. Our staff, or whoever thanks for raising the steel. I think this warranted a spot in in a tap discussion.

[226:03] Yeah, thanks. Thanks to you and Alex, we can talk about an agenda setting. How we update next month. Okay, I'll. I'll sorry for you by I I haven't said anything I I that can, and add anything to this. All the greatness that I've heard from Tab, and i'm so grateful for community cycles and folks who organize to to really really try to get uh, at least the facts right on this. So um thanks, everybody for your hard work. I agree with everything I've heard from my my Jack. Always. Thanks, Ryan. Right. Are there any other matters from tab that need discussing at ten. Pm. Not here. Let me. I just close my agenda um upcoming topics. The next month we're going to hold a public hearing on Tip,

[227:04] and it's like a lot of other stuff. Yeah, Tip called for public hearing a public hearing and tab recommendation on the value and evaluation on the next steps regarding the Zip program, a briefing on Thirtieth Street corridor improvements, twenty, eighth, and Colorado improvements, and these these scooters so feeling will be so full, full, full agenda for uh next month, but as always feel free to reach out as we were setting the agenda to to add, many things are. Try to get them scheduled later down the road. With that there's nothing else. I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. I second the motion. Okay, I will motion it. Twenty seconds

[228:04] unanimous. Good night, everyone. Thank you.