June 12, 2023 — Transportation Advisory Board Regular Meeting

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[0:00] No, all right, you may begin, Alex. Thanks, Veronica. Welcome! Everyone. Call to order the Transportation Advisory Board meeting the city of Boulder for June twelfth, 2,023. Before we get to business. I'll kick it over to our technical host for the evening. Veronica, who will go over our ground rules. All right. Can you see my screen with the Powerpoint? No? Oh, about now. Yes. all right. Okay. We are pleased to have you join us today to strike a balance between meaningful transparency and online security, the following rules would be applied. This meeting has been called to conduct a business of the city of boulder activities that disrupt delay or otherwise interfere with the meeting are prohibited. The time for speaking is limited to 3 min. No person shall speak except one recognized by myself, and no person shall speak for longer than the 3 min

[1:04] each person shall register to speak at the meeting, using the person's real name. Any person billing to be using a name other than the one they are commonly known by, will not be permitted to speak. Please so raise hands function to be recognized for public comment here on the phone, you need to press Star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. No video will be permitted. Except for city officials, employees, and invited guests and presenters, all others will participate by voice. Only. The person presiding at the meeting shall enforce these rules by muting anyone who violates any rules. The Q. A function is enabled, and it will be used for individuals to communicate with the host. It should be used for technical and online platform related questions only. Only the host and individuals designated by the host will be permitted to share their screen during the meeting. Thanks, Alex. Thank you. Veronica. Agenda. Item 2 is approval of minutes. We have a few this month. First, the April 2,023 regular board meeting minutes, the May 2,023, regular Board meeting, and then the tab or tree, which was also last month.

[2:12] I'll welcome any amendments to any of them at this time. seeing a lot of shaking heads. can you get a motion to approve the the 3 sets of minutes? I move to approve the 3 sets of minutes. Thanks. Tila. attorney holds a second. All those in favor. Thanks. Everyone public comments. His agenda. Item number 3. Any member of the public, wishing to address the Board on transportation matter, has up to 3 min to do so. As Veronica said. Please use the raise hands, tool.

[3:04] and we'll call on you. I'll note that we do have one public hearing item tonight, and it's on the curbside management program. That's our next item. If you're here to speak on that item, please wait until until that public hearing this time of welcome any raised hands for public comment. All right. It looks like Lynn. He all has raised her hand. If you could let me know if you are able to see the intimidation tactics used to describe how public comment can take place. I don't think that's fair at all. I don't think it encourages the public. I think you need to have a different method of getting your liability taken away so that people have to sign something. It's really intimidating.

[4:05] I've gone to city meetings for 35 years. I've never been intimidated like that with that kind of discussion. It's just not right. It's unconscionable. And not having a video window is not okay. I see you. You can see me. I go to Department of energy meetings. I go to meetings at the Legislature in Denver. and my video window is up. So I don't buy this anymore that it's a security issue. That's a why it's not okay. It makes me not want to speak here at all. And what what is it matter when I do speak I never hear back from you

[5:01] ever. There's no response. You folks are a tool for the city Council. The integrative process of all these city boards are not coordinating with each other. Build it, and they will come. Produce, you know, transit oriented growth. And that's the solution to all ills. And then you're the ones that have a low budget. And you're not able to get the funds that you need to take care of all the problems of the growth that's been imposed on you. and you don't fight back. You just do your job. That isn't your job. Your job is to watch out for the citizens and for the transportation aspects of the citizens in this town. Considering all the other interactive

[6:06] factors that are going on in the city, and all the growth and development that's going on here. And you're not doing that. You're just a tool. If that's what you want to be. I guess that's what you're gonna do. But I don't think you're answering to the public. to the public's actual needs. For example, you know, 300 square foot parking restrictions. for on 2206 parole. That's not okay. There was tons of transportation that are coming from those 300 square foot units. and you aren't seeing it, and you don't care done. Thanks, son. See what we can do for transportation tonight. And hopefully there are some opportunities for for in person public involvement some time soon.

[7:10] Veronica, any other speakers tonight? it does not look like anyone else has to raise their hand. Okay, with that we'll close public comments. And I think. Okay. oh, sorry about that. Kurt. Could you let me know if you're able to unmute yourself? Okay, can you hear me. Yes, perfect. You may begin. Okay. Thank you. Board. I apologize. I was having computer problems. Thank you for listening to me. I thought that I could make a presentation but I I think that you received the presentation that I prepared. So if you have it, perhaps you can follow the wall. I just wanted to talk to you about sidewalk reconstruction

[8:02] and a provision in the older Rise code related to that. in Br. C. 820. If you're looking at my slide show, I'm on the second slide over town now, many places in town. We have these rolled curves of slanted curves which are problematic in that they allow drivers to drive up on them, either to park on them, which is a significant problem from a Ct. And accessibility standpoint, or perhaps for moving vehicle to go up on the sidewalk, which certainly is a safety problem. And on the next slide you see clip from the Dcs. This is not consistent with the Dcs. Dcs. Mostly, requires what we call vertical curve. It's not quite critical, but pretty close. There's also a very slanted curve called amountable curve but that's generally used only in kind of rural areas to my in my experience.

[9:09] and on the next slide, you'll see that the the problem is that we seem to be rebuilding existing mount slanted, rolled curves. Even when we're rebuilding large, long sections of such sidewalks in kind. and with with the same slanted profile, and without upgrading it to the to be consistent with the Dcs. Which seems a little odd to me. So on the next slide. It seems like we need a provision in the code requirement for the rebuild according to Dcs. When possible. but on the next slide you see, we actually have. So there's this Brc. 8, 2, 20,

[10:00] which says. all sidewalks, curves, and gutters ordered to be constructed, reconstructed, repaired, or replaced. shall be composed of either stone, break, or cement, and shall be constructed, rebuilt, repaired, or placed, according to the city of boulder, design, and construction. So to me, this seems pretty clear. Obviously there needs to be some provision, for you know, practicality. But what's in this provision of the code? Yeah, it seems pretty pretty straightforward on the next slide. this is sort of to me. This is sort of the analog for sidewalks of the Pmp. The pavement management program for streets staff and tab have done a great job of using the Pmp. To to upgrade streets when payment management is happening, not not to rebuild them necessarily exactly as they are. But to think about, how should this be? How do we want this to be?

[11:06] And so this, a 220 to me is sort of the analog. So my request to tab is, if you agree with my interpretation here, to request that carbon sidewalk reconstruction be consistent with provision to the degree possible. and I've been talking just about the Kurds. But the Dcs and code other specify other standards for sidewalks like we, and a detailed versus attached in quarter radio. and some of those may be easier to meet than others when you're reconstructing, but when it's practical, I think a 220, and my read says we should bring the sidebox up to the standards in any manner that we can. And I'll mention just quickly. We have some discussion with. But yeah, thank you very much for for bringing some attention. Please come back with more, a few more thoughts.

[12:10] any other hands for public comments. I do not see any thanks for having to staff responses to what was said and public comment. sure, yeah. Good evening, Tab. We can certainly provide a little bit of information. We have had some communication with Ker around this issue. and Garrett is here, and prepared to speak a little bit to it. I don't want to take up a ton of time on it, so We can provide just a summary of the information that we provided to Kurt and then we can continue offline if there is a need to do so. Good evening. Garrett's later capital Projects manager for the Transportation and Mobility Department. And yes, we'd be happy to meet with Kurt as well. It might be constructive to meet with the cart and anyone who has interest on site. Perhaps. if we were able to get the tie up tab bike tour scheduled

[13:14] here in the next few weeks we could take a look at a few sidewalk examples of some of the challenges that we face with. converting the mountable curve. Configuration to a vertical curve. Figuration. There are a number of constraints that we face when we look to replace sidewalks, including driveways and landscaping and right of way and flood planes and drainage considerations. And so there is a a a variance section of the Dcs that allows standards to be varied if if needed, to meet existing constraints and challenges. And so we use that for the sidewalk program as needed to help us fit sidewalks that

[14:00] are going to work for people of all ages and abilities, because the the purpose of that program is to upgrade sidewalks that don't meet our program criteria. And so that's the number one goal. And to bring them into consistency with 88 criteria. So having said that I appreciate the feedback and the input and happy to to meet with anyone and provide more specifics and and and follow up. Thanks. Gary. right? Yeah, thanks. Just real quick. I mean, I guess, Mike, thank you, Kurt, for your citizen work on this. my, my thought is, is sort of going on a tour like, is there? It's it sounds like the the answer is from staff that this is a known issue that this hasn't, that we're not

[15:00] rebuilding these just out of habit, but but rather the the what appears to be not compliant unless the variance is being done on purpose, because in each instance it's done. It's a very considerations being made that there's a variance. So I don't want to put anybody on the spot, but I do think as a tab for Tad, I would I would love to understand if that's if that's sort of the the answer, which is, of course, Staff is aware that this is happening. They're all variances and and scheduled as such versus oh, maybe there are some I I don't know. We we're just doing these redoing them as the way they were, so no need to respond now. But I yeah, no, I can. I can respond. I mean, we're very aware of it, and and we only do it where necessary, where it becomes just, you know, beyond the resource capacity for us to be able to deliver the program. And so that's where it might be helpful to have continue conversation offline, because in these instances. it's a trade off between being able to make improvements through this program on an annual basis with the resources that we have. or, you know, do basically needing to reconstruct more of the street to be able to change the

[16:17] the vertical separation at the curb. So we can obviously provide more detail offline. I don't want to take up a ton of time tonight, but that it's certainly we're aware that we're doing this, and we're making an intentional decision based on resources. Okay, thanks. Meredith, you make sure that Kurtz presentation ends up in the meeting material somehow. And yeah, I think it'd be great. If during a the Cip tour we could take a look at some example locations. and I think Kurtz provided some great photos. And I'd be curious what at these locations is the

[17:00] the hindrance? Not seeing driveways. And it looks like it's matching the existing sidewalk with. So that wouldn't imagine it. So yeah, I'll just be curious what! What the ones in his presentation what the rational for this is. Thanks. I think, with that little end public comment, we'll move on to our agenda. Item number 4, which is a public hearing on curbside management. Chris haggling. This team will give a presentation, and it will be an opportunity for any members of the public wishing to address the Board to to speak to us, and then it will be open for that. Have deliberation and potential motion to console. Well, thank you, Tab. I think Valerie is going to introduce this topic before we move into the presentation. Yes, thanks, Chris and Good evening, Tab members. Valerie Watson, transportation Planning manager. wanted to share our teams. Excitement for the body of work that has advanced around the Curbside management project and express our thanks for your

[18:07] participation as members of the Access Allies Working group and all of your previous feedback along the way. Tonight we're pleased to present to you the final draft of the Carp side management implementation guidebook and a look at some of the tools that we will be using as staff to implement the guidebook, huge, thanks to our consultant team, Fair and peers, and consore, who have been tremendous partners and building the guidebook with us in so many city staff across departments, and also, thanks to Chris Allen for all of his work leading this project team and the internal coordination that was needed to reach this milestone, and with that I'll hand it back over to Chris. All right. Thank you very much. I am joined by Carly Pyth and Jessica Hernandez from our consultant team on this. and they'll be presenting as well. but I I will kick it off with the first few slides, and appreciate the time with you tonight.

[19:01] So this is a public hearing. So, as Alex mentioned, we are, gonna do a presentation. Cl tab can ask some clarifying questions after that. then we'll proceed to public comment. And then, once that is finished, to tab deli deliberation, and we have a suggested motion language which was included in the memo next slide, please. So we'll give you a little bit of the Ha project background. essentially, this is all about curbside management, and the curb is in that, in those physical sense, the side of the road and the sidewalk. That kind of junction place between the road and the sidewalk and curbside management. Is really this growing field? looking at, how do we best plan, measure, and manage? the use of the curve, because we've just seen so much increase demand for the curb side and access to the curb some of that related to some technological changes in transportation, others oftentimes related to Covid.

[20:04] Next slide, please. So why? Why do we want to manage the curve? We manage it because it is that front door. It is the connection point between different types of transportation modes. A lot of times walking. it's one of our largest po public resources outside of the the streets themselves, the curve, maybe the the second largest public resource. So, and it's a limited space And as I mentioned, we. We are seeing those those groups growing demands. When you think about the evolution of transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft the proliferation of delivery. Amazon ups Fedex. Everything is increasing the the the demand for the curve And throughout this whole project we really also wanted to focus on. How do we use this body of work and this ultimately the implementation guidebook to help guide you.

[21:00] our our city to help reach our community community goals next slide, please. So And there's a number of goals that are related to this work. when when we think about vision 0 and safety we were seeing a lot of unsafe activity around Tncs like uber and lyft double parking of delivery of vehicles and the safety of of those drivers and and people delivering those package. So by better managing the carbon, allowing for access, we can hopefully improve safety and and reduce crashes and and any injuries. Oh, can we go back? No, thank you. Just wanted to mention a couple of other ones? you know we're trying to reduce traffic, delay, and reduce congestion by having more efficient use of our streets and our curbside roads. really, also people making And then

[22:01] I think the real benefit of this project has been is working with our internal staff to come up with standard operating procedures on that on how we manage the curve, both proactively and reactively. when requests for changes come, or we'd see data that that indicates a need for a change and by creating the standard operating procedures. And now an online tool, I think we're just gonna have better, more efficient government practices as well. next one, please. curbside management. just kinda overall context as part of the whole amps framework the access management and parking strategies. There's many different projects that are under the amps, umbrella and amps is just, you know, one of the cogs in the wheel of of all the plans that really guide our behavior. And actually, you'll be hearing about the camp project after this

[23:04] next one, please. Alright. And now I will pass it over to our consultant team. Thanks, Chris. Hi! I'm Jessica Hernandez, and I am going to be going through. As Chris mentioned. one of the major goals of this project was to be able to help provide guidance around what curbside uses should be prioritized and on which streets. And so I'm going to go through the process of how we develop that So the first thing that we did is we started off looking at existing curb uses, and there are 12 that we outline that you can see on the left. Those are a lot of them are ones that you know, the main one being private vehicle parking, loading passenger pick up and drop off, and then there were 3 proposed curbside uses, flex zones, which I'll go into later, and then park with and car share parking. From that we went in to develop what we're calling a street typology or a curve side use typology. And if you look on the top. Those are street

[24:04] functional classes. So arterials, collectors, residential alley, and those those are the different types of streets that are within within the city of boulder. We looked at different land uses that are around the streets to begin to understand what categories we we could put these different streets into. And so you can see on major arterials or collectors that go through commercial. We are calling them commercial centers. We came up with 6 different street types, and you can kind of take a second to look through these and see that they're all categorized. based on The priority of those land uses the main street that we have in the city of Boulder is Neighborhood Avenue, which you'll see in a second on the next map, and we came up with 6 different types, and 2 of them are alleys. If you go to the next map you can see. This shows where these are located within the city of boulder. And so the Green is that neighborhood Avenue that I mentioned that there's a lot of. But you can see in downtown boulder there's a lot of commercial center. And then, if you look at Boulder Junction, which is kind of up there that has industrial uses as well as those commercial centers.

[25:15] then, using those different street types, we wanted to be able to say what types of curbside uses should be prioritized on those different streets. And so across the top are the different curves of the different street typologies. and then along underneath are the different priorities of of uses. So you can see commercial centers which are the streets that are those main streets that you see in the downtown or or boulder Junction access for people is the highest priority. So that would be things like passenger drop off and pick up. I can scooter parking. Voting is one that would be that would go under the access for commerce. There's 2 types of commercial centers that you can see on the left, and that's because we prioritize commercial centers that are within managed districts. The first one is outside of managed districts, and you can see that this access for commerce uses are a little bit higher than

[26:10] what we call activation or place making, which is more like amenities, like streetscape amenities, or the parklets and inside of managed districts, which is the one on the second, the second one that you can see, we have those prioritize a little bit higher, because usually there's a little bit more funding for that. Then we also looked at, actually how they should be distributed on a street. So we know what should be prioritized. But, as you can see from this, I was just talking about the commercial centers. The highest priority is access for people. But you can see here that that is not the biggest slice on the pie. The this kind of bluish gray color is vehicle storage, which right now you can see on many of our commercial streets, is the majority of the use. And the goal is to kind of shift more, to have more of that access for people, access for commerce, you know, in the activation. But it wouldn't, just because it's the highest priority. It wouldn't be the highest use on the streets.

[27:09] Another part of this project was to look at what those uses should be along the alleys and there's kind of 2 uses for allies that we found, the one that everybody's used to, which is, maybe those uses that you don't want to see. It's kind of a place to hide what you don't want on your main streets. But then there's also a use. The idea of having activated alleys, and that the place where you would want to go to maybe see murals talk with people, have some outdoor seating places that you've been to that have a lot of these are for Collins even closer to Longmont, And so. as part of this project, we started to look at places where we're already kind of had a potential for activation. And this is something that can be looked at further. But this map here and in our guidance kind of outlined some of those early early looks of what allies could be activated. We also helps to define some processes to go from unmanaged to manage parking. So in areas where currently there's unrestricted parking what would be the process to align with the ramp process and other amp processes to decide when you would go to time, limited or paid parking, or from time limited to paid parking.

[28:21] and we developed an ordinance language to support implementing the guidebook to support the city staff and reallocating curbside uses. also looking at. There's a performance based parking, pricing rule. that looking at when a street is underutilized, when there's not a lot of utilization, what could be other ways rather than lowering the price of parking to help bring more demand. So, for example, use some of our prioritization and our curbside uses to reallocate repurpose. Existing private parking spaces to some access for people uses things like that to to have a lower supply to drive up that demand, and finally, some clarification for developers about how this guidebook would be implemented, and what it would mean if you're going through a redevelopment or that but you can't always expect to have private parking right outside of your development that that city staff will be always using this guidebook and hierarchies and Determining what the best uses for for curve size.

[29:27] we ran a pilot project, and earlier, I mentioned that one of the proposed uses flexible loading zones, and I'm not sure if anybody saw when this pilot was going on earlier at the end of last year. But we looked at existing loading zones and changed them to what we called flexible loading zones, which is allows 10 min of of parking. You can stay in your car. You can get out of your car. It it's an opportunity to go get a cup of coffee or for Uber and lift drivers to pick up their passengers or drop them off And the goal was really to try to avoid. We were seeing a lot of unsafe uses double parking pulling into drop off for pick up passengers in places that you shouldn't be parking, and so we wanted to see if we could kind of organize this use a little better by providing more options and more opportunities.

[30:16] And so I can show you the results that we got on the next slide, which it was they were really highly utilized. It was. It was an exciting result. We found it was a short time period. So while we did see a reduction in in collisions, I just wanted to mention that. You know, it's it's hard to say a lot about that with the with the shorter period of data. But we did. We did see it for the time period. you can see on the high chart that's on the bottom left. That's a mix of vehicle types. And so we did see it used by a pretty big range of vehicles. That orange pie is about a quarter, and that was uber and lyft do we drop off and pick up? And then we saw a lot of private vehicles. Some people stayed in their cars, and and maybe, you know, check to see instead of

[31:00] doing it while they were still driving, or maybe in a place where they shouldn't, they check their maps? And then we also saw a lot of private vehicles running out and getting that cup of coffee, or or going and picking up their tick, their take out. We also looked at how long cars were staying in these flex zones, and we saw that The 10 min was probably a little bit shorter. So we are developing. You can see up at the top. we're still in the process of developing what the new signage would look like. But it's going to be updated flexible zones to 15 min of parking. we heard that maybe some of the signage and some of the messaging could have been clear. So that's another thing that we're trying to do right now with developing these new signs. Let me to turn it to Cartley. Right? Thanks, Jess, so lots of exciting visioning for the curb and and changes over time. But of course we we don't want to make these changes all at once. So what are the catalysts going to be that will costity staff to to look to different blocks, different curb spaces to evaluate if there needs to be changes made to to existing curves. so there are 4 main catalyst for evaluating changes to the curve. So we'll go through each one of these individually

[32:12] starting with development. So development is an opportunity to look at it a change in land use. This could be redevelopment as well. Where there will be changes in demand associated with this change in land use. so city staff should evaluate the curve adjacent to the the new development of the redevelopment as well as nearby curve faces to assess if that that development will change, curve, demand in such a way that we should reassess the curve designations on those adjacent blocks. capital projects. So there are efficiencies during the corridor study as well as design implementation, construction to, to assess and make changes to the curve associated with a corridor study. So resources, both on the evaluation side for planning staff as well as in the implementation side to pair curbside evaluation in addition to capital projects and corridor studies

[33:04] and then proactive changes. So this is looking at different performance measures that are indicators that there might be a mismatch in supply and demand of the curve. So we assess current data that the city collects and synthesizes to determine what are different thresholds that should be triggers that the curb use today isn't quite right. So the first one of those are collisions. So collisions are an indication that people are making unsafe behaviors, resulting in crashes, and there needs to be a reassessment of the curve. Perhaps that curve use isn't the right place on the block, or it. The it should be longer in order to have a a better entry exit, as just mentioned. Double parking which can cause unsafe and uncomfortable movements for for all nodes is an indication that we need to make changes to the curve. complaints from from community members is another one of those that there's potentially a legal parking, double parking citations. Similar indication for us, and then utilization. So this is particularly around parking and loading. There's you for over under utilization of a curve in these spaces. So either using pricing as a lever to to kind of create that supply demand match we're looking for, or do you supply as a lever and

[34:18] reallocate those curb uses based off of the over under utilization that is seen through observations and data collection and the reactive changes. So this is when a business a community member requests a change to a curve outside of the residents or outside of their business. So, as Chris mentioned, this was a a product of this the curbside management guidebook as well was to create the standardized objective flow charts to guide city staff through the decision making process to determine if that curb use request should be granted or not. So we recently received a request from a business to have 3 flexible loading zones outside of their business. So we tested out these flow charts, brought up the flexible loading flow chart, and ran through these different responses. So a number of these curb uses have feel breaker questions, as we call them, of do we even consider evaluating an Ada space of the slope of the sidewalk adjacent to the requested spaces greater than 5%

[35:14] in this case. No, that's a deal breaker question. And then moving on to the other questions. If the slope is less than 5. You sum up the score to the response to each of the questions, and then that will help guide city staff to the decision. It also helps provide a transparent report back to the the business that requested that curb use change. So all of these tools, this one included, is in an online tool to make this process easier for city staff. And I'll show a screenshot of that a little bit later. So we have one of these reactive change flow charts for each of the curve uses in the current menu that just showed. And here's an example of 2 of those. So in the implementation side. Once it's decided to make a change to either one curb space, a full block, or maybe multiple blocks. There's a cut sheet for each curb use. This provides design considerations, compiles different guidance from various guidance documents, whether it's be local or national information on enforcement, pricing time, restriction, cost of implementation. So guidance for city staff. Once it

[36:16] implementation is determined to help create that smooth and consistent experience for users of the curb. And then the communication side is really important. So there, there's a lot of information here. As you can tell, we want to make this a really intuitive experience for the community. so with that, we've created 2 different documents to help communicate these changes to the public. The first is a little bit more of the why? Why are we looking at? Reallocating on street parking to other uses, such as flexible loading zones? What is the the value of that And and one reason we made this flow chart was, we heard from community members and businesses that well, I saw this this on street parking space become a flexible loading zone. But when I look at the window my business there, there isn't a vehicle there as often as there was when it was an on street parking space. So really getting at this concept that you might see a vehicle less frequently. But there are more events happening in that space. So

[37:13] This might be a familiar image to you of those you've seen kind of traffic. What do 100 vehicles look like on a road versus what do 100 people on a bus look like? So conveying that concept of how many people are now have access to this this curb space in the same amount of time as if it was an on street parking space. So this is the curve side management guidebook is providing an opportunity for higher turnover of spaces and more productive use of this valuable curb space. The second infographic to communicate to the public is about flexible loading zone. So This came from a lot of the the feedback and take away. We got from the pilot both our qualitative and quantitative evaluation that just mentioned. We heard from people that this is may not be intuitive. It's both for commercial loading vehicles and for private vehicles. It's for loading goods, but also short 15 min parking to grab that cup of coffee. so conveying the use of

[38:09] this new curb space to the community is going to be really important to make sure that it can be used effectively and efficiently. and then implementation other than the those 4 different catalyst for a change. What are our different priority areas, both geographically and in curbside use. So first, we want to look at the commercial corridors. These are our high turnover, dense, mixed use Ergus, where we want to see the most productive and and changes to the curve first. So that's going to be our top priority next is looking at loading zones. So first flexible loading zones. but as well as passenger loading commercial loading when we're seeing a higher demand of those uses and and I less of an opportunity to combine those into one flexible learning some. and then micro mobility, parking, working with our vendors to provide spaces for for bike and scooter parking. To make sure we've got a clear pedestrian relevant, a comfortable experience for pedestrians as well.

[39:05] And then those proactive elements prioritizing different curve uses for those performance measures blocks that are rising to the top in that spatial analysis. and then reactively responding to requests as they arise. And an important piece of this is the evaluation. So, continuing to collect data, evaluate and monitor the success of blocks that have had changes to the curve to make sure that we're moving in the right direction and continuing to decrease the number of crashes, complaints, citations, and and getting that utilization in in in the right place. And then, of course, using the material we've created as a part of this guidebook to continue to communicate to the public and stakeholders as well. So just wanted to give you a snapshot of the online tool. So this is a tool for city staff to implement all of the content that we've shared today. So there's a lot of moving parts, a lot of kind of conditional elements that that staff need to work through. So the first is when a proactive change. The curve is is to be made so city staff will first select the block that is in evaluation and then create that existing conditions pie chart that just shows

[40:08] so filling out the feet of space of each of the curve uses. So the screen continues to scroll down to all of the 15 curb uses that exist today and are proposed into the future. and this existing pie charts created and then based on the block that's in. In evaluation that was selected. the typology that just showed will show the future pie chart. And then the The tool then shows what curb uses? Do we need to see more of, and what curb uses? Do we need to last up in order to move from that existing condition to the the future vision for that curve. and then on the reactive side, depending on what curb us is in question. You'll go through some stuff we'll go through and answer each question and the some of the score will help guide for the staff as the decision that should be made. I'll hand it over to Chris, for for next steps, as we you know, wrap up this project.

[41:07] Forgot to unmute myself. So we've we've gone through a number of major events. we've taken this to all of our commissions, our downtown Management Commission, the University Hill Commission, and also Border Junction We had a final meeting, a couple of meetings with our access Allies group that has been provided great input and feedback throughout this process. today, we're at the tonight. We're at a tab meeting and then if Tab it chooses to advise the city manager to use the implementation guidebook to to guide our practices. Then we will need to go to council for some of those ordinance updates that, you know will help us put that implementation guidebook into practice. and so those will really be the next steps. After that.

[42:05] Tila, I see your hand raised. I was just anticipating we were, gonna get to clarifying questions. Yeah, so yes. And and we do have the suggested motion language that it that was in your memo. And and here as well for you. But yes, we can dive into those clarifying questions. Now. thanks, Chris, yeah, before we get to the public hearing. If any 10 members have clarifying questions. Please ask them now and then, after the public hearing, we can do our router deliberation. Thank you, Alex. I am the Access Allies person who's been working on this a bit. And so I've had several more touches and looks at this document as it's been moving around. And I just wanted to just highlight a couple of things that I got clarification on during this process that wasn't really part of the presentation tonight. those pie charts that are showing how

[43:04] different uses are being prioritized, or or or you know but how? How they're spending time at the curb. Those pie charts are about space. Right, Chris. Not about time. That was one of the questions I asked. and so sort of about how much real estate is allocated. rather than how much time is going on. So when you see something that's, you know, 40 to 60% for vehicle storage, that means 40 to 60% of the stuff of of that area is dedicated most of the time to vehicle storage. So just wanted to clarify that if that was something that someone came up with And then the other thing that I wanted to clarify was. And it's in the document. Is that because we have things like camp and because we have things like the neighborhood parking permit program, which is now a different acronym and those are sort of separately codified in the code. This

[44:01] guidebook doesn't really affect those efforts. and it's not entirely clear it will inform those efforts. But I just wanted to like point out that just because someone in the app is asking for a request or a a, it might not actually trigger, the the the the flowchart that is anticipated here for existing Mps and for managed districts where probably gonna be doing it. So this is kind of a first step, I think, in a really excellent direction, but I just wanted to make sure that those were that those points were kind of clear. Third, I'm curious. Oh, sorry, Chris, did you want to respond? No, I was just thank you for pointing that out. We had discussed it at at our last access. Exactly. Yeah. But then you only I was there. So and so there, I wanted to know among my tab members, and I, who has actually looked at the guidebook. I was sort of disappointed because normally the guidebook, especially if we're having a public hearing, and you're asking for tab. input

[45:09] an action on it. Normally, the the actual document would have been appended to the memo and I have looked at it. I have definitely haven't studied it. I'm curious. If any of my other Tab members have bothered to like, go through, find the web page, go to see it and have have actually at least glimpse or or glanced through. the guidebook that you're asking us to promote this evening we we did have a hyperlink to the guidebook. Cool. It was in the memo in 2 different places, so it's a hundred 40 some pages, so I I know, added to the but I you know I've I've definitely had meetings where my packet is over 200 pages. And so I'm guessing from the resounding silence here that my other Tab members probably didn't dig through. And do

[46:07] you know the extra credit and the hyperlinks? or probably his scan through that being, said I. You know this is for discussion later. But I do endorse this product. I think it's It's a it's a an immense amount of work, but I was just curious whether other tab members had been as thoroughly informed about. You know what the nuts and bolts are that we're being asked to to endorse tonight. or who will use that online tool? And what for? It sounds like? Maybe it's for Staff to work through the cut sheet. So why? Why? Why is it online? Is this a something for more public transparency? Or well, well, it is. for Staff's internal use, and to help them. And you know, since we are all working remotely, it it helps to have an online tool. And you know, I envision it mostly being used by Devin's team, the the traffic Ops engineers but it it does provide also a way to share information

[47:12] as well. for transparency. If you're working with a specific business, who's made a request? So it serves 2 2 functions, but it but it is mostly a a tool for that. That makes sense, because I'm like, what would I do with this? And lastly, I noticed in the memo, and we hadn't really discussed this from what I recall in any of our amps meetings. You were there. There was a mention of maybe at some point having an an ally's master plan, and I was just sort of curious. I think that this effort has highlighted Chris, you said like how much curbside uses have changed since our last sort of deep thinking about transportation throughout the city, and I think it might be highlighting the fact that we've overlooked alleys, or truck routes, or you know, there's a few other kind of big things that other cities do look at in their master plan. So why would we not want to include an ally section or ally thinking in our next tmp, as opposed to what the memo was suggesting, which is maybe a separate alley master plan.

[48:14] Yeah. And I and I think it it could come about in different ways. And and this is a, you know, a recommendation from our consultant team that we take a a closer look at alleys in a type of alleyway master plan form. It could be part of a larger master plan. Effort, or it could be, you know, kind of a a a separate document or separate process, but it is their recommendation that that the city embark on it, because it is something that we we have not taken a close look at in a long time, of how we make our alleyways more efficient, and then how some of them could be activated in in different ways. We we kind of have one activated alleyway, you know, kind of what's that? you know

[49:00] between walnut and pearl that we've done. But that's really about it. So I I think, you know it. It's just a recommendation from our consultant team that this is something that the city should consider in the future doing. And and we could decide how best we we do that if we choose to. I do recall in the before times when we were actually in council chambers a a presentation about activating alleyways predominantly on Uni Hill. can. What is this team like. Did you refer to any of that that work that had been done before? Did it just kind of go on a shelf and get dust on it. Now. yeah. I'm not sure if we specifically looked at for work on the UN Hill alleyways. Well, there is former work. So just again, I think it's a an appropriate thing to table until the next tmp update. But it's, I think this work has highlighted, maybe, that we need to do better, better, and more thorough thinking about the Allies. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you.

[50:07] Shiny Hi. Well, I apologize for not looking over the Handbook first of all. But I do want to say that the presentation is really well put together, and I want to commend all the work that you guys have done, because it's obvious that there's been ample thought put into this. And and yeah, and I'd be very happy to support this me so any other clarifying questions not see me. We can open things up to the public hearing. Sorry. This might be a response to to you. I I just wanted to to point out. I I was also. I'm one of the 2 liaison, and I did join the May nineteenth meeting. And I think my question at the time was. what questions do you have for Tab? Who you've invited to be a part of this? And I recall the feedback back to us

[51:04] was, what was Tab? Tell us what sort of relative priorities would you like us to have? And I I I think I anticipated that would come maybe to today. But now I'm trying to remember what. what, what, what, what was, what was that choice? Or those choices? So maybe I maybe that didn't pan out for today. But, Chris, but does that bring any bells or you anything specific for us on that? Yeah, I I I recall our conversation. Us, you know, and I said, You know you know, feedback from from Tab as we move forward is, I think, to me. It's about as we do kind of phased iterative implementation. What are tabs priorities in in what we should look at? I mean, we, I think we have some obvious kind of first moves right? We've got a number of time restricted loading zones that we want to convert to these 24 7 flexible loading zones, because we know how well they were used by different users throughout the day. You know some of those things we we can start making those changes pretty quickly. you know. Another thing that's coming down is with the expansion of of the scooters.

[52:21] City-wide is looking at where where we have mandatory parking zones like downtown University Hill, all of cu campus, you know. Where do we put designated parking areas? I think a lot of times we're going to look at situations above the curb. like on the sidewalk, where there's room next to be cycle stations, for example. But I think there may be some other situations where we're looking at, possibly a station below the curve. And then, I think, another way in which you know this work, you know, kind of melds with future work is, you know, when we, when we head towards the downtown mobility study and thinking about how

[53:05] Curb said, use also it impacts our options, you know opportunities and limitations as we rethink our our downtown streets as well. but I think you know, having a a a good idea of what tabs priorities are for how we better manage the curve and make some of these transitions to different uses. okay, thanks, Chris Alex. Just one more if I could. Just a procedural question. So I I think when we go to the public hearing we're you're asking for our endorsement. Sort of up, up for down on this. My question is, is there chance? For at this point, like like, for example, when I look at that pie chart that that you called up. And I see also it's in figure 5 on the the guidebook, and it it shows the future state would be so 40 to 60 car stores versus a higher percentage.

[54:01] I like, you know, my my feedback. I don't think we. I don't think that was available on nineteenth, though. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but if I'd notice it, then I would have said, Can we make that be like closer to 40% than 60%, or at least like show that we're having intention of of car share becoming on the the minority side of of total 40 to 60 is a pretty big range, anyway. This this will be an example of feedback, but we're, I'm guessing we're the horses left the bar, and, so to speak, on that kind of feedback. Chris, is that right? No, I I mean to me. I think this is a living document, right? Our our. This is a operational document. And we're going to make changes. We're going to collect data, and we're going to make adjustments over time. I also think, you know, having a rage like that mentioning the range of of 40 to 60? I mean, there's different contexts, right? You know. There, there's different parts of the downtown that have higher demand for vehicle storage, lesser demand. And it other areas. You are going to have that range fluctuate between areas. And I think you know one of the other strong points of of this plan of how we manage the curve is that we know that we cannot satisfy all uses

[55:12] on a single block or a block face. This is a network approach. It's a systems approach. For how do you use a network of blocks to meet those demands by making those those iterative changes. as either you know, proactively or reactively. When I start to put that vision of a different type of curbside management strategy into place. Got it? Okay? Thanks. So there's a little bit of room for for yeah suggestions. Oh, yeah, I you know, it's a listening document. Think about how often we make adjustments and changes to our design and construction standards. Right? You know, we're we're constantly looking at those and updating them. And I think that's that this falls into a similar spot where we can make changes over time and adjust. Okay, thank you, Alex. I'm good, thank you.

[56:03] Cool with that. We'll open it up to the public. Hearing any member of the public wishing to address Tab about curbside management. Please use the raise hands tool, and we'll start calling on. Yeah. not seeing any hands on it, are you? I am not okay, seeing none. We'll close the public hearing and open it for tab deliberation. I'd be curious to hear a little bit more about the perspective from the access Allies, members of of the board. the T. And Ryan. Can you tell us a little bit more about your experience throughout this process? You you go first. Okay. I have gone from being super grumpy.

[57:01] do really, really, respecting how much thoughtfulness and effort has gone into this document. I do think it's a prime example of bolder, overthinking things. and wanting to sort of over regulate things. But the what we are looking at this evening and being asked to endorse is a product of some immense contemplation and effort, and in particular, data crunching to in my mind. remove a lot of the arbitrariness about how and where we were using particular treatments as a city or allowing access or not allowing access, and how piece meal it was. And so if it actually becomes a tool that is used uniformly and regularly. see my caveat about. you know, things like camp or

[58:02] neighborhood parking permit programs being sort of excluded from this. But if this is a, you know, a significant step in the right direction, I think, showing what thoughtful, deliberative, smart governance looks like. I would. I would really urge that that we endorse it. There was a lot of hand holding a lot. I mean, you've seen Chris in a lot of different Alex, in particular. You've seen Chris in a lot of different roles over the couple of years, and so, you know, he tends to kind of go slowly and in the kind of a deep dive fashion, and this is, I think. one of the better. Maybe the best example of his work in terms of actually having something to point to. That's going to change how the city is thinking about things. I thought that the flex loading zone. Pilot was probably not going to tell us a whole lot that was new and I think Chris would disagree. I think, he said they that the city learned a whole lot. I think that there were a lot more private vehicles that we thought. I think I I thought it was pretty clear that we needed to have more flexible uses and just sort of more open ended.

[59:13] you know, we don't really care why you're here, whether you're delivering, you know, a little box, or a letter, or a human, or you're picking up a human or picking up a lunch like it's just a flexible loading zone. Let's just kind of call it that And they learned, you know, 10 min is not quite right. 15 min is a little bit better so. you know I was frustrated by a bit of the process. and sort of the the the sort of naval gazing in my view. But I think that the end result. speaks to a lot of the care that was taken by this group and by the consultants, and, as I said, it's It's changed me from being super grumpy about it to now wanting to use this as as a persuasive tool and a reasonable and reasoned and data-driven basis for changing what we do as a city. So I have been very impressed with with the group's work.

[60:14] Thanks, then, Brian. yeah, yeah, Tila. That was well, said I. I I agree with you. I'm I'm impressed with the work of of Chris and the team and and Carly on on the analysis, and the the rigor with this from a like a programmatic standpoint. So it's all done. I think that maybe just to to pick up on the the point about sort of like how, how I don't know. Maybe if we have always used. But how you started and it, we started. I mean, I think in general, this is not. This is, this is a program or not a program, but a a process in which you know, if if I have my brothers the either T or the or the Tmp. Would really be driving it, and that would be in the preamble of the thing. And we we so this would be about showing strategies for reducing greenhouse gas, emt

[61:10] and mode, shift and like and really spell out to anybody reading this thing. But that's that those are the driving forces. But you know, I I think that maybe is beyond scope of what? you know, the the the programs in here gets to decide. And that's larger discussion about parking and other policies being, you know, diffused throughout different departments. So yeah, I I I endorse endorse it. And then I mean, I guess this is going to comments. But I the only thing is I this point I would. You know I would like to see that pie chart, maybe where it says 40 to 60. I I would like to see a cap out of maybe 49 as part of that, make a statement and say that we recognize the car, dependence and car. Dominant planning is problem, and we are making a a proactive, deliberate move away from that for various the various reasons that we need to It seems like a really exciting statement, or at least the the valuable statement it can be made there. But you know I'm I'm only saying it because I ask you permission, Chris, to to to provide some of feedback. So beyond that. yeah, I I'm I'm I'm supportive and appreciative of your team's work.

[62:19] Thanks. If right to Ryan's point about the pie chart with 64% vehicle storage. If that only goes down to 60, we're not really changing much in the other categories. It seems like it would need to be to feel a difference. It would have to have to go to to 50 or less to like. Ryan said. Yeah, and I feel like this is some really granular data with sound reasoning for why we're doing things the the way we are of to. I didn't go through the whole appendix, but made it through the 30 or 48 page, actual guide and between the executive summaries we've received with this update and the other one. Everything's always seems pretty sounds to me, so I don't think I have that much to contribute down would have said.

[63:08] training or t you anything else. feed backwise there for us to discuss. I think to the point that this is, quote a living document. It's important to know that we are and I haven't even I. I haven't read the the changes to the code. But basically the changes to the code. Say, city manager should utilize this implementation guide, and that leaves room to change the implementation guide without having to go back through all the rid of a role of changing the code and going to, you know. Council twice, and the whole thing. And so I appreciate that that bit of flexibility as well. So I just wanted to like, clarify what it is that we're being asked to to endorse. How much process would it take to update that and out the Dcs. For example, it usually comes our way a couple of times and goes to planning, for then a couple of readings at council and staff has used that

[64:08] requisite process as a reason for not making small tweaks. this of similar caliber? Or is it a little more streamlined? My, my! I'll let this talk to that one. But yeah, I you know I I think it's a bit more streamlined. I think the Dcs covers so many categories, you know, and this is kind of really focused in on a a single category of of design. So I I don't anticipate it having to go through. You know the tremendous process that we often go through the for the Dcs. And and kind of breaking it up where we're going to look at this section in this section. You know, I what I think you know, what staff should do is once we have this implemented and we start making changes. And we start we continue to collect data and monitor and evaluate. You know, we can then say, you know what I think we need to make some tweaks here and there. and you know I I'm not. We haven't discussed what that future process would be like, you know, internally.

[65:19] so I can't really speak to to that. We just haven't got that far yet. but you know, I'm sure, though, there could be a process that you know. periodically, we evaluate it and see if we need to make any change in it. If if those changes are purely operational level or would require. you know, a a change in city manager rules or or ordinances. Then it, you know, that's a different level. Okay? Okay, thanks. You can imagine a lot of live with the this one for a while. Get a real sense of it before anything was proposed to be changed. Unless there's something obviously wrong? Any other conversation from Tab?

[66:03] Or can I entertain a motion that has been staring us in the face for a while? One of our allies. Wanna take this. I'm I'm I to adopt the motion? do I have to write it out? Can I? Just okay, okay. So I move to adopt the motion provided by by Chris motion to recommend that the city manager utilized the group site management implementation guidebook to manage curvesside operations in the public right away, as authorized by section 2, 2, 2, 11. A. My sexual thanks, Tila. Any more discussion. if not all those in favor.

[67:01] as you know. Honestly, with 4 bits. Thanks, Chris, thanks, Jessica and Curly for for joining us tonight. This is excellent work. Yeah. Compliments to the team. Thank you. Thank you very much, and thank you for all the effort you've put in along the way in the feedback you you provided made it a a great project. Of course, at our next agenda. Item, agenda. Item 5, to talk to access management program, the camp pilot. And I think, Chris, you got that one as well. Let me share my screen.

[68:04] Sorry. I'm just trying to this, is there we go. all right. Can is it full screen now? Okay, thank you. All right. So once again, Chris Hagglin, principal planner here to give you an update on our Chatauqua access management plan evaluation that we are conducting. The purpose of this evaluation is really to effect evaluate the effectiveness of camp. The camp program compared to its original goals. develop staff recommendation based on that denial analysis stakeholder input and and things like the racial equity instrument for boards and Council consideration. we will need to. If we continue with the camp program in the future, we will need to make some minor ordinance changes mostly in regard to dates of of of the continuation of the program and and when it with sunset, for example, if it did we also then, you know, want to think about using this opportunity of an evaluation to develop an ongoing implementation framework once we have guidance for both Boards and council.

[69:24] And I think you know, one of the other elements under the Amps umbrella is this trail access management program. And so we're really hoping that our camp program and the evaluation of this program set the foundation for future work and in trail access management. I'm sure people are familiar with some of the work that's been going on in Boulder County providing shuttle access to like the Hessie trail, for example, the Eldo shuttle we do have now a shuttle that goes all the way to Rocky Mount National Park, and so how can the city and the county kind of work together, as we think about this whole kind of field of trail access management to reduce traffic congestion reduced single occupant vehicle

[70:13] access to those parks and helping to preserve them. So just a little background for those who are unfamiliar the Chatauqua Access Management program was initiated in 2,017, and it was really about managing demand at and around the park parking was free at the Park. we. It's one of our most popular places, for out of town visitors, even though about half of all visitors are still bolder residents. We have a a nice influx of people from the county and out of state visitors as well. and so it's, you know. When people come to Boulder they go to Pearl Street they go to Chautauqua. And so we really it, looking at managing demand around the park and also addressing some livability issues in in the surrounding neighborhoods that we're having a lot of spill over parking into those into the onto those streets.

[71:06] After the first year we went to council. We gave them our evaluation of it. And then It was decided that we would run that program through this season in 2,023, and then, during this year conducted an evaluation and and take a staff recommendation. to City Council on the future of the program. to refresh you on the the elements of this program. So the program is a seasonal program it takes place between Memorial Day and Labor Day. it in the the the elements of it are in effect on weekends and holidays. During that timeframe. what we did was we managed we created, manage, and paid parking at Chautauqua. This was the first open space and trail head that charge for parking within the city of older system. we also created a neighborhood parking permit

[72:04] program in the neighborhood that we have called North Chautauqua to help manage that spill over Then we created another form of access by providing a free shuttle we had 2 remote lots that people can get to new vista and Regent, so people could drive to those They could also take Rtd transit and get off at Broad like Broadway and baseline and and new vistas right there, where they could take the shuttle up the hill to the rest of the way. We had a amazing partnership with Visit Boulder which used to be the boulder visitors and conventions bureau but visit Boulder ran an ambassador program they had people located at the Park help people with the parking Chios. They help people with at the shuttle. Stop Gave them information At first we even had

[73:02] Ambassador is riding the shuttle and we are also able to to survey a lot of users. through that ambassador program. we also created a Tdm program for the employers and employees. So you have, like the Chatauqua dining hall, you have the Colorado Chatauqua Association itself, which is essentially running a a hotel business there with the cottages. Some of those cottages are owned by families and passed down, but but many of them are rental, so it is essentially functions as a hotel with all the standard employees there. So we work with them to create some different types of programs to encourage different ways of getting other than driving alone. in terms of the evaluation. We've developed a methodology to do this that, it will be conducted within a year. so we really developed a project management plan, a communications outreach plan and incorporating the the racial equity instrument as well.

[74:03] And we went through and we looked at the data collection and analysis. We looked at all the past data that we had collected on shuttle ridership, on parking, utilization, on parking revenue. you know, all those different things we've we collected information on. And we are going to continue to collect a a little bit of information, because during Covid. We kind of had a little lull in in some of our data collection efforts. So now we can collect data. Now that the the program is up and running again. So we'll collect some of additional data to help us with that. What that will develop a recommendation from Staff. This likely will come into having more than one scenario. you know it. It is a a evaluation. So one scenario will be not to continue the program. And then, you know, likely we'll have maybe 3 scenarios of, if we do continue it. What are the different magnitudes of changes we would make to improve the effect of that program. We'll go through all boards councils, and also, the open

[75:05] and space board of trustees will be involved as well. and we'll have public hearings and ordinance changes as well. we have a study session plan with city Council in October. if they direct us to continue it. and with some modification. And then we'll look at developing that implementation plan kind of in 2,024, prior to the start of the new season if we are directed to continue. there's a lot of key stakeholders in this process that we work with, and I've mentioned a few of them Colorado Chicago Association visit Boulder via mobility runs the shuttle service. See? You and Bbsd provide the remote lots. We've got the the residents who live around it. We've got the Park visitors. We got all those employees and employers of Chatauqua, even the Colorado Music Festival. So we're working with all of these groups and gathering information on you know what's worked, what hasn't worked, and some of their ideas for how we're going to make improvements to this project. So I included in the memo a a lot of

[76:11] you know, summaries of of some of the data in different categories. I'll just highlight some of these here, as I've said. we Osmp open space and mountain parks collect a lot of data on visitation visitation is slightly up from the Pre. Pre. Covid levels in the last years, but only slightly as I mentioned a lot of those visit. Lot of visitors are boulder residents, and 16 out of state. and we still see that, you know we have a lot of visitors arriving by automobile over 70. But we also have about 23% coming up to Chicago by walking. So a lot of nearby residents who probably use it, you know. weekly in terms of parking data. we are managing all the parking at the Park. we're seeing, you know, around the range a lot. And around the green, almost.

[77:05] you know, total utilization some of the other more remote part parking lots that people may not know of are are experiencing a little less utilization. We know that people are generally staying 2 to 3 h. one of the real good things that we've seen is that the parking revenue? that we collect both on the site and and through citations is higher than what we spend on the shuttle and to run the program. So it's it's a, it's a program that is is cost effective. and we do a lot of enforcement. we are, you know, almost 3,000 citations during a summertime. for to to help. Kind of manage. those the parking at the the park in in the neighborhoods Shuttle Ridership. It really took off at the beginning, you know. we're like 700 trips per day Covid really had an impact down to about 300. So we're gonna measure it this year to see how how it's rebounded if it has from the other times. But you know the the shuttle was extremely popular and well used, and so we're hoping that comes back after covid

[78:20] We did see in working with the employees, you know, not having transit. Access directly to the the part from Rtd is is really helps. really prevents a lot of the modal shift But we did have a number of employees based on when they work, or who are able to use the shuttle But I think a lot of people just found other places to park And so really, looking at transit access beyond just the shuttle, I think, is a key thing if we want to continue to to look at a model shift for employees. just a little timeline. So, as I said, you know, kind of in this period in June and July, we're we're doing continuous stakeholder engagement with the different groups. We're gonna collect some additional data. We've got a survey coming out. we've got actually a number of surveys. So we're gonna be surveying employees. We're going to be serving residents. We're going to be surveying visitors, and then there'll be also a general public survey. we're looking at having that come out in early July. kind of. We wanted the camp season to

[79:26] be, you know, kind of get into the flow, and then we'll do these surveys In August, September we'll be working with our stakeholders, and we're finding these different scenario options that we'll be presenting to Tab and the open space board of trustees. As I mentioned, we have on a a study session in October, and then, if we are directed to continue camp with some modifications then those ordinance updates will take place in kind of the October to December. Timeframe and then based on that direction in 2024. We'll be working with that, you know, to fully develop that program. So it's ready to go whenever that time is for the 2024 season and as I mentioned, also kind of look looking at that kind of idea of a a, a, a trail head access management program in general.

[80:20] That is a program that is run by a community vitality. but we we transportation mobility is is side by side with them in that in that effort. so you know the camp website here? you can go and and see what the you know, what what the different elements of the program are, and how to use it. but with that. that concludes my presentation. And I know it's just kind of more of an an an update for you, and no, nothing really to weigh in on but happy to take any questions that you have at this time.

[81:05] Yeah. thank you, Alex, you're a little muffled your audio. So, Chris, something you just said. peak man, just about a more general trail head access program. I live near Sanitis Trail Head, which is definitely nowhere near, as you know, in demand as to talk about. But it's also a smaller space other than those 2. Is there an understanding that there is a need for more management? on access and and transportation demand management for other trail heads. And is it an actually an ongoing program that community vitality is working on. Yeah, it's kind of a newer program that we're working on. Certainly. We, you know, we've had talks about different categories of trail head and the need to manage access. You know Chatau was kind of in a category of its own. Second, you know, it's like our second tier and then we have visitation data, and we have anecdotal data of some other areas. So there are some an area in Shanahan Ridge

[82:13] that we get a lot of issues with. So that's another one. But it it's really, you know, those 3 that we talk about the most. It seems to me that they would have sort of a threshold of visitorship, or, you know, neighborhood impacts. It would be interesting to articulate what that is. But yeah, I hadn't heard of that. So that's very interesting. the one number that I really couldn't find in looking through. the memo And I didn't dig any further than that, I'll admit. was, we see number of trips and number of shuttle trips and things. I don't see number of humans served by the shuttle, and what I. The reason I ask is that you know I'm just wondering is having the shuttle a really essential part of this, or is it really about pricing, managing the parking and if if Osmp can tell you how many people are on the trails, why can't I find out how many people are taking the shuttle.

[83:09] So so the number of the shuttle of thing like it was pre Covid. You know, we were looking at 700. That's 700 people the shuttle per day, and then it dropped down to about 300 during Covid. And now we're we're seeing it. But those are actual passenger trips on the shuttle. Okay, that was not at all clear to me from the okay. So thank you. That's okay. That's all I have. Okay. I don't know who got called on cause. Alex, you're kind of muffled, but okay, well, here I am. Well, I just wanted to say thank you again for this presentation. I was really lucky to hear you in person when we did the nectar walkshop. I was on your

[84:12] on your tour, so it's really really great to hear all this again. And yeah, I mean, I guess the one thing that I think maybe we should also, highlight is the lack of employee parking, because that is, that was so, something that really stayed with me. How many employees have to park in this very limited space. and how helpful that has. This has been for them. And another thing, I just wanted to add a little request. If the cycle could but the station back that would be phenomenal. And that's what that's all I have. I'm actually working with the cycle right now. we have a location identified. we have it ready to be added to their revocable permit. We were told we needed to do a landmarks application request.

[85:03] and so we have submitted or Kevin Kraus, the executive director of Be Cycle, is preparing the landmark's application. That will be reviewed internally by city staff. I think whenever you make a a change like adding A B cycle station to a historic landmark. They just go through a a process. It should be fine because they we did get a temporary one before when it. and so I I don't anticipate any trouble. but as soon as that landmarks decision is made we are right in line to get it installed as quickly as we can. so so that's definitely going to be a a a a next step. And hopefully, you know, trying to get it before July fourth weekend. Brian. 2 2 things I just wanted to. Chris. Really. thank you for sizing the point about transit and lack of transit access. And that's I'd say that's a

[86:09] condition to making a a lot of change with parking. So And I'm glad that it's number 2, that here, that there is something underway. That's a a a wider trail head access program. I I mean, I with. I heard you say there's a few kind of places. I would think. You know we talk about networks and the importance of network connectivity to me it it feels like this should be a discussion about something like the layer. If you're if you're somebody who wants to visit out, enjoy out the recreation in the boulder area. Whether you're a resident or a visitor. how do you interconnect up to Boulder Canyon, rocking out National Park? really, in in a in a friendly way. Eldora, how do you connect into C dot the bus thing interstate network? And anyway, to me that that would be ideally where this is

[87:05] we're talking about, but then that you know it's about transit to. So I guess my my question is, can you just say a little bit more about for those who are interested in this, that it like sort of how to plug in or what to stay tuned for with. It sounds like it's community vitalities. lead. Yeah. you know, I I don't know the exact details on, you know. Maybe when community vitality is gonna really hit the road on on the trail. It access management program. I don't know the exact timeline but community vitality staff is on my project team for Chautauqua. And so when we first got together, they said, You know what what we, how we need to think about this evaluation is really as the foundation for this future work that they're going to be in charge of it. Looking at trail head access management in general. and Chatauqua is really, you know, the kind of the proving grounds for that.

[88:06] we've had a lot of amazing conversations and a lot of it based on input from our stakeholders when we're holding meetings with them and focus groups with them is about, how do you create that network system? joining in with what Boulder County is providing with kind of local micro transit that could serve Chatauqua. Serve downtown. Think about serving some of the hotels for the visitors, the new Cu convention center. Saint Julian Bolorados. And how can you create that system of micro transit that would take people directly to the park from these areas, but then, where they could also hook up to the El Dorado shuttle if they wanted to, or they could take, you know, the bus up to Ned, and then get on the Hessie shuttle that takes you to, you know Hesse trail and Fourth of July. so that's kind of like the vision that we're working on is is a essentially a micro transit system to help access

[89:18] those areas. But it also would serve to access things like, you know, downtown boulder and and everything. So you know, the visit boulder is very keen on the idea, and very supportive of of looking at that of of being something that really helps people get around who are visiting Boulder not to have to get into a car to go to all these sites that they want to go to? So that that's kind of the the vision that we've been throwing back and forth in our meetings and with our stakeholders of you know what would make the real difference. And in camp. and to me the real difference is made with direct micro transit access to the park. That's where the real difference is made. in cutting down single occupancy, travel and and reducing that parking demand. you know, convenient, frequent, flexible, that provides links to other destinations as well.

[90:13] Thanks, Chris. Well, I think Tab will be at least of us will be very interested to. Yeah, if we can plug into that some way or another. So thanks for your work. Yeah. And you know I will definitely be coming back to tab you know. October September timeframe, I believe. I think we got open space in one and and tab in the other. but if you know if any tab member is interested, you know, in joining us. you know, at at any of our meetings. Happy to to have you join in and help us come up with a good plan. Thanks, Chris. If that will move on to agenda. Item 6, which is the capital improvement and program for 2,029.

[91:00] Welcome! Hear it! Good evening. Good to be with you again, and I will work on getting my screen shared, and while I'm doing that I'll see if I can multitask. And introduce you to my co-presenters here this evening last month when we talked about the already approved Cip. We introduce you to Lindsay, and this evening I am joined by James Smith, and doesn't look like James's cameras on just yet. James is our pavement program manager and I am happy to introduce you to him and I. He'll be talking about the capital maintenance programs that are included in the recommended 24 to 2029 C. I. P. And it turns out I am not capable of talking to you and trying to get this screen sharing going. So let me work on getting this shared right now. Okay.

[92:04] all right. it's telling me I'm sharing so hopefully, that's what you're seeing. Okay. So we are here to visit with you as part 2 of 3 of the series of visits on the capital of Pruma program. Last month we provided an overview of the already approved 23 to 28 cip. This month. We are here to visit with you about the recommended 24 to 29 C. I. P. And as part of that we will provide an overview of the funding, the proposed projects and programs, and then the next steps and then open it up for discussion. We talked about this last month, and because a number of you are veterans. I won't belabor these next couple of slides. But just a reminder that the capital improvement program is the way that we invest in our transportation system and advance our plans and goals and objectives of the prevailing initiatives that we have in front of us right now, including vision 0, the core arterial network, the transportation master plan

[93:09] and investing in a way that's consistent with those priorities of high medium and low, where we want to spend most of our dollars in the system, operations and maintenance, vision 0 and travel safety. We also want to make sure that our investments are consistent with the city's sustainability, equity and resiliency framework, with the categories of safe, healthy, livable, accessible, environmentally sustainable and economically vital a number of our projects and programs connect to each of these. perhaps accessible, connected as the one where it's most prevalent. But I think a number of these are directly correlated with the projects and programs that you'll be seeing presented this evening. So our draft, C. I. P. For 24 to 29, for the first time that I'm aware of is a hit when you roll up the total for 6 years.

[94:01] 9 digits. So 100 million dollars and that's due to having a substantial successful track record here over the last year, and bringing in some grants for the city and that is to the tune of about 17 million dollars. So for 2425. Our average cip number is at 20 million per year, and that again, is due to the number of grants that have come in, and then that average will drop from 26 to 29 to 12.5 million per year. Unless we are successful at getting more grants, which I expect we will be, but we don't know what those outcomes will be right now. So that's where we're programming the cip. And the program side of things is averaging about 8.5 million dollars a year, and James will be providing a an overview of the programs here in just a moment. So we are funded largely through the Transportation fund, and the Transportation Fund is largely sourced by sales tax. So you can see that in this pie chart. Here

[95:09] we are also sourced by development and growth through the Transportation Development Fund, and then we are also sourced by grant funds. So sales tax is the great majority of our funding, and so, as the revenues are doing better the Transportation Fund does better and provides an opportunity for us to continue to make investments and the assets in the programs that are imported to accomplishing our goals and objectives. So because the grants are an important way that we turn our dimes and quarters into dollars. A number of the projects that we are including in the recommended cip are funded through the transportation improvement pro program or tip through Dr. Cog, H. Sip through c dot tap through C, dot and Cbosses school through c.as well.

[96:00] and as many of you are aware there are a number of new opportunities out there now through the Us. Federal Dot. and I'm pleased to. So many of you are able to participate in the natural conference, and you probably heard at that conference a number of references to the C streets for all Grant program, and so we are excited that we are going to be pursuing and submitting, and about a month our application for the C streets, for all projects for for for Boulder. We are also going to be pursuing a partnership with C. Dot, a. Protect Grant for the replacement of the Co. 7 or Easter Rapaho bridges over Boulder Creek. and we are keeping our eyes open for future investments in the smart technology and increasing the intelligence level of our connected transportation system and traffic signals throughout the community.

[97:00] So no surprise to you. And you've seen this graphic for some time now that as inflation increases our ability to keep up with purchasing power decreases. And so what that looks like in the construction marketplace is this, where we've seen double digit inflation over the last few years, so we are hopeful that this will be tapering off in the next year or so. We haven't seen a whole lot of sign of that just yet. And hopefully, towards the end of this year, where we are going to be putting a number of our projects into the construction phase we will not see double digits, and that 17 to 20% range, as we've seen over the last few years. But that obviously has an impact on our ability to be able to fund the projects and programs that are imported to accomplishing our goals. Normally, the programs represent about 60 if not 2 thirds of the overall cip. But for this cycle for this year we're looking at about a 50 50 split. And again, that's because of the magnitude of the projects that are coming through grant funding which have balance these numbers out to where we're about to a little over 50 million and almost 50 million on the project side of things.

[98:23] So our programs are focused primarily on taking care of the assets we have. So we have programs focused on the sidewalk and pedestrian network, the multi-use path and the bike way network, and the pavement program which helps to take care of our streets. And then a a corresponding program to help us make investments in multimodal enhancements as a part of the payment management program as well as the core arterial network. and James will be doing a a. A touch on a number of the the the more temporal asset related programs. this is a summary that was included in your attachment and the memo. And then this is a summary of the individual projects. I

[99:11] I think this is the first time in recent years we've had. We've got so many new projects in the cip along with our existing ones. We had to split this into 2 different slides. So that's kind of exciting. Given that the number of new projects coming online and we'll be having Lindsay provide an overview of some of the new tip projects that are, Introduced now in the cip. So we also have the Development fund that in the past has provided funding for projects. We don't have a specific project this year, but that could change in the next year or 2. Right now, we have an item for development coordination which helps us to coordinate projects. that are cip funded adjacent to a private real estate development. And then we also have a tip local match and Tmp implementation line item out of the Development Fund, which helps us to provide that match for Grant funds that can our excuse for grant projects that can be funded by the development Fund.

[100:08] So notable changes. and aside from the new projects that Lindsey is going to be talking about notable changes is that we are recommending a one time bump in the multi-use path enhancements budgets to allow us to be able to get to the construction of the Belmont multi-use path from Boulder Creek to Sixty-first Streets and the early part of 2,024. We are also recommending an additional 4.2 5 million dollars funding of the Nineteenth Street project. which appeared in in front of Tab a couple of times a few years back as part of a seat effort, and the reason for that is needing additional funding for storm drainage and flood mitigation as well as accommodating the overhead utility undergrounding that's been underway on the Nineteenth Street corridor over the last several months. We are also in need of a supplemental funding to keep pace with overhead utility grounding and some accompanying storm drainage improvements on the Easter Apple Multiuse path.

[101:07] and the downtown Boulder station is in need of some supplemental funding to keep up with the piece of inflation. also. we are removing the deficient street like replacement because the community culture and resiliency and safety tax is going to be funding the community takeover of all the Excel Street lights, and so that will be funded out of a different source and the future. But not in the the cip for this. for the 2429 time period. So with this, I'm going to turn it over to James. to talk about the the capital maintenance programs. Thank you, Gary. Appreciate it. good evening, members of Ted. My name is James Smith. I'm the pavement management or payment program manager. The following slides briefly described the proposed funding allocation for the various capital asset programs that are in the cip first. Up on this slide is the pavement management program or the Pmp.

[102:10] The Pmp. Prioritizes the safety and preservation of the transportation system by maintaining approximately 300 miles of streets This includes inspecting and rating all streets on a 3 year interval to maintain awareness of existing conditions which guide where payment rehabilitation projects will be focused in future years. The Pmp. Uses the payment condition index Pci. To score and prioritize the work, for I'm sorry the Pci score prioritizes the work. All the Cities Straits are rated on the scale of one to 100, and these scores help guide and prioritize the various payment rehabilitation and preservation programs that we have the pmp. is identified as a priority. One investment in the transportation master plan as well. Additionally, the Pmp also works to leverage proposed improvements identified through the efforts of vision 0 and corritorial network planning

[103:07] to do this, the mobility enhancements initiative, which is part of the Pmp. incorporates bicycle and pedestrians and facility improvements and to annual pavement reservicing work to help make our streets safer for walking and biking. When the street is resurfaced, there may be an opportunity to change the organization of the street section to add improvements for bicycles. Recent recent examples of this include Lehigh resurfacing, which was completed in 2,022 where, we added, buffered by group, by planes. And then, This year's resurfacing. The baseline road is another example based on road was originally considered a as a multi as a mobility, enhancement, opportunity. But, as you're probably aware, it has grown into a much larger multi phase project that we will describe more in detail later. the multi. The multi-modal distribution for this program are estimated at 50% roadway.

[104:04] 10% on transit, 20% each on pedestrian and bicycle facilities. Next are the pedestrian focus. So next slide here, next are the pedestrian focus programs. These programs include the pedestrian facilities enhancement program the pedestrian facilities repair and replacement program and the sidewalk maintenance program. These programs are 100% dedicated to the pedestrian sidewalk maintenance budget funds. The miscellaneous side repair program sidewalk prepares under this program are identified through citizen reports throughout the entire city and repair calls are shared with the adjacent property owners. In most cases. The program also covers calls for sidewalk. 88 upgrade requests. The pedestrian facilities, repair replacement and Ada improvements. Budget funds. The annual sidewalk repair program this program focuses on specific areas of the city or repair repair needs are identified by our staff. Adjacent property owners are responsible for a portion of the repair cost in most cases, and 88 ramps are also upgraded as part of this program

[105:16] the pedestrian facilities. Enhancement budget is an ongoing funding program that includes the installation of missing sidewalk links and pedestrian processing, safety treatments. crossing and safety treatment improvements are prioritized citywide and include Median refugee islands. crosswalk lighting flashing signs. net downs, signing, lighting, and or pedestrian signals. These programs are identified in the T and people. I already want investment and the various information implementation locations are prioritized each year using condition level and program guidance documents next slide. Here. next are the multi-use path programs. These include the multi-use path enhancement budget and the multi-use path capital maintenance budget.

[106:07] These programs are dedicated to enhancing and maintaining the current 80 plus miles of path within the city to meet the needs for pedestrians and bicycles. The maintenance budget is charged with providing major maintenance to the off-street multi-use path network. This budget addresses activities such as replacing panels of concrete, flip-proofing underpasses and reducing pedestrian overpasses. The enhancement budget is used to expand on the current path system. This includes building new paths or converting existing sidewalks into paths. These enhancements are currently focused in the confluence path area the programs identified in the Tmp at these programs and are identified in the priority one as well the various projects prioritized using condition level pedestrian bridge inspection reports and maintenance frequency.

[107:02] Lastly, the last slide there. Here the major capital reconstruction program is used largely to fund the bridge asset management program and provides funding to repair existing major and minor structure for each assets that are close to or at the end of their useful life. This funding provides the ability to complete the capital repairs that are not typically eligible for grant funding such as lining existing Culver pipes. applying waterproof membranes on existing brick structures and completing structural repairs to concrete and steel elements. Although roadway and pedestrian bridges are the most common box, covert and pipes running beneath our rows are also included in this program. This program is also identified as A. T. Ap. Priority. One investment the bridge. Health Index is used to prioritize the work. The bridge health Index is a bridge performance measure to rate the overall health and structure. and is rated between a one and a 10

[108:02] the multi modal distribution for this program is estimated at 55% roadway, 15% pedestrian. 15% bicycle and 15% transit. And that should complete most of our programs there, I'll turn it back to Garrett. Thanks guys. right? So now we're getting into the line items of the project side of the cip and the line item that helps to provide match for our Grant pursuits that we I outlined on the previous slides. Average is about 3 million dollars a year, and it has provided and will continue to provide local match for tip safe routes each sip, and it will also provide local match for forthcoming opportunities, such as safe streets for all smart. And if we were to ever be asked and pursue a a protect grant that would provide funding for that as well. So it's important that we continue to maintain this, because.

[109:02] it puts us in a possession a position rather to be able to be opportunistic and pursuing grants as they come available, so that we can maximize the dollars we have into making the investments in our system. And so with that, I'm going to turn it over now to Lindsay to talk about some of the highlight projects that are in the newer highlight projects that are in the Cip this year. Thanks, Garrett. I'm in. I'm a principal project manager. And so, like Garrett mentioned, I'm gonna go through some of the transportation cip projects that have been added for this budget cycle, and these are all proposed to be 124. So first is the Baseline Road project So this projects focused on making Baseline Road from 20 Eighth Street to Foot Hills Parkway safer. more comfortable, more connected for all community members. However, you want to travel.

[110:03] This project is in 2 phases. so phase one is taking advantage of the payment, resurfacing as part of the pavement management program which James had mentioned. And so they're going to begin installing improvements using the city funds. And this work started last week. This morning. understanding in 2024 the city will develop the design for further improvements as part of phase 2. After receiving the Federal grant funding from the transportation improvement program or the tip grants. So phase 2 of the projects gonna create more significant changes to the corridor, and these will include things like a bit additional fight, grade, protection, intersection, pedestrian crossing improvements, transit efficiency. porting bus islands, and then converting some of the phase one improvements to more permanent features.

[111:00] and so this project is a priority core arterial network, or can corridor project, and it's a Tmp investment priority one and 2. So construction of these 2 is estimated to be in in 2,025, with a cost of 3.9 million, with 3.1 million of that being funded by the ticket next project. So the Thirtieth Street project. This is from a Rappaho avenue to diagonal highway, and this project's proposing to connect to conduct the preliminary design for protected bicycle facilities and transit stop improvements. So it's going to develop and evaluate conceptual transportation design options to improve multimodal travel. So addressing pedestrian bicycle transit and vehicles along Thirtieth Street. and it will include preliminary engineering and those cost estimates for those transportation information.

[112:03] The preliminary engineering plans will provide facilities for users of all ages and abilities, and it will help meet the city's vision, 0 goal of eliminating fatal and serious injury. Collisions and improve travel conditions for transit users, bicycles, pedestrians, and addressing travel, comfort and safety. So this project is also part of the canned corridor and a Tmp investment priority one and 2 project. This is a continuation of the Thirtieth Street Corridor study. which was completed in 2,016 and 2,017. The funding will be used for preliminary design only with a total cost of 1 million, with 800,000 of that coming from a tip grant. The city will also be submitting and pursuing the safe streets and roads for all, or the Ss. For a grants for the implementation or construction dollars, which will be so submitted this July which Garrett had previously.

[113:10] and it, Garrett, please the Broadway batlanes project includes design and construction of intersection improvements to provide transit priority at the Broadway and table mates that intersection, and the Broadway and Regent intersection. There's also a component that's providing some analysis of converting a general purpose. Traveling along Broadway from table may set to eighteenth to the business access transit for that range. And that would be done with ringing, restriping, and signage as feasible. But it should be noted that this funding is for the intersections only. which, once we're done with the intersections, improvements, then we would that would provide the widths needed to complete the Lane conversion to that transit only lane that would only then need the striping and signing improvements. But that link conversion will be at a later date.

[114:11] So this project is part of the canned corridor, and it's a Tmp investment priority one and 2 project and construction is planned to begin in 2,025. The construction cost is 4.6 million, with 3.9 million of that being funded by grants. So the Manhattan, save for us to school project, which you may have heard of on the news a few weeks ago, is going to provide improved pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure which will increase safety, provide convenient travel options. We want to encourage active lifestyles in that neighborhood. And so the staff has been working with the school and community to develop the conceptual design, and the project is now moving into final design. And so construction of this project is planned to take place in 2,025. This project does meet the current vision, 0 enhancement goals, and it's a Tmp investment priority one and 2,

[115:12] with the total construction cost of 880,000, with 707,000 of that being funded by that safe to school. That okay. it is to rap a whole Colorado, 7 final design. So this is from 20 Eighth Street to Fo Hills Parkway. This project will implement better facilities for walking, biking, and transit consistent with the Easter Raphael transportation plan. And so this is the tip and C dot funded project. And it's going to take the 15% level design which is scheduled to be completed later this year, and it will. We will then advance it to final design by the end of 2,024, and so currently see, that is the project manager for the preliminary design. But the city of Boulder will be the project manager. as we take it, into the final.

[116:09] So this project is also a part of the Can corridor and the Tmp. Investment priority one and 2 project. The funds are for final design work only. The final design will cost 2.9 6 million, with 2.8 of that funded by the tip grant, and see that funding the city is pursuing an Ss. 4, 8. Implementation grant to fund construction of some of the improvements that come from the. So there are some additional cip projects with tip grants that will be starting in 2,025. And so we just wanted to highlight those here, and so that will include the fulsome Street, Behind the Colorado Corridor study and preliminary design, the Thirtieth Street design and construction from Colorado to a Dora.

[117:02] and then the West Colorado region to full some project which was actually added to the waitlist for grant funding. And so we're anticipating the seeking word in 2,024 if that will receive partial or potentially even full funding. Okay? And so there are also several projects that are currently being funded by the community culture, safety and resilience fund, and so these include replacement of the central as an Avenue bridge replace some of the coded signal signal calls a short term funding boost for the payment management program. the purchase of the Excel Street Lights supplemental funding to the 20 Eighth and Colorado Project, and then supplemental funding to the Thirtieth street multimodal improvement. That's okay. All right. So our next steps is, we are really looking forward to being able to do a tab cip by tour with you, and whoever else decides to join us, and that I I believe. we'll hope we'll hope to get that scheduled soon

[118:16] at the July Tab meeting. We will be requesting a formal recommendation, and hold the public hearing for the cip that will go then to the planning board and August, and then from there the process goes to city Council as a part of the overall budget review and approval process in September and October. So with that, I'm going to stop sharing, and we would be happy to take any questions you might have about the information that's been presented. Any questions for the team.

[119:01] Sure. Sorry I'm having technical issues here. couple of questions. I I feel dumb that I don't know. This sales tax we've known for a long time is the main source of funding for transportation projects. I'm wondering sales of what are we talking? Just strictly retail a sales of goods. and sales tax of services rendered within city limits. And is there any portion of, for instance, sales of property that gets earmarked, or or that you know it contributes to the sales tax number that funds transportation right? So it's not property we. The transportation fund is not to See me revenue from property tax in any way, whether it's through annual assessment or via transaction. So it's for for basically non real estate transactions within the city limits.

[120:15] Okay, that's what I was afraid of. Okay, that's interesting. I know we've seen a lot of the charts about how inflation and just the sheer cost of materials, and the transportation sector in particular, have impacted us in recent years. and I'm curious to hear from. Not necessarily just you, Garrett. But maybe Natalie as well. It has, have we? I haven't seen that this is turned into an appeal or a particular talking point in arguing for more budget for transportation city. Why, just in the annual budgeting process, because it feels that both we're not profiting from the sales tax as as as much as we thought we would be, you know, 20 years ago, when this

[121:08] scheme was you know, considered viable, and also the level of inflation is just with a lot of the other sectors. So are are we leveraging these 2 items as a reason to be asking for a much larger share of the city budget. so I can speak more holistically about the city budget, and then I'll let Garrett speak to more specifically the Transportation fund. so I I guess the short answer to you is no because we we are kind of seen as a department with the dedicated fund, and our dedicated fund is the Transportation Fund, and then the other funds that Garrett's talked about And so when we go forward with our annual budget request, it's for the transportation fund dollars. It's for the dollars that are dedicated for transportation use. so we

[122:05] don't. Typically, except for and you'll recall back to probably gosh, was that, like 2019 or something, when there was that unusual circumstance where council actually kind of allocated some general fund dollars to transportation for vision 0 activities. That would, yeah. Yeah. So that was kind of atypical for us. Typically, you know, when we go for our annual budget request, that's specifically for you know what we have in the Transportation Fund and what's dedicated to transportation. and you know what I'll say is the as an organization, right like, we're not the only department that is impacted by the, you know, increased costs to materials and and services. And so our partners and parks and Rec and other kind of operating departments are all kind of

[123:05] seen that impact and so. and and there are departments that rely on the general fund to mostly operate and do their business and so like largely, I would say, just generally across the organization, everyone's impacted by that And and so when you think about just the priorities of the organization. That's kind of what's being taken into account. Well, that's very nice of you to be yourself as one, you know, maybe essential organ of the the whole body. but even if Parks and Rec is purchasing concrete and asphal, they're not doing it at the scale and with the sort of the financial impact that the entire transportation department is. So you know, I'm fundamentally I'm a lawyer. And so I I just kind of. I don't always try to kind of milk. What's in it for me, or how can I? How can I like leverage this into something that will benefit.

[124:01] you know, a thing that I hold dear to my heart, but I really think the transportation can make a case that we are. You are as a city department. adversely impacted much more than other departments, recognizing everybody's feeling a similar kind of pinch. and you, you and I talked years ago like, if we had a met a ferry that waved a magic want. we wouldn't be able to fund everything in the Tmp. And right now we're finding that we're not able to even really tread water on just maintaining our assets. So yeah, I'm just gonna keep bugging you on that. But I I think that we can make a better case for allocating more funds to transportation as a fundamentally important and under underfunded department, and particularly in light of like the recent loss and sales, tax revenue and inflation as a double way to me. With that we we should be making a better case for funding our transportation priorities because it just benefits isn't

[125:06] I had another question sort of related to that, but I was on a signed up. Garrett mentioned a streetlight program and Natalie a couple of meetings ago. I think it was in March. You had asked for a tab like volunteers on a street late like color temperature project. Is that still happening? Yes, there has been a little bit of a just tweak in kind of our engagement strategy and more information. I know the team is working hard on kind of developing that engagement plan for piloting the temperatures and getting feedback from the community on that. so I will have. I could actually all after this meeting. just get a better sense of tabs engagement with that and I can follow up with an email in the coming days. to just close the loop on that. Yeah, thank you. We're supposed to do this. Okay? My last question, is kind of about the safe routes to schools funding. I saw we high yesterday.

[126:21] it's really the day before. It's looking great. have some individual feedback on that. But it led me to a kind of a bigger question. I know, that is planning to rebuild new vista high school. and I haven't paid much attention to sort of the site plan. I know that they are gonna build a new building while keeping students going to the old building and try to build a new building on like the same site, but in a different. you know, location on on the grounds, basically before just storing the old building. but it has recently been brought to my attention

[127:00] that those designs also encompass almost a doubling and vehicle parking capacity. and without having really looked into it. And I don't want to like Bugg you on any of the details at the moment. But it. It made me wonder how much Pbsd in a project like this consults with transportation staff or the city at all about what their transportation demand management strategies are are going to be, or sort of the site circulation plan. You know. I know that they operate sort of as a separate system, much like. See you and don't necessarily have to integrate with with you. But but do they? And is there an opportunity to have and talk about? You know whether that kind of parking plan or change in in land use on the new vista High School site is actually consistent with the vulnerable account plan or with the city of their transportation. Master plan.

[128:06] Yeah, it's a good question. you know. I I am not aware of the any coordination. Bbsd, reaching out to us to talk about tdm, with regards to a new campus. but yeah, certainly we would be obviously open to having conversations with them about that. We we wouldn't really, if they don't do that kind of pre coordination, we wouldn't see it until it goes to development review at that concept plan level for us to comment on, you know, through the Pms process. and you dedicating staff time and city resources to correct a a problem that potentially could be ameliorated or addressed in the design phase. What? What that would be at for New Vista?

[129:02] Any any thoughts on that? I mean? I I certainly agree that it will. It is more reactive if there's not that kind of initial proactive reach out from them before they enter the development review process. and so certainly we would welcome that. hey, Tila? I just wanted to ask where did you see the information about the additional parking, my child, one of my children is a junior there. So so yeah, so we're excited that I believe the new building is gonna take is gonna be built on the field that's adjacent to the current building. And I mean, I'm just kinda curious what I would love to see what you were you were talking about as far as parking last Tuesday, I think.

[130:00] and I noticed that we haven't looked into it. so it's kind of talking to a member of planning board about it and kind of supporting what to us saying, I mean, we we do use that parking lot for the Camp project. I mean, it is something. And see, you uses that parking lot a lot, too. So there's like that little door that could be, you know. used to start the conversation. It's a great partnership. You find a good thing here seems a little outside the context of the the cip, but definitely something we can be mindful of moving forward on our spec staffs. Time the ones that are here to focus on this tel. Did you have anything else on the cip. No, that's it. Thank you. I'm really excited about the safe, safe streets, for all. Grant that we're applying for, and really happy and proud of all the work that has gone into that. So thank you.

[131:00] Alex, I, lied, I did have one more thing because, I had mentioned a couple of months ago, or maybe last month. I was going to ask about the pedestrian bridge that is collapsed Ninth, and I think it's conquered. because there's this bridge Rehabilitation Fund, and that bridge is down and out, and Garrett said he would be able to talk about it this month. Yes, so the Ninth and Concord Bridge was a neighborhood project. We weren't unable to ever find any records that it was a project constructed by the city. and it certainly didn't meet any kind of British design standard that we would have built you any time in the last 50 years. And so, because of the lack of evidence that it was a facility constructed by the city on, and that it was a appeared to have been something that was placed by a private entity. whether an in the the Irrigation Ditch Company, over which the bridge passed also had no record or evidence that any permission or a formal agreement was in place for that bridge to exist. Because

[132:13] and these days whenever you cross an irrigation ditch you absolutely must have a legal agreement in place to do so, and so the irrigation Dish company would not, even if we had wanted to replace the the bridge, would not have allowed us to do so with out, having a legal agreement to to put that bridge back in place. And so, for all those reasons, it was not reconstructed. Thank you very much. Any other questions. Right? Well, just to to say something about Eila. You talked about the the denominator of the funding here. I I think this presentation is mostly about dividing it up into parts. But

[133:01] I just think as as tab we should really be thinking about our role in this and that. Of course, we see in here. Inflation is working against us. It the sales tax vision is working against us. And there's reasons is is til out, and that we should want to defend our funding. But but More than that, this is the department that can be making people's lives better. We should be talking about growing the the funding to to make these these, these programs work. this could be about general funds, but it it is more generally should be about sorry about delays. A a vision of how are we going to fund the department to do all the great things that could make the city better. including out as the sales tax the funds. the the the department in general. We we have to have discussion about that expiring. What we're going to do about it in the not, too, is the future, and not just that. But how we connect this with having more space efficient and inclusive housing that could be sourced, more revenue. And you know these are topics that this I think the city staff is. It's it's a little bit outside of what you know within the organization. They they can do. I mean to rock the boat on.

[134:11] These are fundamental leadership questions. But I I think that's that's us. That's Tab. I mean, that's our mandate to to make sure that city council, city leadership understand? What's on the table. And I don't have a specific proposal right now, but I I think that we need to figure out a way to convey this to the, to, to to council, and to the public about what we could be doing. But we're not because of this because of the reforms we need to make with with funding. So sorry for the soapbox. But I just think to you you really kicked off something really important there, so I'll I'll just. I'll stop. But thank you. Thanks, Ryan. All great questions tonight. I hope everyone learn what they're hoping to learn. This will be back again in a month for our formal recommendation to planning board and council.

[135:06] and then maybe, under matters from the board, we can talk about getting the cip bike to our scheduled thanks, Garrett and team. Thank you. Next up. It matters first from Staff Natalie. Have anything, Chris, tonight. I do not. Okay. We'll move to matters from the board. Let me pull up my agenda real quickly. So on the agenda it showed the current appointments to the various committees, and what not, that we serve on as individuals or in pairs. We just wanted to confirm that these are all up to date. there have been some long standing ones, and then some of the new new ones on the long-standing ones. There's a Greenway Advisory Committee which I am the primary on I that did not meet in the past year, but it sounds like it might meet, and then next year, so I think I'll remain as the primary on that with Tila as the Alternative

[136:14] Division, 0 Community Partnership Committee train is the primary with Becky as the alternate and then access allies Ryan tila. But it sounds like that. Work is coming to an end soon. And then on the recently appointed ones, we've got the airport community working group Ryan primary tila alternate the transit village area phase 2 working group T, as the primary me as the alternate and the Excel Street light acquisition stakeholder working group. Dick, Tila and Trini, if we can get to on that if not till our Uk. With trying to be in the primary

[137:00] thanks. Any objections to. Most of these are feel like recently appointed. So they're they're probably fine. And then the the green one is, I haven't met yet, so no sense in changing that one in the same with access to Allies. You've done a good job on on that one. It makes sense to say the courses on is that still meeting? Meredith? Natalie, is there anything else you need it from us on this cool The other thing I was hoping to talk about is a bit of a tab retreat debrief. We landed on the 3 different areas for us to focus on. and pairs with. Becky being half of 2 of the pairs. Maybe it makes sense for us to wait until she gets back next month and just ask each here to provide an update on what if anything you've done, and what if anything, you you plan on doing, going forward so just to ask that if you haven't met already, you and I haven't had a

[138:02] long talk on that, but we can try to do that in the next month and and be ready for the July meeting some good everyone. Once a thumbs up. Okay cip back to her similar interest in that. It's typically a pretty popular get together for us some nods, some good to do that again this year. Okay, Meredith, do you mind sending out a all for us to provider availability like ideally? We would do that before our public hearing on the the cip. But good to let me get to it. Okay, I believe that's all I had under matters for myself to any other board number 70 matters. So super quick. I just want to. give you guys an update on as the 23200, which is the Automated Traffic Enforcement Bill. It is now the law. So the Governor signed it, and I just want to thank everybody that was involved. I mean, it was a lot of work, and we were kind of starting at the last minute because we didn't know if you was actually going to sign it or not. But there was a lot of really great positive pressure from a lot of sources, including our governor. So I mean our our

[139:16] mayor Aaron, and the call and and flaw the Natalie and Carl and Joe Van. So thank you. I mean, I really really do think that it's gonna make a huge difference and achieving our vision. 0 goals. And yeah, it's great work. So it's great news. I was just thinking earlier today, what happens if if they put one of those right on Broadway right when you like inner city limits, where it drops to 40 miles an hour, and they have the I mean, that would just like generate so much revenue. I know right? I'm dreaming. I'm for the one on Broadway, like right by table, mess up between table. Mys and baselines. Yeah.

[140:04] that one. Yeah, yeah, really make a big difference. So I'm I'm also pleased to see I had a couple of items. Alex, cool. because with these working groups there's been some activity. as you mentioned, I am the liaison for the Boulder Junction phase 2 Apparently they met on May thirtieth. I didn't get a calendar invite. I just got couple of requests to fill out a doodle poll, which I did, and then I didn't ever see it on the calendar. So I'm guessing, Alex, you didn't go either. No, okay, so I missed it. But the next meeting is July twentieth, 68 pm. It's on my calendar now, and I will figure out why why we didn't get a a calendar. Invite I have, however, done a couple of things with the airport. community working group. I wanted to know that Ryan is. Where are you, Costa Rica? Right now, my friend.

[141:04] yeah, that's right. Costa Rica. So yeah shout out on vacation, dude But it's they are in person meeting. So he was not able to attend and I did get I got the handouts when I got Ryan I got an extra one for you. But essentially what that working group did was that they have 4 scenarios for this community working group to think about. basically, one is doing the minimum amount of maintenance on the airport to is doing a little bit more of enhancement. But all kind of basically about aviation. So improving some of the glider hangers and improving. You know, the public like viewing area. The third one had more neighborhood serving uses. And so they had kind of a neighborhood, a community redevelopment area. So maybe some like publicly available and usable meeting spaces. And we're not only about aviation.

[142:02] maybe develop with work hangers, possibly build a restaurant or a cafe, and then the fourth one was talking about decommissioning the airport and creating a new neighborhood. sort of along the lines of what Laurie Kaplan has come in and talked to us about and so this is the 4 scenarios. We talked about it a little bit. We will revisit them later. They are now available on the website, and then also what they said was from the work from the previous working group. meetings. There were some I under. There was understanding that all of these, any of these 4 scenarios. whatever city council is gonna direct staff to proceed with, are are going to be fairly long term horizon deals, but that there were desired action items that could maybe be implemented in the short term particularly along noise, health and environmental impact, basically area safety community relations and airport economics. And so those are kind of the 5 areas that

[143:05] emerged as maybe worthy of deeper thinking about. What could we do? Quicker? So, for instance, it's a food desert, and no one goes there unless they're, you know, trying to use the as a glider or whatever. But if there were food trucks there, maybe more people would go, or there would be more vitality in the area because there's some employment hubs nearby. So still, just kind of like short term thinking like that. my understanding is there's not going to be any group work on any of those even, short term things. they are interested in hearing feedback from the public, and in particular, at the July 18 open house. So at the Via Mobility Hub, or headquarters, and now you probably know the cross streets are here, but it's 2 85 North 60 Third Street. So from 4 to 6 pm. On July eighteenth, there's a public house open to the public, and they really want to get people out there and looking at these 4 scenarios and doing you know what you've seen a community, shoret, you know, like writing ideas on posted notes and sticking them on there and then. The next community working group is going to be July 20, back at Osmp headquarters on 50 Fifth Street. From I'm guessing from 4 30 to 6 30. I couldn't confirm that time.

[144:21] Is Allison not here. Allison can probably tell me if I got the time. but that's sort of where where things are at the moment. And I think that's all of my updates. Thank you for those updates. Just just no tel covered it other than just the question of, can people access the materials of those 4 scenarios any more? I don't see see it on the It is a web web page for the yeah. Alison, there, there is a project website. And I understand that those 4 scenarios are up.

[145:00] Those are on the Google drive for the community working group. The notes and materials from the Community working group will be online shortly. It just takes us a while to pull together all of the notes and recordings from the meeting and post those online. So right now, the community working group, so you and Ryan have access. And then, once those notes are pulled together they will be publicly available on the web page. But what about these? Just blank like scenarios? They they they will be shared at the same time as everything from the Cwg. Which we should have up by next week. Awesome. Well, looking forward to our future agenda topics looks like next month there will be some updates on, can the neighborhood parking permit expansion and the speed limit setting project as always, feel free to reach out to myself and Becky, if you want to get anything on the agenda for next month

[146:05] again, Madison Board will have the can retreat homework Update to a yeah, are we? Gonna be hearing back about Grand View anytime soon? The tool study did finally get published. but I don't really have a clear idea of what the next steps are. Yeah, I I mean, we can provide an an update next month under matters. I there, I don't believe there's a whole lot beyond kind of what see you shared in that last communication when they shared the report. But I'd be happy to just kind of review that with the, you know at the July meeting. would that be a good use of time, I mean, is there is there anything you can do or staff can do? Or is it just a shouting into the void? you know, I think I can probably just make some connections to like future work in the area, and that may be helpful. but I think, as far as like the development that sees building in that location right now, there is nothing, you know, beyond what they've shared as far as what they're implementing.

[147:25] Turning right? You guys had a copy of that report. Sorry I didn't hear my question. I was asking if everyone had seen I know with for me cycles you'd seen it, and I'd gotten a copy from C less. That kind of turning. Ryan had gotten a copy of the tool report. just to inform. I'm not sure. I shook my head. No, but now I'm actually not sure, so I haven't read it, but somebody may have given it to me. I'm happy to forward the email that Lori sent us to the city, and I can forward that to all the time. Members. Okay.

[148:00] yeah, no problem. anything else. I don't think we've congratulated Natalie. Oh, on being like official director. It's a it's her dream job. And now she's like guys having a night here the whole time. No good news. It was good to see congratulations. Thank you. They're here and deal. I'm not gonna say interrupt to me. But that's that's what I was. Gonna say, I actually had 2 shout outs, that was my my second. That was the big one. But yeah, I guys, Natalie was is promoted to permanent director. After a year of an intern job and It's a lot of exciting work to do. So And my! My other shout out is also it's I guess it's Natalie, too. But It's not only in the team and just to We talked about NATO, but just just to recognize that the the staff the the departments sent tab to necto the conference, which is a which a pretty pretty high end, and and and and big professional conference that most I think we all we all went to a couple of weeks back, and I, for one, got a ton out of it. at the conference, and also just talking with Staff and

[149:20] I I don't think I've met training in person, but I spent 20, like maybe 20 h with her those days, and also, you know, I just met with other just talking to people at the conference about the cities. They were people seem very impressed with boulder they seemed to impress the boulder sent their You know their version of a of of transportation board members. and and I also I appreciate that, that that you invited tab members. I was one of them to speak at the bike tour the boulder gave to the other delegates, and I thought that the the team did a really good job of representing Boulder, both the quality of it and just being really great hosts. so any case, I just wanted to acknowledge that. And I thought it was really, really productive.

[150:06] Thank you for that. Yeah, the team. I I mean so many people on the call and that aren't here tonight, put in a lot of work and time. And, we're just really proud to be able to showcase the work that we're doing here in the community. So thanks for just acknowledging them big. big applause that would good that yeah, thank you for that bye to the so the conference and and for the the bike rates that was so great to attend that. Yeah, Natalie, I want to also sign in and and say, You know what a what a wonderful experience was to get, not only to know, like Ryan and my other Tab members better, but to get to know all the city employees better. I mean, it was really really great. you know, I think we need to do more stuff like that, with or without some sort of like, you know, get together as it's great, you know.

[151:00] So thank you so much. Cip back to her coming up all right. The fourth quarter is started. Can we get a I guess they're up for? I'm going to see. Adjourn. Oh, I second. thanks, Jenny. All this is favorite. Thanks. Everyone. Have a good night.