March 10, 2025 — Transportation Advisory Board Regular Meeting

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Captions from City of Boulder YouTube recording.

[0:03] All right, let's go ahead and let people in. It is 6 0. 1. I'm calling the March 2025. Transportation Advisory Board meeting to order. Are all the participants in now? Yes. Excellent alright. Well, then, let's let's refresh everyone's recollection about how we run these Zoom Meetings. If you don't mind, Sydney. Yeah. Share my screen. Quick. Thank you for attending the Transportation Advisory Board meeting to strike a balance between meaningful, transparent engagement and online security. The following rules will be applied for this meeting. This meeting has been called to conduct the business of the city of Boulder activities that disrupt delay or otherwise interfere with the meeting are prohibited. The time for speaking or asking questions will be limited to 3 min. No person shall speak except when recognized by the person presiding, and no person shall speak for longer than the time allowed allotted. Each person shall register to speak at the meeting, using that person's real name. Any person believed to be using a name other than the one they are commonly known by, will not be permitted to speak at the meeting.

[1:11] No video will be permitted except for city officials, employees, and invited speakers or presenters. All others will participate by voice. Only. The person presiding at the meeting shall enforce these rules by muting anyone who violates any rule. The Q. And a function is enabled, and if you and it will be used for individuals to communicate with the host. It should only be used for technical online platform related questions. Only the host and individuals designated by the host will be permitted to share their screen. During this meeting. Thanks very much. Okay. Before we move to the approval of the minutes for a couple of meetings. I understand that the city has an order of business. Right. So, Valerie Watson, interim director transportation and mobility. So tonight we would like to take a moment to appreciate Tila

[2:11] for her. Many, many years of service with Tab. So get ready tab members, because I'm about to call on you next to say a few words about about Tila. But I'm gonna kick us off here. So Tila has been with Tab going back to 2017 which is really incredible to think about all of the different phases of work and changes in evolution, that she has really been a part of over the years and and an incredible tenure, and also not one, but 2 stints as tab chair, which is a lot of work, a lot of thought. 3, 3. There's been 3. Okay? Well, I stand corrected, which is pretty much usual for Tila to be on it to correct us when we don't have it exactly right. So, in addition to thanking you for your many years of service, Tila. I just wanted to offer my my personal gratitude for

[3:10] well, your thorough reading of our many, many pages of Memos, we can always count on you, and it is so appreciated, but also just your astute questions, and being usually the 1st person to show up to a community engagement event or a bike tour. You just roll up, usually the 1st person ready to go, eager to talk, eager to work with us, and that is also something that we notice and really appreciate. So you know, you're enthusiastic always, and that means a lot in the work that we do that can sometimes be challenging, and we just love that you have been so enthusiastic about your work with us. Many of you may not know this, but Tila's work in transportation goes way back before Boulder, actually over a decade to the street fight era in New York City. And, my, how far have we come but Tila and a bunch of her neighbors were involved in advocacy around the Columbus Avenue

[4:14] Street redesign project. I think she won a street. See award from streets blog back. Then this is like Circa 2010. And I just wanted to highlight that Tila has really been a part of the conversation around the design of our streets and humanizing our streets for a very long time. So thank you, Tila, for bringing your talents and energy to the boulder community. I'm not going to say goodbye, but I am going to present you virtually with something that I am very excited to give you in person. You get your very own core arterial network sign with the incorrect information on the back. But you also get your dreams have come true.

[5:08] Tila's way, your very own street sign. Thank you. Yes, thank you so much, Tila before I pass the mic over to your fellow tab members, or is there anything you would like to to say or add. I'm a little overwhelmed at the moment. That was very sweet. Thank you for doing your research. In fact, I was the 1st person to ride the Columbus Avenue Bike Lane. We asked for 10 miles. They gave us a 1 mile trial. The 10th mile has been built since I've been here, thanks to ongoing work by the same group of advocates. But I followed the paint truck on my bike, so I know I was the 1st person to ride that thing, and being able to come to boulder and yes, bring the same enthusiasm, but also work with staff that is able to

[6:06] make some of these things happen on a shorter time scale and understands like truly truly understands, the humanizing effect of more basically democratic road infrastructure has been so refreshing. I do feel like I made a change in New York City, but I feel like I've made my mark in Boulder and going from being sort of a bee in people's bonnets, and being an irritant, and being a complainer to being on the board, and having that, I just distinctly remember how the respect changed. and how, as Transportation Advisory Board members, we were really really listened to in a way that I haven't experienced before in my dealings with civic government, and it's a privilege, and it's an honor. And that is why I take it so seriously is because you, Staff, take us seriously as well, and I think, from my early days on Tab 8 years ago to now the shift in demeanor between tab members and staff between the directors

[7:17] has been palpable and useful. I really think that the you know, the last. Several directors who have been more willing to bend, be flexible. Listen to honor some of the real feedback that the Tab members have had has also made a positive change. So I just can't thank you enough, Valerie, for this, you know, thanks to Natalie, thanks to Eric, advantage, thanks to Carlos, thanks to Mike, to Bill Cowan, to Kathleen Brackey. Who else have I served under? You're the 7th one. which is a lot of change in 8 years, and you know I didn't come from nowhere, and I'm not going anywhere, so you will definitely still be hearing from me, but I'm quite happy to pass the torch to to this this next tab. We have 2 new members coming on board. Soon. I will still be watching, I will still be commenting. I will still be talking out of turn and too much, but

[8:14] appreciate your validation of our work and our feedback, and I mean this on behalf of all of all of the tab boards that I've been, you know, in different iterations of. So I really really appreciate being able to work as a valued member of the Advisory Board. You take our advice seriously. Well, I would love to invite your fellow members of Tab. Would would anyone like to say a few words. I would like to appreciate Tila. May we always go Tila's way? Love your street sign. That's a great reminder that your way of doing things, Tila. Your seriousness, your competence, your thoughtfulness, and your dedication and devotion to this

[9:05] Advisory Board has made a huge difference, and I think has elevated the status of this Advisory Board in among the the boards for the city, and I think everything you've brought to this board with your legal background and your dedication to active transportation, and being a avid cyclist, and all the wonderful things you did in New York. And here I just it's it's been such an honor to serve with you, and I'm so grateful to call you a friend, and I am excited to spend more time with you now that you'll have more time. So thank you for everything. Just add that I've known Tila 1st for a number of years through community cycles, and I'm just joined the board last year, and I found your leadership to be an inspiring example for me to follow, to, to strive towards

[10:07] And I appreciate all the work that you've done and continue to do, and including keeping us on track in these meetings. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Okay, no more gushing. gushing over. Thank you so much. And I didn't cry. I'm I'm proud of myself, too. So we will move on. Now, I really appreciate this. And I, yeah, this has been such a lifesaver for me honestly to be able to adult and do something professional and useful while Covid happened while a whole bunch of other things were were going on in in all of our lives, but this has really kept me grounded and helped me to to be you know. Purposeful, I suppose, about how I'm spending my time. I have really enjoyed it so much.

[11:06] All right, let's move on to approving minutes. We have January and February minutes to approve the February ones were sent out earlier this afternoon. I, Darcy and Mike, have you had a chance to look at those. I just I read through them quickly, but they seem complete and. Yeah, they seem fine to me. I have no changes. January, same thing. We've had a chance to review those any changes or corrections on those. No. Same. No notes, Meredith. All right, then. I will entertain let's just do them one at a time. A motion to approve the January 2025 tab meeting minutes. I move to approve. The January 2025 tab meeting minutes. Thank you. A second.

[12:01] Thank you. All in favor treaty is not here yet. Right? I don't see her. Okay, they are approved. Same for February. I have no. To approve. Great. Thank you, honey. February minutes. Great. I see. Second. And we approve. Show of hands lovely, unanimously approved. No changes. Thank you so much. All right, let us move along to public comment. Then we have no public hearing items this evening. So this will just be the public's chance to speak to us about all things. Transportation related. That's on your mind that you want to talk to us about. We have 3 min each, I think, and I'm going to hand it back over to Sydney to kind of moderate. This bit. Yeah, so 3 min and the timer will show up in my window. If you're joining us by phone, you can press Star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. Once I give you permission.

[13:04] Right now we do not have any hands raised. Yeah, I don't see any, either. We do have Lynn. So, Lynn, I'm going to. Yeah. Permission to talk, you should be able to unmute. Since things need to move along. Okay. So yeah. Oh, thank you, Tila. Big time. Now you got to run for planning board or council better yet, Council, and that's 1 thing I was going to bring up. Ryan had the former tab person had written in about excel, and I am going to connect for you. Gaza, and the streets of Boulder and Apac. I seriously am going to connect those. Apac is a big money organization, you know, and we're spending Boku bucks on Gaza and on Ukraine, which I'm opposed to, although I'm sure some will disagree. But

[14:06] these monies, you know that people are always saying we need potholes. We need, you know, transportation. We're in deficit all the time. And yet tonight you're going to be talking about Willville, too, I guess right. And the Dark Horse. There was pretty controversial, too. But This just cannot go on with an impending, imposing deficit for the tab with Cu South, which has got to be stopped. And you know these, this just imposing development of Cu, and and it's all with the money. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Apac wasn't connected to the hedge funders, the private equity investors, the rental backed securities that are really what Tab is having to take the fallout for all of this development and all this impossible growth.

[15:04] you know, which is just too much of a burden. and and it really asks it begs for a lot the larger picture to be changed so that tap can be effective. And in my own, for example, what Ryan brought up was, what are the benefits that excel is bringing to the city of Boulder? Well, excel is like a corporate entity, you know, and the developers in boulder are like the corporate entity that causes all of this growth. So it's like the wrong model to start with. For example, I tried to get solar on my place 10 years ago, and I was turned away from doing it. And now I'm turned away again from getting in a new retrofit program because I exposed the fact that the county had a solar job they were going to do, and this this vendor was doing it, and they said, Well, we can't do it under adverse conditions, whatever. Those were too cold, too hot, whatever, to install the solar, and they refused, and the county said, Sorry you're out.

[16:11] That kind of thing is not going to happen. We need to employ solar and distributive solar, not, you know. transmissive because we need the money for transportation Department just saying. Thank you, Glenn. Okay, I don't see anyone else. But to be fair, I didn't see Lynn either. So unless you have other information, Sydney. I think we're probably ready to close the public comment period going once going gone. Thank you. Appreciate that. So we will move. We're already item 6 on the agenda. So 2952, which in, as Lynn described as Willville, 2,

[17:04] is the next item on the agenda. Yeah. Over to Chandler, go ahead and introduce yourself and take it away. Sure. Hi, this is Chandler Vanscock with the Planning and Development Services Department. I'm case managing this project. I'm just going to give a brief project description and a brief history of how it got here, and then hand it over the applicant. They have a presentation where they'll go into a lot more detail on the project and all the transportation facilities they are proposing. So just generally, this project is proposed to redevelop the existing shopping plaza. Known well next to Williams village, replacing it with 4 4 story mixed use buildings and with residential and street level commercial uses, and then 1 5 story residential building for student housing overall. The proposed project would provide 412

[18:00] new residences, including 127 units for students, and would also increase the commercial space from roughly 54,000 square feet to almost 60,000 square feet. The project is proposing to provide hidden structure, parking short and long-term bike parking a new multi-use path connection. It is also reducing the number of access points from 9 to 4. They're proposing a simple, L-shaped main street which will provide access to the buildings internal to the site. The street has been designed as a Woon earth in order to promote safer interactions between pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. The entries on Baseline road would maintain existing travel patterns, and the entries on 30th are lined up with existing median cuts. and the proposed project is requesting a 40% parking reduction, and they provided a transportation demand management plan in support of that request, and the applicant will discuss that in further detail. So this, as I may not have mentioned, this, is a site review. This came in as a concept review initially, and was seen by planning board. They made comments that it went to city council almost a year ago. Today, March 7, th 2024,

[19:12] and at the Council meeting. They did not call up the Concept review, but they did refer it to Tab as well as Dab and the Environmental Advisory Board, and they didn't provide a lot of specific feedback. So we've provided some feedback in the staff Memo. And what we're asking tonight is for Tab essentially, to review the project and provide feedback on access and connectivity to the existing multimodal transportation system, as well as the projects alignment with transportation goals of the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan and the transportation Master Plan, and any other feedback that the Board wishes to give will be well taken and transferred to the planning board with the staff memorandum when it is scheduled, but is not scheduled currently. So that is all I have. If anyone has any questions for me, I'm happy to answer them, otherwise I will turn it over to Catherine to give the applicants presentation.

[20:08] I think I have one question. About the 40% parking reduction. I I thought that there was some feedback about that. And is that still the current aspiration. That is currently what they're requesting. Yes. Okay. And yeah, but I mean the feedback overall on consistency with Bbcp and Tmp goals can definitely include. you know, feedback on the Tdm. Plan, the proposed parking reduction, etc. Okay. But given that that had been an area of feedback before, did the applicant change anything, I suppose, is what I'm trying to find out. To respond. Like worries about Tdm. Being robust enough. Say. Oh, from Staff's comments so they haven't resubmitted. So we just. We issued one round of comments, and then we asked them to come to all these boards before they resubmitted so.

[21:01] Okay, thank you. Your good ideas. Thank you. Okay, Catherine, sounds like you can take control. Perfect. Thanks, Chandler. Sorry. I'm having a little bit of a technical issue with my phone. So we have a presentation. Catherine, can you just introduce yourself for the record? Just so. We have a complete circle here. Oh, absolutely! I'm so sorry. My name is Catherine Vanderspeck. I'm with Corburn architecture. I'm the project manager on this job, and I've been working on it, probably for the past year it's been in, as you probably well know, it was in for concept prior to the Site Review Submittal that we've done. So this is just us building off of some of the comments that we got back from council and trying to work with Tab in order to create a plan that's really going to meet the needs of the requirements that planning board and council placed in front of us.

[22:07] Okay? And with that I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen and walk us through this presentation. Okay, so this is just an overview of the site as we've designed it. the project at 2952. Baseline is well known at the moment, mostly for the uses that are on site. But I want to draw your attention to a few other things. So we're bordered on the north by Baseline and on the east by 30th Street, and then 36 runs along the southern portion of the site and up the east side. Right now, when people think about this site, there's a sprouts on this location, as well as the Dark Horse, as I believe Lynn mentioned earlier. We also have. The broker in

[23:03] the site is predominantly asphalt, and a large portion of the site's traffic that we see is vehicular. There's a student population that moves through the site from the east, over towards the Cu campus at the moment. But these students are moving through an asphalt lot with lack of decent sidewalks and no direct pathways. There's a lot of vehicular conflicts. There's bike paths that run up to the site, but don't continue through. So really, it's a it's a site that doesn't respond well to the users that are moving through it. Our vision for the site is to take those connections and those desired pathways, and to use those to begin to break the site down to a more human scale, to give us buildings that respond to the ways that people want to move through the site and create pockets and areas that are serving the people that are using these this space so that it can really take on that neighborhood center function that we are looking to bring out.

[24:00] So we're doing this with prioritizing the people and the connections that they're making, the bikes, the pedestrians pulling those connections through the site and into the multi-use paths and the street bike paths that serve it as well as kind of highlighting other transportation options, and making sure that this site as a neighborhood center really serves that purpose with retail, with great spaces, so that it's it's working with the guidelines of Tab and the transportation board in order to function. Well. one thing I want to call out is that right now that site has about 9 access points for vehicles. So when we are looking at this, and we're starting to pare that down to reduce those points of conflict we're looking at. Where do these cars really want to come into and out of the site? Where do the people want to come into and out of the site bikes. And what we came up with is, you know, accessing this crosswalk that's being redeveloped on baseline right now, people use this all the time. We have students that cut through and behind these buildings to get across that sitewalk. We also have a large population that moves around the site vehicular access trying to keep that reduced so that it doesn't become a predominant form of entry into the site. And it doesn't create issues with the people that are moving through, but still makes it a highly functional and usable space.

[25:19] So when we started looking at those things, what we come up with is a plan that you can see some of those desire lines. You can see those connections starting to happen, creating pockets and areas along those where we'll serve pedestrians, and we'll be able to move people through the site in an efficient way. That's also friendly to users that are not in a car. We have a neighborhood center that happens in the middle pocket areas of green space and a connecting path that really makes for a pleasant walking experience. This starts to tie those contextual cues in and through the site. So let's talk a little bit about the pedestrian and bikeways we have on the outside of the site there's existing sidewalks. There's a multi-use path that continues along baseline along 36. There's also a multi-use path that comes down from the North that is unconnected right now. So part of our plan is to build that connection in as one of the requirements of the transportation master plan, and really make it so that people are able to move through and get to the existing multi-use path on the south end of the site.

[26:25] We're also continuing those desire lines from the student housing that's off on the East Side and really letting those students move through the site to connect through and go to see you. Our proposal has a chunk of student housing located on oops. Excuse me. Located on the western side of the site in this building, which falls right along that multi use and puts us adjacent to, but not in direct conflict with, the existing pedestrian pathways. So we have people that are moving. We have people that are going to be riding their bikes along the side of the path, and it's all set up in a way that makes it intuitive and really easy to use

[27:02] through this gathering space. We have students that are going to be walking through. We're proposing a continuation of that connection right straight through into the site and up a warning so that we have a pedestrian focused zone for people in cars where all of these students can start to disperse and move through this space, enjoying a nice retail atmosphere. There's going to be shops. It's going to be lively. It's going to be active. It's going to be much safer than the existing pedestrian pathways across the site. It also creates a really beautiful space for people to gather and enjoy themselves. It gives us a nice variety of activity and green spaces throughout. It's also much more secure. With all that activity. You have better lighting. You have more people moving. So it's not going to be a cause for safety concern. because we have so many students that are moving through here. We're designating this a low speed zone. The priority here is the people in the bikes. It's not the car. So when people are coming into the site on cars, we have very easily accessed parking hidden within the building envelope. So it's not the focus, but it is very functional. They're coming into the site. They're immediately jumping into these parking garages, and then they're able to move about the site as a pedestrian or on a bike. If that's more convenient. Same for student housing, we're pulling them in, and they're immediately going to go into a parking area.

[28:16] These zones where we meet with people become low speed warnoofs. We're using paving patterns. We're using scoring patterns, things that are designed to slow people down so that they can move through in a safe fashion. Catherine, while you have this up. Yeah, there, there appears to be like open space around building B and around building a and they read to me like they're supposed to be parking areas. But that's not the case. What. So, when. What are those? The orange is the parking areas that are hidden within. Orange is the parking areas, and the gray is the building. Yes. Okay. Then. So there's yeah. There's retail on the ground floor. There's retail that rings those entirely. And then in the upper levels we have residential uses that are functioning up there. Terrific. Thank you. But that way it's hidden. So when you walk through, you're not staring at a sea of cars inside of a structure instead of on a surface lot.

[29:04] One thing I do want to point out is that the parking that we are proposing on site as Chandler already mentioned, we are proposing a reduction. There's a different reduction for the student housing than there is for the rest of the parcel. So we have about a 20% reduction for the main residential parcel, and then an 80% reduction for the student housing. So when we start tying those together, we do end up at about a 40% reduction. The math is not perfect, but the reduction is different, based on the users. The development partner that we're working with for student housing has places all over the Us. Where they're showing that the students are not using as much of the cars. It's more for storage. They're using bikes and walking and buses and part of our Tdm. Measures include doing things like subsidizing people for not parking a car, providing additional bike storage, providing electric bike and scooter parking, and all of these things that are going to help make these students require less and less of the vehicular access. We're also including car shares on site, as well as plenty of loading zones for Uber and lyft drop off.

[30:12] let's talk about bikes for a second with the bike parking on the site. We don't want to create conflict zones between our pedestrians and our bikes, but we do want to make it easy and intuitive for people to use these. So our short term bike parking is located at building entries in places where it's going to make the most sense. We're not pulling it into like the main gathering areas, the village centers and things like that where there's going to be a lot of people milling about. But we are trying to pull it really close by. So it's convenient. It's conducive to being used. Just doesn't create those conflicts on site. Right now, we have about 930 parking spaces. Some of those are short term. Some of those are long term. Those long term spaces are located adjacent to building entries. We want the users of the building who are going to be riding these bikes to have plenty of options. We want to be very easy and conducive to being used. We have electric charging stations in those bike rooms. We have space for cargo bikes, space for trailers like things that are going to make this highly functional and make it very easy for people to maneuver about on a bike

[31:11] additionally, and sorry. Yeah. Oh, you also mentioned short term bike parking. Is that just like outdoor bike racks. Yes, that's you. Racks and things like that located around site. So with that bike parking I mentioned some of that's e-bike charging. We're also bringing in electric scooter parking. So they have other options. Again, let's make it as easy and as intuitive for people to get around the site and not require a car. We also have Ev chargers in the garages because some people are going to want to have a car and let's make it conducive for them to have places to charge these electrically, and we can start to work on how we're being sustainable in other fashions. There's space for car shares in these garages, as I already mentioned, and any other means and methods that we can get people to get out of this car and not need one is even better, because this is the whole point right?

[32:03] As part of that we are tied very well into a transit network that already exists. And I apologize. It's pointed out to me earlier that a couple of my bikes, my bus stops aren't showing up on here and need to be adjusted. So forgive me for that. But one of the Tdm measures that we're proposing is Eco. Passes for residents and being able to tie into that bus network that exists around the site. We're working with the city on how we start to integrate some of the other measures that are happening along baseline that are not bus measures. Those are the vertical, vertically separated bike lanes that happen there. So we are tied into a greater network of access of yeah, alt mode transportation just being able to move through the site and move into the city beyond in a way that's safe. And I just wanted to leave you with one additional slide, which is

[33:00] this is looking at some of those spaces that we're trying to create, that are very pedestrian. And Bike focused the 2 on the right. Here are showing pictures of the Warner. The 2 on the left are showing some of those pedestrian pathways that come away from the multi-use just trying to make sure that this is a space that doesn't feel awful to use. It should really feel nice. And that's it for me. And I'm happy to answer any questions. I also know that Bill may have things to add as we move through. So thank you guys very much. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Catherine. So tab. Usually the most efficient way to do this is to just kind of ask clarifying questions first, st before giving sort of general feedback. So at the moment, if you have a clarifying question. let's focus on those first.st I can't see. Darcy. Yeah, no, I see you. Okay? No questions from Darcy. I don't see Mike raising his hand. And I don't see Trini here yet. Is that right? Looks right? Okay. So I just wanted to back up a little bit about the Tdm.

[34:05] Thinking and clarify, because even though this is like there's student housing there. You know, this will bill to this is still a private property development. Is that right? That's correct. So, even though the University has been really, I think, successful in being very aggressive with their Tdm. And parking permits and pricing them. The controlling Tdm. Would be the city's framework. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. And then, Valerie, do we anticipate in the next? I don't know. 5 years that, you know, we have talked about like having more enforceable tdm. ordinances things of where we can hold the developer to sort of maintain that standard. So something. So one of the faults that's been cited. With our existing Tdm, approach is that you know we we sign an agreement as the city with the developer, and then then they sell the site, or there's another business that moves in, and they may or may not be bound. Are we anticipating that our Tdm. Will be more enforceable in the future.

[35:16] Right. That was presented by staff as part of the amps access management parking. Work a couple months ago. Sure. But there's always this question like, how retroactive is it? How soon will it come? Will will it actually tie into what we're looking at right now, I suppose, is what I'm trying to ask. Right? I'm actually thinking if he's available. Chris Hagelin is here, and if we might take down the presentation, if that's okay for just a moment. So we could all see each other on the screen. That would be helpful. Absolutely. Sure thing, I can address that Chris Haglund, principal project manager transportation, mobility. So yes, so we did recently present to tab our amps work which included the Tdm. Ordinance for new development.

[36:05] That schedule we hope to have an ordinance in place by June of this year. Once that ordinance is in place. We do need to do some additional work, you know, developing the toolkits for the developers to use and things like that, so it may not go into effect immediately in June, but we hope to have the ordinance in place in June, when we do the parking code update. So I would envision that the Tdm. Ordinance would be in effect sooner. For approval here. Yeah, okay, and that that's useful. I mean, I'm just trying to. They would have ongoing. I know that that's been voiced as a concern. I appreciate the distinction here between. I'll get to you in a sec bill the bit between. Yeah, the the sort of daily shopping kind of, you know, community commercial movement around the site, and and that some of these are also going to be students, I think. See you in general has done a pretty good job at

[37:13] basically making non-car ownership the norm. the exception to the rule. And so I, you know, from my perspective, this feels consistent with that. I was just curious. If the Tdm. Would still be applying Bill, you had something to say. Yeah, I was just gonna say that typically, you know, when those rules come in, Chris, they are applied to any project that hasn't submitted for Site Review yet, so I don't think it would apply to this one. So I just want you guys when you're thinking about your recommendations to keep that in mind. Thank you. So, even though they'll resubmit. it doesn't start the process fresh. That's the way it's always been in the Past Council could change it right? So they can make it for something that submits a permit, or something like that. But but the way it's always worked is the moment you apply for a site review, you're entering into a legal negotiation with the city, and everything, including like building codes, are locked in at that point.

[38:03] Hmm. So I don't want you to think that there is this other thing coming like I think we would need to make sure we've got it in now. Okay. Appreciate that, Darcy. You have your hand up. Well, that adds a wrinkle. Yes. I'll just ask a Claire. I'll come back to that in in comments. But yeah, that would be a huge missed opportunity. But I did want to ask is this primarily student housing? I didn't gather no, okay. I didn't gather from the materials that this was primarily student housing. It would be available to students and at anyone right market rate. Is that right? Yeah, yeah. So it's market rate. The student housing element is crafted more towards students. It's like 5 and 4 and 5, like higher units higher bed count units in there, so that those are geared towards students. And there's about 123 of those in that building. But there's 285 market rate units that are also happening on site at the moment. So it's a project as a whole is about a 3rd student housing.

[39:05] So we're looking at it as 3 things. There's the student housing, and we can deal with a parking reduction for that and a Tdm. For that your thoughts on that would be awesome. And then there's the residential units, the 280 some odd residential market rate units, and we've all dealt with that before. So I think you're, you know, you you guys know how to handle that. And we're essentially saying one parking space per unit there. Then the thing that's harder. And you mentioned it was okay. The Council asked us to make this a community center. So we need to get people in there. So how do we deal with that? And we're trying to do overlap between residential and commercial parking day and night. And you know, really hard overlap. But there's a real concern about. And and this is again a question for your for your group. How do we come up with a Tdm plan that's actually gonna affect retail or service trips into the site. There's a little bit of a different question than like, How do you affect the residential trips out of the site, so thoughts on that would be awesome.

[40:04] all right, any other clarifying questions. Tap, okay? Do we have any feedback for them, for instance, we've just been asked for thoughts on Tm. Darcy, go ahead. Thank you. Lots of thoughts. Well, so 1st of all, it's interesting to me, and pretty clear that your Tdm plan was developed by somebody in Denver. It doesn't refer to the resources that we have here in Boulder largely, but those were brought up in the site, the Site Review document, so on page 23, of 41 in your parking. Tdm, the the response by the Site Review people did bring in some of those other elements that really would need to be included here, you know, lime scooters and B cycle station and other real incentives. So yes, Cu has been

[41:08] skillful at helping students not bring cars there. You know. We know that a large proportion of of students are not here with cars that's great and incentivizing, not bringing a car to this place. It feels very central, right? It looks very central, but it's quite peripheral, actually, to a lot of resources. And people would probably you know, people who want to live there may want to bring a car right to tie in this site to those other resources and the the transportation infrastructure that will make e-bike usage and scooter usage and other things more realistic on a regular basis. I mean, it is great that this property is at the end of 30th Street, now. 30th Street is going to be a really wonderful bikeway not not long from now, and they will be able to tie into those that infrastructure on 30th Street. But so when you're talking about like getting people

[42:20] kind of into the property for retail use and and other things and then out of it again. I mean, that's that can be a really wonderful connection. I think. I mean thinking of that project really coming together, and the protected bike lanes on baseline, and all of that. And that's those are great resources, and that can really help. And I think your your movement through the site looks like it will facilitate that really. Well, I would just really encourage you to follow the directive in that paragraph on page 23 that ask you to think about, you know, providing e-bikes for students, or, you know, really thinking beyond just I mean, the ecopass is great. That's really an important tool and resource. But how else can you really make sure that people are going to use this property? The way that it's intended?

[43:17] Yeah. And I just I don't know. I just have other thoughts about this project. Feels like it's from another time. And I wonder if it's still I wonder if it's still gonna serve the purpose that you that you hope for, and I. Well, I definitely want you to expound on that. Yeah, I do, too. Talking about like the the retail uses. I mean, when we look around at other properties like this around the city. you know what is the occupancy rate of them? What is the the retail occupancy rate in Boulder Junction is low.

[44:00] right? That is a that's the same kind of environment that you know urban environment. And it's great, and we love it. You know I love that place, and I just want it to be vibrant and thriving. And all these great things we are in an economic moment that makes projects like this challenging. But that's not. I mean, I'm not on planning board. That's not for me to speak to. And of course you're the architect you're you're dealing with this yourself. So I'm just looking at this property thinking. is this something that will work, you know. I don't know. Yeah, you're your boy. You're you're you're hitting a nerve. I'm nervous about that, too. No, no, it it's fine. But okay. So it's important to maybe mention this thing because it may impact the rest of your discussion, your recommendations. I you know, I think, that we're we're. I'm super nervous about that. And it really was directed by Council to make sure that the commercial space actually went up. So what we're focusing on are the things that thrive because there's 3,000 students living there so like honestly pizza shop, the Dairy Queen, like those do really? Well. So we're not thinking retail very much. It's mostly gonna be like services and food.

[45:12] that may alter the way people come and go. It's weird, because, like, if you want to go shopping at a grocery store, which is hopefully the anchor, like the the sprout, stays like you need to be able to bring stuff home so like a cargo bike would work or a car. but if but the other stuff won't be retail, so you wouldn't need to bring stuff home. So again, th, this is why your thoughts would be really helpful. Just keep that in mind about the mix as you think about it. We're we're. And the anchor. The anchor of this site is is different, and it is a wonderful, you know, to have a grocery store there, and to have that be an asset for the surrounding housing. Really important. Right? There are restaurants there. There's a grocery store. There are student friendly businesses, right? And so that that is great. And I think that that puts this in a in a good place as you've identified. And I think that you've you've managed. You know. You've sort of designed for that. Well.

[46:08] and the flow through. I mean, it feels like it's going to be a wonderful community center, you know, I just I just really hope that it will be. And I know that this is a challenging time to be thinking about projects like this. but I think in terms of the transportation resources, just really making sure that I mean, how could this be the most sustainable property of its kind in the city. And like you're you're thinking of that. Let's just really make sure that cars are not, you know, constantly trying to get into those little driveways and the the 3 spaces where you know the 3 sort of entryways that they can get into. Really, let's think about, how do we make it easy like. I think, of places like downtown Vancouver, A/C. Where people walk around with, you know, shopping carts right? They don't necessarily have to drive to the grocery store, they can actually cart things home to their apartment and whatever. So there are lots of ways to kind of think about this and to market it. And I think, yeah, just making sure that people have the resources that they need to make. The best use of this place will be really important.

[47:13] Yeah, and just really beefing up that Tdm plan to make it very bold, bolder, relevant. So anyway, I feel like I've said too much sorry. No, no, thank you, thank you. That's super helpful. I'll shut up. But that was great. Yeah, I don't think you said too much, Darcy. I think that was really very insightful. So appreciate that, Mike. I want to give you a chance. I think. I don't have anything to add right now. Okay. Couple of thoughts. I am quite curious what the parking lot utilization looks like right now. Because it sounds like you're anticipating a very similar mix of the the kinds of businesses there now, versus after

[48:06] Yeah, we were, gonna do we're in the process of trying to get those numbers. Kat, did we ever get those numbers? Did we get the utilization rate yet? Or is it still working on in work in the works. So we've only done 3 different counts, and it's not enough data to really call it a utilization rate, but from the counts that we've done. I believe we've done one weekday and a couple of weekends, and I think the times during the weekends. Please don't quote me, but it's somewhere between like 10 and 3, and I think it was 2 thirds of the parking lot was utilized at sprouts, and maybe like a 3rd of the dark horse, and then on the weekday it was much lower at sprouts. I want to say it was somewhere in the realm of like maybe a 3rd or a quarter at sprouts, and then the Dark horse was. I'm not sure if it was actually open at that point, but it was probably only like 10 cars. There. Yeah, it seems open all the time. But on a personal note my father passed away in October

[49:01] But he! Thanks, but he was one of the architects who designed the Dark Horse. No. Yeah. So he had a lifelong like this freaking on that picture in this desk. Guy Matt, like he had. He loved all of these like antiques like, collected his entire life. And so him going in there recently with me to find his Id. He had a state I think it was his Florida state driver's license. That he. Donated for that. You know the countertop project? So yeah, it's a i'm I'm sad to see it go, and I'm sad to see him go, and I think the things move on. So yeah, sorry. That's absolutely nothing. But. That's super. But I would love to see something really wonderful. If the Dark Horse has to go. Please give me something that I feel good about replacing it. No pressure. Right? So yeah, curious what the parking utilization looks like right now.

[50:00] I am struck that there's constantly this like, talk about different sort of rules and parking strategies for scooters and bikes and e-bikes, and then the car parking is just sort of taken for granted. There! There's no talk of like short term, you know, parking for cars or no overnight parking for cars, or only overnight parking for certain cars. I think that I'm always happy to see flexibility of uses and the underutilization of parking lots to me is just a crime against public space, and this is a private development. But you are catering to the public. I found in general the discussion and the analysis focusing reasonably and understandably toward the student population. This is Willville, 2, right? So we're really focusing on Willville one. But you are adjacent to a pretty big neighborhood that doesn't have another grocery store. Option.

[51:03] That doesn't have 6 different. You know Pan Asian restaurants to choose from. I forget I've eaten there, but I don't remember what it's called that these people in the neighborhood who've been there for 1020, 30 years. They're going to shop there, too, and that's 2, as you say, like too far away for them to like shop and try to bring a bunch of groceries home for them to use a cargo bike or an e-bike. It's too close to bother to use the bus. It is for a lot of people a rational option to use their motor vehicles. Can we incentivize them to use them for shorter periods of time can we incentivize them to bring their smaller second car instead of the big truck? Can we actually in in thinking about what kinds of vehicles and private motor vehicles are parking there. Disincentivize the ones we don't want to see and incentivize the ones we do want to see priority parking for very small vehicles, you know. There are compact spots and things, but they're

[52:09] like the cars that count as compact today are not. They were not compact 20 years ago, and I really do feel that smaller, lighter, more agile vehicles are I, I and I tinted at this in our last tab meeting. I really feel that we're at the cusp of that kind of level of new vehicle happening. Because it just makes so much sense, especially for a second, or even a 3rd vehicle for for a household, with many people to have your your near car, your car that you're just using for little trips like this. And to think about that and incentivize it and prioritize it, I think would be a marvelous thing for you to be exploring, and I think that that would to speak to Darcy's point, that that would help bolderize it. Right? It would help say, we are ahead of the curve and thinking about this stuff.

[53:00] So bravo for including long term bike parking, love it. I would love all short term bike parking to be covered, for instance, because then I will still want to ride my bike, even if it's going to drizzle because it's not gonna get, you know, rusty or whatever I would like to feel like I have extra consideration for going out of my way to bike, to sprouts, or to bike to, you know. Get my takeout dinner from here or there, and to expect to not park there, for if I'm going to drive there I need to be out of there in an hour. Or an hour and a half. I'm not gonna be there for super long. That kind of thinking about prioritizing who gets to park, where and why, I think is available to you, and I'm not hearing enough about that. And I think it's super relevant, because I think people in in the adjacent neighborhoods who live here year round and are going to be part of the lifeblood of that shopping center in the summer, when the students aren't there

[54:04] in such numbers that that deserves a lot of consideration. If I can. I'm very much appreciate you bringing that up. That is, definitely. I apologize for forgetting to even mention this when we were going through the parking. So we've been working with our parking consultant and our traffic engineer to try and look at the parking us, and how we're doing this on the site. And one. And I think this is to Darcy's point a little bit. Does it actually work for retail? Like, if we want a retail that's going to function? And does it really work on the site? What are we doing to make that happen? And 2, what are we doing to make sure that this isn't like you said a completely empty parking garage that doesn't actually work for boulder. So we've done studies on numbers using Uli data, using data from Denver, from other major cities, from boulder, from all of these places, to start to look at what kind of parking utilization makes sense? What kind of reduction makes sense? How do we flex these uses enough, as you mentioned, to make sure that we're having spaces for residents in the evenings? But we're using that same space for that supermarket. During the day when the residents gone and part of that is

[55:09] on our streets, we have all of our spaces are short term spaces. They're there not for people that are going to be parked overnight. It's there for your quick trip to the grocery store, or I'm just going to run to cosmos really quick and grab a slice of pizza. It's raining. What have you making them as flexible as we can, and work for as many different uses as we can. but also talking to the retailers and trying to figure out what they need, and how we integrate that into these garages. So they're actually getting used. And it doesn't end up just being a waste. And we had not considered, or at least I had. And maybe Bill had. He's done this more often than I have, making the priority spaces for the smaller, lighter vehicles. We are holding 50% of our spaces right now is compact. And there's, you know, math on buffers and things like that that we've taken into account because of how people park in compact spaces. But I think that making compact spaces priority is a great way that we could start to integrate some of that in there as well as covered short term bike parking. I didn't even

[56:06] I have that written down with exclamation points behind it, because it wasn't part of the things that were on the radar for us with our plan, and that should have been. Yeah. I hadn't thought about small car priority either. And until you described it as like, you know, maybe we can't get somebody out of their car. But we can get them out of something that you know, into something that's gonna use a lot less carbon. You know. I didn't think about that. That's a really good idea. Great! That's what we're here for. Mike. I see your hand up. Yeah, I'm just curious, is building C, where you're envisioning the grocery store would go. And would that also have underground parking? I'm not seeing any surface lofts. So building. B, is this the building that has our parking in it, or at our parking and our grocery in it? So the way the building is set up right now. We've been working with the grocer to come up with an slight tweak to the plan that makes it more effective for them sprouts and still gets on the parking that they need. So users would have an access point from within that parking garage to access sprouts.

[57:12] And building. B is also going to have housing. Above. Yes, on level, the upper levels. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. So I just had one more main item. But you just reminded me I'm I'm such a fan of retail, of retail under housing. I. This is such a great model. So I definitely support that. It's a great way to live. And it's and if we're indoctrinating student youth, it's a great way to teach them to live. And then the other thing I just wanted to circle back on is I fully support and would support us not, or whatever among other tab members, reducing the access points from 9 to 4 or 5, whatever it is that you've done. and that's honestly not about disincentivizing driving, but it is about making multi-use paths and multi-use path users have far fewer conflict points with motor vehicles, and I think that's a huge reason that our multi-use paths on, say 28th Street don't work well.

[58:16] is. There's simply too many driveways and too many places for people to mess up and get hurt, and it's usually not the driver who gets hurt so absolutely. Support consolidating the vehicle access points and and appreciate that that effort. And I think I think that's that's definitely worthwhile. 4 sounds like, not very much for the amount of retail that's happening here. But it's gonna be plenty. Truly, that was the only other point that I had to make, and unless I see anything else from Darcy and Mike, I think unless you have other. You know things that you want us to to react to. I think we could probably leave it there for that, for now.

[59:04] Think I do, Bill. Did you have anything. I I think these are good ideas. And they're really appreciated. Well, thank you so much. Best of luck. Thanks. Thank you. Guys. Thanks. Everyone. I muted myself and mistakenly, okay, now we're going to move to Item 7 on the agenda, the staff briefing on the transportation report on progress. Yeah, I'd like to invite Steven Allison and Chris to to give this presentation. And Tila. I'm I'm really glad that we were able to schedule this for your last official meeting. Knowing all of your prior feedback on this very topic. Over the years. So I'll hand it over to Staff now. But think of it as our parting gift to you, Tila.

[60:04] Great. So yeah, I can kick us off. Good evening. My name is Steven Rijo, and I'm the transportation planning manager here to introduce the great work that Allison and Chris have been doing on one of our regular reporting mechanisms, which is the report on Progress. The report on Progress really shares where the department is on its goals. objectives, and all the things established in the transportation master plan. It allows staff in the community to gauge progress towards our common goals, adjust courses needed over time. And this work is just foundational to everything our transportation and mobility department does so really excited to share the progress we've made with you all tonight. With that I'll turn it over to the team. Wonderful. Thank you so much, Stephen. Good evening, Tab members. I'm Allison Moore Farrell, senior transportation planner with transportation and mobility. Tonight I'll be sharing with you an overview of the Department's 2025 transportation report on Progress, and also joining me for the presentation is Chris Haglin.

[61:05] As you're aware, boulder's transportation master Plan guides the city's multimodal transportation system, including policies, programs, and investment priorities. Moving forward, however, all city departments will initiate departmental strategic plans in alignment with the city's sustainability, equity and resilience, framework and citywide strategic plan. The Tmp outlines the city's transportation goals and objectives and defines policies programs core services and investment priorities. The 2019 Tmp primary goals are, be safe, be equitable, be reliable, provide travel, choices, and support clean air and our climate commitment a critical element to the successful implementation of the Tmp. Is to track and report on its progress. The city regularly produces a transportation report on progress to formally document. This assessment 2025 report that we're sharing today focuses on the challenges faced and progress made since the 2020 transportation report on progress.

[62:07] Now, transportation reports on progress do not establish new goals or new objectives. The goals and objectives were established through a thorough engagement process during the 2019 Tmp. We're here to report on the 8 measurable objectives that the Department has been monitoring over the years. Some of the metrics have been measured since the 19 nineties and some of the metrics have only been established in recent years. You'll see throughout the presentation, and noted in the memo that some of the metrics have recently updated methodologies. Thanks to updated data sources or more sophisticated ways of sharing the data, we'll note if the methodologies have been updated. the 8 measurable objectives are reduce vehicle miles traveled, and daily Vmt per capita by creating high quality travel, choices for residents, employees and visitors reduce single occupancy, vehicle mode, share and increase walking, biking, and transit for all resident trips and non-resident work trips.

[63:06] reduce transportation sector, Ghg emissions by encouraging active modes and incentivizing electric vehicle adoption both community-wide and at the municipal level. eliminate fatal and serious injury, crashes and continuously improve safety for all modes of travel. increase access for all community members to comfortable and safe walkways, bikeways and transit increased transit service hours and bike system. Miles commiserate with employee growth. maintain base year vehicle travel times on core arterials and increased percent of population who live in 15 min walkable neighborhoods. Now to Orient you a bit with how the structure of the of the report on progress is formed. Each objective identifies when the measurement began, what the measurement is and where that measurement is tracking today.

[64:04] you'll see a red line in each objective which identifies the stated goal from the transportation master plan. Data for the measurable objectives come from a range of recent years due to the timing of periodic data collection efforts and employee and resident travel surveys the measurable objectives. Data was evaluated by subject matter experts and classified in 4 categories met or on track to meet target stable, but not on track to meet target trending in the wrong direction, or new and updated measure for which there is not enough data to assess a historical trend. This allows Staff to understand how actions are meeting goals, and if adjustments and priorities need to occur. this small report card shows all the objectives and their categorization. In one place we have many of these subject matter experts here this evening. However, if we're not able to cover all the details or questions this evening. Staff are happy to follow up with any questions.

[65:00] and from there I'll hand it over to Chris Haglund to discuss the 1st measurable objective. Thank you. Allison. Chris Haglin, principal project manager, transportation, mobility. And yeah, so our 1st one is vehicle miles of travel. So I've been in charge of this one for a long time, but in 2020 the city updated its Vmt calculation methodology. In the past we used to use Dr. Cog's regional travel model, a kind of a basic model that's used, based on a lot of assumptions and some data. And we switched to using aggregated cell phone and connected vehicle data. And we find this source to be one a lot faster in calculating the Vmt. But also we believe that it's more accurate in collecting the Vmt. But you will see a difference in the actual Vmt numbers between the 2 methodologies. But, as I said, this new use of cell phone, aggregated data and connected vehicle data provide better, more accurate

[66:13] measurements of the trips that start and end in boulder that start in boulder and end somewhere else start somewhere else and in boulder, and those just go right through boulder so, and those are taken out of the methodology according to the Ickley protocol that we use overall. The methodology is producing those higher ones. But we were also able to back cast a few years using this methodology. So we're able to backcast until 2018. So you can see that this graph shows the 2 different methodologies that have been used tracking the Vmt. Using the Dr. Call regional travel model in the blue line, and then the, I guess, goldish line using the new methodology which clearly shows the significant dip due to Covid. We have not yet returned to pre-covid levels of Vmt likely due to hybrid work environments persisting in our community. So we have

[67:19] basically had pretty stabilized Vmt data for the per capita. Vmt, we've been tracking that, using the same methodology since 1990. So we have a very good trend line of that. We have been making very steady progress. In 1990 we had about a 15 miles per day average for our residents, and we are down below 12 now so essentially like a 20% decline in overall personalized. Vmt. all right, the next one is our Mo chair goals. So we've also, I've also been tracking this from the beginning the methodology has been consistent all the way from 1990 when we started doing the resident travel diary. And then the employee information is from our Boulder Valley Employee Survey, which we started in 1991

[68:25] you know, we aim to reduce single occupancy, vehicle, mode, share by increasing all of our access to our multimodal options, for both, for all resident trips and and for the non-residents. We are looking only at work trips. The Sov. Mode chair for all trips by boulder residents has consistently declined since 1990, with just 35% of all trips completed in an Sov. But we are not on pace to meet the goal of 20% in terms of our nonresident employees. We have seen that number pretty much unchanged since we started collecting that data, but I would say in more recent years, holding steady, may be seen as kind of some type of an accomplishment due to the outside and external pressures that we see in terms of our jobs, pop

[69:23] imbalance, increasing housing, affordability. And we know that our nonresident employees each year essentially move further and further away, and usually outside the Rtd service area, so holding steady at 80 may not look good, but we are at least holding steady against those external pressures. Chris, can I just clarify? This data is just based on the survey from from city employees or from municipal employees? No. No, this is all. Yeah, it's all residents. So we do our resident travel diary now every 3 years, and that's for residents. And then we do our Boulder Valley Employee Survey, which is a sample of employees from different employers.

[70:05] Okay. Thank you. Yep. all right. Now. The next one is, we're looking at our climate and our greenhouse gas emissions. so we certainly aim to reduce our transportation or our mobile emissions by encouraging our active modes, incentivizing electric vehicle adoption both at the community wide and municipal level. So that is regarding the city organization itself. We track our greenhouse gas emissions annually in our boulder. I guess it's a border community. Wide greenhouse gas inventory report. Although Bmt is increasing and rebounding from the Covid dip overall. Ghg emissions are declining, and while you may think this is counterintuitive, it is certainly related to the overall

[71:06] average fuel efficiency for the fleet due to electric vehicle adoption. And I also think the continuation of our hybrid work policies that significantly impacts many of our nonresident employee trips into the city, which are the significantly long trips. If you remember from past reports, we generally know that a non-resident employee travels more just in their work trip than the average boulder citizen does for all their trips during the day. So that hybrid work environment along with the electric vehicle adoption, has resulted in declining overall greenhouse gas emissions. We are seeing electric vehicle adoption rates at much higher than we initially anticipated. I think, way back in the early 2,010 s. We did an analysis with Sweep, looking at the rate our expected rate of electric vehicle adoption within our community, and we are way above

[72:14] that initial estimate that we had put into our models. So Boatarites are embracing the Ev, and it's making a significant difference. Yeah, thank you, Chris. And, like Chris mentioned, Ev, adoption is occurring at the community level at a higher rate than initially predicted, which is great, and while the State has been providing incentives, which again is terrific. the city of Boulder is also supporting this adoption rate by pursuing funding opportunities for public charging, infrastructure, expanding home, charging access beyond single family homes, developing low income access opportunities, pairing, ev charging with solar and electrifying Rtd city Boulder Valley school district and Cu bus fleets.

[73:00] and similarly the city is replacing its fleet vehicles once they are up for renewal by our standards, and will continue to do so if a vehicle has an ev equivalent. Thank you so much, Chris, for those. Sure thing. For our next objective regarding safety. The city aims to eliminate fatal and serious injury, crashes and continuously improve safety for all modes of travel, information on fatal and serious injury crashes as well as actions toward vision. 0 can be found in the safe streets. Report boulder is dedicated to creating and maintaining transportation system through a safe transportation system through capital improvement, maintenance, traffic control, education, enforcement and engineering, and as noted here, fatal crashes and serious injury. Crashes have remained steady since that metric has been tracked, however, is not at 0 through the vision. 0 action plan staff proactively, employ crash countermeasures and focus on continuous improvement staff are beginning year 3 of a 5 year vision, 0 Action Plan and recognize. It will take time to realize the impacts of these actions implemented.

[74:09] Key, to note that funding has been secured for many of the key projects in the action plan through the safe streets. For all, Grant. I know much of the vision. 0 information. Both data and actions have been shared through the safe streets, report and elsewhere. So if there are additional questions on the topic. We do have some of our subject matter experts here to answer those. And with our multimodal objective, the city aims to increase access for all community members to comfortable and safe walkways, bikeways and transit. Since the 1st identifying this objective in the 2019 Tmp, the city has updated to a more sophisticated methodology. That accounts for density of units. As such a new baseline has been established and her historical trend is not available. The City Gis team evaluated the existing methodology and incorporated this updated data into the Gis model to provide a more accurate sophisticated approach. That, again, accounts for density of units instead of the same level of density across this geographic area.

[75:11] For some context, the comfortable walkways accounts for populations that live within a quarter mile of sidewalks. This account. The bikeways accounts for populations that live within a quarter mile of bicycle facilities and local regional transit accounts for population that lives within a quarter mile of a transit stop. We'll continue to monitor these metrics, however, should they be updated in the Boulder Valley Comp plan, we'll also monitor that with the transportation options objective. The city aims to increase transit service hours and bike system. Miles commiserate with employee growth, employment growth information on transit service hours is provided for Rtd services and hop service and bike system miles are provided by the city. It's important to note the baseline year for this metric has typically been the date of the previous report. So it's it's not, you know, from the nineties, or anything like that.

[76:04] Given that 2019 was the year with the highest number for service hours for Rtd and hop staff are aware that transit service hours would go down. However, the city continues to encourage and advocate with Rtd. With creative ways to provide additional transit in the region and in boulder. And while bike system, miles have increased and this is helpful to track at a basic level in projects. Today we aim to work towards connections of the bicycle network as opposed to straight number of miles, increased and with the travel time objective. The city aims to maintain base year, vehicle travel, times on core arterials. Historically, travel. Time was measured by driving the corridors. However, in recent years the city has employed more sophisticated methodology that uses aggregated cell phone data to track this information. This is a metric the city has been monitoring on some of the corridors since the 19 nineties which allows for helpful historical understanding of various corridors.

[77:03] These corridors include foothills, Pearl 28th Arapaho, Broadway, and Belmont. This information provides context for corridor projects, but also recognize the needs for good and services to be delivered as part of our multimodal system. and with the walkable neighborhoods objective. The city aims to increase a percent increase percent of population who live in 15 min walkable neighborhoods. Since 1st identifying this objective in the 2019 Tmp, the city has updated to a more sophisticated technology. That accounts for density of units. As such a new baseline has been established, and a historical trend is not yet available as identified in the low stress walk and bike plan. Fostering walkable neighborhoods is a goal we have as a city. This means creating accessible destinations, like grocery stores, parks, hospitals, and schools within a 15 min walk. It's important to note that the 15 min Neighborhood Concept has been and continues to be a conversation in the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan update. So should any methodology change occur within the Boulder Valley Comp plan or new information need to be incorporated into the model. We will work with the planning department to have an aligned model on that.

[78:20] and in addition to the 8 measurable objectives that we collect and share data on essential services of the Department and Project Highlights will be shared in the final report that will be published. This is key to note, because many of these investments have been prioritized since both our 2019 Transformation Master Plan and our 2020 report on progress. These major investments are helping support each of these measurable objectives. For example, the core arterial network projects are creating more walkable neighborhoods, more transportation options and reducing the need for residents and employees to depend upon Sovs. All the impactful projects and programs stemming from the vision 0 Action Plan create safer streets for all users. So we will continue to work with the city as it develops its long term, financial strategy, and use this to provide guidance on our future strategic plans. Understanding progress we've made in the areas we can prove upon to meet those goals, allow the Department to reflect and invest these resources accordingly.

[79:23] So with that, I'd like to thank you for your time and attention and open the floor up to these questions. And again, we're happy to answer anything that's been covered with measurable objectives, and we do have some of our subject matter experts here this evening. So thank you, Tad. Thank you. All. Appreciate that. Darcy, Mike, any questions. Feedback. Mike, go ahead. Sure I just say I think Covid had a.

[80:00] Hmm. Big impacts and negatively on Rtd. and we're still waiting for full return of of services there. And the other big issue that's driving Vmt is all is basically, our population hasn't grown much in 30 years. And so now we have all these in commuters. I've heard upwards of 60,000 people driving in. I think you'll occupant vehicle to work each day. And so I think we need to acknowledge that housing policy is key to allowing people to live here so that they don't have to drive into boulder to work if they choose not to.

[81:01] Right. Thanks for that question, and thanks for taking down the presentation, too. So we have view of each other. I would like to invite Steven if you wouldn't mind to respond to to Mike's question around. And if I got this right, and you know, please please clarify Mike? You're asking what else what other measures can be taken? Given that we might not see that return in transit service levels in the short term. Yeah, no, I think it's a great point. Sure that's a good way to turn it. Excellent. Yeah, no, I think it's a great question. Appreciate you reframing it. And as you mentioned, Mike, 2019 was sort of a high watermark for transit service provided by Rtd. And so certainly trying to claw back to that good level of service we have, I think, one thing that I'd like to cite. That we've been doing locally is. you know, with our hop service while we're still getting back to the pre pandemic levels of service. We have seen ridership surpass pre pandemic levels of ridership. And so what's that telling me is that by putting the services back and making sure they're convenient that folks are eager to return. So I think those are some of the things we're doing here locally, and then always coordinating with Rtd. To try and restore service, coordinating with the county and some of their ambitions for transit as well, so

[82:25] trying to take sort of a multi angled approach there so hopefully that answer your question. But let me know. Thank you. I had a couple questions. Which I'm forgetting at the moment. I was curious about the metrics around walkability bike ability and access to transit, and those were all set at, you know. Does someone live within a quarter mile of these things?

[83:01] And I think, quarter mile to transit. Stop is about right quarter mile to bike. Sounds a little far a quarter mile to somewhere. To walk seems obsessively long. That's a reason not to walk if you have to get a quarter mile. So how? How did you get to that? To that metric, the the quarter mile for for walkability as as sort of the way to measure it. Sure, Tila, and that's a great question. And Chris feel free to add on to anything here. But what we did is we use the methodology that was identified in 2019 with the low stress and bike plan, which is where that objective and was established. So the change that was made was using density of units as opposed to an equal density across the city. But it is something that, as Chris and I were reviewing it with our Gis team that you know we'll look at in our future strategic plan when we reevaluate any changes that do need to be made. That, I think, is something that we can reevaluate. But

[84:05] the short answer there is. We were using that methodology, and and the change was the density. But we were using the methodology that was established in 2019. But the answer is, no one thought to ask that question. In 2019. I can't speak directly to that. I wasn't. I wasn't the one who. Was here. I didn't develop that methodology, so I can't speak directly to that. But we did. We do aim to align as as best we can. Data only makes sense when you compare it to pre. Yeah, when you can compare as well as you can. So again, if when we work on this next, maybe we can work on updating that, but again trying to be as comparative as possible. Okay, that makes sense. In talking about the number of evs in boulder. I I it's great, not surprise. It almost seems surprisingly low. I'm like only 10%. But that's fine. Are. We are only talking about electric cars. Is that fair?

[85:06] And I think my follow up question is, are the number of electric bikes? Do we just have a sense that they're they're just not enough to really make a difference in our transportation picture. or you know, maybe it's just the time of life that I'm in, but the number of my my peeps that have converted from an analog bike to an e-bike, and are doing the same amount of biking as before. Is significant. That that just that might be absolutely my own, you know, biased perspective. And from where I'm at. But I'm just curious. Is there a way for us to track is there? Is there anything that we can? Would it make sense, I suppose, to be thinking about e-bikes, cargo bikes, that kind of thing. Yeah. So, Tila. Excellent point, yes. And in our last resident travel diary. which will be doing another one in 2 years. So we did it 2 years ago, I guess.

[86:05] Yeah, we started tracking e-bikes. And so when someone said they made a trip on a bike, we asked them. you know, was it? Yeah, the acoustic bike or the electric bike and then, if it was an electric, was it a B cycle? Or was it? You know the private. That's exactly where I'm coming from. So we started collecting that. So now we will have a baseline to look at the growth. The next time we do it we'll we'll start seeing that. But I would be shocked if we don't see increases in e-bike uses, and I would say we are likely to see the average trip, distance of bike trips increasing as well. I would say I'm very curious to track that because we we collect all that information purpose of trip time of trip, time, distance, everything. So we'll be able to start tracking the impact of e-bikes in our community.

[87:08] Okay? The last point that I think I wanna make is on the reducing serious and fatal injuries. Point because in looking this over before the meeting, I was like, Wait, where? Where did our dashboard go? We used to have like an updated dashboard. It was something we referred to during every meeting during Covid. That has kind of disappeared a bit. And the dashboard has been moved over sort of the police department updated, how they're doing things and the new I forget what it's called. Hold on the new, serious, bodily injury. Slash! Fatal crash! Dashboard! Fascinating. So interesting. There's much more updated information than I was used to able to get as being a member of the public. That current dashboard, the new one, is not linked on city of boulder sites, or at least through the transportation department. So when you're trying to look into this stuff and you're in the vision 0 page. And you're following links and things. It goes to the outdated one that's not being updated anymore.

[88:19] So I just wanted to highlight that that is something we need to be supporting and appreciating, you know, one just for the transparency and the currency of that information. But we need to make sure that our links, you know, as city of Boulder, are as current as they possibly can be, and they are. They are not right now. They're pointing to dead information have for you. Yes. Tila. I just wanna say, thank you that that is a great point. I think we can take a look at the the pages that we have on the transportation website and just make sure that we're pointing to that as well. But I just wanted to give a quick update. I know they're still trying to work out like a.

[89:03] It's a data incompatibility issue that's been longstanding for over a year. Now with our, it's still a dashboard that we want to maintain, and will maintain, which is more longitudinal for serious and fatal crashes, which is a little different than the one that the police department recently started to publish as the Sbi serious bodily injury dashboard that really just looks at year to date. So I wanted to just update you all on tab that that is something that. We're still working with Pd to resolve is that data incompatibility software issue so that we can continue to maintain the the more longitudinal dashboard. And I'll just also mention that our staff regularly coordinate with the staff in Pd. To make sure that that data is consistent across those 2 dashboards, because I know that that has been a question in the past as well. So just wanted to get that good news that we're we're continuing to work on it. And that that other dashboard you mentioned Tila will live on.

[90:07] Okay, great. Thank you. Alright. I have nothing else. Darcy. Mike Darcy, go ahead. Yeah, thanks. And thanks for that update, Valerie, I think that's really important. I had noticed that as well, Tila, that there there just wasn't. I couldn't find the new information. And I had to look a lot of different places. So yeah, having having those things talk to each other would be really great. Even if they're kind of 2 separate things, there might be a dashboard, and then there might be the year to date bodily injury, you know, links. But but yeah, I know that those software issues and compatibility are are a big deal. Well, and speaking of that, so I really appreciate all of this data and the updates here. And just the reality, you know, seeing the reality, that it's pretty easy to meet those vehicle oriented targets, and it's really hard to meet the non vehicle oriented targets when you're relying on Rtd, and when you're relying on you know other factors. And so

[91:07] it's, you know, it's good to see all of that I I'm curious about. So I know that the objective 5 multimodal access and objective. 8 walkable neighborhoods. Those are you've oriented that data to the low stress walk and bike. planned right? Use. That's what you said, Allison. So you'll be using those indicators and those measures established in 2019, or is there room? I guess what I'm offering and and suggesting is that this would be a really opportune moment to introduce some other aspects. So that some other indicators into those particular measures that could capture the the subjective experience of walkability. So just like, you know, I that's I sort of my. The light bulb went off for me, too. And when you said, you know, within

[92:06] comfortable walkway is within a quarter mile of a sidewalk. I'm like, Well, who's not within a quarter mile of a sidewalk. Well, I know that there are some neighborhoods that are not. But, you know, just having access to a sidewalk doesn't necessarily mean that you're comfortable doesn't necessarily mean that you can go anywhere on that sidewalk, and it doesn't necessarily mean that it works for you right, that it may not be wide enough for your family. It may not, you know, the lots of different factors? Right? So I would encourage you to work on or to integrate some measures that can really capture the experience of the facilities, and those can be that can be done in a in a way that is easy to. you know. Qualitative information is not easy to try, you know. Track over time, necessarily. But there are a couple of questions you could ask people over time that could capture that comfort, you know. Is it really comfortable? Is it really useful? And and I would I could help you with that if that was of interest. But yeah, so just integrating some measures that could really help us get at the

[93:18] the reality of walkability and the reality of multimodal access, because those are things that we don't have a lot of really great measures for right now, and they don't necessarily correspond with people's lived experience. And so I think bringing some of those in would be really forward thinking on the part of Boulder, and would help advance this wonderful kind of data, array and portal that you have so. Absolutely. Thank you, Darcy, for that. Yeah. And and when we work on that next strategic update and work on updating any of these objectives as as needed. We'll certainly look into that, but in the meantime feel free to send me any of those suggestions, and I can, you know, track them in in these notes. So we do have those for the future. That'd be helpful.

[94:04] Thanks. Yeah. And just to piggyback a little bit on Darcy's comments, I will note, and you know we hear this every winter that, like the walkability of a neighborhood, varies quite a lot in Boulder. based on the weather conditions and the compliance by neighbors to clear snow and ice from their sidewalks. and we don't have a great mechanism for for tracking that, you know, even if we're just relying on reports that are done through, inquire boulder or asking for enforcement. That's very subjective and spotty. It is not universally reported and complained about, and I think it's legitimate, and I think if we really were serious as a city about prioritizing pedestrians like we say we are, then we should prioritize that as a city responsibility. I think it's a failure common to a lot of municipalities, but it is a failure of our municipality to outsource that to private citizens when it is public right of way.

[95:07] So in my way. I have to note note my objection for the record my way out the door. But and I'm always hopeful that these kinds of of comments and complaints and and notations of where we're falling short will translate into better funding, better advocacy, for you know, funding these things in the future better thinking about, you know, not putting it on your shoulders necessarily, but pointing out where we are falling short as a community. So I'm not trying to give you extra work. I'm just saying we don't know this stuff, and we ought to, and we ought to be making it a priority. That's all. Heila, if I may, I'll use this as an opportunity to plug a citywide effort that all tab members may be interested in so coming up this year there will be discussion at council about the city's long-term financial strategy.

[96:04] Part of that conversation will be talking about what are the levels of service that we are or are not providing, and what would be the necessary funding to achieve those levels of service. And so I feel like Tila, the comments that you and other tab members have had over the past few months about topics like like the snow and ice sidewalks issue that you just highlighted. Those will be things that will be great to register in that process as that count, that conversation is happening at council, and so I just wanted to give that quick plug, because I do feel board and commission members have, you know, a role to play in tracking and listening to that conversation that will be coming to council, because it's it's a citywide level conversation. Thanks. Appreciate that, Valerie. Okay, I think we can move on.

[97:00] Thank you so much, Chris Steven Allison appreciate it. It is something I'm curious about. I love the data. So thanks for that. Now, we're going to move on to matters. I think we have a brief update matters from staff about the email that came in just before our last meeting about just park and ride access for bicycles. And if there's anything after that I will be happy to entertain it. Yeah, thank you, Tila, for introducing that. And I'd like to welcome both Steven Riho as well as Alexandra from Boulder County, who is here tonight to speak to this. And just as a reminder for tab members. This, you know, really came out of some questions from the last tab meeting in which a community member who has a group who are interested in understanding bike parking opportunities around the city had raised just some questions around the downtown bike and ride station. So this is what our staff will describe tonight. And really, the purpose of this matters from staff item is

[98:12] to give tab the clarity that you had requested around the operations and maintenance, and how how the shelter works just to learn more about that. So I'm going to hand it over to Steven. Thank you. Hey? Thanks again, Valerie, and just wanna confirm folks are seeing the slide great. So with that again, my name is Steve Rijo. I'm the city's transportation planning manager, joined by Alexandra Phillips, who is the senior Planner bicycle planner at Boulder County, and tonight we're pleased to bring you this update on the bike and ride shelter that our groups partner on to maintain and operate at the downtown boulder station. So with that the presentation will follow this flow of background on the shelter specifics on operations and maintenance, and then how folks can use and interact with the shelter.

[99:04] Hi, everyone! Good evening. I'm Alexandra Phillips, the bike planner for Boulder County. I just want to say that because it is Tila's last meeting that I just wanted to thank Tila for her comments on every time I have presented to tab on the diagonal bikeway and the north Foothills bikeway and also coming to the Board of County Commissioners, hearing on the North Foothills bikeway. Your comments have always been really helpful and resulted in a better project, and I really hope you continue to be involved in those projects. So the background on the bike and ride shelters. The 1st 2 were installed in 2,011. That was the 30, th and the Adnor one and one at 8, th and Kaufman in Longmont. the downtown Boulder Station one was opened in 2,015. It's a free program. You do need an access card, but it is a free program.

[100:01] and the operation maintenance is specific to the location. Right now. Boulder County manages 6. Normally we have 7, but the Ethan Kaufman one has been dismantled for about a year, while they are rebuilding the whole Park and ride in Longmont. Think next slide. So the operation and maintenance is split, and we do. The the county manages the card access, and that involves sending out the cards to people who fill out the forms. The form. that's online and also working with the contractor who manages the the actual system which is run on a modem. We actually did replace all the modems several years ago to be 5G. Compatible. So there's a lot of background maintenance that happens with the card access, and I'll hand over the second bullet point back to Stephen.

[101:07] Yeah. So appreciate that background on how you all operate the shelter. The city of Boulder is responsible for performing maintenance activities at the shelter and performing tasks like cleaning and trash removal. I did want to admit to the board that, due to some staff turnover. There was a time recently where we hadn't performed maintenance duties as regularly as we've previously committed to, but, you know, have since remedied that and have it back on our you know work program. I did also want to mention that we sometimes run into challenges with the winter months, that we can't perform all of the maintenance, such as power washing when the weather is below freezing. But you know thankfully, as the weather improves here in the coming months, that becomes less of a challenge, and our subcontractor can perform all those maintenance activities when they visit their shelter. And so, you know, the city of Boulder is committed to maintaining the shelter per agreement, and is also in conversations to explore how we can keep that space tidier into the future.

[102:08] To you, Alexandra. Thanks. So how to use the shelter? I have a feeling. Several of you have cards. I'm not sure but you go online. You go to bikeandride.org. And you, there's an online form you fill out. And in the last 6 months we changed that form that. Now you have to upload a photo Id and pick 3 shelters that you want to use. You can also pick. There's the 6 that Boulder County manages, and then there's others that Broomfield manage and community meeting solutions manage. So there's even more shelters than just the 6 that Boulder County manages. You also need to read and agree to the full terms and conditions. Those terms and conditions are also sent out when the with the card, when it's sent in the mail, and it usually arrives within 5 to 7 days, and occasionally we do send out an E-newsletter to everyone whose email is in the system. So that's how the system works for the public.

[103:21] So with that, that is our update. Appreciate the time to share a little background on how the bike and ride shelter at downtown Boulder station came to be, and how it's operated, maintained. Thanks, Darcy. I saw your hand first.st Okay, thank you for presenting about how they work, but what was presented to us last month. and that I subsequently had a conversation with the person who spoke during public comment about the condition of the bike shelters has not been addressed here. So I'm curious. I mean, I hear you, Stephen, when you say that.

[104:04] Maintenance, perhaps, has been performed since last since we were presented with the condition analysis last month. But the person, I think what was her name? Fresh. Thank you. Yes, yeah. So she had very specific concerns about the usage of the cards, and how people were accessing these shelters who were not authorized to access them, and who, you know, and that bikes were actually being stolen. So I'd love to hear any updates you have about how that be. You know the the issue that was presented to us. Do you have any updates on that. Actually if I may go first, st Stephen, it Unless you had. Thanks. Alex, go ahead. So I talked to that community member Trish this morning and also gotten several emails from her, all very helpful. She also pointed out some links that were broken on our website, some old information, all of that has been updated, and I've asked her to keep an eye on it for us as we as things like that happen. For example, several years ago we went from a.org email to Agov.

[105:22] all of the.org emails still work, except for the ones that don't have an actual name on it. So the bikeandride.org is now only bikeandride.gov, but that's been fixed. There's some maintenance issues. One was at the table, mesa, bike and ride where the door was sticking and maintenance. People are looking into that, and trying to address that it might take a little bit to resolve so, and she also pointed out some old information that was actually in posters on the shelter. Both of those have been removed from the Walnut Street shelter, and then we had a long conversation about the cards, and about 2 years ago. All the cards that hadn't been used in 2 years were deactivated. And I'm still getting emails from people saying.

[106:21] Oh, I haven't used my card in a really long time, but I plan to use it when I'm a lot of people use it when they're actually going to the airport for a week, or, you know, flying out so we're still running into people that haven't used their card in many years. So we did that. We can look at deactivating. There's some very old cards in the system, I think. A staff member at Community cycles probably has the oldest card in the entire system. But that staff member is using it regularly, so it hasn't automatically been deactivated. We could look at that. The cards are are plain white cards in the very corner it says ICT, and then these grayish numbers. So if you find a card, you don't really know what it's for, so we've always felt that that can help

[107:13] but I'm going to look into more ways to make the cards secure. I'm not sure exactly how any remedies that we can do in that direction, we will look at those we also encourage, strongly encourage, including in the terms and conditions people to use. You locks. I have to say that nothing is completely secure, nothing. I had a bike stolen from a Buddhist meditation center so it can happen anywhere, and no matter what you do, your bike, your car, your home is not completely secure, but we're working on it as as best we can. And I also need to say, even though they're not on this call that the Rtd security at the 14th and Walnut Shelter always keeps an eye on the shelter while they're there. They're not there. 24, 7. But while they're there they're very. They've called me. When they've seen suspicious activity. They are partners in helping it be more secure.

[108:20] Thank you, Alexandra. I appreciate that. I appreciate the actions that you've taken since talking with Trish. You know she had really specific. You know things to point out. And I appreciate that you've done that. I hope that we can develop ways to make these shelters really. Yeah, more secure. I hear what you're saying, that you know nothing is perfectly secure. But because I bikes are such an easy target, and they're such quick. You know, they're quick money for people right like we have to make sure that people can use these shelters confidently. So yeah, thank you very much for the actions that you've taken, and I hope that that can increase security about

[109:01] East. Thanks, Mike. I saw your hand up. but then you put it down. Yeah, I yeah, I would echo what Darcy said in in Trisha's presentation she shows photos of 14th and walnut in in December, and 6 weeks later in February, where you can see a lot of leaves and garbage in both cases, and it seems like some of the same garbage is still there 6 weeks later, with a bunch more so. That's a long time ago, with all that garbage there. But I also had a question because she mentions the the website is bus. Then bike.com, which I tried, and that does work And you were saying, bye. bikeandride.org. And I wasn't able to get that work or or bikeandride.gov.

[110:01] If you go to bikeandride.org that will bring you to the website, the bike and ride the email bikeandride.org no longer works. The bike, then the bus, then bike. I actually haven't tested that in a very long time. But that is the original name that we stopped using quite some time ago. So if that is still working, I will look into that. After this presentation there was some mention of it in some videos that were on the website. We've removed those videos. It still does say that on I think on the wall, 14th and walnut. Yeah. We're working on making some posters with more updated information to post those. We don't have any plans to remove that bus than bike right now. Hopefully, the posters will, or what people will use to get that information on how to find the information on getting cards.

[111:08] Is anyone able to get bike and ride.org to work? I'm not getting anything. Is it bike, and the A and D, or Ampersand, or. If I can, and. Oh, my God! So yeah, because bike and. We got a, we got a spelling issue here. Yeah. And actually, most people will find it by going to. If you Google bike shelter Boulder County. and or even hopefully, by shelter, just boulder, because there is often confusion as to who manages what? Because Boulder County is managing shelters within cities. And we're working. Okay. City of both. So the Walnut Street Station is co-managed, but it's co-managed by Boulder County inside a city, but we're all working at

[112:02] the 1st and final mile. That's really what it's for to help. Pick it up. Is there any reason? What? What's the rationale behind saying? Your card can only work at 3 stations now. It was a way that Broomfield, and commuting solutions brought to our attention, that it would lessen the ability for people to go to various stations, various shelters and steal bikes. If anyone does want that actually did happen. And that's where it comes from. A little bit of background. I don't know how much detail you want. So from. There was, there was some user who had an authorized card who was using cards to access other shelters and steal bikes. Driving from shelter to shelter and stealing bikes that happened once. Most of the thefts that I've been aware of over the years have happened because people have actually broken into the shelters, and we're always looking at ways to make those more secure by putting up mesh, replacing plexiglass, stronger plexiglass things like that.

[113:19] Yeah. So that's where that comes from. Like a bad response. I'll be honest here, like that obviously limits the utility of of these bike shelters. I am one of those people who generally uses the same shelter to go to the airport and leave my bike there for a few days. But I you know I it wouldn't even dawn on me until I had made my plan to go do something different at a shelter. I don't normally use that. My card might not work there. So the people whose cards only work at 3 shelters are the ones that you'd have to check it. And if you do want more than 3 shelters. You can just contact us, and we'll very simple. Your card, since you've had it for quite some time, does access all the shelters still so.

[114:10] You trust me to not steal the bikes. Nice. The best one. Anyway, I don't want anybody else. So. It's not a perfect system, but that's what we have. Okay, alright. I appreciate this update. Thank you so much. I think, Darcy, your your clarifying question was super helpful. It's clearly still not answering everything raised there, and I think some of the things are just not capable of being addressed. But I do want to compliment Trish for the hard work that went into that a lot of background work, and that you know that Alex has opened up, you know, a communication channel with her and her group. So appreciate your your responsiveness. Right? The system is

[115:00] helping. I love love it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anything else. Updates from staff. And Alex. Thanks for your kind words. Yeah, I just wanted to echo that, thanks to Alexandra for being here tonight and and working closely with Trish Emser with bike boulder staff have been in regular communication with her since goodness. I think maybe October or November of last year. We've plugged Trish and her group into many ongoing efforts at the city as well as her coordination with the county. She's been involved in. you know, bringing ideas forth for bike parking as part of the amps, effort and and other things. So I just wanted to assure Tab members that we have been working closely with Trish for a number of months. Now. And yeah, just really look forward to continuing to improve. you know some of the the features that that she has illuminated. And yeah. Appreciate all of the work behind the scenes, and doing in making sure that her input you know, has has a place to go that we're getting her to the right folks to help address her issues. So again, thank you again for being here, Alex.

[116:18] Thank you. Thanks for the invite. Anything further on matters from staff. Oh, thanks no, that's it for for tonight, Tila. Thank you. Okay, thanks. We'll move now to matters from the board. Mike Darcy, do you have anything in particular? Excellent? Oh, Darcy! Nope, no, okay. I was just gonna say, no, I don't think so. I'm gonna miss, you guys. you won't get rid of me. Don't worry. I'll still be here. But I won't be able to interrupt the flow as much.

[117:02] It has been super gratifying. This has been really a lovely experience. I really appreciate you guys. I'm not gonna cry. Thank you, too. Thank you for everything you've done. When? How do I get my sign? I know I need to. I need to get in touch with you and maybe I can entice you out for a coffee or a lunch to say thanks as well, and and then I can give you your signs. Then. I I do eat lunch. That's true. Thank you so much for that. And, Meredith, it's been a pleasure you you and I, from the get go. It's nice to have some some faces that have gone the whole way. Chris, you've been there, Allison. You've been there, really appreciate it. And Melanie Garrett. yeah, I'm not going to do an honor roll, but really appreciate it. And at this moment, I believe, unless we have any future agenda items.

[118:05] Thanks, Garrett, I will entertain a motion to adjourn. I move to adjourn the March meeting of the Transportation Advisory Board. A second. Thanks, guys, we're adjourned. It's, hey. Thanks, good night. Like.