e the military use equipment policy so a lot of these things you see from us we actually have never we don't have any equipment that we've actually obtained from the military in our inventory but again because of the way the law is crafted we we refer to it as military equipment thank you that's helpful mr vice mayor thank you mayor uh for clever question would would would it be safe to say that AB 481 is intended to increase transparency of both the inventory that a city possesses as well as the costs associated with those items uh or or can it be misconstrued as this being a form uh that you're asking the city of center was it to purchase new military equipment yeah i think the the purpose of AB 481 it's uh several fold um transparency is really a big key piece or component of that so the community and you as council members can see what it is that we're using how often we're using it and the costs associated with that also with that though not just with the transparency there's that oversight piece right and and moving forward so as we move forward with this and we look at purchases before we make these purchases it's to provide that transparency that oversight bring it back to you and make sure that as circumstances change as community expectations change as council members expectations change that you're still good with that equipment that we're purchasing going forward so this is definitely going to be an ongoing conversation that that we have you know multiple times um or ongoing to make sure that that you are continually thinking that that equipment that we're using is the equipment that that we need to safeguard the community thank you for that clarification and chief since i haven't seen you in a bit sir i do want to congratulate you sir i wasn't able to attend your your not sir what do we say uh councilman so what do we call the the swerving in process but i wasn't able to attend but nonetheless congratulations sir thank you very much sir i appreciate it any other questions from council all right council member fleming i believe you can put a motion on the table all right i'll move an ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa adding chapter two dash 38 to the santa rosa municipal code regarding police acquisition and use of military equipment and wait for the reading of the text second second we have a motion from council member fleming and sorry council member rogers council member soyer beat you by probably the lag of the zoom i can let her have that one okay we'll let council member rogers be the second on that one any additional comments from council okay go ahead call the vote i'm sorry my apologies go ahead mr vice mayor and that was not due to a lag of zoom i'm sorry indeed indeed well for myself i just want to assure my community that that i'm very grateful to the process that we're increasing transparency when it does come to the equipment that is is being used by law enforcement agencies and to also reassure them that that we're all cognizant that we are speaking of the well-being of our fellow senator rosens that we are very well aware of of of peacekeeping compared to fear tactics and and the delicate balance between both thank you sir thank you mr vice mayor now let's call the vote thank you mayor council member schwedhelm i council member soyer i council member rogers i council member mcdonald i council member fleming i vice mayor alvarez i mayor rogers i that motion passes with seven eyes right thanks much chief thank you captain i appreciate the presentation and we'll be talking to you more on this as the annual report comes out madam city manager let's go to item 14.1 item 14.1 mehonia glenn requests for summery vacation of one storm drain easement suzie murray senior planner will deliver the report thank you good evening mayor vice mayor and council members the project before you is a summery vacation of storm drain easement at this mehonia glenn site at 51 73 highway 12 next slide slide please the applicant is seeking to summarily vacate the storm drain easement that will will be what will not be replaced i'm sorry i just saw a typo in this that will not be replaced the easement was also reserved for public utilities we have heard from all public utilities um that had interest in the easement and they've all released interest um vacating the easement is necessary for the orderly development of the approved mehonia glenn project which i'll talk about coming up next slide please here's the site it's uh right on the the northwest corner of calistoga road and highway 12 across the street from the safeway um all all the structures proposed are actually on the the larger of those two parcels next slide please there you go mehonia glenn was is an approved project that includes 99 affordable housing units um it actually has one unit reserved for an onsite manager so 98 affordable housing units um let me see i had more i wanted to tell you about it but it um i'll talk about a little bit more at the history slide so next slide i know what i wanted to tell you and i'll tell you now that it's it's got a funding deadline coming up so along with this easement um the vacation of this easement they're anticipating breaking ground in august which is very exciting so on june 29th 2020 mehonia was glenn was approved through the abe or senate bill 35 process which is a streamlined ministerial review process that can be approved at staff level so um on april 20th 2022 we received the application for the summary vacation which is before you this evening so next slide here is the image of the um the plat of the vacation um and it's the dotted lines that you can see running through the center of the property that will be removed next slide please uh pursuant to uh california street and highways code section 8333c um the city may summarily vacate the public service easements if the easement has been superseded by relocation or determined to be um accessed by by the easement holder and there are no public facilities located within the easement the subject easement has been superseded um actually i need to clarify that is being abandoned and all interests from utility companies within the easement have been released uh this public service easement meets meets meets each of these requirements and just to be clear is a public storm drain easement and the current design does not involve an extension of public storm drain through the site so next slide please uh pursuant to senate bill 35 the project is exempt from the california environmental quality act uh the requested vacation of easement falls within the scope of the approved project and therefore no additional environmental review is required this action is also categorically exempt from sequa pursuant to section 15305 because the summary vacation does not result many changes to land land use or density in the project site has an average slope of less than 20 percent next slide please and with that it is recommended by the planning and economic development department that the council by resolution first approve the summary vacation of the storm drain easement that bisects the property at 5173 highway 12 to allow the development of mahogany glenn a 99 unit affordable housing project and second delegate the authority to the city engineer to execute a quick claim deed and or any other documents necessary to effectuate the summary vacation and that concludes my presentation i am happy to answer any questions all right thank you so much susie i'll look to colleagues to see if there are any questions on item 14.1 saying none will go to public comment if you're interested in providing comment on this item hit the raise hand feature on your zoom saying none i'll bring it back and council member mcdonald if you could please put a motion on the table that'd be great thank you mayor i move the resolution oh sorry my apologies oh i'm sorry about that it's always good to hear from you anyway it's been a while since i've been on this podium thank you good evening can you hear me yes we can mayor may your lawyers vice mayor alvarez council members and staff my name is roman meras and i'm director of community engagement for generation housing where we champion for more more diverse and more affordable housing my comment is going to be very brief generation housing is proud to include mahogany glenn among the several projects that we have endorsed since our inception while the proposed changes change does not rise to the level of significant we're compelled nonetheless to once again register a support for the affordable project and urge the city the city council to vote in favor of the applicant request for a summer vacation to the storm drain easement and as always thank you for your service thank you so much all right go ahead council member put the motion forward thank you i move approval of the resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa in one approving a summer vacation of the storm drain easement that bisects the property at five one seven three highway 12 and two delegating the authority to the city engineer to execute a quit claim d d pardon me and or other documents necessary to effectuate the summer vacation for the property at five one seven three highway 12 assessors parcel number 183-410-060 file number vac 22-001 and wave further reading of the text thank you we had a motion from council member mcdonald and a second from the voice in the sky council member rogers any additional comments let's call the vote council member schwedhelm hi council member soyer hi council member rogers hi council member mcdonald hi and i just had one quick comment that i'm very excited to see this project going forward in district three and so i'm excited to see generation h here and all the work that was done previously and i'm i'm looking forward to breaking ground on this council member fleming hi vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with seven eyes okay let's go on to item 14.2 item 14.2 report utility certificate 1792 folton road uc 16-005 senior planner susie murray will present thank you thank you for that correction and hello again next slide oh i'm sorry the the project before you is the city sewer connection it's a request for a utility certificate for someone that's outside the urban growth boundary next slide please the applicant is proposing to connect to an existing single family residential development home and accessory structures to city water i'm sorry the city sewer service which i'm going to flip to my notes they're they um they have a a failing septic system they are adjacent to an area that is currently going under a um road widening process along folton road and that work is scheduled i believe coming up in spring of 2023 um given some size restrictions um of their their property a high water table and the age of the the failing system repairing it is not really an option relocating a new system their site isn't large enough to do that and as part of the road widening project their site just became a little bit smaller for the purposes of doing any adding anything anything else onto the site because they did grant an easement for both public utility easement and the temporary construction easement for the road widening so it's also worth noting that those agreements did not discuss the requested sewer connection so all associated cost will be the responsibility of the applicant um these requests um water or sewer connections outside the urban growth boundary are few and far between which is why they come to the council however we have approved them in the past uh just up the road i believe a little ways that to 2091 they received an approval to connect to city resources they too were adjacent to the roadway by losing some property um you know through the easement process to to grant the easement to the city um they were allowed to connect to city services because there wasn't enough room left to to correct their their existing situation so it's not just because they're connecting or that they're granting easements to the city it's also because they they really do require that um they have failing septic systems so um next slide please here's the property um it's right near the youth community park just south of piner and uh folton road intersection next slide please here's a site plan of how the the site is constructed right now and you can see they've got a lot of stuff kind of um crammed onto the site which uh you know a guest house workshop um in addition to the main dwelling um and then they've got the the setback areas there they also have some pretty restrictive setbacks which were outlined in the staff report and they also have a well now they did want they did originally request to connect to water services as well and because the well is the ground groundwater appears to be fine at this time they had a i think a broken seal um they withdrew that request and are only asking for sewer services so next slide please in 1947 the subject property which consists of a single family residence and guest house and workshop which you just saw um was developed um on july 20th 2016 um we received the application requesting utility certificate um i believe at that time the plan was to coordinate it with the folton road um road widening project and there were some things that needed to occur first and then on on march 9th the applicant modified their application to remove the request for the water connection next slide please so the proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the california environmental quality act and staff has determined that it qualifies for a categorical exemption pursuant to a sequel guideline section 15301 because the project includes negligible or no expansion to existing use next slide please so the planning and economic development department recommends that the council by resolution approve a utility certificate to allow the property located at 1793 folton road to connect to the city sewer system and that concludes my presentation i also have uh kabe osburn here from our engineering development services group who will help me in answering questions if you have any all right council do we have any questions seeing none let's go to public comment on item 14.2 and i see no hands we'll bring it back council members by them if you could please put a motion on the table sure thank you mr mayor i'd move a resolution of the council of the city of san aroza approving a utility certificate for sewer service for an existing single family residential use located at 1793 folton road assessors parcel number 034-091-023 file number uc16-005 and wave for the reading of the text second we have a motion from council member schwedhelm and a second from council member rogers any additional comments let's call the vote council member schwedhelm i council member soyer council member rogers i council member mcdonald i council member fleming i vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers i that motion passes with seven eyes all right let's go on to item 14.3 please item 14.3 sonoma county vision zero action plan transportation planner nancy adams will present thank you good afternoon council members and mayor i'm going to walk you through a few slides that actually was approved by our sonoma county transportation authority on the sonoma county vision zero oh i'm sorry you know what just a point of clarification we've got the wrong presentation up this is robs he's up next so can we do a slight pivot thank you all right here we go thank you so yes so we're bringing this item to the council tonight it was an item that went to the sonoma county transportation authority here a few months ago so next slide please so just a little bit of background the vision zero project was a regional plan that looks at recommended actions for reducing traffic fatalities in sonoma county and the purpose of this county-wide oops plan was to launch some initiatives with with the nine cities and the unincorporated areas of the sonoma county and it was a partnership with the scta the department of health services and various representatives from the local jurisdictions including san aroza community members and nonprofits and public health and safety agencies all formed the vision zero advisory committee next slide please in terms of the chronology so actually last thursday the bicycle pedestrian advisory board by motion actually supported the council to adopt the county-wide vision zero action plan that was occurred just last thursday and as i mentioned in march the scta and rcpa adopted the vision zero action plan and this item has been before the board a couple times in 2019 as part of the just updating the process this was a three-year process and then the council and both the bicycle and pedestrian advisory board by adopting the bicycle pedestrian master plan in 2018 or in 2019 excuse me this this was a recognized in in our adopted plan next slide please so as i mentioned this this document that was just recently put together by the county it's consistent with many of our local city policy documents the general plan update we're we're going to be incorporating some vision zero language into that specific plans as well and then climate action plans it certainly does support a lot of the goals and metrics in our climate action plan which look at trying to reduce you know drivers in single occupant vehicles and lastly and this is the next item on your agenda it will support strongly our local road safety plans which we've been working on as a team of the last year and a half and that will be an item you'll consider after this one next slide please so really the the analysis for a vision zero action plan is to target zero traffic deaths and severe injuries in the county by 2030 on all of our roadways next slide please so this is done by looking at several goals and these goals are to create safer speeds eliminate impaired driving and then create a culture of safety and build safe streets for all and then once once more looking at making our vehicles and safer and reducing private vehicle use and then improve data so that decision makers can have some effective and meaningful decisions related to traffic fatalities and severe injuries for all users of the road next slide please so some of the things that we've we've kind of start well we are doing with the city is we've we've developed our local road safety plan which you'll be discussing next and we've participated in programs such as safe routes to school and duis our police department has looked at targeted traffic enforcement related to crashes and collisions for bicycles and pedestrians and we continue to upgrade our signals and safety improvements at intersections to try to address concerns and issues with pedestrians and cyclists at our intersections and then just generally ongoing we look at our capital improvement program and continue to integrate bicycle and safety enhancements into our infrastructure improvements next slide so one of the I think the very strong benefit of having council adopt division zero action plan is that it will increase our eligibility and competitiveness for federal and state grants and the couple of them i've listed here the act of transportation actually it should be program and then the highway safety improvement program which again is well you'll see in the next item and then a couple that aren't on the slide are safe streets for all this is a new federal program that just came out with the infrastructure bill that was just passed it at the federal level and then another item on not on this is our one bay area grant which actually is something that we just are in the in the midst of getting that down to our metropolitan transportation commission for consideration so next slide i think we're wrapping up so it's a recommendation so before a quick quick note the the bike and pad board had a really robust discussion about this and one thing that did come out of that is they they established an ad hoc committee because they were interested in in looking at trying to to look at next steps and really they they saw this as a really a statement of principles as far as vision zero and they they wanted to have more of a conversation about you know what kind of plan or proposal that we could do at a city level to implement this vision zero action plan so i just wanted to share sure that was a council and and with that i'll go on to the recommendation that we're asking tonight the council by resolution to adopt the county vision zero action plan so i will stop there and happy to answer any questions thank you so much nancy council are there any questions on this item councilmember mcdonald thank you so much for the presentation and as i was going through things and looking at our ccip budget i was just asking ahead of time did we have any projects that will actually be helpful for this vision zero plan so um if you could answer that for me i appreciate it sure um that's a great question and i did a real quick glance at our our annual cip that the council just adopted and i think it was a total of like 51 projects that actually got money budgeted to them this this year and oh my video is a little bit uh flaking out here but anyway so um we of those 51 projects there's about 18 of them that will um that will address and have a meaningful impact on bike and and ped infrastructure and i'll just give you a couple of examples the folton road project um that's now under construction from piner to gernvill we've got a lot of um pedestrian and bike facilities that are integrated as part of that project our um san rosa avenue corridor plan which is um again that's strictly bike and pet improvements that um was just advertised that's in our another one and then our annual um slurry seal and pavement preventative maintenance program we always do opportunities and we will be doing some some pretty big um bike and and ped enhancement is part of that pavement work which will be coming up so those are a couple of examples i hope that helps and answers your question yes thank you so much any other council member fleming yes thank you miss adams and uh to you and your staff for working so hard on this um it's my understanding that the county was able to secure a grant in order to get some assistance on adapting this to some of the local challenges i have you and your staff been working with them to implement some of the findings and if so can you let us know what what specifically we've learned at the local level needs addressing different from maybe a general plan um i'm not sure i know what uh that funding is council members and i certainly can check into that but at this point that's not resonating with me okay no worries yeah it's not intended to be a gotcha but it's my understanding i've heard from my bike and pedestrian advisory council member that the county did secure some funding to develop basic components of vision zero adapted to local challenges and it's certainly my hope that we don't double do that we we are in communication with them and we learn what they learn and then we implement it um and then the second thing you know i think that it's no surprise to you the bike and pedestrian committee was not necessarily very close to implement or recommending this that it was only after they settled on a subcommittee to develop this so i'm wondering you know if it's possible that you can bring us annual reports with specific plans for implementation in ways that we might be able to communicate with our constituents and the reason why i'm not trying to give you our time the reason why i'm so detailed about this is that we i'll speak for myself i hear from many many members of the community and no many bike commuters and often i'm a bike commuter myself and we we don't feel safe and we want to know more than just saying a vision like what is the plan and how we know we've achieved it yeah i think i think that um yeah the it was it was a very uh complicated conversation with the bike board and i'm i'm glad that they ended up where they ended up and i and i certainly think we could share you know any information that comes out of that conversation with the ad hoc um the plan is to we actually have our tentative first date here in august with the the ad hoc group and then they the board would like to have a a full board discussion in at their november meeting so you know as we move forward i'm certainly um i think it's a great idea to share anything um with council members um you know as we as we move this conversation forward so thank you okay and it would just be my request that on a manual basis that you bring us back a status of where we are with implementation plan that just me one person but um any information on how we're progressing not just from the bike and pedestrian group but also from staff would be really helpful okay awesome thank you sure any other questions let's go to public comment on this if you're interested hit the raise hand feature on your zoom and we have alexa good evening city council members um thank you so much for taking this up and thank you for the presentation asadams um i uh am a community member and a community organizer with bikeable santa rosa which is an all volunteer um organ our campaign of people who are really interested in accelerating a completely connected low stress bike network and we like to say that a bike network is only as safe as its weakest link and so it really matters to us that we get implementation that is connected and not just um sort of one-off bicycle infrastructure here and there so i'm really glad to see vision zero coming and building safer streets for all is one of the key action points and one of the pieces of data that stood out to me in the report that was generated at the county level is that uh cyclists make up only one percent of road users but ten percent of fatalities and serious injuries so there's definitely a disproportionate impact there so i just want to ask the city council as you consider vision zero that you understand the mind shift that is really it's really asking of us which is to prioritize the life and health of all road users above all other considerations when designing roads and the reason this is important specifically in my role as a community organizer is while i have seen city staff doing wonderful things with the local road safety plan i have often seen them in some of the conversations that i believe the next presentation will cover um at intersections or places where there's heavy traffic loads uh sort of throw up their hands and say well we can't put a protected bike lane there or we can't widen the sidewalk there because we have to keep the level of service for the traffic um flowing and so to me i would like to see a future santa rosa where we're actually prioritizing the life and health of road users over just steady traffic flow and so i really um appreciate the comments from both the council members uh mcdonald and fleming about the specific ways that this is going to impact our capital improvement expenditures and wanting to see some accountability for projects that actually prioritize when there is a conflict between health and safety and other considerations prioritize the health and safety of all road users including bicyclists and pedestrians thank you i see no other hands so i'll go ahead and bring it back so councilmember soyer this is your item thank you mayor i'd like to introduce the resolution of the council the city santa rosa adapting adopting snoma county vision zero action plan and wait for the and i was going to raise my hand when i could like step away from cooking and then do you think i did okay i just said that off the top of my head i'll second that we have a motion from councilmember soyer and a second from councilmember sweathelm any additional comments i did just want to make a comment uh because it is something that that i'm committed to and i know scta and the city of santa rosa are all committed to is figuring out how to accelerate a safe bicycle and pedestrian master plan that we've passed uh to implement vision zero and i've been working with the assistant city manager and the city manager on some creative ways to try to do that so hopefully we see more on this item uh as this rolls forward but there is the commitment from us to be able to do that multimodal is the only way that we're going to meet our climate goals and the only way we're going to have a truly multimodal community is if we prioritize safety for bicyclists and pedestrians with that madam city clerk please call the roll councilmember sweathelm hi councilmember soyer hi councilmember rogers hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming hi vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with seven eyes all right let's go to item 14.4 item 14.4 local road safety plan corridor study and grant application deputy director sprinkle will deliver the presentation thank you good evening there rogers and mayor alvarez uh vice mayor alvarez sorry i just promoted you uh members of the city council my name is rob spring from the deputy director in traffic engineering and transportation on public works um today i'll be updating you on our local road safety plan corridor study and requesting a grant application submittal next slide please to give a little background um there are federal regulations that require each state to have a strategic highway safety plan this plan is a data driven plan that's used to reduce fatalities and serious crashes uh similar to division zero goals on a state level these plans are more focused on highway and interstate operations and then a local road safety plan is very similar to that but it focuses on the local level and reviews issues specific to jurisdictions um these plans in similar corridor studies are being required now to submit cycle 11 highway safety improvement program grant funds so this is something that the city is very interested in doing and one of the items that we're requesting today next slide please in 2020 the city was awarded a state grant to perform local road safety plan we hired a consultant ghd and they focused on our high injury networks and corridors that were previously identified in our bicycle and pedestrian master plan the goal of the bicycle and pedestrian master plan is to work towards increasing bicycle and pedestrian access and comfort for people of all ages by identifying countermeasures to help mitigate crash trends this is done uh partially by utilizing the five ease which are the elements which are elements that include engineering enforcement education emergency services and emerging technologies next slide please the local road safety plan vision is that Santa Rosa is a community where walking and bicycling are comfortable convenient and common for people of all ages and abilities the goal of the local road safety plan are so similar to that of the bicycle and pedestrian master plan in that they increase comfort for bicyclists and pedestrian and maintain and expand multimodal network our multimodal network and they support the culture of walking and biking next slide please so this is a snapshot of one of the maps that was produced in our local road safety plan and it's a heat map that identifies the density of crashes throughout the city of Santa Rosa and as you can see several of the higher volume arterial streets um have much higher uh the density of collisions as do some of the intersections on these arterial um interfaces with the interface with one another so this is a map in the data that was collected from 2015 to 2019 in the five-year period that was identified as the the study period for this analysis next slide please so as part of the framework for the local streets and uh our local road safety plan um we wanted to engage our stakeholders as well as the community so we included our police department our fire department city bus the Santa Rosa bike coalition schools and neighborhood and business representatives as part of our stakeholder group as well as we went out to several meetings to to the community to get impact errors to get input excuse me um the input from the community um on the various concerns that they had related to the following corridors that were I'm going to go over so the corridors that we looked at were four street between east street and farmers lane here we're actually looking at installing a row diet from bryden to east street which will include buffer bike lanes and I'll touch on what a row diet is in the next slide um we're looking at Montgomery Drive between Alderbrook and Haumann where we're going to be proposing moving removing the center turn lane and adding bike lanes on that segment of roadway to link with bike lanes that are currently already existing east and west of there on Montgomery Drive we also looked at west college from Cal to Morgan and um we are suggesting that on this section of roadway we actually do wayfinding signs through adjacent neighborhood streets to provide a much more lower stress bike route um for for those who who wish to travel across the section of the city next slide please so this is a slide of a typical road diet and it also represents a fourth street between Brookwood and bryden lane so the top portion of the slide shows the existing configuration where we have two lanes in each direction as well as parking on either side and then the proposal is to modify that lane configuration while retaining the parking for the businesses along there and installing buffered bike lanes with a single traveling in each direction and a center turn lane next slide please so continuing on with the analysis and the the corridors that were studied we have five additional ones that were included in the study um college from morgan to fourth street and this is another section where we're proposing that we provide wayfinding signs on an adjacent corridor which is on Benton street and this is actually something that we've seen through Strava data that people are actually preferring to use this route anyway so what we're our plan is to help make this a more robust route for bicycle travel stony point road from west third to sabbatical road this is actually highlighted in green because this is the section that we are proposing to look at our um our highway safety or excuse me our yeah highway safety improvement program fund grant and i'll cover that one in the next couple slides and get in more detail to um the proposals made there we looked at rosin creek ways to improve that from stony point to burbank avenue and proposing to uh pave the north side of that path north dotton and cleveland avenue both sections identified here we're proposing to do a road diet similar to what's being proposed on fourth street next slide please so looking back to stony point road the segment that was highlighted in green on the prior slide this is the segment that we're looking to again use of the highway safety program grant funding for that we're going to be applying for and it was the number one identified priority study section study segment from the bicycle pedestrian advisory board so this is the first the first quarter study that we actually looked at and it's the one that we are proposing that we apply for in this grant we held two community meetings um on this corridor with the with the wide variety of folks in the community came out and provided a great amount of input we had a great turnout for these meetings um even though they were on zoom we worked a little worry but we like i said we got great turnout and great input so i'm gonna before i go i'm not going to go over these bullets here i'm just gonna identify them in the next slide so let's go to the next slide and we'll go through um their proposal for this grant and i know this is is small but i think we'll give them work through it because a lot of the the items are colorized so i think we can uh walk through this together if i kind of navigate um with the color so um looking at the slide stony point road is the road that's going uh from west to or i'm sorry north to south but it's left to right on the screen and it's labeled stony point road and i know it's hard to see and i apologize for trying to fit this all in one slide um so north is to the left to help orient you and if you're familiar with this area the oliver shopping center and cvs shopping center on that top ribbon are on the bottom of that top ribbon so the intersection of west third street and stony point road is to the far left of this top ribbon so looking at this location you could see a small section that's highlighted in blue on the southwest corner so we're proposing to install a bulb out at this location now as you're moving to the south or to the right on the screen you'll notice that there are several little dots along the bike lane and those are protective bike lanes that are being proposed along this entire segment and a protective bike lane a photo protective bike lane is provided in the lower right corner of this slide with the green ballards that are shown adjacent to a bike lane and it's called plate one is what it's labeled there on the on the screen thank you for the arrow so those are being proposed along this entire segment and to do that we need to um reduce the traveling width um along this roadway which also is a traffic common measure to hopefully help with some of the speeding and speeds that are occurring out here so as we move down the corridor we move to the the next intersection as you move to the right which is the intersection of occidental and highway 12 westbound off ramp so at this location we're also proposing two additional bulb outs those are highlighted in blue one on the northeast corner and one on the southwest corner and the one on the southwest corner is the large blue area it's it's pretty substantial and this will be a great help for not only identifying where people will be entering onto the highway but also it gives will be giving the cyclists a clear delineation of where they need to ride across this intersection and some cues for the drivers on where they need to cross the cross the path of the bike um in addition to the um the bike lanes we're also proposing that the crosswalks you can see the crosswalk in the upper right corner there is provided with a pedestrian activated flasher or rectangular rapid flashing beacon so as pedestrians are crossing the the street at that location they will have a pedestrian button to press and lights will flash so that they'll be easily seen one of the things about the bulb outs that I wanted to add also is they not only do help with controlling speeds around the corners but they also help with shortening the distance of the pedestrians for using the crosswalks so by shortening the distance it reduces the exposure of the pedestrians any amount of time that they are in the street so moving down to the second ribbon we see the other on ramp which is and and pedestrian crossing that's on the lower part of the second ribbon on the left near the arrow thank you and and again you can see the the bike lanes and the protected bike lanes along this section of the bridge deck now the sections that are highlighted in yellow here in the center are locations that we're still in discussions with Caltrans on as far as reducing the traveling width to a 10 foot wide traveling so they have they've committed to going to an 11 foot lane but we'll need a design exception in order for them to go down to 10 and we have the support of the their bike folks in order to and they're biking pedestrian people in order to move this forward but we need to get the buy off from their operations folks so we're working on that as well and we will continue to work on that through this grant process so as we move further um to the right on the slide we get to the intersection of highway 12 eastbound on on the off ramp and it's also a very busy intersection for pedestrians this and and cyclists this is the crossing where the joridota trail crosses um stony point road and if you're familiar with this location currently there is a northbound free right that occurs which not isn't shown in this slide but the right turn that is is shown going northbound on the top part of the page here currently is a free right which means the only thing that the vehicles have to yield to are people in the crosswalk and we want to change this we want to incorporate it so that they actually have to stop at the intersection when the light is red and so that they are having to yield to the pedestrians and actually we're proposing no right on red um so that we don't get any conflicts um uh with pedestrian crossings and the vehicle movements we're also proposing installation of a leading pedestrian interval at this location which is where we release the pedestrian prior to releasing um the vehicles to have them become more established in the crosswalk prior to the vehicles being able to go um additionally we're uh proposing again bullbouts at this location to help reduce the um the crossing distance and an additional actually additional southbound left turn lane so with the configuration change at this intersection we're actually increasing um we'd be increasing the amount of time needed to use at this intersection and by adding the second left turn lane we'll actually reduce reduce the cues and lower the whole cycle length at the intersection so that we could serve all the modes of the intersection uh more readily so as we move so we'll move off this intersection and down to sabastral road which is on the last ribbon and to the to the right at this location um we're proposing an additional bull bout along with along in the segment we're also proposing the protected bike lanes like I mentioned along this entire segment of roadway so most all of these um these measures and countermeasures that were are being designed and and proposed in this came through discussions with our active transportation planner with the community with the bike board as well um and we think that we've come up with a pretty well balanced uh plan moving forward um one of the questions you might ask is weren't we doing bull bouts at all of the locations and as much as we would like to we do have geometry restrictions related to bus turns that need to happen um and as pedestrians are waiting on the corners to to the cross the street we don't want tractor trailers with with large um the large trailers trailing the the tractor to pop the curb and put the pedestrians at danger so we need to make sure all the turning radiuses work for operations um for not only the people but the vehicles as well um to make sure that the pedestrians are are in a safe location waterway in the cross the street so that concludes the proposal for um our H-SIP grant the cycle of an H-SIP grant and next slide please and with that um it's recommended by the Transportation and Public Works Department that council by resolution approve the local road safety plan approve the 2021 stony point road corridor study and authorize the director of transportation and public works to submit a highway safety implementation plan grant application for stony point road enhancements and with that i'd be happy to answer any questions thanks so much rob i do have a quick question if you could go to slide seven two more forward thank you yeah there we go uh for the proposed orientation if we're making changes why don't we go all the way and create an actually protected bike lane uh why don't we shift the bike lane where the parking is and the parking where the bike lane is so that there is never a time where the cars and the bikes have to cross one another and interact in any particular way so that's a great question thank you um so there are um driveways along the segment of roadway and when you have driveways uh uh one of those that type of configuration works best when there are a very limited number of driveways um because you don't have the interaction of the the vehicle and the cyclist right at the driveway uh the other thing that we have along the section of four street is there are some locations that do have bulb outs so i'm just thinking out loud that at those locations there it may be a little bit of a challenge to get the cyclists around the bulb out and we could probably figure that out but i we'd have to look at that so number of driveways is would be a concern um but we could definitely look at that all right i appreciate that i think that the default from the city should be create protected bike lanes where we can especially when we're making road improvements or road changes so where possible and i think if you ask any cyclist they'd rather deal with a bulb out than with a car uh that's that's coming along so just if we can sort of reorient our thinking so that that is the the default is the protected lane and that the exemptions or the exceptions are if we have for instance if it just doesn't work with the driveways i understand that one i would like to add also that on the Dutton road section we had actually applied for a quick build grant where we actually are proposing to do that along the the the parking that's available on segments of of Dutton perfect thank you council any other questions okay let's go to public comment we'll go to Alexa followed by Elizabeth hi again council members and thank you uh mr. Schriegel for that presentation i just be really quick i fully support um uh representing bikeable santa rosa fully support the idea that we should be putting in protected bike lanes whenever possible understanding that it's not always possible and i just want to say that we strongly import support the improvements at stony point and i know there's a lot of thought that went into um how to get all of those streams of different moda multimodal users um to work there so thank you for that and we hope that the council will um endorse the grant and that we can get that project started thank you let's go to elizabeth thank you mayor vice mayor and council members um and thank you rob for this excellent presentation i know how much oh i should introduce myself i'm elizabeth ridlington i'm vice chair of the biking pedestrian advisory board and i know from that vantage point how much staff work has gone into developing these local road safety plans how much time has been spent hearing public feedback and incorporating all of that and i really look forward to the implementation of these various plans i'm most excited about what could happen at stony point because i think it's a great example of how improving road safety for cyclists actually makes for a better experience for all road users because it's clearer where i as a car driver should be on that road and what i'm expected to do and what hazards i need to look for out for at each intersection so i very much hope that the council supports the proposal here that we apply for the highway safety improvement uh program grant thank you thank you elizabeth i see no other hand so i'll go ahead and bring it back council members let him can i pose a question first for rob rob thanks for the presentation i notice on the different quarters that were on this plan one that was missing for me that i've heard a lot of community discussions gernville from say range to say administration and i know we've got the over crossing that we've been working for years but how does that roadway the gernville road stretch fit into the future plans so that one is that one is one that we have looked at recently we actually did a bike ride with member of the public public along that segment of road just to so we could get a feel of it as staff as well and and and and feel the the tightness and the uncomfortableness of that section of road um i think that the quickest actually answer for that is the bike and ped over crossing to be honest there are several right away constraints along the section of roadway that we would need to um likely purchase in order to widen the road enough to put bike lanes in and the gernville road is um actually i think that interchange is the highest interchange volume of any of the of our um city streets so it is it is it's definitely a challenge luckily the construction of that that interchange did include bike lanes under the freeway so that portion we have room that is uh basically saved it set aside for cyclists and for bike lanes in the future it's just on either of the other sides that we need to do continue to do improvements okay i look forward to continuing discussions on that stretch of roadway and thank you for actually taking the time to go along it so then um i would move a resolution of the council of the city of san rosa approving the local road safety plan the 2021 stony point road corridor study and authorizing the director of transportation public works to submit a highway safety improvement plan grant application for stony point road enhancements and way further in the text second motion from councilmember second second from councilmember fleming any additional comments all right let's call the vote councilmember schwetham aye councilmember soyer councilmember rogers hi councilmember mcdonald hi councilmember fleming hi vice mayor alvarez hi mayor rogers hi that motion passes with six eyes and councilmember soyer absent great great work rob we really appreciate it as always council we have one written communication tonight it's the state legislative update for ab 1817 and sp 1338 i'll wait and see if there's any questions from council members on those items let's see if there's any public comment seeing none we'll move on to our last public comment for non agenda items period for tonight's council meeting if you have a comment that is not on an item that we had tonight but is in our purview going to hit the raise hand feature on your zoom all right seeing none thank you everybody we will adjourn