Bicycle Pedestrian Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everybody. This is the bicycle and pedestrian commission meeting. Today is July 15, 2026. I'm calling this into order. And I wanted to ask the directors all to call for tonight.

Chair Eshleck? Here. Vice Chair Marikama? Yes. Senator Gunga? Yes. Commissioner Marcy? Here. Commissioner Wolff?

Here. Excellent, thank you so much. So that takes us to our first item on the agenda tonight, which is the approval of the meeting minutes from our May 26th meeting. The meeting minutes have been distributed. I'm looking for either a motion to approve or some commentary and to take a discussion of the meeting.

I have a comment because it's mentioned here that I reported on the mayor's meeting, but I don't think I did. Writing for the future agenda settings, the last night and right before. Rossi reported on the agenda settings.

Yeah, and even if it was a mayor's meeting, it's usually the chair that goes there. Yeah, so it was not. Thanks, I don't know where that came from. Was it the VTA, the spelling of the VTA? I think you should be able to report on the VTA. Yeah, I thought, I never, I remember you reporting on the VTA.

But that was not the VTA.

Tell me at the time.

We can fix that.

Yeah, we can fix that.

Yeah. Okay. Any other feedback in the remaining minutes? If not, do we have a motion to approve with that correction? I would. Okay, we have a motion to approve the meeting minutes with the correction. And do we have a second as well? Second. Well, thank you. So we have the proper motion. Second. Can we do a vote, please?

For a motion to approve the May 20th, 2026 PPC minutes with the correction noted on Commissioner Marcy's report out. How do you vote, Chair Eshelbert? Approved. Vice Chair Matipala? Approved. Commissioner Gondon? Yes. Commissioner Marcy? Yes. Commissioner Wolf? Yes. Motion passes. Excellent. Thank you.

It takes us into oral communications. This part of the meeting is reserved tonight for topics that are not on the agenda. So if anybody has any topics that they wanted to bring up tonight that are not on the agenda, this is the opportunity and it's limited to three minutes per speaker. Do we have any communication feedback in this discussion, either online or in the room? Yes, we have one speaker here.

Let me share my screen.

We usually use this blue form. You can fill it out afterwards as well. It's not as important, but just for the record, there's information here. But please come forward. Yeah. Yeah. So...

I missed last month's meeting and two months ago we presented some issues of many potential dangers on the prospect road and wire. by wrong call. And I don't know what's the decision if you guys discussed about that last month, commission meeting. So adding about adding crosswalk and also other signals to the perspective. I just want to follow up.

Any decisions? Thank you for your follow up. So we have recorded your feedback your inquiry in our future agenda meeting setting items. And we pick from the list every meeting. So this is one of the items that will come up in one of the follow-up meetings there. We didn't have a meeting in June, by the way. So there was no meeting in June. This is the next meeting, so to say, after your presentation. I see.

So... Putting that in the future means, as we discussed about that, after a few years? No, no, no, it's not after a few years.

We will try to be as fast as possible, as soon as it fits the agenda. I cannot give you a date on it.

So, because right now, many bikers going across streets, which is very dangerous. And I think it's very important to take action. We take it seriously. Yeah. So, I want to follow up. What's the action items on that?

Yeah. As I said, we have it on the future agenda item setting list. And we will pick from that list for future meetings. Yeah. And then that will be handled. Yeah. So, you will be. able to sign up for notifications as well from the city when you, when TRIBE Commission meetings are happening, so that you'll be able to want to attend. So I'm ahead of that. Like today, we have three items, for example. And before, I mean, before that. I cannot tell you that, as I told you, and I will go into one of the Wednesday meetings with you.

I just try to have a sense how long it will take. A few months or a few years, right? So I cannot tell you, but it's not going to be a few years. You mean within this year?

Let's move on. I think we covered this extensively now. So let's take the next item on the agenda. Thank you very much for your time. So we have any other oral communication?

We have no speakers.

Thank you. Then that takes us to our. Next item on the agenda, which is the Cupertino active transportation plan. We have. Presentation. I believe. Yes. One man. And. Sharon.

Matt Schrader, Senior Transportation Planner. I'll be providing an update on the ATP and where we're at in the process. So, the last time we were before BPC was in February where Commission provided recommendations related to the project prioritization criteria, specifically the project list. Those recommendations were that the safety scoring seemed to be overweighted and that the Vision Zero scoring should be increased, which is consistent with what we heard, or sorry, Planning Commission. And then in April, we took those recommendations to the City Council, along with all the phase two materials that were reviewed by the two bodies. We also presented to the city council two scenarios. We showed them, all right, here's the project list as is, and then here's what would happen to the projects if we implemented those recommended changes. So the projects that relied more heavily on the safety scoring naturally fell lower, or the school scoring, rather, fell lower. But the projects that were, you know, more dependent on the Vision Zero scoring, those increased. And the projects that were both a suggest throughout the school and also on the high injury network, those remain relatively flat. So after hearing that, the Council then directed staff to rescore the projects with the Commission-recommended adjustment, which is what we did. So we rescored the projects and compiled the updated projects list, which is what is in the active transportation plans. We also compiled all the elements that have been developed in Phase 1, Phase 2, and reviewed by both Planning Commission, City Council, and BPC. And what's in the document really reflects the direction that the City Council has provided over the course of the project. So, once we had that, we then released the document for a 30-day public review period. And many of the comments that we received were pretty similar in tone from what we heard in Phases 1 and 2. There were comments about requests to close specific sidewalk gap closures. There were things that were just outside of the scope of the ETP, like acquiring railroad right of way. There were also minor style comments. So changes to match symbology or using different images in certain places. But the one like substantive change that we did make is we added language in chapter one to emphasize the importance of e-bike and electric micro mobility safety specifically for students. Previously, that was something that was included as a programmatic recommendation in Chapter 6, but given the community's strong interest and desire to really do something about this issue, we felt it needed to be brought forward into the top of the plan, which is what we did in adding that language. So we went to the Planning Commission last night, and the Planning Commission passed two motions, the first of which was a motion recommending that the ATP add or make a plan modify the ATP so that there is language in there that addresses how certain projects might potentially impact evacuation routes, particularly in high-fire hazard zones. And that's something that, after discussing internally, that we're definitely going to begin developing and bring to Council when this plan is then considered for adoption in September. um so after that initial motion they also then passed the motion adopting the resolution to recommend that the city council adopted att so those were the actions that passed at the planning commission meeting there were also other motions that weren't passed related to the removal specific projects but these are the two motions that passed So the next step is after review from this body, we will be going to the city council for adoption consideration in September.

Thank you. Thank you, Matt.

And we're looking for a recommendation from the commission that the council adopted.

Yes. Yes. I think tonight is going to be our final opportunity to provide guidance I think the feedback from the planning commission last night was super helpful. Thank you for sharing. I would come from last night. That's the first thing, clarifying questions and comments from the commission. Anybody has any questions?

And on the document on the presentation on the document on the document has into that gets the editable document. To begin to love. You might get on the. Yeah.

Page 22? Yeah, 22. Why is this not sharing?

Pardon? Do you want me to open it?

Yeah, it's opened.

Want to stop sharing, Trish, and begin? Yeah.

You can also open it back from Rashawn's computer. Okay.

Rashawn, can you hold it like that?

I have it over here.

Maybe I can begin the question.

Yeah. I saw the problems, right, like, you know, in terms of how many passengers are, you know, boarding and disembarking on those bus stops, right? So, Stevens Peak and De Anza Boulevard, as well as, you know, Stirling and Homestead, it's more than 200 people per day. Seems like a stretch, but I pass by those junctions all the time. Yeah. And I barely see anyone, right? So, so I'm kind of wondering, you know, what's the basis for that, you know,

Yeah, so this data comes directly from VTA's open data portal, where they collect boardings and lighting. So they have a little sensor that detects when a passenger gets on board and when one comes off. So this is data that comes directly from VTA. We didn't do that.

So on page 38, you know, the clear test that is like, you know, the stress level 4, right?

Yeah, and you may be referencing the initial draft document. We've since made some changes. The pagination's a little off. Oh, is that it? Yeah, so those pages are still in here.

I looked at the one that was in the agenda. I downloaded the document that was part of the agenda page. Okay. Page 36? 38. 38.

Yeah. Okay. That's a bicycle-level stress. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 37 is the...

Yeah, yeah, so one thing that I find here, and again, so how is this data collected, the BLTS, you know,

So this was done during our existing conditions phase. So this is calculated by looking at the width of the roadway, the presence of certain types of infrastructure, whether or not a bikeway exists, speed limits, just what's out in the field. And then in the appendix, there's supporting documentation that explains the methodology.

I bike a lot in our city. And I'll tell you, the most stressful places to bike is entrance and exit to the shopping complexes. What happens is these cars, they're sticking out into the bike lane. the front of the car, they're completely blocking it, especially, you know, near my house, the De Anza and the McClellan Ranch shopping complex on both sides, right? On the De Anza side as well as the McClellan side, the cars invariably, you know, they come out and stick out and, you know, and block the bike lane. And if you're on McClellan, good luck going around because there is a bike lane, right? I invariably, you know, yell and scream at those cars, right? So I don't know if there is anything that we can do about it in terms of, you know, cars not coming and blocking the bike lane, right? And especially, you know, if you have a separated bike lane where you are trapped, you can't even go around, right? So I find that, you know, very, very challenging because you are coming at a good speed, like, you know, 15, 20 miles speed, and then you have to come to a grinding halt because somebody, you know, stuck their car into the bike lane. So as a biker, I would avoid, you know, these main roads where there are shopping complexes, you know, cars that are entering and exiting. And putting concrete barrier roads in those areas complicates things a hundred times.

Yeah, and that granularity wouldn't be captured in this map because we're looking at the entire roadway segment. So...

just don't look at the driveway approaches um when we're developing this so um can you go to um let's see page 43 so this one you're showing you know um high bite potential areas like like you know the the solid tree is the high bite potential right so so What makes us think, you know, that there is a high biking potential in those areas?

Yeah, so what Alta did when they developed this as part of, again, the existing network, or no, sorry, this was the needs analysis phase. So it's looking at cell phone data. So we have access to software that's able to determine where driving trips are occurring. So, you know, your phone will Ping that it's traveling, and then a company-wide gets all that data, and then Alta collects it and analyzes it for us.

I'm just curious, because, you know, what makes PIC-17 high by potential?

So this is based on real data from real companies? drivers that drove those miles based on cell phone reception, I guess.

Yeah, right. And again, in the appendices and with what we prepared in phase one, we have supporting technical documentation that kind of explains how this data was collected and the work that went into these maps.

I mean, just because there are high density of cars there, it doesn't necessarily mean that they could all translate into bikes. I just want to be careful, right? Like, you know, you don't want to...

Let's make that assumption that that defaults. Yeah, we do describe the limitations too. So there's gonna be scenarios where people are chaining trips. So you may be taking a short driving trip to go from your house to Target, but then as part of that journey, you're then gonna be going from Target to Santa Clara or something. So it doesn't really fully account for the complete journey. It just is looking at that individual trip. So that's also documented.

It's one data point, yeah. And can you go to page 56? Kenny walks through these improvements, like the pedestrian facility toolbox.

So when we were developing our network recommendations for the pedestrian network, we wanted to group our improvements what we call typologies, Group A, B, and Group C. And the easiest way to think of these is Group A are the lowest cost measures that we could probably do fairly easily in-house. Group B are more engineering changes. You can think capital projects. And Group C relate to traffic signal and control improvements. So when we move forward with potential projects, we're able to look at this intersection and say, all right, ALTA has determined that an appropriate solution here would be you know a crossing improvement coupled with a traffic control improvement or a geometric change along with the traffic control improvement so it just allows flexibility for future project delivery and also so many intersections it would be difficult to really own it and say all right we need to get five percent design for these projects so yeah one of the things that we want to be careful here right i'm all for you know

improving the walkability and, you know, bikeability within the city and, you know, 100%, right? But we should do it without, you know, penalizing anything. Like, for example, I've seen people saying about, you know, cars backing up because, you know, no right turn on red, right? So we want to be smart about, you know, when we do that, right? Like, for example, take Stirling and, you know, and McLaren, right? So there... Maybe, you know, we don't want to do, like, you know, yeah, during school hours and, you know, stuff like that, where, you know, there's a lot of traffic. Yes, we want to enforce it, but, you know, otherwise, you know, we should kind of, you know, like, it has to be time-bound, right? Not, like, you know, all days. Because I've seen, like, evening times, you know, where there are a lot of cars, you know, people are getting back to home and, you know, right turn on red and, you know, it's backing up traffic all the way, you know, very far beyond the where you come to a separate turn lane, it's backing up into the main lanes. And so we want to be very smart about how we do these things, because we don't want to solve one problem and clear down the problem.

And the ATP in the programmatic recommendations has right turn on red included in there, but on the description it says right turn on red, limiting right turn on red would only be allowed if it's fully understood that there's not going to be negative traffic associated with that. So that point was made clear within the document.

So yeah, I'm all for making improvements, but I want us to be careful not to solve one problem and create another problem. So let's see, this is page 56, right? So can you go to page 62? So the solid orange is separated right now, right? Correct. That's, you know, the concrete barriers, right? And what are the dotted lines?

Orange line means. Proposed. And the solid isn't necessarily concrete. So we also have the delineators or the flexible bollards in front of Lawson or parking separated, which is the case on Mary. So it just means physically separated bikeways. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. So, yeah. So I'm all for, you know, things that are, you know, so long as there are no barriers, I'm okay with that because the moment we put barriers and so many problems associated with And I live and breathe that, and I, so I just don't want to, you know, go down that path anymore. So, you know, bullets are fine, right, because, you know, people can be in and out, right, when there are bikers, right, multiple bikers, when the bike lane itself is narrow, right, and you don't want, one biker doesn't want to be trapped in another biker. Right now, you know, with the separated bike lane, they are going in the car lane. And I see that all the time, right? And the way to avoid that is, you know, give them capability to get in and out, go around. So with wallets and stuff like that, then, you know, we will see that's a good compromise.

And when describing that project type on page 61, separated bikeway, it does state that an on-street bike lane that is separated from motor vehicle traffic by a vertical barrier, such as bollards, race meetings, planners, or parked cars. Yeah. It's not limiting the design of the project.

Okay. So I just want to make sure that I'm committing to, you know, the concrete badness. Okay. Let's see.

Wait a minute. Yeah.

There is one high-stress area that I spoke to some community members. I brought it up in one of the meetings before. If you can bring up the Google Maps and go to Charlemagne Park area. This is on the Bollinger and Kim Street crossing.

Bollinger and?

Bollinger and Kim Street crossing, like near the Jollyman Park. Yeah, yeah. So here, yes. So what I thought is, you know, can you zoom out? I want to see the Jollyman Park. Let's see. Yeah, so this is Jollyman Park, right? So people come here a lot. living here, they all go to Jallian Park and they walk this way, right? When they come here, they're trying to cross the street, right? And the cars that come here, they're coming full speed, you know, to make a right turn or go straight. They don't know that car is going to go straight or not make a right turn. It's a huge struggle and, you know, and there are near accidents a few times. And, you know, I spoke to some of those residents where they got nearly hit because they thought, you know, this car coming at speed is going to make a turn, but then it was going straight. And so this is a high stress junction that, you know, I heard from quite a few residents. So we need to do something about this before we see, you know, something bad happen.

What's the segment? Bollinger is the project that's in somewhere in the list.

No, that is the other segment, the other side. Right. This is a dead end. This is a dead end. But this junction is a problem. It's not captured at the moment. But a lot of elderly people that are going there for walking and coming back. And at least I spoke to two people that said, you know, they got hit near it. And since I live in this area, so they know that I'm on a bike permission, they specifically spoke to me, you know, how big this is.

And there is a project recommendation for that specific area, including kind of like a potentially unique project to add an on-street bike path. Again, this is, everything's just conceptual at this point, but this would rank project one-on-one. And again, the project list is just guidance for future selection for the CIP, but there are improvements at that specific location.

Yeah. So that was more for, you know, like some kind of like, you know, crosswalk with, you know, the flashing lights or something, you know, we need to do to help the participants that are trying to cross the polling center.

It looks like it's in there. It's in the black box. Yeah, I see it too. Yep. Great. Thank you. Any other clarifying questions from the commission?

I have a question regarding something that shows up first on page 75. And it's probably stated in the document book. regards the rankings that we've come up with from the prioritization. I hadn't seen this before. This seems to be new. Rankings are not intended to reflect an order in which to complete projects, but rather a guide for future project selection based on a variety of factors. I mean, when I read that, I was like, there's a phenomenal amount of energy that's gone into the scoring and really trying to and looking at where projects lie within that prioritization. And then I read this, and it seemed absolutely, totally counterintuitive. And you look at other bike plants, including, and Clifford Chain was open, actually at Chair 1, Chair 2, Chair 3, and you look at any other bike plants, and it's all about prioritization based on the scoring and those projects, you know, Maybe it's not everything is done exactly that way, but it's like, okay, you start looking at the top 10 or top 20, and then you work on those. And there may be some other in the lower areas that get done, but those are accomplished first. So this seemed like, you know, it threw me for a loop because I thought, well, this absolutely doesn't make any sense to me. This is not what we've been talking about. This is not what everybody's focused on. Everybody's kind of... I want to say wrestling over the numbers and how to score these things. And now all of a sudden we put something like this in here and it's like, this doesn't make any sense.

Yeah. And this is something that was added to the plan just to, I mean, so the 2016 plan with the council and CIP, they're not obligated to follow the list as is. They have the discretion to select projects based on what the community's priority is at the time or, you know, what kind of funding is available. So this is more of just a reminder to the community saying, hey, even though you have a project that is, you know, 172, that doesn't mean it's not going to be built. Like, you can go and advocate for it just based on the criteria that we established, which we thought was very balanced and fair. It identified projects that are going to have wide positive impacts, also be probably supported by the community, but ultimately a council is going to have the decision-making authority to choose which of these they want to pursue.

Which is, there's no difference between how projects will be selected from this plan and how they've been selected through plans in the past. This is just kind of more explicitly saying what we've been doing all along.

I think we even talked about that many times that we want to keep the liberty to collect projects with different lengths together if they are in one particular locations.

We might have a grand opportunity for a project in 2020.

And pulling the project from the back of the list. I think that's what this is about. Exactly. Is my read on it?

Yeah, that's correct.

But that, I mean, if you look at the old plan and you look at, I think there's the tables in there. There's three tiers, but like tier one, you know, 11 out of the 13 projects either have been built or in progress. And then tier two, it's only like a Well, I don't know. It was maybe 50%. I mean, 50% have been done in the tier three, not that many. So there is some logic to have, you know, ranking all these projects and the likelihood that your project, for instance, we have Olstead Road, which is 187 out of 202. That's I mean, I would look at that. Any person after seeing the score, you would look at it and say, well, long likelihood we're not going to see much there. And even though that, in my opinion, is an incredibly important quarter.

Yeah.

And so it's just hard for me to believe it. I mean, it's just I can't sit here and think, oh, this is.

This is going to happen. But I think that's exactly what this message is about here, right? This would allow actually to say, well, there is a project that's listed as 200, but because it is not an exactly consecutive list, the council can pick 205 if they feel so. I think that would enable them actually to.

I'm reading that, yes, but I'm not believing it. I'll tell you that.

I'm just not believing it. That's how it works. That's how it has worked and that's how it will work. So, you know, the intent is that generally we're going to go down the list from highest prairie to lowest prairie. But there's the discretion to jump around as opportunities present themselves or as the need arises to do projects out of work. And this just gives us the flexibility to do that and not imply that we're not going to do project number two because one hasn't been done.

Okay. Great. Can you zoom in on, you know, that shared use path on Charlemagne Park as well as the Creekside Park? The Google map?

The document?

Zoom in.

Are we in the restaurant or the bike?

Yeah, in this map. So I really want to understand. On this page 77 map. Zoom in. Close it to... Yeah, see that Jalipur Park, you see that solid leaves, right? I really want to understand, you know, what that means. This one and likewise this one, I really want to understand what that means. They are inside the park. They're not like, you know, they're shared bike paths, you know. So this is inside the park, so

Yeah, that's just to show that bikes are allowed. Yeah, they technically don't fit with any conditions. I don't believe David, but in order to categorize them and kind of demonstrate on it a lot.

Yeah, it's a pathway that bikes are legally allowed to use unless explicitly prohibited.

Yeah, so there's a big danger because a lot of people walk on those, right? They're not wide enough, you know, to accommodate bikers as well as, you know, walkers. And I explicitly heard that complaint from people that are walking on the jogging path.

And that's something that could be modified through ordinance.

But this is how it is now. But we need to do something because there are really no elderly people walking there. And imagine a coalition involving an elderly person and a biker.

That's pretty dangerous. And the Memorial Park recommendation is just what's within the Memorial Park Master Plan, which would make new pass wide enough to those standards you're talking about. Yes, I heard the complaint from Memorial Park as well. So that's the recommendation of the plan.

Okay. This green is status quo, so this is not a new project going?

No. The Jollyman loop? No.

That's status quo. But I'm just saying my feedback is it's not wide enough to serve the purpose. Because by allowing this, we created a dangerous situation.

Yeah.

I have one more question as well. Do we have any qualitative or quantitative feedback regarding from the community during the feedback gathering process about neighborhood bike routes?

Neighborhood bike routes specifically? Their support of them specifically for access to schools really is where they were brought up the most.

How was the feedback like Do you have, like, anecdotes or any other data points saying, like, I don't know, 50% were bad? Yes, we like that.

We didn't ask questions specifically about that, but when we – because we originally had that fairness criteria, right, which are how many projects received likes. The shared use – sorry, neighborhood routes themselves received the most likes, along with the shared use paths.

But we said we didn't – that's right.

Pardon? We said we didn't. Exactly. So before we made that change, when you look at the public input map, the community loves them.

So on the e-bike safety, right? So you have information saying that, okay, how are we going to improve the safety? I saw, except for education, I didn't see anything concrete in saying that how we are going to improve the safety.

eBike safely.

The other thing is like you have potential for eBike, you know, different trip potential, right? So you have different charts. But then you are not necessarily breaking out as to how much percentage of the people are actually using the eBikes now and what's the growth potential there as well, right? Because right now it's all lumped up under why e-bike is considered as one single line. So do you have plans to?

So that table is the Safe Routes to School travel tally information that we collect. So that's the student mode share data. As for specificity about addressing e-bike education that's something that would come through like a city work program item so having that within this plan then allows us to go and make the recommendation that we need some sort of formal project that has council support and budget attached to it to then go out and perform that education in whatever form would be the most appropriate so other than education we're not building anything that's part of e-bike safety I guess I don't understand the question.

There is an agenda item that you're planning for the next meeting, which is on e-bikes specifically, some of the challenges we talked about in the meetings there. But I think it's unrelated to the plan. It's really more, as a city, how are we thinking about the illegal e-bikes?

Yeah, exactly. Because people are, you know, Biking on sidewalks. Yes. Which is going to put us against it.

Yeah. Future program would consider things like enforcement, whether that is exactly what we're going to talk about in the, but it's unrelated to the bike plan, because it could be anywhere.

It's to be anywhere in the city where violations are.

Yeah, I have something on technology corridors, but then we'll talk about it once we have a Q and a session.

Wonderful. Any more clarifying questions? Otherwise, I'll open up for public comments. I have one additional question.

So just to, when we look at the, looking now at the bike infrastructure, when sometimes a corridor will have a separated bike lane, sometimes it will be like a bike lane with a buffer. And then I look at the, I go onto the city website, I look at the traffic counts for those corridors. And they're all really hot. It's like, you know, I think 6,000 a day is, recollection of 6,000 a day is a recommended for, you know, the separated bike lane. I think that's the federal government. I think the urban bike lane designs are. So, like, I'm trying to, And some of these are up 30,000, 20,000, most, in fact, most of them are up in that range. So the major corridors where you would put these. And so what, like, how was that determined whether or not to go to separated bike lane versus a regular bike lane versus buffered bike lane?

So Alta... looked at what you were talking about, reference all the FHWA guidance and the Caltrans design information bulletin to kind of establish the foundation of what's recommended at the state and federal level. And then based on what we heard from the community, kind of refine those recommendations, looked at the corridors, determine what was feasible, where there's like Blaney, for instance, Previously, it was a separate bike lane in 2016 plan, but it's been refined to a buffered bike lane due to the fact that there's just so many driveways. And from an engineering perspective and cost, the likelihood of separated bike lane across the entire segment of Blaney from Homestead to Bollinger would be incredibly expensive. So let's put a recommendation in the plan that is actually realistic and something that's going to have benefit and it's going to have benefit hopefully in the near term. Thank you.

All right. Are we all good here on clarifying questions? Sounds like the case. Let's now open up for public commentary on this topic. Anybody has any comments of anybody online? Okay, wonderful. Thank you. Then I'm going to get it back to the commission for a discussion. on this topic. And I think that the objective and the goal for tonight is to get this document essentially ready for City Council to approve. I think we have the feedback from the Planning Commission, which is pretty much approved, as is the addition of the emergency route kind of considerations. So when there is impact on emergency considerations, we should definitely make this as a checkpoint for to verify. But do we have any other topics of discussion that we want to cover before we do a vote on the document tonight?

Yes. Go for it. So first of all, I think I would disagree with you, Chair, when you said that that commission was interesting to watch. I think I'm very sorry for staff who have to go through the same thing over again from one day to the other to deliver the exact same presentation. It's a disaster in terms of governance for the city because there was close to no discussion about land use. There was one commissioner who mentioned at some point the ADUs and the use of parking, and that was pretty much it. The rest of the one-hour discussion was the exact same discussion that should have happened here or would happen here. And so the question is who does what, and that's it. And again, I'm very sorry for staff to have redundant efforts, But beyond that, I think the issue is also that the planning commissioner who portrays himself as, you know, guardian of the purse and wants to reduce spending, but I don't know exactly what your compensation scheme is, but I'm pretty sure that you are compensated to stay until 9.30 at City Hall, and I don't think that it's the best use of taxpayer money to have staff do the same thing over and over again and twice just because, you know, one commissioner and the planning commission are trying to take over the responsibilities of the planning. Is this about the bike plan? It's about the bike plan because that's exactly the same thing that was presented yesterday that is presented today. So that's definitely about the bike plan. Over the process maybe, but still about the bike plan. A couple of things. I think one of the issues that I had with the bike plan was that we were told that the implementation of the Vision Zero plan would be actually in the ATP. It's a little bit disappointing from that standpoint. I mean, if you look at Homestead, she's on the high injury network, just has one intersection improvement for bikes. And that's the only one outside of Stevens Creek Boulevard. And there's just two improvements for pedestrians. So if we look at if the active transportation plan is the implementation, like what is going to help us to make the city safer for pedestrians and cyclists. At least as far as Homestead is concerned, it's not there. So that is disappointing. Bollinger also has literally zero intersection improvements. Jensa Boulevard has one, and that's because it's a joint one with Stevens Creek Boulevard here. And same thing, Stelling has just two intersection improvements. I will commend the fact that the pedestrian plan is actually very subtle. I really like it. I think there's a lot of things that make the city better. And so I think the pedestrian plan is really good. It's just disappointing from a... from an intersection standpoint and a high-engineering network standpoint that we have this discrepancy between what we say is dangerous and what we're actually willing to make better to remove that aspect of our students. I have one more thing, but... Sure, go for it. Okay. So I counted in the project 68 neighborhood back roads and hence my question regarding their support in the community. I personally haven't had any contact with anyone from the community asking for these pipe routes. I've never heard any enthusiastic feedback. Maybe a like on the internet does not equate that. I think it does not translate for me for popular support. I have a problem with it because I don't think this solved any problem. I don't think they improve safety. Which one is that? The neighborhood pipe routes. So it's essentially signs and shadows. And the shadows confuse the car drivers and the cyclists alike because the cyclists don't know, think that they are allowed to drive in the middle of the street and the cars don't know where the cyclists should be. And by the way, I think on some of the bodies, governing bodies of transportation, shadows are actually not actively discouraged as in, as a measure, so because of the confusion that I mentioned. Again, in terms of science, telling people to go from A to B, I think it's more than widespread that people now use their phones instead of looking at the signs. It might have been the case in the 90s where people would be like, oh, I'm going to watch the signs to go to a park. But that's not the case anymore. Another thing that worries me is the cost, because I'm going to take the cost as a a wide sense, not just the cost of putting a sign and painting shadows, but also for all that happens, we need to do project management, we need to have the authorization, we need to go... But it shouldn't show you can't see it staff time and instead of focusing on other things I think these projects again do not solve any problem and they ask for time money and attention and So I have a real problem with that Mayor Moore already indicated that she didn't want to see that because not it wasn't valuable and so in my opinion I Because these things cost money, attention, and time for staff. I'd rather have the city do less, but better. Less, in that case, to me, is more. And I think we should do less projects, but better ones. And I don't see... the bike routes as being an efficient way, you know, to make a connectivity improvement, safety improvement. There is very, very, if there are things that are improved, like improved in terms of project, they are marked already and bike routes are not one of them. And so again, if we're saying let's not do bike routes, it reduces pretty considerably the number of projects. I counted 68, but in my opinion, it would be better to do less. And it's not because it's a bike thing, you know, pat ourselves in the back and the sign like, hey, everybody's happy because we did something, but something is not always the right thing. And I'd rather see the city make some progress on all the other projects that are discussed in that plan, as opposed to the bike bullet points.

One quick point of clarification. So there's 68 listed segments for the neighborhood grounds, but those would be delivered.

Yeah. So just a moment, if I can make a motion, but...

I'm not sure if this requires a change, because I think part of what this is about, this is about a list of things and projects, so it doesn't mean, again, it doesn't mean you have to execute them one by one in that order. everybody, city council, staff, will have the liberty to essentially pick from this list. It doesn't have to be . I'm not sure if it really warrants a change as much as a reaffirmation of the fact that city council and everybody else can pick whatever they want there.

And it's explicitly stated there. And when we presented the network recommendations to the council, in November of last year, they didn't have any comments about the individual projects or the number of them. Yeah.

Any other commentary, questions, discussions?

Yes, I have comments about the technology corridor. So if you look at this one, the technology corridor that you picked up like five corridors to plan for, but there is a potential for you to extend this one, for example, in a few areas. One is like, you know, from Stirling all the way to De Anza, right? There is a gap there. It's possible to extend that through Homestead all the way to De Anza. That's one possibility. And the second one is like, you can also, in Mecklenburg, I think you were trying to focus on the school areas and the major corridors, but the Mecalon is not there, so that's another area where it's possible to add the technology corridor. And then there's no reason to stop, like for example, I think the plan is to go all the way up to, I think it's Pia de Barcelona. to cover the Cupertino bicycle, but it's good to really go all the way to the end to Bollinger Road because you have Miller on the other side, which is also a busy and issue on the Bollinger Road. So it's good to get that all the way to the Bollinger. That's not great. And also on Stewart Street below where it's okay to extend all the way up to the Cupertino's boundary, like up to Lawrence Expressway, but not to Lawrence, but at least to 280 intersection, which is also a busy section where you could extend that. I would also consider the sixth road as a bollinger road, because it was also one of the safety issues that was considered, and it's easier for us to accommodate technology, not as a technology program, as opposed to making other infrastructure improvements, which was much more harder. So that's my suggestion regarding, and all these technology quarters, I think you all put that as a, these are all staff recommendations, if I'm not mistaken, right?

So these technology quarters were created based off of council direction to prioritize technology in the ATP. Correct. And when we started looking at, all right, how do we identify what these quarters should be? We first looked at the typology C intersections and the signalized intersections. So those are the traffic signal and control improvements. And then we looked at their relationship to the high injury network. And then where within those corridors, there's high rates of collisions where the primary collision factor could be associated with different factors at an intersection like red light running or, you know, improper turning at a red, stuff like that. And then some of these corridors and intersections, the city just doesn't control. Like Bollinger, the city of San Jose actually maintains and manages those intersections. So we wouldn't have the ability to actually implement and control those technologies. So these corridors were really just identified based off their collision history, whether or not the city has the authority to actually manage the technology and then what the plans pedestrian recommendations are along those.

Is that the same issue on the Holstead side as well? Yeah. Is it the city of Sunnyvale? That was the Sunnyvale.

Okay.

And how about Stevens Creek Boulevard? Are they extending all the way beyond Feach Avenue?

Yeah, when we looked at the collision data and the recommendations for the typology C intersections, they ended at Miller, and there really aren't as many collisions that have those collision factors once you get east of Miller. They're really kind of consolidated between De Anza and Miller and Stelling and De Anza. It's not an issue. We didn't have an issue. There's no traffic control improvements for there. And I'm just asking whether that could be. Yeah, it's something that council could decide that they want to do. Again, this is just like an initial project saying, hey, these are reasonable corridors, but council could look more broadly and add corridors when we get to implementing projects.

And there's only three traffic signals along McClellan, and two of them are accounted for here. It's only McClellan above that.

Yeah, exactly. That's something that I believe we've been looking at that one to see whether you have enough data connectivity to that signal, and I believe it is there or that was being discussed at some point.

Yeah, it's not connected to our network currently. Okay.

Okay, I think that's part of the, you know, technology was proof of concept that we did some time ago that was one area. We're looking at the school areas to see how we can bring that and I believe that the finish was already included in student screen, but I don't believe the bump load was included. So that's okay. Another question I have is, like, one of the things last time we got the feedback is data collection. If you want to make any future decisions or improvement, you want to use the data collection, like, before and after kind of a thing. So I didn't see anything there to say how we plan to get that. Yeah, so... That was the feedback last time in planning commission. The feedback was there. We programmed the feedback. And I believe council also said the same thing.

Yeah. And then we developed the project effectiveness guidelines, which lays out the approach for pre-project collection and post-project collection to determine, all right, what's the result after we put in these projects? So looking at collision rates pre-project, collision rates post-project, and then counts pre-project, counts post-project, And then we, within the guidelines, created this term, the safety plus mode shift rate. So when looking at whether or not a project was effective, did we have an increase in cycling? That was also a decrease in collisions. So that's included as Appendix J, which was reviewed.

Okay, that's all I have.

excellent uh any more comments discussion i i do have some comments so i mean i'd like to make some general statements about the the plan i think i'm i'm pleased that the restoring has pushed some of the intersections up in the in the ranking i i compared before and after so and i would agree with commissioner marcy about i mean the plan seems to do a very good reasonably good job with the pedestrian infrastructure. And I think that's important, but it seems to be very heavily weighted in that direction. And I also agree with him about these neighborhood routes. I've ridden some of them. There was one close to my house. I'm not sure why. Some of them are ranked very high, and it just doesn't make any sense to me. I think if you look at what our goals are, I mean, we have Vision Zero, you know, zero KSI's by 2040. They're looking at this climate action plan where active transportation is, I think, 15% of all trips by 2030, which seems like it's out of reach already. And 23% by 2040, I think.

It's something ambitious.

Yeah, it's, but, and then you look at the VTA plan, which the connectivity, they want some connectivity. So if you get, I mean, commuters traveling into Cupertino. I think we seem to be focused mainly on the community a lot, and it's important, but also you want to, there's a lot of people working at Apple, you want them to ride their bike instead of driving their car. So, and then you look at what Alta, the way Alta has described Cupertino, it seems like in one of the existing condition memorandum, it seems that They're saying all the right things. I mean, they have a statement in there that says, to make active transportation an even more attractive option, Cucatino must address the major corridors that serve as obstacles for people walking, biking, and rolling. Streets such as Stevens Creek Boulevard, Gansden Boulevard, and Homestead Road are crucial to connectivity, but their design and high traffic volumes present significant challenges to safe travel by walking or biking. Where facilities do exist, they may not feel comfortable for all ages and abilities to use. These high traffic corridors often isolate residential areas, making it difficult for residents to access local destinations or regional transit stations safely. To address this, the city should focus on improving major corridors by creating safe and comfortable options for people to walk, bike, or roll. Doing so will create a safer and more accessible routes for residents and visitors, thereby improving overall connectivity and supporting the city's goals for sustainable, walkable Cupertino. And if I look at this plan, and I still think the rankings are important, you may say, well, okay, we generally do the stuff that's up front, but the corridors are, they're all, the top seven, they're all for, that are listed in the Division Zero, as far as 70% of the KSOs, they're all pushed down below. I mean, I listed them out right now. And, you know, Stevens Creek has got 69. Homestead's 187. De Anza, De Anza's not even ranked. There's a little segment at 183. But there's that section, particularly north of, I've ridden that section that's, we have widened the bike lane, but not that section north of Stevens Creek. That's really tight. In fact, it's, I, When we approved that, we didn't approve that. We looked at it in a commission meeting, and then I looked at it, and we wanted it to be wider. It was actually made narrower than what's shown in the conceptual plans that were given to us. So it's really, it's not comfortable, that section from De Anza down to Stevens Creek going southbound. Stellings at 68, 80. Wolf is 83, Bollinger 78. So I'm looking at this and thinking, well, we're not, we're not getting division zero and we're not even going to come close to this climate action plan. We're not going to, we're not working with GTA on connectivity because I think they're looking at, they're looking at De Anza Boulevard. I think they're looking at Homestead. And I think there's a few other boulevards there that we really don't address. So, you know, and And having commuted to Menlo Park for about 25 years on my bike, I know connectivity is really important. So you want to make borders that you encourage people to buy. Take cars off the road. And so... So I think there's things about the plan I like, and the plan says a lot of stuff up front that seems very good, and they're spot on. It seems like they're directed, but when we get down to that scoring and listing out the projects, and I'm hearing what you're saying, it's not all, you know, we don't take them in any order. Well, I think in the end, somebody looking at this document five years from now, and this document's probably going to be out there for 10, given the way things go, and They're just going to look at the, okay, the top 25, the top 50. They're just going to stay with that.

That's how it works. Even though you tell me differently. And the scoring criteria, again, was established based on the comments we got from this body, the planning commission, and ultimately the direction that was provided from council. So the project list reflects what the council has decided on how they want to score projects.

And I do believe we actually also moved the needle on that just on our most recent review where we we were the body actually pushing for getting those corridors better ranking by deprioritizing some of the school priorities. So I think there's never a perfect scoring. Let's put it that way. I mean, I think we can change it again and we can change it again and again. And I think there will be always some areas where, oh, my project is just not in the list there. I think that this is a pretty good plan. I honestly believe this is, with all the constraints that we are working on, We have put a lot of effort into this plan over the last year and a half. And I feel like we are, at this point, ready where we need to say, let's call this a plan. It has especially the disclaimer where it says, projects do not have to be ordered in execution in the way they are. So I think it's probable time for starting actually implementing. And this, in my opinion, is the time now because I think the council meeting is coming up in September. If we don't necessarily get this approved, we probably miss the September and then probably gonna miss the year, I guess.

One possibility to kind of address some of the concerns, I think the whole idea of the pedestrian Being given priorities by design, right? Because if you look at it, the first time when the staff put together this plan and got the input from the community, including the Bicycle Protestants Commission, we wanted to prioritize that. The input was like, you know, pedestrian safety should be prioritized first. And so that's good that that's reflected in the plan now. Regarding the high injury network with Vision Zero, that was also said at that time as well. So it's not exactly mapping the Vision Zero network. So one possibility is similar to how you have this technology corridor map. It's possible to put that high injury corridor map as well in the plan or provide a reference back to the Vision Zero plan. Many of the other cities who have done this ATP or they call it as a bicycle pedestrian plan, they have kind of shown that Vision Zero, high injury corridors are also part of the, you know, the active transportation plan, right? So that way when in future when the council is picking up projects like out of this dot map, right, they could prioritize like how you're showing technology corridors. Similarly, high injury corridors will be shown as well and they could pick projects and the proximity of those corridors or on the corridor itself. That's one way of addressing this problem. I can show some of the other cities and ATPs which specifically follow the high-engineering approach. So you envision a page that contains just as a reference? As a reference material, exactly. I'm showing that way. Somebody is taking up this plan. They're not adding any new data. It's basically data referenced from another document. Is it feasible?

Is it a recommendation? Yeah, the plan includes the high injury network as a map. Is that what's being proposed here? Yeah. Just showing the high injury network? Yeah. Yeah, so that's already in the plan. Oh, which page is that? That is on page, it's currently in the document.

On the recommended network, you can also bring that in if you want to have some of the

Yeah, it's here on page 34. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so it is here.

It can be referenced as well. Yeah, so if you wanted to put that as a recommended, one of your recommended corridors, you could also highlight this one, this page. So that will kind of address some of the concerns raised by Kavish and Mish there.

Let's see. It's referenced somewhere. Yeah, this is your plan. It's referenced here on page 33. It talks about that here. By focusing on these high-risk areas, the city can more effectively prioritize safety improvements and allocate resources where they will have the greatest impact.

It's on page 33, 33, and 34. Yeah, we also have it today, improving safety. That page also highlights ATP provides the framework to turn the high-engine network locations.

So I feel like this is all already covered.

Okay.

Anything else, folks? Anything else you should be covering? I have a question.

On the table on page 88. 88. So, some of these projects have multiple options, like, you know, separated and and stuff like that, right? 68 and 69, right? They have two options, right? So, I'm just trying to see, you know, how to interpret this data, right?

So, Yeah, like, you know, take 62, right?

uh separated by page and then buffered by day one below that right does it mean you know what are options for that that street no these are referencing different projects so going back said 62 yet

Project number 62? Yeah. Project number says two items, nine items, two, six items. Okay, yeah. So that's for the Blaney corridor. Yeah. It would be a combination of separated bike lane and buffered bike lane, which is what's shown on the network map. So that would be separated over I-280, buffered for the remaining stretch. Okay. Yeah.

So, and then there's some, you know, purely just separated biking, right? So, and like, go down, right? 60 now. That this like 92 feature. Just a separate and 94. Only separated by so. So that means that's the only option for that role. Is that what it means?

No, that means that's the recommended option.

OK, OK. That's it. Thank you. Anything else?

I'm just going. So the recommended actions, right, is there any reference back to the Vision Zero partners? I see that, you know, where you have page 34, there is a goal or objective saying that these are the areas that can be prioritized. But as part of your recommendation, do we also state the same thing?

It's within the prioritization metrics. So the category that was weighted the most heavily is the high injury network. So it's 30 points if the project is on the high injury network and reduced scoring. I forget if it's 10 or 20, if it's within a thousand feet.

Okay. For some reason, some of those projects fell down on the run in spite of that, yeah.

And part of it is probably because some of those may take away parking and have some impact on that, which again was one of the criteria we developed over time. So that probably may have balanced it out a little bit with the priority versus the cost, so to say.

Yeah, it's true. I think the information is there, as we said, right? Even though in the past plans, like there are multiple tiers and so on, not necessarily the council made decisions just based on that. Sometimes projects in tier three were proven as well. So I think this gives a good balance of the ranking and at least we have enough information in order for the council to pick the projects or cluster the projects as needed. It will not be anything perfect. Maybe if you go on now, go and change the scoring a little bit, now something else will fall apart. So I don't know if we can make it perfect.

Yeah. I agree. I mean, I agree with Commissioner Galbraith's sentiments. Really look at our city. Are there more walkers? Are there more bikers? There are a lot of people that walk, right? Yes, there are a few bikers, yes, you know, like myself. We want to make it safe for everyone, but I think, you know, the way it turned out, you know, a lot of prioritization on walking. I'm pretty happy with that in terms of, because that's what community does, and, you know, I mean, we... I mean, we may wish for, you know, everybody working in Apple, you know, we want them to come and buy. Our wish is one thing, but it's, you know, what people really want to do is different, right? So at the end of the day, you know, we have to work within the framework of, you know, what people want. So, and I think, you know, there's a lot of people that walk and, you know, in our city and got to make it safe for them as well. Yeah, that's wonderful.

I'm actually quite encouraged about the plan, to be honest. I've read it probably twice from the front to the back. And yes, it's a plan. It's never going to be perfect. We can probably spend another year on it, and it's going to be incrementally smaller, better. But I think the key is also to start implementing. I think that's the real step. So that's why I'm looking for a motion to approve this plan, or actually to Recommend the council to adopt.

Before we do that, I'd like to make a motion to remove the neighborhood background project from this plan.

I'm struggling with that.

Yeah, I don't see a reason why something needs to be removed. Because it's normal class three.

There's going to be a lot of artifacts that are coming out. So let's remove those. Then we're going to have back to the discussion board and say, oh, now this project is going to the wrong order. I think it's a little bit like, you know, if you remove it.

Does it prioritize something else higher?

It's not prioritizing higher. It's removing stuff that does not serve a real purpose. If it costs money, it doesn't solve a problem. To me, that sounds like not a good value proposition.

But there's no harm in having it. It's up to us which one we implement. Anything that costs money will come to the White Commission as well as...

city council for approval right so it's at the discretion of the future commissions and uh council to take up those projects or not right then if you say well that's that cost money and it doesn't matter then you can take that pretty far in terms of spending of the city out there i think what we want is the city to you know use the money as wisely as possible And it's just not the case with this neighborhood background. Unless someone tells me that there is a use case for it, that people either really need it or solve the problem. Right now, just don't see it. I don't see the problem that it solves and I don't see the community benefit. I see the cost that is going to generate, not only in terms of building, but also in terms of maintaining, because that type of stuff you have to do. And again, project managing everything. it's going to cost a significant amount of money. There's a hidden cost. The front cost painting has getting people from construction to come, but there's also the hidden cost and the time of staff that they're not going to spend on meaningful projects. So I don't really look at it as, oh, I want to prioritize some other project. It's just really that neighborhood routes, to me, do not look like an investment for the city that brings anything.

Can you give an example of that? I'm trying to look for an example. that's not enabled by project that costs a lot, but not to serve any purpose in an example.

Well, I think, as I said, it's like, if you want to build it, you have to have someone from the staff to work on it. project manager, you're going to have resources, time that's allocated to that. So already you start with that, then you have the construction phase, and it's like, there is 68 of them, so you multiply that by 68, it's quite a long way.

If I could just make a pitch, just throw it out there, I think what it does, I think it's important to have a plan that appeals to all ages and abilities at various levels, and Whereas I agree the importance of focusing on, you know, improving the corridors, the major corridors. There's a segment of the population, a young segment, I see them on their bikes with their parents that want to ride through the neighborhoods. And this is how kids learn. You're not going to put your five-year-old on Stevens Creek Boulevard, no matter how safe it may be. And I think encouraging the younger generation, and maybe we need to think about how we make these bike boulevards appeal to folks a little better if they're not being adequately used. But I think having a network that is available and accessible, appealing to the families, the younger kids, will help foster them to grow into people that will be more likely to get out on the

major streets as they and so i get that part right definitely you know but i'm just looking for an example that you know a neighborhood bike plan or a route that was implemented which cost us a lot of money and not serving the purpose and i'm looking for an example if we don't have an example then you know they're not saying you know we're going to go do all these projects you know So it's there as an option you want to pursue.

So some of this, I can give some examples. So when you say neighborhood, these are typically residential neighborhoods where you're encouraging people to, as David was saying, like 6 to 5. Typically, these are also identified in Safe Routes School as the preferred bike routes to school. That's another thing. And also, in some cases, like in Portal, for example, you can also employ calming methods. Class 3 bike routes are something that's already given in the state plan. Class 1, 2, 3, how to implement and so on. This one is a shared But basically, the same problem will be shared by car users as well as bike users. And even pedestrians, we are sitting as pedestrian walkways. But on top of it, if you think that certain neighborhood route is not safe or you could have calming mechanisms, like I think the price of a new has something, right? Speed tables. And then on portal that we have some extensions which will slow down the cars. So make it safer. So if you think that when such projects are coming up, in front of the council and if they believe that some of the streets are not safer, they can have such calming methods as well. Nobody stops us from doing that. So I think it's still valuable to keep it and most of these neighborhood bike roads are already marked and in use. There's no reason to go and remove those things.

If you want to make a motion, go ahead. One thing is, nothing prevents us. I think what you mentioned about the streets and the schools assigning certain routes as being safer for... Recommendation. You don't need a... you don't need a neighborhood background, like an official one, to make that happen. You can make that happen no matter what. So I think, yeah, it's just, and if you want to do that project about, you know, reducing the speed of cars, then that's great. way to do that at the intersection level, that's already in there.

I'm talking about the streets which are, you know, some streets, even though they're neighborhood streets, auto wells take those streets as a shortcut or whatever reason. And so those streets, there are potential for us to, you know, make it safer by having speed coming, you know, methods. And that's basically what I'm saying. There's no reason to really take it out. And, you know, in future, if the project comes up, Staff will recommend if that street needs such kind of street calming message or you just need to put signs or something like that.

There's one thing also coming back to your point about removing the one or other. I'm not advocating for that. Obviously, if it's here, it's here. We're not going to change it. But it's creating something new. And again, like many of these routes, I think the benefit is just very low for whatever investment. I think we're overstating the problem here. I think we're overstating the cost as well.

So we have a motion on the table. Do we have a second for the motion? Second.

On this motion, for the motion is to remove the neighbourhood back roads in the list of projects as an option.

On the motion on the table, how do you vote, Chair Ashby? No. Vice-Chair Matipatla?

No.

Commissioner Gallagher? No. Mr. Marcy, Mr. Wolf. Motion failed.

So looking for a motion to get this to, what is the right terminology?

To recommend that the City Council adopt the Act of Transportation.

Do we have a motion? Go ahead.

YES. I CAN RECOMMEND. I MOVE TO APPROVE.

SECOND. SECOND. PROPER SECOND.

MOTION TO RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN. HOW DO YOU VOTE? YES. VICE CHAIR. YES. COMMISSIONER GONGA. YES. COMMISSIONER MARSEY. YES. Sure. No. Okay. Question passes three, one abstention, one no. Excellent. Thank you so much for touching on it.

Super helpful. I appreciate it. And hopefully the council will be able to use the information from the planning commission as well as by commission. That closes the topic number two on the agenda tonight. Brings us to our agenda item 19. which is bicycle facilities movement. And I think we have a presentation of this topic as well.

Good evening, Chair and Commissioners. Myself, Prashant Illu, Assistant Secretary of Cupertino. Tonight, I'll be presenting the item number three, the Bicycle Facilities Programme. As a recap, during the May 20th, 2026 Bicycle Protection Meeting, the Commission unanimously agreed to divide the proposed bike rack locations among the commissioners for review. And each commissioner agreed to evaluate their assigned locations and provide recommendations. The Commission also requested the staff to investigate potential bike rack location opportunities near the school sites. uh and also return in july to discuss the next steps tonight staff is returning with the proposed locations for discussion and to receive the commission's recommendation This slide shows the table which summarizes the proposed bike rack locations and also the evaluation criteria which has been used to select this 24 location. And also this slide identifies the locations where the bike rack has been already installed. So that four locations the bike rack has been already installed. And this slide also shows the locations which were assigned to each for the review. This slide shows all the proposed bike location, how they are distributed throughout the city, which were supposed to be reviewed by the commissioners. The next steps, based upon tonight's discussion, the city will proceed with the installation at agreed upon sites and also staff will return to BPC for further recommendations upon evaluation of the cost versus budget. This concludes my presentation. Like, we'll be happy to hear from you regarding your feedback on your review of the BICRAC locations.

Spreadsheet version.

Yeah.

So we've got the spreadsheet that had the locations along with the assignments. Yeah.

And we populated it with the ones that we know. Yeah. So I'll go first, right? So if you want to pull up my email that I sent. Yeah. David. So I'm happy to walk in.

You want the detailed email because we have created this Excel sheet.

I also took some pictures. I want to talk to them.

It's really cool. Yeah.

It was like, it was good to me. You can pull up the map, Google Maps, and I can look up.

Oh, you want me to? That would be easy.

Yeah, that would be easy. So go to Charlemagne Park. Zoom in.

Let me see.

That's one of the locations that I visited. Going off to Charlemagne Park. Let's see. Yeah, like that.

Which area?

Zoom out a little bit. Yeah, a little bit. Okay, so that's good. So this is the, can you spot a little bit? I want to see this area. This is the new playground that we said. So that is that. By that, there's a restroom that's built here. There is a bike rack here, right? And that bike rack, it's not shown on this picture, but it's there in the picture that I sent, right? So that one gets used heavily, all the kits that come here. So first of all, since we've built this, developed this park, this has become the busiest park. Like, this is my home park, so I go there very often. This used to be, you know, Yemtee before, right? Since we built this all-inclusive park, this is the busiest space. You can't find a parking spot. That's how busy. A lot of kids come biking, and they tie their bike back to work here. The first thing is, they want another bike rack here. So, it's similar to this. They want a bike rack somewhere here. For all the kids that come from this side, They're coming in the bikes. They all live in this area, right? They're coming in the bikes. Right now, you know, they're leaving the bikes on the trees and, you know, on the benches. They would like a bike rack, you know, on this side of this area. There's a basketball court here. They want a bike rack somewhere here, similar to the one that we have there, right? And it has to be, like, you know, the multiple bikes type of thing, not, like, you know, one or two, right?

There is... Yeah, multiple bike racks. Yeah.

So that's when the jolly would come. Of course, you know, there were a bunch of other feedback that I got, you know, from people that are walking there. So they definitely want, you know, this walkways, you know, widened. But there's a lot of that thing, right? Because it's also, you know, people fight on that. And there's a lot of, you know, pollution. And also they want benches. So there are some benches there where people that are really, you know, walking in the park are really, really, you know, elderly people. And they cannot come full drop. So they want to sit. So you want places around the way. You also want this walkway extended around the dog park. Because the dogs are not always there. So they want to be able to go for a longer route. So that's a request. So I put all of that in the email. So that's on Jollyland. You go to the Wilson Park. So my recommendation is, yes, install a bike rack, the spot that I was showing in this area, for the kids that come from this site.

I'm sorry, I'm confused about the format. Are we going to talk about a relocation for every commissioner tonight? I think so, yeah.

Can you go to the Wilson part? So here, a lot of kids that come here, they come biking, and there is a demand for, you know, a 25-bike track in this area. I spoke with kids, you know, that are playing basketball there. They say, you know, yeah, they all come biking, and, you know, they just, you know, drop the bike, put it on slant, right? There is a bike rack next to the multiple bike racks, you know, next to the baseballs, but that is not getting used at all. But I don't think anybody wants to park the bike there and walk here. They really want to get up to the spot and be able to leave a bike in the vicinity and then, you know, play and take a bike home. So there is a need for a bike rack in this area. So I would recommend, you know, installing a bike rack there. Again, it's a multiple bike rack. So can you go to the start box? Yeah, the post office. Post office. I think this is Starbucks.

This is Starbucks coffee company.

This is Starbucks, right? So I spoke to the staff and some of the people. They say that, you know, a lot of people just buy. They get a lot of bike traffic. They stop at Starbucks to get a coffee or a pastry or something like that. They don't have a place to rent. So there's a wooden structure here. They are now hanging or tying to that structure, right? So if you want a bike like somewhere here, that's visible, where they can sit inside and keep a watch on the pipe and enjoy their coffee. So there is a need for a pipe like that around this Starbucks. That makes very sense. There are a lot of pipers that come there. It's a very popular spot. And the fourth spot that I spoke to all the shops there, they don't see a need for no bike racks. That's, you know, on the Dion Star and McLellan Road junction and the Rio Adobe and, you know, I spoke to five of those shops. And in fact, you know, there is a bike rack, you know, between those shops and it's not getting used at all. So I would recommend, you know, a bike rack there. Great. That's awesome. Thank you.

Let's...

I can pull the Excel sheet if you want.

Yeah. So which are the numbers that you recommend, Moni, just to keep a record, which are the numbers of these spots?

It's in my email.

I think I copied it on the mail also. Okay. I'll start with the one that I recommend. So let's start with the five.

I already have transported this into the mix. Okay.

Thank you. I didn't send you an email, but I can give you the input now.

Number 5?

Yeah, number 5. So the 5, we can bring it up. That's actually on the, you know, 1900. Thank you. Google Maps. Yep. Yeah, so.

Yeah, so this is somewhere here like yeah.

It's going and then it's not right. But they'll follow the 1980s. Eight hundred people see. And that's. Right.

Somewhere here.

Yeah. So I'm thinking about that here. The possibility for having next to the crash, and there's some space here. Yes. So, yeah, exactly, yeah. So there is a possibility to have five buyers here. And also, ideally, you say that it needs to be in front of the business, but one of the 13 here, but right now, there are no businesses here, retail businesses, either on the other side of the entrance to the apartment complex, or or it's a condo complex. And then on the other side, similarly, there are some retail places there. So there's some matcha latte places and some ice cream places there on the other side. But nothing directly, but this is the only place that where you could have it. This one doesn't mention, this is just an entrance. And also there is an accessibility here. So I would recommend the place, the bike lights on this side, but this one seems to be on away from the,

rest of the trash cans right exactly so that's this is one place yeah so how if you put a bike rack that's you know away from you know where people want to go how much we think you know that will get

Yeah, so one thing I found out is parking is, I was trying to go and park there very hard. I had to do two circles around before I can even get a parking space. And that was a challenge in this case. That is true for anyone coming to those retail outlets. So it's possible that kids who wants to come there they have access to bikes, then they could bring their bikes to these places, right? But the challenge is exactly what you said. You can park there, but you can't unfortunately see right in front of the business. And there are two empty spots in there. There's a potential that in future, maybe some retail outlet, there's a possibility. But right now, I don't see that. All the eateries where I see a lot of people going there, they're all away. And we don't have enough, we don't have space for bike racks in front of those places.

Yeah, I don't want us to waste money on things. If you don't want, then we can skip this.

This is the first one. Then let me go to the... Are you okay with that?

So you're saying no to this location?

I'm just giving you... Why don't we talk about all four of them and we come back to this one for you. Okay. And then the second one is... Let's go in front of... Let's finish this area and then go to the student street. Lazy Dog driveway east of student street. Okay.

So yeah, you start this side, right?

So here, this one here.

That's next to the straw, right?

Yeah, right now that straw is not there. It's right in front of us, right? So I mean, we can't have Wi-Fi closer to this, you know, so it has to be away from it. And then if you go away from it, there's nothing in there. There's no retail open, there's nothing. If you look at it, this whole thing is nicely scaled, you know, and where we park we will park maybe in one of these places and nothing nowhere to go so i don't think the bikers will use it here um ideally all the retail outlets are on the other side so i i wouldn't recommend any in that location did you uh come back when you are on students creek can you get a next lazy dog

This is the Lazy Dog.

There's an exit here.

There is an exit, yeah. This is a walkway to the Main Street Complex.

Can you go to the street that's on the right? Can you go in?

Lazy Dog next to the shop. That means on the other side. Lazy Dog's entrance is on the other side.

But this is also, this is Lazy Dog.

Yeah, that's Lazy Dog. So can you go into...

Inside the driveway?

Yeah, exactly. Because there is a back rack on the right here. And if you're talking about LazyDoc specifically, yeah, on the right here, there's a back rack here. Yeah. And do you know if it's getting used? Yeah, it's used because you have employees that are using it. But generally, it's used, yeah. So maybe the idea is to put one, if possible, on the Sears railway station. If you turn around, it's literally 180 degrees. you will see the back rack on the other side.

So this would have to be coordinated with property owner.

So I think the best way to encourage the business owner, if it's not their facilities, they could put bike racks wherever they want.

Yeah, if they see a need and they see a lot of clients coming, they'll probably not do it themselves.

I was wondering if that was the series right away or not. I was mainly looking at the city side of where it's on the main street. Main road, yeah. The city's right away.

Which number was it? Number?

The number for that one was two, number two. No to number two. Okay. And the third one is actually northwest of Stephen Street Boulevard and Stephen Street and De Anza. It's actually right in front of Apple District.

Do you think the employees don't want to talk about it?

I mean, I'll come to that. They already have white rack on the entrance to the building. Entrance to the building is not from the first.

So this was near the, which intersection?

Stewart Street and Vianza. Stewart Street and Vianza. That's the intention, okay. Which building is not going to fall? Yeah. Not the spawn, right? So it's... Yeah, it's... Yeah, this one, this one. So there's a potential in one of these places like under the tree. The only challenge is like if you can look at it like the walk, the pedestrian walkway. I do not know how much where the city's sidewalk stops and where the building is. There's no clear demarcation between that. There's no sidewalk there. There's no sidewalk there. I think people are also using the sidewalk closer to the building.

But the challenge, that one is like- We've got 10 feet along. What is that? How many? 10 feet behind the face of the curve is the city's right of the thing. Which is the 10 feet from here?

Yes. Oh, then we feel that you don't have enough space to have bike racks. It has to be right on, you know, facing- Within 10 feet. Within the 10 feet. And also people, if you go that way, a lot of people are using the space opposite or the building on a space. But ideally, if you extend this one straight, it will just come just right next to the trees.

And you were saying the entrance to the building is actually on the opposite side.

On the other side. And this is not, if you look at the criteria, what we say is, like, now people are using the business. They should be able to see the buy and sell. They are using the business. And this business is basically Apple right now. And Apple has the buy tracks. They have really cute, long buy tracks on the other side where the entrance is. Well, there is already a set of markets. Yes, exactly. They have two of them in there, behind the building. But that's where the Apple employees enter the building. And that's, they have right there. I don't see a need for, on a real use for this one. The next one is a bank there. And this is Apple building. It's all like businesses. I don't see a reason to have it in here.

Which number was it?

This is number seven. And the other one is on, yeah, southwest corner of Lianza and Rodriguez. Just opposite to the Wells Fargo map there.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Awachi Biryani.

Oh, yeah. It's a grocery store. It's a grocery store.

This was?

Yeah, not in front of this business, but from looking at it, it's on the corner. So it's on the corner. That's where actually the city is.

But here, I think.

Yeah, right here. Right there you have this donation box. Donation box, yeah. This is like Ideally, if you wanted a bike rack, we should get one space next to that box and have it there. Otherwise, I don't see a good place for installing bike rack in this place, and I don't think it will be visible from the business either if somebody comes into the restaurant. Ideally, we would like to park right in front of the restaurant.

But there is no space.

There is no space.

This is the only location where we can have...

Yes, exactly. We can have it there. There's nothing in the corner.

This is the location we were thinking. Maybe the location in the map was cut off.

So if you look at it here, there are a bunch of other businesses still on the other side. But if you place it here, people... who are visiting the grocery store will not be able to view this one. And the people going to the restaurant, they can view it because they will be on the other side. The entrance is on the other side, but they are sitting here, they could view it. This is the one possibility. Potentially, as I would say. If you want to do anything.

Did you talk to them?

I did not talk to the business there because I was rejecting this place because I assumed it was in the corner. I mean, that place is... I also walked all the way here to see whether there's any other place there. But for that matter, on the opposite side also, the only question is like, it needs to be usable. I don't see any people biking to that restaurant or to that grocery store. So there's no reason. I frequently visit that place. So it's a very soft, yes. I don't see how, I mean, nobody's using it right now. It's got to be a place where a lot of people will bike and come.

Like in Starbucks, for example, bikers now stop.

Yes, it makes sense. This one, I don't have real use for it. If at all anyone is coming to those businesses, I will see the bikes right in front. I frequent that place. I don't see it. This number, the number?

That number is...

Yeah, I took all copious notes and as well took some pictures of us, but I feel like this is good.

For you, we can consider number five and number nine as a soft yes or no, no.

That's what I took away from this discussion here.

Yeah, soft yes at number five.

It's like a tier. It would certainly be on the first one with Clarence.

In the priority, I would say put five as the higher priority, and this one, because at least I saw there are a lot of businesses in that vicinity. Yeah. All right. Who's next? And there, I also saw younger kids frequenting that place in front of the welcome.

Very interesting. But they have to join shops, boba shops.

Exactly. There's interesting places where people visit.

But the first thing is, are they going to... But that's right there and that's the law right that's the time of the other.

Thank you.

Let's go to the bottom of the park.

For the.

Well, if you move here, I think, next to the playground, I think it would be an ideal place to have child backgrounds there. I think there's that community of the grass area, but most of the families in general are on this side, so I think it would make sense to hide, but because it's a park, We don't have to put it across the street, so ideally you want to move it away from the street, just don't take the reason. And I think that, you know, for the families to be able to watch their kids and the bikes at the same time, I think somewhere around would be ideal. That way you can, you know, have visibility from anywhere in the borough to go onto your bikes. And if we don't put the bikes somewhere else, just like the racks somewhere else, maybe we can add more.

Multiple. The number, which number was it?

22. 22, okay.

Is that a yes?

Yes. Yes, multiple.

I don't see parts in general. I see young kids coming to the party.

Yeah, sorry. There's always kids in there. Uh, Number 16, northeast corner of De Anza and Civic Park Lane.

Northeast convent. This convent.

I think, yeah, this one, can you go with the,

Is that the label on there?

Yeah, there is a bakery. There is a kebab bakery.

Yeah. Oh, it is the kebab bakery.

I think if we have the right of way here, I think that would be good for the bakery. That's right. And have a stop, then go into the shop before. I'm not a huge fan of having it close to the street because of debt. But if it's not like a loan... I don't stop. I think that it would still be valuable to have a solo bike right here.

The answer is right in the middle.

The only challenge I felt was like, you see, there is a little bit slope on the sidewalk. We have to see how much we can tackle that issue.

This location here in between would be another option.

Ideally, that would be better than here because it looks like... From nowhere, right? But the only thing is, I don't know whether you can see it from the business or not.

Yeah, you can see it from the business.

You can't hide in front of the fire department, but you can do it in between.

Yeah, gotcha.

Between the trees might be a better location, I think. To make it look nice. So that would be, yes.

So is it 16th? Next one is northwest corner of Wolf and . Is that office ?

We got the... We're thinking near the bus stop. Somewhere here, actually.

Yeah.

At this location.

I think it makes sense, given that there is a bus stop here. So there are some shops, obviously some directly on the walls.

So what's the thinking on bus stops? Are you expecting people to come and park their bike there and get on the bus?

Potentially, yes. And you see behind you, I saw some shops. So...

I've never seen anyone do that, leaving a bike somewhere.

No, but people usually take the bike and put it on the bus and go, right? My suggestion is that why don't we have one in the city and try it? We could try. I mean, we can try and see, and maybe that's going to give us some good information. And what's the recommended location exactly, Steve? Somewhere, yes. I'll be generally interested in seeing people. And if not, then that's fine. I'll try it.

I don't know. Ideally, people who are going to the business, I mean, if you want to look at the criteria, that's what we said. People going to the business, they should be able to bring their bikes, you know, go into the business and come back and take their bike and go away. I don't think people will park somewhere in the middle of nowhere and then take it.

So what kind of business do we have there? Like, are they, like, you know...

So, you know, any borough here and

Machado ice cream.

This place is very, very busy all the time. What could be possible also if you go up? It's. Yeah, the intersection.

Yeah, go up a bit more. I think there was the coffee shop of the 70s cafe here. Here, it's also a place where a lot of cyclists come and take their cafe here.

So that would be a question whether that's still not city right away. That's the one front that is that a student street?

No, no, the homestead.

The homestead, yeah. So here, if that's a city right away, I'll put that here because I know that some cyclists are coming here from the right.

So that seems almost a better place than the other one down with the gas station.

I was fixating on the other one. Maybe. So to the right between the trees, basically.

Challenging numbers between the trees. Yeah, that'll be a little challenging. Just thinking aloud, right?

These are busy junctions. Would kids be encouraged to come on the bikes? They're less likely, right? So it's more for, you know, the real providers that are stopping by the coffee shop or something like that, right?

So the kids, they all go on the, most of them are in schoolers and they go to the matcha. Yeah. Yeah. When I saw that more spandex type of cyclists who were coming here, that would be so.

Probably didn't stop and get a coffee.

Yeah. So we'll explore the. Kids use them great, but the need, for spending cycling seasons here.

We'll explore the area and we'll see where it will be feasible and possibly we'll include it. It sounds like the general vicinity would be a good place.

Yeah.

And the last one is East of Stearns Street Boulevard and Whole Foods driveway.

The number? Yeah. This is the one.

All food stream. That's the spiritual talking about my understanding is that there's going to be a level of development. So I think I would wait for something to be developed. What's it going to look like? If that means I can just trade in both foods, that would be a different thing. But if it's that door here, I think we need to look at it.

We already have Whole Foods open. That was my location actually. You wouldn't mind, Joel? Are you okay? Yeah, go ahead. Whole Foods here. So I noticed that on Whole Foods, we already have a part of my . We don't see that as a need. And honestly, I never saw any bikes there. I visited the whole location three times during different times. but there was a, there's a right next to the end that I think is sufficient in that location. The next, so this is number eight for me. I would say no, because we only have currently in use. Then we have the northeast corner of the Onsen Bollinger section of the Onsen Bollinger. So, interestingly enough, in this area, there's actually really not much going on. There's nothing. There's totally dead air in this building. So I don't think there's a need for here. But if you go downwards to the southeast corner, there is quite a bit of activity. That's San Jose. San Jose. Oh, that's San Jose.

San Jose, yeah.

But I did not see, I mean, this didn't seem like an active area. Everything is empty.

Yeah, that used to be some fast food restaurant.

Actually, it pretty much went down here.

Downloaded some clients or whatever. I use that, so it's a pretty dead spot.

Yeah, yeah. This looks for redevelopment, I think, for some of the tools. So that was number 15, no? That was number 15, yeah. And then the next two are... very adjacent right next to each other. It's the answer town center lane.

So one was that was the that's the one that one was proposed somewhere here.

But I started from coming in from the we're thinking somewhere here. Yeah, but. Go back first to.

Oh, sorry. There are two locations on the TORI side. This is the TORI side. Yeah, this side. Oh, do you want to look? Yeah.

Yeah, here. So there is, you can see it actually has 25. Okay. Actually, none of them were used again during my visit there. multiple places there. I do not think there is a justification.

And there is a coffee place there too, right?

Yeah, it's right next door. Yeah, a few places, right?

Yeah.

So here is the biobricks, here right behind it.

There's 20 biobricks. Okay.

You continue on that way, there's a coffee shop right next there. It's actually near... So that's funny because I always came from the other side and I never saw the biobricks. Yeah, no, there were never a single bike there. No, but not a bike. I never noticed that there were bike rides. Yeah. So I did not see a need in that neighborhood, honestly, to put anything on there until you see those in more interesting views there.

But when the kids go there, that's for the middle suite. Otherwise, others are all businesses.

But then you say there's only a bike rack.

I think it's an Indian restaurant, or it was an Indian restaurant at some point in time. You see the libraries. It's 22 and a half digits.

Maybe the apartment, yeah, from the residential department.

Yeah, so obviously it needs to work. So for you, number 13 and somebody really likes each other.

But the one for the tea shop, is that a yes? Because to me, I think it would be nice. The one you mentioned on the tourist side. Oh, we already have the library in front of the library and I sat next to the coffee shop and I don't think that location, which are your back at the library to then go to the other location. What types of libraries there in front of the coffee shops on Saturday? You see on this side here, I think it would be nice to have one.

So, what kind of shops are there?

There is only one Chinese restaurant.

My dad is there, I know.

For Gerhans, for you, number 13 was somewhere here. Number 13 was this location. For your location in the number 13, town center lane, it was this location.

Oh, I thought it was the other side there.

Number 17 was the other side. Number 13 was Town Center.

No, I thought they were right next to each other. I did not realize because from the description, Town Center, it sounded like the same place.

If people want to eat here, you can keep an eye on your back. It's a great location.

Are there other businesses as well? Or is it a private property?

It's a private property. They get bikers, they're more likely to install one themselves, right?

That was the only spot where we had some additional space.

Honestly, also there is opposite, right opposite there is like the library.

On either side of the library.

It's hard to see your bike and I wouldn't feel like when you eat, it's nice to have just, you don't have to be like looking at far away from the bike. It's nice to have a quick glance. You want to be right in front of you. But if it's not possible, then... Yeah, it is what it is.

Yeah, so for get how to all know everything. Yeah, I didn't smoke. Jill, you want to start?

Okay, first one is a. Northwest corner of Stevens Creek and Chantel. It's great and. Yeah.

near the Mali-T corner?

Yeah, I think it's slated for this corner. There's really, I've never seen any need for a bike rack there. But if we could move it across the street to the southwest corner and utilize this grassy area, I think that would, at Mali-T, there's a lot of, for right now, there's a lot of people that solicit it. I mean, going to that business. So I wouldn't be surprised if you could review the office.

You want to go to the next one or you want to look at the street view? No.

Right there. Right there. This is before Molly T. opened up. Somewhere in this vicinity.

Between the streetlight and the concrete.

There are big students also.

Yes, they might come from a high school. All those kids might go there.

But I walked by, I rode by today, and he was very proud.

And that's what the Starbucks near Post Office said. They get a lot of kids from the schools, both the schools, coming on bikes.

What was the number? That was number one. Number one, okay.

Okay, I'll modify it. Next one is Lester Stevens Creek Boulevard and Lazy Dog Driveway. So that's just on the other side of number two, which we met.

I think, yeah. This is the Lazy Dog?

Yeah, there's bike racks right in here already that are utilized. I thought there's really no need to. I think the workers use these bike racks in here. Sometimes you see four or five bikes in there. I don't really think that they would utilize the racks up here. And I'd look for another location. I don't think there's anything that would meet these criteria. So I would say no to that. And then the next one is Stevens Creek Boulevard and Main Street.

Stevens Creek Boulevard and Main Street, yes.

And so for this location, it was the northeast corner of Stevens Creek Boulevard and H2. The thing is, bike racks, you can't see them from here. They're right around the corner. And those racks, it's like four or five racks. And we've only seen maybe one or maybe two bikes at most on those racks. So they're really close fought. And so I think putting anything here would be, you know, probably a waste of money. But I was trying to figure out where else to go. And I was wondering if we go down, you know, go west a little bit along the sidewalk, you know, there's a Charles Schwab. Would anybody ride their bike to Charles Schwab? I mean, why not? But it's probably not the biggest.

So let's take a look at that.

I think the kids, what they do is they just walk to these shops during the break. They don't bring their bikes.

But it sounds like there's already microbes there.

It really isn't any need to put any racks in because they're already used enough. And I wouldn't want a parking bike out here.

Yeah. And the

The last one was southeast part of Stevens Creek, Willard and Torrey.

That's what we did.

This location right in here.

You know, my idea was to

potentially take, I didn't like this location, just go further east along the sidewalk. I wonder if they couldn't put one or two racks in front of Sweet Maple. Because that restaurant is very popular. I don't know if anybody would rise here.

Mostly families come on. I see frequent weekends are really busy. This is super busy.

They have to take over the parking from the gas station.

We have one in two racks in front of the shop. Further down. This one. Anyway,

On this side, yeah. Exactly.

This used to be something like a Pacific catch-up fish shop somewhere, right?

Yeah, now it is another place, another restaurant. It's a really hot place now. Now it has become hot, especially on the weekends. It's cute out there.

We'll check the fees. But I haven't seen people really riding bikes in that restaurant, mostly in tall cars.

I haven't seen this too. It's families. Yeah, you're right.

I know it's a lot of couples too. I see a lot of couples. I rarely see them. I see a lot of young couples or friends together, but not sometimes.

But still, they don't come and bike, like, a couple of us.

Yeah, we get recently, like, a lot of complaints of parking in the bike lane.

There's like a, it's sort of, it used to be a nice shopping center. It's like a tea place and a That's on the other corner. Yeah, right here. Yeah.

So you think that you have drink and stuff where I see a lot of help cases. Yeah. It's true. It's true. Let's go there.

It looks like we have space also.

That would be another. Yeah, I think that. This might be a better plan. Not based on that. Do we have a way on this one?

So this is like Boba place.

This is from the high school. They might come from high school. Yes. Yes. It's always, it used to be always.

So this would be the first preference, this part, if not on the sweet maple, but it looks like this is feasible with the open space, the green area.

Yeah. Yeah. That would be great. How do you find out that Boba place is?

I'll compile all this into an Excel sheet and then we'll share with you guys. If there is any comments or anything more we want to add, feel free to add it.

It sounds like we have at least identified a handful of... How many do we need? It sounds like whatever money we do not spend... can use for other purposes. We don't have to spend the money. It's really just to use whatever is meaningful, and then the rest of the money goes back into more free things. Yeah. Okay, great. Any other questions, comments, thoughts on this, man? Nope. That was good. Thanks, everybody, for taking the time to visit all those places. It's been a good effort. That's a good result out there. Excellent. All right. Thank you so much.

Do we have a public comment on that item?

Oh, so sorry. Do we have a public comment?

I'm so sorry.

We do not. Thank you so much for the reminder. I appreciate it. Scared me from here. So that closes item number three on the agenda. So we have item number four, which is staff update and commission activity report. Do we have anything update, David?

I can just update on the Stevens Creek Boulevard 2A expected bike lanes project. You all probably see the progress, but it's predominantly done. which includes biking, striping, and biking. Next, we'll be putting out the concrete. The traffic signal faults have been corrected in North Oregon. Next, we'll be putting out the concrete blocks. Probably within the next couple of weeks, we'll see those go in. And then we're still anticipating the project will be completed by the end of 2020. And of July.

Any other commission reports?

I have a question. What happened to the Toria when you and Pacifica, if there was supposed to be some improvements, is it still in progress? Especially if you're on a signal? Yes, it's flashing lights.

Yeah, still in progress. It's a budget issue. Yeah.

And when we do the flashing, we do the work, not just small.

Oh, yeah. And the stop signs, I know that we are having a reflector there. In some of the cities that I've seen, they have alien lights. So it is actually flashing. So even in the daytime, the stop signs are really... Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I have another place for that. And these LED lights, I think they operate on solar. Generally, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Awesome. Anything else?

Commission reports? No, VTA. There was no VTA. There was no VTA. Okay. Excellent. All right. Closing the site. Future agenda settings. Is it okay to postpone this one to next meeting? We usually go through the list here as a way to collect thoughts. I believe the item from the gentleman who was here today is on the list. We just haven't picked it yet. I mean, we have to pick it.

Maybe we should put that on the agenda. Yeah. In the future. I mean, there's They came at least twice. So when people really want to engage with the city, we encourage and engage with them. We shouldn't put it on the agenda.

We can look at that for next month.

August is already pretty much booked. September would be kind of the time to...

I guess will be the period show so she will come and the 3 items. See, for us to see if there's the bike. Discussion coordination for the bike fest. And expressed interest in taking a look at the budget. So, Phil, I don't know as well. Okay. Excellent.

Then let's postpone the future agenda setting for the next meeting. That gets us essentially into the finish line here. The next meeting is August 19. And I adjourn this meeting here. Thank you.