Council Airport Committee - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Well, this is a two part in consent statement.

Good afternoon, everybody. Today is Wednesday, August 27. This is the Council Infrastructure Airport Committee. It's 05:30PM. I'd like to call this meeting to order. And if we can please, have, miss Zaparos to, do welcome.

Thank you, Mary. Councilwoman Anderson. Present. Councilwoman Simon.

Present.

Mayor Fadis.

Present. Thank you. Moving on to public comments. This is reserved for anybody in the public that would like to make a public comment on something on the agenda, not on the agenda. And now I do know there is a lot of people that have I know there's some general public comment, but I think there's some that wanna make on roofs. Mhmm. And you can you if if you wanna make it now, you can. But if you wanna wait until that agenda item, we can we can do with that. And I would I would rather wait till we get to that agenda item. Okay.

And then so let's let's wait on that. And then so I have two that are non Bruce items. And so I'll go to the first card, which is is it and it's Bruce. Bruce is it Dougie? Dougie?

Hello? Yes.

Go ahead. Yes. I would just invite you like, a little while ago, think it was August 5. I had sent an email regarding May. There's a gap in the bicycle bike lane there.

Basically, it's 561 Main Street. This is something that has been working on for years now. So it's a big email string, and I sent it again August 5 and haven't really seen any kind of response. So we'd love to get some kind of response on this gap. I believe there was some kind of solution that was figured out, and it's not executed. Apparently, he is no longer here. So appreciate that.

Okay. Thank you. This is

a very, very quickly. This item, we postponed because we wanted to do paving of the history first. That was scheduled for this year. That paving, unfortunately, because of the activity, was pushed to next year, so we are going to go ahead and make this change in the next couple of weeks. Okay. We apologize. We did delay. Okay. Perfect.

There you

go. Okay. Wonderful. Here you go. Next next item is, oh, is Taylor. Tyler Bragoni.

Hi. My comment is regarding SkyWest. I just want to say that I hold two things in tension. One, my

optimism and then the cautiousness at which I approach that optimism. I really appreciate all council members and their open mindedness of protecting what valuable resource is at SkyWest.

I just want to, you know, have us keep in mind what legacies are and, you know, which community leaders are remembered. Right? It's for me, it's like Gail Steele and her defense of Saint Rose Hospital. For me also, it's Richard Valle and his hate of electronic billboards. There was one other person that hated electronic billboards as much as me, and luckily, it was Richard Valle.

So I just want us to keep in mind, you know, what sorts of legacy are we going to be remembered by, you know, the how well, you know, you know, our our business tax rules are. Right? All that stuff is forgotten. What tangibly do you give the public as a reason to, you know, rally to your legacy? And I would just like that kept in mind when thinking about discussions regarding SkyWest and other things that benefit the vast majority of the Hayward population. Thank you. Thank you.

Those are the only two cards I have that are non Roos Road related. Did you have did you wanna did you fill out a card?

I did. Mary Clements.

Sorry. What was your name?

Mary Clements.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Go ahead. Yeah. I I received something.

Hi. Mary Clements from SkyWest HOA next to the golf course. I wanna thank you for doing such a much better job on keeping the lawn mowed and keeping some of the trees. And you did remove a tent, a big branch that took away someone's home. But now that it's somewhere, he doesn't need the tent, and he doesn't need the branch. So now we have a huge pile of trash that he's building up. I think it's the 12th Through 13th Fairway. One of the two of those. And I did one day meet two fellas in the white Hebrew truck, so I stopped him. And they did go over to look at the situation, and he happened to be over there in in a not a very good mood.

So I don't think they approached him, but we need the trash cleaned up because it's getting worse and worse. So they told me they do patrols. I thought they said three times a day. I think that's a bit much because I haven't seen the truck. If we could get them to a regular cycle and and clean it up, we'd appreciate that. Okay. Anyway, thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Doctor. Amiri, SkyWest is closed. Right? It is. It is. And there's, like, nobody there's you know?

I know one is No

to one is be in. Sorry. And and I I mean, I know people are in there and so forth. But for all intents and purposes, it's a closed park, and no one's authorized to be in there except for city workers. Correct?

Correct. Okay.

Okay. So seeing no more public comment, I will close public comments and move on to item number one, which are approval of minutes. And then I'll have after you take a look at them, I'll entertain them.

Then I have a full second.

Moved by council member Andrews, seconded by council member Syrah. And if there are no objections, they will unanimously pass. Thank you. Next is action report reports and action items. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna move item number three to item number two, and then item number two to item number three.

Item number three, there's ACTC representatives online. This is a this is purely an update, item, and so that gives us a little bit more time to talk about the item number two. So if we could, I guess, Alex and Mary will kick this off, and let me read the the title of it. It's item number three, which is update on the 880 A Street interchange improvement project and recommendation for council to authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with Alameda County Transportation Commission, also known as ACTC, to advance the project and allocate $1,350,000 from fund two one two measure b b local transportation to the project. So I guess director Mayer

will kick this off. You said it, mister Mayer. This is basically making it a commendation to council to have a clean set of the money so that the project can forward through the ease of the process. Our principal transportation engineer is here to give a very short return and.

And there are ACTC reps online? Yes. Yeah. Okay.

K.

The

ACPC's director of project delivery and also getting to do project manager, and can answer any questions.

Right. Sure. Evening, mayor. Community members, name is Barton. It's a little transportation engineer, and I'll be presenting today.

So an overview of what I'll be presenting for the interchange, and I'll be talking about a little bit about its history. We go over some of the project benefits, and I'll talk a little bit about the funding for the design phase as needed, and then steps to advance the design phase, then and look ahead a little bit on about the construction phase and the funding that's worked for that. And then I'll talk about our staff recommendation. So for the history of this interstate p a and a street interchange, a lot of it started when Alameda County Transportation Commission passed the 2014 transportation expenditure plan. That was the first major source of funding that allowed Clinton Avenue and a street in changes to the initiative.

So in 2019, our project initiation document was simply and is approved to go to the phase. Two years later, council selected a six lane alternative for a street initiation, and that was two through lanes, left dedicated lane on each side. At the time, that was chosen. But in 2022, reviewed that and said did not improve that design. Soon after, the project development team selected a five lane alternative, and that'll be shown in this next slide.

So in above is what is existing and interchange. There's five ways. The five lanes are kept in the proposed condition below it, but on the sides on both sides, there is a 12 feet head invite. I'll tell you the staff.

Mister Tang, I wanna pause you just real quick. For those that are standing up, there are chairs out on the on the hallway out here. If you would like a chair, feel free to grab a chair and bring it in. But if you're good standing, I don't wanna break the vibe. But but feel free to grab a chair and bring it in. Okay. Apologies. Go ahead.

No problem. Okay. Project there's many project benefits. The first one is the bicycle and pedestrian connection. Right now, there there there's a very small walkway and this would add the bicycle and pedestrian connection that you see in this picture.

It would improve the brand connection and the access right now. If you go up there, I think you know some of the challenges there are when it comes to the brand. There improved there'd be a lot of visual improvements, claiming asset and other things that would help this project would definitely help. In addition, we have a study that we're doing on a street. It's a grant funded study, and it's looking at how we can improve a street for all users, most handling.

So the timing for this actually works really well because it would connect make that connection on a street where it doesn't really exist well today at that interchange. Currently, the city has five different energy projects. The 8th Street is the least complex and the least costly to implement. Is currently in environmental phase, and 4,000,000 roughly 4,000,000 right now is needed for. Funding is available.

So the city has 1,350,000.00 in measured d e funds, and this is not a general fund. This is funds specifically for transportation. The remaining funding for that ACTC will be coming to make funding. There is now urgency to improve the environmental. Right now, there is the $50,000 federal earmark that is allocated to the project.

And if that that is set to expire in 2026, if we do not proceed, we would not be able to get NEPA approval. This project can advance without NEPA approval, but with NEPA approval, that would allow us to get pursue federal funding in the future. I will be the CTC. They are the current implementing agency, but they currently will not be the implementing agency for design phase unless a more fair funding plan is there for construction. So the city plans on working with the CTC develop a funding plan so that the implementing agency can transition back to ACTC.

The important agency is a term that's used as the agency that is tasked to propose and develop, implement the project, and manage it. Looking further ahead, it's estimated that 20,000,000 will be deemed for construction, but there is a funding source for that. The mobile alternative transportation improvement program can fully fund the construction phase, and a street is listed as a project, an approved project on that on in the late tip, and there's a specific allocation that will cover the full cost of that. LASIK does not impact the general fund, and there are some uncertainties in terms of how many of the properties are sold at the

time when we do some inspection as well.

So next steps, we have a council item on September 2 city council meeting to approve the contribution of 1,350,000.00 of measured b b funding to this phase. If that's approved, the Alameda CTC will update the tip listing that for design phase that shows the funding and list the city as the interim implementing agency in design phase. The city will continue to work with the ALMA CTC to develop that funding plan for construction, and then we would be able ALMA CTC will be able to then proceed to complete the environmental phase, and then the state will start city or the employee agency at the time that it can start design phase in 2026. This is the official staff recommendation. It's approved by c I the CF committee.

That will present the item to council for approval for the senior manager to execute a funding agreement. Oops. Sorry. With the only CTC for the city to contribute the $165,000,000 to the p PSNE phase or design phase of the I 888 Street interchange project. And below is the tentative timetable for when we expect those spaces to be completed.

That concludes my presentation. Thank you.

Great. Anytime we can approve a project where the city doesn't have to pay for it, we're good. So before I open up for council, is there any public comment specifically on the A Street A 80 interchange project on this agenda item? Is there anybody online?

There is, but there's some.

Seeing no public comment, I'll close public comment and come straight to council, including if there's any questions appear.

Okay. Thank you for the report. So I saw that the latent funding is based off of a priority list, and this project isn't necessarily that high on the priority list, which is why you need council direction. What are the other projects? Because the, you know, price tag is high. I recognize that we're not the ones directly paying for it. But if we're gonna use our late term funds, I'm curious how staff ended up at this lower priority project versus something else. And what are those something else's? Because I don't want to utilize our late term capital on something like this if there's something that I would say is, you know, better for residents.

Okay. Yeah. I'll start off, and I think ACTC may have something to say that too. Currently, yeah, we have other interchange projects like Whipple, Industrial, Winston. These projects are all in Langston, and right now, a street is they're currently grouped as projects, and the best way we can actually proceed to get them further is to separate them out.

So a street is we as we looked and evaluated, it's the most feasible in terms of complexity and where it's at. So at the moment, there's about 80,000,000 in late tip and which will definitely cover the 20,000,000 anticipated here. And then we're also working with ACTC on the other ones like Whipple and Industrial. So I wouldn't say by advancing this one, we're not choosing others. Because each project there does have a specific allocation, and it can only be can't allocate more to a different one that's not listed. And then I don't know if Jay or Gary wants wants to speak on that.

I think just to add a little bit more and hi. Jay Delosra is director of project delivery and construction at Alameda CTC. To add a little bit more to what Byron said and what's also noted in the staff report for this item, the projects that are identified in the late tip, it's also ordered within priority. Some of the additional actions that are required in order to, let's call it, bring a street up in priority includes the, let's call it, the calling of a late tip committee to reprioritize those projects, which the city is in the latex, which are San Leandro and Hayward, as well as the county. And then Alameda CTC would agree to the changes of that order in order to use the funds.

Thank you for that clarification. So from what I understand, Whipple Industrial went to the h three were grouped together, and they were at a priority level. And now we're breaking out h three. And if we move this forward, we'll be increasing the priority of it at some point. Is that correct?

I think it's okay. Go ahead, Ken.

I was gonna say that, yes, there would need to be a future action first to reprioritize the project so that a Street could utilize the funds. Today's action or the recommendation that's shown on the screen doesn't do that.

Okay. And from what I understand, this late tip list includes projects not just for Hayward, but San Leandro with the county. Is that correct?

Correct.

Okay. So so to restate my original question, what other Hayward projects have taken priority on this latest list ahead of this bundle of interchanges?

Mission. I think Mission Boulevard is on there. There there are a couple that yeah.

And when you say Mission, is that part of the East Bay Greenway Trail?

Or No. That's that's part of the Mission Boulevard, the the projects that we we Mission Boulevard phase one

Okay. It's completed some years ago. Okay. Phase two, that was completed a couple years ago. Yeah. Performed by.

Okay. So to get more specific, I'm just trying to address, are there projects that we have not completed that are higher than this bundle of interchanges? I just wanna make sure we're not using our our, you know, late tip clinical capital on on this versus something that might be a higher priority that's not completed yet.

You also have the industrial interchange. That's the design. Right?

Okay. And that was grouped with these so, again, I'm asking outside of this grouping of interchanges, were there any other keyword projects that we hadn't completed yet that were a higher priority?

I don't I don't think so. I guess. Okay.

Okay. Thank you. Just wanna understand if we were passing something up that might feel like a higher priority for residents. Otherwise, I mean, if we're able to secure these funds and improve the connectivity of HP,

it makes sense to me.

Thank you for the quick presentation. Wanted to know about Tenosyn on this this list. Would it ever be on their priority list?

Not on this list, but we have heard from council that we were really concerned about that, and we are working, you know, to have us, and we are in conversation with the CDC to see what can be done. There is currently nothing that is.

Have they looked at accident data in this disease? I identified are more than ten percent to make this priority list. Not at this time. There something that

we can do to encourage them to set it up early in the past and, you know, in conversation both internally and with our partners?

K. What is the accident rate compared to in industrial versus?

I don't have that information. Okay.

I was just trying to see if that was another if if there's a criticality of failure of these areas, if that's contributing to the prioritization.

This was passed the this list was passed in 2010. And Oh. Yeah. And I'm not we'd have to look to see the exact way they recognized it back then.

Okay. So I guess if this was going to come back to counsel, I guess we can add maybe add that data if they have it, or is that gonna require another study to do that? That's something that ACTC tracks.

As as we've mentioned, part of the idea here was to include along a a knee Mhmm. In order to allow that and the improvement in Mission Boulevard to be able to carry the capacity that would have gone through the Route 238. Okay. That's how this was put together.

Okay. So it's more capacity, not necessarily accident related?

Because it it mentioned pedestrian safety. In in the case of A Street, other than off run on on ramp, the major benefit to the city is that it had connectivity related to bike and ped under the bridge, which is almost nonexistent right now.

Okay. Alright. Alright. When it comes to counsel, I would like a statement from ACTC on it regarding Tennyson because that is an exit that I have been asking about for years due to the interactions we've had on those exits. I understand this is a separate issue, but this should be on the priority list.

We'll have a conversation with ACTC staff and get something from them to present it to you when we bring this to council. Thank you.

Just one more follow-up in proposed design. Is there lighting plans for this as well? It's not just the, you know, expansion of the sidewalks and making sure the lanes are wired for cars. So will there be lighting underneath you for pests as well?

I'm preparing the funds that space. They're changing the cockpit.

Okay. Thanks. Yeah. I remember, you know, back in 2010, I remember this coming to us. And and, you know, it was a long time ago, but I don't remember the full conversation.

But I do remember some discussion around priority. Tennyson was brought up, and and it was I believe it it was during this time where they were actually there were, you know, bicyclists that were killed near the on and off ramp. Conversely, I should also add that I think the the the priority was was essentially around the the traffic and the congestion at the Whipple And Industrial. And it was also if I'm not mistaken, we prioritized Whipple And Industrial because I believe Union City we were talking to Union City to partner in I don't know if it was partnering in funding, but we're also partnering in design. I could be completely wrong, but but there was a joint sort of need for that that to do that.

Industrial and the Industrial Overpass was also put on the priority list because of the amount of commercial vehicles that went back and forth, and and and it was unsafe. The the the sides of the bridge is very low, and and so they were they were focusing on the the other prior on the priority list, I believe, was what it was Winton. So it was Whipple Industrial, Winton

And a

at a street. Yeah. And and I in fact, to to there there was a lot of conversation around lighting under and that I remember. There was a lot of conversation around lighting, light skate, landscape, and a lot of the streetscape.

Thanks for providing that additional context. I understand it's for congestion, but to Exit Tennyson is extremely dangerous. And so that's why I still would like it to be looked at on the priority list because it's very scary to get off of that exit, not just for bicycle safety, but I remember, I believe, 2016, 2017, there was about four fatalities off that exit. So I'm not quite sure why this isn't on a priority list if it's not on a con a traffic decongestant list. So that's why I'm still advocating for it. Same old.

Are you talking about the yield that you're coming up? Yeah. That is incredibly dangerous. I am curious. Is ACTC the right venue, or is that a question for Caltrans, or is that for our public works department? Like, who is the appropriate body? Because it kinda touches on so many of these for ages.

All of the above. Okay. Public works department. Okay. We've been in conversation with them.

And so can we request a oral report maybe on what the current state of planning around that specific intersection is?

Definitely, we can. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Okay. Being no more questions, is there anything else with that? So I guess the you know, I guess there's a consensus to bring this to council, and agendize it as soon

as possible and Yes.

Put it

up there.

Thank you. Perfect. And will this be a consent item, or will this be my fault?

Correct. Okay.

Thank you. And thank you, ACTC. Jay, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay. Moving

on to now we're gonna move to item number three, which is item number two, which is the Roose Road Complete the Streets project. And I believe our director, Shigeri, will kick us off.

Yes, Sameer. As you know, we have implemented a number of by two improvement projects in recent years. The background around those road is that I received a communication from the resident in late twenty twenty three that basically stated that, look, you know, there are some bike lanes on his road. They are not connected. They are not continuous.

This is an area that other people would bicycle use. Why doesn't the city look into it and improve it? That was basically an impetus behind looking into this project. This project has been identified in the National Plan. It is consistent with the city policy for complete screens. So that was the beginning of when we started to look into it. Now we have a staff here, Lucas Ludwig, who has put a presentation together. We're happy to do very transparent and then receive more public comments. Thank you. K. Thank you, Alex.

So good evening, mayor, committee members. My name is Lucas Wilbert. I'm a senior transportation engineer in the public works department. Yes. And I'm here to discuss the Roose Road Complete Streets project as Alex introduced.

So just to provide a little bit of background, and we've just discussed a little bit of this now, but the the project goals really, really are are focused on safety. Safety and Vision Zero being at the heart of nearly everything we do in the transportation division. And Roosk Road is actually on the second tier of the city's high injury network. It will be eighteen percent of streets for seventy five percent of severe and fatal injuries occur. This project also implements recommendations, consistent with the climate action plan and the bicycle and pedestrian master plan.

And, the the concept behind the the safety and the bikes bike plan implementation is separating users, speed management, different types of things that really do improve safety. And, of course, ensuring that we we do, balance these concerns with accessibility and mobility. So I'm going to start with a brief description of the existing conditions on the corridor, stretches from really Tennyson Road to Industrial Parkway. And this project, that we're discussing this evening focuses on the point six miles between Folsom Avenue Industrial because, actually, as you get north of Folsom, the street becomes narrower, and there really are fewer opportunities there. Roose Road has one in each direction, and there is a an AC transit route that winds its way through the neighborhood.

Fairly infrequent bus, but it's there. And let's see. The the resident or the land use context is actually very interesting. And one of the reasons that this provides such an opportunity, and that is that the the street has a mix of residential and light industrial land uses and and one preschool as well. But much of this residential area that surrounds the street is actually separated from Bruce Road by a sound wall.

It's part of the New England Village mobile home park. So, actually, for those those homes don't face the streets. There's no driveways. In fact, if you look at this point six mile corridor, there's there's really actually only 10 parcels on the east side of the street that face the street. Two pockets homes, one up near Field and one down by East Lane. We also have some some basic traffic data here. The that we are estimating about 7,600 vehicles per day, and that that is a directional flow with more southbound in the morning and northbound in evening. And the speed limit is 25 miles per hour, and we have recorded an eighty fifth percentile speed of 34. So there's definitely speeding on this score. Do you

decode that for the public? What are planning?

Absolutely. So eighty fifth percentile speed means that well, 34 miles per hour is faster than 85% of vehicles. So 15% of vehicles are going faster than 34 miles an hour on the street. Okay. Right.

That's big. And so a little more into the project background here. As we've mentioned, this road is proposed as a class four facility in the bicycle and pedestrian master plan 2020. And we have received messages, requests for access, they were about a need for better bike facilities on the streets. And, also, in response to resident requests, staff performed a traffic analysis for the Roos Road and Industrial Parkway intersection where we found that a protected left turn phase was warranted.

So taking taking this together, we, we applied for an h SIP grant. That's the highway safety improvement program, which is a state grant program that focuses on proven safety countermeasures. And this project is, was applied under the the bike facility set aside. There's one category, those HSS projects, and industrial is another category as well. And that was last year.

We found that that was a successful grant application. And with, just a little more background, like, with the the upcoming launch of Hayward Rides that we're all very excited about, we're putting, you know, thousands of vehicles and bikes on the street, and we want people to have safe places to ride. So what what actually is this project included? And there's, there's really a couple of principal elements, and that that includes the two way protected bike lane on the east side of the street from Folsom to Industrial. That's where there's currently a parking lot.

Dang it.

And also at the, intersection of Industrial And Roos, there would be a protected intersection, which separates pedestrian bicycle movements from vehicles, both in time and space because they would get a special phase and, also protect that left turn. And the other advantage of this protected intersection is giving us more space for, for signal equipment. The section shown below is is illustrative. It's not, you can make out those numbers, but the the big picture is that, other than so between Feel and Folsom, there's no bike lane. There's a gap.

And, for the rest of the corridor, it's a narrow bike lane. It's, either a four foot bike lane, or it's a 12 foot lane that is shared between parked vehicles and bikes. So that's that's really substandard.

So,

next thing I wanted to share is Same. Is is the outreach that we performed for this project. Once again, there were emails and messages received about conditions and the the need for safer left turn at industrial. Staff went door to door in summer twenty twenty four to just get take a temperature, get a sense of what people might be experiencing on the corridor. And I would say the the response that was sort of neutral to Curious, enough for us to feel like we should move forward with the use of application.

Then, last month, there was a public meeting, which was held at the the Shoto Center. And that's a preschool right in the heart of the corridor, just very, very central, which was it was very generous for that preschool to offer us that facility. We mailed out a thousand notifications for it, and then staff followed up the week of just to, you know, make sure people were aware and received the mailer and were interested in attending. We did get 10 participants in that meeting. And anyone who put sent a comment card in that meeting or signed the sign in sheet, we then followed up with a with an email to to remind them about the CIAC meeting.

So now I'm gonna spend a little bit of time just really, talking about what what we heard and how we try to incorporate those elements into a plan. And so first off, loud and clear from everyone, and no matter where you stand at any other element of the project was concerns about traffic and speeding on Roose Road, people feeling that they couldn't access their driveways, people not feeling safe crossing the street. And as a result of this, we we really did try to put some thought into how we could incorporate traffic calming into the plan. And so there'll be more details I'll show in a couple of slides. And I'd also say that as a result of the traffic calming, slower speeds means it's easier to go.

You're driving away. You don't need you don't need as much of a gap. We did we heard concern about the loss of parking for bike lane. There's definitely people who you know? And that's totally understandable that if you are someone who does not bike and does use a parking space, this is not necessarily going to be something Yeah. I've been by yourself.

Lu Lucas, can you can you hold on a second? Folks, I I I we we get it. We understand you're here. I know this is your neighborhood, but can we need to be able to listen to the presentation. Let's at least listen. Let's get

a

baseline knowledge so that we can all respond to. And I we see the signs, but it's it's it's a bit distracting, but I'll let the signs go. But we let's at least let's hear what staff has to say, and, we're we're not gonna start building anything tomorrow or next week. Like, let's I I just really let's respect staff and, so that we can really move forward. So I really appreciate that. Okay?

Thank you. Thank you. So staff did, collect parking occupancy data, which I'll share in the next slide, at various times of day just to understand a little bit better what the parking situation was like. And, also, I would say a real emphasis of of the project at this point is also, providing safer crossings so that if you do happen to be parked on the other side of the street from your home or from your destination, that you have a safe way to get across the other side. Other things we heard, some challenges around visibility, particularly the Roos Lane intersection, and we've, addressed that with some striping changes to to improve those sight lines.

And I I think there's also a possibility that a crosswalk or a stop sign or an RRFB a flashing beacon, sorry, would actually make sense of that location as well, especially given there might be some parking changes. We also very, clearly had a need for new streetlights, and repair of existing streetlights. In response to this to this concern, took a look at what's out there now. There's probably three good potential streetlight locations that that could work for the corridor. Also, a technician was assigned to just confirm to there was a report that one that wasn't working.

We didn't have an open ticket. So he did take a look at that. Hopefully, it's made it very difficult. We also just heard frankly support for the protective left turn, to kill one of the projects. There are there are few other good things you heard.

You know, concerns about narrowing roadway, increasing traffic, which are it's kind of hard to square with with, you know, the the project doesn't change cities, so that's a little bit difficult to respond to. But, and, you know, people are concerned about people not biking and things like that. So, the next slide here is is just really I just wanna highlight that this is actually a really great opportunity because as as I described earlier, there's really there's really 10 parcels that face the east side of the street. And so that means it avoids the driveway conflicts that have complicated our other class four projects in the past. It also provides a direct connection to the Ward Creek Trail on the other side of Industrial Parkway.

And and through the Ward Creek Trail, the brand new class four on Industrial Parkway that was just installed this past week. So the so this section that we are proposing, allows for a a pretty spacious facility with boats that are far enough from the curb that actually our current street sweeping equipment can go in and clear it out, very easily. Whereas if you try to do that on both sides, it wouldn't work. Similarly, if you're trying to do a class for both sides, it would require all parking removal, which we're not entertaining at this point. So I think we we do wanna acknowledge the parking concerns, and, and staff did go out and collected some data.

And I I wanna emphasize this is I'm not implying this is how it always is. But these going out on a Sunday afternoon when you'd expect people to be home, going out on the weekday evenings is about 7PM, Or weekday, midday around two or 03:00, these are the numbers that we found in terms of the number of parking spaces that actually were occupied. And and, again, this is a snapshot. It's not always like this, but it really did sort of it it reinforced the message that there there are options for people. There's all and also every every residence there has off street parking as well.

Sometimes many cars parked off street in that area. So, one other thing I wanted to highlight here was that there is an interesting, between Rooslane and Industrial is a a unique situation where, there's a very high weekday occupancy, and, that is likely related to the the auto body shops that are working there. And that has been that is that is in discussion that is occurring with a different city department about about that. And so we can discuss that later.

That's So just to just decode the slide for myself and the audience here, let's look at the third row East Lane to Industrial. It says 98 parking spaces. Mhmm. And you're saying on a Sunday afternoon where you held the study, only 2% of the spaces were used or only 2% were left?

2% were used because this is, like, much of the corridor against the sound wall. There's there's nothing there.

And you're saying on a weekday, mid midday, 83% of the spots are being used.

That's related to

The mechanics usage.

Yes. Okay. And so that that's why that's a little bit of a a strange number there. Yeah. Bruce Lane that I also added to this slide just because for anyone, like, if parking did get tight, Bruce Lane might be an option. And, again, Bruce Lane faces sound walls for the most part, and there's almost no one parked on it, during times when people would be home.

So Thank you.

So I just I just have a couple more things to share here. The project really just wanna emphasize the the safety enhancing elements. The project includes a protected intersection at at Industrial Parkway, which would separate bicycle movements from angles. It also provides, as I mentioned, an opportunity for that signal equipment we'll need. We're also looking at this over here, you'll see you can see the cursor.

The Roose Roose Road and Roose Lane is where we heard about visibility challenges. So we're incorporating striking treatments to to improve that area. In addition, the Roose Road Thiel Road is probably where we heard that that's where the preschool is, and that's where we probably heard the most concerns about traffic speeds, traffic calming. And so the the plan proposes to for the crosswalk that currently exists at the to to include a rectangular rapid flashing beacon so that if someone were going to the preschool or if they were parked on the west side of the street but wanted to go to the east, they could use the flashing beacon to cross the street. And traffic would be slower because speed bumps would be incorporated in other traffic holding measures.

So the last slide here is just a discussion of our next steps. At this point, we are Alright. Finalized our plan. And the the next step would be to develop the project plans that's in estimates, and that would be that would be taking place this winter and spring. And actual construction for the project wouldn't be complete for another year. We're we're on we're on Caltrans timeline here with the with their grant agreements and and, you know, we need to get provision for every phase. That's that's what the timeline is what it is. So, yes, for this item, we are we are seeking input from the committee and and also public comments, and that's all I have. Great.

Thank you. Okay. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to public comment first, and, we, you you know, typically, do public comment for each three minutes per speaker, and I don't mind doing three minutes per speaker. If you don't need three minutes, you may end early. That is okay.

Or if you agree with the speaker ahead of you, you could always say, I agree with with John. And and then and we note that, and we'll note that. But if but like I said, you if you yeah. You can have the three minutes, but don't feel that you need to take all three minutes. So with that said, and and just a little as a little anecdotal story.

I know we're not in Sacramento, but in Sacramento, when people testify in front of the, like, the senate committee or an assembly committee, there's a whole line out the door, and groups come up to the table. One group will make the statement, and then they'll have 50 people go to the podium, and they'll say, my name is so and so. I live at, you know, 123 Roose Road, and I agree with mister Jones. And then they move away, and then the next speaker. And then they do that all day, and they get through the meeting pretty quick.

But we're not gonna do that. But like I said, if you if we can just be succinct and to a point, that would be great. Okay. Our first speaker is is it Maria Banda? Maria, come with the cherry section.

Well, I also And then

if you can when you when you when you

address, if you can tell us your name, your address, and we can document that.

Good evening, everybody. My name is Maria Banda. I'm a homeowner resident on Roos Road. And here I am tonight with my family and neighbors. Okay.

We strongly opposing the city's plan to remove our parking, residential parking, and replace it with a two way bike lane. This plan promotes unused space, unsafe, unfair, and it's unnecessary. Keeping our community safe should be the best interest of the city of Hayward. We agree that traffic calming for our soft speed bumps around the school, light a crosswalk, light a street at night, dedicated turning signal of light at Industrial Parkway, not a two way bike lane on the East Side Of Bruce. A bike lane already exists on both the West and east sides of Bruce Road from Tennyson Road to Industrial, and it's always empty.

California legal and basic law, bicyclists should always travel in the same direction as traffic. It's a proven fact that it reduces confusion and accidents.

Mhmm. True.

Pairwits should follow these laws. Mhmm. My grandchildren are dropped off and picked up in front of my residents, keeping them safe. Mhmm. Okay? Yeah. Jaywalking will be forced on residents, putting families, kids, and seniors at risk. Bodily injury or even fatally accident can easily occur. The nearest crosswalk is 90 feet north through my front door at that crosswalk. 90 feet going and then crossing and coming back 90 feet to get to my vehicle. I'm a homeowner. I pay my property taxes. Mhmm. I should be have the right to park in front of my residence.

Right. Yeah.

Okay. For resident

using cars from point a to point b, not bikes. People are going back to the offices and work, driving cars and using bus service, not riding bikes. Not in Hayward. COVID is over. Hayward's not, use ramps on useless infrastructures. Use them where they're most needed in the veins of Hayward. Mission, Jackson, Wind, Hesperian, Downtown Hayward. Fix the streets and sidewalks. Yes.

Fix what's

in neighborhood. There's so many people, so many apartments, condos. There's no more houses being built in Hayward. We got 10,000,000 people, more people in Hayward, and less roads to ride on.

Yeah. And

they're all being used for bike lanes and the Ballards that are people that are already getting into accidents when they have to make that wide right turn or right, left turn or that turn is you're actually coming into the oncoming traffic, especially the end of Tennessee. Yep. Yeah. Is horrible. Less spaces. You feel like you're gonna hit the other car that's coming the opposite way. And you we've I've heard about fatalities earlier. Yeah. But the traffic is just ridiculous. The overflow on Huntwood Avenue that was created back in COVID to create more people to get out, that didn't happen.

Now Huntwood is losing two extra traffic road coming off from Whipple onto Huntwood with only two little lanes, and the rest are open for bikes. Mhmm. You know, you're a statistic, so we're gonna do guys gather your information. Got it. I'm not certain.

Miss Banda, thank you.

Wait for

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Got petitions

as well, from today, and I can show you proof that the congestions parking in my front door, neighboring congestion traffic, is here, overflow, this bike lanes.

Miss Bunda?

Yes. But I need to prove the point.

No. I know. We see

why we don't

want two

way lane. In my Leave it leave it out there.

Yes. Yeah. Leave it there in the weekend if they're as they're talking.

You can

oh, it's sweep sweep days. What are we gonna do with sweep days? We're partners. We're

speaker is Lorraine.

There's a 150,000 people in yeah.

100,000 is published in Hayward, and you're catering to 0.05%. In other words, there have to be at least 700 people biking through there every day to make this less than 0%.

A lot of

the people on roofs also have single car driveways, so they park in the street. You're gonna take that away now. Right? If they want another alternative, they can use Huntwood. Huntwood is already set up with the bike lane and everything, so there is an alternative route. They don't have to go on roofs. There's already bike lanes on roofs. Excuse me. I'm talking. There's already bike lanes on roofs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What's already on there? Take what's there and fix that. But don't put a curb. He wants to put a curb in, a a curb in the middle of the street. People are going to hit that curb at night like you wouldn't believe because they hit the curbs over on mission all the time. So now too, maybe you don't believe you can see the tire marks all over the curves.

Yeah. That's

true. There's a lot. There is an alternative route, and they can use it. They can use hunt wood. It's a must bike. But like I said, you need at least 750 bicycles in Hayward every day to justify what you're trying to do to us. And I don't see a hundred and fifth 750 bicyclists today. And then you worry about their safety. When I do see them, they're not wearing protective clothing. They're not wearing hats. They're not paying attention to the laws at all. And yet we're supposed to yeah. We're supposed to be concerned about their safety. But they're not concerned about their own safety. Exactly. Are they? Nope. They're not. Why aren't these laws in in action? The helmet laws, the reflective laws?

You are so concerned about the bicyclers. Yeah. But you're not enforcing the laws. But you wanna take our space and say, this will make it safer, but it's not. It's not gonna make it safer. You're gonna congest that traffic even more. We also have a school, a preschool out in front. The parents have to drop off their kids and pick them up. You're taking all that parking that the parents will now use, and they use it in the morning, and they use it in the afternoon.

Right. Yeah.

That's the nine months out

of the year. No. Actually, it's all all year long because day scare is open all year long. Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. So there's a lot of stuff to there's a lot of cons to this little proposal, but there's good. If you already have an existing bike lane, Mhmm. Use it. And, also, you want the traffic bikes to go both ways. No. No. No. No. Bikes are supposed to follow one way traffic on each side. They're not supposed to be on that. It causes like, she says, confusion and accidents. That's all I gotta say. Yep.

You. You had nineteen seconds to go. Thank you

very much.

Paul Bowles. Hello.

So Paul. So

I live on Lewis Road. I'm Lorraine's husband, obviously. I won't take up all my time, but first of all, if I bike or I don't bike, is it relevant? So I didn't appreciate that statement. Thank you. Lucas, number one. Number two, we were talking about injuries. What type of injuries? It was called out that there were statistics on injuries on roofs. Was that car versus car? Was that car versus pedestrian? Was that bike versus pedestrian? Mhmm. What kind of data? You just don't say there was injuries and we're supposed to take it like we're gullible, number one.

Number two, my wife touched upon it. The majority of these homes are single family homes with single family driveways. If two parents work at two different jobs, that's two vehicles. Now Okay? You 10 parcels. 10 parcels. That's what we stated. So you wanna change all this in inconvenience, 10 parcels. Well, if we're worried about the minority of bicyclists, and just to give an update, based on 7,800 cars they go through, and I've counted in a day because I'm a walker, roughly point 003% are bikes. That's 23 bikes.

23 bikes in a day is point zero zero three percent of the traffic.

Okay.

As my wife said,

they take it for granted. What about the kids with the bikes who do the wheelies? Oh. All the time.

Yep.

That's my concern. I'm the driver. I'm a defensive driver. Hell, I'm a commercial truck driver. I know about defensive driving. No. They don't care. And now you're asking us to inconvenience the people who've lived there for twenty, thirty years who have more than one car

to now

To experience

We're

gonna do this double bike lane. I agree that I've spoken out before on the other improvements. They're well needed, and they're justified. But you have a bike lane. You have alternative routes. This isn't the way to go. Thank you. Thank

you. Silva.

Oh, boy. Yeah. You're right. Okay.

Watch her

across the street. Okay. My name is Maria Silva. I bought my first house in 1968 when we smoked. When I even saw it was over there. So all these years, many accidents happen. The first one, I go back to 1993. Two young men died in my driveway. They took the whole fence. My address is 2900. They were dead there. After that, many times, even this year in March, I retook my fence. I was inside. I heard the noise. I came out.

She took the car like I was still running. She backed across the street. She looked, see, on the fence, and she took off. In 1922, somebody crossed the street in another house, 29015 East Road. Then made storming in there. You went in front of my lawn. You went to the side gate inside the backyard. 2024, the same house. Somebody came, lived all well, almost to the front door. The wall was coming down.

The right door went down, and this is no stop. And my husband, 02/2007, the first six, seven times, they take it, and they run. I have killed for many years. You know, belongs to. I have another one next door.

Clients walk all over the place. I can hear a car squeezing, and I says, then it's them. We need to set up some kind because of this road and fall some out and leave some kind of a light in there, like, it's on. So maybe they'll stop because they'll stop. You can hear all the noise of the cars at night. They fly from there. I don't know. Not long ago, they took four or five cars on the right side of my house straight down. It's a disaster. We need some kind of speed bikes

Mhmm.

Bumps in that seat. I don't need 10 or 20, but at least four or five so they can, you know, slow down because they go through there like crazy. And don't Folsom because I got a house in Old Folsom. I guess I like to be around there. I got clients there. They're independent living. They're mentally disabled. And the people just squeeze through there in the middle of night. But yet, if I come from and there's and there's. To the right, there's all kinds of skin bumps.

But the left, there's nothing. Nothing. I wanna know why. It's because those are the two old, and those over there are nice. Mhmm. Those. So I would appreciate if you can sit on a few sleep bumps, and the right to cross, you know, the four waist type because there's a. My sister was the one for 28 people down the street in. Like I said, I'm laying over there same way. My place the same way. There's a lot of mentally disabled people that play. They just walk, and these people don't stop. Somebody's gonna have a big disaster in there. Thank you. We have we

should You're right. Right. Thank

you. Thank Thank Thank I

mean, I didn't I didn't stop

the clock because you're sort of like, you know, the mayor of Folsom Street.

Yeah. Is

Street. Thank

Thank you. You. Okay. Is it Peggy? Peggy. Go, Peggy.

Is it

It's good to read your

handwriting, but, yes, thank you.

My name is Peggy, and I live right on 29058. Actually, my family have lived on Eastwood Road since the seventies, and then I purchased several homes around that neighborhood also. But I can only say that I agree with the previous speakers. I mean, my have a home in Lasse Street, but when my husband had a cardiac arrest, we decided to move to our previously rented homes on. And the reason for that was because it's so accessible.

And whenever I need to call 911, it's right there. And they you know, the parking is great for for dresses. Mhmm. Also, physical therapies, people who cares for my husband, and I'm sure you're aware of that, they they use that parking from our house. Not only I raised four boys in my home, but now we have a situation of homes being so expensive.

Some of our children actually lives with us so that they can afford to bring out, you know, their their families. And so it's necessary the parking is really necessary for all of us to make a living and pay taxes, and we all pay taxes. So we do have school free tax. We really appreciate this time, and I'm grateful for you. I really appreciate the time. Call everyone. Thank you.

Bruce. Bruce.

Bruce.

Yeah.

Hear me? Yeah. Yeah. Oh.

Hello. I'm Bruce, and I actually do not live on Bruce. I am in favor of the bike lane. I I used it just recently to access this you know, you you mentioned that this great grant that Hayward has for getting people on bikes. And so right at the corner of is last two two Thursdays ago and again tomorrow, and and for a few more Thursdays that we're having to repair tenants to make spicycles.

And so it's it's right on that corner, And so I use roofs as access. So it's it's very, you know so what I would say is, you know, we have a climate crisis, and we know we need to get people out of the cars.

We know that because we

have the majority of the greenhouse gas is comfort driving. So we need to look to

the future.

We need we need to look to the future, and we need to get alternatives to driving, whether it's transit, bicycles, or and walking. So this is a a a critical thing. So it and and if the conditions are such that it's very dangerous to cycle, then people won't cycle because everybody likes always going, oh, there's like three guys cycling. Well, it's three guys siphon because they're just getting afraid to cycle. So we need to put an infrastructure that makes people feel safe so that they will cycle, and we need to get people in cars.

I also would like to say, I know that did use drop off my twins at the preschool. So I had twins, not just one, and I took them by two preschool. It was about five miles each way to preschool, and they've always cycled to school. Often, they just graduated from high school. They're at UC Berkeley right now. They just started today, the first day of classes. So I I it's it's absolutely critical that we get some people out of bars to reduce greenhouse gases

so that

we can They're have our and,

you know,

floods that we have. And it's very rude for you guys to be mocking you while speaking. And it's also not for you guys to be, you know, rough and rough and rough. And it's.

Yep. Well, you don't even live on roofs.

You don't live on roofs. Not you.

No. I I don't have to live on roofs. Like,

late look, Bruce, let me stop there. Ladies and gentlemen, I know, you know, I know this is a very passionate issue. And I also know that, we all take this very personal. This is our neighborhood. And in a democracy, we have to listen to everybody even though we might disagree with them. But let's at

least

listen, and and then we will discuss it afterwards. But at least, you know, it's okay to dissent it, but at listen. Let's at least pay respect, to the speaker. There's other places there's other places and spaces in this country today that people are rejected from talking. They are prohibited from talking.

And I'm gonna I'm gonna be quite honest with you. Here in this building, democracy I will hold up democracy in the practice and and and and the implementation of of a system that we've been able to support for years, hundreds of years. And so with that said, Bruce, you have twenty five seconds.

Yeah. I was going to say that the majority of the road users on a street like this don't live on it. So you should also be looking at the road users. I understand that the people that live on the streets are affected by the market. They're not the only ones, and this is a. I'd also like you to to follow the data that has been presented for parkings because people's perceptions are so different from reality. Thanks. Thank you.

Thank you so much. God bless you, Bruce.

Okay. Our next speaker is Glenn.

Glenn. You're on the Is it

are you Lynn? Yes. I my house is on 29024. We are neighbors. We are young and Lori and family. And this is where Bruce wrote by false and gets narrowed. And I just wanna start saying that I hardly see a bicycle on the roofs. I mean, I if I don't see like, I I don't know where to find these pictures on the roofs, like three bicycles. That's literally too many. So I operate in care home in that location.

I have 14 same clients. And if you put on our side two bike lanes, that means all of parking is gonna be pushed the other side, which is my people's like, clients' case managers coming daily, and they need to cross. They they take them places. And these people gonna cross this busy street cross the street many times, 14 times a day, each person. So installing bike lane is gonna danger their lives.

Heading on only one side of the street available for parking, and the other side has a cleaning schedule. And the bus stop where that's right where we are. So how the bus gonna stop? And, basically, we are disabling all the parking area there. And I also wanna make a comment about Hamptford. I mean, I looked through this. Hamptford Bicycle Lane looks like a disaster. I see these cars in the middle of the street. It confuses me. What are we gonna take on the left or the right?

It's horrible design. I don't know who did it. So this is where we live, and we don't want biplanes. It's a horrible idea. And the other thing is we don't have commercial businesses that much on the roofs. But, you know, the mission is San Francisco. They put it and they bankrupt all the businesses, and they put it they they removed it again. Big deal. So if anything, I think planning department should focus. The reason that Rooster was so crowded because it's bleeding from 80 between Whipple and Tennyson's hell every every commute time.

If you wanna do something, do something on the eight eighty between Weebill and Tennyson, and nobody's gonna half of the traffic is gonna cut off from roofs that I would, you know, apply for

it. So

talking about

injuries and people dying.

Yes.

Well, I had two people die in my house during the COVID, after the COVID. And I came to the meeting in July and June. I talked to you, and I said, I am putting my own money to expand my places so people don't die. And I named two people that died from COVID. These are dead people because of no quarantine room in my facility. And I asked to speak to someone, and you cut me off with the time. And somebody was gonna come and talk to me. That was, like, three months ago. Would you name someone to call me, please? I will. You have my number there? Yep. So thank

you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Our next speaker is Tay Tyler Dragoon. Hi,

council members. You know, this all this discussion about taxpayers. You know, it's a right of way, meaning that you're supposed to ingress and egress. It's not a right of park. We are all taxpayers, and we all pay for the public right of way. So I just wanted to say to the city of Hayward, congratulations on the money. I think it was staff time well spent. This is money on the table. Don't don't leave that money on the table. That is, like, millions of dollars.

I think this is gonna be good for Hayward, the parks and schools nearby. It'll also be a great complement to the Whitman alignment that we know was shifted from Mission Boulevard to Whitman. And so now this would just be a great complement. You're almost creating a network of bike infrastructure. So I'm really happy that you've allowed staff time to go after this brand. At the end of the day, there's not a whole lot of bikers in Hayward because drivers kill them. No. Plain and simple.

Not true.

So there would be more bikers except if you have angry, angry, irrational, irate drivers killed everywhere you go. Really? Everywhere you go is. You you have irate

drivers. If you can talk to us.

Talk to them.

And not to them.

Yes. Time's out

of one. Time's out of one.

So right there. Yep.

What's your That's That's gonna be zero zero.

That's So I just wanted to say congratulations, and it would be foolish to leave all this money on the day. Almost money.

Thank you. Thank you. You.

Thank Thank

you.

First topic first topic, I

was gonna say,

god bless everyone here.

God bless every one of us here. Right. And coming back to Angela, I went to Mount Eden High School, and I agree with the with the with the proposal on Tennyson more than the one on Roost because I feel like the one on Roost is kind of a waste of money because because me as a young kid and the future generation that goes to school, I feel like their safety is the best because they're gonna be the future taxpayers. And my my I'm sorry. I'm kinda, like, shy and nervous, but once again, I wrote down some things on on roosters churches and, you know, search for me, I go to the one down the street. And

sorry, I'm just stuck. Yeah.

I'll be

trying to take you one. I'm just a little bit, like,

nervous, but it'd be and to me, I find it crazy that there wouldn't be as much parking no more because it just takes a lot of, like, parking for the people that should come. And then also, if you guys know on roofs, there's, like they're gonna make factories on roofs and on industrial. And I feel like that's gonna create more traffic, like, the big 18 wheelers, and it's just gonna slow down traffic to begin with. Right? And so they're gonna go in and out. It I feel like you know the proposal. And so, honestly, it's just gonna cause more traffic, more dilemma. I'm on use I'm on roofs most of the day, and I'll say I see bikers, but I don't see as many for there

to be a but they changed.

Because there's already a a there's already two lanes, and it makes no sense to propose it because it's gonna go unused. And then more accidents are gonna go up. And so I just feel like, what, the proposal of, like, the light, that one, I do agree because people, like, do drive kinda weird there, so might as well have a safety. But coming back to Angela, I do want the proposal on Tennis and Better. I feel like Armenia should go there instead of Bruce because

Yeah.

It's just gonna be a waste of money. And, I mean, if you care for the kids and for the future, you want them to go home safe. Right? Yeah.

And I

feel like that's all I have to say. God bless you guys. God loves every one of you. I don't have pain towards no one. I love everyone here, and have a good day, guys.

Five five.

Well, that was a good way to end public comment, but thank you very much. I appreciate it. Anyone else that would like to make a public comment? Being none I like Oh, is there online? Yes. Okay. Online. How many are online?

Just one hand is raising right

now. Sure. Alejandra.

Okay. Alejandra, you can can queue.

Hi. Thank you so much. Thanks. I wish I could be there in person, but I'm glad to be given the time. I'm here as a Hayward resident to express some really strong support for the, Complete Streets Project here on Roose Road. I am a Hayward resident. I live in Hayward off of Santa Clara, and every day, I as I walk, as I ride, as I drive, I do see cyclists and their commuters and their people who are out for some exercise. And there are

a lot of kids who

are biking home from school, and they have to dodge masses of cars who are speeding along Santa Clara as if it were a highway. And those cars go just as fast on the side roads as they do down Santa Clara. And these riders are placing all their faith onto a thin white line that's painted alongside this road to keep them safe, and it's even worse on a street. Just recently, I saw a teenage girl struggling to cross Winton Avenue on her bike, she was so terrified that she ended up just getting off her bike and putting her bike onto the pavement, which we all know is not legal. She could have been cited, but, like, what what safe choice did she have? And I've heard so many people tonight say that they're

Oh. Thank you. Thank you. No. Yeah. No. She's the one we need. No. No. She

loves cycling and living in Hayward.

Go backwards.

And I just wanna say, if I'm gonna be interrupted, I think my time should be stopped.

Okay. No. No.

I'll Yeah. Your time stopped. I did stop it. You cut out for, like, a couple seconds. Oh, thank you.

The last thing we heard was they have a something like they had a point something.

Oh, okay. Well, just like Tyler said, we have a a right of way. Okay. We have a right to say streets. And speaking as a cyclist who knows many other Hayward cyclists, we really love cycling in Hayward, and we love living in Hayward. And I just wanna say, I wanna remind council and people present in the audience, three people on bikes have died in car bike collisions in Hayward, this year alone, and I really wish that, the family of those people could be represented at this meeting tonight. So I'm I'm doing that for them. I really feel like the staff report is super clear. Residents aren't gonna face parking impacts. The bikeway, increases safety in so many other ways.

There's so many safe, improvements that are happening as a result of this project. And I just wanna, like, underscore that progress is not always easy. Change is uncomfortable, but we're humans and we're adaptable. Cyclists will learn how to use a two way bike lane. Bus stops can be moved. Street sweeping requirements can be adjusted. We can all be flexible and adaptable. But to be blunt, choosing parking over Hayward's development and growth and people's safety is just not a reasonable choice to make. Hayward can't prioritize asphalt and cars over human lives. And with that, I thank you.

Thank you. Thank

you very much. Appreciate it. Bruce? Okay. Yes.

Sorry. Yeah. Because of the bus. It'd be bus who's next.

Go ahead. We have Carl. Carl?

Carl, go ahead.

Oh, hi. Hey. This is Carl. I'm a here at Resident, and I'm, you know, I'm a bike rider. You know me. Well, you know, people don't ride bikes if they feel unsafe and, you know, when bike lanes aren't continuous, and, then they're not gonna be riding in those areas unless if they're in large stretches of bike lanes. So and where more people will ride bikes then. So, you know, as for rest for road, I, you know, I I don't see this plan reducing any auto traffic because there are no lane reductions, so that's good. But, you know, I I really love two way bike lanes because they're, you know, they're protected, and then I feel more safe actually using them. I certainly prefer them over, lanes which are, you know, currently the situation along the parked cars.

It gives me a little more anxiety when there's no buffer between the bike lane and the parked cars because I worry about cars' doors ringing open, which could lead to serious injury. So so I must prefer these these two way bike lanes. You know, I I like this design better than Huntwood. So, you know, Huntwood is a different matter. I I I must prefer this one on Russ. I I do like the two way lane across at the intersection of Industrial across the Word Creek. That I think that's pretty cool. So, you know, I I'm generally in favor of this. If there's any suggestions of any changes, maybe add an extra foot or two buffer between the parked cars and traffic lane. Although if that if that can't be done because of the the opposite side with the the width of the bike lanes due to the street cleaning equipment, then that's understandable.

And in in other words, I'm I'm pretty in favor of this. Thank you very much for listening to me.

Goodbye. Thank you. It's okay.

You live there. He does.

Anyone? Okay.

Okay. Seeing the word public comment, I'd like to close public comment and then go to either one of my colleagues. You wanna pick this one? I started last time.

All right. Thank you for the report, and thank you for your research on this street. Thank you for all of you for coming out. Thank you for your advocacy. Thank you for participating in this civic process.

And I know this is a really tough topic, and we have been dealing with this across the whole city of how do we balance pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, and quality of life for residents. So just thank you for all the voices that came here tonight. I have said this before in other locations and projects, And I continue to say that we should prioritize safety of pedestrians and looking at conflicts. Where are the conflicts at? And for me, I continue to say intersections.

Can we focus on intersections versus whole bike lanes? I am in favor of bike lanes, but I'm also in favor of making sure we're getting to the source of the problem, which to me seems like it's at intersections. I see a lot of traffic incidents there. So I I just wanna highlight what I do like about this project, the high visibility crosswalks. I just wanna acknowledge what the city has been doing throughout the whole city.

It's just making sure that we're looking at high visibility crosswalks, looking at protected intersections. I would like us to continue on that path. Also, I wish I can see this more of looking at speed humps. I I know it's been it's been difficult to confirm where speed bumps can actually go, but it looks like it it could be potentially here. So if that helps slow down traffic, I would love to know know more about that.

Flashing beacons, I wish I can see more of that. So I'm glad that you're putting things that the community has been advocating for throughout the city. You're actually highlighting and potentially doing in this project. So just wanna acknowledge acknowledge that. I I am concerned about it it looks like Elaine is gonna be taken well, Elaine, well, let's from the existing photo. Can you explain where there's a the double bike lane?

Yeah.

Yeah. So it it it looks like not a lane of traffic, but just parking. Right? Yes. Parking. Mhmm. Brake.

Sexual terms.

Yes. Okay. Good. Okay. So no track lanes are gonna be impacted by this. Right? But we are looking at moving parking to one lane. To one lane. To one side. Won't keep it in. Mhmm. No. Okay. No. So one question I have is that you do have a barrier on the double lane here. Is there a particular reason why it has to be two way? Can it just be Yeah.

Yes. I can speak to that. So the advantage of the two way lead here are that you'd actually you definitely want a buffer between, you know, back way and inside thing. And by doing a two two way back way, you only need one of those filters. And in this case, there's a nice thing just if you look at the the context of the corridor, the west side of the street is almost or most of the way down.

There's more driveway complex. There's more intersection complex. And then on the east side of the street, there's actually there's fewer driveways. There's less there's fewer parcels. Like, as I mentioned, there's just fewer residents over there. Mostly, it's the sound walls. And there's also the advantage of the the direct connection that it gives you to that work through trail, which comes out on that on that side of industrial. And so here. Yeah. The the the event, there's actually it's one of those situations where I think I think, actually, the gold standard is used. We might prefer to have two one way bikeways, but we don't have enough space here.

Mhmm.

And there's also the advantages given the land use contacts, the the driveways, the fewer conflict points to keep it on the East side.

Okay.

And then I've known in the past when we were looking at projects like this, there's been pop ups or temporary demonstration projects before we implement it. Is that something that you all were thinking of doing for this project or no?

It's a really interesting idea that I wanna defer to to Barron and Alex to see what their thoughts are. Mhmm.

At the moment, the fund the grant funding has the deadline. So I I don't think we have done a demonstration project. But, yeah, Alex, if you wanna add to that.

There's no not much hard scale here. Basically, it's two bike lanes and posts to separate safely bicycles from travel lanes. Mhmm. Mhmm. Okay. Alright. Well, I would say that

I would prefer to focus on intersections and figure out what we can do for bicycle and pedestrians pedestrian safety at the intersections. So that's that's my feedback on this project right now. So no bike lanes. I would say no bike lanes for this particular section. If there's other sections or opportunities, I would like to review them. Bike lanes. Thank you.

Thank you for this presentation, the work that's gone into this. I just wanna clarify. It sounds like the consensus that I'm hearing is, for the most part, for the folks that are in Roos, it's everything but the bike lanes. Does that sound accurate?

Yeah. You know? Okay.

Well, there are bike lanes already there. Yeah. Things that

We're talking about what's being here.

Yes. Okay. So

I just wanna understand with the funding that's available the vitamins the funding continued on the vitamin being part of this plan is the first thing I wanna clarify.

I'll I'll start on that, then, Byron, maybe you can

Yes.

You can fill in the gaps. So this grant that we applied for, it's actually a little bit complicated because we applied for two grants. One is for the the bike lane. That's part of the bike set aside bucket of funds within HSIP. So, really, anything on Roose Road is really part of that. Like, anything there's always a little bit of flexibility for adding additional elements. Like, that's where I think we have an opportunity to add relatively inexpensive things like our RFPs or Okay.

And do do this to organize things for the public?

I'm sorry.

Speech organized for the public.

Oh, yeah. Sorry. Thank you. Yeah. So because yeah. But, yeah, there's the opportunity to implement minor slow cost things as part of h sip as well, and that includes the flashing beacons at the cross walks and potentially speed humps. But for the bike set aside, the the roost road is actually pretty much a primary component of it. There is a second grant, which was for the intersection improvements at at recent industrial, and that's specifically for the protective left turn and nothing else, actually. That's the that's the only element of that, I believe, environment.

So you're saying in order to have the other flashing crosswalks or potential addition of lights at intersections, those that funding is tied to bike lanes?

Right now, that is that's what the re what we would how we would scope the project. But there may be some opportunities. And I think Alex and Byron, they have some some other things to add to that. Mister Malik?

Yeah. I'll I'll say that this grant is when we apply for these grants, the way it works is we there are a list of improvements that Caltrans has, and you have to follow strictly their approved improvements. We submit these grants, and they are competed against by all submittals throughout the state, and they are usually ranked and scored. So we could the only way we could change SOAP is the request to SOAP change from Caltrans that may or may not have them reconsider the funding of the grant. So we could lose the funding and not have any improvements happen? It's potential. It's possible.

Okay.

I I wouldn't know how to kind of fence with this site, but that's how we would pursue it.

Okay. Understood. Can you share anything that you have on the injuries? I mean, I think for a project like this that is obviously very sensitive to a neighborhood, it's helpful to understand what's happened because, you know, as Tyler had mentioned earlier, we have had fatalities of cyclists. But any traffic calming project we do, whether if we buy things or not, we should demonstrate what the need is. And the the can you remind me of your name again?

Maria.

Maria. Your story was really resonant. We have a Portrait Avenue common project. I don't know if folks are familiar with Portrait Avenue over here. But 75 people came out, and they were begging for lane reductions. They were begging for us to expand our traffic circle because their car flew through someone's fence six times. They actually have installed metal bollards because of how fast the cars were going. And so one of the reasons we do this work isn't to try to take anything away. It's to try to figure out how do we prevent something like that from happening because it is a matter of the design of the street.

Especially across the street.

Yeah.

Two cars went, like I said, the backyard went

I I understand. So I I, you know, I

for somebody to die inside that place.

Yeah. So, I mean, that's why we're doing this work. So I appreciate that you all understand the importance of the pedestrian improvements that we're trying to get here, and I hope you all understand how we're trying to juggle the funding that we have on the table to pull this off.

But I This is the money. To say.

Ma'am, I

I I don't park in my driveway after 04:00 because

I can get I can get

up. Okay.

It takes one of my clients to go to the street and stop for me to park up.

I see. Because of what

you're saying is the congestion.

Stop. Okay.

Just keep on

going. Okay. She lives in.

Thank you. So I'm gonna ask for the comments to hold because we already had public comment. Thank you. And I also wanna echo my my colleague's comments here. Thank you for showing up today. I think it's important that neighborhoods do get organized. And for myself personally, you know, I really do see this as an opportunity, but our job is to represent the perspective of the community. So what I wanna juggle here is, one, when we install bike lanes in neighborhoods, the average property value in studies shows that bike lanes in neighborhoods increases your property value by 2.3%. This increases the value of the city. You can shake your head. I'm just citing data. That that's up to you to decide whether or not that matters to you. Clearly, it doesn't seem like it does. Well, that's but I'm but I'm just I'm just sharing information with you. It it take it with a grain of salt.

The other thing I wanna say here is I live on this side of the town. Right? I think it's important that people that use these roads, not just the folks that live there, are able to weigh in. I'm comfortable moving this forward for more council feedback because there are several council members that live closer to your neighborhood that I think should weigh in on this and should hear from you. I don't think I necessarily the person that's qualified to weigh on this. I'm supportive of bike infrastructure projects. We've done a lot here like Orchard, like downtown, but that's a different population. Right? These are people that have asked for it. You clearly don't want that.

So what I'm asking for is I would like to advance this, but have the whole council discuss it because we have more representatives from the other side of the city closer where you live that I think should hear your opinion and weigh in. It's not fully my decision to make here. Like I said, I I I typically find these projects to be good to increase the value of homes, to increase the value of our city. And when we're about to put 2,000 new bicycles on the road, which is something we're going to do soon, if a single student gets hurt, I see that as blood on our hands. It's something that I don't really feel like I can sleep with in my big conscience.

And I know that that might be a different case for y'all, but that's that's where I'm coming from. So like I said, I'm not making decisions tonight. My my only recommendation is be with us before the full council so that folks that live closer to this can weigh in on it. But my my inclination is I typically think these are good projects for the city, but I'm curious to to hear more from my colleagues that live closer. The other thing I do wanna add is our outreach has to be much better.

I understand postcards went out, but when we do a community survey, only 10 people show up and doubling on the folks that post to it show up tonight, clearly, outreach wasn't accurate enough or maybe the plans weren't communicated well enough. Not having injuries in this presentation is another issue that, like I mentioned before. So I just think it's easy for people to feel like somebody's being taken away from them if we don't give them all the information up front. And if I don't feel

like I have the information up front, I can

only imagine how everyone here feels tonight too. So I just think could do better on that front. I think that's that's where, you know, where I sound this issue, and I'm eager to hear what our other council colleagues think about this that live closer in this neighborhood. And I encourage you all to follow this issue and make sure that the folks that gave come tonight receive information about that council meeting if we decide to to move it up. Thank you for the presentation.

Thank you.

So is there gonna be a light or no?

A light. A light.

Because those four, we stop. They don't stop.

If we if we sign

on the council Stop.

You need to put a light in.

No. I I understand. So, I mean, here's what we're trying to juggle. Right? Is I take your issue very seriously. We as a council say, you know what? The community has spoken, and we don't want the bike lanes. And and we go to Caltrans, and we say, okay. No bike lanes. And they say, okay. Then no funding. Then there's then there's no light. Okay. And and and But You don't you don't know unless you ask.

I I I agree.

I'm just saying we run that risk. So I'm did did you know this coming into it? I didn't know it coming into it. Now we know. Right? And so what I'm saying is come back to the next council meeting that we're gonna have if the mayor decides that he wants to move it forward and say your same opinion. I'm not discouraging you from doing that, but we need to have that conversation there. That's all I'm saying.

And this one

public comment is over now. Right? I'm just trying I'm trying to engage with you on a personal level, but I'm gonna hand it over to the mayor now. Yeah. Thank you.

I just had a question for staff. So for the Caltrans grant or funding, is there an opportunity for council to advocate for pedestrian improvements in the crosswalk intersection if we do not do the bike lane so we can stay on the funding list for this if we don't do the rest of the project.

This this grant is it's a cycle. Every other year, they have a cycle. This is cycle 12. We've always are looking for opportunities for more locations. There's actually we've actually submitted four applications this cycle, and one does is focused on pedestrian improvements. So what whatever happens to this grant does not mean we can't apply for later cycles.

Okay. Yeah. Alright. And then if we do focus on pedestrian safety in this round, are there other opportunities to look at other ways for improving bicycle safety? So maybe looking at higher visibility painting or or something that could persist in helping bicycle safety. If it's not this class, is it another class where it doesn't impact parking in it as as much.

I I think I understand your question. The the grants that we applied for has been awarded already, but we are constantly looking

I'm saying if we start all over and we look at a different way to do bike improvements in a lower class, is that possible? For next years. Yeah. For next years. We can always apply. Okay. Okay. So I just wanna keep that as an opportunity as well if it doesn't move forward.

I have a I have a small comment I wanna add too too. Just for the sake of what I was just sharing, when this if we decide I mean, I don't know if you're comfortable with this coming before the full council so we can discuss it further. But if we do decide to move this up to the full council, I think it would be helpful to know and maybe the timeline is too tight, but things like lighting and pedestrian improvements and bike lanes weren't part of it, if that jeopardizes the funding that we currently have on the table or not.

Absolutely. We can look into that. Okay. And in the meantime, we can also look into some of the comments that we've made Mhmm. Related to bus stop Yeah. Related to pickup and drop off Yeah. To see if there are solutions that we can

Okay. Thank you.

And and and, also, when it comes to outreach, can we look at looking at the the Stagg Center Or Center as a location if we were to do more public outreach just because it's a larger location and we're central to a lot of folks there where that location, so it might be easier versus the the Shell Center as an additional outreach. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. And just just to clarify, the Pashot Center is right in the heart of the of, you know, all the people's homes. So we were trying to make it very

easy to understand.

Yeah. I hear you.

But we can we can look for a larger venue. Yes.

That'd be great. Thanks.

And, you know, and and and to let me just sort of you know, I here on my number one comment was, you know, more community input. And, you know, I'm always amazed I'm always amazed that when we I've been up here a long time. We do a lot of community meetings. We do a lot of advertisement, and we do a lot of outreach. We mail.

We email, slow mail. We do all types of mail. And we do get low participation rates, I mean, all over the city. And, however, my, what what I'm always amazed to observe is that when there's very low community engagement in the planning process, when it's the implementation or the planning to implement process, everyone gets upset, and, you know, it and it gets blasted all over social media, and and people show up. Everyone shows up to protest a an an a project, but nobody shows up to have input in the project.

And so I just you know you know, I'm not saying it was you. I'm not I'm not blaming all of you. I'm just saying all over the city, all over the city, from Eden Shores to Stonebrake, downtown, the South. You know, it's a pattern I see and and so forth. So with with that said, what I would encourage them to do, moving forward, if we can do another meeting, let's do another one.

And and if we can be include feedback from what we've heard tonight. And then even I I even heard, you know, including other streetscape, landscape, lightscape stuff, like flashing beacons and, you know, making just street safety enhancements, I think, you know, that would be good to show too. But if we can all commit to, you know, inviting three or four more people to a to a meeting where we can get a very good robot. Because I'm sure I know everybody in here, a large majority of you are against the project, but I'm sure there's perhaps other people there who might support the project. And I so I just wanna make sure we get a, you know, a full you know, unless we get a 100 people and say, don't do it, then we won't do it.

You know? But and and we've and by the way, we've done that. I mean, I'll point to Patrick and Gatti. You know? We've we've we've done big reversals on it. Hold on a sec. We've already had public comment.

I'm gonna

keep a

lot of looking there. Please. So so let's I would say, you know, we can you know, let's let's plan another one, and and let's get, you know, let's get more input. The second thing I I just wanna say, and I I don't wanna get too much into the technical stuff because I agree with, you know, with council member Andrews. You know, I'm you know, you don't have to convince me about, you know, our complete streets policy.

I just wanted to just talk about our complete streets policy. A few several years ago, the city embarked on a complete streets policy. And the complete streets policy, in short, let me get into the philosophy of it, but, basically, it's to design streets that are all accessible to all abled people. Walking, biking, strolling, rolling, walking, slow walking, whatever walking, it is to build a street infrastructure that everybody has access to and everybody can can walk on or or however mode of their of their mobility can do that. And the and we got overwhelming support, not just from from cyclists, advocates, but we got support from neighborhood folks for a lot of the reasons what councilmember Syropin just said.

Complete streets increases property values. It beautifies streets. It it leverages money. We can, you know, we can oftentimes rebuild roads, but then we can, you know, reslurry roads, and we can enhance roads and so forth. So we did all of this policy work around complete streets.

Nonetheless, what is happening now is that now that we have a policy, we've been implementing the complete streets policy, and neighborhoods don't want it. When they see it actually implemented, they're rejecting it. And so, you know, we have to sort of there's gotta be a medium where if if as a as a city that we get behind a city vision for, you know, for all ability pathways in neighborhoods, You know, we have to, you know, hold the line, stick with the policy, and move forward. There's always room for tweaking. There's always room for, you know, for for adjustment.

But, you know, we're we're we're currently under a a you know, we're operating under a policy that that, you know, that fundamentally, counsel, when we voted for Complete Streets, we voted for it because we knew that it would be safe for everybody, in inner city. My third point is, I think, you know, you I don't disagree with many of your observations about the the low level of bicycle traffic on city streets. I I wouldn't I wouldn't disagree. And sure. You know, I get it.

However, I wanted you you may not know this, but in in about a month, we're implementing a new program in the city. It's called Hayward Rides where there's gonna be an update on this in in in a in a little bit. And Hayward Rides is a policy. It's a program that we're launching, the one of the very first cities in the Bay Area to do this. And we've received a grant where we are gonna buy middle school and high school students, every middle school and every high school student, a bicycle.

We buy them a bicycle. We are we are in this city. No other city is doing this. We are creating the first generation of kids that when they graduate or when they get to 16, that their first mode of transportation isn't gonna be what I was dreaming for.

It was

a car.

We're gonna create a generation of bicycles, and what we need is infrastructure to support them. And, you know, and and I should and I should I should also let you know that, we're, you know, we're not up here completely tone deaf because I wanna give you just a I'm gonna digress a bit and give you an example of where this this council has taken a hard pivot against, a regional governing body, to build a bike lane and to shorten Mission Boulevard. Okay? There was a plan, and and and even to the chagrin of staff even to the chagrin of staff, there was a plan to build a contiguous bike lane from Oakland all the way to South Hayward to Union City, and they were gonna go right down Mission Boulevard. But to and when they got to Hayward, you know what the proposal was to do when they got to Hayward from from Fletcher?

That's the mission. From Fletcher to Tennyson, they were going to close a lane on Mission Boulevard and shrink Mission Boulevard. Can you imagine that? I'm like that. And we and we took a stand and said Sure.

And said no. And and and and, in fact, this is one of the very earliest this is one of the earliest battles we, that I took on when I became mayor. Right? And so but we we fought it, And and now what we have now is we reconfigured the bike lane to come down, you know, mission to a around Bart's gonna come around here, and then Jackson and then Whitman. So so we listen, and we we we do what you know, we listen, and we do do and, you know, we reconfigure and so forth.

But my my point is this, is that this council this council, we are about to launch a full generation. I mean, we're gonna have, you know, 2,000 bicyclists out there. And and you know what? They're gonna come from tennis in high school, Chavez Middle School, and and, you know, ideally, we'd like to grow the program where we're gonna get seniors. Right now, I don't I don't expect miss Silva to jump on a bicycle to jump on a bicycle.

However however but, you know, this is sort of, you know, the the vision of the council. Climate change is real. It's in front of us. I you may agree or disagree, but I'm you know? But this is our small step in in in in in combating climate change, which is also a a a city priority. Lastly, I I do wanna I do wanna say I I did hear I heard. Me too. You wanted streetscape, landscape, lightscape. You want street enhancements. Yes.

And and, yes, absolutely. I I I drive down Roos all the time. In fact, Roos, there's a temporary Hayward Police Department the South the the the the South District Command is there.

Right by the church.

Right. Yeah. Right by the church.

Right. Church.

And and so, you know you know, it's so we heard, and I think, you know, staff heard, and so we'll get there. But, you know, I just I just want I, you know, I just want folks to to to know that, you know, we're listening. We will continue to listen. I agree with council member Cyra that I would like to hear the council's council's full input on this. And we still have the ability to reject this.

And, you know, so I want you to know that. But, you know, you know, from from sort of a high level from a policy level, you know, this is the challenge that we always have in the city is that we're you know, the community, the city gives us direction to implement a policy. And once we start implementing it, you know, people reject it. And so we have to and and we're in charge of sort of finding that balance. Communicate.

And and so that's so that's so that's what we're that's where we're at today. I am willing I am willing to, have staff organize another meeting and where we have more information and and and where we can get more feedback and more input and and maybe look at I know we have some graphs here, but maybe we could have more, you know, bigger, clearer images of what it what it will really look like, something that's most mostly most opposed to it. And and I think and I appreciate you giving me the time to to speak so much, but this is I will I will close this. And and before I move on, did you also wanna move this to the

full? Would prefer I don't

I appreciate it.

I know we don't have time, but I prefer for it to come back here with other, but if if you don't have the time for that. Right? Because that's the takeaway. So

you're saying to come back to see a good you know, it's over for different alternatives.

Yeah.

We're out of luck. The grant does have deadlines, and we can talk to CalFrends to see how much flexibility there is. Okay.

I don't forget that. Yeah.

So for me, it's not to counsel, but it's, like, maybe If if there is If there if it's that possibility.

So it's so what? If there's if if there is time for it to come back to us with some of the and in fact, we will in fact, we may not even need additional community meeting. I wouldn't mind just sort of hashing it all out here, and that's fine. And and and we and we and we can totally do that. But so find out. If if and, you know, if there's a time strength, we can come back here. Okay. Alright.

I I think just so I I don't wanna waste people's time. Right? I think we as a committee have heard the perspective here, and what they haven't heard is what our colleagues think. And that's where I'm interested in I like the idea of an additional community meeting, but, again, like, they made their position clear. I think if we're having a council meeting so we're all getting the same information at the same time and we hear everyone in one place, that that would be my recommendation just because know we're also struggling with staff constraints now too. So I I guess let me turn the question back to staff because I think there's a difference within you here. But what would the preference of staff be just given your current constraints? Would it be for the full council to discuss it, or would it be to bring it

back here first? Whatever is whatever is your preference, but time wise, taking it to counsel is more. You have options

if we take it to counsel then if we hear back from Caltrans?

We are going to look into the options and bring something to this. So maybe

as a compromise I mean, I I think this shouldn't come back to counsel until the questions that were asked, and the information that we're looking for is answered. We don't wanna have a presentation where this is just a repeat of tonight. I think you've heard that we need to ask a few questions, and when the council's deliberating, that information should be presented. I'm assuming. Are are you okay with that,

It wouldn't be a repeat of tonight if there are other options presented. So that's why

I I mean, I just don't wanna then have to bring back one to the council next. I'd rather just us talk about it altogether because that's, like, an additional meeting that everybody has to come to again.

We get at school. Okay.

Well, let We just vote on it.

Yeah. Let me let me so I I would support just taking this straight to council with options. That's what I'm basically saying is I think there's two of us

Okay. That wanna do it.

That's fine. We both know.

Okay. Okay. So the consensus between council member, but I'm in. And and so we'll just let's plan to bring this up to full council. And then in the meantime, what I would suggest the audience, the community, what I would suggest is, you know, email council members. I would perhaps meet with council members, invite them to the neighborhood. And, you know, I would be more than willing to go out there and talk to everybody. I'm I'm available. And and, you know, I can totally do that. Alright?

Likewise. Yeah. Okay. So I'm gonna end this item, and and we'll move on to I wanna thank everybody for coming out. Thank you very much. And I will move on to the next item on the agenda, which are updates oral updates. And if you want, it's number five, but, you know, we are gonna get an update on Haywood Rides program, which is the program that we will be which is the bicycle program. So you wanna you wanna start with item five, and then we can, move on. Alright. I'm gonna make sure. Fine. Okay.

Go ahead, Luca. Again, Malik. We're starting today. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

So I updates in the AeroVest program. Right now, we have these 50 bikes was received and assembled.

I'm sorry. We have a presentation. So can we just

If you'd like to talk, you're welcome to step outside and read if I understand what the item was.

Thank you.

And we currently with the 50 bikes and then assembled, we have docks, tallies, front and back lights. They are in stock now. We are in the last council meeting, we did get approval to execute a contract with ENU and family for support of the program. So right now, the biggest direction we need is figuring

out

the launch date. Originally, the launch date was we were looking at September. Now we're looking at originally, launch date, we're looking at when she did the Hayward your HSD backpack gateway. But now we're looking at top folder. So if there's any direction from council, that would be extremely helpful and that our team is ready to go.

We'll go ahead. We'll.

Can we speak on these items? Or respond to your Go ahead. Please.

Wait. I'm pretty sure the mayor wanted to talk about this. So Yeah. I think we should go item by item when we can Come back. Come back since it is a section, then we do public comment.

And let's let's start with number one. Okay. Sammy Lowe is senior civil engineer. He's gonna talk about mainstream very, very brief. Yes. I know. You

Hello? Can you guys hear

me? Yes. Yes.

Hi. Good evening, mayor Salinas, council member Andrew, council member Syrup. My name is Samuel Lowe, senior civil engineer, and I'll give a brief update on the status of Main Street complete street project. The project is nearing completion. Work so far includes grind and overlay that reduced the high crown in the railway.

Recently, contractor completed the pavement markings at striping and the installation of pedestrian light poles. The new irrigation controller is up and running, and the vehicle detection cameras at the intersections are now operational. Coming upcoming work over the next several weeks, contractor will complete the wiring for the pedestrian streetlights, finish installing the flashing beacons at the two mid block crosswalk, and adding the pedestrian push buttons at the intersections. PG and E is scheduled to repair the broken, electrical boxes that were damaged during sidewalk demolition, and finally, the the installation of the, art crosswalk at Maidenby that will feature the, California poppies and the red, cardation, per the council or per the committee's direction in the last meeting.

Thank you so much.

Sorry. Can you just repeat one of the, Harish and Bob, the illustrations being painted?

Sammy, did you hear that?

I'm sorry. No. I did not.

When was the Carnation and Poppy crosswalk illustration being added?

Sorry, man.

I'm not illustration being added to the crosswalks?

You're looking to show I can show you a

Just just the plan. Just any plan on adding them in.

Oh, upcoming in the next several weeks, we are we are figuring out the the timeline for or the lead time for the different type of material that we're evaluating. So, hopefully, three to four week at the latest.

Thank you.

Just saying that. I I think it's picking up noise because you can't hear your. Go. I need Alright. We're down here.

That's What's happening? They want to comment on the updates.

Okay. So no no comments?

They they want to.

They want to, but we cannot and we can't have public comments on information items. Right?

Not for discussion. But

Yeah. Okay.

Alright. That's fine.

So you were saying we're not giving some time on

Yeah. We cannot have public comment on information on the violation of routing. Okay.

I think you got that backward.

Yeah. I think that's that.

I think that's actually the opposite.

We're not supposed to do comment

on the international items.

You must accept public comment if you agenda item. Tyler,

would you

please. You're You're saying that.

Let us work it. Let the let us work this out. We got it. Alright? Let us work it out. So so what is the issue?

The issue? No issues. We are just getting you a brief update about different projects, different

house mix.

But and then we have so so so the so so the question is, do we or do we not admit public comments on information I

am not an expert, but my understanding is that these are brief updates that we have presented to you. I am not an expert on

Okay. Go ahead and and let me let me figure this out. Go ahead. Continue with the

with the. And then East Bay, Wayne, Lucas, quickly. East Bay, Wayne, turn on your mic.

Thank you. I wanted to provide a brief update on the East Bay multi project. We have had our fourth meeting of the active transportation working group, and the we had initially planned to bring that item here to this this event of CF, but as you know, schools get very busy towards the end of the year, and we had a very late burst of interest from Tennyson High School in the project after the school year, which which meant that we really wanted some extra time to incorporate the feedback. So in the presentation that the full council or not the full council. In presentation for the next council structure airport committee meeting, you'll you'll also see a special slide about the feedback we got from students and teachers at.