Council Airport Committee - Regular Meeting

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Good evening, everybody. Today is Wednesday, 01/29/2025. This is the council infrastructure and airport committee meeting. It is 05:30PM. I'd to call the meeting to order, and, I'd like to, ask, miss Baras to take it along.

Committee member Andrews? Present. Committee member Cyra? Present. Mayor Slink. Present.

Thank you. Moving on to, we go right to presentation, the airport greenhouse gas, emissions. I believe director Larry will take this off.

Yes, mister mayor. If you recall at one of the last meetings, I mentioned to you that based on the information from other airports in the area, I was confident that the amount of greenhouse gas emission from our airport was going to be de minimis in the neighborhood of one to 2% of the total gas emissions in the city. So now a study has been done. I very briefly resolved those studies to you. And

Oh, here. Yeah. Wanna make sure she had to see. They

were not anticipating.

So I shared the result of the this study with you, but often that we can ask the environmental service manager, like Pearson to come here and make a brief formal presentation so you can see the.

Great. And just to let you know, I just came from an all day Bachmed. Actually, it's not called Bachmed anymore. It's called Bay Area air Bay Area Air District. It's called bad. Yeah. But but the tagline I said we need a tagline bad not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good. But I think I just dated myself when I said

that in the audience. But,

anyways, and it's all we talked about was greenhouse gas emissions and something.

But, anyways, so I'm

like, I'm ready. Alright.

Alright. Thank you. Seven

slides of this.

Good. I like that.

Alright. Good afternoon, everyone. When the city council adopted the climate action plan, the updated climate action plan, one year ago, there was some discussion about the fact that our greenhouse gas inventory did not include emissions from the Hayward Executive Airport. So the council asked us to No. Include airport emissions in our future inventories. So we worked with the Bay Area Air District staff to develop the estimates that I'm gonna share today.

There we go. Alright.

Okay. So first to set the stage, our most recent community wide inventory is shown here from 2022. We are currently finalizing an inventory for 2023, which we'll be presenting to the sustainability committee in March. But you can see here that the community wide emissions in 2022 totaled about 611,000 metric tons of

carbon dioxide equivalent, so or c o two e, and that's basically the unit of measurement that we use to account for all the various greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. You can see here that electricity emissions decreased significantly from 2005 due to our participation in Eva Community Energy and also as emissions from electricity from PG and

E also decreased significantly. And then you can also see to cleaner vehicles being on the road. And, also, in 2022, we had fewer vehicles on the road. Really, we were still recovering from the COVID disruptions.

Can you go back? Sure.

Let me see.

And it placed them on your Oh, okay. Sorry about that. So is that better? Yes.

Okay. Alright.

And so here, you can see the total emissions for the airport in 2023 are estimated to be 4,773 metric tons. This is approximately point 8% of the community wide total, so less than 1% of total emissions. And that's about 1.3 of the total transportation emissions. And when I say transportation total, that includes both on road and off road, so two categories from the the previous table. And just for comparison, you can see here the Palo Alto Airport had emissions in 2021 of about 2600 metric tons.

And then the total for all the Bay Area airports was about 1,200,000 in 2022. So to calculate the total emissions, we first looked at emission factors for each aircraft type. These were calculated by air district staff for the general aviation fleet at the Oakland Airport. Because they are unique to each aircraft type, they are applicable to the Hayward Airport. Then we took the we looked at the total operations by aircraft type and looked at the emissions factors for for each type, and then we came up with the totals.

And you can see that the the most operations are single piston aircraft, but most of the emissions are from the larger aircraft types. And then this graph just shows another another view of the total emissions broken out by aircraft type. You can see most of the emissions are from carbon dioxide. And so staff will be including this information with the twenty twenty three community wide inventory that we will be presenting to the sustainability committee in March. And we recommend that the committee take comments from from the public and then comment on this presentation.

Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Before I go to committee comment, any public comment on this? Yeah. Go ahead.

Oh, is it on this?

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Only on this on this item.

Or do

you have a public comment about something else? Yes. Okay. I will get to you later.

Yes. Okay.

I will make a public comment.

And if you can stand and put

your

Well, I did not realize you were gonna be discussing this particular issue about the airport tonight, but it is one that is on my mind a lot because I do live right next to the airport, right on the end of the airport across from the Takeoff Strip Landing Strip takeoff and Landing strip. Anyway, that was really insightful with the numbers. And, obviously, as we can see in that report that the jets are the ones creating the most emissions. I'm gonna just give you an anecdotal example, but this my house, my neighborhood, the surrounding neighborhoods on that end, when the jets are warming up to take off, sometimes they're warming up for thirty or forty minutes, I have timed it. That jet fuel is blasting right into our neighborhoods, and we are breathing that stuff.

Little kids are breathing that stuff. Everybody's breathing it. And, I mean, to the point where I've had my doors and windows open on a nice day, and I have to run around and shut them. Or I cannot be in my own backyard on a nice summer day because it's so bad. And there have been periods where it's been worse. Before COVID, it was horrible. During COVID, as we all know, it tapered off, and that was actually a plus. So I am not anti airport. I am I understand that it brings in a lot of money for the city. That's great.

But what is the solution here for those particular surrounding neighbor neighborhoods? It's an environmental justice issue, number one. And, I just wanna I would urge you guys to seriously think what kind of green solutions might there be or trees in that area, a green wall. I don't know. Other cities and other countries take this issue on and do something about it and protect their surrounding neighborhoods and their import. You know? So I just I'm urging you to really think about this because even though the airport overall emissions aren't aren't contributing to our overall city emissions, they are in certain neighborhoods. So that's my my take on that. So thank you for listening. I really appreciate it.

Oh, I'm sorry. Melissa. Concerned citizen. Thank you so much.

And no more public comment on public comment.

Thank you for the presentation and for the quick work incorporating this in. Are you recommending that these twenty twenty two numbers be included in the next report, or do we have up or will we have updated 2024 numbers?

So I think that's that remains to be seen if we'll be able to have twenty twenty four data. I guess the as the data we have on the operations is, the result of what the airport layout master plan. Well, yes.

Some of the we the way we measured it was with, data that we got from our noise measuring equipment for the breakdown.

Doug, can you go to the podium? Sure. Introduce yourself.

I'm Doug McNealy, by the way, the airport manager. The answer to the question is that well, you were asking about the data, and that's part of a study we're doing right now, an airport update on our airport layout plan. And as part of that, we're using data from our noise measuring equipment, interestingly, to get the breakdown, the fleet breakdown, how many jets, how many helicopters, that type of thing. So we will have that data going forward. So we hope to be able to provide that to you.

Great. I mean, that's really innovative way of collecting that. I I would have thought to do that. So, yeah, mean, my hope here would be that we're using the most up to date information just given that 2022 was still coming out with the pandemic and, traffic was a little bit lower. So I just wanna make sure we have the most accurate picture possible moving forward. I'm also curious. I know there was a line item on operations, takeoff and landing operations. What's kind of the ratio here? I I I recognize that, overall, we're looking at less than 1% of our total emissions being from the airport. But I also wanna understand the ratio, like, how many passenger vehicles, for example, would equal 1% in the city versus how many planes from the airport equal this approximately 1%?

Yeah. I would have to defer to Eric on that. Sure. Well, the answer is right right off the top.

Gosh. I'm trying well, I don't have a good number in my head in terms of the number of vehicles that account for our total annual emissions. That's that's okay. But at

least for this information here, how many how many planes are we looking

at contributing to this 1%?

Well, I guess these are the operation.

They I think approximately a 150,000 or no. Well, we're looking at

So if if you can indicate the number of takeoffs and landing in the

year Well,

it's approximately I think that it was a 122,000, if I'm not mistaken.

Which is one third of what it was, you know, twenty five years. Got it.

Well and, actually, if I might, going back, you know, into, like, 1989 in that that period, it was, 04/5000. Wow. So it's it's Gotcha. That Yeah.

I understand that. It's kinda what I understand the ratio if it's like you know, I understand a takeoff and a landing, but if it's, let's say, you know, a 100 individuals that are contributing to 1% of our total emissions, that's still a lot of emissions from a 100 individuals, whereas it could take, let's say I don't have the number on the passenger vehicles, but 10,000 cars to equal that. You know? So I I just wanna get a sense of that that proportionality.

Can provide that information to you. I can tell you that it's gonna be far fewer than in thousand cars Yeah. That we can we can provide.

That's okay. I just I just like to know, but thank you. Sure. And then I think just to the point around, you know, the question around jet fuel. I I don't know if I called you during my campaign trail, you told me this story a long time ago. Because because you're not the first yeah. I'm, yeah, I'm hearing this story again for the second time, but but I am curious as it relates to the environmental justice aspect of ensuring that neighborhoods aren't being blast fueled during during warm up. What what kind of practices or potential capital improvement projects are we aware of or that could potentially, you know, potentially work into a capital improvement program down the line?

We have a lot of information. We can bring it to you in a separate report. Okay. I don't know if you want to

Well, just briefly. Yeah. So I can't make an an official announcement tonight, but one of our fuel suppliers is looking very carefully at sustainable aviation fuel, which is a substitute for jet fuel. Now, of course, jet fuel doesn't have lead, which is a, you know, a big concern for many people. But even so, there are particles in lead. So they're going to, that's all plant based sustainable fuel. And, we should have an announcement on that shortly. Oh. So that would be terrific. As you identified, Mike, you know, we're, selling unleaded fuel right now.

APP Jet Center is. And there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes right now to develop a fuel that will work for every piston engine airplane. We're not there yet. Yeah. The FAA has a deadline of 2030 due to that. State of California's deadline is 2031. Okay. So, it's coming. Yeah. But they have to sort this out first, which which is the best product.

And for this jet fuel alternative, that work with pre existing engines? Because that's sometimes the issue here. Right? It's like a new fuel gets developed, but an old plate engine might not necessarily be compatible with it.

Well, they're they're working on that. Of course, now as as things you know, the older airplanes get transitioned out because they're not fuel efficient or as fuel efficient I see. The newer airplanes will be able to take SAF as it's called.

Okay. And outside of the alternative, mean, I are there kinds of capital improvement projects like some kind of green wall or barrier or like, can something be built to help prevent emissions being pushed into a neighborhood?

Well, we do have a blast fence, you know, near Hesperian and Winton. And that we have we've got landscaping that comes along on Hesperian, which does act as a barrier Yeah. For that type of thing.

So, you know I hear you. I

hear you.

Yeah. Yeah. But you so let's focus on that blast. But I guess I'm just curious, are there improvements that can be made to a blast fence to reduce emissions, or maybe I can I would like to recommend maybe doing a little bit of research in that area?

We would do that. Then we'll come back to you.

Okay. Thank you. That's all. I appreciate you answering the question. Perfect. Thank you.

Thanks for the presentation. I know people were awaiting this this presentation for a while. I mean, you guys are bring flow together, so I appreciate that. Wanted to know about the plant based a little bit more. Just wanted to know if that transition does happen and it's official. Can we advertise that in the leaf leaf?

Absolutely. Yes. Is it the

leaf or the leaf? The leaflet. The leaflet. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Because I think that's something that the community would be interested in, especially in this community. Also wanted to know if it's possible because I'm hearing that you're gonna present additional data with sustainability committee, which, makes sense, but I'm a little nervous about the number of council members you're presenting the same data to. So just wanted to see if you could just bring it to the full council just in case because there could be some overlap with the data that you're presenting to us. So just in good

Just good.

And then I used to live literally AAT was my backyard. Mhmm. And I really felt like there was nothing you could do to stop the what my friend called the Bay Breeze of the AAT. So have you have you heard of anything in other countries, like what was mentioned earlier? What do you do when you have these really strong corridors of emissions that are coming through?

Like, what are people doing? I know there's air filtration systems that are being installed on buildings, but outside of that, what is it that we can do as a city that's actually feasible? Something that I I I I just can't imagine what it could be other than I mean, trees is great, but trees can do so much, especially when they're just planted.

Difficult. We can look into it. Transition to electric cars Yeah. Is is one. Bay Area is leading the nation in the amount transition, the rate of transition. So that's one.

Yeah. I just wanna manage expectations because I installed at least five trees in my backyard, and it did not help.

And road roadways is obviously Correct. Far worse than airplanes because roadways, cars are for hours on roadways, but airplanes take off and fly.

Right. Right. Okay. That was all for me. Thank you.

Yeah. And just Blinton. And and I know you didn't say if you lived on once on the north side of the runway or the It's very Yeah. Okay. That's where I was thinking. Because that corridor I mean, not only do you have the airport, but you also have the the traffic. You know? But so just a a a couple of points. One, thank you. Two, is how long does it take to collect and analyze all this data? I mean, you know, I mean, I know you're showing us 22, 23 data. How long does it take to collect and sort of put this slide together?

Well, the actual process was, you know, Eric Eric got it together really quickly.

It's getting the data. So how long does

that take?

Well, you know, I was it about six months, I guess, altogether?

It took a little while working with the air district because this is the first time that we put this together. I would expect that I mean, it I think that once we have the number of operations for for a given year, it would be pretty quick to put this together.

Yeah. And just respectfully, Tyler, next time, just don't come right in front of us. Alright? Anyways, proceed. I'm sorry.

Yeah. It took a little longer this past year because it was the first time. Think now that we have the emissions factors, really, all we need is the takeoff and landing data, and then we can calculate this pretty quickly. So quite quicker. There's a lot of other things that go into the greenhouse gas inventory that, you know, we don't get data from PG and E for, like, about a year until after the close of the of the calendar year. So it takes a while to get the whole thing together. Yeah. Sorry.

May, although the information, the amount of emission may change, but the percentage may not change that much because we are talking about emissions from airplanes versus pawns in 2022.

Yeah. Both of them will be impacted by pandemic and coming out of pandemic. Yeah.

I I've just an observation. Just I've noticed a lot of just reports that we're listening to, hearing, and and and looking at. A lot of data is coming out of twenty, twenty one, twenty two. And and I'm you know? I mean, while it's data and while you know, it seems like we're everyone has everyone has the same thing to say about the data. Well, it's '21. It's 20 it's twenty twenty data, 21 data. And so there's always this qualifying comment about it. And, you know, so do we really I mean, I it's good data to look at and sort of take note of it, but I just feel that every agent I mean, it's not just us, but it's, you know, it's Bachman. It's, you know, ACTC.

It's it's all these agencies. There's always a qualifying sentence in there. So, you know, it'll be nice to get out of this

era. Yeah. Because I requested January. Yeah.

Yeah. So and then, you know, to go back to what council member Andrew has just said and Kevin just said about, you know, the mitigation factors. I mean, I know there's trees, you know, and I know that we have a sort of a we do have a policy of, what is it, a 100,000 trees a year or something. That's about all of that.

That's what they want.

Yeah. Well, that's what they want. But, I mean, I'm just saying that's that that's our goal. But, I mean, you know, do we I mean I mean, our trees are mitigating you know? Let's say we, you know, started to really deliberately and just really think through, you know, planting more trees along the West Whiting Corridor, the Sperrying Corridor.

So at the airport, we have to be careful about planting trees and the type of trees. But anytime there's an opportunity, we do that. As an example, we are improving as you know, we are improving the north section of Mission Boulevard. Believe it or not, that entrance major entrance to the city had zero trees. No trees. Yeah. Right? Now with the improvements, we are planting 131 Yeah. 24 inch box trees that is going to change the appearance Yeah. Of that section and contribute to environmental improvement. Yeah. Good.

Okay. Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you. Anything else?

I think it's, like is it 1,500 trees?

1,500 trees. Oh, 1,500 trees? Yes. Yes.

I said

a 100,000 trees? Yeah. Close. Close. Is

is it the organization 1,200? The organization's 1,200,000 trees. Yes. I thought it was a million tree. It's better than

a The entire. 1,500 trees. Sandy Frost got excited. She said

but I said a 100,000 trees.

That's it.

I'll cope with it. Okay. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. You. I wanted to go back one step. I know we went straight to the presentation, but I didn't just public comment. It's not here on the agenda, but I'd like to open up for public comment. And this is reserved for anybody who would like to make a comment on something that is not on the agenda, and I and I think there are there might be some some things, on the agenda, but I do see some skyward stuff here.

So, I will if if you're not gonna comment on the bike program or, the Vision Zero, Or if you wanna comment on those two things, wait until I get to those items. Otherwise, you can step on them. And our first our first speaker is Sandra Frost.

Can I can I speak on both? Like, item number two and and

Oh, you you wanna do that?

Okay. Go ahead. That's okay if she Yeah. That's fine.

Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead and step up there. Thank you.

So so I'm I'm Sandra Frost,

and my concerns about the or about SkyWest is we presented in the sustainability committee. And it's it's not just the particulate pollution, and and the staff has done, like, amazing job about maybe tracking the particulates and getting the levels down and being really diligent about reducing it. And that that's you know, I really commend you for that. It's just amazing, but it's it's not just the particulate matter. It's the noise.

It's the noise that's, coming over the Longwood School area and friends up in the Castro Valley Hills, and they're in flight paths specifically for the Hayward Airport. And there just doesn't seem to be a lot of parkland out in that neighborhood. It's a really nice central area, and you you're asking about buffers. It's that green space that's there at SkyWest. That's that's the buffer to help mitigate the pollutants from the airport. I think that's all I wanna say. I'd rather call me on the bike.

Okay. Thank

you. Thanks.

Here, Jackson's at Mary Clements.

Mary Clements from SkyWest HOA. I'm a resident and a board member. And after the huge, huge fires in Los Angeles, it's come into our mind. Right now, the golf course is gorgeous. It's green. The trees are green. We haven't had any big storms. But we do have, last February, three huge eucalyptus fell. Fortunately, they fell into the fairway, not onto SkyWest. But, and there was probably a day or two when they came and they worked ferociously to get the limbs and things.

But we have a huge pile of cut wood and lots and lots still of the tree debris. And another tree fell over the summer. And so that, again, is on the horse, but very, very close to our property line. So, and I know Pam knows probably well because we've made calls, and Pam's been very responsive. But after what we've seen in LA and we've all learned about the combustible fuels, and we have the most incredible fire starter right there.

So I'm starting early to see what's gonna happen. You know, one of the residents today talked to me and said that he had met somebody walking down or and was they had lit a little fire. So he went over and had him put it out. We do have a lot of free traffic through there. And right now but then things are green.

But the tree that's fallen over, and there's a big yellow ribbon around it, but that's not in the ground. And so that is drying out. So we even our own service that we use on on our property, we've had the tree service cut some of the trees from the golf course over in our prop just to make it safer. So my question is, how are we going to do a better job of not having the fire started there? I mean, after listening to LA and then getting, you know, just don't know.

Didn't do this and didn't do that and do that, and I just have to go, well, we have a problem here. So that's my concern, my plea. We had a different totally different situation on the on our property, and I got in touch with the fire chief. And it was great and handled it well. So our concern is we're willing to work, but we need you know, I feel we're all taxpayers. We live in Hayward, so we're all taxpayers. So we want some answers. Okay?

Thank you. Appreciate it. Lynn, we have your

if have

your name. And have your

And regarding SkyWest, this is downright gorgeous. I mean, it is this

And they might have rain next week.

Wild land. So just just leave the trees and leave the grass and, you know, the past. It it it's beautiful. So thank you. Oh, I have one other question. This happened in May. I was there was two dogs loose on on the golf course. They almost killed a goose. But when I was trying to intercede for the goose, the people said, well, this is wild open air. You don't need a a leash. You don't have a leash on here. So it's the city of Hayward. I thought every inch of Hayward had a leash on. No?

I don't know that right now, but I can certainly I can certainly get back. I can certainly get back.

Because there's lots of people walking, and there are dogs running loose. And

Look. The park's closed.

I mean Yes. For all intents and purposes, nobody should be back there.

But I I do know people are back there. Trust me. Yeah. I know. I know. I I think. Okay. Thank you. Next card, there is no name on it. And let's see. The email address

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Is it s dot brown?

Yes. That's me. Okay. Sorry. I didn't put my name

on it.

Steven Brown. Oh, okay. Go ahead.

I sorry. I didn't put my name on it. My name is Steven Brown. I live in on Via Cerrita, which is the street that backs up to the golf course. I've been moved there in 2009, and I never expected the golf course to close. I always thought that that would always be there beautifully and maintained. But I guess, from what I understand, Hard was in charge of that, and they totally mismanaged it. We're losing a million dollars a year. So they had to close the golf course because Carb was incapable of running the golf course. And so now we're in the situation now where it's closed. They closed it a few months before. We closed COVID hit them, then they closed it. They're supposed to maintain it, like, until August. They closed it, like, in March, quit watering everything. Everything died.

And I understood that there was another company that came along that was possibly gonna take over the golf course, but because hard to quit watering the the greens, it was gonna cost hundreds of thousand dollars to replace all the greens on the golf course so it could not ever be so it couldn't be sold. So it was anyway, so I think so it's a very special area. It's a green space that's unmatched in this area. It's a very special ecosystem that that exists. There's frogs and migrating birds, and I've seen I've seen foxes running around there.

At the end of the plan is close to the the wetlands is a plan to be in a pocket park. Well, when it rains in the wintertime, that is just an extension of the wetlands, and the water is this deep, and it's it's soggy and muddy for months. And when golfers used to play, used to skip that hole because you could not play there because it was so muddy and and deep with water. And so the plan to build some kind of a pocket park there is just very unrealistic. And right now, the jets take off and they fly over and they fly over my house.

I can hear every jet that that takes off. And so I'm against the so that's we have noise pollution there. And from what I understand, the golf the the airport would like to have some larger jets, and they would like to have some space on the golf course for runoff in case the the planes have a problem crashing landing. They could run off on the golf course. And and so that I'm I'm totally against larger jets.

Larger jets, there's more noise, more noise pollution. I'm totally against that. And and there's the talk of building a business park out in this golf course area. It's just a there's so many empty warehouses and buildings on industrial and cloud weather south land. Every there's they're all over the place. There's that could be re retrofitted. There's there's no need to take this green space and and build a business park on it. It's just ridiculous. And so because this if you if it's green now and you build on it, it'll never be green again. This is just this is such a special, special spot.

And I I I don't trust Hard. Hard is Hard is not capable of maintaining this this parkland. They're whoever's doing it now, they know they do a minimal mowing of the lawn once in a while. The trees need to be trimmed. The tree the part needs to be maintained. It could be a wonderful, wonderful park. And I just know, I can see if it's if you'll build this park on, it'll never be green again.

Wrong. Thank you very much.

I appreciate it. Next is, Liz Eiselen. Eiselen. Eiselen. Have

something for you. I don't have enough. I'm sorry.

I didn't put the down.

And then if you if anybody has stuff to give us, if you can walk behind us and give it to, this place, then

then I'm so sorry. It's okay. I think I

can give you what. So I waited at six days. Maybe that should have said. Sorry about that.

Go over on the head.

The first page is my son

and where you're from.

My my name is Liz. Okay. It's San Lorenzo. The first page is my son at the park fire. The second page is also my son was that picture was taken. He his crew took that picture of him. But this the second page you see is the destruction. We see it in the news. We see the LA fires. California is in trouble, as you guys probably know.

We don't we're losing a lot of green space. Also in there is included mytree.itreetools.org. US Department of Forestry, you can look up any tree. The information there with the latitude and the longitude of one tree in SkyWest, and it shows you what one tree is doing in SkyWest. So you can imagine how many. I, the eucalyptus trees are a problem. They should be trimmed. My son was on the Keller Fire. They were exploding next to him as he was doing that fire. My son sees a

lot of

destruction. We need the green space. I mean, SkyWest, I've seen great blue herons down there catching crawdads. You have turtles in the pond. You have a bald eagle that hangs out down at the mouth of my son is taking pictures of these. You have hawks that are there now, a pair of hawks. I it's a beautiful space to be kept for the public. And as far as dogs, most dogs I see down there are on leashes,

but there

are some that are not on leash. But I guess my point is that we've had millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of acres that have been burned. And, we can watch it on the news and say, oh, this is horrible. But that is a green space. It is help buffering the airport with the pollution or whatever's coming out of the planes.

Trees absorb a lot of water. You have that whole back area that gets very mushy with those rains that come in. Without that soil there and trees absorbing stuff, you're gonna have a mess. If you build anything back there, you're gonna have flooding is what you'll have. So, anyways, take a look at that, and, thank you

very much. Thank you very much.

Next

speaker is Melissa.

It's Milliman.

Milliman. That's me again. Is that what that says?

Sorry. I was grinding fast. Thank you for your questions earlier about the airport. That was very interesting. Apologies for interrupting a bit. Well, I'm also up here again. I was at the sustainable committee meeting speaking about SkyWest. Same concerns as all of these folks. Yeah. SkyWest.

I mean, yeah, I'm in support of it staying green as well. I would like to echo this gentleman in saying that I think there's plenty of other areas where we could have more commercial parks built or that already exist that are empty. I drive by them all the time as well. Why do we have to focus those in the airport? Of course, I don't know all the details that you guys know about the plans for the airport.

I've seen the the sort of conceptual plan. The pocket parks, it's not gonna be the same as keeping that green. It's it is I'm gonna encourage us all again to really think about what we would be taking away from that area that is just naturally becoming a great public green space. I think about what New York did on the High Line. They turned it in complete upper deck of a thoroughfare into a park.

We have the same kind of opportunity here. I mean, we have an opportunity to be really progressive in a way in the Bay Area about keeping an entire golf course for open, green, recreation, ecological learning space. So I'm yeah. I always have great things thought of to say sometime in the early morning, then I get up here. You get my point, I think. So please consider if you can agree.

You. Been six seconds left.

Alright. I'll I'll talk later. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Next, speaker is, Tyler Nagoni.

Hi, everybody. My name is Tyler Dragoni. Yeah. I just wanna kinda echo what everyone else has said so far. I think the unit that we're covering right now in my government classes rights, and we talk a lot about the enlightenment and this idea of natural rights.

And, you know, there are natural rights of, you know, like singing is a natural right. Like, you have your birthright to sing, your birthright to travel, your birthright and the list just goes on and on. And I think we need to recognize that a birthright is to recreate in nature. I think it's important that we realize that both a city and recreation are one, and they should be one. We have Livermore.

They turned their golf course into a recreation spot. I think when we're thinking about Hayward Acres median income in the $50,000 range. What if we replace the name SkyWest Former Golf Park with Stone Grey Former Golf Course. Right? Would we be even able to have the same conversation?

Like, would the neighbors allow it? Would the people that live there allow it? I just want you to take a second to think of your representative role in representing the interests not only of the city budget, but of the people who live here and their health. We know that cardiovascular health is the leading cause of death. We know that recreation and access to nature we know that just looking at a tree lowers people's blood pressure.

So I just want to sort of reach out. It would be great if, you know, agencies, counties could work together to benefit the residents rather than disenfranchise them and limit the protections that government should give them when it comes to health and safety. Through planning documents, through actions, it's just a really beautiful spot, and Hayward would never be able to afford to create it from scratch. And and I just think it's it's something that we really need to keep in mind for future generations. And we look at old industrial buildings, and they sit vacant for years.

Are we really prepared to have the former beautiful green space to be that? And just I don't know. I don't mean to be an antagonistic archetype. I just we just disagree with this. But I just the big picture of of time and of us in in this community and for future generations, I just want us to keep that in mind. Thanks.

Thank you. And thank you for introducing Descartes into tonight's meeting. Is there any online? Yes. Yes.

And I can't I can't see that far.

The Alejandro?

Hi. Can you hear me okay?

Yes. Yes.

Alright. Thank you. Yeah. I just this I'm Alejandro, part of Bike Hayward, and then also on the board for Bike Keysway. I'm a local resident. I live here near near near the new mall, West Sprouts, near Mission Boulevard. And yeah. So first of all, you know, I do wanna echo what everyone said regarding the SkyWest Golf Course. You know, it's an important space. And, yeah, I think, you know, I don't have much else to add besides just echoing what everyone said.

But besides that, you know, I just really wanted to thank the city for doing a lot a lot or, like, actually, like, putting a lot of effort in traffic calming projects. Like I said, I live near heart Harter and Mission Boulevard, so I always ride my bike by Orchard Avenue and Carlos Vie, like, where the where the where you recently installed new traffic coming project there. And, you know, sad, but now it's, like, I feel more hopeful because, you know, as you know, like, you know, two cyclists were killed in that intersection and seeing this traffic coming finally materialize. You know, it's like, you know, relief because it's it's proven to be effective. I've noticed drivers slow down, feel safer when you're crossing.

You know, it's just pedestrians have, you know, more space, you know, just to wait for the light to cross. Also, the roundabout, you know, it seems to be working well, you know, even though this is, like, a low cost implementation. You know, it's proven effective. So, yeah, in more projects like this. Yeah.

And then, additionally, you know, I just I know that, you know, you have given a lot of pushback against these projects. And, you know, I think it's just it's just, for me, something that's been helpful to not get so, like, pulled into these conversations, you know, and, like, you know, get angry about, like, a lot a lot of these hateful comments that we see online. It's just to simply understand that, like, you know, people are being people feel like they're being forced out of their cars, but they just don't realize that they were forced into their cars in the first place. Mhmm. So I think one concept, you know, that really helped me understand this I'm getting a little bit more philosophical, but, like, you know, before I was kinda, like, idealist and thinking that, like, my ideas shape the world around me.

But then the reason why I got into this bike advocacy is because, like, I realized that, like, you know, our infrastructure, our physical world shapes shapes our ideas. So I think that's why, you know, those people are just so accustomed to driving everywhere because, like, the world around them has shaped their ideas too. I just feel like it's the only way to get around. So, yeah, you know, just like you know, I appreciate all the patience. I'm like I know it it it can be really hard and frustrating to, like, get all these hateful comments online, but, like, I I think the city's doing a great job.

And, you know, even in one of the reports by our, like, East Bay staff, it was, like, now in, like, in the top three of, like, protected bike lanes in the East Bay, in the cities around East Bay. So I think, you know, he was doing a great job, and, you know, it's nice to see this shift from, like, removing protected bike lanes to

Ali Alejandro. Yeah. Alejandro, your time is up. Your your time is up. But if you have more great things to say, you can go to Facebook to pay for people who have wise. Oh,

definitely. Always there. Well, thank you.

He's he's in there. And post it all in there.

He's in there.

Alright. And and we're not afraid to get philosophical in this room because we just heard, Descartes reference. So thank you. If there is no more public comment, I'd to close public comment, and I'll move on to, our first item, which is the update on the Citi Bike Voucher program. And, but I believe, mister Mary is going to kick this off.

Actually, he's he's going to do it. Sharing the screens.

Nice.

Hey. Yeah. So we're really excited. I'm Hugh Lodge. I'm deputy director of public works. I oversee our transportation team here at the city. I'm very excited to talk about the carbon, which is the California Resources Board bike program. We did get substantial grant last year from them, and it funds really two big activities. One of which is to build a number of infrastructure improvements around schools. So 12 different schools are gonna get pull outs and other kinds of safety traffic calming type improvements.

And then a a big chunk of it, almost 3,000,000, is gonna go to distribute bikes in the community. And it's super exciting, also very terrifying, just to be just to be clear. Because, you know, we're talking about potentially, you know, 2,000 bikes or more that we might be distributing. And, of course, robust engagement, and I did wanna acknowledge as we start this. Have some great partners that are part of the grant. So the school district transformed, who folks probably now work in the school district during their safe routes to school program. Becky's Bay and Mike Hayward are involved, and then teacher faction from Chabot College as well. And I am going to quickly pass it to Colin who will tell you about some of outreach that's been going on and what we've been learning from them.

Thank you.

As I mentioned, fortunately, we have a bunch of great partners who've been able to help us conduct extensive community outreach engagement, most notably via our friends at Teach Earth Action and their students at Chipot College who've been able to conduct over a thousand interviews for us since this past summer. From these thousand interviews, they landed on several key findings that you can see here. First key finding is that people in Ameren want to be one bike to be more part of the culture and sense of community here. Additionally, they feel that there is a lack of access to bike information and repair resources to make cycling more sustainable, such as bike shop now. And third, students found that there is a concern that younger generations are not exercising or engaging in activities outdoors as much.

Additional findings that we have collected include learning that the bicycle network has significant gaps in it that need to be addressed for this to be a successful program. Many residents feel they are safe riding in their neighborhoods, but not able to connect to other parts of the city. As well, another barrier to the program is the that voucher programs typically can be very costly to operate, which limits its effectiveness. Many programs require substantial income verification from applicants and rely on access to multiple bike shops. This creates barriers, specifically for a lot of residents.

And then another important part of outreach outreach with determining a program name. Part of building a bike culture is having a name for the program that creates a good brand and is exciting. It needs to encompass more than just the bike distribution program and create awareness of the movement that we are working to create. These are three of the names that we received the most support for during outreach. They were suggested by college students and high high school students in Hayward, Hayward on two wheels, bike stack, and bike it. Pass it back

to Hugh. Thank you. So We're work

on that.

Comments. We're gonna work

on that. What are you gonna

Proceed. Proceed. Honest is great. As

I mentioned, we we've almost $3,000,000 to distribute the bikes. And and we have one kind of big fear. Right? Which is and if you all remember when Yeah. Sort of bike share was new. I mean, you know, there were City. Bikes and scooter suits. It's kinda dunked all over the place. And and and so this is what we wanna avoid. Right? Yep. And we've done a lot of thinking and talking, you know, both through the outreach process that Colin described, but also among the team members, and talking to other people who run these programs, you know, to figure this out. And just to be clear, like, there are a lot of other programs like this out there. And then other than, the state program or the AIVA program that's that's being stood up, like, there are no local programs of this size. We are we are gonna far and away be the largest local program, so we have a lot of work to do to figure this out.

And and our basic concept, and this is kind of what's in the staff report, is that rather than this being a big program, we're like, here you go, lots of bikes, like, let's break it into a bunch of chunks where we sort of think about who we're trying to reach, who we're trying to serve, what are what are we trying to do with these bikes to build that bike culture and then kind of work through those. So we can get into the details of these that we laid out in the staff reported, but the kind of size of the dots on here are meant to kind of indicate, like, the emphasis of that within the overall program in a very quality way at this stage. Right? Very much, how we might think about doing this. So high school students definitely a clear focus.

You know, maybe middle school students as well. That's a key time when people start biking. Yes. We have heard a lot from folks about a desire for families to have access to e bikes in particular to go and, you know, put their kids on the back end of school, that kind of thing. And and we have an opportunity to potentially partner with the in progress AIVA program to actually distribute some funding just to Hayward residents through that, which actually would, you know, create some efficiencies for us as well.

And we've been working with the library, and we've been talking to HARD. We've been talking to the folks at Krill, and then another organization at Berkeley called BORP about adaptive cycling, so cycles that are meant for people who are disabled and stuff like that. So and then each of these, you know, we would develop kind of a program for and try to work to to roll those roll those out. You know, our notion about how this would work is that we would really partner with community organizations to make this happen, and we've been starting that process already. And then by working with those community organizations, we're sort of, like, wrapping the community into it, and we'll use that to really make sure the bikes get in the hands of phone.

We need them, we want them,

and we wanna keep them. And so most of what we would talk about is is probably giving the bikes away for the large most part. If we have, like, an ebike program, that would still be more like the voucher style because, again, we'd be leveraging the work that Eva has already done as part of this. But generally, sort of distributing the bikes for free, but as part of, you know, sort of community events and kind of culture building events that really would help make sure they work, and then working again with those organizations, you know, to foster that sense of community. And then in terms of where we go from here, so we are doing our outreach now.

We've been doing our outreach since last fall. We're we're continuing to do that now. We're in the schools. We're in the community. We have a bunch of findings from that, which you saw a little snippet of tonight.

We hope sort of by this spring to have an initial program design, and then we've been talking to the the idea is we would sort of distribute these by cohorts. So we're imagining maybe 10 total cohorts of bike distribution focused on events that kind of target different populations we'd be trying to reach. With the first of those ideally happening as part of the van reopening of the week's library, and us library folks are really excited about that in principle. They had actually prior to this program, been working on kind of a bike repair and bike sort of, idea of, like, having a shed of some kind, I think, or a container of some kind that they could put out there. So that's something that if we can partner with them and work on, it's in the community.

It's something they can access. And it's called saying, you know, we don't have a bike shop right now in Hayward. So a critical part of all this, right, is we have to be able to get not just bikes to people, but they're gonna break. Right? They're gonna need help. A lot of people don't know how to fix bikes. So having a place in the community where they can go and work on fixing them, learn how to fix them also, you know, then sort of makes it work better for everybody. And so our partners at at places like that, hey. We're super excited to help with that. I know Bikis Bay is working on getting some sort of programming going that will there'll be some, like, bike repair activities that sort of ramp up in the city as well.

So yeah. So they kind of by summertime, we'll see what we learned from that first test is the hope, and then every quarter, two to three events. And we're gonna be we're gonna run Colin. Colin's the only member of my team doesn't know how to build a bike, which is key, and he'll help us do that. And and, really, so for each of these events, our some of the sort of partner in the library likes to call them lesson plans. So a lesson plan we walk through, like, okay. How do we get from what we're doing? You know? What's the objective? All the activities that we need to do.

So we're kinda building those up for the events right now to try to make this one. And so these are the questions that we kind of have for you given where we're at right now. Happy to talk in more detail about any of this, but, like, did these seem like the right markets? Are there any missing? Are there any that you're like, I'm concerned about that? Any big great. Anyone else we should serve? Specifically, definitely wanna know your thoughts about the ebike part of this program, which would be just a We did have a question in there about potentially we heard heard a lot from apartment, dwelling residents, right, that, like, bikes are pretty hard to store, especially some of the older housing stock that we have. Should we consider buying scooters for some folks in those situations? We'd love to hear your feedback on that. We wanted to know what you think this should be called,

and whether you wanna go with

the students, the kids. And if you know what biking means, because we don't, to be perfectly honest. What

what is that? Viking. Viking. Viking. Yeah. Like bacon, but Viking. It's not Viking. Anyway

and then just overall, does this process kinda make sense?

So those are our questions, and I'd love to get Community and your feedback. Great. Thank you.

Did you said it works?

So let me go to public comment first before we go to questions. Public comment only have one person one card, and that is, to.

Yeah. So if you take a look around the city, there's just so many places for car repair and tire shops and whatnot. I was just wondering about bike repair and if this money could be used for that. And also just, like, the education aspect, I know, like, a lot of barriers. People love riding bikes, but what happens if I get a flat tire? I mean, is that is this money able to be used for that than to teach people how and sort of give them the resources, the knowledge, the talent to feel comfortable if they are out on the road and get a flat tire? So I think that

it's but it's okay. So thank you. And then we have two callers online. First caller will be Hi. There.

Can you

hear me okay?

Yes. Go right ahead.

Hi. Thanks. This is Robert Prince, advocacy director of Vikings Bay. I just wanted to say thanks to staff for the presentation and especially for, putting together this funding package. It's really exciting.

You know, there's always a lot of focus on infrastructure, built environment, which is really important. But these other barriers to being able to bike more, including access to equipment, and safe parking, a host of different, you know, educational opportunities to provide confidence and and support for people, to maintain their bikes and and keep them safe from theft are super important. So we're really happy that this focus is looking all the way around that issue. And we're really excited to bring not only our existing resources and our partners at Bike Hayward, but we also have some, as Hugh mentioned, some additional funding, especially in 2025, with some ancillary projects that will be, involved within Hayward to help support this, and hopefully, you know, create some sustainability in the process. A lot of this is gonna be dependent on volunteer engagement, especially when it comes to the bike builds.

You know, more hands are definitely needed and not no technical experience is required. So if anybody in this room is, interested in helping out at some point, you can get on either the Bike East Bay or the Bike Hayward email list, and we'll be sending out, information that way. But, also, you know, building up that, that network, throughout this program to continue the work beyond the scope of this project, is also an important outcome, so that we can, you know, get more people involved and keep them involved, even after that, you know, initial grant funding is expired. So thanks again for, hearing this presentation. Thanks again, super. Thanks to staff, for helping make this program happen, and I'm really excited for what's coming up this year. Thanks.

Great. Thank you. Next caller is?

Alejandro.

Hey. So, yeah, we're really excited about this project as well. I think especially, you know, because we're seeing like, infrastructure rapidly improving Hayward. I was really worried about this huge grant and, you know, just the infrastructure not being there. But, you know, things are looking a lot better now, so I'm actually, like, really excited about this project.

And, yeah, you know, big shout out to Robert, yeah, because he was able to, like, get grant a grant to, you know, help with some of the bike repairs, you know, getting started with that in Hayward. And, additionally, one thing that we're working on, you know, Spike Hayward, I've been trying to reach to some parents to start bike buses. That's something that's taken off, like, literally, like, all over the world. And I think this is gonna be probably, like, the most effective way to, you know, help with the engagement with the community. Also, like, tackle a lot of this hate that we see online by, you know, actually using our bike lanes and reducing traffic by, you know ride to school.

And then also yeah. And then additionally additionally, like, also, you know, like, get get started early on. And so I think, yeah, we wanna collaborate. If you're aware of, like, any parents that are interested in in helping ride their kids to school, like, starting a bike bus, do yeah. Please email me, alex dot bike keyword dot org, and we wanna get you started and start with some routes, you know, just to, like, you know, get this going.

And then, eventually, these programs become pretty sustainable, you know, once parents get involved and, you know, kids really love them. You know, just look up the bike bus on Instagram. And, you know, it's a lot like, kids are really excited. And I think something that we wanna do as well is, like, research and see whether having kids ride to school helps them improve their grades. Because I think, like, less physical exercise for, like, a good thing for kids to have before, you know you know, going to school and sit for, like, multiple hours.

So, yeah, just really excited about this program. And, yeah, it's gonna be a busy year for for my keywords. So

Thank you. Okay. So there's no more public comment. I'd like to Sandy Frost.

Just briefly, can I Sure? You can you

So so what I what I see in my neighborhood in

South Ayward is that the the families aren't biking together. The parents either don't know how to bike, or they're just not that's the culture, and you all refer to that as developing a culture of biking. And so the kids are growing up. The young ones are growing up not learning how to ride bikes. And what I see is there needs to be, like, a safe place where they can learn, right, that's not street side where the vehicular traffic is going.

And the trails are there in SkyWest. They're there, and there's no vehicular traffic. And it's just a great place for family groups and young children to learn to ride bikes because the city's coming up with an amazing program to get bikes to people, like both both the ebikes and the the pedal bikes. And where I live, the streets aren't safe to practice. There is no place to track practice.

There's no place to store the bikes. And so these kids are growing up without that exercise opportunity, without, you know, just the acceleration of of the connection, pedaling the bike, being out in nature, the whole thing. And and SkyWest is right there. And my proposal is that you can do a bike shop there. Have that be, like, a center point for a venue perhaps for these events that you're proposing.

Have a bike shop built at SkyWest as a central point. And bike repair classes, I I I'm excited about learning how to build a bike and repair my own bike. And I you know? So your ideas are fabulous. I I this is, like, my favorite part of the city is sustainability and just people people getting out in nature. And so thank you all. Thanks for letting me speak again.

Thank you. Okay. So I'd to close public comment, and then councilmember Andrew.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the Jason's meeting. I wanted to know

Councilmember Andrew, we have one more public comment.

Sure thing. I would I would like to second that at SkyWest. I see guys going in there with their great bikes and, riding around in there. So it's already being used, some of the paths in there, or people going in there and riding. They go through those gates behind Target and go on in with their bikes. And I'm not talking about kids. I'm talking about guys that are older that are riding the bikes in the area there. I think it's a great idea to have something like that there.

Thank you. Okay. Council member Andrews.

Thank you. And I I appreciate y'all identifying activities that are happening here. I just wanna remind the public that this is not a park that is open. So I just wanna just for the people probably watching and referring back to this meeting, this this is not something that's open for the public. But I understand the the reason why you're mentioning it. Just wanted to also confirm that cycle path I I spoke to the previous owner, and I thought there was some bike activity happening with the new owner at this location. K. But I don't know if that has changed. So can someone I heard

a rumor that some people who maybe worked for psychopath have expressed an interest. Okay. But I don't know if that's 100% true. But Do

you have a shift?

So if you if you I met the guy who is opening a business that half the half the building is gonna be furniture Yeah. And the other half of the building is gonna be e bikes.

That's what I heard.

Yeah. Yeah.

So that's In cycle path. In the cycle path.

I think they're actually gonna keep an inside you all to probably work with economic development Yeah. And and make sure that that is happening. Sure. And if it's not happening, then we'll pick up another. But as I thought they were actually anticipating distributing with this program. So, yeah, so we can clear that up. I've been also wanting to know, like, for the the scooters, what has been the recent, I guess, ruling on e scooters? Because I remember seeing them everywhere, and then I don't see them anymore, and just wanted to see it with with the latest and greatest with scooters. So I see more bikes than scooters now.

Yeah. I I think, you know, the sort of early wave of companies sort of dumping lots of scooters in places has receded somewhat. And so still if you go to San Francisco, you'll see a lot of scooters.

Okay.

Some in Oakland, and that and there are other, you know, sort of larger cities, I think, that tend to have more of those kind of scooter share and bike share programs. You know, in the early days, they thought they could make it work anywhere, and the economics, especially the, like, having to rebalance where they are doesn't work Yeah. That well. And so for smaller communities or more, you know, suburban communities, it it doesn't work Okay. As well. And and so I think what you see now mostly is individual ownership. So I see a lot of people in Hayward Yeah. Scooting around back and forth. I hear stories from a lot of folks kinda getting back and forth, but it's their own personal device because they're very compact and easy to transport various places and put in your in your room.

Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. And then I know when I mean, it's been a while since I noticed this, but I remember being in Chicago and bike sharing was huge. I'm assuming it still is.

But it seemed like the locations were very key locations. So but they also they do have a good transportation system. But just wanted to see if that's something that we have been looking at in terms of just if we if if people are doing individual bikes and not necessarily as much bike sharing, but is there any way we can work with economic development to provide grants for folks who wanna figure out how to do bike storage, at their locations? So I don't know. Like, it could be something that's like, they'll park in this where they have the bike storage, but it could be for a mall or or a shopping center or something.

Because I know they already have it as department as part of their development. But if there's something that's

I don't know.

I I don't know what the possibilities are. So maybe that's something you would put in development about.

Yeah. So new residential development, but we would care about parking, a certain amount of bike parking. And so, you know, newer developments do have places and apartments to store bikes, which is great. I mean, that's kinda standard across the board, and and we are, you know, it's the kind of thing we can look at and make sure that enough is provided. It's the older development.

Right. That's what I'm thinking maybe because the older developments can't do that, but is there a shopping center nearby?

For sure. That's a great idea. So one small part of this program is to look at there's a lot of components, but to install some bike parking, some long term bike parking. So it you know, like, Bart has those lockers that people can use. So something like that, probably. We we won't be able to do a lot of that, but we are, with the help of Vikings Bay, kind of identifying places that we think might make sense for that. And that's that's a perfect example of something you could absolutely do where it's like, yeah, find something off-site where you could store. You know, have you to make the economics work always. Right? You have to sort of see how that how that can be. There's those things are great as long as they're sort of eyes on them. Right. But if they're outstanding periods, then people can break into anything. You know? It's

I was just even thinking because we've talked a lot about, some of the underutilized community centers that HARV has, and maybe there's a partnership with HARV. For sure. Because a lot of them are located near a lot of apartments. Mhmm. So maybe there's a partnership there that they they could figure out. Maybe they sent you a room that they're not gonna Yeah. Need So something like that. And then also wanted to know, for the BioCompare, is it something else that we can talk to Hard about in terms of programming with them. Because they have all these spaces, so it'd be great if we can use them

Yeah.

For these kinds of things.

I think that's exactly right. And we we are talking to Harlan about that kind of stuff as well as, you know, the library and others. And, you know, our our sense of this is that the best model is probably a distributed model, but it would be great to have a bike shop in town. Obviously, that would be wonderful. But if you get a flat over in Tennessee and you're not you can pick it up to Foothill probably to fix your bike. So, like, having a place nearby where you can get to more easily, you know, and and

get Maybe the staff center is another opportunity here.

These are all things we can look into.

And then the names, I know that kids nominated them, but maybe we can ask some more kids or say your nomination, if that's possible. Committee

members for nominations.

I I was thinking, Mike Hayward. But, you know, somebody might be mad at you.

That's that's the group's name.

Yeah. Oh, that's the group's name? Man. So I'm

gonna think about it.

That's right. But, yeah, it's

And then one last thing is you said you wanted to quote responses with the week's opening, and I don't know if that's a lot of pressure because they're you know, construction parties, renovation parties change. But is this also around because it said April, will this be around Earth Day? Is that what you're anticipating?

Yeah. That's a great point. Ted. Okay. Oh, doing an event around Earth Day, always a a great idea. And I think for all the events, we would wanna connect to something else. Right? The key is to not just try to do this on its own, but really to fold it into other things. Okay.

Sounds good. Thank you.

Mhmm. Thank you. Yeah.

This is really exciting. I can't believe we're gonna be able to do something at Visionary as distribute 2,000 plus bikes to our community. So when we talk about pushing a green city, I mean, what a flagship project to really get behind this community. Can you pull up the slides with the recommendation questions on it? Yeah. Thanks. And I'm gonna kinda meander a little bit, so

it's good thing this meeting is recorded.

So do the markets right. Type of product. Okay. I think the way you're approaching this by breaking it off into smaller audiences makes sense to me. I'm happy to hear that some of this funding goes towards bike parking. You know, we look at how much downtown parking exists. If you look at a Google Map, like, I don't know, something like I'm making up a number, but 70% of the surface area is parking lots. And those are parking lots for cars. And, you know, downtown is better than most places in the city, but we have very minimal bike parking. So I am curious.

What are the high traffic locations for residents, and how do we ensure that there's simple bike parking there? And when I say simple, I'm just talking about an upside down metal view. Nothing fancy. The the the bike parking doesn't have to look like a bicycle as much as I I appreciate that aesthetic touch. I'm just going for practicality here because people wanna be able to park somewhere to go somewhere. And I do think this infrastructure is really important. I understand the desire to not wanna get too heavy into voucher implementation. I I have issues with means testing programs like this because it kinda splits or pits residents against each other, and both sides kinda get angry at the government at the same time. Like, oh, I'm not I don't have access to this program. Like, I wanna get more cyclists on the road.

And if it happens to be a wealthier cyclist or a less wealthier cyclist, like, I just want them to both love cycling. I want them to donate to the campaigns of future accounts members that support cycling. So, you know, I I don't really feel the need to have to means test if you use vouchers as intensely. That's just my own opinion. And for, you know, for the public's knowledge, means testing is, like, creating some kind of barrier to entry in order to receive a benefit.

I like the name Hot Wheels. I think it's a very cute name, Hayward on two wheels. We might get into we might get a cease and desist from, what, Mattel or something. So I would want you to be mindful of choosing a name that represents a massive corporation's brand. But I I like the name, but I understand if my colleagues here aren't fans of it, we can explore some, alternatives.

The reason why I think we took this approach, and correct me if I'm wrong, is by having the vehicles be private vehicles, we end up with less of the bikes in the landfill situation or the scooters in the landfill situation that we've seen before. I think it was this inundation of private corporate shared scooters and bicycles that led people to disrespect them and not treat it as their own, but by making it their personal vehicle, we're in a better position. So I I like the approach you're taking here. E bike good pro e bike partner with Ava, absolutely. E scooter program, I really like that in terms of compactness. I live in a small duplex at the moment. We have a bicycle in the apartment, so we don't have a garage space to put it in, and it takes up a significant portion of our dining room. You know? So it's it's just something that we eat next to every day, and that's why Put your arm on

it.

Basically. Piece of spaghetti. Yeah.

So so, you know, I'm glad that you're considering that. So I am supportive of there being an e scooter component because of the compactness. I was actually shopping for an e scooter last week, because I've I'm currently living in a one car household with my partner. And, you know, that's also why bike parking is so important too. And wonder to I agree with council member Andrews here. Working with economic development, like, there's so much parking at Southland Mall, for example. You get rid of two or three of those parking spaces and replace it with long term parking, and now all of a sudden, you have a lot more people that can ride their bike there. Right? So what what kind of conversations can we have with our preexisting property owners to figure out how to sacrifice one parking space for a car to make 10 parking spaces for a bicycle? Repair re repairing is super important.

I know that BikeySpace is pursuing some grant dollars to do a a repair clinic. If we can make that a a mobile repair clinic, maybe, like, set dates, you know, every second Saturday at week's branch library, every first Saturday at Chabot College. Like, if people can reliably expect where they can attend a mobile repair clinic, that would be a huge boost. Because this bicycle that I'm eating dinner next to every night, it was broken for the past two months. We had take it to Castro Valley because there's just no no game in town for us to actually get it repaired in. Not right now. Not right now. Exactly. So I'm excited, and I do think we should be investing in repair. I appreciate Dragoni's comments around resources around education and safety.

Do we will we have a web page? Will it be bilingual? Will it help parents understand what safe riding looks like? Because I don't wanna see or get an email about a student being hit in an intersection, and they didn't have a helmet on. You know, I wanna make sure we're equipping folks, with the information they need to be safe as they're riding in a. Sorry. Infrastructure is improving, but it's not quite there yet. I love the idea of partnering with the library to create some kind of repair shed or a mobile clinic. I wanted to name Ridge City Rides. I don't know if you're familiar with Ridge City Rides.

They have an amazing community based program around bicycling, and, I I saw you listed a few partners, but they should definitely be one of our partners. I think they're taking a really radical approach to building bike culture, especially in in communities that are oftentimes overlooked in biking culture. In addition to this funding, are we looking at helmets or locks as part of the funding you can provide here?

Okay. We would provide that as part of for everybody.

Okay. Lock and all they have lights. That's fantastic.

And,

yeah, empty parking lots. We have this theater building that has a few empty units. I mean, just really getting creative with where we can do clinics, where we can allow for parking. We have a lot of surface parking in Hayward, so I just feel like these are opportunities to to work on creating some infrastructure. But overall, like, this process makes sense. I like the the the tranches and how you're rolling it out over time to assess if this is working or not. You clearly put a lot of thought into this, and I'm I'm just so grateful that we're we're making this investment in our community. So great great work. Yeah.

Thanks, man. Okay. Yes. I agree with everything that everyone has said. The one the one the one disagreement that I would have and, which, you know, I have I have spoken to Ben Ben Schwinn, the the past owner of Psychopath. Mhmm. And and when I was talking to him about sort of what we were doing and sort of, you know, sort of what we were thinking, you know, I was like, yeah. You know, ebikes and, you know, this. You know? And and he goes and and I understand, you know, on second path, and he goes, you know, pedal power.

You know, one of the things he told me, he he said, don't do ebikes. Because ebikes, eventually, they're gonna be you know, they'll get old. They'll you know, you know, technology changes, and ebikes will just end up in waste and just, you know, all these bikes that we have. And he goes, if we're gonna make the investment, just focus on pedal power. You know? Just get I mean, you know, bay you know, regular pedal power bicycles, they've been around for, you know, a hundred years. You know? And they've never gotten out. They've never gotten old. And so, anyways, I I just really wanna make that comment.

I mean, you know, I I I understand there's, you know, there's money through AVAN, and I understand, you know, all of that. But, you you know, I just I just feel that by going the ebike route, even the escooter route, you know, we're, I think we're causing another problem that I that that I think we don't wanna have. The other thing too is this. I would look at the fire department and look at how many fires have happened as a result of charging ebikes in apartments. And and and so because I know that's been an issue. There have been calls on that.

So there are, in the especially in

the early days of some

of the bike share bikes

Yeah.

There were issues. But it it really had to do with sort of poor manufacturing Uh-huh. Standards. Uh-huh. You know, we would limit any products to be one that says we can know

what he's talking about. And somebody

who owns Tubi bikes, they'll tell you.

Oh, you you know? They're awesome. So and the other thing is this. I mean, I think they're cool, and and and, you know, I I I do. I think they're cool. I, you know, I you know, and ride, I'm by the way, I'd be right you know, I I did BMX, and I, you know, I

I've I've had a I've I've had

a bike my entire life. But but the other thing too is the one of the things I've know I've I've noticed about ebikes is, one, they're they're very fast. And when we're out when I'm out on the shoreline or out on, you know, Lake Chabot hiking or something, it's like we're I'm walking, and I walk my dog, and I got an ebikes flying by at, like, 20 miles an hour. You know? I mean, it's they're fast. They go up and down the sidewalk on B Street. They're unsafe. I mean so, and I don't know if they can be on the street. They're too slow to be on the street, but they're too fast to be on the sidewalk. And I feel that that's gonna create another sort of enforcement or, you know, sort of yeah.

I don't wanna say enforcement, but that'll be creating another problem around safety, you know, whether you're a pedestrian or whether you're on the ebike or on the on the scooter in the street. So, anyways, I I just, you know, I I would just say, let's I I wanna be very, very, very careful on on the ebike. Secondly, regarding, you know, sort of the infrastructure, I really like this the the concept of creating the culture of of of bike riding. I think that's great. You know, I was in, you know, some about ten years ago, or so.

I was in China, and I saw people of all ages. I saw 90 year old women out there with kids on their bike, holding their bike. I mean, riding their bike. You know? I mean, with groceries hanging from the handlebars. I mean so, you know, I think creating that culture, I think, is, you know, is is is fantastic. I also appreciate, you know, defining the markets and defining all of this. I I can tell you one place to start first because I've been talking this up, and they keep asking me every time I go to the meetings, the youth commission.

Mhmm.

Launch this with the youth commission and, you know, and get them get them online first because they are our best ambassadors. They're gonna be the ones out there, you know, pushing this, and they could be the face of, you know, of this. And I would even I mean, I know we're sort of coming up with questions. I would even post this the the name, post it to the youth commission and see and and see what they come up with. But, so there's that.

You know, I'm gonna channel, council member Andrews on this, but, you know, bike shops. You know, there is a model right now, in Union City in Dakota. There's that there's that little bike building, right there on Mission Boulevard. It's a, you know, it's a nonprofit, and all they do is fix bikes. That's what they do. They've been there for sixty they've been there for seventy years. I mean, that build that little building.

It used to be a

gas station. We we went there, actually. Yes. Looked at it. Yeah. They also do screen printing,

and they do

Yeah. They do other stuff.

Where's the city?

And so and so, you know, what you said about the the the new use center, the stack, oh my god. Carve out a a a place in in the stack, and that is the, you know, that will be, you know, the the the the the bike shop. Right? The stacked bike shop, which, you know, when we talk about, you know, staffing and and creating this culture, you know, partnering partnering with eel, with with, HUSD. Absolutely.

And with ROP. ROP should have curriculum around bike bike repair and and building bikes. This is you know, if we're gonna if we're gonna do this, I I could tell you, the superintendent, Blaine Thorpey, he would be on board on this, and he would find teachers. And, you know, I don't know what Ben Schwinn is doing right now. Now that he doesn't have a bike shop, but he might wanna go to ROP and, you know, do a class and and teaching people how to build bikes.

Right? But I think this is a a great opportunity, and and we can even create a class. You know, you know, now I'm sort of, you know, thinking far ahead, but, you know, we don't have metal and welding and auto anymore. Maybe we reinstitute, you know, a bike, you know, like a a bike repair bike repair class. I would think they would they would you know, if we had and at each high school, if we had 500 bikes

Mhmm. Mhmm.

At at a high school, I mean, that would necess that would that would necessitate a class to build bikes, fix bikes, and kids can go to school, fix their bikes. Mhmm. I mean, I think that would be I think that would be incredible. And then, you know, I wrote here start small, but, you know, that's why I said, you know, start with the youth commission. But I think, you know, target the high schools and, and the middle schools.

I think, you know, I think that's a great idea. You know, we're talking about launching, how to launch this, you know, at the week's park. I think it's great. One thing that we can do, we we did one we did this one time in in Downtown Hayward. We did a bike rodeo. Yep. Right? A dual bike rodeo. And and, you know, the the PD, the police department, we had a bike patrol. We had, you know, we had, you know, there's there's a lot of bicycle be there's a lot of different types of uses on a bicycle, and so we

can bring all that in and, you know, and all that.

You know, the other thing too is, liability. I was thinking about liability to go back. I think you brought it up. Okay. So we sit you know, we we start distributing bikes with helmets and with locks, and I and I know that's all part of the conversation. But, you know, what happens if if if, you know, somebody gets hit on a bike? I mean, who's liable for that? You know? I mean, I don't you know, what happens if I Yeah.

We we aren't the first people to do this. And, obviously, when you're giving away something like this, there'll be waivers. There'll be other sorts of things. So it'd have to be signed, and, obviously, we'll we'll make sure that the people who know about this, the attorneys

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Make sure Make sure law enforcement's always those. But yeah. Yeah. Great. And then but I, you know, I think our best partner here, you know, of course, is the school district, but also Chabot College. I I think, you you know, we would get, you know, we would get great participation, you know, from Chabot. Now one thing there, of course, to you sort of, you know, be attuned to is that when you go to Chabot and Cal State perhaps, you know, you'll get students who don't live in any where, you know, I don't know what the requirement would be, but, you know, we'd have to sort of define that.

But, okay. So, the markets, the size, the priority, yes. I think high school should be the priority. Middle school should be the priority, and then we sort of build out. Are there any other markets we should serve? I think it's just let's start small. Let's focus on kids. You know, ebikes, you know, I I already told you how I felt about ebikes. I just I just don't wanna create another problem with ebikes.

Can I ask a question on that really quick?

So I

I I'm hearing what you're saying. Ebikes can cost, you know, multiples of what a regular bicycle would cost too. And so I I guess to your point, Mayor, like, you know, would be supportive of the ebike component of it if it meant we were getting, you know, 600 more bicycles out to more students. You know? You know I mean? So is there kind of, like, an average cost differential? Like, how many more pedal bikes do we get if we did it to the ebike program?

Oh, yeah. That's a great question. We we definitely get a lot more pedal bikes. They're much cheaper. Cheaper. Yeah.

I wouldn't I wasn't even thinking about that part, but yeah.

I think it's And and so two two things, I guess, one of which is that the bikes are here. Mhmm. Yeah. Whether we give them to the people or not, and and and all the things you said are correct. Like, we definitely need to be educating people, training them, making sure that they're not riding on the sidewalks, you know, that there are industries, and we need to provide them the infrastructure so they can do that safely, obviously, as well. Part part of the rationale for e bikes for us, honestly, is that this is it's opportunistic. The AIVA is gonna stay they're working on standing up a program. The they their program will be available to Hayward residents and everyone in their service area. Right? So those vouchers will be available to folks.

Obviously, we want to make sure people are aware of that. Partnering with them helps us manage our program, I guess, I would say, as much as anything else. And and, again, we we we market it to very specific groups potentially is the way we would think about it. So, like, who are those kind of parents of kids? Because what I will say as someone I've got that one of those cargo e bikes. It's like, it's a car replacer. It we we use it essentially to take when my kids are in high school now, so I don't take them anywhere anymore. But I used to use it to get them all over the place to activities on one thing or another instead of driving. Will the on marketing.

Will the AIMA program focus on older kids, or what's the age group?

Program won't focus on kids at all. And the ebikes would not give ebikes to kids. They won't give ebikes to anyone 18. Ebikes would only be for adults.

Yeah. Okay. Alright. Well okay. Hold on a second. Let me so that's great. The other the other thing too is the the the type of bike. Right? What I would shy away from is that, you know, I don't wanna have, like, you know, a bright orange bike. Right? Some kind of an institutional looking bike. Green? Oh, yeah. I mean, Hayward Green.

I would love Hayward Green.

People would know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well but, I mean, I think I mean, I think if we, the other thing too is, we even doctor the superintendent, doctor Raman and I, we'd looked into, whether there was a bag a bike manufacturer in Hayward. There is a mountain bike manufacturer in Hayward. I forget the name of them, but it's like a it's a professional, like, mountain bike company. I know. They're in Hayward. Public bikes used to be made assembled here. Really?

Yeah. Yeah.

Public bikes are nice. They're they're really nice. So, anyway, I guess the price point. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I mean, they are. I guess the the type of bike you know, maybe if we spoke with a manufacturer where we came up with, like, a cool bike. You know? I mean, I'm looking at these kids that you know, I walked in the city hall yesterday, you know, the kids that, you know, ride up and down Beach Street on wheelies. I mean, those bikes, you know, their their bikes aren't necessarily like these, you know, really fancy, you know, top notch bikes. But, you know, but they they make do. They do what they do, and prop partly because, you know, probably affordability. But, I would just hope that, you know, make the bike cool. You know?

And if you wanna create a cool culture, the bike's gotta be really cool. You know? Yeah. Really cool. Thank god. To the coolest council member. Now. You for Councilmember Hendrix. I

was wondering if we could focus if you're concerned about people using the ebikes. And just wondering if we can look at a population that could be, I guess, a little bit more focused, I will say. It's the industrial sector is if we if there's someone if there's some employees in the industrial sector that could use an ebike because it's such a from the BART. Mhmm. And some so many people take BART, and then they have to figure out how do I get the industrial sector. Mhmm. Maybe there's some partnerships with some organizations out there.

We can look into this.

Okay. Yeah. Maybe.

But would they be residents, though? That's what I wanna make sure.

Some yeah. That's what I'm trying to figure out is, like, if there's a resident that because sometimes it's hard to get on the other side to industrial. Mhmm. So I don't know how how we can do that. Like, I don't know if there's people who live downtown, and they take BART, and then they get to to the I don't know how they get to the industrial if they live in any other parts of Hayward. Mhmm. So I'm just trying to figure out if there's something that maybe can talk to some some businesses out there and say, are there any Hayward residents that are having a hard time getting to industrial sector?

Yeah.

Just to reduce some of the traffic that gets to the West Side.

And if we have a critical mass of people riding bikes on the weekends, you know, maybe that could be the argument to close down B Street.

Well, there was

I know how to give some Alex.

Know in LA, there was a group called Critical Mass. They would do, like, bike and all that. So maybe y'all can look at what they did too.

A clarification. Yeah. So this is just for Hayward residents, though. Right? Yes. Okay. I just wanted to clarify that. And then, just on the topic of looking at

the schools as kind of our

first focus area, would it be possible if we had you know, we set aside a portion of the grant. We say if the if a a teacher or a student group is able to help kinda spin up and run a weekly bike clinic Mhmm. On the campus, You know, we we have some funds to help prepare costs.

Right? So so we have money in the grant that's for, like, helping us run the program Okay. Which which we think best purpose would be kind of getting into kind of nonprofit or, you know, some kind of hands to help make sure the program is successful Okay. And help you know? So, yeah, they would be helping to with the bank distribution, but also more with that, like, how do we build this into the community? Yeah. Well, so there is funding for that. The program also has funding for education classes. So Mikey's Bay has a well known, one the best in the nation actually programs for running classes. Yeah. And we have a whole bunch that are funded through this grant. So there are going to be education classes. We're trying to time those with events too. So Yeah. Again, there are a lot of components that that we wanna wrap together.

Okay. I mentioned it because when the mayor says, you know, imagine that at each of our three high schools, we had 500 bicycles. Right? If they knew they could go to their school and they could get their bike fixed at

their school, I mean, that's great idea. Yeah. Okay.

And just in terms of the name, right, you know, branding, you can have a name or you can have an object. Right? And you don't necessarily you know, in the object house, they can have, like, a sprocket with, you know,

You need to a logo of it? Yeah. The logo. But, anyways, go ahead.

Downtown streets team, groups like that, because I know that they a lot of folks

are them.

You this is actually a great because I think it'd be a great incentive because it will help keep folks in that program as an incentive

For sure.

And help with some of the mobility challenges they have because they don't have transportation Exactly. But they go to Hayward.

Yeah. Then do that. Exactly.

And this could possibly, take one of the empty buildings in Downtown Hayward and create a incubator Mhmm. Bike shop. Yeah. Maybe one of these empty buildings on Mission Boulevard after it's completely redone that used to be, like, a used car lot. I'm just saying. Okay.

Yeah. Any parking lot can be called Mobile Repair Clinic. Right? Yeah. Alright.

I think we

can do that.

Okay. We done? Do you have a question on the notes?

Oh, yes. We someone have online with a hand raised.

You know, public comment is over. However

I'm not sure if they wanna talk for this or if they wanna talk for the next item because I know you did close

public comment.

I did close public comment. So let

me Oh, it's from heart. I can see her hand. Nicole to speak? It's Nicole from heart.

Yo. If it wasn't Nicole, I would say no. But since it's Nicole, I have to say yes.

Can we talk about how you read that?

I know. How can't you read that? Yeah.

So I will apologize. I'm not sure exactly what the phone did, but, again, call Esenosa Roa. I'm with Hubertaria Recreation Park District. But this is a great opportunity to partner with us too because we're putting in bike parks at a a variety of different parks, and so it would be awesome to to do that. We're also putting in a bike education at Mission And Maddox, and so it would be great to partner with us. And I guess my phone knew I should share that information before I did. So looking forward to be able to do great things with you guys.

Nicole, isn't there going to be a BMX track planned for Weeks Park?

So that so the so Weeks Park, there's nothing set for that right now, but that is one of the ideas to be able to create that on one side of the parks because there is tons of of space over there that that would be able to do that. So that is one of the things in the talk, but there will be one at Tennyson Park. And and there will also be, like, the bike education where you can, like, learn, like, road safety and stuff like that for littler ones with bikes at Mission and Matics. But, yes, if Jim has his way, there will also be a bike park at Weeks Park.

Great. And Yes. The other thing what we could possibly do is we can recreate Red Devil and bring it back to Hayward. And I

just

think by the way. I have no idea what that Exactly. 1970 and had a bicycle in the seventies. You knew where Red Devil was, just for the record. Okay. Any other questions? Thank you, Nicole.

Thank thank you so much.

So it sounds like a sprocket on fire.

Yep. Yes. A sprocket on fire. Yeah.

Yeah. For the Hot Wheels program. Yeah. Okay.

Seeing no more questions. Seeing no more comments. Great discussion. Thank you very much. I know this is, I know you guys have been working

on this for a while, you know,

and so I appreciate that. And, last comment, can we can we give this presentation to the youth commission? Yeah. Can I can I agendize this for the youth commission? Next month? Okay. Yeah. I'll do that. Not gonna say anything? Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. And I'll tell I'll tell Ian in the library. Okay. Great. Alright. Thank you very much. Our next item is item item number two, which is implementation of Vision Zero and Complete Streets at Hayward. Review and conflict. Okay.

Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Me again.

So we wanted to bring forward an item kind of done. Sorry, I've said we've been very busy lately. A lot has been going on and sort of talk to you about how we're kinda implementing some key city policies. Really kind of the two core policies as in a guide our work are a vision zero policy, which we adopted, in 2023, as counsel that, is to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities by 2050 and also establishes safety as kind of the guiding principle that we use for thinking about street design. And then complete streets, which has been around a lot longer through a variety of, you know, plans and initiatives, but there is a and a council adopted policy.

And it's really about just making sure that our street support all types of road users, whether they are driving or walking or biking or taking transit, you know, kinda however they get around, thinking about folks who are disabled, thinks about folks who

are abled as well. So

Can read some of the things that circle this? Because I think when people hear Complete Streets, you see the bike lanes, they get, you know, a little anxious about it, having lanes taken away. But at the top there, it says death and serious injury is unacceptable. I'm just saying this here for the public because it is unacceptable. When we lose somebody in a in a accident at an intersection, it it it can be avoided with better street design. That's really the motivation here is to protect lives. Our our roads are designed for forty plus hour cars, and then we shouldn't be going that fast to begin with. So, you know, I just really wanted to point that out there. Humans make mistakes. It's natural, but we can help avoid them by designing.

So Yeah. Anyways, I mean, I still hear thunder here, but I I like that it says Okay. It it's when there's an injury, you know, while the city might not technically be liable, it is unacceptable. And I do think it is to an extent our responsibility to figure out how to address Yeah.

So this Just

for the record just for

the record, I can't believe how both of you guys can read. I know. Gotta wait. So you gotta lay here. But just And tomorrow I think I I go to the I go to the eye doctor tomorrow.

I was

actually was making that all up, but it's not just saying.

I'm sorry, Hugh. Yeah. No problem.

But he is best done. I know. I know.

He's he's been, it comes from what's called

the safe systems approach and is is what in The US is sort

of most commonly used to implement Vision Zero, and and you you talked about those things explicitly. It's it's a real transition from saying, well, you know, these things happen. They happen because of behaviors of people on the roads, not our problem. Not not our problem, but not our responsibility. Just saying, like, no, we all jointly should work together and bear responsibility. And that means, you know, reducing the speeds people drive, building safer vehicles, making our streets safer for different types of users, making sure we can get to people quickly because, you know, a lot of times the difference between a serious injury and fatality is just how quickly, you know, an ambulance gets to that person. And so and then educating people too. So it's everything. And to get to Vision Zero, it's really hard. Like, let's we we need to be honest with ourselves.

This is not oh, of course, we'll just do that. You know? How much money does it take? Know, this is a kind of community wide effort and and a national effort and an international effort. And and just to

be clear, because people will tell

you it's impossible and and, you know, with good reason in some ways, but there are successes out there and we can learn from them and and try to implement this here and really try to make progress. So we we have sort of three right now, I'd say kind of three broad sort of time horizons that we're thinking about implementing a lot of these policies. So our most long range work is looking at a variety of things. So these are all examples. There are many more than these ones, but we have this series. Council just approved agreements with a couple consoles to do these high entry network quarter studies. So we're gonna be looking at the loop. It's favorite. We're looking at A And B Street. We're gonna be looking at Tennyson this year and sorry.

Next year, we're look at Mission and Jackson and Asperian. So all of our sort of big streets and look at how do we make these safer users. Last and last year, we kicked off the speed management plan. It's really about how do we sort of have speed on the street that really kinda work for the type of street that they are. Big projects like East Bay Greenway and other things like that, you know, sort of fit in this really long range, trying to lay the foundation for future work.

And then we have a lot of work that sort of midterm kind of longer range design. So some of the traffic calming projects that have been around for a while and that, you know, as we rebuild the team, we're kinda clearing out the Orchard, D Street, Santa Clara, projects like that that you're you're familiar with and seeing. We have a big project out on Tennyson. That's a railroad crossing where we're doing design, so that fits stuff like that too. And then the most immediate stuff and the stuff that you're seeing the most of right now is really kind of the short term stuff, and it's mostly coming to our repaving program. And, of course, we need to repave our streets to maintain their condition. Right? Though the less the the worse they get, the more it cost to repair them. Right? It's kind of a basic mantra.

But as we do that, we have this opportunity. And and honestly, like, because of our policy, because of, regional and state policies, we have to also think about how we accommodate all, all users as well. So this map, probably a little bit hard to read, from there to me pop on the

Not for these guys. Yeah.

Fair enough. Back to my house office. It says

my existing bicycle

Exactly. Network. So this is the bike network that comes out of our the bicycle pedestrian plan that was adopted a few years ago with both what's been built and then what's planned for the future. And then the kinda highlighting is where we've been doing some additions recently. So all the yellow stuff is the stuff we did in 2024. You've got Tyrell. You've got West Tennyson. You've got some others. There's some there. I mean, then all the red stuff is stuff that we're gonna be doing next year.

So that includes most of Dean Winton, Amador, Hayward Boulevard. We'll do a big chunk of Gadding, which, of course, we've done the Patrick part of that already. A little piece of industrial and and part of Clawitzer. And what I wanted to do is quickly do is sort of talk about put backwards towards 2024 real quick and talk about what we've done and why we've done it, and then also kind of look forwards to some of the upcoming projects as well. And so the set of projects that we implemented, some of these elements on, you know, include so on West Tennyson, so the photo on the right, you know, we did do a road diet where we took out lanes out of the street, and we put in bus boarding islands.

We had a separated bikeway. You know, this picture from ARF is a place where we put on some bulb outs. There are also some portions of protected and other bikeways there. No capacity change on on that street and on Panama as well by the high school there. But in all cases, you know, we are looking at factors like what are the traffic volumes? How wide are the roads? You know, what are the speeds? And these were all streets that had really not that high traffic volumes, and as a function of that, actually had really high speeds. Yep. So removing some of the capacity, you know, trying to right size it.

And obviously, yeah, there's times where you're gonna go a little bit slow, but all of our data show that all we've done is bring down the peak of the speeds, but actually average speed has not changed. Mhmm. So people are still traveling as fast, basically, as everywhere. They're just not super speeding kind of, right, as much. And and that's really what we wanna do because that's how you get kind of to a safer safer world in my mind. So and then all of them have a lot of, you know, what we call vulnerable road users. So people who are going to school, you know, the elderly, their senior facilities, people visiting parks, things like that.

Yeah. Because Arf Avenue Arf into Portsmouth. That's like one big Yeah. Scooping.

Yep. And now it's

all got like Exactly.

You know,

I was they're an independent lot too. Mhmm.

Yep.

Yep. So looking forward, I just have a couple examples. I don't have all the ones I show you. And and and we will be coming back actually because there are a couple of these. Well, you've seen some already. You saw Gadden a few months ago. You'll be seeing, hey, we're both are we think next month. So but so D Street Street has bike lanes now. Without removing any capacity, we can kinda convert those bike lanes into more protected bike lanes. We can put in some bus boarding islands and and things like that.

Again, there's really no change in capacity at all, so very minimal impact on anyone using the street today. So we're excited to be able to do that, but does provide that kind of protection for residents. On Amador, we are talking about kinda make it's the last block where the school district is and where the county offices are, making that consistent with the rest of it. The rest of it's all two lane road, so it would become kind of a two lane or a three lane road with a a turn lane. And we are coordinating with those big institutional users who are there to make sure that there aren't any issues.

In addition, there's a a peg crossing where we can upgrade there as well. And then just two others quickly. So on industrial, similar to some of the other ones where we can it's a very wide street. It's a very busy street. Has a lot of truck traffic. We have to provide for that and make sure they have wide enough lanes and those kinds of things. But we can on most segments of the piece that we're we're gonna be repaving, we can put in protected bike lanes. There are a couple little conflicts, couple of little issues with parking, so we're doing outreach around that to make sure that that works. But, again, no capacity change. And, also, that's a street where they there's not a lot of direct access to the street.

It's mostly through other streets, so it's pretty straightforward to try to do some protected bike lanes. And then the last one is Clawwitter. Clawwitter is two lanes now, very wide. There is no parking on it. There's no marked bike lanes. It's an industrial area. Right? So, again, we'll see how much use there is. Here, we just wanna start with buffered bike lanes. We think due to protection, it'll create a little bit of a maintenance issue at first. Let's see what kind of use we get, and then how we connect it up to the rest of the network to it's one thing to have it on call whenever you gotta get there. But it is right by the the Bay Trail and the bridge that goes over 92. It's very close to that. So it's a good opportunity there as well.

I'm gonna bet money that even though you're not taking away a lien from that one, we're still gonna see some posts saying they took away a lien.

I I have

some comments on that one.

Okay. Fortunate. And then I just wanna quickly walk through, like, sort of how do we think about this from a sort of design and engagement approach. And so I showed you that map. And so we start generally with the, you know, vision that was in the bicycle pedestrian plan. Like, what did we say as a city? What do we adopt that we are gonna try to do? And then we look at, like, what constraints we have on the corridor. So, like, on Clawitzer, right, it's like maintenance will be a real challenge, and so that's a constraint. But also, like, do we have the width?

Like, we might have said, we want class four bike lanes, but it turns out we don't actually even have the width to put that in. So those kinds of questions we look at and, you know, and we revise what we're gonna do through especially through repaving where it's quick turnaround. Like, we're a year year and a half ahead, and we might know what's gonna be repaved generally speaking, and then we gotta quickly turn that around into plans, outreach, and get approval and move forward. And so, generally, we look at the two big factors we look at is, is this gonna take away people's parking, and is it gonna remove capacity? And that influences how much outreach we do.

So where there's really no change in parking or capacity, we're making sure we notify, making sure, you know, everybody gets a letter. We have website stuff. They can get in touch with us if they have questions, but it's mostly a notification process. And then if there are gonna be significant changes I would say the difference between there there is the case where, you know, state law, we do need to remove parking near intersections and stuff like that. So we don't consider that a significant change. Just to be clear, we you're not legally allowed to park there anymore. So, you know, we do need to sort of be consistent with that. But if there is gonna be a big change, we're gonna take away a side of parking or a big chunk of parking, especially in residential areas that that might be heavily used. Then we we'll have an outreach plan. We'll run workshops.

We'll make sure we test it with the community. We'll bring that back to you to make sure that there's kind of support and agreement on what we're doing. You know, we'll we'll do stuff doing that. So media through other things like that as well. So that's that's kind of, like, the framework and the thinking about how we approach these, types of projects. And that's it. Great.

That's great. I started with two last time.

It's okay. Catherine, I'm just gonna go first.

It's it's more about the outreach and then you

can Yeah. Go ahead. Have the journey. Is

there any way we can revisit our outreach, but also look at maybe putting up signage of what's to come? Like saying pedestrian improvements coming as a sign before it actually happens. Like like how we have the adopt a block signs and then have a contact number just to to because I think you all are doing the outreach. You're doing the community groups. You're doing the notifications.

How far in advance?

I don't know.

Are we talking about a month or talking about two years?

Maybe a month.

Yeah. We do that now.

You do that now? Oh, absolutely. So they don't see that? When so what did a sign like, not like I'm not talking

Some projects signed, basically, that we put out that

No. I'm talking

We also, like, on Orchard, you know, it wasn't a month in advance. It was maybe a week in advance. We put out variable message signs that say traffic calming is coming.

Yeah. Pay very close attention

because you're gonna bump over you're a little over some bumps.

And we also had meetings.

I mean, don't forget. We also had we all met

the hub and Right. And stuff.

I've seen the the construction signage signs. I've seen the Uh-huh. Those kind signs. I mean, like, an adopt a block permanent sign type thing where it has your phone number. And because I I feel like people, for some reason, just they don't see all that for some reason, but I want to give us some more cover, and just trying to think creatively what's gonna what's gonna catch their attention.

Where have you seen those signs, for example?

I'm talking about, like, an adoptive block sign.

Uh-huh.

Like, I don't know what like, something that is a little bit brighter, and we can say, hey. It's been shown to you for six maybe it's a six month thing. Maybe it's a three month thing. I don't know.

But I'm comparable to what you're imagining. It's like on campus drive up by Cal State, there is, like, a project signed specifically for that traffic

Yeah. Like, having had, like, oh, this is brought to you by Measure BV, Measure CC, and it kinda gives the reasons why we're doing this.

There's a QR code on it too.

Yeah. And then QR code

Yeah. There was one on Montgomery Street. They had it on Montgomery Street for a long time.

So something like that, and I think what she's asking Yeah. Ahead of time.

You can definitely do things like that.

I don't know. I I think I I I think you're doing a great job now. I'm just trying to get more creative here for for our sanity. But, also, just reminding people this isn't, like you said, just for bikes. This is for pedestrian safety. We had a a very good survey on Tennyson, and it was really mothers with strollers that were demanding these changes. And so just kinda reminding the public that it's not just, you know, single people with bikes that are coming through your neighborhood. Right? This is your community. So I don't know how you can message that more.

And then also looking at the communications that we're seeing on these these chat rooms in Facebook, and I know it's like a it's a balance of do you wanna get into to that? But, also, is this a, like, a chat communication project for you all to look at in terms of this is coming, and then here's the contact info Mhmm. And respond to some of these comments because it's it's getting pretty bad, at least on the social media side. I don't if y'all

Mhmm. Seen it. Getting too Can just say

that social media is dark?