Active Transportation Advisory Committee - Regular Meeting

As a reminder, members of the public are invited to attend the meeting in person at City Hall. They can also participate on Zoom. So we will now do roll call. District 1, April Henry? Absent. District 2, Laura Gormas? Absent for now. District 3? District four. Present. District five, I'm here. District six.

I'm here.

District seven is vacant. First mayoral. Present. And second mayoral. Absolutely. Okay, we'll start with the approval of the agenda. So there is a request to remove And moving on to the approval of minutes. Are there any changes to the minutes from June 24th, 2026? Seeing none, is there a motion to approve the minutes? Motion to approve. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Item is approved. We'll move on to you. So that means, is there anybody in the public that would like to make any comments? Is there anybody online?

We do have a guest, but they have not raised their hand to talk with us.

Okay, since I hear none, we will close public comment and move on to other business.

Yeah, I might stand over there so I can close.

Actually, you should sit next to me anyway to secure the vice chair now, right?

Not if that was how it went. Okay, you guys should have a copy of this also. There is a intersection, Palm and Belmont that has been identified in ATP and Vision Zero as an intersection that has high incidence of collision. And I hear that it also has some permanent redesign that's in the granting stage. right now. But my understanding is that something that gets granted takes multiple years to get to the finishing stage. And in the meantime, we have a somewhat dangerous intersection. And I thought it would be an interesting opportunity for us to suggest some improvements from here. So what you have in front of you is a memo that is in draft form that could be sent to Public Works. And I'll talk about what we're going to be requesting if we were to approve it when we get there. This is the intersection here. There's a lot of opportunity in this intersection because it is such a very intersection. There are various different mitigation measures that we can try that you can copy and paste in other parts of Fresno and you'll have them numbered. and explained in your document zone one is this little section over here, zone two is this chunk of the intersection, three is this big triangle, and then four is down here. You'll notice that the purple suggested paint redesign. I'm suggesting that some sort of placemaking paint would be appropriate there to both cause visual friction to slow traffic and also to make it seem like a place and not a non-place, which it feels like right now. There's also some little yellow dots which are suggested locations of bollards to kind of enforce the traffic pattern because right now all there is is paint and you can see by the paint that exists there that it's being run over constantly, not being respected as actual delineation for traffic. Purpose is to resolve these conflicts in a way that's very cheap. So there is no road redesign happening. It's just upgrading the delineation between the places that you're supposed to drive in the places that you're not. So, in terms of cost. Follards. Going down background, you can read that if you like. And mitigation zone 1 has some details and some examples about what I'm thinking for how we would handle this little section right here. It used to be a right turn slip lane, and it's continuing to be used as a right turn slip lane, which is undermining the no right turn on red that exists there. It's basically a free right turn on rent as it exists, which causes pedestrian interactions to the um so the idea here is that we bollarded in and we put some pretty paint and i think if we scroll down to mitigation one you can see an example right here where they decided that they would paint that section the color of the sidewalk kind of implying that it is not for cars and somebody might look at it and think oh there could be curving there let's not run over that Um, there's some other examples of ways that we could change that coloring later. Um, zone 2 is next. That's the, um, North, uh. northward travel on Palm. And there again, we're creating a ball in that area, it's creating a modal filter to keep cars from swerving into that to use it as a right turn lane. And you can see some examples of how that looks in other towns. Up here, we've got a bike lane moving through one of these little kind of bollard paint bump outs, which could be how we do it. Again, they're doing kind of road color and then sidewalk color for this section. And the one right below it is more of an artsy take on the same thing. We're using paint to make a little bit of a sense of place with some cutesy design. This is something that council members tend to like because you can take a cute picture and it also drives community engagement for community partners to be invested in kind of building out the infrastructure. Zone 3 is the next one down. Zone 3 is that big huge unmarked triangle that exists currently right now in that really wide slip lane on the southbound palm side. And the suggestion is to do something similar to what's happening here. This is some large format painted island. The addition of curbing that is It makes it a little bit more expensive, but even just bollards and paint are an improvement and create a pedestrian island in a very, very long crossing. There's another example below it. This is not exactly the same, but again, they're kind of showing the area that's not supposed to have cars anymore by putting some paint. And it looks like in this case, people have kind of taken over that area because cars aren't supposed to go in there. But that's the point. It's not car space. The last zone, zone four, is a curious one. On the main map that I created, there is some paint that doesn't look like it's there but is now. It's changed since. But the big problem is that there's so much undelineated is this car or is this bike or is this pedestrian space that you can see that cars have been going over the curb They've been going over the solid white lines and hash marks. They've been going over the bike lane. That whole area is basically car land and it's really uncomfortable as a bicycle rider or a pedestrian to cross that section. So basically saying again, we're going to section that out and then a little bit lower down in Here you can see similar where they've created this no go car zone that indicates where traffic is supposed to go to one slow down that traffic and to protect the people that are in the intersection, make the crossing distance shorter. Hard to see from here, but it is in the packet. And again, paint and bollards. Here's another version with a slightly different design. We've got a bump out to keep cars from using the right turn. This is a right turn slip lane. There's, oh gosh, I forget what that little triangle is called. I put my, I set it in here. a something, a right turn wedge to keep the cars from coming across and hitting this bit of curb and also guide them around that turn in a way that is slower and safer. All of these things again, just paint bollards and I think are fairly doable. On the end, there's some talk about benefits. And potential funding sources, potential funding sources are hard to seek without some estimates of what cost is going to look like. So, the suggestion is the recommendation that that I'm making and that I'm suggesting that the committee support is to. Provide this to. To city, give them some time to. Look at feasibility and costs associated come back to us in a couple of months with kind of like feasibility and maybe some revisions that might make it more doable on their side of things. Because I just put dots on a page and. That's not super precise. And then after that, once they've had that chance to come with some preliminary findings, we've made some revisions to come back with. A ballpark cost estimate so that we can start seeking support, whether that's through grant funding through council members through community supporters to make this an intersection that is safer, shorter crossing distance and also looks like an actual place versus kind of a no man's land, which it is at the moment. So the thing I'm seeking, I think at the moment is some direction to either a, take this as is and submit this as a recommendation from the committee. B, have you guys provide some thoughts about revision and then we can approve as amended so that we can kind of make those little revisions and then send it in. Or if you were wanting more work done on it before or more discussion before it gets used, then we could create a task force that would kind of take this and workshop it to where we're comfortable kind of submitting. So that's that's that.

Yes, thank you so much Jacob for preparing that and for your suggestions. Very well done. I haven't really seen this in the process yet, so I think it's a great addition to the tools. I'm kind of interested how it would work procedurally. Usually in the process I've seen those suggestions from consultants. And thank you for changing things a little bit. So I would be curious from Public Works what would be possible there. On the details here, just looking at this, I like seeing those bollards there. They look a little bit more substantial than what we have here, more like concrete pilers maybe. than just plastic?

The idea, the suggestion is just to use what we have. Because that's the easiest and the quickest and the most tangible thing you can do with the lowest cost. And I think probably the most practical for public works to make happen.

Okay, I guess this is what's used in Oregon, which I like and would think would make sense to consider. Just generally, and there's a lot of details in there, I like to see these protected pedestrian islands. I'm not so familiar with many of them in the city of Fresno. We might have them somewhere. I'm not sure if anybody can talk about that, but I like seeing, having this part. Yeah, procedurally, I don't know if you have any ideas.

I don't know if you guys talked about it. Would you like for us to address questions as they come or at the end?

Yeah, I mean, what was it?

Yeah, go ahead.

Andrea Aguilar with Public Works. So as far as procedurally, like this is an opportunity for you as a group to provide your comments to Jacob and adjust the memo as you see fit. You would then eventually motion one way or another. That memo gets provided to city staff, which then we go and evaluate the request and see if it's feasible timeframe costs associated with it. Just like any other request that we received from this body. So that's what it would look like. Your 2nd question was to pedestrian refuge islands. We have a most commonly at roundabouts.

think of something else and suggest it, right?

Good question. We would look at other options too if these become infeasible or...

A lot of it came from maybe your ideas or ideas working with the community.

How did you all go about doing that? A lot of these mitigation patterns are things from some different design guideline books. The one that I stole a lot from was Oregon Metro's Community Builds and Demonstration Projects guidebook. So a lot of this is just kind of the suggestions they have. And there's been like pretty broad unhappiness with Palm and with Belmont, like in the community. There's been a few feedback sessions with the council member where people have mentioned their displeasure. for some of the right turns that aren't working out right, people passing in what are no longer right turn lanes or through the center lane. The idea is to take that frustration and then create a small project that attempts a lot of those variations of that idea. particular had as many of those as could fit into one, like, 20-second.

Yeah, you know, again, I thought some of the design concepts were really good with regards to really promoting safety or the perception of safety. You know, as far as moving it

to have any expertise in this. But as a layman looking at it and looking at particularly right turn lanes are problematic in a lot of our busy intersections. And I'm not super familiar with that intersection. But I think this is something I would support moving forward with and at least seeing what public works could do.

I had a question about the top of Zone 2, Dr. Jacob. That was kind of yellow dots and purple. Is that just the beginning of the bike lane?

I see the merch green stripes there.

These stripings, I believe, are proceeding by the bus stop. Oh, the bus stop. So the bus kind of swings into that hatch there.

OK. So if you're proceeding north or westward on Belmont from the east side, so you would enter the bike lane westbound

You go around the pedestrian island and then you would enter in between those two bollards just because people are not respecting bollards at that intersection on one side.

You're saying they would go right here, right?

Yeah, so putting them on both sides kind of keeps people from...

But on the other side, how do you... Where are the bikes gonna go?

So we're going this way?

No, so you're starting at the bottom and then going towards the top.

Oh, going this way?

Yeah, so if you're in that green bike box right there.

This right here is now green. It wasn't when the photo was taken, but there is a green section right here. So they would be going from green here up to the green space here. Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, there's green here too now.

There's green here. It was, I did not have the money or a permit to fly a drone to get a new picture.

That's good. Yeah, otherwise it's really cool.

I like the purple.

Kind of colorful there, so yeah.

Kudos for the creativity here. It would be great to have more of these here, so thanks.

And Jacob, just for clarification, when you show on the exhibit and you call zone one a pedestrian area, your intent is not that pedestrians would wait there, your intent is just using the concept.

The concept, because generally you don't want to wait in like a little pedestrian refuge, but it's a refuge if you can't get across. You'd call it a a bump out to, there's a lot of things you can call it. If the language needs to be adjusted, then happy to.

Thank you. I just want to have a clear understanding of what the intent is for that space. Mostly in zone one.

So like a gore essentially with ballers is what you're looking at? So what currently is there? So the striping, an area that's not used, so that's gore except it'd be fully painted and then you'd add the bollards.

It's literally what's there with bollards and some pre-painting. Okay. I didn't want to change the road design because I knew that would give you guys a major headache.

So I will close public comment. Are there any other points here to be discussed by the committee? Okay, so we have a motion for ATAC to recommend revisions by the December 2026 ATACC. And after receiving the preliminary cost estimates, ATACC will then choose to seek funding sources in the new year. So do I have a motion on that? Okay, all in favor?

She really, it did not look as pretty.

just to have another subcommittee to kind of coordinate. There's a lot of safe routes to school. There are biking to school, walking to school kind of organizations across some of them are just PTAs. Some of them are a little bit more established. And to just kind of have a task force that's based out of this committee that can kind of be a clearing two flagship events but that's not all that happens there's also education that happens like assemblies and so on so forth so just to kind of have a clearinghouse so we know what's going on we can potentially partner with organizations who are already there and then we can rely on their resources when we

So we'll start with the committee here. Is there any comment from the committee members or questions at the moment?

I have a question. So the length of this committee, is it an ongoing standing type of thing?

That's what I was thinking, similar to the protected bicycling task force. It's not any one event. It's more just, I mean, I guess we could make it around an event. But what is the rule on standing task forces?

The same task force about four years of how the terminal office is stated is that it's a completion of the communities like objectives, because I think as a task force, you guys can decide what the objective can be kept it broad enough that you could continue until you feel that sounds lovely.

Yeah. Yep. So it doesn't have to be a public meeting. It can still just be like a normal task force. Correct. If it's created. You bring that yes. Yeah, I would be interested in being part of this task force with you. I was actually interested in a project that falls a little bit in line with that, that we can kind of start looking into. I'm not sure maybe within this framework, or if we need to look at a different framework. We've talked about this before. In Germany, they have the bicycle driver's license as part of the PD work. And we've presented this before. I kind of got inspired to look into this again. I go into this a little bit more in my member comments. But I'm wondering if I want to look into this, would it be an okay starting point to just have some conversations within this while I look a little bit more at other connections, or would this have to be like its own task force, since it pertains to biking to school, walking to school, safe routes to school?

So you're talking about, I forget the German name for that.

The Führerschein, the Fahrbeiführerschein.

And that would be part of this committee, right?

I'm wondering if it can be part of this committee, or if I... should start a separate committee for that.

And maybe just take a second, and I know when that is, but maybe just give a better detail of what that program is and tell me how it works.

Absolutely. So yeah, in Germany, elementary school kids, I forgot what age, They go through pedestrian and bicycle safety training within their elementary school. In most families, kids learn the basics as they grow up. But this is a little bit more scheduled curriculum, mostly hosted by the German PD. And I think that in fourth grade, all the kids do this like bicycle driver's license. It's like a curriculum that's, yeah, as I said, developed with PD in collaboration with the schools. I'd have to look into if it's like a statewide or federal wide program or if the local jurisdictions all have their own curriculum. It does exist in several cities. It's a nice organized way to include that curriculum in the school curriculum, making sure that everybody is kind of like at the same level. And there's one part that's focused on pedestrian behavior and one part is focused on, say, bicycle. behavior at the end of this the kids get a sticker so if you buy a kid's bike in germany that's used they usually have a sticker or a couple of stickers on the bike um which is really nice um and yeah we've it was presented at the festi um transportation summit in i think 24 by some german police officers that came for this occasion um 2023 23, that long ago, yes. And I think it's time to ask some of the projects that are launched. I've been able to find some other great volunteers that continue that, bringing new energy, to look into another thing that we can maybe institutionalize first through a pilot program and then see where it goes, if there's a way to institutionalize it. What we can see is that education is very much needed for all. And Mohamed and I, I think, agree that starting with kids is very important because it's a generational thing. So, yeah, just wondering and looking into this in the first phase, I'm looking to connect a little bit more with people from Germany, from Münster, from the police department and the international office to get a little bit more ideas and then have some more conversations with PD, with the school district. I think it's really important to have like a school district partner, anybody at Public Works that is working with the schools to see where is like the right spot to launch some form of pilot and how that pilot could look like.

So I think what I'm hearing is, you know, we have this committee, and then, you know, there's several, it sounds like there are several key community departments that we want to involve.

So that committee, the committee would then identify who those people are. And then at that point, let's say, when we want to connect with, you know, Save the Skull, right, or whoever it is, how does that work? Does ATAC come and make a recommendation that we would like

What do we do with our recommendations that come from this committee? If we see something we like or we want to do, what happens next?

It's made as a recommendation to whoever you see would be the implementing agency and go from there. As far as whether you need your own task force for that event, it really sounds like it could be involved in the same. But that's up to you guys on how you want to structure that.

yeah okay anyone else on the committee okay well that's a maximum right yes okay so uh public please stumble over here this is yeah nick pallardino

This is a related item, tangentially related item only, concerning St. Broussard schools. The person council of governments will be letting a contract at the end of this month to author pending design to write a countywide St. Broussard schools plan. They'll be selecting up to 35 school sites countywide, and they've been doing community outreach, walk audits, and the, it's probably infrastructure related, you know, to make improvements, infrastructure improvements, to make it safe, you know, safe for students to walk and pass through the schools. A question was asked at the Transportation Technical Committee that I attended last Friday, that's the reason why I know about this, as to to what degree the city of Fresno will be involved. I believe Joe Gormley answered it, but I did not really hear very well the answers to the questions. So I don't know to what extent the city of Fresno is going to be involved. But there will be this contract that are run for in excess of a year. I think they're looking to wrap this whole thing up you know, early 28. But the extensive public outreach, walk-ons, community outreach, extended community outreach, is it up to 35 school sites countywide to probably determine to what extent the city of Fresno will be involved. It has to be something ongoing. And so it's just, you know, something in group that'd be running in parallel with whatever you're going to be doing. so it's something to be aware of that's why just bringing it forward just as a point as a point of interest i appreciate that thank you okay and we'll close the public comment is there anything else from the committee here

Jacob and Eric.

So is there, can I get a motion?

Just a provocation question, Mohamed will be the chair, right? Yes. I'll have a motion to establish a task.

but I mean I still believe in kind of the underlying mission was you know we go to public places and just help ask business owners or libraries or whatever the case may be hospitals which is that was like my whatever purview and just talk to whoever the powers that be Is that a task force that anyone is still interested in as a project?

Okay, so are there any comments from the committee here? Probably.

Do we need to motion to add a member to that committee?

It's by the election of the chair. I mean, I guess you guys could.

put myself on the committee.

Actually, can I? I'll move. Yeah.

Can I second it? We'll break some rules.

So Mohamed's making the motion? Yeah. Okay. Second.

anywhere between 11 to 1, trying to find out what the best time would be. We're looking at how it coincides with other events during that time. And we're trying to maximize the number of participants or people who walk through the area, the Arbor Life area out there. So that's kind of what we're looking at. We're also looking at the event to include families of surviving family members and some city dignitaries of course as well as some other organizations that represent that represent public safety as well as if we could we're still looking at having the medical trauma center out there so those are kind of like how we're looking at it but this year looking at additional having a bike probably a short bike ride as well as a walk so those are some of the ideas that the task force have come up with and right now we're gathering the names of the victims and great job of that and we're also looking at you know just getting things together as to who else is going to be involved in this process so next month we're going to have certain more concrete action items for the full committee to act on for us to go forward on it and so You know, overall, that is kind of a summary of where we are.

Yeah, I think you're right on, Paul. I think, I mean, it would have been nice if we could have had this ready for this meeting, but I'm glad that we did, right, so that we could do it right. So we'll do that. on last year's event, which was a great, I mean, that was the first one. I'm sure the ones before that were good, but I enjoyed being last year. I look forward to, you know, consistently making it better.

So, that being said, we'll turn it over to the rest of the committee.

Yeah, thank you so much for working on this, and good luck moving it to Woodburn Park. um i i like the intent um i think we've talked a couple of times i have somewhere else in philly hall so i hope that you will be successful with this um i guess the only thing that i really want to uh comment on is that the choice of woodward park um it's kind of like a very important location that started a lot of conversations um certainly paul moore um has I mean it's terrible through his death at that location started a lot of conversations and I am your a testament for moving things along so he's very connected to the spot and move things forward without his intent and you know to the chagrin of his family and friends I also want to remember A little angel and I cannot recall his last name. Who passed they are trying to get into a part with his family and he was 10 and that was 21 I believe. Which really a lot of people felt very strongly taken by this, you never want to lose a child. And then a child trying to get into a park. What a terrible occasion. I mean, it should be a joyful event. Anyways, that started the conversation on safe access to Woodbrook Park. And we had a project with California Walks on this. So while the event is always focused on the death of the year, I think I just would encourage you to have a conversation within the committee if this is something you want to incorporate in some way into the event. Everybody should be able to walk safely or bike safely to a park. And we've lost two people there. And we've lost more than two people there. But these people were really people that, through their deaths, moved a lot of things.

One of the things we talked about was, in addition to a short bike ride, just doing a loop around the park, we thought we'd offer a short walk. And we'd go, depending on where we reserve a spot in the park, we'd still need to figure that out. But if it's feasible, we thought we'd do a walk that goes down to Friant Donato on, stays on the Eaton Trail and goes next to Friant Shepherd. and where people can see the changes that have been made there, and then go all the way down to Fort Washington, where the little boy, and I don't remember his full name either, passed away, and then back to the beginning. So it would be a short walk, maybe a mile or a little bit more, depending on where we are in the park, don't we do that? And maybe have Councilman Richardson, if he comes, talk about the changes made at Shepherd,

mentioned that we had talked about inviting uh the mayor obviously i mentioned that but and And the other invitees I was going to ask staff about as far as what the timeline would be for the Vision Zero committee task force. Would they have been appointed by that time?

I'll get back to you guys on that. It seems like an appropriate, I guess.

All right, no more public comment. potential ghost belt policy holds into that.

Kind of a clarification on that, so that we need to include that as an as, continue to include that as an as, besides the roadside memorial sign program. That was one of the Vision Zero, you know, task force, action task force, then that's something that, you know, we definitely would like to know so that next month we want to make.

We can formalize those asks in that adoption of the, to move forward with our plan for World Day of Remembrance.

I just wanted to bring that up to that.

recommend the creation of the roadside memorial sign program to the city staff so they can review and get back to us about the feasibility of the program by December of 2026.

Well, I have a lot of notes for my comments, so I did not know that we had three minutes for this, so I tried to keep it brief. I was lucky to just visit my birth country, which was wonderful as soon as you get out of the plane you can just use multi-motor transportation with high-speed rail first at 300 kilometers an hour and then you know using buses other you know light rail And then, of course, there's a lot of walkable communities. Every community is basically walkable because people just walk everywhere. And we rented bikes a couple of times or borrowed bikes a couple of times. So we really got around mostly without cars. We were in a car, I think, three or so times to get to places. It was wonderful if we miss it, I took my whole family and it just a testament for how it's possible to have multi mobile communities, I know the yesterday years are really loud these days. Talking about how we just have to update our existing roads really lacking any imagination and foresight for what is needed in our Community. for equity reasons and for health reasons, right? So a couple of years ago, we had some council members and the mayor join this trip. As part of this trip, there was a meeting with our sister city, Münster, or a couple of days of meetings. And Nick was there organizing a lot of things. So thank you, Nick. I would hope in the future that maybe some members of this committee can join us because it really helps to see how it works. Also, maybe public works. It would be great to have some of you join us. Jim Gornly joined us a couple of years ago, and I think it was very helpful for her as well as some elected officials, and some of them really are still big proponents. of multimodal transportation. And the views of cities or city design changes all the time. So it really depends just on the focus on what we want to create. And this is a great opportunity to learn and see a system that works in action. As I come back, or while I was there, there's really a lot of concerns about funding for active transportation in our community as the conversations are happening around measure C and our county supervisors are putting barriers in putting a measure C renewal on the ballot. I think it's important for everyone to get involved in this conversation. I'm not going to say that the measure I proposed is perfect or how it came together or the equity in including everybody in how this was created, but it is the best thing that we currently have and delaying it would create a lot of havoc for the whole county and certainly for the city of Fresno as well. So tomorrow afternoon is a meeting of the Measure C coalition. There's information about that on Facebook. If you're available, I would encourage you to attend. Currently, Caltrans is preparing the state bicycle and pedestrian plan that I just want to make sure people are aware of. There's a kickoff webinar on July 30th. So if you just Google Caltrans state bicycle and pedestrian plan 2026, you should find the information. Another important thing that is happening currently pertaining to conversations that we've had in this committee recently is a new bill or a bill discussed at the state level concerning e-bike classification and declaration. I know we are all concerned about those class four, I believe, e-bikes that are not really e-bikes, but more motorbikes. And Senate Bill 1167 is currently being discussed at the state level that is asking for strict e-bike definitions and disclosures from anybody that is selling bikes so that they cannot just say they're selling an e-bike where they are just selling a motorbike. Those are my comments for today.

We didn't need actually .

My God, very good.

Perfect. All right, District 3, Jacob. Yeah, I've been having some point of conversations with folks who live in D7 because we have an opening that seems to be perpetually open. So I've been doing some work to kind of find the people and have some chats with them and try and push the application into their hands. If you guys want to also be finding the D7 people who are in your lives and trying to get them to apply, that would be great. There's been, in the last few weeks, Quite a bit of city vehicles blocking bike lanes and the sidewalk sometimes simultaneously without any signage or v-rail. Specifically in D3 where they're doing updates to street lights and stop lights. The intersection of Olive and Fulton or Rashawn or whatever it's called at that section in front of the Tower Theater was one of them. Belmont in front of Producers was another. Unfortunately, I was driving or else I would have taken a picture and put it in 311. Something to be aware of. Probably not great that they're doing that, especially at intersections where there's not a lot of space for bikes to be around. pushing people in traffic. There has been continued concerns with underpass bike lanes. We have a couple of public comments to that effect that have been sent in, but I've been hearing it ad nauseam because people know I'm on this group. And then I've got a couple of people bugging me about I think because of conflict between some underground utilities slash KTT slash something else which is a concern because that site of tower is particularly starved for tree cover and there's a very very long stretch of no trees So I was curious if we might be able to hear about those trees being removed from that project. I'm sure it's not all of the trees and there might be some exaggeration for people who are exasperated but I'd be curious what the degree of accuracy is for that. If that's something that comes next meaning awesome and if there's somebody who knows something about it here and wants to

Sure, I already talked to about this, but we had a resident for pedestrian last week.

And so I've been working with Mary and Ashland or so area, kind of west of the airport, west of Airways Golf Course, if you know where that is.

And so I'm sure we'll find out more about that for the next month or so and hopefully have some progress on that.

Yeah, and I think that's just a good reminder to all of us as committee members to really pay attention to what's happening in our district, right? If there's any funding in the city, I have great contact, great communication with my council member, Brandon Vang, but his chief of staff is leaving, and Lee Fogg is excellent, and that makes me sad. helping us communicate. I would also make that recommendation to you as committed as shopping center, right? And the bus is waiting. Like you cannot see the traffic that is coming down Kings Canyon.

And I actually got my few years cut today before my meeting and I had to hit my brakes, you know, and it's frightening. So do we even get to talk about that stuff or mention that to this committee or how does that work?

We can take your comment and send it over to the facts department.

What location was it again? And I think it's the very first eastern stop at the BRT.

And out there's a driveway right next to McDonald's. I know what you're talking about.

And that bus, it just stopped. And it's like any time of the day, there's always... It's not...

I just don't have anything specific to talk about other than Nick and I met with Councilman Richardson this last month or so and to invite him to attend World Day of Remembrance and kind of encourage him to come. We talked a little bit about he was talking about the success of you know Friant and Shepherd and how he's getting good feedback in his town halls, etc. We did want to gauge his interest in supporting our efforts as far as getting a ghost bite policy, which he supports. And he suggested looking into signage that he's seen in other communities. So he's on board to support this effort.

about that and I'm really excited that we got a partner, I would call it, on the council, right? In fact, willing to, you know, to and with other council members to support

Mr. Marquez.

All right. Well, you know, it was already mentioned, for infrastructure for the city of Fresno. So, you know,

that's being of concern to us, too, in the last

I was out of town because it's summer. Everybody else is out of town. But thank you guys.

Those reports are amazing.

I'm excited to move forward. So as I mentioned, I was out of town. That's why I couldn't pick the June meeting. My kids, I have twins that they were born on the same day as the meeting. So I can't miss that. But we were actually out of the country. We were in Copenhagen, which is an amazing bicycle city. What day were you in Copenhagen? but it's inspirational to see what a city like values active transportation and like means it puts resources behind it like it's a whole culture shift right like you were saying so that was inspirational if there are you know trips that like that finding or whatever I would certainly be interested in enjoying so that's update number one update number two is Somewhere along the way, the trauma center reports just got, and I think they've had staffing changes in the trauma office, so I might have to just like, because the emails that I sent don't get responded to, but I still think that's a worthy set of reports to pursue. We were getting more granular data about injuries and fatalities, more than what we just got from the police, which was of course super helpful. Getting more granular data, demographic data, injury severity data, that's all just helpful.

So updates on Blackstone and Dakota, Shields Avenue Trail, Blackstone and Segment 1 of Phase 2 of July Capital Project Summary. Mr. Dodd-Wall, would you like to present on this item?

Yes. So first I'm going to apologize but I will do my best to explain it so I'm not going off there because it's hard to explain from there. But on Dakota, what the project is doing is regarding the affordable housing and sustainable communities grant project. The grant was awarded for the city to install sidewalk on Dakota. will be adding sidewalk from the west end of the First Street frontage road all the way to the southern leg of Dakota and Angus, but on the north side of Dakota. So that's kind of the stop point west of First. There's a north leg of Angus Avenue and a south leg of Angus. It's the north leg of Angus, and there's an alley there between Angus and Mariposa Street where the sidewalk that was that missing gap so the the project with capital projects is acquiring right away from these properties along dakota as well as reconstructing um reconstructing driver approaches to make sure we have a compliant sidewalk all the way through and there are some trees that are in conflict of where the sidewalk would be that would have to be removed on the project um there is an aggressive schedule on the project, all construction, which also includes a component of doing smart mobility on Blackstone and a HAWK installation south of Dakota on Blackstone. All of the portions of that project have to be complete in construction, construction accepted by December of 2027. So the aggressive timeline with right of way acquisition, early 27 to allow the contractor as much construction time as possible to get everything complete by December 2027. Does that open up to any questions?

Are the trees that are on the plan existing trees?

Those are existing mature trees for these homes that are impacted that would be impactful areas of the sidewalk. So the city does have a tree policy. So once the project is done, if in that gap between the curb and the sidewalk, there is space for trees, that's led by District 4.

So there's a, is there a park strip?

Yeah, there'll be a park strip. So I shared with you the long set of plans, but yes, there is a park strip. If you look west of Angus, all the way to Blackstone, where the residential homes are, those all have a park strip. So the goal is to put a Shields Avenue Trail. So that's Midtown Trail Segment 1B or Segment 1 Phase 2, which is going from Manchester entrance on Shields all the way to Fresno Street. So those plans are making their way through final plan review and approval. And the goal is to get those plans out to bid by this fall as well.

It's just as a reminder to review the packet and let us know if there's any projects in particular that you want updates on.

I was just wondering on the crosswalk on bullet between Vanessa and. It's not on here anymore.

fitting together with two zero nine nine zero zero five zero two road avenue that we can work with capital i'm making an update but that's the sidewalk project so okay and just an update on that uh this sidewalk project so bullard sidewalks the bullard forkner left turn phasing signal and there's another project in district two which is the extension of the eastbound herndon left turn lane at paul those will all be put together as one plan set with three location and doing three smaller projects, we'll do one large project.

And the goal with that and the commitment to Council Member Karbasi is to get that out to bid before the end of the year.

Hopefully fall, so that way the contract can be awarded while Council Member Karbasi is still here.

Thank you. Comment from the committee.

So, this 1 is also me just a quick introduction of the, of the, the item and the discussion is we installed 2 traffic signals in South Southwest and Southeast Fresno. These were at Trinity and streets near Columbia. Elementary, and then on church and wall to be near story elementary in district 5. The ATP grant was non-infrastructure, and those components are that we reach out. At that time, it was still the BPAC, but we reached out to ATAC to kind of let you guys know that we have to do some more outreach with the schools, meet with the principals, offer some walk-to-school days and school safety events. So Mohamed mentioned earlier a task force, so I think that would be great if we could work together with the ATAC. interested, we would like to work with the ATAC in getting that done. There is, we are on a tight timeline. You know, it's kind of taken us a little bit longer than we expected to get to where we are, but we do got to get some of this stuff complete by the end of September. And school doesn't start until middle of August, but we'll be working closely with the ATAC and schools to make sure we can get this done for both Columbia and Story Elementary.

together again yeah okay so thank you for that uh any comments here from the committee public all right so we can uh move on to item 8a discussion on grants

So, Jacob, I didn't hear you on the trees on Belmont. So I got the request earlier. I'm having team look into it. There are some issues with where the existing trees were proposed on the. What is called the connector road? We have an official name day, which is the French road north of Belmont. Um, there's there's issues with overhead utilities, underground utilities. And how and street trees facing to see how we would accommodate that. So we are actively working with high speed rail. To see, you know, in the vicinity where trees can be planted and try to get the exact amount of trees.

nagler of public works um beyond last month's updates i don't have anything else other than we are working on additional grants we will have a very very busy fall and um and winter uh the next one up that we are uh considering well measures being new technologies is due at the end of this month um so that's gone to council and they've supported it for submittal Next one up is the active transportation program at a regional level that is opened up in June and will be closing in November. That one's not looking for any new submittals beyond what we already submitted at the state level. So we'll be resubmitting the same projects, just slightly modified. The funding isn't as large as it is at the state level. HSIP, Local Highway Safety Improvements Program. That one opened up this month, July 1st, and is set to close in November. Our strategy on that one is using the Vision Zero Action Plan that we just had adopted to guide those project selections. And then, STPGs, Sustainable Transportation Program. that one's coming up as well as a recent middle potentially of the previous project that we sent in we met with the Caltrans representatives and they gave us some pretty good pointers of some modifications to the application to be able to move forward we have CMAC and STBG coming up too but that's not until November So if you have any ideas that follow the guidelines of, for example, the H-CIF, please let us know. Those are safety improvement type of projects. The objective of the program is to reduce fatalities and serious injury collisions through targeted data-driven safety improvements. Um, there's 2 type of applications. There's a benefit cost ratio. So you've got to show a good benefit cost ratio to have your application potentially considered and selected. And then there are set asides and set asides. There is a category for pedestrian cross. Pedestrian crossing enhancements and bike safety improvements.

Keep that in mind if you'd like to recommend anything, we would then have to follow up with some collision analysis to see if we can.

put together. Vision Zero is what we're going to be using to guide us on those project selections.

Staff wants to remind everyone, and you're providing a copy as well, of the project consideration intake form. So a reminder of the same form that was presented to you at the Grants Update presentation that we received earlier this year. So feel free to submit as many projects as you want of different proposals.

So thank you, Adrena. Comments from the committee? Okay, we can now move on to the presentation of July traffic.

Adrena again with Public Works. Okay, so between January to June 30th, the beginning of January of this year to June 30th, total collisions we have 1,893 of which pedestrians were 113 and bicyclists are 89. Pedestrians have decreased at this time, at the same timeframe of last year, but bicyclists have increased. Of these collisions, Six pedestrian collisions have been fatal, and then in bicycle, e-bikes do record one fatal collision for this year, which is a reduction of last year. The e-bikes remains the same.

I do believe e-bikes were not counted as a category until after mid-year.

At least for these tracking purposes, yeah. I would also like to share that Officer Belli with PD has shared that there'll be a workshop on e-bike safety at next week's council hearing. Keep an eye out for the agenda that should post on Friday. For more information, if you wish to provide comments, please attend in person or provide e-comments so they can consider it. Typically, workshops aren't opened up for public commenting, but you can comment during the scheduled communications.

Oh, man.