Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Recording in progress. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Sustainability and Infrastructure Commission this Wednesday evening, April 8th. I now call this meeting to order. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Madame clerk, please call the role. Certainly. Youth Commissioner Scott here. Commissioner Robbins here. Commissioner Narita here. Chair Chair Michael. Yes. Vice Chair CR. I'm sorry. Roll. Yeah, he's here. Commissioner Renault here.

Thank you. Welcome. We are excited to be here in person with options for those who choose not to be in person to still participate virtually. For those attending in person, please complete a yellow request to speak slip and hand it to the clerk. If participating remotely, use the raise your hand feature in Zoom and you'll be called on at the appropriate time. If calling in via phone, press star 9 to raise your hand and when called upon, press star six to unmute. These options for public comment will remain available until I close the public comment period for that specific item. Clerk, please read the consent calendar. Certainly, we have the uh sustainability and infrastructure commission regular meeting minutes approval for the meeting of March 11th.

Is there any member of the commission who would like to pull an item from the consent calendar or go ahead and or make a motion to approve? Okay. Do um if any members of the public, do we want to We do not have any public comment for uh consent calendar. Okay. Great. Thank you. Motion to approve by Commissioner Cray. Any other seconds? Second. Thank you. Vice Chair Cray. Uh, yes. Commissioner Renault, yes. Chair Michael, yes. Commissioner Narita, yep. And Commissioner Robins, yes. Motion passes.

Next on the agenda is public comment. Members of the public wishing to comment on any item not appearing on the agenda may address the commission at this time. State law prevents the commission from taking action on any matter not on the agenda. Your comments may be referred to staff or follow-up. This public comment section is generally limited to a total of 15 minutes. However, that is subject to commission's discretion and can be extended if commission wishes to do so. And one more note, we welcome speakers providing public comment, but please be advised this is a limited public forum. As such, speakers must stay on topic of speaking to a particular agenda item and when speaking during general public comment, they must address matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the city. If speakers fail to follow these rules, they'll be warned and if they continue to disregard our rules, their opportunity to speak will be ended. Do we have any public comment? Yes, Madam Chair, we have uh one online and one in person. I will start with our in-person public speaker and then we will move on to our online.

Thank you. May would you like to come up? uh previously I came here and share some information with the at the different meetings but today I come here and uh I think what I've been sharing is maybe very important for the city for the general public as well and maybe the infrastructure for the our future. So I don't have any political preference nor business affiliation with anyone. I'm solely sharing this uh I give you some people's name and you can do the uh research. One is a Richard Lighthouse and he is a former NASA uh scientist. The other one is Karen Stewart uh former NSA employee and Sabrina Wallace um middle name is Davis. Dr. Katherine Horton, Dr. berry troller t r o w e r and then there's another keyword called a beam forming. So basically I previously shared something about a burn the trees and then all over the city and also the uh street light deflector there other things. Uh I briefly going to talk about a little bit of my experience is very disturbing. Uh there's something I per my research something called organize against stocking and then there is another term which is hard for me to something like this. So I've been uh research a lot a lot of things I cannot go through uh very every detail and this is the place that this is something that place under my couch. I don't even know me and my husband my husband works for the state and uh there

are other things our cars and doors and then other things missing from home and then things not belong to us replaced to our our place so that's very uh they're fabricated the medical records I found after my ER two years after my ER so basically based on everything I found so far I believe there is a long for long time biological and neurological human live experiment going on. Okay. And uh biod data and brain wave have been collected with a light speed or whatever technology we have. Um and also people been remotely implant nanochips without knowing it. And I have some pictures I'll try to share. So for example, especially on the right on the right hand side and I believe that's the one that knocked me sent me to the ER and then my inter my medical visit or interrupted. So this is one of them and something like that. And then the burned trees for example like this.

Yeah. Thank you. So this time is up. So you can record. I'll come back another time. I I don't know if this is quite in our jurisdiction, but maybe speak with the police department regarding any issues you've had in your property. I did, but this may affecting the building infrastructure because if it's a direct the tree burn like that is something called a directive energy weapon. Okay. Thank you. Uhhuh. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker will be Mike Swer. Um, I will give him one second. Mike, can you hear us? Yeah, I can. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you.

Awesome. Thanks so much to the members of the committee for your contribution in the committee or the community. Mike Swire speaking on uh my own behalf. Um, a bunch we had about a dozen people show up at city council meeting uh the other night because the streets of Sanonteo and especially those in North Central have become a gauntlet for the people who live there. In January, we lost Veronica Vasquez, a grandmother of three at 17th in El Camino. She was doing everything right. She was in the crosswalk. In 2024, we lost Yolanda Aar at Peninsula in Delaware. She was a single mother and a protector for her special needs daughter. She was also in the crosswalk. And nine days ago at Delaware and State in North Central, we learned that Raone Sandival, a father, and his two children, eight and 16 years old, were mowed down in another crosswalk. Raone was in the ICU. His 8-year-old son had a fractured skull. This is not normal. This is violence, and it's predictable. Over the last week, residents have flooded the city council with,200 emails. They had a single desperate question. Why? Why? When the city's own data had flagged Delaware Street as a high injury corridor years ago, did we do nothing? Why did the city not act when I emailed them about this danger in Delaware in June of 2023? Why was there no action when a driver hit a teen in this exact spot less than two years ago? I'll tell you why. It's because of a total lack of leadership from our city council. For over a year, we've seen Cernin City Council members lead a crusade to prioritize parking over the people of North Central. Others on council follow their lead instead of heating the opportunity costs of this course. As a result, the city diverted precious public works staff and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars into a quest to remove safety in infrastructure just to satisfy an insatiable craving for free straight parking. And thank you uh sustainable committee uh commission

for not doing that and going the other way. Every hour a city staffer spent studying how to add more parking was an hour they weren't spending responding to resident concerns of pedestrian safety at Delaware and state. Every dollar spent on parking focused studies and meetings was a dollar taken away from the quick build projects that could have saved the Sandaval family from this nightmare. Several members of the council chose parking politics over the lives of North Central families. They chose the convenience of those who drive over the safety of an 8-year-old boy who could not. We hope that this wait till something happens uh policy uh ends tonight. We know that the city's working on a lot of great projects and that staff is doing their best, but when they're directed by the city council to divert their attention, that means the projects are delayed and they don't happen. So, I'd really encourage uh the sustainability committee to push back and really ensure that we're prioritizing projects that will save lives uh so that this doesn't happen yet again on our streets. Uh it's really unacceptable. Thanks so much for listening.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That concludes public comment.

Okay, great. I'm going to go on to our next item on the agenda, 101 corridor connect program update and with Sue Ellen Atkinson from SMCTA presenting. Thank you and nice to see you here. All right. Good evening, commissioners. Thank you for having me tonight. Um, again, Suellan Atkinson, manager of planning and fund management at the San Monteo County Transportation Authority, and I'm really excited to be here tonight to share an update on our 101 Corridor Connect program. Um, we've been here a few times for various aspects of this program, and we're really um happy to be here with an update and to share some next steps as we start to move this program forward. All right. So, tonight I'll just do a brief refresher on the 101 corridor connect program and then the plans that we've um completed under that program. Um do a bit of a highlight on local priority projects coming out of those plans within City of Sonteo. Um and then uh touch on next steps including our new mini grant program that's coming out of the 101 corridor connect projects. All right, first a refresher on Sonteo County Transportation Authority. Just for those of you who um may not recall who we are, u so SMCTA is responsible for managing the halfsent sales tax measures in Sanonteo County that are collected for transportation improvements. So that includes measure A and measure W. Um and those funds are used um for various programs and projects including uh funds that are um directly um allocated to cities for the local roads um and streets funding as well as grant programs for various modes like um highway projects uh grade separations

transit regional transit um pedestrian and bike programs and transportation demand management or TDM. Um the TA also uh plans, funds, and implements projects um in partnership with our cities. So, we're not often doing projects on our own, but we're really excited to be able to partner with our local cities to move projects forward um into construction. All right. So 101 Corridor Connect, this is a collaborative program um that was started to identify and prioritize congestion management projects along 101 in Sano County. Um congestion means different things to different people um and projects that can address congestion look different to everyone in our county really. Um, and so what we wanted to do here was look beyond just driving along the freeway um, and identify ways that we could address congestion um, in different ways throughout the transportation network um, and for all modes of getting around. And we're partnered um in this program with CALR, our local cities, um transit agencies, Sanonteo County, and uh city and county association of governments or CCAG. The program is grounded in four primary goals um to create a safer, more connected, sustainable, and inclusive um transportation network in Sonteo County, including infrastructure and programs. So all of the efforts that we're doing under 101 corridor connect really tie directly back to these four goals. And then some of the outcomes of our 101 corridor connect program um is that we've been able to identify regionally significant projects. So for all of the plans that we've done um under 101 corridor connect, we've started with projects that have been identified by our local jurisdictions um and then we're able to prioritize them um as they

impact the region. Um, so a bit at a higher level than the city level. Um, we do have a little bit of jargon here, I'm sorry. CMCP is the comprehensive multimodal corridor plan. Um, so 101 corridor connect will be that corridor plan for 101. And in going through that self-certification with CALR to be the CMCP for 101, um all of the projects identified as priority under the 101 corridor connect program are eligible for um an additional pot of funding called solutions for congested corridors program. Um trans I I think we all know transportation projects are really expensive. So having access to another opportunity for funding is really great for moving these projects forward. Um, and overall being identified as a priority project under the 101 corridor connect program positions all of these projects to be more competitive for funding um, including TA grant funding programs as I mentioned um, as well as regional, state, and federal programs. As part of 101 Corridor Connect, we established working groups um, and what we really realized was that the needs and concerns of the community change along the corridor. Um, and so we can't get down quite to a micro level, but what we did was break the 101 corridor generally into three portions. Um, and that allowed us to get a little bit deeper into the community, work with staff, understand what the needs were in different areas of the county. Um, so you'll see here we broke it into north, mid, and south county. We'll be talking mostly about mid county tonight because that's where San Mo is. Um and in each portion of the county, we established a working group um that worked through with us through development of the plans under this program. And that included local jurisdiction staff including your city staff, um our transit agency partners and other stakeholders like

commute.org, Calrans, CCAG, um MTC, and in the northern portion of the county, SFO is also a major stakeholder. All right. So, first we're going to talk about um the first three um major planning efforts under 101 corridor connect which were our m multimodal strategies. Again, we broke this one up into three um areas so that we could get a little bit deeper into the community. Um so these plans are all now finally adopted by our board. Um, and so just as a refresher, the multimodal strategies um are planning documents and they identify and prioritize um needed projects within San Monteo County. Um, so we took all of the projects identified in locally adopted plans that were within one mile of the 101 corridor. Um, and we were able to prioritize those based on feedback from the community and data analysis that was aligned with the program goals that we discussed previously. Um so in total we completed three multimodal strategies. So that covered the entire 101 corridor. Um and the multimodal strategies focused on all ways of getting around driving, biking, walking, rolling, um carpull, etc. As mentioned previously, we completed three. Um, so San Mo is included in the midcount multimodal strategy and that was adopted by our board in December 2025. For all of the strategies, we did a very extensive community engagement effort um including web page, fact sheets, pop-up events, um community- based organization ef um outreach efforts and temporary signs at bus stops. Um we did all of the engagement both virtually and in person. So the opportunities that the community had to share their feedback in person

was replicated online and the engagement um opportunities were really focused on learning about the needs and concerns in the community um where they wanted to see improvements and what types of improvements they valued in the transportation network. So, just a few um photos of some of the great opportunities that we had to be out in the community um talking to folks about what they'd like to see improved in the transportation network. Um and then also specific locations where they wanted to see those improvements. Um and then we also completed um focus groups with our CBOS throughout the county. Um, so it wasn't quite, we did a popup in every single city along the 101 corridor. For the CBOS, it wasn't quite one in every city. Um, but for each plan, we met with um, four CBOS and conducted focus groups. And that gave us an opportunity to have really more in-depth conversations with the community um, to help us understand improvements that would be important um, to help improve their transportation experience. Um, so summing up the input, we heard from a lot of people throughout this process. Um, we were quite busy out in the community. Um, we had almost 1300 responses to our online survey. Um, and almost 6,000 votes on how to improve travel within Sanonteo County. Um, we spoke with more than 100 people attending CBO meetings. Um, and again, we had um, four popups in each for each plan. Um, so 12 pop-ups total. Um, and we really enjoyed our time at the pop-ups in San Monteo. All right, so bringing all of that community feedback together with the data analysis um of the technical data, um, we identified 20 priority projects in each of the multimodal strategies. Um, and I'm not expecting you to try to

see this. We'll go a little bit more into detail for Sonteo in just a second. Um all of the full plans are available on our website www.smca.com. Um and so these 60 priority projects that were identified in the multimodal strategies are now priority projects under the 101 corridor connect program. All right, moving on to our next effort, um, which is the US 101, San Monteo County Crossings Improvement Plan, um, which is an extremely long title, so we call it active 101. Um, this was a CALR grant funded effort. So, we were really grateful to be able to work with CALR to have a second initiative under 101 corridor connect that focused a little bit closer to the freeway, so within a quarter mile, um, and focused on active transportation. So looking at how people get around walking, biking or rolling um along and across the 101 corridor. Um so active 101 really identified where we needed improvements close to the freeway um such as bike lanes, sidewalks, high visibility crosswalks, improved connections across the freeway, um things that would make it safer to um use active modes of transportation in that area closer to the freeway. Um and so what we were really trying to do was identify options for enhancing safety and enhancing access. um so that people may be able to choose active transportation modes instead of using cars along 101. For this study, since we were so close to 101, we looked at the whole county as one. Um so active 101 has one plan that um developed recommendations um and prioritized projects for the full county at once. Similar to the multimodal strategies, um we did a lot of engagement for active

101 as well. Um, so we had six pop-up events as um, part of Active 101, including one in San Monteo. Um, we did 26 presentations to stakeholders. So, you may remember a lot more information about Active 101, um, back about a year and a half ago or so. Um, and then we had an online um, survey that we got about 270 responses from. So, taking all of that feedback that we got from the community, um you'll see on the left of this graphic, um hotspots, you know, the orangey red, purple, um we geollocated all of the comments that we got about, um where people wanted to see improvements for walking, biking, and rolling near the freeway. So, those hotspots are where those comments really came together. And you'll see people had similar feedback about certain areas. Um on the right you can see um green lines and that is all of the projects that we inventoried from our locally adopted plans um including the city's locally adopted plans um and mapped all of those projects. And then basically what we did was take those mapped projects and those hotspots of where we were hearing concerns and we created a corridor that goes from um all the way in the north part of the county from at Brisbane south to East PaloAlto. Um and we created this north south priority network um connecting all of those projects that had been identified by our local communities with in some cases some um corridors that already had um bicycle and pedestrian facilities and created this continuous network. And you'll notice it zigzags a lot. It's not intended to be something that somebody starts biking in Brisbane and then makes it all the way down to East Palo Alto. Um it goes back and forth because we were really focused on trying to improve the connections across 101 um for people

who are not driving for anyone who's walking, biking, and rolling. Um because we found that we needed enhancements um for safety for people to cross 101 um in ways other than driving. So you can see that corridor a bit more clearly on this map. Um that's in bright orange. You'll also see some um lines that go across the freeway in an east west direction. Um and while we got a lot of feedback about specific areas along the corridor, we also got a lot of feedback specifically about opportunities to cross the freeway. Um so in addition to the north south alignment, we also have priority um east west corridors that were added to the priority network. So um if you'll recall that network is created by drawing a line along all of the locally adopted um locally identified projects. Um so those projects that comprise the priority network plus those east west connections are now all priority projects coming out of the active 101 plan. Um and in total um would say if implemented but hopefully it's when implemented um the network would um provide more than 42 total miles of access for people who are walking, biking, and rolling um throughout San Monteo County. Um it would improve about um 7 and a half miles of the pedestrian high injury network and about six miles of the bike high injury network. Um, and that's looking countywide. So, that's really significant improvement that we're um, seeing in terms of safety. Um, there are significant VMT and GHD reductions associated with building out the network. Um, and then in alignment with our program goals, um, looking at inclusivity, um, about 50,000 people living in our disadvantaged communities along the freeway, um, would be within a 10-minute walk or a three-minute bike

ride of a highquality bike facility along the priority network. Um so in the future when this is implemented um piece by piece because again these are individual projects we'll be able to re to see really um significant safety and access improvements throughout the county um enabling people to choose active modes of transportation. Um so this plan was is also now adopted um it was adopted by our board in March. So now taking um those 60 priority projects from the mult multimodal strategies and then all of the projects under active 101, we now have this 101 corridor connect program with a pretty significant list of priority projects. Um and so now we will talk about what comes next for that program. Um because we have these great plans, we have these priority projects under the program and it's not something that we want to be sitting on a shelf. Um so we'll talk about what comes next for the program. um and also how you all can be involved in that. Um first I do want to highlight the um local pro local projects that are prioritized in the plans. Um and for San Mato we had to split it into two slides because there were a lot of projects. Um so from the multimodal strategy I'm not going to read it all out loud. Um but this is a list of all the projects. Um keeping in mind that there are 20 in Sano um in the midcount area of Sanonteo. So there's a um not insignificant number in the city of Sanonteo um including Hillsdale Boulevard um El Camino Royale and um various projects within the downtown area. And then moving on to um projects that were identified as priority in Active 101. There's also a fair number um including Norfolk um Fashion Island Boulevard, 19th Avenue, which is in design right now, um South Delaware, and

Saratoga Drive. Um and you'll notice that Saratoga is um called out here with some graphics. Um and that's because Saratoga was one of the projects that was a selected project in our active 101 effort. Um once we had a full list of all of our priority projects, we selected six um and worked with um staff, including your staff, um to move those projects from lines on the map into conceptual design. And so for Saratoga, we did conceptual design of what that project may look like um on the street. and we did some initial community feedback to um give staff the opportunity to get some highlevel um input on that design concept um to help move that project forward into later stages of design. So, for all of the selected projects, including Saratoga, um there's a subchapter within Active 101 that includes the fact sheet that you see on the left, um the concept designs that you see on the right, and then all of the existing conditions and community engagement work um that went into those. Um so, that gives a really good starting point for moving forward into um seeking funding for those projects for later design and construction phases. So, moving back to the program as a whole, um what I'm really excited to share with you, um is that in order to again not have these plans just sit on the shelf, um and have these prioritized projects just be a list, um our the SMCTA board approved, um $4 million as a mini grant program for us to jumpstart u design of some of these projects. So, this is a new multi-year effort um that will fund and provide technical assistance to jurisdictions um again to really kickstart planning of those priority capital projects that are identified um as priority projects in the 101 corridor connect program. And

that gives us the opportunity to see what those conceptual designs could look like, do some initial community engagement, and start moving projects from lines on those maps um into reality. So at a high level, the miniigrant program um is funding again for those priority projects. Um and it's intended to fund the early stages of design, multimodal corridor study, um conceptual design, and community engagement so that you get that initial feedback um to help you um with refining designs as you move forward. Um we have $4 million available in total right now. Um and are planning to award up to $750,000 per project. Um and if there's an opportunity um which for some of the Sanonteo projects there are um and projects elsewhere within the county um to uh look at applying for a project with a partner city with a a neighboring jurisdiction. we are able to award up to $1 million for multi-jurisdictional projects. Um, and one of the really key um, highlights of this program is there's no local match required. Um, so that's really not typical in funding. So I just wanted to highlight that. Um, in terms of the application, we're trying to make it brief. Um, we're not asking city staff to complete one of our larger applications. So it'll be a very streamlined application. Um, essentially a letter of interest. Um and if you your city is selected for funding um we will require a sitewalk to be conducted. Um and we found those to be really helpful um in terms of getting staff um electeds appointed officials um out onto the corridors to walk um possibly to bike the corridors and talk about the challenges that you see and talk about what the priorities are. Um so we would u require one city council member but

we'd also encourage commission members to um participate in that um if possible. In terms of timeline um the call for projects for the mini grant program will be released in June of this year. Um it's a shorter application so we do have a quicker turnaround um with applications due in July and then we'll make the funding decisions um in August. So, key action items, um there's no feedback necessarily required tonight, but key action items for you all to keep in mind, um is to talk with city staff about what projects they're considering applying for. Um and then obviously applied to the mini grant program. Um participate in the sitewalk if selected. Um and then I also just wanted to highlight that we are now off um we've now created a CBO bench um for general engagement. So that could be an aspect of the mini grant project um or for any projects that staff are working on. Um so the SMCTA is paying CBOS to participate um in other local projects. So cities don't need to allocate funding as part of the project scope to pay for CBO participation and assistance and outreach. We have um very similar to an on call planning bench, we have an on call CBO bench um that's available to city staff um for assistance in outreach with their projects. So I just wanted to highlight that because that's something new that we're rolling out as well. Um so if staff is interested, they can feel free to reach out to TA staff um to inquire about that. And that concludes the presentation. um happy to answer any questions now or my contact information is up on the screen.

Great. Thank you for that um comprehensive presentation. And madame clerk, do we have any public comment? Can you hear me? Uh I have one hand raised online and it looks like I don't have anyone in person willing to make a public comment. Um, so I will give uh our online participant three minutes. Mike, can you hear us? Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you.

Awesome. Yeah. Thank you for the presentation, Suellen. We miss you here in San Monteo. Um, first of all, I want to thank the TA for their work on the 19th Avenue project. I think the the SIC's um discussed it, but uh the 19th Avenue Fashion Island Boulevard project um I think is pretty close if not fully funded at 20 plus million and the TA um one put money forward and two was also creative with some other monies to to make sure that happened and I know Kevin Mullen also gave some money there too. So uh that's great news and I'm really excited that this project is focusing on the areas next to the highway. Um, often crossing the highway is deadly. Um, it's uh divides communities, often lower income and uh people of color that live in these communities. Um, just we've seen I don't I haven't seen stats locally, but nationally there's a epidemic in terms of traffic violence more negatively impacting uh black brown people, people of color, uh lower income people, many of whom don't own cars and thus are forced to walk or bike to get around. And if you go down to North Central, you'll see a fair number of people that are getting to work or school uh by scooter or bike, etc. Um so I think this is great from an equity perspective. Um I I'm kind of curious. Um I'm really worried that things are getting worse in these communities. Um as you know, the uh the TA and CKAG sponsored a widening of the highway over the last four years and they're considering doing it again. We already heard some data that suggests that um the number of riders on the the um corridor is back to prepandemic levels even though many people are still working from home and our public transit system is suffering. So the question I have and I'm not sure um if we have data is how much has that impacted communities next to the highway? So, um, that's one of the the folky here is, um, how much has traffic violence,

congestion changed on local streets? You know, as I mentioned earlier, sadly, we just had a crash, um, uh, almost take out a family of three on Delaware. This was one and a half blocks from the Popppler on-ramp and one and a half blocks from the Peninsula on-ramp. So, uh, there is without a doubt a correlation between number of people driving on the highway and the number of people that are getting hurt in the lower inome communities adjacent to the highway. Uh, and then finally, I wanted to put in a plug for, I can't remember if it's in here, the Hillsdale uh, bike and pedestrian bridge. The city has been talking about this for 20 plus years. Um, I understand that the project was negatively impacted when we decided to wide the highway. That took precedence and now the project is more expensive and and back to the drawing board. So, this is the location where a 60-year-old person on a bike was killed. Um, the TA to its credit just gave uh San Carlos $80 million to install a bike and pedestrian bridge on Holly where a 31-year-old uh Stanford researcher was killed while biking over the last year. And um it would be great if we could see some love for Sano because there's really no safe crossing of 101 for people who bike and even walk.

Thank you, Mike. Thank you for your comments. I'm going to go ahead and close public comment and bring back to commission for additional questions and discussion. Oh, go ahead. Thank you, Miss uh Commissioner Robbins for volunteering.

Get that hand up fast. See, that's what happens when you you miss a meeting, you're anxious. Uh Swell and thank you. Great. And good to see you. Of course, uh anybody listening in used to be city staff has uh gone on. uh if you'd put up the slide that listed the 20 or so San Mateo related projects. You showed it. We didn't go line by line. Yeah. Are these Was it on two slides? I guess really Yeah. Uh I just want to make sure I understand. Yeah. One or two of these are things we've the city's been working on. Uh uh but most of these are projects that uh uh that the authority has identified and it's up to the city to come and go for a mini grant or get other funding as well.

Yes. And um all of the priority projects in this program are ones that the SMCTA has a vested interest in moving forward. Um because the prioritization process for all of the plans um identified these projects as regionally significant. Um and so all of these projects are ones that we're putting a focus on in terms of our workload and our funding. um to help cities identify funding strategies, identify funding opportunities, hours and others. Um identify technical assistance that we can provide to cities, etc. Um we have a lot of projects within this program now and there's only so much money and so much staff. Um so we do have to go a little bit at a time. Um but it is our hope that we can um help these projects move forward and it gives us a roadmap of sorts um to help um move projects forward that do have the ability to reduce congestion on 101 um and also obviously provide benefit to local communities.

Okay. Thanks. And then uh to city staff Matt uh just I'm assuming that uh you know separately uh there will be discussions as you know we have our bike plan etc pedestrian plan of some of these projects that the city would want to uh take try and take advantage of the mini grant program and other things. Yeah, for sure. And and if uh if you take a look in the agenda report, we did highlight two of the key projects which included the Saratoga Drive that Su Allen showed that you know actually was you know developed to a concept level within the active 101 uh plan as well as um the Hillsdale corridor is the top ranked project in the multimodal um or the midcount multimotal strategy document. So it's the number one priority project. Um, and I think that what we'd probably be looking at, what we've been talking about is is likely trying to pursue funding to do a Hillsdale corridor study that could include both looking at the corridor overall in terms of uh vehicle movements, but also looking at the uh potential for, you know, how do we deal with getting bikes and pedestrians safely across that corridor? So, it could it also include the looking at sort of the the bike overcrossing that was also ranked 10th in the in the overall document. So those are um the ones that seem to be um lowhanging fruit in terms of high priority in the plans and as well as some work's already been done on the Saratoga one. So but as Su Allen said um there's limited funds and limited staff and so that's part of our challenge is that we do have you know limited staff resources with a lot going on as as uh I guess uh Commissioner Robbins you were not here for the last meeting so you didn't hear the update on the bike ped stuff but we do have a lot of stuff going on. So, we will have to look at sort of staff capacity, but I think those are probably two easy candidates that we'd be considering for the mini grant program.

Uh, thanks, Matt. And I I had read the materials, saw those, too. I was just curious, and yes, I did miss the last meeting. Uh, but the uh uh whether others on this list are, you know, are rising to the top behind those two or if that's as premature to have that discussion. Uh it may be a little bit premature, but I think that um in our conversations with TA staff, there's a high interest in the Hillsdale corridor uh for various reasons. Um so I think that that one is quite likely. Um I think if Suan, if you can go to the the other slide with the projects. Um we obviously are, as uh was indicated, we're almost fully funded on the Fashion Island Boulevard 19th. So that's a high priority um project that also includes crossing over 101. And so that one, you know, we wouldn't be pursuing as part of the grant program because we're already already doing that one. Um, so I think we have to look at some of these projects in terms of where are we with these projects already and which ones do we think are most important to move forward. this the Saratoga project. Um the benefit with that one is that it would connect into our Delaware safe routes to school project that is under construction as we speak. And then it would also connect potentially to you know looking at the Hillsdale corridor in terms of how do we then if we're going to send people down Saratoga on better bike facilities then how do we then move them from that Saratoga along the Hillsdale corridor uh either towards Foster City or moving um the other direction towards the Hillsdale Calra station. So, so there are some connections between both of those projects as well.

And maybe just one other thing um through the chair to add to that. Um on the previous slide to this is El Camino. Um we definitely know that El Camino um improvements multimodal are a big priority for the community. So there's a there we're advancing that in a few different ways. There's the central Al Camino Rial project which is in active planning and um there was recently a survey that was out I think it closed on March 31st um that went out to the community to gather some feedback on that. Um we're also working on the shop project which is it's mostly a paving project but it will be doing um you know a lot of pedestrian improvements as well like uh curb ramp type improvements along the corridor. And then we're also advancing, you know, projects as part of our local roadway safety plan at select locations on El Camino. So that that's one actually that we have in um El Camino is such a big corridor but in various stages uh with various projects.

Great. Uh thank you all. Yeah, I I recognize after all these years the value of planning uh but I always like to find out what uh what real projects are actually uh either happening or imminent and I appreciate it. Thank you very much. That's all I have madam chair. Thank you. Um anyone volunteering to go next? Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Rena.

Um thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Um I have a couple questions. Could you um I'm a little confused about on the community engagement part there were two different efforts from the slides. Can you I'm sorry. Can you repeat what the difference was between the two? Sure. Um and it is confusing because in some cases we were doing outreach for multimodal strategy and active 101 at the same event. So

very overlapping. uh we tried not to confuse people but um I for the we did the multimotal strategies as individual plans um so at any point we were doing either the north county multimotal strategy or the midcount um but active 101 was running concurrently um through a lot of the multimodal strategy development um but it was really important for us to have dedicated engagement efforts for each of those plans um so For the multimodal strategies, we were really focused on getting information from the community to help us prioritize what types of improvements they wanted to see. Um, so was uh fixing existing roadways most important? Um, was having increased access to transit and increased frequency of transit important? Um, was having more lighting important? Um, so we're really focused more on buckets of improvements for multimodal strategies. We also had the opportunity for people to specifically note locations and that was within that one mile of the corridor. For active 101, we were zeroed in a bit more closely to the freeway. Um, so within a quarter mile and for that we were really more focused on needs and concerns. Where did people want to be able to walk, bike or roll but didn't feel comfortable doing it or where did they currently walk or bike and they felt uncomfortable doing so? Um so really more focused on um on locality for active 101 as um opposed to more um thematic I guess for multimodal strategy.

So am I right that in your presentation the multimodal multimodal um effort had a slide but not the active 101 in terms of what the engagement was. Uh, I did have a comprehensive list for all of the types of engagement that went into multimodal strategies for active 101. I just had a shorter summary slide. What were your benchmarks? What were you looking for? Do you mind putting up the slide at the multimotal one because it had a breakdown of the people you spoke to? Sure. Hang on.

There's probably a faster way to do this. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Um, what were your Did you have benchmarks ahead of time? We didn't have specific numbers in mind, if that's what you're asking. Um, in terms of online survey responses or how many people we touched, um, we had benchmarks of doing one popup in each jurisdiction. Um, and in doing, um, as close as we could to having one CBO meeting in each jurisdiction, um, roughly four total. How do you know that 15 5800 votes or 1,200,300 online surveys, how do you know that's um a representation of what people want?

We didn't do a stat statistically significant analysis um to determine if it's representative of the population as a whole. Um what we did was go out through every channel that we could, including online and in person, to get feedback from as many people as we could. I guess my feedback would be how do you know that 1,200 is a significant is is an accurate or 58 these numbers

in general are an accurate number to represent what people want right like is this is this a scientifically appropriate number for 700,000 people who live in Sano County is 6,000 people the right number to pull undersod Yeah, just just a question. Um, a question with hopefully a little bit of weight behind it. Um, and so was my question about are you happy with this? Are you internally as an agency happy with these numbers with with this feedback?

Uh, based on prior planning efforts both in my current role and in prior roles, this was a significant amount of engagement. Um it it's hard to get people to engage with you about transportation. Um in some cases unless they are passionate about it positively or negatively. Um but all you can do is try but then you get the feedback and all of a sudden you get people upset right because they didn't get it's on anything you're going to have people who are happy and who are unhappy. Um but we were happy generally sorry to use happy again but um with the amount of responses and the number of engagement touches that we were able to have um we felt that it for a transportation project um we were

it's a good yeah it's a good question mark um similar question on your focus groups and the focus groups were CBOS am I right about that how did you who are the CBOS how did you determine those uh we have a an employee within our community government and community affairs office who engages with um CBOS throughout the county on a regular basis. So she helped us to identify CBOS within each of the three portions of the county and to organize those focus groups. So the CBOS um engaged with people within their communities to come to those focus groups. And so do you have a list of CBOS to provide to the public? They are included in the each of the planning documents that are on our website. Great.

Yes. Um would you mind showing the slide that has transportation, safety, sustainability, those four those three squares, the program goals.

Thank you. Yeah, there's four. Yeah. Um in safety I hear enhance safet I I am reading enhance safety for users of the transmission network and sustainability is improve air quality and reduce emissions in sustainable what are your I'm not sure that we heard much much of the planning for sustainable part of it other than you um quoting a VMT. Is there anything more than that? The VMT reduction calculations were done for the active 101 priority network. In terms of the multimodal strategies, the way that the goals fac these four goals factored in um was in the prioritization of the projects. So each individual project um was scored um based on alignment with those four goals. Um this is getting a little in the weeds. It's it's all in the plans, but I I can do it now. Um so for each of those goals we assigned um an evaluation criteria. Um for sustainability I don't remember offh hand what that was um but there were points assigned to each um evaluation criteria in terms of how strongly the project aligned with it. Um so each project then had a raw raw score based on that um evaluation in with regards to the program goals and then there was a waiting process based on feedback from the public etc. Um that resulted in the list of 20 priority projects for each of the three county areas. Um but that is how sustainability factored into the prioritization for multimodal. But when you talk about sustainable goals, what what is that? What is that? How what are you doing to improve air quality? Are you talking about getting people off off the off their cars, out of their cars, into bikes? What is your measure? What what what is success for

you in this category? We don't currently have performance metrics for the program. That's something um I didn't mention here, but at the same time that the mini grant program was approved, our board also approved um money funding um for us to allocate toward um developing key performance indicators for the 101 corridor to connect program. Um so that's not something that we've started yet, but we will be identifying performance metrics to track the performance and the success of the program. So, I don't have an answer for that right now, but that's something that we will be doing um in the near future so that we can um do our before calculations and then track that progress over time as projects are implemented.

And so, I'm so happy to hear that there's still that is still in the works. Um it's same as when you involve CBOS in in other areas, involving CBOS in coming up with sustainable solutions would be really important, I think, from an equitable and from a from a community perspective because I think sometimes um when we sit up high on top our government, we don't we don't realize what sustainability really means. And I think people have a different uh definition of that and an expect a different expectation of that. And it would be really great to involve people in in developing some of these goals and some of these projects that um that go go towards these sustainable goals.

Um one last question about the bike lanes, the connectivity. Now I think I'm I'm jumping into the 101 corridor.

Okay. Um, have you gone deep enough to talk about uh because of our our our caller was talking about safety um the CLA specifically down to the specifics of class bike lanes. Um none of the projects that are identified in any of these plans are ones that we have created and they are all projects that have been identified by our local jurisdictions by CCAG's um bike and pedestrian plan uh CALR district 4 bike plan. So all of those planning documents um identified proposed projects that typically include a class of bike facility or type of um pedestrian improvement or transit improvement or something like that. Um so in all of our plans we do have a comprehensive project list and that includes um how the project has been identified by the local jurisdiction as um if it's a class 4 bike lane or something like that. Um but that is also something that can be evaluated when you go further into design um and can change based on characteristics of the roadway um from when you're planning to when you're doing design. Um but moreover what um we are looking to do in these projects as we help jurisdictions move forward is rather than um have it as be a class 4 bike lane project um look at it more holistically as a multimodal corridor safety project um and not just look at the bike lane itself but how can you enhance the corridor as a whole um so to answer your question yes they all of the projects typically do have a class of facility identified, but there is a yes and to that.

Okay, great. And all that is available to the public at this point or um Active 101 is in the process of being added to our website. Um the draft plan is on there right now. Okay. But all three adopted multimodal strategies are currently online. Okay, great. Thank you so much for your help.

Yep. And maybe through the chair, if I could just add on just a little bit with your question regarding um the outreach and Suen can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a lot of as Suan said, a lot of the projects that made it into either the multimodal strategy or the active 101 are projects that have come out of local planning efforts. And so all of those local planning efforts theoretically had a local engagement process that led to those getting into those local plans anyway. So, um I think the stuff that Suen was doing on top of that is helping to to help prioritize those and put those into buckets and figure out which ones from a regional, you know, corridor strate or corridor uh perspective are the priority ones that should be moved forward. But there's also been engagement that's been built into all those plans that developed a lot of those projects. And Sum, please correct me if I got that wrong.

No, that's entirely right. Thank you.

Thank you for that. And my only uh the only reason that I ask these questions is because it's one thing to say we talked to the community. It's another to actually explain how much effort you did and how many people you spoke to and how because we've learned from our from from the past that just saying we've spoken to community is not enough that it needs to be uh in a way that the community feels was was the right way, you know, like it was intentional and all those things. And so it's not just one thing to check the box. I again continue to encourage you to show off how much you've spoken to and why that number is significant um just so that you can build trust with people.

Yeah. Uh through the chair also sorry that reminded me um so just as all of the projects were identified in locally adopted plans that have gone through engagement and then we did engagement for this plan. Each of these projects is an individual project that will go through a design process that now typically always includes a significant community engagement effort. So the engagement that went into prioritizing these projects is not the end. Um each of these projects will have additional community input as they go through design. That's super helpful. Thank you so much. Thank you. Go ahead, Commissioner CR.

Hi. Excellent. It's great to see you again. Thanks for your rather clear and concise uh report. Um there's an axiom like with homeowners associations that if nobody shows up to the meetings, it must mean you're doing something right. So some sometimes trying to get critical mass uh as a response to to this. It could either mean you're doing something right or people don't realize like if you've been to Redwood City recently and look at the immense amount of building they've been done. People in San Mo can't conceptualize just yet what this is going to look like in a couple of years. And the cool thing about great leadership is good leaders can see into the future and make plans now to fix problems that got to be five years from now like traffic congestion, sustainability, stuff like that. So anyway, uh can you turn to slide number one? I had a question. Is is that I'm guessing is that

Sorry, go back one. that one. It almost looks like the San Francisco International Terminal. Is that an existing uh buil uh overcrossing? It is. It's in Belmont. I wondered about that. That's the Blue Bridge. Okay. Yep. Um do you know how much that cost? And is it, if memory serves, it was in the It was a while ago. Yeah. It was in the I think $30 million range. Okay. Um but again construction costs and what's the current projection what does she cost? I don't know that offhand.

I think as was mentioned earlier the Holly um I think the public commenter Mike Swire mentioned that the Holly overcrossing was funded by the TA and I think they put $85 million into it. I don't know that's the full cost. It's not I think I think Holly um for the long-term improvement I want to say it's in the hundred thousand um but I don't want to misspe just trying to get a perspective and how all the puzzle pieces fit together. How about the next slide? Is that an artist concept or is that does it looks like it's actually is that the Belmont bridge? No, that is the University Avenue pedestrian and bike overcrossing that recently had it cut. That's pretty recent. Yeah. And again, not do we know how much that cost? I'd have to get back to you.

It's okay. No, no big just again trying to get a a good perspective of of what's going on. Uh other cities in California have been down this road before. What have we learned? Is there any stuff we can pick up from other communities? Some problems that they've had that we can avoid generally or in terms of a specific type of project. How you how you do your job, how you process this, and how you advance this going forward. Have we learned from other people's mistakes?

Yes. Um and and personally, um I think that we are learning as we go through each project. Um and I think a lot of the learning has come about in terms of engaging the community and how you get um feedback and how you utilize that feedback. Um and so that's something that we're seeing throughout the county um is increased emphasis on getting out in the community and also um really innovative ways to get that community feedback. Um you know when I was first starting we which was a while ago um we did a community meeting and that was it. Um and that is nowhere near it. Just check the box.

Yeah. And so for each project we learn different things um and we learn different techniques that can be applied um to different projects like the Holly Street project um rather than just focusing on that future long-term bike and pedestrian overcrossing that's um a huge effort to design very costly to implement it is the long-term goal um but looking at what could be done in the midterm um is something that we recently helped San Carlos do in reinvisioning the existing overcrossing um at the same time as we were helping to develop the funding strategy for that long-term separated overcrossing and that's something that we hope to emulate um at different points in the county. Um so I think it's it's hard to answer your question because there is so much right it is a constant learning exercise but um the unique position that the TA is in is that we get to apply we get to learn a lot throughout the county and in different communities and apply that in different places. It's heartwarming to know that we have learned things. That's and that's a that's a really good thing. If you would slide number six, uh we just spoke about um sustainability. Um yeah, you had it a second ago.

Um so do you get involved does your department get involved with the actual nuts and bolts of building roads and building bike lanes and or do or do you just how do you fit into this? Uh the SMCTA has two divisions. Um I'm on the planning and fund management side. So I start with Mines's on a map and go up to about 30% design and then we have a project delivery side and they're more involved in the final design which is 30 to 100%. Um and then they're getting more involved in the construction side as well. Um so it is the um anticipation that they will be more involved in that construction side but also we partner with our cities um on funding on on um consultant assistance etc um to do that. So we're not out there doing the construction um but we do have project managers um on the delivery side as well. reason the reason I ask is something I've been um talking recently with uh director Fabry is we think about the in the small incremental lowhanging fruit of what we can do for uh greenhouse gases emissions sustainability and an idea I had was to look a little bit more deeply at um promoting right turn on red turns uh I live in a neighborhood where there's two lanes and people typically stop in the right lane because they want to go straight. And I look at the idling cars and I try and calculate real quick how much greenhouse gas in the last four minutes repeated daily. Is that something that you could include in your design criteria?

Uh in terms of having that be um a specific requirement if it's if it's technically feasible, would you would you go with a right turn on red? were it to be best practice by right industry standards but something like right turn on red we you know we're in this great op in this great position to assist and to partner with our cities we don't have jurisdiction over any of the juris ultimately is up to the local city staff um but in terms of requiring certain design elements um we do tend to require if it is industry best practice okay um and if we can point to that

because I'm trying to balance off with we're trying to expect homeowners to spend upwards of $100,000 to take their gas stoves out and water heaters and put in electric. All right. How much is it on this scale versus all the cars in San Mo that might benefit from a a right turn on red? I think it's it's cheap. It's just paint. Um it's something that you I just want to put it out there. Uh the other thing is with the bike lanes, would you consider would your department consider recommending advocating to move the parking uh positions if it's technically feasible and you have the room? Move it over slightly towards the traffic and make that a class 4 bike lane to make it uh if it's technically feasible, make it safer because my wife and I came back the other day down 19th and it was a two guys on bicycles. that looked like, you know, 20s, 30s biking home from work. They completely kicked our butt. They were just They were past Mariners Island Boulevard before we even got to the the Lagoon Bridge. They were just gone with the stopand go traffic with the gridlock. Um in New York, we used to call it blocking the box. Nobody can get through. I think for a lot of people, the future is going to be bikes. Um, we need and it's it'd be nice if we could figure this out sooner than later because if you don't have time to do it right the first time, you'll have to find time the second time,

which is way more money. So, my advocacy is is to let's, you know, I'm not a bike guy. I mean, just have my knees replaced so I'm not on a bike anytime soon. But for the aggregate, for everybody else out there, yeah, it might be a it might be a good thing. You know, Sacramento is mandating this exponential building going on and cities have really lost our democracy to have self-determination of what our city's going to look like. Unfortunately, they're not including any funds to how to get this done. I just learned recently that we can't pass the costs along to developers. There's a law that you can't do it. So, absent any magic magic wands, uh, you know, how are we going to do this? So, we're kind of counting on some good ideas, some uh, uh, I think that's on page two. Projects like the bridge. Um, can we include Foster City in the mix to maybe get some funding from them? Um, can we include some of the local businesses that would benefit from this? Whole Foods, the shopping center in Foster City where people would actually travel to to shop. It would be a benefit for the businesses. Have we ever thought about, again, I know I get accused a lot of thinking outside the box, and have we ever considered like the sports centers do naming the bridge after a corporation if they wanted to become sponsors or donors or um participate in in funding this? Just a thought. It it might not work, but it might it might work. So, um I think that's about it. Um I did have a question.

Can you elaborate on multimodal? I mean, I know what it means, but I don't know what it means to you. So, multimodal on on 19th, we're talking about buses, um parking rides. What's that going to look like for Hillsdale? Uh remains to be seen. Um, but Hillsdale currently has buses, bikes, cars, pedestrians. Um, no ferry currently. So, you know, we can probably leave that out in the mix. Um, but we would be planning for current modes of transportation and then um if there are any anything that could be foreseen. Um, but in terms of what multimodal means, it's every user that may use that roadway. Okay.

And how they get around. Okay. I asked a while ago at a different meeting about um 92 and providing public transit over the bridge and kind of I think the answer I kind of got was no it's there's just not enough demand. Any feedback from you? Any any observational stuff? Um not something that I have control over. Um but um I think from my un it would be the perview of the transit agencies um for each county and from my understanding there's no plans at this time. Right. That's that's what I've heard. Okay. Well, thanks for your time. I appreciated all the the great info. Appreciate it a lot. Thank you, Commissioner Verita.

Great. Thanks. Hi, Swellen. Thank you so much for the presentation. Um as always, really excellent work. So, congratulations on navigating that and getting all three plans approved. Four plans approved by your board. Um, it's a huge feat. Um, okay. So, questions. Um, I was curious to better understand the prioritization process um for the priority projects um in the plan. I did just now scan the 119 page mid mid county uh plan. I still don't quite understand it. So could you voice over how those projects were prioritized?

Sure. I have really good slides for this, but they're left out of this one. Um so each we um started this process for I'll I'll just talk about multimodal um specifically uh for multimodal by doing an inventory of all of the proposed projects for all modes within a mile of the freeway um which as you can imagine was a significant list and you source that from all the existing plans in the cities. Okay. Yep. CKG CALR local cities and then our bike plan, our ped plan, our safety plan. Best plan. Okay, great. Got it. Um many many cities had multiple plans. So, uh there's a full listing of what you've authored. Sorry.

Of which you've authored. Some

I guess I can blame myself here. Um so, we started with an inventory of all of the projects within a mile. And then um we screened that a little and combined projects that were similar um or you know in some cases like there was a bike project and pedestrian project in the same place. Um and so we still had a really long list um and then we went through a scoring process for that long list um in alignment with these uh sorry I'm looking at them the four goals um for the 101 corridor connect program. And as I mentioned, for each goal, um, there was an evaluation criteria or metric assigned to that goal. Um, so we were able to do a quantitative score, um, for each of those projects. So a score for safety, score for connectivity, a score for sustainability, and a score for inclusivity.

And according to the report, like not those four things were not weighed necessarily equally. It it seemed like some were weighed a little more heavily than than others.

Just a second. Yeah. Um, so first we did a raw score where all of the goals had the same waiting. It was just, you know, this is how many points. So then that list got reordered a bit. Um, then what we did was all of the feedback that we got for, in this case, the midcount multimodal strategy. Um, all of the comments that we got online, in person, and events, etc. Um, we assigned those each to a goal. um you know people said I want I want safer roadways or I want um to be able to access whatever. So we assigned that to a particular goal. Um and then the goal that had the largest number of comments was weighted the highest I think um given a waiting of three if I recall um followed by the other three goals in each area of the county. That waiting looked different um which was really interesting because we were able to see that community priorities differed um throughout. So those raw scores were weighted. So again, um there was a shifting in that large inventory of projects. And then also from the feedback that we got um when we were out in the communities and then doing the online um engagement as well there in each area of the county there were priority corridors um that you know time and again here um El Camino Hillsdale um that were mentioned over and over and so for each area of the county we identified um there's between five and six priority corridors um based on the feedback that we got and any project that was located on one of those priority corridors got an additional 20 points. Um and so that again reordered the list. Um and then the top 20 projects came out of that. So there was a raw score, then there was a waiting based on overall feedback and then there was an additional lump sum that was added um for priority corridors and then we cut the list at 20.

Okay, got it. Thank you so much for walking me through that. Um, and then from that list, I just looked at the the very cute fact sheets that were you made, which are very user friendly. Thank you. Um, could you repeat the purpose of those fact sheets? Like are they meant to be like outreach documents to the community or are they meant to be used for cities or Yeah. Like you mentioned there was a purpose to really pulling that out and providing that.

Yeah. Yes. To all of that. Um, so cities could use those in any way that they want to. um they could have a fact sheet about a project generally that that they have available. Um for grants, you can submit the fact sheet as just like a one-pager about the project. Um that often is um impactful and can help your your grant opportunity be more easily understood um as to what you're applying for and it also shows you you've put in some leg work. Um, it can also be helpful when um, as Matt mentioned or sorry, someone mentioned um, an earmark um, from congressmen um, Congress people and and senators and such um, when you're doing um, advocacy work at the state or federal level to be able to give a one-pager about a project. Um, so we've seen things like that be able to be used in that context as well.

Fabulous. Um, and three out of the 20 priority projects for the multimodal name Hills Hillsdale, two of which are in San Mateo and one of which is in Foster City. Um, is there like any, and maybe this goes to Matt, I don't I don't know, but like it seems like that seems really obvious like Hillsdale is a priority, but it's been like chopped up into three priority sections or projects, if you will. But a user of Hillsdale bike or ped probably transcends maybe two out of the three projects you know maybe even three if you're being ambitious from Alamita deas Pugas to like you know Foster city maybe. But I'm just wondering like what is the purpose of breaking it up and naming three on Hillsdale rather than just saying hey Hillsdale seems highly problematic. It is literally taking up like a sixth of our priority slots. we need to do something about it and that's just final, you know, like what was the justification for like doing taking up three slots versus just Yeah.

making a choice that this is something that's important. I can handle that. Okay, great. Thanks.

Um there are some projects that we did combined together. Um like if we hadn't El Camino projects would have been all top 20 in two out of the three areas of the county. Um, and so like holding space for the central El Camino plan, um, and the improvements that would be identified in there, we lumped those together as El Camino and that made sense. It was one corridor. For Hillsdale, we opted to keep them separate because there um, were improvements identified and locally adopted plans for the existing Hillsdale um, corridor and the existing overcrossing and infrastructure. And then there were also improvements that were identified for a separated bike and pedestrian overcrossing. And those are two very different projects um with very different paths forward. Um so for those two projects, we kept the existing roadway separate from the bike and pedestrian crossing. And then for the portion in Foster City, um that's a function of how it was identified in their adopted plans. Um because they do have bike and pedestrian facilities already implemented on a portion. Um, so the improvement in Foster City is a specific area. Um, so we did not feel that we could really lump it together um because the city had not identified that as a necessary improvement.

Okay, got it. Um, I'll have a comment on that later. Um, okay. So the um and then in terms of the mini grant for the for the 4 million you mentioned that if there's a multi-jurisdictional project that would potentially qualify for a million dollars of that 4 million potentially um through the in terms of is it all 60 of the projects are uh open for the $4 million mini grant or the top 20 that were written up in the fact sheets.

There's a top 20 from each of the three multimodal strategies. So that's 60 multimodal strategy priority projects plus the priority projects out of active 101. So there's a universe of 200ome projects that could apply for the mini grant program. Okay, great. And so and in terms of multi-jurisdictional uh within the mid county it looked like old country road was the one old county road excuse me was the one that was like multi-jurisdictional in in in the San Monteo area is in the city of San Mo area that's currently identified as multi-jurisdictional. there is opportunity, you know, going back to your Hillsdale example, to work with Foster City on the existing overcrossing um and do a

potentially pitch that as as u multi-jurisdictional even though right now it's articulated in the fact sheet as only Sam Nateo and CALR. Yes.

Okay, cool. Thank you. That's very helpful. Um okay. And then um going over to um just some of the the the data I just wanted to better understand some of the safety data and and recent collisions that the public comment from Mike Swire brought up that's not considered in the current you know reports and analysis and priority projects. Correct. Because it looked like the safety data came from 2024. Yeah, there is a lag in um incidents and then when that safety data is aggregated in databases um like in Ricks or something like that. And so we recognize that there are incidents that have happened very um recently, but you won't find those in databases that um aggregate all of that collision data. So like for grant applications, you're often looking like five years back or something, but you only have um data that's available to you um you know, it's 2026, so the data might be comprehensive up until like 2024, right now, 2025. Um there's lag between when um police and other enforcement authorities log those incidents and then when it's available publicly in that database. And so do you know if this intersection of Delaware and state is part of the active 101 South Delaware Street identified project then because that's where the collision hap the collisions have been happening right

I don't believe so I believe that um in the north central area it goes down Humboldt and then connects over to Norfol so I don't believe that that inter so the south del what's defined as south Delaware does not include that part south Delaware is the part that's like closer in in um the Bay Meadows area with the safer road. That's what I was asking. Okay. So, so basically what we're talking about when it comes to the um the recent collisions, that piece of Delaware currently is not represented in the prioritized multimmodal strategies in the city of Sonteo, nor the active 101 projects. Is that accurate? Um

I I think that's accurate, but I can't say for sure what's included. Uh but if your question is whether or not um that prevents us from moving forward on something for that intersection, you know, we are moving forward on near-term safety improvements at that intersection. Oh, awesome. Could you expand upon that? Sure. And it was identified as uh and I believe uh uh Commissioner Narita, this was one of the questions that you asked at the at the last meeting. Is this the quick build question?

Well, it was it was related to the tiers, I think, in the local roadway safety plan. So, Catherine did uh point out to me that we do have tiers within the local roadway safety plan, which I feel like when I did the search for it, nothing came up, but there there were tier one and tier 2 uh priority intersection locations. And so, Delaware and State Street was identified as a tier 2 location. And that's based on the safety data in terms of how many historical safety data though.

So, so it didn't rank as high as as our tier one, which I think is the top 10 uh highest priority locations based on safety data. um but it was identified as something that needed to to be addressed. And so uh with that particular intersection with all of our projects, we look at where our available pots of funding are. And so that was one project that we had already planned to move forward with our annual allocation of CDBG funds. Um but those funds I think are a little bit tenuous right now with the federal uh situation in terms of whether CDBG is continuing or not. So um and then we had the the tragic incident at the intersection. So we are going to move forward with doing quick uh improvements there which quick in this case is probably 3 to 4 months but we will will be putting out uh striping and delineators to narrow the crossing distance at that location as well as we will be putting in rapid rectangular flashing beacons at both of the um I believe it's east west crossings at that location which is the long lead time is for us to procure the the RFBs but so that will be the flashing button where you push the button and the lights flash. So, uh, we will be doing that in the near term and then in the longer term as, um, as we get the appropriate funding, you know, put in place for it, we'll be, um, putting in permanent, uh, curb extensions that narrow the crossing distance as opposed to it being quick build delineator, you know, striping and and and the plastic ballard kind of things. We will be making that permanent. Uh, as well as, uh, additional striping improvements. And I think we'll be changing the the crosswalks from high visibility white to high visib visibility yellow because it's in close proximity to the high school and it should be yellow crosswalks in that case. Um and Katherine correct me if or fill in if I'm missing anything else that we have planned.

And in the longer term to that is just um it's in our bike master plan as a project implementation for um bike facilities um from State Street to Peninsula. And so it's also going to be a segment that we're looking at together with the peninsula corridor uh multimmodal complete streets project. Um so in terms of looking at corridor you know we look at intersection strategies but then in terms of looking at corridor strategies that's also um a consideration and a comment that people have made um recently and so uh that's going to be part of a a future evaluation as well.

Great. Um it would be amazing like uh in that timeline we've mentioned whatever in the months once that's in process if that could be included in the bike ped kind of quarterly updates we get. I think that would be huge for the community to see that again to reinforce commissioner Renault's point about showing your work and and things like that. I think that's great. Thank you so much for bringing in all that detail.

Just on that point so through the chair. So, we have a transportation safety web page um which we recently kind of updated and um and it has a section in there for the Delaware and State Street improvements um which we'll keep up to date um with the improvements that are planned. Um it it also it's kind of a hub for some of our other improvements that we have in the in the city of Sonteo. Um and so it'll bring out, you know, some of those priority projects from our last bike pad update that we had. In addition, we're planning on putting A-frames out at the intersection itself just to let people know what's coming up um to explain the upcoming improvements. So, so those who are visiting the intersection can can know what to expect. And there's going to be a a changeable message sign um likely placed this week. That's great. Thank you so much for all that update. Glad I asked these questions. Um okay, great. So, uh back to you, Suen. In terms of uh you know me, I always like to talk about money. So, one of the things you talked about early on was that being a priority project um is beneficial because it could qualify you for different types of grants and you named the solutions for congested corridors program. Could you expand upon that? Like how much money is that program? Like what are the opportunities to get some of the stuff funded? Um stuff like that.

That's a SP1 funding.

Okay, that's the SB1 pro. Okay. Um, and I don't know, I think the amount changes year-over-year, so I don't have a figure for you right now. Um, but in addition to that program, in each of the multimodal strategies and in active 101, we've identified um a representative sampling of funding programs that each project um priority project is eligible for um just as a cheat sheet, if you will, um to help identify funding strategies for those projects. And in terms of the funding that the TA has available for multimmodal projects and active transport, you know, these types of things that is your expertise area, um, you know, what percent will be going to priority projects versus other things? Like is your in terms of your long-term strategic planning? Are you hoping that you know most of your budget will go to these 60 plus 140 equaling 200 projects um short list or or are there other things on the table that you guys are looking at in ter in terms of funding?

It's hard to say in terms of percentage. The mini grant program is being funded by measure A interest earnings. Um so it's not a portion of the measure A revenue that we um receive from sales tax annually.

That's very clever. Um so the with the um interest earnings we do have the flexibility of of creating um programs like this on a discretionary basis. Um for had a thought process and then I lost it. Um, in terms of the priority projects, we do intend to, um, in our regular funding programs that we already offer, our ped bike program, our TDM program, um, highway program, we do intend to offer, um, bonus points for projects that are one of the priority projects in 101 corridor connect um, or in any of our other corridor management programs in the future. Um so that's one way to prioritize but not necessarily restrict funding only to those projects. Um but I say that it's difficult to say because right now we have the um expenditure plan for current measure A that specifies the percentage of revenue that's allocated toward each of the program areas. Um but we are looking toward reauthorization of measure A. And so that expenditure plan would be revised perhaps significantly. Um, so it's difficult to say how this will look in the future, but right now we're using those interest earnings to fund the mini grant program, um, which is 4 million now and and could be additional later. Um, and then prioritizing funding for those projects with the bonus points in our regular funding programs.

Fabulous. Thank you for explaining all of that. Um, and then I guess over to to staff. I was curious to better understand. So, South Norfolk is identified as one of the top is it the sorry Suellen in your slide was for the active 101 was South Norfolk was at the top of your list. Does that suggest it's the number one city of San Mo active active 101 or was that not ranked like the other things were ranked? Active 101 was not ranked. Okay. Active 101 was not ranked. Okay, great.

Probably me going north to south in the list and but it but there isn't actually like feedback or an assessment that had list. Okay, never mind. My question is not relevant then. Great. Um, and going back. Um, and then, uh, I think my last I think my com Okay, I'm going to transition over to comments. Um, congratulations. I really think that this was really well done. I'm super impressed with the stakeholder engagement. It feels like you took some of the learnings from the city of Sanonteo experiences you've had and applied them here. I could see that in the work that you were doing and you had, you know, kind of piloted pop-ups when you were here with the city and you took that over um to the county. Um I am really impressed with the thousands and thousands of of pieces of feedback that you've got. I know having done similar work in cities uh across the nation, it is very hard to break into even sometimes the 500 mark on terms of feedback. So this is really really impressive and so congratulations um on that front. Um I think that you know some of the prioritization it's it's already moot for but for what it's worth one of the things in terms of the analysis that I gave me pause and might be something for to consider in the future is that you know there's one pillar which is one of the four pillars is inclusivity right and then that was actually in terms of the waiting the lowest weight like it was it was weighted as two points or two multiplier and then connectivity was weighted as three multiplier and then the other two sustainability and safety were in between at 2.5 2.75 and 2.25. Please be impressed because I just learned this like just now. Anyway, um but in terms of inclusivity, I think like that that gets that to me kind of evokes a bit of what Commissioner Renault may have been suggesting with regards to equity and inclusion when it's like how do you know that the people that you talked to are representative of the people who maybe need the need the infrastructure, need

the improvements the most. And if and if it's and if the result if the outcome is leading to a weighing of inclusivity to be the lowest weight of the four there might be something you know questionable about what were the inputs that went into that because to me the whole point of having an equity screen or the whole point of having inclusivity weighted is that it should actually be probably one of the most high highly weighted things because you're you're inherently trying to address things that are invisible to maybe a general public audience. ience but are highly important to those who are the most disadvantaged, right? And so if the weighing leads it to be the the the multiplier to be less, I think there's there's a pause there in terms of like what does that mean? And I'm I and it's moot now and I totally acknowledge that. Um but just for future um maybe there's a different way of thinking about that. um such that maybe that's not even weighed, maybe it's just prioritized or or something where um it really does honor the fact that equity and inclusion inherently should be prioritized and if we don't live that in our methodology, something is some something is slightly slightly arai um with the maybe the data input there. Um and then in terms of um you know I am a huge fan of the multi-jurisdictional um coordination. I think it's a huge uh design like boom that you are doing that when it comes to making it more money for um the 4 million if you get you can get a million if you do it multi-jurisdictionally. I think that's very meaningful. It's a huge signal to cities that they should coordinate. All of this bike ped infrastructure does transcend cities. People do not live by city boundaries and I think you're living that through that design of the grant. I hope that in the future that continues and then I hope city of Sanonteo, you know, takes advantage of that creatively. Maybe it's through um

to Commissioner Cran's point with the freeway. I'm all for the freeway overpass thing being a priority project and you know, could that be something that Foster City and Sano go in on? That's really helpful that you identified that as an option because um I do think we need to really think about the fact that we live in a region and you help us do that um through this type of work, right? And and um just because certain things show up in a plan, people live in a whole community and that transcends any singular boundary. Um so thank you for that. Uh that concludes my comments and questions. Appreciate it. Thank you. Uh, Youth Commissioner Scott, did you have something you'd like to add?

Yeah. Um, thank you so much for the presentation. Uh, like for my first question, could you navigate to the slide that showed like all the Samonteo like multimodal plans? Yes. Hang on one second. This one? Yeah. Okay. Um, I was just sort of curious, have all these or any of these like been designed and planned out yet or are these just areas like identified where like plans are going to happen?

Um, what we were trying to do in multimodal um was to only include projects that haven't been designed and um con definitely not constructed um that largely haven't been designed and funded. Okay, great. Thank you. And then also for the 4 million like dedicated to planning, is that going to be split up like among all three territories? And like do you have any idea of how that's going to be split up? Like is it going to be equally for each like each section?

We don't yet. That's a really good question. Um for million, you know, when when you're looking at a total of 750 or a million per project, um it it um won't be many projects that we're that we're funding. And actually when we went to the board to recommend the mini grant program, they asked if we could do more than 4 million and we said let let's start with 4 million and and see where we go. Um but we haven't yet um created the evaluation criteria for that mini grant program like you know when we get the applications how we'll do the scoring. Um so that's something I think I would have to follow up on after we do that.

Okay great. And then also for the multimodal strategies engagement statistics, you mentioned that like the survey with around 5,000 responses wasn't statistically significant. Um, I was just wondering if you think you would prioritize more resources into making more of like an actual study into like into like residents desires because it just I don't know it feels slightly irresponsible to not have like a like a really statistically significant like form of how you're measuring like importance. Just to to clarify, I didn't say it was not stat statistically significant. That's a big one. Um I said that we did not do the calculations to determine what

target we needed to reach. Um a lot of our cities, your your city included, do um do uh community surveys on a regular basis and they do aim to get enough responses to be statistically significant. Um and in order to do that for a more countywide effort would would be an enormous lift. Um but in terms of trying to get feedback from as many people as we could um we did you know in doing three different multimodal strategies we were able to iterate while and learn as we went and we changed our outreach strategies as we went um when we saw things that um weren't a good return on investment. So for example in the fir in the north county we did an online workshop that was not well attended. So going into the midcount we pivoted and did an interactive presentation that was available on our website and linked and had um a survey embedded in that and we got more feedback from that. Um so what we tried to do was learn as we go and expand our um universe that we were reaching. Um, we learned that targeted um, social media ads get a lot of feedback and are much more cost-effective than um, text blasts. So, you know, learning as you go and then um, trying to improve overreach plan in terms of how many responses you're getting. Um, but in terms of doing calculations to determine a certain threshold, that that was what I was intending to remember.

Okay, great. Thank you.

Thank you. I think you got a lot of great questions and thank you for really being able to respond fully on all of them. I have mostly comments. Um uh I also was curious about the $4 million and how it was distributed. So it sounds like it'll be pretty competitive across cities and um but I do think it's a a start. You know, like you said multiple times, you don't want this to just be a plan on a shelf and get this implemented. So, we do get to see get a lot of plan reviews here and I'll admit some of them do get a little boggled in my mind of keeping track. So, it'd be really helpful. I'd be really curious. I'm sure the commission would be curious to know which projects we do end up um applying for and and where that goes along its path, you know, if we get get it and so on because it is interesting how they need to be early in the design phase. And you know maybe even I I I would love to even hear the full picture of like how many projects were actually applicable you know based on where they are and and how many applied and if any got granted you know as it comes down the line.

Yeah we would definitely include that as part of our uh we have usually a section about grant funded projects within our our bike and ped updates to the commission so we can make sure that we include both you know what we've applied for and whether we've received any funding on that.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. And um because we did hear uh quite a bit about those four pillars and how they helped, I couldn't really tell on that um nice fact sheet you created. I don't know if it's in there, but that could be a good opportunity to sort of loop back on a project and state, you know, how these how that if it's there, ignore it. But if it's not, you know, it could be a good place to show like how these match those four pillars and um to what extent and so on to be able to, you know, when we look at the project, it's really clear to us. Um I think that may be it. Thank you. Did anyone else want to comment or were we Okay, it looks like

a capping capping off. If you have more to say, sure, Commissioner Cray.

So, I I I want to I want to leave you with this. Uh listening to Mike Swire earlier about an increase in frequency of accidents. I don't know if it's because people are more willing to uh make a report. I don't know, but it seems like we are we having more car crashes. Back in the day, not too far back, u pedal power was the only way you're going to get around by bike. Now we're having to navigate electric bikes with different kilowatt hour batteries and different class one, class 2, class 3. It's becoming a tool, a transportation, a legit transportation tool that we need to figure this out sooner than later. It's not a toy or it's not just something you buy for your kid. It's a it's a legitimate way of getting around. And in order to accommodate that in our beautiful city, we need to do what we're doing right here is is to figure this out sooner than later. And and yeah, I think we can do it. I have a lot of confidence in San Mo that we'll we'll figure this out. Okay. Thanks.

Yeah, I did want to add thank you for following up on the Delaware Street safety improvements and letting us know what's going to happen there. And I will be checking out that website, too. So, thanks for mentioning that. Otherwise, it looks like there's no motion to be made. So, I'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting. Oh, the reports and announcements. Sorry, you could tell where my mind was. Okay. Thank you, Sue. Allen. Okay. Any other reports or announcements?

Uh through the chair, I could just uh highlight just in terms of upcoming meetings. Um, I don't actually I don't think I got a copy of the latest crystal ball, but looking at the one that we had for last month, uh, I think for the May meeting, we are looking at getting a climate action plan progress update from Andrea uh, in the city manager's office. And then I believe we are planning to have a um, another item on the 19th Avenue Fashion Island Boulevard project in terms of where we are on on that design. Um, also I I don't know that we have anything scheduled for the June meeting, but we'll uh, we'll look at that and keep folks posted. I did also want to highlight that at the um upcoming city council meeting on April 20th that we will be giving council a preview of the both the operational uh budget for the next two-year cycle as well as the 5-year capital improvement program. So uh maybe something that commissioners want to tune into in terms of presentation on projects and what we're where we're proposing money for capital improvement uh program. Uh but that concludes my uh report.

Great. Thank you. I also have one. Um, so I think every day should be Earth Day, but um, this this month is Earth Month. Um, and specifically on the 25th there will be the um, Earth Day cleanup at Ryder Park um, from 9 to 12. So check that out. Um, you can volunteer um, to help clean up our community. Thanks so much.

Quick quick question for Matt. So, um, earlier you and I talked, but to give it, uh, some exposure, uh, where are we at with the with the wet well pump study and where are we with the, uh, dredging? Have we gotten any vendors to pony up and put in a bid?

Um, I'll look to Katherine, she can correct me if I get anything wrong, but I believe that the Marino Lagoon spot dredging project is still out to bid right now. So, we have not uh, closed the bid period. So, I I can't comment on whether or not we've gotten any bids. Um, and then in terms of the hydraulic study for the Marina Lagoon pump station, that project is underway and we expect it to be done, I think, in the June July time period in terms of uh the physical modeling and analysis. Okay, thank you.

I had just a couple announcements. So, we have the StormJ master plan um draft out right now for public review um and a couple community meetings um coming up and so that's it's on our website, but I'm looking we have one on um April 15th, so at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center. I think we also have a virtual one on um April 16th, so that's next Thursday. And then we have a community meeting for the Fashion Island Boulevard project that's at uh College Park Elementary on the 21st. and then a virtual meeting on the 23rd. So just for those you know who are listening I know or the recording who might be interested and participating in any of those um opportunities to engage. Oh and at the Earth Day event um Silicon Valley Bike Coalition Sonteo um Bike Sanonteo are working on like a celebration of the third in Norfolk um bike project. So, they're actually planning on having a bike ride. Um, I think it's going from Central Park over to um where the Earth Day event is. And so, they have some people signed up and um the city isn't organizing it, but it's a fun event. Um we're just making sure our our signal go in advance of that event on April 25th. So,

thank you. Okay, it looks like now we're ready. Sorry for jumping the gun there. Um, I'm going to my invisible gavvel adjourn the meeting. Thank you. Good night.