City of San Jose, CA Transportation & Environment Committee, 7 Jun 2021

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City of San José, California
Transportation & Environment Committee of June 7, 2021.

Pre-meeting citizen input on Agenda via eComment at https://sanjose.granicusideas.com/meetings.

This public meeting will be conducted via Zoom Webinar. For information on public participation via Zoom, please refer to the linked meeting agenda below.

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Council, member perales will not be able to make it today.

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um So can we have the role.

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Morales esparza, yes,.

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And davis here and I think foley just joined us.

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Thank you. Thank you. um It looks like we do not have any items to be added, dropped or deferred to review the work plan. We don't have any items on the consent calendar, so we will go to reports to committee. The first item is stormwater. Permit reissuance and I see both jeff and roger.

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Hey I'll go ahead and start sharing. My screen.

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Please let me know if you can't see the presentation, slides um I'll go ahead and get started, so my name is jeff sinclair I'll, be presenting today with my deputy director, regina, we'll, be discussing the status update of the reassurance for the municipal regional stormwater permit under the national gluten discharge elimination system.

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But first I'm going to start off with a bit of context on where our water goes, starting with indoor activities like photo. Flushing industrial wastewater.

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Those activities go into our sanitary sewer system, which is directed to our wastewater treatment plant that water is treated before being discharged into the bay, whereas outdoor activities, which is what this permit primarily covers, such as irrigation, car, washing or just rain water. These all flow into the separate storm sewer system which discharges that water largely untreated into our creeks and river.

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Before those uh motorbikes reached the bay.

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San jose is actually fairly unique. We have a lot of these crazy, 26, distinct, creeks and streams. We have 136 miles of these creeks and streams, much of which are in fairly natural conditions and support native fish and wildlife, and they also serve as an important community resource.

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So when storm water are these other outdoor activities and storm water is the same as frame water when they, when storm water falls and and hits impervious or hardscape surface, and it's unable to infiltrate or percolate into the ground, he'll run off into our storm drain system, as it does this, it picks up glutens like oils and grease metals from cars, pesticides and even trash, and it carries all of this pollution into our creeks and creates essentially a toxic cocktail for our fish and other wildlife, and it damages the habitat.

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As a result, there are regulations in place to prevent the stormwater pollution. The federal clean water act requires that states such as california operate national, pollutant discharge, elimination systems or npds permits, which california administers on a regional basis. So san jose is a part of the san francisco bay regional permit.

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This is a five-year permit that requires the city as a whole as part of their capital and operation programs to implement programs and policies to ensure that our activities, both on the public side and private side, do not uh create pollution or direct acquisitions into our freaks.

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Esd is responsible for tracking and reporting on those activities that our other departments largely implement. So our five-year permit term has been extended. It began in 2016 and it was extended till the next permit is reissued.

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It was a schedule, two laps on january, 1st 2021, but right now, waterboard staff are working on the uh the new permit and we've been in discussions with them over the past year and a half or so they're proposing changes that will greatly enhance the amount of effort that we will be doing to improve our creeks and water bias, but it will also put some constraints on our resources and so we'll be going over.

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Some of the major changes in the major provisions that they're proposing for the next permit that most recently have been shared with us through an administrative crowd.

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The changes are being proposed to uh primarily the c3 human redevelopment provision which I'll be covering the c10 threshold reduction provision which regime will be covering, along with the c12 pcbs provision and then we'll also be talking about a cost reporting provision and an unhoused water quality impacts. Provision which are new to this upcoming permit.

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So, as I mentioned, I'm going to start with the c3 new and redevelopment provision, so this regulates new and redevelopment. So when projects come in and disturb a certain amount of area, they're required to treat that.

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So what I've got on the screen here is a table that shows the current permit requirements along with the new proposed requirements and or the changes and then for the project type. So, under the current permit majority.

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Projects that are 10, 000 square feet or more of newly created or replaced and previous surface are required to include treatment. Water waterboard staff are proposing to reduce that threshold down to five thousand square feet, which will bring in more projects that will be regulated by this requirement. It'll also include the public right-of-way areas that are.

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Being redeveloped as.

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A part of that, if they are being developed as a part of that project, also improve treatment, so under the current permit, single-family homes are largely exempt unless they're part of a larger development, but on the new permit.

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If a single family home project creates or replaces 10 000 square feet or more impervious surface that where the storm water could run off, they'll be required to also roadway projects in the current permit already have requirements for treatment, but maintenance has largely been exempt in this next permit they're proposing significant maintenance projects that are an acre or more in size that largely just disturb the base they go down to the base rock below the pavement. Those are the projects that would essentially need to incorporate green infrastructure, as a part of, and so under.

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The current permit san jose developed our first brainstorm, our infrastructure plan, which provides a lot of the tools and guidance to ensure that gsi gets implemented on these different project types as well as uh initiated by the city like the grants, and so in the next permanent term. The water board really wants to see implementation occur outside of just these requirements, so they're requiring um 10 acres per the administrative draft, but they've indicated that that action may go up significantly with the final trap.

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So what are the impacts of these changes? Well, one thing is: we'll have a lot more green storm, our infrastructure, which is a good thing, because it'll improve our water quality in our creeks and also provide all the multiple benefits, such as increased urban greenscape, uh reduced heat ion effect, as well as improved air quality.

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99 of the projects uh 99 of green infrastructure in the city of san jose is a result of these requirements, but while there are some benefits, there are also going to be costs associated with the effect development services, estimates that it's about twenty seven dollars per square foot for green infrastructure uh as fire development projects and so they're now extending the right-of-way into these lower threshold projects.

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We also worked with dot to understand what the pavement maintenance requirement might be as far as an impact goes, and a conservative estimate shows that it could be 79 million.

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That would be needed for green infrastructure to be incorporated with these projects. Looking at three-year pavement maintenance program for those projects that are severely deteriorated, that they would need to restabilize the base rock, as I indicated in my earlier slide.

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So, with all these additional requirements, we also have the additional permitting associated with them, inspecting tracking and reporting. It goes along with that all of it takes time and resources.

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So I'm going to pass it along to regina on the rest of the presentation.

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Thank you jeff and good afternoon, chair members of the committee in public. My name is reggie mayer, deputy director of watershed protection, division and environmental services department. So the other provision in this permit that we wanted to highlight is a c10 trash load reduction.

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This specific provision requires a city to meet 100 percent target of trash reduction from the municipal storm sewer system. Today, the city has maintained compliance under this provision by implementing a combination of controls, we've installed, 32 large trash capture devices and also 138 inlet screens.

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We've established two bands that uh reduce hard-to-breakdown materials in our creeks, such as plastic bags and polystyrene. We remove over approximately 983 tons of trash. That's been picked up from last fiscal year within our waterways, through crete, cleanups and the council approved direct discharge plan, which was developed through an interdepartmental effort in partnership with housing parks and recreation, neighborhood services and environmental services department and, lastly, implemented several online programs that provided trash reduction credits since 2019.

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Under this current permit, the city has been able to exceed the 80 percent target in trash or reduction and still remaining maintaining compliance next slide. Please.

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So now, with the new permit, the water board is proposing to remove its existing credits for source control like the bag bans and the offset of the direct discharge program and crete cleanups that I mentioned in the previous slide, which will result in 35 percent reduction to the city's current percentage.

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If this happens, the city would be required to find and to fund alternative methods to make up for the lost 35 percent, so it can be ensured that the city can mean 100 production requirements for the permit and, ultimately for the city to be in compliance with the federal clean water act. This will likely include additional trash capture devices and various online programs.

G

When we met with the committee last fall, the water board originally said the deadline of 100 trash load reduction by 2022. As shown on this slide, they have proposed to shift the deadline back to 2025 and created an interim target of 90 by 2020 30..

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um The ex the other part of this particular provision that we want to highlight is existing and new. Private developments that are 10, 000 square feet or larger will be subject to also large full trash captured requirements on those sites, but a smaller version of the trash capture that we've installed in the past. As shown on the slide on the top left. It may also require programmatic activities, like litter, removal and city oversight, to ensure that the activities achieve full trash reduction, so what this may potentially mean in uh next slide clues.

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So what we evaluated the potential impact for this provision from an equity standpoint, the requirement has the potential to increase significantly new costs for local businesses to install a full trash capture device. The potential cost for design installation inspection can exceed over 133 000.

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Also, the impacts for the trash load reduction requirements on private lands will not be distributed equitably.

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We found that approximately 74 of the 1400 parcels that are 10 000 square feet are located in the three lowest median household income ranges according to the san jose equity atlas shown in the graph here um below and also on the map on the right shows where uh are highlighting the red parcels where they're located throughout the city.

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Next slide, please, so the next provision we wanted to highlight is c12 polychlorinated biphenyls commonly known, as are referred to as pcbs. Pcbs are toxic and exist in unhealthy quantities in the san francisco bay. As such, the water board has assigned a particularly high priority to pcbs in the permit.

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Since urban storm water is thought to be the primary pathway of new pcbs loads into the san francisco bay bay, wide storm water permeate keys are required to reduce pcb loads by implementing a variety of control measures that would include structural controls such as large trash capture devices and green storm.

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Water infrastructure, as well as programmatic controls such as street sweeping and inlet cleaning properties that are known to be sources of pcbs can be identified through significant investigations, and the administrative draft will require the city to increase the amount of investigation to identify more source properties to the water port.

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However, a challenge presented by waterboard staff is how to manage pcbs in areas where it is dispersed and not linked to a specific property. The administrative draft includes a requirement to implement pcbs controls in old industrial areas. That may have some concentration, but no clear evidence or unidentifiable sources of pcbs.

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This would be a county-wide requirement to address approximately 600 acres, much of which would fall within san jose, since majority of the industrial areas are in cities jurisdiction.

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This presents potential costs in the millions of dollars range that the city would need to spend to implement the control measures described and would impact public works, led gi, uh the green green stormwater infrastructure implementation and then trash capture device installations in addition to department of transportation operations and maintenance activities.

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Lastly, we, as jeff mentioned earlier, we wanted to go in more specific and highlight the two new requirements in the future.

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That's going to be permitted, um that's going to be included in the permit for cost reporting and unhoused community with regards to the cost reporting, while the details of the cost reporting requirements have not been presented, specifically, waterboard staff expressed interest in considering categories of costs to be reported, such as staff, consulting installation operations and maintenance, and some administrative costs permittees have proposed allowing more time in the next permit for a framework to develop with the water board, approval that would outline consistent methodologies, expectations and guidelines for collecting and reporting costs.

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With regards to the the other provision that they're, adding is the unhoused community, federal state and regional agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations, are expressing significant concern over the unhoused living along the waterways, which affects multiple environmental regulations.

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California, fish and wildlife and the federal clean water act do not allow anyone residing along creeks that could potentially include that could include, potentially our actual discharges.

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Waterboards staff are more concerned that the homelessness that can result in water quality impacts to local waterways and are exploring ways to incorporate requirements in the next permit to address these impacts.

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Ninety percent of the trash within san jose creeks originated, originate from unhoused community living within our waterways and, as I stated earlier, the city's direct discharge plan was developed in partnership with housing and the parks and recreation neighborhood services was intended to address this specific issue.

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They, the water board, is proposing for cities to take action and broadly track and report requirements related to homelessness data actions taken and interdepartmental coordination to help address those concerns.

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Lastly, in the next slide, please um so for the next step for the new permit, rollout staff will continue to participate in regional work group meetings with waterboard staff and other permitees to discuss potential changes for the next stormwater permit shown on this slide is the updated schedule recently presented by waterboard staff that may be subject to change.

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The tentative order will be another opportunity for a comment on permit language and there will be a board hearing which is tentatively planned for october of 2021. This is an opportunity for san jose to communicate directly with the bar water board prior to permit approval.

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The permit was planned to be effective july 2021, but then has shifted to july 22 2022, due to delays in its development. This is a new new change overall for the waterboard, because traditionally the permit would be typically a effect by january, but now the water board is moving this to align more to a fiscal year. The current permit has been extended until the next permit becomes effective.

G

So I just want to conclude that this is a conclusion of our presentation and thank you for the opportunity for us to provide the latest stormwater permit status, update, and I believe kerry is here too. So if you have any questions.

B

Thank you we'll go to members of the public. First there's one two people who have their who have their hand raised calling user one is first.

H

Well, I'm glad you guys are doing something about the waste. I mean it's about time. Right, like you focus on all these other issues, and now things are starting to come to a head, we're running out of water, sanitation's bad and you actually have to do something. It's amazing.

H

I wish that uh I wish that you put this much care into the rose garden, bathroom, making sure the rose garden. Fountain works, hey, hey dev! Are you listening and I mean, but I don't have a lot of hope due to how the city runs everything else: bad roads, bad planning, bad police department, slow response time from the fire department. Now you guys are you guys are in charge of the muck.

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I hope that you can do a better job than what you do with everything else, because you guys are failing as a city and a city that has a lot of money where it all goes. Nobody knows, but uh with all this new money coming down from uncle joe and auntie camella, I hope you guys can uh make sure that uh you know we're not drinking water with with feces in it.

H

But it sounds like that's: what's probably going to happen, because that's what always happens when this city is in charge of something it all goes to s-h-I-t. You know what I mean thanks a lot.

B

Thank you next speaker is mr beekman.

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Hi robbie quinn here, uh thank you for this item. Waiting for the clock to start here: okay, great hi, thank you, uh blair, beekman, here happy new week. um It was uh it's nice to hear from uh rajani again and uh it's nice to know where she's working now. This is the first time I've said her name or janie, and uh so thanks it was. It was nice to hear. Hopefully I've said her name. Okay, it's interesting to try to say her name or janie and so uh yeah.

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uh I wanted to comment, uh I think. First off, uh you know I'm trying to get over the what's happened with us to ourselves the past few weeks. It's been difficult, um I I, but I hope we can still bring up items. I hope you know we've gone through a certain amount of mourning and and from that we can start to bring up items again that uh we really need to talk about it. City, council and sometimes death uh makes things.

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It makes it difficult to talk about issues and we're so polite and want to be nice and not hurt anybody. It becomes difficult to talk. Hopefully we can talk about things because things need to be talked about, and uh so it's those good efforts. It's that positiveness. That actually can what brings us through at this time. So thanks uh there are um issues with this about uh green sustainability and that you'll you're gonna be building the future of uh you know local neighborhoods, using uh stormwater systems, and I think, there's a real question about.

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uh I mean real you're, gonna practice, green sustainability practices, which is really good and hopeful that I think everybody would is appreciative of. But there are questions that there's a certain gentrification process about it that may actually work to. uh I don't know um it may cause uh to take away the livelihood of certain businesses to to work on these stormwater green sustainability issues. I hope we all know the guardrails and what good practices are and trust each other to talk each other to each other about it.

B

Thanks, sorry about that, um my daughter just opened the garage door without texting me first, um so it looks like we can go back to my colleagues.

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um Do any of my colleagues have questions accept the report.

B

Second, thank you. I actually do have a couple of questions. One moment. I'm sorry.

J

Okay dev, while you're doing that. Do you mind if I ask a question a quick question: please.

B

Go for it! Thank you. Okay,.

J

Regarding the I guess it was, it wasn't numbered, but it was slide c3 regarding new and redevelopment and uh the 10 000 square feet as it relates to jeff. Thank you residential.

J

Is that a I heard one reference to the lot size, but when you first said it, I heard that to mean a construction site. So when you're talking 10 000 square foot of a single family, is that a lot size or the dwelling? That's pretty big house, but is it a lot size that you're talking about.

K

Jeff, do you want to just maybe review the um the different components of that it sort of gets a little bit confusing as we uh reference many different square feet and water and materials etc? So just have an important one. So thank you for asking.

D

Yeah no thank you appreciate it um so yeah happy to clarify it's uh not actually the lot size. So when we talk about square footage with regards to stormwater it's tied to the creation or replacement of impervious surface, so we're really focused on the surfaces that the stormwater is going to run off. So your lot size could be much larger, but if you're only replacing you know 2 000 square feet or you're only creating 2 000 square feet, then that wouldn't necessarily trigger that type of requirement uh with regards to impervious service.

D

So the 10 000 square feet is for newly created impervious service or replaced impervious services. Part of a redevelopment project.

K

And so jeff is a building. Does a building create an impervious service.

D

So impervious services would include yeah, absolutely so buildings the parking lots any of these hardscapes or the pathways.

J

Okay but you're, saying 10 000 square feet for a residential lot.

J

That's if you're talking dwelling and parking, that's a big house. That's a big house! That's single story right! I just want to call. I mean.

C

I'm trying to understand.

J

What what properties will be affected by this additional cost and what and and uh requirement, and what won't- and it sounds like most of the parcels in single family in the city of san jose, will not be will be exempted because of their size. Is that.

D

That's correct so you're right. The roof area is what we're we're talking about the surface that the rain is actually going to be falling on, so that would include the driveway or the roof area and it's going to impact only those very large impervious surface areas, so the large houses. This is a regional permit. So it applies. This requirement applies to cities throughout the bay area, and so it will impact cities differently, but for san jose it likely won't impact or won't impact. The majority of single county homes.

J

Okay, so just so, I can completely understand this in in my little brain when we're covering the surface with anything other aside from vegetation grass, that sort of thing that's what you're talking about that's where the square footage is calculated based on you know it could be concrete in your driveway or your garage.

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That's that sort of thing, whatever we're we're, paving paradise right, so whatever we're paving over or or encapsulating away from affecting the ability from rain water or storm or rain water to say to sink into the ground, and I know those are not the technical terms. Those are my terms that I'm that that's where we have to be concerned and that's how the calculations are done. Is that right? Okay, good! Thank you! That's it for me,.

B

Thank you for saving me council member fully, um and those were some of my questions too. So it was very helpful. Councilmember cohen.

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Yeah, I was gonna, ask questions on the same topic, so just to be a little bit clearer. If somebody were paving over their yard to put in a parking area in their front yard, it would have to be more than ten that more than ten thousand square feet to incur the requirement.

A

The requirement is not. Is that a fee, or is that a mitigation or something they would have to do as part of the work.

D

So if, if someone's bathing over their front yard yeah, you would have to it's, a single family home project would have to trigger that that square footage. They would have to pave it, an additional ten thousand square feet of their yard and the requirement is to prevent the pollution from running off.

D

So it won't necessarily be a fee, but it's gonna actually be implementing control measures like a rain garden or a bioretention facility to catch the water and then infiltrate it through a soil structure that will treat the water before it infiltrates into the ground in the native soil or being sent into our sperm grain system. So it's essentially.

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So there's some treatments, for example, of paving which are are using bricks, as opposed to or pavers, as opposed to concrete, due to the fact that it can drain between the pavers. That would be a mitigation it could be designed in a way that's not affecting the or not causing rain water to run straight off onto the street. Is that am I understanding that correctly.

D

Absolutely yes, there's permeable pavement so that it is no longer impervious. It allows that water to infiltrate, as you indicated, and that would qualify. Okay.

A

So but this sounds like it will mostly affect like lar, if you put in a new development and you have a big parking lot or if you put in a building that takes up a lot of square footage, then you'd have to you know, build in ways of capturing that rain, that runoff in appropriate ways.

A

Yes, okay and then um uh oh the other question. You said about replacing too. So, if you were, does that mean when they repave a parking lot or if or every driveway gets resurfaced? Is that what that means by replacing.

D

Yeah, so that that's a really good question when we talk about replacing uh we're talking mostly about removing the pavement, so it wouldn't necessarily apply to just paving over an existing parking lot if you were to remove a building and put in a parking lot or build a building on top of a parking lot, you're changing the type of impervious service, you're, replacing a parking lot with a roof structure, and it's those signs of projects, those types of impacts that would trigger this requirement.

A

And then you had an estimate of 27 per square foot that you that you think it costs. That's just a basic calculation you've done about what you think the mitigations would cost a developer, for example, as they do the work.

D

Right we worked with development services who came up with that cost estimate, that's what they apply to the green infrastructure.

A

Yeah, okay, okay, thank you, and so I mean ultimately there the this is out of our control. Right I mean this is going to be something that will be imposed on the city. Is the city taking a position? Is the city advocating in one way or another? Are we just getting? Are we just getting a report here as to what's coming down the pike.

K

I think it's it's a balance of both so wanting to share with you all kind of what we see them as coming our way. Some of them are more favorable than others. I we do agree that there needs to be improved efforts to improve the water quality, so I think that is definitely shared and we support anything that leads in that direction and some of the changes around the credits we're not supportive of the bag ban.

K

We think our work around homeless encampments have provided positive results in the waterways, and so we are continuing to as jeff and regina indicate we're continuing to advocate for those not to be phased out, because we find them effective and we find them to have mutual benefits and for our community um and so wanting to hear from you all.

K

You know if uh what you, what you kind of, how you feel about our position on things and just know that there are going to be additional costs and but, as jeff and originally indicated, we do believe most of the extra cost is going to improve water quality.

A

And I would say that we ought to be promoting the use of new kinds of materials and and construction that provides um ways for water to drain through our surfaces and not create runoff. So this is an opportunity for us to try to do things better in more environmentally sound ways.

A

So I'm we ought to be now figuring out. What? What is it that we're going to promote and ask for when, when people are doing these kinds of developments, and even for our residents, who aren't necessarily doing 10 000 square feet, we ought to be encouraging certain kinds of construction in their front yards as they pave over and put in these new parking lots and things so that they're using um you know, penetrable surfaces that will be better for the environment.

K

Thank you. Those are great ideas and what we'll do is we'll work with our um outreach and with pbce to also ensure that, as folks in come into city hall, to to talk about development that they're not only seeing what's required, but some of our more environmentally favorable options.

A

All right great, thank you.

B

Thank you uh carrie correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we already have um requirements for at least single-family homes, if not other residences, about how much like greenery you have to have in your front yard. You can't just pave over your front yard if you want to, is that? Is that correct? I know that's more of a code enforcement question, but I think you might know the answer.

K

um Well, I I'm not sure for every part of town how how the land designation applies, but the uh the city does have requirements. So yes, you're right, the city does have requirements in terms of whether or not you can make your front yard a parking lot um or or not, but um jeff. Let's, uh let's connect up with pvc and make sure that we're making that link in our conversations and so that we're just reinforcing those messages along the way, because I'm not certain of those limits.

B

I'm pretty sure you have to have at least one tree in your front yard unless you're on a corner we're on a corner. I think the requirement is three trees. um If you live on a corner, something like that and and there's a certain percentage of your of your yard that has to be greenery is my understanding.

B

um I don't think that's changed since I it was before I got on council that I learned about that when we first became homeowners, but um I don't. I don't think that that has changed, so I don't think that people can just pave over their front yard if they, if they wanted to. I don't know how artificial turf um falls into that. So that'd be kind of interesting to know, but um probably not here here nor there.

B

For this this item I was wondering about, um and I appreciate the the questions, especially on the 10 000 square feet. I was going to ask about that. um The question for roadway projects when we're talking about one acre with replacement down to base on the on the c3 slide, how many miles of what does that mean exactly so we normally say road miles and and when we're calculating acreage, I'm assuming that that's a surface area.

B

So if it's a 30 foot or a 60 foot road, how long is that and how many miles of of pavement do we think that that, like how much do we have in the budget to do that down to base.

K

Jeff you're our lead mathematician. Can you uh can you run us through that uh that storm order math.

D

Leave me oh boy: well, they wouldn't have told me that in high school, so really the way we're looking at this is you're right, surface area.

D

I don't know how that is looked at on linear miles, but we're looking at the roadway width and then, if we're looking at that from a linear mile, I can give it to you in the perspective of a project, for instance between um the pizza hut in your district, where there's a bio retention facility and the um school, the elementary school and the conservator or that yeah. That's essentially one acre of treatment.

D

When you look at one half of the roadway, the one half of that roadway, and so if you treated both sides, that would be about two acres. So we're looking at a couple.

B

D

uh A couple streets basically.

B

Rick scott wants to help you out is that okay jeff, oh.

D

Please thank you.

L

I was happy to be on here for another item, but um I I can't question jeff's math uh yeah, I'm sure he's he's got me there.

H

L

One thing that I wanted to clarify is that disturbing the bass uh distinction is incredibly important for our work, because most of our work does not disturb the base, including most of our resurfacing work. So you know, I think, to your point about the budget.

L

You know I I would not say we expect a major impact at this time to the paving work that we're doing based on this permit. um So far from what we've seen. So I don't know if that was kind of what you were getting at with the question, but um that that is kind of our perspective on it. I think.

B

Okay, so will it impact so it sounds like the resurfacing. We don't disturb the base when we're talking about the 300 million that we have from measure t for our worst neighborhood streets. Is that where we get into this needing an additional 79 million for roadway maintenance for the um for the green storm, water.

L

Probably not, I will say that that of the 300 million that we spend on resurfacing. Most of that work does not. The vast majority does not disturb the base, um so I think the 79 million estimate is based on a hypothetical in which we would be disturbing the base and kind of getting down there. That's not most of the work that we do uh for for pavement maintenance within the city, so I I would imagine the impact at least on that particular type of infrastructure would be less than than what is presented here.

B

Okay, and does it have to be proximate? So if we were, I guess, I'm thinking of the areas that are at least in willow glen, that are, they have to go down farther when they have to redo the street, where they're not just resurfacing but they're actually repaving. Does that disturb the base and then do? Does the stormwater project have to be there or or could it should it be in a place that has greater need for other issues like urban heat, you know urban heat effect.

L

I don't think I can answer the second part of your question. I mean, I imagine, there's a mitigation. You know that could be in place. But again I can't answer that piece, but I can. I can definitely confirm that even in kind of the worst streets in willow glen, we rarely disturb the base.

L

I I could provide a list just for like an idea of how how rare it is, but it is not typical at all for the kind of paving work that we do maybe like a new street would be an example where you're creating a whole new street. That might you know there might not be a street there at all, okay, but but just kind of grinding off those top layers and putting on a new layer of asphalt, which is what most of the measure t work is, um would not comprise disturbing the base.

B

Okay, then, I guess I'm wondering where that 70 million 79 million dollar estimate came from.

K

So now we talk about um about how the cross departmental team came up with 79 million as a as a estimate.

D

Yeah absolutely so we worked with the pavement maintenance program to define uh what potential projects could be impacted by the current uh language being proposed in administrative draft which at that point, was just disturbed down the face. So uh when we looked at that, we didn't know for sure what that was going to encompass so dot focused on the lowest scoring pci scores and then and then, as rick indicated kind of, took that hypothetical worst case scenario and said. Okay, we need to disturb down the base as we do as is done in some cases.

D

As I understand for those lower scored pcis, then that would potentially trigger.

B

uh That amount of cost okay, so over what number of years is that 79 million dollars estimate.

D

And so we looked at the three-year payment maintenance program, and so that would be estimated over that time frame, and I should also clarify that the cost estimate was not developed by ufc. That's actually a regional estimate uh that was done for the for the bay area, modeling, and so that's where we tied the dollar number to the amount of street.

K

So jeff safe to say with um rick's much more optimistic view than some of the pavement maintenance folks and then um also sort of acknowledging the the regionality of some of the estimates sounds like 79's worst case, and it will be significantly less than.

D

Yeah it, it would be safe to say that that's a worst case scenario and it could potentially be significantly unlikely much less.

B

Okay, that's helpful to know and then um makes me wonder if the 27 dollars per square foot for development is also a worst case scenario. So I appreciate that um I I did want to comment on the um proposed removal of the credits. I think that especially the crete cleanups. I don't even understand why they're wanting to remove those credits, um it it's work that we find very necessary and I don't know that we would find it less necessary and to not get credit for it.

B

I just honestly, I don't even understand why the only thing I could think of and and and please let me know when they're talking about these new requirements for unhoused- are they talking about um the actions taken to address homelessness and the inter-departmental coordination potentially giving credits for that work and that they saw that as sort of a replacement of the credits for the creek cleanups? I guess I'm.

B

It wasn't clear.

K

Yeah, my so we've um we've done quite a bit of engagement with um with the water board on this topic, and we've spoken at a number of their of their hearings on the matter, because we feel very strongly that particularly now we ought to um approach these efforts with things that provide the most benefit to the community and right now, helping the homeless provides benefits to the greek and that same dollar provides benefit to our um our unhoused population and, and unfortunately, they didn't agree with us.

K

In that perspective, and my sense is that their perspective is um the waterways are not looking good.

K

The current approach is not working so um so, while the creek cleanups are beneficial they're, not resulting in cleaner water, and so I think that's really where they're saying we need to do something different, um we're not averse to doing something different, but um but I just really think we need to. um We need to again provide that dual benefit, and so we'll continue to advocate for that. um But um but we don't, we do think it's going to change.

B

That that the credits will be removed for that.

K

That the credits will be removed and that bill we're, seeing enhanced um efforts to uh ensure that homeless are not along the waterways and are not um not um illegally discharging into the waterways, and so we need to step up our efforts in that regard.

B

Do our beautify, sj trash and hygiene services potentially cover some of what they're talking about.

K

They do not so so those services and, while they're helpful to the unhoused community, they do not result in material not being discharged.

K

So when, when people are living along, the waterways and they're, washing their dishes in the creeks they're bathing in the creeks and and unfortunately, at times, they're also ingesting the water in the creeks, which is not the healthiest water. For um for people to be doing any of those activities in. But the trash collection and hygiene services are are not adequate to protect our waterways.

B

Okay, um thank you, but.

K

They certainly were helpful during code.

B

Certainly um so you had talked a little bit about this being a regional permit and the and the process roger about um the draft and the and the permit being extended.

B

Does that if it's a regional permit, are we in working in coordination with other municipalities on our on our comments and our lack of a better term lobbying for the terms of this permit.

G

Yeah we we work uh throughout various um agencies or other entities within the santa clara county, so it's an acronym scuber, I'm not sure. If the community, uh the committee is familiar with them, so I.

B

G

Know that one yeah there's many acronym acronyms I've been learning in this uh in.

M

G

Field so um jeff break it down. For me, it's santa clara valley, urban runoff prevention.

D

Prevention program, yes,.

G

Yes, so, uh and and we're working in tandem with cities like from palo alto to milpitas um and then monster reno down south, so it it's quite a few, but uh particularly what kerry's talking about. What's unique for us in san jose is a lot of the activities that do occur in our waterways, which is not common in other cities. So that's why we really push hard and advocate for you.

N

Know the direct discharge.

G

Program to be honored specifically for our city, okay,.

C

B

You um that's it for my questions. I appreciate you taking the time to answer all those just trying to understand.

B

Exactly what's what's going to happen with us and what the what the potential impact to the budget is, I'm glad it's not 79 million um that that's a worst case scenario, but given the last year, I never discount the worst case scenario anymore. um I think we are ready for the vote.

C

B

I esparza yes cohen,.

O

B

Davis, yes, thank you. Thank you. That motion carries and we will move on to item d2 regional transportation activities quarterly report. Ramses. Do you want to start us off? I also see jessica.

P

This one's uh justin's here.

Q

Yeah actually, council, member john russo director trump john there you are, we've got the next three items. Thank you, and uh first up is actually the transportation activities which is really more about projects that are going on uh jessica, zenk, deputy director and designer goes out our division manager going to take the presentation. So we've got a lot of information, so I will get out of the way and let them proceed.

N

Thank you so much and good afternoon, uh city, council, members and chair davis, um please next slides are here all right. This is our quarterly update on the regional activities that are underway in the transportation space.

N

uh In your memorandum on this item, you have a full listing of the projects that we partner with whether those are highway projects, rail projects, transit projects with vta, caltrain, high-speed rail, the bart project, and today we are going to focus on our highway projects that we partner with vta and caltrains on caltrans on zaheer is going to start with a general update on the regional highway projects that are our priorities under vta's measure b.

N

But we are going to focus on the two highway projects that are beginning the the construction phase in one case and under construction in the other. So next slide.

N

The goals of our regional highway program are to modernize our major infrastructure. Many of these uh interchanges or systems were constructed.

N

You know three four five six decades ago and that shows in how people use them or want to use them very differently. One of the things that we note is a lack of safe and direct connections between parts of san jose that have been divided by the freeways that came in in the 1950s 60s 70s and 80s.

N

We're looking, in particular to connect the trails and the major places that people want to go on foot and on bike, where it's often very, very difficult to access across those freeway barriers without a without a car, and we're also always utilizing our complete streets, design standards and guidelines and looking for the most high quality separation from cars for people who are biking or walking whenever that's feasible and you'll see that in the two projects that are under construction soon or underway.

N

Right now, with this, I'm going to turn it over to zaheer who's, going to finish the presentation, and then we will all be available for questions see.

R

Here, thank you jessica good afternoon. Can everybody hear me great.

D

Yes, thank you good.

R

Afternoon, chair committee, members and members of the public, my name is zahir. Gozada, managing the regional and local project grant delivery division.

R

Today, I'm going to provide you a very brief update on our regional program and then we'll focus on two projects that the u.s 101 blossom hill interchange project currently in construction and the us 101 trimble, dela cruz, interchange, project, which is completed final design on the other regional projects. More detailed information can be found in the regional section of the tne report, the maybe a road product in a road interchange project and the zenker uh 101 over crossing project, as well as the charcot avenue extension project and the 280 winchester boulevard.

R

Interchange projects are all in various stages of project development and us and some will be moving into final eir and others will be starting final design of the project. All these projects are listed as part of the measure b highway program and will provide funding for the construction phase of the project. Again, additional detailed information can be found in the regional highway section of the.

R

Report I can change my screen.

R

Focusing on the us 101 blossom hill interchange, improvement project, I'm so excited to. Let you know that this project is in construction and is the first san jose project, funded by measure b, highway program to go into construction.

R

The design of this interchange project is not the typical vehicle-centric focus imaging, but is designed in a way to provide safe access for bed bikes at the same time addressing the congestion and operational needs of the area.

R

The scope includes the construction of a bridge structure over 101 between two existing blossom hill road bridge decks to accommodate the addition of one vehicle lane in each direction, including the median island as depicted in the yellowish tan color running along the center.

R

The unique feature of this of this project is the installation of the class 1 separated bicycle pedestrian structure, starting on the right side of the slide. The enhanced class one biped facility, as depicted in green, starts at coyote creek trail on the east side of 101 from there the pathway climbs along blossom hill crossing over the northbound on ramps and joining a long blossom hill road bridge structure.

R

But once on the west side of 101, the class 1 facility starts to descend back to and goes through to undercrossing.

R

And the first under crossing is under stop uh the southbound loop on-ramp and the second one is the southbound um off-ramp as depicted in the white box. The design of the two bike pad under crossing structure was chosen to maximize the natural light by providing openings between the two structures creating a safe and comfortable facility for all users.

R

From there once the crossing is completed over all the freeway facilities. The enhanced wide pet facility will continue down to monterey road with a new sidewalk connecting san xander's crossing on the west side of 101, as shown on the right side of the slide.

R

So let's so what's happening as part of the construction, you ask.

R

Well, I'm happy to report that the construction has been very going very well. I want to bring your attention back to the under question depicted in the in in the white box. In the previous slide, we have completed one of the two under crossing structures there.

R

These images excuse me. These images show the construction of a pedestrian bicycle under crossing structure that goes under southbound 101 off-ramp. A similar under crossing structure will also be built underneath the southbound loop on-ramp.

R

We are also in the process of completing the new bridge structure over 101 between the two existing blossom hill road bridge decks to accommodate the additional lane and medium.

R

The image the the excuse me, the image on the on the left- shows the rebar prep work for the bridge deck. The carpet of steel gives the strength and flexibility to these bridge structures and are designed to carry thousands of vehicles per day with withstanding the shakes of california's severe earthquakes.

R

The image on the right shows the cons, the concrete bridge that mostly poured and being sprayed with water to cool as it as it cures an interesting fact. No, we did not forget for the segment that you see to the left. This is where the new bridge deck meets the old or existing bridge prior to completion. Completing this final part of the concrete pour there is a waiting period for to monitor the deflection or movement of structures, as the concrete pore is cured, as as as it is, poured and cured.

R

Once there are no movements detected for a certain amount of time. The completion of the debt closure will be done. The waiting period course for that has since completed for the for this particular test, and the completion of the court is estimated to occur in about two weeks.

R

Lastly, I wanted to share the construction of the soil nail wall, location between westbound and northbound 101 on-ramps.

R

The picture on the left shows an early stage of the wall construction. The basic method consists of a large nails that are grown into the soil and anchored with grout and and then connected to the steel net that you see there.

R

This will become part of the wall holding back the soil, as shown in the picture to the left the work, the workers are installing false work for the next phase, which is the steel reinforced concrete wall pore. You see that face partially completed in the picture to the right.

R

The wall features architectural treatments with an oak leaf motif that the community helps select representing the nearby community coyote creek area. The project is proceeding as scheduled with expected. Completion by early 2023 total project cost is estimated at 42 million in construction.

R

The final project that I want to focus on is the us trimble, dela cruz uh interchange project, which proposes to reconstruct the 101 trimble, roadway de la cruz, interchange and replace the bridge over 101 with the wider structure to boot traffic operation. I'm happy to report that the trimble projects completed design and received the necessary encouragement permits from caltrans to construct the project. This project is administered by vta, with oversight from the city vta advertised a project in his open bid.

R

Just last wednesday, the project will be awarded to the lowest bidder pending them meeting all the bidding requirements. One thing to highlight here is that we applied and received a 25 million sb1 funding grant given. This is also a measure b funded project. This is potential savings of 25 million to measure b, highway program.

R

As with the 101 blossom hill interchange project, the use, the us 101 trimble project also uses unique design, features to provide enhanced bypass facilities across an otherwise busy vehicle-centric interchange.

R

Some of these features are pictured here, such as the open air under crossing the artwork on the side of the walls in the unique spiral, design, path for bed and bike facilities uh for both pad and bike, to avoid major at-grade um crossings and within the spiral. If you can see that it's about right here, there is a staircase for able bodies to take a shortcut if they do not want to use the spiral.

R

As shown in the green, the biped facility will start at the guadalupe river trail on the east side of 101, represented here on the right side of the picture. The enhanced bike facility will cross de la cruz boulevard and at the and at the short and the short crossing at the northbound on ramp.

R

Then the path will climb with trimble road profile graveling along the trimble bridge there to avoid the major on and off ramps at the great crossing, both the staircase for both a staircase for a able bodies and ada compliant spiral ramp, as mentioned and pictured in the previous slide, will be built.

R

The staircase and spiral will both lead to under crossings structures to avoid the southbound on an offering, as with blossom hill project. These under-crossing structures are designed to allow lots of natural light and comfort to provide comfort and safety for users from the under crossing structure. The path will continue and connect with existing blackpet facility.

R

The project is expected to be completed by late 2023, with funding coming from measure b and sb1 grant. This concludes my presentation. Thank you. So much for your time. I will turn it back forward to jessica and okinawa for questions.

B

Jess, did you have something you wanted to add? No just.

N

We are here for any of your questions and and the public.

B

Okay, we'll go to members of the public. Now uh roland is first.

S

I'm robin not roland, but okay um good afternoon. I would like to briefly comment on the charcoal update in the staff member. I appreciate that staff is looking into alternatives in the project, but let me note a few things: if I counted correctly, there are now 13 or even 14 different projects, alternatives that have been discussed in various documents over the last few years, but there's a common thread to all these alternatives.

S

Staff has proposed a number of alternatives that would lead to thousands of additional calls. Next to orchard elementary school. The community has proposed a number of alternatives. That would not do that. So let me emphasize over the years staff has come up with eight different ways of putting thousands of additional cars into a school zone.

S

I've bit my tongue a lot over the last three years. So allow me a moment to be frank. Putting thousands of cars next to a school is ridiculous. It doesn't matter if you go in front of the school or around the back, it's wrong either way it doesn't matter if the school is in north san, jose, downtown willow, glen or anywhere else.

S

We all agree: we need to try to get cars out of school zones instead of causing more traffic and, let's be clear, we're not talking about an apartment building, adding a couple of hundred trips a day we're talking about 10 to 20, 000 cars each day. Putting more cars next to school is and will remain ridiculous. It is wrong and it will continue to be met with vigorous opposition from the community.

S

We've been very patient with staff, letting them work through their eight different alternatives, all of which are offensive to the community, but it is time for staff to recognize that their alternatives are not working and not wanted, instead of fighting each other, which is just a waste of time and money, and I would like to remind the committee that staff has spent over a million dollars in consultant fees alone on this project. Instead, let's work together to focus on those alternatives that don't put children in harm's way.

S

There isn't a point in dragging this on for another three years or longer. Thank you.

B

Thank you next speaker is.

B

B

E

Okay, I wasn't muted somebody muted, my game anyway, um so thank you ever so much uh for bringing um the us 101 blossom meal, interchange back to council for further discussion, and I believe, enlightenment, to people not familiar with that part of san jose, um but rather than me, you know ramming on a monitoring. It would be possible to go back to either slide five or slide number nine and through the tray.

E

If staff could help members of the community who live down, there understand how they are supposed to be negotiating the connectivity or lack thereof between the blossom mill, caltrain station and coyote creek.

E

Especially specifically, if you look at the bottom of the slide, you see right right below the loop and there is a road on the opposite side of a 101 which is known as fall road, which is the the connection to the caltrain station. That's that's where the monetary highway overpass is that takes people into the station and how we get to the junction between ford road and monterey highway and whatever it is that staff are building down there.

E

It's a mystery to us and in any enlightenment would be most appreciated. Thank you. So much.

B

Thank you mike speaker is blair beekman.

I

Hi, uh this is blair beekman uh once again, I'm sitting on the floor to speak this time. I've been sitting on my floor recently and speaking public comment time. uh To also note, uh I think it's uh rajani, maybe that's how to say her name, I'll, learn how to say her name eventually, and uh but it's it's it's a nice name to say it's. It seems that I can have many variations so I'll get it right sometime uh for this item. This item is very similar to the next item.

I

uh I wanted to mention that you talk on this item I'll mention the bicycle things uh and housing actually on the next item for this issue uh to concentrate on kind of more regional things. uh There's the eastridge transit corridor, light rail things, uh caltrain chsr.

I

uh You know I hope we can make an effort to really respect uh what the east rio, uh east ridge light rail project can be. I think it's really we kind of hit kind of a just, a dull point with the project and I'm interested how we can kind of kind of give it a little bit of life and happiness at this time.

I

What we can do to do that, because it seems like a good guy, a good project and uh to work that out, it's been a long time in the making, so hopefully we can figure something out with that um with the chsr project. To be perfectly perfectly honest, I think it's time we really have to respect that.

I

It's very possible. You know in in the coming years that the first chsr is going to be coming through using the ace uh light rail system or ace rail system, and we have to get used to that fact and they're going to build it. You know through the central valley first and use the israel system and then 10 to 15 years later, when san jose finally develops its political will, then possibly you can come into san jose, but we have to learn how to be open about that subject matter.

I

B

Thank you, I believe it's pronounced rogery next speaker is calling user one.

H

Yeah, this is the same city council that wants to get. You know, have road diets everywhere, they're getting a road diet on blossom hill road down to like one lane to get into this thing, they're already starting on hillsdale, everybody wait for all the traffic and everything you're going to see soon. Now you guys need to maintain the roads that we have and uh trying to reconfigure 101 boston. You know that should have happened a long time ago.

H

You guys messed around with it before now, you're going to mess around again it's going to be a mess, it's going to be traffic, and you know once again, is it going to be more road diets? Can you guys maintain the trash like you don't on highway, 280 and 87, and all that massive stuff? It looks like a garbage dump. I wonder if this is gonna be the same thing, but we'll see we'll see if this mass transit uh fantasy ever happens. It won't.

H

I mean those poor people who were killed the other day I mean they haven't even been able to reopen light rail or there's not enough buses to cover, and uh it was very terrible what happened there, but imagine that those they can't even get things up and running, because they can't find anyone to replace those poor people who are murdered to to do the work. So how are you gonna have even more and more uh light rail or buses when there's not enough, we had to have san francisco bring their muni buses.

H

God help us to uh cover for the the transit deficiency that we had due to what happened, and uh this city and county is just they're just incapable it's it's a like. I've always said it's it's a it's a it's a student union in a sophomore uh uh college, a sophomore in college type term paper, that's a fantasy!

H

It's a lot of it is marxist. Inspired and just like anything, that's marxist. It looks good on paper and in in in reality, it'll be terrible. Look what's happening to the people over there with with the flea market really.

B

Thank you. Turning now to the committee council, member cohen,.

A

Yeah thanks for the update a lot of uh a lot of good work going on, and I know a lot of it's focused in district four. So I have a number of questions and I know we saw the first project which I'm excited is getting started this year at de la cruz and 101 and that'll help in that area. um But we didn't. We didn't talk much about the two other very important projects, uh the 101, mayberry and and the uh um and the zanker overcrossing.

A

So I'm just gonna ask a couple questions about those before I get on to my favorite topic. um So so I I know that the timelines in these projects- don't aren't. Strictly you know, city, especially the 101 mayberry project. Right I mean that's, that's being run by caltrans at this point. Is that are they the limiting factor in figuring out timelines, because it looks like the the update here has a pretty late late date for design and starting construction.

Q

Spouse member uh john russell director of transportation and and all of these projects that are associated with the state freeway system involves caltrans in some way they actually have to review and approve everything that will be placed in the right way for construction, but getting to the to the you mentioned um both of those projects are going through a phase of development, environmental and actually on the uh mayberry berryessa plan. We're doing some additional alternatives.

Q

Analysis to determine which intersection or interchange location would be best to serve both the motorists and the new developments over at the various flea market. So we're looking at both of those both at a barrier heading and at the existing main brewery to see which one makes the most sense for an interchange so and then back onto 101 zanker that that project's in environmental phase right now. So that's why some of these are pretty complicated, complex projects that will involve some right-of-way, which will be needed for the project.

Q

So some of those time frames seem long, but that's what it takes to develop and put in place these pretty complex projects. So did that answer your question.

A

Yeah it does I mean that, and I think I I mean I probably have a broken record asking these questions, but I always forget the details um at uh for that mayberry project. It looks like from the timeline here that we're probably talking about the soonest of like 20 20 28 before a project would be before anything would be complete.

Q

uh Probably because we're we are going through a process right now that to figure out which one is the best location and then we're going to bring that decision to council to see which one we want to proceed with in terms of the more detailed analysis.

Q

So that's going to come and say here maybe remind me when we think we're going to be able to bring that decision to council, probably within next year. Is that likely so yeah. So then, following that it would be full environmental clearance design it um acquire the right of way and then build it, which again it's a complex of interchanges. So whatever we do, we decide berryessa heading then we've got a redo mayberry we've got a redo old local roads, so whatever's going to happen out.

Q

There is probably going to affect all three of those roadway intersections.

A

And we have to try to do in a way that doesn't make things even worse in an area. That's already pretty bad.

Q

Yeah right now that the both of the freeway traffic is pretty bad with a congestion point right at 880 and 101, and we expect the you know. The roadways will probably become more busy as the various flea market areas.

A

Yeah my concern is that that this will be like eight years of the bart station being open without that improvement, and obviously I know that that's just the way the timing was worked, but um the people are gonna. People are going to start being pretty frustrated in that area. Once traffic on bart station becomes more normal and uh and traffic patterns haven't been adjusted in the area getting in and out from 101 and 880.

A

So you know, obviously anything we can do to to speed it along would be good, but I know it's pretty complicated as far as anchor 101 um is there some kind of estimate as to how much that project's going to end up costing.

Q

That I need some help with. I think there was an earlier estimate that we're refining now um so I I don't have that particular number right now, but maybe zarya knows that number.

R

It's about 140 million dollars at this point, but we're refining. That estimate and most of that of course, because the project is in the location where the land value and the right order value is so expensive that that's where that cost is.

A

A lot of it is land cost, in addition to construction cost.

Q

Correct yeah, there's a pretty large, uh swapping and switching of properties for a freeway and then trying to I'm trying to open that up. For for that, so um another complicated project is trying to try to do multiple things, all of them so.

A

It'll really bring traffic flow, improve traffic flow in and out of north san jose and uh and actually this one's timed. Well because, as we begin doing, the developments along zanker and first street in that area, the road could be in construction around the same time as opposed to the situation near the bart station, where you know well at least the bar station's open. Although I guess you're we're also thinking about the long-term barriers of urban village development which hasn't built yet.

Q

So yes, this would this provides a new connection and those are really important into an area. That's really dearth of connections that that span these man-made barriers like 101 or 880., so they're really helping they will help once we get these connected, constructed and actually open for use so yeah. This is going to be a really big big help for the area.

A

Okay, so then I'm just going to move on to the the other item on here. Just the charcot project. I mean we've had extensive discussions between myself, my office uh dot about this project, but since it's been brought up now in public comment, I'll take the opportunity to say make some public comments about the project as well, since I haven't done that yet um you know I'm committed to not having it built in the current alignment on silkwood.

A

um As you know, um I don't think the community is any more favorable about the east feeding fox lane alternative. There may be another alternative at fox lane. That could be better, um but you know I was interesting interested to look at this in juxtaposition to the blossom hill project. The boston hill project is going to cost 42 million dollars to do a pretty good.

A

You know to provide bike access, safe separated bike, lane and pedestrian lane and improve the media and improve widening the street, improve the interchange and and the charcot project is penciled out at 50 million dollars for something that has, uh in my mind, questionable enhancements to transportation, except for the bike lane element. So I was kind of surprised to see that we're spending more on charcot than we're spending for that major interchange at blossom hill.

A

So just making that comment not necessarily asking a question there, um given the local community opposition to the project, that's just another data point for me um and I I think that there are other other places. We could be spending that 50 million dollars, which would have a greater impact and also have less impact on um on a school and a community. That's that's going to fight this, no matter where the alignment goes. So I'm just wanted to make that clear to this committee that this is.

A

This is what I'll continue to focus on in that for that project, going forward.

A

I think that's it for my questions and comments.

B

Thank you. Do any other members of the committee have any comments or questions.

A

With that I'll move also move acceptance of the report.

B

Second, thank you um just two things I wanted to follow up on roland's question about the caltrain connectivity on the blossom hill project. So here do you have any details on that.

R

Yeah, I I actually do have uh some details on that, so in 2016, the the bicycle with the b-pack, uh the bicycle pedestrian advisory committee, as well as uh the neighborhood association, the specifically the coyote creek neighborhood association, um supported um this alternative, the the the current alternative that we are building and we did um extensive outreach with the community. But this what this alternative does. Is it actually uh directs?

R

uh Can it directly connects to that xander's, coyote uh zander's crossing in the coyote creek trail, and it's with the it's consistent with the edenville area development policy and is visible and is visible and accessible from blossom hill road versus where ford road is kind of in the back of that neighborhood?

R

In addition, there was going to be significant, right-of-way cost displacement of homes. If we would have went with that alternative, because there's not enough right-of-way to build that poc along ford road and just that cost implication was- uh was very significant and then there was a inconsistent with the edenville development policy as well, um so that that is the reason why we went with this alternative.

R

This discussion point on ford road has been uh with us from the beginning and we explored it uh very extensively from the the beginning of the project. As we were studying alternatives, and- and we were very careful in choosing the routes that we the route that we have based on kind of what the policy said where the funding was coming from and where the direct connections would be going.

B

Okay and I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the area. Quite yet um is there connectivity to the caltrain station, even even though it doesn't have it didn't go with the ford road alignment.

R

Yeah, so the nice thing about this alignment is it: it provides alignment to both the edenville neighborhood uh area uh through the xander's crossing. But more specifically, if you keep on walking past sanders crossing this, and uh there is a signalized crossing where you can cross over to the caltrain station at fort road, so direct connection and then from there. It actually connects again with another poc to the edenville neighborhood as well. So the so there's multiple connections that this uh alternative uh provides.

B

Okay, great glad to hear it, um I did want to give an update. I know your report came in before the caltrain meeting last thursday, and so the just for for members of the public and for my committee, um the caltrain electrification project dates that are in the report are are a little bit out of date, because we had a risk. Refresh report you may have read in the in the newspaper and the caltrain electrification service will be actually is, is now slated to probably happen closer to late 2024, as opposed to 2022.

B

um It's mainly due to a contractor issue with uh the signal system. So we have a lot of upgrade crossings for the caltrain corridor and we have to have a new signal system because the trains are going faster than the creep. The current diesel trains, and so replacing that signal system has been an issue with the contractor, which is causing most of the delays. There are all are also some covid related delays with some suppliers to the um the in inside of the train.

B

Sets the new train sets um a couple of bankruptcies actually, and so we've had to get our our contractor has had to get new suppliers and, in some cases, has taken over the supply of luggage, racks and things like that. So we've got delays on both the the corridor side, as well as the train set side. I just want to give that update, not a happy update, but that's where we are. um I think we're ready for the vote unless anyone else has any other comments or updates that they wanted to give.

B

I did not send the email reminder to my colleagues about their regional activities and if they wanted to send a report so totally understand. If you don't have anything.

B

All right, crickets we're ready for the vote. Foley I esparza yes cohen,.

O

B

Davis, yes, thank you. Thank you that motion passes and we will move to item d3, local and regional transportation, planning and project update. Is this one ramsay's john? Do you want to yeah? Thank you.

Q

This is ramses madu division manager and wilson tamworth transportation planning manager. These are the planning reports that we're working on right now go ahead.

P

Great thanks john um afternoon, chair and council members, I'm really excited to bring you um a presentation on our planning activities. um You know we kind of did it backwards in a way right, those projects already in the ground, and we talk about all the projects that are going to come next down the on the big pipeline here. um So I'm going to share my screen here now we do have our memo out to you, which covers a great deal more than our presentation.

P

Well, we're happy to take any questions that have come out of the memo um at the end here, but we're going to focus on two projects. Sorry, I didn't hit share screen there. We go and now get this one.

H

P

There we go come on all right there we go um so yeah um so again: ramses madu division manager, planning policy and sustainability for dot I'll, be joined by wilson, tam, our transportation planning manager for this report.

P

We're going to talk about the access mobility plan, as well as the barriers, multi-modal transportation improvement plan, that'll be following up the urban village that you will hopefully get all I'll get to vote on uh uh shortly at full council all right, so the access mobility plan we've been talking about this one for a while um and uh we're making some really great progress was really excited to share with you what's happening.

P

um Of course, this plan is the uh the place where we as a city are getting to think about what it really means to take on these very big climate goals um and and take real action towards addressing uh what is the largest contributor um to climate change in san jose all right, um 50 to 62, uh depending on which report you look at of uh emissions, come from uh transportation um and transportation of these effects, a lot of other big things. um So we kind of boil it down to this in terms of.

P

What's the magnitude of change that we're really talking about to try to make this work? Well today about 24 of trips are taken by uh people, biking, people walking or people taking transit as well as carpool, um and in our general plan, we've adopted a goal of getting to 60.

P

Now, uh that's already a huge goal, um but the climate smart plan doubles down on that and actually increases that number uh significantly we're still kind of working out in intermittent steps to get to there. But it's a pretty big magnitude change, and so we're really trying to think through how to do that and of course we're doing that with the community through a lot of different avenues.

P

We have as paid partners in our project team. Four community based organizations, luna pac vivo and the silicon valley. uh Independent living center um are all part um and then we're trying to foster uh conversations between different communities that usually don't talk, much like having luna impact and silicon valley living center together to help us think through the problems, um we're doing a lot of meetings um in multiple languages, vietnamese, spanish, english and all that um I won't read all of these.

P

um But I will say we are in the midst of a 50 meeting round um where at the end of this week, will be one-tenth of the way through, um um but we're really getting out there with the public right now and getting these goals out there getting the types of projects that you'll be seeing here in a second out there and getting people's feedback as well as just getting people knowledgeable about what we're doing, mostly with community groups but um neighborhood groups.

P

But I have a couple of big bigger items um coming up and thanks again to all the council offices for the great help um in getting those all together. It's a lot of work on all sides and it's much appreciated from staff to get as much support as we're getting.

P

um So what have we learned so far from the workshops and community meetings we've had well when we bring these problems to folks and ask them okay? How should we be getting around in the future?

P

We're hearing a lot of will we we want to take a public transit and we want a bike, but the system is not there yet to support us in doing that, um and so we say okay, what do we need to be able to do that right, public transit and a lot of this, of course, is focused towards vta, but the city does have a decent amount of impact on these things. Right, so we're saying you know, we need better routes. We need faster, uh more frequent and reliable service.

P

Affordability is an issue and then benches shelters and better lighting. It stops, but I'll also add um that the city as the uh as the entity that controls the design of the roads um has an immense amount of impact on all of these things, and so we're gonna be talking about the transit first policy here in a second, which we believe is uh one of the ways that we can help play our part as the city um and trying to make public transit better um and the other one, of course, is bikes.

P

um Folks have expressed a great deal of support for more biking. I've seen over 55 of the community say they are highly likely to bike more um if they felt more comfortable um and so we're seeing their. You know the desire for more protective bike lanes, um better bike network connectivity, and all of that I don't need to read at all. You guys can read um but um yeah. I think one thing I do want to highlight those and the other concerns um we're still. We are seeing.

P

um uh You know that the continued desire to see our vision, zero program really uh be at the base of a lot of of mode change right. If we're gonna get people to to take transit, get people to bike more and walk more. We need to address safety concerns, it's one of the most commonly cited reasons that people just aren't changing their mode. Yet.

P

So what are we doing about this? Well, we worked together or we brought together um all of our sister and brother cities out there across the country, minneapolis austin, seattle, denver, portland. um All the cities had had some kind of similarity to us and looked at their recent transportation plans and pulled all of the different ideas from their plans.

P

Went to the public and asked for ideas had a lot of internal and regional workshops with transportation professionals and got a very large list of potential strategies together, um kind of fell out to about 250 or so different ideas um and we've been working to kind of uh rationalize that list, um and here are the uh nine groupings um that we've put the the various strategies into and we'll be kind of working uh we're working through those in terms of uh which ones meet our goals, which ones are most plausible. um In terms of.

P

Implicit that we can actually do it where it's not coming to me, but that's all right. There we go so here's a couple highlights of the ones that are really standing out um and to give you all an uh sense of what we're working with and kind of, pushing towards.

P

Of course, there's safer streets we're already working on these kinds of projects, a decent amount across the city, where we're taking places that are really car, focused and put pretty much make and in the environment around the um road, uh quite uh unpleasant for anybody, except in a car and working to reduce those streets, narrow roads where it makes sense to do so, white making wider sidewalks making much shorter crossings.

P

This is a great example where you get the you actually get the um added space for residents as well as this great crossing, allowing uh folks to feel much more comfortable in this.

P

um Of course, another one uh is low, stress bike facilities right um we're moving as much as we can towards protected bikeways that give physical separation between bikes and um as cars as jessica and zakir brought up earlier. This is getting through all of our project types. We're doing it as much as we can through the pavement program as much as we can through the regional projects.

P

This is a long-term project right building out a network that feels safe for people in a city. The size of ours is going to take many years and a lot of effort and kind of finding its way into all of those different project types.

P

And here we have the improving existing transit service. um So starting off here is the transit first policy. um Transit first policy uh was added to uh council priority list uh just before covid.

P

um I believe it was um uh pam foley's office um who put this in, um and so we've been trying to find different avenues to to get this policy forward, um and our intention is now to bring to uh full transit first policy to council with the actual plan, um the access mobility plan, uh we're kicking off uh workshops uh over the summer with vta uh once that they feel comfortable kind of back on their feet, we'll be working through. What vta wants with that and looking at everything from street design signal operations.

P

Complete street design guidelines all the different things that we as a city can do to ensure that we are supporting transit and making sure that people and buses are getting around as quickly as they can, and that, of course includes transit, first street design and that and then we're of course, everything we learn, we're sharing with vta.

P

We have a vta staff member who's actually on our project team, now making sure that all the input that comes in here about hey, we want new routes and new bus new bus facilities and that that's getting over the vta as well trying to really create that that uh uh um interagency mind meld. So we can bring forth better projects together um and then other things we're working on are uh car wise um job. There we go um is encouraging and a lot and allow car share.

P

um This is uh a proven way to reduce the amount of cars in a neighborhood, as well as the amount of car ownership and uh folks who more, who don't necessarily buy a car but can use these cars are much more likely to take transit ride, a bike and all that stuff.

P

There's an immense amount of research behind that, um and so, as uh as you all hopefully remember, you passed the uh one-way car share um uh policy, a few weeks back um and so we're, and we just got a staff member on board last week, who uh will be helping us run that program um and so we're really pushing on on how to get these kinds of things together. um But in this plan we're looking for even more ways to to make this happen.

P

Of course, there's a huge list of other things, just kind of giving you a flavor for the direction we're going um so that you have a sense of what we're doing.

P

um Here's the overall uh plan timeline we're just here kind of ending the identification of strategies to meet our goals um and getting into that evaluation and making the uh the strategies line up with community members stories and and working with uh community members to see which ones are really acceptable um and which ones we can really go with, and with that, I will pass it off to wilson tam to talk about multimodal transportation improvement plans and the barrie esta multi-modal transportation improvement plan.

O

Thank you, francis um good afternoon, chair community member and the general public. My name is wilson, tam, a transportation planning manager at dot and I'm very happy to accompany branson to report back about our cdy transmission plan, which ramsay's just presented as well as our multi-modal transportation improvement planning effort.

O

The method you see here is a map of four area, multi-modal transportation improvement plans that we are conducting right now, and the difference between an m-tip, a short form for multimodal to transmission, inform plans and uh the access. The mobile plan that rams is presented just now um is that the m-tips focus in specific areas of the city, where there will be an anticipated, a significant drill in the next 20 years in the case of urban villages or downtown.

O

So the four area transportation plans that we are working on right now are, as you can see, in the middle, the downtown transmission plan. On the west side, we have the west san jose multimodal improvement plan um on the east side. uh We are very happy to have council just adopted uh the ambufu miendo, the east san jose m-tip, just last uh earlier this year in february, and the focus of today's presentation is on the berryessa m tip, which is covered by the yellow boundary next time.

O

Please francis and thank you for doing the slide for me. Thank you um yeah. So this map shows uh the the the rough study boundary of our barius m-tip.

O

The reason why we kicked off this work roughly two years ago is because we know that the bart phase one just completed and opened you'll also know that uh there will be a forthcoming uh uh update of the uh uh of the flea market rezoning application, as well as uh the development of the um various uh urban village plan, which is slated for council adoption on june 22nd.

O

um Therefore, uh we kicked off this process two years ago to try to tag team with our planning department to really think about how to maximize the big regional infrastructure that part phase one presents here to improve our multimodal connectivity in the bigger area, so the gray area is much beyond the pink area. The pink area is our urban village plant boundary and the gray area is roughly one mile buffer from the park station, and that is the study boundary of our m-tip.

O

So today there are roughly 200, I mean sorry, there are roughly 50 000 people living in the gray area and we expect that the the amount of population to be growing by another 60 in 20 years and the majority of that growth obviously came, would come from the urban village plant boundary in the pink area.

O

So we are talking about as many as 300 000 daily trips a day to and from the gray area. We know that the existing transportation infrastructure is just not going to be able to accommodate that many number of uh trips on a daily basis, um even with the bart station there, it's not going to make it.

O

So we need to make it more multimodal and try to think about ways to uh maximize the transmission options for people to travel around today, roughly 80 of the people drive alone, and we would like to get that amount down to roughly 35 drive a loan share in 2040., and this mt plan will be the one of the early phases of how to get there so also shown in this map is our current on ongoing concurrent efforts.

O

We just mentioned about the urban village plan, so here uh in our dlt just mentioned about our us 101 interchange, planning process. We also have a couple of upcoming development process such as the flea market, rezoning application and also the virginal development as well. Next slide, please ranches! Thank you.

O

So um the process by which we uh conducted our mtep planning process is a phased approach. We um spent the first year or actually the last year, focusing in the urban village area because of the opportunity presented by the urban village planning process by ppce.

O

um So we we worked with the planning department to think about how to maximize the transportation options in within the urban village areas.

O

um We identified it as many as 20 transportation projects to be located within the urban village area shown on this map, and they are color coded by the various types of transportation modes that the street projects will support. For example, the red streets are the transit-oriented streets.

O

The the green streets are the new trail connection.

O

The purple streets are the new bike uh priority uh streets as well as some newer streets, uh most of which are located within uh the flea market district, as well as the fraccino district.

O

We also are looking at the the new 101 interchange on the west side of this map and uh based on the initial understanding about the community values cdy goals as well as equity.

O

We have some understanding about, where might be the appropriate location for the interchange, and we look forward to working with zaheer um caltrans and the community uh to identify the appropriate location and the configuration of the new interchange at 101.

O

next slide, please. Besides the 20 transportation projects, we also identified it a list of programs for implementation in the next 20 years within the urban village area. Knowing that parking and transportation congestion are the primary concerns by the community, as it goes with the future growth in urban village and the bart station, we are happy to um to develop or establish or propose, I should say, because it's still stated for council consideration in june 22nd, um a tdm program or transportation demand management program to support the urban village.

O

We proposed to establish a transportation management association to help provide two tdn programs for future occupants within the urban village, and these two mandatory, tdm programs are free transit passes for all future occupants in the urban village, as well as a marketing campaign to encourage people living in the urban village to take other modes of transportation.

O

um This tdm program also identifies a couple of mandatory tdm measures for future development to implement. For example, this program calls for all development in the urban village to unbundle the parking from their residential development as well as charge every single parking spaces um in the urban village.

O

um We also devised a list, um or, I should say, devise a transportation demand management policy for development to implement, based on their parking provision, so the higher the parking amount they provide on site, the more the tdm measures they will have to implement.

O

So we so yeah, for example, ideas of tdm programs that development can consider to fulfill their tdm requirement for the urban village plan include: share parking, a ride, matching platform bike share station as well as car share access and spaces to name. A few next slide, please francis.

O

So this is the timeline of our barriers m tip. We are in summer 2021. uh We have just completed our um collaboration with our planning department on the barrier privilege plan, which includes a total of 20 transmission projects and a tdm program for future implementation. And now we are ready to look at the broader area, which is the gray area of the m-tip.

O

If you remember that very map to look at the existing neighborhood surrounding the bar station, roughly one mile buffer from the bar station- and we are ready to conduct a series of community activities and events to collect feedback from the community members about their goals, values and how their transmission options can be maximized.

O

We have recently launched an online survey just a week ago and we are ready to uh call for our uh uh community members to help us uh understand uh your values and goals and how we can provide the options, especially the access uh to and from the bar station to your area. After the summer 2021.

O

We will be ready to identify other transmission projects, programs and policies to meet our m-tip goals, and we also anticipate that these projects, programs and policies will be prioritized through an implementation strategy. Development to really understand what would be the the the appropriate phased approach to carry out these uh multimodal strategies, and we expect to complete uh our draft draft plan, roughly winter 2022, with the expected a completion date with the final plan roughly in spring 2022, bringing forth it uh to council consideration around that time.

O

And that concludes my presentation. Thank you for your time and ramses and I are happy to answer any questions about the cdy transmission plan in the name of xmlv plan, as well as our mt planning process.

B

Thank you we'll go to members of the public first, the first person of public speakers is catherine hedges.

C

um Good afternoon, um thank you very much to the staff for their report um and I speak both as a driver as a person who lives in a building with a free transit pass. Who does use, transit and a bicyclist and.

C

It seems to take forever to get around in vta the more I ride bta. While my car is broken down the more I want to get the car fixed and driving around downtown, both as a driver and as a bicyclist. The style of bike lanes you have going through downtown are just not helpful.

C

People in wheelchairs. Have you know they?

C

If they get an uber or paratransit, they can't just roll up to the van and load in they have to go down to the corner, to a curb cut and then back up the bike lane to where the driver is, and meanwhile the driver is getting mad at them for making them wait and some drivers might even leave if they can't do it quickly enough and it's going to affect uh times and schedules so that people will be late and that's not fair. It's not. You know.

C

It violates their accessibility that they can't get directly from the curb to a vehicle with the bike lane between the curb and the parking and um so that's inaccessible for for dissipating, disabled people and for drivers. You can't really see the bicyclists until they pop out suddenly and as a bicyclist. I don't like being a bicyclist who pops out suddenly and nearly gets hit.

C

They don't work, they had to reroute the buses. So now all the buses are jammed up on santa clara and they don't go down san fernando and it just hasn't worked. We need to not do that. Thank you very much.

B

Thank you next speaker is roland.

E

Thank you, madam chase. So before I move on to the uh the presentation itself, I I notice uh mr maru's audio equipment, which look really impressive, but um I had severe difficulties hearing what mr mother was saying, so I would uh recommend that he reaches out to mr time to help him out with his uh audio difficulties. In the meantime, if staff could enable closed, captioning be much appreciated.

E

Moving on to the presentation, I do appreciate staff's interests and focus on bike lanes, but this knob does not help seniors, including my neighbor, who died within hours of falling off his bike two years ago.

E

Moving on to the multimodal transportation plans, I and other seniors would be really interested in learning how they are expected to basically walk between the blossom catering station and coyote creek, without either getting killed or dying of exposure.

E

Now, with regards to the the specific plans, um I think that a good start uh for multi-modal access to bach would be the 101 to mayberry, uh interchange and in downtown. I think we should be prior to prioritizing the design of the stations specifically during them downtown the 28th street before we raise billions of dollars on the gigantic tunnel and the caltrain downtown san jose and then somehow trying to figure out.

E

You know at some point in the you know, hopefully not too distant future, how people of all age, ages and abilities are going to be able to get in, and out of this thing, much appreciated. Thank you.

B

Thank you. Next speaker is blair beekman.

I

Hi uh blair beekman here uh rajini- hopefully that's my third try at this I'll, get it someday with genie um to go on with uh other the items on this uh item. uh You know there it can cover a lot of ground. uh Thank you for the bicycle trails on the north side. uh Hopefully the people of the flea market. I think if they have design capabilities, how to design the future of the flea market. I think it could work very well with the future of bike lane stuff and that would be cool unhopeful.

I

I wish there was more uh talk about uh east side issues of bike lanes. There was a few maps that showed a road to san antonio. That was interesting. How about you know san antonio to downtown from east side to downtown how about from uh you know, across through district 7 issues. You know from east to west that kind of stuff- I hope, can be really talked about more. I that's that that can be hopeful things to work on, um for multimodal issues is the idea of av use?

I

That's been a an important issue that eastside officials have been working on, and I thank you for that. At this time, is it possible that there's been some talk to make a tunnel system from diridon to the airport?

I

Can we concentrate on that being the av system and leave the light rail alone and not and not use that as an av and concentrate just on the good practices of the light rail itself and that it's it's an energy efficient system, a green sustainable system and- and we need that and overall, you know there's these are our good programs we've been working on for years? This is our best stuff and what is our sustainable future?

I

So you know thank you for the efforts here and um I guess that's about it and I hope I'm saying her name right. uh Rajini thanks a lot.

B

Thank you. Next speaker is molly mcleod.

M

Good afternoon my name is molly macleod. I wanted to speak on a couple issues raised in the memo, one of them the focus on the access and mobility planning.

M

The new mobility services in 2020, matty rivolo, a disabled planner, did a survey in san francisco on perceptions of new mobility services and the finding of 218 people who were surveyed over 75 reported that improperly parked scooter or bike created mobility barriers for them. um We don't have that information. I think that that would be important uh to have certainly anecdotally, if um you're traveling through the downtown area.

M

For example, um there are a lot of of barriers so since the focus of a lot of this work seems to be um on mobility, um that needs to be a part of it. I've appreciated the um openness of department of transportation staff very recently, of uh gathering additional information, particularly from uh the wide range of people who are residents of san jose and represent just different facets of the disability community.

M

um Another aspect of this is the proposal with the knight foundation um grant about the robotic delivery um that has been an issue in uh other cities in terms of barriers on wheelchair access. I'd note that the um company that was listed as a partner has one of the least accessible websites that I've seen um in in checking it so um making sure that the lived experience. um Nothing about us without us is an important part of the design and it's actually one of the most effective and cheapest ways to go.

M

So I look forward to further reports that have a greater representation of disability, insights and expertise at the next presentation. Thanks.

B

Thank you. Next speaker is calling user one.

H

This mass transit stop where you're at it's a waste of money ever seen, anybody on it light rail buses. You know I've driven around, you know light rail. Always you know, causes the traffic to back up. There's nobody on it. I've seen it around rush hour around where I work well, where I used to work. I work from home now, but but it doesn't work very well. It's not going to this was designed for cars. It's unfortunate. It really is. I mean I used to live in madrid, spain. I never had.

H

I never had a car didn't need one way the city was designed and this you know the country was under great leadership for like 40 years under franco, I mean he made sure that the the metro worked. Even henry kissinger thought it was amazing, but I regret looking you're not going to do anything with mass transit. It's a waste of time. It's a waste of money. Nobody uses it it's expensive to use it's expensive for the taxpayer.

H

It doesn't work. I mean you're going to use this transit to go to san francisco. It cost a lot of money. It's so slow, the caltrain is slow. That's been delayed, the you let the fast electrical speed trains been delayed another couple years. The light rail is terrible and has anyone ever taken it to to levi stadium? It's a joke. It takes hours to get there hours to line up. When you want to leave it's just terrible. Everybody thinks it. I mean they think it's so sexy to have all this mass transit.

H

It's not who's, going to be riding bikes. People ride bikes everywhere. The the rose garden has put up a brand new bike rack when they should have rebuilt the bathrooms that look like uh something third world. No one. I've never seen one bike parked at the bike bike racks. I go to the rose garden all the time. uh If are you listening? You're rose garden, terrible fix the bathrooms at the rose garden before you do anything um yeah, I pave the roads first, for god's sake, the potholes everywhere. You know they're gonna reap.

B

Thank you next speaker is a phone number ending in eight zero, zero.

B

C

B

You're unmuted.

B

We're not able to hear.

B

E

Hello, can you hear me now.

B

Yes, thank you. Yes,.

E

ah Excellent, so, okay, so my name is christine fitzgerald community advocate silicon valley, independent living center.

E

I have had a tremendous um joy in working with the accessibility plan and working towards making saturday and the areas surrounding san jose more accessible for more people.

E

I'd like to continue to urge for full mobility and full access in the sense now we're looking at the the separation from traffic for bikes. I understand that and I fully approve of it. I I would still hold a fair amount of concern with the uh concept of my own islanding.

E

uh Trying to getting out of a bus onto the island in a wheelchair in a safe manner has to be seriously looked at, especially if the island is only so large versus so large plus, since you need a place to land the chair and get out and move versus, maybe falling off of the island.

E

um The other thing that I would like to uh to point out as molly and just pointing out access also looks at should look at is a movement on the sidewalk as well, so self-directed self-driving delivery systems should be considered, of course, but also looking at the way that the two groups, if you will so the the delivery system and the person meaning.

B

I'm sorry the sentence seemed to get cut off. It sounded like it was about the um automated vehicles on um like delivery vehicles on sidewalks and how they are going to interface with people in wheelchairs or or who are mobility limited on sidewalks.

B

So we'll we'll cover that I'll have a question about that when, um when we get back to the committee, but we have one more public speaker, michelle mashburn.

C

Hi thank you for giving me the opportunity, also thank city of san jose and the workers that have put so much energy into evaluating the transportation plan. I want to remind everybody that the disabled population is a very, very diverse group and representation from one group or one organization does not necessarily equate to full and adequate representation of disabled people's needs.

C

If a survey or a outreach is not including the measure of disability, on what you're trying to create feedback in people with disabilities are actually not invited to be a part or a voice in that survey, and that's another important feature to remember.

C

The 20-minute city is actually a form of echo ableism and urban gentrification against people with disabilities.

C

It leaves disabled people behind one solid example of this is the bike lanes in downtown san jose and the ongoing struggle that I personally have had in getting parking as well as getting onto and off from paratransit vehicles in front of my place of residence.

C

Also, it's important to note that in different communities, parking may still be required. So getting you know making those changes to be more focused on transit- it's not always feasible as a disabled person to take transit to and from every single location that I need to go to. So I end up having to take off from work, because I can't get to my doctor's appointment in a timely manner, because paratransit or public transit requires that much more time to do.

C

Everybody needs to start including disability, and I did see glimpses of that in the report, and I'm very appreciative of that. So thank you and have a good day.

B

Thank you. Turning back to the committee, does anyone have comments or questions on this item? Councilmember cohen,.

A

Just wanted to thank staff for this uh report um and and thank you, as always, for the very uh ramses for your very thoughtful presentations on uh on these kinds of um you know very innovative ways of looking at transportation.

A

um I'm excited that the to see the the various urban village come together um with with what I think will be kind of a model for how we do these kinds of um multimodal transportation uh setups and there's a lot of great things in there, um and uh um I appreciated what you were showing wilson about.

A

You know what what's expected at that site and I look forward to the to the community process going forward to talk to our residents about what they want to see in this transportation plan, and I I'm looking forward to to seeing all the pieces of this urban village come together. So that's all I want to say, and I want to move the report.

J

B

Thank you, councilmember foley,.

J

Thank you. I thank you for your presentation too, and uh glad to see that transit first is moving forward, uh although uh transit first needs to move a little bit faster, but I certainly understand the things that are are in the way of it moving forward, but I'm really glad to hear that it is in a forward direction and not going backwards. I just want to echo the comments of those members of the disability community, who are always advocating on behalf of the community that has difficulty in getting around.

J

As someone who had difficulty getting around myself, I had a knee that was really painful. I needed a cane wherever I was.

J

I recognize how hard it is to get up and down a sidewalk, uh a curb crossing, a street in a timely manner, and then you have these people zipping past you who don't realize how uh how difficult it is for you to move so I'm very sensitive to members of the community who are not as mobile as other community members, particularly the um the uh scooters and things that are stuck in the middle of a corner, that everyone thinks that's cool and that's great place to drop it, but it's nothing more than a hindrance for an individual to get around whether you're in a cane, a wheelchair or just not able to walk as fast as other people around you.

J

So I appreciate the advocates molly christine and michelle for always being out there and catherine hedges too. To advocate- and I I hear you when I hope that we are tremendously looking at access issues.

J

So, can you reassure me that we are not that we are speaking to all members of the disability community and not just one, because the the motto nothing about us without us is really important, and we need to make sure that we are embracing all of their inputs because, as they mentioned, there's different levels of of uh disabilities that we need to take into consideration.

Q

Yeah, council, member john rista, director of transportation and the the easy answer is yes. The harder answer is how we can do this and I think we're fully uh intending to expand, not not only our knowledge but actually how we do this outreach and then how we transition that actually into better projects on the ground, because that's where it makes the most difference. So there's.

J

Q

Things we're we're learning, and I really want to thank the same speakers because we're actually in much closer connection and conversation with all of them to actually figure out how we can do better. It starts with with understanding what the issue is and we're trying to do that we've started to do this.

Q

I think we've got quite a ways to go to get all the way through that, but it's really helpful to actually hear from some of the some of the people that are actually experiencing it and then advocates that are really working towards making all of our agency functions actually be more responsive to that. So it is something we are definitely serious about and want to get better at. So thanks for bringing that up too.

J

I appreciate that so when we talk about equity in relation to transportation, we need to make sure that that absolutely includes all members of the disabled community and seniors too seniors. Many of them may not feel that they have mobility issues, but they do some of them who are 90 95 still walking around the streets are a little bit slower than they were when they were 85.

J

So we just need to be sensitive and aware- and you know you hear every you hear daily about how someone who is injured, who was a little bit slow crossing the street, so we need to be just really sensitive and pay attention and continue to advocate and put things in place that our streets are safe for all.

J

Thank you. That's it for me,.

B

Thank you. I I also want to thank uh the staff for for this report and and uh ramses.

B

I know we kind of beat up on you a little bit every time you talk about the access and mobility plan, um but that's because it's so important and I did want to to kind of underscore what councilmember foley was saying when when we talked about the goals the last time you brought this to us, we were really clear that we wanted to make sure that there was um inclusion of disability in the goals, and I I went through. I didn't go through the website.

B

So so tell me if, if the figure, one that talks about the axis of mobility plan goals is, is not complete, because there isn't anything specifically in there about uh americans with disabilities act or or people with disabilities or mobility challenges.

B

So I see the access for all, but it says, especially in historically underserved communities. It doesn't talk about populations that have mobility challenges.

P

uh Thank you for that and and we'll make sure that it gets in there. That's definitely the category. It should be in and you're right that it is language in there is more focused on on kind of the, I would say, the popular version of equity right now, which has to do with with racial and and um economic issues, um and uh we've missed your direction there. I apologize we'll make sure it gets in there.

B

Thank you, yeah and- and I completely agree that that historically underserved communities is is appropriate to to be included in there just wanted to make sure that um that people with disabilities are also included and called out, because, if they're not called out it's it's kind of what gets. um What gets measured gets attention right. It's the squeaky wheel issue, so I want to make sure that's in there um and to that to that point one of the speakers and I'm sorry, I don't remember which one was talking about um the the delivery.

B

I don't know what they're called. I can never remember what they're called, but I saw one in mountain view. One time when I was up there, um those little delivery, cubes that are kind of automated and it actually it was funny it was. There was a pedestrian there um walking along and I couldn't tell if the if the cube was following the pedestrian like if he was with the pedestrian um until he passed until the he. The delivery cube, passed the person and then went along on its own on its own way.

B

But how would how would that work? How does that work with someone who has a walker who's in a wheelchair? What what's the interface on on the sidewalk between those kinds of like delivery, robots and and people.

P

Great, so I I will, I want to make a differentiation and then I'll, ask your question answer your question. So um there is a project, that's funded by knight foundation, um it's a nationwide project to do um experiments with sidewalk delivery, robots um with the company kiwibots, um and thanks for the comment about the earlier from, I think it was kristin who pointed out or molly actually who pointed out that their website is not accessible, we'll have to work with them on that, um but we're doing this experiment specifically to learn these things right.

P

It's what are what? How are these things feasible in the urban environment? What are the things we need to learn about them to make it feasible? What are the requirements we might need to put on them um so that they can actually get out of the way? um So that's that we're also. We also have the emerging mobility plan, which is looking at scooters um and other other uh devices of that sort and specifically from the lens of of equity. And how do we make these things more.

R

P

To folks, um we've got to make sure that the disability voice is being heard there as well. um So that's the differentiation a little bit of the answer to the question, but then the further answer is um the kiwibots are only semi-autonomous, which means that they can kind of go in a straight line. They can avoid objects but they're actually controlled by someone back in colombia. Actually, um the companies that's when they're faced, um and so they pay people in colombia to steer them whenever they have a a more significant issue.

P

They can't get around now. um So there's there's a kind of fail-safe there to some degree. um That's I'm not sure.

P

If that's the same case, the mountain view, you have the starship ones, they're much bigger um than the ones we're going to be having here at least the models we've seen so far, um and all that- and so I I we are investigating this technology- we're investigating whether it's feasible on our streets and we're investigating what are the the policies we need to put in place to to if they are uh to make sure that we're not ending up with just even more clutter on the sidewalk, because we know the scooters are already a challenge and we're you know we do our.

P

We work a lot with that, try to figure that out so um yeah. What can I say the answer? Is we don't totally know yet, but we are in the process of figuring it out with the world right. um And how do you do this.

B

Thanks and um I did see you had um the the table that I mentioned with the goals in the description, those don't look like measurable goals to me. um They're just smiling she. She knows what I'm gonna say: they're, not smart goals. Do we have this in a smart goal format so that they're actually something that we can measure over time and then what's the plan for reporting, collecting and reporting this information.

P

Yeah great, so each the way that's given there is specifically the kind of human readable version each one of these has a kpi um at least two, I'm not human, no, no you're, great you're great, but you're, saying the the machine version of this right. The data version of this sorry um is is key performance indicators and those key performance indicators. um We've uh we can send you that table as well. I believe it was in our last report to you on the axle mobility plan too.

P

um Those key performance indicators are the the the measurable versions of these um and we're working through. Are they actually measurable?

P

Do we actually have the data to do that and we're going through a whole process of of finding new data sets and stuff like that to be able to do that, and we will very much have an ongoing data platform um to that'll be available to the public and and um and then a dorky wonky version for us staff um that looks at it um and and will keep us on track um and the whole point of it is just the end of the accident. Mobility plan is not just a report that says he's.

P

These are the kinds of things we need to do it's going to be actually the system that's going to use those key performance indicators and give us a continuous update, both a report card, looking back as well as looking forward saying which projects are actually the most valuable in terms of meeting the various goals that we have here.

B

Okay, that's really helpful, and then I thought I heard you say uh it's. The report says over 50 community meetings and you said you're a tenth of the way there.

P

Yeah we're this week, we'll be uh through our fifth or sixth we've already done. Oh, this is our second round right. So, okay, we're just in the midst of it yeah, and so I know we're working with your office. Everybody else's office has been really great. um Getting um helping us find the right groups and everything so yeah, okay,.

B

Good good and then so, what's the timeline on completing the plan.

P

Yeah, the hope is to be able to bring it this winter to council for adoption.

B

P

B

I know you had a slide and I mis I missed the end point um appreciate that. Does anyone else have any comments or questions?

B

If not we're ready for the vote to accept the report?

B

C

Esparza, yes cohen,.

I

K

B

Yes, thank you and thank you so we'll move on to item for the city street sweeping status report john who's up for this one yeah.

Q

Thank you very much and we're ready for the last item. um John director of transportation. We have rick scott, our deputy director and two division managers, eric hahn and jennifer sagan. Each one is going to have a role the they have a role in managing the street, sweeping city of san jose so rick. I think you're going to take it away.

F

Yep I'll go first over.

L

F

Yeah, thank you. Thank you, john rick, um good afternoon, members of the committee. My name is jennifer sagan, d.o.t division manager for sanitarian storm, sewer operation and maintenance. I also manage the city's in-house street sweeping program.

F

So next I'm sure you're aware that city streets are designed to convey water to the curb in gutters and then the storm drains which carry water untreated into local, creeks, waterways and, ultimately, the san francisco bay. So the 1972 clean water act initiated the national pollutant discharge, elimination system or npdes to protect these waterways and the city's sanitary and storm sewer operations are regulated by two separate mpdes permits. You heard an update on the municipal regional stormwater permit earlier in the meeting street.

F

Sweeping is included in that permit as a best practice whose purpose is to remove pollutants including sediment nutrients such as fertilizers and animal waste. Toxic metals such as copper from car brake pads and organic material from entering storm drains, including local waterways. Next slide, please.

F

So street sweeping in san jose is delivered using a hybrid approach. This includes both staff and equipment employed and owned by the city and contracted services. This hybrid model allows the city to cost effectively and flexibly deploy resources 24 hours per day as needed.

F

The contracted residential street sweeping or rss program is operated by green waste recovery inc. The same contractor that delivers yard waste collection services.

F

This program is responsible for sweeping approximately 36 000 curb miles per year, mainly in residential areas. This represents approximately 54 of the total miles swept annually.

F

Streets are swept once a month during the day and spot cleaned as needed. Under that program, approximately 24 of the miles have parking restriction signs and the greenways contract includes delivery of up to 20, enhanced sweeps per year.

F

City crews sweep streets overnight during the graveyard shift, and they are responsible for sweeping approximately 31 000 curb miles of major arterial and connector roads, bikeways and business districts, including the downtown area. Approximately 50 percent of the miles in that program have parking restriction. Science next slide. Please now the city street sweeping crew includes staff employed by the city and equipment owned by the city.

F

This includes a special bikeway sweeper, which you can see in the picture on the right and the city team, conducts routine sweeping and responds to debris, removal, requests and emergency cleanup requests from police and fire examples of that are in the other two pictures, including sweeping streets after car accidents, fires and large protests or rallies.

F

Next eric will provide some more detail about the residential street sweeping program.

T

Thank you jennifer good afternoon, members of the committee. My name is eric han and I'm the landscape and traffic maintenance division manager within dot's infrastructure maintenance division. As mentioned earlier, the residential street sweeping program rss provides monthly street sweeping in residential streets throughout the city, using green waste, dot, inspection staff oversee the in-field sweeping inspections. While the environmental services department manages the green waste contract, dot's inspection team ensures the neighborhood sweeping routes are getting swept.

T

This means every route is completed and sweepers are being effective, getting up against the curb and not leaving any debris behind or driving too fast. Inspectors also identify obstructions such as parked cars, low hanging, tree branches and items left in the street.

T

Inspectors also assist property owners by providing information on sweeping frequencies and responding to questions or concerns. Inspectors work closely with the parking compliance team to coordinate for enhanced sweeps and other special cleanup efforts. Lastly, the inspection team tracks requests for street sweeping signage and conduct parking impact studies to determine if the requested locations meet the street sweeping signage criteria next slide.

T

Please. The images in this slide show some of the most common issues that impact street sweeping large debris. Piles must be avoided by sweeper operators because there can be hidden items within the piles that damage sweeper equipment or cause other problems. In a recent incident, there was a piece of metal that was buried in leaves and when the sweeper attempted to collect the leaves, the metal was diverted back towards the sidewalk and struck a pedestrian.

T

When there are large debris, piles residents should contact the rss program and inspection staff will schedule a cleanup to address the issue. Staff can request a follow-up sweep or call upon another program to provide a one-time cleanup.

T

Another common sweeping issue are trees with branches that hang below 14 feet over the street. The sweepers cannot get under the low hanging branches and risk damaging the sweepers. When there's a low hanging tree, the inspector will for the location to the arborist staff, who generate a notice to the property owner, letting them know that tree pruning is needed.

T

The middle picture on this slide shows the impact of parked vehicles parked cars are probably the greatest impediment to street sweeping one parked car results in nearly three car lengths of space that can't be swept because the sweepers just aren't maneuverable street sweeping signage is one way to address parked cars. However, signage can only be installed when funding is available.

T

Enhanced sweeps are another option that can remind and encourage residents to move vehicles on sweep days next slide.

T

When the shelter in place went into effect, street sweeping was deemed an essential service and continued, but parking enforcement was suspended because the parking compliance staff was reassigned to perform other essential services. As a result, street sweeping effectiveness was severely impacted because there were a lot more cars on the street. Since residents were now working from home. The in-house program was also impacted by staff redeployment.

T

Some outlying areas were swept less frequently because sweepers needed to reroute to dump at corporation yards instead of in streets, but these areas were still monitored and swept on an as needed basis. On the residential side, greenways continued sweeping the neighborhood streets during shelter in place and inspection staff focused their efforts on identifying obstructions and being more proactive in removing debris piles in the streets, inspection staff also coordinated. Several cleanup areas around the city to keep debris, build up in the streets to a mammal.

T

This concludes my portion of the presentation so back over to you. Rick.

L

Thanks eric good afternoon members of the committee, my name is rick scott dot, deputy director. We report on two key effectiveness measures. As shown in this chart. The green bars represent our own assessments of the sweeps, and these assessments are performed by jennifer's management staff and eric's inspectors using the sheets shown on attachment a of the memo.

L

This data is aggregated and provides us with the total percentage you see on this chart. Our target, as shown at the far right, is to have 75 percent of streets rated as a 4 or better on a 5 five-point scale. We were unable to reach that goal last year for many of the reasons discussed by eric and issues were exacerbated this year with covid, so we anticipate lower performance that these numbers are not yet finalized.

L

The blue bar represents the results of a resident survey performed by esd, which is updated every other year. The number you see here, 45 percent, reflects resident responses from last year's survey. Although the number is lower than our target, it still reflects an improvement from the previous survey, which was closer to 40.

L

The methods of assessment vary between city teams and our residents, but by and large it appears that we are seeing similar things in the field and we have work to do as a city to improve the effectiveness of this service oops.

L

We also pay close attention to route completion. If our program is 100 successful, we have swept 67 000 car miles across the various types of street in the given year. The chart you see here shows a decade of performance on mileage completion. We have a system called telematics on most dot vehicles, including sweepers, that allows us to see the location and speed of a vehicle. At a given time. We receive a complaint that a certain area on one of our in-house routes hasn't been swept.

L

It is very easy for us to determine whether the sweeper was present in the area as a sign. Our contractual routes are spot checked every day by our inspectors to ensure that areas are being swept satisfactorily. Although green waste has not yet adopted this telematics system, I mentioned its new contract allows us to negotiate additional compensation.

L

The city desires to exercise that option and staff is currently exploring this most of the missed miles. This past year can be attributed to staffing challenges resulting from covet and accompanying redeployments on the in-house program, but we have seen an improvement over the past few months and expect to see better results. This coming year in 2016, the city auditor analyzed this street sweeping program for effectiveness and efficiency.

L

14 recommendations were provided at dot, of which 11 have been fully adopted. You can see the entire summary as attachment b dot is making progress on the final three recommendations. It has been a long standing practice to have in-house sweepers dump waste into staging areas on the street to be picked up later in the shift. This does not occur on the contractual side, because greenways provides dumpsters for this. Staging dot has been able to hire the necessary staff to implement this recommendation and is working with public works fleet services to procure the required equipment.

L

We hope to complete this goal in the coming fiscal year. The next recommendation below involves our electronic inspection system, which has been successfully deployed to all city employees. The final open item here is the installation of a telematic system on greenway sweepers, which I mentioned in the previous slide. This recommendation cannot be implemented without additional funding and is a candidate for a budget request next fiscal year. The final recommendation involves the continual update and improvement of routing and sweeping schedules.

L

I will start with bullet b here the auditor's office recommended we perform more enhanced sweeps which are very effective at cleaning problem locations on a one-time basis. In the recent contract update, the number of enhanced sweeps per year increase from 9 to 20, so this element of the recommendation is accomplished. Recommendation c is also completed.

L

The dot in-house staff and contractual staff have monthly coordination meetings where the efficient deployment of the resources we have at our disposal is discussed and determined recommendation. A is the most challenging one to accomplish. The fact is residential streets benefit from more frequent sweeps. A substantial budget ad would be required to increase this frequency, and many more parking signs would also need to be installed and enforced. To ensure the effectiveness of these sweeps. Dot will continue to work to provide the most efficient and effective service that it is funded to provide.

L

This final slide provides the public with the website where sweep days and other utility services can be looked up. We find that pointing people to this esd managed site can often answer questions regarding sweet days and times, and the image here is just a screenshot of that site.

L

The challenges with street sweeping did not originate with kovid or the city response, but they were certainly exacerbated in this past year, for example, we had to make choices whether to tow the cars of our neighbors sheltering in place to ensure an effective suite or to allow them to shelter in place without being ticketed.

L

There are consequences to those choices, but we've been fortunate to have some successful recruitments recently on eric's team and on jennifer's team, and we believe that, as the city emerges from pandemic response, we'll be able to make progress in meeting the standards for our current level of funding. Thank you for your time and our team is happy to take your questions.

B

Thank you we'll go to members, the public first catherine hedges.

C

um Good afternoon committee um well, thank you very much for not joining people's cars during shelter in place. um Another problem- I've noticed by the protected bike lanes, is that the street sweepers can't get to the bike lane, so it's full of broken glass and it's no good having a bike lane. If it's full of road hazards, broken glass, broken bottles, junk scooters, everything ends up in the bike lane and you can't be swept. Thank you very much.

B

Thank you: can we make sure to have the timer available? Next speaker is calling user.

B

B

All in user, one.

H

Yeah start me off with two minutes, because the zoom is terrible, my god, these things never work anyway. Look at trying trying to clean the streets here is like trying to polish a turd. The streets are terrible. There's trip hazards in the street where the gutters are there's abandoned cars that never get moved. They never get towed. They never get ticketed, it's just a money maker. When you put up those street cleaning signs downtown what eyesores it is everywhere. It looks like garbage. That's just what I want my neighborhood a street sweeper sign.

H

You know to try to get people to get ticketed, so you can revenue us even more. That's what it's for, by the way, everybody it's not because of the clean water act. It's got nothing to do with it. They do that downtown to generate tickets, so they can. They can have a gotcha moment on the third thursday of every month at 10 o'clock in the morning, somebody inadvertently parks their car down. There gets a nice fat ticket from from the fat cricket dribblers down there, they're they're all there.

R

H

H

Someone laughing over there.

B

Please continue.

H

Thank you, yeah, okay. Well, look! It's a waste of time. It's a waste of money. I don't want any signs in my neighborhood. Tell me when I can and can't park it's a joke. The streets aren't clean. It's it's everything that this city does is wrong, so keep doing what you're doing, because it's actually comical to see all the wrong decisions that the city makes it's comical to see how much money is wasted on high in the sky.

H

Things like this trying to keep the streets clean for what for so, so we we don't have to see the damaged part of the streets that are terrible and by the way, when are you going to fix the rose gardens.

B

Thank you. Our final speaker is blair, beekman and catherine hedges. You are unmuted by the way.

B

We we need to thank you. Oh.

I

Sorry boy, I did my mutant and I did that again so sorry about that um with this issue uh street sweepers, uh you know four five six years ago now this issue was about. uh You know they wanted to put a aoprs and street sweepers uh like san francisco.

I

Sometimes does um it was uh rejected at the time. I don't know where this issue is at these days and do you have the open public policy practices that if I ask someone at city hall about this subject, they can readily pass that information along to myself, or will it be a matter that I have to go through a bunch of hoops and a bunch of bureaucratic fear and mumbo jumbo, and nobody really wants to talk about it.

I

But you know it's possible and we're not sure, but maybe and if we have open public policies for these things, it could just be a very simple process that I can ask and you can answer yes, you do and uh you know, work from that point of view.

I

uh It's a much better way to work and uh I'm gonna have to be asking you city hall, about this question and uh for some people it's easier, but for some people it's more difficult, and I wish there could be just a uniform system that it could be simple for both the public and government to be able to answer this sort of question, because nobody, everyone's too afraid to answer this question in san jose.

I

We have to learn how to be open and straightforward and direct with each other about it, and there can be ways to do it and open public policies really helps that process. And so thanks for this item, I'm going to try to say uh I can't say her name, but thanks for your patience and putting me putting up with fine me trying to learn to say uh rossini's name thanks.

B

Thank you. Turning back to the committee, does anyone have any questions or comments move to accept the report.

M

B

Thank you. um I just have a couple. First of all, why don't we just save blair, some time and um I'll call on you in just a second council member cohen? Why don't we save blair, some time and I'll just ask? Are there automated license plate readers on garbage trucks or street sweepers.

L

Not that I know of.

T

Yeah not on the residential side for sure, and I.

Q

T

In-House sweeping side as well yeah.

B

Is there any? Has there been any movement to do so? I didn't see anything and I'm on rules, so I would guess that it would come through me.

L

B

Right, councilmember cohen, you can prove me wrong if you remember something coming in the last few months,.

A

Nothing recently thanks.

B

A

Go ahead, I just had a quick question: your um curb miles. Calculation, that's based on the number of passes right, it's not just that! Is that how it is done exactly, okay, so for the ones that are done.

L

Every day that that's that counts every time you do that mile right, I just want.

A

To discuss the number okay thank.

L

B

All right um a couple of questions for me: um the is there a plan for complete service restoration. There was a there was in the report. It mentioned that parking compliance had problems with staffing. The graveyard shift after in the kind of the aftermath of covid yeah.

L

I know that heather, I think others online for the questions, but I will just share that the ptcos, I know, have been doing a lot for various projects, including manning some of our security checkpoints at the mayberry yard, for example. So they've been all over and been unable to staff up on shift.

L

We are working on a plan right now, both of our divisions within d.o.t to kind of complete that transition to allow for graveyard parking enforcement, so hopefully we're about a month away from that being able to be rolled out, but maybe heather can speak to some of the potential challenges in that timeline. um If she's on for a call, I'm sorry, my daughter is unhappy downstairs.

B

J

I am here uh heather hodgson uh division manager. He.

C

Over compliance, downtown operations, um rick is correct.

J

Both his department and my group are working on kind of a timeline to re-engage the overnight parking um specifically for street overtubing. We are doing a little bit of overnight parking.

C

We don't have enough staff because, as rick mentioned.

F

We are redeployed in several areas and we are hoping to get those officers back. So we can move forward with ensuring street tubing is, is enforced overnight as well.

B

And so that's still pandemic related redeployment, that's correct! Okay! I just wanted to make sure I I understood exactly um and then just a couple of things rick you had mentioned um revising the schedule and roots and would mean increasing the the frequency in neighborhoods, and I want- and you said it would, it would be a substantial budget increase. What are we talking about in terms of numbers? Do we have an estimate on what that would cost.

L

You know it's not something. That's really been contemplated before so I would say in this next budget process we could come up with an estimate. um I know that, as you add miles, you know, each each route is kind of a distinct um set of challenges for greenway, so I couldn't just say what would it take for? You know 36 000 miles. You know it would be well that route has this going on.

L

That route has this going on, so it would be a pretty complicated process, um and I you know I do know that they they collapsed from it's been for some time that has been once per month. I think, since about 2003, it's gone down to once per month.

B

Well- and I don't I mean I guess, if we're not getting hitting all of our miles anyway, I sort of have the the sense that, what's the point of increasing increasing the number of miles, if we're not even meeting our goal right now, um but I, but I'm also wondering because the the contractors don't have telematics. How do we know that they're hitting all their miles.

L

B

L

Of ways so I'll I'll start and then eric may be able to provide more details, but we um we basically spot check their work every day. So our our inspectors have a list of of routes that are expected to be gone on that day and then they randomly select the routes to inspect and we've typically found that they they go.

L

I mean they do the rods as a sign and that the real challenge we find is these impediments to the sweeper, so the the parked cars and and the you know, even the curb and gutter can be a challenge, sometimes in the lower trees. But um eric do you have any specific additional things that our inspectors look for when they're assessing the completion of a route.

T

um They also look for the uh effectiveness of the sweep in terms of how fast the operators are going. um You know, and then I think you covered all the impediments, so I think that's it, but so far the reports are, they are completing their routes um and they've actually go out regularly. The green race is actually quite responsive, too um in doing re-sweeps or doing some special cleanups, so we've actually done a couple of those in district six too recently I think morello was a recent one and some other locations.

B

Thanks um and then in terms of the the telematics on the contracted sweepers, does that tell you the speed that they go? It.

L

Could and that's what the um that's, what our in-house one tells us it is able to tell us the speed it still would not.

L

You know the issue with telematics is it's kind of a piece of the overall puzzle, because you still don't know the effectiveness of those sweeps and that's why the the mileage and the inspection kind of results are both kind of go hand in hand as for how, as far as how we analyze the success of our program, so it could tell us those two elements: was it there and how fast it was going. It couldn't really tell us how effective that sweep was. We'd still need that oversight.

B

Sure that makes sense and then do we have a sense of what the additional funding would be to add. The telematics on the contracted.

L

We don't yet, but I know that, through the sweeping coordination meetings, uh eric and jennifer, r and esd are trying to determine that cost. So we at least have an idea as to what to expect. um You know to put us in a position whether to make a cost-benefit decision if it makes sense.

B

Okay and then what are we doing to proactively publicize when street sweeping happens in each neighborhood.

L

On that you know, I know, there's a lot of flyer distribution, but I think um you know eric is more closer to the rss program. So, if there's anything to add eric beyond our website and our frequent outreach, um please feel free.

T

uh Nothing to add at this time, but that's basically it it's the flyering and then we do additional outreach. If we were to do an enhanced suite, um we'll go fly over the neighborhoods and knock on doors.

B

Okay, is there any way- um and I'm happy to be a pilot on this one? If, if you're interested eric, we have access to next door and it's by we can do it limit it by neighborhood, not in our district, um so we don't have to just do the entire district.

B

So if we wanted to do some kind of uh schedule by neighborhood, where we would let people know maybe one or two days in advance that street sweeping is happening on on next door, maybe we could get some better compliance with getting people getting people to have their cars off of those streets. Maybe I'm just putting that out. There is, since that seems to be a barrier and the the one parked car obstructing three car lengths is a big deal, and if that's impeding our metrics, then maybe we could try that.

T

Yeah, we can certainly work with your office to kind of come up with a plan and see how we can kind of roll. This out.

B

Okay, great councilmember, cohen,.

A

I just wanted to second your idea because it occurs to me that most people don't know which days the street sweeper comes through. I mean I don't know when it comes on my street so being able to maybe spend some time in these first few months. Next few months um actually sending out messages. Please move your car tomorrow, your you know your neighborhood is getting swept.

A

We might actually be able to get more voluntary compliance. I don't know if people are intentionally blocking the street sweepers. I think they just don't know when they're supposed to move their cars. Yeah and I'll tell you.

B

I do know that ours is first friday, mostly because we just had it, and I remember seeing the sweeper when I was walking the dog, but I never remember you know the night before right.

F

Because it happens.

B

Once a month, it's not like every week with with like with garbage, um and we used to have a neighbor, neighborhood yahoo group, where somebody had it automated that the the day we our garbage day is thursday and then and then friday's the sweet sweep street sweeping day. Somebody had it automated that always the first thursday.

B

We would get a notice tomorrow is street sweeping day, and we were much better about moving our vehicles and making sure they were off the street. When we had that monthly reminder.

A

And ideally, we'd have signs in all the streets that say this street. This is the street sweeping day, but obviously getting to that point will be expensive and take a long time, because I, when I lived in berkeley, we had that on our street. So we had. We moved our car and I know that's true. In new york, you walk on the streets. You see signs that say which, which this side of the street will be swept. You have to move your car on this day, and so anyway, I think there's a lot.

A

We can do just to improve results without huge without much expense. It's just a matter of getting some kind of route info that we can easily decipher as a district office yeah. You know as an officer.

L

Yeah, I think that that would be great. You know, I think the biggest thing we struggle with is the staff to actually proactively do that kind of outreach, so those counts. You know, council offices, if that's a, if that's a resource we can leverage. I think that's a great idea in the meantime, as that gets navigated, the website from the last slide has the lookup tool.

L

So that could be just a quick thing to share for people to look up, but I agree a proactive you know, pinging would absolutely uh probably increase compliance and one thing I'll add sorry. Just I've been a part of the scion issue for a long time. That's it's surprisingly controversial.

L

um You know installing street science there that is a that some neighborhoods that you would think would be all for it don't want it at all, and vice versa, sometimes so that that can be pretty challenging, but I don't think there's any doubt that street signs would increase compliance.

B

It is, it is visual clutter, so I understand and we had one public commenter who, in their um comment mentioned that there is visual clutter there. I almost wonder if proactively texting people would be probably it would probably be the best thing, um but I don't know, I don't know that we have that capability, but that's something. Maybe we could shoot for in the long term. um Thank you, councilmember cohen. Did you have any more? No, you took your hand down. Okay, great, I think we're ready for the vote foley. I.

C

Esparza, yes cohen,.

E

B

Davis, yes, thank you thanks. That motion carries we'll move on to open forum. We have a couple of members of the public who want to speak blair, beekman.

I

Hi, uh thank you, council, preston, davis for the clarification about street supers and garbage trucks. um I wanted to mention that uh for this item. I wanted to talk about uh division, zero task force and this smart cities committee of last week um you know vision, zero, they're, handing handling a lot of neighborhood safety issues and with four and 5g they're, getting a ton new uh four and five g. That's got like surveillance capabilities for neighborhood safety concerns, uh kip harkness. It was asked by council person perales, I think about.

I

What's the stat current status of a street light surveillance, tech and kipp gave kind of a fib of an answer and it wasn't too impressive, and I think I need to bring that out here now that he mentioned ideas of you- know: privacy policy and they're they're, creating privacy policies for the street lights for the system. So the public can ask questions about it, uh but he says it's not really functioning at this time and that to me was not very honest and he should be more honest to describe that.

I

You guys are probably going full bore and trying to figure out exactly how to work with this surveillance, tech and all this new foreign 5g and street lights, and it's just a matter of you, don't quite know what to do with it. Yet there's so much of it. So uh you know I. I think you need a much different approach to be more honest about the subject matter and.

I

I guess I guess that's that's covers I I I know I have more to say, and I can't think of what I what else I need to say at this time, but uh just thank you for the meeting today and uh yeah. I want to say, uh rajini, maybe I'll, try that rajani as uh hopefully I can get this right, and thanks for your patience and me learning how to say your name thanks.

B

That was right. Next speaker is roland.

E

Thank you, madam chair. The first thing I'd like to bring to your attention is that now we are now nearly three hours into this meeting and I'm still waiting for someone to uh enable closed captioning. So if that process could be automated I'll be graciously appreciated.

E

Now, as you heard from many members of the community, adequate transportation or lag there are for all. People of all abilities is a serious issue in the city of san jose, but concerned citizens have to go through endless presentations, discussing street sweeping storm drains digesters, homeless, encampments and other issues without a clear nexus to transportation issues.

E

So I think that the time has come to revisit the well-intended recommendation by former council member cortese to merge the transportation environmental committees and relegate environmental issues without the clear access to transportation to a separate committee to deal with those issues.

E

The last command I'd like to make with all due respect is that I do hope that the next city manager will consider looking outside the vta retirement pool for the position of director of transportation. Thank you and enjoy the rest of the afternoon.

B

Thank you and our last speaker is calling user one.

B

Please keep it related to transportation and the environment.

H

Oh, don't worry I'll, keep it to the transportation and the environment. Don't you worry yeah yeah, I, like the micro management uh on my iphone from you, dev thanks a lot for letting me know what I'm supposed to talk about in open forum. It sounds real open. Doesn't it I don't know who's left listening, but can you believe these people, what they're doing environment, what environment you're not gonna street sweeping, is gonna gonna clean up the environment? I don't. I don't think so. uh You're worried that yeah I mean next door.

H

I got kicked off the next door. So how am I supposed to know when it's going to happen? My neighbors like like I want to like be on some yahoo chain mail with them. No thanks, just you know, put out some flyers put out some. You know once you go on the news and talk about it. Instead of talking about uh the billy de frank center or whatever you always do. Why don't you? Why don't you make some press releases in the spotlight?

H

uh You know, I'm not! You.

L

H

I should be charging you for this, because this is. This is actually good consultation, but uh yeah I mean you need to you. Need you guys need to uh stop making excuses about everything. You think that there's this is gonna, be some post, modern utopia, it's not it's san, jose, california. I mean we're still picking prunes here. For god's sakes, you can't even keep the bathroom clean at the at the rose garden. You can't keep the fountain running at the rose garden. That place has been around 100 years.

H

You still can't you still can't get it straight. Deb the the grass is dying everywhere, nice environment over there, the trash piled high on the weekends and all the garbage cans is that good for the environment and for the people who are around rotting garbage everywhere. It's disgusting it took forever to fix the broken gate, I'm glad they didn't crush somebody seriously this all this new transit is going to be a disaster nobody's going to use it, they don't use it now. It's not thank.

B

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