Mar 01, 2022 Urban Transportation

UH, THEN THE NEXT ITEM APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 8TH? YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THAT IN AN EMAIL.

PERFECT.

[1. APPROVAL OF FEBRUARY 8th, 2022 MINUTES]

DO WE SEE ANYBODY WITH A MOTION TO APPROVE? AYE, I SEE.

UM, ANY DISCUSSION ON THE AGENDA? I MEAN, ON THE MINUTES, ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES, SAY AYE, OR RAISE YOUR HAND ANY OPPOSED, SAY NAY OR PUT YOUR HAND DOWN IF TENSIONS.

UM, THAT BRINGS US TO THE FIRST ITEM TO A, UM, IS, UM, NEFERTITI JACKMAN ON THE CON THE CALL.

WE'RE LOOKING TO THE LIST.

MOVING ON TO ITEM TWO B THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN.

AT THIS TIME WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE IN THERE FOR TD, UH, RECOMMEND

[2.B. Austin Strategic Mobility Plan Updates Presenter: Cole Kitten, Austin Transportation Department Sponsors: Ruven Brooks and Allison Runas]

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT FROM ANYBODY? NOPE.

THEN LET'S, UH, SWAP THOSE TWO ITEMS AND WE'LL GO WITH, TO BE FIRST, I SEE THE COAL KITTEN IS HERE.

THEN WE DO HAVE QUITE A NUMBER OF SPEAKERS SIGNED UP FOR THIS AGENDA ITEM.

I THINK IT HAS 36 SPEAKERS OR SOMETHING.

SO, UM, WE ARE GOING TO SAVE THOSE PEOPLE FOR AFTER THE PRESENTATION, IN CASE SOME OF THEIR QUESTIONS, UH, WHICH I THINK ARE ANSWERABLE AND SOME WERE ANSWERED IN AN EMAIL YESTERDAY.

UM, K SOME OF THOSE GET ANSWERED.

AND JUST AS A REMINDER TO THE FOLKS WHO ARE SIGNED TO SPEAK UP, WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND LIMIT YOU TO A MINUTE, MINUTE AND A HALF.

WE'RE NOT GONNA TRY AND CUT YOU OFF, BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE TO GO THROUGH.

IF WE GAVE EVERYBODY THREE MINUTES, I WOULD TAKE AN HOUR AND A HALF.

SO WE'RE GONNA TRY AND LIMIT YOU TO A MINUTE.

IF YOU COULD LIMIT YOURSELF, THAT'D BE AWESOME.

UH, COLE KITTEN, ARE YOU READY TO PRESENT HERE? CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN.

TAKE IT AWAY.

AND IF, IF YOU COULD SHARE THE, UH, PRESENTATION.

LET'S GIVE US ONE MOMENT.

WE'RE BRINGING IT UP NOW AND WE'LL, I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CAN GO AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE CUE WHEN TO ADVANCE THE SLIDE.

WELL, JUST TO GET STARTED, I'M COLE KITTEN, I'M THE DIVISION MANAGER WITHIN OUR AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

I OVERSEE OUR PLANNING AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF OUR CITY'S, UM, AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN.

THEY IS MP.

SO THIS IS THE FIRST OF, UM, OF SIX PRESENTATIONS IN MARCH TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

SO WE JUST RELEASED UPDATED INFORMATION YESTERDAY.

UM, SO MUCH OF THIS INFORMATION WILL BE NEW TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR THOSE THAT HAD TO SIGN UP, UM, IN ADVANCE OF INFORMATION, UM, BEING AVAILABLE.

AND JUST TO CONFIRM, I, I'M ACTUALLY NOT SAYING THE PRESENTATION, I'M SEEING IT FROM OUR, UM, THE SCREEN.

WE SEE LIKE A GOOGLE OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, LIKE A GOOGLE SCREEN, URBAN TRANSPORTATION.

THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT.

HOW ABOUT NOW? OKAY.

SO THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME, UM, Y'ALL ARE OUR FIRST, UM, COMMISSIONED TO PRESENT THAT.

SO, UH, PLEASE FEEL FREE, UM, UH, TO, UH, GET THROUGH THE PRESENTATION AND THEN WE CAN DO Q AND A AT THE END.

AND, AND THEN OF COURSE,

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UM, THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.

SO WITHIN THE AGENDA, I'LL GO OVER OUR TIMELINE, UH, BACKGROUND ON WHAT THE SMP IS.

WHAT'S IN THIS ACE AND P AMENDMENT CYCLE.

AND THEN TALK A BIT ABOUT INTERPRETING THESE UPDATES BASED ON, UH, THE COMMENTS WE RECEIVED SO FAR.

SO TO BEGIN, UM, IN MAY OF 2021, WE, WE BEGAN THIS PROCESS, UH, WITH INTERNAL INTERNAL REVIEW.

UM, AND THEN WE RELEASED A POLICY SURVEY OCTOBER 1ST, FOLLOWED BY A STREET NETWORK MAP ON NOVEMBER 15, AND THEN THIS FIRST ROUND OF, UH, ENGAGEMENT, UH, ENDED ON JANUARY 30TH.

THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, WE SUMMARIZE THE FEEDBACK WE HEARD IN ONE, AND THEN WE DEVELOPED AN UPDATED DRAFT OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.

AND THAT WAS JUST RELEASED YESTERDAY.

UM, ALONG WITH NOTIFICATION THAT WAS SENT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY REGISTRY, UM, UH, WITH LINKS TO THE UPDATED DRAFT.

SO IN MARCH WE'LL BE PRESENTING TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AS WELL AS THE COUNCIL MOBILITY COMMITTEE WILL BE CONDUCTING THE SECOND ROUND OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

AND IN APRIL, WE'LL BE SUMMARIZING THE FEEDBACK WE HEARD TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AS WELL AS A PUBLIC FEEDBACK FORM FOR ROUND TWO.

AND WE'LL BE DEVELOPING THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS, UM, TO BE RELEASED IN MAY WHERE PLANNING COMMISSION WILL MAKE THEIR RECOMMENDATION BEFORE CITY COUNCIL CONDUCTS A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERS THE AMENDMENTS, UH, FOR APPROVAL.

SO A BRIEF REMINDER OF WHAT'S IN THE ASN P NEXT SLIDE, THE ASM P IS BOTH A POLICY DOCUMENT AND A MAP.

UM, IT WAS ADOPTED IN APRIL, 2019 BY COUNCIL.

IT IS THE TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT OF THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

IT IS A COMPREHENSIVE MULTIMODAL MOBILITY PLAN THAT ESTABLISHES OUR VISION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK IN THE FUTURE.

UM, IT'S CONSIDERED OUR NORTH STAR, UM, AND IT ESTABLISHED OUR PRIMARY PLAN OBJECTIVE TO, TO ACHIEVE A 50 50 MODE SHARE WHERE 50% OF AUSTINITES, UM, DRIVE ALONE IN THEIR CAR IN 2039 COMPARED TO SEF 74% TODAY.

SO IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THAT MODE SHIFT, UM, THE, THE PLAN INCLUDES INDICATORS AND TARGETS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, INCLUDES OUR POLICIES, UM, TO HELP US MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS AND INCLUDES, UM, ACTION ITEMS, UM, UH, TO HELP US GET THERE.

SO THE AND P STREET NETWORK IS THE TECHNICAL ELEMENT OF THE S AND P.

UM, IT IS A DATABASE OF STREETS ORGANIZED BY STREET NAME, AND IT INCLUDES THE EXISTING AND FUTURE CONDITIONS OF THE RIGHT OF WAY.

UM, THESE FUTURE CONDITIONS ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE POLICIES AND THEY S AND P AND THE, THE MULTIMODAL SYSTEM SUCH AS WALKING BICYCLING AND TRANSIT ALL WITHIN IT.

BUT PRIMARILY IT'S USED TO IDENTIFY RIGHT-OF-WAY DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE FUTURE REQUIREMENTS OF FUTURE ROADWAY CONDITIONS.

NEXT SLIDE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT A RIGHT OF WAY, DEDICATION IS ONLY TRIGGERED FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT OR INTENSIVE REDEVELOPMENT, MEANING BUILT A SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, GOING THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL REVIEW PROCESS FOR BUILDING PERMIT, SUCH AS A RECONSTRUCTION, A REMODEL, AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT.

THOSE DO NOT REQUIRE RIGHT OF WAY DEDICATION.

SO MANY OF OUR STREETS, UM, WE'LL NEVER HAVE CHANGES TO THE RIGHT OF WAY, BUT WE'LL HAVE MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FUTURE.

MR. KITTEN, CAN I ASK YOU THE QUESTION RIGHT HERE, RIGHT.

SURE.

A LOT OF THE PEOPLE'S CONCERNS? LIKE WHAT COUNTS AS INTENSIVE REDEVELOPMENT, WHAT COUNTS AS NEW DEVELOPMENT? DOES THIS AFFECT A WHOLE STREET IF THERE WAS NEW DEVELOPMENT OR DOES THIS AFFECT THAT SINGLE PROPERTY? CAUSE IT SEEMS THE OBVIOUS ANSWER IS THE WHOLE STREET, CAUSE IT'S NOT, IT SEEMS KIND OF POINTLESS TO PUT A BIKE LANE OR A, A ROAD DIET IN FRONT OF ONE PROPERTY.

SO JUST TO GET A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE, KIND OF THE COMMENTS ON I'M SURE YOU'VE READ MANY OF THE COMMENTS, I'VE READ ALL THE EMAILS THAT WERE SENT TO US.

I THINK THIS IS THE CRUX OF A LOT OF THE DISCUSSION.

SO I GUESS THERE'S SORT OF TWO ELEMENTS TO MY QUESTION.

UM, UH, THE SENTENCE RIGHT AWAY, DEDICATION IS ONLY TRIGGERED FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT OR INTENSIVE REDEVELOPMENT.

ARE THOSE DEFINED SOMEWHERE IN A WAY THAT WILL HELP ADDRESS

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SO I THINK THESE COULD BE CLEARED UP IF YOU CAN.

I'M NOT ASKING YOU FOR A LEGAL OPINION.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE A LAWYER OR NOT, BUT I THINK THAT IS A CRUX OF A LOT OF PEOPLE'S CONCERNS.

UM, DO YOU HAVE A WAY TO CLARIFY THAT OR IS THIS CLARIFIED SOMEWHERE ELSE? THOSE ARE GOOD DETAILS TO KNOW.

UM, UNFORTUNATELY I THINK IT'S LARGELY DEPENDENT ON THE SITUATION, UM, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF SITE PROPERTY, DEFINITELY THE, THE SIZE, UM, IN SOME INSTANCES ON A MAJOR CORRIDOR, YOU MAY VERY WELL, UM, INCLUDE THE IDEAL CONDITION FOR, FOR THE LENGTH OF THAT SITE AND NOT HAVE IT FOR THE REST OF THE STREET.

UM, BECAUSE, UM, BECAUSE IT, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT DEVELOPMENT, YOU COULD INCLUDE THE IDEAL CONFIGURATION SEPARATING BICYCLES AND PEDESTRIANS FROM ONE ANOTHER AVOIDING, UH, CONSTRAINED SPACES, ET CETERA.

SO, UM, HOWEVER, YES, DEVELOPMENT OCCURS VERY PIECEMEAL OVER TIME.

SO, UM, THEY SMP IS REALLY INTENDED TO BE LONG RANGE IN NATURE, AND IT'S ABOUT PRESERVING THE SPACE OVER TIME SO THAT ULTIMATELY YOU CAN HAVE, UM, AN ENTIRE CORRIDOR, UM, INCLUDE THE IDEAL CONFIGURATION, UH, OF SPACE, BUT IT DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF STREET THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AS WELL.

SO I THINK THE OBVIOUS FOLLOW-UP QUESTION WOULD BE BASED ON THE COMMENTS IN MOST OF THE EMAILS AND THE COMMENTS IN THAT GIANT DOCUMENT, THAT 200 AND SOME ODD PAGE DOCUMENT DOES A LEVEL TWO STREET.

AND I KNOW THERE WAS ANOTHER EMAIL, SO I'M GIVING THAT CAME OUT YESTERDAY.

SO I'M GIVING YOU A CHANCE TO SORT OF SAY THAT OUT LOUD TO THE PEOPLE LISTENING, YOU KNOW, DOES A LEVEL TWO STREET, UM, FACE THE PROSPECT.

IF A STREET GETS CHANGED FROM LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO, DOES THAT LEVEL TWO STREET FACE THE PROSPECT OF A WHOLE STREET REWORKING OR WHOLE STREET NEW RIGHT.

OF WAY LIKE NEW PHYSICAL SPACE ACQUISITION, IF SOMEONE WERE TO TEAR DOWN A LOT AND PUT UP A NEW HOUSE, RIGHT? SO ON A LEVEL TWO STREET, I THINK WHAT EVERYONE WILL SEE THE, THE PROPOSAL THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH.

UM, AND I'LL KIND OF GET INTO THIS A LITTLE BIT IN LATER SLIDES IS THAT WE'VE, WE'VE REMOVED THOSE LEVEL TWO, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS OR THE PROPOSED CHANGE TO, TO UPGRADE A LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO BECAUSE OF THE BICYCLE FACILITY RECOMMENDATION, UM, FOR STREETS WITHIN ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS.

HOWEVER, ON, ON, ON STREETS THAT HAVE, UM, UH, APPROVED ZONING OR FUTURE LAND USE MAPS THAT WOULD INDICATE A CHANGE OF USE AND INTENSITY THOSE, UM, STREETS PRESERVED OR ARE MAINTAINED THE PROPOSED CHANGE TO LEVEL TWO.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, YOU'LL SEE THAT THOSE SEGMENTS OF STREETS ARE PRIMARILY AT THE INTERSECTION WITH A MAJOR CORRIDOR.

SO WHAT WOULD, WHAT WE WOULD BE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IS IF THOSE PROPERTIES ALONG THE MAJOR COURT, OR WHERE TO REDEVELOP THAT THE SIDE STREET GETS THE APPROPRIATE TREATMENT AS A GATEWAY INTO OR OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BECAUSE THOSE INTERSECTIONS ARE REALLY WHERE, UM, YOU ESTABLISH THE, UM, UH, LIKE THE CONTEXT OR THE SAFE, THE SAFE SPACE, UM, FOR PEOPLE TO TRAVEL INTO AND OUT OF, UH, OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO, UM, THAT CHANGE IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO OCCUR AT THE INTERSECTION ALONG THAT FIRST BLOCK.

AND THEN WE WOULD ALLOW, UM, ANY SORT OF BICYCLE FACILITY TREATMENT OR TRAFFIC CALMING, UM, TO OCCUR WITHIN THE INTERIOR NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, THAT'S NOT REFLECTIVE OF THE IDEAL, UM, CONFIGURATION SHOWN AS A LEVEL TWO STREET.

CAN UNDERSTAND THAT IT WILL GET INTO MORE OF A DETAIL LATER, BUT THAT'S A GOOD ANSWER.

THAT IS, UM, I THINK I HOPE PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTENING, UM,

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AND SO I JUST WANT TO ASK ONE MORE QUESTION ABOUT THAT LAST BULLET POINT.

MANY STREETS WILL NEVER HAVE RIGHT AWAY CHANGES.

I TAKE THAT TO MEAN THEY WILL NOT HAVE NEW PROPERTY ACQUIRED, EVEN IF THINGS LIKE BICYCLE LANES GET ADDED.

IS THAT A GOOD READING OF THAT SECOND BULLET POINT? RIGHT.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN WITH MY LAST STATEMENT IS THAT EVEN IF THE FIRST PROPERTY ON THAT STREET REDEVELOPS, AND IT INCLUDES THE MORE IDEAL CONFIGURATION REMAINDER OF THE STREET MAY NEVER CHANGE MEANING THE RIGHT OF WAY IS ESTABLISHED.

THOSE PROPERTIES NEVER GET REDEVELOPED, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO, UM, EXCLUDE THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO HAVE MULTIMODAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FUTURE.

IT WOULD JUST BE DONE WITHIN THE EXISTING PAVEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY.

OKAY, GREAT.

I THANK YOU FOR THOSE ANSWERS.

UM, I CANNOT SEE THE REST OF THE COMMISSION, UM, ON THE SCREEN.

SO IF ANYONE HAS A QUESTION AT THIS POINT, I THINK THIS IS A GOOD LITTLE DISCUSSION POINT.

UM, PLEASE JUMP IN.

I CAN'T SEE.

OH, HERE WE GO.

WE'RE CHANGING SCREENS.

DOES ANYONE HAVE A QUESTION ON THIS POINT BEFORE WE MOVE ON? I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THAT RELATE TO THIS, BUT I KIND OF WANT TO SEE THE REST OF THE SLIDES.

I THINK MAYBE THAT MIGHT BE ANSWERED.

LET'S MOVE ON.

THANK YOU, MR. GOODEN.

THERE WE GO.

SO I'LL COVER WHAT'S IN THIS AMENDMENT CYCLE.

SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED BOTH, UM, AMENDMENTS TO THE POLICY DOCUMENT ITSELF, UM, INCLUDING, UH, THREE ADDITIONAL POLICIES, BUT ALSO REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS TO ACTION ITEMS AND OTHER, UM, MINOR DOCUMENT CORRECTIONS.

ALL OF THOSE AMENDMENTS, UH, CAN BE FOUND IN AN ASM P RED LINE, UM, VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT ONLINE, AS WELL AS THE AMENDMENT LOG, UH, WITH THE ASSOCIATED PAGE NUMBERS.

UM, WE'LL ALSO INCLUDE TREAT NETWORK CORRECTIONS AS WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING, UM, BASED ON ALIGNING, UM, CITY DOCUMENTS AND MAKING OTHER CORRECTIONS.

AND THESE PROPOSED MAP CHANGES CAN ALSO BE FOUND ONLINE AS OF YESTERDAY.

SO FIRST I'LL GO OVER THE B3 NEW PROPOSED POLICIES.

UM, WHEN WE STARTED THIS AMENDMENT PROCESS, UH, AS I SAID INTERNALLY, UM, WE WERE REALLY REFLECTING ON, UM, ON CURRENT EVENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE 2019, UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS, THIS AMENDMENT OPPORTUNITY WASN'T INTENDED TO BE A, UM, UH, REIMAGINATION OF ACNP, BUT REALLY AN EVALUATION ON OUR GAPS AND WEAKNESSES.

AND WE WERE REALLY REFLECTING ON, UH, THE PRESSURES, UM, THE STRUGGLES THAT WE, WE FELT DURING THE PANDEMIC, UM, ABOUT THE LACK OF SPACE TO GET OUT, UM, UH, TO SAFELY EXERCISE, UM, SOCIALIZE.

UM, AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT OUR CITIES STREETS ARE OUR LARGE LARGEST PUBLIC ASSET.

SO WE FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO IDENTIFY THIS NEW POLICY, TO SUPPORT STREETS AS PLACES WHERE PEOPLE IN COMMUNITY ENGAGE IN NON MOBILITY ACTIVITY AND THE FULL TEXTS FOR THIS PROPOSED POLICY CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 95 OF THE RED LINE.

UM, BUT FROM A TRANSPORTATION PERSPECTIVE WHERE, UH, OUR, OUR COMMUNITY REALLY IS IMPACTED WHEN OUR TRANSPORTATION FAILS US DURING THESE EXTREME EVENTS.

SO WE FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO IDENTIFY, UH, A POLICY, UM, TO STRENGTHEN THE CITY'S POSITION, UM, UH, TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE.

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SO WE WANTED TO IDENTIFY POLICY THAT, UM, THAT STATES INCREASE THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS, ADAPTIVE CAPACITY, UH, TO FUTURE-PROOF OUR TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND OPERATIONS TO FLEXIBLY ADAPT TO CLIMATE IMPACTS.

AND THE FULL TEXT CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 1 97 OF THE AND RED LINE.

FOR THOSE THAT WERE NOT, UM, BRIEFED OR FOLLOWING ALONG LAST YEAR THROUGH THE PUBLIC PROCESS TO UPDATE THE TCM, THE FIRST THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT, UM, THE TCM REPLACED THE OLD, UM, FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION TERMINOLOGY OF USING LOCAL, UM, COLLECTOR ARTERIAL, UM, THAT THOSE, UM, CLASSIFICATIONS, AND IT WAS REPLACED BY STREET LEVEL CLASSIFICATION.

UM, SO WE WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, UH, THAT WE NEEDED TO SUPPORT LARGER CITY EFFORTS FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE.

AND THE FULL TEXT CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 2 68 DAYS AND THE RED LINE NEXT SLIDE.

SO OUR POLICY SURVEY THAT WAS RELEASED IN OCTOBER OF 2021, UM, ASK PEOPLE TO SUPPORT HOW STRONGLY, UH, TO, TO INDICATE HOW STRONGLY THEY SUPPORT THE PROPOSED POLICIES.

UM, ALL OF THE POLICIES WERE, UH, RECEIVED SIX 70% OR GREATER, UM, SUPPORT OR STRONGLY SUPPORT.

AND SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT WE RECEIVED ABOUT ROADWAY SYSTEM POLICY SIX IS THAT STREETS SHOULD HAVE MANY USES FOR THE COMMUNITY, UM, THAT THEY AREN'T, UH, JUST FOR MOVING CARS.

UM, ALSO RECEIVED OVER 70%, UH, SUPPORT IN COMMENTS, UH, RECEIVED SAID THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO KEEP TRANSPORTATION OPERATING DURING, UH, DISASTERS, UM, KEEPING THE COMMUNITY SAFE, BUT OTHERS FELT THAT THE POLICY, UM, THE PROPOSED POLICIES WERE OVERREACTING OR WERE UNNECESSARY.

SO THE FULL SURVEY RESULTS CAN BE FOUND IN OUR ROUND ONE PUBLIC FEEDBACK REPORT THAT WAS ALSO POSTED ONLINE, NEXT SLIDE.

SO MOVING INTO OUR, OUR STREET NETWORK AMENDMENTS, UM, SO THE STREET NETWORK REFLECTS, UM, INPUTS FROM VARIOUS CITY DOCUMENTS AND PLAN PROJECTS.

SO EVERY AMENDMENT CYCLE, UM, WE SHOULD ENSURE THAT THE STREET NETWORK IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH THOSE, THOSE RELEVANT DOCUMENTS.

UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE ADOPTED STREET NETWORK WAS BASED ON DRAFT CRITERIA, USED TO UPDATE THE TCM AS WELL AS PLANNING LEVEL RIGHT OF WAY ESTIMATES.

SO, UM, ALL OF THE PROPOSED, UH, AMENDMENTS CAN BE FOUND ONLINE.

AND THEN I'M GOING TO GO OVER THESE, THESE, UM, TOPICS IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES NEXT, STARTING WITH HOW WE ALIGNED WITH THE, UH, UPDATED TCM.

SO THE TRANSPORTATION CRITERIA MANUAL WAS UPDATED OVER A MULTI-YEAR PROCESS.

UM, IT WAS COMPLETED IN DECEMBER, 2021, AND IT GOES INTO EFFECT OF JUNE AND JUNE, 2022.

AND THE TCM SETS NEW GUIDELINES ON WHAT TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES SHOULD LOOK LIKE IN AUSTIN AND INCLUDES NEW CROSS SECTIONS FOR THOSE IDEAL CONDITIONS.

BUT IT ALSO PROVIDES GUIDANCE FOR HOW TO DESIGN A STREET IN CONSTRAINED CONDITIONS.

SO THE STREET NETWORKS, UH, STREET-LEVEL CROSS-SECTION AND REQUIRED RIGHT OF WAY, WERE ALL PROPOSED TO BE AMENDED, TO ALIGN WITH THESE ASSOCIATED TCM, UM, CROSS-SECTIONS AND STANDARDS, NEXT SLIDE.

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UM, THE STREET LEVELS CONSIDER THE FUNCTION OF THE STREET, JUST LIKE THE FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION DOES.

UM, AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE GRAPHIC THAT STARTING WITH A LEVEL ONE STREET, THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF ACCESS TO LAND, UM, IS ON A LEVEL ONE.

AND THEN, UM, THE HIGHER DEGREE OF MOBILITY IS ACHIEVED AS YOU GO UP THE CHART TO A LEVEL FIVE STREET.

SO A LEVEL ONE IS, IS EQUIVALENT TO A LOCAL STREET, AND THEN A LEVEL FIVE WOULD BE A HIGHWAY.

BUT, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT MANY FACTORS PLAY IN, UH, INTO DEFINING EACH OF THE STREET LEVELS, SUCH AS THE DESIRED SPEEDS, TRIPLING TURN LANES, BICYCLE FACILITIES, PARKING, ET CETERA.

SO, UM, TO WALK THROUGH AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE TCM UPDATED TCM WAS USED TO, UM, UPDATE THE STREET NETWORK, UM, THE ADOPTED STREET NETWORK IDENTIFIED THIS STREET AS A STREET LEVEL TWO.

IT HAD A FUTURE CROSS-SECTION OF TWO WITH A CENTER TURN LANE AND REQUIRED 96 FEET OF, UM, RIGHT OF WAY IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE FUTURE CONDITIONS.

THIS WAS BASED ON THE 2017 DRAFT AUSTIN STREET DESIGN GUIDE, WHICH WAS USED AS THE PRECURSOR TO UPDATING THE TCM NEXT SLIDE, WHAT HE'S PROPOSING TO THE ADOPTED STREET NETWORK TO SHOW THE ADOPTED, UH, TCM, UH, CRITERIA.

SO THIS STREET IN PARTICULAR WOULD BE CHANGING FROM A LEVEL TWO TO A LEVEL THREE.

AND IT WOULD GO FROM BEING A TWO LANE WITH A CENTER TURN TO A TWO LANE WITH A RAISED MEDIAN WITH TURN, UM, TURN BAYS AND THE UPDATED RIGHT OF WAY REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS CROSS-SECTION IS 80 FEET INSTEAD OF 96 FEET.

AND THEN WE'RE ALSO MAKING UPDATES TO THOSE RIGHT-AWAY REMARKS WHERE WE, UM, PROVIDED MORE INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE USED TO EVALUATE THE RIGHT OF WAY IN THE FUTURE, UM, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THOSE FEW, THE, THE IDEAL CONDITIONS.

SO IN THIS CASE, UM, IN, IN, IN MANY, UH, OF THE STREETS, UH, WE INDICATE THAT IMPROVEMENTS WOULD BE MADE WITHIN, UH, THE EXISTING RIGHT OF WAY, UM, USING FLEXIBLE DESIGN CRITERIA OR RIGHT AWAY WOULD BE DEDICATED AT THE TIME OF DEVELOPMENT, UM, WITH, UH, NEW DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIAL REDEVELOPMENT.

SO, UM, ONE THING TO NOTE, THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR THIS PARTICULAR STREET USED IN THE EXAMPLE, NEXT SLIDE.

I CAN HEAR SOMEONE, BUT I'M NOT SURE WHO YEAH, THAT JUST STARTED.

WE HAD THAT IN THE PAST, OR I THINK, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS MIKE WAS BLEEDING INTO OUR MIC, KEEP GOING.

SECOND, UM, WITH THE UPDATED TCM, UH, WE REVIEWED THE INGREDIENTS WITHIN THE STREET NETWORK, UM, PRIMARILY THOSE FROM THE 2014 BICYCLE PLAN TO, SO THE BICYCLE PLAN IS A LONG RANGE PLAN TO IDENTIFY THE RECOMMENDED TYPE AND LOCATION OF BICYCLE FACILITIES.

IT MAPS THE SHORT AND LONGTERM BICYCLE NETWORK, AND IT'S USED AS INPUT INTO THE STREET NETWORK TO IDENTIFY THE PROCESS ACTION IN THE TCM, BY THE TYPE OF BICYCLE FACILITY.

SO AS WE, AS WE POINTED OUT, THESE AMENDMENTS WERE PROPOSED TO CORRECT LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO STREET CLASSIFICATIONS TO ALIGN WITH THE BICYCLE PLAN AND UNDERLINING WERE PROPOSED.

I WANTED TO SHOW THAT THE ADOPTED STREET NETWORK HAD CLASSIFIED THIS STREET AS A LEVEL ONE, BUT IT INCLUDED A FUTURE BICYCLE FACILITY, A BIKE BICYCLE LANE.

UM, IN THIS EXAMPLE, UM,

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AND THIS INFORMATION WAS BASED ON THE 2017 DRAFT AUSTIN STREET DESIGN GUIDE SHOWN NEXT SLIDE, AND THEN REEVALUATING THE STREET NETWORK.

UM, BASED ON THE ADOPTED TCM, WE WERE PROPOSING TO CORRECT THE STREET LEVEL TO ALIGN WITH THE APPROPRIATE, UH, DESIGNATION BEING A LEVEL TWO BECAUSE OF THE FUTURE BICYCLE FACILITY BEING RECOMMENDED AS A BIKE LANE AND THE UPDATED RIGHT AWAY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STREET WOULD BE 84 FEET.

AND THEN WE WOULD ALSO BE INCLUDING AN UPDATED RIGHT OF WAY REMARKS, AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, WHICH IS INTENDED TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, IF A LEVEL TWO DESIGNATION WAS APPLIED TO AN ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS WOULD BE MADE, UM, WITHIN THE EXISTING RIGHT OF WAY USING FLEXIBLE DESIGN CRITERIA.

HOWEVER, IF A NEW DEVELOPMENT OR COMMERCIAL REDEVELOPMENT OCCURS, WE WOULD BE USING THIS RIGHT AWAY REQUIREMENT AS THE STARTING POINT IN THAT LAND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.

SO THE OTHER THING TO NOTE IS THAT THIS PARTICULAR STREET DOESN'T HAVE PLANS.

SO AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, UM, MOST OF OUR COMMENTS FROM ROUND ONE, UH, WE'RE IN REGARD TO THIS ISSUE.

SO, UH, WE WORKED THROUGH FEBRUARY TO REVISE THE UPDATED DRAFT OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS, UNDERSTANDING THAT RIGHT OF WAY WITHIN ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS WILL NOT BE ACQUIRED, UM, BECAUSE THE CITY WILL NOT ACQUIRE RIGHT OF WAY FROM SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, BUT ALSO BECAUSE, UM, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE NOT SUBJECT TO RIGHT-OF-WAY DEDICATION, UM, GOING THROUGH THE BUILDING PERMIT PROCESS.

SO WE REMOVED THOSE PROPOSED CHANGES, UM, WITHIN ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, TO MAINTAIN WHAT WAS IN 2019 WHILE STILL ACCOUNTING FOR AREAS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE, UH, DEVELOPMENT BASED ON, UH, OUR CURRENT REGULATIONS.

SO THE IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT, UM, THESE INGREDIENTS THAT ARE USED TO DEVELOP THE STREET NETWORK, UM, UH, WERE BASED ON THE 2014 BICYCLE PLAN, AND IT'S CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH A PROCESS TO BE UPDATED AND REPLACED, UM, THROUGH THE ATX WALK, BY ROLL PROCESS.

SO ANY CHANGES THAT ARE MADE THROUGH THAT PROCESS WILL BE REFLECTED BACK INTO THE ACMP, WHICH WOULD OCCUR, UM, AFTER 2023, WHEN COUNCIL CONSIDERS IT FOR ADOPTION.

SO MOVING ON TO THE OTHER CHANGES THAT INFLUENCED THE STREET NETWORK, UM, THE STREET NETWORK, UH, WAS ADOPTED, UM, BASED ON THE LONG-TERM VISION PLAN FOR PROJECT CONNECT.

IT INCLUDED ADDITIONAL RIGHT OF WAY BASED ON THIS PLAN, UM, BASED ON PLANNING LEVEL ESTIMATES TO PRESERVE THE ABILITY TO OPERATE TRANSIT AND DEDICATED PATHWAYS.

SO SINCE 2019 NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED ALONG, THESE CORRIDORS HAVE COMPLIED WITH THESE RIGHT OF WAY DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS.

NEXT SLIDE, NOW THAT THE, UM, ADOPTED PROJECT CONNECT SYSTEM PLAN IS IN PLACE, UH, AS OF JUNE, 2020, IT REPLACED THE L THE ALTERNATIVE ALIGNMENTS IN THE LONG-TERM VISION PLAN.

AND THEY'RE ALSO UPDATES TO METRO RAPID ALIGNMENTS AND HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSIT ROUTES.

SO THOSE ARE BEING REFLECTED IN AN UPDATED TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK, AS WELL AS OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MAP.

AND THEN, UM, THE STREET NETWORK ITSELF IS BEING AMENDED TO REFLECT THE UPDATED CROSS-SECTIONS AND RIDEAWAY REQUIREMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE ENGINEERING PLANS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THE NEPA PROCESS.

STUDIES COMPLETED FOR THE MOBILITY BONDS, UM, SINCE 2019.

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SO THE STREET NETWORKS BEING AMENDED TO REFLECT THESE UPDATED SECTIONS AND RADICALLY REQUIREMENTS IN THESE ENGINEERING PLANS.

NEXT SLIDE, ADDITIONAL CHANGES THAT WE'RE MAKING ARE REMOVING ROADWAYS.

UM, SOME HAVE BEEN DETERMINED AS INFEASIBLE THEY DO, OR DO NOT HAVE COMMUNITY SUPPORT OR, OR THERE'S SOME OTHER SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION FOR WHY THEY'RE BEING REMOVED.

UM, IN OUR INITIAL ROUND, UH, WE IDENTIFIED GROVE BOULEVARD EXTENSION, UM, AS BEING ONE OF THE ROADWAYS BEING REMOVED.

WE'VE, WE'VE ADDED MORE ROADWAYS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR REMOVAL BASED ON OUR ROUND ONE PUBLIC COMMENTS, INCLUDING BRUSH COUNTRY ROAD, PAYNE AVENUE, AND SUNRIDGE DRIVE EXTENSIONS.

AND THEN SOME ROADWAYS ARE BEING REMOVED BECAUSE THEY'D BEEN VACATED OR HAVE NEW ALIGNMENTS.

UM, SINCE 2019, THERE'S ALSO BEEN, UH, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PLANNING AND SUBDIVISION WITHIN AUSTIN, UM, WHERE ROADWAYS ARE BEING PLANTED, UH, THROUGH THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS.

SO THE STREET NETWORK IS BEING AMENDED TO INCLUDE THESE ROADWAYS, UM, FOR INVENTORYING PURPOSES.

AND THEN THERE ARE SOME NEW ROADWAYS AND NEW ALIGNMENTS THAT ARE, THAT ARE ALSO BEING PROPOSED IN THE STREET.

NOW, NEXT SLIDE.

SO, UM, THE, UH, SUMMARY OF FEEDBACK THAT WE HEARD THROUGH ROUND ONE, UM, WE HAD 1600 CON UH, COMMENTS, UM, MADE WITHIN OUR PUBLIC FEEDBACK MAP.

WE ALSO RECEIVED MORE THAN 150 EMAILS, UM, DIRECTLY, UM, UH, FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE STREET NETWORK AMENDMENTS.

UM, FOR THOSE THAT WERE UNABLE TO USE THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK MAP, UH, THE MAJORITY OF THESE COMMENTS AND CONCERNS WERE ABOUT CHANGING LEVEL ONE STREETS TO LEVEL TWO, EXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT EXPANDING, UH, RIGHT OF WAY, AND THE STREET ITSELF WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND THEN, UH, COMMENTS ABOUT, UM, GETTING INTO DETAIL ABOUT WHAT THE APPROPRIATE TYPE OF BICYCLE FACILITY WAS ON A PARTICULAR STREET.

SO BESIDES THIS ISSUE, WE ALSO HEARD CONCERNS ABOUT PROJECTS THAT INDICATED THAT, UM, THE FUTURE CONDITION MAY HAVE AN INCREASED VEHICLE TRAVEL AS WELL AS VEHICLE SPEEDS.

OH, AND THE ONE THING TO NOTE IS THAT ALL OF THOSE COMMENTS CAN BE SEEN IN THE ROUND ONE, UH, PUBLIC FEEDBACK REPORT ONLINE.

SO, UM, NEXT SLIDE.

SO TO GO THROUGH, UM, WHAT ALL THIS MEANS, WHAT WE, WHAT THE TAKEAWAY IS FROM THIS INITIAL ROUND OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, WE FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HELP INTERPRET THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.

SO THE STREET NETWORK, UM, IS A CRITICAL TOOL FOR RIGHT OF WAY PLANNING THE STREET NETWORK PRESCRIBES THE FUTURE REQUIRED RIGHT OF WAY, MEANING THE SPACE THAT'S NEEDED FOR TRAVELING PARKING BICYCLE FACILITIES, TREES, SIDEWALKS, ET CETERA.

UM, BASED ON THE CRITERIA FROM OTHER CITY DOCUMENTS, SUCH AS THE TCM BIKE PLAN AND ACTIVE CIP PROJECTS, RECENT UPDATES TO THE TCM AND ENGINEERING PLANS REQUIRED A REEVALUATION OF THE ADOPTED STREET NETWORK.

AS THE PROJECTS UNDERGO THEIR OWN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, INCLUDING A PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROCESS THAT IDENTIFIES THE BEST APPROACH IN NECESSARY AMOUNT OF, RIGHT OF WAY TO SERVE THE MULTIMODAL NEEDS OF THE STREET.

SO, UM, WHILE UPDATES TO THE STREET NETWORK AND TCM LIST AND EXPANDED RIGHT AWAY FOR MANY STREETS, IT DOES NOT MEAN CHANGES ARE EMINENT.

THE STREET NETWORK PROVIDES A STARTING POINT FOR THE APPROPRIATE CROSS-SECTIONS AND REQUIRED RIGHT AWAY FOR IDEAL FUTURE CONDITIONS.

HOWEVER, ONLY NEW DEVELOPMENT OR INTENSIVE REDEVELOPMENT TRIGGERS A DEDICATION OF RIGHT OF WAY.

SO AGAIN, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES GOING THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL REVIEW PROCESS, UM, RECEIVING A BUILDING PERMIT DO NOT REQUIRE RIGHT RIGHT-OF-WAY DEDICATION.

ADDITIONALLY, FOR STREETS WITH CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, THE STREET NETWORK IS USED AS A REFERENCE,

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SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE S AND P IS THIS HIGH LEVEL, UM, PLANNING DOCUMENT THAT'S USED AS THE STARTING POINT AND ARE SUBSEQUENT STEPS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN BEFORE ANY CHANGES OCCUR.

AND IN SOME CASES IT'S THE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND OTHERS, IT'S AN ACTUAL CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT.

OTHERWISE ANY CHANGES TO THE STREET THAT ARE OPERATIONAL WOULD BE WITHIN THE EXISTING, UM, EXISTING PAVEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY NEXT SLIDE.

SO TO CONCLUDE THE NEXT STEPS, NEXT SLIDE, THE REMAINING FEEDBACK SCHEDULE, AS I MENTIONED, YOU ALL ARE FIRST STEP, UH, FIRST PRESENTATION FOLLOWED BY A PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE SEVENTH PLANNING COMMISSION ON THE EIGHTH, AND THEN COUNCIL MOBILITY COMMITTEE ON THE 10TH.

AND THEN WE'LL RETURN TO PLANNING COMMISSION TO GET A RECOMMENDATION IN MAY.

AND WE ARE TENTATIVELY LOOKING TO HOLD THE PUBLIC HEARING AT CITY COUNCIL IN ON MAY 19TH FOLLOWED BY, UM, COUNCIL'S ADOPTION, UM, UH, IN JUNE.

SO ALL OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'LL HEAR IN MARCH WILL BE SUMMARIZED IN A ROUND TO PUBLIC FEEDBACK REPORT AND PRESENTED, UM, IN THOSE NEXT STEPS.

AND DID WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A, I HAVE A QUESTION, ACTUALLY, IT LOOKS LIKE A COUPLE OF THIS.

COMMISSIONER SUMMERS FIRST.

UM, SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT HAS COME UP A LOT, AND I THINK THIS IS PARTLY, UM, THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN GET TO SIGN TO SOME OF THE SAME QUESTIONS, WHICH IS KIND OF INTERESTING.

I THINK, UM, SOME OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BUT ALSO ME.

SO THE, THE PHRASE LIKE INTENSIVE REDEVELOPMENT IS KIND OF PINKY MY INTERESTS.

SO LIKE, I CAN IMAGINE A NEIGHBORHOOD STREET WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU UP, YOU, A SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE IS REMOVED AND IT'S REPLACED WITH THE DUPLEX, UM, OR MAYBE IN THE FUTURE, A FOURPLEX OR A SIX PLEX OR A COTTAGE COURT, OR A VERY SMALL APARTMENT BUILDING, SOME SORT OF LIKE MISSING MIDDLE SORT OF, UH, RESIDENT RENTAL HOUSING.

THAT'S APPROPRIATE TO A NEIGHBOR LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD OF THAT TYPE, BUT IS, IS HIGHER INTENSITY.

AND, UM, WOULD TYPICALLY, IN SOME CASES IN OUR CURRENT STATUS WOULD REQUIRE A SITE PLAN.

AND SO IS THAT SITE PLAN IS THAT WHAT'S GOING TO TRIGGER THE RA RIGHT OF WAY DEDICATION, I THINK, WHERE I'M GOING HERE, THERE'S, THERE'S SIMILAR POLICY IN LA, I THINK.

AND SO YOU SEE SOME MAPS OF WHERE, LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO DO THIS VISUALLY AT THE STREETS GOING ALONG, AND THEN THERE'S ALMOST LIKE A BULB OUT BECAUSE THIS LOT MAYBE REDEVELOPED WITH A SMALL APARTMENT BUILDING OR A COTTAGE COURT OR SOMETHING.

AND SO THE STREET'S BEEN WIDENED THERE.

AND, AND THAT'S, I MEAN, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I'M ALL, I, YOU KNOW, I'M SUPER-DUPER AND SUPPORTIVE MULTIMODAL REBUILDS OF STREETS OF PRETTY MUCH THE HIGHEST QUALITY BIKE LANES AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES THAT WE CAN GET EVERY, THAT WE CAN AFFORD EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.

I'M, I'M ALL FOR THAT.

BUT I WOULD HATE TO SEE US, LIKE, JUST LIKE JUST TAKING RO LIKE EVERY TIME SOMEBODY PULLS A SITE PLAN IN A NEIGHBORHOOD AND JUST LIKE WIDENING THE STREET.

I MEAN, I SENSE A LOT OF, A LOT OF US, UM, WHO PAY A LOT OF ATTENTION TO TRANSPORTATION ACTUALLY TEND TO FEEL THAT A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS ARE TOO WIDE.

THEY'RE, THEY'RE SO WIDE AS TO BE UNSAFE.

PEOPLE ARE SPEEDING DOWN THEM.

AND WHAT WOULD REALLY BE HELPFUL IS TO ARRANGE THAT RIGHT OF WAY.

SO THAT WE'RE KIND OF STAYING WITHIN THE EXISTING FOOTPRINT OF THE STREET, BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, ADDING MULTIMODAL TREATMENT SO THAT EVERYBODY GETS SAFE ACCESS AND THE CARS ARE SLOWED DOWN SORT OF NATURALLY THROUGH THIS ROAD DIET.

SO, UM, I'M REALLY SYMPATHETIC TO THE IDEA THAT PARTICULARLY ON THESE SORT OF SMALLER TO MODERATE SIZED STREETS WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS, THAT WE CAN DO A LOT WITHIN OUR RIGHT OF WAY.

I'M NOT SYMPATHETIC TO SAYING, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS HONESTLY, BUT SAYING, I DON'T WANT BIKE LANES, OR WE DON'T NEED BIKE TREATMENTS, OR WE DON'T NEED SIDEWALKS.

LIKE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT WHAT I WOULD WANT TO SAY.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE, HOW WOULD YOU SAY THAT? I MEAN, WE GOING TO LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE WHERE YOU BOWL ABOUT OR WIDENED STREETS LIKE

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THAT.

I MEAN, YOU SAID RIGHT AROUND INTERSECTIONS WITH CORRIDORS, THAT MIGHT BE KIND OF ONE THING.

I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS WOULD LOOK LIKE.

CAUSE I KNOW THAT LIKE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, BUT LIKE OUR FUTURE MAY BE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE SOMETIMES REPLACED BY A LITTLE BIT, JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE INTENSE FAMILY, FRIENDLY, MISSING MIDDLE TYPE HOUSING IN SOME CASES.

SO A COUPLE OF THINGS THERE.

UM, INITIALLY, UH, THE FIRST THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT, UM, RIGHT-OF-WAY DEDICATION AT THE TIME OF, OF SITE PLAN, UM, IS COMPLETELY, UH, DEPENDENT UPON WHAT'S CONSIDERED ROUGHLY PROPORTIONATE TO THE SITES IMPACT.

SO, UM, IF, IF A USE IS BEING REPLACED, UM, IF THE PROPERTY IS BEING REPLACED BY SOMETHING THAT IS NOT OF SIGNIFICANT INCREASE, THEN THE CITY CANNOT ASK FOR ADDITIONAL RIGHT OF WAY TO BE DEDICATED.

UM, SO IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT THAT THRESHOLD IS OF, OF WHAT, YOU KNOW, THE DEFINITION OF INTENSIVE, UM, DEVELOPMENT IS.

BUT IF IT'S, UM, IF IT'S ONE LOT GOING FROM ONE UNIT TO TWO UNITS, IF IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ROUGHLY PROPORTIONATE TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL RIGHT OF WAY.

SO EVEN WITH THOSE MODEST INCREASES IN, IN, IN UNITS, WE WOULDN'T SEE A DRASTIC CHANGE IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY.

SO IT REALLY REQUIRES US TO UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT THAT THRESHOLD IS, UH, TO WHERE RIGHT OF WAY CAN CHANGE AT THE TIME OF REDEVELOPMENT.

UM, THE IMPORTANT THING TO ALSO UNDERSTAND IS, UM, WHERE THAT PROPERTY IS WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE STREET NETWORK ITSELF.

UM, AS I MENTIONED, UM, IF IT'S AT AN INTERSECTION, IT MAY BE MORE CRITICAL TO GET THAT SPACE, UM, UH, TO, TO SET THE APPROPRIATE CONTEXT, UM, AND, AND FUNCTION OF THE ROAD.

BUT IF IT IS JUST AN INTERIOR TYPE PROPERTY AND, UM, HAVING A BLIP LIKE THAT MAY NOT DO ANY GOOD.

UM, THE OTHER THING TO KNOW ABOUT THE TCM, THE UPDATED CROSS SECTIONS IS THAT WITHIN THE IDEAL CONDITIONS THEMSELVES, THERE'S ACTUALLY A, UH, A MORE OF A DECREASED WITH ENGAGEMENT AND AN INCREASED SPACE BEHIND THE CURB.

SO WE'RE MOVING FROM STREETS THAT ARE LARGELY TO WIDE FROM CURB TO CURB, UM, TO NARROWER STREETS, BUT LARGER SPACE BEHIND THE CURB WITH, UM, RAISED BICYCLE FACILITIES INSTEAD OF IN STREET BICYCLE FACILITIES.

SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE ABLE TO ACTUALLY HAVE A IDEAL CONDITION, UM, IMPLEMENTED, BUT, UH, OTHERWISE WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO USE THE SPACE THAT WE HAVE, WHICH HAS BEEN BUILT OVER DECADES ON OUR OLD TRANSPORTATION CRITERIA MANUAL.

YOU THINK YOU SAW COMMISSIONER WEATHERBY HIS HAND NEXT, AND AFTER THAT, WE'LL DO BROOKS WHAT'D YOU JUST SAID WAS SORT OF ALARMING.

UH, SO LIKE SORTA TOOK MY MIND OFF WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK.

I WANT TO ASK MY QUESTION AND THEN I WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT WHAT RAISED BIKE LANES WOULD LOOK LIKE.

UM, I GUESS ONE THING THAT I THINK WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL AND YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT IT TODAY IS MAYBE SOME VERY SIMPLIFIED, UH, EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN INTERPRETED AS, UH, SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VERY DETRIMENTAL TO OLDER ESTABLISHED, UH, RESIDENTIAL STREETS, WHICH A LOT OF THOSE OLDER ESTABLISHED STREETS HAVE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES ON THEM.

THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVE ABOUT AUSTIN IS, UH, A RESTAURANT OR A, ANY KIND OF A SERVICE THAT'S SORT OF IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND IT'S THE WHOLE FLAVOR OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.

UH, BUT IF YOU COULD SHOW THE MAGNITUDE OF ANY CHANGE THAT MIGHT BE NEEDED AND WHAT WOULD TRIGGER THAT, I KNOW YOU CAN'T COME UP WITH EVERY, UH, SOLUTION TO EVERY SITUATION, BUT SOMETHING THAT WOULD GIVE YOU SOME MODELS TO POINT TO AS WHAT YOU'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN SO DISTURBED BY COMMENTED ABOUT THAT, IF THAT'S A POSSIBILITY IN YOUR FUTURE PRESENTATIONS,

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EXAMPLES WOULD BE, WOULD BE HELPFUL.

UM, AND JUST TO KIND OF GIVE AN IDEA GENERALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CHANGES TO THE STREET, UM, THE, THE STREET CROSS-SECTIONS HAVE OCCURRED ACROSS EVERY TYPE OF STREET.

SO OUR EXISTING TCM PREVIOUSLY, UM, EVEN AT THE LOCAL STREET LEVEL ONLY INCLUDED 10 FEET BEHIND THE CURB.

AND WE KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT ENOUGH SPACE TO BUILD INADEQUATE SIDEWALK AS WELL AS INCLUDE A STREET TREE, UM, TO PROVIDE SHADE AS WELL AS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE, UH, AND, UM, AND, AND HEATING.

SO JUST STARTING WITH THE LEVEL ONE STREET, UM, THERE'S ADDITIONAL SPACE THAT'S NEEDED TO INCORPORATE THESE IDEAL CONDITIONS, UM, OF A WIDER SIDEWALK AND A STREET TREE.

UM, AND SO AS IT RELATES TO OUR LEVEL TWO STREETS, UM, I DID INCLUDE A EXAMPLE OF THAT ON SLIDE 23, UM, TO EXPLAIN, UM, OR TO, TO SHOW WHAT A RAISED BICYCLE FACILITY LOOKS LIKE.

UM, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, UH, WE'VE STARTED INCORPORATING INTO OUR, INTO OUR CORRIDOR, UM, PLANS.

UM, AND THERE'S ONLY A FEW TO SEE AN AUSTIN.

HOWEVER, THE IDEA IS THAT, UM, INSTEAD OF HAVING A BICYCLE FACILITY IN THE STREET, UM, PERHAPS BEHIND, UM, A FLEXIBLE POST IT'S ACTUALLY BEHIND THE CURB, UM, IN A PROTECTED SPACE, UM, ABOVE THE STREET LEVEL.

SO, UM, IN INSTANCES WHERE WE DO HAVE A SPACE AND WE HAVE THE FUNDING TO DO IT, UM, THOSE ARE THE CONDITIONS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO START SEEING INSTEAD OF IN STREET FACILITIES.

I GUESS THE QUESTION IS IF IT'S AN OLDER ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD THERE, THEIR CONCERN SEEMED TO BE THE DAM, THE PRINCIPAL DAMAGE TO THEIR LARGE TREES AND SPACE, RIGHT? SO ON THOSE STREETS, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE LARGELY FIRST THERE LARGELY ISN'T A CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT OR FUNDING THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO EVEN ENTERTAIN SUCH AN INVESTMENT.

UM, SO THESE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS ARE, ARE, ARE MADE PRIMARILY THROUGH OPERATING FUNDS AND ARE, AND ARE MADE, UM, WITHIN THE EXISTING SPACE WE HAVE.

SO YOU'LL SEE THAT, UM, BASED ON THE OLD STANDARDS, THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE TO HAVE IT ALL.

UM, WE CAN'T HAVE PARKING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET AS WELL AS BICYCLE FACILITIES IN MANY CASES.

SO THAT'S WHERE THROUGH THE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, EACH, UM, RESIDENT IS NOTIFIED A PUBLIC, UH, ENGAGEMENT EFFORT IS CONDUCTED TO, UM, TO COLLECT FEEDBACK ON MULTIPLE SCENARIOS BEFORE, BEFORE ONE IS IMPLEMENTED, INCLUDING AN OPTION TO DO NOTHING.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

AND I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION.

I THINK THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN AND I, YOU CAN EASILY DEAL WITH THAT, BUT, UM, I THINK THEY'RE JUST LOOKING FOR THAT COMFORT TO UNDERSTAND IT, RIGHT.

THE DETAILS ARE THAT.

UH, DID SOMEBODY ELSE HAD THEIR HAND RAISED WHO WAS BEFORE ME OR AFTER YOU IT'LL ALL RIGHT.

UM, THE EXAMPLE YOU CHOSE, UH, WHERE YOUR VERY FIRST EXAMPLE OF CHANGING CLASSIFICATIONS IN THE STREET OF COURSE, IS ONE THAT'S WITH AN EASY WALKING DISTANCE OF MY HOUSE.

I KNOW, I KNOW IT WELL.

AND WHAT I ALSO KNOW IS THAT BEGINNING THIS YEAR, THEY'RE WIDENING SPICEWOOD SPRINGS ROAD MORE THAN DOUBLING ITS CAPACITY.

AND ALL OF THAT ADDITIONAL CAPACITY WILL END UP GOING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION OF THAT SEGMENT OF MESA AND SPICEWOOD SPRINGS ROAD.

NOW, MOST OF IT, I THINK WE'LL CONTINUE ON SPICEWOOD SPRINGS ROAD, BUT I WAS JUST, THE ODDS ARE PRETTY HIGH OF THAT MORE TRAFFIC ENDS UP GOING ON THE

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SEGMENT THAT WAS SHOWN.

SO MY QUESTION IS FOR INCREASING, FOR POSSIBLY INCREASING THE CAPACITY OR THE PEDESTRIAN PROTECTIONS OF THAT SECTION THAT YOU SHOW FROM A, FROM A PEDESTRIAN, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY WHAT'S THE OVERALL PROCESS.

UM, WELL, SO YOU MENTIONED IT WAS GOING TO BE UPGRADED TO, OR I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S A DIRECTION TO IT.

IT WAS GOING TO BECOME LEVEL THREE.

BUT THERE WAS NO FUNDING TO DO ANYTHING JUST TO TALK ABOUT THAT, THAT SECTION IN PARTICULAR, UM, THAT SECTION ON MESA ALREADY IS TWO LANES WITH A CENTER TURN LANE.

SO THE FUTURE CONDITION PROPOSED TO KEEP IT THE SAME.

HOWEVER, THE UPDATED TCM STANDARDS SAYS THAT WE SHOULD CONVERT CENTER TURN LANES TO RES MEDIANS WITH TURN BAYS.

UM, AND THAT IS LARGELY WHAT'S CONSIDERED AN ACCESS MANAGEMENT PROJECT FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS.

UM, THAT ALSO IMPROVES, UH, THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC WHEN YOU HAVE CONSISTENT, UM, UH, RELIABLE TRAVEL, UM, WITHOUT, UM, CRASH, UM, CRASHES, FAIRING FROM LEFT TURN CONFLICTS.

UM, BUT SO WHAT I GUESS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT, UM, IF THE CAPACITY THAT YOU'RE ASKING IS VEHICULAR, WE WOULD WANT TO USE THE STREET NETWORK AMENDMENT PROCESS, THE PLANNING PROCESS TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE COULD POTENTIALLY EXPAND ROADWAYS TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL VEHICLE CAPACITY, BUT OTHERWISE, UM, WHAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT IS MORE OF A PROJECT LEVEL CONSIDERATION THAT IS DONE, UM, THROUGH OUR LOCAL MOBILITY, UM, PROGRAMS LIKE THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM OR OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION.

AND THEY WOULD BE LOOKING AT HOW TO PROVIDE, UH, THE APPROPRIATE PEDESTRIAN OR BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, WITHIN THIS AREA.

UM, SO THE S AND P DOESN'T HAVE TO CAPTURE THAT PROJECT LEVEL OF DETAIL.

UM, BUT THAT'S WHERE IT, IT WOULD OCCUR AFTER THEY S AND P IS THROUGH THOSE PROGRAMS. YEAH.

THERE'S ALREADY NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERN THAT INTERSECTION, UH, SPICEWOOD SPRINGS AND MESA ALREADY HAS A SIGNIFICANT ACCIDENT RATE.

AND NOW THERE'S GOING TO BE 6,000 ADDITIONAL CARS A DAY HEADING THROUGH IT.

SO IT'S PROBABLY A VERY GOOD CANDIDATE TO DO SOMETHING.

COMMISSIONER WHEELER.

HELLO.

CONDUCTING THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? YES, I'M USING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME.

SO, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

I SAW EARLY ON, ON AN EARLY SLIDE THAT IT SHOWED BY 2039.

THE TARGET IS FOR 50 50, UM, FOR COMMUTE TRIPS TO BE, UM, NOT SINGLE CAR.

AND I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN, WHICH IS TARGETING 2030 FOR TRIPS TO USE 50 50 FOR TRIPS TO BE NON SINGLE CAR.

AND I MEAN, IT'S NICE BEING AROUND PEOPLE WHO ALL AGREE THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND IS A DIRE EMERGENCY.

AND SO HOW CAN WE BE EVEN MORE AMBITIOUS THAN 2039? RIGHT.

THAT'S A GOOD, UM, IT'S A, IT'S A GOOD POINT.

UM, FOR US TO KEEP PUSHING FOR MORE, UM, 50 50 WAS SOMETHING THAT, UM, WE REALIZED EARLY ON, UM, DOING THE MATH IS THAT JUST ACCOMPLISHING 50 50 NAMES THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD MAINTAIN THE SAME NUMBER OF VEHICLES, UM, IN 2039 AS THERE ARE TODAY.

SO WE WOULD HAVE EFFECTIVELY GROUND FOR 20 YEARS AND ABSORBED ALL OF THAT GROWTH WITHOUT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CARS ON THE ROAD.

SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF KEEPING, UM, KEEPING IT THE SAME, UH, FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE.

HOWEVER, UM, WORKING WITH OFFICES, SUSTAINABILITY, WE HAVE TALKED A LOT ABOUT, UM, UH, NOT JUST DRIVING TO WORK, BUT ALL TRIGGERS.

SO THE THING THAT WE UNDERSTAND IS THAT, UM, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR ABILITY TO HELP PEOPLE GET OUT OF THEIR CAR TO DRIVE, TO GO TO WORK WOULD ALSO HELP PEOPLE GET OUT OF THEIR CAR FOR RECREATIONAL TRIPS, UM, OR OTHER TRIPS THAT, THAT THEY'RE

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SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE, UH, UH, COMPLIMENTARY GOALS, BUT YEAH, WE, UM, I THINK ESTABLISHING A 50 50 MODE SHARE WAS A HUGE ADVANCEMENT FROM WHAT WE WERE USED TO.

UM, BUT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW TO PUSH IT FURTHER.

BUT YOU DON'T THERE'S NO, UM, YOU MEAN JUST RUNNING THE NUMBERS, THERE'S NO WAY TO PULL 20, 39 INTO 20 34, 20 35 FOR A GOAL.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

UM, IT'S AN ASPIRATIONAL GOAL.

UM, SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO KEEP A TRACK OF AS AN INDICATOR, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? UM, ARE WE DOING ENOUGH? UM, I THINK, UM, WE'VE MADE, WE'VE MADE HUGE PROGRESS, UM, SINCE 2016 WITH OUR, WITH OUR MOBILITY BOND FUNDS, UM, THAT WE'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE.

UM, AND THEN WITH THE SUCCESSFUL REFERENDUM WITH PROJECT CONNECT IN 2020, UM, WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE, UM, HUGE EFFORTS TOWARDS ACHIEVING THAT GOAL.

UM, SO IT'S HARD TO TELL, UM, YOU KNOW, OVERNIGHT WE ACCOMPLISHED OUR GOAL WHEN THE PANDEMIC HAPPENED AND EVERYONE WAS SENT HOME.

UM, THEY, THERE WAS NOT WORKING OR THEY WERE WORKING FROM HOME WITH THOSE PEOPLE THAT DID HAVE TO GET TO WHERE THEY COULDN'T WORK FROM HOME.

UM, UM, STILL HAD TO GET THERE SOMEHOW, BUT NONETHELESS OVERNIGHT WE SAW A 50 50 MODE SHARE HAPPEN.

SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE HOW, HOW, HOW IT, UM, WHERE IT GOES WHEN MORE, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE COMES ONLINE TO SUPPORT OUR, OUR, UH, UH, MULTIMODAL MODES.

I KNOW THERE ARE PROBABLY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE, UH, QUITE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS TOPIC.

SO, UH, MR. PARKS, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WRANGLE THAT CAUSE I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THE LIST.

I JUST WANT TO SET UP A EXPECTATION FOR FOLKS.

I THINK WE HAVE 37 OR 38 FOLKS SIGNED UP.

WE WANT TO GIVE PEOPLE A MINUTE.

UM, AT LEAST A MINUTE, IF YOU NEED TO FINISH YOUR SENTENCES, THAT'S FINE.

PLEASE BE COGNIZANT THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE.

AND IF YOU TAKE A LOT OF TIME, ESPECIALLY TO JUST REPEAT WHAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS ALREADY SAID, IT'S GOING TO BE 45 MINUTES FROM NOW, BEFORE WE GET BACK INTO DISCUSSION, WHICH IS FINE IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE, BUT JUST MAKE SURE YOU'RE BEING CONCISE AND VALUABLE IN YOUR INPUT.

AND WITH THAT, CHRIS, DO YOU HAVE A WAY TO WRANGLE THAT LIST? UH, HELLO, COLIN USERS.

UM, THIS IS CITY HALL AAV.

WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND UNMUTE EVERYONE IF YOU COULD, UM, MUTE YOURSELVES AND WAIT FOR YOUR TURN TO SPEAK AND UNMUTE THEN, UM, IF YOU'D GET, FORGET TO UNMUTE, WE GET BLEED OVER IN THE SOUND AND I'LL HAVE TO MUTE YOU.

SO I'M JUST GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GIVE EVERYONE THE CONTROL TO DO IT RIGHT NOW.

AND WE SEE THEM ON A LIST OR WE'LL JUST HEAR THE VOICE.

SO WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD HEAR EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, WHICH WILL BE AT THE COFFEE OF JUST AMAZINGNESS AFTER THAT.

UM, I WILL CALL ON, UH, THE SPEAKER LIST THAT I HAVE HERE.

UH, THIS LIST WILL BE RED AND NOW CITIZENS, IF YOU COULD MUTE YOURSELVES, WE CAN GET STARTED WITH CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS.

AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND START READING OFF THIS LIST.

UM, SIMPLY WHEN I I'LL CALL YOUR NAME AND THEN YOU CAN UNDO YOURSELF AND WE CAN BEGIN, UH, THE TRANSITION.

OH, DID WE HAVE, UM, MINUTES SET UP ON THE, GIVE US ONE MOMENT AND I'LL LET US, I'LL LET YOU ALL KNOW WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GET STARTED.

CARMEN, THE HOUSTON MOVING ON PAUL HOFFMAN, PAUL HOFFMAN.

SO NOW WE'LL BEGIN TO CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THIS ITEM.

UH, CARMEN, HOUSTON, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF,

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SHE KNOW THAT THAT PERSON IS THERE.

THEY'RE JUST NOT BEING ADMITTED.

IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S THERE, BUT HE'S NOT BEING A NEEDED.

WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON JOSEPH REYNOLDS, CHRISTOPHER LAST TIME.

AND IT HELPED WHEN WE REPEATED THE INSTRUCTIONS OF LIKE THE SEQUENCE OF BUTTONS TO PRESS WHEN THEY NEED TO UNMUTE THEMSELVES.

SURE.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

IF YOU, FOR CITIZENS THAT ARE WAITING TO SPEAK, IF YOU HIT STAR, UM, AND THEN SIX, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO UNMUTE YOURSELF.

APOLOGIES FOR THAT.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL GO BACK TO THE PAUL HOFFMAN WHO I BELIEVE WE HAVE GIVE US A MOMENT.

WE WERE HAVING DIFFICULTY.

IF THAT WAS MR. HOFFMAN, WE'RE HAVING DIFFICULTY UNDERSTANDING.

SO THEY'RE A LITTLE TECHNICAL AND NINJITSU TO SEE IF THEY CAN SOLVE THIS, OR MAYBE MULTIPLE PEOPLE UNMUTED AND WE'RE TRYING TO SPEAK AT THE SAME TIME.

SO WE'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE LIST RIGHT NOW TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND A MATCH BETWEEN PHONE NUMBERS WHO HAVE CALLED IN AND PHONE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO'VE SIGNED UP SO WE CAN EXPECT THEM TO UNMUTE AND STEVENS AND STEPHENS.

HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

OKAY, GREAT.

UM, I'M A HOMEOWNER ON THE CORNER OF EDGEMONT DRIVE AND MOUNT VNL DRIVE.

I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ROUGHLY 50 PLUS AND GROWING CONCERN, HOMEOWNERS ON EDGEMONT, MADRONA, GLEN ROSE, AND THE SURROUNDING CIRCLES AND STREETS.

UM, WE OBVIOUSLY RECENTLY LEARNED THE EDGEMONT DRIVE WAS FROM A LEVEL ONE TO A LEVEL TWO STREET AND THE ASM P PLAN.

AND WE'RE AGAINST THOSE PROPOSED CHANGES IN ANY REQUEST SUFFOCATION OF OUR STREET TO A HIGHER LEVEL FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.

UM, EDGEMONT IS A QUIET RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH MINIMAL PASS THROUGH TRAFFIC.

OTHER THAN THOSE THAT LIVE ON THE STREET, THE NUMBER OF CYCLISTS WHO RIDE THE STREET IS NOMINAL AND UNCONGESTED THE CURRENT 50 FOOT ROW, EASILY ACCOMMODATES CARS, BICYCLISTS, AND NEIGHBORHOOD FOOT TRAFFIC.

WE ALSO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF HERITAGE OAK TREES WHOSE ROOT SYSTEMS WOULD BE COMPLETELY DESTROYED IF ADDITIONAL ROW WAS A PR A RIGHT OF WAY WAS APPROVED.

AND FINALLY YARDS CENSUS HOMES WOULD ALL BE DRAMATICALLY IMPACTED BY A CHANGE TO A LEVEL TWO RIGHT AWAY.

UM, WE HAVE SEEN THE UPDATED MAP FROM YESTERDAY AND IT APPEARS THAT OUR STREET IS BACK TO A LEVEL ONE AT THIS TIME, BUT WE ALSO REALIZED THAT THAT'S DEFINITELY, I'LL GIVE YOU A TIME.

HAS EXPIRED, PLEASE FINISH YOUR LAST THOUGHT.

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NEXT WE HAVE SUSAN KAUFMAN, SUSAN KAUFMAN.

UM, WE REALIZED THAT THIS IS STAFF COMMENTS, NOT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE COMMISSIONER NOR PRESENTATIONS FROM THE COUNCIL.

WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMISSION'S OFFICIAL POSITION IS, AND ALSO HOW SINGLE FAMILY HOME OWNERS CAN BE INFORMED OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IMPLICATIONS FOR WIDE WAY CHANGES IN THE FUTURE.

UM, IF WE DON'T KNOW A CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS OR OTHER PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD AFFECT THE RIGHT OF WAY OR THE LEVEL, THE STREET LEVEL CHANGES.

AS SUSAN CROSSMAN, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN HEAR YOU.

I'M ALSO ON THE EDGE MONT GLEN ROSE AND MADRONA AREA.

AND I GOT A QUESTION AS FAR AS NEW DEVELOPMENT GOING ON, THAT IS THE NEW DEVELOPMENT HAS TO BE ON THE SPECIFIC STREET OR CAN IT BE A NEARBY AREA? THAT IS, THAT IS MY MAIN QUESTION.

WE ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO ALL THE COMMENTS I'M WRITING DOWN THE QUESTIONS AND WE WILL MAKE SURE TO GET BACK TO THAT QUESTION WITH MR. KITTEN AT THE END OF THE COMMENTS.

YEP.

CITIZENS.

IF YOU COULD, PLEASE WAIT UNTIL I CALL YOUR NAME AND THEN PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELVES.

UM, FOR NOW EVERYONE PLEASE REMAIN MUTED.

UM, IT JUST MAKES THE PROCESS A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED WHEN EVERYONE UNMUTES THEMSELVES.

SO AGAIN, PLEASE MUTE YOURSELVES FOR THE TIME BEING WHEN I CALL YOU ON YOUR NAME, WE WILL UNMUTE PLEASE GO ON UNMUTE SO THAT WE CAN PROCEED.

NEXT UP WE HAVE LOLA PAGE LOLA PAGE, LOLA PAGERS THAT YOU, YOU WANT TO TRY ONE MORE TIME? NOPE.

NATALIE, NATALIE SAWS, WAIT MARK SEGER.

THIS IS MARK.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS MARK STEGER AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK THE CITY OF AUSTIN STAFF FOR OPENLY ENGAGING WITH THE RESIDENTS OF THE HISTORIC JUDGES HILL NEIGHBORHOOD TO SOLICIT AND INCORPORATE CITIZEN FEEDBACK DURING ROUND ONE, UH, BY RETURNING SAN GABRIEL AND WEST 17TH STREET IN THE 7, 8, 7 0 1 ZIP CODE, THE LEVEL ONE AS OF YESTERDAY, THE MEN DID A S AND P DRAFT, WHICH I VERY MUCH APPLAUD OUR ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD CAN NOW CONTINUE TO SUPPORT WITH COMPETENCE, THE IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE IN AUSTIN BY PRESERVING OUR OLD GROWTH TREE CANOPY.

AND THE MORE THAN 23 HISTORIC NATIONALS, STATE, AND CITY LANDMARK PROPERTIES ALONG THESE STREETS.

THANK YOU TO EACH OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND FOR INCORPORATING OUR SUGGESTED CHANGES.

AND YESTERDAY'S AMENDED DRAFT BY RETURNING SAN GABRIEL AND WEST 17TH STREET TO LEVEL ONE.

PERFECT TIMING.

ELIZABETH WEB ELIZABETH WEB RENEE.

SETTLOR CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

TO KEEP PAYING AN AVENUE WITH THE LEVEL ONE STREET.

I'M SPEAKING TO EXPRESS MY DESIRE

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I REALIZED THAT IT'S BEEN TAKEN OFF THE MAP, BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S A PERMANENT ART STREET HAS A STRONG COMMUNITY.

IT'S QUIET, EXCEPT FOR RIGHT NOW, THE KIDS ARE HAVING A MARDI GRAS PARADE HAD FREQUENT GATHERINGS AMONGST NEIGHBORS AND HAS LOW TRAFFIC FLOWS.

I STRONGLY OPPOSE REQUEST TIME PAIN AS A LEVEL TWO TWO-THREE YOU DO NOT WANT MORE TRAFFIC INCLUDING FOLLOWED BY TRAFFIC ALONG OUR STREET.

WE STRONGLY OPPOSED BIKE LANES ON PAIN, HAVING BIKES DISPERSED THROUGHOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS THEY ARE NOW, AS OPPOSED TO DESTROYING INTEGRITY OF DESIGNATED STREETS IS LESS THAN TRUTH.

IT'S IN SAFER FOR THOSE OF US LIVING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE DON'T WANT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO SIMPLY BECOME A SERIES OF HIGH TRAFFIC ALTERNATIVE FOR BIKES AND CARS.

PEDANT CROSS TOWN, BIKE LANES REDUCED PARKING RESULTING AND EXPANDING OFF STREET.

PARKING.

THIS INCREASES IMPERVIOUS COVER.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS BECOMING MUCH MORE DENSE WITH MOSTLY WITH TWO UNITS PER LOT IS, IS DENSITY INCREASES.

WE'RE ALREADY EXPERIENCING FLOODING BECAUSE OF PEOPLE BUILDING MORE OFF-STREET PARKING.

WE CAN HANDLE MORE FLOOD WATER.

WE CAN'T HANDLE MORE CLASSICS.

LEAVE OUR STREETS.

THOMAS EXPIRED.

UM, WE WOULD LIKE PAINT TO BE PERMANENTLY TAKEN OUT OF CONSIDERATION AS A LEVEL TWO STREET.

IT IS THE PERFECT LEVEL ONE STREET.

NEXT.

WE HAVE MEGAN MAZIN BOT.

HI COMMISSIONER.

THANK YOU FOR HEARING US THIS EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO AUSTIN.

I WANTED TO POINT OUT TO YOU AND EVERYONE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS GOING TO BE MEETING ABOUT.

UM, CODE CHANGES CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF WAY, AND THAT INCLUDES, UM, PAYMENT IN LIEU OF WATER QUALITY TREATMENT, UM, IN MANY ZONES AND, UM, APPLICABLE ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS ARE CHANGED AS WELL AS THE DEFINITION OF A SITE AREA FOR PROJECTS IN THE RIGHT OF WAY.

SO I HOPE EVERYBODY WILL LOOK AT THAT ITEM 28 AND, UM, TO THE STAFF.

I THINK THAT YOUR OUTREACH TO THE PEOPLE, UH, HAS MANY ADMIRABLE QUALITIES, BUT I THINK THAT THE, THE WEBSITE WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR MANY PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY OLDER PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE UP-TO-DATE BIG PROGRAMS AND BIG COMPUTERS.

A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE IPHONES AND IPADS ONLY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, DON SKINNER, DON SKINNER, BETTY OLTORF I'M HERE.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY.

I'M CALLING TO VOICE MY CONCERN ABOUT THE CHANGE IN, UH, FROM LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO FOR WINDSOR, UH, SOUTH OF EXPOSITION.

UM, UH, I CANNOT IMAGINE WHY NAMED US IF I'M, IF I WAS READING THE ASM P MAP CORRECTLY, THE THEY, THE, THE PLAN IS TO WIDEN IT TO 84 FEET RIGHT AWAY.

UH, IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YOU WOULD HAVE TO CONFISCATE MOST PEOPLE'S FRONT LAWNS IN ORDER TO DO THAT.

UH, I WOULD THINK THAT THE COST OF DEWAYNE IS WITH FAR OUTWEIGH THE BENEFIT.

FURTHERMORE, THERE IS ALREADY A PUBLIC SIDEWALK THERE THAT IS BEING USED, UH, BY, UM, WALKERS AND PEOPLE WITH STROLLERS KIDS WALKING TO THE SEVERAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, UH, WE'VE GOT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF NOT ONLY PRIVATE, BUT ALSO PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD HAVE TO COME OUT, UH, SUCH AS LANDSCAPING SENSES, SPRINKLER SYSTEMS, STORM DAM, UH, DRAINAGE, UH, WATER, METERS, AND PIPES AND CURVES.

UM, I CANNOT SEE THIS HAPPENING.

I THINK THAT PERHAPS YOU HAVE ADDRESSED THIS EARLIER, BUT THAT WASN'T CLEAR.

UH, I JUST WANT TO WHAT MY OPPOSITION TO CHANGING WINDSOR FROM EXPOSITION WESTWARD TO, FROM A LEVEL ONE TO A LEVEL TWO STREET, NOT NEEDED, NOT WANT IT.

PAUL GOSLING, PAUL GOSLING, BARBARA BARBARA MACARTHUR, BARBARA MCCARTHY.

PETER LISTON HELD PETER LISTON HELD

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YUP.

YES, YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU.

MY NAME IS KEVIN MCCARTHY AND I'M A FORMER MEMBER OF THE UTC.

PLEASE CONSIDER THAT THE RUSH ROLLOUT OF ASM P AMENDMENTS WITH CONFUSING AND CONTRADICTORY RESPONSES TO INQUIRY LED PEOPLE TO QUESTION THE PROPOSAL SUPER SUBURBAN IDEAL CROSS-SECTIONS OF 84 FEET DO NOT FIT THIS BUILT ENVIRONMENT.

OFTEN IT'S NOT A TABULA RASA OFTEN SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS GUIDE TO URBAN STREET DESIGN WE'RE IN 60 FEET, YOU CAN HAVE TWO CAR LANES, TWO SIDEWALKS INTO BIPLANE.

ADDITIONALLY, THAT NATIONAL GROUP SAYS BIPLANES ARE ONLY RECOMMENDED FOR STREETS WITH OVER 3000 VEHICLES PER DAY AND SEEDS OVER 25.

FOR THE MOST PART, ALL THE STREETS UPGRADED FROM LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO FOR BIKEWAYS DOES NOT MEET THAT CRITERIA.

MY SON HAD BEEN HIT TWICE BY CARS BY MAJOR THERAPISTS, AS A PARENT.

IT'S TERRIBLE TO GET THAT PHONE CALL AND REST OF THE HOSPITAL.

THANK YOU, SAMANTHA WISEMAN.

HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

OKAY, EXCELLENT.

UM, MY NAME IS SAMANTHA WISEMAN.

I'M ALSO CALLING FROM PAYNE AVENUE AND I WOULD LIKE TO OFFICIALLY GO ON THE RECORD AND SAY THAT THE LEVEL OF PAIN IS NOT A LEVEL TWO STREET AND DOES NOT MEET ANY OF THE CRITERIA OUTLINED ON THE ASM P IT IS NOT A THROUGH A STREET.

IF IT'S NOT CONNECTED, WE HAVE MULTIPLE OTHER OPTIONS SUCH AS WOODROW, JUSTIN, ROMANIA, AND MAURO THAT ARE CONNECTOR STREETS.

THIS IS A QUIET RESIDENTIAL STREET.

THAT IS THE LIFELINE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE WE HAVE CHILDREN PLAYING AND YARDS AND HALLOWEEN PARTIES.

THIS IS A STREET WHERE PEOPLE KNOW THEIR, KNOW EACH OTHER'S NAMES AND IT'S WHAT MAKES OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS SPECIAL.

SO AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO, I'M HAPPY THAT WE RECOGNIZED PAIN, AT LEAST AS OF TONIGHT, NOT NECESSARILY MEETING THE LEVEL TWO CRITERIA, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GO ON THE RECORD TO SAY THAT THEY WILL NEVER MEET THE CRITERIA OF LEVEL TWO STREET.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT, SARAH MURCHISON, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

HI, THIS IS JOHN MERKERSON.

THE HUSBAND OF SARAH MERKERSON, WHO SIGNED UP FOR US.

I ALSO AM CALLING LIKE FAM FROM PAYNE AVENUE TO EXPRESS MY DESIRE FOR PAIN TO REMAIN LEVEL ONE STREET.

AND I'LL BE UPGRADED TO LEVEL TWO WHEN MY WIFE AND I MOVED WITH OUR FOUR YOUNG DAUGHTERS TO THE STREET SEVEN YEARS AGO, WE WERE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED TO FIND NEIGHBORS WHO WERE ACTUALLY NEIGHBORLY AND WHO WANTED TO GET TOGETHER IN INFORMAL AND FORMAL WAYS IN OUR YARDS AND OUR SIDEWALKS.

VERY CLOSE TO THE STREET.

UH, IF WE WERE UPGRADED LEVEL TWO, WE WOULD APPEAR NOT ONLY THE RIGHT OF WAY EXPANSION, BUT ALSO A DEDICATED BIKE LANE, WHICH WOULD INCREASE FAST BIKE TRAFFIC DOWN OUR STREET, CLOSE TO THE SIDEWALK, WHICH IS A DANGER OF YOUNG CHILDREN LIKE OURS, AND THE MANY KIDS ON OUR STREET.

WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

WE LOVE IT.

IT FEELS LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT AS LEVEL ONE STREET.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, SUSAN WALLER.

HI.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

THE CRITERIA OF A LEVEL TWO STREET.

SO MY NAME IS SUSAN WALLER AND I'VE LIVED OVER 35 YEARS ON THE CORNER OF PAYNE AVENUE AND WOODROW.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVE THE MOST ABOUT WHERE I LIVE IS THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND ON MY STREET AND IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, WHEN WE HEARD ABOUT THIS REPORT, MY NEIGHBORS IMMEDIATELY CAME TOGETHER TO COORDINATE A FORMAL RESPONSE TO THIS REPORT.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US, THAT WE BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT SENSE OF COMMUNITY ON OUR STREET.

I DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S CONSIDERATION BEING TO, TO, UM, CROSSING PAIN OFF THE LIST.

WE WOULD LIKE CONFIRMATION OF THAT WHEN THAT FINAL DECISION IS MADE, I'D ALSO LIKE FOR THERE TO BE CONSIDERATION OF OTHER STREETS THAT ALREADY EXIST IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT MEET

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AND THERE'S MANY REASONS WHY PAYING, DOES IT MEET THAT THE CRITERIA FOR A LEVEL TWO STREET? I WOULD ALSO LIKE IN THE FUTURE TO BE ABLE TO, UM, BE CONTACTED SOME KIND OF A NOTIFICATION TO THE NEIGHBORS, TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE IT.

CAN YOU TELL HIM IT'S EXPIRED, PLEASE FINISH YOUR THOUGHT.

YEAH, IT WAS JUST, WE, UM, WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS COMPLETELY BY ACCIDENT.

ANOTHER NEIGHBORS KIND ENOUGH TO SEND OUT AN EMAIL TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EMAIL GROUP.

IF WE HIT WE IN A SCENE THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE KNOW.

AND SO IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE, I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR US TO BE CONTACTED BY MAIL AT A MINIMUM.

I APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS FRANCES AKUNA FRANCIS AKUNA SCOTT SAYERS.

SCOTT SAYERS.

I WASN'T, CAN YOU HEAR ME? I WASN'T SURE IF THIS WAS SCOTT.

I WASN'T SURE IF THIS IS FOR SCOTT SAYERS OR SCOTT TAYLOR'S.

I AM SCOTT EHLERS, E H L E.

NO, SIR.

IT'S FOR SAYERS APOLOGIZE.

TED PIPER, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

TED PIPER, UM, ALSO WE'LL BE SPEAKING, UH, CARING FOR HER AS WELL AS SHE SIGNED THAT WE BOTH LIVE AT HARRIS AVENUE, UH, LIKE OTHER YOU CALL ISSUE.

WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY INFORMATION FROM ASAP OR ANY CITY LEADERSHIP RELATIVE TO THIS PLAN.

WE HEARD ABOUT IT THROUGH A NEIGHBOR.

UM, SO, UH, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THERE'S A MASSIVE LACK OF OUTREACH VISIBILITY SAYING, AND THESE PLANS, UM, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE IT IN YOUR OWN DATA WENT ONLY 958 PEOPLE RESPOND TO THE SURVEY THAT THE MOST IMPACTED BY IT.

UM, HERE IN AUSTIN OF, UH, CONSTITUENTS OF OVER A MILLION PEOPLE RESPONDED TO, UM, I WOULD SUSPECT THAT YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY SEEING THAT THERE'S A, A SIGNIFICANT LACK OF OUTREACH AND VISIBILITY.

THE PEOPLE MOST IMPACTED BY ASN CRUZ PLAN.

UM, SO THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A LACK OF REAL DESIRE TO ATTAIN CONSTITUENTS WITH CONSTITUENCY FEEDBACK OBVIOUSLY CAUSES A HIGH DISTRUST LACK OF FAITH IN ACMP, UH, AND THE CITY AS IT RELATES TO THIS NOBILITY PLAN.

UM, SO PLEASE TAKE THAT UNDER ADVISEMENT, A LITTLE BIT HARRIS AVENUE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED.

OKAY, THEY'VE MOVED IT FROM A LEVEL TWO TO A LEVEL ONE, ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS ALSO, UM, HAS THIS LITTLE CAVEAT AROUND THE TCMS. SO I WOULD STRONGLY ENCOURAGE A, THIS AUTOMATIC TRIGGERING OF R W THAT WE'VE TAKEN OUT OF THIS PLAN THAT SHOULD NOT BE TIED TO AN AUTOMATIC TRIGGER TO TAKE AWAY PROPERTY FROM INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT PROPER NOTIFICATION.

UM, SO FOR CURRENT HARRIS AVENUE, CURRENT AND FUTURE PHYSICAL RIGHT OF WAYS WILL NOT CHANGE FERRIS AVENUE.

THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE PHYSICAL PAVED STREETS ON ARAFAT VENUES WILL NOT CHANGE CURRENT AND FUTURE PHYSICAL SIDEWALKS THAT WERE JUST PUT IN PLACE LAST YEAR ON A LONG TERM CHANGE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

WE HAVE TO MOVE ON D WILBURN D WELLBORN HOLLY REED, HOLLY REED.

HI, THIS IS HOLLY REED.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

BY THE CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER, YOUR TIME'S EXPIRED, PLEASE FINISH YOUR THOUGHT AND FIELD WEST OF MOPAC, EXPOSITION AND WESTOVER SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED PART OF THE TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK.

UM, OKAY.

I, I LIVE IN DISTRICT 10, UM, WITH AND WITH THE WEST AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP.

UM, AND THIS IS REGARDING THE UPDATED TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK.

WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE ASM P DESIGNATING EXPOSITION BOULEVARD, WESTOVER ROAD AND ENFIELD ROAD WEST OF MOPAC IS PART OF THE TRANSIT PRIORITY NETWORK.

THESE ARE NEIGHBORHOODS STREETS USED BY THE NUMBER 3 35 AND NUMBER 18 BUS ROUTES.

THE RIDERSHIP IN WEST AUSTIN AND THESE AREAS IS VERY LOW, BUT IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE FREQUENCY OF BUS SERVICE ON THE 3 35 AND 18 BUS ROUTES IN WEST AUSTIN CAP, METRO DECREASED THE FREQUENCY OF BUS SERVICE AND REALIGNED BUS ROUTES IN EAST AUSTIN, WHERE THE MAJORITY OF RIDERS ARE BUS DEPENDENT.

CAP.

METRO IS NONCOMPLIANT WITH TITLE SIX OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, WHICH REQUIRES EQUAL SERVICE FOR ALL.

WE ASK THAT A THOROUGH EQUITY ANALYSIS FOR EACH MAJOR BUS SERVICE CHANGE NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE THE ASN P UPDATE IS APPROVED

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THANK YOU, JOSS CON.

I CAN HEAR ME.

RATE, UM, FIND JOSH COHEN, MY WIFE, LAUREN AND I, OUR RESIDENTS, THE BRENTWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, WE ARE SPECIFICALLY RESIDENTS OF PAYNE AVENUE AND I'M PART OF THE PAIN GANG.

I THINK YOU CAN, UH, DETERMINE HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THIS.

UM, OUR STREET IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY AND LAUREN AND I SHOULD KNOW WE PURCHASED OUR HOME IN 2020.

UH, YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.

A MONTH AFTER THE PANDEMIC HIT, WE MOVED HERE FOR TWO YEARS, THE STREET WHERE WE WAS, WHERE WE COULD ENGAGE WITH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

I'M HAPPY TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY.

HAVING READ THE AMENDED STREET MAP PUBLISHED YESTERDAY, IT SHOWS OUR STREET DESIGNATION BACK TO LEVEL ONE.

UM, I HEARD CHANGE BEING MENTIONED AS CONSIDERED CHANGES, BUT I WOULD STRONGLY URGE THE COUNCIL TO MAKE THESE CHANGES PERMANENT, ANYTHING LESS THAN POSED THE FUNDAMENTAL MISALIGNMENT THAT THE FOLKS WHO LIVE IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, I'D ALSO LIKE TO USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE BROADER CONCERNS WE FELT UPON SEEING THESE CHANGES.

WHEN PRESENTED WITH THESE CHANGES, WE WEREN'T TOLD THE PAINT WAS BEING ALTERED TO A BIKE LANE DESIGNATION.

WE DID CLEARLY DEFINED AND MEASURABLE DEVELOPMENT, BUT MOVED FROM MY LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO DESIGNATION.

THESE DESIGNATIONS HAVE NO FIXED NATURE AND SUBJECT TO ANY CHANGES TO FIVE, 10 YEARS.

THE CITY DECIDES TO AMEND THE SCOPE.

MOVING FORWARD.

MOVING FORWARD.

IT'S IMPORTANT TO PAINT AVENUE, STAY LEVEL ONE STREET, AND WE'D LOVE TO SEE A FOCUS ON SPECIFICS AS OPPOSED TO ASKING NEIGHBORHOODS FOR BLANKET APPROVAL IN THE FORM OF A GENERAL DESIGNATION CHANGE YOU.

MARCELLA ROBBIE MARCELLA.

ROBBIE DEAN STANDS.

ME.

HELEN DEAN STANDS ME, HELEN, JEAN ADAMS, JEAN ADAMS, JEFFREY BOWEN, JEFFREY BOWEN.

HELLO.

CAN YOU HEAR ME, SIR? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU.

UH, YES.

MY NAME IS JEFF BOWEN.

I LIVE IN DISTRICT EIGHT AND I'VE BEEN SOMEBODY THAT'S BEEN FOLLOWING THE SAY SMP EVER SINCE THE 2018, 2019.

I'M ACTUALLY SURPRISED TO SEE THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY COMMUNICATING ON THIS TONIGHT DUE TO THE FACT THAT THIS, UH, THE, ALL OF THE ASM P ISSUES HAVE BEEN VERY POORLY ADVERTISED AND TRYING TO GET PEOPLE'S IDEAS AND THOUGHTS ON ALL OF THESE ISSUES.

I WOULD HOPE THAT, UM, UH, MR. KITTEN WOULD MAKE SURE THAT THE ADVERTISEMENTS ON THESE AND THE UPCOMING SESSIONS ON THIS ARE MORE BROADLY ADVERTISED VERSUS JUST BEING IN THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION NEWSLETTERS AND THOSE THINGS.

UH, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS TOTALLY ENGAGED IN THIS ENTIRE PROCESS.

NOW THAT WE'VE GOT THE NEW MAPS OUT.

NOW, WE'VE GOT TO KIND OF RESTART THIS WHOLE PROCESS ALL OVER.

AND I ENCOURAGE THE COMMISSIONERS TO LOOK AT THE COMMENTS THAT WERE ON THE ORIGINAL MAPPING THAT, UH, THAT HAD OVER THE 1600 COMMENTS THAT IS MORE INDICATIVE THAN THOSE THREE, UH, QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED AS PART OF THEIR PROCESS.

JUST TO QUICKLY ADDRESS MR. KITTEN'S EXAMPLE ABOUT TWIN OAKS DRIVE, UM, THAT'S ABOUT A 45 DEGREE DOWNHILL SLOPE TOWARD SHOAL CREEK BOULEVARD.

I APPRECIATE THE TIME.

THANK YOU, MARY FARROW, MARY FAREWELL, MARY FARROW.

WE CAN HEAR YOU.

UM, I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU.

I'M MARY FARRELL.

I LIVE IN ALLENDALE DISTRICT SEVEN.

UM, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS, I HAVE BEEN GREATLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROPOSALS TO UP-LEVEL MANY OF THE, UM, STREETS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

HAPPY TO HEAR THAT SOME OF THOSE CHANGES ARE BEING MADE, BUT STILL HAVE CONCERNS DESPITE ASSURANCES ABOUT RIGHT OF WAY, GIVEN THAT, UM, THE ASSURANCES REST ON SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND THE DISCUSSION ABOUT LAND DEVELOPMENT, CODE CHANGES, TRANSPORTATION OPPORTUNITIES, ZONES, ET CETERA, SEEMS LIKE IT COULD PUT SOME OF OUR HOMES, UM, OUTSIDE OF THAT PROTECTIVE ZONING LAYER.

SO I DO REMAIN CONCERNED ABOUT THAT AS OTHERS DO AS WELL.

UM, AND

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AND I JUST DON'T SEE BIKE LANES GOING THERE.

UM, ONE OF MY BRILLIANT LITTLE 11 YEAR OLD NEIGHBORS SAID HE WON'T DRIVE HIS BIKE ON THERE ANYMORE.

UM, ANYWAY, SOME THINGS JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE.

I HOPE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE UNFORESEEN.

IT SEEMS, UM, IMPLICATIONS THAT MAY YET BE DISCOVERED, BUT DO APPRECIATE THE ABILITY TO COMMENT AND HAVE SOME OF THE CHANGES CONSIDERED AND, UM, MOVING FORWARD.

THANK YOU, BARBARA GIBSON, BARBARA GIBSON, CATHERINE EAGLES, CATHERINE EAGLES CYCLES.

I APOLOGIZE.

YES WE CAN.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YEAH.

UM, I'M FUCKING ON HARRISON AVENUE.

UM, EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE BEEN BACKING AWAY FROM THESE LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO UPGRADE, AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I WANTED TO SPEAK BECAUSE I THINK THESE CHANGES ARE LIKELY TO COME UP AGAIN FOR OTHER STREETS, IF NOT FOR OURS.

UM, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT, UM, THE ISSUE IS REALLY ONE WITH THE STREET CRITERION MANUAL OR THE TRANSPORTATION CRITERIA MANUAL.

I'M NOT QUICK.

IT IS, UM, BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT THE SOLE REASON THAT OUR LITTLE FOUR BLOCK STREET NEAR A LITTLE FOUR BLOCK SUITE WAS, UM, PUT INTO LEVEL TWO IS, UM, SO THAT, UH, UH, BECAUSE THE CRITERIA AND MANUAL REQUIRED IT TO BE ONE IT'S A PROTECTED BIKE LANE IS ADDED.

UM, AND I WANT TO CLARIFY, I'M NOT HOSTED BY PLANNING.

I THINK THERE IS PLENTY OF, THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM FOR BIKE LANE WITHIN EXISTING RIGHT OF WAY.

UM, PARTICULARLY IF SOME PARKING WERE REMOVED, UM, BUT I AM OPPOSED TO LEVEL TWO DESIGNATED LABELED MATTER.

AND BETWEEN THE CATEGORIES AND WE'RE LABELED AS LEVEL TWO, WE'RE GROUPED IN WITH A LOT OF THAT ARE WIDER AND HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH MORE TRAFFIC HAS EXPIRED.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT MIKE, OKAY, CAN I, DO I GET A CHANCE TO FINISH UP? UM, MY CONCERN IS THAT GROUP INTO THAT CATEGORY AND MAKE IT MORE LIKELY THAT PEOPLE SEE US AS APPROPRIATE FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR OUR LITTLE STREET.

SO HE SHOULD LEAVE US AT LEVEL ONE.

DON'T PUT, UM, SQUARE PEGS INTO ROUND HOLES, KEEP US IN LEVEL ONE WITH THE BIKE LANES.

AND THAT WOULD BE JUST FINE AND REVISE THE MANUAL TO ALLOW THAT IF NEED NEEDED.

BENJAMIN GERGEN, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

HEY GUYS, THIS IS BENJAMIN HERE AGAIN.

I'M A LIFELONG AUSTIN RESIDENT AND I'M ACTUALLY STANDING IN A, THE FRONT YARD OF ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS ON PAYNE AVENUE.

YOU'VE HEARD FROM FIVE OR SIX OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS, UH, WHEN MY WIFE AND I BOUGHT A HOUSE FOUR YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS WE'VE LOOKED FOR IS A SENSE OF COMMUNITY ON OUR BLOCK AND WE FOUND IT.

AND THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT ME, MY WIFE AND MY DAUGHTER WHO GREW UP IN IS ESSENTIALLY MADE FRIENDS AND SURVIVE ONLY DURING A PANDEMIC.

SHE THRIVED ON THIS BLOCK.

I CAN'T FATHOM WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY TOOK 40 FEET OUT OF OUR FRONT YARDS.

WHEN WE LITERALLY HAVE TWO TYPE TWO STREETS THAT ARE FIVE BLOCKS IN EITHER DIRECTION OF, UH, THE CONNECT BURNHAM REMAR.

AND I PRAY THAT EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN FELLED FROM THIS MAP AND THIS PERIOD THAT WE CAN PERMANENTLY SHOW PAIN AVENUE, BECAUSE HOW WE PARTY, WE HAD AT MY HOUSE FOR 40 OR 50 KIDS AND FRIENDS, THE MARDI GRAS PARTY WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW, MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET.

NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE.

IF WE ARE TYPE TWO STREETS, WE DON'T NEED IT.

THEY WERE BANKRUPT.

I PRAY THAT WE CAN SELL THIS.

AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

Y'ALL HAVE GIVEN US THE TIME TO WEIGH IN, AND YOU CAN TELL FROM THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BROKEN ON PAYNE AVENUE, THAT WE REALLY CARE, AND WE REALLY NEED THIS, YOU KNOW, THANKS GUYS.

HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.

THAT IS ALL OF OUR CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS FOR THIS ITEM.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE ON THE LINE WHO HASN'T SPOKEN? THEY ARE LYRIC BECAUSE I THINK THERE WAS ANOTHER, UH, GUY MR. EARL SOMETHING.

UH, HE WAS GOOD.

YES, MR. I FORGET HIS NAME, BUT YES, YOU CAN GO.

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? SCOTT TAYLOR GOT ALA.

THAT'S THE NAME? YES.

DAY IN ORDER TO REVIEW THE MAPS, UM, ON THESE REVISED MAPS, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE MADE, UM, THE PROPER MOVE AND DOWNGRADING TO LEVEL ONE TECH ROOM VINE STREET, TWIN OAKS ENDOWED 30.

UM, UH, I SIGNED UP YESTERDAY.

UM, MY NAME IS SCOTT EYLERS.

I LIVE ON CARLISLE DRIVE IN ALLENDALE, UH, DISTRICT SEVEN.

UH, FIRST I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, UM, THERE WAS INADEQUATE TIME FOR, UH, AUSTIN RESIDENTS TO REVIEW THE MAP, THESE REVISED NAPS, UM, PLEASE IN THE FUTURE, GIVE US MORE TIME.

AND, UH, ONE

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UM, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'VE NOW UPGRADED TO LEVEL TWO SHOAL CREEK, GREAT NORTHERN AND ALL OF WHITE ROCK, UM, SHOAL CREEK AND GREAT NORTHERN ALREADY HAVE BIKE LANES.

UH, WHITE ROCK IS WIDE ENOUGH WITHOUT A BIKE LANE.

UM, I UNDERSTAND FROM YOUR REPORT, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT INTENDING TO, UH, WIDEN STREETS IN ORDER TO, UM, BRING IN WHITE, UH, BIKE LANES.

SO THE ONLY JUSTIFICATION THAT I SEE FOR, UM, THESE, CAN YOU HEAR YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED, PLEASE FINISH YOUR THOUGHT IS THIS, THIS IS, UH, I VIEW AS A BACKDOOR WAY OF INCREASING DENSITY, UM, POTENTIALLY BRINGING IN, UH, JUST MORE DENSITY, MORE, UH, COMMERCIAL, UM, DEVELOPMENT IN RESIDENTS AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

AND SO I AM OPPOSED TO, UM, THE, UH, LEVELING UP OF SHOAL CREEK.

GREAT.

NORTHERN AND WHITE ROCK.

THANK YOU, CHRISTOPHER.

ARE WE, IS THAT EVERYBODY ON THE LIST? THAT IS EVERYONE.

YES, SIR.

THANK YOU MUCH.

UH, I JUST WANNA SAY, OKAY, JIM MONTGOMERY HERE, I, I SIGNED UP JUST BEFORE THE CUTOFF YESTERDAY, BUT I COULD, I SEE I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE JUDGES HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND I'M AN AVID BICYCLERS.

SO I COME AT THIS FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS.

THE, UH, THE INFO THAT WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY, ADDRESSED MY CONCERNS AND REMOVE THE LITTLE NEIGHBOR, THE NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS AND JUDGES HILL, UH, FROM THE LIST GOING FROM ONE TO TWO, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE, THE STAFF WHO WORKED ON THIS FOR THEIR WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAD IN CLEAR AND DETAILED FEEDBACK AFTER OUR EXPERIENCE, TRYING TO WORK ON CODE NEXT.

THAT WAS A REFRESHING CHANGE.

SO THANK YOU TO THE STAFF.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

UM, I WOULD JUST HAVE TO SAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT BIKE LANES ARE SOMEHOW MORE DANGEROUS FOR KIDS, THAT IS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF TRUE.

I THINK AT THIS POINT, ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

I THINK AT THIS POINT WE ARE DONE WITH CITIZENS' COMMUNICATION.

THERE ARE A LOT OF COMMENTS THAT I WROTE DOWN.

I KNOW THAT WE CAN'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE AT ONCE.

UM, I'M SURE MR. KITTEN, YOU WROTE DOWN ALL OF THESE AND YOU'LL BE GOING THROUGH THE, GOING BACK TO REVIEW THE TAPE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THESE COMMENTS CAPTURED.

I DO WANT TO EXPRESS A COUPLE OF THINGS SO THAT I JUST AS THEMES THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE TO, UH, KIND OF AMPLIFY.

I KNOW THAT THE CITY STAFF IS UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE TO GET THINGS OUT IN TIME, YOU KNOW, AS A COMMISSIONER AND MYSELF TRYING TO READ THESE THINGS, YOU KNOW, I, I DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THAT THE MAPS CAME OUT.

I TOTALLY SYMPATHIZE AT THE MAP THAT CAME OUT JUST YESTERDAY AND THAT THE, THE COMMENTS, UH, I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE, UH, I HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED.

SO THAT IS AWESOME.

I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT IF IT WAS IN THE FUTURE PRESENTATIONS.

I THINK HIS COMMISSIONER, WHETHER WE WERE SAYING IT WAS CLEARER, UM, HOW PEOPLE GET NOTIFIED, WHAT ARE THE PROCESSES? YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE COUNT ON THE NEIGHBORS AND PEOPLE COUNT ON FACEBOOK GROUPS THAT GUESS THAT'S STILL A THING.

SO PEOPLE COUNT ON SEEING IT IN VARIOUS NEWSLETTERS, BUT WHATEVER THAT MECHANISM IS FOR GETTING THAT OUT, THAT'S LIKE A, A PROCESS STEP THAT I THINK COULD STILL ON ME.

I MEAN, NOT ON, UH, SO, SO PROCESS, UH, ISSUES SEEM TO BE A CHUNK OF IT.

AND SO I KNOW MR. KITTEN Y'ALL WILL DO WHAT YOU CAN.

I KNOW THAT YOU WILL ENDEAVOR TO ENGAGE, BUT OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING'S FALLING A LITTLE BIT SHORT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FEELING KIND OF UNDER THE GUN TO MAKE DECISIONS VERY QUICKLY BECAUSE THEY JUST FIND THE INFORMATION.

UM, I DO THINK THERE WERE SOME OTHER SPECIFIC ONES I'LL TYPE UP MY LIST.

UM, AND THEN JUST, I GUESS MY LAST COMMENT IS THAT WHEN YOU MAKE THIS FUTURE PRESENTATION OR AS THIS GOES FORWARD, SOME, UH, SPECIFICITY AROUND, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS INTENSIVE DEVELOPMENT, WHAT IT MEANS ON THE STREETS OVER THE LONG COMMISSIONER SUMMERS COMMENTS, WHAT DOES, IS IT TO GOING FROM A SINGLE FAMILY TO A DUPLEX OR A SINGLE FAMILY TO A QUADPLEX? I WOULD HATE TO SEE THAT BE USED AS LEVERAGE AS TO NOT BRING MIDDLEMISS MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING, BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS, OH, THAT'S, THAT'S THE TRIGGER.

THAT MEANS X.

SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT DUPLEXES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHEN, BEFORE THEY MIGHT NOT FIGHT THE DUPLEX.

I ALSO WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, AS AN AVID BICYCLIST, UM, OR A CYCLIST OR WHATEVER, THERE'S COMMUTING, UH, CYCLING, THERE'S RECREATIONAL, CYCLING, THERE'S LITTLE KIDS, YOU KNOW, PARTNER ON JUST PLAYING WITH EACH OTHER ON THE BLOCK CYCLING.

UM, I'VE WRITTEN THROUGH, I DON'T KNOW, A MILLION MILES OF BIKE LANES.

AND,

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SO FOR PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT THEIR STREET CAN NOT USE THE BIKE LANE, BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM MORE DANGEROUS, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST NOT BORN OUT BY FACTS.

SO, UM, I GUESS IT WAS IN MY SET OF COMMENTS IS THERE COULD BE MORE DO OTHER COMMISSIONERS SAID, OH, CHRIS, SORRY.

UH, COMMISSIONER RAMOS IS WITH US.

UM, WE'VE HAD SOME COMPLICATIONS, BUT SHE DOES HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.

AND SO I LIKE TO, WE'RE GOING TO UNMUTE, UH, CECILIA AND YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND SPEAK IF YOU CAN HEAR US.

YEAH, I AM ON MUTE.

I MEAN, I DID.

I HAD SOME QUESTIONS EARLIER, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE PEOPLE AND STUFF.

I'M SORRY.

LET ME PULL IT UP AND SAY SWITCHED SETUPS IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO FIGURE THINGS OUT.

UM, I CAN'T SORRY.

I CAN'T FIND THEM NOW.

WE CAN COME BACK TO IT A LITTLE IF THERE'S TIME, BUT IT'S OKAY.

I'LL, I'M SURE I'LL COME UP WITH MORE QUESTIONS ANYWAY.

WELL, IN THE MEANTIME, ARE THERE OTHER COMMISSIONERS WHO HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THEY NEED TO CONTRIBUTE OR QUESTIONS, OBSERVATIONS, COMMISSIONER BROOKS.

I THINK THERE'S A LONG-TERM ISSUE HERE ABOUT HOW WE COMMUNICATE.

WE'VE GOT OVER A MILLION PEOPLE SENDING EVERY ONE OF THEM.

A LETTER IS A VERY EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION.

AND IF OVER TIME, UH, SOMETHING GOES THROUGH THREE OR FOUR ITERATIONS, WE SEND THEM A LETTER ON EACH ITERATION.

UM, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR CITY.

I CAN GO INTO THE DETAILS OF HOW MY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATE AND NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES OF THE MAPS.

AND EVEN AFTER WITH SOME HELP FROM OUR COUNCIL WOMAN'S OFFICE, UH, VERY MUCH AWARE OF ALL THE POINTS THAT, UH, MR. KITTEN MADE.

UM, HOW CAN WE WORK TO EDUCATE OUR EXPERIENCE THROUGH THE REST OF THE CITY? GOOD QUESTION.

THE THERE'S BEEN SOME PROCESSING TO BE DEALT WITH.

I'M NOT PROPOSING A SOLUTION, CERTAINLY NOT PROPOSING MAILING EVERYBODY SOMETHING, BUT CLEARLY THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE DUG INTO TO SEE IF THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO HELP PEOPLE BE AWARE.

UM, UH, COMMISSIONER RAMOS, ARE YOU BACK ON THE LINE? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? I CAN'T SEE YOU SOMETIME.

I'M GOING TO ASK YOU, OH, SORRY.

I DIDN'T REALIZE HE COULDN'T SEE.

I GUESS I WAS WONDERING IF WE HAVE ANY DATA ON WHETHER, CAUSE I, I FEEL LIKE THERE WERE, YEAH, THERE WAS A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT INCREASED TRAFFIC IN GENERAL, IN THE EMAILS, UM, FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE CONCERNED ABOUT MOVING FROM LEVEL ONE TO LEVEL TWO.

AND YEAH, I WAS WONDERING IF WE DO HAVE ANY DATA ON WHETHER THAT, UM, SHIFT DOES INCREASE CAR TRAFFIC, AT LEAST I'M NOT SURE ABOUT IF LIKE, AS YOU WERE SAYING, IF LIGHT TRAFFIC SHOULD REALLY BE A CONCERN FOR PEDESTRIANS AND KIDS AND PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT YEAH.

I WAS WONDERING IF WE DO HAVE ANY DATA ON WHETHER THAT WOULD, FOR SURE, LIKE INCREASED CAR TRAFFIC BECAUSE YEAH.

I THINK THE LEVEL TWO CLASSIFICATION IS BASED ON, YOU KNOW, STREETS AROUND AND STUFF.

SO I WAS JUST WONDERING ABOUT THAT.

I'M A LITTLE BIT EARLIER DURING THE PRESENTATION, MR. KITTEN, DO YOU HAVE A RESPONSE? OH YEAH.

OH, YOU'RE ON MUTE.

YOU'RE STILL ON MUTE.

I THINK NO.

CAN, UH, MR. MEAT? YEAH, MAYBE YOU CAN UNMUTE YOURSELF.

OH, I THINK IT MIGHT BE, UH, JUST TECHNICAL ISSUES ON COLE'S AND UH, HE'S UNMUTED ON OUR SIDE.

UM, IF, IF IT'S APPROPRIATE, WE CAN ALWAYS HAVE HIM.

UH, YOU CAN ALWAYS FOLLOW UP AS, AS STAFF AND SEND OUT WHATEVER EMAIL OR RESPONSES IS NECESSARY FOR CECILIA.

UM, MS. WE HEAR YOU FOR SOME REASON YOU'RE UNMUTE YOU'RE UN-MUTED ON OUR SIDE, BUT SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED.

WELL, IT IS A, THERE'S A, THERE'S A EXCELLENT DISCUSSION AND THERE ARE LOTS OF QUESTIONS, MR.

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GOODNIGHT.

I'M GOING TO TYPE UP MY NOTES AND SEND THEM TO YOU AS A KIND OF THEMING OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I SAW.

I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANY OTHER COMMISSIONER WHO, UM, FEELS LIKE DOING THAT AS WELL, TOO, TO GATHER UP SO WE CAN SEND THEM UP, SEND IT OFF AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE FEEL HEARD.

IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS TOPIC? ALL RIGHT.

AND WE, YES, I WAS GOING TO SAY, I MEAN, TYPICALLY, UM, A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GET PRESENTATIONS ON PLANS OR AMENDMENTS TO A PLAN, WE HAVE A MOTION THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, TO RECOMMEND OR, YOU KNOW, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL.

UM, I CERTAINLY DON'T FEEL QUITE PREPARED AT THIS POINT, UM, TO DO THAT, BUT I, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT IT, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE STAFF ARE GOING TO BE VERY BUSY PRESENTING TO VARIOUS COMMISSIONS OVER THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.

LOOKS LIKE, BUT JUST LIKE TO MAKE SPACE FOR THE FACT THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON THIS PRIOR TO A FINAL ADOPTION BY COUNCIL, PERHAPS.

UM, BUT I THINK WE MIGHT NEED SOME MORE TIME TO, UM, ABSORB SOME OF THE, WHAT WE LEARNED TODAY.

I AGREE.

100%.

UM, I SEE FOR SOME HEAD SHAKING ON THE SCREEN, THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME OTHER AGREEMENT AS WELL.

UH, YEAH, IT'S A LITTLE TOO EARLY TO HAVE GONE THROUGH ALL OF IT.

I READ, UM, THE PRESENTATION, BUT DIDN'T READ ALL THE BACK-UP COMMENTS, ET CETERA.

UM, SO YEAH, SO LET'S PUT THIS ON OUR AGENDA FOR LATER.

WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND WE'LL, UH, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION.

ANY PARTING WORDS? I THINK EVERYBODY, IF YOUR INVOLVEMENT, IF YOU'RE STILL ON THE LINE, CITIZEN COMMUNICATION FOLKS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEING ENGAGED.

AND WITH THAT, UM, WE'LL MOVE ON

[2.A. Racial Equity Anti Displacement Tool Presenter: Nefertitti Jackmon, Housing and Planning Department Sponsor: Susan Somers and James Driscoll]

TO ITEM TWO A IS YES.

FTD JACKMAN.

I SEE ON THE LINE.

THIS IS THE RACIAL EQUITY ANTI-DISPLACEMENT TOOL, UH, PRESENTED BY NEFERTITI JACKMAN.

THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

UM, AND I DO APOLOGIZE FOR SOME REASON I WAS NOT ABLE TO LOG ON EARLIER, BUT, UH, I'M HAPPY TO SEE SUCH AN ENGAGED PUBLIC.

SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS, UH, THAT WAS GOOD TO SEE THAT, UM, I'D LIKE TO, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND PULL UP THE PRESENT.

TAISHAN I SEE IT ON YOUR SCREEN AND DON'T LET ME SEE, I DON'T SEE IT ON MY SCREEN DUE TO THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS.

SEE THE SKYLINE HOUSING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT SCREEN.

NOPE.

I'M SEEING SOME HEADS SHAKING.

NO.

HOW ABOUT NOW? YEAH, WE GO.

AND SO MY NAME IS NEFERTITI JACKMAN.

I WORK IN THE HOUSING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT AS THE CITY'S COMMUNITY DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION OFFICER.

AND, UH, THIS EVENING, WHAT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU IS THE GREEN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED OR THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT FUNDING, UH, AND THAT IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK.

AND WHAT HAS SORT OF INFORMED OF THE FRAMEWORK AND THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE WILL MAKE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

AND WHAT I WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF IS, UH, HOW WE HAVE, UH, INCORPORATED THE EQUITY TOOL AND THE REPORT THAT WAS DEVELOPED TO INFORM THE BUDGET PRIORITIES AND INVESTMENTS OF AT LEAST FOR THE FIRST TWO YEARS AND WHAT THAT BUDGET ALLOCATION LOOKS LIKE.

AND, UM, THE, AND I'LL GO INTO SOME GREATER DETAIL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND AND THE USES AND AVAILABILITY OF THOSE DOLLARS, AND THEN OUTLINE SOME NEXT STEPS.

DISPLACEMENT AS A RESULT OF THESE TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS.

SO THE EQUITY TOOL IS, WAS OUTLINED AS A DELIVERABLE, UM, IN THE CONTRACT WITH THE VOTERS.

SO, UH, AS PART OF THE APPROVAL OF THE PROJECT CONNECT INVESTMENT TRANSIT INVESTMENT, THERE WAS $300 MILLION THAT WAS ALLOCATED TO PREVENT A DISPLACEMENT.

AND OFTENTIMES, UH, WHEN YOU HAVE TRANSIT INVESTMENTS, UH, MANY TIMES VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, UH, LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES, OFTEN FACE, UH, HIGH RATES OF DISPLACEMENT.

SO WHAT ALSO IS DOING IS SOMETHING THAT NO OTHER CITY HAS DONE IN THE PAST.

UH, WE'RE BEING VERY STRATEGIC AND INTENTIONAL AND ALLOCATING FUNDING, UM, TO PREVENT, UH, THE DISPLACEMENT OF, UH, POPULATIONS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY HAVE FACED

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SO THE CONTRACT WITH THE VOTER WE WERE TO STAFF, OR, UM, WE'RE PROVIDED THE GUIDANCE TO DEVELOP AN EQUITY TOOL SO THAT WE COULD, UH, USE THAT AS A WAY TO DETERMINE, UM, THE FUNDING.

SO WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW, AND THERE'S ANOTHER PRESENTATION THAT I, UH, PROVIDE THAT SORT OF TALKS ABOUT THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING THE TOOL, BUT, UM, THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M DOING TONIGHT, AND I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT AT ANOTHER TIME, BUT WHAT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU TONIGHT IS REALLY HOW WE ARE USING THIS TOOL AND REPORT.

SO THE NAME IS THE NAME IS THE RACIAL EQUITY ANTI-DISPLACEMENT TOOL AND NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE COMMUNITY.

AND THIS TOOL WAS DEVELOPED, UH, WITH CONSULTANTS ALONG WITH CITY STAFF, FROM THE EQUITY OFFICE, THE INNOVATION OFFICE, UH, THE HOUSING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND STAFF MEMBERS FROM, UH, THE AUSTIN, UH, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AS WELL AS COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT WE REFER TO AS CATALYSTS.

AND THESE WERE 30 MEMBERS WHO WERE SELECTED WITH LIVED EXPERIENCES SO THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND, UM, THE DISPLACEMENT RISK THAT THEY HAVE FACED.

UM, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY DIVE DEEP IN, IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING SOME REALLY GOOD QUALITATIVE, UH, DATA TO UNDERSTAND HOW DISPLACEMENT OCCURS IN THEIR LIVES.

SO WHAT THEY HELPED US TO DO IS IDENTIFY PRIORITY PLACES FOR THE INVESTMENTS, WHICH WILL OCCUR WITHIN ONE MILE OF A PROJECT CONNECT, A STATION AND LINE.

AND, UH, ALSO WE HAVE IDENTIFIED GEOGRAPHIC AREAS, UH, BASED UP ON A NEIGHBORHOODS LEVEL OF DISPLACEMENT RISK, WHICH I'LL SHARE ON ANOTHER SLIDE.

AND THEN THEY ALSO IDENTIFIED PRIORITY PURPOSE, UH, THAT THE INVESTMENTS MUST ADVANCE, UM, EQUITABLE OUTCOMES.

AND THAT'S ALL OUT LATED OUTLINED TO THE TOOL AND, AND THEIR APPROACH REALLY WAS HOLISTIC.

UM, IT WAS NOT ONLY ABOUT HOUSING.

ONE OF THE OTHER KEY TAKEAWAYS THAT STAFF UNDERSTOOD IS THAT, UH, RESIDENTS SAID THAT WE NEED HOUSING, BUT WE ALSO NEED ACCESS TO ECONOMIC MOBILITY OPPORTUNITIES, RIGHT? SO THAT THEY HAVE, UH, GREATER ECONOMIC POWER AND DECISION-MAKING TO CHOOSE THE HOUSING OPTIONS THAT MAKE THE MOST SENSE FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

UM, AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, THE RE TWO MAPS AND THE DASHBOARD, WHICH REALLY HELPED US TO UNDERSTAND THE CONDITIONS AND PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOODS SO THAT WE CAN REALLY FOCUS THOSE DOLLARS AND THE INVESTMENTS.

AND THEN WE'RE ALSO UTILIZING THE TOOL AND THE APPLICATION AS WELL, UH, AS THE SCORING CRITERIA, UH, THAT WE WILL HAVE, UH, FOR, YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE COMPETE AND APPLY FOR FUNDING.

THAT WILL BE APPLYING FOR FUNDS.

SO THE, THE TOOL AND REPORT IS REALLY AN ASPIRATIONAL DOCUMENT.

UH, WE REALLY ENCOURAGE EVERYONE WHO WILL BE APPLYING FOR FUNDS TO READ IT SO THAT WE UNDERSTAND THE BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF WHY WE, UM, ENGAGE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THIS WAY AND WHY WE ARE PRIORITIZING THE INVESTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN OUTLINED.

UM, BUT THE TOOL IS MORE OF AN ASPIRATIONAL DOCUMENT.

IT EXPLAINS WHY THE FUNDS ARE NEEDED.

SO IT GIVES SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS HISTORICALLY HAPPENED IN AUSTIN, UH, RELATED TO DISPLACEMENT, AND IT DEFINES WHERE THE FUNDS ARE MOST NEEDED.

AND THEN HOW DO WE ADDRESS OF THESE NEEDS, UH, WITH PRIORITIES THAT WERE ESTABLISHED BY THE CATALYST? UH, AS I SAID, THEY CAME FROM A HOLISTIC APPROACH.

SO IT INCLUDED ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT ALSO HIGH QUALITY JOBS, UH, CULTURAL ANCHORS, UH, THE SUPPORT OF BIPAP OWN BUSINESSES, AND THEN ALSO PURCHASING LAND FOR COMMUNITY LED PROJECTS.

AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

AND SO THE TOOL WAS DESIGNED USING A COMMUNITY LENS, AND SO REALLY ENGAGING PEOPLE WHO ARE OFTEN EXCLUDED FROM, UH, TYPICAL PLANNING PROCESSES.

UM, THEY HAVE HELPED THE CATALYST HELP TO GUIDE THE USE OF THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT FUNDS AND ORGANIZATIONS

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WE'LL USE THE TOOL AND, AND REPORT TO SORT OF GUIDE THE STRATEGIES AND THE INVESTMENTS THAT THEY WILL PROPOSE FOR FUNDING.

AND SO, AS YOU SEE HERE, THIS WAS THROUGH ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE PARTICIPATED IN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT STOOD OUT, THEY, UH, THAT STOOD OUT IN TERMS OF WHAT WAS PRIORITY FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND THE CATALYST INCLUDED INVESTMENT INTO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COMMUNITY POWER.

SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS, UH, THAT SORT OF ROSE TO THE TOP AS PRIORITIES THAT, UH, THE CAPITALISTS WANTED TO SEE.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

UH, WHAT WE HAVE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE TOOL, YOUR POOR, THERE IS A MAP IT'S AN ONLINE MAP, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO REALLY DRILL DOWN AND UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO WE CAN SEE WHERE, UM, WHAT NEIGHBORHOODS ARE VULNERABLE TO DISPLACEMENT.

LIKE WHAT LEVEL OF RISKS, DISPLACEMENT RISK, UH, OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IAN, AND THEN ALSO THOSE IDENTIFY THOSE THAT HAVE A CHRONIC ERIC'S EXPERIENCING CHRONIC DISPLACEMENT RISK, WHICH IS REALLY ONGOING.

THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR A LONG TIME AND THEN ACTIVE LEVELS OF DISPLACEMENT.

BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE CAN SEE WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OR DEMOGRAPHICS OF THOSE HOUSEHOLDS? WHAT PERCENTAGE ARE COMMUNITIES OF COLORS? WHAT PERCENTAGE ARE LOW INCOME? WHAT PERCENTAGE ARE SEVERELY RENT, BURDENED HAVE CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY AND WHAT PERCENTAGE, UH, HAVE HOW HOUSEHOLDS, UH, WITHOUT A HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD, UH, WITHOUT A COLLEGE DEGREE.

AND SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF A HOUSEHOLD'S VULNERABILITY TO DISPLACEMENT AS IDENTIFIED IN THE, UH, UT UPROOTED REPORT.

UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

AND SO THE DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION STRATEGY IS A COMBINATION OF A SERIES OF THINGS, UNDERSTANDING, UM, THE DEMOGRAPHIC FOCUS.

SO THESE ARE ALL OF THE DATA POINTS THAT WE HAVE TAKEN INTO CONSIDER AND PRIORITIZE, UH, WHAT STRATEGIES WE WILL USE TO DIRECT THE DOLLARS UNDERSTANDING, UM, THAT THE DOLLARS ARE NOT GOING TO BE SUFFICIENT TO ADDRESS ALL OF THE DISPLACEMENT RISKS THAT ARE OCCURRING IN AUSTIN.

UM, BUT WE REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON THE DISPLACEMENT RISKS RELATED TO THE TRANSIT INVESTMENTS.

AND WE, SO THE THERE'S SOME KEY THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WE'RE LOOKING AT.

UM, WE HAVE A DEMOGRAPHIC FOCUS THAT REALLY TELLS US WHO WE'RE INVESTING IN AND WHERE WE ARE ALSO MAKING OUR INVESTMENTS.

AND SO ALL OF THE DOLLARS RELATED TO THE 300 MILLION ANTI-DISPLACEMENT DOLLARS, UH, HAVE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE INVESTMENTS BE WITHIN A ONE MILE OF A PROJECT NATION, UH, CONNECT STATION AND LINE, AND THAT, UH, THOSE RESIDENTS IN THOSE SERVICES BE GEARED TOWARDS PEOPLE LIVING WITHIN AN AREA, UH, THAT IS EXPERIENCING ACTIVE CHRONIC OR VULNERABLE DISPLACEMENT RISK.

AND WHAT WE ARE DOING IS BOTH PROTECTING, UM, THE RESIDENTS AND THE PEOPLE THERE, UH, PRESERVING EXISTING, UM, NATURALLY OCCURRING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND THEN ALSO PRODUCING ADDITIONAL UNITS.

AND THEN ALSO WE, AND IT'S ALSO, THE TIMING IS KEY TO WHEN THE INVESTMENTS AND WHAT INVESTMENTS SHOULD BE DEPLOYED.

UNDERSTANDING THAT LAND VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE, UH, AS WE'RE SEEING EVERY DAY IN THE NEWS.

SO UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, LAND BANKING AND LAND ACQUISITION HAS TO REALLY OCCUR ON THE FRONT END OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN IT.

WE HAVE A MUCH MORE, A GREATER VALUE FOR OUR DOLLAR TODAY THAN WE WILL 10 YEARS FROM NOW.

AND THEN HOW REALLY ESTABLISHING EQUITABLE PROCESSES, WHERE WE SIT CENTER A COMMUNITY VOICES AND ELEVATE THEIR PRIORITIES AND PURPOSES, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.

FOR RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, AS WELL AS OWNERSHIP, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE.

SO HERE WE HAVE, UM, THE BUDGET IN TERMS OF HOW WE HAVE ALLOCATED THE DOLLARS FOR YEARS ONE AND TWO, YOU WILL SEE THE $23 MILLION, UM, ALLOCATION FOR LAND ACQUISITION, WHICH WAS, UM, DIRECTED BY A CITY COUNCIL AND THEN THE $21 MILLION OF

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THAT IS AN EXISTING PROGRAM, WHICH WILL HAVE A GEOGRAPHIC CRITERIA, UM, ADDED TO FUNDING FOR THAT, UH, CATEGORY.

AND THEN A NEW AREA IS THE COMMUNITY.

THE TWO NEW PROGRAMS ARE FOR THE LAND ACQUISITION AND THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND.

UH, AND THEN ALSO WE HAVE MONEY FIRST STAFFING AND AS WELL AS COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT TO MAKE SURE WE REALLY, UM, HAVE A ROBUST OUTREACH STRATEGY TO REACH AS MANY ORGANIZATIONS, POTENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS APPLY FOR THESE FUNDS AS POSSIBLE, NEXT SLIDE.

AND SO THIS JUST SHOWS A BREAKOUT FOR THE LAND ACQUISITION.

IT WILL BE USED FOR, UM, ELIGIBLE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR BOTH PRESERVING AND DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ALL SMALL SITES, AS WELL AS RENTAL AND OWNERSHIP OR MARCH OR SITES.

THIS WILL ALSO, AND THAT'S ABOUT $8 MILLION THAT WILL BE ALLOCATED FOR THE, UH, 5 0 1 C3, BUT THEN ALSO THE REMAINING DOLLARS WILL BE FOR, UH, THE CITY'S LAND ACQUISITION AND LAND BANKING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT ON LARGER SITES.

UM, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

THEN WE ALSO HAVE $21 MILLION, UH, AND, AND JUST, UH, IF I CAN JUST SAY, UM, THE $23 MILLION LAND ACQUISITION PROGRAM, UH, WE REFER TO IT AS THE AD CAP PROGRAM THAT, UM, THAT APPLICATION PROCESS OPENED IN DECEMBER AND LATE DECEMBER, AND THAT WILL REMAIN OPEN UNTIL ALL FUNDS HAVE BEEN EXPENDED.

SO FOR THE $21 MILLION IN LAND DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS TO ASSIST BOTH PRIVATE AND NON-PROFIT DEVELOPERS TILL OUR STATE TAX INCENTIVES AND BONDS FOR RENTAL HOUSING, AS WELL AS OWNERSHIP, HOUSING DEVELOP, UH, DEVELOPMENT FUNDS.

AND AGAIN, IT ALSO HAS THE CRITERIA THAT WOULD BE WITHIN ONE MILE OF A PROJECT CONNECT IN AREAS FACING ACTIVE AND VULNERABLE, UH, DISPLACEMENT RISK.

AND THEN THE FINAL AREA IS THE $20 MILLION HAS, UH, UM, BEEN SET ASIDE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES.

THIS WILL BE A COMPETITIVE APPLICATION PROCESS TO PREVENT THE DISPLACEMENT OF BOTH TENANTS HOMEOWNERS, AS WELL AS WE'RE SEEKING APPLICATIONS THAT CREATE ECONOMIC MOBILITY OPPORTUNITIES.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

AND THEN THIS SORT OF JUST, UH, PROVIDE SOME GUIDANCE ON THIS, UH, THE TYPES OF, UH, PROPOSALS THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR OR SERVICES THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

UM, APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR, YOU KNOW, TENANT LEGAL SERVICES AND REPRESENTATION, UH, EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE EDUCATION ON FAIR HOUSING LAWS AND TENANT RIGHTS, AS WELL AS WE'RE LOOKING FOR, UH, NEW PROGRAMS, SERVICES, AND INVESTMENTS THAT WILL FOCUS ON HELPING TENANTS, UH, WHICH ARE, UM, ABOUT APPROXIMATELY 55% OF AUSTIN, UH, POPULATION.

OFTEN HAVE THE SOLUTIONS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. AND SO, UM, WE DIDN'T WANT TO DEFINE ABSOLUTELY EVERY TYPE OF APPLICATION THAT WE WOULD ACCEPT, BUT AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING FOR CREATIVE STRATEGIES, UH, THAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALREADY WORKING ON, UH, INCLUDING EMERGING COOPERATIVE, HOME OWNERSHIP, COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, USE OF PUBLICLY OWNED LAND FOR COMMUNITY BUILT, UH, BENEFIT AS WELL AS, UM, BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH THROUGH TRADITIONAL, AS WELL AS INNOVATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS.

AND THEN WE ARE ALSO, WE WILL ALSO BE FOCUSING ON HOMEOWNERS AND, UM, I'LL WAIT JUST A SECOND, BUT THE HOMEOWNERS, AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING FOR A WIDE RANGE OF SOLUTIONS.

UH, IT COULD BE FOR A HOME, UM, MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE, UM, UH, MORTGAGE AND FORECLOSURE ASSISTANCE, UH, CLOSING COSTS DOWN PAYMENT PROGRAMS, RE HOME REHABILITATION SERVICES, UM, AND THEN EVEN EXISTING COMMUNITY LAND TRUST AND HOUSING COOPERATIVES.

WE HAVE SOME HERE IN AUSTIN AND WE CERTAINLY WANT TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT A VARIETY OF, UM, HOME OWNERSHIP OPTIONS AND EXPAND THOSE OPTIONS.

AND THEN ALSO WE'RE LOOKING FOR NEW SOLUTIONS AND STRATEGIES TO HELP, I SHOULD SAY, TO HELP STABILIZE HOMEOWNERS ON THAT LAST POINT.

UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

AND THEN WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR OTHER STRATEGIES THAT WE COULD NOT THINK OF.

UM, SO WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FROM THIS FUND IS COMMUNITY INITIATED STRATEGIES.

AND, UH, WE FEEL THAT PEOPLE AND THAT ARE CLOSEST TO THE PROBLEMS

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AND WE WORKED WITH COMMUNITY POWERED WORKSHOP, WE CONTRACTED WITH THEM AND WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE SOME, UM, LINKS TO, UM, SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE PROVIDED FOR OUR DEPARTMENT THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO STRATEGIES IN THIS LAST AREA.

AND WHERE WE ARE NOW, THIS IS SORT OF OUTLINING SORT OF OUR NEXT STEPS, WHAT WE HOPE TO DO.

UH, IT IS MARCH 1ST, WE HAVE NOT STARTED OUR OUTREACH, UH, BUT THAT'S WHERE WE HOPE TO GET TO, UH, THIS MONTH STARTING WITH OF THE OUTREACH SO THAT COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ARE AWARE OF THE FUNDING THAT THAT'S AVAILABLE.

UH, THE GOAL IS TO RELEASE THE NOTICE OF FUNDING OR THE APPLICATION AROUND MARCH 31ST OR BEFORE.

AND THEN WE WILL HAVE A SERIES OF MEETINGS TO INFORM POTENTIAL APPLICANTS, UH, ABOUT THE PROCESS AND PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, UM, IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MEETINGS.

UH, SO THE PUBLIC, UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SUCCESSFUL AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.

AND THEN THE GOAL IS TO, UM, AWARD THE CONTRACTS AND HAVE THE CONTRACTS EXECUTED IN THE FALL OF 2022.

AND THAT'S IT.

AND I'M HAPPY TO, OH, NO, THERE'S A COUPLE MORE SLIDES.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS IT, BUT THERE, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF OTHER SLIDES.

SO WHAT WE WILL BE DOING TO ESTABLISH FUTURE INVESTMENT PRIORITIES IS, UH, WE WILL BE WORKING WITH A PROJECT CONNECT COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO DO BROADER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND TO SORT OF IDENTIFY, UM, THE BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR FUTURE YEARS.

AND WE HOPE TO DO THIS.

THE GOAL IS TO DO A THREE YEAR BUDGET PLANNING PROCESS TO ALLOW PLANNING FROM BOTH THE CITY SIDE, AS WELL AS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, SO THAT PEOPLE WILL KNOW THE FUNDING THAT WILL BE ALLOCATED, UM, IN A THREE-YEAR INCREMENT.

AND THE NEXT FIVE, PLEASE, THERE'S ONE MORE, WHICH JUST PROVIDES MY CONTACT INFORMATION AS WELL AS A WEBSITE SO THAT, UM, INTERESTED PERSONS CAN, UM, GET UPDATES RELATED TO THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT INVESTMENTS RELATED TO PROJECT CONNECT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS, BUT I WANT TO OPEN IT UP TO THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS.

I SEE COMMISSIONER BROOKS HANDS FIRST.

I HAVE A LONG SERIES OF QUESTIONS.

SO I'LL DEFER TO YOU.

UM, WELL LET ME ASK YOU JUST TWO QUICK QUESTIONS.

UM, IT SAYS IN THE DOCUMENT THAT YOU MUST BE WITHIN A MILE OF A PROJECT CONNECT STATION, IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU TOOK EFFORT TO SAY STATION OR LINE.

SO DOES THAT MEAN SAY ALL THE SOUTH LAMAR IS ON THE 8 0 3, ET CETERA.

IF YOU LIVE WITHIN A MILE OF SOUTH LAMAR OR HALF A MILE EACH DIRECTION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

YES, THAT IS CORRECT.

AND, AND ACTUALLY I NEED TO UPDATE MY SLIDES BECAUSE THAT WAS A DECISION THAT WE MADE OF THIS WEEK.

AND THEN I GUESS A FOLLOW UP QUESTION WOULD BE, IS THERE DATA, HOW MUCH OF THE CITY DOES THAT THEN COVER? DO YOU HAVE TO BE IN A LINE AND WITHIN AN AREA THAT TRADITIONALLY OR HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN FACING GENTRIFICATION OR DISPLACEMENT? SO DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS THAT 12% OF THE CITY OR 14 OR 50 OR GIVING THE IDEA? NO, I DON'T HAVE, UH, I DON'T HAVE A PERCENTAGE OF, UH, WHAT THAT COVERS, HOW MUCH OF THE CITY THAT COVERS.

THAT'S CERTAINLY A QUESTION I CAN ASK, BUT, UM, YEAH, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S THE SQUARE MILE OF AUSTIN.

I HAVE NO IDEA.

RUBEN KNOWS 300 SQUARE MILES.

300, 320 POINTS SOMETHING.

USEFUL, I THINK IN TERMS OF PROMOTING THE EFFICACY OR NOT OF THIS PROJECT, IF IT, YOU KNOW, IF IT TURNS OUT TO BE A VERY SMALL NUMBER, LIKE, OH 2% OF THE CITY QUALIFIES AND THAT'S GOING TO BE DISAPPOINTING, BUT IF IT'S 12% OR 10% OR 30%, THAT'S GOING TO BE, UH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY ENGAGING TO PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THAT MUCH AS A CITY IS BEING ADDRESSED AND BEING LOOKED AFTER IN THE WAY THAT THIS, WITH THIS TOOL.

AND THEN, AND THEN I GUESS THE REASON I'M ASKING IS FOR THIS PARTICULAR QUESTION IS IT WOULD BE VERY

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OH, YES, I WILL GO AHEAD.

YOU CAN GET A FEEL FOR THAT.

IT'S EVERY SQUARE, EVERY MILE OF A PROJECT CONNECT LINE IS ONE SQUARE MILE.

SO IF PROJECT CONNECT IS WHAT, 33 SQUARE MILE, WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE DISCUSSION OF WHICH, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PROJECT CONNECT? I'D LIKE TO TALK THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINES.

SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 30 MILES, UH, ABOUT 30, 30 SQUARE MILES OUT OF 300.

IT'S 1%.

UH, WELL, I WOULD THINK THERE'D BE 10%, BUT ALSO THE RAPID BUSES COUNT AS PROJECT CONNECT FOR SURE.

10%.

AND THE PROJECT AND THE RAPID BUSES COUNT AS 10%, BUT THEN THERE'S, THOSE ARE THE OVERLAY OF THOSE, THAT AREAS THAT TRADITIONALLY FACED DISPLACEMENT.

SO IT REDUCES THAT, THAT NUMBER, BUT THAT'S, LET'S KEEP IT IN MIND.

LIKE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE DOLLARS ARE NOT SO THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE GEOGRAPHIC CRITERIA, IN TERMS OF WHERE THE INVESTMENTS WILL GO, WE KNOW THE LINES AND THE STATIONS COVER A LARGER AREA THAN WHERE THE DISPLACEMENT RISK ARE OCCURRING.

SO THE DOLL, SO IT'S GOING TO BE THOSE TWO GEOGRAPHIC PRIORITIES.

SO THERE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME PLACE ALONG WITHIN ONE MILE OF A PROJECT COULD NATION CONNECT STATION OR A LIE, BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT WE WILL BE INVESTING DOLLARS ANTI-DISPLACEMENT DOLLARS IF THERE IS A NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMUNITY THAT IS NOT FACING EITHER CHRONIC, UH, ACTIVE OR VULNERABLE DISPLACEMENT RISK.

THAT'S IT, THAT'S HOW I UNDERSTOOD THAT.

I WAS JUST WONDERING IF THERE WERE SOME NUMBERS, SO THAT MAKES SENSE.

UM, OKAY.

UH, RUBEN.

WHICH DEFINITION OF PROJECT CONNECT ARE YOU USING? THERE'S THE INITIAL INVESTMENT AND THERE'S THE SYSTEM MAP, THE SYSTEM MAP, WHICH, UH, WE DO UNDERSTAND.

AND I KNOW EVERYTHING IS NOT ON BOARD.

WELL, LIKE THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINE ARE COMING UP LATER, BUT, UH, YEAH, WE ARE LOOKING AT THE SYSTEM MAP.

YOU SHOULDN'T BE INCLUDING, OF COURSE THE METRO RAPID LINES ALONG DESSAU ROAD ONES ALONG PARMER ROAD.

UM, HER A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER LINES THAT AREN'T SURE THAT ARE SHOWN ON THE SYSTEM MAP THAT AREN'T PART OF THE INITIAL INVESTMENT.

HMM.

ALONG APARTMENT ROAD TODAY.

AND IF YOU WANT TO SAY IT, I'M NOT GOING TO ARGUE WITH YOU EITHER WAY.

UH, YOU SAY INITIAL INVESTMENT, I'LL SAY FINE, BUT OKAY.

UH, BUT YOU, YOU NEED TO DECIDE, AND THERE'S A PROBLEM AREA ONCE YOU'VE MADE YOUR DECISION.

AND THAT IS THE, MY ART BREAK AREA, WHICH IS FROM NORTH LAVAR TRANSIT CENTER TO TECH RIDGE AT NORTHERN SEGMENT ALONG LAMAR, WHICH IS ONE OF THE AREAS IN THE CITY THAT MOST NEEDS HIGH QUALITY TRANSIT.

IT USED TO BE ON THE 8 0 1, THE STOP AT RUTLAND AND LAMAR WAS THE FOURTH MOST USED STOP.

AND THAT INCLUDES THE STOPS ON CAMPUS, BUT IT'S NOT PART OF THE INITIAL INVESTMENT.

I'M SORRY TO SAY.

NOW, IF YOU'D SAID INITIAL INVESTMENT, THE PROBLEM IS THAT THAT'S, THAT AREA IS NOT PART OF THE INITIAL INVESTMENT.

IT WOULD NOT BE, UH, ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING BECAUSE NOT EVERY MINUTE FOR RAPID LINE IS PART OF PROJECT CONNECT.

THE ADA RUN IN THE 800, 3, 7 YEARS NOW, EIGHT YEARS NOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO, YEAH.

AND THEN, SO ALSO, IF I MAY, WHAT WE ALSO PRIORITIZE IS TIMING, RIGHT.

AND I'M NOT, AND I WILL GET FURTHER CLARIFICATION, BUT SOME OF THE THINGS WHY SOME OF THE INVESTMENTS AROUND THE LAND PURCHASES WERE, MIGHT BE BETTER VALUE.

AND I'M NOT GOING TO SAY WHERE WE ARE NOW, BUT THERE IS A, AND THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE WILL NEED TO DISCUSS AND MAKE SURE WE HAVE A CLEAR STRATEGY BECAUSE IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO HAVE SOME OF THOSE INVESTMENTS, BUT I'M SURE, I THINK THERE ARE VERY FEW VULNERABLE PEOPLE

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WELL, IT'S A GREAT TIME TO ISLAND.

SO YES.

AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT DID OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE $215 BILLION WITH THE GEO BONDS, WHICH WE DID.

WE MADE SOME OF THOSE INVESTMENTS AND THEY WERE AROUND A PROJECT CONNECT, BUT THEY WEREN'T NECESSARILY AROUND AREAS THAT WERE VULNERABLE TO DISPLACEMENT.

SO YOU, I MEAN, THAT IS CORRECT, BUT THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE CERTAINLY GOING TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.

BUT IF WE HAVE TO PRIORITIZE INVESTMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE WHERE WE ARE NOT SEEING PEOPLE, UH, AT RISK OF DISPLAY.

OH, THE, THE ISSUE OF THE DECILE ROAD AREA, IT'S MORE THAN A MILE FROM A CAB FROM THE ORANGE LINE ON NORTH, UH, NORTH LAMAR, BUT IT IS QUITE CLOSE TO AN AREA THAT IS VULNERABLE IS IN THE LOWER LEVEL CATEGORY.

SO YOU COULD THINK EITHER WAY, I'D LET ME URGE YOU COME UP WITH SOME VERY CLEAR DEFINITIONS, EVEN IF THEY'RE UNEVEN, NOT EVERY, UH, METRO RAPID LINE IS A PROJECT CONNECT LINE AND MAKE THAT DISTINCTION OKAY.

ONTO A SITE, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TOPIC.

UM, THE CHRONIC CATEGORY.

SO I ALWAYS LIKE TO, I BEING ON A COMMISSION LIKE THIS AS A GOOD EXCUSE TO GO OUT AND WANDER AROUND AUSTIN.

SO WE WENT IN LAUNDRY, HE WENT AND WATERED AROUND PRESTWOOD, WHICH STILL SHOW IT IS SHOWN AS CHRONIC.

AND MY QUESTION WAS, THERE ARE A LOT OF SMALL, OLDER HOUSES IN BRENTWOOD.

NOT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN THERE.

THERE ARE A LOT OF BRAND NEW HOUSES WHERE OLDER HOUSES HAVE BEEN TORN DOWN, BUT THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF OLDER HOUSES IN BRENTWOOD.

BRENTWOOD DOES HAVE SOME OF THE TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A BOWLER WILL JUST PLACEMENT AREA, EXTREMELY RAPID INCREASE IN HOUSING PRICES.

THE AVERAGE HOUSE THERE IS CLOSE TO 800,000 THAT'S VERY HIGH INCOME.

UM, AND SO WE WERE, I WAS WONDERING WHO WE WERE WONDERING WHO WAS LIVING IN ALL THOSE MODAL, SMALL, OLD HOUSES.

WAS IT A NEW WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO WERE LIVING IN LIMITED INVESTMENTS OR MAYBE RUNNING OUT INVESTMENTS? OR WAS IT SOME OF THE LONG-TERM INHABITANTS TRYING TO HOLD ON? SO I THEN WENT TO THE ANTI-DISPLACEMENT MAP AND CALLED UP THE PERCENTAGE OF BIPAP PERCENTAGE DISPLAY.

AND BRENTWOOD IS NOW LESS THAN 20% I POPULATION.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS EARLIER, BUT IT'S, IT'S DISPLACEMENT IS HISTORICAL MORE THAN IT IS CHRONIC.

AND I JUST WONDER WHETHER YOU MIGHT CONSIDER PUTTING THE CHRONIC CATEGORY, MAYBE ON A SEPARATE LAYER OR SOMETHING TO INDICATE THAT THIS IS PROBABLY, THERE MAY BE SOME VERY PRODUCTIVE INVESTMENTS THERE, PLACES WHERE YOU CAN PREVENT A SINGLE FAMILY FROM BEING DISPLACED.

I DON'T DENY THAT, BUT IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE SEARCHING FOR SOURCES OF FUNDING, SAY, GEE, BRENTWOOD IS CONSIDERED CHRONIC.

I'LL DO A BUNCH OF VERY EXPENSIVE PROJECTS IN BRENTWOOD BECAUSE IT'S CHRONIC.

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET IT THE RIGHT YIELD OUT OF YOUR IT.

I WOULD THINK THAT THE CHRONIC AREAS WOULD BE LOWER PRIORITY THAN THE OTHER AREAS.

THOSE ARE CERTAINLY DISCUSSIONS THAT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE INTERNALLY.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO DETERMINE, OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE MEASURE, UH, LIKE IN TERMS OF A PRIORITY, IS IT THE YIELD THAT WE'LL GET ON OUR INVESTMENT? OR IS IT THOSE FAMILIES WHO ARE STILL REMAINING AND TRYING TO HANG ON IN THOSE AREAS? SO THOSE ARE ONGOING CONVERSATIONS OF, AND THERE IS, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT INVESTMENT STRATEGIES MAKE THE MOST SENSE IN AN AREA THAT IS FACING CHRONIC DISPLACEMENT.

ONE OF THE STRATEGIES THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE IS LAND BANKING AND LAND ACQUISITION, LIKE THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.

AND IN AN AREA THAT IS FACING CHRONIC DISPLACEMENT PRESSURES.

SO THOSE ARE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE WEIGHING AND THAT WE WILL BE EVALUATING WHEN PEOPLE ARE SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS.

IS THERE ANY GUIDANCE, FOR EXAMPLE, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD SAY, IF IT'S A CHRONIC AREA, THEN WE'RE LOOKING TO, UH, REDUCE TAXES ON SINGLE FAMILY HAND OWNERS, BUT WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO DO LAND BANKING.

UH, WE DO HAVE SOME GUIDANCE.

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WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, MATT, WELL, UH, WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL FACT SHEETS, WHICH SORT OF HIGHLIGHT, AND AGAIN, WHAT WE'RE NOT, UM, THAT PROVIDES SOME SUGGESTIONS OF PRIORITY STRATEGIES THAT MAKE SENSE.

ONE OF THE THINGS I WILL SAY THAT WE CAN'T DO, WHICH IS VERY PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE PEOPLE, UH, WHO ARE HANGING ON IN A BRA BRENTWOOD, RIGHT.

FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY ARE PROBABLY ONLY STAYING THERE BECAUSE I PROBABLY HAVE THEIR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

BUT THEY COULD PROBABLY USE ASSISTANCE WITH TAXES, BUT THAT IS NOT A STRATEGY THAT WE USING CITY DOLLARS CAN DEPLOY.

SO IT'S UM, AND SO THAT'S WHY WE, YEAH, SO THIS IS ALL VERY TRICKY, BUT YOU ARE CORRECT.

UH, WE DO PROVIDE AN, I WILL SEND THIS INFORMATION TO CHRISTOPHER SO HE CAN SHARE WITH THIS GROUP, UH, THE FACT SHEETS THAT WE HAVE OUTLINED, WHICH SHORTER SHOWS A LEVEL, UH, COMMUNITIES, UM, DISPLACEMENT RISK AND WHAT STRATEGIES MIGHT MAKE THE MOST SENSE AND WHAT INVESTMENTS MIGHT MAKE THE MOST SENSE FOR THESE CERTAIN AREAS.

DO I SEE HANDS FROM OTHER COMMISSIONERS OR QUESTIONS? WELL, I HAVE A, AN ADDITIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE.

UM, THE, SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY A FAMILY IN BRENTWOOD OR A FAMILY, WHEREVER, ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO APPLY FOR SOME OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DOLLARS OR IS IT ONLY DEVELOPERS, WHETHER THEY'RE NONPROFITS, IF EVERYONE SEE THREES, UM, OR ACTUAL INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES ARE ABLE TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, UM, DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE, LET'S SAY THAT BECOMES A PROGRAM.

IS THAT FUNNELED THROUGH FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES OR SOME EXISTING NONPROFIT, OR IS IT SPECIFIC PEOPLE CAN KIND OF APPLY? YEAH, SURE.

UM, SO THE, THE CITY, UH, WE PROVIDE VERY FEW DIRECT SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC.

SO EVEN WITH THESE DOLLARS, IT'S GOING TO BE THE SAME.

SO INDIVIDUALS CAN NOT APPLY FOR THE DISPLACEMENT DOLLARS.

UH, BUT IT IS THE DOLLARS ARE LIKE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND THAT I REFERRED TO.

IT IS FOR NON PROFIT SERVICE PROVIDERS.

THAT FUND IS NOT FOR DEVELOPERS, WHETHER IT'S PRIVATE OR FOR A NONPROFIT, BUT IT IS FOR, SAY FOR INSTANCE, A FOUNDATION, COMMUNITY, OR ANOTHER ORGANIZATION THAT MIGHT BE PROVIDING, UM, HOME, UM, DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND EDUCATION.

UM, BUT THEN WE DO HAVE THE OTHER TWO CATEGORIES, BUT ONE IS FOR A NONPROFIT AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPERS.

AND THEN THE SECOND FUND, THE 21 MILLION IS FOR BOTH PRIVATE AND NON-PROFIT, UH, DEVELOPERS, BUT INDIVIDUALS, UH, CANNOT APPLY FOR FUNDING.

SO THAT, UM, ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE AWARDED FUNDING WILL CONTINUE TO BE SUCCESSFUL THROUGHOUT THE CONTRACT PERIOD.

THAT WAS MY ASSUMPTION.

I JUST WANTED TO, BECAUSE IT WASN'T EXACTLY A HUNDRED PERCENT CLEAR.

WELL THEN, SO THE QUESTION HAS THE CITY, OR, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR, YOUR STAFF CONSIDERED, UM, TRYING TO EDUCATE FOLKS INTO, BASICALLY, I DON'T WANNA SAY BE THEIR OWN GENTRIFIER, BUT BE THEIR OWN 5 0 1 C3, GET 10 NEIGHBORS TOGETHER IN A NEIGHBORHOOD TO THEN ADDRESS THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD, INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT JUST PURELY EXISTING ORGANIZATIONS, BUT HELPING PEOPLE GROW WITH A NEW ORGANIZATION, UM, WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY DOING THAT.

PEOPLE CAN DO THAT.

ONE OF THE THINGS I WILL SAY, UM, WE ARE CERTAINLY LOOKING AT BELIEVE SOME OF THE MOST, UH, COMPETITIVE APPLICATIONS WILL BE APPLICATIONS THAT COME FROM ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE HISTORY OF SUCCESS.

IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THAT WILL BE, THOSE WILL BE THE ONLY, UH, APPLICATIONS THAT WE RECEIVE, BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE, YOU KNOW, BEING STEWARDS OF THE RESOURCES.

THAT'S CERTAINLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.

HOWEVER, WHAT WE WILL SHARE, UH, WHAT I WILL SHARE IS THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING THAT MIGHT FIT INTO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

UH, WE HOPE TO PROVIDE, UM, FUNDING FOR CAPACITY BUILDING TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT APPLY FOR FUNDING ARE SUCCESSFUL.

SO NOT ONLY FROM THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THAT WE WILL PROVIDE, BUT THROUGHOUT THE GRANT PROCESS, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT THAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE.

I WILL BE HAVING A MEETING, UH, AND THEN COMING WEEKS, UH, WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE SO WE CAN PROVIDE SOME CAPACITY BUILDING.

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BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE HEARD, THERE IS AN IDEA THAT WE'RE WORKING ON NOW TO, UH, PROVIDE A SPACE AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERESTED SERVICE PROVIDERS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO PARTNER WITH DEVELOPERS, RIGHT.

AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO PROVIDE THE SPACE, UH, BUT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO PARTNER PEOPLE TOGETHER, BUT THERE, THERE ARE, THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTNERSHIPS.

AND I THINK I DID MEET WITH A COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION NOT TOO LONG AGO.

AND I DID ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO THAT.

THAT IS NOT WHAT WE'RE DOING AS PART OF OUR MARKETING CAMPAIGN, BUT WITH SOME OF THE STRATEGIES AND THE WORK THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO TO BRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO THEIR COMMUNITY, THAT IS ONE RECOMMENDATION.

BUT I THINK JUST TO BE CLEAR, IF YOU'RE A NEW NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR THE 23 MILLION OR THE FUNDS THAT ARE ALLOCATED FOR LAND ACQUISITION, YOU HAVE TO HAVE, UH, YOU DO HAVE TO, THAT YOU HAVE PURCHASED PROPERTIES IN THE PAST.

YOU'VE REHABILITATED, YOU KNOW, REHAB THEM RENOVATED.

AND, UM AND YOU'VE MANAGED PROPERTIES OR, AND, OR SOLD THEM FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

THAT'S YEAH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GOOD STANCE.

I WAS JUST CURIOUS AND I APPRECIATE THE CAPACITY BUILDING SLASH NETWORKING ELEMENT AS AN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT LEADING WITH IT, BUT YOU'RE ALSO NOT TAKING IT OFF THE TABLE, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, IF, IF THAT CAN HELP SOME PEOPLE, THEN IT HELPS SOME PEOPLE, BUT THAT'S NOT THE ABSOLUTELY.

UM, ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS, IDEAS.

ON, ITEM TWO D THIS ONE, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE CHECKED YOUR MAIL.

WELL THEN I THINK I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH AT NIGHT AND I ALL RIGHT, MOVING

[2.D. Urban Transportation Commission Recommendation to Austin Transportation Department for Fiscal Year 2023 Facilitator: Mario Champion Sponsors: Mario Champion and James Driscoll]

THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO BE, UH, CLEAR ABOUT WHAT WE THINK, WHAT THE UTC THINKS PEOPLE SHOULD DO IN THEIR BUDGETING, PRIORITIZATIONS.

LIKE ALL THINGS THAT WE DO, THIS IS NOT A MANDATE OR REQUIRE ANYBODY TO LISTEN TO US.

BUT, UM, THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO, TO, UM, PUT IN WRITING WHAT WE THINK THE, UH, VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS SHOULD FOCUS THEIR DOLLARS ON.

THERE WILL BE A GOOGLE DOC COMING UP MOMENTARILY.

TELL US IF YOU CANNOT SEE IT.

WELL, NOT YET.

HOLD ON.

IT'S ONE OF THOSE LINKS THAT DOESN'T WANT TO BE CLICKED.

HUH? YEAH, THERE WE GO.

UM, WOULD YOU MIND ZOOMING IN OR VIEW LIKE 125% OR SOMETHING? CAN EVERYONE SEE THE, A GOOGLE DOC AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, DO ALL THE COMMISSIONERS HAVE THE LINK? WELL, I GUESS IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE LINK, JUST EMAIL ME UP.

REALIZE THAT'S NOT THE SMARTEST QUESTION I DO.

I BELIEVE JULY OR SOMEWHERE AROUND THAT TIMEFRAME.

I DON'T FEEL A LOT WAS ONE OF THEM DOES THAT'S ONE.

ALRIGHT.

UM, SO YEAH, SO THE, THE, UH, THIS AGENDA ITEM IS, UM, THE, THE TOP WHERE HAZARDS ARE BASICALLY TAKEN FROM OUR BYLAWS.

WE ARE CHARGED WITH, UH, ADVISING, UM, THESE GROUPS AROUND, UH, VARIOUS ISSUES, BUT THAT IS OBVIOUSLY MORE THAN ONE ISSUE.

SO WE NEED TO PUT THEM IN A PRIORITIZATION ORDER.

UM, THIS IS A REQUEST FROM THE, UM, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, TECHNICALLY.

UM, BUT I DO WANT TO SAY THAT THIS FOR THE COMMISSIONERS, YOU ALL ARE SO VERY, UH, GREAT AT HAVING PRECISE WORDING.

UM, BUT THEY HAD CITY HALL HAS LET US KNOW, AND I SAY HALL, UH, CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE HAS LET US KNOW THAT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MEANT TO BE LOOSE IN THE SENSE THAT, UH, THEY DON'T NEED TO BE, NOT THAT THEY DON'T NEED TO BE VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT.

UM, BUT THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY JUST BULLET POINTS FOR WHAT YOU ALL THINK IS WHAT YOU ALL BELIEVE THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT SHOULD CONSIDER, UH, AS THEIR MO MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS. AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU ALL ALREADY BRIEFED ON, UH, THE BUDGETS OF, I BELIEVE AROUND EITHER MAY OR JUNE.

WE, WE GET THAT TO YOU.

UM, BEFORE THEY'RE FINALLY APPROVED BY COUNCIL IN,

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IN ANY CASE BEFORE THEY GET APPROVED BY COUNCIL, YOU ALL GET A BRIEFING ON THAT.

AND SO THIS RECOMMENDATION WILL THEN GO TO THE, UH, UH, TRANSPORTATION STAFF.

UH, THEY'LL LOOK AT THEM, CONSIDER THEM THEY VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND CONSIDERATIONS.

UM, AND THEN THEY WILL COME BACK TO YOU AROUND THEIR NORMALLY SCHEDULED TIMEFRAME TO GO OVER WHAT YOU PRESENTED HERE.

UM, BUT AGAIN, IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT.

UM, OR TH TH IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE, UH, CONCRETE.

THESE ARE JUST GENERAL IDEAS.

YEP.

AND SO THE THEORY HERE WITH THE FIVE BULLET POINTS ARE, YOU KNOW, NOT GET INTO THE DETAILS OF HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT PLANNING, JUST THAT THAT'S, THAT'S A CATEGORY, AND IT'S A MORE IMPORTANT CATEGORY THEN REALIZING VISION ZERO, NOT TO SAY VISION ZERO IS IMPORTANT, BUT THAT'S SORT OF THE, THAT'S SORT OF THE THEORY HERE.

UM, I DO SEE SOME CHANGES HAPPENING, WHICH IS FINE.

UM, I DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES OR IF THEY CAN JUST, UH, THE CODY MANAGER, UM, LET'S SEE, SOMEONE HAS DONE TRACK CHANGES.

I DON'T NORMALLY DO THE TRACK CHANGES.

UM, ALSO FOR THE SAKE OF APPROVING THIS RECOMMENDATION, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE GET TO THAT APPROVING PROCESS, UM, IF, IF YOU ALL DO VOTE TO APPROVE IT, ALL OF THE EDITS, IT WOULD BE WITH THE INTENTION THAT THE EDITS THAT YOU'RE MAKING WOULD BE ADDED TO THE, TO THE DOCUMENT.

SO, YEAH, I LITERALLY JUST ACCEPTED ALL THE EDITS DONE.

SO, UM, I'LL JUST READ THESE FIVE OUT AND THEN LET'S HAVE A DISCUSSION.

SO THIS ORDERING, AND AGAIN, THIS IS A PROPOSAL.

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING WRITTEN IN STONE.

UM, MOST IMPORTANT IS HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT PLANNING, FOLLOWED BY, UH, EFFORTS TO ATTAIN THE 50 50 MODE SPLIT, UH, FOLLOWED BY, UH, REACHING, UM, SOME VISION, ZERO GOALS FOLLOWED BY THE CLIMATE GOALS FROM THE CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN AND OTHER PLACES.

AND THEN, UM, FIFTH, UM, MITIGATE AND ADDRESS THE EQUITY CONCERNS LIKE THE PRESENTATION WE JUST HEARD ARE THERE, I GUESS THE FIRST QUESTION WOULD BE, UM, IS THERE A MOTION TO, UH, ENTERTAIN THIS RECOMMENDATION? AND I CAN'T SEE EVERYBODY SYSTEM WAS JUST GOING TO HAVE TO SPEAK UP.

AND WHO IS THIS SPEAKING? OH, THIS IS ALLIE.

ALLIE, ALLIE HAS MADE A MOTION.

IS THERE A SECOND? I WILL.

ATHENA.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.

SO, OKAY, SO NOW WE'RE DISCUSSING THIS.

UM, SO AS IT STANDS, NOW WE HAVE THOSE FIVE, I GUESS THE FIRST QUESTION IS, ARE THERE OTHER WHOLE CATEGORIES OR THEMES THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO EITHER TYPE IN DIRECTLY OR MENTION AND I'LL TYPE.

I PULLED THESE FIVE FROM LOOKING AT KIND OF OUR VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE PAST.

RUBEN HAS HIS HAND UP.

OH YEAH.

I CAN'T, I CAN'T SEE PEOPLE'S OKAY.

BUT LET ME TELL YOU AN ASTONISHING FACT, THE CITY OF BOSTON IS FORBIDDING BY STATE LAW FROM OPERATING I CAPACITY TRANSIT.

UH, SO WHAT ARE WE CALLING PROJECT CONNECT? BECAUSE THAT'S CAP METRO, RIGHT? YEAH.

THE METROPOLITAN, THE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DO THAT.

SO ONLY CAP METRO CAN ACTUALLY RE ANYWAY, THAT ITEM NEEDS TO SOMEHOW WEAVE COUNT METRO INTO IT AND PROBABLY PROJECT CONNECT.

AND I WOULD HAVE TO DISAGREE BECAUSE I'LL JUST PUSH BACK.

I MEAN, IF WE'RE JUST HAVING AN OPEN DISCUSSION, BECAUSE ATD HAS A LOT OF CONTROL OVER THE RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH THEN SERVES HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT.

SO LIKE, AND THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE IN THE PAST, RIGHT? I MEAN, MAYBE IT'S BECOMING LESS AND LESS OF AN ISSUE WHERE CAP METRO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE RIGHT.

OF WAY FOR A LANE, OR WOULD LIKE TO TAKE OVER SOME SIDEWALK TO BUILD OUT A BUS STATION.

AND THAT'S CREATED, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN OBSTACLES AT THE CITY LEVEL.

SO I THINK THAT, THAT WAS MY READ OF WHAT THAT ITEM WAS TRYING TO DO, NOT TO SAY THE CITY WILL OPERATE HIGH CAPACITY TRAINS.

SO I DID CHANGE THE LINE TO SAY, WORK WITH PARTNERS TO PLAN AND DEVELOP HIGH-CAPACITY TRANSIT.

DOES THAT ADDRESS THE CONCERN RUBEN? WELL, I SOMEHOW KEPT METRO HAS TO GET WOVEN INTO IT.

I WAS JUST USING THE GENERIC ORDINANCE AS SUSAN WAS JUST POINTING OUT.

THIS HAS BEEN AN AREA OF DEFICIENCY.

THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS NOT WORKED WELL WITH CAP METRO.

SO I USE THE GENERIC CHANGE.

I USE THE GENERIC WORD PARTNERS BECAUSE THAT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE DLT OR TXDOT OR OTHERS.

UM, AND I SAW YOUR HAND UP FOR A MOMENT COMMISSIONER, WHETHER IT BE, OH, YOU'RE ON MUTE.

I THOUGHT I WAS MUTED.

I WANT TO BE CLEAR.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOLLARS TO BE SPENT

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BY ATD IN THE NEXT YEAR.

AND I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THAT DOCUMENT AND IT'S NOT THERE ANY LONGER BECAUSE I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW WHY DISAPPEARED FROM THE SCREEN.

IS THERE, IS THERE A WAY TO SHOW BOTH THE DOCUMENT AND THE, UH, COMMISSIONERS SO I CAN SEE WHEN PEOPLE'S HANDS COME UP? I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE SO.

WE'LL WORK TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE CYNTHIA, DO YOU HAVE THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT THAT I SENT THROUGH AN EMAIL I DON'T GET, SO DID YOU DO THAT TODAY? I DID, BUT I WILL.

I WILL SEND IT TO YOU AGAIN ALL DAY AT THE POLLING PLACES.

UNDERSTANDABLE.

I'LL SEND THAT OUT AGAIN FOR THAT.

BUT YOU TOOK THE GOALS OF THE, UH, OF THE COMMISSION.

IS THAT WHERE THOSE CAME FROM? YEAH, I, I TOOK A, UH, A BROAD OVERVIEW OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE'VE, WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST AND, UM, KIND OF ARE LOOKING THROUGH AGENDAS AND JUST SORT OF CAME UP WITH WHAT SEEMED TO BE FIVE.

AND THEN I PUT THEM IN AN ORDER.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS A PROPOSAL, THIS IS NOT A SACRED STANCE ON IT.

UM, BUT I THOUGHT HIGH-CAPACITY TRANSIT HAS OCCUPIED A LOT OF OUR TIME.

SO I'M USING THAT AS PROOF THAT THAT'S KIND OF OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.

I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT.

THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THE DOLLARS FOR THE COMING YEAR FOR THE PURPOSES STATED, YOU KNOW, LIKE SORTA LIKE HOT TOPICS.

THIS IS COMING UP IN THE NEXT YEAR THAT WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF WE MAKE IT A PRIORITY.

HMM.

THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

I, UH, OR OBSERVATION, I WILL ADMIT, I DON'T KNOW WHERE IN PROJECT CONNECT IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN NEED TO WORK TOGETHER, BUT THAT IS SO IN DEVELOPMENT, I FEEL LIKE WE WOULD BE SAFE PUTTING IT THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE LOTS OF WRANGLING AROUND THOSE DOLLARS.

DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE A FEEL ON SOMETHING ELSE? ALRIGHT.

I THINK IT'S JUST UNUSUAL.

WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE.

I MEAN, WE'VE BEEN ON THE, NO, WE HAVEN'T YOU'RE YOU'RE RIGHT.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME, THE LAST MINUTE THIS IS THEY'RE LIKE, GIVE US, YEAH, IT IS SOMETHING NEW.

AND I THINK THAT'S INTENTIONAL WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE TO ALLOW THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS TO HAVE, I GUESS, MORE OF A SAY IN, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW THIS BUDGET, HOW THIS BUDGET LOOKS.

UM, SO YEAH, IT IS DEFINITELY NEW.

I DO WANT TO SAY, UH, AND THIS, UH, THIS RECOMMENDATION IS INTENDED JUST FOR ATD TO OBVIOUSLY, UM, OH, WAIT, I'M NOT SURE IF ANYONE CAN SEE ME.

UH HUH.

THE SCREEN JUST WENT BLACK OVER HERE.

NO.

OH, THERE WE ARE.

SO I, MY HEART JUST SKIP EIGHT BEATS FOR JUST A MOMENT.

WE COULD SEE YOU, BUT YOU COULDN'T SEE, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DISASTROUS IN TERMS OF QUORUM.

I'LL JUST POP IT UP.

UM, ANYWAYS, AS I WAS SAYING, THIS, THIS IS INTENDED JUST FOR ATD.

NOW, OBVIOUSLY ATD AND CAP, METRO AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE A VERY INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP, I WOULD SAY, BUT OR INTRICATE.

UM, BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, PLEASE CONTINUE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN MO WITH KEEPING IN MIND THAT I THINK THE MORE THINGS THAT YOU DIRECT TOWARDS ATD, THE MORE THE ATD CAN CAN CONTROL, BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT ATD, UH, IT'S ATDS BUDGET AND FINANCES, NOT NECESSARILY ATD AND CAT METROS.

SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY I'M REALLY APPRECIATIVE, APPRECIATE APPRECIATIVE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY AND LIKE THE EXTRA IMPETUS WE'VE PUT BEHIND IT, BECAUSE THE LAST COUPLE YEARS IT FEELS LIKE WE GET A BUDGET PRESENTATION, LIKE THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE BUDGET'S ABOUT TO BE ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL.

AND THERE'S A VERY, UM, IT'S, IT'S ALREADY VERY WELL-DEVELOPED AND THE, THE OP AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY LIKE UNDERSTAND IT AND, AND COMMENT ON IT OR TWEAK IT IS NOT REALLY THERE.

SO, UM, TO ME, THESE FIVE THEMES, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ORDER, LIKE I DON'T, BUT LIKE THE FIVE THEMES SEEM, SEEM GOOD AS FAR AS WHAT THE SPENDING WOULD BE.

UM, UM, I REALLY LIKED THAT.

UM, I'M OVERALL HAPPY WITH IT AND I'LL STOP IT.

I DO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO A JULIO CAUSE I THINK THE WORD YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS A COLLABORATION WOULD FEEL OFTEN IN THE PAST THAT THE BUDGET DISCUSSION IS FOR ELABORATION.

THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO TIME TO COLLABORATE ON IT IN A MEANINGFUL WAY.

SO THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO JUST SAY SOMETHING, WHETHER OR NOT THEY USE IT OR NOT, THEY WILL KNOW OUR CONCERNS.

UM, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE TO BELABOR THIS IF NO ONE HAS ANY STRONG FEELINGS TO HAVE THINGS TO CHANGE.

UM, AND THE SEEM LIKE THE SAME, THE RIGHT TOPICS, WHETHER THEY SHOULD TWO, SHOULD BE IN SPACE THREE OR THREE SHOULD BE IN SPACE FOUR.

IF NO ONE HAS ANY STRONG CONCERNS, WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE AN EIGHT O'CLOCK, UH, EXIT TIME.

SEEING NO, UH, HANDS THE SHOOTING IN THE AIR TO DISCUSS THIS FURTHER.

UM, WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS MOTION TO VOTE ALL IN FAVOR OF PASSING A RECOMMENDATION OF BUDGET PRIORITIES TO ATD FOR NEXT YEAR AS REPRESENTED

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IN THIS RECOMMENDATION.

RAISE YOUR HANDS OR SAY AYE.

AYE.

ALL OPPOSED.

SAY NAY, ALL ABSTAIN.

SAY ABSTAIN OR RAISE YOUR HAND.

SO RUBEN AND COMMISSIONER WEATHERBY, I DIDN'T SEE YOU VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER HAS HAD AN ABSTAIN.

OH, YOU'RE ON MUTE OR MAYBE YOU DID.

AND YOU WERE ON MUTE.

DO YOU WANT TO RAISE IT? RAISE YOUR LEFT HAND FOR A YAY.

YOUR RIGHT-HAND FOR AN A, I GUESS A THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN.

THERE YOU GO.

MY LEFT OR YOUR LEFT TO BE AN INTROVERT OR EXTROVERT.

UH, SO THAT IS A PAST THEN WITH ONE ABSTENTION FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER RUBEN BROOKS.

FIRST BRIEFING DOWNTOWN COMMISSION.

THANK YOU ALL.

UM, LET'S GET INTO THE BRIEFINGS AND THEN WE WILL BE CLOSE

[3. BRIEFINGS]

I THINK JIM HAS JIM WAS YEAH.

OH, THERE'S JIM, JIM.

JIM DALE, RIGHT? CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YES.

GREAT.

I ALWAYS USE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.

UM, JUST BEFORE MOVING ON, IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE ME MAYBE ONE MINUTE TO FILL IN SOME INFORMATION ON THAT PREVIOUS DISCUSSION ON OUR BUDGET PRIORITIES AND SO FORTH.

I'M SO GLAD THAT Y'ALL DO HAVE A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN EARLY.

IT DOES FEEL LIKE WHEN WE DO COME TO YOU, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF THOUGHT, A LOT OF EFFORTS PUT INTO IT.

AND, BUT I WANTED TO TOUCH ON TWO THINGS JUST REAL QUICKLY IS, UM, THE, THE FIRST ONE IS ABOUT PROJECT CONNECT THERE.

AND OUR COORDINATION WITH ATP IN CAPITAL.

METRO IS HAPPENING EVERY DAY.

WE ARE, UH, CONTRIBUTING CONSIDERABLE NOW RESOURCES TO OWN THAT PROJECT TO MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.

AND WE'RE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW IN REVIEWING THE ORANGE AND THE BLUE LINE ALIGNMENTS DOING A LOT OF WHAT, UM, COMMISSIONER SUMMERS HAD SAID, WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THAT RIGHT AWAY.

HOW DO WE ALLOCATE THAT RIGHT AWAY FOR THE USE OF EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO USE THAT SPACE, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN TRANSIT PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS CARS, AND OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORT, UH, TATION TO THEY'RE COMING TO OUR CITY.

SO THERE'S A W LIKE THIS WEEK, I'LL PROBABLY PARTICIPATE IN TWO OR THREE MEETINGS ON PROJECT CONNECT IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.

UM, WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT HOW WE INTEGRATE WITH THE SIGNAL SYSTEM.

THAT'S GOING TO BE A LONG-TERM OPERATIONS.

AND SO JUST WANT TO MAKE, MAKE SURE WE GET, WE HEAR A LOT OF TIMES THAT WE DON'T COORDINATE WITH CAPITAL METRO AND MAYBE THAT HAS BEEN TRUE AND FOLKS CAN BRING UP DIFFERENT EXAMPLES, BUT ON THIS WORD COORDINATING AS, AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

AND, UM, BECAUSE IT IS A LONG-TERM PROJECT.

UM, THE OTHER, THE OTHER PART THAT I WANTED TO MENTION IS OF ALL THE CATEGORIES THAT ARE LISTED ON, UM, Y'ALL'S RESOLUTION IS WE'RE ACTIVE IN ALL THOSE AREAS TODAY.

AND SO IT'S JUST GOOD TO SEE THAT, THAT WE ALREADY HAVE THAT ALIGNMENT IN PLACE.

AND, UM, THAT JUST HELPS VALIDATE WHAT WE'RE DOING, BUT ALSO HEAR AMPLIFY, UM, TO HEARING FROM YOU ALL THAT THESE ARE THE AREAS THAT WE SHOULD FOCUS ON.

SO REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

I THINK COMMISSIONER, EXCUSE ME, I GOT DISCONNECTED THERE FOR A MINUTE.

UM, I GUESS MY POINT IS HAVING WRITTEN CITY BUDGETS BEFORE HIS PRIORITIES FOR FUNDING IS DIFFERENT THAN PRIORITIES FOR TAKING ACTION.

AND I HAVE NO IDEA IF YOUR DAY TO DAY COORDINATION LIKE YOU JUST DESCRIBED, UH, MR. DALE REQUIRES ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO BE MOVED AROUND WITHIN BUDGETS.

UM, AND THAT'S WHERE I WAS COMING FROM.

I, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU DO, MAYBE YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIRE ADDITIONAL PEOPLE, OR I KNOW I USED TO HAVE TO ALLOCATE MY TIME TO BUDGET PROJECTS.

UH, IT'S A, IT'S A MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT.

I THINK JUST LEAVING IT AT THE LEVEL THAT YOU'VE GOT IT IS, IS AMPLE PROBABLY FOR THIS TASK, WITH THIS LITTLE ABILITY TO DELVE INTO THE DETAILS.

SO THAT WAS MY POINT.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER.

UM, YES, I, I SEE AT LEAST WHAT HAPPENS ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS THAT A LOT OF OUR FUNDING DOES DRIVE WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE.

AND, UM, SO WE, WE TRY TO KEEP THOSE CONSISTENT, WE GET PULLED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND THAT FOCUS OF ALL RIGHT, WHAT'S SPINNING UP TODAY, BUT ALSO THAT STRATEGIC LONG-TERM STRATEGIC FOCUS AND HAVING STAFF THAT CAN FOCUS ON THINGS AND NOT BE SPUN UP INTO THINGS THAT MAY BE, UM, THAT GET PULLED OFF WITH SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, LIKE A WATER BOIL, NOTICE THAT OUR STAMP OFF THEM SIGNS OF PARKING'S HELP WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST

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MOVING ON TO AGENDA ITEM AND DOWNTOWN COMMISSION.

WELL, THAT'S INTERESTING.

UM, THE LAST MEETING OF THE COMMISSION WAS DEDICATED, UH, ALMOST ENTIRELY TO THE DISCUSSION OF THE FUTURE OF THE CONVENTION CENTER.

AND IT'S NOT REALLY LOOKING AT DETAILS RELATED TO THE CENTER, HOW IT, HOW IT SHOULD BE EXPANDED OR WHAT SHOULD BE DONE, BUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE SHOULD EVEN BE A CONVENTION CENTER, I THINK, OR MORE PRECISELY THE IMPACT OF ANY CON CONVENTION CENTER.

AND, UM, THERE WAS A SPEAKER, UH, PROFESSOR, EXCUSE ME, PROFESSOR SANDERS.

WHO'S A PROFESSOR PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AT UTS A WHO'S MADE IT HIS LIFELONG STUDY, I THINK ON LOOKING AT THE IMPACTS OF CONVENTION CENTERS AND BASICALLY SHOWING THAT, UH, IMPROVEMENTS IN CONVENTION CENTERS DOESN'T REALLY TRANSLATE INTO ROOM NIGHTS OR BETTER ECONOMIC IMPACT.

SO, UM, THAT'S ABOUT ALL THAT THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION TALKED ABOUT.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT THERE WAS A DIRECT NON-CORRELATION POTENTIALLY.

UM, JOINT SUSTAINABILITY JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION.

UM, AND REUBEN GOES TO THAT TOO.

SO RUBEN, KEEP ME HONEST HERE READING.

I'M GOING TO READ MY NOTES, RIGHT? NOT, NOT JOINT SUSTAINABILITY, UH, CAP METRO CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

SORRY, TOO MANY.

DARN.

CONGRATULATIONS AND OR CONDOLENCES.

SO HOWEVER, I WILL TRY TO BE KEPT ON THE BIG NEWS.

THAT IMPACTS ME IS KATIE, BUT DID NOT HAVE A NUMBER TWO.

THERE WAS NO CO-HOST AND SOMEBODY ELSE GOT NOMINATED.

AND SHE SAID, NO.

AND THEN SOMEBODY, I DON'T REALLY KNOW NOMINATED ME.

AND I SAID, YES.

SO I AM THE NUMBER TWO ON JOINT SUSTAINABILITY AT THIS POINT.

I? I VOLUNTEERED FOR SOMETHING, BUT I TALK ABOUT THEM THAT I'M PRETTY SURE I GO TO THOSE MEETINGS.

SO THE, UH, WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE, UM, THE AUSTIN CLIMATE EQUITY PLAN THAT WAS PASSED BY COUNCIL AND THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE IS CREATING AN ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP TO HELP GET THIS IMPLEMENTED BETTER AND FASTER.

AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY, UM, THEY'RE ACTUALLY SOME PAID SPOTS BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS WE ARE LOOKING FOR A COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

AND SO THE TWO PEOPLE THAT HELP MANAGE THAT, UM, GROUP, THE TWO CITY WORKERS, UH, PHOEBE AND ZACH, THEY HAVE A FORM AND, UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CAN APPLY WITH INTEREST.

AND THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYBODY CAN VOLUNTEER FOR FREE AND EVEN IF YOU CAN VOLUNTEER FOR FREE BEING ABLE TO OFFER SOME KIND OF A STIPEND REALLY GETS MORE, UM, INTERESTED IN INPUT.

AND SO FOR THOSE REASONS, THE ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP HASN'T YET BEEN FORMED, BUT PHOEBE AND ZACH, YOU KNOW, HAVE CREATED A FORM AND, AND THERE'S, UM, A WAY TO REACH OUT AND GET INTEREST.

HOWEVER, RIGHT NOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ONLY CONSISTS OF FOUR OF THE COMMISSIONERS.

WE DO NOT YET HAVE ANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

SO IF ANY OF, YOU KNOW, ANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED AND AGAIN, THE TIMES ARE PRETTY FLEXIBLE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE WORKING GROUP HASN'T ACTUALLY EVEN MET, IT'S LIKELY TO BE, UM, YOU KNOW, AFTER WORK WEEKDAYS.

BUT I THINK THE WORKING GROUP COULD BE FLEXIBLE.

SO AGAIN, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY INTEREST IN THAT, UM, YOU KNOW WHAT I'LL DO, I'M GOING TO GET A FORM AND PASS IT ON.

UM, AND THEN THE OTHER PEOPLE DON'T MIND MAYBE PUTTING IT IN THE COMMENTS, WHAT'S THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO LET YOU ALL GET ACCESS TO, I THINK, I THINK EMAIL CHRIS, AND THEN CHRIS CAN EMAIL THE REST OF US.

SO I'LL GET ZACH, YOU CHRIS AND PHOEBE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE, I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THEM.

THAT CAN BE, I DO NOT, BUT I HAD A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION TO THAT.

UM, I WOULD SEE THE EMAIL FROM CITY HALL STATING THAT THE, UH, AN ALMOND TO BRING IT UP DURING THIS BRIEFING, UM, OR UPDATE, UH, I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THE UTC DOES NOT HAVE A, AT LEAST ON THE ROSTER OFFICIALLY, UH, NUMBER FOUR, THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE.

AND I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, I I'VE BEEN GOING FOR SIX MONTHS.

SO I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.

ARE YOU, WHERE ARE YOU AN OFFICIAL MEMBER OR ARE YOU MORE OF A LIAISON FOR THE UTC? GOTCHA.

AND I DON'T KNOW, MARIO, WHAT AM

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YOU'RE NUMBER TWO ON THAT.

YOU'RE I THINK YOU HAVE A MEMBERSHIP ON JOINT SUSTAINABILITY, AND I DON'T REMEMBER WHEN KELLY DAVIS STARTED DOING THIS, IF IT WAS AS A LIAISON OR AS A VOTED ON A MEMBER.

UM, IF THERE'S, UH, THE LOWER LEGAL DEFINITION IS PROBABLY WHAT WE WENT WITH, WHATEVER IS THE MORE INFORMAL.

SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE JSC AND LET THEM KNOW THAT I'M JUST THE LIAISON THEN AND DARN IT.

I CAN'T REMEMBER TWO, PLEASE.

DON'T PLEASE DON'T DO THAT.

THIS WILL SOLVE THIS WILL, THIS WILL KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.

I WILL, IF IT'S OKAY.

JUST LIKE EXPRESSING CONCERN THAT WE DON'T HAVE A REP IS THAT THAT WAS NOT ONLY OURSELVES, BUT OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

UM, AND, AND THE WORD, THE TERMINOLOGY THEY USED WAS MEMBER.

UM, AND, AND SO THAT'S WHERE I'M DRAWING A TAD BIT CONFUSION THAT'S FOR ME TO FOLLOW UP ON, BUT I KNOW THAT DIANA IS, IS A LIAISON, BUT I'M NOT SURE IF THAT QUALIFIES AS A MEMBER.

THAT'S SOMETHING I HAVE TO CLEAR UP WITH CITY HALL.

UM, IF WE CAN ALLOW IT, UM, OR IF THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A LIAISON, THEN DIANE ALREADY FILLS THAT SPOT.

IF THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING MORE, I CAN COME BACK WITH YOU ALL, YOU KNOW, DURING OUR NEXT MEETING AND CHANGE YOUR TITLE, ESSENTIALLY.

I CAN CLARIFY FOR, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION IS MAYBE NEWER OR DIFFERENT, BUT THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, ALL OF THE LIAISON FROM THE OTHER COMMISSIONS ARE MEMBERS, BUT NOT VOTING MEMBERS.

AND SO THEY DON'T COUNT IN THE CORUM AND THEY DON'T GET TO VOTE ON ANYTHING.

I THINK THAT'S ONE REASON MY PREDECESSOR MAY NOT HAVE GONE AS OFTEN, BUT THERE'S IN LIKE SEVEN WAYS ONS, BUT NONE OF THEM COUNT TOWARD THEY'RE NOT FULL COMMISSIONERS.

AND MAYBE I MISUNDERSTOOD.

I THOUGHT JSC WAS MADE UP OF ONLY LIAISON.

LIKE I THOUGHT THAT WAS TO HAVE ALL OF THE COMMISSION SEND A PERSON TO THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION IS WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS.

IT'S PROBABLY IN THEIR BYLAWS.

THERE'S SOME CONFUSION THAT CHRISTOPHER NEEDS TO WORK ON AND CLARIFY, CHRISTOPHER, I HAVE TO VOLUNTEER YOUR CHRISTOPHER, BUT, UH, AT THE VOLUNTEER YOU ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

LET'S MOVE ON TO THE, UH, BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL, ATHENA LEIGHTON.

I WAS NOT ABLE TO GO LAST MONTH.

NICE AND QUICK.

UH, PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL, ALLIE, WHEN S YEAH, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT, UM, IT WAS A PAC DAC JOINT MEETING, AND THEY GOT A UPDATE ON THE MCKELLA STATION BESIDE THE, WE GOT, UM, AND THE BIG ACTION WAS THAT THEY, UM, MADE A RECOMMENDATION, UM, ABOUT THE PROJECT.

UM, IT'S PRETTY HEFTY, BUT TO SUM IT UP, I THINK A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS KIND OF CENTERED AROUND THAT, UM, LIKE A CON THAT COMMUNITY, UH, DESIGN THAT A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN SEEING WHERE THERE'S MORE OF THAT LIKE BOULEVARD AND A LOT MORE ACCESS POINTS FOR FOLKS WHO AREN'T DRIVING ON 9 35 AND LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES FOR CROWDING, UM, THAT AROUND AUSTIN TRAFFIC ON A DIFFERENT HIGHWAY.

UM, BUT I CAN SEND THIS TO CHRIS.

IT'S PRETTY DENSE AND I'M DEFINITELY NOT FESTUS.

UM, BUT I CAN KIND OF DISTRIBUTE IT'S, UH, UH, IMPRESSIVE THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO WRITE SOMETHING THIS THICK, UM, IF THAT IS WHAT WE DID.

ALRIGHTY, THANK YOU.

UM, THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE, I WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND.

UM, DID HE? I ATTENDED, YEP.

YEP.

UM, KIDS ARE GETTING LOUD HERE.

SO IF YOU HEAR KIDS THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING.

UM, SO, UM, I WENT TO MOBILITY COMMITTEE AND I BASICALLY WAS PRESENTING OUR FEBRUARY 8TH MEETING AND WHAT WE DID.

SO WE TALKED A BIT ABOUT THE DIP, VARIOUS ITEMS THEY WERE ABOUT TO SEE, AND I DIDN'T STAY, I JUST POPPED IN, YOU KNOW, DURING MY WORKDAY, BUT, UM, OR DURING MY LUNCH, IT KIND OF, SORT OF, UM, BUT, UM, THEY WERE SAYING THAT, UM, THEY WERE GOING TO GET THE BLUE LINE BRIDGE PRESENTATION, SO THEY WERE GLAD TO SEE THAT.

SO WE DIDN'T DELVE INTO THAT IN MUCH ACTUALLY WHAT THEY WERE.

UM, I TALKED A LITTLE BIT ARE ABOUT OUR, UM, LAND USE RECOMMENDATIONS TO OTHER COMMITTEES COMMISSIONS.

AND THEN WE, UM, THEY HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS ACTUALLY ABOUT THE VEHICLE BOOTING, UM, UM, ITEM THAT WE HAD.

UM, AND SO THEY WERE VERY CURIOUS ABOUT THAT.

SO TALK ABOUT THAT ACTUALLY THE MOST OF ANY OF THE ITEMS, SO, HMM.

WELL, THANKS FOR GOING

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TO THAT.

AND, UH, THEN YOU WERE ALSO UP FOR THE CAC, THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAT MET LAST WEEK AND I, THAT MY DAUGHTER HAD HER ORCHESTRA CONCERT.

AND SO I WAS NOT ABLE TO GO TO THAT ONE.

SO I'M GOING TO REVIEW THEIR MEETING, UM, ONLINE, PROBABLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF NIGHTS, SO, OOH, OKAY.

THAT WRAPS UP THE BRIEFINGS.

THANKS EVERYONE.

UM, WE HAVE A GIANT LIST OF FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS FOR THAT? YES.

JUST A NOTICE.

EVERYBODY'S RECEIVED AN INVITATION FROM EDNA PARA CAP, METRO, OR AN OPEN HOUSE NEXT MONDAY.

AND THIS IS CAP METRO REACHING OUT TO OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN AT ATD.

I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO ACCEPT THE INVITATION AND GO MEET OF THE PEOPLE AT CAP METRO, IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW THEM.

ALRIGHTY.

YUP.

AND ABOUT THAT, I THOUGHT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ALL LIKE CONGREGATE AT THE SAME PLACE BECAUSE THEN WE RISK LIKE FROM, SO DO WE HAVE TO LIKE DECIDE LIKE, OH, THIS IS AN IRL THING.

NO, NO.

YOU'RE, IT'S A REAL ISSUE.

BUT I, I THINK IF WE PUBLISH A NOTICE SAYING WE'RE GOING TO BE THERE, THAT I QUORA MAY OCCUR, BUT THAT NO VOTES WILL BE TAKEN THERE THERE'S SOME THE PAST IN THE PAST THERE WAS SOMETHING.

AND, UM, I THINK BEFORE CHRISTOPHER WAS OUR LIAISON, BUT HE SORT OF PULLS IT IN, THERE'S SOME SORT OF STATUS YOU GIVE THE MEETING, IT'S LIKE A COMMUNITY EVENT.

LIKE IF WE'RE ALL GOING TO A RIBBON CUTTING OR SOMETHING, WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT WITH TOMA, BUT CHRISTOPHER WILL NEED TO, I THINK HE WILL ACTUALLY NEED TO ASSESS AND EMAIL US ABOUT WHO PLANS TO ATTEND.

I THINK THAT'S CORRECT.

I'VE ACTUALLY HAD TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR MOBILITY COMMITTEE.

UM, I WOULD SEND OUT A PUBLIC NOTICE.

THE ONLY DIFFICULTY WE RUN INTO IS, UM, I WOULD NEED TO KNOW WHO'S GOING.

UM, SO THAT I WOULD JUST NEED TO KNOW WHO'S GOING ONCE.

I UNDERSTAND WHO'S GOING AND TO SEE IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE A QUORUM, UM, THEN I WOULD SEND OUT THE NOTICE IF WE HAVE ONLY FIVE COMMISSIONERS GOING, THEN THERE'S NO REASON FOR ME TO SEND OUT THE, UH, THE NOTICE AT ALL.

UM, BUT IF YOU ARE GOING, I JUST ASK THAT YOU EMAIL ME.

UM, I WOULD ACTUALLY NEED TO KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING BY THIS FRIDAY.

UM, SO, UH, YEAH, I, I WOULD NEED TO KNOW THAT BY THEN ACTUALLY, NO, I ONLY, I ONLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THURSDAY.

I APOLOGIZE.

I HAVE TO LET THEM KNOW WITHIN 72 HOURS.

SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE THURSDAY.

I'M GOING TO SAY I'M GOING, I'M PLANNING TO GO.

I HAVE NOT GOT SOME PLANNING TO GO.

THAT'S THREE.

I BELIEVE.

CAUSE WE ARE CYNTHIA AS WELL.

I'M NOT GOING COOL.

I'VE GOT TO GO TO A RIBBON.

CUTTING.

I HEAR THAT'S WHAT WE NORMALLY HAVE.

I WISH WE SHOULD HAVE MORE RIBBON CUTTINGS.

GET THE BIG SCISSORS.

WELL, NOW WE HAVE THREE.

SO IF ANYONE ELSE PLANS ON GOING, AND IF WE HAVE ANOTHER THREE, THAT'S GOING, JUST LET ME KNOW.

AND I WILL, I WILL SEND ANOTHER NOTICE.

WE DO GET INTO, OR I WILL GET INTO SOME TROUBLE IF YOU DO HAPPEN TO GO.

AND THERE ARE SIX OF YOU.

SO I'D APPRECIATE IT.

IF YOU COULD JUST LET ME KNOW ABOUT THERE AS WELL.

I MIGHT GO, I AM PLANNING ON GOING.

SO FOR YOU PROMISE NOT TO GO OR I WILL GO AS LUIGI, SO NO ONE WILL KNOW NO ONE WILL SUSPECT ME.

CHRISTOPHER, IT MIGHT BE WORTH YOU EMAILING THE ENTIRE COMMISSION, GIVEN THEIR PEOPLE, NOT WITH US TODAY.

AND JUST ASKING PEOPLE TO RESPOND BY A DEADLINE ON THURSDAY, IF THEY PLAN TO ATTEND THAT WAY YOU FEEL THAT YOU WERE OH YEAH, THAT, THAT WAS IN THE PLAN.

I WAS.

THAT WAS DEFINITELY IN THE PLAN.

FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. AND THEN WE ARE READY TO ROLL.

DO WE NEED TO DISCUSS THIS FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? WE HAVE SO MANY, I WOULD LIKE YOU, WHICH HELPED ME OUT TREMENDOUSLY FOR FUTURE ITEMS. IF WE COULD JUST BRIEFLY GO THROUGH THE LIST AND UM, IF I COULD GET, UH, WE, WE HAVE ALREADY AT LEAST ONE SPONSOR FOR AN ITEM.

IF WE COULD JUST GET ALL THE SPONSORS KNOCKED OUT IN THE NEXT TWO MINUTES OR SO.

I'D APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, UH, R YEAH, SURE.

WELL, WE'LL JUST GO, WE'LL START AT THE TOP.

UH, OH, THIS, UH, PROJECT, THAT BLUE LINE.

THAT ONE.

UH, WE DID IT WELL, THAT'S RYAN FRANCO, UH, T D M UPDATE.

IT HAS SUMMERS AND IT NEEDS A CO-SPONSOR.

IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? REALLY ALL OF THEM.

TDM RED RIVER MOVABILITY.

WHO WANTS TO CO-SPONSOR A TDM UPDATE.

CAN WE SEE A HAND? OH, NOW WE CAN'T SEE THE PEOPLE.

OH, WELL, I, I GUESS I'M NOT SURE WHETHER IT BE IN THE SCHOOL.

BOTH HAVE THEIR HANDS UP.

I WISH I HAD MORE INFO ON IT, BUT IT'S JUST A REALIGNMENT OF RED RIVER, UH, NEAR CAMPUS CENTER ARENA.

I HEARD WHETHER IT BE FIRST.

SO I DO THAT ONE RED RIVER EXTENSION.

I'M NOT SURE I REMEMBER THIS ONE THOUGH.

THIS ONE HAS MY NAME ON IT.

WHICH ONE IS THE RED RIVER EXTENSION? THIS IS, UM, THE RED RIVER EXTENSION PROJECT.

I'M SORRY.

UH,

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YES, YES, YES.

I PUT ALI DOWN FOR THAT ONE IS A CO-SPONSOR.

UM, STREET IMPACT FEE THAT HAS, UH, ISN'T THAT ALREADY ON OUR AGENDA.

WE DON'T HAVE A SPONSOR FOR YOU.

IT HAD ALLIE AND JAMES ON IT.

OH, SORRY.

AND THEN, UM, TCM UPDATES.

I'M STILL ON MUTE THOUGH.

NOW YOU'RE NOT ON MUTE ATHENA.

OH, SORRY.

IT'S OKAY.

YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING BAD THOUGH.

WE WERE WAITING TCM UPDATES.

I FEEL LIKE THAT'S A IN BURKE'S KIND OF THING.

I THOUGHT I WAS SUPPOSED TO NOT VOLUNTEER, NOT VOLUNTEER.

WELL, THESE ARE JUST, WE HAVEN'T HAVE TO HAVE A NAME ATTACHED TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA ITEM.

UH, JUST SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BE THE CO-SPONSOR FOR TCM.

I CAN VOLUNTEER.

YOU ARE JUST A CO-SPONSOR.

WHICH JUST, IS IT A NAME? WE NEED TWO NAMES, RIGHT? UH, RED RIVER ALIGNMENT UPDATES.

I FEEL LIKE THAT'S THE SAME THING AS THE RED RIVER EXTENSION.

I FEEL LIKE ALL OF THOSE ARE THE SAME.

THAT ONE IS A REPEAT, UH, BUDGET OVERVIEW.

NYLA WANTS TO DO THE BUDGET OVER TO HERE, EVERYBODY.

UM, I'LL SPONSOR OVER THE SUMMER.

THAT'S LIKE THE ONE WE TRADITION TRADITIONALLY GET RIGHT.

THAT, THAT COMES TO US.

LIKE I SAID, THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE BUDGET.

THAT'S AN AFTER THE FACT THING.

TRANSPORTATION DO IT AT THE SAME TIME.

SO WHO WANTS TO, HE WANTS TO BE A CO-SPONSOR IT'S JUST A NAME ON A PIECE OF PAPER.

OKAY, SUSAN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UM, LIVING STREETS UPDATE IS LIVING STREETS.

THE NOW THE HEALTHY STREETS THEY'VE BEEN RENAMED LIVING STREETS.

I BELIEVE IT'S A PART OF THE, UH, I THINK I BELIEVE HEALTHY STREETS IS PART OF THE LIVING STREETS PROGRAM.

UM, BUT I, I CA DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT LIVING STREETS.

I SEE AT DIENES HAND.

IS THERE A CO-SPONSOR AND THEN A FEW JAMES.

OOH, I SEE ATHENA AND STILL IT WOULD DID IT.

HERE'S THE CILIA.

SO, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW.

I CAN'T RAISE MY HANDS AND YOU CAN'T SEE ME.

WELL, I HEARD YOUR NAME AND THEN AT THE ARENA AS WELL.

I FELT THOSE HANDS A RIGHT OF WAY.

INFORMATIVE, BRIEF.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT ONE IS.

I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THOSE WORDS, BUT IT'S A STAFF ITEM.

STAFF WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UM, BRIEF YOU ALL ON WHATEVER RIGHT AWAY UPDATES THERE ARE, OR MAYBE THIS WON'T BE SOMETHING UNTIL LATER ON IN THE YEAR.

UM, I'M GONNA PUT MY NAME NEXT TO WALNUT CREEK BECAUSE I'M MORE INTERESTED IN THAT THIS ONE WOULD WANT TO TAKE RIGHT AWAY INFORMATION UPDATES.

I SEE ALLIE.

AND IS THERE A SECOND WHO WOULD JUST WANTS TO THROW THE NAME ON THE LIST THERE? I THINK THAT WAS A, YEAH.

I'LL PUT SUSAN.

AND THEN WALNUT CREEK WALNUT CREEK TRAIL UPDATES.

CO-SPONSOR WITH ME, SOMEBODY.

OH, I SAW THINGS IS HAND FIRST.

THEN THAT OPPOSITE SPECIAL EVENTS THEN SUSAN DEC.

CAUSE I WAS NEXT SINCE DO YOU RAISE IF THAT'S OKAY.

SOUNDS FINE.

YOU CAN PUT ME ON IT ON ANY AND ALL BASICALLY.

I'LL LITERALLY GO .

I MEAN, IT DOESN'T REALLY, IT DOESN'T IT DOESN'T.

I JUST, I REALLY DO NEED IT JUST FOR EXTRA CHRISTMAS CARDS FROM THE CITY CITY STAFF.

UM, ALL RIGHT.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS LIST THAT THEY LOVE? METRO BIKES IS, IS BIG INTO METRO BIKES.

OH, I SAW ALLIE'S HAND FIRST THERE.

I'M INTERESTED IN AS WELL.

CECILIA.

I WAS ON A ROLL.

I'M JUST NOT ON MUTE.

FOR PLACEMAKING THEN I THINK WE'LL PUT A CECILIA SINCE THERE, YOU KNOW, SHE'S RIGHT THERE.

AND THEN WE'RE DONE HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM WHO WANT, WE NEED ONE PERSON TO SAY THEY CA UH, JAMES, THERE WE GO.

I WAS WAITING ON JANE'S A SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.

MORE CARING ABOUT THE KIDS ABILITY.

ACTION PLAN, UPDATES.

ANYBODY, ANYBODY? MY ABILITY.

DO WE STILL HAVE OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE GOING TO BE AGENDA ITEMS? YES, ACTUALLY WE DO HAVE THE, UM, UH, I, I DID NOT PUT IT HERE, BUT WE DO HAVE RUBEN'S RECOMMENDATION

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TOWARDS CAMPO.

AND IF YOU REMEMBER, THIS IS A FOLLOWUP TO JAY CROSLEY'S PRESENTATION IN REGARDS TO HOW CAMPA WAS.

UM, UH, YES.

UM, SO I INTEND TO HAVE THAT ON, UH, IN APRIL AND THE ITEM THAT WE HAD TODAY, AUTUMN, TO SEE THE STREET IMPACT FEE ROADWAY, UM, THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN THE STREET IMPACT FEE.

UM, THIS IS THE FEE ROADWAY CAPACITY PROGRAM IS, IS DIFFERENT.

UM, THERE ARE SOME TECHNICALITIES IN THERE, BUT THERE THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING UNDER THE STREET IMPACT PROGRAM.

SO THAT, THAT SHOULD ALSO BE ON THE NEXT AGENDA.

UM, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE SOMEONE IS DYING TO PUT ON THIS LONG, LONG LIST? WELL, I, I EMAILED CHRISTOPHER ABOUT THIS A COUPLE WEEKS AGO ON I NEED TO FOLLOW UP AGAIN, BUT I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO ENTER A PHASE OF THAT ENTIRE PROCESS IS GOING TO BE ONGOING FOR US.

I MEAN, I KNOW WE'VE PASSED LIKE THREE RECOMMENDATIONS ON IT, BUT I THINK WE'RE GOING TO JUST HAVE TO KEEP ENGAGING ON THAT UNTIL, UNTIL THE VERY END.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS, MAYBE BY, BY EARLY SUMMER, IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION ON, OR AT LEAST TALK ABOUT, AGAIN, WE'RE ENTERING A LITTLE BIT LOWER PHASE.

A LOT OF THE HIGH INTENSITY STUFF HAS DONE FOR NOW.

AND IT'S GOING TO KIND OF SIMMER FOR THE NEXT MAYBE SIX MONTHS.

BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE KEEP OUR EYE ON IT ALSO.

YES, YES.

AGREED A HUNDRED PERCENT.

WITH THAT.

ANY LAST MINUTE THINGS HEARING NONE MOVE TO ADJOURN ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

AYE.

WE ARE ADJOURNED AT EIGHT 16 OR SO.