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          OKAY. 
          EVERYBODY IS 5 0 5 
          [CALL TO ORDER]
ON JUNE, THE SEVENTH OF 2022. 
          UH, WE HAVE A QUORUM OF SIX, SO WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN THIS URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION MEETING. 
          UM, FIRST ITEM IS ALWAYS PUBLIC COMMUNICATION. 
          WE HAVE A PERSON, BUT THEY'RE NOT HERE YET. 
          CORRECT. 
          AND MS. SYNOVIA, JOSEPH WILL BE, UH, JOINING US VIRTUALLY I BELIEVE. 
          UM, AND IF IT'S YOUR CHOICE, WE CAN COME BACK TO HER LATER. 
          UH, YES, LET'S COME BACK TO HER WHENEVER SHE GETS IN, WE'LL DO IT BETWEEN, UH, AGENDA ITEMS WHEN SHE GETS HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          THEN, 
          [1. APPROVAL OF May 3rd, 2022 MINUTES]
UM, MOVING ON TO, UH, ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A PACKET WITH MINUTES FROM MAY 3RD. 
          IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? SO MOVED. 
          IS THERE A SECOND? OH, SECOND. 
          I WAS LISTENING TO THE WHOLE THING I WASN'T ON. 
          UH, SORRY. 
          I'LL SECOND. 
          I THINK YOU, UM, ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MINUTES? ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, I'LL FAVOR, APPROVING THE MINUTES. 
          RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY I SEE, UH, COMMISSIONER SUMMERS. 
          DID YOU? YEP. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          AND WITH THAT, WE'LL DO ONE MORE QUICK CHECK IS A NOVIA ONLINE SOMEWHERE? NOPE. 
          OKAY. 
          THEN WE'LL, WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE 
          [2.A. Right of Way Vacation- Sky Mountain Drive]
FIRST ITEM, UH, TO A RIGHT AWAY VACATION ON SKY MOUNTAIN DRIVE, UH, AS MICHELLE. 
          OH, YEP. 
          I SEE HER MICHELLE SMITH TAKE IT AWAY. 
          SO CAN YOU ALL, UM, SET IT UP FOR ME PLEASE? PRESS GAVE ME TICKETS. 
          UH, I'M GOING TO BE UP IN ONE SECOND AFTERNOON, COMMISSIONERS. 
          THIS IS MICHELLE SMITH, AND I'M GOING TO DO THIS A VERY SHORT PRESENTATION ON A VACATION APPLICATION OF A PORTION OF SKY MOUNTAIN, DRY DIVERSING FROM MOUNT SHADOWS DRAG BETWEEN  ROAD AND HIGHWAY 71 SPOT ON NUMBER 2 0 2 1 0 7 1 1 4 6. 
          IT'S ON TODAY'S UTC, UM, MEETING. 
          AND THIS IS DISTRICT EIGHT. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS JUST A GENERAL MAP OF THE AREA. 
          THAT'S GOING TO BE VACATED. 
          YOU CAN SEE HIGHWAY 71 AND THEN OPEN CAVES ROAD. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          IT'S JUST KIND OF AN AERIAL OF THE, SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FROM AN, FROM A HELICOPTER. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AGAIN, JUST KIND OF IT'S, IT'S A AREA THAT WAS PLANTED AS A ROADWAY THAT WAS NEVER BUILT. 
          SO IT'S JUST KIND OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL RIGHT? NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          UM, SO THE AREA IS TOTAL 33,682 SQUARE FEET. 
          THE ADJOINING PROPERTY OWNERS ON ALL SIDES IS LMC SKY MOUNTAIN HOLDINGS, LLC. 
          PUBLIC NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 300 FEET WAS MAILED ON APRIL 21ST, 2022. 
          AND THAT I WENT OUT TO APPROXIMATELY 113 PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          UM, STAFF RECEIVED ONE OBJECTION, UM, ALL EFFECTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND PRIVATE UTILITY FRANCHISE STAKEHOLDERS HAVE REVIEWED THE REQUEST AND RECOMMEND APPROVAL SUBJECT TO THE TWO BELOW. 
          ONE OF WHICH IS RETAINING A, UM, EASEMENT. 
          AND ONE IS IF DAY ADD ANY, UM, UTILITIES THERE, THE OWNER WOULD HAVE TO PAY TO, UM, RE REDO THE CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY REASON TO THINK RHONDA HAS ANY, I MEAN, LOOKING AT THE, AT THE PICTURES, I DON'T THINK RONNIE HAS ANYTHING. 
          THAT'S JUST KIND OF A, UM, COMMENT THAT GRUNDY TENDS TO SAY ON ALL OF OURS. 
          IF, IF INDEED WE HAVE, IF YOU RUN ACROSS SOME OF OUR LINES AND YOU HAVE TO MOVE THEM, IT'S AT THE DEVELOPER'S EXPENSE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO WHEN ASKED, UM, ON THE APPLICATION, UH, HOW DO YOU PLAN TO DEVELOP THE AREA TO BE VACATED? THE APPLICANT SLASH DEVELOPER SAID THE RECLAIMED AREA WILL BE USED FOR PRIVATE MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND ITS ASSOCIATED IMPROVEMENTS. 
          UM, THERE ARE SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANS WERE FORMALLY SUBMITTED AND ARE NOW IN PROGRESS. 
          IT IS NOT SMART HOUSING, UM, IN SPEAKING WITH THE APPLICANT. 
          UM, SO THE PERSON THAT SHOWED CONCERNS, UM, WAS, UH, HAD CONCERNS REGARDING DEVELOPMENT AS A WHOLE AND, UM, HOW IT HURTS KIND OF THE ENVIRONMENT. 
          AND SO WHEN TALKING WITH THE APPLICANT AND THEY'RE ONLINE AND CAN ANSWER FOR THE QUESTIONS, BUT HE DID SAY THAT THEY'RE DOING, UM, FIVE TO SIX ACRES OF THE WHOLE OVERALL 22 ACRES WILL BE DEDICATED FOR PARKLAND AND APARTMENT THEN EASTMAN, 
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NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          SO AGAIN, I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE RIGHT OF WAY PROCESS AS, AS IT MOVES ALONG AND THE APPLICANT CAN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ABUTTING PROPERTIES AND PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, DO ANY COMMISSIONERS ONLINE OR IN PERSON HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION I KEEP SEEING COMMERCIALS ABOUT GRUNDY IS NOW A STOUND. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S CHANGES THE OWNERSHIP OR NOT. 
          AND THAT'S A QUESTION, I GUESS, IF IT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IN THIS DOCUMENT, I THINK THAT'D BE A QUESTION FOR MS. SMITH. 
          YEAH, THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR MYSELF I BELIEVE. 
          UM, AND NO, IT, IF IT WAS RHONDA, WHEN, WHEN IT WAS, UM, WHEN IT WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS, THEN IT'S FINE. 
          IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE RESET TO US DOWN. 
          THANKS. 
          OKAY. 
          DO ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I MEAN, IT, IT DOES LOOK, SO I GUESS ALSO DEVELOPERS HERE ARE THE APPLICANTS HERE. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WOODS. 
          IS THAT ACCURATE? SO THE, THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORS, OR WHEN WE LOOKING AT THIS PICTURE, WHAT ARE THE IMMEDIATE, ARE THERE, IS IT COMMERCIAL? IS IT RESIDENTIAL? OH, YOU HAVE TO PUSH IT TO THE RED COMES ON. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          YEAH. 
          THERE ARE JUST A FEW SINGLE FAMILY, LOTS IN THE VICINITY TOWARDS THE INTERSECTION OF SKY MOUNTAIN AND MOUNTAIN SHADOWS. 
          THERE'S ONE LOT AT THE CORNER AND NOTHING ELSE ALL THE WAY DOWN, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE EAST TO THE OTHER END. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. 
          I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE VACATION ON, UM, SKY MOUNTAIN. 
          UM, IS THERE A SECOND MOVING WITH THE SECOND ALL IN OR ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, OR RAISE YOUR HAND NOW THAT IS UNANIMOUS, BUT FOR PROCESS ANY, ANY NAYS? ANY ABSTENTIONS? NOPE. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE DONE. 
          THANKS FOR COMING. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, WE WILL MOVE ON TO, UM, I GUESS I'LL CHECK AGAIN, IS ENOVIA ONLINE. 
          WE DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE SYNOVIA JOSEPH YET. 
          I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH HER VIA EMAIL. 
          UM, WHEN SHE JOINS PROBABLY AFTER THIS NEXT ITEM, WE CAN POTENTIALLY TAKE HER. 
          I THINK SHE'LL BE SHE'S SPEAKING ON THIS ITEM. 
          SO IT MIGHT BE MORE BENEFICIAL, UM, TO TAKE HER ONCE THIS, THIS ITEM IS OVER BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE HER AT THE MOMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT WORKS FOR ME. 
          ERIC WAS, 
          [2.B. Equitable Transit Oriented Development Update]
AND LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM, TO BE EQUITABLE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT UPDATE. 
          UM, FROM CAP. 
          METRO IS AN ATLANTA UP TISSUES, TAKE IT AWAY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, BOARD MEMBERS. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR THE INVITATION CHAIRED CHAMPION. 
          MY NAME IS ANNA LAN. 
          I'M A PRINCIPAL PLANNER WITH CAPITAL METRO, AND I'M ALSO THE PROJECT MANAGER OF THE EQUITABLE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. 
          I'M REALLY HAPPY TO COME TODAY AND SHARE WITH YOU GUYS OUR PROJECT. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THE OVERVIEW OF TODAY'S PROJECT IS I WANT TO SHARE SOME OF THE KEY PROGRESS WE'VE BEEN MAKING, ESPECIALLY WITH OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND SOME OF THE DELIVERABLES THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED SO FAR. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THE PERFECT, UM, THIS PROJECT STARTED WHEN WE, UM, CAPITAL METRO ONE, TWO BACKPACK GRANTS FROM THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION FOR THEIR TV PILOT PROGRAM. 
          SO WE WANT A TOTAL OF 1.6, $5 MILLION TO STUDY ABOUT 21 STATIONS ON THE ORANGE AND BLUE LIGHT RAIL STATION. 
          UM, THIS IS LED BY CAP METRO, BUT WE ARE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR CITY TEAM OR IS HERE TODAY. 
          SORRY, WONDER I DID NOT GET TO SEE YOU WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF REAL QUICK. 
          HI, Y'ALL THIS IS WARNER COOK. 
          I'M A SENIOR PLANNER WITH THE HOUSING AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND ONE OF THE CORE CITIES, STAFF MEMBERS WORKING ON ETO WITH ANA THANKS WARNER. 
          UM, ALONG WITH OUR CITY PARTNERS, WE'RE ALSO WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH ATP ON THIS PROJECT. 
          SO FROM THE BEGINNING OF THEIR PROJECT, WE KIND OF EXPANDED OUR PROJECT SCOPE FROM JUST A LIMITED SET NUMBER OF STATIONS ON THE ORANGE AND BLUE TO MORE LIKE A SYSTEM WIDE ANALYSIS IN COORDINATION WITH OUR TEAM CITY TEAM FOR OUR CONSISTENCY AND FOR FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SO ON TOP OF THE STATION AREA 
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PLANS AND CORRIDOR PLAN UPDATE, WE REALLY WANTED TO EXPAND SOME OF THE ANALYSIS FOR THE STUDY TO, UH, 98 STATIONS ONLINE. 
          SO THIS PROJECT REALLY DOESN'T PROPOSE ANY CHANGES TO ZONING OR KIND OF DIRECT THE ORANGE OF LINE DESIGN PROCESS. 
          SO IT JUST HAD TO MAKE THAT DISTINCTION. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M SURE EVERYONE HERE FOR, SINCE THIS IS THE UTC HAS HEARD OF TOD. 
          UM, THE REASON WE KIND OF STARTED THINKING ABOUT THE SHIFT AND ADDING THE EQUITY AWAY FROM TOD IS WE'RE REALLY MINDFUL OF THE IMPACT OF TRADITIONAL TVS ON NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          YOU KNOW, WHERE DEVELOPMENT COMES IN AND THE RENT, UM, GOES UP AFFECTING THE LOCAL RENTERS, HOMEOWNERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES, ESPECIALLY. 
          AND THIS IS VERY, VERY SENSITIVE ISSUE. 
          AS AUSTIN IS RAPIDLY GROWING. 
          UM, OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE CHANGING AND PRICES ARE GOING VERY HIGH. 
          SO WE WANT TO SHIFT TO THE EQUITABLE PORTION WHERE IT'S MORE ABOUT THAN JUST REDUCING OR PREVENTING DISPLACEMENT, BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT REVERSING TRADITIONAL INEQUALITIES AND CREATING NEW ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES. 
          THAT THAT WAS MY, THAT WAS MY KID MAKING A SURPRISE APPEARANCE. 
          UM, SO IT'S ABOUT CREATING THE NEW ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS, UM, ALONG THESE TRANSIT CORRIDORS. 
          AND WE REALLY WANT TO DO THAT BY CREATING AS MANY NEW HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES WHILE PRIORITIZING THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS A DIAGRAM DONE BY OUR ONE OF OUR ARTISTS IN CAP METRO. 
          AND I THINK THIS DIAGRAM REALLY ENCAPSULATE OUR PROJECT VISION FOR EQUITABLE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT OF WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS SOMETHING THAT IS DISTINCTLY AUSTIN. 
          IT'S MULTIMODAL. 
          YOU SEE ELECTRIC BUSES WITH LIGHT RAIL WITH BIKES AND IT'S, UH, NEIGHBORS THAT WE HOPE IS ACCESSIBLE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL ABILITIES AND AGE GROUPS. 
          UM, THERE ARE A MIX OF HOUSING TYPES OF RENTERS AND PROSPECTIVE AND CURRENT HOMEOWNERS HERE. 
          AND ALTHOUGH THE PICTURE DOESN'T REALLY SPELL IT OUT, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THAT IT'S IMPLIED, THAT APARTMENTS ARE AFFORDABLE TO A RANGE OF INCOMES, AND THAT THE PLACE FEELS WELCOMING TO BOTH EXISTING AND NEW RESIDENTS. 
          AND IN THIS IMAGE, YOU SEE THAT COMMERCIAL SPACES ARE BEING USED BY SMALL LOCAL BUSINESSES AND AS WELL AS COMMUNITY SERVING USES SUCH AS, UM, LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTER, AND ALSO A VERY PUBLIC STRONG PUBLIC REALM. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          FOR ETO D WE HAVE FIVE MAJOR DELIVERABLES. 
          UM, WE'VE COMPLETED OUR CASE STUDIES OF SEVERAL OTHER CITIES IN THE U S WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH OR ARE UNDERGOING  PROJECTS. 
          WE JUST COMPLETED OUR, UM, EXISTING CONDITIONS ANALYSIS FOR THOSE STATIONS ALONE, ORANGE AND BLUE. 
          WE ARE IN THE PROGRESS OF UTILITY POLICY FRAMEWORK RECOMMENDATIONS AND UPDATING THE PRIORITY TOOL. 
          SO I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT TOGETHER TASK FIVE AND TASK SIX, WE'LL FORMULATE MUCH OF THE ELD POLICY PLAN THAT WAS DIRECTED BY COUNCIL LAST SUMMER. 
          AND LASTLY, A SELECT FEW STATIONS WILL GO INTO THE STATION AREA VISION PLANS THAT WILL ALSO BE HANDED TO THE CITY TO CARRY THAT INTO THE REGULATORY PLAN STAGE DOWN THE ROAD. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS DIAGRAM HERE IS OUR PROJECT TIMELINE. 
          WE OFFICIALLY KICKED OFF LAST NOVEMBER, 2021 WITH TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS THAT WERE, OF COURSE, VIRTUALLY DONE DUE TO COVID. 
          BUT FOR THIS PROJECT, IT WILL GO TO INTRODUCE SPRING OF 2023. 
          AND THE DELIVERABLES ARE REALLY COORDINATED WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN TEAM, AS WELL AS THE ORANGE BLUE LINE NEPA PROCESS, AS WELL AS THE FTA CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANT RATINGS. 
          SO CURRENTLY WE'RE IN THE SECOND STAGE OF ENGAGEMENT, WHICH IS REALLY ALIGNED WITH TASK FIVE, THE EOD POLICY FRAMEWORK, THE FIRST STAGE CONCLUDED IN APRIL, AND WE REALLY KIND OF LOOKED AT HIGH-LEVEL FEEDBACK REGARDING PRIORITIES AND KEY CONCERNS. 
          UM, FOR THE SECOND STAGE OF ENGAGEMENT, WE'RE REALLY TARGETING, UM, UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND SMALL BUSINESSES WERE REALLY HOPING TO COMPLETE THE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND THE PRIORITY TOOL BY AUGUST SO THAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN TEAM CAN TAKE IT INTO THE COUNCIL ADOPTION PROCESS IN SEPTEMBER AND FOR THE STATION AREA, VISION PLANS, WE'RE HOPING TO GET THEM, UM, COMPLETED BY 
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NEXT SPRING. 
          HOPEFULLY APRIL NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE FOR ETO D WE HAVE SIX IDENTIFIED GOALS OR VISIONS FOR THIS, UM, PROJECT AND HOW THESE SIX GOALS CAME ABOUT. 
          THEY ARE DEFINED COLLECTIVELY FROM A COMBINATION OF THREE SOURCES. 
          ONE IS THE 30 INDIVIDUAL GOALS IDENTIFIED BY COUNCIL IN THE ETF, IN THE 2D RESOLUTION. 
          UM, ALSO GOALS FROM NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US RACIAL EQUITY TOOL AND COLLECTIVE FEEDBACK FROM OUR FIRST ROUND OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. 
          SO THESE GOALS INCLUDE SAVING SUSTAINABLE MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION FOR RESIDENTS, UM, TO HELP CLOSE RACIAL HEALTH AND WEALTH GAPS AND TO PRESERVE AND GROW AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THE GOALS ALSO EXTEND TO EXPANDING AND CREATING ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY DROPS IN THE TRANSIT CORRIDOR AND MAKING SURE THAT COMMUNITIES A COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD AND MEN, THESE REALLY SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS. 
          AND WE REALLY WANT TO SUSTAIN AND GROW AND SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES ALONG THE TRANSIT CORRIDORS AS WELL. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE TASK FIVE. 
          UM, THE ETO, THE POLICY FRAMEWORK, OR LIKE THE TOOLKIT WE LIKE TO CALL IS REALLY KIND OF THE MEAT OF THIS PROJECT. 
          THIS TASK WILL ALLOW CAP METRO AND THE CITY DOWN THE ROAD TO KIND OF BEST UTILIZE TOOLS ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF EACH STATION AREA BASED ON GEOGRAPHY. 
          UM, THE STRATEGIES THAT WE HAVE ARE DIVIDED INTO FIVE CATEGORIES OF LAND USE, URBAN DESIGN, REAL ESTATE ABILITY, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, AND BUSINESS, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. 
          EACH OF THOSE CATEGORIES CONTAIN A SPECTRUM OF POLICY TOOLS FROM EASY WINS TO MORE OF A LONG-TERM POLICY IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SO IN COMBINATION WITH THE TOPOLOGIES AND THE PRIORITIZATION TOOL, THE HOPE IS THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE MOST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES BASED ON STATION SPECIFIC NEEDS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS A TIMELINE FOR REFERENCE. 
          UM, THE D KEY DELIVERY OF D IS ALSO REALLY TIME, REALLY WELL WITH KEY PROJECT CONNECTIVE LIVERIES. 
          UM, WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR PROCESS DOES NOT IN ANY WAY DISRUPT THE NEPA, UM, ORANGE AND BLUE LINE PROCESS AND TO COORDINATE THE DELIVERY SUCH AS INTRODUCING THE STATION PLANS UNTIL AFTER THE FINALIZATION OF THE NEPA DOCUMENTS AND THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION RECORD OF DECISION, WHICH HAPPENS IN MARCH. 
          SO WE'RE INTRODUCING OUR STATION PLANS IN APRIL IMPERFECT COORDINATION. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS A SLIDE I'M REALLY PROUD TO TALK ABOUT. 
          PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE WORKED VERY, VERY HARD TOGETHER WITH THE CITY ON THIS PROJECT. 
          SO WE'VE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE TRADITIONAL ENGAGEMENT METHODS HAVE PASSED REALLY LIMIT THE AUDIENCE. 
          AND WE'RE REALLY MISSING OUT ON OUR BLACK LOTS OF NETS AND OTHER MINORITY AND UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS SUCH AS THE ELDERLY ACCESS OR THOSE FACING HOUSING INSECURITY. 
          SO AS A RESULT, WE ADDED A VARIETY OF NEW, UH, OUTREACH THAT KIND OF IS MEANT TO BRING OUT THE VOICES FROM A VARIETY OF WAYS FROM WE WORK WITH THE CAC ON A MONTHLY BASIS, AND WE HOLD SMALLER, MORE TARGETED OUTREACH THROUGH FOCUS GROUPS AND COMMUNITY CONNECTORS. 
          AND THESE ARE ALL COMPENSATED CONVERSATIONS THAT WILL REALLY HELP US REACH DEEPER INTO THE COMMUNITY, REALLY THROUGH A PEER TO PEER OUTREACH FORMAT. 
          AND SO FAR HAS BROUGHT A SPECTACULAR FEEDBACK. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, OUR COMMUNITY CONNECTORS ARE RECRUITED THROUGH AN OPEN RECRUITMENT PROCESS. 
          WE HAD OVER 151 APPLICANTS APPLY AND 12 WERE SELECTED FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 
          SO, UM, OUT OF THE 12, SOME ARE NATIVE AUSTINITES SOME HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A FEW YEARS. 
          SOME ARE RETIRED, SOME ARE STUDENTS AND ALL HAVE SOME FORM OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISM BACKGROUND. 
          THEY ARE PAID AT $25 AN HOUR, AND THE GOAL IS FOR EACH OF THE CONNECTORS TO REACH ABOUT 30 TO 50 PEOPLE. 
          AND THEY ALSO HELP US CO-HOST COMMUNITY EVENTS. 
          UM, WE SHOW UP TO THE EVENTS THAT THEY ALSO SPONSOR SUCH AS, UM, FOR EARTH DAY, WE ATTENDED A CLEANUP EVENT 
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AND FOR JUNETEENTH, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY BIKE EVENT THAT THEY'RE HOSTING THAT WE'RE ALSO SPONSORING AS WELL. 
          SO IN THE SPAN OF JUST THREE MONTHS, WE HAVE LOCKED OVER AT LEAST 26 EVENTS WITH OVER 40 HOURS OF ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT AND 104 FOLKS ENGAGED FROM THE CONNECTORS ALONE. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THE COMMUNITY CONNECTORS, WE WORK REGULARLY WITH US CAC. 
          WE HAVE A WORKING GROUP ESTABLISHED WITH THE CAC SO THAT WE CAN UPDATE THEM EVERY MONTH, UM, ON KEY PROGRESS. 
          SO THE GOAL IS NOT TO JUST TO PRESENT INFORM, BUT WE'RE WORKING HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY WORKING GROUP SESSION, UH, WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS STRATEGIES SO THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY HELP SHAPE AND INFORM DECISIONS ALONG THE WAY. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THE THIRD KIND OF, UM, ENGAGEMENT THAT'S WORKING REALLY WELL ARE FOCUS GROUPS. 
          THESE ARE SMALLER DISCUSSION GROUPS, ANYWHERE FROM THREE TO FIVE PEOPLE LED BY ONE TO TWO CO-HOSTS. 
          UM, AND WE'RE TARGETING VARIETY OF GROUPS ARE TARGETING GRASSROOTS, GRASS, TOPS, SMALL BUSINESSES, AND REAL ESTATE PRACTITIONERS WAS SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPERS. 
          SO THESE COMPENSATIONS ARE ALSO COMPENSATED. 
          UM, WE PROVIDE A $50 GIFT CARD FOR ONE HOUR OF DISCUSSION. 
          SO FAR UP TO DATE, WE HAVE COMPLETED 26 FOCUS GROUPS, INCLUDING AT LEAST SIX, JUST IN SPANISH. 
          AND WE HAVE OVER 120 PARTICIPANTS SO FAR. 
          SO THESE ARE CONDUCTED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. 
          OF COURSE, WE ALWAYS OFFER THE VIRTUAL OPTION, BUT WE ARE ALSO ATTENDING COMMUNITY EVENTS AS PART OF THEIR MEETINGS, SUCH AS WE WERE INVITED TO THE AUSTIN AREA, URBAN LAKE TWO WEEKS AGO, WHERE THEY WERE HOLDING A SPECIAL SESSION FOR THOSE FACING HOUSING CHALLENGES. 
          AND WE WERE ABLE TO ENGAGE AND HAVE GREAT FEEDBACK FROM THE PARTICIPANTS OF THAT, UM, THAT MEETING AS WELL. 
          SO FAR UP TO DATE, WE HAVE OFFERED OVER $6,000 COMPENSATION FOR JUST THE COMMUNITY GROUP ENGAGEMENT. 
          SO FAR NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          OKAY. 
          FOR THOSE OF Y'ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN KIND OF KEEPING TRACK OF THIS PROJECT, THERE ARE A VARIETY OF WAYS TO DO SO. 
          I WOULD RECOMMEND STARTING WITH OUR PROJECT WEBSITE, WHICH IS NESTLED IN THE PROJECT CONNECT WEBSITE ON THE PROJECT WEBSITE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE ANY UPDATED ENGAGEMENT, UM, INFORMATION SURVEY LINK. 
          YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ACCESS OUR CASE STUDY SUMMARY. 
          YOU'LL BE ABLE TO KIND OF GO TO THE, MEET THE COMMUNITY CONNECTORS. 
          THEY HAVE A SPECIAL BIO PAGE, AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL DASHBOARD WHERE YOU CAN ACCESS SOME OF THE KEY DATA THAT WE HAVE GATHERED SO FAR. 
          SO THAT'S THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS THE LAST SLIDE THAT I WILL LIKE TO LEAVE AND SHARE WITH EVERYONE. 
          UM, THIS IS IMMEDIATELY ACCESSIBLE WITH THE LINK ABOVE, BUT WE HAVE GATHERED ALL OUR DATA INTO A PUBLIC FACING DASHBOARD WHERE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE EXISTING DATA ALONG THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINE STATIONS. 
          UM, AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE VARIETY OF DATA SUCH AS POPULATION OR DISPLACEMENT, RISK JOBS, URBAN DESIGN, AND REALISTIC DATA. 
          SO AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE YOU ARE ABLE TO CLICK ANY STATION AND LET'S SAY YOU'RE ABLE TO ACCESS PRESS VIEW. 
          UM, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE INFORMATION AS HOW MANY MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING INVENTORY THERE ARE IN THAT AREA. 
          WHAT IS THE VACANCY, UM, FOR CRESTVIEW? WHAT IS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE HOUSING INVENTORY PROJECTION? WHAT IS THE CURRENT RENT AND WHAT HAS BEEN THE RENT INCREASE FROM 2011 TO 2021 ON THIS WEBSITE, YOU'LL ALSO BE ABLE TO LOOK THROUGH THE AERIALS OF THESE INDIVIDUAL FEATURES STATION AREAS, AND ALSO HAS REALLY COOL ECONOMIC DATA WHERE YOU'RE, IT'D BE TO LOOK UP TOTAL JOB BY INDUSTRY PER STATION, AS WELL AS THE AMOUNT AND TYPES OF SMALL BUSINESSES BY STATION AS WELL. 
          UM, THIS IS A DATA THAT WE HOPE IS VERY USEFUL TO A VARIETY OF FOLKS FOR COMMUNITY MEETINGS, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, EVEN AGENCY MEETINGS AS A PUBLIC AGENCY MEETINGS AS WELL. 
          UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO EXPAND. 
          UM, THIS IS ALREADY A VERY GREAT TOOL, BUT IN ABOUT A MONTH OR TWO, WE'LL BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE RESOURCE TO SYSTEM-WIDE ANALYSIS. 
          SO THIS INCLUDES, 
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UH, CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION WARNER AND I HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, COMMISSIONER BROOKS HAS A QUESTION, YOUR SELF OD. 
          HEY, OKAY. 
          UM, YOUR GOAL, YOU'RE PROVIDING A LOT OF DATA, WHICH IS USEFUL IN MAKING DECISIONS, BUT YOUR DECISIONS ARE REALLY ABOUT ONE OR TWO UTAH PROJECTS. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S GOING TO BE THE OUTCOME. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT CORRIDOR LEVEL, UM, NOT JUST STATION SPECIFIC, BUT CORRIDOR LEVEL ANALYSIS, BUT SOME OF THE STATION AREAS WE'LL HAVE DEEPER, UM, ANALYSIS. 
          THERE ARE SEVERAL THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING WE ARE CONSIDERING, FOR EXAMPLE, NORTH OUR TRANSIT STATION TRANSIT CENTER AND CROSS VIEW. 
          SO FOR THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT FACE, I GUESS, BREATHER, UM, DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE UPCOMING YEARS, THOSE WOULD HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT ALL THE STATIONS IDENTIFIED IN THE 21 AREA, UM, PROJECT BOUNDARY WILL HAVE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          OKAY, WELL, MY CONCERN, I HAVE PLAYED SOME WITH WEBSITE, THANK YOU FOR THE LINK. 
          UM, AND I'M SOMEWHAT CONCERNED ABOUT THE NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          UM, BY THE DESCRIPTION ON THE WEBSITE, THESE BUILDINGS ARE TYPICALLY OLDER GARDEN STYLE APARTMENTS, AND THE PROBLEM WITH TAKING OLDER GARDEN STYLE APARTMENTS, AND SOMEHOW MAKING THEM OFFICIAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS YOU LOCK THEM IN AMBER. 
          AND MOST OF THESE ARE TWO STORY BUILDINGS IN BAD PHYSICAL CONDITION. 
          AND PRESERVING THEM IS A DOUBTFUL ISSUE. 
          I NOTICED I WENT AND LOOKED AT THE FOUNDATION. 
          COMMUNITIES HAS SOMETHING LIKE 18 PROJECTS GOING. 
          NONE OF THEM INVOLVE A TWO STORY BUILDING EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF HOTELS. 
          THEY'VE GOT, THEY'RE ALL BUILDING THREE AND FOUR AND BIGGER AND TALLER BUILDINGS. 
          WHY? BECAUSE THAT PROVIDES MORE UNITS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          SO ONE NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNIT, TWO STORY UNIT THAT HOLDS A HUNDRED PEOPLE, RIGHT. 
          UNITS RIGHT NOW COULD BE IF IT WERE RECONSTRUCTED ALL THREE OR 400. 
          SO I WORRY ABOUT THE THOUGHT ABOUT PRESERVING THOSE, BUT THAT LED ME TO ANOTHER PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO INCLUDE IS PAT CODE COMPLAINTS ARE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          THE CODE DEPARTMENT HAS A WEBSITE. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE CODE COMPLAINT DATA ALSO MERGED INTO THE WEBSITE AND SEE WHETHER THESE ARE, ARE IN FACT PREDOMINANT BUILDINGS THAT ARE PREDOMINANTLY IN BAD SHAPE OR JUST IN GENERAL, WHICH WILL BE AFFORDABLE. 
          HOUSING IS NOT AS AFFORDABLE AS IT LOOKS FROM A MAINTENANCE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S A VERY GOOD RECOMMENDATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IF I CAN JUMP IN FOR A SECOND, BECAUSE THE FIRST THING THAT I WROTE DOWN IS I KNOW THAT THESE ETO D GOAL IMAGES ARE JUST ASPIRATIONAL, SORT OF JUST A DISCUSSION POINTS, BUT WHAT IS MISSING FROM THEM IS VERTICAL MIXED USE COMPLETELY. 
          AND IT WORRIES ME THAT, YOU KNOW, I HADN'T LOOKED IN DETAIL AT THE KIND OF THINGS THAT ARE THE NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT WHEN I LOOK AT IT, ASPIRATIONALLY, NONE OF THESE PICTURES ARE THE DENSITY THAT IS REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF LAND USE. 
          AND WHEN I LOOK AT THE, THE GOALS, YOU KNOW, ONE OF NUMBER ONE UNDER LAND YOU SERVE IN DESIGN IS TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE LAND USE. 
          AND NONE OF THESE ASPIRATIONAL PICTURES IT'S REALLY PICTURED TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE LAND USE. 
          SO I KNOW THAT THESE ARE JUST IMAGES, BUT IT DOES WORRY ME A BIT THAT PEOPLE AREN'T THINKING DEEPLY ENOUGH AND MAYBE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, LOFTY LOFTILY ENOUGH. 
          IF THAT'S A WORD ABOUT WHAT IT REALLY DOES TAKE TO GET TO TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE LAND USE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, VMU DISCUSSION HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN CITY COUNCIL. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S NOT THERE YET, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT IF THERE ARE PIECES OF THE CITY, ADDITIONALLY, TRYING TO DRIVE THAT DIRECTION, IT WILL PROVIDE SOME, UH, POLITICAL SUPPORT AND POLITICAL BACKBONE FOR THOSE KINDS OF DECISIONS. 
          SO, BUT OVERALL, I DON'T WANT TO SAY I'M COMPLAINING, I LOVE THIS PRESENTATION AND I LOVE THE AMOUNT OF DATA THAT'S THERE. 
          I DIDN'T GET DEEP ENOUGH AND HAVE THE INSIGHTS, BUT THERE'S A, THERE'S A LOT OF DATA THERE. 
          I, AND I GUESS I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION IS WHO DO YOU SEE USING THAT DATA ON THIS WEBSITE AND HOW DO THEY PROVIDE SOME FEEDBACK ON IT? LIKE, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE GOAL? HOW DOES THE PERSON ACTUALLY LOOK AT THIS WEBSITE, SEE THESE KINDS OF 
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INSIGHTS, LIKE MOVING, JUST HAD, OR LOOKING AT THESE PICTURES? HOW, WHAT IS THE MECHANISM FOR BRINGING THAT TO YOU ALL FOR FEEDBACK? YES. 
          UM, I THINK THE STANDARD FEEDBACK FOR ANY KIND OF PROJECT RELATED IS WE HAVE A DEDICATED EMAIL LISTED ON THE WEBSITE. 
          IT'S ETO D AT CAP, METRO.COM. 
          AND WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING A LOT OF PUBLIC RESPONSES DIRECTLY THROUGH THAT EMAIL. 
          SO IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK IN REGARDS TO THE DASHBOARD, THAT WOULD BE THE BEST WAY TO REACH US, UM, HOW PEOPLE CAN USE THIS DASHBOARD. 
          IT REALLY KIND OF VARIES. 
          WE COMPEL THE DATA THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TAKEN FIVE OR SIX DIFFERENT VISIT FIVE OR SIX DIFFERENT, UM, DATA OR OTHER DASHBOARDS TO KIND OF COMPILE ALL TOGETHER. 
          AND THIS IS BECAUSE TRADITIONALLY FOR US, OUR TOD PROJECTS, WE DO, UH, EXISTING CONDITIONS, BUT IT SITS IN A PDF. 
          IT AGES, IT DOESN'T AGE, VERY WELL ON THE SHELF. 
          AND VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE GET TO USE IT OR VERY MUCH SEE IT. 
          SO WE JUST KIND OF BROUGHT THAT ALL DIGITALLY AS A WAY TO BE MORE TRANSPARENT WITH OUR DATA. 
          AND THE HOPE IS FOR US, WHEN WE GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, DO ENGAGEMENT AROUND SPECIFIC STATIONS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO IMMEDIATELY PULL UP ALL THE RELEVANT DATA FOR THAT AREA. 
          SO THEY'LL BE ABLE TO SEE SOME OF THE KEY ISSUES RIGHT AWAY. 
          UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I'M HOPING THAT AT LEAST CAP METRO WILL BE UTILIZING A LOT MORE. 
          MAYBE HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE VERY USEFUL FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN TEAM AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          IF YOU KNOW, I SORT OF STEPPED ON MY FIRST QUESTION. 
          SO LET ME GO BACK TO THAT ONE. 
          UM, IS THERE OUTRIGHT, UH, PLANS FOR, OR VISION FOR, YOU KNOW, VERTICAL MIXED USE AND FOR LEVELS OF DENSITY THAT REALLY ARE TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE AROUND THE STATIONS? LIKE HOW FAR ALONG IS THAT DISCUSSION? THAT'S A PERFECT QUESTION ACTUALLY. 
          UM, THAT IS A STAGE OF THE PROJECT THAT WE WILL START THIS FALL. 
          WHEN WE GET INTO THE STATION AREA, VISION PLANS, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT SOLUTIONS FOR SPECIFIC STATION DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE THE DENSITY QUESTION WILL COME OUT FULL FORCE. 
          AND OUR CONSULTANT TEAMS WILL BE LOOKING AT A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS. 
          UM, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL IN THE POLICY SECTION. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THE POSSIBLE POLICIES THAT MIGHT SUPPORT THAT PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT DOWN THE ROAD. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I'LL JUST, I'LL JUST ADD THAT TO THAT, BUT THAT'S EXACTLY CORRECT. 
          ANNA. 
          WE ARE, WE'RE LOOKING AT STRATEGIES FOR ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          SOME MAY, LIKE YOU SAID, BE MORE READY FOR MORE DENSITY. 
          OTHER ONES MAY NEED OTHER STRATEGIES. 
          SO KIND OF WE'RE TAKING THIS APPROACH. 
          WE'RE WORKING WITH THE CAC, THE FOCUS, AND INTERNALLY WITH CITY STAFF AND TOP METRO STAFF, WE'RE REVIEWING THE CONSULTANTS WORK RIGHT NOW ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT THE GOAL IS THAT IN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, LIKE ANNA SAID, WE WOULD HAVE KIND OF A TOOLKIT OF STRATEGIES AND THEN WE'D BE DIVING INTO APPLYING THOSE STRATEGIES AT SPECIFIC STATIONS, UM, LATER ON IN THE FALL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, LAST THING I'LL SAY IS, UH, I LOVE THE IDEA THAT YOU'RE PAYING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DIFFICULT TO GET PEOPLE INVOLVED AND I THINK IS PERFECT USE OF MONEY TO SAY, HEY, YOU HAVE SOME IDEAS AND SOME OPINIONS AND SOME TIME THAT'S LITERALLY WORTH SOMETHING TO US. 
          SO I DOUBLED CHEERS FOR THAT. 
          WHO ELSE HAS WHO, ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS WITH QUESTIONS? YES. 
          I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO THROW A CURVE, BUT ANNA WHAT'S BEEN THE MOST, UH, UM, SURPRISING OBSERVATION THAT YOU'VE MADE DURING THIS PROCESS. 
          SOMETHING THAT YOU JUST DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL YOU WERE INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT. 
          I CAN DEFINITELY SAY, UM, ONE OF THE KEY FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE RECEIVED IS HOW DIFFICULT THE BARRIER OF ENTRY IS TO ACCESS ANY KIND OF PUBLIC SERVICES. 
          SO WHEN WE GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITIES, WE ASK PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, UM, ABOUT THINGS THEY WANT TO SEE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES. 
          IT'S, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS RESOURCES, OR IT IS WAY TOO DIFFICULT FOR ME TO GET THROUGH THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPLICATION PROCESS. 
          I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO LOOK. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW TO APPLY FOR IT. 
          THE APPLICATIONS ARE LIKE 80 PAGES LONG, AND FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS ALL THE POSSIBLE FUNDS TO KIND OF GO THROUGH. 
          SO THAT WAS OUR SURPRISE. 
          IT WAS NOT NECESSARILY THE LACK OF SOME OF THE EXISTING SUPPORT, BUT JUST FOLKS DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS IT OR TOO DIFFICULT TO ACCESS. 
          UM, WE ALSO HAD A LOT MORE FEEDBACK ABOUT THE NEED AS, UM, COMMISSIONER 
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BOOKS MENTIONED THE NEED FOR THE MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE STUDY, WE WERE THINKING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS OUR TARGETED GOAL AND THINKING ABOUT LEVELS OF AFFORDABILITY WITHIN THAT. 
          BUT WE HAD A LOT OF COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ABOUT WORKFORCE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, THE MISSING THE PRESERVATION OF THE MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING HAS BECOME EMBEDDED INTO OUR STRATEGIES AS WELL, THAT WE DIDN'T ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATE AS MUCH AS WE DID. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL TO KNOW ABOUT MR. SUMMERS WORRIED ABOUT THE, YEAH, I DID. 
          I HAD A QUESTION. 
          SO I KNOW THAT, UM, OBVIOUSLY THESE LINES AND PROJECT CONNECT TRAVEL THROUGHOUT THE CITY THROUGH SOME AREAS THAT MAY BE, UM, HAVE MORE TRADITIONALLY PRIVILEGED INDIVIDUALS WHO, SOME AREAS THAT HAVE MORE LOWER INCOME INDIVIDUALS, MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. 
          UM, SO I GUESS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS IS TO HOW ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT, UM, I'M KIND OF THINKING ABOUT A PLACE LIKE CRESTVIEW, WHICH I USED TO LIVE PRETTY CLOSE TO THERE, UM, BACK IN THE DAY. 
          AND LIKE, AND SOMETIMES IN OUR, SOME OF OUR PLANNING PROCESSES, WE ASK LIKE PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR THERE WHO MAY NOT WANT SOMETHING TO CHANGE. 
          BUT LIKE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE OF ALL OF PROJECT CONNECT CRESTVIEW WITH SORT OF ITS CONVERGENCE OF DIFFERENT TRANSIT AND SORT OF BEING IN A HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREA WITH PARTICULAR SCHOOLS, THINGS LIKE THAT MIGHT BE A REALLY GOOD PLACE TO BUILD SUPER DENSELY, BUT MAYBE THE PEOPLE THERE DON'T LIKE TO HAVE NEW THINGS GO IN BY THEM. 
          I'M KIND OF, I'M CHOOSING THIS EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE I KNOW REALLY WELL. 
          UM, SO HOW ARE YOU ADDRESSING THAT? LIKE, SORT OF IN WHAT WE MIGHT SAY, UM, HIGHER INCOME, HIGHER OPPORTUNITY AREAS WHERE MAYBE PEOPLE DON'T ACCEPT A LOT OF, THERE'S MORE NIMBYISM I GUESS YOU COULD SAY, UM, THIS IS A CONCERN THAT I HAVE WHEN WE CONSULT THE COMMUNITY. 
          SOMETIMES THE COMMUNITY SAYS NO, AND WE HAVE TO PUT THINGS SOMEWHERE. 
          SO HOW ARE, HOW ARE YOU SEEING THE TOOL, UM, ADDRESS THESE KINDS OF TRADE-OFFS? I HOPE I STAYED AT THAT CLEARLY. 
          THAT WAS, UM, I'M ACTUALLY THINKING WATER, MAKING PERFECT TO ANSWER THIS BECAUSE SHE WAS, SHE HAD A REALLY GREAT ANSWER BEFORE. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHENEVER YOU WANT TO TAKE A STAFF PERSON I'LL I'LL SUPPLEMENT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WE, THE FOCUS STATIONS THAT ANNA MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING INTO IN SOME CASES ARE TO KIND OF HELP STAFF TAKE A FIRST STAB AT ALL THESE DIFFERENT KINDS OF AREAS AROUND TOWNS. 
          WE'VE TRIED TO PURPOSELY PICK STATIONS THAT HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS. 
          SO FOR INSTANCE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE EAST RIVERSIDE CORRIDOR, WHICH HAS AN EXISTING REGULATING PLAN, AND A LOT OF THE NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THE COMMISSIONER BROOKS WAS MENTIONING, UM, AND IT WILL PROBABLY NEED VERY DIFFERENT STRATEGIES AND WE'LL HEAR DIFFERENT THINGS FROM THOSE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE TODAY THAN THE AREAS LIKE YOU SAID, UH, OF CRESTVIEW. 
          WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT HYDE PARK, LIKE AROUND 38TH STREET, UM, NORTH OF OUR TRANSIT CENTER, ANOTHER ONE THAT'S LIKE VERY DIFFERENT AND ALSO CAP METRO AND SOME OF THE LAND. 
          SO BASICALLY WE PURPOSELY PICKED THESE DIFFERENT STATIONS TO TRY TO START GETTING A SENSE OF HOW, HOW DIFFERENT STATIONS FIT INTO THE WHOLE PICTURE OF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT JUST THINKING ABOUT CREATING ONLY THE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES, BUT SOME AREAS WILL BE LIKE DESTINATION. 
          SOME AREAS WILL HAVE MORE, UM, JOBS AND HOUSING, YOU KNOW, UH, BUT, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS, I GUESS I WOULD SAY SPECIFICALLY TO THE IDEA OF LIKE DENSITY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREAS IS THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HOW'S IT GOING PLANNING AS A DEPARTMENT IS VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON, UM, YOU KNOW, THE REPORT JUST CAME OUT FROM HOUSING WORKS THAT SHOWED OUR CURRENT INVENTORY IS VERY MUCH CONCENTRATED IN DISTRICTS, ONE THROUGH FOUR WITH NOT AS MUCH IN OTHER DISTRICTS OF THE CITY. 
          UM, SO WHILE WE'RE TRYING TO GET AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALONG THE PROJECT CONNECT LINES, WE'RE ALSO, YOU KNOW, SEPARATE FROM PROJECT CONNECT ENTIRELY, JUST TRYING TO GET MORE HOUSING IN HIGH OPPORTUNITY AREAS. 
          UM, AND SO WE'RE NOT CONTINUING TO CONCENTRATE POVERTY IN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CITY AS WELL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THIS QUESTION WORKS BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE DID IT AND IT'S MY OBLIGATION TO DO IT. 
          BUSES. 
          NOW I REALIZED THAT YOU'RE WELL OVERWHELMED JUST CONSIDERING SOME OF THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINE STATIONS, BUT THE GOLD LINE, THE MOMENT THE BUS AT THE TRAIN START RUNNING ON THE ORANGE AND BLUE LINES. 
          THE GOLD LINE WILLS CONSTRUCTION WILL START IN THEORY ON ANOTHER RAIL LINE AND THE LINE BETWEEN LIGHT RAIL STATIONS AND METRO RAPID STATIONS AND JUST ORDINARY BUS STATIONS IS A FINE ONE. 
          AND IT'S ONE TO KEEP IN MIND. 
          [00:40:01]
THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CHRIS FOR YOU? LET'S SAY SOME. 
          OH, I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. 
          UM, UH, MS. SYNOVIA, JOSEPH IS WITH US. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO, UM, IF NO ONE HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, CHAIR, WE'LL MOVE TO THE PERFECT THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS. 
          I'M ZENOBIA JOSEPH. 
          I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS AS IT RELATES TO NORCO MORE TRANSIT CENTER, WHICH IS A FOCUS AREA ON PAGE THREE OF THE DOCUMENT SPECIFICALLY, I'M REALLY BAFFLED AS TO WHEN NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER BECAME PART OF THE EQUITABLE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, AND ALSO PART OF PROJECT CONNECT. 
          THE PRESENTATIONS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THE COMMUNITY IN 2019 AND 2020, BOTH REFERENCED THE DECEMBER 17TH, 2018 LONG RANGE PLAN, WHICH EXCLUDED NORTH NO MORE TRANSIT CENTER IN STARTED SOUTH OF US, 180 3. 
          SO THIS ENTIRE PROJECT APPEARS TO BE DISINGENUOUS. 
          I WILL CALL UP HERE ATTENTION. 
          I DID SEND A MEMO AND IT ACTUALLY INCLUDES THE APRIL 15TH, 2021 PRESENTATION IN PART BY SHARMILA. 
           MOVED HER G FROM CAPITAL METRO, WHERE SHE BRIEFED THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE. 
          AND SHE SAID THAT THE DOWNTOWN STATIONS ARE EXCLUDED FOR A VERY SPECIFIC REASON, BUT SHE LACKED TRANSPARENCY AND DIDN'T STAY WITH THAT SPECIFIC REASON WAS SO I WOULD ASK THE STAFF THAT BRIEFING TONIGHT TO MENTION WHY WE HAVE PLAZA. 
          SO LTO, FOR EXAMPLE, TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT, WHICH BY THE WAY, IT'S ON THURSDAY'S AGENDA AGAIN FOR COUNCIL TO CONSIDER NOT PUTTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING THERE A FEE IN LIEU OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          SO WHILE I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE AS A RELIEF TO NOT CONCENTRATING POVERTY, I WOULD JUST CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME IS ABOUT $55,000. 
          THAT'S THE STANDARD ON THE RAIL LINE SPECIFICALLY, THE GOLD LINE WAS MENTIONED BY COMMISSIONER BOOKS. 
          THE STREETS ARE NAMED FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS THERE. 
          HOWEVER, IT'S 80% AREA MEDIAN INCOME FOR THE ONLY AFFORDABLE HIGHLAND VILLAGE APARTMENTS THERE THROUGH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, BECAUSE THEY SAID ON DECEMBER 17TH, 2020, THE INTEREST IN THE AREA, THE NIMBYISM, HE DIDN'T WANT TO SERVE LOWER INCOME INDIVIDUALS. 
          IMAGINE THAT AT AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WHICH IS SUBSIDY I'M PUBLIC FORM. 
          AND THEN WHEN YOU GET TO HYDE PARK, IF WE'RE BEING HONEST ON THE ORANGE LINE, COUNCIL ACTUALLY SPENT $3.7 MILLION AT THE HIGHEST, UM, UM, AT BAKER SCHOOL. 
          AND THAT HOUSE WAS GOING TO PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING HERE IN COUNCIL USE OF THAT PROCESS. 
          UM, AND ON THE BLUE LINE, AS YOU MAY RECALL, OCTOBER 17TH, 2019 COUNCIL REZONE 1,308 UNITS, AND THE UPROOTED AUTHORS, UH, HEATHER WEIGHT AND HER CO AUTHORS WROTE AN ARTICLE A WEEK LATER, OCTOBER 23RD, 2019, AND SAID, COUNCIL DIDN'T LISTEN TO THEM BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST DISPLACEMENTS IN HISTORY. 
          I THINK IT'S DISINGENUOUS TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT MS. MS. NOVA YOU'RE MRS. NOVA, YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED, BUT PLEASE DO FINISH YOUR THOUGHTS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I WOULD JUST ASK THE COMMISSIONERS TO LOOK AT THE MEMORANDUM THAT I SENT, AND IF YOU SHOULD MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL TO PLEASE ASK THEM TO RESTORE NORTHEAST WEST CONDUCTIVITY NORTH OF US 180 3. 
          UM, AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL GO ON TO ANSWER THEM AT THIS TIME. 
          UH, I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, SHE DID SEND ME A MEMORANDUM JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO. 
          I WILL GET THAT OUT TO THE COMMISSIONERS NOW, SO, OKAY. 
          AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS WITH JOSEPH. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW UP, I THINK REALLY WITH, UM, CITY STAFF AND IN PARTICULAR, THE QUESTION ABOUT THE NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER. 
          AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, UM, MS. JOSEPH'S QUESTION IS ESSENTIALLY, IS THAT TRULY PART OF THE ETO D AREA? I MEAN, YOU, YOU CAN JUMP IN MS. JONES, IF YOU WANT TO, IF YOU WANT TO RESTATE JUST THAT PARTICULAR PART, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A, THAT'S JUST A STRAIGHT SORT OF FACTUAL QUESTION AND WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET AN ANSWER. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 
          SO THE FACTUAL QUESTION IS DECEMBER 17TH, 2018 
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IS WHEN CAPITAL METRO ACTUALLY APPROVED THE LONG RANGE VISION PLAN. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAPS, IT ACTUALLY CUT OFF THE WORDS NORTH LAMAR FOR NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER. 
          AND COMMISSIONER BROOKS CAN PROBABLY SPEAK TO THIS BETTER THAN I, BECAUSE HE TESTIFIED AND MENTIONED TO THEM THAT IF THEY LEFT OUT NORTH MARA, THERE MIGHT NOT SHIP TO CONVINCE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION TO ACTUALLY FUND THE LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM. 
          SO THAT THE FACT THAT THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS AT WHAT POINT WAS THERE COORDINATION BETWEEN TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TEXTBOOK THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND CAPITOL METRO? BECAUSE THE SLIDE THAT WE SAW FROM THE COMMUNITY'S PERSPECTIVE, ALL SAID THAT COORDINATION WAS REQUIRED BECAUSE THE CITY OF AUSTIN DOESN'T OWN THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR LUKE 2 75, WHICH IS NORTH LAMAR BOULEVARD. 
          SO I'M JUST WONDERING WHEN THAT COORDINATION OCCURRED AND HOW IS IT THAT NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER IS NOW INCLUDED IN THE LITERATURE WHEN THE MAP THAT WAS ADOPTED IN 2018 EXQUISITE IN IT, PERHAPS YOU'RE CONFUSING THE NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER ITSELF WITH RAIL SERVICE NORTH OF NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER. 
          BUT I'M NOW LOOKING AT THE AUGUST, 2021, UM, MAP CAP, METRO MAP, AND IT SHOWS NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER IN VERY LARGE LETTERS. 
          AND IN ADDITION, PUBLIC MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HELD ABOUT THE DESIGN OF A LIGHT RAIL STATION AT NORTH LAMARA TRANSIT CENTER. 
          NOW, WHAT I, WHAT UPSETS ME IS THAT IT'S THE END OF THE LINE, BUT NORTH OF OUR TRANSIT CENTER IS DEFINITELY INCLUDED IN PROJECT CONNECT. 
          YES, RESPECTFULLY COMMISSIONER, I'M JUST ASKING AT WHAT POINT WAS THE COORDINATION DONE? THERE WAS A MARCH, 2020 PRESENTATION ON PAGE 29 THAT SAID IT WAS 24 TO 30 YEARS, NORTH OF 83. 
          AND I AM PRETTY INVOLVED AS YOU ARE, AND I'VE NOT SEEN WHERE TEXTS HAVE COORDINATED. 
          AND SO I'M REFERRING TO THE COMMENTS THAT YOU MADE, WHERE YOU SAID, QUOTE, THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF PEOPLE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE IN ALL OF AUSTIN, YOU SAID WAS RON BERGEN LAMAR. 
          AND THEN YOU SAID, YOU'LL ACTUALLY HAVE, UM, IN FACT, I DON'T THINK IF YOU LEAD THAT SEGMENT OUT, YOU'LL ACTUALLY HAVE ENOUGH WRITERS, THE FTA TO FUND THE REST OF THE SYSTEM. 
          AND SO I WAS WONDERING HOW THE DETERMINANTS MOVE IS ALL I'M ASKING. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, CAMPO CAME OUT WITH THEIR FORECASTS AND IT, AND THERE'LL BE MORE THAN ENOUGH RIDERSHIP ON THE REST OF THIS SYSTEM, UH, TO FIND THAT AREA, THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THAT AREA WOULD BE VERY, IF I WERE RUNNING THE WORLD, THAT AREA WOULD BE, THERE WOULD BE A STATION AT RUNDBERG AND LAMAR'S END OF THE STORY. 
          BUT THE ACTUAL STORY IS IT HAS NOT BEEN DROPPED FROM THE PROJECT CONNECT PLAN. 
          IT IS STILL CONSIDERED TO BE THE SECOND PHASE OF PART OF SOME FUTURE PHASE OF THAT PLAN, WHETHER WE CAN BELIEVE THEM OR NOT. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S THE CURRENT STATUS, IF I MAY, UH, COMMISSIONERS, UH, IF THE CONVERSATION WOULD CONTINUE BETWEEN MR. RUBIN AND MS. SYNOVIA, I WOULD ENCOURAGE THAT, UH, POTENTIALLY OFF, UM, THE COMMISSION. 
          UH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE GOT STARS OR NOT, UM, BUT IT MIGHT BE BEST TO, FOR THAT CONVERSATION TAKE PLACE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION. 
          UM, UNLESS STAFF SPECIFICALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THAT THEY CAN ANSWER OR IF ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? WELL, I GUESS I THINK THAT'S OKAY. 
          LET ME, LET ME JUST ASK ONE QUESTION. 
          DOES STAFF HAVE A SPECIFIC ANSWER OR IS IT IT HAPPENED AND IT'S PART OF THE PLAN AND YOU CAN GET BACK TO US WITH SOME DETAILS. 
          YEAH, I WOULD NEED, I WOULD NEED TO CHECK WITH THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT ON WHEN IT SPECIFICALLY OCCURRED. 
          BUT I MEAN, I KNOW THAT TXDOT HAS BEEN REVIEWING THE DRAFT DESIGN DELIVERABLES FROM THE CONSULTANT ALONGSIDE CITY STAFF. 
          LIKE I'VE SEEN THEIR COMMENTS IN THERE AS WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH. 
          SO I, I CAN CONFIRM THE COORDINATION IS GOING ON. 
          I CAN'T CONFIRM WHEN IT STARTED. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S A, THAT IS A GOOD ANSWER. 
          IF YOU, IF YOU CAN FIND IT, UM, THEN ANY OR ANY RECORD, YOU CAN FORWARD IT TO CHRIS WHO CAN FORWARD IT TO MS. JOSEPH, THAT WOULD BE, BE GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, IT MAKES US ONE LAST COMMENT. 
          IF IT'S JUST FAST NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER OPENED IN 1985 AND IT HAS TAKEN THEM OVER 30 YEARS JUST TO PUT A SIDEWALK FROM AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO NORTH LAMAR TRANSIT CENTER. 
          SO I WOULD JUST ASK YOU TO KEEP THAT CONTEXT IN MIND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT AREA. 
          THANK YOU. 
          [00:50:01]
OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION AS ALWAYS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION POINTS ON THIS AGENDA ITEM? IS THERE ANY REQUESTS FROM STAFF FROM US? I MEAN, THIS IS JUST LISTED AS A, UH, AN UPDATE. 
          DO YOU NEED ANYTHING FROM US BESIDES OUR COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK? UH, NO. 
          I THINK OF INDIVIDUAL COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY COMMENTS, FEEDBACK THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          OTHERWISE WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEXT PAGE FOR STATION AREA VISION PLANS. 
          AND, UM, YOU MAY BE SEEING US BACK, UM, LATER ON IN THE FALL. 
          LIKE I SAID, IF, IF WE START THE COUNCIL ADOPTION PROCESS FOR THE POLICY PLAN, I WOULD ASSUME THAT YOU ALL WOULD BE ON THE ROAD SHOW. 
          SO KEEP UP. 
          OKAY. 
          SOUNDS GOOD. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, MOVING ON TO 
          [2.C. MetroBike Update]
ITEM TWO C TWO C UH, METRO BANK UPDATE FROM JASON, JOHN MICHAEL. 
          UH, THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANGE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DAVID OR PRESENT ON, UH, I BELIEVE ATD SIDE. 
          AND THEN I BELIEVE, UH, COOKS KIRK WILL BE PRESENTING ON YEAH. 
          OR CHAD BALLANTINE. 
          ONE OF THE TWO WILL TAKE OVER THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, DAVID I'LL HAND IT OVER TO YOU. 
          HI, UM, MY NAME IS DAVID OR I WORK IN THIS FAR MOBILITY OFFICE OF THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, I'LL BE PRESENTING TODAY'S VENTRAL BACKUP DATE ON BEHALF OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, JASON, JOHN MICHAEL, ALONG WITH CHAD BALLANTINE, UH, THE DEMAND RESPONSE AND INNOVATIVE, INNOVATIVE MOBILITY VP AT CAP METRO. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO GO QUICKLY OVER HOW IT STARTED AND HOW IT'S GOING AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THOSE SO IN SUMMER OF 2013, UM, THE CITY'S FIRST PUBLIC BIKE SHARE STARTED THE AUSTIN V CYCLE SYSTEM. 
          AND, UM, IT STARTED WITH A CONTRACT WITH B CYCLE SUBSIDIARY OF TRACK AND BIKE SHARE BOSTON FIVE YEARS, TWO SEPARATE CONTRACTS. 
          THE SUMMER OF 2018. 
          EACH OF THESE CONTRACTS WERE EXTENDED ANOTHER FIVE YEARS TO 2023 IN THE SUMMER OF 2020. 
          UM, WE SIGNED AN INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH CAP METRO TO PARTNER ON THE EXPANSION AND, AND MAKE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM IN FALL OF 2021. 
          UM, THERE WAS A STRATEGIC EXPANSION PLAN COMPLETED BY NELSON NYGAARD, WHICH, UH, MAPPED OUT, UM, PROPOSED EXPANSION TO THE SYSTEM. 
          UM, AND THAT IN SUMMER OF 2022 NOW, UM, WE ARE PROPOSING TO DO, UH, A NEW INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT AND UPDATED INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT AMENDMENT WITH CAP METRO. 
          AND THIS WOULD BE A TEN-YEAR AGREEMENT. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO IN 2013, IT STARTED OFF, UM, WITH THE 11TH STATION, A HUNDRED BIKES. 
          AND IN 2014, WE WERE UP TO 43 BIKES OR 43 STATIONS AND 350 BIKES ALL THE WAY TILL NOW. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE ALMOST 80 STATIONS AND ALMOST 850 BIKES. 
          UH, ABOUT 350 OF THOSE BIKES ARE, ARE E-BIKES ELECTRIC SEATS. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          UM, LAST YEAR, UM, WE HAD PROTEIN AND A QUARTER OF A MILLION RIDES TRIPS IN THE METRO BIKE SYSTEM. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          OH, AND JUST KNOW THAT THE, UH, THAT THE E-BIKES, EVEN THOUGH THEY REPRESENT LESS THAN HALF AND REPRESENT MOST OF THE RIDE THAT OCCUR IN THE SYSTEM THEY'RE PREFERRED, UM, LIKE AT A FOUR TO ONE RATIO OVER THE OLD, UH, UM, MANUAL PEDAL BIKES. 
          ANOTHER INNOVATION IS, UH, WE NOW ARE INTRODUCING THESE MODULAR DOCKS, WHICH, UM, EACH INDEPENDENTLY CHECK IN AND CHECK OUT BIKES AND LANE STALLED ABOUT AS EASILY AND TAKE UP THE FOOTPRINT, UH, A STANDARD U SHAPED BIKE RACK. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY QUICK. 
          THEY, THEY, UM, THEY FIT THE STREET FURNITURE AND TREES VERY NICELY. 
          WE DON'T HAVE CAB THIS, UH, 35 OR 40 FOOT BY SIX FOOT FOOTPRINT REACH STATION. 
          SO IT'S GIVEN US A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY. 
          EXCELLENT, PLEASE. 
          AND A FUN THING IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S NOT FUN ABOUT IT, CAT RIDING A BICYCLE. 
          UM, WE HAVE AN ART INITIATIVE WITH, UM, VERY TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS. 
          UM, AND 
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WE HAVE BEEN PLACING THAT ART ON THE BIKES AND ON THE STATIONS, AND IT'S GETTING ALL OVER TOWN NOW. 
          AND, UM, WE JUST WANTED TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNEW THAT WERE DOING SOME FUN THINGS WITH IT TOO. 
          UM, AND NOW I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO VALENTINE TO TALK ABOUT WHERE WE GO FROM HERE. 
          NEXT ONE IS CHAD. 
          UH, THIS IS CHRISTOPHER PARKS, UTC LIAISON. 
          CAN YOU HEAR US OKAY? YES, I CAN HEAR YOU NOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THERE WE GO. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THAT WAS, UH, YEAH, SO I'M AGAIN, I'M CHAD VALENTINE, VICE PRESIDENT OF DEMAND RESPONSE AND INNOVATIVE MOBILITY AT CAPITAL METRO. 
          I'M VERY EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU ALL TODAY ABOUT THIS AS WELL. 
          IT'S BEEN A GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, AND IT'S REALLY GOING TO BE AN AWESOME PARTNERSHIP. 
          MOVING FORWARD. 
          WE HAVE BIG PLANS. 
          UM, WE'VE, UH, UH, ALREADY WORKED WITH OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO GET APPROVAL, TO ENTER INTO AN EXTENDED TENURE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, TO REALLY EXPAND AND IMPROVE THE BIKE SHARE SYSTEM. 
          WE'LL BE GOING TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, COUNCIL MEETING IN JULY TO DO THIS. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO IS WE'RE LOOKING TO MAKE THIS THE BEST BIKE SHARE PROGRAM IN THE COUNTRY. 
          BUT, UM, MORE SPECIFICALLY, UH, WE'RE LOOKING TO TRANSITION OUR, UH, FLEET TO AN ALL E ASSIST ELECTRIC FLEET. 
          UM, THOSE ARE AS, AS DAVID MENTIONED, INCREDIBLY POPULAR, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T USED THEM, I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GET ON THERE AND TRY THEM. 
          THEY'RE AWESOME. 
          UM, THEY REALLY EXTEND THE REACH OF THE SERVICE AND OF THE PROGRAM. 
          WE'LL BE DOING A LOT OF COORDINATION WITH THE TRANSIT FOR FIRST MILE, LAST MILE INTEGRATION, AS WELL AS REALLY, AS WE ROLL OUT PROJECT CONNECT WITH, UH, ALL OF THE DIFFERENT LIGHT RAIL LINES, AS WELL AS THE METRO RAPID LINES, REALLY MAKING THIS A HAND IN HAND KIND OF EXPANSION SO THAT IT JUST NATURALLY COORDINATES WELL WITH TRANSIT. 
          UM, WE'LL REALLY FOCUS ON ALSO PROMOTING METRO BIKE TO NEW AND NEW USERS. 
          UM, CERTAINLY WE WANT TO KEEP OUR EXISTING USERS, BUT WE REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE AN EQUITY COMPONENT TO WHERE WE GET, UM, FOLKS WHO AREN'T GENERALLY ON BIKES. 
          UH, NOWADAYS WE REALLY WANT TO EXPAND THE REACH OF THE METRO BIKE, UH, PROGRAM, UM, TO NON-TRADITIONAL COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING FOLKS, UH, MAYBE EVEN GROUPS WHERE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER, UH, AWESOME THING TO SEE IF WE COULD DO THAT. 
          UM, SO THAT'S OUR PLAN AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          WE, UM, YOU KNOW, DAVID SAW, UH, SHOWED YOU THAT, UH, MODULAR DOCK THAT WE HAVE THAT 3.0 DOC AS WE CALL IT THAT SINGLE DOC THAT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING WE WANT TO START DOING A LITTLE BIT MORE OF IS REALLY PUTTING THESE STATIONS INTO SMALLER PLACES WHERE WE CAN REALLY PUT IN A VERY SPECIFIC ANSWER TO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, A TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGE THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST WHERE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THOSE HUGE DOCS WITH 8, 10, 15, UM, DOCS, WHICH DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO PUT INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          SO THIS GIVES US A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY. 
          UM, AND OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO INTEGRATE WITH THE ALL AGES AND ALL ABILITIES BICYCLE NETWORK THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN WORKING ON. 
          UM, I'M JUST BLOWN AWAY BY WHAT ALL HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE. 
          I THINK WE'VE ALREADY HIT OVER 200 MILES OF THIS BICYCLE NETWORK AND WE'RE MOVING TO 400 MILES OF THIS NETWORK. 
          SO MAKING SURE THAT THE BIKE SHARE PROGRAM IS EXPANDED ALONG WITH THAT, IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY A KEY ELEMENT. 
          AND THEN WE WOULD JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. 
          UM, W CAP METRO IS GREAT AT, UH, YOU KNOW, MAINTENANCE AND ONGOING OPERATIONS. 
          AND SO WE WANT TO BRING THAT TO THE METRO BIKE PROGRAM BY CONTINUING TO KEEP THE STAFF WE HAVE, BUT JUST GIVE THEM THE RESOURCES. 
          THEY NEED TO REALLY UP THE GAME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, UM, MORE UPTIME, UH, BETTER MAINTENANCE AND, UM, JUST BETTER AVAILABILITY ACROSS THE BOARD. 
          AND NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO, UM, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING, UM, MAYBE FOUR WITH AN INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          UM, BECAUSE OUR FIRST ROUND OF THE INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT WAS GREAT, BUT WE KNOW WE CAN DO BETTER. 
          WE KNOW WE CAN DO MORE. 
          UH, SO WE WANT TO TRANSITION THE, UH, BIKE SHARE OF AUSTIN STAFF. 
          THE NONPROFIT IS CURRENTLY RUNNING THE PROGRAM. 
          WE WANT TO TRANSITION THEM TO OUR, UM, CAP METRO STAFF, UM, BRING THEM IN PAY, UH, YOU KNOW, LIVING WAGES, BENEFITS, YOU KNOW, REALLY MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS A SUSTAINABLE PROGRAM FOR THE LONGTERM. 
          WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY IS GOING TO BE A BIG KEY AS WELL WITH THIS. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE, WE 
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KNOW THAT WE NEED TO MAKE THIS AS A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL. 
          UM, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S EQUITY, THAT'S GOING TO BE A BIG COMPONENT OF IT. 
          SO WE WON'T ALWAYS JUST BE CHASING FAIRS. 
          WE REALLY WANT TO, YOU KNOW, ADD ELEMENTS LIKE, UM, AN AFFORDABLE PROGRAM CONTINUED THE PROGRAM THEY HAVE WITH A $5 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP, POTENTIALLY EXPAND THAT WITH OTHER NEW OPPORTUNITIES. 
          SO WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE IS IT'S A TEN-YEAR EXPANSION. 
          UM, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO IN THE ROUND, THE GENERAL BALLPARK OF ABOUT $11 MILLION, UH, HAVE AN EXPANSION FOR THE PROGRAM, WHICH WOULD BE, UM, PRETTY TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR THE WHOLE PROGRAM. 
          UM, THIS WILL, UH, REALLY FOCUS ON THE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT, YOU KNOW, THE NEW BIKES, THE E-BIKES, UH, BETTER STATIONS, MORE RELIABLE, UM, MORE RELIABLE, JUST INTERACTION IN GENERAL. 
          UM, AND, UM, SO THAT'S THE GENERAL DIRECTION WE'RE GOING WITH THIS INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT, NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND YEAH, SO THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT, WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. 
          WE'LL TAKE QUESTIONS. 
          UM, WE DO PLAN TO DO AN, A LARGE EXPANSION THAT WE'LL, WE'LL BE WORKING THROUGH THE EXPANSION PLANS, UH, COMING IN THE NEXT, UH, UH, SIX TO NINE MONTHS COMING BACK TO EVERYONE. 
          AND IT'S GOING TO BE AN INCREDIBLY, UH, PARTICIPATORY PROCESS WHERE WE GO AND ENGAGE WITH FOLKS. 
          WE WILL CERTAINLY INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THE TRANSIT SYSTEMS GOING, THE BIKE NETWORKS BEING BUILT, BUT ALSO TALK ABOUT WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE USING THE SYSTEM, UM, AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 
          IT'S VERY EXCITING TRANSITION. 
          SO, UM, IF IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH THE COMMITTEE, WE CAN CERTAINLY OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I'M GOING TO JUMP IN WITH A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE I FIND THIS VERY EXCITING AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF THE A HUNDRED PERCENT E-BIKE AND IN PARTICULAR, THE THREE O MODULAR DOCS. 
          I MEAN, I LOVE THE IDEA OF A PAIR OF BIKES, DEEP IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT PEOPLE ARE NEAR TRANSIT, BUT THEY'RE NOT REALLY NEAR ENOUGH TO WALK. 
          AND SO I, HAVEN'T JUST A STRATEGIC QUESTION FOR Y'ALL IF, IF YOU'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS, AND IF YOU HAVE, WHERE YOU LAND ON, ARE THESE THREE O MODULAR DOCS, IS THERE A SPLIT OR STRATEGIC DECISION, IS IT TO TRY AND GET NEW USERS INTO THE SYSTEM? YOU KNOW, JUST TOTALLY INTO THE BIKING SYSTEM, THERE A STRATEGY FOR GETTING PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSIT, YOU KNOW, USERS LIKELY TRANSIT USERS BECAUSE THEY'RE AREAS FAIRLY RICH, BUT MAYBE THEY'RE JUST A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE THE WATERSHED. 
          YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT REALLY A SCOOTER TERRITORY, YOU KNOW, TO GET SO, TO, TO LIKE DIG DEEPER INTO TRANSIT USERS AND MAKE THEM MORE OF TRANSIT USERS, OR HOW, WHAT IS YOUR STRATEGIC THINKING ON THAT? I CAN START IN IF I MISS ANYTHING, DAVID, YOU CAN CERTAINLY JUMP IN, UH THERE'S UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE FOUND WITH THESE E-BIKES IS THAT PEOPLE GO A LOT FURTHER. 
          SO THOSE MANUAL HEAVY MANUAL, MANUALLY POWERED BIKES, YOU JUST DON'T GO AS FAR. 
          UM, AND SO NOW THAT WE HAVE THESE E-BIKES, UH, THESE ESS BIKES, YOU CAN GO SO MUCH FURTHER. 
          SO THIS REALLY ALLOWS US TO GET THAT EXTRA REACH THAT WE NORMALLY WOULDN'T GET WITH THE MANUAL BIKES. 
          AND SO THIS IS JUST AN ADDITIONAL TOOL TO KIND OF ADD EXTRA ELEMENTS WHERE IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO BUILD THE WHOLE STATION. 
          UM, IT, IT'S KINDA, YOU KNOW, WE'RE USING THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB, WHEREAS, YOU KNOW, WE JUST USED A HAMMER FOR EVERYTHING WITH A LARGER STATION. 
          NOW WE CAN REALLY GET FINE, UH, INFORMATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC SMALLER AREAS. 
          AND IT ALSO ALLOWS US TO, INSTEAD OF JUST PUTTING THEM ALL IN ONE CHUNK, IT ALLOWS US MAYBE A CORNER HERE, A STREET CORNER OVER THERE, MAYBE DOWN THE BLOCK, BECAUSE THE MORE CONCENTRATED YOU HAVE SOME OF THESE, UM, AREAS, AND THE MORE PEOPLE CAN SEE THE DOCKS, THE MORE IT'S ON THEIR MIND AND THE MORE THEY FEEL LIKE IT'S A MORE RELIABLE, UM, OPPORTUNITIES. 
          SO IT, IT ALLOWS US TO KIND OF GET INTO THOSE SMALLER SPACES. 
          UM, AND, AND WE THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER POTENTIAL USES FOR IT. 
          AS WE CONTINUE DOWN THE PATH OF LOOKING AT WHERE ALL WE CAN STICK THESE, BECAUSE YOU JUST DON'T NEED AS MUCH REAL ESTATE AS WELL. 
          THAT'S ANOTHER REALLY NICE THING WHEN YOU'VE GOT THOSE SMALL, AWKWARD SPACES THAT JUST DON'T REALLY QUITE FIT A WHOLE STATION. 
          THEY'RE REALLY GOOD SOLUTIONS FOR THAT AS WELL. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, SO SMALLER, UM, STATIONS, UM, CLOSER TOGETHER, DEEPER IN NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          UM, IT'S KIND OF THE GOAL IS, YOU KNOW, AND JUST THE FLEXIBILITY OF THEM. 
          UH, THE ALL STATIONS ARE SOLAR POWERED AND THE CURRENT ONES HAVE, UM, HAVE SWAPPABLE BATTERIES IN THEM. 
          SO, UM, WE'RE NOT CONSTANTLY LOOKING TO SEE IF WE HAVE ENOUGH SUNLIGHT EXPOSURE TO KEEP THE STATIONS RUN. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, I JUST WANT TO ASK THE QUESTION MAYBE IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE A STRATEGY FOR WHICH OF THE KINDS OF, UH, POTENTIAL USERS TO, TO PLACE THESE, I MEAN, I AGREE WITH ALL THE THINGS YOU SAID, IS THIS GOING, I'M JUST GONNA PICK RANDOM PLACES OUT AT BOEHM AND SPRINGDALE, YOU KNOW, LIKE PRETTY FAR FROM THE CITY, BUT, UM, STILL AREAS WITH SOME DENSITY OR IS IT, YOU KNOW, DENSER NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE YOU THINK THEY MIGHT BE A LOT OF USERS WHO DON'T NORMALLY USE THIS KIND OF SYSTEM? YOU KNOW, I'M 
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JUST INTERESTED IN WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO DISTRIBUTE THESE RESOURCES. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, WELL, UH, ONE OF THE KEY PIECES OF THIS IS IT DOESN'T HAVE A KIOSK, SO IT'S NOT A SCREEN, YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD HAVE TO USE A SMARTPHONE TO ACCESS THESE OR A FOB. 
          AND SO WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAUTIOUS ABOUT PUTTING THEM ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE FOR FOLKS THAT DON'T HAVE A SMARTPHONE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE USING A SMARTPHONE AREN'T USED TO USING A SMARTPHONE. 
          UM, GENERALLY THAT IS, UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OR LIKE THE STUDENT POPULATION THEY'RE REALLY SAVVY WITH THE SMARTPHONES. 
          AND SO THAT'S AN EASY FIT FOR THOSE KINDS OF AREAS. 
          UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'RE STILL LEARNING HOW TO USE THEM. 
          AND, AND WHERE ARE THEY? THEY FIT BEST BECAUSE THESE ARE BRAND NEW, THESE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'RE STILL JUST TESTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TECHNOLOGY WORKS WELL. 
          SO, UH, THERE ARE A LOT OF USE CASES THAT WE COULD DO WITH THESE. 
          UM, AND SO WE'RE STILL KIND OF WORKING THROUGH THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S A TOTALLY VALID ANSWER. 
          AND THEN ONE MORE QUESTION AND THEN A LITTLE BIT UP TO THE REST. 
          I WAS GLAD TO HEAR YOU SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO SO MUCH FAIR CHASING, UM, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS PLANNING FOR BRINGING INTO NEXT MONTH'S UTC MEETING IS, UM, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED A BASICALLY UNLIMITED DEBIT CARD, UNLIMITED FOB CARD FOR THE E-BIKES BECAUSE THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN IS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE USE THE BIKES AND IF YOU'RE NOT REALLY CHASING THE FAIRS, YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE WORTH SEEING WHAT THAT IS. 
          IS THAT UNDER CONSIDERATION AT ALL? I THINK EVERYTHING'S UNDER CONSIDERATION. 
          I KNOW THAT'S TERRIBLE ANSWER, BUT EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONSIDERATION BECAUSE WHEN WE DE-LINK THE, YOU KNOW, GETTING FARES TO THE REST OF THE PROGRAM, THAT WE CAN JUST REALLY REFRAME HOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT EVERYTHING AND HOW PEOPLE USE IT. 
          OUR MAIN GOAL IS TO GET MORE PEOPLE ON BIKES AND USING BIKES AND MAKE THEM MORE RELIABLE AND MAKE THEM MORE OF AN EVERYDAY OPTION FOR PEOPLE. 
          SO, UM, OUR GOAL IS GOING TO BE MORE DRIVEN BY TRYING TO GET PEOPLE ON BIKES AND ALSO MAKING IT EASY TO USE BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH TRANSIT, WE WOULD LOVE TO MAKE THIS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY SEAMLESS. 
          IF YOU HAVE YOUR TRANSIT, UM, YOU KNOW, FAIR, YOU CAN MAYBE HAVE A SMART CARD. 
          WE'RE, WE'RE ROLLING OUT AN AMP PROGRAM WITH OUR TRANSIT SYSTEM. 
          WE'D LOVE TO INTEGRATE THAT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WHERE WE COULD EVEN HAVE EMPLOYERS WHO PAY FOR EMPLOYEES TO USE THE BUS AND BIKES AND ALL THAT, SO THAT YOU'RE NOT REALLY ADDING UP WHEN YOU GET ON AND OFF THE BIKE, AS MUCH AS JUST MORE YOU GET OFF THE BUS, YOU GET ON THE BIKE, YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT VERY QUICK, SEAMLESS TRANSITION. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO THAT WHERE WE'RE REALLY GETTING AWAY FROM CHASING THE FUNDS AND FOCUSING ON WHAT THE USER EXPERIENCE IS GOING TO BE. 
          CAUSE I THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE THE BEST WAY TO GET PEOPLE USING THESE IS, UM, MY KID EASY. 
          IT NEEDS TO BE EASY AND YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT. 
          AND THE MORE WE DO THAT, I THINK THE BETTER WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO GET MORE RIDERS FOR SURE. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THAT DETAIL. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          IT'S YEAH, MY QUESTION WAS GOING TO BE WHAT IS THE CURRENT INTEGRATION FOR THE FARE AND THE, THE WHOLE PAYMENT SYSTEM WITH CAP METRO AND HOW'S THAT MORPHED OVER THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS. 
          UH, AND YOU MENTIONED YOU, YOU ARE PLANNING TO MAKE SOME ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT, JUST A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON THAT AREA. 
          YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          UM, SO, YOU KNOW, TWO YEARS AGO IT WAS REALLY, YOU HAD TO HAVE THE, UH, THE AUSTIN V CYCLE LAB AND THEN CAP METRO FAIRS, AND THEY WERE VERY DIFFERENT. 
          WE'VE DONE THE FIRST STEP OF AN INTEGRATION WHERE YOU CAN ON THE CAP METRO APP, BUY ONE PASS. 
          THAT IS FOR A TRANSIT AND A BIKE, ALL ONE TRANSACTION, REALLY COOL, BUT THE ONLY PROBLEM IS IT'S A DEEP INTEGRATION. 
          AND ONCE YOU ACTIVATE YOUR, YOUR BIKE, YOU STILL HAVE TO DOWNLOAD THE BIKE SHARE APP TO UNLOCK IT. 
          SO IT'S NOT A GOOD USER EXPERIENCE RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, THAT WAS SORT OF OUR, YOU KNOW, STEP ONE ARE TIPTOEING INTO SORT OF THESE INTEGRATED FAIRS. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. 
          WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BUY THE PAST, BUT YOU, YOU STILL KIND OF HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THAT APP AND THEN IT'LL UNLOCK THE BIKE. 
          SO WE'D WANT TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN INTEGRATE THE APPS THAT YOU ONLY HAVE TO HAVE ONE APP OR ONE ACCOUNT, SO THAT IT'S A LOT EASIER, BUT THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THIS INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT. 
          THIS REALLY OPENS THE DOOR FOR US TO COMMIT SOME HEAVY DOLLARS TO INVESTING INTO MAKING THAT A LITTLE BIT, UH, MORE SEAMLESS BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S A LITTLE CLUNKY. 
          I WILL ADMIT MS. JACK CAT, METRO IS VERY COMMITTED TO MAKING BOTH TECHNOLOGIES WORK TOGETHER. 
          YOU KNOW, THERE'S OBVIOUS CHALLENGES, DIFFERENT TYPES OF CARDS, DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPS, DIFFERENT TYPES OF BARCODES AND SCAN CODES. 
          BUT, UM, THEY'RE VERY SERIOUS ABOUT SUPPORTING THE MOVE TO, YOU KNOW, A SINGLE APP IN A SINGLE WAY TO USE BOTH SYSTEMS. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT HOW FAR OUT YOU INTEND TO PLACE STATIONS, BECAUSE IF I RENTED A BIKE FROM DOWNTOWN, LIKE IN THE FIRST HOUR OF THE FREE BICYCLING, I COULD GET OUT TO THE Q2 STADIUM 
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OR I COULD GET ALL THE WAY TO THE TARGET DOWN ON SOUTH MOPAC AND DO SOME ERRANDS. 
          BUT IF I HAVE NO PLACE TO CHECK IT IN AND I'M INCURRING FEES FOR THE ENTIRE TIME, THE BIKE IS THERE, THAT'S A LITTLE COST PROHIBITIVE. 
          UM, BUT ALSO IF YOU CAN GO SO MUCH FURTHER ON AN E-BIKE, UM, IS THAT PART OF YOUR PLAN, LIKE TO PUT THE STATIONS REALLY LIKE FAR OUT LIKE PAST 180 3 SOUTH OF 71? SO RIGHT NOW, WHAT WILL WE, WE'LL BE TALKING MORE ABOUT OUR STRATEGIC EXPANSION IN THE COMING MONTHS IN THIS COMING YEAR, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE PART OF THE DISCUSSION. 
          UH, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS BALANCE. 
          WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH DENSITY SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO CHECK YOUR BIKE IN AND CHECK YOUR BIKE OUT. 
          UM, CAUSE THAT'S KEY. 
          CAUSE IF YOU'RE TRAVELING REALLY FAR AND YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO CHECK IT IN, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE VERY EFFECTIVE. 
          UM, AND SO THE, WE ARE GOING TO SLOWLY BUILD THIS OUT. 
          IT'S BEST NOT TO DO ISLANDS. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO BUILD THIS OUT IN SORT OF A CONTIGUOUS METH, UH, MANNER. 
          UM, BUT BY PARTNERING WITH A TRANSIT. 
          SO BY PUTTING THIS AT ALL, THE RAPID STOPS, THE RAIL STOPS AND ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS THAT WILL AT LEAST ALLOW FOLKS TO GET TO SAY, Q2 STADIUM, IF YOU WANT TO GET, TAKE YOUR BIKE OVER TO PLAZA LTO AND TAKE THE TRAIN TO Q2 STADIUM, THAT IS AN OPTION TOO. 
          SO THAT IF IT IS, IT IS POSSIBLE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY DEFINITE BOUNDARIES RIGHT NOW AS TO WHERE IT WILL OR WILL NOT GO. 
          THAT'S GOING TO LARGELY BE DRIVEN BY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PIECE. 
          UM, AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT AND AS WELL AS FUNDING TOO, I MEAN, I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM HAVING IT ALL OVER THE, ALL OVER THE CITY IF I POSSIBLY COULD FAR NORTH OURSELVES AS, AS FAR AS WE CAN TAKE IT. 
          UM, SO THAT'S GONNA REALLY RELY ON FUNDING AND ALSO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR THAT PROCESS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ARE THERE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS? OKAY. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT, WELL THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. 
          I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY OTHER FOLLOW-UP. 
          I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          MOVING 
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ONTO THE NEXT ITEM. 
          UH, ITEM D THE NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE PLAZA AND, UM, I GUESS STATE PRESERVATION BOARD HAS ALRIGHT, MR. KERNS READY WHEN YOU ARE. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. 
          MY NAME IS CHRIS CURRAN, SOME WITH THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD MORNING RECRUIT OR GOOD EVENING ROOM. 
          UM, I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO, UH, UH, GIVE A SMALL PRESENTATION ON THE, UH, UH, SOME PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS. 
          THIS STATE HOPES, UH, IT CAN WORK WITH THE CITY TO MAKE, UH, AT THE, UH, NORTH, UH, CONGRESS AVENUE INTERSECTION WITH, UH, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BOULEVARD. 
          ACTUALLY, I SHOULD SAY THE FORMER NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE AT THIS POINT, IT'S NOW, UM, UH, BEING CONVERTED INTO A LARGE PEDESTRIAN MALL. 
          IF YOU COULD ADVANCE THE SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AND, UH, HERE'S A RENDERING THAT WOULD SHOW YOU, UH, W W IT, RIGHT NOW, IT'S JUST A WHOLE LOT OF DIRT BEING MOVED ALL OVER THE PLACE, BUT A FEW TREES ARE GOING IN THE, UH, TO WHAT WOULD BE THE LEFT SIDE OF THAT, UM, UH, GRAND LA THERE, AND PROBABLY BY, UH, THE FALL, WE'LL BE, UH, INVITING, UH, AUSTIN TO COME DOWN AND, UH, START USING THIS NEW CIVIC AMENITY. 
          UH, THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, AS PART OF SOME LONG-TERM PLANNING THAT WE INITIATED IN 2016, WHICH WAS ALSO THE TIME THAT THE CITY PASSED A MOBILITY BOND IN 2016 AND UNIVERSITY EMBARKED ON THEIR, UH, SPEEDWAY MALL. 
          UH, WE FEEL LIKE, UM, ALL THREE ENTITIES, UH, HAVE FINALLY REACHED A POINT WHERE THE, THE PLANS THAT WERE ASPIRATIONAL SIX YEARS AGO HAVE COME TO FRUITION AND, UH, WE NEED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. 
          AND THIS KIND OF GOES THROUGH HISTORY OF, OF HOW WE ARRIVED AT WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 
          THE SEQUENCING WAS TO BUILD THE FIRST, UH, SECTION OF THE MALL, CONTINUE THIS SLIDE PLEASE, WHICH IS SHOWN IN THE ORANGE THERE. 
          AND THEN HERE'S AN ISOMETRIC VIEW THAT KIND OF SHOWS THE MASS SCENE OF THE TWO BUILDINGS, WHICH ARE, UM, SOMEWHAT, UM, MORE ELABORATE, UH, WITH SKINS, BUT THE MASS SCENE IS PRETTY MUCH, UH, ADEQUATE TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TO THE FAR RIGHT, WOULD BE WHERE THE GEORGE H W BUSH BUILDING, UH, FRONTS, UM, THE FORMER CONGRESS AVENUE RIGHT AWAY AND, UH, TO ITS RIGHT, WOULD BE A MARTIN LUTHER KING. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE ON JUST THE OTHER SIDE, LEAVING THE FRAME, UH, THE BLANTON MUSEUM, UH, MORE TO THE CENTER OF THE PICTURE IS THE BARBARA JORDAN BUILDING, UH, WHICH WILL 
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THEN WILL START OCCUPYING IN JULY, UH, LATE THIS MONTH IN EARLY JULY. 
          CONTINUE THE SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND THE SECOND PHASE IS NOW UNDER, UH, UNDERWAY. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING SOME OF THE EXPLORATORY WORK ON THE SITES, WHICH ARE PRESENTLY TWO PARKING LOTS, UH, AT 15TH STREET, UH, W THE WORK THERE SHOULD THE CONSTRUCTION WORK, RIGHT? UH, CURRENTLY THERE'S, UH, UM, ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING BEING DONE. 
          UH, BUT THE CONSTRUCTION WORK PROBABLY START IN EARLY 20, 23, AND WE'LL TAKE ABOUT TWO AND A HALF TO THREE YEARS TO COMPLETE, UH, THAT'S SHOWN BY THE LIGHTER ORANGE IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION OR THE PREVIOUS, UH, UH, PHASE OF THE WORK IS SHOWN IN THE RED CONTINUE. 
          AND THIS JUST SHOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, HERE WE ARE, WE'RE, UM, WE'RE BRINGING 3000, UM, MORE STATE EMPLOYEES DOWN TO, UM, UH, THE CENTER OF DOWNTOWN TO THE CAPITOL COMPLEX. 
          IT'S AN AREA THAT'S BOUNDED BY 10TH STREET TO THE SOUTH MLK TO THE NORTH, UH, LAVACA TO THE WEST AND TRINITY TO THE EAST OF WHICH, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GROWN. 
          WE WILL BE GROWING FROM ABOUT, UH, 9,000 TO ABOUT 12 TO 13,000 STATE EMPLOYEES. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, WHICH INTERESTING WOULD BE LIKE FORT WORTH ABSORBING LUBBOCK IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, UH, IF YOU WANT TO GET A SENSE OF SCALE. 
          UH, SO WE'RE GETTING READY TO HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON, UH, THE NORTHERN TIER OF DOWNTOWN. 
          UH, THIS IS, UH, A DETAIL FROM OUR MASTER PLAN WHERE WE, UH, DISCUSSED, UH, WITH OUR URBAN PLANNERS AND WITH THE STUDY, HOW WE WOULD TREAT SOME OF THE ROADS AND, UH, THAT WOULD DO NEED TO CROSS THE, UM, UH, THE MALL SPACE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, TO PROVIDE SOME CIRCULATION WITHIN OUR CAPITOL COMPLEX AND TO, YOU KNOW, FOR THE BETTERMENT OF JUST A GENERAL, UH, UH, TRANSPORTATION GRID AND THROUGH THE NORTHERN TIER OF DOWNTOWN, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A SPEED TABLE AND A DIFF, UH, IN A DIFFERENTIATED, YOU KNOW, UH, UM, SURFACE FOR THE STREET, YOU KNOW, IT'S DEPICTED IN THE PINKISH RED COLOR AND, UH, WHERE THE STREETS, UH, 16TH, 17TH, AND 18TH STREET CROSS THE MALL, UH, CONTINUE SO INTERNAL TO OUR SPACE. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WILL BE MAKING THOSE IMPROVEMENTS, AND THOSE WILL BE, UH, PART OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE NEXT THREE TO FOUR MONTHS AS WE COMPLETE THE MALL. 
          WHAT WE ALSO STUDIED WAS WHAT NEEDED TO OCCUR ON THE STREETS, ON OUR PERIMETER, THE MAJOR ARTERIALS AND THE HERE IS, UM, UH, MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THE CROSS SECTION, UM, YOU KNOW, IS, UH, UH, UH, WELL, LET ME SAY THE CROSS SECTION HERE. 
          UH, IT'S THE SAME AS WHAT THE CITY HAS ALSO COME UP WITH IN THE 2016, UM, UH, MOBILITY BOND, IF YOU'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I BELIEVE THAT'S WHERE IT'LL SHOW THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE TWO. 
          YES, THERE, YOU HAVE IT. 
          UH, THIS IS OUT OF THE, UH, 2016 BOND PROPOSAL. 
          CROSS-SECTION FOR WHAT MLK WOULD, UH, LOOK LIKE. 
          UH, WE, UH, BY WAY OF THIS, UH, KIND OF SHOWS THAT ALL ENTITIES ARE, UM, IN AGREEMENT AS TO WHAT THE PROFILE OF THE STREET CROSS CROSS SECTION NEEDS TO BE. 
          UH, AND, UH, IF YOU'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, AND THIS ALSO SHOWS THAT 15TH STREET, SOME WORK THAT NEEDS, UH, SHOWS THE, THE, THE CROSS SECTION FOR 15TH, UH, THE IDEAS FOR THE CAPITOL SQUARE, WHICH INTERESTINGLY, UH, AUSTIN, TEXAS IS ONE OF MAYBE A DOZEN CITIES OUT OF HUNDREDS OF CITIES IN THE WORLD, UH, THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY CREATED, UH, AS THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE ORIGINAL HISTORIC GRID FOR THE STATE, UH, FOR THE PLANNING OF THE CITY BY WALLER WAS CAPITOL SQUARE, WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 180 PLUS YEARS. 
          SO WE'RE ADDING A CAPITOL MALL, UH, TO THAT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THIS WILL BE A MAJOR LINKAGE. 
          WE'LL COME TO TALK WITH YOU ALL. 
          AND SEVERAL YEARS SINCE WE FINISHED PHASE TWO, BUT LET'S CONTINUE FORWARD HERE. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS, AS I'VE SAID, WE ADDRESS IN OUR PLANS ACTIVELY CURRENT, UH, THEY'RE ACTIVELY BEING BUILT, UH, THE CROSS STREETS, UH, AS YOU SEE, 18TH AND 17TH AND 16TH, WHAT IS AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THAT RENDERING IS A 
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SPEED TABLE, UH, ALBEIT KIND OF RATHER GENERIC, BUT THE IDEA IS TO, UM, SUGGEST THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TYPE OF DIFFERENTIATION, UH, TO THE URBAN STREET SCAPE THERE, UM, AS THE CAPITOL MALL, UH, CROSSES OVER TO THE BLANTON. 
          UM, AND, UM, WHAT'S INTERESTING, WE'VE ALL STARTED THIS PLAN SIX YEARS AGO. 
          WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT, UNFORTUNATELY. 
          UH, WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT 1970S, UH, URBAN, UH, UH, ARTERIAL THERE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND HERE'S JUST A SMALL RENDERING OUT OF OUR, OR JUST A SMALL TAKE OUT OF OUR, UM, MASTER PLAN THAT SHOWS HOW THE STREET MIGHT RELATE TO OUR SITE. 
          AND OF COURSE, SOMEWHAT ANONYMOUSLY ON THE NORTH SIDE, UH, THE BLANTON WHO, UH, WE WOULD WANT TO ENGAGE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ALONG WITH THIS CITY AND HOW TO CREATE A PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY, UH CROSS-WALK UM, OR CROSSING SPACE, NOT JUST ACROSS WALK, UH, BETWEEN THE TWO ENTITIES. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, THIS IS DIRECTLY OUT OF THE, UH, UH, THE 2016 MOBILITY BOND, UH, ALLOWED A BELIEVER $1.9 MILLION FOR, UH, PLANS, UH, TO IMPROVE, UH, MLK ALL THE WAY FROM 1 32  WITHIN THIS SECTION, WHICH WAS I 35 TO, UM, LAMAR BOULEVARD FOR THE $1.9 MILLION. 
          THEY BASICALLY DID AN OVERLAY OF AN EXISTING CONDITION AND SAID, THAT'S, AS FAR AS WE HAVE DOLLARS TO, UM, TAKE THIS PROJECT, UH, IF YOU'LL NOTICE JUST TO THE LEFT THERE, YOU CAN SEE THE INTERSECTION WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          IT HAS JUST VERY BASIC, UH, OUTLINES OF WHAT MIGHT BE SOME MEDIANS, UH, SOME CROSSWALK IMPROVEMENTS, BUT REALLY NONE OF THE, UH, EMBELLISHMENTS THAT WOULD REALLY SET THIS AS REALLY CONVEY TO THE PEDESTRIAN THAT THIS IS A PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY ZONE. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          UH, ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT THE CAPITOL MALL IT'S INTENDED TO BE, UH, ACTIVELY OCCUPIED. 
          THIS IS A SMALL, UH, OUTDOOR, UH, AMPHITHEATER THAT WE'VE, UH, CONSTRUCTED THIS RENDERING, UH, KIND OF SHOWS THAT IT WOULD HAVE ABOUT A 300 TO 500 PERSON, UH, AUDIENCE, UH, CAPACITY. 
          UH, WE EXPECT THAT THIS WILL GET, UH, WEEKLY USE. 
          THE COURSE, THERE WILL BE SOME OBVIOUS, UH, MAYBE, UH, THE COLD OF WINTER IN THE HEAT OF SUMMER MIGHT BE SOME HIATUSES, BUT IN THE NICER WEATHER MONTHS, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, WEEKLY ACTIVITY WE'RE EXPECTING AT LEAST 400,000 PEOPLE OVER A YEAR USING THEM ALL, AND THAT'S OVER AND ABOVE WHAT WOULD BE, UH, THE STATE EMPLOYEE LOAD USING THEM ALL, WHICH WOULD ADD SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, UH, IF, UH, YOU KNOW, VISITS DAILY JUST AS A COME TO AND FROM WORK. 
          UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND HERE'S ANOTHER GREEN SPACE THAT WILL OCCUR IN OUR SECOND PHASE THAT WE CREATE AN INTERNAL, UM, PARK AMONGST, UH, SEVERAL HISTORIC STRUCTURES THAT STILL EXIST. 
          THEY'LL JUST SEND MANY CHURCH, THE COVERT HOUSE AND SOME OLDER APARTMENT BUILDINGS THAT WERE, UH, KEPT FROM, UH, THE WRECKING BALL, UH, MID LAST CENTURY. 
          UH, AGAIN, THE IDEA WAS TO CONVEY JUST HOW MUCH OF AN ACTIVE SPACE WE INTEND FOR, UH, THE CAPITOL MALL TO BECOME AS A, UM, UH, JIM STONE, IF YOU WOULD, FOR THE, UH, CIVIC TOMBSTONE FOR, UH, AUSTINITES AND TEXANS FROM ACROSS THE STATE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT I ALSO WANT TO BRING UP IS, YOU KNOW, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, THEY BUILT THEIR SPEEDWAY MALL. 
          THIS IS JUST A RENDERING, AND THEN I FEEL GOOD, OR THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU KNOW, IT SHOWS IT'S COMPLETE AND IT'S IN USE. 
          UH, THERE IS A, NOW A PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY WAY TO GET FROM DEAN KEATON, UH, DOWN TO 11TH STREET, BUT THEN WE HAVE, UM, UNFORTUNATELY MLK AND, UM, 15TH STREET ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, WHERE ABSOLUTELY IT COMES TO A CRASHING HALT. 
          WE GO RIGHT BACK TO AT 1970S, URBAN ARCHITECTURE, TRANSIT ARCHITECTURE, AND THEN WE 
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RESUME AGAIN WITH AN ICER, UH, UH, PEDESTRIAN, UH, GREEN SPACE. 
          UH, AGAIN, THAT SEEMS TO BE OVER AND OVER AGAIN, CITY PLANNERS, URBAN PLANNERS, TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, YOU ACTIVATE A CITY BY CREATING THESE WALKABLE SPACES. 
          WE'VE WE HAVE, WE HAVE BOTH COLLECTIVELY BETWEEN THE, UH, THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE PROBABLY SPENT A BILLION DOLLARS PUTTING TOGETHER A VERY, UH, INVITING PEDESTRIAN LANDSCAPE WHAT'S MISSING IS WHEN WE GET TO THE CITY STREETS, IT'S BACK IN THE PREVIOUS CENTURY. 
          AND, UH, WE'VE, UH, UH, IMPLORED THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. 
          WE REALLY WANT TO HAVE, UH, ALL THE PARTIES COME TO THE TABLE. 
          WE, WE ARE IN AGREEMENT ABOUT THE SYMMETRIES OR THE CROSS SECTIONS FOR THE STREETS, AND IT'S TIME TO ACT, UH, FURTHER AS IN NOT ONLY IS IT TIME BACK THAT ALL OUR PLANS CAME, BUT FINALLY THE SPACE WILL BE FINISHED. 
          THE UNIVERSITY IT'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          UH, THEY WILL BE IN THE NEXT YEAR COMPLETING THEIR NEW COURTYARD BETWEEN THE TWO BLANTON BUILDINGS, WHICH WILL, YOU KNOW, HAVE THESE, UH, VERY EYE-CATCHING, UH, STRUCTURES. 
          UM, AS I'VE SAID, THE CAPITAL MALL WILL BE DEFINITELY GETTING ITS SPEED UNDERNEATH THEM. 
          UH, THE, THE ABILITY TO SHARE ACROSS THESE SPACES, UH, IN A, UH, UH, SAFE MANNER, AND ALSO WANTING THIS TO AESTHETICALLY PLEASING TO A PEDESTRIAN WHERE THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S A GAME OF FROGGER, UM, YOU KNOW, TO GET ACROSS, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THESE, UH, HEAVILY TRAFFICKED, UH, URBAN ARTILLERY ARTERIALS, UH, CAN HAPPEN. 
          AND WHAT'S MORE, IT'S LIKE WHEN I'M SAYING IT'S SPANISH ZONE WISE, ALL OF THE BLOCKS THAT WE'VE TORN UP FOR THREE YEARS, ALL OF THE BLOCKS AT UT IS TORN UP FOR THREE YEARS BECAUSE THEY'VE HAD TO WORK ON, UH, THE REALIGNMENT OF RED RIVER. 
          AND, UH, THE OTHER WORK THEY'RE WERE DOING ON THEIR SOUTH EASTERN PART OF THE CAMPUS IS OVER WITH, AND NOW WE CAN PUT, YOU KNOW, SOME NEW STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT WILL ACTUALLY STAY THERE FOR, YOU KNOW, THEY WON'T BE TORN OUT IN TWO MORE YEARS BECAUSE OF THE NEW, LATEST AND GREATEST PLAN I'LL BE AT , WE'LL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 
          ORANGE LINE WILL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BUT, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS ONE POCKET, YOU KNOW, SIX BLOCKS EITHER WAY OR SIX BLOCKS, ONE WAY, THREE BLOCKS TOGETHER WILL BE KIND OF A, UH, UH, A COMPLETED ZONE. 
          AND, UH, THIS TYPE OF, UH, UH, END STAGE IMPROVEMENT WOULD HAVE A LASTING EFFECT. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          AND JUST ANOTHER RENDERING OF IF YOU WERE STANDING AT THE CAPITOL MALL LOOKING ACROSS, SO IT WOULD JUST BE THE VIEW. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THEY, YOU KNOW, THE, THE EARTH, THESE PLANNERS WHO BUILT THESE BEAUTIFUL, UH, CIVIC AMENITIES, YOU KNOW, OR JUST INVITING YOU TO USE THEM. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, RIBBON OF CONCRETE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS CARRYING 35 MILE AN HOUR TRAFFIC, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH, UH, YOU KNOW, BENT FOR LEATHER ON MAKING IT TO THE FREEWAY OR MAKING IT TO GUADALUPE THAT, UH, WE COULD CALM THE TRAFFIC DOWN, UM, AND ALLOW THOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS WE EXPECT TO HAVE, UH, UH, MORE OF A, UM, PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY EXPERIENCE. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO. 
          AND NEXT SLIDE, AND AGAIN, UH, UH, WANT TO THANK, UH, THE COMMISSION FOR HAVING US HERE THIS EVENING, UH, AND, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO ANY, UH, UH, QUESTIONS WE CAN ANSWER IN ANY INPUT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, UH, OFFER UP. 
          ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT, UM, FOR WAIT FOR THE PEOPLE TO GET IT ON THE SCREEN. 
          OKAY. 
          DO COMMISSIONERS HAVE QUESTIONS? COMMENTS SEEMED TO BE THE FIRST COMMENT OR EVERY TIME. 
          WELL, AS YOU KNOW, I SERVE AS THE LIAISON TO THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, AND THAT'S WHERE I FIRST HEARD THE PRESENTATION AND WE'VE HAD SO MANY CHANGES IN OUR STAFFING AND SO MANY ACTIVE PROJECTS UNDERWAY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS GOT THE ATTENTION THAT IT NEEDED, UH, NOT JUST CONTRIBUTING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, BUT IN THE DESIGN AND THE UPDATING, UH, I MEAN, FROM ALL SIDES FROM, LIKE HE JUST SAID THE SPEED, THE ACCESSIBILITY TO PEDESTRIANS AND BIKES AND KNOW ALL THE THINGS THAT THIS COMMITTEE TALKS ABOUT, OUR COMMISSION TALKS 
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ABOUT ALL THE TIME. 
          THIS IS A REAL GOOD PLACE TO FOCUS ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS. 
          AND THAT'S WHY I WAS EXCITED ABOUT BRINGING IT HERE. 
          YEAH. 
          WELL, THANK YOU FOR ME. 
          IT IS EXCITING. 
          AND I LOVE THE IDEA ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE VISUALIZATION IS NICE. 
          AND, AND, UM, YOU DEFINITELY SAY THE RIGHT THINGS. 
          AND SO MY QUESTION WOULD BE HOW IS IT GOING WITH THE CITY? IS THE CITY INDIFFERENT OR NOT ENGAGED ENOUGH OR THEY'RE ENGAGED, BUT NOT, UNFORTUNATELY, THE CITY'S EXTREMELY BUSY. 
          UM, I, AS I SAID IN THE PREVIOUS MEETING, I THINK THEY HAVE A CENTURY'S WORTH OF WORK EACH YEAR TO COMPLETE. 
          AND, UH, IT, SO IT'S HARD TO GET EVERYBODY TO FOCUS, BUT I THINK THAT, UH, BY, UH, REACHING OUT TO A FORUM SUCH AS THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, UH, COMMISSION, UH, IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, CAN WE ALL BRING IT TO THE TABLE, FOCUS ON, UM, UH, WHAT, WHAT THE CITY WOULD NEED TO TRIGGER THIS INTERNALLY, UH, TO GET STARTED. 
          AND, UH, THEN OBVIOUSLY, UH, THE, THE UNIVERSITY AND THE, UH, THE STATE MEAN TO OTHER LARGE STAKEHOLDERS AND WHAT INPUT WE CAN GIVE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S BEEN, UH, UH, A LOT OF STUDY IT'S BEEN SHALLOW, BUT IT'S BEEN WELL THOUGHT OUT. 
          AND THE, AND THE GROUNDWORK HAS BEEN, UH, HAS BEEN DONE. 
          SO WE'RE AT A POINT WHERE IT'S NEEDS TO, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, IF WE DON'T STOP AND FOCUS, THEN IT'S JUST GOING TO GET OVERLOOKED AND PUT ON A SHELF AND NEVER HAPPEN. 
          AND WE, AND WE THINK THAT THAT'S WRONG GIVEN THAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO INVITE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO, UH, YOU KNOW, VISIT THAT SPACE. 
          YEAH. 
          I MEAN, IT IS AN IDEAL OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY TO SAY PUBLIC SPACES FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR CARS IN SOME PLACES, IT IS FOR CARS, BUT HERE'S A PLACE WHERE IT IS FOR PEOPLE. 
          WELL, I THINK THEY CAN BOTH COEXIST WELL IN THAT AREA. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S ENOUGH STREET TO WORK WITH, UM, UM, EH, FOR HIM AND THE FACT THAT WE TOOK, UH, CONGRESS AVENUE, UH, WHICH WAS A NON CONNECTING PIECE OF, OF, OF RIGHT AWAY. 
          UM, UH, THERE'S NO TURN THERE. 
          SO YOU HAVE TWO LARGE MEDIANS THAT, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF JUST, UH, DOING HATCH MARKS, WHICH IS WHAT'S CALLED FOR AN HOUR, JUST PUTTING ANOTHER CONCRETE MEDIAN THERE, UH, PUT LANDSCAPING, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ELABORATE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT COULD, YOU KNOW, GO, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED FEET EAST AND WEST OF WHAT IS THE INTERSECTION, IF NOT 150 FEET, AND IT WOULDN'T AFFECT TURN LANES FOR BRASSES FOR CONGRESS. 
          UM, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU YOU'RE ADDING THAT MUCH MORE GREENERY, UH, YOU KNOW, TOO, I HAD A PICTURE AND I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT, UH, PUTTING DOWN ON THE SLIDE DECK OF, UM, SOME OF THOSE PICTURES OF WHAT WE CALL URBAN BLIGHT FROM THE SEVENTIES. 
          UM, THERE'S SEVERAL ON, UH, ON WEBSITES YOU CAN FIND IN BOSTON OR THERE LOOKING BACK, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHAT HATE GEOGRAPHICALLY, OH, LOOK HOW NICE AUSTIN WAS. 
          UH, SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE STREETS, GET YOU GO, GOSH, THAT'S NOTHING BUT CONCRETE. 
          AND I SHOW THE PICTURE OF TODAY AND IT'S THE EXACT SAME, UH, UNFORTUNATE, CONCRETE EXPANSE THAT, UH, UH, A GIVEN. 
          AND AGAIN, IT, WE ALL HAVE EVOLVED, YOU KNOW, THE CITY IS GROWING UP. 
          UH, THE STATE HAS CONVERTED PARKING LOTS INTO, YOU KNOW, BUILDINGS THAT ARE ALIVE WITH PEOPLE NOW. 
          SO IT'S KIND OF TIME TO BRING THE, THE OTHER LANDSCAPE WITH IT. 
          THE, THE STREETSCAPE WITH IT, IT WOULD SEEM LIKE THERE IS A REAL NEED TO BRING TOGETHER ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS THAT THE TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN DESIGN PEOPLE HAVE IN MIND, UH, BECAUSE SAFETY WILL BE A REALLY BIG ISSUE. 
          I THINK TRANSIT PROBABLY WOULD ALSO BE, UH, AN INTEGRAL PART BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SERVICES TODAY ABOUT PEOPLE BRINGING KIDS AND OTHERS TO GO TO THE BLANTON OR GO TO THE MUSEUM. 
          SYNERGISTIC, NOT OF POSSIBILITIES, BUT THEN RIGHT. 
          PEOPLE NEED TO BE INVOLVED. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          WELL, I THINK WE, IF WE MAKE A RECOMMENDATION OR WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO SAY? I THINK A RECOMMENDATION FROM UTC WOULD BE GREAT. 
          UM, IN THE END FOR THIS DEFINITELY AGREE, YOU'VE MADE CONSIDERABLE INVESTMENT HERE ALREADY TO MAKE IT A VERY ATTRACTIVE PLACE FOR PEDESTRIANS, VERY COMFORTABLE FOR THEM. 
          UM, GREAT PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITY. 
          AND THEN YOU HAVE 15TH AND MLK. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THING WHEN, WHEN LISTENING TO THE PRESENTATION, THE, IT SEEMS LIKE WHAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT ON THE C SIDE IS HOW DO WE RESOURCE THIS EFFORT WITH THE A HUNDRED YEARS OF BACKLOG OF WORK THAT WAY WE'RE DOING? AND THE, THE FORTUNATE, UM, UH, IN A WAY 
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BLESSING THAT WE'VE HAD FROM THE COMMUNITY AND FUNDING US TO DO A LOT OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT WORK ACROSS THE CITY, AND THERE'S A LOT OF NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, BUT IT'S, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I CAN TAKE BACK IS TALK WITH OUR GROUP AND GET AN ANSWER BACK. 
          HOW WOULD WE RESOURCE THIS IN TERMS OF STAFF TO DO THE ENGAGEMENT, TO DO THE DESIGN WORK, AND THEN ANSWERING THAT NEXT QUESTION THAT COMES AFTER THAT. 
          AND, AND WHILE WE'RE WORKING ON IS HOW WOULD WE PAY FOR THAT? AND THEN WHEN, YOU KNOW, THE SOONER, THE BETTER, AND MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO INCREMENTALLY TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU WERE MENTIONING, CHRIS, MAYBE WE CAN DO THOSE SOONER AS WE WAIT FOR MORE FUNDING TO COME IF WE HAVE TO WAIT. 
          UM, SO I THINK THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE. 
          UM, TO ME, IT'S A QUESTION ABOUT RESOURCING AND I'LL GO BACK TO OUR GROUP AND GET AN ANSWER, ANSWER TO THAT AND, UM, GET BACK WITH YOU. 
          YEAH, I, YOU KNOW, TO THAT, UM, UH, THE, THE CITY, SUPPOSEDLY THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING THEY'VE ALREADY INVESTED 1,000,009 AND, AND DRAWING SOME PLANS. 
          WE'RE JUST SAYING, ADD SOME, UH, SOME GREEN SPACE THERE, WHICH IS NOT OUTSIDE THE, UH, THE, THE CITY'S PREVIOUS EFFORTS ON 12TH STREET AND 15TH STREET. 
          THERE ARE SEVERAL MEDIUMS THAT ARE ALL GREEN. 
          THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, UM, ELABORATE, BUT THEY'RE, THEY'RE GREEN, THEY'RE THERE AND THEY'RE THERE. 
          AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, KNOW Y'ALL PUT THE DIRT WE PUT IN THE SWEAT, YOU KNOW, UH, TYPE OF, UH, OPPORTUNITY THERE. 
          UM, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS THAT GIVES US THE MONEY TO DO THESE THINGS, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, YOU KNOW, UH, CAN DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, THE CITY'S SERIOUS, WE NEED TO BE SERIOUS. 
          UH, IF WE'RE GONNA, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW WOULD THIS, UH, BE STRUCTURED, YOU KNOW? UH, IS IT, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WE PARTICIPATE IN, OR SO THEY'RE ALL ON THE CITY, OR I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WONDERING TOO, BUT WE WANT, BUT WE, WE, WE WANT TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH YOU GUYS. 
          WELL, AT LEAST TO CREATE PROBLEMS IF WE DON'T, AND THIS IS SOME REAL OPPORTUNITIES. 
          YEAH. 
          RIGHT. 
          400,000 PEOPLE COMING TO THIS AREA, IT'S ALREADY HEAVILY TRAFFICKING WITH PEDESTRIANS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, PART OF OUR GOAL IS TO CREATE MORE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES HERE IN AUSTIN, AS PART OF OUR AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN. 
          AND SAFETY IS OUR TOP, UH, AS OUR FIRST CHAPTER IN THAT PLAN, BECAUSE OF JUST KIND OF CONVERGENCE OF ALL THOSE, UH, ALL THOSE EFFORTS. 
          AND IT'S A DOABLE ONE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT, UH, YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS OF TIME AND BOND MONEY. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALL KIND OF TEED UP THE BALL. 
          IT'S KIND OF READY TO KICK, UM, TO, UH, GET, UH, YOU KNOW, SO WE'RE KIND OF SAYING LET'S BLOW THE WHISTLE AND START THE GAME. 
          SO W SO WE'LL JUST LET YOU KNOW WHAT THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION SAID. 
          UH, THEY DID PASS A RESOLUTION AT THEIR LAST MEETING AND THE NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED WAS TO IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFY AND COMMIT MORE, NOT MORE THAN $500,000 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PEDESTRIAN ENHANCEMENTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF CONGRESS AND THE MLK, BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT DESIGN OR, UH, INVOLVEMENT IN, IN ANY OF THE OTHER PART OF THE NEEDED WORK TO BE DONE. 
          SO, UM, AND THAT WAS SENT TO THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, URGING THE CITY COUNCIL TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER. 
          SO WE COULD COME UP WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, OFF THE DIOCESE OR ON THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION THAT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT HAS A SPECIFIC DOLLARS ATTACHED TO IT, BUT THAT GENERALLY URGES, UM, I GUESS, ATD TO WORK WITH WHAT ORGANIZATION, THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD AND THE TEXAS FACILITIES COMMISSION, WE'RE THE RESPONSIBLE LANDOWNERS FOR THE STATE. 
          YEAH. 
          W WE CAN EVEN JUST SAY THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE RESPONSIBLE STATE PARTIES WHO WERE WORKING ON THE TEXAS CAPITAL PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY AT THE INTERSECTION OF MLK AND MLK AND COMMERCE, I GUESS, IS WHAT THEY CALL RIGHT AWAY. 
          YEAH. 
          RIGHT. 
          WAITING. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO WE CAN COME UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT BEFORE WE JUMP DIRECTLY INTO THAT DETAIL, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS WHO HAVE SOME OBSERVATIONS OR WANT TO PRACTICE SOME WORDSMITHING OR ANY OBJECTIONS? CAN YOU TURN ON YOUR MIC? UH, 15TH STREET, WE, UH, WE'RE FIGURING LET'S TAKE A ONE INTERSECTION AT A TIME, BUT AT SOME, AT SOME POINT, UH, UH, I WOULD SAY THREE YEARS FOR NOW, I COULD VERY MUCH ENVISION BEING HERE. 
          AGAIN, SAY WE FOLLOW THROUGH ON PHASE TWO AND WE NEED TO ACTUALLY, 
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I WOULD HOPE THAT WE DO THAT MORE PROACTIVELY. 
          UM, THEN, UH, WE HAVE NOW I THINK, UH, WE'VE BEEN A LITTLE BIT FLUMMOXED ABOUT, WELL, HOW DO WE PROCEED? AND, AND FIGURED, WE'D EXTEND OUR HAND AND SAY, WE'RE, WE'RE READY TO WORK WITH YOU GUYS. 
          AND, UH, THE SAME THING WOULD OCCUR AT, UH, 15TH IN CONGRESS. 
          THAT IS A VERY KEY INTERSECTION. 
          UH, THE TRAFFIC BETWEEN CAPITOL SQUARE AND CAPITOL MALL WILL BE EVEN GREATER AT THAT LOCATION. 
          UH, AND WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING WITH THE ARCHITECTS WHO, ONE OF THE BUILDINGS THEY WERE PROPOSING, YOU KNOW, WITH COMING UP TO THE LOT, YOU KNOW, TO THE, TO THE PROPERTY LINE, IT'S LIKE, PULL IT BACK. 
          YOU KNOW, WE, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO CROWD THE SIDEWALKS. 
          WE'RE NOT TRYING TO MAXIMIZE, WE'RE NOT DEVELOPERS MAXIMIZING SOME ROI. 
          WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE, UH, UH, A PLACE THAT'S, UH, IN THAT INTERSECTION HAS MOST OF THE BUILDINGS HAVE A MUCH GREATER SETBACK THAN JUST THE PROPERTY LINE. 
          AND WE ASKED THEM TO RESPECT THAT. 
          AND, UH, SO THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING AT 15TH STREET IS DEFINITELY ON OUR MINDS. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, UM, I WILL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE PROPOSE A RESOLUTION. 
          UM, IF WE AGREE WITH THAT, THEN WE CAN WORDSMITH IT. 
          UH, IS THERE A SECOND TO PROPOSING A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE SECOND? ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, WHO'S GOING TO DO SOME TYPING, UH, CRYSTAL, I'M SORRY. 
          I, I ACTUALLY THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO DO THE TIRING. 
          I CAN'T. 
          YOU WANT ME TO SEE MY SCREEN, BUT, UH, WELL, WELL, THEORETICALLY, WHAT WE COULD DO IS, UM, EITHER WAY WE NEED IT IN THE PAPER FORM, SO MAYBE WE COULD VERBALLY, UH, YEAH, I MEAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY DO IT SORT OF IN NOTES FOR FORM, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK. 
          LIKE I DID LAST TIME, AND THEN JUST WHEN I GET HOME, I'LL MAKE IT ON THE OFFICIAL LETTERHEAD. 
          IT SAYS THE MEETING IS RECORDED SO WE COULD, YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, BUT GENERALLY THE KEY BULLET POINTS ARE THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA, UH, THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION WILL RECOMMEND THAT, UM, WOULD IT BE ATD OR WOULD IT BE THE CITY OF AUSTIN? UM, AS THE, AS THE, THE, I THINK THE RECOMMENDATIONS TYPICALLY TO SAME MANAGER, BUT I THINK HIM HAVING ATD B INTERGROUP INTEGRALLY INVOLVED WE'D BRING TOGETHER THE DIFFERENT PARTIES FROM THE TEXAS STATE PRESERVATION BOARD, BUT ALSO OTHER DEPARTMENTS, URBAN DESIGN AND OTHERS IN THAT CONVERSATION. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IS THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD AND, UM, OTHER YEAH. 
          NECESSARILY, THAT'S A GOOD WORD, NECESSARY STATE OF TEXAS, UH, DEPARTMENTS. 
          NO, I'M SPEAKING ABOUT THE CITY OF AUSTIN APARTMENTS, BUT TO YOUR POINT, THE AGENCIES, STATE AGENCIES, THE STATE AGENCIES. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          LET'S TO, UM, TO WORK TOGETHER, TO, UM, FIND WHAT WE WOULD WANT TO CALL THIS TO, TO, TO, TO WORK TOGETHER TO, UH, YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WE WILL BE RECOMMENDING SO UTC AND IT'S REALLY HOW IT ALL BEGAN ROUGHLY, YOU KNOW, UH, RECOMMENDS THE CITY MANAGER DIRECT, AND THEN WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHO TO DIRECT ATD AND ET CETERA. 
          SO WORK WITH THE STATE AGENCIES TO, UM, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO CALL THIS TO, UM, ADDRESS THE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES AT, UH, THE TEXAS CAPITOL MALL, SPECIFICALLY THE NORTH CONGRESS AND MLK JR. 
          BOULEVARD INTERSECTION, JUST TAKING IT DIRECTLY FROM THIS, IS THAT BROAD ENOUGH? DO YOU THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MORE, THE PLACE MAKING IS DEFINITELY A PIECE OF IT. 
          I THINK THE OTHER PIECE THAT NEEDS TO BE IN THERE ABOUT THE PEDESTRIAN ACCOMMODATIONS AND MORE OF A CONNECTION, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE WAY CHRIS DESCRIBED IT, AS YOU HIT, YOU HIT MLK AND IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A, OF A BARRIER WE'LL, LET'S TRY TO SOFTEN THAT BARRIER AND REALLY PROVIDE THE CONNECTION ACROSS THERE WITH THE INVESTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE ALREADY INTEGRATED PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          SO, UM, OKAY. 
          I'M GOING TO THROW THIS IN THERE, MARRIED, SO, UH, IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING LIKE, ALL RIGHT. 
          SO SORT OF THE KEY WORDS I WAS THINKING AS YOU WERE TALKING WAS BASICALLY, UM, UH, UDC RECOMMENDS A CITY MANAGER DIRECT, UH, ATD AND OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS TO BE INTEGRALLY INVOLVED WITH THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD AND OTHER NECESSARY STATE OF TEXAS AGENCIES TO WORK TOGETHER, TO ADDRESS THE PLACEMAKING AND PEDESTRIAN ACCOMMODATIONS, INCLUDING SAFE ACCESS AND CONNECTION, UH, TO COMPLETE THE TEXAS CAPITOL MALL PROJECT OR DURING DAYS IN TEXAS, OR JUST TEXAS CAPITOL 
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MALL, PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION. 
          OKAY. 
          CAUSE THEY'RE CONNECTING TO UT DEVELOP THEIRS ON THE NORTH SIDE AND THE EXCELLENT AT NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE, MLK JR. 
          BOULEVARD AND AD UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN. 
          THIS ONE. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          AGENCIES, THIS IS WORDSMITHING. 
          WELL, YOU KNOW, AND WE'LL, LET ME FIND THAT I WAS GOING TO SAY WE GOT TO GET ALISON INVOLVED. 
          I MEAN, I THINK SHE'S A ENGLISH, HALEY'S BEEN A LITTLE QUIET. 
          I'M NOT GOING TO MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT WITH GRAMMAR TODAY. 
          YOU KNOW, GIVE US A MOMENT. 
          YOU, YOU CAN MENTION MY, UH, LACK OF CAPITALIZATIONS, BUT YOU KNOW, IN THE END, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS WE'LL, I'LL GO HOME AND I'LL DO THIS AND WE'LL DO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IT IS ESSENTIALLY THIS, UM, LET ME READ IT ONE MORE TIME, UH, OR NOT LIKE ONE MORE TIME, BUT I'LL READ IT AGAIN. 
          UH, UTC W WE'LL HAVE THE KIND OF STANDARD BOILER PLATE RECOMMENDS THE CITY MANAGER, DIRECT ATD AND OTHER CITY OF AUSTIN, UH, DEPARTMENTS, UH, BE INTEGRALLY INVOLVED WITH THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD AND OTHER NECESSARY STATE OF TEXAS AGENCIES, INCLUDING UT AUSTIN TO WORK TOGETHER, TO ADDRESS THE PLACEMAKING AND PEDESTRIAN. 
          WELL, NOW THAT WE'VE DONE PEDESTRIAN, HOLD ON A SECOND, WE'LL MOVE THAT TO THE END, UM, TO ADDRESS, UH, THE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING SAFE ACCESS AND PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS TO COMPLETE THE TEXAS CAPITOL MALL PROJECT AT NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE IN MLK JR. 
          BOULEVARD, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          AND TO ADD JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFICITY INTO IT IS, YOU KNOW, I THINK WHAT COMMISSION, OR WHETHER IT BE WAS SAYING IS IN, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE COLLABORATION, UM, BUT ALSO, UM, HOW THE RESOURCING TO DO THE DESIGN WORK AND THEN RESOURCING FOR IMPLEMENTATION. 
          AND, AND JUST TO FIGURE THAT OUT AND, YOU KNOW, IN COLLABORATION WITH, YOU KNOW, THE DIFFERENT PARTIES, UM, HOW, HOW WILL WE DO THAT? OKAY. 
          SO SINCE LIKE TO DETERMINE RESOURCING, AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER WORD YOU USED, UH, UM, RESOURCING FOR THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WITH THE, OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO YOU CAN DO ANOTHER READ-THROUGH AND, UM, FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, CHRIS, CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE A LAWYER, I THINK FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, DOES IT MATTER IF IT'S NOT EXACTLY WORD FOR WORD? LIKE WHEN WE, WHEN I GET HOME AND I CHANGE IT, IF IT'S TWEAKED A LITTLE BIT FOR JUST CLARITY. 
          YES, YES. 
          IT DOESN'T MATTER. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL THEN LET ME, OKAY. 
          SO, UH, OKAY. 
          SO LET ME SEE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I'M GOING TO READ THIS ALL AGAIN. 
          THE UTC RECOMMENDS THE CITY MANAGER, DIRECT ATD AND OTHER CITY OF AUSTIN DEPARTMENTS TO BE INTEGRALLY INVOLVED, TO DETERMINE RESOURCING FOR THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION. 
          I FEEL LIKE THE LAST SENTENCE YOU MOVE UP HERE. 
          HOLD ON A SECOND. 
          UM, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE A BIG SIDE CLAUSE HERE, UH, IMPLEMENTATION. 
          I TAKE THAT BACK. 
          LET ME JUST READ IT AS IT IS. 
          YOU DO SEE RECOMMENDS THE CITY MANAGER DIRECT, UH, AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND OTHER CITY OF AUSTIN DEPARTMENTS TO BE INTEGRALLY INVOLVED, TO DETERMINE RESOURCING FOR THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION WITH THE STATE PRESERVATION BOARD AND OTHER NECESSARY STATE OF TEXAS AGENCIES AND UT AUSTIN TO WORK TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THE PLACEMAKING PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING SAFE ACCESS AND PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS TO COMPLETE THE TEXAS CAPITOL MALL PROJECT AT NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE AND MLK JR BOULEVARD. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, IN THE COMMENTS, ALLIE, ATHENA, SUSAN, SAMUEL, I THINK THAT SOUNDS GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, SO THERE BEEN MOTION DISCUSSED, ANY MORE DISCUSSION? OKAY. 
          ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, OR RAISE YOUR HAND IS UNANIMOUS, BUT M A ALL OPPOSED SAY NAY, ANY ABSTENTIONS? NOPE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THIS WILL BECOME A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE WILL MAKE OFFICIAL AND WE'LL GET MOVED ON UP THE CHAIN. 
          WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          YEAH. 
          WELL, THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING. 
          THANK YOU FOR WORKING ON THIS FOR YEARS. 
          IT'S IT DOES LOOK VERY EXCITING. 
          LIKE IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE AN AWESOME PLACE TO VISIT. 
          PLEASE COME DOWN AND WE WILL BE THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, 
          [2.E. Bike Lane Bounty Program]
OUR FINAL ITEM ON THE LIST IS THE BIKE LANE BOUNTY PROGRAM PROPOSAL. 
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UM, THERE IS IN YOUR BACKUP AND I WON'T CHANGE CHAIRS IS I DON'T REALLY HAVE A PRESENTATION PRESENTATION. 
          UM, BUT I WILL, UH, GIVE, UM, A MINUTE OR SO OF BACKGROUND CONTEXT. 
          UH, SO YOU KNOW, WHERE THIS COMES FROM AND WHAT ITS VALUE IS. 
          I THINK, UM, SO AS IT SAYS IN, IN THE, WHEREAS IS I'M GOING TO, I'M NOT GOING TO READ THE BULLET POINTS, BUT I DO WANT TO SORT OF SUMMARIZE THE KIND OF KEY ELEMENTS, THE WHEREAS, UM, A SUCCESSFUL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, DOESN'T JUST MOVE CARS AND MOVES PEOPLE. 
          AND THERE ARE LOTS OF WAYS TO MOVE PEOPLE, MICRO MOBILITY, SCOOTERS, WHEELCHAIRS, BIKES, ALL OF THOSE REQUIRE A SAFE, SEPARATED BIKE OR ZIPPED, SAFE, SEPARATED INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THIS PROPOSAL TALKS ABOUT BIKE LANES IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE BIKE LANES ARE SOMETHING THAT WE SPEND MONEY ON AND STUDY AFTER STUDY SHOWS THAT SAFE, SEPARATED INFRASTRUCTURE OR THE PERCEPTION THERE OF IS, OR THE LACK OF THAT. 
          THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE REASON PEOPLE WHEN ASKED, WHY DON'T YOU RIDE YOUR BIKE MORE? OR THEY SAY, THIS IS WHY I DON'T REMEMBER ANYMORE. 
          UM, SO THAT'S WHERE THE REASON FOR THE PROPOSAL AT ITS ROOT LEVEL, AND THEN SOME EVIDENCE THAT THIS KIND OF THING WORKS IS IN THAT SECOND, WHEREAS THE CITY OF AUSTIN, IN CASE YOU WEREN'T AWARE ALREADY DOES A KIND OF A BOUNTY REWARD PROGRAM AROUND, UM, DISABILITY PARKING SPOTS OR ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACES. 
          SO THIS IS, UH, AN EXISTING CITY PROGRAM THAT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT IN THIS VEIN. 
          IT JUST COVERS A DIFFERENT TOPIC. 
          UM, SO THERE'S NOTHING NEW THERE, UH, NEW YORK CITY, AS I MENTIONED IN THE PAST, AND I'LL LET YOU CLICKED ON THE LINKS THAT ARE IN THE DOCUMENT. 
          NEW YORK CITY HAS HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL CLEAN AIR PROGRAM. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, IF THERE'S, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T A REAL NUMBERS, BUT YOU CAN SAY IF THERE'S A MILLION TRUCKS EILEEN FOR 30 MINUTES A DAY, THAT'S HALF A MILLION HOURS OF POLLUTION, UM, PER DAY, THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO CUT BACK ON. 
          UH, THEY'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH THIS PROGRAM. 
          THERE'S SOME LINKS THERE. 
          IF YOU'VE TAKEN THE TIME TO READ THEM, UM, IT RESULTS BOTH IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THE CITY, BUT IT ALSO RESULTS IN A LOT LESS ISLAND THERE FOR CLEANER AIR. 
          SO THIS KIND OF VALLEY PROGRAM, IT WORKS IN OTHER PLACES. 
          THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN THERE, UM, UH, OF, UM, SIMILAR, UM, LEGISLATION THAT ACTUALLY GOES A LITTLE BIT FURTHER. 
          AND THEN THERE'S THREE EXAMPLES OF WHERE I'M NOT EVEN CITIZENS ARE REQUIRED TO HELP, UH, ENFORCE THE ORDINANCES, UNMANNED SPEED CAMERAS, UNMANNED RED LIGHT CAMERAS AND UNMANNED SCHOOL BUS CAMERAS SPEAKING AS A PERSON WHO POTENTIALLY THEIR SPOUSE HAS GOTTEN A $300 TICKET FOR GOING PAST THE SCHOOL BUS THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS PARKED. 
          UM, THAT IS, THAT IS A TRUE THING THAT ALREADY HAPPENS. 
          SO TECH OR THIS SET IS TO SAY THAT FROM A TECHNICAL STANDPOINT AND FROM A CULTURAL STANDPOINT, THESE ARE THINGS THAT ALREADY HAPPEN. 
          THEY JUST DON'T HAPPEN ON THIS TOPIC, THE LEGISLATURE, THE UNMANNED SPEED CAMERAS, THE RED LIGHT CAMERAS, BECAUSE THE LEGISLATURE, UH, THREW THE OUT IN 2019 RIGHT NOW. 
          I REMEMBER THAT, BUT THIS IS MORE AN EXAMPLE THAT THESE, YEAH, THESE THINGS DO EXIST AND THEY EXIST IN OTHER PLACES. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, NO, THAT'S FINE. 
          I UNDERSTAND IT. 
          YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST SORT OF SETTING THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT THAT CRAZY IDEA. 
          UM, AND THEN THE LAST, WHEREAS IS THAT THERE ARE SOME, THERE'S SOME GOOD OUTCOMES, YOU KNOW, UM, THE CITY SPENDS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND NOT JUST OUR CITY AND OTHER CITIES TO MAKE THESE FACILITIES AND THESE FACILITIES GET BLOCKED ALL THE TIME. 
          UH, I, I RAN INTO, UM, A COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, PAIGE ELLIS AT AN EVENT. 
          UM, I WAS TALKING TO HER ABOUT THIS AND SHE SAID THAT ON THAT VERY DAY, WHICH WAS THE, UM, UH, START A BIKE TO WORK MONTH OR WHATEVER IT WAS, THEY, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WENT OUT ON A BIKE RIDE, JUST ORDERED A SHOWCASE OPPORTUNITY AND RAN INTO MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE BIKE LANES. 
          LIKE IT IS A THING. 
          IF YOU DON'T RIDE YOUR BIKE DOWNTOWN, YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE OF THIS, BUT THIS IS THE THING THAT IS CONSTANT. 
          IT IS CONSTANT. 
          UM, YOU CAN GO ONTO TWITTER AND FIND, YES, UH, SCOOTERS ARE VEHICLES WHERE THERE ARE, THEY WERE ALLOWED TO BE IN THE BIKE LANES FROM JUST IN CITY ORDINANCE. 
          NO, THEY'RE NOT, OH, YOU HAVE TO TURN ON YOUR MIC. 
          SORRY. 
          OUR SCOOTERS ALLOWED TO BE LYING DOWN IN THE BIKE LANE. 
          THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LYING DOWN IN THE BIKE LANE, BUT PEOPLE THAT'S A, THAT'S A, PROBABLY A DIFFERENT TOPIC ABOUT HOW PEOPLE HANDLE THE SCOOTERS. 
          CAN WE CHANGE THE LANGUAGE VEHICLES AND OTHER OBSTACLES? UM, I WOULD LOVE TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT'S DETECTABLE OR TRACEABLE TO A PERSON. 
          THE PROBLEM WITH, UH, WITH, UH, UH, UH, SCOOTER IN THE, IN THE BIKE LANE IS THAT THERE'S NO RECOURSE TO, TO KNOW WHO THAT IS. 
          IF YOU SEE A SCOOTER IN THE BIKE LANE, ANY, IT COULD BE THERE FOR ANY NUMBER OF REASONS. 
          AND I COULDN'T TELL YOU WHO PUT IT THERE WITH A CAR AND A LICENSE PLATE. 
          I CAN TELL YOU WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT CAR. 
          SO, YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO THEN THE LAST PART I WANT TO POINT 
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OUT, UM, UH, IS THE, THE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, THERE ARE KIND OF THREE THINGS THAT, THAT ADDITIONALLY WOULD NEED TO HAPPEN TO MAKE THIS VIABLE. 
          ONE IS IF YOU DON'T KNOW, THE CITY ORDINANCE CURRENTLY SAYS THAT YOU CAN ONLY GET A TICKET FROM, FOR OBSTRUCTING A BIKE LANE. 
          IF THERE'S A SIGN THAT SAYS YOU CAN'T OBSTRUCT THE BIKE LANE, AND IT REALLY SHOULD BE THE REVERSE, YOU CAN'T BLOCK A BIKE LANE, UNLESS THERE'S A SIGN THAT SAYS FOR WHATEVER REASON IT IS OKAY TO PARK IN THIS BIKE LANE, THE CITY HAS THE OPPOSITE ORDINANCE, WHICH IS CRAZY TO ME, BUT IT DOES. 
          AND SO THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE. 
          UM, AND THEN THE CITY NEEDS TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THAT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A CHANGE AND ALSO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE THAT, UM, YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET A CITATION IN MY BRIEF SURVEYING OF PEOPLE. 
          UH, NOBODY THINKS THAT YOU CAN DO THAT, THINKS THAT YOU CAN DO THAT. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM. 
          PEOPLE DO NOT THINK IT IS A SIZABLE OFFENSE TO BLOCK A BIKE LINE, BUT IT IS, BUT ALSO WITHIN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. 
          SO THERE'S LAST WEEK BULLET POINTS ARE REALLY AIMED AT, UM, CHANGING SOME, SOME, UM, UNDERPINNINGS THAT, UM, A MAKE IT SEEM CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE AND ALSO TAKING MY OPINION THAT THE OPPOSITE STANCE, WHICH DEFAULTS TO BEING SORT OF OKAY TO BLACK BLOCK A BIKE LANE. 
          SO THAT IS A QUICK OVERVIEW. 
          UM, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A PRESENTATION, BUT, UM, UM, I GUESS I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT W I'M SORRY, REAL QUICK BEFORE THAT I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE IT AWARE TO THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS. 
          UM, THE GOOGLE LINK TO THIS DOCUMENT IS IN THE CALENDAR INVITE. 
          UM, I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE ON THERE, BUT THAT'S OKAY. 
          UM, I JUST GOT NERVOUS AND IT'S IN THE CALENDAR INVITE. 
          IF YOU, UH, LOOK FOR IT. 
          ALSO WANTED TO INTRODUCE, UH, JASON REDFERN, UM, WHO'S WITH ATD, UH, AND HE'S HERE AT CITY STAFF TO, UH, JUST, UH, DISCUSS THIS. 
          UM, IF HE SO CHOOSES, UM, UH, HIS DIVISION, I BELIEVE WOULD HANDLE A LOT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS. 
          UM, BUT JASON, FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME ON THAT IF I'M WRONG, BUT I DID WANT TO, I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO INTRODUCE THE AMOUNT OF TIME TO SET EVERYTHING UP. 
          SO SORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          THAT'S QUITE ALL RIGHT, CHRIS. 
          NOW WE, UM, WE DO ENFORCE THE REGULATORY SIGNAGE THAT PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM PARKING AND BIKE LANES. 
          SO THEN THE, THE TOW AWAY ZONES, THE, UH, WITH THE TALL, THE TOY PLACARDS AND THE, UM, THE SIGNAGE. 
          AND SO WE'VE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, UM, CITED OVER 1200, UH, VEHICLES AND WE'VE TOWED 130 VEHICLES OUT OF THE BIKE LANES. 
          UM, SO FAR, YES, IT IS. 
          THIS IS GOOD TO KNOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, WELL, IT'S A DISCUSSION HERE IN A MOMENT. 
          FIRST, WE HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION AND THEN MOVE THIS INTO THE DISCUSSION STAGE. 
          UM, I WILL MAKE A MOTION THAT, UM, WE, UH, PROVE THIS RECOMMENDATION OR THAT WE DID, YOU KNOW, THAT WE HAVE THIS RECOMMENDATION. 
          IS THERE A SECOND SO THAT WE CAN DISCUSS IT AT DINA? SECOND DID, UM, OKAY. 
          AS SHE RAISED HER HAND, I JUST SAW HER RAISE YOUR HAND FIRST. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UH, LET'S MOVE INTO DISCUSSION. 
          UM, WHO HAS ANY DISCUSSION ITEMS? UH, YES. 
          DAN, WELL, UM, YEAH, LOOK, I AGREE THAT NOBODY SHOULD BE PARKING BIKEWAYS AND I DO THINK THAT SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE, SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT IT, BUT WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE OLDER RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS ARE, I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE, YOU'RE CITING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS, BUT ARE THERE, WHERE ELSE HAS IT BEEN DONE? WHAT ARE SOME OF THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS? RIGHT. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BOTH SIDES OF IT BEFORE I VOTE ON, ON THIS ISSUE. 
          LIKE ANYTHING, THERE'S ALWAYS SOME SORT OF A, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS COLLATERAL DAMAGE AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE FROM, FROM IMPLEMENTING THIS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T WANT TO PIT AUSTINITES AGAINST US. 
          LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, AND THEN, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO, I MEAN, PEOPLE WERE POINTING FINGERS AT EACH OTHER. 
          I JUST I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE POTENTIAL NEGATIVE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS HAS BEEN IN OTHER CITIES BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD TO SAYING THIS IS THE GOLDEN TICKET AND THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE. 
          YEAH. 
          WELL, UM, GOOD QUESTION. 
          I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T SAY IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO SOLVE THE ISSUE. 
          IT'S, IT'S AN ADDITIONAL WAY TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE. 
          YOU KNOW, THERE IS, THERE AREN'T ENOUGH, UM, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT STAFF AND THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT REALLY POLICE NEED TO BE INVOLVED IN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE ORDINANCES ARE THE ORDINANCES. 
          IT IS, IT IS ALREADY, UM, A SIZEABLE OFFENSE, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE SEEM TO NOT KNOW THAT IT IS A SIZABLE OFFENSE AND IT'S, UH, MR. REDFORD SAID THEY THEY'VE GIVEN UP 1200 CITATIONS AND EVEN TOWED PEOPLE. 
          UM, BUT THEY'RE THERE, IT'S JUST REALLY SPREADING THE WORKLOAD, JUST LIKE THE, UH, ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPOT. 
          THERE'S JUST TOO MANY ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPOTS FOR THEM TO BE, UM, UH, GOVERNED IN SOME WAY BY CITY STAFF, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S, IT'S A PRETTY LOW RISK ENDEAVOR TO, UM, SAY, HEY, THERE'S SOMEBODY IN THE BIKE LANE. 
          LIKE IT'S A LOW RISK ENDEAVOR TO SAY, HEY, YOU'RE IN THE, IN THE PARKING SPOT. 
          YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN. 
          SO THE NEGATIVES, UM, ARE CERTAINLY THAT THERE WILL BE PEOPLE WHO SAY, I NEED TO DO THIS FOR MY JOB. 
          THE CITY HAS NOT ALLOWED 
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A WAY FOR ME TO DELIVER MY GOODS. 
          AND, UM, I JUST NEED TO TAKE THE BIKE LANE. 
          THE NEGATIVE IS THAT, YEAH, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA SAY THAT. 
          AND IN SOME WAYS THAT'S TRUE. 
          THE PROBLEM THOUGH, IS SYSTEMIC. 
          THE CITY NEEDS TO FIND A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO DO THEIR JOB. 
          THERE'S NO SUN NEEDS TO FIND A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO USE THE BIKE LANES, FOR WHICH, FOR THE PURPOSE OF WHICH THEY'RE INTENDED. 
          OTHERWISE, YOU KNOW, AS A PERSON WHO HAS MY BIKE OR ANYONE ELSE WHO RIDES THE BIKE THAT MAY BE LISTENING, YOU HAVE TO GO INTO TRAFFIC QUITE A BIT, AND THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT SAFE. 
          OR YOU HAVE TO GO INTO THE SIDEWALK, WHICH IS ALSO LESS SAFE. 
          IS THERE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT, SOME WAY TO RESOLVE HOW DELIVERY TRUCKS DO THEIR DELIVERIES WITHOUT BLOCKING A TRAVEL LANE? NOPE, THERE ISN'T. 
          SO THE, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST THE STATEMENT THAT HAS TO BE OVERCOME THAT THIS DOES NOT SOLVE EVERYTHING. 
          IT SAYS THERE ARE ALREADY ORDINANCES THAT SAY DON'T PARK IT BY CLIENTS. 
          UM, DON'T OBSTRUCT THE BIKE LANE AND THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE THE STAFF TO, TO MA TO, TO MANAGE THAT. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S REALLY, I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY. 
          AND LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I'M NOT NEGATIVE ON THE IDEA. 
          I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE OTHER SIDE IS. 
          I DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE FULL POTENTIAL COLLATERAL DAMAGE OR WHAT THE POTENTIAL NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF THIS ARE BESIDE, BEFORE WE JUST MOVE ON AND SAY, THIS IS, THIS IS THE PERFECT WAY TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE. 
          SURE. 
          YOU MENTIONED OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE DONE THIS IN THE PAST. 
          WHAT COULD WE GET A PRESENTATION FROM THEM OR GET SOME, GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM THEM ON FROZEN COLLINS? YEAH, SO THE, THE CITIES THAT ARE MENTIONED IN THE PROPOSAL ARE, UH, AROUND THAT THE CLEAN AIR IDLING PROGRAM IN NEW YORK CITY. 
          AND THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK ON TWITTER, 3, 1, 1 APP KIND OF THINGS, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT I RAN ACROSS ANY PARTICULAR BIKE LANE REPORTING. 
          THERE'S A LOTS OF OTHER KINDS OF CITIZEN REPORTING. 
          UM, BUT I DIDN'T ACTUALLY FIND A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF A BIKE LANE REPORTING. 
          THERE WERE OTHER REPORTS, UH, AT THE END OF WHERE YOU'RE ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING I'M JUST REALLY STRUGGLING TO FIND ANY NEGATIVE, UH, ASPECTS TO THIS. 
          YEAH. 
          I MEAN, FOR ME, IT IS, IT IS THE DELIVERY FOLKS. 
          UM, BECAUSE WHEN I RIDE MY BIKE, THAT'S WHO I SEE 90% OF THE TIME IT'S THE FEDEX OR IT'S THE CISCO TRUCK, OR ET CETERA, BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T HAVE A WAY THAT I CAN SEE UNLESS THERE'S AN ALLEY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO BE. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT ANSWER IS. 
          MR. REDFERN, DO YOU, I WOULD START BY THE WAY, MR. MR. REDFORD BROTHERS, THERE'S ONE OF THEM REPLY THAT PEANUT, BUT I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, YOU KNOW, WE, NONE OF US SAW NONE OF US THOUGHT THERE'D BE ANY NEGATIVES WITH HAVING, WITH HAVING, UM, SCOOTERS IN TOWN, EITHER. 
          WE ALL THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT, PERFECT REAL SOLUTION FOR THE LAST, THAT LAST MILE ISSUE. 
          BUT THEN AS WE KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF ISSUES THAT HAVE COME FROM THAT. 
          SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE ANY NEGATIVES. 
          I WOULD JUST LIKE TO STUDY THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE AND GET, GET SOME MORE BACKGROUND ON THE ENTIRE THING BEFORE, BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. 
          MR. PATRICK, UH, I WAS JUST GOING TO MENTION THAT WE DO HAVE A PROGRAM FOR DELIVERY VEHICLES THAT IF THEY NEED TO DELIVER DURING CERTAIN TIMES OF THE DAY, THEY CAN TAKE A LANE OF TRAFFIC VERSUS HAVING TO PARK IN A BIKE LANE. 
          AND THAT IS A PERMANENT PROGRAM. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE ONE SOLUTION. 
          UM, IF YOU DO MOVE TO COUNCIL TO, TO, YOU KNOW, DO A WIDESPREAD BAN OF PARKING IN A, IN A BIKE LANE AND THEN MOVE TO A PERMISSIONS MODEL WHERE IN THOSE SPECIFIC AREAS WHERE THERE IS A NEED, YOU COULD DO PERMISSIVE SIGNAGE VERSUS RESTRICTIVE. 
          SO THAT IS A PART OF THE PROGRAM. 
          UM, I DID WANT TO MENTION OUR, OUR ADA VOLUNTEER PROGRAM, UM, THAT YOU MENTIONED IS THIS IS FAIRLY SUCCESSFUL. 
          THERE, THERE ARE SOME LIMITATIONS TO THE PROGRAM THAT, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, IT, THERE ARE STATE REGULATIONS THAT BACK UP THE FACT THAT THERE IS THE ABILITY FOR VOLUNTEERS TO, TO ISSUE CITATIONS. 
          UH, THEY STILL HAVE TO FOLLOW THE, THE PROCEDURE OF SERVING THE CITATION TO THE VEHICLE AND YOU CAN'T PROVIDE ANY TYPE OF INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO PARTICIPATE AS A VOLUNTEER. 
          UM, AND I KNOW THE BOUNTY PROGRAM KIND OF SUGGESTS THAT THERE MAY BE SOME SORT OF A BENEFIT. 
          UH, SO THE, THE STATE LEGISLATION THAT THE IT'S, I THINK IT'S TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE 6 81 PRIVILEGED PARKING, AND IT TALKS ABOUT, UM, UH, VOLUNTEERS HAVE TO MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA FOR, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN AGE RESTRICTIONS. 
          THEY STILL HAVE TO SERVE THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITATION TO THE VEHICLE. 
          UM, AND SO THE, UM, AND THEY CAN'T ACCEPT ANYTHING BECAUSE, UM, IT'S A COMPLETELY VOLUNTEER BASIS. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO HAVE BROUGHT THAT UP. 
          YEAH, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THOSE SPECIFIC DETAILS. 
          AND THIS PROGRAM IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT. 
          AND THAT THE 3, 1, 1 APP IS USED TO REPORT THE REPORT, THE INFRACTION, AND THIS CITY IS STILL ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE 
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FOR DECIDING IF THAT'S A SIZABLE OFFENSE OR NOT. 
          AND THE CITY COULD DECIDE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, WE'RE SENDING THOSE PEOPLE AN APPLICATION TO THE PERMIT PROCESS THAT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS YOUR WARNING. 
          UM, YOU'RE GOING TO START GETTING A TICKET. 
          IF YOU KEEP DOING THIS, HERE'S OUR WAY AROUND THAT. 
          UM, PLEASE FOLLOW THE RULES. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, SO THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY FINE. 
          I THINK THAT WOULD COME UP IN THE DETAILS IS THIS, THIS, THIS WOULD GET IMPLEMENTED. 
          THE GOAL OF THE RECOMMENDATION IS THAT, IS, IS, IS THERE A WAY TO GET CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT INTO, UH, PURSUING UNOBSTRUCTED BIKE LANES? I MEAN, THAT'S THE CORE PART OF IT. 
          AND I JUST WANT TO ADD ONE MORE BULLET POINT, THAT FIRST BULLET POINT IN THE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED IS SORT OF WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          MR. REDFERN, THAT, UM, THE SIGNAGE, I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EFFORT TO CLARIFY IN SIGNAGE, WHAT IS AVAILABLE OR WHAT IS ALLOWABLE AND WHAT IS NOT ALLOWABLE. 
          BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN MY QUICK ASKING OF FOLKS, PEOPLE HAVE, THEY REALLY JUST DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND THEY, THEY THINK THAT IT'S OKAY OR THEY'VE SEEN IT SOMEWHERE ELSE, LIKE SHOAL CREEK, FOR EXAMPLE, A LOT OF THAT BIKE LANE IS PARKED BEFORE THE NEW BIKE LANE GOTTEN PUT IN TWO YEARS AGO, OR SO PEOPLE PARKED IN THE BIKE LANE BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS ALLOWED. 
          AND SO THAT'S THAT THEY, HOW WERE THEY KNOW THAT IT'S NO LONGER ALLOWED? AND SO, UH, SO I'M GOING TO STOP THERE UNLESS THERE'S MORE QUESTION. 
          YES. 
          ONE MORE QUESTIONS AND IT GETS US TO A PERSONAL READING OF IT, BUT, UH, WOULD YOU BE AMENABLE TO TAKING BOUNTY OUT OF THE TITLE, BUT I ONLY USE A LITTLE BIT OF RADIOACTIVE AT THE MOMENT. 
          OH, UM, YEAH, IF I CLEANED BOUNTY WAS JUST A NICE, UM, ALLITERATIVE YEAH. 
          SUPPORTING BACK LANE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM. 
          I AM SURE THE PRESS WILL STILL CALL IT BIKE LANE BOUNTY BECAUSE IT JUST RINGS NICELY. 
          BUT, UH, YEAH. 
          THEIR PROGRAMS WERE BOUNTIES ELIMINATED. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT'S TRUE. 
          OR WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ELIMINATED. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, DO YOU HAVE A SUGGESTION, BIKE LANES AND BIKE LANE? UM, CITIZENS BIKE LANE, UM, IN FORT SMITH OR REPORTING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? I TOTALLY, I MEAN, YEAH, I CLEANED DOWN. 
          HE WAS LITERALLY, I MEAN, I THINK IT WOULD BE THE BIKE RIDER WHO WOULD HAVE THE INCENTIVE TO DO THIS. 
          OH, A HUNDRED PERCENT. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, YEAH, I MEAN, WE COULD, WE COULD RECALL THIS, UM, CITIZENS, UM, BIKE LANE, UM, OF ENFORCEMENT IS THE RIGHT WORD REPORTING MIKE LANE REPORT. 
          I MEAN, WE WOULD GO WITH JUST A VERY UTILITY TITLE, UM, PROGRAM. 
          UM, I'VE TOTALLY, I MEAN, WE'LL DO THAT. 
          SO THE CHANGE WOULD BE THAT INSTEAD OF BEING CALLED THE BIKE LANE BOUNTY PROGRAM, IT WOULD BE THE CITIZEN BIKE LANE REPORTING PROGRAM OR, YEAH, THAT'S, I MEAN, I'M, I'M TOTALLY FINE THAT, UH, ST PAUL. 
          SURE. 
          IF, IF I MAY JUST ONE LAST QUESTION, I MEAN, I, I I'D BE A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH, UM, AS OPPOSED TO IN THE BEING RESOLVED, AS OPPOSED TO THE UTC RECOMMENDS MOBILIA COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL MEMBERS DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM. 
          WHAT ABOUT STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF, OF, OF IMPLEMENTING A PROGRAM SUCH AS THIS, LIKE, JUST GIVING US MORE INFORMATION ON, ON LIKE, LIKE JASON POINTED OUT, IS THIS EVEN LEGAL? WHAT DOES STATE LAW SAY ABOUT THIS? YOU KNOW, SO THE DEVELOP, I THINK, YOU KNOW, UM, I MEAN I WOULD RATHER GO WITH SOMETHING LIKE UNDERTAKE TO DEVELOP, AND IF THAT UNDERTAKING TURNS OUT FOR LEGAL REASONS, THIS CAN'T BE DONE, THEN SOME CAN COME BACK AND MAYBE WE CAN MAKE THE NECESSARY TWEAKS. 
          BUT, UH, I RECOMMENDATION TO STUDY IS I, I, I FEAR THAT IT WOULD JUST GET LOST AT THE STUDY LEVEL, WHEREAS IF THEY UNDERTAKE TO DEVELOP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UM, THEN YOU KNOW, THEY, AND IN THE END, THIS IS JUST A RECOMMENDATION COUNCIL WILL DO WHATEVER COUNCIL DOES. 
          SO, UM, WOULD YOU BE OKAY WITH THAT UNDERTAKE TO DEVELOP? UM, SURE, SURE, SURE. 
          I GUESS WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M SAYING IS IF YOU KNOW, THREE MONTHS AND THEY LOOK INTO THIS AND THREE MONTHS, THEY COME BACK AND SAY, THIS IS, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS IS HOW IT COULD BE ABLE TO MENTION THESE ARE OUR HURDLES THAT WE'RE HAVING TO GET OVER. 
          AND THESE ARE THE POSSIBLE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER CITIES, UM, THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE POTENTIALLY OR NOT, RIGHT. 
          IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT IMPROVE THE BIKE LANES AND WE'RE MUCH MORE MOBILE NOW AND EVERYBODY'S HAPPY. 
          YEAH. 
          OR YEAH. 
          OR, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT FIND THREE OTHER CITIES, YOU KNOW, SOMEWHERE THAT HAVE DONE THIS. 
          YES. 
          MR. REDFERN, MAYBE, MAYBE IF A PHASED RECOMMENDATION, BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY HAS AGREED THAT PARKING IN A BIKE LANE IS, IS NOT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT. 
          AND, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOUR RECOMMENDATION MAY BE AS A PHASED RECOMMENDATION. 
          SO THAT THE LARGER THING IS, IS THAT WE RECOMMEND THAT NUMBER ONE, THE CITY OF AUSTIN DIRECTS THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL, TO PARK IN THE BIKE LANE. 
          AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER PIECES TO THIS, THIS RECOMMENDATION, BECAUSE I THINK THAT NUMBER ONE PIECE ABOUT PARKING IN THE BIKE LANE IS PRETTY IMPORTANT. 
          AND IF, IF THE OTHER 
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THINGS DON'T WORK, IF THE OTHER THINGS LIKE WE GO THROUGH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE IMPEDIMENTS THAT THE MAIN THING IS POTENTIALLY ADDRESSED THROUGH ENFORCEMENT STAFF THAT CAN, AND SO JUST, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT THE RESTRICTIVE VS PERMISSIVE AND MAYBE MAKING THAT, UH, MAYBE A MULTI-PART RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, YEAH. 
          SO I'M JUST TRYING TO IMAGINE HOW TO DO THAT SPECIFICALLY. 
          UM, POTENTIALLY, I MEAN, I THINK THE BULLET POINTS UNDER THE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, UH, I THINK THAT'S SORT OF WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT. 
          THOSE REALLY ARE STAGES ALONG THE WAY. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, TH TH TH YOU KNOW, AND WHETHER IT MATTERS OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW TO CITY COUNCIL OR THE CITY MANAGERS, IT COMES TO IT. 
          UM, I MEAN, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM SAYING THAT THESE THREE THINGS KIND OF NEED TO HAPPEN FOR THIS FOURTH THING TO HAPPEN. 
          THE FOURTH ONE, THOSE CURRENTLY THE THING THAT'S SHOWN FIRST. 
          UM, SO FLIPPING THOSE AROUND AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD UNDERTAKE TO TRY TO DO THESE THREE THINGS SO THAT THE FOURTH ONE CAN HAPPEN. 
          UH I'M I'M, I'M TOTALLY FINE WITH THAT PERSONALLY, BECAUSE IT GETS TO THE SAME OUTCOME. 
          IT'S JUST, IF THAT'S CLEARER TO HOW WE GET TO THAT OUTCOME, DO ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS HAVE FEELINGS ON THAT? OKAY. 
          SO THEN WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, ARE YOU IN THE DOCUMENT RIGHT NOW? OR SHOULD I BE IN THE DOCUMENT? SO I'M JUST GOING TO COPY PASTE THIS IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION. 
          I'M IN THE DOCUMENT. 
          YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE THOUGH. 
          IT'S FINE. 
          OKAY. 
          LET ME JUST, UM, ADD THIS PHRASE, HOLD ON A SECOND. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO I'M JUST GOING TO SWAP OUT THE, UM, BE IT RESOLVED IN THE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, BECAUSE WHAT I THINK THE FAIR STATEMENT, WHICH IS TRUE, THEY NEED TO HAPPEN FIRST. 
          LIKE THE OVERALL ONE CAN NOT HAPPEN UNLESS THESE HAPPENED A HUNDRED PERCENT. 
          AGREED. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THE CHANGE, IF PEOPLE ARE NOT LOOKING AT THE DOCUMENT, IS THAT I, IN THE, WHAT WAS THE, BE IT RESOLVED IS NOW THE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. 
          I DID ADD PER SAMPLE SUGGESTION THAT THEY UNDERTAKE TO DEVELOP, AND THAT GIVES THE FLEXIBILITY HAS A BIT OF WIGGLE ROOM AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE TO DEVELOP THIS, OR THEY JUST HAVE TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DEVELOP IT. 
          AND THEN THE, THE, THE PHASING OF THE FIRST THREE BULLET POINTS ON WHICH THE FOURTH, WHICH IS NOW THE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, DEPENDS ARE THESE OTHER THINGS. 
          AND IF ANY OF THOSE HAPPEN, BUT ALL THREE OF THEM HAPPEN, IT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          AND IF, FOR SOME REASON THE LAST STEP CAN'T HAPPEN WELL, THEN WE'LL BRING IT BACK UP AND SEE WHY CAN'T IT HAPPEN. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WITH THAT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMENTS, ATHENA, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR, OKAY, LET'S GO SPONSOR NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, I GUESS WE CAN JUST READ IT, MOVE TO THE VOTE, THEN WE DON'T HAVE TO DO A NEW, CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE RECOMMENDATION NOW KNOWN AS THE, OH, LET ME SEE. 
          HOLD ON. 
          SINCE WE'RE HERE LIVE, LET ME CHANGE IT FROM BIKE LANE, BOUNTY, I'LL CALL IT FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE PROGRAM FORMERLY KNOWN AS A CITIZEN. 
          OOPS. 
          IT'LL CATCH ON. 
          DON'T WORRY. 
          SOUNDS JUST AS GOOD. 
          IT'S EVEN MORE DELIGHTFUL. 
          REALLY. 
          WE NEED TO CRAFT SOME ACRONYM. 
          THAT'S FOR CITIZENS BY CLAIM BLOCKAGE BIKE LANE BLOCKING. 
          OH, THERE YOU GO. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          BLACK BIKE LANE BLOCK EJ PROGRAM. 
          UH, YEAH. 
          SO THIS, UH, UNBLOCKING, DOES THAT SOUND AS COOL? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW. 
          CITIZEN BIKE LANE BLOCKAGE PROGRAM. 
          UH, OH, I THINK IT ACTUALLY JUST DROPPED THE CITIZEN IS WITH DEBBIE. 
          OKAY. 
          BIKE LANE. 
          BLOCKAGE PROGRAM. 
          OKAY. 
          LET'S STILL GOT SOME, SOME EASY RING TO IT. 
          THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART NEXT WE'LL SPEND 10 MINUTES DISCUSSING THE FONT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE BIKE LANE, BLOCKAGE PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION, RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE. 
          THERE'S 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 
          UM, ALL OPPOSED. 
          SAY NAY OR ABSTENTIONS. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          6 0 0 7 0, SORRY. 
          ALISHA. 
          YES. 
          7 0 7 0. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WITH THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          IT'S BE EXCITING. 
          WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          [3. BRIEFINGS]
ON OUR AGENDA, IT IS TIME FOR THE BRIEFINGS. 
          FIRST UP DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, THE PROGRAM THAT WE HAD TODAY WAS THE ENTIRE PROGRAM OF THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION THAT NEEDED TO BE BROUGHT UP. 
          THANK YOU 
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VERY MUCH. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UH, JOINT SUSTAINABILITY. 
          I DID NOT SEE COMMISSIONER WHEELER HERE. 
          YES. 
          DIANE IS ABSENT TODAY. 
          APOLOGIES. 
          I SHOULD'VE ANNOUNCED THAT EARLIER. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, BICYCLE ADVISORY. 
          UH, NO, THAT'S A COMMISSIONER ATHENA LAYTON. 
          OH, SORRY. 
          UM, I WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT THE LAST MEETING BECAUSE I HAD A CONFLICT, SO I JUST CHECKED THEIR NOTES. 
          UM, LAST TIME I CHECKED, THERE WERE NO SLIDES. 
          SO, UM, THERE WAS A JOINT MEETING WITH THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISOR ADVISORY COUNCIL, UM, THAT UPDATES ON THE METRO BIKE SIGNAL DETECTION, FAILURES, AND, UM, A WALK, BIKE, RURAL PRESENTATION. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY, COMMISSIONER ALVAREZ. 
          UH, CASEY CANCELED THEIR MEETING YESTERDAY, SO I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO ADD TO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THE MOBILITY COMMITTEE. 
          SO I ATTENDED THE BEGINNING OF THAT. 
          I GAVE HER A REPORT, UM, WHAT WE'D DONE AT OUR LAST MEETING, AFTER THAT THEY WERE HAVING THE METRO BIKE. 
          I'M LOOKING AT THE THING NOW. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE THEY HAD THE SAME PRESENTATION THAT WE HAD PLUS, UM, AN UPDATE FROM THE CITY MANAGER ON STRATEGIC MOBILITY OUTCOMES. 
          I DID NOT ATTEND THAT ONE. 
          CHRIS DID, WAS THERE ANYTHING EXCITING IN THAT? NO. 
          YEAH, THE GIST OF IT, THEY DID GET THE SAME, UH, METRO BIKE PRESENTATION AND, UH, A COUPLE OF, COUPLE OF OTHER BIKE RELATED ITEMS, BUT NOTHING ELSE HAS REALLY MAJOR. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN, UH, COMMISSIONER SUSAN SUMMERS WITH THE, UH, TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I ACTUALLY COULDN'T MAKE, WELL, WE CANCELED IN APRIL. 
          I COULDN'T MAKE IT TO THE MAIN MEETING CAUSE I HAD, UH, MY CHILD'S ORCHESTRA CONCERT TURNS OUT THAT MEETING ENDED UP NOT CONVENING BECAUSE OF QUORUM. 
          SO, UM, THEY HAVEN'T MET, THEY MET TWICE IN MARCH, BUT THEY HAVEN'T MET SINCE MARCH. 
          SO THERE IS A MEETING ON THURSDAY OF THAT BODY. 
          SO I WILL HAVE UPDATE HOPEFULLY FOR OUR NEXT UTC. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          AND WITH THAT, WE'RE DOWN 
          [4. Future Agenda Items]
TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. WE HAVE A LIST. 
          IF YOU HAVE LOOKED AT YOUR DOCUMENT, UM, TDM UPDATES, SIGNAL, TIMING, RIGHT AWAY, INFORMATION, BRIEF WALNUT CREEK, SPECIAL EVENTS, OR IS THERE ANYTHING ANYONE FEELS STRONGLY ABOUT THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE IN AN UPCOMING MEETING? OKAY. 
          I DO WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, SAMUEL FRANCO, UH, OR COMMISSIONER FRANK, YOU KNOW, UM, YOUR ITEM FOR THIS, UH, SOUTH SOUTH CENTRAL WATERFRONT REGULATING PLAN. 
          UM, I HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH STAFF. 
          UH, WE HOPE TO GET THAT TO YOU ALL IN JULY. 
          UM, THEY JUST NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, UH, FROM THE PRESENTATION THAT THEY GAVE TO YOU ALL, OR THEY DO INTEND TO COME TO YOU ALL THOUGH. 
          WE WILL MORE THAN LIKELY JUST BE IN JULY, BUT THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT THIS TIME. 
          UM, IN REGARDS TO, UH, THE SCOOTERS ITEM THAT, UH, WE'RE ATD STAFF IS VERY WELL AWARE OF THE MANY INCIDENTS HAPPENING WITH SCOOTERS, UM, WHERE STAFF IS WORKING ON IT. 
          NOW, THEY ALSO NEED JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME. 
          WE HOPE TO GET THAT ITEM TO YOU AND GIVE A FULL PRESENTATION ON WHAT WE'VE DONE, UM, IN AUGUST. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT MIGHT BE MORE OF A DELAY, BUT AGAIN, WE ARE AWARE, VERY AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND, AND WE'RE, UH, STAFF HAS INFORMED ME THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO FIX IT AS QUICKLY AS THEY CAN. 
          UM, UH, SO IN, IN THOSE, IN REGARDS TO THOSE WHO TRIED THEM, SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THOSE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
          I HAVE A FEW MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS, BUT I'LL WAIT UNTIL I THINK WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE TO BEING DONE. 
          SO, UM, I DIDN'T HAVE THIS NEED TO HAPPEN BEFORE ADJOURNMENT. 
          YES. 
          UM, AND BRIEFLY IF, IF EVERYONE COULD, UM, IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM, AND I AM I TRYING TO GET INTO YOUR BUSINESS SO TO SPEAK, BUT IF YOU COULD LET ME KNOW IF YOU'RE GOING ON VACATION, UM, IN THE SUMMER, I'D VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT. 
          UH, IT JUST HELPS ME IN ENSURE THAT WE HAVE CORN. 
          I THINK THE WORST THING ON THE PLANET OUTSIDE OF A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          UM, BUT FOR THE SEMESTERS YOU WERE SAYING WITHOUT CORN, UH, SO IF YOU ALL GO ON A VACATION AND YOU HAVE THAT PLANNED OUT, I WOULD APPRECIATE YOU LETTING ME KNOW IN ADVANCE, JUST SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE QUORUM. 
          AND IF NOT, I CAN LET EVERYONE KNOW AHEAD OF TIME AND WE CAN HOPEFULLY SAVE A LOT OF TIME. 
          UM, SPEAKING OF VACATION, UH, JULY 5TH IS OUR NEXT, UH, UH, MEETING DATE. 
          I RECOGNIZE OF COURSE, THAT THAT IS AFTER JULY FOUR. 
          IT, UM, IN HINDSIGHT, MAYBE THIS NEXT NOVEMBER, WE CAN SCHEDULE BETTER. 
          I DON'T KNOW. 
          UM, BUT I WILL BE ON VACATION FROM JUNE 5TH TO JULY. 
          I'M SORRY, JUNE 17TH TO JULY 5TH, I'M GETTING MARRIED. 
          UM, SO, UH, SO IF YOU DON'T HEAR FROM ME BETWEEN THEN, UH, WE'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE ALL THE BACKUPS, THE CALENDAR INVITES AND ALL OF THAT TAKEN CARE OF, UM, IF YOU DO SEE ONE OR TWO BACKUPS THAT ARE LATE, I DO APOLOGIZE NOW. 
          UM, BUT I'M NOT IGNORING YOU PRECISELY FOCUSING ON YOUR MARRIAGE. 
          MY FUTURE WIFE WILL TAKE MY 
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PHONE AND, UM, YEAH. 
          SO, UM, BUT YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR IN CASE ANYONE SENDS ME EMAILS IN BETWEEN THAT TIME. 
          UM, I, WE, THE MEETING WILL STILL RUN SMOOTHLY ON JULY 5TH. 
          WE'RE STILL GOING TO MEET ON JULY 5TH. 
          EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. 
          UM, LASTLY, WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER OF THE UTC FOR DISTRICT TWO, REPLACING COMMISSIONER RYAN, UH, NATHAN, MINE, WHO HAS SINCE LEFT US. 
          UM, I'M NOT GOING TO INTRODUCE HER HERE INSTEAD. 
          THE NEXT TIME WE MEET ON JULY 5TH, I'LL HAVE A RED CARPET, SOME LIGHTS, MAYBE SOME FLOWERS, MAYBE SOME FIREWORKS AND SHE'LL COME IN BLAZING. 
          SO I'M HOPEFULLY WASHING NOW NO PRESSURE. 
          SO NO, NO, NO, NO, IT'LL BE FINE. 
          UM, AND SO, YEAH, I JUST WANT TO MAKE YOU ALL AWARE OF THOSE THINGS. 
          IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE MEANTIME, JUST LET ME KNOW AND, UH, I'LL GET AN ON THE AGENDA. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM. 
          UM, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED IN SCOOTER ACCIDENTS WITH A CAR THAT'S TURNING RIGHT ON RED. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW WHO WOULD GIVE, WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE SCOOTERS AREN'T READING IT THEMSELVES. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          I WILL, UH, CHECK IN WITH STAFF ON THAT AND WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, FOR THE MANY, MANY PEOPLE WATCHING AT HOME, WHERE'S YOUR WEDDING REGISTRY. 
          IF THEY NEED TO GO BUY ANYTHING? NOT THAT I DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. 
          I DO WANT TO APOLOGIZE THOUGH, FOR US STARTING LATE ON CITY COUNCIL WAS STILL AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND WE RAN INTO A FEW ISSUES, BUT WE GOT IT ALL RESOLVED. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING PATIENT WITH THAT. 
          YES, STEVE ADLER, ACTUALLY, I MET HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT HE WAS AMAZING. 
          ALL THESE, I SAW HIM WALK BY DURING THE MEETING. 
          IT WAS GREAT. 
          VISUALLY MET HIM VISUALLY. 
          IT'S A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          WITH THAT, I THINK, UH, UNLESS THERE ARE ANY LAST MINUTE ITEMS THAT PEOPLE NEED TO THROW OUT FOR DISCUSSION. 
          NOPE. 
          OKAY. 
          THEN WE, UH, LAST ITEM IS A GERMAN. 
          I THINK WE CAN DO THAT BY CONSENSUS. 
          UNLESS SOMEONE OBJECTS WE ARE ADJOURNED TO LATE. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          SO NOW I FOLLOW MY HEART TO THAT PLACE IN TIME. 
          AN ANNUAL RON. 
          UM, REMEMBER THE DAY YOU SAID YOU ALWAYS BELONG TO AND UP AND WE'RE TOLD STAR CHAMPAGNE.
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