[CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:05] 504. I AM VICE CHAIR SPENCER SCHUMACHER FILLING IN FOR OUR CHAIR, SUSAN SUMMERS. WE ARE AT CITY HALL AND THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ROOM STARTING OUR REGULAR MEETING OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION. I WILL CALL THE ROLL CHAIR. SUMMERS IS NOT HERE. I AM SPENCER SCHUMACHER, VICE CHAIR. COMMISSIONER. CAVEMAN. COMMISSIONER. BROWN. COMMISSIONER. BUFFER. COMMISSIONER. CHEN. COMMISSIONER. FERNANDEZ. COMMISSIONER. JACOBSON. COMMISSIONER. PRASAD. ALL RIGHTY. NOW WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT. [PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL] AND I THINK WE HAVE ONE PERSON SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. SO WE ARE TAKING A COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER FIVE, THE ACTION ITEM FROM LONNIE STERN DURING PUBLIC COMMENT. IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU FOR VISITING US FROM THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION. YES, I HAVE A LONG COMMUTE AHEAD OF ME ACROSS THE HALL FOR THIS MEETING, BUT I. OH, AND SORRY, JUST NOTING THAT COMMISSIONER PRASAD IS HERE. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WELL, SO YOU'RE RIGHT. TONIGHT, I DID WANT TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE ITEMS ON YOUR AGENDA, WHICH ARE ABOUT JOINT USE ACCESS EASEMENTS. I PRESENTED THIS TO ZAP AND HELPED TO WRITE THIS. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU HAD SOME CONTEXT FOR WHY I WAS HOPING THIS WOULD GET STARTED. SO FIRST, JUST A PICTURE OF SUBURBIA. AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IF YOU HAVE A BUS STOP WHERE THE STAR IS AND YOU LIVE IN THE HOUSE JUST BELOW THE STAR, YOU GET TO WALK JUST RIGHT OUT TO THE CORNER. BUT IF YOU LIVE IN A HOUSE TO THE LEFT OF THAT STAR, YOU GET TO WALK MANY, MANY BLOCKS TO GET TO THAT CORNER. AND ESSENTIALLY, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SUBURBIA, WE'RE HOPING THAT THERE'S A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO WALK AND BIKE. IF THERE WAS A PASEO AT THE END OF THAT CUL DE SAC, IT WOULD HELP THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD TO GET TO THAT STOP. INSTEAD OF HAVING TO RUN THE BUS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. NOW, I LIVE IN SAINT ELMO ON SOUTH CONGRESS, WHICH THINKS IT'S AN EMERGING MIXED USE DISTRICT. HOWEVER, IT DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME ZONING THAT WE HAVE AND TAKE FOR GRANTED DOWNTOWN OR ON THE EAST SIDE, WHERE YOU HAVE A SIDEWALK OR AN ALLEY AROUND ALL FOUR CORNERS OF THOSE BUILDINGS. NOW THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN I LIVE THERE. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S FENCES AND BLOCKING WALKWAYS. THERE'S ALSO DRIVEWAYS WHERE THERE COULD BE STREETS AND THERE ARE ALSO DISCONNECTIONS. THIS IS SOMEBODY WALKING THEIR DOG. YOU CAN SEE THE SIDEWALK ON THE LEFT. THAT'S WHAT THEY MEET AT THE END OF THAT SIDEWALK. AND THEN AGAIN BETWEEN WAREHOUSES WHERE THERE COULD BE WALKING SPACE, THERE ARE WALLS AND THINGS THAT ARE IN YOUR WAY, EVEN WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO WALK. THERE'S SIDEWALK TO THE LEFT, YOU GET TO THE END AND IT'S JUST A GARDEN BED. AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE IN THE BACKGROUND ON THE RIGHT WHERE THAT CAR IS, THAT'S SOUTH CONGRESS AVENUE. THIS SHOULD BE A CONNECTION TO THE STREET, BUT INSTEAD IT'S A DEAD END. THEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. IT'S NOT JUST THE SAINT ELMO THING WE'VE GOT AT LAMAR UNION. YOU MAY HAVE VISITED ON SOUTH LAMAR. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME CONNECTIONS AROUND AND WITHIN, BUT YOU CAN SEE ON THE TOP LEFT YOU CAN'T WALK OR BIKE. THERE'S A GATE IN YOUR WAY. NEIGHBORS HAVE CUT HOLES THROUGH THE HEDGES TO GET THROUGH. AND ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT. IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO MAUDIE'S TEX-MEX, YOU CAN EITHER CLIMB THAT WALL OR YOU CAN WALK ON LAMAR. SO NOT VERY FRIENDLY TO AN EIGHT OR AN EIGHT YEAR OLD. SO I WENT THROUGH AND I WAS LOOKING ON GOOGLE MAPS LIKE, HOW WOULD I WANT TO RESTITCH THESE STREETS? I PUT YELLOW THERE TO INDICATE PLACES WHERE THE STREET SHOULD BE A THROUGH STREET, AT LEAST FOR BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS. BUT THERE THIS IS NOT ACCURATE. THERE ARE FENCES GOING UP BETWEEN EACH BUILDING. THEN I LOOKED AT SOUTH LAMAR. WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT PUTTING BIKE LANES ON SOUTH LAMAR, WHEN WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING IT ALONG THE UP LINE OR JUST WEST OF LAMAR. SO THAT WAY THERE'S AN EASEMENT BETWEEN EACH BUILDING, ALLOWING YOU TO HAVE A CONTIGUOUS BIKEWAY. AND INSTEAD WE HAVE THESE KIND OF WELL-MEANING DEATH TRAPS WHERE YOU'VE GOT A BIKE LANE, AND THEN IT JUST GOES RIGHT OUT INTO THE STREET. SO YOU'RE NEXT TO THAT HONDA. THEN I LOOKED AT HIGHLAND. SIMILAR DISCONNECTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO FIX IT. I LOOKED AT NORTH BURNET GATEWAY. WE'VE ZONED GATEWAY TO BE THE SAME AS THE DOMAIN. WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT SINKING THE HIGHWAY AND RECONNECTING THOSE ROADS TO ONE ANOTHER. BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE THE ROAD NETWORK ALREADY MATCHING, THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN. AND WE'RE NOT REALLY IN THE PERIOD OF DOING OVERLAYS ANYMORE. AND AGAIN, TECH RIDGE, YOU CAN SEE IT'S A SURFACE PARKING LOTS, BUT THERE ARE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO RECONNECT THE GRID. HERE'S NORTH CROSS TWO SHOPPING CENTERS. [00:05:01] ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO BE REDEVELOPED. WHY NOT INSIST ON THAT GRID GOING INTO IT? SO THAT WAY IT CAN BECOME AN URBAN PLACE OVER TIME. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I REMIND YOU THAT THE GRID WORKS. ALLEYWAYS ARE WORTHWHILE. YOU CAN SEE IN THESE PHOTOS THAT WE ACTIVELY USE SOME OF THESE GRIDS, AND WE TAKE THEM FOR GRANTED. THEY'RE ON THE UT CAMPUS OR DOWNTOWN, AND I'M SUGGESTING IT SHOULD WORK THAT WAY THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. AND I THINK THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES AT SAINT ELMO'S WHERE THEY'RE STARTING TO CONNECT THEM UP. RIGHT? YES. AND COULD YOU, WHILE YOU LIKE, MAYBE SAY THESE LAST THREE SLIDES, COULD YOU JUST BECAUSE WE'RE GOING INTO YOUR TERRITORY TONIGHT. YEAH. DEFINE FOR US WHAT A PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT IS AND WHAT A JOINT USE ACCESS AGREEMENT IS. YEAH. SO YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IN THIS PROPOSAL AND WHAT WE APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY, WHICH IS HARD TO BELIEVE AT ZAP, IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT SOMEBODY CAN WALK OR BIKE BETWEEN BUILDINGS AND THROUGH PROJECTS. SO IF YOU THINK OF LIKE A BIG APARTMENT COMPLEX, IT LIKELY HAS A GIANT GATE THAT SURROUNDS 10 OR 15 BUILDINGS, AND YOU GOT TO WALK A MILE TO GET OUT OF IT, SO NOBODY WALKS. AND WE'RE SUGGESTING THAT THERE SHOULD BE EVERY 350FT SOME WAY FOR SOMEBODY TO WALK THROUGH ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS, AS WELL AS THESE MIXED USE PROJECTS. BUT THE REASON WHY I'M SAYING JOINT USE IS BECAUSE I'VE SPOKEN TO THE DEVELOPERS AND THEY HAVE A UTILITY EASEMENT, THEY HAVE A FIRE EASEMENT. AND I DON'T FEEL STRONGLY THAT IT NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER ADDITIONAL EASEMENT. YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT HERE, THIS IS A FIRE LANE. IT WOULD WORK PERFECTLY WELL AS AS AN EASEMENT AND IT WOULD COUNT IN MY BOOK, BUT WE NEED TO CODIFY IT. SO THAT WAY IT'S NOT A NICE TO HAVE. IT'S A NEED TO HAVE. AWESOME. DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YEAH. AND THESE INSTANCES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH BIG GATES SURROUNDING AREAS, HOW MUCH OF THAT IS A SECURITY FEATURE OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING? YES. I KNOW IT'S COMING FROM THAT SECURITY MINDED RESIDENT, BUT YOU CAN ALSO LOOK AT ANY OF THE BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN, LIKE EVEN JUST ACROSS THE STREET, I CAN GO TO JOE'S AND I CAN WALK FULLY AROUND THAT BUILDING EVEN THOUGH IT'S A PRIVATE BUILDING. AND SO I CAN GO TO JOE'S ON ONE SIDE, I CAN GO TO ROYAL BLUE ON THE OTHER, AND I DON'T HAVE TO WALK OUTSIDE OF A FENCE TO GET TO IT. AND SO I THINK THAT THE BUILDINGS THEMSELVES CAN BE SECURED WITHOUT THERE BEING A FENCE THAT FULLY LOCKS THEM IN. AND JUST SO IT CAN BE SAID, THERE MAY BE SOME COMMUNITIES THAT FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THEIR FENCE, AND THAT'S FINE. WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING IS THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A GATE EVERY 350FT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN GO IN AND OUT, EVEN IF, AS RESIDENTS, THEY NEED A KEY OF SOME KIND TO GET THROUGH. BECAUSE OVER TIME, I THINK THAT THOSE GATES WILL BECOME MORE PUBLIC. SORRY, THE 350. SO EVEN IF IT WAS A LOCKED GATE, IT COULD BE FOR RESIDENTS, BUT STILL THEY WOULD HAVE TO WALK. EXACTLY. IN MY PERFECT WORLD, EVERYONE WOULD HAVE THAT ACCESS. BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, IF THE RESIDENTS START MAKING THAT WALK REGULARLY, THEY'RE GOING TO START REALIZING HOW SILLY THE GATE IS ITSELF OVER TIME. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ONLINE, FOLKS? JUST FEEL FREE TO SHOUT OUT. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND BEST OF LUCK. IT'S TONIGHT. THANKS FOR THE TIME, Y'ALL. I APPRECIATE IT. THANKS. TO LOCAL ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION THAT WILL BE ACCEPTED. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR FIRST ACTION ITEM APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF OUR [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] LAST MEETING IN JULY. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRE CIRCULATED AND THEY ARE IN YOUR AGENDA PACKET. IF YOU'RE HERE IN PERSON I'LL GIVE EVERYONE A SECOND TO READ IT. EDIT SUGGESTIONS. YEAH. LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE A MOTION AND THEN WE CAN DO ANY AMENDMENTS. SO MOVED TO ADOPT. I'LL SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER. COUNCILMAN. YEAH. ANY TEXT EDITS? SORRY. ON PAGE TWO, ITEM SIX, AMENDMENT TWO SAYS ON A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER AND A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER SOMMERS. THE AMENDMENT WAS APPROVED. OF COURSE. YES. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO SAY. YEAH, I THINK I THINK THAT WAS MY I WAS I REMEMBER THE AMENDMENT. IT WAS SAYING THAT WE SHOULD PUT SAFETY FIRST. SO I THINK IT WAS MY MOTION. AND A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER SUMMERS, I'M GOING TO SAY THAT'S THAT'S JUST A TEXTUAL EDITS. YEAH. YEAH THAT'S CORRECT. [00:10:04] ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT ONE CHANGE NOTED, ANYTHING ELSE FOLKS ARE NOTICING? ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING TO CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADOPTING, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE. AND THAT IS UNANIMOUS. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO OUR FIRST DISCUSSION ITEM GROUND TRANSPORTATION [2. Ground Transportation Services Overview. Presentation by Jacob Culberson, Division Manager, Austin Transportation and Public Works.] SERVICES OVERVIEW BY JACOB CULBERSON. AND I THINK CHAIR SUMMERS SAID THIS LAST TIME WHEN WE DID THE SPECIAL EVENTS ONE AS WELL, BUT COMMISSION, WE USED TO A LOT OF TIMES DO WHAT WE LIKE TO CALL A TOUR OF TPW WHERE WE JUST KIND OF HEAR FROM DEPARTMENTS WE HADN'T HEARD FROM IN A WHILE, UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY DO, UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HELP THEM, AND GRANT GROUND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES IS ONE OF THOSE WHERE THERE'S CERTAINLY SOME THINGS YOU DO THAT WE TALK ABOUT A LOT, BUT YOU GUYS DO A LOT MORE THAN WHAT WE JUST TALK ABOUT. SO WE THOUGHT THIS WOULD JUST BE A HELPFUL OVERVIEW FOR COMMISSIONERS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY DO. YOU GUYS CAN TAKE IT AWAY. GREAT. THANK YOU COMMISSIONER. HELLO. OTHER COMMISSIONERS. JUST A QUICK ITEM ABOUT ME REALLY QUICKLY. JUST YOU ALL KNOW ME. I HAD A QUICK OR A SICKNESS RECENTLY THAT CAUSED ME TO HAVE BELL'S PALSY, SO I MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF LISP HERE AS I TALK. BUT JACOB WILL BE DOING MOST OF THE TALKING TODAY. AGAIN, JUST LIKE YOU SAID COMMISSIONER SCHUMACHER, WE'VE YOU KNOW, THIS KIND OF SERIES IS IMPORTANT. WE USED TO COME A LITTLE MORE FREQUENTLY TO, TO UTC TO HELP OUT WITH UNDERSTANDING OUR PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT WE DELIVER TO THE PUBLIC. ONE OF THOSE BEING MOBILITY SERVICES, WHICH GROUND TRANSPORTATION, PASSENGER SERVICES. SO WE'RE GOING TO GIVE THAT OVERVIEW AND ALLOW MY MOBILITY SERVICES MANAGER JACOB, TAKE IT FROM HERE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS JACOB CULBERSON AND I'M THE DIVISION MANAGER OVER MOBILITY SERVICES. AND WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME SHORT SLIDES ABOUT WHAT I DO AND WHAT MY DIVISION ACCOMPLISHES EVERY EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. I THINK THIS ONE. YEAH. SO WE'RE GOING TO COVER THE MOBILITY SERVICES PERMITTING SECTION, WHICH IS MY SECTION. WE'RE LOCATED AT 1501 TOOMEY ROAD. AND AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, YOU ALL ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO STOP BY 1501 TOOMEY ROAD, MY OFFICE RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN PARK RIGHT IN THE FRONT. AND I'LL GIVE YOU A TOUR OF THE BUILDING AND SHOW YOU AROUND AND SHOW YOU OUR PERMITTING OFFICE AND WHAT WE DO MORE THAN HAPPY TO ACCOMMODATE. WE'RE OPEN 8 A.M. TO 3 P.M. EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. WE SEE 30 TO 40 WALK IN CUSTOMERS A DAY, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. SO WE'RE ALWAYS GREETING CUSTOMERS. WE'RE ALWAYS ANSWERING PHONES. WE TAKE ABOUT 60 TO 70 PHONE CALLS A DAY FOR PERMITTING NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. PROGRAM AUTHORITY AND PROCESS WILL COVER AND THEN WE'LL COVER THE PASSENGER SERVICES LICENSING IN MORE DETAIL. SO WHAT WE DO AT MOBILITY SERVICES PERMITTING, WE OFFER PERMITTING AND LICENSING SOLUTIONS TO IMPLEMENT MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT OPERATIONS OF MOBILITY OPTIONS OFFERED TO THE PEOPLE AND VISITORS OF AUSTIN. AND OUR MISSION IS TO ENSURE PUBLIC SAFETY AND ACCESSIBILITY THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS AND EQUITABLE POLICIES, AND PROVIDE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CUSTOMER SERVICE TO THE VISITORS AND PEOPLE OF AUSTIN. AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT MOBILITY SERVICES DOES IS HERE. WE LICENSE GROUND TRANSPORTATION PASSENGER SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE CITY, WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE TNC'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES. AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE COMPANIES LIKE UBER AND LYFT AND OTHERS, WHICH INCLUDES ALSO WAYMO, CARS, ROBOTAXI, THOSE TYPES, THOSE TNC'S WHICH OPERATE BY APP ON THE PHONE, ARE REGULATED BY THE STATE, BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION. THEY HAVE A LICENSE THROUGH TDRS WEBSITE. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT ONE OF THOSE LICENSES, YOU CAN LOOK THEM UP ON TODDLERS WEBSITE AND GET THAT INFORMATION. THOSE SERVICES ARE OUTSIDE OF OUR REGULATION, BUT WHAT WE DO REGULATE IS GROUND TRANSPORTATION, PASSENGER SERVICES THAT ARE NOT TNCS. SO THAT'S LARGE BUSSES AND AND TAXI CABS AND THE LIKE. AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THOSE INDIVIDUALLY SHORTLY. WE DO A LOT OF PASSENGER VEHICLE INSPECTIONS AT MY OFFICE. ANY VEHICLE THAT WE PERMIT, WE DO AN INSPECTION OF THE VEHICLE. AND WE DON'T INSPECT FOR THE SAME INSPECTIONS THAT THE STATE LEVEL DOES AND PROVIDES A [00:15:01] CERTIFICATE FOR. WE INSPECT SPECIFICALLY FOR CITY CODE COMPLIANCE. WE DO CHAUFFEUR LICENSING AND WE'LL GET INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE LATER. BUT WE DO A LOT OF CHAUFFEUR LICENSING EVERY DAY. WE HAVE NEW CHAUFFEURS COMING INTO THE OFFICE AND THEN OTHER CHAUFFEURS WHOSE LICENSES ARE EXPIRING COMING IN FOR RENEWAL. AND THAT'S ON A REGULAR BASIS AT MY OFFICE RESIDENTIAL PERMIT PARKING THROUGHOUT THE CITY. VISITORS ARE WELCOME OR RESIDENTS ARE WELCOME TO COME IN AND VISIT OUR OFFICE AND GET PERMITS THROUGH US DIRECTLY, WHICH SOME CUSTOMERS DO PREFER, OR THEY CAN GO THROUGH OUR ONLINE PORTAL. AND MOST OF THESE SERVICES, BY THE WAY, WE DO HAVE ONLINE PORTALS FOR THESE, LIKE THE CHAUFFEUR LICENSE AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS AS WELL. NOW COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LOADING PERMITS THOSE, YOU'LL SEE THOSE 18 WHEELERS. SO A LOT OF TIMES ON SIXTH STREET LOADING AND UNLOADING INTO THE STORES THAT EXIST THERE, WE HAVE A PERMIT FOR THAT WHERE THEY'RE ABLE TO ACTUALLY USE ONE OF THE TRAVEL LANES TO LOAD AND UNLOAD SAFELY. AND WE SELL THOSE PERMITS AT MY OFFICE AS WELL. VEHICLE IMMOBILIZATION COMPANIES OR BOOTING COMPANIES ARE LICENSED BY MY OFFICE AND WE REGULATE THE COMPANIES THEMSELVES. WE'RE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THEIR REGULATION. THE, THE ACTUAL BOOTING COMPANIES COME TO, TO MY OFFICE FOR A LICENSE, BUT THE INDIVIDUAL BOOTERS GO TO A P D TO GET AN INDIVIDUAL BOATING LICENSE FROM A P D THEMSELVES. WE JUST MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT INSURANCE COVERAGE THAT THERE ARE LOTS ARE STANDARD TO TEXAS STATE LAW. AND WE LICENSE THEM TO OPERATE THOSE, THOSE PARKING LOTS. WE ALSO LICENSE VOLUNTEER ACCESSIBLE PARKING PROGRAM. THAT'S OUR VOLUNTEERS THAT GO OUT TO WRITE CITATIONS FOR DISABLED PARKING SPACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY SOMETIMES IN PRIVATE LOTS LIKE H-E-B AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO IT'S AN INVALUABLE PROCESS FOR OUR CITY. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ABOUT 67 VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEERS THAT GO OUT AND DO THAT. THEY PARTNER WITH OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT TEAMS AND ARE TRAINED BY OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT TEAMS. WE ISSUE THE LICENSE, WHICH REQUIRES A BACKGROUND. SO WE PUT THEM THROUGH A BACKGROUND AND WE ISSUE THE LICENSE AND THEN OUR INTERNAL CITY PARKING PERMITTING. WE HAVE CERTAIN CITY STAFF, CITY VEHICLES AND OTHER AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. ARE OUR TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURES FBI DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. THOSE VEHICLES CAN GET SPECIAL PERMITS TO PARK IN OUR PAID PARKING SPACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WITHOUT RECEIVING A CITATION. ALL RIGHT. SO THE MOBILITY SERVICES IS AUTHORIZED TO REGULATE CERTAIN INDUSTRIES AND PERMITTING PROGRAMS UNDER THE FOLLOWING MUNICIPAL MUNICIPAL PROGRAMS OR MUNICIPAL CODES. SORRY. I'VE LISTED THE CODES THERE FOR YOU SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK AROUND TOO MUCH. OUR GROUND TRANSPORTATION, PASSENGER SERVICES, CHAUFFEUR LICENSING, AND THE REST OF THOSE YOU CAN LOOK UP THOSE CODES. WE ALSO HAVE APPLICABLE RULES. IF YOU'RE EVER INTERESTED, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME DIRECTLY. AND REACH OUT AND I CAN GET YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THOSE PROGRAMS THEMSELVES. OUR AUTHORITY AND PROCESS AND OUR PROCESS IS AUTHORIZES THE OPERATION OF THE ABOVE INDUSTRIES AND PROGRAMS THROUGH A SIMPLE STANDARDIZED PROCESS OF APPLICATION EVALUATION, QUALIFICATION, AND AUTHORIZATION. SOME OF OUR PERMITS, WHICH WE ISSUE REQUIRE A NATIONWIDE CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK, SUCH AS OUR CHAUFFEUR, TRANSPORTATION PASSENGER SERVICE OPERATING AUTHORITIES OUR VOLUNTEER ACCESSIBLE PARKING PROGRAM THE MOBILITY SERVICES TEAM PERFORMS THESE CHECKS THROUGH OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SERVICES, OUR CJIS CERTIFIED ACCESS. BECAUSE WE HAVE A SMALL OFFICE IN TOOMEY ROAD THAT'S ACCESSIBLE ONLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE CJIS ACCESS OR ESCORTED BY A CERTIFIED INDIVIDUAL. OKAY. SO GROUND TRANSPORTATION, PASSENGER SERVICES SPECIFICALLY WE ISSUE OPERATING AUTHORITIES, WHICH IS THE AUTHORITY TO OPERATE A PASSENGER SERVICE WITHIN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. IT'S KIND OF LIKE A BUSINESS LICENSE TO OPERATE. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMPANY HAS THE RIGHT LIABILITY INSURANCE THE RIGHT COVERAGES. AND THE OPERATING AUTHORITY OWNERS GO THROUGH A BACKGROUND CHECK BEFORE THEY'RE AUTHORIZED TO OPERATE ON THE CITY STREETS WITH THEIR VEHICLES, [00:20:03] CHAUFFEUR PERMITTING. SAME THING. THEY GO THROUGH A BACKGROUND PROCESS AND APPLICATION PROCESS. AND WE LICENSE CHAUFFEURS THROUGH THAT SYSTEM ALL THE LIMOUSINES, TAXI CABS, CHARTER VANS, CHARTER BUS SHUTTLES, TOURING AND SIGHTSEEING SERVICE VEHICLES. OUR PSVS WHICH ARE PICTURED THERE TO THE RIGHT SIDE, ELECTRIC LOW SPEED VEHICLES. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THOSE ARE. SO WE USUALLY LIKE TO DEMONSTRATE WITH A PICTURE HORSE AND CARRIAGE, PEDICAB GROUP CYCLE. ALL OF THESE SERVICES HAVE AN OPERATING AUTHORITY, WHICH IS THEIR COMPANY LICENSE TO OPERATE IN THE CITY. AND THEN WE LICENSE THE SPECIFIC VEHICLES THEMSELVES. AND WE DO AN INSPECTION OF THE VEHICLE. AND WE AUTHORIZE EACH, EACH VEHICLE INDIVIDUALLY AND ENSURE IT'S LISTED ON THE INSURANCE AND GIVE IT ITS OWN LICENSE OUT IN THE SYSTEM. RIGHT NOW THIS IS AN OVERVIEW OF ALL THE COMPANIES AND VEHICLES THAT WE LICENSE IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW. AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS A PICTURE OF OUR CHAUFFEUR'S LICENSE OR PERMIT THAT WE ISSUE. SO WE HAVE 54 LIMOUSINE COMPANIES, THREE TAXICAB COMPANIES, 75 CHARTERS, MS FEES, THREE TOURING AND SIGHTSEEING, FOUR PEDICABS, 44 COMPANIES, 351 PEDICABS OUT IN THE SYSTEM, LICENSED GROUP CYCLES. WE HAVE FOUR COMPANIES WITH 15 VEHICLES. A LOT OF PEOPLE, THERE'S THOSE GROUP CYCLES. SOME PEOPLE CALL THEM PEDAL PUBS THOSE KIND OF THINGS. SO YOU PROBABLY SEEN THEM THROUGHOUT THE CITY OPERATING WITH MULTIPLE PEOPLE PEDALING. THOSE ARE WHAT GROUP CYCLES ARE. AND THEN WE HAVE 1729 ACTIVE SHOW CHAUFFEUR PERMITS, WHICH CORRELATES TO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VEHICLES DOWN THERE OPERATING IN THE CITY, 1222 THAT ARE LICENSED IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND HOPEFULLY THEY GIVE YOU A GOOD OVERVIEW OF, OF WHAT WE DO AND THE LICENSING THAT WE DO. AND HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS. APPRECIATE YOU GUYS COMING OUT. ANYONE HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE BAT? COMMISSIONER. COUNCILMAN. DO YOU CAP ANY OF THESE ANY PERMITS LIKE FOR, DO YOU HAVE A CERTAIN SET NUMBER OF COMPANIES OR VEHICLES FOR ANY OF THESE? YES. WE DO. SO FOR THE ELVES. THERE IS A CAP IN CITY CODE OF THE NUMBER OF COMPANIES, NOT THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES. THERE IS A CAP OF THREE COMPANIES TOTAL. SO WE'VE HAD THREE COMPANIES OPERATING FOR, FOR MANY YEARS, EVER SINCE I'VE BEEN WITH MOBILITY SERVICES SINCE 2016. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THOSE THREE SAME COMPANIES OPERATING AND THERE IS THAT CAP IN CITY CODE FOR THOSE THREE. IF YOU LOOK UNDER THAT SPECIFIC SECTION OF 13-2 LOOK UP IN PARTICULAR, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE. THERE'S ALSO A CAP FOR PEDICAB PERMITS, NOT THE NUMBER OF COMPANIES, BUT THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES. WE HAVE A CAP OF 300 PEDICABS THAT WAS PUT IN IN 2014. I DON'T HAVE THE ORDINANCE NUMBER WITH ME, BUT I CAN GET THAT FOR YOU IF YOU'D LIKE. THEY CAPPED THE NUMBER OF PEDICAB VEHICLES IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THAT CAP AT THE TIME. IN 2014, IT'S BEEN SINCE THEN. WE HAVEN'T CHANGED THAT. YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED IT. WE HAVEN'T CHANGED IT SINCE 2014. BUT THERE'S 351 PEDICABS. THOSE WERE GRANDFATHERED IN. THERE WERE ACTUALLY AT THE TIME IN 2014, THERE WAS PROBABLY SOMEWHERE AROUND 500 PEDICABS. AND THEY WERE ALL GIVEN THE GRANDFATHERING WHEN THAT CODE CAME INTO PLACE. THE CODE ACTUALLY STATES WHEN WE GET DOWN TO BELOW 300, IF WE GO TO 299, WE HAVE TO DO A LOTTERY FOR THE EXISTING COMPANIES TO ISSUE ANOTHER PERMIT FOR THOSE WHO MAY WANT IT. SO SO FAR WE HAVEN'T REACHED 299. WE'VE ALWAYS STAYED ABOVE 300. SO RIGHT NOW THERE'S 351. OKAY. AND THOSE PERMITS CAN BE TRANSFERRED. THE CITY IS ABLE TO TRANSFER THOSE PERMITS. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. YEAH. INDIVIDUALS ARE NOT ABLE TO TRANSFER THOSE PERMITS INDIVIDUALLY. THEY HAVE TO COME TO THE CITY, RELINQUISH THAT PERMIT TO THE CITY, AND THE CITY CAN REISSUE THAT PERMIT TO A REQUESTING PARTY. OKAY. BUT WHILE IT STAYS ABOVE 300, THAT DOES NOT ENTER A LOTTERY SYSTEM. LIKE IT CAN BE A SALE TO A SPECIFIC BIDDER. CORRECT? AND IT USUALLY GOES ALONG WITH THE SALE OF AN ACTUAL PEDICAB ITSELF. YEAH. AND THE PERMIT THAT'S ATTACHED TO THAT PEDICAB. OKAY. SO THE PERMIT FOLLOWS THE VEHICLE AND NOT THE DRIVER. IT'S NOT REQUIRED THAT IT DOES, BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT DOES. OKAY. COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. [00:25:01] YEAH. REAL QUICK. I APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR YOUR PRESENTATION. I WAS JUST WONDERING, IS THERE ANY ISSUE PERMITS OR IS THERE ANY PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COUNTY OR UNINCORPORATED OR OTHER AREAS OF THE COUNTY? OUTSIDE THE CITY, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE BY THE RACETRACK OR A LOT OF OTHER GROUND SERVICES OPERATE? KNOW THOSE THOSE AREAS ARE EXEMPT FROM CITY REGULATION AND THEY OPERATE OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN REGULATORY AUTHORITY. GOT IT. DO FOLKS ONLINE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? LOOKING FOR Y'ALL. SO I'D LOVE TO ASK ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LOADING PERMIT. WAY BACK WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BIKE LANE BLOCKAGES, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS IN COUNCILMEMBER ELLIS'S RESOLUTION OR NOT, BUT A BIG PART OF THE DISCUSSION WAS THAT EXPANDING THAT PROGRAM WOULD BE HELPFUL, RIGHT? SO THAT, YES, PEOPLE NEED TO LOAD ARE LOADING IN A VEHICLE LANE WHEN THERE'S MORE THAN ONE RATHER THAN THE BIKE LANE. ABSOLUTELY. UNLESS 2 OR 3 YEARS, HAS THERE BEEN ANY EXPANSION? IS IT STILL LIMITED TO THE DAP? SEE? NO. OKAY. SO WE DID DO A CODE AMENDMENT. IF YOU ALL REMEMBER JASON REDFERN, HE WORKED ON THE CODE AMENDMENT FOR THAT. WAS THAT 12 SECTION 125. AND WE DID EXPAND CVL PERMITS TO THE ENTIRE CITY WITH CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS AND THOSE RESTRICTIONS ARE LISTED IN CODE. WE ALSO HAVE ON THE APPLICATION FOR A PERMIT, WE HAVE A AGREEMENT WITH THE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING THOSE PERMITS WHICH STIPULATES ALL OF THE RULES, BYLAWS OF THOSE PERMITS. AND, YOU KNOW, THE SAFETY PROTOCOLS THEY HAVE TO TAKE BLOCKING BIKE LANES IS STILL AGAINST ORDINANCE. THEY SHOULDN'T BE BLOCKING BIKE LANES. THEY SHOULD NOT BE OCCUPYING A CENTER TURN LANE. THOSE KIND OF THINGS. SO THOSE ARE ALL STIPULATED IN THOSE RULES. IN FACT, I THINK I SAW A PERMIT A YEAR OR TWO AGO AND NO PARKING AND BIKE LANES WAS BOLDED AND HIGHLIGHTED OR UNDERLINED ON IT. YES. HAVE YOU SEEN SINCE THOSE CHANGES WENT INTO EFFECT, AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING THE PERMITS OR APPLYING FOR THE PERMITS? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. THAT'S SOMETHING I HAVEN'T MEASURED OR BUT I COULD DEFINITELY DIVE INTO THAT AND TRY TO GET THOSE NUMBERS. I DON'T HAVE THEM OFFHAND. YEAH. AND DO. THIS IS MY LAST QUESTION ON THIS. DO. RIGHT. LIKE OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, THE PACKAGE DELIVERY SERVICES ARE THE WORST OFFENDERS WHEN IT COMES TO PARKING IN THE BIKE LANE EASILY. RIGHT. THOSE WERE PEOPLE WE WERE HOPING WE COULD KIND OF GET INTO THE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE PERMITTING SYSTEM. HAVE ANY OF THOSE DELIVERY SYSTEMS? BECAUSE AS I RECALL, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, NONE OF THEM DID PARTICIPATE. DO ANY OF THEM PARTICIPATE? YES. SO WE HAVE THE OPTION TO GET A SMALL VEHICLE PERMIT, A MEDIUM VEHICLE PERMIT AND A LARGE VEHICLE. THE LARGE VEHICLE WOULD BE LIKE AN 18 WHEELER. THE MEDIUM VEHICLE IS LIKE A BOX TRUCK. AND THEN THE SMALL VEHICLE IS LIKE A PICKUP TRUCK OR A SMALL VEHICLE. AND WE HAVE WE DO SELL A LOT OF PERMITS IN EACH CATEGORY. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF SMALL VEHICLES THAT ARE, ARE PURCHASING THOSE PERMITS NOW AND USING THOSE FOR DELIVERY. AND I THINK THAT IT'S VERY CONVENIENT FOR THEM. AND I'D LIKE TO ADVERTISE IT MORE IF WE CAN. YEAH. NO, IT'S GREAT TO HEAR THOSE CHANGES. COMMISSIONER TO SEE YOU HAVE A QUESTION? YES. FOR SPECIAL EVENTS LIKE ACL AND SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST, I KNOW WE TEND TO GET MORE PEDICABS IN THE CITY. HOW DOES PERMITTING WORK FOR THAT? SO I WORK TOGETHER WITH ANNETTE MARTINEZ FROM SPECIAL EVENTS AND WITH APD MOST RECENTLY SERGEANT RAMIREZ. AND WE'LL SEND OUT NOTICES TO THE PEDICAB COMPANIES AND OPERATORS. I'LL USUALLY SEND ONE OUT RIGHT BEFORE EVERY EVENT IN EVERY LARGE EVENT IN THE CITY, REMINDING THEM OF THE RULES AND BYLAWS THAT THEY NEED TO ADHERE TO, BUT ALSO SETTING, SETTING UP THE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EVENT ITSELF, WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE LOCATED, THOSE KIND OF THINGS. AND THOSE USUALLY COME FROM SPECIAL EVENTS TO ME OR FROM APD TO ME, AND I SEND THOSE OUT PRETTY REGULARLY. SO WAIT, IT FEELS LIKE YOU JUST DESCRIBED LIKE OPERATIONALLY HOW IT WORKS, BUT IS THERE LIKE A SEPARATE PERMIT REQUIRED FOR SOMEONE TO COME FROM OUT OF TOWN AND AND LIKE SERVICE. AUSTIN. WELL, SO YES, SO ANYONE WHO OPERATES IN AUSTIN WILL REQUIRE LICENSING IN AUSTIN. OKAY. SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEDICAB COMPANIES THAT OPERATE IN HOUSTON OR OTHER CITIES, BUT WHEN THEY DO COME TO AUSTIN, THEY DO NEED A PERMIT FROM AUSTIN. SO THEY NEED TO BE LICENSED IN AUSTIN, AND THEY NEED A CHAUFFEUR'S PERMIT FROM MY OFFICE. AND AND THEN THEY CAN GET ON OUR MAILING LIST FOR OUR NOTIFICATIONS FOR EVENTS AND EVERYTHING TOO. OKAY. SO DO YOU FIND THAT, I MEAN, IT FEELS LIKE THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES INCREASES SIGNIFICANTLY. THOSE TIMES, ARE YOU FINDING A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE OPERATING WITHOUT A PERMIT FOR THOSE EVENTS? THAT'D BE A GOOD QUESTION FOR ENFORCEMENT. [00:30:03] SO OUR, OUR ENFORCEMENT SECTION ITSELF, DO YOU WANT TO. YEAH, I CAN, I CAN ANSWER THAT. SO WE DO HAVE AN ENFORCEMENT TEAM THAT'S OUT THERE LOOKING AT YOU KNOW, PEDICABS THAT ARE UNLICENSED IN THE CITY IN MAJOR EVENTS. WE HAVE STAFF THAT'S OUT THERE LOOKING FOR THOSE. WORKING WITH APD AND MOBILE MOBILITY SERVICE, OFFICERS CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH. THEY CAN'T STOP SOMEONE THAT IS DRIVING OFF WITH A PEDICAB, BUT THEY WORK WITH APD TO HELP OUT FIND THOSE OFFENDERS, AND IF WE GET INFORMATION ON THAT SPECIFIC PERSON, THEN WE CAN ACTUALLY SEND THEM A LETTER, LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY CANNOT BE OPERATING HERE IN THE CITY. OKAY. IS THERE LIKE A PENALTY OR A FINE OR A YEAH, THEY CAN IMPOUND THE PEDICAB ITSELF. YES. YEAH. AND ACCORDING TO 13.2, IF YOU READ THE PENALTIES THROUGH THERE, IT'S A CLASS C MISDEMEANOR PUNISHABLE BY UP TO $500. FINE. OKAY. AND THOSE ARE THE CITATIONS THAT THEY WOULD RECEIVE. THOSE ARE THE SAME CITATIONS. IF IT'S AN ILLEGAL TAXI OPERATOR, ILLEGAL LIMOUSINE, ILLEGAL PEDICAB. IT'S THE SAME REGULATION FOR ALL OF THOSE GROUND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. OKAY. THANKS. COMMISSIONER KAPLAN JUST A QUESTION ON LIKE ENFORCEMENT. WHAT IS THE PROCESS LIKE? ARE YOU INFORMED OF ANY OF THESE PERMIT HOLDERS AND LIKE TRAFFIC CITATIONS THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE FROM APD AND LIKE, DOES THAT RESULT IN A REVOCATION OF THEIR PERMIT? WELL, SO PART OF THE CHAUFFEUR PERMITTING IS A CHECK OF THEIR DRIVING RECORD. OKAY. AND WE DO GET TO SEE THEIR DPS RECORDS, NOT JUST THE CRIMINAL HISTORY, BUT THEIR DRIVING HISTORY AS WELL. IT'S A THREE, A CERTIFIED DRIVING RECORD SO WE CAN SEE EVEN ACTIVITY FROM ANOTHER STATE. AND WE DO LOOK AT THEIR DRIVING HISTORY AND EVALUATE THAT AS PART OF THE PROCESS. AND SUBJECTS WHO HAVE MULTIPLE CITATIONS MAY BE DISQUALIFIED FROM GETTING A CHAUFFEUR'S PERMIT, BUT IF LIKE, WHILE THEY HOLD THE PERMIT AND THEY GET A CITATION FROM AN OFFICER, LIKE SO WE WOULDN'T GET NOTIFICATION OF THE CITATION, BUT WE WOULD GET A NOTIFICATION OF A CONVICTION. OKAY. SO YOU KNOW, WE, WE HOLD THE PRACTICE ACCORDING TO STATE LAW THAT WE CAN'T HOLD ANY CHARGE AGAINST A PERSON, BUT A CONVICTION CAN BE HELD AGAINST A PERSON. AND AS SOON AS THERE IS A CONVICTION ON ANYONE ENROLLED IN OUR SYSTEM, IN OUR CHAUFFEUR'S PERMIT SYSTEM WE GET NOTIFIED WHENEVER ANY CONVICTIONS DO COME THROUGH, WE GET NOTIFIED BY DPS AND FBI RECORDS. OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? YES, I DO HAVE A QUESTION. GO AHEAD. DOES UBER OR LYFT FALL UNDER YOUR JURISDICTION? NO. THAT'S UNDER THE STATE. AND THEIR LICENSES ARE HELD BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION. SO IF YOU KNOW THE NAME OF A COMPANY, YOU CAN LOOK UP A LICENSE UNDER TDLAS WEBSITE AND THOSE CAN SHOW YOU THE LICENSES OF WHAT WE CALL TNCS. TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES. SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WOULD INCLUDE UBER EATS, UBER, LYFT THE WAYMO CARS THAT ARE OUT THERE, ROBO TAXI, ALL OF THOSE ARE TNC OPERATIONS THAT ARE, ARE REGULATED BY THE STATE. AYE. THERE ARE ACTUALLY SOME TNC'S THAT WE DO REGULATE. HOWEVER, THEY'RE NOT COUNTED AS TNC BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN SIX PASSENGERS, YOU'RE NOT COUNTED AS TNC ACCORDING TO THE STATE. SO THERE'S AN OPERATION THAT IS ACTUALLY OPERATES BY APP CALLED FETI. YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THE BIG FETI FANS OUT THERE. FETI OPERATES BY APP AND THEY OPERATE JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TNC. HOWEVER, THEY CARRY MORE THAN SIX PASSENGERS, THEREFORE THEY'RE NOT QUALIFIED AS A TNC UNDER STATE LAW. SO WE DO REGULATE THOSE COMPANIES THAT OPERATE FOR FETTY'S APP, BECAUSE FETTY IS IS REALLY JUST A DISPATCHING SERVICE. AND AN APPLICATION ON A PHONE. IT'S NOT AN ACTUAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, BUT THOSE TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES THAT DO OPERATE FOR FETTY'S APP, WE REGULATE THOSE AND WE LICENSE THOSE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THANK YOU. YEAH. I HAVE TWO LAST QUESTIONS. ONE I THINK IS A QUICK ONE. I SAW A HORSE AND CARRIAGE ON THERE. DO WE STILL HAVE HORSE AND CARRIAGES? WE DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT NOW. UNFORTUNATELY AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY ARE SEASONAL. YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS SEASON WILL, WILL SPARK THEM UP. BUT WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS NOW. THERE WERE TWO OPERATING FOR QUITE A WHILE. [00:35:01] AND, AND THOSE TWO WENT OUT OF BUSINESS. AND THERE WAS AN INTERESTED PARTY RECENTLY. SO THERE'S THERE'S SOME SOME INTEREST RECENTLY THAT I'M HAPPY ABOUT. HOPEFULLY IT'LL START UP IN THE IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON. AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS ON PEDICABS. SO OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WHEN I'VE GONE BACK AND LOOKED THE IDEA FROM CITY COUNCIL, AS I UNDERSTOOD IN 2014, WAS JUST THERE WERE A LOT OF PEDICABS, ESPECIALLY IN THE THE DOWNTOWN AREA, AND THAT WAS CREATING ISSUES. SO THE IDEA OF THE CAP WAS TO LOWER THE AMOUNT OF PEDICABS. AND WE HAVE GOTTEN CLOSER TO THE CAP THAN WE WERE 12 YEARS AGO. I WONDER NOW IT'S 12 YEARS LATER. OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE A LOT BETTER BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE IN DOWNTOWN. A LOT MORE INTEREST IN, YOU KNOW, NON CAR OPTIONS TO GET AROUND. IS THERE, DO YOU THINK THERE'S ADDITIONAL CAPACITY? IS THERE ADDITIONAL DEMAND FOR PEDICABS OR IS THAT CAP STILL MOSTLY APPROPRIATE YOU THINK. I THINK THE CAP WAS SET FAIRLY HIGH AT THE TIME IN 2014 BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY ALREADY OPERATING THERE. THERE WAS NO CAP PREVIOUSLY TO 2014. SO LIKE I SAID, THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE 500 AND SOMETHING PERMITS OUT THERE OPERATING IN THE CITY, AND THEY SET THE CAP PRETTY HIGH. THEY ALSO HAD AN ISSUE IN 2014 WITH PEDICABS HAD TRAILERS AND THEY WERE PULLING TRAILERS. AND THEY HAD TO ELIMINATE THAT BECAUSE IT BECAME A SAFETY HAZARD. BUT THE CONSENSUS RIGHT NOW, AND I MEET WITH THE PEDICAB ERS ON A REGULAR BASIS. AND WE JUST MET WITH THEM NOT THAT LONG AGO, JUST A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. AND THE CONSENSUS WITH THE PEDICAB ERS IS TO HOLD THE CAP. THEY RECOGNIZE THAT IT PROTECTS THEIR BUSINESS AND MAKES IT VALUABLE IN THE CITY. THE CONSENSUS AMONG THE A P D OFFICERS THAT WORK THE EVENTS IS VERY SIMILAR. IF ANYTHING LOWER THE CAP. IF YOU'RE TALKING TO ONE OF OUR APD OFFICERS THE, THE AMOUNT THAT ARE OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY THAT GROUP TOGETHER FOR SPECIAL EVENTS CAN SOMETIMES BE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE. AND, AND THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE THOSE CRITICAL MOMENTS WHERE WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE THEM VERY EFFICIENTLY. AND SO YEAH, IF YOU TALK TO THE, THE PEDICAB COMPANIES THEMSELVES, THEY LIKE THE CAP WHERE IT'S AT AND THEY REALIZE THAT IT DOES PROTECT THEIR BUSINESSES. THAT MAKES SENSE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? ALL RIGHT. WELL THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU COMING OUT. THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU. ALL [3. I35 Small Area Mobility Plan Overview. Presentation by Brianna Frey, Division Manager, Austin Transportation and Public Works.] RIGHT. WE'LL MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER THREE, THE I-35 SMALL AREA MOBILITY PLAN OVERVIEW. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION TODAY FROM DINGAAN. I HOPE I GOT THAT NAME RIGHT. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I DIDN'T. YEAH, THAT'S ABOUT RIGHT. OKAY. I MOSTLY JUST COULDN'T READ MY HANDWRITING. ON THE COMPUTER. AND TODAY, IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE WE'RE GOING TO BE WALKING YOU THROUGH FOR THINGS. THE FIRST STEP IS GOING TO BE BASICALLY DESCRIBING WHAT'S A SMALL AREA MOBILITY PLAN OR SAM AND HOW THEY WILL BE USED. THEN TALK THROUGH THE STAGES OF THIS PROJECT AND PRESENT YOU WITH THE MAIN THREE STAGES. THE FIRST ONE THE FIRST TWO BEING THE EXISTING CONDITIONS AND THE GAP ANALYSIS, WHICH WAS THE PRECURSOR TO PROJECTS THAT ARE BEING RECOMMENDED IN THE PLAN DOCUMENTS THAT'S BEEN PUBLISHED. IF THAT WILL BE PUBLISHED, IF WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THIS SMALL AREA MOBILITY PLAN IS. AND IT'S BASICALLY A TOOL FOR THE CITY TO TRANSLATE THE LARGER CITY WIDE POLICIES AND STRATEGIES SUCH AS SMALL AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN INTO MORE FOCUSED GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS LIKE NEIGHBORHOODS OR IN THE EXCEPTION OF THIS CASE, A LARGER AREA THAT COMPRISES OF MULTIPLE NEIGHBORHOODS. IT GIVES THE CITY AN OPPORTUNITY TO BASICALLY WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY AND SET PRIORITIES FOR FUTURE INVESTMENTS AND PROGRAMING OF THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. AND IT'S A TOOL FOR US TO COMMUNICATE, TRACK AND REPORT HOW TRANSPORTATION [00:40:03] INVESTMENT IS WORKING TOWARDS MEETING OUR STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AT THIS SMALL SCALE. IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO THE SAMS OFFER US A SET OF BENEFITS, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE IS TIED TO RECENT CHANGES FROM HOW THE CITY CAN APPLY FOR FUNDING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL OR REGIONAL LEVEL THROUGH CAMPO. IT'S BASICALLY A REQUIREMENT CHECK THAT'S BEING SET FOR LIKE PLANNING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR GOING GRANTING THOSE FUNDS. AND IT'S THE GATES AND CHECKS SYSTEM THAT'S BEING ESTABLISHED. AND SAMS ALLOW US TO BASICALLY START THAT PROCESS AND HAVE THE FIRST CHECK MARK OF THAT PLANNING PROCESS THAT CAN ALLOW US FOR APPLY FOR FUNDING. AND IT'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LET THE EXPERTS BE THE EXPERTS. AND IN THIS INSTANCE THE RESIDENTS OR THE EXPERTS ON THE GROUND AND CITY STAFF AND TECHNICAL EXPERTS ARE THE FOLKS WHO WILL BE CONDUCTING THE PLANNING PROCESS AND IMPLEMENTING THE DESIRES OF THE COMMUNITY AND RESIDENTS. THEY ALSO THERE ARE CONCEPTS THAT ARE PRESENTED IN EACH SAMPLE BASICALLY ALLOW US TO HAVE A JUMPING OFF POINT FOR FUTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROJECTS AND HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE ENGAGEMENT WHICH WILL COME AT FOR EXAMPLE, AT A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT STAGE OF DESIGN. SO THE NEXT STEP OF OF RECOMMENDED PROJECTS. IN A LOT OF CASES, IT WILL BE DOING A PR FOR THE RECOMMENDED PROJECTS, AND IT'S A TOOL FOR PROVIDING CLARITY AND TRANSPARENCY AS WE MOVE ALONG EACH PROJECT DEVELOPMENT. AND NEXT SLIDE, WE SEE A DIAGRAM OF THE STAGES THAT SAM PROCESS CAN UNDERTAKE. AND IT STARTS WITH IDENTIFYING THE NEEDS AND BARRIERS OF EACH AREA, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND BASED ON THEIR INPUT AND THE EXISTING GOALS OF THE CITY LOCATING WHERE THOSE NEEDS AND BARRIERS ARE THEN WORKING WITH THE TECHNICAL EXPERTS WE WOULD RECOMMEND PROJECT IDEAS FOR THOSE NEEDS AND BARRIERS. AND AT THE NEXT STEP, WE WOULD WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND COLLECT THE INPUT THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO SET PRIORITIES FOR THESE IDENTIFIED PROJECTS. AND THEN ONCE THE THE PROJECT RECOMMENDED PROJECTS ARE IDENTIFIED, IT SETS A PATH TOWARDS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENTATION, WHICH WILL BE MULTIPLE POSSIBLE STREAMS FOR EACH RECOMMENDED PROJECT. FOR EXAMPLE, LARGE CORRIDOR PROJECT CAN BECOME A LARGE SCALE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT GOES THROUGH A GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS OR APPLIES FOR ISSUING BONDS OR OTHER LARGE INVESTMENTS PROGRAMS. THE SMALLER PROGRAMMATIC ONES CAN BE IMPLEMENTED BY LOCAL MOBILITY PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE TRAILS OR SIDEWALKS DIVISION. AND IT WILL BE THE SMALL PROJECTS THAT THEY CAN ROLL INTO THEIR STACK OF CAPITAL PROJECTS AND IMPLEMENT AS PRIOR AS THEY WOULD PRIORITIZE THEIR PROJECT PORTFOLIO ALL THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND WELL, THERE'S THE FUNDING OPPORTUNISTICALLY STREAM AS WELL THAT IF A SPECIFIC DEVELOPER CAN UNDERTAKE SOME COMPONENTS OR SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES ARISE, IT WOULD ALLOW US TO HAVE THE IDENTIFIED PROJECT THAT TO FOLLOW IMPLEMENTATION PATH. IN THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'D SEE THE THREE STAGES THIS SPECIFIC PROJECT WENT UNDER. AND THE FIRST ONE IS THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ANALYSIS. WE DID A REVIEW OF WHAT'S EXISTING IN THE AREA AND WHAT PLANS EXIST FOR HAVE BEEN BASICALLY DRAFTED FOR THE AREA. THE NEXT STEP WAS A GAP ANALYSIS THAT LOOKED OVER WHAT'S EXISTING AND WHAT'S PLANNED AND IDENTIFIED, WHERE THE MISSING LINKS OF THE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE SET [00:45:01] GOALS OF THE AREA ARE. AND THEN AT THE NEXT STAGE, WE STARTED RECOMMENDING PROJECTS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PLAN ALL THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. AND IT'S ON THE NEXT SLIDE. WE WERE ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN TWO STREAMS. THE MAIN ONE AND THE FIRST ONE WAS A, THROUGH A COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP THAT WAS COMPRISED OF ALMOST 20 MEMBERS REPRESENTING VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS REPRESENTING VARIOUS MOBILITY NEEDS SUCH AS MOBILITY IMPAIRED, BLIND, DEAF OR ELDERLY GROUPS. THERE WERE REPRESENTATIVES OF IMPACTED LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS WITH A STAKE IN THE AREA SUCH AS UDT AND RED LINE PARKWAY, AND THERE WERE FEW LOCAL BUSINESSES REPRESENTING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, AND WE HELD SIX MEETINGS AND ONE WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WITH THE COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP AND WALK THEM THROUGH ALL THE STAGES OF THE PROJECT AND GOT THEIR FEEDBACK AS WE MOVED FORWARD THROUGH THE STAGES OF THE PROJECT. ONCE WE REACH THE PROJECT RECOMMENDATION COMPONENTS WE HAD HELD A PUBLIC SURVEY CITYWIDE AND WE HAD ABOUT 300 RESPONSES AROUND WHAT SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED FROM A FUNCTIONALITY STANDPOINT AND WHAT SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED FROM A SPACE STANDPOINT ON THE PRIORITY CORRIDORS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED. AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE PRIORITY CORRIDORS. ONCE WE GO THROUGH THE GAP ANALYSIS IN THE NEXT SLIDES, WE'LL BE WALKING YOU THROUGH THE FIRST TWO STAGES, WHICH WAS THE EXISTING CONDITIONS AND GAP ANALYSIS COMPONENT OF THE PROJECT, WHICH SET THE BASE FOR US IDENTIFYING WHERE WE NEED TO HAVE THE RECOMMENDED PROJECT. SO IN THE NEXT SLIDE WE BASICALLY LOOKED INTO WHAT IS EXISTING IN THE AREA. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE SITE BOUNDARY IS ABOUT A ONE MILE BUFFER OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR AND IT INCLUDES MULTIPLE NEIGHBORHOODS. SO AS I MENTIONED, THIS IS AN EXCEPTION, A LITTLE BIT LARGER THAN YOU WOULD SEE IN MOST FUTURE SAMS. BUT BASICALLY AT THIS STAGE, WE LOOKED AT WHAT'S EXISTING ON THE GROUND AND WHAT ARE THE PRIORITY PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING ON ALONG IN THIS SIDE AREA. AND THEN AT THE NEXT SLIDE, WE STARTED LOOKING INTO WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE GOAL. SO IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE YEAH, WE STARTED LOOKING INTO WHAT IS MISSING FROM A GOAL SET IN THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN STANDPOINT IN THE AREA. THEN WE OVERLAID THE EXISTING PLANS IN THE AREA. AND YOU CAN SEE THEY'VE BEEN HIGHLIGHTED. SO THERE ARE EXISTING PLANS TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE GAPS THAT ALREADY EXIST IN THE AREA. BUT OVERLAYING THE NEEDS AND THE EXISTING PLANS, WE IDENTIFIED WHERE THERE ARE PLANNING REQUIREMENTS NEEDED. AND IN THE NEXT SLIDE WE CAME TO BASICALLY WHERE OUR PROJECTS ARE NEEDED BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF NEEDS ON EACH AREA. WE DIVIDED THE PROJECTS INTO TWO GROUPS. THE FIRST SET IS LOCAL PROJECTS THAT ARE LIKE SMALL SCALE SPOT IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED. WE PACKAGED ALL OF THOSE AS A SET OF SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT PLANS THAT WE'LL BE SHOWING AT THE END OF THE PROJECT. BUT ALONG A FEW CORRIDORS A LARGE NUMBER OF PROJECTS IN COORDINATION NEEDED NEEDED TO BE RECOMMENDED. SO THAT SET UP NINE CORRIDOR PROJECTS FOR US THAT WE IDENTIFY SIX OF THEM THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN THE PURPLE COLOR AS OUR PRIORITY CORRIDORS AND THE THREE IN THE GREEN COLOR AS SUPPORTING CORRIDORS THAT ARE LOWER ON THE PRIORITY LIST, AND THE PROJECT IMPACTS ARE A LITTLE BIT SMALLER ALONG THEM. BUT STARTING THE NEXT SLIDE WE WILL START TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE MAIN PRIORITY CORRIDOR [00:50:04] PROJECT. REALLY QUICK BEFORE WE GET INTO THE PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS, SINCE IT'S A BUNCH OF INDIVIDUAL STREETS, I'M SURE WE'LL HAVE QUESTIONS ON, ON MOST OF THEM. WOULD YOU MIND IF WE JUST PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS AFTER EACH ONE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK? YEAH. SOUNDS GOOD. PERFECT. SO NEXT SLIDE. WE START BASICALLY SHOWING THE CORRIDOR PROJECTS. AND THIS IS A SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF WHAT IS GOING TO BE WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PLAN. BASICALLY WHAT WE HAVE INCLUDED HERE IS THE MAP THAT SHOWS PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHERE THEY ARE AND THE ASPIRATIONAL LONG TERM POTENTIAL FUTURE CROSS SECTION. BUT THE PLAN IDENTIFIES MULTIPLE INTERMEDIATE STEPS TO BASICALLY GET US FROM WHAT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ARE TO WHAT THE ASPIRATIONAL LONG TERM ASPIRATION OF THE CROSS SECTION. YOU KNOW, YOU SEE HERE ARE AND ALONG CESAR CHAVEZ THE MAIN COMPONENT IS BASICALLY ADDING BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG THE CORRIDOR. AND THE CROSS SECTION IS NOT FULLY REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT ALL THE CHANGES THAT HAPPENS ALONG THE RIGHT OF WAY BECAUSE THE WIDTH CHANGES. SO ONCE IT, THIS MOVES INTO A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORTING STAGE LIKE BLOCK BY BLOCK, THIS ASPIRATIONAL CROSS SECTION WILL BE DRAWN ON THE MAP, AND WE WILL BASICALLY TRY TO REACH THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN. IT RECOMMENDS REMOVING A FEW PARKING SPOTS, BUT MOSTLY ALONG THIS SECTION, WE DON'T HAVE MUCH PARKING ON CESAR CHAVEZ, BUT BASICALLY THE MAIN TARGET IS ADDING THAT BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. IN THE INTERIM, IT'S GOING TO BE SEPARATED, BUT IN THE LONG TERM, IT'S GOING TO BE A RAISED CURB THAT ALLOWS FOR A RAISED, SHARED USE PATH ON THE SIDE OF THE STREET, AS OPPOSED TO HAVING IT ON THE STREET WITH THE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. THERE ARE A FEW CROSSING ISLANDS RECOMMENDED IN AREAS THAT SOME SAFETY GAPS WERE IDENTIFIED ON THE CORRIDOR. AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF NEW AND ENHANCED BUS STOPS RECOMMENDED ALONG THE WAY AS WELL. THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS? SO I HAVE ONE COULD YOU GIVE US JUST BECAUSE IN MY MIND I'M THINKING OF CESAR CHAVEZ IS A PRETTY CONSTRAINED RIGHT OF WAY. SO I'M GUESSING IN MOST PLACES WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET WHAT THIS. ALTHOUGH CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT WE PROBABLY WON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE TO DO WHAT THIS CROSS SECTION IS SAYING, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, LIKE A SIX SEVEN FOOT BIKE LANE, A TREE AND THEN A SIX SEVEN FOOT SIDEWALK. SO WHAT ARE WHAT ARE THE CONSTRAINED SECTIONS LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF THAT SHARED USE PATH? THE TREE WOULD BE LIKELY THE FIRST COMPONENT TO GO. BUT, AND LIKE, THIS IS KIND OF LIKE IT'S THE SHARED USE PATH IS THE RED AREA, LIKE THE SIDE OF IT, BECAUSE THE CROSS SECTION CHANGES WITHIN DRAW BUILDINGS OR ANYTHING, BUT THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHERE IT ENDS. BUT YES LIKE, AS FAR AS PRIORITIZING GOES BASICALLY WE WILL GO DOWN TO A TEN FOOT SHARED USE PATH AT THE MINIMUM. AND THEN ALL COMPONENTS WILL BE REDUCED AS WELL. WE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED THE TURNING LANE ALL ALONG THE CORRIDOR EITHER. SO THERE MIGHT BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THAT, THAT RIGHT AWAY, THAT COMPONENT OF THE RIGHT OF WAY WILL BE CONSTRICTED. BUT AS I MENTIONED, LIKE THIS IS A DETAILED LOOK. ONCE THE PAIR STARTS TO LOOK INTO BLOCK BY BLOCK, HOW DOES HOW DOES THIS LOOK GET DRAWN? BUT MINIMAL SHARED USE PATH IS THE BASICALLY, THE THREE LANES AND TEN FOOT SHARED USE PATH ON EACH SIDE IS WHAT THE MOST RESTRICTED WILL LOOK LIKE. YEAH, TEN FOOT IS HONESTLY PRETTY IMPRESSIVE GIVEN THE CONSTRAINTS YOU HAVE THERE, SO THAT'D BE GREAT TO OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. AND IF YOU'RE ONLINE JUST SHOUT OUT. ALL RIGHT. GREAT. LET'S MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE. NEXT ONE IS THE EAST CESAR, EAST SEVENTH STREET, AND THIS IS THE SIDE OF IT THAT'S ON THE EAST SIDE OF I-35, BECAUSE THE SIDE ON WEST OF I-35 IS ALREADY ONGOING. THE PR FOR THAT. SO THIS IS ONE THAT HAS MANY INTERMEDIATE STEPS UNTIL WE GET TO THAT ASPIRATIONAL THE CROSS SECTION THAT WE HAVE HERE, [00:55:02] BECAUSE THE TURNING LANE THAT'S CURRENTLY EXISTING ON EAST SEVENTH IS A FUNCTIONALLY VERY IMPORTANT FOR MANY, FOR ACCESS TO MANY SITES. SO IT'S A VERY LONG TERM VISION THAT NEEDS COORDINATION, BASICALLY WITH FUTURE REDEVELOPMENT APPROVALS AS THINGS MOVE ALONG TO ALLOW FOR THAT MEDIAN TO BE CREATED. BUT IN THE INTERMEDIATE STEPS, THE MEDIAN THAT YOU SEE AS TREES HERE IS GOING TO BE REMAINING AS MAINLY THE TURNING LANE HERE, AND THE MAIN ENHANCEMENTS ARE AROUND PROTECTING THIS EXISTING BUT JUST SEPARATED BY PAINT BIKE FACILITIES ON EAST ON SEVENTH STREET. SO FIRST STEP IS PROTECTING CREATE MINIMAL BARRIER BETWEEN THE BIKE PATHS AND THE VEHICULAR LANES. AND THEN IN THE LONG TERM, TRANSITIONING INTO A RAISED CURB BIKE SHARED USE PATH THAT COMES BECOMES SEPARATED FROM THE VEHICULAR TRAVEL SURFACE WITH A BUFFER BETWEEN THE SHARED USE PATH AND THE TRAVEL LANES FOR ADDITIONAL SAFETY. ALSO ANOTHER COMPONENT IS TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITIES, WHICH ARE PLACED FOR IMPROVING THE TRANSIT OPERATION ALONG THE CORRIDOR, SPECIFICALLY FOR EAST TO WEST, WEST TO EAST MOVEMENTS. AND THERE ARE SOME MINIMAL LOCATION. THERE ARE A FEW LOCATIONS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED FOR CROSSING SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS WITH THE PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS. AND AFTER CHACOAN WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT ASPIRATIONAL CROSS SECTION. SO THAT WOULD BECOME A THE THE MEDIAN WITH THE TREES ON THAT WILL BECOME A RAISED MEDIAN AS OPPOSED TO BASICALLY TURNING THE ENTIRE TURNING LANE INTO A MEDIAN. AND ARE WE SAYING THE SHARED USE PATH WOULD END AT OR IS THAT JUST KIND OF HOW THE GRAPHIC. IT'S THE THE BIKE FACILITIES SHOULD BE CONTINUING. YES. GOTCHA. I BELIEVE. AND THEN I, I ASSUME THAT IT'S JUST KIND OF THE END OF YOUR PROJECT AREA IS WHY WE DON'T EXTEND A STREET THERE. YEAH. SO THIS IS MAINLY FOCUSED ON IMPROVING MOVABILITY WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDARY. SO LIKE ONCE THE BOUNDARY OF THE SITE COMES IN, WE DON'T LOOK ANY FURTHER. THAT MAKES SENSE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? ALL RIGHT, LET'S KEEP IT ROLLING. YEAH. AND I MIGHT ADD, SOME OF THE PURRS MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT SITE BOUNDARY FROM THE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDED PROJECT. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, CESAR CHAVEZ'S PR LIKELY WILL GO BEYOND THE EXTENTS OF THIS PROJECT. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. AND I GUESS I'LL JUST THROW IN A PLUG THERE. OBVIOUSLY WE'VE GOT TWO WAY PROTECTED BIKE LANE AND THE CONNECTION ONTO THE RED LINE PARKWAY. IF WE COULD GET SEVENTH STREET PROTECTED BIKE LANES OR SHARED USE PATH ALL THE WAY THERE, THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BE VERY HELPFUL. YEAH, NO. MAKES SENSE. AND AS I MENTIONED, LIKE THIS CUT OFF IS KIND OF BECAUSE OF THE SITE BOUNDARY, NOT NECESSARILY RECOMMENDING ENDING THE PROJECTS THERE. YEAH. SO THE NEXT CORRIDOR IS DINKYTOWN AND THE HIGHEST PRIORITY THERE IS IMPROVED TRANSIT OPERATIONS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH RIDERSHIP FOR THE UT STUDENTS THERE. THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPLORED. AND THIS SPECIFIC PROJECT KIND OF HAS A PR COMING SOON. SO WE EXPLORED BOTH OPTIONS OF HAVING A CENTER RUNNING AND A SITE RUNNING DEDICATED TRANSIT LANE ON THIS CORRIDOR. THE REASON THE CENTER RUNNING IS NOT NECESSARILY DECIDED IS BECAUSE BETWEEN SAN JACINTO AND GUADALUPE WE MIGHT NOT HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY SPACE FOR THE CENTER RUNNING [01:00:02] OPTION. SO SIDE RUNNING MIGHT BECOME THE MORE FEASIBLE OPTION. ONCE THE PR STARTS TO LOOK INTO A DETAILED DRAWING AS OPPOSED TO A LARGE, LARGER LEVEL, LOOK AT WHAT THE RIGHT OF WAY WOULD ALLOW. BUT IN ADDITION TO THE TRANSIT ENHANCEMENT, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF CROSSING ENHANCEMENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE HAPPENING AT THE MAIN INTERSECTIONS THAT ARE FOR MULTIMODAL MOBILITY CONNECTIVITY ALONG SPEED BAY AND THE THE RED RIVER STREET. THAT IS ANOTHER ONE OF OUR CORRIDOR PROJECTS. AND YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A RECOMMENDED BIKE LANE AND THE PROTECTED INTERSECTIONS AND MOBILITY HUB RECOMMENDATIONS ALONG THE CORRIDOR AS WELL. ANY QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS ON THIS ONE? I DO. I SEE WAYFINDING AND PLACEMAKING SYMBOL, BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT SO FAR. IS THAT FOR BIKE WAYFINDING? THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR UTI. THE TWO COMPONENTS KIND OF. SO WE COLLABORATED WITH UTI AND THEY WERE ONE OF OUR ENGAGED COMMUNITIES. AND WE BASICALLY WORK WITH THEIR I CAN'T REMEMBER THEIR NAME, BUT THEIR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING TEAM. AND THEY IDENTIFIED THESE TWO CORNERS OF THEIR CAMPUS AS PLACES THAT THEY WILL BE LOOKING INTO DEVELOPING WAYFINDING AND PLACEMAKING COMPONENTS FOR ENTERING THE CAMPUS AREA. AND YES, IT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO BE INCLUDED IN OTHER CORRIDORS. THANKS. YEAH. SO I GUESS I'D LOVE TO ASK ANOTHER QUESTION KIND OF ALONG THOSE LINES, BECAUSE I LOVE THIS. YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE EASIEST PLACE TO JUSTIFY BUS LANES OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN IS DEAN KEATON WITH THE RIDERSHIP WE HAVE THERE. AND THE AMOUNT OF BUSSES WE HAVE THERE. BUT OBVIOUSLY I'M LOOKING AT THIS AND IT TAKES OUT THE BACK ANGLE PARKING, WHICH IS ALSO GREAT BECAUSE WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE BACK ANGLE. PARKING HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF CYCLISTS IN THE PAST, BUT UT HAS ALWAYS BEEN FAIRLY DEFENSIVE OF IT. SO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WERE TALKING TO PARK AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. I'M SURE THEY HAVE AN OPINION ON THAT. WHAT IS THEIR THOUGHTS? I DON'T SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER IT, BUT I THINK THE RECOMMENDATION WAS REMOVING THOSE PARKING AREAS BETWEEN SAN JACINTO AND THE HIGHWAY. THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR. AND ALL OF THAT IS CITY OF AUSTIN PARKING, RIGHT? THERE'S NONE OF IT THAT UT HAS A SPECIAL INTEREST OR RIGHT OF WAY IN. I DON'T THINK SO. OKAY. AWESOME. YEAH. AND THERE ARE COMPONENTS IN THAT AREA THAT SPECIFICALLY BETWEEN LIKE MEDICAL ARTS TO THE HIGHWAY BECAUSE OF LIKE ELEVATION CHANGES AND COMPONENTS LIKE THAT REBUILDING OF THE HIGHWAY, THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME MAJOR CHANGES THAT COMES THERE. AWESOME. I'LL ALSO JUST SAY KUDOS FOR THINKING BIG ON THIS ONE WITH THE SENATE RUNNING TRANSIT LANES. THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO FINALLY SEE HERE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? ALL RIGHT, LET'S KEEP IT ROLLING. NEXT CORRIDOR IS RED RIVER. AND AGAIN, TRANSIT OPERATION IS A MAJOR COMPONENT ON THIS CORRIDOR. IN ADDITION TO SOME SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SPECIFIC ONE AND AS I MENTIONED, IT'S THE INTERIM STEPS. AT THE FIRST INTERIM STEP THE BUS LANES AND BIKE LANE IS GOING TO BE BASICALLY MERGED TOGETHER. SO WE WILL HAVE ONE BUS AND BIKE LANE COMBO, BUT IN THE LONG TERM ASPIRATION ASPIRATIONAL SECTION, YOU SEE BASICALLY THE BUS, THE BIKES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF THE A BUS LANE, AND THEY'LL BE COMING ON A SHARED USE PATH ALONG THE SIDE OF THE CORRIDOR. SO IN THE INTERIM, WHILE THE CURB RECONSTRUCTION CAN'T BE DONE, BUT WE'LL TAKE IT ALONG THE BUS LANE. BUT IN THE LONG TERM, WE WILL MOVE IT OVER THE RACE CURB. IN THIS CORRIDOR. AND THERE'S ENHANCED NEW BUS STOPS ALONG THE WAY AND TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITY AS WELL, AND SOME CROSSING IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE SAFETY GAPS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED ALONG THIS CORRIDOR. [01:05:03] SO LET ME START WITH A QUESTION ON THIS ONE. SO THE NACTO RECOMMENDATION FOR BUS LANES IS TO START CONSIDERING THEM WHEN YOU HIT A BUS EVERY TEN MINUTES AT PEAK OR SIX BUSSES AN HOUR. I'VE GOT TRANSPLAN 2035. PULLED UP AND IN THE LONG TERM PLAN, THE ONLY SECTION THAT WILL HIT THIS IS THE SMALL SECTION BETWEEN 41ST AND HANCOCK CENTER, WHERE YOU'LL HAVE THE TEN, WHICH IS SCHEDULED EVERY 15 MINUTES AND PLAN TO STAY THERE, AND THE 335 WHICH WILL MOVE UP THERE TO REPLACE WHATEVER. I FORGET THE ROUTE THAT'S THERE CURRENTLY, AND THAT'LL RUN EVERY 30 MINUTES. SO THAT MEANS FOR MOST OF THIS AREA, THERE'S THERE'S ONLY FOUR BUSSES AN HOUR. SO IS THERE A SIGNIFICANT BUS DELAY THAT REALLY JUSTIFIES THE NEED FOR A BUS LANE HERE, OR IS THIS MORE ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW, TWO GENERAL TRAFFIC LANES AND A MIDDLE TURNING LANE IS JUST OVERBUILT FOR WHAT RED RIVER IS. AND WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO KIND OF CALM TRAFFIC IN THE AREA. I DON'T SPECIFICALLY KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT. I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH OUR, BECAUSE WE COORDINATED THESE CORRIDORS WITH CAPMETRO AND THEIR OPERATIONAL NEEDS. SO THE PROJECT ARE REFLECTING THEIR REQUESTS. WE ACTUALLY LOOKED INTO ADDING BUS LANES TO SEVENTH STREET AS WELL AS BECAUSE OF THEIR OPERATIONAL NEEDS AND THE DELAYS THEY'VE BEEN HAVING IN THE WEST EAST PATH DIRECTION THAT I MENTIONED, BUT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO FIT IT IN. SO I'M NOT 100% SURE ON WHAT WAS THE TRIGGER THAT BASICALLY REQUIRED THE TRANSIT BUS LANE. BUT WE WERE COORDINATING WITH CAPMETRO AND THEIR OPERATIONAL NEEDS ALONG THE PLANNING PROCESS. AND I CAN FOLLOW UP. YEAH, EXACTLY. YEAH, WE'D LOVE TO. WE'D LOVE TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION ON THAT. AND OBVIOUSLY, THEORETICALLY, THERE'S THE, THE FUTURE GOLD LINE I THINK GOES ALONG RED RIVER. SO THAT WOULD CERTAINLY PUNCH IT UP A BIT. BUT CERTAINLY IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TRADE OFFS IN TERMS OF A LONG TERM SHARED USE PATH RATHER THAN A SEPARATE BIKE. AGAIN, I TOTALLY GET THAT FIVE TRAFFIC LANES IS JUST TOO MUCH FOR RED RIVER. I DON'T LIKE BIKING, WALKING, OR DRIVING ON IT. RIGHT. AND I DON'T THINK MOST PEOPLE DO. BUT JUST WONDERING IF, IF, IF MAYBE WE SHOULD CONSIDER THE TRADE OFF OF THAT BUS LANE THERE. OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ. YEAH, I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK IF YOU COULD REMIND US WHAT THESE MOBILITY HUBS SERVE. THEY WILL NEED SPECIFIC PROGRAMING IN THE PR STAGE, BUT IT'S LIKE THE CAPMETRO THE BIKE STATIONS BASICALLY ARE ONE OF THE RECOMMENDED TYPES OF COMPONENTS THAT GOES INTO THE IDENTIFIED MOBILITY HUBS. IT'S OTHER MOBILITY, BASICALLY SPACES LIKE PLACES FOR THE SCOOTERS TO PARK AND AMENITIES FOR BASICALLY PLACING THEM. BUT I THINK THIS SPECIFIC ONE WAS ABOUT THE CAPMETRO BIKE STATION SPECIFICALLY. THANK YOU. SO YEAH. AND IN THE NEXT STAGE, AS I MENTIONED, THERE WILL BE MORE DETAILED PROGRAMING OF EACH OF THEM. ALL RIGHT. LET'S KEEP IT MOVING. THANK YOU. YEAH. THE NEXT CORRIDOR IS 45TH STREET. AND FOR THIS, WE HAVE TWO ASPIRATIONAL CROSS SECTIONS BECAUSE THE RIGHT OF WAY CHANGES SIGNIFICANTLY EAST AND WEST OF DUVAL. IF I CHECK CORRECTLY. YEAH. EAST AND WEST OF DUVAL. AND THERE ARE TWO PRIORITIES. BASICALLY ALONG THE CORRIDOR. ON ONE SIDE, IT'S ABOUT ADDING THE MISSING SIDEWALKS OR MINIMAL SIDEWALKS AND BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE CORRIDOR EAST OF DUVAL AND WEST OF DUVAL. IT'S ABOUT ADDING LIKE RAISED AND PROTECTED BIKE LANES ALONG THE CORRIDOR. AND THEN SPEED MANAGEMENT BECOMES A MAJOR COMPONENT ALONG THIS CORRIDOR BECAUSE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SPEED IS FASTER THAN SAFE CONDITION. WHAT WOULD CREATE SAFE CONDITIONS FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION? SO THERE'S GOING TO BE LIKE SOME SPEED MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ALONG THE CORRIDOR. [01:10:04] THERE ARE SOME THERE'S MULTIPLE SAFETY GAPS ALONG THE CROSSINGS IDENTIFIED HERE. SO YOU WOULD SEE MULTIPLE CROSSING ISLANDS AND A FEW PROTECTED INTERSECTIONS THAT SEPARATE MODES. WALL CROSSING AS WELL. BUT THE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GOING TO BE LIKE THAT SPEED MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, AND ESPECIALLY ON THE EAST OF DUVAL SIDE, WHERE WE HAVE MISSING SIDEWALKS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY ADDING THOSE MISSING LINKS IN TO THE NETWORK. ANY QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? SO I'D LOVE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONE PLACE WHERE WE'VE SEEN SO FAR WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REMOVING A GENERAL TRAFFIC LANE IN AN AREA WHERE THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC. NOW OBVIOUSLY HERE WE'RE ADDING A TURN LANE, WHICH IS THE BIG BENEFIT HERE IF YOU'RE A DRIVER. SO COULD YOU TALK TO MAYBE WHAT YOU GUYS SAW IN THE EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT ABOUT TURNING MOVEMENTS THAT INDICATED, YOU KNOW, THIS WOULD BE THE RIGHT CHANGE FOR, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF TWO GENERAL TRAFFIC LANES IN EACH DIRECTION, ONE IN EACH DIRECTION AND A DEDICATED TURN LANE. I'LL NEED TO CHECK WITH OUR ENGINEERING TEAM. ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS WHO DID THE ANALYSIS. I'M NOT CERTAIN, BUT ANY RECOMMENDATION WAS IMPLEMENTED ONLY WHEN FUTURE CAMPO TRAFFIC MODELS WERE NOT IMPACTED TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DELAYS. SO I WILL NEED TO CHECK IN WITH OUR ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS. YEAH. AND I THINK THAT'LL JUST BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORYTELLING AS THIS, YOU KNOW, DOCUMENT KIND OF COMES OUT TO THE PUBLIC OF, YOU KNOW, I KNOW PTP IS ALWAYS DOING THAT WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE AREN'T SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC IMPACTS AND THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT SAFETY BENEFICIAL IMPACTS WHEN WE DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS. SO I THINK TELLING THAT STORY AND TELLING THAT DATA TO THE PUBLIC WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL. AND THEN DOES THE PROJECT INCLUDE ANY RECOMMEND, ANY SPECIFICITY? SPECIFICITY IN THE RECOMMENDATION ABOUT WHETHER THE CROSSING ISLANDS WILL BE SIGNALIZED OR JUST NO. CROSSING ISLANDS ARE NOT SIGNALIZED. SO WHEN WE HAVE SIGNALIZED LOCATIONS, THAT'S WHERE WE USE THE. OKAY. SIGNAL ICON. CROSSING ISLANDS ARE THEY COME WITH SIGNAGE AND POTENTIALLY HAZARD LIGHTS FOR NIGHT CONDITIONS, BUT THEY'RE NOT SIGNALIZED LIKE PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS. SURE. I WILL SAY THAT DOES GIVE ME SOME CONCERN GIVEN THE SPEED, BUT HOPEFULLY THE SPEED MANAGEMENT WILL LOWER THE SPEEDS, MAKE IT SAFER TO CROSS. AND OBVIOUSLY THERE IS A PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACON RIGHT NOW ON 45TH. ACTUALLY, I THINK THERE'S TWO YEAH, THERE ARE TWO. SO WE'RE NOT SUGGESTING TAKING THOSE OUT. THOSE WOULD STAY RIGHT. YEAH. NO. YEAH. OKAY. YEP. EVERYTHING IS ADDING TO EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE. WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING REMOVING SAFETY ELEMENTS LIKE CHPS. GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? NONE. LISTENING FOR ONLINE, FOLKS. ALL RIGHT. WE CAN MOVE ON. AND THE LAST PRIORITY CORRIDOR IS 15TH STREET. THAT'S THE MAIN COMPONENT OF IT IS ADDING SAFE CROSSING ELEMENTS AND PROTECTING IN THE LONG TERM BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG THE CORRIDOR. SO THE MOST LONG TERM SOLUTION IS GOING TO BE BASICALLY HAVING THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE COME ON THE RAISED CURB SEPARATED FROM THE VEHICULAR TRAFFIC PATH AND ADDING THE CROSSINGS ALONG MULTIPLE CORRIDORS THE PIKE POWERS PLAZA. WE COORDINATED WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT PLANS OF THAT ONGOING PROJECT AND IT BASED ON THEIR PLANNING DRAFTS WE BASICALLY RECOMMENDED A CROSSING ISLAND, BUT THE MAIN CROSSING IS SHIFTING TO THE TRINITY INTERSECTION. SO THAT'S WHERE WE ADDED THE PROTECTED INTERSECTION. AND SET THAT RECOMMENDATION THERE. QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS ON THIS ONE. SO I HAVE ONE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE WHO WORKS AT THE CAPITOL WOULD LOVE TO HAVE SOME BIKE LANES ON 15TH STREET. BUT I'M ALSO COGNIZANT THERE'S A LOT OF PLACES WHERE, [01:15:01] YOU KNOW, THE SIDEWALK ABUTS DIRECTLY ONTO STATE PROPERTY, WHETHER THAT'S A BUILDING, A DRIVE OUT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO IF WE'RE CREATING A BACK OF CURB BIKE LANE HERE, ARE WE GOING TO NEED TO GET THE STATE ON BOARD TO YOU KNOW, USE SOME OF THAT RIGHT OF WAY OF THEIR PROPERTY? OR ARE WE GOING TO MOVE THE CURB SO THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE THAT? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? YEAH. SO THAT'S WHY IT'S THE LONG TERM SOLUTION TO RAISE CURB, BECAUSE THE LONG TERM SOLUTION IS RECOMMENDING MOVING THE CURVED LINE TO HAVE THAT RAISED FACILITY. IN THE INTERIM, THERE IS BASICALLY A SEPARATED BIKE LANE RECOMMENDATION. GOTCHA. SORRY. YOU CUT OUT A LITTLE BIT THERE. SO THE LONG TERM IS A BACK OF CURB BIKE LANE. THAT WOULD REQUIRE MOVING OR MOVING THE CURB. AND THEN THE NEAR TERM IS A SEPARATED ON STREET BIKE LANE. IS THAT A PROTECTED BIKE LANE OR JUST LIKE THE PAINTED LINE THAT'S THERE? OKAY. AIN'T. GOTCHA. OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS. ALL RIGHTY. WELL, I'LL LET YOU FINISH THE PRESENTATION. GREAT. AND THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. THIS IS A LIST OF VARIOUS LIKE, SINGULAR PROJECTS THAT ARE MISSING IN THE STUDY AREA AND BASICALLY THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WOULD BE CORRESPONDING INTO LIKE SINGLE GAP THAT WAS IDENTIFIED. AND THESE CAN BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH MULTIPLE STREAMS, BUT THE MOST LIKELY IS THE VARIOUS LOCAL MOBILITY PROGRAMS, LIKE THE SIDEWALKS PROGRAM OR THE TRAILS PROGRAM, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE GAP IS. AND IN SMALL INSTANCES, THEY MIGHT BE IMPLEMENTABLE AS LIKE AS THE OPPORTUNITY ARISES IMPLEMENTATION PATH THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, A DEVELOPER MIGHT BE REDEVELOPING AN AREA OR SOMETHING AND THEY COME IN AND IMPLEMENT THE PROJECT. BUT THESE ARE THESE WILL BE GETTING ROLLED INTO LIKE THE LARGE STACK OF CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE LOCAL MOBILITY PROGRAMS ALREADY HAVE, AND THEY WILL BE TAKING IT WITHIN THEIR PRIORITIZATION SET. ON THE NEXT STEP. SORRY. ON THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS OF WHAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING WITH THE PLAN AND HOW WE WILL BE MOVING TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDED PROJECTS. SO WE WILL BE POSTING THE DRAFT DOCUMENT FOR A TWO WEEK COMMENT PERIOD ON THE PROJECT WEBSITE. AND THE LINK IS PROVIDED IN THE PDF FILE. BUT IF YOU SEARCH FOR I-35 CENTRAL SMALL AREA MOBILITY PLAN, IT SHOULD COME UP. AND ONCE WE HAVE RECEIVED THAT FEEDBACK, WE WILL BE IMPLEMENTING COMMENTS AS FEASIBLE TO UPDATE THE DOCUMENT BEFORE WE PUBLISH THE FINAL DOCUMENT BY THE END OF THE MONTH. AND WELL THE IT WILL BE UP AND AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE FOR ANYONE TO ACCESS. AND WHEN IS THAT OPEN? TILL THE WE HAVEN'T PUBLISHED IT YET, BUT IT WILL LIKELY BE OPEN UNTIL THE 22ND. SO IT WILL LIKELY GET PUBLISHED BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK AND WILL BE AVAILABLE. SORRY. 21ST. THAT'S THE FRIDAY. AND THIS WILL NOT GO TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL, RIGHT? NO, NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY NEW RECOMMENDATIONS. THEY'RE RESPONDING TO ALREADY APPROVED BASICALLY IDENTIFIED NEEDS IN THE STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN. SURE. BUT IT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE A S P, RIGHT? NO, IT IS NOT. OKAY. SO LIKE THE, THE ACT PLAN, AS I UNDERSTOOD, WAS AN AMENDMENT TO THE S AND P. WE ARE NOT CONSIDERING THIS ONE AN AMENDMENT TO THE ASM. NO. OKAY. THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME. THEY WILL BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN CONTEXT. SO IN THIS ONE, WE DIDN'T HAVE LIKE, WE DIDN'T FIND ANY SPECIFIC GAPS THAT NEEDED THAT TO BE TAKEN. SURE. THAT MAKES SENSE. YEAH. OKAY. OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS. YEAH. I'M ON THE WEBSITE NOW AND IT MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE YOU SAID IT HASN'T BEEN PUBLISHED YET, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS WHOLE THING IS DONE BECAUSE THE LAST THING SAYS FINAL PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION APRIL 15TH, 2026. THAT THAT'S THE TIMELINE FOR THE COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP. SO THAT'S NOT THE PLAN ITSELF. [01:20:02] THAT'S THE ENGAGEMENT TIME THAT IT GOES TO. AND THEN WHEN YOU SCROLL DOWN. SO THAT WAS THE SIX MEETINGS OF THE COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP. THAT TIMELINE IS FOR THAT TRACKING. OTHER QUESTIONS FOR COMMISSIONERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE ONLINE. ALRIGHTY. WELL THANK YOU FOR COMING HERE. THIS WAS GREAT PRESENTATION. AND ALSO CONGRATULATIONS BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF TWO YEARS I THINK OF WORK FOR YOU ALL. SO, YOU KNOW, GREAT JOB INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY AND GETTING THIS DONE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. [4. Urban Transportation Commission Bylaw Amendment Status Update. Presentation by Spencer Schumacher, Vice Chair, Urban Transportation Commission.] ALL RIGHT. THAT MOVES US ON TO OUR LAST DISCUSSION ITEM ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS A BYLAW AMENDMENT STATUS UPDATE. LAST MONTH, THE AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE WELL RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF OUR BYLAWS. SO YAY! WE THOUGHT THAT WAS THE END. IT TURNS OUT IN 2025, THE RULES CHANGED. SO NOW BOTH THE AUDIT AND FINANCE COMMITTEE AND THE CITY COUNCIL HAVE TO APPROVE OUR BYLAW AMENDMENTS. SO ONE MORE STEP. IT'LL BE ON A COUNCIL AGENDA SOMETIME SOON, AND THEN WE WILL HAVE FINALLY AMENDED OUR BYLAWS. SO THAT'S THE UPDATE THERE. I, I'M GOING TO GUESS NO QUESTIONS, BUT IF YOU HAVE ONE, LET ME KNOW. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. [5. Approve a recommendation regarding the development of a Public Access Easement (PAE) policy for new developments.] WELL, WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR ACTION ITEM NUMBER FIVE APPROVE A RECOMMENDATION REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT POLICY FOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS. THIS IS SOMETHING COMMISSIONER COLEMAN AND I WORKED ON, AND OBVIOUSLY, A BIG THANK YOU TO LONNIE STERN AND THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION FOR DOING THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION. THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION IS HYPERLINKED IN THERE IF YOU WANT TO VIEW IT. I'LL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE SO WE CAN START DISCUSSION. A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER CAVEMAN. SO I THINK LONNIE KIND OF OUTLAID THE, THE PROBLEM THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS REALLY WELL FOR US IN THAT PRESENTATION. WE ARE BUILDING DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE A LOT OF TIMES REALLY LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS ACROSS THE CITY. AND WE'RE NOT DOING IT WHILE THINKING ABOUT THE CONNECTIVITY AND THE GRID PROBLEMS THAT CAN CREATE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET AROUND A BIG DEVELOPMENT AND THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN APARTMENT COMPLEXES WITH MAYBE 4 OR 500 UNITS, BUT DON'T HAVE A WAY TO WALK TO THE STREET ACROSS FROM THEM. SO THIS RECOMMENDATION REALLY JUST KIND OF WALKS THROUGH HOW THIS IS ALREADY IN LINE WITH A LOT OF CITY POLICIES AND TALKS ABOUT THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION. AND THEN THE RESULTS ARE FAIRLY SIMPLE THAT THE UTC SUPPORTS THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATION AND RECOMMENDS THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ESTABLISH A POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR REQUIRING OR INCENTIVIZING PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS IN NEW MIXED USE COMMERCIAL AND MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENTS. AND I USE THE TERM PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT HERE, BUT OF COURSE, THOSE CAN ALSO BE JOINT USE ACCESS EASEMENTS THAT COMBINE IT WITH A FIRE EASEMENT, A UTILITY EASEMENT, SOMETHING WE'RE ALREADY REQUIRING. THEN THERE'S A SECOND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT ASKS IF WE COULD CONSIDER HOW PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS CAN BE BETTER, BETTER INCORPORATED INTO THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION PROCESS INCLUDED BY BETTER EMPOWERING STAFF TO REQUIRE PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS AS A CONDITION OF THE RIGHT OF WAY. VACATION, WHEN DOING SO, IS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY AROUND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS. AND SO I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE DISCUSSED IN RIGHT OF WAY VACATIONS BEFORE. YOU KNOW, WE GET THAT BIG SHEET OF EVERY CITY DEPARTMENT KIND OF SIGNING OFF ON A RIGHT OF WAY VACATION WHEN A NEW DEVELOPMENT IS COMING IN. AND YOU'LL SEE ON THERE YOU KNOW, AUSTIN ENERGY WILL SAY WE NEED A UTILITY EASEMENT IN HERE. RIGHT HERE WILL SAY THERE HAS TO BE A FIRE EASEMENT THERE. AND WHEN THOSE REQUESTS ARE MADE, THEY ARE BAKED INTO THE RIGHT OF WAY. VACATION. YES. AS A CONDITION OF VACATING THIS RIGHT OF WAY, WE WANT TO MAINTAIN ACCESS TO THIS UTILITY EASEMENT. THERE'S ALSO A REVIEW DONE BY ATP AND THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TEAM THAT LOOKS AT DOES THERE NEED TO BE SOME PUBLIC ACCESS HERE. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR FOR PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR CONNECTIVITY OVERALL. AND I'VE NOTICED IN A COUPLE OF THOSE, THE FIRST THING I ALWAYS LOOK FOR IS THAT RECOMMENDATION. BECAUSE OFTENTIMES THEY WILL SAY, CAN WE SECURE A PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT FOR BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC? AND WE'VE SEEN KIND OF MIXED RESULTS WITH THAT. SOMETIMES THE, THE DEVELOPER IS ABLE TO SAY, YES, HERE'S OUR SITE PLAN AND WE'VE ALREADY INCORPORATED THAT. SOMETIMES IT'S A. WE'D LOVE TO LOOK TO INCORPORATE THAT DOWN THE LINE, BUT WE'RE A LITTLE TOO EARLY AND SOMETIMES IT'S A NO. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING WE'RE COMMITTING TO DOING RIGHT NOW. [01:25:03] AND WE USUALLY APPROVE THOSE RIGHT AWAY VACATIONS ANYWAYS BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SECURED DOWN THE LINE IN THE SITE PLAN PROCESS OR, OR SOMETHING ELSE. BUT I THINK THAT'S, THAT IS SOMETIMES A MISSED OPPORTUNITY. AND OBVIOUSLY I UNDERSTAND THAT A UTILITY EASEMENT IS SLIGHTLY MORE IMPORTANT THAN A PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS. AND WE SHOULDN'T TREAT THOSE NECESSARILY AS THE SAME. AND, YOU KNOW, ALSO PEOPLE ARE AT DIFFERENT POINTS WHEN THEY COME TO THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION PROCESS. BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD IF WE TREATED THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS A LITTLE MORE SERIOUSLY. AND MAYBE IT IS TOO MUCH TO SAY AT THE BEGINNING THAT THIS PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT MUST BE PRESERVED AS A CONDITION OF THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION, BUT SOMETHING REQUIRING THEM TO PUT THAT IN AS A CONDITION WHENEVER THEY DO REDEVELOP AT THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION PROCESS, RIGHT, MIGHT BE A WAY TO BUILD IN FLEXIBILITY. SO THAT'S WHY I PUT THAT IN THERE. AND THEN COMMISSIONER, I'LL LET YOU SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT. AND THEN I KNOW YOU HAVE AMENDMENTS AS WELL. YOU WANT TO ADD TO THIS, BUT YEAH, THAT COVERS IT. AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING A LOT OF EDUCATION PROCESS, BECAUSE THE IDEA BEHIND THE UTILITY AND THE UTILITY IS THAT. YOU MIGHT BE MUTED. COMMISSIONER. COUNCILMAN. ALRIGHTY. LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN. YEAH, I LIKE THAT WAS A GREAT SUMMARY OF IT. AND IT IS NICE THAT IN THE PROCESS OF THE RIGHT OF WAY VACATION THAT UTILITY EASEMENT CAN ALSO END UP BEING THE PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT, WHICH IS THE GOAL HERE TO JUST LET YOU CUT THROUGH JUST TO GIVE EVERYONE A VISUAL WHAT, WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. DOES EVERYONE FAMILIAR WITH THE GROVES DEVELOPMENT UP ON 45TH? OKAY. SO, YOU CAN GET TO THE GROVES THROUGH A LITTLE SIDEWALK OFF OF 45TH AND CUT IN BETWEEN TWO HOUSES AND MAKE IT TO THE PARK. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. IT'S LIKE ABOUT 12FT WIDE AND IT KEEPS YOU SAVES YOU ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE OF A WALK TO ACCESS TO THE STREET. SO THAT'S A THAT'S A GOOD VISUAL. IT'S JUST IMMEDIATELY WEST OF SHOAL CREEK BOULEVARD. BUT AND YEAH, SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AN EXAMPLE, THAT'S ONE AS WELL I HAVE AN AMENDMENT TO OFFER AND IT'S JUST GOING TO BEEF UP THE WHEREASES A LITTLE BIT WITH TWO MORE PLANS AS WELL BECAUSE THEY'RE DISCUSSED IN OTHER PARTS OF CITY PLAN. SO I WANT TO AMEND AFTER THE THIRD, WHEREAS TO ADD TWO ADDITIONAL MORE AND THEY READ AS, WHEREAS THE 2023 URBAN TRAILS PLAN SUGGESTS FINDING SHARED USE CORRIDORS SUCH AS ACTIVE RAILROAD, ACTIVE RAILROAD CORRIDORS, TRANSIT LINES OR UTILITY CORRIDORS WHERE THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITIES TO ADD URBAN TRAILS AS A WAY TO UTILIZE MORE CORRIDORS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES. AND WHEREAS THE 2023 SIDEWALKS, CROSSINGS AND SHARED STREETS PLAN CALLS FOR CREATING INCENTIVES FOR CREATING ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS USING PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS AS PART OF IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY 2.0 TO PROVIDE SAFE, COMFORTABLE AND ACCESSIBLE PEDESTRIAN PASSAGE ALONG AND ACROSS EVERY PUBLIC STREET. AND I'LL SECOND THAT MOTION. SORRY, CAN YOU JUST READ IT ONE MORE TIME? ABSOLUTELY. IT'S AFTER WE HAVE THIS WRITTEN DOWN JUST SO THAT NOBODY'S WRITING IT DOWN. YEAH. SO THIS IS AFTER THE THIRD. WHEREAS WHEREAS THE 2023 URBAN TRAILS PLAN SUGGESTS FINDING SHARED USE CORRIDORS SUCH AS ACTIVE RAILROAD CORRIDORS, TRANSIT LINES OR UTILITY CORRIDORS, WHERE THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITIES TO ADD URBAN TRAILS AS A WAY TO UTILIZE MORE CORRIDORS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES. AND WHEREAS THE 2023 SIDEWALKS, CROSSINGS AND SHARED STREETS PLAN CALLS FOR CREATING INCENTIVES FOR CREATING ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS USING PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS AS PART OF IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY 2.0 TO PROVIDE SAFE, COMFORTABLE AND ACCESSIBLE PEDESTRIAN PASSAGE ALONG AND ACROSS EVERY PUBLIC STREET. THANK YOU. SO ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION ON COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT? ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING TO CALL FOR A VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ADOPTING THE AMENDMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS OR SAY I. AND THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF ALL ATTENDING. THAT TAKES US BACK TO THE MAIN MOTION. SO ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS. THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS. I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE THING IS WHY THIS IS KIND OF COOL, AND I WAS EXCITED ABOUT THIS, IS THAT WE'VE DONE IT IN KIND OF AN AD HOC WAY WHEN WE SAW CENTRAL, THE SOUTH CENTRAL WATERFRONT PLAN AND ALL THESE OTHER SMALLER PLANS COME UP, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT TENDS TO BE SOMETHING [01:30:04] WE ASK FOR. SO IT'LL BE NICE TO HAVE A GENERAL POLICY THAT THIS IS THE DEFAULT MOVING FORWARD. I'M GLAD THIS CAME UP. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO. I JUST THOUGHT NAVIGATING THESE ANNOYING APARTMENT COMPLEXES WAS LIKE A PAIN OF LIVING IN AUSTIN OR TEXAS. POSSIBLY. SO I'M GLAD THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING ON THE TABLE TO BE ABLE TO GET AROUND BETTER. SO THANKS FOR WATCHING. SPENCER. YEAH. DO YOU HAVE LIKE IN YOUR HEAD THE ROUGH OUTLINE OF A. I IMAGINE YOU DO BECAUSE YOU THINK THESE THINGS PRETTY WELL THROUGH, LIKE THE ROUGH OUTLINE OF A POLICY FRAMEWORK THAT YOU MIGHT IMAGINE THE CITY MANAGER WOULD WOULD ADOPT. LIKE WHAT WOULD IT WHAT WOULD THE SKELETON OF THAT LOOK LIKE? YEAH. SO THE, THE ZONING, I'LL YIELD TO KIND OF THAT ZONING AND PLANNING RECOMMENDATION. AND THIS IS REALLY THEIR DOMAIN. SO I MEAN, THE FIRST THING I THINK THEY WOULD SAY IS A LOT OF TIMES WE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL EASEMENT. WE CAN JUST MAKE THE FIRE LANE, THE UTILITY EASEMENT, YOU KNOW, BRING IT UP TO THE STANDARDS OF A PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENT, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT TEN, 12FT, MAKE IT ADA ACCESSIBLE. WHAT HAVE YOU. WHAT THEIR RECOMMENDATION AS THE, THE COUNCIL TO DO IS DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE TO BAKE IN NATURAL REQUIREMENTS WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS. SO THEY SPECIFICALLY RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY REQUIRE PUBLIC ACCESS EASEMENTS WHEN THE SITE EXCEEDS 350FT IN LENGTH OR WIDTH. WITH THAT MATCHES UP, I BELIEVE, WITH THE ROUGH AREA OF A DOWNTOWN BLOCK. SO BASICALLY, IF YOUR DEVELOPMENT IS THE SIZE OF A DOWNTOWN BLOCK, WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH. AND THEN IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT WAYS WE CAN CREATE INCENTIVES, RIGHT? AND WHETHER THAT BE INCENTIVIZING ONES THAT ENCOURAGE A LINK TO A TRANSIT STOP, A TRAIL, OPEN SPACES. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS WHERE THE CITY WILL CREATE A DENSITY BONUS OR WAIVE SOME FEES. IF YOU DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, THIS COULD BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE. I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE EXAMPLE I CAN THINK OF OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD IS I BELIEVE THE CITY ACTUALLY DID PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF INCENTIVE. I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS, BUT THERE WAS AN APARTMENT COMPLEX ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MUELLER WHERE THEY WANTED TO BUILD A TRAIL THAT WOULD CONNECT WINDSOR PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS A LITTLE CREEK. AND SO THEY ASKED THEM TO CREATE A, A JOINT ACCESS EASEMENT, WHICH IS ALSO THEIR FIRE LANE THAT GOES UP TO THAT TRAIL. RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THINGS THAT DURING THE SITE PLAN PROCESS, CITY STAFF COULD ASK FOR AND BE EMPOWERED TO MAYBE REQUIRE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, IF THE CITY HAD A DEVELOPED POLICY AND IT WAS EMPOWERED IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS, QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? YEAH, I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD, I'M REALLY GLAD Y'ALL. WE BROUGHT THIS FORWARD. AND AS SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN HOUSING IN MY DAY JOB, I'M A HUGE PROPONENT OF OF PUBLIC USE EASEMENTS, ESPECIALLY JOINT USE. IT REALLY CUTS DOWN ON THE BUREAUCRACY AND THE LEVELS OF APPROVAL THAT SOME OF THESE EASEMENTS TAKE TO, TO, TO HAPPEN. SO DEFINITELY IN FAVOR OF THAT. AND AND GENERAL, JUST THE, THE, SUCH, SUCH LIMITED CORRIDORS WE HAVE FOR MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT, I THINK THESE ARE SUPER NECESSARY AND VALUABLE. SO THANK YOU. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS? QUESTIONS, CONCERNS. ONE LAST QUESTION. YEAH. SPENCER, WHAT TYPICALLY STOPS THESE EASEMENTS FROM BEING, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC USEFUL? SHOULD WE ANTICIPATE THAT I'M JUST IN MY HEAD ANTICIPATING LIKE, WHY DON'T THEY ALREADY DO THESE SORTS OF THINGS? CAN WE REMOVE THAT ROADBLOCK OR RECOMMEND A WAY TO REMOVE THAT ROADBLOCK? BUT I'M JUST SPITBALLING HERE. YEAH. I MEAN, IT'S CERTAINLY I HAVE A SHORT ANSWER. A LOT OF IT IS BECAUSE THEY, THEY ONLY CONSIDER PEOPLE IN A CAR IS A LOT OF IT. AND THE, THE PROCESS THROUGH WHICH YOU GO THROUGH EVERYTHING IS THAT YOU THINK A LOT ABOUT THE CURB CUTS AND THE DRIVEWAYS AND ACCESS FOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS ARE SORT OF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. AND A LOT OF IT IS THAT THEY'RE JUST NOT THINKING ABOUT IT IN THIS PROCESS. IT'S JUST NOT PART OF IT. AND IT'S NOT A PRIORITY. YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, I'LL SECOND THAT. WHEN WE WORKED ON A COMMISSION BIKE LANE PARKING, THAT WAS SOMETHING WE VERY CONTINUALLY FOUND WAS THAT PEOPLE JUST DIDN'T THINK ABOUT, OH YEAH, WE SHOULD PROBABLY FIND A SPACE FOR SOME BIKE RACKS. IT'S JUST NOT SOMETHING YOU THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE BUILDING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR COMPLEX LIKE THIS. SO THINGS LIKE THAT CAN SLIP THROUGH. YOU KNOW, I THINK ANOTHER PART WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CONNECTING TO TRAILS AND INFRASTRUCTURE [01:35:01] IS A LOT OF TIMES THEY MAY NOT BE AWARE OF WHAT THE CITY'S PLANS ARE. YOU KNOW, TOM WALD AT THE RED LINE PARKWAY INITIATIVE. A LOT OF WHAT HE DOES IS TALK TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BUILDING ALONG THE RED LINE AND SAY, HEY, DO YOU KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD A TRAIL HERE AND TRYING TO GET THEM TO BUILD THOSE JOINT ACCESS EASEMENTS. SO YOU KNOW, TO EVENTUALLY BECOME PART OF THE TRAIL. SO I THINK A LOT OF TIMES A DEVELOPER MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THE CITY'S PLANS ARE FOR AN AREA THAT THERE IS A TIER TWO OR TIER ONE, MAYBE EVEN URBAN TRAIL THAT THEY COULD CONNECT TO IN THE FUTURE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF BUMPING THIS UP, THE PRIORITY A LITTLE BIT CAN HELP THAT. AND I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT WE SHOULD PROBABLY ACKNOWLEDGE IS I DO THINK SECURITY IS PROBABLY SOMETHING PEOPLE WOULD SAY, RIGHT? YOU DON'T. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE THERE WALKING NEAR THEIR DEVELOPMENT. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY I LIVED RIGHT OFF OF A JOINT ACCESS EASEMENT IN MUELLER FOR THREE, FOUR YEARS AND NEVER EXPERIENCED ANY PROBLEMS. BUT I THINK THAT'S A FEAR THAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE. AND I THINK AS LONNIE SAID EARLIER, YOU KNOW, IF THAT IS A CONCERN, THEY COULD STILL PUT UP A GATE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT OR MAKE IT THAT YOU HAVE TO CART IN. AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S NOT IDEALLY WHAT WE WANT. THAT'S NOT GREAT FOR CONNECTIVITY, BUT IT WOULD AT LEAST MEAN THAT THERE IS ACCESS FOR RESIDENTS, WHICH ARE PROBABLY THE PEOPLE USING THAT AREA THE MOST. WELL, WELL. TRUE. RIGHT. WELL, THAT WAS MY QUESTION. I WAS WONDERING IF DEVELOPERS WOULD PUSH BACK ON THAT AND BE LIKE, OH, WELL, NOW I HAVE TO PAY FOR A SECURITY GUARD TO BE INSIDE THE BUILDING IN ORDER TO HAVE AN EXTRA LAYER OF PROTECTION BETWEEN THE OUTDOOR WORLD AND THE INDOOR WORLD, WHICH I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ENOUGH OF A BARRIER FOR THEM TO BE LIKE, WE'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO BUILD HERE. I DOUBT IT, BUT YEAH, I WOULD JUST IMAGINE THAT WOULD BE SOME LEVEL OF PUSHBACK. I DON'T YEAH, I DON'T THINK THAT'S I'M SURE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WOULD SAY THAT PUSHBACK. I DON'T THINK IT'S BIG ENOUGH. AND ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK ZACH DID A GOOD JOB OF IS CLARIFYING WHEN IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED AND WHEN IT SHOULD BE INCENTIVIZED, RIGHT? IF YOU'RE BUILDING A SUPER BLOCK SIZED DEVELOPMENT, IT NEEDS TO BE REQUIRED, RIGHT? IF YOU HAVE A DUTY TO THE PUBLIC AT THAT POINT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT DISRUPTING THE GRID, THAT YOU'RE PROVIDING CONNECTIVITY, IF YOU'RE BUILDING A SMALLER SCALE DEVELOPMENT, IT'S STILL SOMETHING YOU SHOULD ABSOLUTELY CONSIDER. AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD INCENTIVIZE. SO AND THE RECOMMENDATION ALSO GIVES A LOT OF LATITUDE SAYING WE SHOULD LET STAFF FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT BALANCE IS, BUT ALSO ACKNOWLEDGES THERE SHOULD BE A BALANCE. SO WE'LL GET ANOTHER LOOK AT IT. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. LAST CALL FOR QUESTIONS. QUIPS, QUERIES, THOUGHTS. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THEN I'M GOING TO CALL FOR A VOTE ON THE RECOMMENDATION, AS AMENDED. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY AYE. ALL RIGHT. THAT IS UNANIMOUS OF EVERYONE ATTENDING. THANK YOU ALL. AND THANK YOU TO THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION FOR LEADING ON THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL [6. Update from Commissioner Prasad from the Joint Sustainability Committee regarding actions taken at the July 22, 2026, meeting.] RIGHT. NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO COMMITTEE UPDATES. OUR FIRST UPDATE IS FROM COMMISSIONER PRASAD ABOUT THE JOINT SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE. YEAH, I THINK THE ONLY APROPOS ACTION THAT WAS TAKEN AT THE JSC WAS THEY VOTED TO RECOMMEND THAT THE TOURS NOT BE VOTED THROUGH UNTIL 2027, BUT I THINK WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT ENDED. SO YEAH. ALL RIGHTY. HOW DID IT END? I DON'T KNOW. IT PASSED. OKAY. YEAH, LIKE 7 TO 3 OR SOMETHING, BUT. YEAH. YEP. ALL RIGHT THEN. I ASSUME THAT'S IT, RIGHT? OKAY. NEXT UPDATE IS FROM ME REGARDING THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL. [7. Update from Commissioner Schumacher from the Bicycle Advisory Council regarding actions taken at the July 21, 2026, meeting.] THERE WAS WE DID GET A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE CITYWIDE LIGHTING PLAN. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ON OUR AGENDA, BUT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE'RE INTERESTED IN. IT WAS A REALLY COOL PRESENTATION. ALSO A REALLY NERDY CONVERSATION ABOUT ONE WAY VERSUS TWO WAY PROTECTED BIKE LANES THAT IF YOU GUYS ARE INTERESTED IN, I'M HAPPY TO FILL YOU IN ON THE DETAILS. [8. Update from Commissioner Kavelman from the Pedestrian Advisory Council regarding actions taken at the August 3, 2026, meeting.] NEXT WE HAVE AN UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER KALMAN ON THE PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL AUGUST 3RD, 2026 MEETING. JUST PRESENTATIONS AND NO ACTIONS TAKEN. [9. Update from Chair Somers from the Community Advisory Committee of the Austin Transit Partnership Board regarding actions taken at the July 9, 2026, meeting.] AND THEN OUR LAST ACTION ITEM IS OUR LAST ITEM IS FROM CHAIR SOMMERS FROM THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE AUSTIN TRANSIT PARTNERSHIP BOARD SINCE SHE IS NOT HERE. WE WILL MOVE THAT ONE ON TO WE'RE JUST GOING TO SKIP IT. I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO POSTPONE IT. SO THAT THEN BRINGS US ON TO FUTURE [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS] AGENDA ITEMS. SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND START GOING THROUGH THIS WHILE NATALIE'S OUT. NEXT, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT PREVIOUSLY DOING THE A S AND P AMENDMENTS FOR THE DOG'S HEAD TOURS THIS MONTH. STAFF HAS ASKED IF THEY COULD COME NEXT MONTH. SO THAT'S NOT WHY. THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE THEY WILL BE GOING TO PLANNING COMMISSION FIRST IN [01:40:05] AUGUST. SO IF YOU'RE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT WILL BE HEADING OUR WAY, DEFINITELY WATCH THE PLANNING COMMISSION. AND THEN WE STILL HAVE THE WORKING GROUP FROM LAST TIME. SO THE WORKING GROUP WILL CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THAT. FOR ANYONE WHO'S INTERESTED IN THE WORKING GROUP, I KNOW CHAIR SUMMERS WAS LUKEWARM ABOUT BEING ON IT. SO IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST, IF YOU'RE LIKE, AUGUST WAS BUSY, BUT I COULD DO IT IN SEPTEMBER, EMAIL ME AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT ADDING YOU TO THE WORKING GROUP. REAL QUICK. ARE THEY, ARE THEY PLANNING AMENDMENTS AND THEN THOSE ARE COMING TO US OR ARE WE MAKING OUR OWN OR WHAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT STAFF IS PRESENTING THEIR A SNP AMENDMENT DRAFT AND WILL MAKE COMMENTS OFF OF THAT DRAFT. GOT IT. BUT THERE'S NOTHING STOPPING US FROM CREATING OUR OWN MAP. IT'S JUST A MAP. IT'S MY FIRST TIME, SO YEAH. I, I HAD RAISED MY HAND TO BE ON SAID COMMISSION. I DON'T THINK I'LL BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE SEPTEMBER 1ST MEETING, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IMPACTS YOU CAN STILL WORK ON IT. MY OKAY, IF THAT MEANS YOU DON'T WANT TO BE ON IT, YOU CAN, BUT YOU CAN PUT ME ON IT. THERE'S JUST LIKE A HIGH LIKELIHOOD I WON'T RESPOND. TOTALLY FINE. NATALIE, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU FOR ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S KIND OF IN THE HOPPER IS NOT REALLY FULLY BAKED TO TO PRESENT TO YOU ALL YET. PROBABLY BY NEXT MEETING, I'LL HAVE A FEW MORE THINGS ON THIS LIST THAT HAVE COME IN FROM STAFF, BUT EVERYTHING'S KIND OF BEING REVIEWED AT THIS TIME TO SEE WHERE WE'LL LAND. TOTALLY. SO ANY ITEMS FROM THE COMMISSION THAT FOLKS ARE INTERESTED IN WOULD LIKE TO PUT ON FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS? I HAVE A QUESTION AND I'M SORRY IF I ASKED YOU THIS LAST MONTH AND I FORGOT. WHEN WE HAD THE PERSON COME WHOSE NAME I FORGET TO TALK ABOUT THE SIXTH STREET RECOMMENDATION FOR UPDATING THE SIDEWALKS THERE. THAT PERSON ALSO SAID THAT THERE'S GOING TO NEED TO BE SOME SORT OF DIRECTIONAL OR LANE CHANGE ON SEVENTH STREET BECAUSE OF THE I-35 PROJECT. WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THAT? AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN INFLUENCE? SO THAT DID COME UP IN FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS LAST MONTH. I DON'T THINK I GOT IT HERE QUITE YET, BUT I HAVE. I'M WORKING ON SEEING WHEN WE WOULD BE ABLE TO TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION HERE. OKAY. I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT THE PLAN IS FOR IT. YEAH. PERFECT. COOL. IF THERE IS INTERESTED, IS THERE INTEREST IN THE LIGHT PLAN OR IS THAT. I'VE SEEN IT SO NO ONE ELSE IS INTERESTED IN THE LIGHT IN THE CITY WIDE LIGHT PLAN. I'VE ALSO ALREADY SEEN THAT. I THINK MAYBE THE INTERESTED FOLKS HAVE ALREADY SEEN IT, SO WE DON'T NEED TO ADD IT TO THE AGENDA. DIDN'T THEY? DIDN'T WE GET THAT ONE? YOU GOT IT BACK. YEAH, IT'S BEEN A WHILE. I THINK WE GOT IT. OH I WOULD I'D BE INTERESTED IN IT. I YEAH. YEAH. MAYBE WE DID DO IT. I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I REMEMBER ASKING A QUESTION ABOUT BIRDS. YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT. WE DID ASK SOMEONE ABOUT SOME BIRDS. YEAH. OKAY. WHAT ABOUT THE BIRDS. OKAY. LET'S CALL ON FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. I HAVE A QUESTION REALLY QUICK. AND MAYBE THIS IS A NATALIE OR SUSAN QUESTION. IT LOOKS LIKE WE WANT SEMIANNUAL. IS YOUR MICROPHONE ON YOU MUTE IT AGAIN. OH MY GOSH. SORRY. OH MY GOSH. I'M THE NEW RUBIN HERE. IT LOOKS LIKE AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL OR ATP COMES IN FOR SEMIANNUAL, BUT THERE'S FOUR MONTHS INCLUDING THIS ONE. SO WHAT MONTHS DO WE ACTUALLY LIKE TO HAVE THEM IN FOR OUR SEMIANNUAL? DID WE MISS IT? NO. SO WELL, LET ME LET ME WALK THAT BACK. I DON'T KNOW. I JUST DIDN'T GET THOSE CHANGED. I KNOW THEY HAVE BEEN HERE ONCE THIS YEAR. I'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE WHEN THEY WERE HERE LAST. BUT WE DECIDED THAT DOING QUARTERLY WAS A LITTLE BIT EXCESSIVE. I JUST HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE DATES CHANGED ON THE, THE LIKE WHERE WE WOULD DROP IT. OKAY. FOR WHICH ONE? BECAUSE THE AUSTIN LIGHT RAIL. BECAUSE IF IT'S BEEN ABOUT SIX MONTHS. I KNOW THEY HAVE THOSE MASSIVE CONTRACTS THAT JUST GOT SIGNED. SO I'D BE INTERESTED TO HEAR ABOUT THE TIMELINES ON LIKE, WHAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING WITH ALL OF THOSE. SO YEAH, I'D BE HAPPY TO REACH OUT TO THEM. PERFECT. IF IT'S BEEN ABOUT THAT SIX MONTHS. OKAY. YEAH. I THINK THE LAST TIME WE WOULD HAVE HEARD WOULD HAVE BEEN WHEN THE FINAL EIS WAS PUBLISHED, WHICH. YEAH. SURELY THAT WAS MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AGO, THOUGH. I DON'T KNOW. TIME RUNS TOGETHER. ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE? YEAH. I'D LIKE TO NUDGE ON THE ON HAVING CAMPO COME IN TO TALK ABOUT THE PALMER LAND [01:45:01] CORRIDOR STUDY. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I, YEAH, I KNOW AND I'LL LET NATALIE SPEAK. I KNOW WE'VE REACHED OUT THERE JUST. CAMPO DOESN'T ALWAYS LOVE TO TALK TO US, BUT THAT'S FAIR. THANK YOU. WE'LL WE'LL REACH OUT AGAIN. ABSOLUTELY. AND I KNOW YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT DOING A RECOMMENDATION. WE CAN DO A RECOMMENDATION. YOU KNOW, WITHOUT THAT PRESENTATION, YOU JUST MIGHT HAVE TO WALK US THROUGH IT A LITTLE BIT. SURE. SOUNDS GOOD. I'LL KEEP THAT IN MIND. YEAH. AND FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT IF YOU NEED HELP. ALL RIGHT. LAST CALL. ALL RIGHT. AND AS LONG AS THERE'S NO OBJECTION. I WILL ADJOURN THE MEETING OF THE URBAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION AT A VERY IMPRESSIVE 649. NICE. WELL, I FEEL LIKE WE KIND OF. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.