[0:09] ok.

[0:10] We

[0:13] ll start momentarily.

[0:19] Give him one more minute.

[0:21] Jim was here and he just

[0:21] stepped out. He was coming

[0:27] right back.

[0:32] No.

[0:35] There we go.

[0:37] I think, did I hear Jim out

[0:41] there? I thought so. Ok.

[0:43] Peet, are we ready? Yes sir,

[0:43] we

[0:44] re good. Ok, we

[0:45] ll call this

[0:47] meeting to order. If the clerk

[0:49] will, uh, call the roll. Sure,

[0:51] council member lines council

[0:52] member San Antonio present

[0:54] council member Schaeffer.

[0:54] Deputy Mayor o

[0:58] Hara.

[1:00] Mayor Ehler record will show

[1:01] all members of the city council

[1:02] are present tonight.

[1:04] Ok, this is a special meeting

[1:06] of the Encinitas City Council.

[1:07] Uh, we have one item on

[1:08] tonight

[1:10] s meeting, and that is

[1:11] Roadway safety and traffic

[1:13] enforcement in the city of

[1:14] Encinitas and the contact

[1:15] person is director of

[1:16] engineering Nutter.

[1:16] With that, we

[1:18] ll start with a,

[1:19] uh, staff report. All right.

[1:21] Well, good afternoon, MR. Mayor

[1:22] and council members. My name is

[1:23] Dan Nutter. I

[1:24] m the director of

[1:25] engineering and city engineer

[1:27] for the city, uh, along with me

[1:29] this afternoon, I have Matt

[1:30] Widowski, Assistant Director of

[1:32] Engineering, uh, Abe Bandigan,

[1:34] the city traffic engineer, and

[1:35] Shane Watts, who is the captain

[1:36] of the sheriff

[1:37] s office for uh

[1:38] North Coast.

[1:39] Uh, today we

[1:41] ll be talking and

[1:42] discussing about roadway safety

[1:44] and traffic enforcement.

[1:45] So we

[1:46] re gonna be discussing

[1:47] the five e

[1:48] s of traffic safety.

[1:48] We

[1:50] re gonna highlight current

[1:52] city programs, projects, and

[1:53] initiatives regarding traffic

[1:54] safety.

[1:54] We

[1:55] re going to show the city

[1:55] s

[1:56] financial commitment to Traffic

[1:58] City, uh, traffic safety.

[2:00] Uh, and then we

[2:00] ll conclude

[2:02] with city council having

[2:04] discussion.

[2:06] So first I want to get into the

[2:07] 5 e

[2:08] s of traffic safety.

[2:11] Now the 5 years of traffic

[2:13] safety are a comprehensive

[2:14] approach to improving roadway

[2:16] safety for everyone. Uh, now

[2:17] this is a framework that

[2:17] s

[2:20] evolved over time, uh, starting

[2:22] in the 1920s, this was actually

[2:23] the three e

[2:24] s of traffic safety.

[2:26] Uh, so over the years we

[2:26] ve,

[2:26] we

[2:28] ve evolved a bit and uh now

[2:28] it

[2:29] s, it

[2:30] s industry standard

[2:32] that we have these five e

[2:32] s.

[2:33] Oh,

[2:35] Is that a little better? Am I

[2:36] not talking in the mic? I

[2:38] apologize. Well, thank you guys.

[2:40] Uh, so the five e

[2:41] s of traffic

[2:43] safety are comprised of

[2:45] engineering, education,

[2:47] enforcement, encouragement and

[2:48] evaluation, uh, now really do

[2:50] want to make it clear that

[2:51] these 5 e

[2:54] s, uh, this is really

[2:56] a community comprehensive

[2:56] approach, so it

[2:57] s not just the

[2:57] city, it

[2:59] s also really engaging

[3:00] the public as well.

[3:03] Uh, so engineering is designing

[3:04] and maintaining roadway

[3:06] infrastructure to reduce risk

[3:08] and protect

[3:09] Uh, Education is teaching

[3:11] people safe behaviors and

[3:13] building awareness for all road

[3:16] users, enforcement is promoting

[3:18] safe behaviors and deterring

[3:19] deterring dangerous choices

[3:21] through fair and consistent

[3:22] enforcement.

[3:25] Encouragement is creating a

[3:28] culture that supports and

[3:31] reinforces reinforces positive,

[3:33] safe choices, and evaluation is

[3:35] making database decisions to

[3:37] analyze risks and implement

[3:39] countermeasures to to

[3:40] continuously improve our

[3:44] programs and projects.

[3:47] So engineering safer streets by

[3:50] design. Uh, so the city has

[3:53] over 45, uh, current and in

[3:54] progress.

[3:57] Projects, programs, and

[3:59] initiatives regarding

[4:00] engineering and infrastructure,

[4:01] um.

[4:01] Don

[4:02] t have all day to talk

[4:03] about all of them. I wish I did,

[4:05] but this is, is a, uh, only a 2

[4:06] hour meeting, so I

[4:07] m gonna just

[4:08] highlight some of the more

[4:10] important of the bunch.

[4:12] All right, is that any better?

[4:13] Ok, I

[4:14] m trying not to eat the

[4:16] microphone.

[4:18] Uh, so the first of which is

[4:20] our citywide lowering of speed

[4:21] limits, that

[4:23] s per ab 43 and ab

[4:25] 382, uh, so we did our first

[4:27] cut at lowering speed limits,

[4:29] uh, in 2022 and back in MAY of

[4:32] this year, council approved uh

[4:35] for staff to lower, uh, um.

[4:37] Roadway speeds on 13 different

[4:38] roadways, and this is really

[4:40] something that I wanted to be

[4:43] clear, is creating real results,

[4:44] uh, our traffic engineering

[4:46] team completed a traffic, uh,

[4:48] speed survey back in the summer

[4:51] of 2025, and that showed that

[4:51] we

[4:52] ve lowered speeds across the

[4:56] city and averaged 2.2 mph. Uh,

[4:57] so really it that showing that

[4:58] we are doing the right things,

[4:58] we

[4:59] re going in the right

[5:01] direction, a great results.

[5:03] Uh, we have an initiative where

[5:05] we are red curbing within

[5:08] school zones, uh, per the

[5:08] state

[5:09] s daylighting law to make

[5:12] sure that pedestrians, uh,

[5:13] specifically students and

[5:14] parents, uh, there are more

[5:18] visibility, uh, for. Oh,

[5:20] perfect. Ok, um.

[5:22] For more visibility for those

[5:24] students and and uh parents as

[5:25] they

[5:25] re walking through

[5:26] crosswalks, we

[5:27] re enhancing

[5:28] visibility at pedestrian

[5:30] crossings where improving

[5:31] bicycle and pedestrian

[5:32] facilities were optimizing

[5:34] traffic signal performance, and

[5:36] we are initiating an adaptive

[5:37] signal timing pilot program, uh,

[5:40] those two last ones, the

[5:41] traffic signal related items

[5:44] are really important for our

[5:45] corridors to help reduce

[5:47] queuing, um, that helps reduce

[5:49] the number of crashes, um, red

[5:50] light running.

[5:53] Things of that nature.

[5:55] We have a safe routes to school

[5:58] program, um, every year our

[5:59] traffic engineering team works

[6:01] with the various school

[6:03] districts, and we come up with

[6:04] important pedestrian and

[6:07] bicycle improvements, uh, this

[6:09] is a snippet of some of the

[6:09] improvements that we

[6:10] ve done

[6:12] with our fiscal year 26 program

[6:14] that ended uh just a couple of

[6:16] months back on the top left, we

[6:18] have a new signalized uh

[6:20] crosswalk along El Camino Real,

[6:20] that

[6:21] s at Crest Street.

[6:24] Uh, bottom left is a new

[6:25] rectangular rapid flashing

[6:27] beacon at Requasia and then on

[6:29] the right is a new rrfb at

[6:34] Vulcan and Glaucus.

[6:36] Not only do we care about

[6:38] having safe crossings for

[6:39] pedestrian and bicyclists along

[6:41] all of our roadways, but we

[6:43] also care about having safe

[6:44] crossings along the railroad

[6:47] tracks. Um.

[6:50] We have 3 distinct projects

[6:52] with 6 pedestrian and bicycle

[6:54] crossings, uh, that are in

[6:56] progress right now uh with the

[6:57] city, uh, now some really great

[6:59] news, if, if you have not heard,

[7:01] uh, the city was actually

[7:03] awarded a $33.6 million dollar

[7:05] grant by the Federal Railroad

[7:06] Administration. Uh, we heard

[7:08] about a week and a half ago, uh,

[7:08] that

[7:11] s gonna help make these 3

[7:13] projects a reality. Uh, two of

[7:14] the, uh, renderings that you

[7:16] see here, uh, those are related

[7:18] toward Leucadia at grade

[7:20] crossing projects. So again,

[7:21] really important safety

[7:25] infrastructure improvements.

[7:25] We

[7:26] ve been installing

[7:28] pedestrian refuge islands. So

[7:28] you

[7:29] re seeing more of these

[7:31] across the city. Uh, this

[7:33] really helps break long

[7:34] crossings into smaller, more

[7:35] manageable segments. Uh, this

[7:38] here is on Highway 101 at 8th

[7:39] Street. Uh, we recently

[7:42] installed a new refuge island

[7:44] on Lucadia Boulevard at Hygia.

[7:46] We have a new one planned for

[7:47] Saxony at the ymca, uh, and

[7:50] then we also have one, plan per

[7:52] council direction at the

[7:53] Village Parkway at Parkdale

[7:56] Lane.

[7:57] We

[7:58] re installing rectangular

[8:00] rapid flashing beacons or RRFBs,

[8:00] you

[8:00] re, you

[8:01] re seeing these

[8:03] around town. Uh, this would be

[8:05] something that we would be

[8:06] installing at uncontrolled

[8:08] intersections to help provide a

[8:09] higher visibility for our

[8:11] pedestrians that are crossing

[8:12] the roadway. Uh, it

[8:13] s also an

[8:15] active measure to improve

[8:16] driver awareness for pedestrian

[8:18] activity, and one of the really

[8:19] important aspects here is it

[8:20] s

[8:21] cost effective solution that we

[8:24] can deploy very quickly.

[8:27] Uh, leading pedestrian interval,

[8:28] uh, or lpi, that

[8:29] s a recent

[8:29] project that we

[8:30] ve installed at

[8:32] uh nearly all of our signalized

[8:33] intersections, and what that

[8:36] does is that allows pedestrians

[8:37] to start crossing in the

[8:39] crosswalk before vehicles are

[8:41] able to go, um, and that really

[8:42] helps reduce conflicts between

[8:46] pedestrians and vehicles.

[8:46] We

[8:48] re improving visibility with

[8:49] our signal upgrades, so over

[8:50] the last couple months, you

[8:51] ve

[8:52] likely seen our initiative, uh,

[8:56] where we are starting to, uh,

[8:58] install a high visibility

[9:00] reflective traffic signal

[9:01] backplates uh on our traffic

[9:03] signals. So this really helps

[9:04] reduce red light running and

[9:05] certain types of intersection

[9:06] crashes.

[9:08] As an example, uh, this is

[9:09] Highway 101 at Lucadia

[9:11] Boulevard. Uh, you see the, the

[9:13] before on the left and the

[9:15] after on the right, and you see

[9:16] Leuccadia Roadside Park in the

[9:19] background, uh, really a nice

[9:21] heightened, uh, ability for us

[9:22] to, uh, show our uh traffic

[9:25] signals.

[9:28] Ok, onto e number 2, education.

[9:28] We

[9:29] re reaching residents,

[9:31] students and visitors.

[9:32] Uh, the sheriff

[9:33] s office does a

[9:35] know your limits campaign to

[9:37] help educate, uh, limits of

[9:38] intoxication for drivers. They

[9:39] go out to the community a

[9:41] couple of times a year, uh,

[9:43] really, really great event.

[9:43] i

[9:45] ve been out before, um, and

[9:47] it helps individuals that are

[9:49] out on the town, understand

[9:51] what that level of intoxication

[9:54] truly feels like.

[9:55] You have bicycle education and

[9:57] safety courses, so our parks

[9:59] and rec department, um, twice a

[10:02] month they offer a 2 hour

[10:04] bicycle skills and education

[10:06] safety course, uh, this is

[10:07] always packed. Uh, it

[10:08] s a great

[10:09] event, highly recommend you

[10:10] attend it if you have not, uh,

[10:11] especially if you have a

[10:14] younger bike riders.

[10:17] And then we do e-bike safety

[10:18] training and public outreach.

[10:21] So on AUGUST 4th, uh, we had a

[10:23] joint city and Sheriff e-bike

[10:25] safety workshop.

[10:26] And on AUGUST 19th, city

[10:28] council held an e-bike safety

[10:32] public meeting.

[10:34] Ok, onto e number 3,

[10:34] enforcement. We

[10:35] re deterring

[10:37] dangerous behaviors.

[10:39] In fiscal year 26, uh, city

[10:41] council funded 2 new traffic

[10:43] enforcement deputies.

[10:44] Uh, the sheriff

[10:45] s office does

[10:47] monthly traffic blitzes with

[10:48] targeted enforcement.

[10:50] Uh, they do e-bike enforcement,

[10:53] including seizures of e-bikes.

[10:54] And want to make a special note

[10:56] that city council is gonna hold

[10:59] a public meeting to discuss and

[11:00] explore the applicability of

[11:03] red light camera detection for

[11:06] sb 720 on SEPTEMBER 9th of this

[11:06] year.

[11:07] Now with that, I

[11:07] m gonna hand

[11:09] it over to Captain Watts to

[11:09] talk a little bit more about

[11:12] enforcement.

[11:14] Thank you, Dan, um, Captain

[11:15] Watts with the sheriff

[11:15] s office

[11:17] out of the North Coastal

[11:18] Station, um, you know.

[11:20] Where I fit in and in this

[11:22] conversation, I think is very

[11:25] important, um, and, you know,

[11:28] enforcement in itself is

[11:30] obviously important and we have

[11:31] done more we have really

[11:33] maximized our resources we have

[11:36] looked at how we can really

[11:39] change driver behavior with, um,

[11:41] maximizing enforcement, but.

[11:43] For me, more of the

[11:44] conversation, you know,

[11:46] education plays a huge piece in

[11:47] this as well, and that

[11:48] s why we

[11:50] have done a lot of education,

[11:51] um, one of the slides I

[11:52] ll show

[11:55] here in a second, you know, it

[11:56] captures how we

[11:57] ve maximize our

[11:58] enforcement, how we are doing

[12:00] more out on our roadways, uh,

[12:01] to change driver behavior, but

[12:02] what it doesn

[12:04] t capture is the

[12:06] countless contacts that we have

[12:08] with the community that um you

[12:09] know, results in the, uh, in a

[12:11] warning or that it

[12:11] s a.

[12:12] Chance for education. It

[12:12] s a

[12:14] chance to have that

[12:16] communication and, you know, I,

[12:18] I, I do believe that, uh, yes,

[12:19] enforcement is necessary, but a

[12:21] lot of times the person that

[12:22] leaves with a warning comes

[12:23] away with just as much as

[12:24] somebody that leaves with a

[12:25] ticket. So I think it

[12:26] s, uh,

[12:28] appropriate, um, that we

[12:30] balance that and we make sure

[12:32] that uh for one that we are

[12:33] doing that enforcement. We are

[12:35] maximizing it, but when there

[12:38] is room for education that we,

[12:40] uh, give some education. Um,

[12:41] another part of that that.

[12:42] Um,

[12:46] I think is equally important is

[12:48] the community and working with

[12:49] our community partners to

[12:52] address some of these, um,

[12:55] concerned areas on our roadways

[12:56] that need more focused

[12:58] enforcement or just need us to

[13:00] go out there and see what the

[13:00] community

[13:01] s seeing, um, I, I

[13:03] mean recently we went out on a

[13:05] bike ride, um, and we actually

[13:07] rode with community members. We

[13:08] rode around the city and we

[13:11] looked at areas from their

[13:13] perspective on.

[13:14] Uh, where we could, we could do

[13:16] more enforcement and even other

[13:18] areas that we can improve as a

[13:21] whole with the city, um, so, uh,

[13:23] working with our community, um,

[13:25] and bringing them in has been

[13:28] such a reward working with Safe

[13:31] Streets and uh hearing the

[13:34] ideas and uh our our mts

[13:35] commission has been wonderful.

[13:37] They have really been a huge

[13:39] help, um, but I think that that

[13:41] is important is really engaging

[13:43] with the community.

[13:45] Doing the enforcement and also

[13:47] that education and I will say

[13:48] you know as a whole, as we go

[13:51] into the slides, I think that

[13:55] that whole um circle approach

[13:57] is where and how we have gotten

[13:59] to where we are now. So next

[14:00] slide, please. So if you look,

[14:02] um, once again, uh, I have

[14:04] always said that I am always

[14:06] looking to maximize our

[14:06] resources. I

[14:07] m always looking

[14:10] for those, uh, deputy initiated

[14:11] activities, those proactive

[14:12] contacts to

[14:14] Improve. So improving off of,

[14:17] uh, 2025, you can see that we

[14:18] are continuing to approve this

[14:20] year. We are, we are ahead of

[14:23] where we were last year, and we

[14:24] continue that upward trend, um,

[14:25] and this is the momentum that

[14:28] we continue to strive for and

[14:29] and build upon, um, but you

[14:31] know.

[14:32] It

[14:34] s only meaningful if the

[14:36] results are meaningful, um, and

[14:38] so when I look at, ok, we are

[14:39] maximizing our enforcement, but

[14:42] the real goal is to change

[14:43] driver behavior so that our

[14:44] roadways are safer. So next

[14:46] slide please.

[14:46] So that

[14:47] s when this comes, you

[14:49] know, I, I constantly am

[14:51] looking at this to see monthly

[14:53] where we are as far as

[14:55] collisions throughout the city

[14:58] and as you can see, um, we are.

[15:01] We have less collisions this

[15:03] year so far than we did last

[15:06] year. Um, those are, uh, the

[15:09] results of everything I

[15:10] mentioned before and with the

[15:13] enforcement, but I really think,

[15:13] and I

[15:14] m optimistic to think

[15:16] that we are changing that

[15:17] driver behavior. People are

[15:18] slowing down with some of the

[15:18] measures that we

[15:19] ve done with

[15:21] the city, um, some of the

[15:24] infrastructure change, um, I

[15:26] think people are paying more

[15:27] attention. Um, they

[15:27] re not on

[15:28] their cell phones like they

[15:29] were.

[15:29] They

[15:30] re not speeding as much as

[15:31] they were, um, we

[15:31] re, we

[15:32] re

[15:33] really putting that message out

[15:35] to stop at stop signs, stop at

[15:36] red lights. Um, it

[15:37] s not worth.

[15:39] Running a red light or a stop

[15:41] sign, putting everybody else on

[15:44] the roadway, um, in danger. So,

[15:45] uh, I am happy we

[15:45] re with where

[15:46] we are. I think that, um, you

[15:48] know, the summertime, we get so

[15:51] many people that come into our,

[15:53] um, city to enjoy our beaches

[15:56] and our establishments, um, and

[15:56] that

[15:58] s when traditionally we

[16:00] have seen a rise in collisions,

[16:01] but I really think that because

[16:03] the word has gotten out, we

[16:03] ve

[16:06] placed, um, even our, uh,

[16:07] digital signs as you come into

[16:08] our community.

[16:09] To let people know, to slow

[16:10] down, um, we

[16:11] re paying

[16:12] attention. There

[16:13] s more of us

[16:14] out there and we are doing more

[16:15] enforcement, so I

[16:16] m happy with

[16:17] where we are. There

[16:17] s still

[16:18] room for improvement. We will

[16:19] continue to improve.

[16:20] Next slide.

[16:22] Um, this was one of the areas

[16:24] that when I was looking at our,

[16:26] uh, DUIs.

[16:30] You know, um, I wanted, and we,

[16:32] I think, needed at the time and,

[16:34] um, when we presented it to the

[16:36] city and to the council and

[16:38] mayor that we really needed

[16:41] that extra enforcement for our

[16:44] DUIs and when we were able to

[16:46] add those two dui, uh, deputies

[16:47] that are solely out there

[16:49] looking to take these impaired

[16:50] drivers off our roadways to

[16:54] make them safer. Um, we saw our

[16:56] arrests go up, but we also

[16:56] started to.

[16:58] See that there were more ride

[16:59] shares at some of our

[17:01] establishments at the end of

[17:02] the, at the end of the night,

[17:03] which is a positive thing

[17:04] that

[17:05] s what we want. We want

[17:06] people to make those smart

[17:08] decisions, not get in their car,

[17:09] um, while they, while they

[17:10] re

[17:10] intoxicated, and that

[17:12] s where

[17:13] uh the know your limits. I

[17:14] think that was huge. We went

[17:15] out there with the community

[17:16] and there were so many people

[17:20] that came up to our booth as an

[17:21] educational piece and they blew

[17:22] in our breathalyzer and they

[17:24] were astonished that they were

[17:26] over the legal limit, um, and

[17:27] they.

[17:29] Many of them said, I thought I

[17:30] probably was ok to drive and

[17:32] they made smarter choices that

[17:32] night, and it

[17:33] s that ripple

[17:34] effect that we

[17:34] re looking for.

[17:35] So we

[17:35] ve done it twice, we

[17:36] ll

[17:40] continue to do those, um.

[17:42] And getting ahead of those DUIs

[17:43] is so important because if we

[17:45] can take them off the roadway

[17:48] before a collision, before they

[17:50] crash into our infrastructure,

[17:52] um, then we are all safer, and

[17:54] that is the commitment that, uh,

[17:54] I make. That

[17:55] s the commitment

[17:56] that our deputies are out there

[17:57] making.

[17:59] Next slide.

[18:01] And then once again, when we

[18:03] look at the results, um, yes,

[18:03] we

[18:03] re doing more enforcement,

[18:05] but what does that look like?

[18:07] And what it looks like is we

[18:08] re

[18:11] having less dui collisions. So,

[18:14] our infrastructure is not being,

[18:17] um, constantly, uh, hit, um, or

[18:19] roundabouts or are being

[18:22] navigated appropriately and, um,

[18:22] we

[18:23] re not seeing those

[18:25] collisions as a result of

[18:26] impaired driving, um, so I

[18:27] think that, you know, as long

[18:28] as we keep those.

[18:30] Um,

[18:30] And we

[18:32] re, we continue to focus

[18:34] on, yes, the enforcement, but

[18:36] we should see some positive

[18:38] results as well. And I think we

[18:39] are seeing that. I think I

[18:39] m

[18:41] happy on the road that we are

[18:42] going. Like I said, there

[18:43] s

[18:46] always room for improvement, um,

[18:48] and I have committed many times

[18:50] that that will be my commitment

[18:52] is that we are consistently and

[18:54] constantly looking for outside

[18:57] of the box ideas, um, the

[18:58] traffic safety monthly, uh,

[19:00] enforcement, you know, that

[19:00] that

[19:00] s something that.

[19:02] It now has gotten to other

[19:03] cities. I

[19:04] ve had phone calls

[19:05] from other cities. I

[19:06] ve had, uh,

[19:08] phone calls from other station

[19:10] captains asking like, what are

[19:11] you guys doing over there? What,

[19:13] what, tell me more about these,

[19:14] um, enforcement days because

[19:15] it

[19:16] s not often that a captain

[19:18] and a lieutenants and all the

[19:20] sergeants and your detectives

[19:22] are all in uniform in a patrol

[19:23] car out making stops. And I

[19:24] m

[19:25] out there making stops and I

[19:26] m

[19:28] talking to the community, um,

[19:28] but that

[19:29] s important because it

[19:31] takes all of us.

[19:33] To make those changes. Um, so

[19:33] I

[19:34] m proud of the efforts that

[19:37] we have, uh, made, um, and we

[19:39] will continue to, to push

[19:41] forward, uh, roadway safety

[19:42] will be my priority. Vision

[19:45] Zero, I do not want to lose one

[19:47] life on our roadways, um.

[19:48] And so anything and everything

[19:50] that I can do to prevent that

[19:54] and to educate our drivers, our,

[19:55] uh, bicyclists, our

[19:55] e-bicyclists, I

[19:56] m gonna

[20:00] continue to do that.

[20:02] And working with our uh with

[20:04] the uh traffic mobility

[20:06] commission, um, you know, when

[20:08] I started really looking at the,

[20:10] the information that we were

[20:14] providing them, um, it, it.

[20:15] It wasn

[20:17] t what, um, it needed

[20:20] to be. Um, if we truly want to

[20:22] give them the tools to, um,

[20:24] look at some of these areas or

[20:25] make some change, then we have

[20:27] to provide them with the

[20:28] information that they need to

[20:30] do that. Um, and, you know, the,

[20:31] the, the, well, that

[20:31] s how

[20:32] we

[20:33] ve always done it. That

[20:33] s

[20:34] not good enough. If we can make

[20:35] it better, we

[20:36] ll make it better.

[20:40] And I was so happy and, and, um,

[20:41] appreciative to be able to sit

[20:43] down with, uh, some of the

[20:44] commissioners to really

[20:46] make this report something that

[20:48] was tangible and something that

[20:51] they could act upon, um, and we

[20:52] have gotten it to a point where

[20:53] I really think there

[20:54] s a lot

[20:56] there, um, next slide, please.

[20:59] One of the examples is we are

[21:01] now showing as the year

[21:04] progresses, what are traffic

[21:05] accidents where they

[21:05] re

[21:07] occurring and you can start to

[21:10] see on the map where our, you

[21:13] know, problematic or concerns

[21:14] are, and we need to

[21:17] start looking at those areas to

[21:18] see is, is it an enforcement

[21:20] issue? Do we need to do more

[21:23] enforcement? Is it, um, a

[21:25] result of infrastructure. What

[21:27] is that? And I think that by

[21:29] providing them with this

[21:29] information, it

[21:31] s giving us

[21:33] that perspective and allowing

[21:35] us to start focusing in where

[21:36] we can make some positive

[21:37] change.

[21:39] Next slide. Same with our dui,

[21:41] uh, enforcement. This is, uh,

[21:42] one of the things that we

[21:44] started doing to show where

[21:47] these dui arrests are occurring

[21:48] and what wasn

[21:50] t captured in the

[21:51] previous slide that showed the

[21:54] total amount is a lot of these

[21:56] DUIs, um, they either are, by

[21:57] the time that we get behind

[21:59] them, we observed the impaired

[22:00] driving, and we are ready to

[22:02] make that traffic stop. They

[22:02] d

[22:04] be exited our city, so the

[22:05] contact happens in another

[22:07] jurisdiction.

[22:10] Or they have, uh, gone onto the

[22:12] freeway, the on-ramp, um, so

[22:13] that when we actually do make

[22:15] that arrest, it doesn

[22:16] t count

[22:18] in our statistics. It counts in

[22:21] the city of the arrest. Um, so

[22:21] there

[22:22] s actually more than what

[22:25] is, uh, being shown, but, um, I

[22:25] think it

[22:27] s interesting to see

[22:28] where these arrests are

[22:29] occurring.

[22:30] And I think with that I

[22:30] ll turn

[22:33] it back over.

[22:36] Ok.

[22:38] Uh, 4 encouragement, where we

[22:40] are developing positive habits.

[22:42] So, uh, here at the city, we

[22:44] have a culture built around

[22:47] safety where we are encouraging

[22:48] residents to consistently

[22:50] practice and promote safe

[22:53] transportation habits daily.

[22:54] We have our school crossing

[22:58] guard program. Uh, this is a

[23:00] fifty-fifty cost share between

[23:01] the city and the school

[23:02] districts, and it

[23:03] s a

[23:05] cost-effective and safe program

[23:07] that helps uh keep our kids and

[23:08] parents safe while they

[23:09] re

[23:11] walking to and from school, uh,

[23:13] city council added a 15th

[23:15] crossing guard for fiscal year

[23:17] 27, so really an awesome and

[23:18] important program for us here

[23:19] at the city, um, and the

[23:22] community.

[23:22] You

[23:24] ve likely seen our

[23:25] changeable message signs uh

[23:27] deployed throughout the city.

[23:30] This was a city council

[23:31] initiated request by the deputy

[23:32] mayor, um, and it

[23:33] s really been

[23:35] a, a great tool where we, we

[23:39] are able to give um awareness

[23:41] and behavior feedback, uh,

[23:42] immediately, and that helps

[23:44] disrupt and interrupt a routine

[23:46] driving habits, so that way the

[23:48] hope and thought is while

[23:48] you

[23:49] re driving along, you are

[23:51] seeing some of these signs and.

[23:53] Creating good habits, uh,

[23:56] regularly.

[23:58] Our speed radar feedback signs.

[24:00] Uh, so these are, are wonderful

[24:02] to help give you an immediate

[24:03] um.

[24:04] Idea of what your speed is. I,

[24:05] I know you

[24:06] re not always

[24:08] looking at your speedometer. So

[24:10] the speed radar feedback signs

[24:12] do a great job of giving you

[24:14] that immediate feedback that

[24:16] really hopes to uh encourage

[24:17] drivers to slow down when

[24:19] needed.

[24:21] And number 5 is evaluation

[24:23] where we are making data-driven

[24:26] decisions. So, Encinitas uses

[24:28] data analysis to direct

[24:30] resources in the appropriate

[24:32] location to increase roadway

[24:33] safety. Uh, an example of this

[24:35] is our local roadway safety

[24:39] plan, or lrsp, um, the lrsp is

[24:42] an has analyzed collision

[24:44] patterns and prioritize

[24:46] evidence-based countermeasures

[24:47] like leading pedestrian

[24:48] interval and speed management

[24:50] to enhance safety. So that is a

[24:50] document.

[24:52] That we have compiled and that

[24:53] has been approved by council

[24:55] and it has projects uh that are

[24:57] uh based on priority that the

[24:58] city is currently moving

[25:00] forward with implementing.

[25:02] Uh, I also wanted to touch base

[25:04] and, and uh speak briefly on

[25:06] our draft comprehensive safety

[25:08] action plan. Uh, so our

[25:09] comprehensive safety Action

[25:12] Plan or cisap, um, that is a

[25:14] document that similarly is data

[25:15] driven, um.

[25:17] And on that.

[25:19] We do have to make an update to

[25:21] the circulation element, which

[25:23] is currently underway. Uh, that

[25:24] includes the safe system

[25:26] approach. Uh, once our

[25:27] circulation element is

[25:28] finalized, uh, we will move

[25:32] forward with, uh, that draft

[25:33] csap to finalize the csap, uh,

[25:35] but did want to make clear that

[25:37] even though this is supposed to

[25:38] be a comprehensive safety

[25:39] action plan. It

[25:39] s actually not

[25:42] comprehensive. Um, it only

[25:43] discusses incis Boulevard and

[25:45] El Camino Real, uh, so that is

[25:47] another adjustment that we need

[25:48] to look at.

[25:50] Uh, potentially for, uh, the

[25:51] finalization of our csap, uh,

[25:52] but the real important thing

[25:54] here is not the document or

[25:54] whether it

[25:55] s in draft or final

[25:56] form.

[25:58] Is the reality that we

[25:58] ve

[26:00] already as a city implemented

[26:02] 40 of the near term projects.

[26:03] So, um, whether it

[26:03] s been

[26:05] finalized or not, we still

[26:07] utilize that document to

[26:08] determine important projects to

[26:10] move forward on.

[26:11] Uh, here

[26:12] s an example of our

[26:14] lrsp. On the left is a little

[26:16] bit of a heat map, uh, that

[26:16] s

[26:17] collision, uh, based

[26:18] information, and then on the

[26:22] right, uh, that is one of the

[26:24] tables within the document that

[26:27] gives you a, an analyzed

[26:30] determination of uh based on

[26:33] cost of what are most um or

[26:34] highest intersection collision

[26:36] area um and prioritization

[26:38] would be.

[26:41] Now

[26:42] Even though there are a lot of

[26:43] great things that we

[26:43] ve been

[26:45] talking about, um.

[26:46] What have, what

[26:47] s the city

[26:49] really committed to these, uh,

[26:51] so the financial commitment has

[26:53] been extraordinary. Uh, when I

[26:54] started putting these numbers

[26:56] together, I, I was really,

[26:58] really actually amazed by uh by

[27:01] all the, the money that we are,

[27:02] uh, putting towards the five

[27:03] e

[27:06] s, uh, so over the last two

[27:09] fiscal years, our expenditures

[27:11] plus the the estimated

[27:13] expenditures for this fiscal

[27:13] year.

[27:16] Or over $60 million. Uh, so

[27:16] that

[27:19] s $1.6 million for the two

[27:22] new traffic deputies.

[27:22] That

[27:25] s over $560,000 for a

[27:28] school crossing guard program,

[27:31] $58 million for roadway safety

[27:33] infrastructure improvements.

[27:35] $160,000 for a bike safety

[27:37] education, uh, so it

[27:37] s not just

[27:39] talk here at the city, really,

[27:40] it is a huge investment and

[27:42] extremely important to us.

[27:43] Uh, so, ultimately, to conclude,

[27:46] uh, the city has an integrated

[27:47] safety program.

[27:49] We utilize the Five e

[27:49] s

[27:51] framework, we have a sustained

[27:52] investment.

[27:55] And we have a community

[27:56] collaborative approach to

[27:57] roadway safety and traffic

[28:00] enforcement.

[28:03] Thank you.

[28:05] So for, I guess.

[28:08] First of all, any questions of

[28:10] clarification from city council.

[28:10] If not, we

[28:12] ll go to public. How

[28:14] many speakers? 20 speakers, so

[28:16] I mean we want to do public

[28:16] input tonight. So we

[28:17] re gonna

[28:18] do the full 3 minutes and

[28:19] that

[28:21] s gonna take us an hour,

[28:23] hopefully, people can be prompt

[28:25] if you could, uh, the next stop

[28:26] and the next, next up, if you

[28:28] can move to the front row, just,

[28:29] uh, keep it moving quickly. We

[28:30] want to get through this an

[28:32] hour, in an hour, so we have

[28:34] time to, to discuss up here too.

[28:38] So, with that, 1st 3 speakers,

[28:39] Paul Chester, followed by Patty

[29:01] Stoudemire, and then Ron Medek.

[29:03] Hello.

[29:06] Hello.

[29:08] I had 2

[29:11] I submitted two visual aids.

[29:13] Uh, one, first one.

[29:16] No.

[29:18] The first one that

[29:19] That

[29:21] s the 2nd 1, but the 1st 1

[29:23] that I presented, uh, I had

[29:28] submitted on the 14th to the uh

[29:29] engineering department.

[29:32] Uh, the second one was, uh, I,

[29:34] I wrote to the.

[29:36] Author of an article which was

[29:38] in the Encinitas Advocate.

[29:41] On the

[29:43] 7th of AUGUST after she wrote

[29:45] an article about.

[29:48] Uh, the deaths of children over

[29:49] the last couple of years, let

[29:49] s

[29:51] hold the, uh, time for a minute

[29:53] here. Um um, do we have both

[29:55] and uh, you do? Ok.

[29:57] Just wanted to check, ok go

[30:00] ahead the first one.

[30:02] If I could

[30:08] Go to the other one first.

[30:10] Ok, has to do, this is the one

[30:13] I had submitted to the engineer

[30:15] department. The crosswalk,

[30:18] which is an equestrian,

[30:20] pedestrian crosswalk in on uh

[30:21] El Camino.

[30:23] Um, El Norte.

[30:25] Uh, where there was fatality a

[30:28] month ago.

[30:29] The problem there and I

[30:30] ve been

[30:32] walking and running this area,

[30:34] jogging this area for over 40

[30:35] years.

[30:37] Is that

[30:38] When during the summer when the

[30:39] sun.

[30:42] Comes up from the east right

[30:46] down the road, it is blinding

[30:49] to cars headed eastward and,

[30:51] and around 5 or 67 o

[30:51] clock at

[30:52] this time of year, it

[30:53] s

[30:54] blinding to those going

[30:56] westward, and that was involved,

[30:58] that involved in that accident

[30:58] or the driver didn

[31:00] t see the

[31:02] person and so what I

[31:03] m think,

[31:05] while they have blink, the

[31:08] blinking blinking lights at the

[31:10] crosswalk since the cars are

[31:10] speeding.

[31:13] like 40, 50 miles an hour.

[31:15] It would be better to have

[31:17] another one.

[31:20] That blinks 300 ft to the east.

[31:22] On the west coast right at the

[31:26] end of the uh Escondido Bridge.

[31:27] Escondido Creek Bridge and also.

[31:31] One

[31:33] On the westbound, excuse me, on

[31:36] the eastbound, west of the

[31:38] crossing at the rise. There is

[31:40] a, there is a diamond sign

[31:41] there.

[31:43] That says

[31:45] Uh, trail crossing ahead, but

[31:48] the drivers in those cars

[31:50] cannot see that crosswalk until

[31:52] 7 seconds before they get to

[31:54] that crosswalk.

[31:56] The drivers on the going the

[31:58] other direction.

[32:00] Um, going westbound, it

[32:01] s 4 to

[32:02] 5 seconds from the time they

[32:04] get to the end of the bridge,

[32:04] but they can

[32:06] t really see that

[32:07] blinking light because there

[32:08] s

[32:10] bushes that have overgrown and

[32:12] block it. So that was our short

[32:14] periods of time for somebody

[32:14] who

[32:16] s looking into the bright

[32:18] sunshine, and that

[32:18] s for

[32:20] probably at least a couple of

[32:22] months of the year. So I, by

[32:24] putting the uh when the person

[32:26] pushes a button to cross the

[32:29] crosswalk. If those blink.

[32:33] 3 400 ft prior, I think the

[32:36] speeding drivers would have a

[32:38] better chance of being alerted

[32:40] and slowing down.

[32:40] So that

[32:41] s, that

[32:42] s involves that

[32:47] one, the 2nd, 2nd, um.

[32:49] Yeah, sorry, 3 minutes goes by

[32:52] quickly. Oh, ok. Well, second

[32:52] one, yeah, I

[32:54] m sorry, yeah, you

[32:55] have to, we, we have to limit

[32:57] it to 3, so.

[32:58] We, and we have the written,

[33:00] written version you gave us.

[33:15] Patty.

[33:18] Wow.

[33:22] Ok, um, mayor council road

[33:23] safety, um, I

[33:24] d like to thank

[33:27] you, uh, the staff, the

[33:29] mobility and traffic commission

[33:30] and the council for all you

[33:33] have done in the last 2 years

[33:36] to improve road safety for all

[33:38] modes of mobility.

[33:38] Oh, here

[33:40] s a clicker.

[33:42] Uh, and I do believe you

[33:42] re

[33:45] willing to continue with these

[33:47] efforts and more, some some in

[33:49] our community are saying

[33:51] efforts are not being made to

[33:53] ensure safety and are

[33:55] advocating for a complete

[33:59] adaptation of this vision Zero

[34:01] program citing success with

[34:03] this program in Hoboken, New

[34:05] Jersey, 9 years with no

[34:08] fatalities, um, now I looked on

[34:11] the Vision Zero website and it.

[34:13] Looks like much of what they

[34:13] re

[34:14] doing, you

[34:14] ve already done,

[34:16] maybe not all of it, but a lot

[34:17] of it.

[34:21] Now Hoboken, New Jersey,

[34:25] population 60,000 in a 1.2

[34:28] square mile area.

[34:31] Encinitas population 60,000, 20

[34:34] square miles, um, so Hoboken,

[34:34] let

[34:35] s see where it is. It

[34:35] s

[34:36] like a stone

[34:39] s throw across the

[34:42] Hudson River from midtown

[34:44] Manhattan and that dark blue

[34:47] line there is like their uh

[34:49] mobile transport like a subway

[34:50] going over, um, according to

[34:53] Brave ai 75% of residents in

[34:55] Hoboken, New Jersey do not own

[34:57] a car attributed to the.

[34:57] City

[34:59] s high walkability, public

[35:02] transport, and parking

[35:04] difficulties and 80% of the

[35:06] commuters travel to work

[35:08] without a personal vehicle.

[35:08] So they

[35:09] re not really like

[35:12] Encinitas, but his vision zero

[35:15] foolproof of zero fatalities

[35:17] for 2 consecutive years or more

[35:21] in all cities it is implemented

[35:21] in.

[35:24] According to Chat gbt, cities

[35:26] with two consecutive years of

[35:28] zero fatalities. Well, they

[35:28] didn

[35:31] t have any, u, other than

[35:35] Hoboken, New Jersey City had

[35:39] one. Alexandria 10 year Alameda

[35:41] one San Francisco, San Jose,

[35:43] Fremont, Los Angeles, New York,

[35:44] none.

[35:45] So, uh, thank you, City of

[35:47] Encinitas for all you have done

[35:50] and will continue to do for

[35:52] improving our road safety for

[36:01] all in Encinitas.

[36:02] Martin, I have a couple of

[36:03] things that have come up, right?

[36:10] Yes you did.

[36:11] Do you want to uh work with him

[36:12] and we

[36:13] ll go to the next one

[36:17] and insert you in later so.

[36:19] Next 3 speakers, Peter Tobias,

[36:21] followed by Johnny Durbin and

[36:32] then John Eldon.

[36:33] Good afternoon. My name is

[36:35] Peter Tobias. I

[36:37] ve lived at 564

[36:39] Arden Drive just east of here,

[36:41] about 3 blocks since 1980.

[36:43] I strongly believe that we do

[36:44] not have enough traffic

[36:45] enforcement.

[36:47] Whether that means more

[36:49] deputies or more electronic

[36:51] enforcement, we need it.

[36:51] I don

[36:53] t know whether the two

[36:54] new traffic enforcement, I

[36:55] don

[36:57] t know where the two new

[36:58] traffic enforcement deputies

[36:59] mentioned in today

[37:00] s paperwork,

[37:02] but I have not seen them or

[37:04] virtually any deputies in my

[37:06] part of Encinitas.

[37:06] Let

[37:07] s talk about speed limits.

[37:10] As you know, the city lowered

[37:11] many speed limits a year or two

[37:14] ago, but without enforcement of

[37:16] those limits, all they do is

[37:17] teach people that there are no

[37:20] consequences to speeding.

[37:22] Where do people speed in my

[37:23] neighborhood, they speed on

[37:26] Requeza between Walk West Lake,

[37:27] and the freeway. The speed

[37:29] limit there is 20 miles an hour.

[37:31] But even the kids on their

[37:34] e-bikes break that record.

[37:36] If I try to observe it.

[37:38] The traffic behind me honks

[37:40] their horns.

[37:41] Earlier this afternoon, I was

[37:43] driving west on La Costa

[37:45] between El Camino Real and the

[37:47] freeway. I was passed by a car

[37:48] going just under 70 miles an

[37:49] hour.

[37:52] I know that because briefly I

[37:53] matched his speed and checked

[37:56] my speedometer.

[37:57] Another place they speed is on

[37:59] the Coast Highway, coming north

[38:01] out of Solana Beach. The 30

[38:03] minute mile per hour speed

[38:05] limit there is routinely

[38:07] flouted despite

[38:09] Informational science that we

[38:10] saw earlier.

[38:10] Let

[38:12] s talk about red lights.

[38:13] Most of the problems I

[38:13] ve seen

[38:15] are at the Ramble crossings at

[38:18] d and e Streets on 101 downtown

[38:20] because I spent a lot of time

[38:22] in that part of the city.

[38:24] A few weeks ago, I was trying

[38:25] to back out of the single

[38:28] parking space in front of

[38:28] Mauricio

[38:30] s Italian restaurant.

[38:32] A truck horn blared as I was

[38:33] backing up, and when I looked

[38:35] to see what was going on, the

[38:37] truck sped through the Ramble

[38:38] Crossing as the light turned

[38:40] red.

[38:42] At that same intersection of d

[38:45] and 101, 2 weeks ago, I started

[38:47] to cross going west just after

[38:49] the red lights came on and a

[38:51] truck came out of d Street

[38:52] headed east and turned left,

[38:53] right in front of me.

[38:55] When I tried to signal the

[38:57] driver to stop, he certainly

[39:00] saw me well enough because he

[39:02] gave me the finger.

[39:03] We haven

[39:03] t talked about stop

[39:04] signs.

[39:05] I haven

[39:06] t talked about stop

[39:08] signs. If you want to see how

[39:09] people use stop signs in this

[39:12] city. Go up here 100 yards to

[39:13] the corner of Cornish and d

[39:14] Street.

[39:17] By the dog park across from the

[39:19] library as I was walking down

[39:21] here, I saw 4 cars go through

[39:23] that stop sign without stopping.

[39:27] Three of them slowed slightly,

[39:28] and one of them simply sped

[39:29] through.

[39:31] Now I imagine that these things

[39:33] happen all over town, and we

[39:34] certainly need deputies and

[39:36] hopefully more to enforce the

[39:40] laws we need speed cameras, so.

[39:42] Yeah, well, I, I, I, if I do it

[39:45] for you, I have to do it.

[39:47] Peter, Peter, I gotta cut you

[39:48] off. I

[39:49] m sorry. Yeah, we, we

[39:50] get the message and.

[39:58] We understand.

[40:00] Good evening. Uh, my name is

[40:01] Johnny Durbin. I

[40:02] m an Encinitas

[40:03] resident.

[40:03] I

[40:05] d like to talk to you today

[40:07] about Vision Zero.

[40:09] From coast to coast, more than

[40:11] 100 towns and cities have

[40:13] embraced Vision Zero or aspects

[40:13] of it.

[40:16] Places like Columbus, Ohio and

[40:18] Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where

[40:19] traffic injuries have dropped

[40:20] sharply.

[40:22] We see it in mid-size towns

[40:24] like our neighbors in Vista.

[40:26] To guard Oregon.

[40:28] And Hoboken, New Jersey, which

[40:28] we

[40:31] ve already heard about.

[40:33] With 9 consecutive years

[40:34] without a single traffic

[40:36] fatality.

[40:38] For masses of massive hubs like

[40:40] New York, Los Angeles, and

[40:42] Austin to suburban communities

[40:43] like Deerfield, Florida.

[40:45] In Oak Park, Illinois.

[40:47] This is an incredibly diverse

[40:49] list of cities with the same

[40:50] commitment.

[40:51] Safe streets are not a

[40:53] political issue, but a shared

[40:55] American priority.

[40:56] Leaders in communities across

[40:58] the United States are treating

[41:00] road design as a core principle

[41:03] of their duty to ensure public

[41:04] safety.

[41:05] Vision Zero operates on the

[41:07] core principle that human

[41:09] nature or humans naturally make

[41:10] mistakes.

[41:12] And to account for this

[41:13] physical to account for these

[41:15] mistakes, physical road

[41:17] environment should be designed

[41:19] to absorb these mistakes

[41:21] without them resulting in death

[41:23] or severe injury.

[41:25] Vision Zero does this by

[41:27] leveraging physics, engineering,

[41:30] and common sense.

[41:31] It prioritizes roundabouts,

[41:33] fixing crosswalks, and

[41:34] utilizing smart technology to

[41:36] manage speed and red light

[41:37] running.

[41:39] Towns across our country are

[41:40] making meaning meaningful

[41:43] changes to reduce and possibly

[41:44] eliminate traffic deaths and

[41:46] Encinitas scan too.

[41:48] The future of American

[41:49] infrastructure is one that

[41:51] stops treating traffic deaths

[41:52] as inevitable and starts

[41:54] treating them as preventable.

[41:56] Protecting our neighborhoods is

[41:57] our collective responsibility.

[41:58] Thank you.

[42:04] Thank you.

[42:05] John Eldon and following John

[42:07] Eldon will be Ron Maddak.

[42:09] And then Mike Doranski.

[42:11] Hi, uh, John Eldon, just real

[42:13] quick, I want to give credit

[42:15] where credit is due. We

[42:17] ve had

[42:18] some resurfacing incis

[42:20] Boulevard, uh, Lucadia

[42:22] Boulevard and re-striping along

[42:25] with opportunistic and the

[42:25] results.

[42:26] Are

[42:27] near perfect.

[42:28] So that

[42:29] s been excellent as far

[42:30] as Vision Zero, it sounds like

[42:30] we

[42:31] re already doing a lot of

[42:34] that, as was mentioned earlier,

[42:34] so I think that

[42:35] s great. Uh,

[42:37] the other one I wanna mention,

[42:37] I think you

[42:40] ll hear it from Ron

[42:43] too, is that on Vulcan, for

[42:46] instance, the crosswalk at

[42:49] Orpheus is raised, and so we

[42:51] have a slow as well as then you

[42:53] also have the flashers and the

[42:55] rest of it, and yeah, that

[42:56] might be worth exploring. I

[42:57] know we have to balance.

[42:58] With what the fire department

[43:00] needs. I get that.

[43:03] Right, the first responders

[43:04] have legitimate arguments as

[43:06] far as traffic calming and road

[43:08] design, but if we can work with

[43:09] them, get them happy, and at

[43:11] the same time slow down traffic

[43:12] in general. I think we

[43:13] re way

[43:14] ahead.

[43:17] And then finally there are

[43:17] places I

[43:19] m not 100% against

[43:20] Ballards because, for instance,

[43:23] at both ends of Sunset Drive,

[43:23] we

[43:25] ve squared the intersections

[43:27] which are otherwise diverges

[43:28] and merges, and I think that

[43:28] s

[43:30] been helpful on calming traffic

[43:32] of those two. So anyway, thanks

[43:47] a lot and keep up good work.

[43:51] Um, Ron Matdoch Leenheim, um, I

[43:52] wanna begin by thanking, uh, MR.

[43:54] Nutter for a very good

[43:56] presentation detailing

[43:56] everything the city

[43:57] s been

[43:57] working on.

[43:58] And although a lot has been

[44:00] done, I think there is much

[44:02] that needs to be done to

[44:03] improve traffic safety in

[44:04] Encinitas.

[44:06] Um, for many reasons, among

[44:08] them the force build out

[44:09] throughout San Diego County.

[44:10] It

[44:11] s definitely an increase in

[44:13] traffic throughout town and

[44:14] with it an increase in

[44:15] irresponsible driving.

[44:17] There are a number of roads

[44:19] that lend themselves to this

[44:21] dangerous behavior, and among

[44:22] them is El Camino del Norte.

[44:24] And I know it well. I bicycle

[44:25] it every week and I still

[44:26] didn

[44:27] t realize it was a speed

[44:28] corridor.

[44:31] A few days after the crash, the

[44:31] Tuch Fin Faddock

[44:32] s life, my son

[44:34] and I went to the trail

[44:35] crossing and tape measured with

[44:36] a 50 ft tape measure what

[44:38] appears to be the physical

[44:40] evidence.

[44:43] And um,

[44:45] We did not have, um, thank you

[44:47] for that, uh, admittedly we did

[44:48] not have access to the vehicle

[44:50] in order to be able to verify

[44:53] that the fresh black skid marks

[44:55] came from the Nissan z and we

[44:55] didn

[44:57] t have the electronic data

[44:59] recorder, the sheriff

[45:00] s

[45:01] investigation committee team

[45:02] does.

[45:04] And um if one just looks at the

[45:08] skid marks alone, 71 ft. It

[45:08] s

[45:10] clear this was the conditions

[45:12] that this driver saw as he went

[45:14] up the road 100 yards from that

[45:15] crossing.

[45:17] Very clear that he was well in

[45:19] excess of what was a safe speed,

[45:20] which was less, I

[45:21] m sure, than

[45:22] the 35 miles an hour that was

[45:24] posted.

[45:25] Unfortunately, there

[45:26] s a subset

[45:28] of drivers that are

[45:30] incorrigible and dangerous to

[45:32] all of us, and we can

[45:33] t stop

[45:34] them alone by trying to stop

[45:36] their behavior. We need to

[45:38] actually physically slow those

[45:40] vehicles, and I think the

[45:42] committee should be formed to

[45:43] use traffic devices that slow

[45:45] vehicles on the roads that are

[45:48] found to be the prime roads and

[45:49] begin with us, we can look at

[45:51] the whole city, but we can run

[45:53] the most dangerous the devices

[45:55] used to be such as.

[45:56] Speed cushions raised

[45:57] crosswalks, raised

[45:58] intersections, speed tables,

[46:00] rumble strips, roundabouts, as

[46:02] well as all other manner of

[46:03] devices. We have people here

[46:04] that are perfectly capable of

[46:05] doing that, and I suggest to

[46:07] the committee in my public

[46:07] comment, and I

[46:08] m gonna include

[46:10] a close first responders, that

[46:12] would be Chief Gordon and the

[46:14] Captain Watts.

[46:16] Um,

[46:17] The second thing is

[46:19] unfortunately we have some

[46:20] infrastructure that

[46:21] s been put

[46:22] in place, which is also

[46:23] dangerous. It

[46:24] s cost 2 lives of

[46:26] cyclists unnecessarily, uh,

[46:27] which is a scandal. It

[46:28] s also

[46:30] caused multiple injuries, um,

[46:31] especially on the South Beach

[46:34] area, uh, we have a committee

[46:37] now formed on the mtsc with

[46:38] John Eldon and myself and we

[46:39] re

[46:40] looking forward to cooperation

[46:41] and support from the city

[46:44] council, uh, in a subcommittee

[46:45] to evaluate, uh, with the

[46:47] purpose of removing.

[46:48] Dangerous and unnecessary bull.

[46:49] Thank you.

[47:00] Thank you.

[47:03] Right, thanks for that, um.

[47:03] I

[47:04] d like to start by thanking

[47:06] the council for hosting this.

[47:06] It

[47:08] s great to see the, um, the

[47:09] turnout. Clearly a lot of

[47:10] people are caring about street

[47:11] safety, which is awesome.

[47:14] Um, and to put it on a special

[47:15] meeting. I appreciate it. You

[47:15] guys spent a lot of time

[47:17] working and coming and staying

[47:19] up late and um I appreciate it.

[47:20] Also, thank you for the staff

[47:21] for the report and all the hard

[47:24] work. I think we can all agree

[47:25] that um staff has been

[47:27] fantastic.

[47:29] And it requires us to hold some

[47:30] of this nuance in our minds as

[47:32] we think through the current

[47:33] situation because we can have

[47:35] an amazing staff, a strong

[47:36] council, a wonderful sheriff,

[47:38] be working on a really

[47:39] important projects, spending

[47:40] tons of money doing it. It

[47:40] s

[47:41] still not getting the result

[47:43] that we want.

[47:43] We

[47:45] ve had 17 fatalities since

[47:47] 2016 for pedestrians and

[47:48] cyclists.

[47:48] That

[47:49] s a lot.

[47:49] So it

[47:50] s gonna take some

[47:52] leadership to admit that even

[47:52] though we

[47:53] re working hard, that

[47:53] there

[47:54] s a gap between where we

[47:56] are now and where we want to be.

[47:57] And we need to figure out how

[47:59] to bridge that gap.

[48:01] Our community Safe Streets

[48:02] Enitas came together after

[48:03] Emery

[48:04] s death last year. It

[48:05] really hit Parkdale Lane hard.

[48:07] We watched John and Bridget go

[48:08] through what they

[48:08] ve had to go

[48:09] through, and we

[48:10] ve just seen so

[48:12] much pain across the community.

[48:14] Our advocacy has always been

[48:16] about

[48:17] Stopping fatalities on the

[48:18] streets, and it continues to be.

[48:20] The Hoboken cases study is

[48:22] actually just about process.

[48:22] It

[48:24] s not about what they did.

[48:25] This goes into the 5th e

[48:26] evaluation, I guess is gonna be

[48:28] my request.

[48:30] How do we draw a direct line

[48:32] from the risks that are causing

[48:34] the fatalities to the projects

[48:34] that we

[48:35] re spending money on

[48:35] and make sure that we

[48:36] re

[48:37] getting the results that we

[48:37] need. We

[48:38] ve already had

[48:39] multiple people come up here

[48:40] and talk about what happened on

[48:42] El Camino del Norte.

[48:44] The community needs a place

[48:46] after fatality to show up and

[48:46] speak about what they

[48:47] re

[48:47] feeling, what they

[48:48] ve seen,

[48:50] share ideas, and we need to

[48:52] address it. There

[48:52] s been 6

[48:54] fatalities since Brodie got,

[48:55] got hit.

[48:55] She

[49:00] s just been 3 years.

[49:00] I haven

[49:02] t seen a single one of

[49:03] those locations reviewed

[49:07] publicly.

[49:08] We might be doing some of this

[49:09] already and that

[49:10] s the request

[49:11] for more transparency around

[49:12] the 5th e. If we

[49:12] re doing some

[49:13] of this, let

[49:13] s please make it

[49:14] public. I think there

[49:15] s a home

[49:17] for it at mtsfc maybe somewhere

[49:17] else.

[49:19] Um

[49:19] I don

[49:20] t care if we call it

[49:21] Vision Zero.

[49:22] I don

[49:23] t care if we take

[49:25] inspiration from Hoboken.

[49:25] Or we just don

[49:26] t want to see

[49:27] any more kids get run over and

[49:30] crosswalks.

[49:32] So the request is that we have

[49:35] some kind of fatality review.

[49:37] Let the community come together.

[49:37] Let

[49:39] s get our crack stuff

[49:40] working on it. I think we can

[50:00] do this, you guys. Thank you.

[50:02] Next 3 speakers Laura Russell,

[50:03] followed by Travis Newhouse,

[50:10] and then Chris Giles.

[50:10] Hi, I

[50:11] m Laura Russell, and I

[50:14] want to thank the previous

[50:16] speakers, uh, especially Ron

[50:17] Medd, um, whos always been a,

[50:19] if you could address us.

[50:21] Yeah, thank you, helps.

[50:24] That way we can hear you but

[50:26] that was a somewhat heroic

[50:28] testimony, and I want to thank

[50:30] him for it. Um, I

[50:30] m Laura

[50:32] Russell. I live at the

[50:34] intersection of Windmill Ranch

[50:36] Road and El Camino del Norte.

[50:40] And I think it bears repeating

[50:40] what we

[50:42] re actually talking

[50:45] about today and that is

[50:47] pedestrian fatalities. 6 weeks

[50:48] ago, on JULY 10th.

[50:51] I was sitting in my family room.

[50:53] And with apologies to any

[50:54] family or friends of the

[50:56] deceased who MAY be here. I

[50:59] heard a thud.

[51:03] I heard a screech of tires.

[51:06] I heard voices yelling.

[51:08] By the time I got my shoes on

[51:10] and myself down to right where

[51:13] the accident took place, a 17

[51:14] year old girl had been

[51:18] pronounced dead in one of the

[51:21] enhanced crosswalks that people

[51:22] in our area take as maybe as a

[51:24] suggestion. They never stopped

[51:25] there.

[51:27] So,

[51:31] I think one of my main concerns

[51:34] is despite some.

[51:36] Modest tributes that friends

[51:37] and family have left for that

[51:40] teenage girl at the site of the

[51:43] accident, there is no other

[51:45] acknowledgement that that

[51:47] teenage girl died there.

[51:50] Drivers can drive by with no

[51:52] knowledge that someone just

[51:54] died there.

[51:57] So my request is that.

[51:59] To dovetail on the previous

[52:02] speaker, we need more public

[52:03] acknowledgement of these

[52:06] fatalities. Someone lost their

[52:08] beautiful teenage daughter. And

[52:12] I think the drivers who are

[52:15] using our corridor to um

[52:16] commute from Escondido to the

[52:18] coast and back every day at

[52:20] high speeds. I need to borrow

[52:21] Bruce

[52:23] s speed gun if I can. I

[52:24] think the

[52:26] Speed limit there is 35. It

[52:27] s

[52:30] people are going 40, 50, 60. I

[52:31] stopped at the sheriff

[52:31] s office

[52:33] just before the meeting tonight.

[52:33] They

[52:34] re always so nice and

[52:35] helpful, but they wanted to

[52:37] know, well, when do you want us

[52:39] to conduct a speed trap there

[52:39] because that

[52:40] s one of my

[52:44] solutions. And I said, uh,

[52:46] practically 24/7, uh, we hear

[52:46] as we

[52:48] re sleeping at night, we

[52:49] hear people racing during

[52:51] commute hours, people are

[52:51] racing.

[52:53] Um

[52:54] And frankly, I

[52:56] m not picky.

[52:56] I

[52:58] ll take stop signs. I

[52:59] ll take

[53:00] speed bumps, whatever you

[53:00] re

[53:04] willing to give us. We need

[53:06] physical impediments to

[53:08] speeders on that road, and I do

[53:09] thank you for all of your work

[53:21] on that issue.

[53:21] Hello, I

[53:23] m Travis Newhouse, uh,

[53:24] resident of District 2 and

[53:26] member of Ensigns Bike Walk. I

[53:27] just wanna start, uh, say thank

[53:28] you to City council and staff

[53:30] for the new bike rides at

[53:30] Swami

[53:31] s, uh, the upgrade from

[53:33] the old wave style rack has

[53:34] more capacity and much more

[53:35] room for bikes with surf racks.

[53:37] So thank you. Um, now on the

[53:39] topic of safe streets. Uh, I

[53:42] moved to Encinitas in 2011

[53:43] because I found a neighborhood

[53:44] where my kids could walk and

[53:46] bike to school.

[53:47] And back then, few bikes were

[53:49] on the road. Adults or kids.

[53:51] Parents that I knew at school

[53:51] told me they didn

[53:52] t feel safe

[53:53] letting their kids ride, and

[53:53] that

[53:54] s why I got involved with

[53:56] Encious Bike Walk.

[53:58] This morning, I rode past

[53:59] Oceannolano Crest on the way to

[54:01] the barber. I saw dozens of

[54:02] families on cargo bikes, kids

[54:03] riding their own bikes, and

[54:05] even more students walking.

[54:06] When my own kids were young, I

[54:08] only saw those numbers when we

[54:09] organized a bike and walk to

[54:11] school day. I was very happy to

[54:12] see the improvement.

[54:14] And that tells you something.

[54:15] Demand for safe streets isn

[54:16] t

[54:17] hypothetical. It

[54:18] s already here

[54:18] every morning.

[54:19] And I appreciate what I

[54:20] ve seen

[54:22] in the city do in the 15 years

[54:22] that I

[54:22] ve lived here, but I

[54:24] think we can do more.

[54:26] When I hear people talking

[54:27] about e-bikes as a problem, I

[54:28] cringe.

[54:31] I see it as an opportunity.

[54:32] Every person on a bike or

[54:34] e-bike is one less car on our

[54:35] streets.

[54:38] We should be encouraging that

[54:39] transportation choice by

[54:40] providing safe streets that

[54:42] give people of all ages the

[54:43] freedom to get around.

[54:45] While cutting traffic for

[54:47] everyone.

[54:48] Council members o

[54:48] Hara and

[54:49] Schaeffer, uh, you have talked

[54:51] about routing bikes and

[54:52] pedestrians onto calmer, safer

[54:54] streets. I love that idea. And

[54:55] I

[54:58] m asking the city to build a

[54:59] comprehensive calm street

[55:00] network connecting our

[55:01] neighborhoods to the places we

[55:02] want to go.

[55:04] So that we can get there safely.

[55:05] Lowering the speed limits is a

[55:06] good first step that we

[55:07] ve

[55:09] tried, but I still see drivers

[55:10] speeding on streets in my

[55:11] neighborhood like Gardena,

[55:13] Melba, and Nardo Road.

[55:15] Signs alone are not enough.

[55:17] We need physical infrastructure.

[55:19] We need streets to be built to

[55:20] keep speeds low.

[55:22] There are great examples in

[55:23] Cardiff on Rubenstein Avenue

[55:25] and Summit Avenue, where they

[55:26] have chicanes that slow down

[55:27] the speed of cars.

[55:29] More of that is necessary in

[55:31] Encinitas.

[55:32] Safer streets are an

[55:34] opportunity.

[55:35] To give people transportation

[55:36] choices.

[55:38] Prevent deaths and injuries.

[55:39] And to make every neighborhood

[55:53] in Encinitas better. Thank you.

[55:54] Hello, my name

[55:55] s Chris Giles,

[55:57] uh, district 2 and a member of

[55:59] Encinitas Bike Walk. Uh, I want

[56:00] to start off thanking all of

[56:02] you and city staff for all the

[56:02] work that

[56:03] s been done because

[56:04] there has been a lot of stuff

[56:05] done.

[56:07] Um, during the oral

[56:09] communications at the last

[56:10] mobility traffic Safety

[56:11] commission meeting, a woman who

[56:12] lives in the neighborhood west

[56:15] of the 5 near Roquesa expressed

[56:17] her concern that increased

[56:18] traffic on Encs Boulevard was

[56:20] leading to more, more motorists

[56:21] using Riqueza and surrounding

[56:23] neighborhood streets as a cut

[56:25] through to cross the freeway.

[56:26] She

[56:27] s visibly frustrated by the

[56:28] number of motorists and how

[56:28] fast they

[56:29] re driving. These

[56:31] neighborhoods are where people

[56:33] live. Children play, and people

[56:34] walk their dogs, and these are

[56:36] quiet city streets that

[56:39] should not be used, uh, as

[56:40] expressways for motorists

[56:42] convenience. Riqueza is one of

[56:44] the two routes where people

[56:46] walking or biking can cross the

[56:47] freeway without conflicting

[56:48] with motorists entering or

[56:51] exiting the 5. It is a key

[56:53] route for kids riding their

[56:54] bikes between several schools

[56:56] downtown in the uh surrounding

[56:58] neighborhoods. Unfortunately I

[56:59] commonly see motorists driving

[57:02] 35 to 40 miles an hour across

[57:03] the narrow freeway bridge where

[57:06] kids share the lane. Crest.

[57:08] And Melva are uh primary

[57:10] connection for kids traveling

[57:12] between East Encinitas and

[57:13] schools, the park and the

[57:15] community center, yet both of

[57:17] these streets force kids on

[57:19] bikes to share the same road

[57:21] with motorists who often drive

[57:23] above the speed limit.

[57:24] This next part might sound like

[57:25] it was rehearsed because it

[57:26] s.

[57:28] Kind of the same thing that

[57:29] Travis just said, um, council

[57:32] member Schaeffer, you have on

[57:34] numerous occasions said that.

[57:37] A solution to our motorists,

[57:39] cyclist conflicts is for

[57:41] cyclists to avoid arterial

[57:43] streets and residential streets,

[57:44] honestly, I agree with you. I

[57:47] personally ride my bike and for

[57:49] utility and transportation all

[57:51] over Encinitas on a daily basis.

[57:53] I primarily ride on residential

[57:54] streets because it

[57:55] s safer,

[57:57] quieter and simply more

[57:59] enjoyable to ride, but when

[57:59] we

[58:01] re trying to encourage

[58:02] cyclists of all ages and

[58:04] abilities to ride on

[58:05] residential.

[58:05] Streets, it doesn

[58:07] t just mean

[58:08] pushing them onto side streets

[58:10] and then problem solved. Mixing

[58:12] a young child or an older

[58:14] cyclist riding at 12 miles an

[58:17] hour with an impatient motorist

[58:17] who

[58:18] s driving 30 miles an hour

[58:20] trying to get across town

[58:23] quickly means more conflict and

[58:25] more collisions for your idea

[58:26] to be successful, and I do

[58:28] believe that it can be. Those

[58:30] residential streets need to be

[58:32] designated as slow streets.

[58:33] This means 20 mile an hour

[58:35] speed limits.

[58:37] Actual infrastructure that

[58:38] physically slows motorist

[58:40] traffic, such as speed cushions,

[58:42] increased enforcement, and

[58:43] possibly speed cameras. Let

[58:43] s

[58:45] build a network of slow streets

[58:48] all over Encinitas that give

[58:50] riding bikes or walking, the

[58:52] freedom to move around town

[58:52] safely and let

[58:53] s start with the

[58:55] residential corridor from Crest

[58:56] to the east to the library in

[58:58] downtown to the west. Thank you.

[59:05] Next 3 speakers, Judy Burlfein,

[59:06] followed by Connie Leslie, and

[59:16] then Dennis Caden.

[59:16] Hi, I

[59:18] m Judy Burlfin, and I

[59:18] m

[59:19] also a member of Antonina

[59:20] s

[59:21] Bike Walk.

[59:23] So thank you to the staff for

[59:25] putting together a great

[59:26] presentation, which I

[59:27] m

[59:29] guessing was maybe unfairly

[59:31] short notice.

[59:32] The two previous speakers

[59:34] discussed a neighborhood

[59:35] network, something that we can

[59:37] all agree on.

[59:39] But we must recognize that no

[59:42] matter how great that

[59:43] neighborhood network is one

[59:46] must cross a major street to

[59:48] get anywhere in this city.

[59:48] I can

[59:51] t go to Paullecky school

[59:52] without crossing Encinitas

[59:53] Boulevard and Vulcan.

[59:54] Unless I

[59:55] m willing to go way

[59:56] out of my way.

[59:56] I can

[59:58] t go to my weight

[59:59] trainer

[1:00:00] s house in Spyglass

[1:00:03] without crossing El Camino Real.

[1:00:05] And when I was at Fox Pointe

[1:00:05] Farms and I

[1:00:06] d driven there and

[1:00:08] drove parked on the other side

[1:00:10] of Lucadia Boulevard.

[1:00:12] There were 3 cars ready to hit

[1:00:14] me as I crossed Lucadia

[1:00:16] Boulevard as they turn right or

[1:00:18] turned left.

[1:00:19] So intersections are major

[1:00:20] hazards. They

[1:00:21] re one of the

[1:00:22] four focus areas of the Safe

[1:00:23] Streets group. They

[1:00:24] re high on

[1:00:26] the list of the comprehensive

[1:00:28] safety action plan, and they

[1:00:30] are high on the list of

[1:00:32] Encinitas bike Walk, so how can

[1:00:33] we improve the safety of our

[1:00:35] intersections.

[1:00:37] Many of the measures we have

[1:00:38] installed around the city can

[1:00:39] help.

[1:00:43] Refuge islands, bulb outs, LPIs,

[1:00:44] pedestrian scrambles, speed

[1:00:47] radar signs, bicycle signals,

[1:00:49] and quick build roundabouts.

[1:00:51] But before we take any action,

[1:00:54] we need a method of evaluating

[1:00:55] the measures we

[1:00:56] ve installed,

[1:00:57] and I learned today about some

[1:00:58] of the evaluations you

[1:00:59] ve done

[1:00:59] already. I

[1:01:00] d love to know if

[1:01:01] there are more that we don

[1:01:01] t

[1:01:03] know about.

[1:01:04] The real question is how do

[1:01:06] speeds go down if we post lower

[1:01:09] speed limits, so you said 2.2

[1:01:11] miles. I think if we change

[1:01:12] street design, we can bring

[1:01:14] them down to what we

[1:01:14] re

[1:01:16] actually posting.

[1:01:20] Do people stop at RRFBs and

[1:01:22] what are the actual speeds on

[1:01:25] roads with RFBs, not just the

[1:01:29] posted speeds.

[1:01:31] Do LPIs provide enough

[1:01:33] protection, or do we need

[1:01:35] pedestrian scrambles or no

[1:01:37] turns when the walk button is

[1:01:39] activated because the 3 seconds

[1:01:41] that I get with the lpi gets me

[1:01:42] right in the middle of the

[1:01:43] intersection where they can hit

[1:01:46] me from all directions.

[1:01:48] Do flashing yellow light

[1:01:50] signals help or only confuse

[1:01:51] drivers.

[1:01:51] There

[1:01:53] s a lot of work to be

[1:01:55] done. We have a plan with the

[1:01:57] csap. We have the modal

[1:01:59] alternatives project. I hope we

[1:02:02] can be a little more methodical

[1:02:04] and less arbitrary in our

[1:02:06] approach. And lastly, I request

[1:02:08] the next traffic engineer that

[1:02:10] we hire, have it be someone who.

[1:02:12] Knows about active

[1:02:14] transportation and rides a bike.

[1:02:25] Thank you.

[1:02:25] I

[1:02:28] m Connie Leslie and I live at

[1:02:30] 1892 Forestdale Drive, and I

[1:02:31] m

[1:02:32] here in reference to the

[1:02:35] speeding cars on South Willow

[1:02:38] Spring Road from Cyril Avenue

[1:02:40] down to Encinitas Boulevard. I

[1:02:42] do want to commend the

[1:02:42] sheriff

[1:02:44] s office. They did an

[1:02:46] enormous effort to track

[1:02:48] speeding cars last spring, and

[1:02:49] there were a lot of people who

[1:02:51] were very unhappy about the

[1:02:53] tickets that they received. I

[1:02:55] even have a sticker on my

[1:02:57] Be on my speed dial that tells

[1:02:58] me reminds me to drop down to

[1:03:00] 20 miles an hour, but people

[1:03:01] forget.

[1:03:04] And, um,

[1:03:06] And I did speak with two of the

[1:03:08] officers who were on the corner

[1:03:10] of Orwell Avenue and Willow

[1:03:11] Spring where they had set up

[1:03:13] their stops, and I asked them,

[1:03:16] why were they set up on Orwell,

[1:03:19] because that was a flat surface

[1:03:20] and cars coming in could

[1:03:22] actually see the police

[1:03:23] officers on the corner of the

[1:03:24] road, and I said, the real

[1:03:27] problem is over on Fairleigh

[1:03:30] Avenue and down on Valleydale

[1:03:32] Drive, where the road curves

[1:03:34] and cars are speeding up, and

[1:03:34] cars are.

[1:03:36] Speeding going down, and the

[1:03:38] officer said it was too

[1:03:40] dangerous to set up a stop

[1:03:43] there, so I think that speaks

[1:03:45] for itself, um, so I

[1:03:46] m here,

[1:03:48] and, and I know the problem is

[1:03:50] just going to get a lot worse

[1:03:52] once the Goodson project goes

[1:03:54] online, so, and that MAY be as

[1:03:56] many as 300 more cars. So, uh,

[1:04:00] I would like to see, and I know

[1:04:01] that the emergency department

[1:04:04] does not want speed tables or

[1:04:05] speed bumps.

[1:04:05] Uh,

[1:04:10] They make over 200.

[1:04:11] Uh drive-throughs every year

[1:04:13] through that road, uh, many of

[1:04:15] them come to my community

[1:04:15] because we

[1:04:16] re an elderly

[1:04:16] community, so I don

[1:04:17] t want them

[1:04:20] to stop coming, but um, there

[1:04:22] are other ways to deal with

[1:04:24] this, and I would even consider

[1:04:27] stop signs at Forestdale and at

[1:04:28] Valleydale, I

[1:04:30] d consider, uh,

[1:04:31] speed tables, just anything

[1:04:33] temporary for a while, and then

[1:04:34] there

[1:04:35] s just not enough signage,

[1:04:36] they, there

[1:04:37] s a sign saying 20

[1:04:39] miles an hour when you

[1:04:40] Turn on from Encinitas

[1:04:42] Boulevard. And then there

[1:04:42] s

[1:04:44] another sign very close to 0,

[1:04:46] but once you see that sign, you

[1:04:47] forget, or maybe you don

[1:04:47] t even

[1:04:49] see it, and they just plow

[1:04:51] right through, so, uh, I would

[1:04:54] also like to see something with

[1:04:57] a very large 20 mile an hour

[1:04:59] painted on the hillside, coming

[1:05:00] up that hill and going down

[1:05:02] that hill, so people understand

[1:05:10] that. So, thank you.

[1:05:12] Good evening.

[1:05:14] City council members. My name

[1:05:15] is Dennis Caden in District one.

[1:05:19] I want to, uh, take the time to

[1:05:21] praise Encinitas here. I did

[1:05:23] some comparisons on Hoboken, uh,

[1:05:24] we already heard it

[1:05:26] s a 1.3

[1:05:27] square miles we

[1:05:28] re 19.9 square

[1:05:30] miles. Uh, Hoboken is called

[1:05:34] the mile square City, um, they

[1:05:37] have 28,000 units housing units

[1:05:40] we have basically 24,000 of the

[1:05:43] 28,000. I found it interesting

[1:05:44] they have less than 4.

[1:05:46] 400 single family.

[1:05:49] Detached homes, so we have.

[1:05:51] Just the opposite and we got

[1:05:53] lots of neighborhoods with

[1:05:54] people driving through and

[1:05:55] stuff and that

[1:05:56] s what makes it

[1:05:59] such a special place, um, the

[1:06:01] population per square mile is

[1:06:03] 45,000.

[1:06:03] It

[1:06:04] s the dense, it

[1:06:05] s the most

[1:06:07] densely, it

[1:06:09] s the 4 densely

[1:06:14] populated city in America where

[1:06:17] 3100 square miles, uh, persons

[1:06:20] per household 2.02 versus r

[1:06:23] 2.54 and I noticed they have

[1:06:26] persons over 65, we have almost

[1:06:28] 20% of our population loves

[1:06:29] living here so much that they

[1:06:29] don

[1:06:32] t need to get out of a big

[1:06:34] city and the number of streets.

[1:06:39] Streets is 48 versus our 956.

[1:06:39] That

[1:06:40] s a lot of streets to try

[1:06:42] to prevent, um, accidents and

[1:06:44] things and I do believe most of

[1:06:45] the accidents that we

[1:06:45] ve had

[1:06:47] right now is egregious as they

[1:06:49] are, they were driver neglect

[1:06:51] and, and that makes it even

[1:06:54] worse.

[1:06:54] We

[1:06:56] re doing plenty like Vision

[1:06:57] Zero here and I

[1:06:58] m proud of what

[1:06:59] the council has done. We have

[1:07:01] something in Encinitas Hoboken

[1:07:03] will never have.

[1:07:05] On our circulation element and

[1:07:06] John Eldon and I worked on it

[1:07:08] when we first incorporated. We

[1:07:10] have trails.

[1:07:11] We have trails that have never

[1:07:13] been prioritized on our

[1:07:15] circulation element every time

[1:07:17] we have a high density housing

[1:07:18] element that there

[1:07:18] s a trail to

[1:07:19] go through. The trail gets

[1:07:20] ignored.

[1:07:21] And I think it

[1:07:23] s time maybe we

[1:07:25] could utilize the trails to get

[1:07:28] bicycles off the main arterials

[1:07:28] because they

[1:07:29] re all gonna go to

[1:07:30] the same place. Everybody wants

[1:07:33] to get to the beach, so could

[1:07:35] we please look into that.

[1:07:37] Thank you very much. I love our

[1:07:38] trails. I love our city. Thank

[1:07:43] you.

[1:07:46] Next 3 speakers, Karen Kan,

[1:07:47] followed by Fabian Gannell, and

[1:08:03] then Laura Grimmer.

[1:08:03] Hi, I

[1:08:04] m Karen Caden. I

[1:08:04] m in

[1:08:06] district one.

[1:08:06] I

[1:08:11] m the better half of Dennis I

[1:08:13] wanna thank you guys for the

[1:08:14] paving Lucchetti Boulevard. I

[1:08:14] m

[1:08:17] on there at least 6 times a day.

[1:08:21] I also, um, and help improve

[1:08:23] the uh Encinitas safe walk to

[1:08:27] Capri for um.

[1:08:29] From uh uh Urania uh and

[1:08:31] throughout Carter Street, an

[1:08:32] area to protect our children

[1:08:34] from windy roads, and it has

[1:08:35] been working.

[1:08:36] And I know you guys are gonna

[1:08:38] be working on that too in your

[1:08:40] program. I wanna thank you,

[1:08:41] council for time, having a

[1:08:43] special meeting today.

[1:08:45] I also thank the sheriff

[1:08:45] s

[1:08:46] department. I was thinking

[1:08:49] about what other people were

[1:08:51] saying regards to um problems

[1:08:52] in their neighborhood and other

[1:08:53] places they

[1:08:54] ve seen.

[1:08:56] I think, you know, more

[1:08:58] notification of traffic risk,

[1:08:59] you know, to the sheriff

[1:08:59] s

[1:09:01] department or maybe they can

[1:09:03] have another department to uh

[1:09:04] pick up what problems are in

[1:09:06] the city of Encinitas that can

[1:09:08] refer to the tra the uh

[1:09:10] sheriffs. I wanna share. I was

[1:09:13] standing at a stop sign near

[1:09:15] Capri School and a lot of

[1:09:16] people going through the step

[1:09:17] sign, and then one day a

[1:09:19] sheriff showed up and stood

[1:09:21] next to me, and every time they

[1:09:23] saw the sheriff, they slammed

[1:09:24] on.

[1:09:26] The brakes, so I was thinking

[1:09:29] about maybe having a cardboard

[1:09:32] sheriff and staying there with

[1:09:34] it. Ok, so, um.

[1:09:37] As, as a community we should

[1:09:39] show support.

[1:09:41] Our council and city staff on

[1:09:45] safe choices. I res I totally

[1:09:46] respect the city

[1:09:48] s framework of

[1:09:49] the five e

[1:09:52] s engineering, my My

[1:09:53] favorite is education,

[1:09:56] enforcement.

[1:09:58] Engagement and evaluation

[1:09:59] informed the sheriffs were, you

[1:10:01] know, better results. I wanna

[1:10:03] thanks for adding safer

[1:10:04] improvements for our school

[1:10:07] zones, more crossing guards,

[1:10:10] safe rail crossings, improved

[1:10:12] visibility for pedestrian

[1:10:14] crossing and lowering speed

[1:10:16] limits near schools. I want to

[1:10:17] thank you so kindly for all

[1:10:27] your work.

[1:10:29] Last year at this time, Council

[1:10:30] member Lyons proposed a

[1:10:32] resolution.

[1:10:33] The operative part was so

[1:10:34] simple.

[1:10:36] That I can read it out.

[1:10:38] Quote, and it was a resolved

[1:10:40] that the city of Encinitas

[1:10:42] acknowledges long-standing

[1:10:43] community support for traffic

[1:10:45] calming, ratifies continued

[1:10:46] city support for traffic

[1:10:48] calming in Encinitas and will

[1:10:49] continue to strive to improve

[1:10:51] and support traffic calming and

[1:10:53] traffic calming policies in

[1:10:54] Encinitas.

[1:10:55] She moved to approve.

[1:10:56] And it didn

[1:10:57] t even get a vote.

[1:10:59] Not one of the rest of you

[1:11:01] would second the motion.

[1:11:04] One of you was just vehemently

[1:11:06] opposed. You chose to interpret

[1:11:07] this general pro-calming

[1:11:09] language as an attack on one or

[1:11:11] more of your pet projects. One

[1:11:12] of you tried to have it both

[1:11:13] ways. You said you wouldn

[1:11:14] t

[1:11:14] oppose the motion. You didn

[1:11:15] t

[1:11:16] support it either.

[1:11:17] One of you had nothing to say

[1:11:20] on the issue at all. Pretty

[1:11:21] remarkable considering a child

[1:11:22] had just died.

[1:11:24] One of you at least engaged

[1:11:27] constructively with the problem.

[1:11:28] Council member Schaeffer

[1:11:30] proposed a citywide traffic

[1:11:32] study to identify specific

[1:11:33] problems.

[1:11:35] He tried to move agendaizing it

[1:11:37] for a future meeting. The chair

[1:11:39] asked that he hold the motion,

[1:11:40] but then the council never got

[1:11:42] back to it after the original

[1:11:44] motion failed.

[1:11:47] I looked for any other mention

[1:11:48] of COUNCILMAN Schaeffer

[1:11:49] s ideas

[1:11:51] at Futures meeting, and I found

[1:11:53] a statement a few weeks later

[1:11:55] that he was discussing it with

[1:11:57] staff, but nothing else. No

[1:11:59] such study is listed in

[1:11:59] tonight

[1:12:01] s staff report.

[1:12:03] Everyone talks about safety,

[1:12:06] especially after a tragedy, but

[1:12:08] actions matter more than words.

[1:12:10] When you put safety projects

[1:12:12] with planned road diets on your

[1:12:13] list of accomplishments, but

[1:12:15] the record shows you took out

[1:12:16] the road diets when you

[1:12:17] approved them.

[1:12:18] Your actions don

[1:12:18] t match your

[1:12:19] words.

[1:12:20] When there

[1:12:21] s a good idea for a

[1:12:22] traffic study, but it can

[1:12:23] t

[1:12:25] even get agenda.

[1:12:26] Your actions don

[1:12:27] t match your

[1:12:29] words. And when you task the

[1:12:32] mtsc with reporting on ways to

[1:12:34] eliminate or minimize traffic

[1:12:36] deaths, unquote. And the mtsc

[1:12:38] year-end report includes no

[1:12:40] specific action under that work

[1:12:41] item, and then they take it out

[1:12:42] of the next year

[1:12:44] s.

[1:12:46] Work items. Your actions aren

[1:12:46] t

[1:12:48] matching your words.

[1:12:48] It

[1:12:51] s past time for real action

[1:12:53] to slow traffic and actually

[1:12:54] improve safety. We

[1:12:54] re spending

[1:12:57] $15 million a year or $15

[1:12:58] million over the past 3 years

[1:13:01] to repave roads. Great. Repaved

[1:13:03] roads do not actually slow

[1:13:04] traffic. If anything to the

[1:13:05] contrary.

[1:13:07] How about things that actually

[1:13:09] slow traffic and actually

[1:13:10] improve safety. I hope we hear

[1:13:11] something about that tonight.

[1:13:22] Thank you.

[1:13:24] Good evening, Mayor Ehler, City

[1:13:26] Council.

[1:13:27] My name is Laura Grimmer. I

[1:13:28] m a

[1:13:30] founding member of Safe Streets

[1:13:32] Encinitas, uh, first, a big

[1:13:33] thank you to the sheriff

[1:13:33] s

[1:13:35] department, your presence in

[1:13:37] our community is impactful and

[1:13:37] based on the data you

[1:13:38] ve shared,

[1:13:39] it appears that things are

[1:13:41] moving in the right direction.

[1:13:42] We recognize the enormous

[1:13:43] responsibility you

[1:13:44] re carrying

[1:13:45] right now.

[1:13:45] And we

[1:13:46] re encouraged that the

[1:13:48] council will be discussing red

[1:13:50] light cameras on SEPTEMBER 9th.

[1:13:52] Additional tools can provide

[1:13:53] much-needed support and

[1:13:55] importantly, help keep our

[1:13:56] deputies safer.

[1:13:58] In the meantime, thank you for

[1:14:00] continuing this difficult work.

[1:14:01] And another big thank you to

[1:14:03] staff. Your report was

[1:14:05] informative, and we appreciate

[1:14:06] the transparency in both the

[1:14:08] process and execution.

[1:14:11] We would love to ask to see

[1:14:13] more regularly more regular

[1:14:15] reports to continue to increase

[1:14:17] transparency and accountability.

[1:14:18] We hear what you

[1:14:18] re saying and

[1:14:19] we appreciate the progress that

[1:14:20] is being made.

[1:14:22] And we ask that you all hear us

[1:14:23] too.

[1:14:25] We know the city has projects

[1:14:26] underway, but we need to ask an

[1:14:28] important question.

[1:14:30] Are these projects addressing

[1:14:31] the places and conditions where

[1:14:34] fatalities are occurring.

[1:14:36] Repaving a road is important

[1:14:37] maintenance, but by itself is

[1:14:39] not a safety strategy.

[1:14:41] If we have an opportunity to

[1:14:43] improve safety as part of a

[1:14:45] project, we should take it.

[1:14:47] Every project that moves

[1:14:48] forward without a meaningful

[1:14:50] safety review.

[1:14:51] Maybe a missed opportunity to

[1:14:53] prevent the next serious crash

[1:14:55] or the next fatality.

[1:14:57] We all know the number of

[1:14:59] vehicles on our roads is

[1:15:01] continuing to grow rapidly.

[1:15:03] We need to get ahead of that

[1:15:04] growth. We need to identify

[1:15:05] risks.

[1:15:09] And act on them before another

[1:15:10] family experiences the

[1:15:13] unimaginable loss of a loved

[1:15:14] one.

[1:15:16] Or before another child is

[1:15:17] involved in a life changing

[1:15:20] crash.

[1:15:20] We

[1:15:22] ve heard calls to return

[1:15:24] teaching kids to stop, look and

[1:15:24] listen.

[1:15:26] Well,

[1:15:28] I ask you, let

[1:15:29] s stop blaming

[1:15:30] the kids. Let

[1:15:31] s look at the

[1:15:33] infrastructure, look at the

[1:15:34] intersections, look at the

[1:15:35] conditions that MAY be

[1:15:37] contributing to these crashes.

[1:15:38] And most importantly, and I

[1:15:40] thank you for tonight, Listen

[1:15:41] to the people who live here and

[1:15:45] use these roads every day.

[1:15:45] We don

[1:15:46] t have to agree on

[1:15:48] everything, but we do need to

[1:15:50] respect one another and work

[1:15:51] together to do what is right

[1:15:53] for our city.

[1:15:54] The solutions we develop need

[1:15:56] to be effective across all

[1:15:58] viewpoints. They need to be

[1:16:00] maintained across changes in

[1:16:01] city leadership, and ultimately

[1:16:03] needs to make, make our streets

[1:16:04] safer for everyone. Um, I

[1:16:05] m

[1:16:07] running out of time, so I will

[1:16:08] just say, um, as we

[1:16:08] ve heard,

[1:16:10] our kids are being struck and

[1:16:12] killed in crosswalks.

[1:16:13] This is ucceptable. We

[1:16:13] re

[1:16:15] asking, can the city

[1:16:16] temporarily shift some

[1:16:18] priorities and resources

[1:16:19] towards the areas where the

[1:16:21] greatest safety concerns exist.

[1:16:29] Thank you.

[1:16:31] Final Four speakers, Ellen Burr,

[1:16:33] followed by Dave Dean, then

[1:16:34] Sheila Cameron, and then

[1:16:50] Caitlin Despain.

[1:16:52] That was about the same

[1:16:53] distance as a crosswalk that I

[1:16:55] just walked down here.

[1:16:56] I don

[1:16:59] t use a cane yet or a

[1:17:01] walker yet, but that

[1:17:01] s pretty

[1:17:03] fast.

[1:17:06] And I just wanna make sure that

[1:17:09] we are double checking that.

[1:17:09] I don

[1:17:10] t know whether it

[1:17:11] s

[1:17:13] pedestrian leading intervals or

[1:17:15] leading pedestrian intervals

[1:17:17] should be easy to do to make

[1:17:22] sure that they are as long as

[1:17:23] possible because.

[1:17:26] People, 40% of our city

[1:17:28] probably is under the 5 or

[1:17:30] under or over the age of 60

[1:17:33] plus a number who are

[1:17:34] handicapped, not everybody

[1:17:35] rides a bike, Judy, I wish I

[1:17:37] could.

[1:17:40] Uh, so I think we need to focus

[1:17:42] more on pedestrians.

[1:17:44] And make sure that the

[1:17:47] crosswalks and the bike lanes

[1:17:49] are safe, so that means if it

[1:17:49] s

[1:17:51] gonna be paved next week, don

[1:17:51] t

[1:17:54] do it now, but there shouldn

[1:17:54] t

[1:17:58] be any cracks, any divots, any

[1:18:00] potholes, anything that a bike

[1:18:03] tire is gonna hit or an old

[1:18:06] person or a young person is

[1:18:08] gonna stumble over just we

[1:18:09] could do some really easy

[1:18:11] things I think that might make

[1:18:12] a difference.

[1:18:13] And I don

[1:18:13] t want to be

[1:18:15] crucified again for stop look

[1:18:18] and listen, but I do think we

[1:18:22] need to emphasize.

[1:18:24] Awareness on every level and uh

[1:18:27] i can write a check for.

[1:18:29] Something to be produced if you

[1:18:30] want me to.

[1:18:31] Um,

[1:18:32] Yeah, that

[1:18:33] s it thanks.

[1:18:41] Thank you.

[1:18:43] Council, Mayor, staff, good

[1:18:45] evening, Dave Dean. First, I

[1:18:45] d

[1:18:49] like to start off by thanking

[1:18:52] the staff last Wednesday when I

[1:18:53] spoke at City council about a

[1:18:56] dangerous sign on b and 3rd.

[1:18:56] By 9 o

[1:18:57] clock the next morning,

[1:18:59] it was removed in the crosswalk

[1:19:01] was safe, so thank you for

[1:19:02] listening. Thank you for

[1:19:04] responding.

[1:19:05] Next thing I

[1:19:06] d like to suggest

[1:19:09] is a safety sign, um, down on

[1:19:11] Coast Highway, similar to one

[1:19:14] they have in Del Mar, saying

[1:19:16] bicycle enforcement zone.

[1:19:17] In the last two days I

[1:19:18] ve

[1:19:20] watched over 10 bicyclists

[1:19:21] going down Coast Highway

[1:19:23] running red lights.

[1:19:25] Exceptionally dangerous. 2 days

[1:19:27] in a row, multiple red lights

[1:19:28] run.

[1:19:31] Final suggestion.

[1:19:31] Let

[1:19:34] s up our game and go with

[1:19:36] making Encinitas the safest

[1:19:39] city in America.

[1:19:41] Speed kills, lower the speed

[1:19:42] limit. I

[1:19:43] m in favor of a

[1:19:46] maximum speed limit of 25 miles

[1:19:48] an hour in the entire city.

[1:19:50] If it takes 10 minutes longer

[1:19:52] to get across the city and

[1:19:54] saves a life, who

[1:19:55] s 10 minutes

[1:19:56] is more important than saving a

[1:19:58] life.

[1:19:58] Let

[1:19:59] s make it safe. Let

[1:20:00] s lower

[1:20:13] the speed limits. Thank you.

[1:20:15] Good evening, Mayor and council,

[1:20:18] Sheila Cameron.

[1:20:20] A few years years ago, a

[1:20:22] national park at a national

[1:20:25] park, 3 young people died after

[1:20:26] having been swept over a

[1:20:28] waterfall.

[1:20:30] Although plenty of signs were

[1:20:31] already posted nearby. Don

[1:20:31] t go

[1:20:33] near the water, etc. They went

[1:20:35] in anyway.

[1:20:37] When the ranger was interviewed

[1:20:39] by a concerned citizens, his

[1:20:40] reply.

[1:20:41] One thing I

[1:20:42] ve learned after

[1:20:44] over 30 years here in the park

[1:20:47] is that you can

[1:20:48] t protect

[1:20:50] people from themselves.

[1:20:53] We can believe and demand.

[1:20:55] The other fixed things for us.

[1:20:57] The other in this case being

[1:20:59] our city government, however,

[1:21:01] maybe what we should be doing

[1:21:03] is standing in front of the

[1:21:04] mirror and asking ourselves

[1:21:06] some questions.

[1:21:08] Do we sometimes tend to drive

[1:21:10] too fast, drive 10 to 20 miles

[1:21:12] or more over the speed limit.

[1:21:14] Have you pulled out from a

[1:21:16] right-hand turn when we see

[1:21:18] cars coming, but pull out

[1:21:19] anyway.

[1:21:22] Do we approach a yellow traffic

[1:21:24] light and instead of slowing to

[1:21:27] a stop, gun the gas and push

[1:21:28] right through. Just saw that

[1:21:30] two days ago.

[1:21:34] Even when the light is red

[1:21:36] This city government cannot

[1:21:38] protect us from ourselves. It

[1:21:41] is not their responsibility. We

[1:21:43] are humans and individuals.

[1:21:43] We

[1:21:44] ve been given an abundance

[1:21:46] of rules and physical

[1:21:48] considerations to protect our

[1:21:49] health and safety and the

[1:21:51] safety of others when we

[1:21:51] re

[1:21:54] driving. What happens when we

[1:21:57] get into these 2000 or 3000

[1:22:00] pound automobiles are cocoons.

[1:22:01] Their killing machines, while

[1:22:04] in our cars, we have a sense of

[1:22:07] entitlement only for ourselves.

[1:22:09] Where and how did we learn to

[1:22:11] drive? Was something missing in

[1:22:14] our training, a moral compass

[1:22:16] perhaps. Do we pass on bad

[1:22:18] habits and indifference for

[1:22:20] safety and rules of the road to

[1:22:21] our children, so now we

[1:22:22] re our

[1:22:24] children. Our children are on

[1:22:26] motorbikes and e-bikes, a

[1:22:28] convenience for parents and

[1:22:31] other concern and fearful

[1:22:32] distraction from motorists

[1:22:34] children are young, too

[1:22:36] precious, too uninformed.

[1:22:39] Uh, are the stats for accidents,

[1:22:41] a generational phenomenon. They

[1:22:42] are.

[1:22:43] And I

[1:22:44] ve put here, I

[1:22:45] ve had 3

[1:22:47] accidents the last 6 years, not

[1:22:52] my fault, 1825, 26 year olds,

[1:22:53] and the last guy said to me,

[1:22:54] Well, I saw you coming, but I

[1:22:56] pulled out because I thought I

[1:22:57] had more time, so I

[1:22:58] m asking

[1:23:00] you time the culprit? Are we

[1:23:03] too much in a hurry, too

[1:23:04] stressed, running late, trying

[1:23:07] to do too much. If we think and

[1:23:10] slow down, can we save us from

[1:23:11] ourselves. That

[1:23:12] s a start.

[1:23:12] Thank you.

[1:23:22] Thank you.

[1:23:23] Good evening. Uh, my name is

[1:23:27] Caitlin De Spain. I am a local

[1:23:29] parent to an elementary and

[1:23:30] middle school student, and we

[1:23:32] bought a home here 12 years ago,

[1:23:33] strictly in the neighborhood

[1:23:35] that we knew we could walk our

[1:23:37] kids to, and I still enjoy

[1:23:38] doing that every day.

[1:23:40] Um,

[1:23:43] One of the things that concerns

[1:23:44] me and why I

[1:23:45] ve gotten the

[1:23:47] courage to speak here tonight

[1:23:47] is that I

[1:23:48] m really concerned

[1:23:49] about the speed of our drivers

[1:23:51] in the community throughout. I

[1:23:53] travel up and down El Camino

[1:23:55] Real, multiple times a day,

[1:23:57] driving my kids around to their

[1:23:58] activities. And if I

[1:23:59] m driving,

[1:24:01] the posted 30, 35 mile per hour

[1:24:04] speed limit. Cars are whizzing

[1:24:05] around me, frustrated at me

[1:24:06] that I

[1:24:07] m going so slow.

[1:24:09] So

[1:24:09] I don

[1:24:12] t think that

[1:24:16] Posting a lower speed limit.

[1:24:16] Will change drivers

[1:24:17] behavior.

[1:24:19] I think we need to hear more as

[1:24:21] a community, what the plans are

[1:24:22] to

[1:24:24] Do more than that.

[1:24:27] I do think that.

[1:24:31] We need to know more about how

[1:24:33] you are going to save our

[1:24:33] children

[1:24:34] s lives and make the

[1:24:37] city safe for them.

[1:24:39] And I need to know, how can we

[1:24:41] make not losing another life a

[1:24:42] top priority here.

[1:24:46] Thank you for your time.

[1:24:47] That concludes speakers on this

[1:24:49] item.

[1:24:50] ok, we

[1:24:52] ve got, uh, 30 minutes

[1:24:53] left, so I just keep that in

[1:24:54] mind. We got 5 of us to get in

[1:24:57] here and the discussion. I, I,

[1:24:59] uh, punched in first, um.

[1:25:00] I actually heard a lot of new

[1:25:02] ideas, good ideas, maybe not

[1:25:03] new ideas, but, uh, heard them

[1:25:04] again, I guess is the best way

[1:25:07] to put it, uh.

[1:25:09] Is there one thing I always

[1:25:10] like to ask the uh rhetorical

[1:25:12] question. Is there one thing we

[1:25:14] can do that can perfectly fix

[1:25:15] all the roads? No, it, it

[1:25:15] s

[1:25:17] doing a lot of things is what

[1:25:18] we have to do, and I think

[1:25:18] that

[1:25:21] s what we have been doing,

[1:25:23] um, do roadway modifications

[1:25:25] make roads perfectly safe.

[1:25:27] Unfortunately, no. It all comes

[1:25:28] back to driver behavior as a

[1:25:31] component here.

[1:25:32] Roadway construction is

[1:25:34] important or, or, uh, design is

[1:25:36] important, but we ultimately

[1:25:38] have to change all of our

[1:25:40] driver behaviors, ours, we all

[1:25:41] have to drive at the speed

[1:25:43] limit or under. I find myself

[1:25:45] driving 5 miles under now.

[1:25:45] And I

[1:25:46] m very conscious about it

[1:25:48] and I hope more people will do

[1:25:49] that and we actually have seen

[1:25:51] the data and I, I won

[1:25:51] t go

[1:25:53] recap that, so.

[1:25:56] Um, if you could bring up the

[1:25:57] slide about how much money

[1:25:57] we

[1:26:00] ve spent on

[1:26:03] On enforcement versus roadway.

[1:26:05] Because if you go look at some

[1:26:06] of the, the bikeway

[1:26:06] improvements we

[1:26:08] ve done $4

[1:26:09] million a mile, roughly.

[1:26:10] That

[1:26:10] s what it

[1:26:11] s costing. Yeah,

[1:26:12] look at the left there.

[1:26:15] By the way, I went back and

[1:26:16] checked before we put it in the

[1:26:17] budget. I don

[1:26:18] t know, what, 2

[1:26:20] years ago, uh, to add the two

[1:26:21] deputies, I went back and

[1:26:24] looked 15 years, we had not

[1:26:26] added a single traffic deputy.

[1:26:28] 15 years and it MAY have gone

[1:26:29] back further. I just, I think I

[1:26:31] ran out of data.

[1:26:32] So we were flat. And so we

[1:26:35] added the two.

[1:26:36] I quite frankly, out of what

[1:26:37] s

[1:26:39] been happening and still not

[1:26:40] seeing enough reduction in

[1:26:41] speed even though we

[1:26:41] ve seen

[1:26:42] some. I

[1:26:42] m gonna propose in the

[1:26:44] next budget that we add 2 more.

[1:26:46] And, and I think we need to,

[1:26:47] and I think we need to all

[1:26:49] consider that and we MAY even

[1:26:50] do that before the next budget

[1:26:53] and do it in mid-year. So, uh,

[1:26:53] but it

[1:26:53] s it

[1:26:54] s important, you

[1:26:55] know, it takes, it takes a

[1:26:56] while to get them on board, but

[1:26:58] you can see the cost. It, it

[1:26:58] s,

[1:27:00] uh, the first year is just

[1:27:00] under a million, that

[1:27:01] s because

[1:27:03] you gotta get a car for each

[1:27:04] one, each one of them. And then

[1:27:07] it, it goes down to about

[1:27:10] 700,000 a year ongoing for 2,

[1:27:12] and why 2 that covers, uh, both

[1:27:13] shifts, right?

[1:27:15] Um, quick question for, uh,

[1:27:18] Captain Watts, how many traffic

[1:27:19] deputies do we have as a whole?

[1:27:21] What, what is adding to is what

[1:27:22] kind of percentage increase in

[1:27:25] our enforcement, so currently,

[1:27:28] um, we staff 4 motors, so 4 on

[1:27:30] the motorcycles, and then after

[1:27:32] adding those two dui cars,

[1:27:34] which also do enforcement,

[1:27:35] speed enforcement, and other

[1:27:38] enforcement. Um, we are at 7

[1:27:39] cars, so it

[1:27:40] s a significant

[1:27:42] increase and 2 more would be a

[1:27:43] very significant. So, so that,

[1:27:43] that.

[1:27:43] That

[1:27:44] s one proposal. I just

[1:27:45] wanna make sure we

[1:27:45] re, we

[1:27:46] re

[1:27:48] looking at how much money we

[1:27:50] have spent on roadway safety

[1:27:51] versus what we

[1:27:52] re spending on

[1:27:53] additional traffic deputies,

[1:27:54] school crossing guards, I think

[1:27:56] it was a really good use of

[1:27:58] money too. And, and bicycle

[1:27:59] safety.

[1:28:01] They, they all pale in

[1:28:03] comparison to what we spent on

[1:28:04] infrastructure, but

[1:28:05] infrastructure will protect

[1:28:07] that half mile, that quarter

[1:28:09] mile, that mile, whatever we do.

[1:28:10] But even then we

[1:28:10] ve had

[1:28:13] accidents.

[1:28:16] At Cardiff, uh, Cardiff, uh,

[1:28:19] the, uh, cycle trail, the uh

[1:28:20] what do you call it, bike trail.

[1:28:21] Yeah, the, the, uh.

[1:28:22] We

[1:28:23] ve had accidents, deaths

[1:28:25] there. We had another death on,

[1:28:27] on, on 2020 on Lucadia

[1:28:29] Boulevard at an improved

[1:28:30] separated bike lane. They

[1:28:31] re

[1:28:33] not a panacea for perfect

[1:28:33] safety. It

[1:28:34] s all gonna come

[1:28:36] down to driver behavior

[1:28:37] ultimately. So we really need

[1:28:39] to change that and I, every

[1:28:41] time, every opportunity I have,

[1:28:42] I call on everyone, slow down,

[1:28:43] even if you

[1:28:44] re going slightly

[1:28:45] slower, and I, yes, I have

[1:28:46] people behind me honking too,

[1:28:48] and I, and, but

[1:28:50] You know, we gotta do it.

[1:28:51] So that that

[1:28:53] s one point, um.

[1:28:54] Second item that I would

[1:28:56] propose to this council is I

[1:28:57] wanna go back through the

[1:28:59] history first.

[1:29:01] Um, we adopted this council,

[1:29:04] not this council, but a council

[1:29:06] adopted Vision Zero back in

[1:29:09] 2019 or it was, it was proposed.

[1:29:13] It had, we adopted it in 2021.

[1:29:16] So we do have a vision zero

[1:29:18] plan. It is there. Out of that

[1:29:20] came the local roadway safety

[1:29:21] plan, which was written in

[1:29:23] FEBRUARY of 2022, and if you

[1:29:24] haven

[1:29:25] t read it, uh, I would

[1:29:26] recommend it. It

[1:29:26] s very good.

[1:29:27] It

[1:29:27] s very analytical. It

[1:29:28] s a

[1:29:29] day.

[1:29:30] Data-driven document, and then

[1:29:35] out of that came the uh the um.

[1:29:35] What

[1:29:36] s that now? Oh, the, uh,

[1:29:37] um.

[1:29:40] What is it? Csap. I can never

[1:29:42] remember the uh, um.

[1:29:42] What

[1:29:42] s the, what

[1:29:45] s the, uh,

[1:29:46] comprehensive safety action

[1:29:48] action plan, which is actually

[1:29:50] less if you, you read it, it

[1:29:51] s

[1:29:53] actually less uh quantitative

[1:29:54] and, and a little less data

[1:29:54] analytics. It

[1:29:55] s a little more

[1:29:56] policy driven.

[1:29:58] What I would propose is that we

[1:30:00] bring that back in the not too

[1:30:02] distant future and regenize it

[1:30:03] because I think the only, only

[1:30:04] person that was on council at

[1:30:07] the time was, uh, uh, council

[1:30:08] member lines. The rest of us

[1:30:10] are, are new after this. And so

[1:30:10] I

[1:30:13] d like to have us regenize

[1:30:15] and review those two, similar

[1:30:16] to what we did in the case of

[1:30:18] flooding when we brought back

[1:30:20] the q3 report a couple of years

[1:30:20] ago. It

[1:30:21] s a chance for this

[1:30:23] council to buy in and make

[1:30:24] modifications to that very same

[1:30:26] plan and then per potential.

[1:30:28] Essentially direct updating it,

[1:30:31] which I think is one of the,

[1:30:33] one of the reoccurring themes I

[1:30:35] hear is we want better data,

[1:30:36] more appropriate data. Quite

[1:30:39] frankly, I, I look at that and

[1:30:44] both the csap and the lr lrsp

[1:30:46] both basically look at

[1:30:48] What problems or where most of

[1:30:50] the crashes and fatalities and,

[1:30:51] and serious injuries are coming

[1:30:52] from. Guess what? They they

[1:30:52] re

[1:30:54] coming from speeding,

[1:30:55] distracted driving, running

[1:30:57] stop signs, running stoplights,

[1:30:58] and drunken driving. That

[1:30:59] s in

[1:31:00] both of those reports if you go

[1:31:02] back and read them tonight.

[1:31:04] And and so I think we

[1:31:04] ve done a

[1:31:07] lot of the work. We just need

[1:31:09] to maybe familiarize not only

[1:31:10] ourselves but probably the

[1:31:12] public. So, I, I would propose

[1:31:14] that, uh, we agendize that at a

[1:31:16] future meeting, hopefully

[1:31:17] OCTOBER, maybe, you know, it

[1:31:18] depends on where it

[1:31:19] ll fit in,

[1:31:20] but sooner better.

[1:31:22] Uh,

[1:31:24] And, and then, I, I think I

[1:31:26] will, uh,

[1:31:28] Yield at that point because, uh.

[1:31:32] We had 11 last point.

[1:31:32] Um, and I

[1:31:34] m going to quote

[1:31:35] Fabian Gunnell, because you

[1:31:37] said actions matter more than

[1:31:39] words. That is so true.

[1:31:41] Uh, when When I went back and I

[1:31:43] looked at the emergency

[1:31:45] declaration and, you know, we

[1:31:47] could declare an emergency.

[1:31:48] What happened the last time I

[1:31:49] was on the council when we

[1:31:51] declared an emergency, and

[1:31:51] quite frankly, I didn

[1:31:52] t know

[1:31:54] what it, it had expired. But I

[1:31:57] learned that later.

[1:31:59] All the response was, what

[1:32:01] additional powers does the

[1:32:02] council get from declaring an

[1:32:03] emergency, and it

[1:32:04] s really

[1:32:05] almost none. What, what that

[1:32:07] council did back then with me

[1:32:11] on it, is we put up the uh the

[1:32:12] flashing road signs, right,

[1:32:14] with the messaging signs. We

[1:32:16] printed a whole bunch of, of.

[1:32:18] Science, uh, yard signs that

[1:32:20] went out.

[1:32:22] But everything else, all the,

[1:32:25] the actions as, as Fabian would

[1:32:27] call it, those all came out of

[1:32:28] council action that

[1:32:29] s long term

[1:32:30] and that we

[1:32:31] ve been working on

[1:32:32] and building on, building on

[1:32:35] the local road safety plan,

[1:32:36] building on the csap building

[1:32:38] on all the work that staff

[1:32:38] s

[1:32:39] been doing, building on the

[1:32:41] work that that the sheriff

[1:32:41] s

[1:32:43] captain has done to increase

[1:32:45] enforcement and change driver

[1:32:46] behavior. So, um,

[1:32:46] I don

[1:32:48] t, I don

[1:32:49] t know that

[1:32:51] words and declarations are the

[1:32:52] most important thing here

[1:32:53] tonight, I think, as Fabian

[1:32:56] said, actions.

[1:32:59] Actions very particular actions.

[1:32:59] Let

[1:33:00] s, let

[1:33:00] s continue building

[1:33:03] better roads, safer roads where

[1:33:04] appropriate.

[1:33:05] Uh, let Let

[1:33:06] s continue the

[1:33:06] enforcement. Let

[1:33:09] s add to the

[1:33:10] enforcement and there were some

[1:33:12] great ideas, the cutout of the

[1:33:14] sheriff is kind of similar to

[1:33:15] having the car, uh, an unmanned

[1:33:18] car parked, uh, there too. And,

[1:33:19] and by the way, I

[1:33:20] ve seen that

[1:33:22] and watched that and people jam

[1:33:23] on their brakes at the stop

[1:33:24] sign when they come up to a

[1:33:26] corner and see a police car. So

[1:33:26] I don

[1:33:27] t know if we buy a bunch

[1:33:28] of used cars, paint them black

[1:33:29] and white, and put them out

[1:33:30] there. But their ideas like

[1:33:32] that, but

[1:33:34] My bottom line here.

[1:33:35] What we

[1:33:37] re doing is not one

[1:33:38] action, it

[1:33:40] s a complete breadth

[1:33:41] of actions. There are many, and

[1:33:42] I think you heard tonight that

[1:33:43] that

[1:33:43] s what we

[1:33:44] ve been doing.

[1:33:46] We will continue to do, uh, as

[1:33:47] the council changes over this

[1:33:49] next year, I hope future

[1:33:50] councils will continue that.

[1:33:51] So with that, I

[1:33:52] ll yield.

[1:33:53] COUNCILMAN Schaffer.

[1:33:55] Thank you, Mayor. Um.

[1:33:58] Uh, I do believe that this is

[1:33:59] obviously a very important to

[1:34:02] all of, of Encinitas and when

[1:34:03] we look at the different models,

[1:34:03] and I

[1:34:04] m just gonna go through

[1:34:04] the list I

[1:34:05] ve written kind of

[1:34:07] in order. The RRFBs, I think

[1:34:07] that they

[1:34:08] re great. I think

[1:34:09] that they need, uh, a lead time

[1:34:10] for the driver, cause it

[1:34:11] s a,

[1:34:12] it

[1:34:12] s, an, it

[1:34:13] s an, a push and

[1:34:15] activated immediately when you

[1:34:16] activate it, uh, I think

[1:34:16] there

[1:34:17] s a false confidence that

[1:34:18] sometimes where people feel

[1:34:20] like they can walk like a

[1:34:21] normal stoplight where they

[1:34:21] re

[1:34:22] all the cars have the yellow,

[1:34:23] they have time to slow down,

[1:34:25] and then a red to come to that

[1:34:26] stop, um.

[1:34:27] On a number of occasions I

[1:34:27] ve

[1:34:29] seen myself in Cardiff and also

[1:34:31] in Lucadia. People push the

[1:34:32] button and walk, and it

[1:34:32] s a

[1:34:33] false confidence and I, I don

[1:34:34] t

[1:34:35] want to keep creating a false

[1:34:36] confidence. I want stuff that

[1:34:37] actually works, so if there

[1:34:37] s a

[1:34:39] way to do that, I know that

[1:34:39] I

[1:34:41] ve talked about this before,

[1:34:43] Ensenada in, in a, a country

[1:34:44] that supposedly is, is lesser

[1:34:45] than us, has a countdown on

[1:34:46] their yellow lights, their,

[1:34:48] their, uh, the yellow on the

[1:34:49] light signal. I

[1:34:49] m not sure

[1:34:49] that

[1:34:50] s something that we could

[1:34:52] look into, but having a the one

[1:34:53] time that you can know that the

[1:34:55] timing of the light is when the

[1:34:56] crosswalk is.

[1:34:57] Counting down and you see the

[1:34:59] light go yellow, you know.

[1:35:00] How much more time there is,

[1:35:02] and it gives you that that

[1:35:02] confidence and now the driver

[1:35:04] from a distance, especially

[1:35:05] with the speeds of the vehicles.

[1:35:07] The distance you can be from a

[1:35:08] light, uh, let

[1:35:09] s say South El

[1:35:10] El Camino Real, uh, down there

[1:35:11] by the college. You could be

[1:35:13] going at the 55 miles an hour

[1:35:15] and that light changes, you

[1:35:16] know, whatever the, the timing

[1:35:18] is, so you, you have cars

[1:35:20] driving at a, a greater speed

[1:35:21] at different times.

[1:35:24] Uh, I think, um, Fabian brought

[1:35:26] up, you know, the actions, I

[1:35:27] would say the, the slow is

[1:35:28] important. I think that

[1:35:29] separate is better.

[1:35:32] So I think that, you know, Judy

[1:35:34] Berlein brought up the idea of

[1:35:35] the intersections that you do

[1:35:36] have to cross the major

[1:35:38] thoroughfares, that would be a

[1:35:38] help.

[1:35:42] For us to have these separate

[1:35:43] um mobility locations where

[1:35:45] that are safer streets, but

[1:35:46] when we do have the points of

[1:35:48] crossing, uh, that are most

[1:35:50] used that we can hammer those

[1:35:51] locations for enforcement. I

[1:35:52] think that

[1:35:53] s a comprehensive

[1:35:55] approach to start separating as

[1:35:57] much as possible bikes and um

[1:35:59] and cars. There are gonna be

[1:36:00] locations where they are gonna,

[1:36:01] you know, meet up, but in those

[1:36:03] locations, we, we hammer down

[1:36:04] on, uh, again, Melba, I

[1:36:05] m sorry,

[1:36:07] uh, Blo and Nia Boulevard. It

[1:36:07] s

[1:36:08] been talked about. There

[1:36:08] s

[1:36:08] schools there. It

[1:36:09] s a lot of.

[1:36:10] Uh, issues. I actually had a

[1:36:12] good friend, uh, older brother,

[1:36:13] uh, get hit there, uh,

[1:36:15] thankfully lived, but was 8

[1:36:17] months in the hospital, so, uh,

[1:36:17] that

[1:36:18] s back in the, the mid 80s,

[1:36:20] so this is not something new to

[1:36:22] the city, um.

[1:36:24] I think the traffic blitzes

[1:36:25] have been working. I think

[1:36:25] we

[1:36:26] re at the point with the

[1:36:28] omnipresence that uh.

[1:36:30] The sheriff, you know,

[1:36:31] represents, and the reason that

[1:36:32] the omnipresence works is that

[1:36:33] you see a sheriff, you know, on

[1:36:34] this street and two streets

[1:36:35] over, you

[1:36:35] re not gonna speed

[1:36:36] because you just saw a sheriff,

[1:36:36] you

[1:36:37] re not sure you

[1:36:37] re gonna

[1:36:39] see one again, uh, around the

[1:36:41] corner, so something along the

[1:36:42] lines of maybe announcing the

[1:36:44] traffic, traffic blizzards. I

[1:36:45] think people have been hammered

[1:36:47] enough now where if we announce

[1:36:48] the traffic blicits, it might

[1:36:50] actually get the, the value

[1:36:51] that we want before people even

[1:36:52] get on the road that morning.

[1:36:54] They MAY leave earlier, so

[1:36:55] whether you do it that morning

[1:36:56] or not, just announcing it

[1:36:58] might be enough to.

[1:36:59] To change the behavior and

[1:36:59] we

[1:37:00] re doing it enough where the

[1:37:02] person MAY or MAY not know that

[1:37:02] it

[1:37:03] s happening that morning,

[1:37:04] and it might give them the

[1:37:05] value to just, uh, and if you

[1:37:06] put it the night before or

[1:37:07] something like that and it

[1:37:08] starts to change that behavior

[1:37:09] a little bit over time, you

[1:37:11] know, week after week, um, it

[1:37:13] starts to, uh, make that change.

[1:37:18] Uh, I do believe that the

[1:37:20] static displays, the, the using

[1:37:21] the volunteer, uh, sheriff,

[1:37:22] like, you know, just seeing the

[1:37:24] black and white, it, it

[1:37:26] automatically uh creates, uh,

[1:37:26] that change.

[1:37:29] So in areas where it might be

[1:37:31] uh too dangerous or, uh, I

[1:37:32] forget who it was that spoke

[1:37:33] about it. It was this young

[1:37:34] lady over here. I don

[1:37:34] t, Laura,

[1:37:35] no, no, it wasn

[1:37:38] t Laura.

[1:37:39] Connie, yeah Yeah, Connie,

[1:37:41] Connie, yeah. So the idea is to

[1:37:43] have, uh, maybe to be able to

[1:37:45] put some static displays out in

[1:37:46] the locations where it just

[1:37:47] slows down the traffic before

[1:37:48] we have the problem again I

[1:37:50] know we wanna hammer people, we

[1:37:51] wanna give them tickets, but

[1:37:53] really we want to save lives.

[1:37:54] So if, if it

[1:37:54] s only about

[1:37:55] tickets, then we MAY not be

[1:37:56] saving the lives if we don

[1:37:56] t

[1:37:58] just get the behavior to change

[1:38:00] over the course of time. Um,

[1:38:01] and then I have talked about

[1:38:03] this over, uh, there are

[1:38:05] Parts of the world, uh, it

[1:38:05] s

[1:38:07] got to spend some, some time in

[1:38:08] Australia last year for a

[1:38:10] number of weeks, and the fact

[1:38:12] is they use roundabouts

[1:38:13] significantly better than we do.

[1:38:15] I think in this city because of

[1:38:17] our, um, the freeway that goes

[1:38:19] through town and the uh the uh

[1:38:20] railroad track that goes

[1:38:21] through town, it changes our

[1:38:23] lights so significantly that we

[1:38:23] can

[1:38:26] t get to the consistent

[1:38:28] mobility of our traffic and so

[1:38:29] we want to have a better

[1:38:30] lighting system. We want to

[1:38:31] have a better, uh, flow for the

[1:38:32] thoroughfare, so people don

[1:38:33] t

[1:38:34] leave the thoroughfare.

[1:38:36] That go through residential

[1:38:38] streets where kids and

[1:38:39] bicyclists and pedestrians

[1:38:40] should be using those roads on

[1:38:41] a more regular basis. Again,

[1:38:42] I

[1:38:42] m not telling people I

[1:38:42] m not

[1:38:44] going into this boulevard, but

[1:38:46] it, it does, it has its, it

[1:38:46] s

[1:38:48] natural issues. So if we were

[1:38:49] gonna do roundabouts instead of

[1:38:50] doing one here, one there, you

[1:38:53] know, uh, a grant here or there,

[1:38:54] uh, have a comprehensive plan

[1:38:55] of what it would look like. Do

[1:38:57] we need 20? Do we need 50? Do

[1:38:59] we need, you know, 100 in this

[1:39:00] town to actually make the

[1:39:02] traffic flow at, at a rate that

[1:39:03] actually gets us from point a

[1:39:05] to point b.

[1:39:06] Consistent with the

[1:39:08] availability of less.

[1:39:12] Uh, direct, blunt crashes,

[1:39:12] which we

[1:39:14] ve shown in videos

[1:39:16] here before that the

[1:39:17] roundabouts lower the

[1:39:19] fatalities in, uh, because of

[1:39:20] the angle of the accident. It

[1:39:20] s

[1:39:21] an off kilter. It

[1:39:23] s not in the

[1:39:24] direct t-bone or head-on

[1:39:25] collision model. So if we

[1:39:25] re

[1:39:26] going to do something of that

[1:39:27] nature instead of just having

[1:39:30] 12 or 31 here, 1 there. What

[1:39:32] would it look like to have a

[1:39:33] comprehensive, uh, roundabout

[1:39:35] plan in this city.

[1:39:37] Um, and then something I don

[1:39:37] t

[1:39:38] think people are talking about

[1:39:40] enough, but with what the onset

[1:39:42] of the waymos and some of these

[1:39:43] rideshare programs in the

[1:39:45] bigger cities.

[1:39:47] Uber started in, in dc, started

[1:39:49] in la and San Francisco, and

[1:39:49] now it

[1:39:50] s all over the entire

[1:39:51] world, so it

[1:39:51] s only a matter of

[1:39:54] time that we see rideshare in

[1:39:56] the, uh, transportation as a

[1:39:57] service coming our way and

[1:39:58] seeing what that might look

[1:40:01] like as at a greater capacity

[1:40:03] of what it would, uh, how long

[1:40:06] it looks like until we might

[1:40:09] have 20%, 30%, uh.

[1:40:10] Unmanned vehicles, you know,

[1:40:12] driving and.

[1:40:13] You know, taking people to

[1:40:14] point a to point b, seeing what

[1:40:16] that does for the safety

[1:40:18] overall, um.

[1:40:19] With regards to the, the

[1:40:20] sensors and the ability for

[1:40:22] those vehicles to drive the

[1:40:23] exact speed limit, not going

[1:40:24] over. There

[1:40:25] s no human error in

[1:40:27] that remodel. Obviously the

[1:40:28] technology has to be there, but

[1:40:28] it wouldn

[1:40:29] t be a bad idea for

[1:40:30] us to have an onset of what

[1:40:31] that looks like in the city and

[1:40:31] if that

[1:40:32] s something that we

[1:40:33] want to head towards, uh, as

[1:40:34] those become more available.

[1:40:37] Um, thank you, I rest.

[1:40:39] Ok, and uh council member lines.

[1:40:45] Thank you Mayor, um, I

[1:40:46] m, I

[1:40:47] m,

[1:40:48] I wanna thank the public for

[1:40:49] being here. I really feel like

[1:40:51] this opportunity for everyone

[1:40:52] to speak was really valuable,

[1:40:53] and I appreciated all your

[1:40:56] comments. Thank you. I always

[1:40:57] learned a lot and, um, thank

[1:40:59] you for putting the effort into

[1:41:00] coming.

[1:41:05] Um, so I, I do want to, uh,

[1:41:07] start by saying I appreciate my

[1:41:07] colleague

[1:41:08] s comments so far. Um,

[1:41:11] I will make it 3 so far that

[1:41:12] are really, that, uh, I

[1:41:13] m

[1:41:14] really in support of some of

[1:41:15] the things they

[1:41:15] ve already

[1:41:17] suggested, and, uh, so what I

[1:41:21] wanted to, uh, to do is to

[1:41:24] first just say that I share the

[1:41:25] community

[1:41:26] s concern about the

[1:41:29] safety of our children, and I

[1:41:30] feel where, where my

[1:41:32] through line is on roadway

[1:41:33] safety has to do with our

[1:41:34] children, and we

[1:41:34] re in the

[1:41:36] position where we can lead as

[1:41:38] the governing body, and I, I do

[1:41:40] want to see us take some action

[1:41:41] at this juncture.

[1:41:44] Um, right now, also, staff is

[1:41:46] bringing this forward to us to

[1:41:47] say, oh, these are the things

[1:41:47] we

[1:41:48] ve done, and we

[1:41:48] re hearing

[1:41:49] from the public saying these

[1:41:50] are the things we

[1:41:51] d like you to

[1:41:52] do. So we

[1:41:53] re at a juncture

[1:41:54] where we can give staff some

[1:41:56] clear direction. So, I do want

[1:41:57] to leave this meeting with

[1:41:59] giving staff some clear

[1:42:01] direction, um, on where I would

[1:42:04] like to see us move forward and

[1:42:06] also to compliment what my

[1:42:07] colleagues are already saying

[1:42:10] here from the dais. I feel like

[1:42:12] our, uh, sheriff has done.

[1:42:15] A really, really good job.

[1:42:18] Kudos to Captain Watts. Um, I

[1:42:18] d

[1:42:20] like him and his team to

[1:42:22] continue to do a great job and

[1:42:24] be as well funded as we need,

[1:42:27] and I look forward to future

[1:42:28] discussion on that. If more

[1:42:30] funding is valuable and how it

[1:42:32] will be used, I will be open to

[1:42:34] supporting it, but I do wanna

[1:42:36] make sure I give a shout out on

[1:42:38] that. What I would like us to

[1:42:40] do here now then is to do as

[1:42:40] well as he

[1:42:42] s doing, um.

[1:42:44] And that has to do more with

[1:42:46] what action are we going to

[1:42:48] take to have our roadways be

[1:42:50] safer, not just the enforcement.

[1:42:53] I want to start by saying,

[1:42:58] I was at the um mts, uh,

[1:43:00] commission meeting on AUGUST

[1:43:01] 10th, where a lot of the

[1:43:03] community came forward to talk

[1:43:04] about their concerns for

[1:43:05] roadway safety, and the

[1:43:06] commission was also talking

[1:43:07] about their work plans. So it

[1:43:09] was really good to hear the

[1:43:11] community concerns. One of my

[1:43:13] friends, Bill Shen, said,

[1:43:16] Something that I think is

[1:43:18] really poignant, and that is

[1:43:20] vehicle drivers go the speed

[1:43:22] the road invites them to go,

[1:43:24] and I, I noted that at the time

[1:43:25] and I thought, well, that

[1:43:26] s

[1:43:28] really another one of my

[1:43:30] guiding principles when the

[1:43:31] roadway allows a driver to go

[1:43:33] fast, they will be invited to

[1:43:36] go fast. And so I will, I will

[1:43:40] place a lot of my emphasis more

[1:43:42] on our roadway design and what

[1:43:43] we can do to make our

[1:43:43] pedestrians.

[1:43:46] And our bicycles safer

[1:43:48] Uh, I also support the fact

[1:43:48] we

[1:43:49] ve done a lot of research on

[1:43:51] this already. We already have a

[1:43:53] couple of data-driven documents.

[1:43:55] The local road safety plan is

[1:43:57] the one that was approved in

[1:44:00] 2022 and it has some really

[1:44:02] outstanding, uh, data.

[1:44:03] Uh, I just, I

[1:44:04] ll just call to a

[1:44:07] few things and then suggest

[1:44:09] that we might consider these as

[1:44:11] we go forward, looking at what

[1:44:13] we do to make our pedestrian

[1:44:15] and bicyclists safer on the

[1:44:17] roadway and thus make everyone

[1:44:18] safer on the roadway.

[1:44:21] For example, in this

[1:44:23] data-driven document, they have

[1:44:25] safety measures or what they

[1:44:27] call countermeasures, and they

[1:44:29] recommend, uh, these, uh,

[1:44:31] projects, specific projects for

[1:44:34] funding. For example, they

[1:44:37] articulate signal timing. They

[1:44:38] articulate this document

[1:44:39] articulates dilemma zones,

[1:44:41] dilemma zones are where there

[1:44:42] are a lot of an intersection

[1:44:43] where there

[1:44:44] s a lot happening.

[1:44:46] Uh, they articulate bite boxes.

[1:44:49] They articulate, uh, bike.

[1:44:50] Markings and maybe the one I

[1:44:55] want to land on is they, um,

[1:44:57] outlined pedestrian crossings

[1:44:58] with enhancements, the safety

[1:45:00] measures associated with

[1:45:01] pedestrian crossings at

[1:45:03] intersections or wherever

[1:45:05] pedestrians are crossing, and

[1:45:06] the projects that are

[1:45:08] articulated in this document

[1:45:10] that at that time were

[1:45:12] suggested to move forward as

[1:45:15] the highest priority locations

[1:45:20] only cost $292,000. So, um, I

[1:45:20] wanted to.

[1:45:22] Show that as an example of if

[1:45:25] we really focus on where get

[1:45:26] get staff to come back as we

[1:45:27] re

[1:45:27] talking about, you know,

[1:45:29] looking at this document, maybe

[1:45:29] we don

[1:45:30] t need a full update

[1:45:30] that

[1:45:31] s going to take 9 months,

[1:45:33] but maybe what we do is look at

[1:45:35] this document, identify where

[1:45:37] those top priorities are and

[1:45:38] then challenge ourselves to

[1:45:39] find the funding right away.

[1:45:41] Sometimes it might just be

[1:45:43] signal timing. Sometimes it

[1:45:45] might just be the advanced

[1:45:47] timing on the pedestrian

[1:45:48] activated lights. Let

[1:45:49] s find

[1:45:49] that.

[1:45:50] Lowest hanging fruit, and let

[1:45:50] s

[1:45:52] go for it right away. Let

[1:45:53] s

[1:45:56] take action. Um, and so I would,

[1:45:59] I would be in support of

[1:46:02] focusing on um these pedestrian

[1:46:04] crossings at intersections, and

[1:46:04] I

[1:46:05] d be happy to consider

[1:46:06] additional funding and how we

[1:46:08] can move this forward as soon

[1:46:08] as possible. I

[1:46:09] ll rest.

[1:46:15] Cap.

[1:46:17] Ok, uh, council member of San

[1:46:19] Antonio, thank you. Uh, thank

[1:46:20] you, Mayor. Um, I just wanna

[1:46:22] say thank you, uh, thank you,

[1:46:24] staff. Thank you, Dan, thank

[1:46:26] you, Captain Watts for the

[1:46:27] excellent report. Thank you for

[1:46:29] what.

[1:46:31] You guys do for the city, um,

[1:46:32] obviously, the numbers show

[1:46:33] that you guys are doing

[1:46:35] wonderful, um, work for the

[1:46:37] city. Dan, great job on getting

[1:46:38] this report together. I know

[1:46:38] that

[1:46:41] s a lot of work and I.

[1:46:43] I believe that we are doing a

[1:46:44] lot.

[1:46:46] But can we be doing more?

[1:46:47] Of course, that is what we

[1:46:48] re

[1:46:49] here for. We

[1:46:49] re here to

[1:46:50] continue the work. We

[1:46:51] re here

[1:46:52] to continue to build on what

[1:46:53] we

[1:46:54] ve done now into the future,

[1:46:55] um.

[1:46:57] I think

[1:46:59] Everyone here in this room.

[1:47:00] Is here for the same thing.

[1:47:03] Fewer injuries.

[1:47:05] I, I believe in Vision Zero. I

[1:47:05] believe it

[1:47:06] s, I do, I think

[1:47:06] it

[1:47:08] s possible. I, I truly in my

[1:47:09] heart, I, that

[1:47:10] s the, that

[1:47:10] s

[1:47:10] the goal. That

[1:47:11] s where we want

[1:47:12] to shoot for. So we want to

[1:47:13] shoot for that goal.

[1:47:15] Um,

[1:47:15] So I, I don

[1:47:17] t, I don

[1:47:17] t brush

[1:47:19] vision zero off. I think it

[1:47:19] s

[1:47:20] an important goal. I think it

[1:47:21] s

[1:47:22] something we should be shooting

[1:47:23] for, um,

[1:47:26] is no road deaths. Nobody wants

[1:47:29] My kids are 3 and 5. My 5 year

[1:47:29] old thinks he

[1:47:30] s, you know, he

[1:47:30] s

[1:47:32] a teenager now. He wants more

[1:47:33] and more.

[1:47:33] Uh,

[1:47:35] Rope to go down the hill to go

[1:47:37] over here to go, and I, I live

[1:47:39] off El Caminolo Don Norte, so

[1:47:41] my sister lives on Cole Ranch,

[1:47:43] um, and Lone Jack, so.

[1:47:44] That doesn

[1:47:45] t seem that far when

[1:47:46] we walk over there, but I know

[1:47:46] it

[1:47:47] s just a matter of time. He

[1:47:49] already went too far.

[1:47:50] Sorry to go on a tangent here,

[1:47:52] but he already went too far and

[1:47:53] we let that leash out a little

[1:47:55] bit too, too much. He went

[1:47:56] someplace he wasn

[1:47:57] t supposed to

[1:47:58] be. So that alone for me,

[1:47:58] that

[1:47:59] s like one of those things

[1:47:59] that

[1:48:00] s like, oh.

[1:48:02] A tense moment like.

[1:48:03] That that could easily happen.

[1:48:04] And that

[1:48:05] s what makes that.

[1:48:08] You know, the, I think it was,

[1:48:10] uh, some, somebody, a gentleman

[1:48:12] brought up our first Paul, um,

[1:48:14] that.

[1:48:16] Signalize light coming up when

[1:48:16] you push the button that it

[1:48:17] s

[1:48:19] actually, uh, ahead of that in,

[1:48:21] um, that rfp.

[1:48:22] Great idea. I mean, I thought

[1:48:25] that was a wonderful idea.

[1:48:26] Um, because you

[1:48:26] re right,

[1:48:27] people drive. I, when I leave

[1:48:28] that our neighborhood and I

[1:48:30] drive down that that road.

[1:48:32] People, people do, I.

[1:48:35] Go down that road pretty quick.

[1:48:37] Um, I actually saw one of my

[1:48:39] neighbors with Bruce

[1:48:40] s um speed

[1:48:41] gun at the corner, clocking

[1:48:42] people when I left my

[1:48:43] neighborhood one day, um, and

[1:48:45] he stopped me. He was like,

[1:48:45] Marco, look what I

[1:48:46] m doing.

[1:48:49] Um,

[1:48:50] So everybody here, I know we

[1:48:50] re,

[1:48:50] we

[1:48:52] re all here for the, for the,

[1:48:54] for the same reason. I

[1:48:54] m not

[1:48:55] here to say I

[1:48:55] m right, you

[1:48:56] re

[1:48:56] wrong, I

[1:48:57] m here because I want

[1:49:00] to continue the work that we.

[1:49:01] We are here talking about

[1:49:04] I think, uh,

[1:49:05] When I think about what

[1:49:05] s

[1:49:08] happening right now, I love

[1:49:09] hearing the community come

[1:49:11] forward with your ideas and the

[1:49:12] evaluation, Mike.

[1:49:14] I always love talking to you.

[1:49:16] Um, you have a lot of great

[1:49:17] input and I love what, what you,

[1:49:20] the, the passion you bring, um,

[1:49:21] so I always welcome those talks.

[1:49:23] I,, I, I love talking to Laura.

[1:49:25] I, I can sit here and, and name

[1:49:28] off people. I went on a bike

[1:49:30] ride with another concerned

[1:49:36] citizen, um, and I very spry,

[1:49:38] took me from Santaguido up and

[1:49:39] over the hill up to Riquesa. I

[1:49:40] think she was trying to

[1:49:42] actually kill me because she,

[1:49:42] the amount.

[1:49:43] Time she took me over this hill

[1:49:45] was.

[1:49:47] Insurmountable for me but I did

[1:49:50] it and I lived. But I did see.

[1:49:52] From her point of view and from

[1:49:52] the biker

[1:49:53] s point of view, what

[1:49:55] that, what these roads do look

[1:49:58] like, and it makes sense to me,

[1:50:00] um, I, along with what, um,

[1:50:01] Deputy Mayor o

[1:50:02] Hara and um

[1:50:03] council member Schaffer bring

[1:50:05] up the safer routes off the

[1:50:06] main roads. That

[1:50:06] s exactly what

[1:50:07] I think when I talked about

[1:50:08] with.

[1:50:10] Um, our concerned citizens are

[1:50:12] concerned biker that it made so

[1:50:12] much sense to me when I

[1:50:15] actually wrote it that.

[1:50:15] There are issues here that we

[1:50:17] can fix.

[1:50:18] Um, and I

[1:50:20] ll take that with me

[1:50:21] just from that first, firsthand,

[1:50:22] that first person point of view.

[1:50:24] Um,

[1:50:25] Let

[1:50:26] s see here.

[1:50:27] Um, again, I

[1:50:29] m not trying to

[1:50:29] say we

[1:50:30] re doing everything

[1:50:31] possible, but

[1:50:33] The amount of things that we

[1:50:33] ve

[1:50:34] listed off here, it, it

[1:50:34] s, it

[1:50:35] s

[1:50:36] quite a bit, and I, you know, I

[1:50:38] look at the 4 priorities of

[1:50:40] safe streets, speeding

[1:50:42] intersections, DUIs, distracted

[1:50:42] driving. I know we

[1:50:43] ve we

[1:50:43] ve

[1:50:44] listed all of these things on

[1:50:45] here, of all the things we

[1:50:45] ve

[1:50:47] done to

[1:50:48] To mitigate these things or

[1:50:51] help them or try to fix them

[1:50:52] and again, we

[1:50:53] ve done a lot.

[1:50:54] There

[1:50:55] s more to be done, and I

[1:50:56] think that

[1:50:57] s where I, I keep

[1:50:59] going back to is I know that it

[1:51:00] keeps coming back to.

[1:51:00] You

[1:51:01] re not doing enough or we

[1:51:03] need to do more, but our work

[1:51:06] is never done here. We could

[1:51:07] probably stop talking about

[1:51:08] this, get something passed, and

[1:51:10] stop talking about it, but

[1:51:11] something else will happen or

[1:51:11] we

[1:51:13] ll need to continue this

[1:51:16] conversation always, so.

[1:51:16] Let

[1:51:17] s see, um, I know red light

[1:51:19] cameras is coming up. I know

[1:51:20] this is a very kind of hot

[1:51:21] button topic.

[1:51:21] Um, for me, I

[1:51:23] m.

[1:51:25] You know, I am in support. I,

[1:51:25] I

[1:51:27] ll say it right now.

[1:51:27] I

[1:51:27] m, it

[1:51:29] s campaign season. This

[1:51:31] might kill me. But what it, it

[1:51:32] does for me is it

[1:51:33] s, it

[1:51:34] s

[1:51:35] helpful for the residents. I

[1:51:36] want to see at least, you know,

[1:51:37] if this is a pilot program,

[1:51:38] let

[1:51:38] s see. Let

[1:51:39] s see what it

[1:51:40] does, because it

[1:51:41] s, it, it is

[1:51:42] gonna make a difference and

[1:51:42] we

[1:51:43] ll see if it does. If it

[1:51:44] doesn

[1:51:45] t, you know, it was here

[1:51:45] before, it

[1:51:47] s gone now.

[1:51:48] I

[1:51:49] ve talked to you guys. Safe

[1:51:50] streets, enough about it, and I

[1:51:51] believe in it, so let

[1:51:51] s just at

[1:51:53] least.

[1:51:53] Let

[1:51:53] s, let

[1:51:53] s look, let

[1:51:54] s take a

[1:51:55] real look at it.

[1:51:59] Um,

[1:52:01] I think we, I think.

[1:52:02] Uh

[1:52:03] Again, I, I

[1:52:04] ll just say this

[1:52:04] also as well, so I

[1:52:05] ll, and then

[1:52:05] I

[1:52:05] ll, I

[1:52:07] ll, uh, and we

[1:52:07] re short

[1:52:09] on time. Um, I would support,

[1:52:10] you know, additional traffic

[1:52:12] deputies. I, I know that

[1:52:13] traffic the behavior when I see

[1:52:15] a cop, I know I, I don

[1:52:15] t drive

[1:52:17] fast, but I mean, I, I want to

[1:52:19] lead by example, so I, I try to

[1:52:21] really try to slow myself down

[1:52:22] in my van, even when i

[1:52:23] m going

[1:52:24] downhill on Riquesa, I can just

[1:52:25] not press on the gas. I

[1:52:25] m, I

[1:52:25] m

[1:52:26] already speeding.

[1:52:27] So I try to lead by example

[1:52:29] because just like Bruce.

[1:52:30] I don

[1:52:30] t want to be the one

[1:52:31] going, hey, that was a mayor

[1:52:32] driving by. That was a council

[1:52:33] member driving by. He just sped

[1:52:36] right by me.

[1:52:37] So, um, I

[1:52:38] ll rest there, but.

[1:52:40] I really do think this, whether

[1:52:40] we

[1:52:40] re it

[1:52:41] s like, it feels like

[1:52:42] it

[1:52:42] s this. I don

[1:52:43] t, I don

[1:52:43] t

[1:52:44] feel that. What I feel is like

[1:52:46] you guys are giving us what we

[1:52:48] need to hear and that maybe

[1:52:51] that bit of abrasion or whatnot

[1:52:52] with the way, however you wanna

[1:52:53] to word it, gives us the, the

[1:52:54] impetus to be like, all right,

[1:52:55] like,

[1:52:57] We gotta do more.

[1:52:59] So, uh, I

[1:53:00] ll rest. Ok. And

[1:53:00] Deputy Mayor o

[1:53:05] Hara.

[1:53:06] Um, I wanna thank everybody for

[1:53:07] their input today. Thank the

[1:53:09] public for showing up today and

[1:53:11] really participating. Um, I

[1:53:11] think we all, it

[1:53:12] s clear we all,

[1:53:14] we all share your, your

[1:53:15] concerns. It

[1:53:16] s never-ending

[1:53:18] task for us up here, um.

[1:53:21] I wanna

[1:53:23] Cover a couple of quick things

[1:53:24] that, that I think aren

[1:53:24] t on

[1:53:26] this report.

[1:53:28] And, you know, one is, I think,

[1:53:29] um,

[1:53:30] You know,

[1:53:33] Certainly

[1:53:34] When I walked in the building,

[1:53:36] um,

[1:53:38] a couple of years ago, I felt

[1:53:40] like staff looked at unique

[1:53:41] situational approaches to

[1:53:43] things and individual sites,

[1:53:44] intersections, intersection

[1:53:45] where piecemelling a city

[1:53:45] together.

[1:53:47] Um, and I look at the things

[1:53:49] like the csap and the, the

[1:53:51] local roadway projects and, uh,

[1:53:52] the other products and I look

[1:53:53] at the circulation element

[1:53:54] coming back and with the

[1:53:56] partnership of council member

[1:53:57] Chief are really pushing that

[1:53:58] circulation. I want to come

[1:54:00] back. We see this more holistic

[1:54:01] plan coming together and it

[1:54:02] s a

[1:54:03] compliment to staff on their

[1:54:06] hard work on it. Um, and while

[1:54:08] we do address situational

[1:54:10] pieces in there. Um, the city

[1:54:10] s

[1:54:11] approach has become more

[1:54:12] systemic and looking at the

[1:54:14] whole picture and within that,

[1:54:15] the goal is 0.

[1:54:17] Death. The goal is always zero

[1:54:19] deaths to our ability.

[1:54:19] It

[1:54:20] s a shared responsibility

[1:54:20] between the government and the

[1:54:22] public.

[1:54:24] Um, I have an 11 year old

[1:54:26] daughter, and just like anyone

[1:54:27] else here, I don

[1:54:28] t live on a

[1:54:29] busy street in Maine Arterial

[1:54:30] in the city because I don

[1:54:30] t

[1:54:31] want my daughter playing on a,

[1:54:32] on a busy street. I want to be

[1:54:33] able to go out and play in the

[1:54:34] middle of the street like you

[1:54:35] see in movies. Um, even within

[1:54:37] that, I live on a quiet street.

[1:54:39] She has to go 400 yards up the

[1:54:40] street so that she can see any

[1:54:40] car that comes around the

[1:54:42] corner and they can say, game

[1:54:44] on, and hop off. When she

[1:54:46] crosses our street.

[1:54:47] Yell out the kitchen window.

[1:54:50] Look both ways.

[1:54:50] It

[1:54:51] s never ending. It

[1:54:52] s a

[1:54:53] shared responsibility between

[1:54:54] everybody using the road. And

[1:54:55] we all realize that up here,

[1:54:56] and we

[1:54:56] re all working to move

[1:54:57] forward with that, with its

[1:54:59] pedestrians.

[1:55:01] Cyclist vehicles and how they

[1:55:03] all interact together.

[1:55:04] And, and that

[1:55:05] s never messed up

[1:55:09] here by anybody up here, um,

[1:55:10] staff has really bought into

[1:55:10] this idea and and done a

[1:55:12] fantastic job with it. City

[1:55:12] manager

[1:55:13] s office has really

[1:55:14] done a great job on it. Um, and

[1:55:17] I want to touch on the, the

[1:55:18] unique situations like that,

[1:55:20] that is also the second piece

[1:55:20] that isn

[1:55:24] t in there is

[1:55:24] We

[1:55:25] re meeting on site more

[1:55:27] often than ever before, whether

[1:55:27] it

[1:55:28] s a council member, whether

[1:55:28] it

[1:55:29] s a city manager, whether

[1:55:30] it

[1:55:31] s the staff, um, and I can

[1:55:33] look at an example of a great

[1:55:34] example of that is that the

[1:55:35] ymca, where we

[1:55:36] re replacing

[1:55:37] those chicanes with stop signs.

[1:55:39] We met with the ymca Seacrest,

[1:55:41] a number of the neighbors.

[1:55:43] Staff was out there. The city

[1:55:44] manager was out there, myself,

[1:55:47] and we watched.

[1:55:49] A failed infrastructure piece.

[1:55:50] The shakes, we watched cars, we

[1:55:51] watched an nctd bus. I

[1:55:52] m

[1:55:52] ashamed I

[1:55:52] m ashamed to say it,

[1:55:53] drive right over it.

[1:55:54] Like it wasn

[1:55:56] t even there.

[1:55:58] Um, so infrastructure is great.

[1:55:59] But we want to go back and make

[1:56:00] sure it works. And I

[1:56:01] m really

[1:56:02] Glad and you didn

[1:56:02] t put, you

[1:56:02] didn

[1:56:03] t put it on the, on the,

[1:56:04] on the report, but I think you

[1:56:05] should have. Like, you

[1:56:05] re out

[1:56:06] there.

[1:56:07] Checking in on the projects

[1:56:07] that you

[1:56:08] re doing, do they work

[1:56:09] with us and listen to the

[1:56:11] residents on that. And I think

[1:56:11] that

[1:56:12] s a huge step in the right

[1:56:13] direction for all of the stuff

[1:56:14] we

[1:56:15] ve talked about today. Um,

[1:56:16] so, you know, as a result,

[1:56:17] we

[1:56:18] re taking the chicanes out

[1:56:19] with the help of the ymc. We

[1:56:20] came together to put up a stop.

[1:56:20] We

[1:56:21] re going to be putting a

[1:56:22] stop sign, um, and we

[1:56:22] ll go

[1:56:23] back and we

[1:56:23] ll check and see

[1:56:24] how that

[1:56:24] s working. Pedestrian

[1:56:26] island in there, everything. Um,

[1:56:26] so I think that

[1:56:27] s something,

[1:56:27] you know, I, I

[1:56:28] m sure you

[1:56:28] didn

[1:56:28] t want to toot your own

[1:56:29] horn, but I

[1:56:29] m gonna toot it for

[1:56:31] you. I think I really

[1:56:32] appreciate that.

[1:56:33] The staff is going in that

[1:56:34] direction with all these, these

[1:56:35] safety measures and listening

[1:56:36] to our residents and, and what

[1:56:37] they

[1:56:37] re having to say.

[1:56:44] Um,

[1:56:46] I think, you know, I, I think

[1:56:48] those ideas, signal timing,

[1:56:50] dilemma zones, bike boxes, bike

[1:56:51] markings, ped crossing

[1:56:52] enhancements. I think you

[1:56:53] re

[1:56:54] referring to the csap, which is

[1:56:55] on here, and I

[1:56:55] m, I

[1:56:55] m really

[1:56:56] happy that we

[1:56:56] re doing it. I

[1:56:57] know the staff will bring all

[1:56:59] of those back to us.

[1:57:00] As urgently as possible.

[1:57:00] Obviously, that

[1:57:00] s why we

[1:57:01] re

[1:57:02] here, because these things are

[1:57:04] a top priority in the city, so.

[1:57:07] As they come back, uh, I

[1:57:07] ll

[1:57:08] please keep bringing them back

[1:57:09] as quickly as possible, but I

[1:57:09] think you

[1:57:09] re already doing that,

[1:57:11] and I expect that to continue.

[1:57:11] So thank you.

[1:57:16] Um,

[1:57:17] Up here mentioned several times

[1:57:18] was the city crossing guards

[1:57:21] was on the site, um.

[1:57:21] I

[1:57:22] m gonna reach out to a few

[1:57:25] people, you know, I, I, we, we

[1:57:27] approved all 14, um,

[1:57:27] And I

[1:57:28] m gonna say all the

[1:57:29] people here who are coming here

[1:57:31] to talk about it. Join me at a

[1:57:32] school board meeting and let

[1:57:32] s

[1:57:34] ask them.

[1:57:36] If they can, instead of firing

[1:57:37] Larry, move him to someplace

[1:57:39] that we have open this year or

[1:57:39] a site that

[1:57:40] s on this map, like,

[1:57:42] rather than get rid of.

[1:57:44] 3 or 4 good employees who are

[1:57:45] doing a great job and great

[1:57:46] service to the community. Let

[1:57:46] s

[1:57:47] go to the school board and say,

[1:57:48] hey, city council

[1:57:48] s gonna pay

[1:57:49] for this.

[1:57:49] We

[1:57:51] ve already agreed to it.

[1:57:51] Let

[1:57:52] s reallocate these people.

[1:57:52] Let

[1:57:54] s not get rid of them.

[1:57:55] Um, so if you want to join me

[1:57:56] in that, please send me an

[1:57:57] email. Let

[1:57:57] s talk about it.

[1:57:57] Let

[1:57:58] s do it. Let

[1:57:58] s go to the

[1:57:59] school board, ask why that

[1:58:00] happened, and let

[1:58:00] s make sure

[1:58:00] that

[1:58:01] s still going forward

[1:58:02] because we

[1:58:02] re all working

[1:58:04] together, the schools residents

[1:58:05] and us, and we want to make

[1:58:06] that happen. So, um, I think

[1:58:07] that

[1:58:07] s an important question.

[1:58:08] It needs to, it

[1:58:08] s worth

[1:58:10] mentioning, um,

[1:58:11] You know, it

[1:58:11] s great that

[1:58:12] there

[1:58:14] s a, uh,

[1:58:15] GoFundMe for Larry the crossing

[1:58:17] guard. Uh, I hope they make it.

[1:58:19] He seems to be a great guy, and

[1:58:20] attribute to the community, um,

[1:58:20] whether it

[1:58:21] s political or not,

[1:58:21] it doesn

[1:58:22] t matter. He

[1:58:22] s a great

[1:58:23] guy. Um, but let

[1:58:23] s get him his

[1:58:26] job back.

[1:58:26] Let

[1:58:29] s do it. Um, so, I, I would

[1:58:32] push for that. Um.

[1:58:32] I

[1:58:33] ll give you another quick

[1:58:35] story. I visited my dad this

[1:58:36] year, um.

[1:58:39] In his town, which is a pretty

[1:58:44] small town. Um, and, um,

[1:58:46] Country roads, uh.

[1:58:48] Not a pedestrian in sight,

[1:58:51] probably not a cyclist in sight,

[1:58:52] um.

[1:58:52] Just the roads you want to have

[1:58:54] like.

[1:58:56] You know, fast rental car and

[1:58:58] hit the gas and go down. Um,

[1:58:59] speed limits are all 30 miles

[1:59:04] an hour. Everyone goes 29.

[1:59:05] And, and you won

[1:59:05] t find anybody

[1:59:06] speeding.

[1:59:08] You know how the city pays its

[1:59:09] taxes?

[1:59:12] Tickets.

[1:59:14] You go, you go 31 miles an hour

[1:59:15] and you

[1:59:15] re, we

[1:59:15] re watching

[1:59:17] sirens in the back window,

[1:59:19] pulling you over, um, you know,

[1:59:20] it, it as much as we don

[1:59:21] t want

[1:59:23] to become enforcement centric,

[1:59:25] it, it, it makes a difference.

[1:59:25] And it, it

[1:59:26] s, we just have to,

[1:59:27] the reality of it is it makes a

[1:59:30] big difference. Um, I, I

[1:59:32] absolutely support, uh, the,

[1:59:33] the, and the two deputies are

[1:59:35] looking for what the needs are,

[1:59:36] what we can afford, when we can

[1:59:37] afford them, um, and moving

[1:59:39] forward and, and really, I know

[1:59:40] that our, our sheriff

[1:59:40] s

[1:59:41] department is very responsible

[1:59:42] in telling us what their needs

[1:59:43] are.

[1:59:44] And we

[1:59:45] re dedicated to making

[1:59:46] sure that those needs are there

[1:59:47] so you can do your job

[1:59:48] effectively. So I, I fully

[1:59:49] support, uh, the mayor

[1:59:49] s idea

[1:59:50] on that. I think that

[1:59:51] s really

[1:59:52] great. Um,

[1:59:54] I would like to add, I, I

[1:59:54] d

[1:59:56] like to see us approach other

[1:59:58] cities and the county because I

[1:59:59] think the county is a big part

[2:00:01] of this, uh,

[2:00:03] To have a a real healthy

[2:00:04] discussion about entry points

[2:00:05] within the city, because I,

[2:00:05] what I

[2:00:06] ve heard a lot of times

[2:00:07] up here from our people who

[2:00:07] ve

[2:00:09] come up, um, Michael Durancy

[2:00:09] s

[2:00:10] mentioned it, you know, people

[2:00:11] come up and they

[2:00:11] re entering

[2:00:12] the city quick.

[2:00:14] And how do we, how do we

[2:00:15] address that? And I think

[2:00:16] that

[2:00:16] s something we have to

[2:00:17] partner with. And, and I don

[2:00:17] t

[2:00:18] know if that

[2:00:18] ll happen

[2:00:19] overnight, but we gotta start

[2:00:20] the conversation. So let

[2:00:20] s

[2:00:21] start the conversation. Let

[2:00:21] s

[2:00:22] be the ones who start it.

[2:00:24] Um, so I, I, I

[2:00:24] m gonna look to,

[2:00:26] to the mayor to help, you know,

[2:00:26] let

[2:00:27] s craft something together

[2:00:28] to go to the other the other

[2:00:30] mayors, the county supervisor,

[2:00:30] and let

[2:00:30] s, let

[2:00:31] s write a letter

[2:00:31] that says, hey, we want to get

[2:00:32] going on this and see what they

[2:00:33] wanna do.

[2:00:37] Um,

[2:00:40] Lastly, you know, I think.

[2:00:42] We try to silo issues up here a

[2:00:43] lot of times, and, and it

[2:00:43] s

[2:00:45] natural, it happens because

[2:00:45] you

[2:00:46] re talking about a very

[2:00:48] specific project or a very

[2:00:49] specific outcome.

[2:00:51] And

[2:00:53] I want to implore everybody up

[2:00:54] here who

[2:00:55] It

[2:00:55] s here because they

[2:00:56] re upset

[2:00:57] about

[2:00:59] Traffic and traffic measures

[2:01:01] and traffic safety.

[2:01:01] It

[2:01:03] s not just traffic safety.

[2:01:03] It

[2:01:05] s a multitude of issues. I,

[2:01:08] i urge you to.

[2:01:10] Find out, ask the state, hey,

[2:01:11] this, this housing mandate is

[2:01:13] creating a dangerous situation

[2:01:13] in our city.

[2:01:15] Why?

[2:01:17] What are we doing? What are we

[2:01:18] trying to do? Get involved in

[2:01:19] other issues. E-bikes, we just

[2:01:20] spent

[2:01:22] Hour and a half last time

[2:01:23] talking about e-bikes and the

[2:01:24] management of it and the

[2:01:26] challenges of it, um, get

[2:01:27] involved in the e-bike

[2:01:29] conversation. Um, there are

[2:01:30] multiple layers of any

[2:01:31] discussion we have up here, and

[2:01:31] I

[2:01:32] m only hitting those because

[2:01:32] we

[2:01:33] re talking about traffic

[2:01:34] today, um, but there

[2:01:34] s multiple,

[2:01:36] multiple areas we can go to

[2:01:36] rather than silo over let

[2:01:38] s

[2:01:38] realize everything is

[2:01:39] interconnected, um, and look at

[2:01:40] it. That

[2:01:40] s the way I know

[2:01:41] council looks at it from every,

[2:01:42] all 5 of us out there, city

[2:01:43] manager office and our staff

[2:01:45] are trying to work things every

[2:01:46] interconnecting in that

[2:01:48] holistic approach. Um um.

[2:01:49] But I think that

[2:01:49] s where part

[2:01:50] of where we have to go and look

[2:01:52] at those questions. Otherwise

[2:01:53] they become too simple and they

[2:01:53] become black and white, and

[2:01:54] these are not black and white

[2:01:56] issues. These are very gray

[2:01:57] issues of how do we get the

[2:01:59] best outcome. Some of it is the

[2:02:00] responsibility, as you

[2:02:00] re

[2:02:01] hearing the responsibility of

[2:02:02] the driver. Some of it is

[2:02:03] responsibility of the, some of

[2:02:04] it is the infrastructure, and

[2:02:06] we want to address all that the

[2:02:07] best we can. You know, I think,

[2:02:08] um,

[2:02:10] Just to reiterate the, the

[2:02:12] e-bike discussion did include a

[2:02:13] large portion of education. I

[2:02:14] know the city, um, and this

[2:02:14] elsewhere wasn

[2:02:15] t in there. So

[2:02:15] you

[2:02:16] re gonna move forward with

[2:02:17] some educational pieces and I

[2:02:17] m

[2:02:19] Sure that all traffic mode

[2:02:20] modalities will be included in

[2:02:21] that educational piece that

[2:02:23] came out of the e-bike

[2:02:24] conversation. So, um,

[2:02:24] I

[2:02:26] m

[2:02:29] This job will never end, and we

[2:02:29] won

[2:02:31] t rest until we get

[2:02:33] Safest sea as we can possibly

[2:02:34] get.

[2:02:35] And the safest city will be

[2:02:37] with the least possible deaths

[2:02:38] we can get across the way. If

[2:02:39] if it

[2:02:40] s 0, great. If it

[2:02:40] s 1,

[2:02:41] great, we want it to be as

[2:02:43] close to 0 as we can get it

[2:02:43] though, and we

[2:02:43] re always going

[2:02:44] to be moving forward. And even

[2:02:45] when we think we

[2:02:45] ve got it

[2:02:46] right.

[2:02:46] We

[2:02:48] re all committed to moving

[2:02:48] forward. That

[2:02:49] s staff, city

[2:02:50] manager

[2:02:50] s department, uh, as

[2:02:52] well as our, our council. I

[2:02:52] m

[2:02:55] sure any future council, um,

[2:02:55] whether it

[2:02:56] s 4 years from now,

[2:02:57] 10 years from now, 20 years

[2:02:58] from now, it

[2:02:58] s always gonna be,

[2:02:59] you, you, you don

[2:03:00] t, you don

[2:03:00] t

[2:03:00] sit in these seats and hear the

[2:03:02] things we hear and talk to the

[2:03:04] residents every day and not

[2:03:05] prioritize this. So, um, I, I

[2:03:06] m

[2:03:06] really grateful everybody came

[2:03:07] up here. Hopefully, you, you

[2:03:09] feel all the shared concerns,

[2:03:10] um.

[2:03:12] That we have with all of you.

[2:03:14] Um, I think I wanna compliment

[2:03:14] staff, sheriff

[2:03:15] s department,

[2:03:16] and the city manager

[2:03:17] s office

[2:03:19] really acting. Obviously, um,

[2:03:22] This is, this is.

[2:03:24] Well, bad pun, a long road

[2:03:24] ahead still, and we

[2:03:24] re going to

[2:03:26] keep going. So, um, thank you

[2:03:27] to everybody for participating.

[2:03:27] Thank you for coming out

[2:03:29] tonight.

[2:03:31] Ok. Um, so, uh, I think I

[2:03:32] ve

[2:03:33] got a couple of actions that

[2:03:34] I

[2:03:35] ve heard a specific actions.

[2:03:38] Number one is to, uh, agendaize

[2:03:39] the, uh, certainly within the

[2:03:41] framework of the, uh, the

[2:03:43] circulation element, goals and

[2:03:45] policies, uh, coming back and

[2:03:46] going through the

[2:03:47] recommendations in the local

[2:03:50] road safety plan and the

[2:03:52] comprehensive safety action

[2:03:53] plans, um, because they

[2:03:53] re,

[2:03:53] they

[2:03:53] re, they

[2:03:54] re slightly

[2:03:55] different and, and one

[2:03:55] s more

[2:03:57] focused on a handful of streets,

[2:03:58] uh, comprehensive plan really

[2:03:59] only looks.

[2:04:01] To the major streets and, um, I

[2:04:03] did have one question for, uh,

[2:04:04] council member Lyons. The

[2:04:06] 200,000, is that in the

[2:04:08] comprehensive safety action

[2:04:08] plan. I, I didn

[2:04:09] t see that in

[2:04:09] there. No, it

[2:04:10] s, uh, it

[2:04:10] s in

[2:04:13] the local road safety plan. Um,

[2:04:15] I did not, uh, yeah, it

[2:04:16] s page

[2:04:18] 45. Ok, page 45.

[2:04:20] And, and so I think there

[2:04:21] s

[2:04:24] gonna be more detailed

[2:04:25] directives coming out of there,

[2:04:26] you know, one thing that I

[2:04:26] m

[2:04:27] looking for, and I think it

[2:04:29] came up tonight multiple times

[2:04:31] is the RRFBs and how can we

[2:04:33] make them safer because quite

[2:04:34] frankly, I, I.

[2:04:34] I

[2:04:35] m not sure I

[2:04:36] ve, I

[2:04:36] ve seen

[2:04:37] examples where I think we even

[2:04:38] talked to the others talked

[2:04:40] about it. Uh, the people don

[2:04:41] t

[2:04:41] necessarily stop for them.

[2:04:41] They

[2:04:42] re not sure what to do on

[2:04:44] a flashing yellow. So, but, but

[2:04:46] there is actually in the uh

[2:04:48] comprehensive safety action

[2:04:51] plan, there is a uh

[2:04:53] implementation strategy 3.2.

[2:04:53] I

[2:04:54] m sorry, uh, there, there was

[2:04:55] one in there that talks about

[2:04:56] this, also talks about

[2:04:58] increased use of uh.

[2:05:00] Speed signs and so, so this is,

[2:05:02] this is a I opened this up.

[2:05:03] This is a multivariable. There

[2:05:05] are quite a few different

[2:05:08] moving objects or moving, uh,

[2:05:11] Task tasks moving forward, uh,

[2:05:12] and we

[2:05:13] re not slowing any

[2:05:14] others down. In other words,

[2:05:15] red light cameras, that

[2:05:15] ll be

[2:05:18] agenda, uh, we, we have quite a

[2:05:20] few others occurring. And, uh,

[2:05:21] we, we will continue forward,

[2:05:26] but, uh, so agendaizing the

[2:05:29] lrsp and and and csap and then

[2:05:32] uh also work with the, uh,

[2:05:34] City manager and sheriff on,

[2:05:34] I

[2:05:35] ll say the need, the

[2:05:39] logistics, and the funding for

[2:05:40] additional this is a

[2:05:41] multivariable. There are quite

[2:05:42] a few different. What is going

[2:05:44] on now.

[2:05:49] Welcome to the new world of sb

[2:05:50] 707 where we

[2:05:52] re broadcasting

[2:05:53] red light cameras, that

[2:05:54] ll be

[2:05:55] agenda. Can we, uh.

[2:05:55] You

[2:05:56] re a robot. You you guys

[2:05:57] had to hear me once. Now you

[2:06:00] gotta hear me twice. So sorry.

[2:06:02] Yeah.

[2:06:04] I, I always tell people, you

[2:06:06] know, the best it can hope for

[2:06:08] is nobody complaining. That

[2:06:08] s

[2:06:10] the pinnacle of performance. So,

[2:06:12] but hopefully, Warren, Warren

[2:06:12] s

[2:06:15] got me quieted down at my, my,

[2:06:17] uh, ai, uh, agent over there

[2:06:18] speaking for me.

[2:06:18] Um, i

[2:06:19] m gonna go back. Number 2

[2:06:22] is, uh, work with, uh, city

[2:06:24] manager and sheriff on the, uh,

[2:06:27] need, logistics and funding and

[2:06:28] funding for an and funding and

[2:06:28] funding for an additional 2 and

[2:06:29] funding and funding for an

[2:06:30] additional 2 traffic deputies

[2:06:32] likely at mid-year budget would

[2:06:34] be my guess. So, and then the

[2:06:34] thing we didn

[2:06:35] t talk about much,

[2:06:36] all those people mentioned it,

[2:06:38] is continue pushing the

[2:06:41] education, um, I, I went to the,

[2:06:42] uh, sheriff

[2:06:43] s, uh, meeting with

[2:06:45] the, with the city, the session.

[2:06:46] I thought it was excellent. I

[2:06:46] d

[2:06:47] like to see it repeated. I

[2:06:48] d

[2:06:48] like.

[2:06:50] To see it videotaped and, and

[2:06:53] add that as yet another

[2:06:54] education component, so I think

[2:06:56] those are the, the three

[2:06:57] actions out of this meeting,

[2:06:57] and I

[2:06:58] m sure there

[2:06:58] ll be more

[2:07:00] in short order I would add the

[2:07:02] for the circulation elephant

[2:07:04] separating the having a a safe

[2:07:06] travel lanes for the bikes.

[2:07:07] Some, something of that nature,

[2:07:08] just a, a, a proposed so we can

[2:07:09] have something to start with

[2:07:10] and go or, or do you, I, I

[2:07:13] would do that right in with the,

[2:07:16] uh, lrsp, uh, um, comprehensive

[2:07:18] safety action plan at that

[2:07:18] meeting, and we

[2:07:19] ll bring it up

[2:07:20] there and if we need to

[2:07:21] separate it out as a

[2:07:23] circulation as long as it comes

[2:07:24] back, but my plan was during

[2:07:26] that meeting to do everything

[2:07:27] within the framework and

[2:07:28] understand that we need to

[2:07:30] update any policies in the

[2:07:32] current circulation element. Ok.

[2:07:33] Yeah.

[2:07:36] With the, did you wanna? Ok

[2:07:37] ok, yes, thank you. All right,

[2:07:37] so I

[2:07:40] m just gonna recap, um, if

[2:07:41] that is the motion that goes

[2:07:42] forward. So, um, I will work

[2:07:43] with staff. Obviously, the

[2:07:45] local road safety plan was

[2:07:48] adopted back in AUGUST of 2022.

[2:07:50] Um, the comprehensive safety

[2:07:52] action plan was completed. It

[2:07:54] was brought to, I want to say

[2:07:55] the mobility and traffic Safety

[2:07:56] Commission in either APRIL or

[2:07:58] MAY of 2025. Ok, yep, I got my

[2:08:00] dates right. Dan is signaling

[2:08:02] me. Um, so obviously one has

[2:08:03] been done and adopted, another

[2:08:05] one has not been adopted by

[2:08:06] council but has been finished.

[2:08:07] So we will definitely bring

[2:08:09] those forward so council can

[2:08:10] see those and then depending on

[2:08:12] what comes out of that, we MAY

[2:08:13] have different asks because we

[2:08:14] did have consultants work on

[2:08:15] both of those to let you know.

[2:08:18] I can definitely work with um

[2:08:18] Captain.

[2:08:20] And my finance team to look at

[2:08:21] different financing and yes,

[2:08:22] Mayor, it would be mid-year

[2:08:24] cause because we need to get

[2:08:25] through our audit as we

[2:08:27] normally do and end of the year,

[2:08:28] um, so we can do that. And then

[2:08:29] as far as education, absolutely.

[2:08:32] And one of the things is we

[2:08:33] have additional funding, um, to

[2:08:35] work on bike education, um,

[2:08:37] with the MOUs with the schools,

[2:08:40] um, they did not, um, take the

[2:08:40] money. They didn

[2:08:41] t want to

[2:08:42] pursue the mou, so we do have

[2:08:43] additional funding. So we are

[2:08:45] going to use that for whether

[2:08:45] it

[2:08:46] s driver education, bike

[2:08:47] education, absolutely we

[2:08:47] re

[2:08:47] gonna use that.

[2:08:49] For that good as well. So I

[2:08:50] just wanted to circle that up

[2:08:52] if you guys make that.

[2:08:53] Ok.

[2:08:54] So I

[2:08:55] ll make that in the form

[2:08:57] of a motion and, uh.

[2:09:00] Second, I got a 2nd.

[2:09:01] You need to read it back, I

[2:09:04] think.

[2:09:04] So it

[2:09:06] s to agendaize at a

[2:09:08] future meeting to be determined

[2:09:09] as I thought I heard around

[2:09:11] OCTOBER if possible, yeah, as

[2:09:12] soon as possible, as soon as

[2:09:15] possible, uh, the lsrp and the

[2:09:16] csap to look at where we

[2:09:17] re at

[2:09:19] in new opportunities with that,

[2:09:20] um, also to work city manager

[2:09:21] to work with the sheriff

[2:09:21] s

[2:09:23] department.

[2:09:24] To explore the feasibility of

[2:09:25] adding two deputies at the

[2:09:28] mid-year budget.

[2:09:31] Yeah, the need, the need the,

[2:09:33] uh, um, logistics and funding

[2:09:35] and funding, ok, and then also

[2:09:37] to include an educational

[2:09:39] component to that at a minimum

[2:09:42] the, uh, uh, repeating the, the

[2:09:45] city.

[2:09:47] And Sheriff co-sponsored event

[2:09:49] and maybe even videotaping it

[2:09:49] so it

[2:09:50] s available.

[2:09:53] To be spread far and wide.

[2:09:57] Can I add, uh, Amendment 2, can

[2:09:59] we include, uh,

[2:10:00] Writing a letter to approach

[2:10:02] other cities in the county to

[2:10:03] discuss entry points.

[2:10:05] Absolutely. Ok.

[2:10:05] We

[2:10:07] ll include that as well. Ok,

[2:10:09] so those are the, that

[2:10:09] s the

[2:10:11] motion and the 2nd, call the

[2:10:17] question.

[2:10:19] That motion carries unanimously.

[2:10:24] And with that we are adjourned

[2:10:26] until 2:25 after or do we wanna

[2:10:26] go to?

[2:10:27] I, I know you guys, we

[2:10:28] ll go

[2:10:29] till 6:30, so we

[2:10:29] ll be, we

[2:10:30] ll.

[2:10:32] Uh, come back at 6:30.

Special City Council Meeting - Roadway Safety and Traffic Enforcement 4:00 p.m.

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