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So, the five locations that they wanted to look at, the first one was… was the vacant grass lot next to the bar…

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kiss, kiss and ride, is what we call it. So they looked at this location, they thought.

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being in proximity to the bart. Station, pittsburgh center station, and the kiss and rides, they thought this had some potential for a mobility hub.

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um, the downsides on this location was there really wasn't… what they considered a draw for people to be coming here, using transit to come to this location.

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I guess, uh, you know, the starbucks. You've got the library, you got the hotel, you got the courts, city hall.

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the people who attended the site visit thought that wasn't really a raw enough for transit.

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the next location where actually there was two across the street from each other, so this is that railroad and bliss.

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so, they looked at both locations. What they liked about railroad is railroad has already been kind of identified as a priority transit corridor.

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it's a high traffic corridor in the city. They liked their little proximity to the shopping center that they thought would be a draw for people who were riding transit.

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um, for this site here. There wasn't really enough room to do anything with it.

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but I did share with them that pittsburgh does have plans to try and redevelop the bliss avenue corridor.

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and potentially a mobility hub. Features could be part of that redevelopment, which they liked.

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um, this site here actually was their favorite. This is the site that they were recommending that we do. We just built the new class 1 bike trail.

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it's shaded, there's space to actually build some amenities, and it's on the railroad, which was attractive to them.

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and it's near the fart station. The other locations that we visited was here on atlantic avenue.

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we've thought this shopping center would be a great draw for transit users, but it really wasn't.

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a friendly, welcoming environment, there's not a lot of trees, no real place to wait.

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be a hot parking lot. So, this wasn't… considered very attractive. And the last bot that we visited was just outside of the senior center.

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this one had a lot of positives. It's by the delta de anza trail. The senior center would be a draw for transit users. There's a lot of high-density residential.

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uh, you have future build, and you have small world park.

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so while this was an attractive option, it was a little farther away from the bart station.

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which is why they express an interest in moving forward. With… this location here on the road.

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some of the features… so, I'm sorry, before I move on.

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looking for feedback, do you agree with their assessment that this is the desired location, or is there a… another location that you think would be more desirable for.

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I guess, let me try and… I will attempt to define what a transit hub is, because there's really… I'll be honest, it's still not very clear to me. The intent is it's a location.

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where you have multiple modes of transportation that interact in one location.

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so, you're attracting transit users, vehicular users, bicycle users, and pedestrians.

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it's a central area where you're transitioning from one transportation mode to another.

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so you're going from a bus. To part, or you're going from over 5.

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do a bus, or you're getting dropped off in a car and getting on.

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so that's kind of what they envision this full building hub being. Multiple different modes of transportation gathering in one location.

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thoughts on this location? I mean, I guess, uh, that's more descriptive than I've seen in previous, like, we had it for a transplant, I think we've had that, like, a definition, but…

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what you described is a little bit more detailed. I'm still… kind of like to grasp, like, what this is gonna look like at the end of the time of year.

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I know it's probably a common problem, but that would be a common problem. I have the same comments. So… I mean, um, first thought, I'm thinking, like, are, uh, hissenwright is a great one because.

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we kind of tried to design that even in the design of that case, if I had there places to go store by.

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I think there's the drop-off, um, points. I think you have the walking trails that we just built.

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over there as well. So I'm kind of thinking, like, that's probably a better location, the one that you had first up there. Okay. Um… you know, if you go from the hotel, you can walk over to transit. I mean, I don't…

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I just don't see this specific… the difference between that spot and the one that they liked, which is right.

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in front of a very crowded vehicular standpoint, very crowded street. Right.

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yeah, so I saw this slide, so it looks like they're one of them called the restrooms there, too. So, these were some potential options, as the way they described it, of features that would be included in a mobility hunt. And so they asked for feedback, you know, what they envisioned for the pittsburgh one is kind of like a mid-size mobility hub, not a larger mobility hub.

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and so the… one of the questions is, what features would you want to see?

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I told them I don't want a public restroom. I don't think that would be a good fit for that location, and it'd be problematic, but…

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I would love to get your feedback on what, if any, of these features you think we should do. I almost support, like, the kiss and ride was designed to be this, um, to have community space there. I guess we don't have real-time travel information from the same time.

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uh, there's lighting. Street furniture, we have a transit shelter, we have that. Living zones kind of have that.

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so, we do actually, yeah, so I don't know. Seems like we already have that.

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there. Uh, the other one off bliss, the… park and ride. I need that.

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seems like we have all similar features there as well. Maybe we can add some community spaces there.

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real-time travel information with it. This is hard to…

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it is. It is difficult. I think that your feedback that you've given is what I was looking for, so I get an idea of, kind of, your thought process and.

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things that you'd be considering. Um, I think at this time, I'm going to pause and see, do we have public comment on this item?

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uh, yes, we do. Thank you very much. Uh, bruce olson, pittsburgh, mr. Bicycle.

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uh, now, let me be absolutely sure where we're talking about. This is a little bit south.

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of the freeway on railroad avenue on the west side of the street. Yes, that is correct. That is correct.

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it doesn't seem to me like there's much space there.

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yes, so I have to agree with you, we couldn't fit in a public restroom.

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but I agree with you. We don't need one. However, it would seem to me, if we want… automobiles drivers to be able to take part in swapping from.

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one mode to another, we'd have to put in some parking.

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where would we do that? I am sure that the people who own the stores right next.

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to there are not going to be too pleased if we have a lot of.

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people parking in their areas. I'm not saying this is a bad spot.

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well, I don't see how it would work. If we do construct it.

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pittsburgh's bicycle community would like to see. That we have some bike racks.

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some bike lockers. And connection to the existing bicycle infrastructure in our city.

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my last point is, uh… strongly felt.

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we've got bike lanes on railroad avenue, we've got the bike path on railroad avenue, we got the bike.

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paths on both sides of the freeway going both east and west.

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so, from, uh… connection to the bicycle infrastructure.

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perspective, this would be a great spot. Um, thank you. Thank you, bruce.

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so, um… the consultants who are taking the lead on this are gonna come up with some conceptual ideas, conceptual plans, so we'll share with them our thoughts and opinions on what we'd like to see.

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and then we'll be happy to bring you back to this subcommittee anything that we get from them.

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any final thoughts before we move on? Thank you.

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oh, it did also include, uh… charter of transit does have a website.

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with information about their mobility hub, so I include that for informational purposes.

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all right. Number three, preferential residential permit parking.

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so, why do we have preferential residential permit parking? So, in…

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early 2000s, we were getting a lot of complaints from residents who live near.

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the pittsburgh bay point bart station. The bart station parking lot was… didn't have enough capacity, it was overflowing with cars, and people were parking in the neighborhoods.

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and it was causing a major impact. So, as a result.

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uh, the city of pittsburgh adopted an ordinance on march 5th, 2001 that created a preferential residential permit parking policy.

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and it set criteria for how a neighborhood can qualify for this permit parking.

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it required, like, two-thirds of the residents had to vote to approve.

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you had to have over 80% of the street was occupied by cars.

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and, um, well, I have the criteria later on, aside of me jumping ahead, I'm sorry.

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so we created the policy, march of 2001, and then on april 16th, 2001, we created the first zone.

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in that oak hills neighborhood, right across the street from the bart station.

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in 2016. Uh, we expanded it to include the houses that front bailey road.

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at west leland. They were having a similar problem.

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and I have a map, but I'll go over these areas again.

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in october of 2017, in anticipation of the pittsburgh center park station opening and their parking lot likely not meeting capacity.

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there were concerns from the… of the neighborhood as well, so a… um, permit parking program was… established in the high school village neighborhood.

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and then in 2018, going back to oak hills, there was some… people were parking further back into the neighborhood, still causing issues, so that neighborhood was expanded again.

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as I discussed, there was criteria established within the policy. Um, two-thirds had to sign within the prepared area, saying they agree with this permit parking program.

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80% of the streets had to be fully occupied by cars.

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and, uh, it had to be a residential area. 80% of the properties fronting the street had to be residential.

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and then a minimum of 25% of the vehicles parked on the street had to be from people who did not live within that neighborhood.

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so that was the criteria. And here are our maps. So, as you can see.

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in 20… 2001. Where's my mouse?

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I lost my mouse. There it is. This… this was the first zone that was created right across from the bart station.

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and then 2016, this section here on bailey road was added.

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and then in… 2018.

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the oak hills neighborhood was expanded to include this area. Okay, so this is the existing limits of the permit parking program in oaks.

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for high school village. This is the area that was established near the high school. You can see where the park station is. Here's the bart parking lot.

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when it first opened, the parking lot was full. Um, but I don't know if we ever really saw the traffic.

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leading into the residential neighborhood, but we preemptively created the zone.

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all right. All right. Now, some things have changed since we created the policy in 2001 and started establishing the zones. In may of 2018.

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bart extended the service into antioch. And so, instead of everyone coming to the pittsburgh bay point station as the last in the line.

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they now were going to the antioch station, and traffic at the antioch station went crazy.

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then, in march of 2020, as we all know, we had covid-19, the pandemic, and it completely changed the way people work.

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and people's commutes. And even though we've, for the most part, a lot of people have returned to work.

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traffic patterns have still changed, and bart ridership has not recovered back to pre-covid levels.

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so as a result, both of the parking lots are not even coming close to capacity.

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so, an example…

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on the left is what the bart station looked like in 2010.

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on the right is what it… looks like now. Now, granted, I could not tell you what day of the week or time of the day these photos were taken, but that 2025 is reflective to what we are seeing, as far as levels are concerned.

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so, the question is. Do we still need the permit parking within this neighborhood?

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there is a cost to run the program. And as people are building adus, they're asking for additional permits.

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and so we're issuing more and more permits. We're not getting a lot of complaints from the neighborhood, we're not seeing a lot of people parked in the neighborhood.

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and so the question is, at this time. Do we want to consider.

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modifying or eliminating. Some of these zones.

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so, in the ordinance, it does allow… the city engineer, at any time.

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could recommend that we modify or rescind. A preferential residential permit parking.

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area, and it would require notifying the public of this proposed change, and then holding a public hearing.

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so, we're looking for feedback from the subcommittee on what are your thoughts.

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for both the oak hills, and then the high school village.

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uh, I think staff's recommendation is more geared towards oak hills, maybe not being needed anymore, and recommending that maybe we dissolve.

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that program. And then, for the high school village, I know they were having problems with high school traffic in addition to park, so I don't know… I don't think we feel as…

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strongly one way or the other on that recommendation. This time, I'll turn over some… thoughts or questions?

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do you still see in the oak hills, do we still see issues with the apartment complex?

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overflow parking onto that street, residential street. That was not… when we met with the police department to discuss this issue, they did not bring that up as a problem.

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I don't… it makes sense. Another strategy could be to test it for a 3-month window.

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I don't know, but somehow, maybe not completely dissolve the area, just in case. Something changes, and we… so we see a dramatic… maybe it is the apartments, or somebody's coming over there, and then…

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instead of having to recreate, I don't know if that's an extra step or not, to give a little more flexibility before making it a permanent dissolution.

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to your point, what happens if… you know, we did get rid of it and wanted to bring it back, we didn't have to rewrite the code, just the standard.

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so, I mean, one of the options we could do what garrett is recommending, and we… we vote to… temporarily remove it for a 3-month trial period and see if there's an issue, at which time, we can then bring the item back for formal, either saying, nope, it is needed, let's keep it in place, or we can dissolve it.

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if it does get dissolved, and we start having problems, we would go through the process of doing the survey to see, does it still meet the criteria to then recreate.

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the zoning. Is there a way to survey the areas?

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whether it's door-to-door, sample size, or, well, people will know anymore, so that's gonna be weird. But maybe, like.

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paper survey. We can do a mailer, we can do a mailer, um.

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like you said, people generally don't respond nowadays, but yes, we could try and do some outreach and get the opinions of the neighborhood. People do do… I get a lot of stuff through nextdoor thrown… like the utility, stuff like that. How many people are supposed to be permitted?

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in that area. And how many homes are included in the zone? Uh-huh. I unfortunately don't have an answer. I'd probably look at to see how many people are renewing.

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maybe there's a way you can do a survey through nextdoor and say, if you live in this… the challenge with nextdoor is you can't create the zone, yeah. So… and people outside of that neighborhood could also see and comment. So it'd be hard to make sure that the responses you're getting are really from the people who lived in that zone.

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I was asking about the renewals. I didn't know it worked like that.

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so, they're supposed to renew their permits every year. That has not been the practice.

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so, they have not renewed in a very long time. I posted this survey.

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um, superficial. This obviously would be a much more focused and.

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but our larger ones, what, 20,000, I guess, is what we spent, but citywide, that's obviously your population.

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which blessed them out. How much does this program cost?

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so, it does take some steps. So, we don't charge the residents any fee. There's no cost to them for having to permit part. So, for us, it's really the staff time to manage it.

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um, which is minimal. We… the cost of printing and distributing the permits, so when someone needs a new permit, or when someone moves in or out, there's processing of new permits.

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and then, uh, replacing the signs. So, every 7 years, the signs are gonna fade, you're gonna need to replace the signs.

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and then the enforcement side. Right, so would people call the police department saying there's someone parked that's not authorized, the police do have to respond and issue that citation?

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and what they share is oftentimes the complaints they are currently getting. It's someone who's visiting someone, but didn't get the visitor tag to put it on.

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every month, I deal with the survey. See what happens, but also, like, the 3-month idea, too.

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staff can reach out to our polling entities. Um, and find out if there is a link to the best way to…

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gather some data. Is there a way that we can see how many people have…

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how many residents have renewed their program? Yes. Yeah, we have… we do have a spreadsheet with all the residents and their permits.

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so we can get that information. I just wasn't prepared, and I should have been better prepared for that.

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I do want to pause, though, and see, do we have public comment on this item?

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all right. Thank you very much. It'd still be brutals and mr. Bicycle.

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thank you for inviting the comment. And, uh, thank you for including.

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bicycle infrastructure throughout the city when you're doing maintenance and new construction on our streets and roads.

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now, we understand that. We're not under pressure right now.

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but the bicycle community is concerned. That we might lose use of the bike lanes.

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on bailey road and west leland road, if parking at some time in the future becomes a problem.

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the individual could just park their car in the vice lane, and that would not be good.

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now, we have… standard 4-foot bike lanes. We have a 4-foot bike lane and a painted.

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uh, extra area for more space between the moving automobile. And the bicyclists. Then we could add…

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either k-rail or pixie sticks. In the painted area between the automobiles and the bike lane, or…

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we could add a 10-foot sidewalk on each side of the street.

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and not have any… bicycle facility marked on the street, and have shared facility pedestrians, and bicycles.

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so, I guess… I'm speaking in vague, broad generalities now, and uh… pittsburgh's bicycle community is not really concerned, as you had mentioned, about the city not being particularly concerned about this, but at some time in the future.

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we might have to be concerned. Thank you. Thank you.

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any other questions or thoughts inside of it?

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so, we will look into polling. And if we do bring this forward, we will consider doing it at the trial period. Is that… do you want us to do this for both zones, both the high school village and oak hills?

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yeah, I think there's different issues. Because I think oak hill's experienced it. It feels like a reactive thing that was put in. I think the one here village.

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I think it was proactive based on public comment when. This one, the kissing writers, put in the brief or something, yeah, so I don't know that they actually experience.

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right. I think some of the public comment, if I recall, there were some.

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residents who were saying there were some overflow parking by the students that was impacting those students.

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I could see them being more concerned about high school traffic than they are the bart traffic.

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okay, thank you for your feedback. We should connect.

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who was in contact with canada? Yes, we will… this will come back.

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so the city received a request for speed humps. On burton avenue between west leland and william way.

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and we just wanted to share the results with you on that. So, uh, this… map shows you the limits of the area that was surveyed.

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and so, we have an existing policy for traffic call speed humps.

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and criteria for… that a street needs to meet in order to qualify.

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and so, what you'll see here on top is we have that list of evaluation criteria, and we mark the ones that it met, which is a lot of them.

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but we didn't mark the ones that it didn't need to.

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so, it did not meet the speed requirement, so at least 15% of vehicles travel at speeds 6 miles per hour or more above the posted speed limit.

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so there's post-speed limit on burton avenue is 25. So you needed to have 15% of the vehicles traveling over 31 miles per hour. The results of this speed survey is it was just over 1%.

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so it did not meet the criteria. You're also required to have at least more than 500.

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uh, the average daily traffic. And, um, we had just under 500.

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so it didn't meet the volume amount, barely, but it also didn't meet the speed.

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so, based on our criteria and the data that we've collected.

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uh, the recommendation is going to be to deny the request for speed humps.

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so we will work with the police department on other traffic calming.

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measures that we can do, whether that's enforcement. Put another speed trailer.

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signage, we'll look at other things, but at this time, it doesn't meet the requirements for speed.

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do we implement other traffic cognitions already, like the trailer? We have not, so that's why that box hasn't been marked either. We have not done that yet. So, but we will continue to explore that as an option.

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and then will this be shared with the applicant? Yeah, everyone who signed the petition should get a copy of the results, so they… yeah, that hasn't happened yet. It will after tonight, but…

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I think it's good that way people understand why all these speed limits aren't being considered for.

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installed, because I get this question a lot, not just in this area, but in other areas of the city.

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and I understand we'll be collect data, you know, I'm sure there's a good sample size, right? But when people live there.

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they hear the one, you know, car that's speeding through, and that's their representation, oftentimes. Right. Like, a lot of… although the data may not show that, right? So, I can understand why people would like to get frustrated, because all it takes is one speeder to.

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get a kid, or something like that, so I understand. The concerning, but we also can't have the speed up until industry in the city.

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right. We have to prioritize accordingly, so… okay. Is there any public comment on this item?

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right. Alright, any further discussion?

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also, that, um, like, the application process posted on our social media.

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um, like, that link to the application. Yeah, we could. Just so that we could maybe… because how many of these would get a year, you know, long after?

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I don't know. A lot of them get processed without coming to my level, so I can… I can look. I would… we get a fair amount of.

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complaints of speed. We don't get that many requests for specifically speed humps with a petition. With the petition, so you're probably looking 5 to 10 a year.

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but we can still look at also making even a video on, hey, are you having, you know, friend.

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this is the process. You can go through that very well.

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yeah, because I was surprised when I looked at this, and I was like, oh, that's how you do that. That's how you make the request.

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yeah, we can do that. Well, we have information on our website, but sometimes the videos is.

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is very educational, and the community outreach team is making up a new intern, you know, project.

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there's also, like, an ai tool right now, but, like, you can just, like, process. I think the city of copley does it for their, um, agendas.

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all right, item 5, roads outreach debrief. How we doing? Ooh, I've been at some elevator speech time. Okay. So, uh, city councils, part of their annual strategic plan, created an objective to increase the pavement condition index to 65 by 2029.

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as part of that, some of the implementation measures, including holding monthly roads town hall meetings.

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doing two community surveys and considering a sales tax measure. So we just wanted to spend a little bit of time and kind of debrief you.

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since we just finished our last town hall meeting. This powerpoint thing is, um.

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those are doing nothing. For the mouse… there's the mouse. Come on!

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thank you. All right. So, we've held 10…

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rhodes town halls, the initial goal was to do 8 town hall in each of the 10 zones that we created.

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we wanted to go out to the residence. Where they live, try and meet them where they are.

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we thought this would improve attendance and get them to really engage with us.

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and share with them not only our program that we've developed, but the challenge that we have with the lack of funding. So what I've done is I've put together this map that showed the location of all 10 town hall meetings.

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so, in these boxes, the top number, that's the date of the town hall meeting.

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then we have the location of the town hall meeting, and that bottom number is how many people attended.

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so, jordan, can you work your magic and get this to go away again?

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see? He did it. Just go away. Wave your hand. All right.

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so, the first one was held in zone 3, uh, it was at the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints on golf course road.

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and we had two people show up, but we had a good… uh, the next one was in zone 4. It was at the meadows mobile home park, because my mouse is just not showing up.

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uh, and we had two people show up there, and it was a couple, really nice, we had a good conversation with them about the work that was coming up in their neighborhood. They were really excited.

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next, we did zone… uh, we took a break in december. We figured we wouldn't be able to get people to attend, so next we did it in zone 7 at the senior center.

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and before, we were just notifying the people who lived in those zones. We wanted to have a focused effort, but because of the little numbers, we said, you know what, let's just divide everyone.

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we got 9 people to come to this meeting, which was great. We had a great meeting.

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uh, at the senior center, we had a good conversation. And we got people from several zones, but a lot of them were actually in zone 7.

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the next meeting was held at the library in zone 6, and we had 5 people. I think that's… it was 5 adults?

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some of them brought their kids. It was a decent turnout. We had a good time. They had great questions. They really appreciated the meeting.

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uh, the next one was… thank you so much, thank you. Uh, zone 5 at the marina center, again, it was 3, but it was…

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couples, or father-son, so the room is probably more like 6, but.

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only 3 people signed in. Uh, we had a good conversation again.

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um, but not very well attended. The next… the best one was the next one. That's because it was part of the nit. We did a present… we did our presentation at the nit. It was a full room at the marriott.

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and we had a lot of engagement, a lot of conversations.

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uh, the next one in zone 9 was held at future build.

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and we had 3 people attend that event. Now, we were getting a lot of feedback, gee, this is great, could you do a virtual meeting? It might be hard to attend in person, so we said, alright.

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in zone 10, we couldn't find a good facility, so we did a virtual meeting.

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we got one person. And we said, you know what? Let's try that again.

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for zone 2, let's have another virtual meeting. We got two.

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but we had a great meaning, right? Our own bruce olson attended that meeting. We had a great conversation, except the technology wouldn't let me hear you first.

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the last one, we thought, you know what, let's go to the people. We went to the car show, and we set up a booth, and we had a table.

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and no one. Um, but we had a good time, we had some good music, it was the hottest day of the year, but that was okay.

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we would invite people to come talk to us, they just wanted to listen to the music.

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I mean, while we didn't get good numbers, the people who did come had great questions.

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they really appreciated the information, they were really happy with the work that the city was doing.

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so, we shared with them the website and the map, the interactive map they thought was fantastic.

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so, I'm gonna… since you have a hard stop, I'm gonna turn over to garrett to take over on the survey. Real quickly.

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what… it also is somewhat representative in the polling data that we've done over the last 3 years.

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what I'd highlight to you is the second column on the right would be probably yes.

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column, if you will. Basically, we've done a poll at the same time in june, july of each year in 23, 24, 25.

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potential yes for a half-cent, uh, increase in sales tax. 23% was 48%.

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then it went to 46% and 42%. So actually. The support for half-cent sales tax has gone down somewhat, although in the margin of error rates, uh, actually still kind of worked.

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um, but what I think that shows is a lot of people are seeing the road improvements.

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and are comfortable with the pace that's going on right now.

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um, if you look at even the support of the quarter cent, it has not gone up, despite trying to increase and make sure people realize.

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hey, do you want your streets done? Do you want them done? Or even more?

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there's just not that buy-in right now. So, what we're laying out or recommending is.

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keep on doing the tenure. Pattern that's going on.

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and trying to move forward, um… with those trees, as it's laid out right now. Wish we had better news to say, wow, we can get.

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three times as many done, or four times, four zones in one, that it just doesn't seem to be good.

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the mood of the… something about the community. That's really what we have here. That's an update.

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okay. Okay. Elevator done. Before I turn it over to the subcommittee, do we have any public comment on this item?

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yes, we do. Good evening from seoul scientific church. Mr. Bicycle.

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um, I'm sorry we had technical problems. I would like to add a little bit to my comment of that evening.

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and that is, thank you for your… work you're doing with including infrastructure for all modes.

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of transportation. Transit, pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles when you're working on the streets and roads in the city of pittsburgh. I can't say that enough.

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I wish other cities in our area, or at anywhere near as interested in sharing the wealth.

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as the city of pittsburgh is. That said… pittsburgh's bicycle community would like to see more bike lanes.

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we would like to see more connected bicycle infrastructure. And we have two projects.

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that we would like to see constructed. Uh, number one is…

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continue… the bike path… now, on california avenue on the north side of highway 4.

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this time between harbor street. And leverage road.

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and if we do that, we would also want a crosswalk.

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on the south side of california avenue at harbor street. Okay, that's… that's one.

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caltrans will probably be interested in seeing that go forward also.

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the second project is… we would like to see a bicycle path.

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built in the pg&e high-voltage infrastructure. Between the west end of frontage road by the city well.

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and the rrfb crossing by the, uh. The school, I forget its name right now, but it's on, uh…

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on range road. That would be a connection between existing pieces of bicycle infrastructure.

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and it would be wonderful if, uh. If we could get a grant to do that.

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and thank you very much. Thank you. All right, thoughts, feedback from the subcommittee?

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just appreciate all the outreach that was done. Uh, you know, maybe not so great turnout in most cases, but I think.

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um, definitely appreciate trying to get the voice out there. The, um… the message as well. I mean, I know there's also, um.

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a news piece as well, right, that we were able to comment on, which I think.

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also expressed, um, kind of the situation in terms of the backlog of roads, so… um, definitely not for lack of effort, but I think what I see here with the polling data is.

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important issue. We like how things are going, at the rate they're going. If you want to accelerate it, then we find the money elsewhere. So, not a sales tax increase, so… um, which is fine.

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I wish it would be a whole different, but… right. You know.

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we're doing a good job. I mean, I think relative to where we were even.

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5-6 years ago, I mean, tremendous improvements already. Um, so I'm all for this 10-year plan.

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um, and if we can get extra dollars here and there.

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more accelerated. Thank you. I agree. My only comment is I just always appreciate the data and the background.

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um, so that we can share with folks that, you know, we're actually putting.

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we're being intentional from a data-driven place to make choices or decisions.

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to align for our plan. So, just great job, as always. I really appreciate.

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being able to understand the story of how we got here.

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what we're doing, why we're doing, uh, what we're doing. Um, to help us make decisions, which is, you know, support recommendations between, so just thank you.

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well, it was our pleasure. All right, with that, we'll move to item number 6. Well, we did have a hard stop, so I gotta do it. Thank you very much.

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vice mayor adams, would you like to continue? Yeah. All right. I'll take amanda. I will turn it over to mariana menda to go over a couple groom program.

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yes. So, um. This last round, we've completed two projects.

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our curb ramp projects, um, for this fiscal year have been completed, as well as the city park restroom.

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the 8-pack one that opened up on july 17th, I believe?

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um, and good news, if we have found additional funding, so we are starting the process to start the second restroom, which is the small one by the dabby.

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baseball field. Yes. Hopefully bringing an item to council soon, recommending, uh.

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funding and executing a contract for that additional restroom. Although we're excited for them, yes.

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and then we have 12 projects in construction. And active, we have 9 projects actively in construction, and then we'll be bringing 3 of those to the, um, the second.

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meeting in september to completion. That's our crestview citywide, and our zone 4.

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um, as john and we just talked about all of our 10 sounds.

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zone 4 has just been… we're wrapping that up, um, taking the staff and resu to city council on the second meeting, and, um, we have also in-house started doing our assessment for zone 7.

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so the first order of operations to start a new zone is doing the street assessment.

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so, um, our savon reese, our engineer in-house, he's doing. Starting to drive some of the streets and do this analysis and all of that stuff. So that's happening now. Yes. Okay. That is happening now. Um, on our bart project, um.

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we… I know that there's been a lot of complaints on the landscape on our greenbelt along railroad.

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so one of the things that we're doing, um, with the funding that we have is we're looking at.

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a new, complete new set of landscape improvement plans, and we're hoping to take that.

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out to bid maybe in the next month, so then we can.

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revamp and are rebuilt, so… yeah, and we're not… our recommendation isn't to put back the sod that was there before, but to go back with more of a drought-tolerant native plant with the bubble system. So, we do recognize the impact this project had on the existing landscaping, so we want to do something to really beautify the corridor.

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yeah, I'm good. Yes, and then, um, moving on to another project is our pittsburgh premier fields.

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we are, um, hopefully going to be done with this project.

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before our date, which was october 27th, so we're hoping. To be then, hopefully, beginning of october.

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so, yes, that one has moved quickly, so… yeah, or hopefully a ribbon-cutting event in october of this year.

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that'd be nice. Every time I drive by, there's something new. I'm like, oh, they did that? I don't know, they did that, it's kind of cool.

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it's been a great contractor to work with. Oh, certainly. He's been really good. Um, today we had our bid opening for the california theater.

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and we got 3 beds, all under the asking price, so it was really good. Really excited.

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so we're going to kick off construction probably in the next… three weeks for that one.

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that's for the underground… not the underground, sorry, the below stage restroom.

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for the… oh, they got it, okay. Yes. Yeah, they've been talking about that. Yes.

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so we're really excited about that one. Um, I already talked about sun 7.

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and another project that I do want to talk about is our lynchide.

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so, this is our traffic calming project at the intersection near lynnshide.

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um, we received additional funding, uh, additional cdbg funding. So we are looking, unfortunately, not what we need for this project. This project, the construction of this project, is around $760,000.

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this is for 3 roundabouts, another traffic… and other medians, and other features.

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but we only received 78 right now, 78,000 from cdbg funds.

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we are looking to see where we can get additional funding, or just phase the project. Yeah. We're looking like we're going to phase the project and reduce the scope.

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to just the main cons… the main problem. So we're looking at different.

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estimates, and we're probably going to have to phase this out, but… we're gonna do at least one phase of the project.

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by this fiscal year. Okay. And that's really all I wanted to highlight, unless you're seeing. One more I'd like to highlight on that same page, page 3, is the delta de anza multimodal trail safety improvement project.

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this is the one we got grant funding a couple years back. We're finally ready to start working on this project. We put out a request for qualifications, and we've selected what we think is the preferred consultant, and so we'll be bringing an item to council here soon to award a design contract.

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with this consultant, and the first step will be doing a lot of community outreach to help develop.

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what is the scope of this project? So this project is to do safety improvements and enhancements along the section within the city of pittsburgh, as well as the county.

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contra costa, in the bay point area. Uh, we envision this project really focusing on the trail crossings and enhancing them to be safer.

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and make more focus towards the bicyclists and pedestrians, and less on the vehicles.

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um, but that's where we're going to be doing a lot of outreach to see what is it that the community really wants to do. Because, again, it's… how long the trail is.

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we can only do so much. Yeah. So where do we want to prioritize our efforts?

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do we help protect the green flag lanes in the city? I don't know how to… we have some bike lent… green bike lanes in the city. They're on railroad avenue as you go, um.

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towards old town, also here at the freeway interchange. So, whenever there's, like, a conflict point, like a merge, or an area where there's a lot of.

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by splits versus cars, we put in the green pavement to really highlight to the vehicles, this is a bike lane, look out for bikes. Okay, yeah, I don't know if I don't… I'll pitch… I'll look… yeah. Are you thinking also that… because there's also green bike lanes that have little bollards right next to it, were you looking at… were you thinking about the bollards, or just the green bike? I just wasn't… I was like, I don't know what to look for. I was just wondering if we have them, so now… I know, I saw that system.

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I'll tell you where they are. Yeah. Yes, we do have them. And the green bike lanes is one of the things that we'll look at.

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um, as part of this project. If that helps to sort of enhance those constitutes.

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yeah, visual. I'm gonna go take a drive. Is there any public comment on this item?

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fantastic. All right, thank you. Uh, with that, we'll go to item 7, subcommittee and staff reports or remarks. Are there any…

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july, it's very important. I love this every time. I mean, excuse me, this is my next favorite thing. Yep, yep, oh, it wasn't this, so…

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I love this. Thank you. That's my remark. You will. Thank you, I appreciate the feedback. You're welcome. With that, we'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting. Thank you very much for your time.

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thank you, chris, you're coming.