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Commissioner Balch: I went for Commissioner Allen'. So I won't comment too heavily, but Bike /Ped has seen the Downtown Parking Plan which is on our informational item now and on our 8/31 agenda item and just some general comments is that they are not necessarily enthusiastic about the cost of a parking spot compared to a bike corral probably being communicated up to Mike Tassano. The other thing that did come up and just as an agenda item on that item was the collision data and I didn't realize it but Bike /Ped or Mike Tassano's team does look at collision data. Collision data is unfortunately pretty steady at approximately 102 collisions between pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle over a 3 year period. They've looked every 3 years or call it a rolling 3. It's 103 and approximately 38 percent are involving children and children is defined as someone less than age 18. So I would say they are laser focused on that which is nice to see because obviously they are working on that. Their update to the Bike /Ped Master Plan is something else they discussed and in that update they've had a few workshops. They are having a third workshop coming up pretty soon and I would encourage everyone to attend because they're trying to get not only enthusiasts of the bike world there to understand their desires but also the 60 percent who don't bike because they're fearful of the streets they'd be biking on; so how to get them to say what could be the things we could do to help you feel comfortable enough to bike in the city. So I don't have the date on that but maybe staff does. Beaudin: September 13th is a City Council workshop on this topic and there will be a final workshop with a draft plan released later this year. We don't have a final date for that yet, but the next big milestone for that effort is September 13th, a City Council workshop. We expect it to be a pretty meaty bike and pedestrian conversation going over everything from the progress that has been made so far and prioritization for improvements in the bike plan to a couple of potential projects that would be funded at least for design. So it'll be a big meeting and we've got Council direction to make that happen. I will say the interesting thing about bike and pedestrian collision data just so folks are aware, 103 sounds like a lot. If someone doesn't clip out of their pedal and tips over, it can be reported as an accident. So there's everything from really, really serious things to you know, somebody fell off of their bike which can be serious but it also might not be. Just keep that in perspective when looking at those collision numbers. Commissioner Balch: And I have the map showing that if you'd like to see it. On a quick note, the three major streets are Hopyard, Stoneridge and Santa Rita as you probably would expect. As part of their master plan, they're prioritizing which ones are their top priorities for allocating time and money, attention, etc. The other quick thing on the workshop I just wanted to mention was that between that and the collision data, Mr. Tassano and I discussed how when we're looking at traffic counts and which way a person is going to turn, we were looking at how many cars are turning left, how many cars are turning right, etc. You know, we could definitely easily overlay the bike /ped collision data map and you would be able to see I think correlation that might provide more depth to that conversation. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, August 24, 2016 Page 18 of 39