Thursday, November 21, 2024; 6-8pm
In-person meeting at City Hall, Hearing Room 4, viewable online
View and download the full agenda packet [1mb PDF].

Commissioners

Priyanka Altman, Alexander Frank, Grey Gardner (Chair), Jimmy Jessup, Phoenix Mangrum,
David Ralston (Vice Chair), Patricia Schader, Nicholas Whipps, Dianne Yee

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PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

This is an in-person meeting. People participating in the meeting must attend in-person. People may be able to observe this meeting remotely. City of Oakland staff to the Commission are striving to provide the following options for people to observe BPAC meetings remotely.

To view the meeting online:

• Please click on this link to open the Zoom meeting on a computer or smart phone at the noticed meeting time.
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Remote participation including public comment via teleconferencing is not available at this time. Hybrid meetings may commence once the City of Oakland has established meeting procedures and allocated resources for simultaneously supporting in-person and remote participation. All Commission meetings will include procedures to comply with the open meeting requirements of the City’s Sunshine Ordinance and the State’s Brown Act.

If you have any questions, please email Noel Pond-Danchik, staff liaison to the commission.

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AGENDA

Time	Item #	Topic
6:00	1	Roll Call, Determination of Quorum, Introductions, and Acknowledgement of Recent Bicyclist and Pedestrian Fatal Traffic Crashes (15 minutes) Chair Gardner will take roll call, determine quorum, and facilitate introductions. He will lead the commission in an acknowledgement of recent fatal and other high-profile traffic crashes in Oakland involving bicyclists and pedestrians. · At around 5pm on October 28, 2024, Oakland Police responded to a fatal solo-bicycle crash involving a 44 year-old Emeryville resident near 3555 Dwight Way in Berkeley.
6:15	2	Open Forum / Announcements (below) / Public Comment (10 minutes) Members of the public may comment on any issue within BPAC’s subject matter jurisdiction. Comments on a scheduled agenda item will be heard with that item. The BPAC’s Open Forum Liasons track Open Forum issues raised by the public. The Liasons review the public comments on a periodic basis to identify policy issues for discussion by the Commission. To request City services, please contact the City of Oakland Call Center (311).
6:25	3	Approval of meeting minutes (5 Minutes) Seek motion to adopt the October 2024 BPAC meeting minutes.
6:30	4	Committee Report-Backs (10 minutes) Committees of the BPAC will provide brief overviews and updates to the Commission. A list of active committees is included in the agenda packet and on the BPAC webpage. · Infrastructure Committee: The committee met on November 7, 2024. They heard presentations on The Upper Telegraph Ave Complete Streets Design [PDF presentation] and Curbside Bike Lane Separation Opportunities [PDF presentation]. Their next meeting will be on Thursday, January 9, 2025, from 3:30-5:30 pm at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza in the Broadway Conference Room, Suite 4304. · Policy and Legislative Committee: The committee met on November 12, 2024. They discussed committee goals and heard presentations on the Oakland General Plan Update and the Pedestrian Plan Update. Their next meeting is planned for Monday, February 10, 2025 at 5:30 pm.
6:40	5	Traffic Engineering Section Overview (30 minutes) Brian Sukkar and Joe Wang from the Traffic Engineering Section, Safe Streets Division of OakDOT will provide an overview of their section’s work programs including: • Rapid Response Sideshow Prevention • Traffic Safety 311 Requests • Speed Bumps • School Traffic Safety • City Council Earmark and Discretionary Projects
7:10	6	City of Oakland Budget and Policy Priorities (25 minutes) BPAC Chair Gardner will lead the commission in a discussion of policy and budget recommendations for the next budget cycle. See this presentation from 2023 for reference.
7:35	7	BPAC By-Laws Update (15 minutes) Jason Patton, OakDOT staff to the commission, will ask the Commission to adopt a proposed change to the by-laws [PDF] that would allow community members or commissioners, as opposed to only commissioners, to act as liaisons of the BPAC to another body including committees, task forces, boards, and commissions.
7:50	8	Two-month agenda look-ahead (below) and suggestions for meeting topics (10 minutes)

Agenda look-ahead

• Long Term Visioning Discussion
• Draft BPAC Chair’s Report to the Oakland City Council’s Public Works and Transportation
  Committee

Announcements

• BPAC Agenda Sign-Up List:
  Sign up to receive these BPAC agendas by email.
• BayWheels Bikeshare Expansion:
  Where would you like to see more BayWheels bike share stations in Oakland? Eighteen (18) new BayWheels stations are on their way, with funding from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. We need your help to determine where the new stations should be located. Bike share works best when connecting people from where they live to where they work, shop, and play. The StoryMap shows several important factors to consider when expanding upon the existing BayWheels network. After exploring these maps and considering what makes a station effective, scroll to the bottom of the page to enter another map that allows you to drag a pin on the map to show where you want to see a station.
• Oakland Alameda Estuary Sea Level Rise workshop:
  The Oakland Alameda Adaptation Committee (OAAC) Projects Partners are hosting a virtual workshop focusing on the Oakland Alameda Estuary on Thursday, December 5, 5:30-7:30 pm.
• BPAC Year-End Gathering:
  Hold the date! The BPAC is considering adjourning to a nearby bar after the next BPAC meeting on Thursday, December 19, 2024, around 8pm for a year-end gathering. More info to come.
• Embarcadero West Rail Safety and Access Improvements Community Engagement Report now available:
  A heartfelt thank you to everyone who connected with the OakDOT project team. Between May and October 2024, we gathered over 800 insightful comments from community. This report dives into our engagement process, detailing who and how people were engaged and informed of the project. It also summarizes community input and how it shaped the project.
• Undercrossing Improvements Project:
  Streets that pass under freeways are called undercrossings. In many places in Oakland, undercrossings are dark, loud, and feel unsafe. The goal of this project is to improve undercrossings for people walking, biking, and rolling. Four locations were chosen because there will be new improvements along the same streets.
  • Broadway at I-880
  • Washington St at I-880
  • MLK Jr Way at I-880
  • 7th St at I-980
• The Undercrossing Improvements build on the “Walk this Way” design toolkit. This tool kit provides design strategies to make Oakland’s undercrossings safer and more inviting to travel through. We want to hear from you! We’ll be at upcoming events to gather feedback and answer questions about the project. We’ll also have project fact sheets in English, Spanish, and Chinese. You can find us at the following events:
  • Sunday, November 17 at the West Oakland Farmers Market
  • Friday, December 6 at the Old Oakland Farmers Market
  • Sunday, December 8 at the West Oakland Farmers Market