Thursday, January 16, 2025; 6-8pm
In-person meeting at City Hall, Hearing Room 4, viewable online
View and download the full agenda packet [2mb PDF].
Commissioners
Priyanka Altman, Kirsten Flagg, Grey Gardner (Chair), Jimmy Jessup, Alexander Perry,
David Ralston (Vice Chair), Patricia Schader, Nicholas Whipps, Dianne Yee
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
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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 3:49pm on December 23, 2024 a 61-year old, White, male bicyclist from Oakland was involved in a solo bicyclist crash on Shepherd Canyon Rd by Shepherd Canyon Park near Snake Rd. |
| 6:10 | 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). |
| 6:20 | 3 | Approval of meeting minutes (5 Minutes) Seek motion to adopt the December 2024 BPAC meeting minutes. |
| 6:25 | 4 | Nominations & Elections for BPAC Chair and Vice Chair (10 minutes) Staff will facilitate nominations and elections for 2025 BPAC Officers, following the process described in BPAC’s By-Laws [PDF]. |
| 6:35 | 5 | Hegenberger to Estuary Bike and Pedestrian Improvements (25 minutes) OakDOT staff from the Major Projects Division will share an overview of the Caltrans Sustainable Communities grant program and our project proposal for the January 22, 2025, application deadline. This will include a presentation from OakDOT on the Hegenberger to Estuary Bike and Pedestrian Improvements project that aims to address long-standing safety and accessibility challenges to key destinations in East Oakland and a request for a Letter of Support. |
| 7:00 | 6 | 2025 Bicyclist & Pedestrian Visioning and Goals Discussion (25 minutes) 2025 will be a big year for Oakland-wide infrastructure and planning advocacy. There are key opportunities to lift up our collective bike and ped visions for medium and long-term projects and programs (while we continue efforts to realize immediate needs). As the BPAC starts the year, as a kick-off to our strategic goal setting, Vice Chair Ralston will open with a facilitated “30,000-foot view” visioning discussion referencing the most recent citywide Bike Plan map. The goal for our visioning is to look at two scales of Oakland—that is, the viability, opportunity, and needs for overall citywide inter-connection networks (Hills to Bay and North-South via downtown and Lake) and the viability, opportunity, and needs for “fine-grained” neighborhood-scale safety, equity, and access for all. The conversation is not meant to be limited to bicycle infrastructure but to include walking and alternative transportation as well enhanced public transit. Inputs from this exercise can further help our efforts to integrate bike/ped planning visions into the City’s General Plan update process and can help provide context as the BPAC formulates our actions for the upcoming year. |
| 7:25 | 7 | Committee Overviews, Report Backs, and New Assignments (15 minutes) Committees of the BPAC will provide brief updates to the Commission. All commissioners will be given the opportunity to volunteer for, switch, or remove themselves from the Commission’s committees and liaison positions. A list of active committees is included in the agenda packet and on the BPAC webpage. · Infrastructure Committee: The committee last met on November 7, 2024. Their next meeting is rescheduled from January 2, 2025, to Thursday, January 9, 2025, from 3:30-5:30 PM at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza in the Broadway Conference Room, Suite 4304. They will hear items on the Embarcadero West Rail Safety and Access Improvements Project and Bicycling and Pedestrian Infrastructure Design Details and Supplemental Guidance. · 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. |
| 7:40 | 8 | Agenda look-ahead (below) and suggestions for meeting topics (20 minutes) |
Agenda look-ahead
- General Plan Update
- Transportation Development Act Article 3 Grant Proposed Projects
- Undercrossings Improvements Project
- Bike to Work Day (BTWD) Planning
- General Plan and Land Use and Transportation Element Update
- Annual Paving Update
- Meeting with the Mayor/Transportation Advisor to the Mayor
- Electric Bike Lending Pilot Program
Announcements
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Sign up to receive these BPAC agendas by email. - Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program Application Open:
The Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) was launched by UC Berkeley SafeTREC in collaboration with California Walks to work with local residents, agency and organization staff, and transportation safety advocates to reduce pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries in communities across California. Read about past projects here. Applications are due January 24, 2025 for their Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) and Comunidades Activas y Seguras (CAyS) programs.
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