February 2025 BPAC Agenda

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Thursday, February 20, 2025; 6-8pm
In-person meeting at City Hall, Hearing Room 4, viewable online
View and download the full agenda packet [5.7mb 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

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.

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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.

AGENDA

TimeItem #Topic
6:001Roll 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 11:50 PM on January 21, 2025, a Hispanic, male skateboarder in his 50s was hit in a fatal
crash with a vehicle while attempting to cross West MacArthur Blvd at 37th St.
· At around 7:11 PM on February 3, 2025, a White, male pedestrian in his 70s was hit in a fatal crash while crossing Grand Ave in the crosswalk at Park View Terrace. The driver fled the scene.
6:102Open 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).
6:203Approval of meeting minutes (5 Minutes)
Seek motion to adopt the January 2025 BPAC meeting minutes.
6:254West Street Road Diet Project Evaluation (30 minutes)
David Pené, Engineer in the Bicyclist and Pedestrian Program, Safe Streets Division at OakDOT, will present on the evaluation of the West Street Road Diet Project. Project info, including the evaluation report, is available on the project website.
6:555Report Back of Presentation of 2024 BPAC Annual Report to Public Works and Transportation Committee & 2025 BPAC Look Ahead (30 minutes)
BPAC 2024 Chair Gardner and 2025 Chair Ralston will lead the commission in a report back from the presentation of the 2024 BPAC Chair’s Report at the January 28, 2025 Oakland City Council Public Works and Transportation Committee meeting and a discussion on the vision and look ahead for BPAC in 2025.
7:256Committee Overviews, Report Backs, and New Assignments (20 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 last on February 10, 2025, and heard items on a recommendation to the Oakland Fire Department for street trauma prevention, and improved reporting of traffic injuries and fatalities. Their next meeting is scheduled for May 12, 2025 from 5:30-7PM.
• Former commissioner, now community member Phoenix Mangrum, will be considered for the role of liaison to the Oakland Police Department
7:457Agenda look-ahead (below) and suggestions for meeting topics (15 minutes)

Agenda look-ahead

Announcements

  • BPAC Agenda Sign-Up List:
    Sign up to receive these BPAC agendas by email.
  • Bike Oakland Newsletter:
    The Bicycle & Pedestrian Program of OakDOT is pleased to share the 36th edition of the “🚲 OAKLAND” newsletter. This bi-annual newsletter provides an overview of the City’s progress implementing Oakland’s Bicycle Plan over the last six months (July-December 2024) and this issue has a full page dedicated to the BPAC.

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