The July 2025 BPAC Policy and Legislative Committee is on Monday, July 28, 2025, 6-7:30pm in-person at Hearing Room 3 at Oakland City Hall. The agenda is below and available for download [14mb PDF].

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

Item	Time	Topic
1	6 pm	Introductions & Updates on Previous Agenda Items (5 minutes)
2	6:05	Public Comment (5 minutes) Members of the public may comment on any issue within BPAC Infrastructure Committee’s subject matter jurisdiction. Comments on a scheduled agenda item will be heard with that item. To request City services, please contact the City of Oakland Call Center (311).
3	6:10	Tracking current issues and future agenda item suggestions (15 minutes) The Committee will discuss the status of ongoing issues tracked by the Policy and Legislative Committee. ● Traffic speed data ● City of Oakland Pedestrian Plan update ● Land Use and Transportation Element (LUTE) of the City of Oakland 2045 General Plan Update ● Speed Safety Cameras Pilot Program (AB 645) updates ● Daylighting (AB 413) implementation in Oakland ● SeeClickFix / OAK 311 issues
4	6:20	Parking Policy and Traffic Safety (30 minutes) Michael Ford and Kerby Olsen of OakDOT will present on parking policy, with an emphasis on how parking policy affects traffic safety.
5	6:50	Examining the Safety-Safety Dilemma: Preliminary Findings from a Study of Conflicts between Safe Streets Improvements and Emergency Response (30 minutes) Liza Lutzker will present on this. Cities across the United States (U.S.) are encountering mounting tensions between efforts to improve street infrastructure for pedestrian and bicyclist safety (e.g., protected bike lanes, speed tables) and concerns from fire departments that such changes can impede emergency response and evacuation. However, emergency response and street safety need not be incompatible goals. Cities across the U.S. are developing innovative solutions, addressing the physical, institutional, and cultural roots of these conflicts. Under a grant from the US Department of Transportation and the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, our UC Berkeley team is completing an exploratory research project to better understand the roots of conflicts and innovative means of overcoming conflicts. Under a grant from the US Department of Transportation and the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety, our UC Berkeley team is completing an exploratory research project to better understand the roots of conflicts and innovative means of overcoming conflicts between street safety efforts and fire and emergency response priorities.
6	7:20	Fire Code Approval Cycle and OFD/OakDOT Collaboration (10 minutes) Kevin Dalley. The California Building Standards Commission published the latest update to the 2025 California Fire Code on July 1, 2025, effective on January 1, 2026; the Committee will discuss the 2025 Fire Code approval cycle, a process which occurs once every three years. The City of Oakland will amend the California Fire Code to adopt the Oakland Fire Code by the end of 2025. Other links: ● Current Oakland Fire Code ● Current 2022 California Fire Code ● Kevin Dalley’s analysis of Oakland Fire Code Text and Amendments Related to Traffic Safety