Recommendation to Endorse the Central Avenue Webster Street Options for Further Analysis and the Two-Way Bikeway Extension Between Paden School and McKay Avenue. (Transportation 310)
And who pulled that? That was council member de sa, Mr. de sa. Well, thank you, Madam Mayor. The reason why I pulled item five C is really just to make sure to clarify for purposes of the public that what's before us is not to hone in on any one particular option, but to have four options. And the public will take a take a review of the different four options. And if we could have staff. Good evening. Andrew Thomas Planning Director That's absolutely correct. Councilmember Desai We're talking about four different options for the segment of Central right around the Webster Street intersection. And by the way, would you be Andrew Thomas, planning director? I thank you. Have what I said. Did you not did you. So my time is that. The. And we're going to be studying all four in equal levels of detail so detailed traffic analysis, parking analysis so that the public and the experts and everybody can see how they compare at that point. Once we have that information, it'll be time to start making decisions about the preferred. Great. Thank you. And the second point that I just wanted to get across is I you know, I kind of feel that we're moving ahead with these projects along Central Avenue and potentially in Central Avenue. I kind of believe that we're moving ahead of these projects in a way that is not aligned with what's in our transportation or circulation element. And I feel that what we really need to do is, is modify, update different aspects of our general plan and do so in a comprehensive manner, and then see how particular projects like these bike projects, whether they're the issues crossing Webster Street or the bike project as a whole, how these fit in to the to the larger general plan as updated. And I would really encourage staff to think about that. I know that we're talking about updating our land use element, but but I do think we have to look at our transportation circulation aspects because of all these new projects and all these new plans that that we will talk about actually later. So I think this is an opportunity to begin to think about that comprehensively and also finally in a manner that really involves the public in a robust manner. Thank you. Vice Mayor. And that's why. I just wanted to say that I appreciate staff bringing this forward. I think that the way in which the staff has brought has engaged the community and engaged our boards and commissions as well as the Council on moving this forward is really great. It's my hope that when we come back, when this comes back through the process, that staff will bring in it maybe a couple of options, but definitely one of the options that's going to come back is going to be the one that is determined to be the most safe and the one that identifies the best opportunity for mode shift and greenhouse gas reductions, which we identified as some of our highest, as earlier speaker said, identified as some of our highest goals for the city and looking at transportation and the environment for for the coming year though anyway. But I think is doing a great job. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Was it's going to be okay? Did you have a comment? Councilman Brody, just. Quickly, I want to echo the vice mayor's comments, but Mr. Thomas, so what I didn't see in here is a timeframe on when we would get this back because this has kind of taken a while. Yeah. To be kind. It's a very kind of you to use those words. It is a. Very Rome. Wasn't. Built in a. Day. One of the reasons why Central has taken so much longer and has been so much more expensive than a normal corridor project would be, is that we're dealing with a state highway as well. So we're coordinating with Caltrans. We're using state money to make the improvements. So we have to jump through a whole number of state hoops. We will be back shortly. It probably won't be the April 16th meeting. It'll be April 16th or the first meeting in May with a comprehensive report on this project, which will have much more detail about the steps and the process. The short answer to your question is we want to be at it by the end of this year in the position to start making recommendations and final decisions. Perfect. Thank you. And Councilmember de Desai. I'd like to move a recommendation of a staff report recommending approval of. Okay to have a second second all in favor by OC. That recommendation is approved unanimously. Okay. Our next. And do we have speaker slips on any of these pulled items? We do have five EMG. Okay. So five is adoption of thank you resolution amending the concession agreement with Deli Meat Inc known as Jim's on the course to provide an extension for completion of the event center at the Korea Park Golf Complex. Do we want to hear from staff?