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05/02/2022 - Minutes SALT LAKE CITY TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY BOARD Minutes of the May 2, 2022 Meeting Electronically present from the Transportation Advisory Board were Courtney Reeser, Danny Houpt, Dave Alderman, Ellen Reddick, Greg Sanchez, Jenn Diederich, Jim Espeland, Jon Larsen, Kerry Doane, Paul Schulte, Reid Ewing, and Suzanne Stensaas. Absent from the Transportation Advisory Board were Daniel Mendoza, and Myron Willson. Also present were Amy Lyons, Eric Morgan, Tom Millar, Dave Iltis, Katie Williams, Ray Reynolds, Julianne Sabula, Tiffany Pocock, and Lara Handwerker. The meeting was held electronically and was called to order at 4:oi p.m. by Courtney Reeser. Welcome and Introduction of Guests — Courtney read the anchor statement and welcomed everyone. Public Comment — Courtney relayed the message from David Parrott that he has enjoyed being a member and will miss their lively discussions and great information. He also thanked everyone for being wonderful participants. Danny Houpt introduced himself as the new BAC Vice-Chair, David Parrott's replacement. Dave Iltis told everyone happy bike month as it's the second day of bike month. He said he just doesn't understand what SLC is thinking about the design for 200 South. It's the perfect street for protected bike lanes and yet there will be another street with bulb outs that will forever preclude parking protected bike lanes. He explained his reasoning and said the same goes for 30o West from North Temple to 600 North along with some other streets that have no plans for bike lanes. He would like the Board to take a deeper dive into the repaving projects that UDOT brought up and a better answer about why they can't get bike lanes on those streets as narrowing the lanes and getting bike lanes in would make it safer for everyone. His understanding is also that on the State Street reconstruction from 600 South to 90o South, it includes bulb outs that will forever preclude bike lanes and people ride on State Street whether the city likes it or not. There is no excuse for not putting better bike facilities on State Street and making it less safe. Courtney thanked him for his comments. The Board began a discussion regarding Dave's comments and Paul made a motion to put this on a future agenda to be more proficient with their response and time. He said most committees do not take public comment and then address it at that moment. Suzanne asked if delaying it a month would change the situation of the repaving. Jon said construction is already happening on these projects and considerable public engagement has already been done. He said it might be worth discussing how TAB would like to influence projects in the future because every project has a public comment period. Paul said public comments are important but it's not a great practice to have a free for all and just jump in on them. If they have public comments that they feel like should be an agenda item, then it should be put on the next agenda so there is time to prepare for the discussion. Reid noted that Dave has Page 1 of 4 TAB 05-02-2022 Minutes brought this up multiple times and Jon has responded and if the construction has already begun on all three projects, he thinks TAB should be involved in design details when they are as important as this. Paul said they need to talk about the Board functionality because they fall behind every meeting. Courtney agreed that the functionality of TAB and how they address public comments will be on their next agenda. Motion: Dave Alderman moved to approve the minutes of the April 4, 2022 meeting with her suggested amendments. Suzanne Stensaas seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. Meeting Format Discussion TAB Members As suggested by the City Recorder, TAB decided to make a meeting policy change, independent of their decision on how to proceed holding future meetings. Motion: Kerry Doane moved to adopt a policy allowing electronic meetings pursuant to the State Code requirement for the Open and Public Meetings Act, allowing Board members or city participants to either attend in person or electronically with a minimum notice of 3 days. Courtney Reeser seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. After some discussion, the Board determined how they would like to proceed holding future meetings. Motion: Reid Ewing moved to continue meeting electronically, including the public being able to attend and comment electronically while also having a physical anchor location for those who want to attend in person. Kerry Doane seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. Typologies &Complete Streets Ordinance Update Tom Millar, SLC Transportation Tom said the great news about the Typologies Design Guide is that it is now complete and published online in English and Spanish along with a map. He would love TAB's help in spreading the word that the guide exists so if people are interested in redesigning a road or how to make a street look better, they have a great resource. The Typologies Design Guide can be found here: https://www.slc.gov/transportation/2021/1o/30/typol ogies/ or they can reach out to Tom at tom.millar@slcgov.com. He gave a brief background on the Complete Streets Ordinance. It's done a lot of good ensuring the public rights of way have sidewalks, crosswalks, and bike lanes but it's also hindered them in some of the work that they want to do because of how narrowly it defines how a street should look. Therefore, they are updating the ordinance now hoping to achieve a couple of changes to make it better. They will establish a new definition of a complete street and how you will know you've gotten a complete street out of your process. Not only does it go beyond walking and bicycling to include slower travel lanes, transit lanes, crosswalks, signals, and intersections but it also goes into the planning and land use aspects of streets and how the buildings outside of the right of way affect how the street feels. It also gets into above and below ground utilities and how they are designed, Page 2 of 4 TAB 05-02-2022 Minutes oriented, and organized and how they affect the street. The first goal is to provide a better, more holistic definition, another is the part of the ordinance that deals with the process of how they achieve a complete street. There is a Complete Streets Committee to decide if there are any exceptions and this will expand from the current three-person Committee to a larger committee. There is currently a draft ordinance circulating internally and at some point, it will go to the City Council for review and possible adoption. It is written that all streets within SLC's jurisdiction will be a complete street. The ordinance does not automatically say every street in the city that doesn't meet this strict definition is incomplete and out of compliance, it's mostly about the process, purpose, and commitment in any phases of projects that come up in the future. Kerry asked how this will fit in with the Typologies and Tom said the typologies and the complete streets are kind of in line with each other. Reid asked about traffic calming and speed management and where it fits into the notion of a complete street. Tom said the goal of the new ordinance is to be as holistic and high level as possible without having to get into the details of the plans that the city creates. Suzanne said the wording needs to reflect that what is considered a good comfortable driving speed should take into account and should be based upon pedestrian and bike safety. Greg asked about the timeline and future comments. Tom said there will be an additional public comment period. He said they want to make this a citywide ordinance that everyone feels comfortable with. More language and specific documentation will be shared later. Transportation would like the Board's help refining the language before it goes to Council and refining and supporting the effort as it goes through Council. I-15 Environmental Impact Statement Study: Farmington to Salt Lake City Dan Adams&Tiffany Pocock, Horrocks Engineering Katie and Tiffany from Horrocks Engineering showed a map of the project area and went over the process and timeline. They haven't begun their alternatives development but are looking for ideas for those alternatives and want to hear from the public to see if they feel they have gotten their purpose and needs of the corridor right. Tiffany showed the purpose and needs statement that shows there are infrastructure needs and the need to look at the interchanges and think about what this corridor looks like in 2050. They are currently in the problem phase and are looking at what the problems are and know the interchanges need to be looked at and as well as connections to other modes, such as having a transit corridor on either side and how to make sure that I-15 is not a barrier to that. Tiffany explained why it's an environmental impact statement and explained that chapter one will show the purpose and need of this statement which is the part they are working on now. Courtney asked about their green efforts to reduce the carbon footprint as it wasn't specifically listed and was told that would be covered under environmental justice. A discussion ensued about environmental justice and Katie said they would send the official definition from the EPA. Suzanne asked if they were factoring in the effect of the inland port and was told it is built into the modeling that is being used from the WFRC. Courtney asked for the definition of equity in the sense of this study. Katie said it was giving a voice and giving access to those that have traditionally been left out of the process and making sure they can be involved in this process. Tiffany said the equity goal is to make sure everyone who lives or breathes around the corridor can comment at any time throughout the project and all resources are also available in Spanish. Courtney asked if individual comments or a group letter would be better. Tiffany said whichever is better for their group and there is a map on the website where they can comment individually. That website is ii5eis.udot.utah.gov or they can e-mail ii5eis@utah.gov. The future timeline was discussed and there will be Page 3 of 4 TAB 05-02-2022 Minutes future comment periods. The study is anticipated to be done in 2024. Courtney recommended individual comments for now and to have Horrocks come back with the alternatives and review them as a group at which point, they will see if they want to provide comments on it as a Board. Jon said the city is also working on a response and Kerry said UTA is working on a response as well. Motion: Kerry Doane motioned to adjourn the meeting; Courtney Reeser seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 5:32 p.m. and the next meeting of the Board was scheduled for June 6, 2022. Approved by Board o6-06-22. Page 4 of 4 TAB 05-02-2022 Minutes