• comments

• old business
  • gold line queueing
    • korve engineeering
    • MTA present * engineer from kentucky here * "reduced" 20-30 sec * trains gold line 190 weekday 164 weekend
      • 72 sec preemtion
      • 20 sec mandatory wait
      • electric train, doesn't have motion activated sensors? theyre fixed?
      • crossing appropach triggers activation process
      • to minimzie down times * first did the express service * change control system, allow higher speed * this allowed them to
      • 40 minutes down time... during track maintenance
      • broken down train, led to 5 minute down time
    • public comments
      • neil climan, resident association...
        • madison heights residents inconvenced.
          • queue lengs up to 600 ft, promised 40 -60 ft
          • streets are >85% of capacity, which means any error causes system to break.
          • Improvements to one direction hurts the other?
  • Professor Zimmer, CalPoly Pomona, Planner
    • Capstone, Studio class
    • Students present scope of work
    • results next march will be the students work

• History

  General Plan, Hisotry, Appleyard, Liveable Streets, 1981 www.trafficcalming.org neighborhood transportation managemant plan

  new zeland and australia have done some work trying to define environmental capacity.

  final deliverable an amend/supplement NTMP to define EC

  EC review would be trigered by NTMP, possibly...

• Plan

  • Literature Review, understand
  • Understand current NTMP process
  • Formulate Extensions
  • Street Classification
    • Minor, Major Arterieral, neighborhood street
  • Done by, May

• Street classification,

  Deemphasized streets, what is

• Todo,

  Read packet, Mobility Transportation Plan

  FHWA federal highway admistration map

• Public comments

  • Resident from south pas argued against the 710 tunnel. Oct 12

• Aproval of minutes

• council comments

  • I asked if the CCTV could be configured to trigger on bicycles on Lake and Del Mar.

• Staff updates

  • 710
  • bylaws
  • MTA Gold line issues brought the engineers from kentucky improved, by 20-30 sec. preemption signals have extend a marengo. MTA received kove report but hasn't really responded.

• Old Business

  • Ambassador West

    • Public Speak

      • RJ, CEQA issues?

        Points out that the harvest rock parking issues aren't really CEQA issues, they're a different type of problem. Argues not significant.

        • responds to harvest rock

          2,3,5,6,7 Argues that there are a number of parking lots nearby

      • Fred Zapeta, West Pasadeana Resident

        • does support the project, has some minor issues.
        • wants to minimize impact on orange grove, wants to put in Ts to prevent left turns on orange grove.

      • Serin ???, Kimbly Horn

        • Responsible for text portion of the mobility plan. Parking, confusion as term "Public Parking" but intended to be shared parking pg 18, 19

      • David Pool, Meranatha High school, President BoD

        • BoD supports the project.

        • Nature of joint use agreement.

          harvest rock, eclusive use of 293 parking, on saturdays & sunday doesn't have contratiual to 53 slots, but plan on continuing. can coordinate to share parking for use on other times

    • Doug Hues, Dir Oper, from HR

      The list they provided was "history" for WCG, they concerned about maintaining access for concert events

    • Steve Ross, Dir Planning ? Homes
      • mentions what pasadenas zoning code, 1262 seats, need 1 car per 5 seats? 252 spaces
    • Greg ? Applicant
      • Pg 4 of harvest letter, paragraph A, 2nd paragraph want to have rights "running with the land" not owner. they didn't, but they didn't negotiate for those rights.

• Commissioners, questions

  • the applicant thought WPRA's suggestion for a t-bone curb was a good idea

  • Chair, says there may be too much parking for the sunrise use. parking for sunrise will be determined by the CUP process

  • Route for certification for this proejct,Daryl ? from Planning Commisison

    Parts will go through planning, but the fina EIR goes to councila

    Chair, recommends that their be more consistancy in how EIRs are reviewed.

    person from city legal, describes that the process is more orderly than it appears. requires certification before discretionary action

• Send comments to Chair and Vice Chair Juan Velasquez, Vince Farhat who will summarize

• Close of public comments * oral, Oct 11, written, Oct 30
• Pedestrain Saftey vide
  • given out 500 bike helmets
• Pedestrian Committee, Comissioner Delgado
  • Showed a group of students for a community planning class, cal poly, pomona always use a real client, students develop scope of services

• Call to order

• Roll Call

  • Vince Farhat
  • Diane Trout
  • Jennifer Higginbotham

• Public comment

• Commissioner Comments

  • Asks about distribution of and update of bike master plan
  • chair, discussed westage sept 18th, before council
  • for ambassodor west, try to have comments ready (in writing) for next meeting.

• Approval of minutes

• Staff activities

  • Eric Chen, $450,000 for construction of bicycle boulevard project
    • finishing paperwork
    • north marengo between orange grove and washington

• Old business

  • trip rededuction (transportation management plan) recommend 75,000 sqft.
  • Gold line queuing
    • short term
    • korve was initial engineering review firm for the gold line
    • peer review, doesn't have detailed knowledge of system
    • "abnormal number of atypical events"
    • reverse coordination, free the front of a queue, instead of typical moving wave of green
    • sometimes hold the train to let the traffic clear, especially when at stations.
    • the flashing yellow, is to avoid the "yellow" trap, supposidly not to confuse drivers
    • longerterm
      • try to make meets very clean at california
  • there's a required study for the flashing yellow

• Caltech Master Plan

• Ambassador West

  • oct 11 public meeting
  • harvest rock church, pastor
    • started recently
    • parking serious problem
    • conference world wide
    • are responsible for running ambassador auditorium
      • want to state mission...
    • wants public parking in the area.
  • doug huse, manager
    • about 600 cars
    • 10 parking "clusters"
    • multiple owners of the facility
      • only 3 clusters on the campus still available.
      • EIR, removing 140 parking spaces...

  • 2008 40 events?

  • Charles Kenny,
    • wants to know what the 30 spaces are for?
  • clarification
    • one report by applicant, one by consultant.
  • Does SEQUA require that negative parking impacts be addressed?
    • unclear, very techincal law question

• send comments to bauman

• covering the 3 things that changed since their last meeting

Whats "sequa"

• there's already some conditioning of a project build, how does this fee extend things.
  • How are the funds going to be spent?
  • Does it help with streamling other aspects of the project
• The fee goes away when the projects finish
• The fee is attached to building those $54e6 of projects.
• they want some more detail about how it'll help, save some of the discussion.
• doesn't it set a bound on how far the the developers study has to extend.
• they want a industry specific FAQ
• is there a way of more specifically planning out what improvents are needed so the developers can have less uncertainty about a council or developer suddenly want something new.
• Arts busses need to be frequent reliable convient
• Would it be possible to opt in?
• May 5th tac meeting 7.30 am

• adjustments to to the agenda
  • note that they only did the automobile counts?
  • the comment about "report card" measurements
  • fuller EIR,
• Los Angeles Times
  • changes in suburban development, complimentary to pasadena
• Floraline Stevenes, PhD, Educator, new comissioner
• Roger suggests that the commussion form a working group, on bike parking. Gray, DelGado, Valesques
  • Zoning code is online
  • Urban land institute, shared parking analysis, residental parking for apartments & condos, 1.5, 1.7 dwelling units
  • Survey of 4000 urban california parking 1.59 parking spaces per unit.
• Trip reduction ordance
  • is there data available of how many properties meet these various thresholds
  • They need to determine the remaining fee structure
  • talk to city attorney
• Westgate Draft EIR
  • Apeals, 10 days after action item
  • Last day pubic coment feb 21st
  • Public comments
    • West pasadena resident association
    • has many issues with EIR
    • substitution of max for minimum for
    • changed intersection policy from D to E (long lines, waiting through several cycles)
  • there's a computer model of the traffic plan Wonder if one can get it?
  • Comissioner comments
    • Roger points out the lack of pedestrian data
    • comissioner delgado , why aren't there more counts
      • 2015, allows minimum requirement traffic E
  • next comissioner
    • why isn't there more commercial
    • 10' setback from street isn't walkable
    • several intersections drop to E or worse, is that to encourage mass transit by preventing anything else from working
• Planning commission
  • Feb 22

• Call meeting to order

• Public Comment
  • Previous secretary said thanks
• Agenda Updates
• Commissioner Comments
  • Sir Peter Hall, Address, nifty ideas about transit
  • There was an interruption on the gold line, MTA responded, There was questions about what the MTA did for the rose parade
    • MTA managers at stations to respond the accident, quickly set up bus bridge
  • They're going to be quite busy for the next 6 months, number of big projects.
• Westgate , Robert ?, vincent gonzeles, Draft EIR
  • Green/Delacy/Del Mar/Pasadena, 11.94 acres
  • 820 residental units
  • comment period ends feburary
  • Impacts (Minor)
    • there are underground storage tanks which need to be evaluated for being closed and for whats in them
  • Imapacts (Significant)
    • Air Quality, construction, operation,
    • Public Services, multiple projects are going to put a drain on police & fire
    • Traffic, construction of this project, and others in the same area increased vehicle trips
  • Traffic (Traditional)
    • evaluated to 2015 using models from the general plan
    • Yay metioned bike parking (according to bike plan)
    • trip reduction plan according to city trip reduction ordanence
  • Comissionars comments, review EIR, bring comments in writing
    • is the staff going to bring the report back to TAC
    • roger wants to see the Pedestrian and bike data because its in transit zone? They don't have it.
    • Carolyn Naber, Annual report card, evaluate how well mitigation measures work
      • record scoping standards
      • project travel times needs to be done, but doesn't necessarily need to be in the EIR
      • discussion
      • why the consultant didn't come up with clever things for net zero traffic increase
        • Arts system contributions?
        • Page 60 of traffic study
        • project is going to contribute to nexus project 50-60% to transit
        • Lake zone has plans to offer residents passes for 1st year
• Fuller EIR
  • 60 day review Feb 21st
  • corsen to union/ madison el molino
  • 857 Units add to campus walnut /corsen
  • more academic space
  • 500 space parking strucure walnet/madison
  • mitigation
    • traffic camera
    • extend traffic links
    • expand fullers road share program
    • some bike parking spaces, improved bicycle racks
    • installation of a 1 countdown traffic signal
  • comments,
    • perhaps flex car system for students
      • variance because of a city traffic ordances
    • commisionar impressed with
      • pedestrian corridor
      • 1.5 persons per car trip (aparantly very high)
• My general Questions?
  • anyone done trip surveys of various pasadena resients? personal trip logs?
  • what about trying to get in the pay as you go car insurance programs
  • Whats ITS program