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
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