• 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