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  <title>Special TAC meeting</title>
  <link>http://woldlab.caltech.edu/~diane/index.cgi/government/tac/2006-04-27-16-00.html</link>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>covering the 3 things that changed since their last meeting</li>
</ul>
<p>Whats &quot;sequa&quot;</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>there's already some conditioning of a project build, how does this
fee extend things.<ul>
<li>How are the funds going to be spent?</li>
<li>Does it help with streamling other aspects of the project</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The fee goes away when the projects finish</li>
<li>The fee is attached to building those $54e6 of projects.</li>
<li>they want some more detail about how it'll help, save some of the discussion.</li>
<li>doesn't it set a bound on how far the the developers study has to extend.</li>
<li>they want a industry specific FAQ</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Arts busses need to be frequent reliable convient</li>
<li>Would it be possible to opt in?</li>
<li>May 5th tac meeting 7.30 am</li>
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<item>
  <title>TAC Meeting</title>
  <link>http://woldlab.caltech.edu/~diane/index.cgi/government/tac/2006-02-09-20-00.html</link>
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<li>adjustments to to the agenda<ul>
<li>note that they only did the automobile counts?</li>
<li>the comment about &quot;report card&quot; measurements</li>
<li>fuller EIR,</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Los Angeles Times<ul>
<li>changes in suburban development, complimentary to pasadena</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Floraline Stevenes, PhD, Educator, new comissioner</li>
<li>Roger suggests that the commussion form a working group, on bike parking.
Gray, DelGado, Valesques<ul>
<li>Zoning code is online</li>
<li>Urban land institute, shared parking analysis, residental parking
for apartments &amp; condos, 1.5, 1.7 dwelling units</li>
<li>Survey of 4000 urban california parking 1.59 parking spaces per unit.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Trip reduction ordance<ul>
<li>is there data available of how many properties meet these various
thresholds</li>
<li>They need to determine the remaining fee structure</li>
<li>talk to city attorney</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Westgate Draft EIR<ul>
<li>Apeals, 10 days after action item</li>
<li>Last day pubic coment feb 21st</li>
<li>Public comments<ul>
<li>West pasadena resident association</li>
<li>has many issues with EIR</li>
<li>substitution of max for minimum for</li>
<li>changed intersection policy from D to E
(long lines, waiting through several cycles)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>there's a computer model of the traffic plan
Wonder if one can get it?</li>
<li>Comissioner comments<ul>
<li>Roger points out the lack of pedestrian data</li>
<li>comissioner delgado , why aren't there more counts<ul>
<li>2015, allows minimum requirement traffic E</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>next comissioner<ul>
<li>why isn't there more commercial</li>
<li>10' setback from street isn't walkable</li>
<li>several intersections drop to E or worse,
is that to encourage mass transit by preventing anything else
from working</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Planning commission<ul>
<li>Feb 22</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<item>
  <title>TAC Meeting</title>
  <link>http://woldlab.caltech.edu/~diane/index.cgi/government/tac/2006-01-13-08-30.html</link>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Call meeting to order</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Public Comment<ul>
<li>Previous secretary said thanks</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Agenda Updates</li>
<li>Commissioner Comments<ul>
<li>Sir Peter Hall, Address, nifty ideas about transit</li>
<li>There was an interruption on the gold line, MTA responded,
There was questions about what the MTA did for the rose parade<ul>
<li>MTA managers at stations to respond the accident, quickly set
up bus bridge</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>They're going to be quite busy for the next 6 months, number of
big projects.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Westgate , Robert ?, vincent gonzeles, Draft EIR<ul>
<li>Green/Delacy/Del Mar/Pasadena, 11.94 acres</li>
<li>820 residental units</li>
<li>comment period ends feburary</li>
<li>Impacts (Minor)<ul>
<li>there are underground storage tanks which need to be evaluated
for being closed and for whats in them</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Imapacts (Significant)<ul>
<li>Air Quality, construction, operation,</li>
<li>Public Services, multiple projects are going to put a drain on police
&amp; fire</li>
<li>Traffic, construction of this project, and others in the same area
increased vehicle trips</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Traffic (Traditional)<ul>
<li>evaluated to 2015 using models from the general plan</li>
<li>Yay metioned bike parking (according to bike plan)</li>
<li>trip reduction plan according to city trip reduction ordanence</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Comissionars comments, review EIR, bring comments in writing<ul>
<li>is the staff going to bring the report back to TAC</li>
<li>roger wants to see the Pedestrian and bike data
because its in transit zone? They don't have it.</li>
<li>Carolyn Naber, Annual report card, evaluate how well mitigation
measures work<ul>
<li>record scoping standards</li>
<li>project travel times needs to be done, but doesn't necessarily
need to be in the EIR</li>
<li>discussion</li>
<li>why the consultant didn't come up with clever things for net
zero traffic increase<ul>
<li>Arts system contributions?</li>
<li>Page 60 of traffic study</li>
<li>project is going to contribute to nexus project 50-60%
to transit</li>
<li>Lake zone has plans to offer residents passes for 1st year</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Fuller EIR<ul>
<li>60 day review Feb 21st</li>
<li>corsen to union/ madison el molino</li>
<li>857 Units add to campus walnut /corsen</li>
<li>more academic space</li>
<li>500 space parking strucure walnet/madison</li>
<li>mitigation<ul>
<li>traffic camera</li>
<li>extend traffic links</li>
<li>expand fullers road share program</li>
<li>some bike parking spaces, improved bicycle racks</li>
<li>installation of a 1 countdown traffic signal</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>comments,<ul>
<li>perhaps flex car system for students<ul>
<li>variance because of a city traffic ordances</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>commisionar impressed with<ul>
<li>pedestrian corridor</li>
<li>1.5 persons per car trip (aparantly very high)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>My general Questions?<ul>
<li>anyone done trip surveys of various pasadena resients?
personal trip logs?</li>
<li>what about trying to get in the pay as you go car insurance programs</li>
<li>Whats ITS program</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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