FINAL CORRESPONDENCE Item 12 - Transportation Priorities Plan Prioritization Criteria, Metrics and Points (PDF-4448 KB) [Updated 03/18/2022 @ 12:11 p.m.]

CITY COUNCIL
Darrell Steinberg, Mayor
Angelique Ashby, Vice Mayor, District 1
Sean Loloee, District 2
Jeff Harris, District 3
Katie Valenzuela, District 4
Jay Schenirer, District 5
Eric Guerra, Mayor Pro Tem, District 6
Rick Jennings, II, District 7
Mai Vang, District 8

CHARTER OFFICERS
Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk
Susana Alcala Wood, City Attorney
Jorge Oseguera, City Auditor
Howard Chan, City Manager
John Colville, City Treasurer

City Council
Financing Authority
Housing Authority
Public Financing Authority
Redevelopment Agency
Successor Agency
City Hall-Council Chamber
915 I Street, 1st Floor
Published by the Office of the City Clerk
(916) 808-5163

CORRESPONDENCE

Description of Attached: Correspondence Report as of 2:30 PM on March 15, 2022 for correspondence received after publishing the Agenda.

For the Meeting of: Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at 5:00 p.m.

Agenda Item: Discussion Item 12

12. Transportation Priorities Plan Prioritization Criteria, Metrics and Points File ID: 2022-00279
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving Transportation Prioritization Criteria, Metrics and Points related to various transportation investments and funding.

Contact: Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Transportation Planning Manager, 916-806-1026, [email protected]; David Edrosolan, Engineering Manager, 916-808-5974, [email protected]; Ryan Moore, Director of Public Works, 916-808-6629, [email protected]; Department of Public Works

From: Sakereh Carter
To: Public Comment; Mayor Steinberg
Subject: Public Comment to Council
Date: Monday, March 14, 2022 8:37:42 AM
Attachments: TPP PLAN_SC .pdf
Hello,
Attached is my public comment regarding the Transportation Priorities Plan to the city council.

Have a great day,
Sakereh

3.14.22 Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council,
I want to express my support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations forthe prioritization criteria.

I, Sakereh Carter, support staff's recommendations for the transportation prioritization criteria,including:

Improving Air Quality and Healthby prioritizing alternativemodes of mobility, includingbicycling, walking, and transit use, reducing the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs)and harmful air pollutants.

Providing for Equitable Investmentby consideringdemographic characteristics andinfrastructure deficits unique to historically underinvested communities.

Providing Access to Destinationsby considering theproximity to jobs, schools, andparks.

Improving Transportation Safetyby prioritizing criticaltransportation projects thatemphasize safety, especially in Sacramento's under-resourced communities.

Fixing and Maintaining the Systemby prioritizingnecessary maintenance of streets andbridges before the projected deterioration of Sacramento's infrastructure.

I wholeheartedly support the city's transportation priority plan and appreciate the city's effortsto engage the public on transportation-related matters.

Thank you,
Sakereh Carter
From: Kiara Reed
To: Angelique Ashby; Eric Guerra; Jeff S. Harris; Rick Jennings; Sean Loloee; Jay Schenirer; Mayor Steinberg; Katie Valenzuela; Mai Vang Cc: Public Comment; Mindy Cuppy; Hector Barron; Howard Chan; Nicole Cuellar; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; Michael Jasso; Jennifer Venema Subject: March 15th City of Sacramento Council Meeting - Agenda Item #12: Transportation Priorities Plan Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 10:05:38 AM
Attachments: Screen Shot 2020-06-03 at 3.00.13 PM.png
Outlook-Civic Thre.png
TPP Prioritization Letter of Support _Civic Thread.pdf
Good morning,
In response to the March 15th City Council Agenda Item No. 12: Transportation Priorities Plan, Civic Thread is submitting the attached letter urging you to adopt the criteria which is the first step to address past and current harms at the intersection of transportation and race, the existential Climate Emergency that threatens our city, better connect residents to jobs, schools and parks, support transportation safety in communities that need it most, and address Sacramento's most deteriorated infrastructure.

Kiara Reed | Executive Director
Civic Thread - formerly WALKSacramento
909 12th St | Suite 125 | Sacramento CA 95814
Office: 916-446-9255
We have a new suite number, website, and email address! Please update your contacts with our new information! The Civic Thread office is currently closed due to COVID-19. All staff are working remotely until further notice. For immediate assistance, please contact me on my cell at (530)-204-8857 From: Deb Banks <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2022 6:17 PM
To: Angelique Ashby <[email protected]>; Eric Guerra <[email protected]>; Jeff Harris <[email protected]>; Rick Jennings <[email protected]>; Sean Loloee <[email protected]>; Jay Schenirer <[email protected]>; Darrell Steinberg <[email protected]>; Katie Valenzuela <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Hector Barron <[email protected]>; Howard Chan <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Jennifer Donlon Wyant <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: March 15th City of Sacramento Council Meeting - Agenda Item #12: Transportation Priorities Plan

Mayor Steinberg and City Councilmembers,

In response to the March 15th City Council Agenda Item No. 12: Transportation Priorities Plan, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates is submitting the attached letter urging you to raise Climate, Equity, Vision Zero/Safety and Funding as the main criteria for the Transportation Priorities Plan.

Thank you for your leadership and attention to these important discussions and decisions affecting the future of Sacramento.

Best,
Debra Banks

Debra Banks
[email protected]
Executive Director
Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
916-444-6600
Sacbike.org

3/15/2022
Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Council Representatives 915 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
Re: Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the prioritization criteria With this letter, we would like to express our strong support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the prioritization criteria. Transportation investment continues to be fraught with inequities that negatively impact our communities of color, and low-income, environmental justice communities' daily accessibility, and safety. We believe strides towards equitable transportation investment aligns with dismantling the systemic racism that continues to build and design our communities.

Civic Thread, formerly WALKSacramento is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health equity in the built environment by elevating institutionally underserved voices and priorities. Our work engaging with local communities throughout the Sacramento Region provides us with valuable insights on community priorities and we’ve heard directly from residents on the need to improve our air quality, center equity, connect communities of color to essential destinations, and reduce the rates of serious injury or death that disproportionately impact low-income communities of color. Additionally, our team nsultants team to provide feedback to city staff and their consulting team on issues related to equity and transportation, and general project observations, including unintended consequences that can arise if we continue to disregard equity in transportation investment.

Civic Thread supports staff’s recommendations on the prioritization criteria for the Transportation Priorities Plan, particularly the focus to center equity in resource allocations by prioritizing investment in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure and in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous. We also understand that with any investment anti-displacement measures must be implemented to ensure residents have the opportunity to benefits from those investments. The proposed prioritization criteria is the first step to address past and current harms at the intersection of transportation and race, the existential Climate Emergency that threatens our city, better connect residents to jobs, schools and parks, support transportation safety in communities that need it most, and address Sacramento's most deteriorated infrastructure.

The City of Sacramento’s transportation investment should be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement and adopting the prioritization criteria for the Transportation Priorities Plan does just that. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects and we urge city council to not only adopt the prioritization criteria but go beyond the investment framework and consider weighting equity highest among the priorities and take necessary action including commitments to prioritize funding to support high-priority projects. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects and thank Jennifer Donlon Wyant and her team for pushing for the change Sacramento needs.

With Respect,

Kiara Reed
Executive Director,
Civic Thread, formerly WALKSacramento

From: [email protected]
To: Kelly F. Rivas; Jay Schenirer; Angelique Ashby; Sean Loloee; Jeff S. Harris; Katie Valenzuela; Rick Jennings; District8
Cc: Howard Chan; Hector Barron; Jennifer Venema; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; Public Comment; [email protected]; [email protected]; Alexandra Reagan
Subject: ECOS LETTER re City of Sacramento Transportation Priorities Plan, City Council Mtg March 15, 2022 Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 11:19:42 AM
Attachments: 220315 ECOS LETTER re City of Sac Transportation Priorities Plan.pdf March 15, 2022

Dear Mayor and Council Members,

Please see our letter regarding tonight’s Council Meeting Agenda Item 12 Transportation Priorities Plan.

Thank you for your consideration.

Susan Herre
ECOS President

ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF SACRAMENTO
Susan Herre AIA AICP, ECOS President
https://www.ecosacramento.net/
[email protected], 202-747-4087

1 of 2

Post Office Box 1526 | Sacramento, CA 95812-1526

March 14, 2022

Mayor and Council Members
City of Sacramento
915 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Sent via email (listed below)

SUBJECT: March 15 City Council Agenda Item No. 12.

Transportation Priorities Plan Prioritization Criteria, Metrics, and Points

Dear Mr. Mayor and Council Members,

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the City’s plan to prioritize transportation projects. ECOS recommends:

1) The schedule for developing the TPP plan should be accelerated so projects can be eligible for funding sooner and built sooner.

2) SacRT’s transit system should be the backbone around which the City’s transportation projects are selected, to make existing transit station areas and transit corridors more walkable and livable. This approach is consistent with state law (SB375, SB743), regional policies (SACOG Blueprint, Green Means Go), and it would enable the leveraging of federal grants.

Over the past year, the City has surveyed the public and identified priorities for equity, air quality, access to destinations, safety, and maintenance. These good
priorities will have the most effect from the climate,
equity, and mobility points of view if they are applied along major bus routes and around light rail stations.

We can make more of our transit infrastructure in
Sacramento. Consider the Place de l'Homme-de-Fer in
Strasbourg, France in which buildings frame the space
and the large canopy creates the place. People enjoy
being there, and we can make places like that here.

2 of 2

At the City Council’s February 8 workshop, SACOG’s James Corless said the City needs a vision that clearly lays out the benefits to climate and social and racial equity, in order to be competitive for Federal Infrastructure funding.

Active transportation improvements with transit and transit-oriented development (TOD) can yield:

• Convenience and a healthy and car-free lifestyle. By funding walkability and safety projects near transit and modifying land use and zoning to support high density TOD, daily shopping can be just a short walk away, with local and regional destinations accessible by transit.

• Equity improvements. SacRT’s transit system connects a range of neighborhoods. Transportation improvement projects can be selected for lower income areas that have been historically disadvantaged.

• Good transit ridership results, and less GHG emissions. The decades-old analogy of pearls on a necklace for TOD is still a good model for Sacramento and most other cities. Robert Cervero of UC Berkeley noted that as opposed to origins and destinations that produce peak-hour commuters, TODs along transit corridors produce transit riders throughout the day:

“Another important ridership dimension of TODs is their mixed-use attributes. Some destinations, like offices and residences, produce trips during peak hours when trains and buses are often full. Others, like entertainment complexes, restaurants, and retail shops, generate trips mainly during off-peak hours, helping to squeeze efficiencies into the deployment of costly rail services. When mixed-use TODs are aligned along linear corridors— like “pearls on a necklace”—trip origins and destinations are evenly spread out, producing efficient bi-directional flows. . . This is in contrast to many U.S. settings, where peak-period trains and buses are filled to the brim in one direction but nearly empty in the other. Mixed and balanced land uses ensure mixed and balanced traffic flows.” [Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: Experiences, Challenges, and Prospects. Transit Cooperative Research Program, TCRP Report 102. 2004]

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Susan Herre
ECOS President

Mayor - Darrell Steinberg, Chief of Staff Kelly Fong Rivas, [email protected] Vice Mayor - Jay Schenirer, District 5, [email protected] Angelique Ashby, District 1, [email protected] Sean Loloee, District 2, [email protected]
Jeff Harris, District 3, [email protected]
Katie Valenzuela, District 4, [email protected] Eric Guerra, District 6, [email protected]
Rick Jennings II, District 7, [email protected] Mai Vang, District 8, [email protected]

City Manager - Howard Chan, [email protected]
Assistant City Manager Public Works - Hector Barron, [email protected] Jennifer Venema [email protected]
Jennifer Donlon Wyant [email protected] [email protected]

From: Angela Hearring
To: Mayor Steinberg; Howard Chan
Cc: Angelique Ashby; Sean Loloee; Jeff S. Harris; Katie Valenzuela; Eric Guerra; Jay Schenirer; Rick Jennings; Mai Vang; Ryan Moore; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; Karina Talamantes; Michaela Schunk; David Gonsalves; Jocelyn Navarro; Michelle Pariset; Allison Joe; Koy Saeteurn; Dennis M. Rogers; Jaime R. Cervantes; Public Comment; Kelly F. Rivas
Subject: Transportation Priorities Plan Prioritization Criteria, Metrics and Points, March 15, 2022*** Item #12***Angela E.

Hearring Public Comment
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:03:44 AM
Mayor Steinberg & City Council Members,
The Transportation Priorities Plan that was co-created with the community will be the guiding instrument for transportation investments and projects in Sacramento. It is a document that is long overdue, that has a great need to be established for the residents of Sacramento.

I signed my name onto the SacMoves letter that is part of the correspondence for Item #12 and I agree with a vast majority of this public comment letter.

I do not agree with attempting to alter and or change the Transportation Priorities Plan from the current state that it is in. Nor do I agree with the statement in reference to ‘air quality….proxy….climate change’. The metric for air quality addresses climate change by encouraging and improving bicycling, riding electric vehicles to scooters to wheelchairs, transit oriented and walking, . The verbiage ‘air quality” was chosen specifically by the under-resourced community members that participated during the first phase of the Transportation Priorities Plan. That vernacular speaks to more folks in Sacramento than “climate change”, while prioritizing the same projects.

The Transportation Priorities Plan was never intended to be a primary objective to specifically address climate change and climate change alone, but it was developed as a metric of community values on how resources are allocated for the city transportation projects.

However, I do agree with one of the co-authors of the SacMoves letter, Mr. Steve Cohn's verbal public comment statement that was made on February 8th, during the Climate and Transportation workshop.
"Please also take up Public Works Director Ryan Moore's proposal to transform the Transportation Priorities Plan into a viable strategy to transform our transportation system."
This Transportation Priorities Plan will transform Sacramento’s transportation system as it is currently known and will address areas that are in deficit. Mr. Mayor and city council members, In order to achieve and maintain equitable mobility, equity has to shift from a word used on the dias during racial equity ad hoc committee meetings, from an attainable goal to measurable metrics displayed in the Transportation Priorities Plan to ensure accountability.

The Transportation Priorities Plan promotes what I refer to as the “Five I’s”:

Improve Air Quality & Health
Improve Equitable Investment
Improve Access to Destinations
Improve Transportation Safety
Improve Maintaining the Transportation System
The Transportation Priorities Plan will help build economic viability and sustainable communities while addressing inequities with the recommended framework and metrics in this plan.

A few months ago Mayor Steinberg made a remarkable comment that I felt was compelling, impressive and inspiring. I would like to share a portion of the quote in my public comment.
“We must look at our history of investment and disinvestment in various parts of the city and the role that race played and continues to play in the way we make decisions and the substance of the decisions we make.

This is about truth, it's about reform, it's about reconciliation and if we don't start with the truth in terms of understanding and acknowledging our history we are not going to be real when it comes to reform and reconciliation.
“We tell the truth, we heal on the inside, then we translate the healing into change around the decisions and how we make them and the community leads this and I think that is so important, because we are not going to create a racial equity tool that will be a checklist of all time. It’s really appropriate and really powerful that the community not only holds us accountable, but that they guide this work as they are doing.” The Transportation Priorities Plan is a tangible goal and I hope that all members of city council aspire for equitable mobility and support this plan.

With hope for a better future,
Angela E. Hearring
From: suzy murray
To: Public Comment
Cc: Jackie; Angela Hearring-Jackson; Jennifer Donlon Wyant Subject: Support for the Transportation Priorities Plan Date: Monday, March 14, 2022 10:16:23 PM
March 14, 2022
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members:

I’m writing to express my support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations to guide transportation spending decisions.

It has been my honor and pleasure to serve as a member of the Transportation Priorities Plan Community Consultants team since its beginning. I strongly support staff’s recommendations for the transportation prioritization criteria including:

Improving Air Quality and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.

Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investment in Sacramento’s communities
that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, I support prioritizing investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.

Providing Access to Destinations by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools and parks.

Improving Transportation Safety by prioritizing transportation projects on Sacramento’s 10
corridors with the highest number of fatal and severe crashes.

These also are in Sacramento’s under-resourced communities.

Fixing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets andbridges with the worst conditions and the most use.

This is the first time transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects and thank Jennifer Donlon-Wyant and her team for the passion and vision that they have brought to this inclusive process.

Thank you,
Suzy Murray
Arden-Arcade resident and volunteer
From: Tyrone Netters
To: Public Comment; Sean Loloee; Jeff S. Harris; Katie Valenzuela; Eric Guerra; Jay Schenirer; Rick Jennings; Mai Vang; Ryan Moore; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; Karina Talamantes; Michaela Schunk; David Gonsalves; Jocelyn Navarro; Michelle Pariset; Allison Joe; Koy Saeteurn; Dennis M. Rogers; Jaime R. Cervantes; Kelly F. Rivas; Jackie; tyrone netters
Subject: Transportation Priorities Plan Prioritization Criteria, Metrics and Points, March 15, 2022 Item #12 Public Comment Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:18:21 AM
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
The Red Black and Green Environmental Justice Coalition is an organization invested in seeing issues that impact the Black community, especially the poor, prioritized in efforts like this that are related to equity and transportation, including the unintended consequences of refusing to center equity in resource allocations.

We would like to strongly express our support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the prioritization criteria to equitably and sustainably address the City of Sacramento’s backlog of nearly 700 transportation-related projects. We appreciate the efforts of City staff to hear and actually listen to community priorities around: improving our air quality, centering equity, connecting Black folks to important and valuable destinations, and reducing the rates of serious injury or death (where we are dramatically overrepresented) by addressing our safety.

We understand the urgency of Climate Change (as we continue to be among the most impacted) and ask you to remain committed to the City’s efforts to stop diluting environmental justice priorities. Climate Change goals and EJ priorities are not mutually exclusive, and we would like to emphasize that we support the goals of reducing Sacramento’s contribution to the climate crisis, however, we also have a responsibility to get funding to projects that reimagine and reshape how we work towards those climate goals.

As people and organizations continue to conflate the TPP with the 7 Big Ideas, we ask you to view this effort as it was intended: a mechanism that demonstrates community values (which were also overwhelmingly represented outside of EJ communities) in how we allocate resources on the City’s transportation projects. “Air Quality” and “health outcomes”, while insufficient for some, are a part of the expansive lexicon that our communities use to describe responsiveness to Climate Change. Climate Change strategies will be positively impacted and included through the current avenues. We are just concerned about the negative impacts around including limiting criteria that have historically negatively impacted our communities. We don’t believe that Climate Change priorities at the expense of EJ communities is a just process.

Improving Air Quality and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.

Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investment in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, we support prioritizing investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.

Providing Access to Destinations by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools and parks to reduce spatial inequalities.

Improving Transportation Safety by prioritizing transportation projects on Sacramento’s 10 corridors with the highest number of fatal and severe crashes. These also are in Sacramento’s under-resourced communities.

Fixing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with the worst conditions and the most use.

We would especially like to thank Jennifer Donlon Wyant and her team for working to unravel systemic racial discrimination. This is the first time the City of Sacramento’s transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects and we urge city council to not only adopt the prioritization criteria but go beyond the investment frameworks and take necessary action including commitments to prioritize funding mechanisms and set aside funding within the city budget to support high-priority projects. The time for action is now.

Thank you,
The Red Black and Green Environmental Justice Coalition From: JESSE REESE
To: Public Comment; Mayor Steinberg
Subject: Sacramento Transportation Prioritization Plan, agenda item #12 Date: Saturday, March 12, 2022 11:30:49 AM
Attachments: Letter to Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members.odt March 12, 2022

Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council

I would like to express my support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the prioritization criteria.

I am Jesse Reese, President of the Meadowview Neighborhood Association support staff' recommendation for the transportation prioritization citeria including:

Improving Air Quality and Health: by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use, and electric vehicles.

Providing for Equitable Investment: by prioritizing investment in Sacramento's communities that lacks basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks and tree canopies for those hot summer days when a person is trying to catch a bus, Additionally I support prioritizing investments in area that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.

Fixing and Maintaining the System: by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with worst conditions and the most use.

Improving Transportation Safety: by prioritizing transportation on corridors with the highest of fatal and severe crashes. These also are in Sacramento's under-resourced communities

Thank you

From: Faye Wilson Kennedy
To: Public Comment; Darrell Steinberg; Eric Guerra; Rick Jennings; Jay Schenirer; Mai Vang; Katie Valenzuela; Angelique Ashby; Sean Loloee; Jeff S. Harris; Howard Chan Cc: Genoa Barrow; Regina Wilson; Salena Pryor; "Sarah Svoboda"; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; [email protected]; Scott T. Anderson; Betty Yee; Voices River City
Subject: City Council Meeting 3/15 Agenda Item #12 Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 10:06:18 AM
Importance: High
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
Agenda Item #12 Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations We would like to express our support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the prioritization criteria to address the City of Sacramento’s backlog of nearly 700 transportation-related projects equitably and sustainably.

While we support the priorities of equity in the plan, the City staff have been too timid in meeting the climate crisis in their set of proposed measures. The city must explore new funding opportunities to accelerate these measures and to integrate all impacted neighborhoods, so we do not end up pitting progress in neighborhoods in one part of the City versus another.
· For communities of color, unreliable mass transit, transportation costs, and unequal access have contributed to longstanding structural racism and associated socioeconomic barriers that have segregated communities from a range of opportunities.
· Transportation inequities can be traced in part to historical economic and societal shifts—white flight to the suburbs, the growth of a car-centric culture, and the migration of businesses—and jobs—from cities to more distant locations. · Key to addressing transportation inequities, is greater coordination between government agencies—especially transportation, housing, and public health.

The Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign (Sac PPC) is a part of the Poor People’s Campaign:

A National Call for Moral Revival. Our Fundamental Principles: We are committed to lifting -up and deepening the leadership of those most affected by systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation and to building unity across lines of division.

The proposed prioritization criteria will work to address past and current harms at the intersection of transportation and race, class and the existential Climate Emergency that threatens our city, better connect residents to jobs, schools and parks, support transportation safety in communities that need it most, and address the Sacramento's most deteriorated infrastructure.

The Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign support staff’s recommendations for the transportation prioritization criteria including:

Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investment in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, streetlights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, we support prioritizing investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.

Improving Air Quality and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.

Providing Access to Destinations by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools, and parks.

Repairing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with the worst conditions and the most use.

This is the first time the City of Sacramento’s transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects, and we urge city council to not only adopt the prioritization criteria but go beyond the investment frameworks and take necessary action including commitments to prioritize funding mechanisms and set aside funding within the city budget to support high-priority projects. The time for action is now. Transportation Justice for all communities.

Finally, “Follow the transportation dollars and one can tell who is important and who is not.

While many barriers to equitable transportation for low-income and people of color have been removed, much more needs to be done. Transportation spending programs do not benefit all populations equally.” Dr. Robert Bullard
Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign (Sac PPC)

From: Nicole Grady
To: Angelique Ashby; Eric Guerra; Jeff S. Harris; Rick Jennings; Sean Loloee; Public Comment; Jay Schenirer; Mayor Steinberg; Katie Valenzuela; Mai Vang; Mindy Cuppy
Cc: Hector Barron; Howard Chan; Nicole Cuellar; Mindy Cuppy; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; Tera F. Hannah; Michael Jasso; Allison Joe; Remi Mendoza; Tom Pace; Matthew Read; Dennis M. Rogers; Jennifer Venema; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Deb Wurgler; Michelle Pariset; [email protected]; Koy Saeteurn; David Gonsalves; Website G-Suite; Angela Elizabeth; Becky Heieck; ROSANNA HERBER; Ali Doerr; Ilonka Zlatar; Emel Wadhwani; debra banks; David Moore; Kiara Reed; Doug Thompson; [email protected]; [email protected]; Jordan Grimaldi; Pristina Zhang; [email protected]
Subject: March 15th City of Sacramento Council Meeting - Agenda Item #12: Transportation Priorities Plan Date: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:21:35 PM
Attachments: image002.png
image003.png
image004.png
SacMoves Letter - March 15 Agenda Item 12 Transportation Priorities Plan.pdf Mayor Steinberg and City Councilmembers,

In response to the March 15th City Council Agenda Item No. 12: Transportation Priorities Plan, SacMoves is submitting the attached letter urging you that the Transportation Priorities Plan be revised to prioritize climate change.

Thank you,

Nicole Grady
Executive Assistant
Breathe California Sacramento Region
909 12th Street, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.444.5900
--
Middle and high school students, join us for the Breathe Youth Media Awards on March 24! There is no cost to attend.

Have kids? Love bikes? Bring them out to the First Annual Breathe Bike Rodeo April 23, 10am-noon.

Partner Organizations
2021-2022:

AARP

ACT

RiderShip for the Masses

SARA

Sacramento Regional Rail Working
Group

Sacramento Splash

Sierra Club, Mother Lode Chapter

Sierra Club, Sacramento Group

SKK Enterprises

The 50 Corridor TMA

March 15, 2022
To: Mayor Steinberg and City Councilmembers
Re: March 15 City Council Agenda Item No.12, Transportation Priorities Plan

For the past two years, SacMoves has been leading a broad-based coalition of business, labor and community groups united behind a common vision that Sacramento should have an innovative, seamless, and diversified transportation network offering a wide range of accessible, affordable, and efficient mobility choices coupled with supportive land uses, better air quality, safer neighborhoods, and a stronger and more equitable economy. To that end, we have consistently advocated for the inclusion of projects and policies in transportation, land use, and climate action plans for the City, the Sacramento Transportation Authority, SACOG, and the greater Sacramento region that are consistent with the groundbreaking work of the Mayors’ Climate Change Commission.

Once again, we write to implore you to act swiftly to take comprehensive and bold action to transform transportation in the City and the region. Such a transformation is nonnegotiable if we are to begin to respond to the imminent threat of climate change; it is also essential in fostering equity, addressing traffic safety, increasing the livability of our neighborhoods, and improving air quality.

Just a few weeks ago the Council held a workshop titled Climate and Transportation. Yet the Transportation Priorities Plan before you, which proposes analyzing 700 transportation projects that have been proposed by council members over the past twenty years, would appear to adopt the status quo and does not establish addressing climate change as one of the criteria. Our city is in dire need of a transportation plan that reflects the current century. Again, we urge you to direct your City Manager to set aside staff and resources to develop and implement a comprehensive active transportation and public transit framework for the city.

That being said, we offer the following comments on the criteria proposed in the plan before you. The criteria themselves are all important aspects of analyzing transportation projects. In particular, the coalition is pleased to see equity as one of the proposed criteria. It is essential that we prioritize investments in our underserved communities. Only then will we achieve an equitable and healthy Sacramento.

However, the criteria do not adequately address the climate crisis or the critical need to become competitive for increased state and federal funding.

As the City Council acknowledged in December 2019, climate change constitutes an emergency. In Sacramento, transportation is the source of over 50% of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Yet, our efforts to curb its impact on our environment remain woefully inadequate. “Air quality,” which is important and is one of the proposed criteria, is affected by greenhouse gas emissions but is not a proxy for addressing climate change. In order to meet our local and regional climate goals, the criteria must include the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled.

The Criteria must also include competitiveness for state and federal and matching funds.

We have heard consistently that the City of Sacramento does not receive “its share” of available state and federal funds. With the influx of funding for transportation infrastructure, along with clear priorities on climate change, land use, and equity that have been established by both the state and federal administrations, it is imperative that the City not squander this opportunity and that projects be selected based on their competitiveness for the available funds.

Thank you for your consideration of these comments. While we continue to push for bolder action on these issues, we are appreciative of your staff’s efforts, particularly in the area of engagement. We remain hopeful and eager to work with you and your staff on a transportation and transit framework that reflects the vision we all have for a sustainable city.

Yours truly,

SacMoves Coalition
Anne Stausboll, former Chair, Mayor’s Commission on Climate Change Steve Cohn, President, Breathe California Sacramento Region Roger Dickinson
Angela E. Hearring
Glenn Jackson Jr.

Becky Heieck, Jibe
Rosanna Herber, SMART Steering Committee
Ali, Doerr, 350 Sacramento
Emel Wadhwani, Midtown Neighborhood Association
Debra Banks, Executive Director, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA) Civic Thread
Doug Thompson
Susan Herre, President, ECOS
Glenda Marsh, Chair, SMART
Julia Burrows

cc: Howard Chan, City Manager

Michael Jasso, Assistant City Manager

Hector Barron, Assistant City Manager

Lucinda Willcox, Program Manager, Public Works

Jennifer Donlon-Wyant, City Transportation Planning Manager

Jennifer Venema, City Climate Action Lead
From: Deb Banks
To: Angelique Ashby; Eric Guerra; Jeff S. Harris; Rick Jennings; Sean Loloee; Jay Schenirer; Mayor Steinberg; Katie Valenzuela; Mai Vang Cc: Public Comment; Mindy Cuppy; Hector Barron; Howard Chan; Nicole Cuellar; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; Michael Jasso; Jennifer Venema Subject: March 15th City of Sacramento Council Meeting - Agenda Item #12: Transportation Priorities Plan Date: Monday, March 14, 2022 6:17:41 PM
Attachments: TPP LOS SABA.pdf
Screen Shot 2020-06-03 at 3.00.13 PM.png
Mayor Steinberg and City Councilmembers,

Thank you for your leadership and attention to these important discussions and decisions affecting the future of Sacramento.

Best,
Debra Banks

Debra Banks
[email protected]
Executive Director
Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates
916-444-6600
Sacbike.org
909 12th Street. Ste 110 Sacramento, CA 95814 www.sacbike.org

March 14, 2022 Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members, The Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA) would like to express support for the Transportation Priorities Plan criteria to equitably and sustainably address the City of Sacramento’s backlog of nearly 700 transportation-related projects. SABA has been on the frontlines advocating for safer, more equitable, and cleaner, greener, modes for transportation for residents in Sacramento for the last thirty years. We have worked in partnership with a broad-base coalition of organizations to realize a vision for Sacramento that centers active transportation along with public transit as the most affordable means of transportation and one that provides excellent health benefits to individuals while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With a backlog of close to 700 transportation related projects, it makes sense to create a “rubric” and related metrics in which to prioritize these projects, yet, we have a different take on the set of criteria for scoring. We think that Council should require criteria that falls into four categories: Climate, Equity, Vision Zero/Safety and Funding. Given that it was less than a month ago in which we gathered for a Climate and Transportation workshop, it would be important to raise any project moving forward with criteria that shows a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per the agreed upon recommendations from the Mayors’ Commission on Climate Change. We need a transportation plan that reflects the current climate emergency and a plan that centers and creates the conditions for people to choose walking and cycling over vehicular travel. In addition, we agree wholeheartedly on criteria that works to address past and present harm at the intersection of transportation and race. We must prioritize investments in underserved communities so that all residents can experience and thrive in their neighborhoods. No one in Sacramento should lack basic infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, or trees, which are less likely found in communities that are largely Black, Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and/or Indigenous. We can and should ensure that these neighborhoods receive equitable infrastructure that better connect residents to jobs, schools, and parks.

909 12th Street. Ste 110 Sacramento, CA 95814 www.sacbike.org The City’s work on Vision Zero needs to be raised to ensure safety for everyone. Lowering speed limits, improving safety by prioritizing projects on Sacramento’s high-injury corridors with the highest number of fatal and severe crashes is imperative. It is unacceptable that Sacramento continues to rank as one of the worst cities in California for transportation safety. We must do better for our families who suffer from the tragic and avoidable loss of a loved one due to a severe or fatal collision with a motor vehicle. Finally, with the influx of funds for transportation infrastructure flowing into the state, it is important that we not miss this window of opportunity. Adding criteria that addresses competitiveness for state and federal funds would assist in accelerating implementation of many of these projects that are so vital to a safe and equitable transportation system for all Sacramentans. We urge you to take the necessary action to prioritize the above criteria to create a blueprint for selection of projects that will yield a sustainable, equitable, livable, Sacramento for all of its inhabitants. Thank you, Debra Banks, Executive Director, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates Cc: Howard Chan, City Manager Michael Jasso, Assistant City Manager Hector Barron, Assistant City Manager Jennifer Donlan-Wyant, City Transportation Planning Manager Jennifer Venema, City Climate Action Lead

From: Faye Wilson Kennedy
To: Public Comment; Darrell Steinberg; Eric Guerra; Rick Jennings; Jay Schenirer; Mai Vang; Katie Valenzuela; Angelique Ashby; Sean Loloee; Jeff S. Harris; Howard Chan Cc: Jennifer Donlon Wyant
Subject: Council Meeting 3/15 Agenda Item #12 Letter of support for Transportation Priorities Plan staff"s recommendations
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 10:40:43 AM
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,

Agenda Item #12 Letter of support for Transportation Priorities Plan staff's recommendations

The Southeast Village Neighborhood Association is a voluntary Neighborhood Association. Our goals include: to build community, make our neighborhood the best place to live and work, eliminate crime, and support our two schools in the neighborhood (Elder Creek & Camellia Elementary), in City Council # 6.

We would like to strongly express our support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the prioritization criteria to equitably and sustainably address the City of Sacramento’s backlog of nearly 700 transportation-related projects. We appreciate the efforts of City staff to hear and actually listen to community priorities around: improving our air quality, centering equity, connecting impacted communities to important and valuable destinations, and reducing the rates of serious injury or death (where we are dramatically overrepresented) by addressing our safety.

We understand the urgency of Climate Change (as we continue to be among the most impacted) and ask you to remain committed to the City’s efforts to shift away from the detrimental practice of using equity priorities to push through enviro agendas. Climate Change goals and EJ priorities are not mutually exclusive, and we would like to emphasize that we support the goals of reducing Sacramento’s contribution to the climate crisis, however, we also have a responsibility to get funding to projects that reimagine and reshape how we work towards those climate goals.

As people and organizations continue to conflate the TPP with the 7 Big Ideas, we ask you to view this effort as it was meant: a mechanism that demonstrates community values (which were also overwhelmingly represented outside of EJ communities) in how we allocate resources on the City’s transportation projects. “Air Quality” and “health outcomes”, while insufficient for some, are a part of the expansive lexicon that our communities use to describe responsiveness to Climate Change.

The Southeast Village Neighborhood Association supports staff’s recommendations for the transportation prioritization criteria including:

Improving Air Quality and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.

Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investment in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, streetlights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, we support prioritizing investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.

Providing Access to Destinations by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools, and parks to reduce spatial inequalities.

Improving Transportation Safety by prioritizing transportation projects on Sacramento’s 10 corridors with the highest number of fatal and severe crashes.

These also are in Sacramento’s under-resourced communities.

Fixing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with the worst conditions and the most use.

We acknowledge this is the first time the City of Sacramento’s transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects, and we urge city council to not only adopt the prioritization criteria but go beyond the investment frameworks and take necessary action including commitments to prioritize funding mechanisms and set aside funding within the city budget to support high-priority projects. The time for action is now.

Thank you,

Southeast Village Neighborhood Association

CHARTER OFFICERS
Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk
Susana Alcala Wood, City Attorney
Jorge Oseguera, City Auditor
Howard Chan, City Manager
John Colville, City Treasurer

FINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Description of Attached: Final Correspondence received after publishing the Agenda.

For the Meeting of: Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at 5:00 p.m.

Agenda Item: Discussion Item 12

From: Pristina Zhang
To: Public Comment
Subject: Comment Submission for 3.15.22 City Council Meeting Agenda Item 12 Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:12:36 PM
Attachments: image001.png
Good evening Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members. My name is Pristina Zhang and I am representing WALKSacramento doing business as Civic Thread.

I'd like to start off by commending the City of Sacramento on their incorporation of multi-lingual community engagement efforts during Phase 1 to gather values and priorities. These efforts are critical to ensuring the Transportation Prioritization Plan will authentically reflect the needs of those who will be impacted by the decided investments daily. We highly encourage the council to adopt the mentioned metrics.

We are here to advocate our support for your continued engagement of community members throughout the remaining phases, with emphasis on efforts and strategies that will allow equitable participation. As one of the local leading organizations that intersect active transportation advocacy and community engagement, we recommend the following to the City as they continue their efforts in engaging harder to reach communities due to the barriers created by our systems. I will be reiterating the importance of language justice, prioritized outreach, incentivization, and in person events.

The City of Sacramento is home to a diversity of identities, and through our work experience we have identified a need for support in countless languages such as Hmong, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Farsi, and more. Offering translation and interpretive services in flyers, event registrations, and all event materials will ensure the plan is truly reflective of all the demographics that make up the City, and is taking into consideration of their community's needs. Outreach and promotion should be done early, tapping into community based organizations for their support in advance in respect to their capacity and authentic efforts when outreaching to their community members. Zip codes representing BIPOC neighborhoods home to those experiencing the poorest of air quality and highest rates of chronic health disparities should be targeted for outreach.

To ensure community members know how seriously the City values their presence and feedback, we recommend offering incentives that are proportional to the time they've taken to participate and the complexities of your ask. It is very important to prioritize engagement with community members representing institutionally disadvantaged neighborhoods who are experiencing socioeconomic and health disparities. Incentives can be used a motivation to participate, as well as encouragement for continued participation throughout the process.

As we've had to adjust during the pandemic, we have seen great benefits of hosting digital events which have eliminated need for travel, and have been easily accessible for individuals who may have limited transportation options. However, we have also seen its downsides as it has simultaneously been a barrier for our communities without reliable internet, technology resources, or technology proficiency. Tailoring the event to the population's needs will be vital to ensuring equitable participation. Offering in person has proven to be effective with authentically engaging our multi- lingual communities, older populations, and community members with limited technology resources.

Some important resources to consider to eliminating barriers to participation in-person include offering free childcare as well as offering culturally relevant meals to supplement meals dependent on the time the event has been hosted.

These are all strategies to support the elevation of our most priority voices, and to prevent its eclipse by the City's more affluent and heavily resourced community members.

Thank you for your time and consideration of our recommendations to ensure strong, authentic community engagement throughout the process of the Transportation Priorities Plan.

Pristina Zhang, MPH | Project Manager
Civic Thread - formerly WALKSacramento
909 12th St | Suite 125 | Sacramento CA 95814
Office: 916-445-9255

We have a new suite number, website, and email address! Please update your contacts with our new information! The Civic Thread office is currently closed due to COVID-19. All staff are working remotely until further notice. For immediate assistance, please contact me on my cell at (415) 290-0360

From: Jordan Grimaldi
To: Public Comment
Cc: ProjectReview
Subject: Comment Submission for Item 12 Transportation Priorities Plan 3/15/22 City Council Meeting Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:29:51 PM
Attachments: Outlook-Civic Thre.png
Hello and good evening Mayor and City Council Members. My name is Jordan Grimaldi and I'm representing WALKSacramento, doing business as Civic Thread.

Thank you so much to the City staff and consultants who have led a robust public outreach effort to gather and synthesize community priorities and organized this evening’s presentation. As a community-based organization who has been active in the climate and transportation conversation for the past 20 years, we see the community’s priorities and concerns reflected in the 5 values the City has identified in the Transportation Priorities Plan. We urge the Council to adopt the proposed metrics as a strong step towards advancing the city’s health, climate, equity, and mobility goals.

While the approved projects in the pipeline will undoubtedly contribute to a healthier, more sustainable Sacramento, we would like to stress the importance of coupling these investments with strong displacement countermeasures to ensure our most vulnerable residents can enjoy the benefits these improvements will bring – and remain in their homes.

Investments in transportation systems and the built environment can often lead to increases in rent and cost of living, a phenomenon known as “green gentrification.” Gentrification is already well underway in Sacramento’s BIPOC communities. According to the 2009-2013 American Community Survey, 30% of Sacramento’s census tracts have been in the process of gentrifying since 2000. There has been a 29% decrease in Black youth between 2010 and 2020 in the Oak Park community alone.

Ensuring residents have access to affordable housing in their communities will be a key strategy to decreasing VMT in the region and supporting Sacramento’s pursuit of city-wide, regional, and federal climate goals. If people continue to be pushed further out of the city while their social ties and economic and educational opportunities remain within Sacramento proper, community members are likely to increase car trips to access these amenities. Furthermore, as we see gas prices continue to rise, this will only exacerbate financial burdens on low-income households.

Taking action to prevent future development from further exacerbating gentrification in tandem with implementing the Transportation Priorities Plan is especially critical given Equity was the second most important value that the community identified during the first phase of engagement.

When we lose embedded members of the community to displacement, we threaten the economic and cultural richness that makes Sacramento the incredible city that it is. Thank you for your time and consideration of these comments.

Jordan Grimaldi | Project Manager, EcoDistricts AP
Civic Thread - formerly WALKSacramento
909 12th St | Suite 125 | Sacramento CA 95814
Office: 916-445-9255
We have a new suite number, website, and email address! Please update your contacts with our new information! The Civic Thread office is currently closed due to COVID-19. All staff are working remotely until further notice.

For immediate assistance, please contact me on my cell at (703) 888 - 8171.

From: Kathryn Canepa
To: Public Comment
Cc: ProjectReview
Subject: Public Comment: 3.15.2022 Agenda item 12. Transportation Priorities Plan Prioritization Criteria, Metrics and Points
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:37:12 PM
Attachments: image002.png
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Councilmembers:

First I want to give thanks to the City staff and the community consultants who have put so much effort into building out these recommendations. Civic Thread is in support of the prioritization criteria that City staff are recommending for the Transportation Priorities Plan. The 5 values used to prioritize projects are reflective of community values identified through broad-based engagement, which is a huge step forward in centering equity in resource allocation. We want to urge the City Council to adopt these metrics presented by staff in the Council Meeting on 3/15/2022.

We want to also take this opportunity to highlight the importance of continuing to prioritize active transportation throughout this value system. By explicitly enacting an active transportation lens to project prioritization, the City will show that it is committed to the health, well-being, and quality of life of its residents. Prioritizing investment in transportation infrastructure that specifically improves biking, walking, and rolling for those who get around that way, or want to, is critical. These projects go far in achieving the goals of improved air quality and health, equitable investment, access to destinations, and improved safety.

When reviewing projects using the TPP's proposed criteria and metrics, particularly the metrics that do not explicitly mention active transportation, we urge Council and City staff to make sure that people who use active modes of transportation are top of mind, and that they are not scoring access, safety, and maintenance improvements with only benefits to vehicle drivers in mind.

Active transportation is intrinsically linked to improved air quality, health outcomes, and reduction in Greenhouse gases and vehicle miles traveled. The option to safely bike, walk, or roll, rather than drive, to get from Point A to B, increases the number of choices people have to access critical services and destinations, provides lower cost transportation options, and helps us do our part to address the climate crisis. For this reason, we encourage the City to explicitly commit to applying an active transportation lens as staff use this framework to categorize their transportation projects moving forward.

We greatly value the work that has been done with the TPP, and believe the metrics and prioritization criteria before you lay the foundation for transformative, equitable investments in active transportation. Civic Thread supports the metrics and prioritization criteria as laid out in the staff presentation tonight, and recommend the Council adopt the criteria, though we do also recommend weighting equity the highest among all priorities to be responsive to the history of inequitable investment in this City.

We're excited to see continued collaboration in this space and again, thank Jennifer Donlon Wyant and the community consultant team for their work on the Transportation Priorities Plan.

Thank you for considering our comments.

Sincerely,

Kathryn Canepa | Project Manager
Civic Thread – formerly WALKSacramento
909 12th St | Suite 125 | Sacramento CA 95814
Office: 916-445-9255

We have a new suite number, website, and email address! Please update your contacts with our new information!

The Civic Thread office is currently closed due to COVID-19. All staff are working remotely until further notice. For immediate assistance, please contact me on my cell at (831) 524-3864.

From: David Moore
To: Public Comment
Subject: David Moore wants to share the file TPP City Council Letter.docx with you Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:37:49 PM
To view TPP City Council Letter.docx, sign in or create an account.

David Moore has shared a OneDrive for Business file with you. To view it, click the link below.

TPP City Council Letter.docx
From: David Moore
To: Public Comment
Subject: Civic Thread- Letter of Support TPP
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:37:50 PM
Attachments: Outlook-Civic Thre.png
TPP City Council Letter.docx


Hello,
Please find my letter of support attached.

Thank you
--
David Moore | Project Coordinator
Civic Thread - formerly WALKSacramento
909 12th St | Suite 125 | Sacramento CA 95814
Office: 916-445-9255

For immediate assistance, please contact me on my cell at (530)-204-8857 From: Nova Holly
To: Public Comment
Subject: TPP
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:04:28 PM
Greetings,
Words matter and are a powerful tool when used appropriately. The choice of verbiage by the committee and community at large came as a result of a significant and sometimes tedious process. The phrase Air Quality is an example of wording that resonates strongly enough with residents and stakeholders to have been painstakingly preserved.

As a participant of several TPP outreach events and concerned Sacramento resident, I implore the council to retain the Transportation Priorities Plan in its current state, especially with the intentionally selected verbiage and metrics. I wholeheartedly agree with Public Works Director Ryan Moore's proposal to include the TPP as a feasible strategy for the city's transportation system.

Thank you for your consideration and allowing our voices to be heard, regarded and implemented objectively.

Nova Holly-Brookins
[email protected]
916-912-7785
Thank you for your commitment to our Youth, our Community and our Future! From: Laurie Litman
To: Public Comment
Subject: Comments to the City Council re Council Agenda Item 12, Transportation Priorities Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:49:16 PM
Dear Mayor and City Council,
I am writing to underscore and amplify the letter from SacMoves regarding the Transportation Priorities Plan. I am worried that, once again, you will miss an opportunity to make significant progress on the Big Picture, and instead will take the easy way out by rubber stamping out-of- date and status-quo projects. We need you to do the real work necessary to transform our entire local transportation system in order to mitigate and prepare for a climate-impacted future!!
The SacMoves letter couldn’t be clearer:
“Once again, we write to implore you to act swiftly to take comprehensive and bold action to transform transportation in the City and the region. Such a transformation is nonnegotiable if we are to begin to respond to the imminent threat of climate change; it is also essential in fostering equity, addressing traffic safety, increasing the livability of our neighborhoods, and improving air quality.
“… the Transportation Priorities Plan before you, which proposes analyzing 700 transportation projects that have been proposed by council members over the past twenty years, would appear to adopt the status quo and does not establish addressing climate change as one of the criteria. Our city is in dire need of a transportation plan that reflects the current century.

Again, we urge you to direct your City Manager to set aside staff and resources to develop and implement a comprehensive active transportation and public transit framework for the city.”
You can do it!! You can go beyond the status quo mindset, recognize that we have a imminently dangerous emergency on our hands in the form of climate change (as you acknowledged in the Climate Emergency Resolution), and use every bit of creativity, power, as well as love/responsibility for your family and constituents, to make this necessary transition.

We are beyond the point where we can continue business-as-usual. Please read the SacMoves letter closely, and step beyond your comfort zone to create a comprehensive, world-class, innovate transportation plan that responds to this critical moment.

Sincerely,
Laurie Litman
President Emerita, 350 Sacramento
From: Herman Barahona
To: Mayor Steinberg; Eric Guerra; Jeff S. Harris; Angelique Ashby; Sean Loloee; Katie Valenzuela; Michelle Pariset; Jay Schenirer; Rick Jennings; District8; Ryan K. Brown; Jennifer Donlon Wyant; David Edrosolan; Public Comment
Cc: Howard Chan; Amy Williams; Karina Talamantes; David Gonsalves; Allison Joe; Dennis M. Rogers; Sacejc Subject: Transportation Priorities Plan
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 5:49:37 PM
Good afternoon Mayor Steinberg, City Council members and responsible staff:

On behalf of the Sacramento EJ Coalition, I would like to request that the Transportation Priority Plan(TPP) meaningfully include the voices of those on the margins and poor working families who need equitable transportation and infrastructure investments. As the electrification ordinance, the city and county climate plans and TPP move forward, we strongly encourage you to implement action plans that reverse decades of redlining and racist
environmental policies that continue to haunt this growing city.

Based on recommendations written by Dr. Jesus Hernandez’s Race and Place City report, it is crucial that you pilot significant public improvements in marginalized communities, and use realistic units of measurement/specific neighborhoods. Meaningful inclusion and participation is a first sign of success. Allow me to highlight the Gardenland neighborhood - it is a perfect example of a community often overlooked by city planning professionals and policy makers. With the community talent and resources available in communities like Gardenland, there is a possibility to create concrete deliverables and sustainable models for the entire city.

You have a unique opportunity to begin undoing years of environmental segregation and inadequate policies that have harmed so many. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Respectfully,
Herman Barahona
916-900-1717
Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition
image0.jpeg
2422

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alexis Arriaga
President
Josie Morales
Vice President
Xochi Prock
Secretary
Cristina Mora
Treasurer
Julio Gonzalez
Financial Secretary
Arturo Aleman
Parliamentarian
Ronald J. Jimenez
President Emerttus

COMMITTEES
Kevin Fernandez
Health & Environmental
Justice
Richard Falcon
Community Organizer &
Art Director
I
Ufhd$$edil-{frrug$Promavlenda Arcldn Civtca ..,,:

March 11,2022
f)ear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
I would like to express my support for the Transportation Priorities Plan staffrecommendations for the prioritization criteria to equitably and sustainably address the City of Sacramento's backlog of nearly 700 transportation-related projects.

The proposed prioritization criteria will work to address past and current harms at the intersection of transportation and race, the existential Climate Emergency that threatens our city, better connect residents to jobs, schools and park, support transportation safety in communities that need it most, and address the Sacramento's most deteriorated infrastructure. United Latinos supports staffs recommendations for the transportation prioritization criteria including:
o Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investment in Sacramento's communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, I support prioritizing investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.
r Improving Air Quality and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling. transit use and supporting electric vehicles.
o Providing Access to Destinations by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools and parks.
o Improving Transportation Safety by prioritizing transportation projects on Sacramento's l0 corridors with the highest number of fatal and severe crashes. These also are in Sacramento's under-resourced communities.
o Fixing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with the worst conditions and the most use.

This is the first time the City of Sacramento's transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement. We hope to see similar collaborative efforts on future projects and we urge city council to not only adopt the prioritization criteria but go beyond the investment frameworks and take necessary action including commitments to prioritize funding nrechanisms and set aside funding within the city budge to support high-priority projects. The time for action is now.

Regards,
fut
"--Z-Morales
President,
P.O. Box 22905 Sacramento, CA 95822
www.unitedlatinos.org / Tax Exempt # 30-0595341
United Latinos
From: Josie Morales
To: Public Comment
Subject: letter of support - item 12
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 6:03:13 PM
Attachments: 3.15.22 City meeting.pdf
Pleas see attached letter of support.

Sincerely,
Josie Morales
Vice President, United Latinos
From: vincent valdez
To: Public Comment
Subject: Transportation Priorities Plan Item #12
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:09:51 PM
My name is Vincent Valdez member of the United Latinos EJ Green Team, I have attended the Transportation Priorities Planning meetings over the last 2 years via zoom and while commuting from Oakland, San Francisco, Yreka, and Stockton. I was actively transporting and commuting while attending.

I support the TPP as it promotes the "Five I's" Improve Air Quality, Improve Equitable Investment, Improve Access to Destinations, Improve Transportation Safety, and Improve Maintaining the Transportation System. The TPP is a presentation that the community has worked hard to create and I thank everyone for including the input that we have suggested. I have grown up where the streets in south Sac have no sidewalks and I took my son to look at the pedestrian crossing near Fruitridge Rd and 99 there are no sidewalks still 40 years later. We know where the transportation dollars have gone and where the projects have not. The inclusion of Climate Change and Air Quality is minimal when we are talking about the priorities of transportation projects on the books and future transportation projects. We have worked hard together and I have invited the TPP to present at 3 community groups and we are scheduled to present March 22nd again. Thanks you for supporting this project and for letting us be a part of the change we want to create.

Sacramento City CouncilMarch 15, 2022

Sacramento City Council
March 15, 2022