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CORRESPONDENCE
Description of Attached: Correspondence received after publishing the Agenda.
For the Meeting of: Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 5:00 p.m.
Agenda Item: Discussion Item 35
35. Transportation Priorities Plan Initial Prioritization File ID: 2022-01804
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution approving the Transportation Prioritization Plan prioritization as the City's guidelines for transportation investments and funding opportunities.
Contact: Jennifer Donlon Wyant, Transportation Planning Manager, (916) 808-5913, [email protected]; David Edrosolan, Transportation Division Manager, (916) 808-5974, [email protected]; Ryan Moore, Director of Public Works, (916) 808-6629, [email protected]; Department of Public Works
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November 15, 2022
Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Council Representatives 915 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: Support for the City of Sacramento- Transportation Priorities Plan’s Staff Recommendations
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
With this letter, Civic Thread, formerly WALKSacramento, would like to express strong support for the Transportation Priorities Plan (TPP) staff recommendations made for the prioritization criteria. Civic Thread 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 such as the need to improve air quality, center equity, connect communities of color to essential destinations, and reduce the rates of serious injury or death disproportionately impacting low-income communities of color. Additionally, our team consults and provides 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.
The outcome of the prioritization reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment:
→ Improving Air Quality, Climate 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, it prioritizes investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino/a/x, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.
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→ 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 and bridges 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. With such limited transportation funding, it’s essential that the City prioritizes its investments. Not all projects can be high priority. Communities that that lack basic infrastructure; that have poor quality infrastructure relative to the rest of the city; and that have systemic demonstrated safety issues must be prioritized.
We support the staff recommendations made as they address fundamental issues impacting neighborhoods that have been historically neglected yet experience immense disparity. These issues include overall inequity, BIPOC communities living on the high injury network, and limitations to accessing healthier opportunities.
Equity: The locations of the High Priority Projects are home to communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure and are predominantly Black, Latino/a/x, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous. By selecting these neighborhoods, resources will be invested into these BIPOC communities in dire need of improved infrastructure. We also understand that with any investment anti-displacement measures must be implemented to ensure residents have an opportunity to benefit from those investments.
The proposed prioritization recommendations are 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 High Injury Network: One high priority project identifies Marysville Boulevard, which is adjacent to a majority Black, Latino/a/x and Asian community that has been subject to decades of disinvestment and environmental injustices. We’ve heard directly from residents about the safety concerns along the corridor and the data backs it up. It is one of the five streets in Sacramento with the highest number of severe injuries and fatalities.
From 2016 to 2021, there were 19 fatal or severe injury collisions along the one-mile project
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area of Marysville Boulevard. These fatalities and injuries inequitably harming communities of color, have the opportunity to be decreased or eliminated with more investment and recognition from the City of Sacramento. We have previously provided a letter of support for Marysville Boulevard and will continue to support improvements in this corridor and others like it.
Access to Healthy Opportunities: Through Cal Fresh Health Living project work, Civic Thread identifies the importance of the TPP through its intersectoral connections and impact to Sacramento’s overall public health. Basic access, whether it be distance, conditions of sidewalks and roads, or existence of bikeable and walkable routes, plays a large role to one’s daily choices and opportunities to engage with the environment around them. Parks and open space support opportunities for physical activity, socialization, and mental stimulation and for parks located within a 10-minute walk of a neighborhood can increase likelihood of people walking or biking to that park. Healthy retail offers fresh produce and healthy food choices to positively impact an individual's nutrition and well-being and reduce risk for chronic illness.
When looking at a macro scale of Sacramento census tracts, we can see North Sacramento and South Sacramento priority census tracts have significantly less healthy conditions than Sacramento County’s aggregated score. Additionally, both areas have higher rates of chronic health conditions and obesity, indicating greater existing health vulnerabilities and opportunities to target investments in the built environment that will improve physical health. With prioritization of neighborhoods such as North Sacramento and South Sacramento, improved access to parks and healthy retail will be an additional benefit.
With these reasons, we encourage you to approve the staff’s recommendations.
Sincerely,
Pristina Zhang, MPH
Project Manager, Civic Thread
November 8, 2022
Re: Support for the TPP staff recommendations
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
ClimatePlan is a coalition of 60 plus organizations across the state that focus on transportation, land use, air quality and environmental justice.ClimatePlan’s mission is to advance policies and programs to address the relationship between land use policy and climate change, and leverage the resources and partnerships necessary to realize more sustainable and equitable development throughout California.
I would like to share my support of the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for project prioritization.
Investing in the projects
deemed highest priority will help my community
get around Sacramento more easily and more safely in our everyday lives.
The outcome of the prioritization reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment, because it:
1. Clears our air and makes us healthier by
Improving
Air Quality, Climate and Health
by
prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.
2. Prioritizes those with the greatest needs
,
Providing
for Equitable Investment
by prioritizing
investments first in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, trees and more.
Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, it
prioritizes investment in areas that are majority
Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander,
and/or Indigenous.
3. Makes it easier to get to where we need to go
,
Providing
Access to Destination
s by
prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools and parks.
4. Reduces deaths and serious injuries
,
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 historically under-resourced communities.
5. Fixes our most broken streets
,
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 transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad
and equitable
listening and engagement.
With such limited transportation funding,
it’s essential that the City prioritize its investments . Not all
projects can be high priority.
There is great need across Sacramento, but the outcomes of the prioritization process reflect the highest needs in the City.
I encourage you to approve staff’s recommendation. The ClimatePlan network continues to look to the Sacramento region as leaders in the fight against climate change.
Thank you,
Nailah Pope-Harden
Executive Director
ClimatePlan
ClimatePlan is a fiscal project of Community Partner1000 N. Alameda Street, Suite 240 • Los Angeles, CA 90012 • ph: 916-519-4243 •[email protected]
November 11,2022
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members:
The Gardenland Northgate Neighborhood Association (GNNA) supports the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the project prioritization of Northgate Blvd.
GNNA was established in 1997 to advance the safety and livability of the Northgate Gardenland Community.
Our community is low-income predominately Latino and mostly overlooked and underinvested by the city . Our community, on a daily basis, witnesses vehicle accidents with some resulting in death of individuals along Northgate Blvd. GNNA has been advocating for decades for the safety and improvement of Northgate. The Gardenland Northgate community is in desperate need of safe sidewalks, safe bike lanes, tree canopies and mechanisms that slow down vehicle speed . Gardenland Northgate is overdue for an equitable investment from the city.
It's been a very long time since the city has earnestly engaged with the Gardenland Northgate community to listen and identify our needs and values. These needs align themselves with Sacramento values for transportation investment which are:
• Improving Air Quality, Climate 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 such as sidewalks, streetlights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, it prioritizes 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 and bridges with the worst conditions and the most usage.
With such limited transportation funding, it’s essential that the city prioritize its investments. Not all projects can be the highest priority. Our community lacks basic infrastructure. Our infrastructure has received almost no investment and is of poor quality in comparison to the rest of the city. Gardenland Northgate has the highest need and meets your prioritizing process and equitable investment GNNA ask you to approve staff’s recommendation of prioritizing investment on Northgate Blvd.
Thank you,
Marbella
Marbella Sala, President
Gardenland Northgate Neighborhood Association
Cc: Jennifer Donlon Wyatt
Gardenland Northgate Neighborhood Association
West El Camino Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95833
Email: [email protected] Web Site: www.gnna.info
Nurturing Community Roots
1 Jennifer Donlon Wyant
From: Lee V Yang <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 11 November, 2022 9:56 AM
To: Jennifer Donlon Wyant
Subject: TPP Adoption Letter
Importance: High
11/11/22
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
My name is Mary Vang and I am a resident and homeowner in Del Paso Heights. I have been living here for the past 16 years.
I would like to share my support of the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for project prioritization. Investing in the projects deemed highest priority will help my community get around Sacramento more easily and more safely in our everyday lives.
The outcome of the prioritization reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment, because it:
1. Clears our air and makes us healthier by Improving Air Quality, Climate and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.
2. Prioritizes those with the greatest needs, Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investments first in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, it prioritizes investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.
3. Makes it easier to get to where we need to go, Providing Access to Destinations by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools and parks.
4. Reduces deaths and serious injuries, 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 historically under-resourced communities.
5. Fixes our most broken streets, Fixing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with the worst conditions and the most use.
In my neighborhood, transportation has always been an issue and challenge. Not having access to public transportation that commute to other areas for work made it difficult to find work outside of Del Paso Heights.
Let me remind you that Del Paso Heights and other north Sacramento areas lack economic change and jobs due to years of neglect from the city. The city barely invest into our area to help our local business thrive and attract big corporate business to come and invest so there will be job opportunities for the residents of North Sacramento. We can’t go outside of this area and people from other neighborhoods can’t come in due to the lack of bus and transit route. If I do go somewhere on the bus, it will take me hours just to get to it, which makes no sense to me if the destination that I want to go is less than 30 minutes away per google map. If we had better transportation options and access, my family as well as my neighbors would not be lacking opportunities and would have a better chance of improving our neighborhood and our lifestyle.
This is the first-time transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement.
2 With such limited transportation funding, it’s essential that the City prioritize its investments. Not all projects can be high priority.
There is great need across Sacramento, but the outcomes of the prioritization process reflect the highest needs in the City.
I encourage you to approve staff’s recommendation. As a parent, community member, and commuter I hope you consider my voice seriously.
Thank you,
Mary Vang
November 10, 2022
Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members, My name is Nathaniel Horton. I am part of the Civic Thread Zero Carbon Champions. The Zero Carbon Champions are a group of youth from around Sacramento who aim to help stop climate change and help underserved communities. We are a very dedicated and hardworking organization.
I would like to share my support of the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for project prioritization. Investing in the projects deemed highest priority will help my community get around Sacramento more easily and more safely in our everyday lives.
The outcome of the prioritization reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment, because it:
1. Clears our air and makes us healthier by Improving Air Quality, Climate and Health by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles.
2. Prioritizes those with the greatest needs , Providing for Equitable Investment by prioritizing investments first in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights, trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, it prioritizes investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.
3. Makes it easier to get to where we need to go , Providing Access to Destination s by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools and parks.
4. Reduces deaths and serious injuries , 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 historically under-resourced communities.
5. Fixes our most broken streets , Fixing and Maintaining the System by prioritizing maintenance on those streets and bridges with the worst conditions and the most use.
Better transportation access would make it, so that when biking or walking our communities would be safer. For example there are some major roads that don’t have bike lanes on all or part of their length. This makes it so that bikers have to bike on a very narrow lane with traffic hoping not to get hit by a car going 40 miles an hour. Would you want your son or daughter riding on those roads? On top of this it would make it easier for my community to access local retail stores, parks, and schools by bicycle or walking. This would improve the quality of life for all residents in the area.
This is the first time transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement.
With such limited transportation funding, it’s essential that the City prioritize its investments . Not all projects can be high priority.
There is great need across Sacramento, but the outcomes of the prioritization process reflect the highest needs in the City.
My voice matters because I am a youth that would like to see the city changed. I was born in Sacramento and would like to retire here one day, but not if it is unsafe for children or people without cars. I am worried not only about climate change but the smog and air quality we see each summer. You have the power to change the future for my generation. I am a person that has to go use these roads every single day, and I hope you do seriously consider my safety when biking. On top of this it would benefit many of my fellow classmates.
Thank you,
Nathaniel Horton
Zero Carbon Champions
909 12th Street, Ste 110 Sacramento, CA 95814 www.sacbike.org
November 11, 2022 Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA) heartily support the Transportation Priorities Plan (TPP) staff recommendations for the prioritization of the 700 projects awaiting funding and implementation. Investing in the projects deemed highest priority will help many in the Sacramento community get around town more easily and safely every day. SABA’s mission is to make it safe and convenient for more Sacramentans to use their bicycle for short trips around town, and by doing so, we’re helping to make the region become a cleaner, healthier, happier place to live and work. Our goals are in alignment with the TPP effort, and we agree that the outcome of the prioritization reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment because it: • Prioritizes those with the greatest needs by first investing in Sacramento’s communities that have historically been overlooked. These communities lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, streetlights, trees and more. • Addresses transportation deaths and serious injuries by prioritizing projects on Sacramento’s 10 high injury corridors; those with the highest number of fatal and severe crashes. These happen to be in Sacramento’s under-resourced communities. • Fixes our most broken streets by prioritizing those streets with the worst conditions and that serve the most people. • Makes it easier to get to where people need to go by prioritizing projects near jobs, schools and parks. Finally, by prioritizing investments in bicycling, walking, and transit use, these projects help to clear our air and make us healthier. This is the first time transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad listening and engagement. We applaud the City’s attention to issues of equity and believe that equity, safety and addressing air quality all go hand in hand and can move us towards meeting our climate goals. In addition to the TPP, the other relevant planning document, the Bicycle Master Plan, is outdated and needs to be revisited considering the TPP and the important General Plan and Climate Action Plan. These overarching plans should provide a larger vision and guidance for the projects prioritized in the TPP. With such limited transportation funding, it’s essential that the City embrace a forward thinking approach to funding mechanisms. We ask that you prioritize staffing and budget resources to secure the needed funding to implement the highest priority projects. The impact they could have on the City’s climate and safety goals is irrefutable. SABA encourages you to approve staff’s recommendation. Sincerely, Debra Banks Executive Director, Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates cc: Howard Chan, City Manager Jennifer Venema, City Climate Action Lead
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November 14, 2022
To: Mayor Steinberg and City Councilmembers
The SacMoves coalition supports the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the project prioritization. Investing in the projects deemed highest priority will help our community get around Sacramento more easily and more safely in their everyday lives.
For the past three 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.
The outcome of the staff’s transportation project prioritization generally reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment:
• Clears our air and makes us healthier by prioritizing investment in walking, bicycling, transit use and supporting electric vehicles. • Prioritizes those with the greatest needs by first investing in Sacramento’s communities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, streetlights, trees and more, and recognizes the need for racial and economic equity by prioritizing investment in areas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous. • Makes it easier to get to where we need to go by prioritizing transportation projects near jobs, schools, and parks.
• Addresses transportation deaths and serious injuries 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.
• Fixes our most broken streets by prioritizing those streets with the worst conditions and that serve the most people.
This is the first time that the City’s transportation investments will be led by community values based on broad listening and engagement and we appreciate the City’s attention to issues of equity and encourage continued emphasis on those values. We also think it is particularly important that the TPP prioritizes projects that address climate change and air quality.
While we encourage you to approve staff’s recommendation, we also implore City Council to commit to making more substantial progress toward a comprehensive active transportation and transit framework for the City. This requires the City to invest staff time and resources into the development and implementation of a comprehensive program of active transportation and transit projects. City Council must adjust its budgetary priorities to reflect the urgency of the unprecedented crisis we confront and ensure that City funding supports a bold and comprehensive approach to reducing VMT and GHG emissions.
We continue to ask the City to embrace a forward-thinking approach to mobility as recommended by the Mayors’ Commission on Climate Change in the development of the General Plan and Climate Action Plan. The more thoughtful and comprehensive approach to planning for active transportation and transit projects would be to establish targets and goals through those plans first and have the choices for the TPP flow from such comprehensive and long-term planning. However, given the delay in getting the General Plan and Climate Action Plan completed, we appreciate the need for the TPP to move forward now and support its recommendations.
Thank you for your consideration of these comments. We are eager to work with you and your staff on an active transportation and transit framework and projects that reflect the vision we all have for a sustainable city.
Yours truly,
SacMoves Coalition
cc: Howard Chan, City Manager
Michael Jasso, Assistant City Manager
Hector Barron, Assistant City Manager
Tom Pace, Director, Community Development Department
Remi Mendoza, 2040 General Plan Update Project Manager
Jennifer Donlon-Wyant, City Transportation Planning Manager Jennifer Venema, City Climate Action Lead
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
From: Cheryl Croshere, PhDExecutive DirectorSacramento Transportation Management Association11230 Gold Express Drive, #310-349Gold River, CA [email protected] Re: Letter of Support: Sacramento Transportation Priorities Plan Dear Mayor Steinberg and City Council Members,
I support the Transportation Priorities Plan staff recommendations for the project prioritization.Investing in the projects deemed highest priority will help the members of my organization getaround Sacramento more easily and more safely in their everyday lives.The Sacramento TMA is a registered non-profit organization that serves residents and workersin the City of Sacramento, helping them save money, be more active, and reduce the carbonfootprint of their daily travel habits. We have member employers representing over 90,000employees within the City of Sacramento. The residents and workers we serve and theprograms we run would directly and immediately benefit from the prioritized projects.
The outcome of the prioritization reflects Sacramento values for transportation investment,because it:
● Clears our air and makes us healthierby prioritizinginvestment in walking, bicycling,transit use and supporting electric vehicles.● Prioritizes those with the greatest needsby firstinvesting in Sacramento’scommunities that lack basic transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, street lights,trees and more. Additionally, in recognition of racial equity, it prioritizes investment inareas that are majority Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Indigenous.● Makes it easier to get to where we need to goby prioritizingtransportation projectsnear jobs, schools and parks.
● Addresses transportation deaths and serious injuries 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. ● Fixes our most broken streets by prioritizing those streets with the worst conditions and that serve the most people.
This is the first time transportation investment will be led by community values based on broad and equitable listening and engagement. Staff engaged with our organization at several points throughout the values-identification and project prioritization process, and I know their outreach has been extensive and inclusive.
With such limited transportation funding, it’s essential that the City prioritize its investments. Not all projects can be high priority.
There is great need across Sacramento, but the outcomes of the prioritization process reflect the highest needs in the City.
I encourage you to approve staff’s recommendation.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Croshere