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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
JOSE APPROVING SAN JOSE'S EMERGING MOBILITY
ACTION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Emerging Mobility Action Plan (“EMAP”) is a companion to Move San José, a roadmap for realizing the City of San José’s (“City”) mode shift and vehicle miles traveled reduction goals articulated in the City’s Envision 2040 General Plan and Climate Smart San José that will be considered by the City Council later this spring, and provides strategic direction on how the City should use new mobility services and technologies to achieve these goals and advance racial equity; and
WHEREAS, emerging mobility includes services currently available in San José such as ride-hailing, on-demand shuttles, and car, bike, and scooter sharing as well as future services that may include automated car sharing, ride hailing, on-demand shuttles, and aerial delivery drones; and
WHEREAS, the City’s Department of Transportation (“DOT”) seeks to ensure that all San José residents, particularly the City’s historically marginalized communities, can benefit from these privately-owned and operated emerging mobility services; and
WHEREAS, DOT staff and project consultants created an Equity Task Force (“Task Force”), comprised of nine community leaders representing organizations serving diverse local communities, particularly historically marginalized Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (“BIPOC”) communities, to address equity in emerging mobility services and create a racial equity focused action plan to guide emerging mobility services in San José; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force and other community members concluded that existing emerging mobility services do not meet the needs in BIPOC communities because the NVF:AXY:CLS
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services are expensive, unavailable, and difficult to use due to technical or language barriers, and made recommendations, as described in staff’s Council memorandum dated March 14, 2022 and included in the EMAP, to expand access and ensure that new and existing services meet a broader range of needs; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to approve the EMAP to provide strategic direction how the City should manage new and existing mobility services and technologies to support the City’s efforts in achieving mode shift and vehicle miles traveled reduction goals and advance racial equity;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE THAT:
The San José Emerging Mobility Action Plan is hereby approved.
ADOPTED this _____ day of ___________, 2022, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
DISQUALIFIED:
SAM LICCARDO
Mayor
ATTEST:
TONI J. TABER, CMC
City Clerk