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CityCouncil | 2021-12-07 | 19 | 631 Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft inquired the current motion on the table. The City Clerk responded the last amendment made to the motion was to accept the recommendation from the Public Works Director to measure. Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft stated the recommendation from the Public Works Director is staff comments; inquired the last amended motion from Councilmember Herrera Spencer. The City Clerk responded the motion included staff's recommendation as-is and have staff come back in six months' time; noted Councilmember Herrera Spencer approved accepting the Public Works Director's comments as an amendment to the motion. Councilmember Herrera Spencer stated that she is approving the Public Works Directors' last comments as well as returning to Council in six months' time. Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft inquired whether the 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. time frame and the one quarter mile distance from school zones is included in the motion. Councilmember Herrera Spencer responded that her understanding of the comments provided by the Public Works Director, recommended looking at the timing being pedestrian based; the area covers an expansive portion of the island and timing should be pedestrian based; expressed support for the timing being pedestrian based with a return to Council in six months' time for discussion. Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft stated that her inclination is not to support the iteration; noted Council does want to encourage people to walk and do so safely; she is afraid of taking an approach which waits until pedestrian volume reaches 25 per hour, the City is not providing the incentives for pedestrians to get out there and feel safe doing so; she is struggling with the potential impacts to AC Transit; the City needs to keep commuters and people that do not have cars and rely on the bus to be able to get where they need by having buses run on-time. Councilmember Knox White moved approval of the staff recommendation [including adoption of the resolution] with amendments to the time in CC zones to 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., a 600 foot distance from schools and parks, transit priority when buses drive by, the signal can shorten or hold the lights using smart corridors installed, and a request for staff to come back within the next year with a proposal for how the City will address times when auto-recall is not occurring. Vice Mayor Vella seconded the motion. Under discussion, The Public Works Director stated staff's understanding is a trade-off between operations giving a walk signal every cycle and being able to give transit signal priority; the transit signal priority does not trump or override the walk signal; should a walk signal be given, there is less time to steal from the phases that are not being used in order to extend the green for the bus; the result is a zero sum game; the more time given to pedestrians, the less time is able to be given to extend for transit signal priority. Mr. Dole stated traditional transit priority for buses borrows time; should the time be unused, the time is borrowed; the signal does not act similar to an emergency vehicle preemption with override; some override preemptions will change the operations; the transit priority operations being discussed will only borrow time that is unused; one of the concerns with recall is the a Regular Meeting Alameda City Council December 7, 2021 | CityCouncil/2021-12-07.pdf |