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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2018-04-11 | 14 | ITEM 2-A COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:30 p.m. Board, they continued with their meeting. But I heard a couple of things that were kind of interesting. And they showed some figures on the actual, and the projected growth of California in the 20 years from 1990 to 2010, it grew from 29 million to 37.2 million, 28% growth. Arnold Brillinger: In the next 30 years, from 2010 to 2040, they expect that it will grow from the 37.2 million to 46.6 million, which is a 25% growth. And of course Alameda is part of California, and needs to plan correctly on how they're going to deal with this. Now, the Bay Area growth in the 20 years from 1990 to 2010, it grew from 6 million to 7.1 million. 18% growth. Now, they expect that in the next 30 years, that it will grow from 7.1 million to 9.3 million, which is 30% growth. And this is a higher percentage than California's growth rate. And the city of Alameda, in those 20 years, 1990 to 2010, it actually lost some of its population, about 3.5% but they expect to regain that, so they've got to work on how to plan for this. Arnold Brillinger: And, now I don't want to bore you with a bunch of figures, but a couple of things that were brought out is that in the planning they can't say, "Oh, we've already got way too many cars trying to use the tube and the bridges, we don't want any more housing, we don't want any more people here." Traffic is not a way that you can decide on your building program. It has to be safety and something else, but it has to be safety and it's not a matter of just saying, "Oh, we've got more cars than we want to deal with, or more people." That's pretty much the end of my report but I just wanted to say that. And then Jenn, you probably had a different take on the meeting? Jenn Barrett: I thought it was really interesting. They talked about the requirements that the state has on providing additional housing, so every plan - I'm not sure how long the plan is, but three year plan, you have to increase. The state gives you mandate on how much housing that you have to increase, so it's very interesting how that's state driven and then one of the public comments about the transportation, they brought up the Alameda free shuttle, when they're talking about increases in transportation and not single ridership of cars and stuff. It was nice to have someone who represented the Alameda shuttle there. Arnold Brillinger: I do have a couple more things. There's a inter agency liaison commission or something like that, committee, and it met today. And what this is, is three people from AC transit and three people from Alameda, and they're city council people, and those are board people from AC Transit. And they get together quarterly, and they had their meeting today and at that time they talked about the Transbay tomorrow. That's their whole thing on, using the brand new building that they're building over there. And also they talked about the different bus lines here in Alameda, the 19, and the 96 especially up at Alameda Point, and they talked about the sink hole. Arnold Brillinger: They said, "Well something else, will happen again to clog up the works at the tube and how are we going to deal with that? Let's use this." And so the people, the transportation person, they're all on this, and trying to put together plans for this. Now I don't know if any of you use the ferry from Harbor Bay, they're trying to get people to ride the buses. I was on a bus that I actually stopped there other day, I was coming from the airport going through Alameda and three people got on, out of the whole ferry load of people. And they realized that that's a problem, that people are not taking the bus, but they are really working on it, they've got supervisors there to make sure that the buses get there on time and stay long enough to take people off and so forth. 04/11/18 Page 14 of 18 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2018-04-11.pdf |