Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve the 2024 Update to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
? Public Safety
? Infrastructure
SUMMARY
The City's adopted Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan is required to be updated every five years. The City's current Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan was last updated in 2018. Staff conducted a focused update to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan subject to City Council approval.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the resolution approving the 2024 update to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan.
BACKGROUND
In 1997, the City of San Leandro adopted a Bicycle Master Plan (BPMP) to set forth a blueprint for completing a system of bikeways, support facilities, and programs. This document was updated in 2004 and in 2010 with the added pedestrian component.
The last BPMP was completed in 2018, with a robust outreach process, analysis, project list development, and program recommendations. Since then, the City has implemented numerous bicycle and pedestrian projects throughout the community and completed major corridor planning processes on Bancroft Avenue and Williams Street. Since the last BPMP, the City also adopted a Vision Zero policy and accompanying Local Roadway Safety Plan in 2022.
The Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) requires that local jurisdictions update their bicycle and pedestrian master plans every five years. For jurisdictions like San Leandro with robust existing bicycle and pedestrian plans in place, the Alameda CTC allows "focused updates" to be performed, which enable outreach, best practices updates, and re-prioritizations to occur on a more condensed timeline than a full plan update process. The Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan is a focused update to the 2018 Plan that creates a 5-year work plan of projects and programs to support bicycling and walking in San Leandro.
The 2024 BPMP update has three project phases. First, ...
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