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CITY OF BOULDER
BOULDER, COLORADO
BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS MEETING
MINUTES
Name of Board/ Commission: Transportation Advisory Board (TAB)
Date of Meeting: April 11, 2022
Contact Information Preparing Summary: Meredith Schleske 303.441.3204
Board Members Present: Tila Duhaime, Chair; Rebecca Davies, Alex Weinheimer; Ryan Schuchard; Triny
Willerton
Staff Present: Erika Vandenbrande, Director for Transportation and Mobility
Valerie Watson, Transportation Planning Manager
Gerrit Slatter, Principal Transportation Projects Engineer
Devin Joslin, Transportation Engineering Senior Manager
Mike Sweeney, Transportation Engineer Senior Project Manager
Mike Koslow, Transportation Engineer Senior Project Manager
Veronica Son, Transportation Engineer
Jean Sanson, Transportation Principal Planner
Chris Hagelin, Transportation Principal Planner
Danny O’Connor, Principal Transportation Planner, Transit Program Manager
David “DK” Kemp, Transportation Senior Planner
Liv Lewin, Transportation Senior Planner
Gastonia Anderson, Budget Senior Analyst
Meredith Schleske, Board Secretary
Also Present: Carly Sieff, Fehr & Peers Transportation Solutions
Type of Meeting: Advisory/ Regular
Agenda Item 1: Call to Order [6:00 p.m.]
Instructions to Virtual Meeting Participants (not an agenda item) – Veronica Son, technical host reviewed rules
and technical operations on the virtual platform.
Agenda Item 2: Approval of March 2022 Minutes [6:05 p.m.]
Motion: Approval of February 2022 Minutes as revised to correct acronym “TOD” to “transit-oriented
development”, correct "backup curb" to "back of curb", replace "insufficient" with "deficient".
Motion: Weinheimer Second: Schuchard
3:0 Motion Passes.
Recent Traffic Fatality and Injuries [6:08 p.m.]
Duhaime, Vandenbrande and Weinheimer made comments.
Chair recognition of two recent fatality and serious injuries crashes at Foothills Parkway in various sections. Continue
to make sure that community does not treat these as statistics but as impacting real human beings with names and to
note every time that our transportation system is failing to keep them safe. We must continue to address our
dangerous roadways as our most important responsibility, reiterate request for regular reports from Boulder Police
Department (BPD).
Weinheimer - It is a reminder that arterials are killing members of community, we have more work to do.
Vandenbrande - Staff are also saddened, striving to reach Vision Zero goal. Working to schedule BPD in June.
Agenda Item 3: Welcome New TAB Members, Administer Oath [6:11 p.m.]
Tila Duhaime welcomed the new TAB members; TAB Secretary asked them to read their oath of office into the
record.
• Maria “Triny” Willerton (2022-2023 to complete vacated term) read the oath of office.
• Rebecca Davies (2022–2027 to fill empty position) read the oath of office.
Agenda Item 4: Election of Officers [6:15 p.m.]
A. Chair – Duhaime asked for nominations: Weinheimer nominated for Chair by Schuchard,
seconded by Duhaime. Weinheimer accepted nomination.
Schuchard nominated for Chair by Willerton, died for lack of second.
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4:0 Motion Passes. Weinheimer abstained.
Weinheimer assumed chairmanship.
B. Vice Chair - Schuchard nominated for Vice Chair by Duhaime, seconded by Willerton.
Schuchard accepted nomination.
4:0 Motion Passes, Schuchard abstained.
C. Secretary (by appointment) – Schleske nominated by Weinheimer, seconded by Duhaime.
Schleske accepted nomination.
5:0 Appointment passes.
Agenda Item 5: Public Comment [6:17 p.m.]
• Lynn Segal – Video, they do it in Denver. Happy that Weinheimer is Chair of TAB. Need to stop CU South,
you need to have say, need to evaluate impact on your budget if CU South goes forward. Not feasible with
growth we are experiencing, just driving in and out of Boulder, need per capita impact fee for every
development, I ride my bike, drive car twice a year, trails that narrow down to nothing in CU South.
• Michelle Boyd - in Boulder 25 years, moved out to county from city, learned about problems in
unincorporated county, but really surprised about and do not understand why our roads are such a disaster
compared to communities around us. You literally need a four-wheel drive to get down Mohawk Drive off
of Baseline. Don’t understand why roads look so terrible around our public schools, considering moving
back to city, huge issue, impacts home values, don’t know how to get that question answered. Louisville,
Broomfield, Erie roads are amazing. Feels very paralyzing, massive dollars pouring in plus sales taxes, why
are they not going to our roads. Would love to understand more, what can be done about it.
o Vandenbrande – happy to respond at future meeting.
o Need new funding mechanism to maintain at higher standard. Multimodal infrastructure, question
of resources, appreciation for the question.
Agenda Item 6: Public hearing and TAB recommendation regarding Neighborhood Street [6:25 p.m.]
Management Program (NSMP) Pine Street/Whittier Complex Projects
Nathan Pope and Gerrit Slatter made the report to the board.
Executive Summary
The Whittier Complex Neighborhood Speed Management Program (NSMP) Project is intended to reduce vehicle
speeding, enhance neighborhood livability, and improve public safety. This project (which includes Mapleton Ave.,
Pine St., and Spruce St. between 20th St. and 28th St.) aligns with the city’s Vision Zero goals and Transportation
Master Plan goals of making travel safe and comfortable. The intent of bringing this project to TAB is to solicit
feedback and finalize the design for the project so that it is ready once funds to construct the project become available.
The project was the top project in the 2019 Neighborhood Speed Management Program (NSMP) project cycle and
was prioritized for planning in 2021 and installation in 2022. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and
subsequent impacts to the department’s budget, the project was postponed. Staff initiated the Whittier Complex
Project in early summer 2021. The first community meeting reviewing existing conditions and discussing issues in the
neighborhood was held in the Whittier Schoolyard on August 11, 2021. A second neighborhood meeting was held on
December 1, 2021, to review vertical and horizontal traffic calming options based on stakeholder and community
engagement, asking residents for feedback on the potential options in different locations.
Staff, with consultant support, began developing the Whittier Complex Project recommended design after the second
neighborhood meeting. This design reflects comments and polling responses from the second neighborhood meeting,
an online comment form, and emergency response and maintenance clearance requirements. The recommended design
was presented to the community at a final virtual neighborhood meeting on March 29, 2022.
TAB Action Requested
Staff is seeking a recommendation from TAB to finalize the recommended design of the Whittier NSMP Complex
Project so that it can be implemented when funding is available.
TAB Clarifying Questions
• Questions why speed cushions are on Spruce Street versus speed humps, profile and how they affect drivers.
o There are guidelines for meaningful speed reduction, fire department requested speed cushions for
emergency equipment.
• Inquiry why there are no treatments proposed for Folsom and Pine, which has the most crashes.
o Upcoming signals project will consider other treatments.
• Confirmation requested whether protected intersection is still under consideration.
Public Participation
• Lynn Segal – missed some of discussion, supports displayed design, whatever protects citizen most and
preserves the resources of TAB, anything slowing traffic, avoids places with fast-moving traffic.
TAB Discussion
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• Comments that it does not seem like a good use of a public hearing, if there are any big picture objections to
delay, suggestion to consider impact of improvements on Folsom before committing on anything else, see
how interim treatments impact.
• Question whether buffered bike lanes could be added west of Folsom.
o Vandenbrande – staff wanted to provide neighborhood a level of certainty acknowledging all the
work with stakeholders and prepared to implement when further funds became available after
diverting some to the Core Arterial Network (CAN).
o Weinheimer expressed appreciation to staff and neighborhood.
TAB refrains from making a recommendation.
Agenda Item 7: Staff briefing and TAB feedback regarding Core Arterial Network (CAN) [6:50 p.m.]
Planning (including 2022 Pavement Management Program (PMP) Enhancements)
Valerie Watson and Gerrit Slatter made the report to the board.
Executive Summary
The City of Boulder has been working for decades to create a safe, equitable and reliable transportation and mobility
system that offers travel choices and supports achieving our climate goals (2019 Transportation Master Plan, Boulder
Valley Comprehensive Plan). As a result, we see significant numbers of people walking, bicycling, scooting and
taking transit as they move about or travel in and out of the city. Although we have made great progress, more work
remains to be done along our arterial streets, which often have higher traffic volumes and speeds and can be more
complex to navigate compared to other streets in the city. While arterials make up only 17% of streets within the city,
findings from the Vision Zero Boulder: Safe Streets Report (SSR) show that citywide 67% of total crashes resulting in
severe injury or fatality occur on arterials.
In response, the city is focusing its investments and resources to design and construct improvements on a “Core
Arterial Network” (CAN). The CAN is the connected system of protected bicycle lanes, intersection enhancements,
pedestrian facilities, and transit facility upgrades that will help reduce the potential for severe crashes and make it
more comfortable and convenient for people to get where they need to go along Boulder’s main corridors. The 13
corridors and associated street segments identified in the CAN form a prioritized subset of the Transportation &
Mobility Department’s work plan over the next 3-5 years for project initiation, ongoing project efforts, prioritization
of staff efforts and city resources, and pursuit of grant and external funding.
TAB Feedback
• Question concerning construction schedule along Folsom and Iris.
o Contingent on scope from design studies.
• Inquiry about success factors in getting this done, lessons from the past.
o Community engagement up front is critical and should sustain throughout. 30th Street and Colorado
Avenue, and East Arapahoe corridor are great examples of project successes.
• Comment emphasizing importance of alignment between staff, TAB, city council. Questions whether we are
doing anything in advance to build support/advocacy, if there is a call to action for TAB, desirable to broaden
reach to groups not typically involved in transportation conversations, note that TAB can help identify those
community groups.
• Comment regarding data missing from the fatality report – due to date range. Observation that the goal is to
make roads safer for all modes including cars.
• Inquiry whether there is potential for interim quick build project(s), for example, along Folsom, and if it
would be considered and iterations made over time. Opinion expressed that city council needs to be bold and
hopefully accelerate progress. Standardizing the dialogue would be helpful.
• Question why reallocation of space along roadway is excluded from eligibility and if there are any exclusions
on Moorhead - clarified that operational changes such as removal of on-street parking, reallocation or
repurchasing travel lanes can be considered for CAN, not likely for PMP due to time constraints.
• Conjecture about the need for community engagement, when we know it’s enough and can move forward,
how we decide, obligation to contact/consult external users - feasibility, analysis in detailed design process
should inform, consider feedback from all sources to ultimately present choices to city council.
• Support expressed to get feedback by trying it out/changing people’s perspective of how they use the road,
will get roaches coming out from under the carpet, obtain “live” feedback from many perspectives, have to
change the road to do it. Question about what can be done in the meantime.
o Professional planning, design and engineering was refocused to CAN, requires some level of design,
understanding that there would be some things that take beyond two years to implement.
Timeframe for pilot project needs to be much longer than done in the past.
• Opinion that objective is to take advantage of opportunities/be opportunistic. Reported that 44% of
crashes happen on CAN; what percent of road miles is that? Moorhead is likely highest concern
regarding CU South - it could do a lot of good to partner with CU sooner than later. 17th Street looks
like the only intersecting bike way is on Walnut – possible to install a protected intersection at that
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location? Or, pull out all of the corners, create protected intersection/bulb out?
• Kudos expressed, exciting time, so much happening in a short time.
Agenda Item 8: Staff briefing and TAB feedback regarding Curbside Management Program [7:57 p.m.]
Chris Hagelin and Liv Lewin made the report to the board.
Executive Summary
This memo provides a status update on the Curbside Management project. The purpose of the project is to develop a
policy framework and implementation guidebook to support the management of the space in the street adjacent to the
curb that has typically been used for on-street parking, bus stops, and loading zones. With innovation in mobility
technology and a greater need than ever for sustainable mobility choices, there are new and increasing demands on
accessing the curb from the public right-of-way. Balancing these competing needs comes with inherent trade-offs.
While supporting the city’s transportation and sustainability goals remains our north star, this effort will focus on
creating policies and procedures to address these competing needs and trade-offs and produce a guidebook for future
implementation of changes within the curb zone. Additionally, the project aims to organize the street to support great
neighborhood/districts and places, structure efficient and consistent implementation across departments, and to test out
concepts through pilot projects.
The project timeline spans from Fall 2021 through Spring 2023. TAB will continue to be engaged throughout the
project through membership in the Access Allies stakeholder group and periodic agenda items at monthly meetings.
The memo summarizes the results of the community engagement process to date and includes an update on the
progress of documenting existing conditions and the process to identify potential pilot projects to test new curbside
management strategies and technology.
Questions for TAB
1. Do you have any additional feedback or questions about the community engagement key findings?
2. Does anything in the existing conditions summary stand out as noteworthy for informing the continued
project process?
TAB Feedback
• Comment that active modes of transportation ranked higher than private vehicle parking, reflecting
Transportation Master Plan (TMP) goals, question how survey categories were derived – dropdown selection
or fill in the blank.
• Encouragement to explore more clumping/flex zones such as combining passenger/goods/food order on- and
off-loading.
• Comments regarding parking occupancy - 17th Street is occupied northbound but not southbound; 14th Street
not heavily occupied/good for busses as planned with new station; reconsider allowing vehicles on 13th Street
from Arapahoe to Canyon.
• Observation that stated goals do not include TMP objectives like vehicle miles traveled (VMT), greenhouse
gas, modal shift, diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI). Encouragement for Access Allies to “crowdsource” ideas
toward solutions on a particular issue versus selecting from a list.
• Noted difference in feedback on engagement for business owners (more vehicle-centric) versus employees.
Consider and incent electronic bikes over cars – how can they be better utilized, make it easier than other
modes. Relatively low usage of parking garages in valuable space, appreciation for increased bike and
scooter parking.
• Question of how/why the two proposed ideas were selected over others - ability to implement quickly,
promoted by stakeholders, needs-driven by Covid delivery adjustments. Can other thoughts be carried
forward for future consideration?
Agenda Item 9: Matters [8:42 p.m.]
A. Matters from Staff/Non-Agenda
• Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
(Sanson) – Identifying, scoping and costing potential project applications for the next two TIP cycles
of projects.
First Call 2022
• 30th Street Preliminary Design (Colorado highway 7 [CO7]/Arapahoe CO119) – huge
potential to address safety – received positively by review group.
• CO93/Broadway & Table Mesa and CO93/Broadway & Regent – design and construction
project likely allocating $1.5M to design transit improvements to improve rider time.
• US36/28th Street West Side Multi-Use Path (Four Mile Canyon Creek bridge under
Broadway) – complete path from bridge to Violet. Cost went up substantially – updated
cost estimates, probably a large ask.
o Question if it can be scaled down, maybe Four Mile Creek crossing to Jay Street?
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• Baseline Enhanced Transit Stops & Protected Bike Lanes 30th to Foothills Pkwy– also well
received, especially in multimodal and connection to other areas criteria.
Second Call 2022
• West Colorado Avenue Multimodal Improvements (Regent to Folsom) – build out
Complete Street multimodal cross section of Colorado Avenue.
• CO7/Arapahoe Avenue & 30th Street Multimodal Intersection – TIP funding would help
advance into construction.
• CO7/Arapahoe Avenue Bridge Replacement over Boulder Creek (south side) – deficient
structure, reconstruct as single bridge.
Next community engagement will include short project videos and offer staff office hours.
TAB Feedback
• Preference expressed for TAB recommendation in May to address only first call projects
and conduct a public hearing later for second call items.
• Suggestion that more “color” in presentation such as visuals and personal experience would
generate excitement and support. Detailed considerations were made.
• Questions regarding funding appeal of 30th and Colorado multi-use path, sufficiency ratings
of CO7/Arapahoe Avenue bridge, if plan is to build a better single bridge. Extensive
discussion recounting variances in data and information.
o Staff will follow up and report to TAB.
Agreement to address first call now; second call later on.
• Question about what costs $5M for surface treatment on Arapahoe and 30th Street.
o Right-of-way acquisition, also north side of Colorado and Regent, potentially
move curb line.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) – staff desire, plus direction by both City Council and the city
manager, to engage with boards and commissions in terms of racial discrimination, diversity, equity and
inclusion are framing and behaviors that provide a welcoming and constructively engaging environment
of civil discourse. It should respect all voices in the community and in the room. Suggested to include in
the TAB retreat.
B. Matters from the Board [9:25
p.m.]
1. TAB Retreat Date April 25 6-10 PM, virtual. Facilitator is to be determined. Agenda items may
include “getting to know you”, individual goals, review of city charter, TAB role, review TAB
letter to council, DEI, staff workplan, agreed-upon goals, ethics/candor/transparency, underlying
causes of tensions between staff and TAB, draft policies and procedures (to be distributed to TAB
by Duhaime.)
2. Open Board Comment
• Schuchard – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last week had
important message about transportation. City of Boulder declared a climate emergency in
2019; it is now worse. Seven takeaways: We’re at the edge of the cliff; in a doom loop of
car dependence with transportation system organized around the car/hurting us in terms of
health, equity and affordability; most important in decarbonizing is mobility systems;
compact land use and packaging interdependent policies; electrification is necessary but not
sufficient; need to accelerate electrification/happening with transit, not fast enough in other
categories; leadership by local government is critical; demand and social sciences must get
more focused on expensive cars operating at high energy consumption. Going forward,
TAB should discuss and consider how to incorporate into talk TAB’s work.
o Comment that we can use a change model to address emergency before us. It is
timely and topical, what are our long-term goals? Current goals are not attainable,
community is not hearing urgency, great place to start.
Agenda Item 10: Future Agenda Items [9:42 p.m.]
May/June/July is busiest TAB time. TAB members are encourage to share future agenda items.
• More frequent reports from Police Department.
• Strategic session regarding snow and ice removal, especially on multi-use system.
Agenda Item 11: Adjournment [9:45 p.m.]
There being no further business to come before the board at this time, by motion regularly adopted, the meeting
was adjourned at 9:45 p.m.
Motion: Moved to adjourn: Schuchard Second: Duhaime
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Motion passes 5:0
Date, Time, and Location of Next Meeting:
The next meeting will be a regular virtual meeting on Monday, May 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. unless otherwise decided by
staff and the Board.
APPROVED BY: ATTESTED:
___________________________________ ____________________________________
Board Chair Board Secretary
___________________________________ ____________________________________
Date Date
An audio recording of the full meeting for which these minutes are a summary is available on the Transportation Advisory Board
web page.
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