CITY-COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD ON CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY Ald. Nik Kovac and Sup. Marcelia Nicholson, Co-Chairs Pam Fendt, Linda Frank, Julie Kerksick, Ted Kraig, Janet Meissner Pritchard, Supreme Moore Omokunde, Pamela Ritger, Erick Shambarger, Rafael Smith, and Freida Webb Staff Assistant: Linda Elmer, lelmer@milwaukee.gov, 414-286-2231 Legislative Liason: Luke Knapp, luke.knapp@milwaukee.gov, 414-286-8637 Google documents for this body can be found at : http://bit.ly/CCTFCEE Tuesday, August 24, 2021 10:30 AM Virtual Transportation Work Group Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88371242342 Meeting ID: 883 7124 2342 One tap mobile +13126266799,,88371242342# US (Chicago) +16465588656,,88371242342# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 883 7124 2342 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbtD6R2K0A 1. Call To Order (Time) 11:03am City of Milwaukee Page 1 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes August 24, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY 2. Roll Call Ted Kraig, Matt Donath, Jennifer Evans, Jeff Stone, Mitch Harris, Marissa Meyer, Akira Mabon, Pamela Ritger, Dennis Grzezinski, Kevin Muhs, James Davies, Tanya Fonseca, Erick Shambarger 3. Review and Approval of Minutes Minutes approved 4. Future Meetings and Next Steps Going back to every two weeks at 11:00 – Next Meeting September 7th at 11:00 5. Discussion of Active Modes Proposals Measureable difference in VMT by increase in biking/active modes. Rails to Trails study on Milwaukee shows potential impact biking/walking can have, especially on short trips. Safety is a major deterrent to active modes. Equity concerns – low income neighborhoods tend to walk and bike more and use cars less. Creating safe and accessible active modes is critical Job creation: Use of existing city plans – Bike Plan, Pedestrian Plans, and Complete Streets Provide DPW with staff and funding needed to implement plans - Massive plans without adequate funding and implementation. One of the best Complete Street plans in the Country but without a dedicated coordinator to ensure it is implemented. Total of 8 additional positions are needed to fully staff this plans and departments. Should add positions in DCD as well. James will make the modifications. 30th St Corridor funding - Rails to trails study on access to trails show areas of the city that have disproportionately less access to trails. 30th St corridor would connect many of these areas and is effectively a straight line, which would help efficiency of the project. Protected Bike Lanes on Oak Leaf Trail Segments - Would make the oak leaf segments more effective as transportation routes rather than just recreation. Design Changes to 27th, Fond Du lac, Capitol, 35th St - High injury pedestrian areas. High levels of reckless driving. One of the major reasons is multiple lane roads with high speed. Reducing to one lane and 25 mph could reduce this. Formally Adopt NACTO’s Urban Street Design - WISDOT has this set as an alternative planning document. WISDOT doesn’t like to allow planning from multiple documents to avoid inconsistency. If Milwaukee adopts this plan, WISDOT would allow projects from this plan. Ted – Is green space a part of this discussion (complete streets, etc). – Tree cover is included in making areas for walkable. Tanya – the city always considers green space as roads are redone. Some are able to accommodate and some aren’t – but GI plan includes planning for stormwater capture and other green spaces in development. Matt – touching base with land use group and include how transportation changes to impact green space, stormwater/GI, etc. Strengthens the consistency of the plan if it comes up in multiple chapters. Also allows for more specific examples that are directly City of Milwaukee Page 2 CITY-COUNTY TASK FORCE ON Meeting Minutes August 24, 2021 CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC EQUITY tied to transportation changes (Ie. Removing a lane and stormwater runoff, tree cover for walking paths, reduction in hard surfaces, etc) Ted – Funding – Is this new funding that we need to find (outside of infrastructure bill) or is there existing James – CMAQ funding covers 80/20 split. Potential for combination of sources to cover the 20% share, including multiple public entities, non profits, private, etc. Need more staff to pursue Federal funding sources. Potential for infrastructure bill to have lower share potential (10%) for certain projects or certain areas. Ted – 30th St corridor question – is this plan consistent with the potential light rail along 30th st corridor that we discuss? Pam – Rails to Trails has been involved with this and still needs to do a feasibility study. Pretty sure that the trail could still exist with the light rail corridor and have potential for light rail in the future. Ted – question on transfer of funding from Transportation Fund – where does it come from and how much? James -2021 budget transferred $16 million from transportation to general fund. Money comes from parking meters and parking/traffic tickets. Ted – what is the major issue to different policies passing or being adopted – Marissa – general unwillingness to change, individual level or departmental level Matt – pushing things to leadership (ie common council, Mayor’s office) can be the best way to ensure new standards are followed but also has potential concerns. Ie. Alder pushing for a project to be done a certain way helps more than a “plan” saying it. Kevin – example given of a potential upcoming project where an alder asked for less lanes and more pedestrian safety measures and DOT was considering this accommodation. 6. Public Questions or Comments – Up to 2 minutes per speaker VI. Public Questions or Comments – Up to 2 minutes per speaker David - One thought I have as a resident, what about a proposal requiring DPW engineering leadership to also have some sort of urban planning training/credentials, if not a MUP? 7. Next Meeting Date 8. Adjourn (Time) 12:28pm MInutes provided by Ted Kraig. City of Milwaukee Page 3