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ALL RIGHT, LET'S WE'LL CALL THIS WORKSHOP TO ORDER AND GO AHEAD AND START.

[Commission Workshop on May 27, 2025]

AND DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO LEAD OFF OR WE'LL HAVE A MAN TO LEAD US OFF.

OKAY. GOOD EVENING. AMANDA ASKEW, THE NEIGHBORHOODS DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR.

YOU GUYS ARE PROBABLY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THIS. WE PASSED A RESOLUTION SEVERAL MONTHS AGO IN SUPPORT OF DOING THIS PROGRAM.

THIS IS A GRANT BROUGHT TO US. IT IS SS FOR A SAFE STREETS FOR ALL.

AND THE PURPOSE OF THE GRANT WAS TO REDUCE ROADWAY DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES BY IMPROVING SAFETY FOR ALL USERS, INCLUDING PEDESTRIANS, CYCLISTS AND DRIVERS. WITH OUR GRANT, WE WERE ABLE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS AND CHOSE A CONSULTANT.

KIMLEY-HORN KIMLEY-HORN HAS HOSTED SEVERAL MEETINGS AND WAS ABLE TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF OUR STOP COMMITTEE.

OR STOP COMMITTEE TRANSITIONED INTO SOME OF OUR TASK FORCE MEMBERS TO PROVIDE VALUABLE INPUT ALONG THE WAY.

SO THEY'VE BEEN ENGAGED. I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO MICHELLE NAGDCA WITH KIMLEY-HORN TO GO OVER THE DRAFT SAFETY ACTION PLAN.

THANK YOU. THIS IS A HIGH PODIUM, SO I FEEL LIKE I'M HIDDEN, SO.

I WANT TO BLOW YOU AWAY WITH SCREAMING AT YOU.

SO IF I'M TOO LOUD, I'LL STEP BACK. SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. AMANDA. WE WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO BE SELECTED TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY ACTION PLAN.

AND I'M JUST GOING TO SPEND A FEW MOMENTS GOING THROUGH KIND OF HIGHLIGHTING WHAT IT INCLUDES WHAT'S REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED IN IT AS A PART OF THE GRANT THAT YOU RECEIVED.

AND THEN SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS. SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET THIS TO WORK.

ALL RIGHT. SO AS AMANDA ALLUDED TO, WHAT IS AN SS FOR A SO SAFE STREETS FOR SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL.

IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR IT. IT'S A USDOT GRANT, WHICH YOU GUYS WERE SELECTED FOR.

THERE'S THERE ARE TWO GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THIS SS FORAY.

ONE IS PLANNING AND DEMONSTRATION GRANTS, AND THE SECOND IS IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS.

SO THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH IN FISCAL YEAR 2022 WAS AWARDED AN ACTION PLAN GRANT FOR $200,000 TO DEVELOP YOUR COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY ACTION PLAN AND TO SHORTEN ALL THE WORDS I'M GOING TO SAY TONIGHT, I'M GOING TO TRY TO REFER TO IT AS A CSP. NOT GOING TO USE A WHOLE LOT OF ACRONYMS. ACRONYMS, BUT DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE TO SAY ALL FOUR OF THOSE WORDS ALL NIGHT.

SO IF YOU THE PLAN IS YOU COMPLETE THE COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY ACTION PLAN, ADOPT IT, AND, AND THEN IT MAKES YOU ELIGIBLE FOR THE SECOND GRANT LEVEL, WHICH IS THE IMPLEMENTATION GRANT. BOTH GRANTS ARE BOTH GRANTS REQUIRE 20% LOCAL MATCH.

BUT ALL THE PROJECTS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED IN YOUR CSP WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR AN IMPLEMENTATION GRANT.

SO JUST TO TALK THROUGH SOME OF THE ELEMENTS THAT HAVE TO BE INCLUDED IN A CSP IT STARTS WITH THE THE CITY LEADERSHIP SETTING A VISION ZERO GOAL, WHICH AMANDA SHARED. YOU GUYS DID THAT BACK IN OCTOBER.

IT INCLUDES DOING CRASH AND SAFETY ANALYSIS, IDENTIFYING YOUR HIGH CRASH LOCATIONS AND YOUR CRASH TRENDS.

AND A BIG COMPONENT OF A CSP IS PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER ABOUT HOW WE DID THAT WITH THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH WHICH WAS A GREAT COMMUNITY THAT WAS VERY ACTIVE.

THEN YOU ALSO REVIEW YOUR LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL POLICIES AND THEN ULTIMATELY DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THAT INCLUDE INFRASTRUCTURE POLICIES, EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT.

THANK YOU. SO THE PROJECT SCHEDULE WAS PRETTY CONDENSED SO THAT WE COULD COMPLETE YOUR CCSP.

PRIOR TO THE NEXT GRANT OPENING. SO WE KICKED OFF THE PROJECT WITH STAFF IN OCTOBER.

YOU ADOPTED THE VISION ZERO RESOLUTION OCTOBER 14TH.

WE WORKED THROUGH OUR ANALYSIS. THE FALL AND WINTER HELD A COUPLE OF PUBLIC OPEN HOUSES.

AND THEN WE'RE HERE TODAY TO PRESENT THE DRAFT CA ASAP WITH THE ADOPTION IN JUNE.

SO THE APPROACH WE TOOK SO WE LOOKED AT FIVE YEARS OF CRASH DATA, FIVE FULL YEARS.

SO SINCE WE STARTED THIS IN 24, WE LOOKED AT 1920 19 TO 2023 WE USED THE STATE'S CRASH DATABASE, WHICH IS CALLED SIGNAL FOR ANALYTICS, AND IT HAS ALL THE CRASHES THAT ARE ON STATE ROADS AND LOCAL ROADS.

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THE TYPES OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT YOU CAN GARNER FROM THE DATABASE INCLUDE WHERE THE CRASH LOCATION OCCURRED, WHAT TYPE OF CRASH IT WAS, WHAT THE LIGHTING CONDITIONS WERE DURING THE CRASH, WHAT THE ROADWAY SURFACE CONDITIONS WERE.

WAS THERE SPEEDING INVOLVED IMPAIRED DRIVING AND THEN WHAT TIME OF DAY? SO THOSE HELP US LOOK TO FIND TRENDS WITHIN THE CRASH DATA.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE AT THE GRAPHIC, JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE BULLETS, THERE IS A HEAT MAP WHICH SHOWS THE, THE SEVERITY AND THE NUMBER OF CRASHES ALONG EACH OF THE LOCAL ROADS AND THE STATE ROADS.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE TWO ROADWAYS THAT HAVE THE HEAVIEST CRASH CONCENTRATIONS ARE MAYPORT ROAD AND ATLANTIC BOULEVARD, TWO STATE ROADS. SO WE WE DO CLASSIFY AND LIST THE STATE ROADS AND THE LOCAL ROADS, BUT WE REALLY FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING COUNTERMEASURES FOR YOUR LOCAL ROADS, SINCE YOU CAN'T IMPLEMENT THINGS ON THE STATE ROADS.

SO WE STARTED BY LOOKING AT ROADWAY SEGMENTS AND PRIORITIZING FROM THERE.

YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP WE DEVELOPED THE THE 20 TOP 10 OR 20 TOP SEGMENTS WITH HIGHEST CRASHES.

WE DID TEN LOCAL AND TEN STATES. SO THE THE SEGMENTS SHOWN IN BLUE ARE THE STATE ROUTE ROUTES THAT HAVE THE, THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF CRASHES. AND THE YELLOW SEGMENTS SHOW THE, THE LOCAL ROUTES THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST CRASH CONCENTRATION FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS. WE ALSO DID THIS FOR INTERSECTIONS.

SAME PROCESS. EACH CRASH IS ASSIGNED A COST BASED ON THE SEVERITY OF THAT CRASH.

SO THE HIGHER, THE MORE SEVERE THE CRASH. CRASH, THE HIGHER THE RANKING.

AGAIN, WE DID THE 20 TOP CRASH LOCATIONS. TEN ON STATE AND TEN ON LOCAL.

THEY'RE SHOWN ON THE MAP. YOU CAN SEE AGAIN, THE BLUE INDICATES THE STATE INTERSECTIONS, AND THE YELLOW INDICATES THE THE LOCAL STREETS. GO AHEAD. YEAH. SO I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU.

I UNDERSTAND WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ON STATE. WHAT IS THE STATE AND THE LOCAL ROAD INTERSECTION? YEAH. IT'S STILL IS. IF THE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD ALL BE CONTAINED WITHIN THE CITY.

RIGHT OF WAY. YOU'RE RIGHT OF WAY. YOU COULD MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT.

BUT MOST LIKELY, IF IT'S WHERE THE INTERSECTIONS CROSS, YOU ULTIMATELY PROBABLY NEED DOT'S AGREEMENTS AND MAKING ANY IMPROVEMENTS BECAUSE YOU WOULD BE IN THEIR STATE RIGHT AWAY. YEP. YES.

SO I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS HAPPENING IN CONTINUUM WITH THE MAYPORT ROAD IMPROVEMENT PLAN.

SO ALONGSIDE FDOT, I SPOKE WITH YOU AT THE OPEN HOUSE JUST THIS PAST MONTH.

AND MY GREATEST CONCERN IS MAYPORT ROAD. IT IS THE MOST DIFFICULT ROAD TO CROSS AS A PEDESTRIAN.

THERE IS. WE DISCUSSED SAFE SAFE ROADS TO SCHOOL.

YES, THERE ISN'T TO SCHOOLS RIGHT THERE. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO CROSS ATLANTIC BOULEVARD FROM MAYPORT FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO ARE WEST OF MAYPORT ROAD. THEY'RE ZONED SCHOOL IS NEPTUNE BEACH ELEMENTARY.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, ALL OF OUR BEACHES ARE GOING TO FLETCHER HIGH SCHOOL EARLY IN THE MORNING WHEN IT IS DARK.

I DO UNDERSTAND THAT WITH THE CONTINUUM AS MAYPORT ROADS IMPROVEMENT THROUGH FDOT IS BEING IMPLEMENTED.

I, I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER GRANT FOR BRINGING UP THOSE INTERSECTIONS, THOUGH.

WHAT CAN WE DO? I KNOW WE DID SPEAK IN GREAT DETAIL ABOUT IT.

DID YOU GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD WITH YOUR CONSULTANTS AND DISCUSS ANY OTHER OPTIONS FOR CROSSING MAYPORT ROAD SAFELY.

YOU DISCUSSED LIGHTING WAS THAT WAS CAN WE DO ANYTHING WITH LIGHTING? CAN WE DO ANYTHING WITH THE SIDEWALKS? CAN WE DO ANYTHING WITH RAISED CROSSWALKS? YEAH. CAN WE DO ANYTHING WITH THE SIDEWALKS ON THE WEST OF MAYPORT SIDE? THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE EXCEPT EXCEPT ACCESSIBLE TO THE GREENWAY THAT CONNECTS FROM FLORIDA BOULEVARD.

BECAUSE IF YOU'VE EVER TRIED CROSSING THERE, IT IS NOT SAFE.

YEAH. YES. IT'S A DIFFICULT SITUATION FOR THE CITY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, MAYPORT ROAD THE RIGHT OF WAY.

I'M GOING TO JUST GUESS MAYBE 120, 150FT. SO EVEN WHERE YOUR ROADWAY MAY COME UP TO IT, LIKE PLAZA YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY IMPROVEMENTS OUT IN THE RIGHT OF WAY.

YOU KNOW, 75FT FROM THE CENTER OF, OF MAYPORT ROAD.

YOU COULD I MEAN, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FDOT.

WOULD HAVE TO BE THE CITY GETTING A PERMIT TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.

BUT REALLY, THE BEST WAY TO IMPLEMENT CHANGE ON MAY SEEMS LIKE A LEFT HAND VERSUS RIGHT HAND.

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WHY AREN'T THE TWO TALKING? YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN.

I MEAN, THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH. SO WE WE DON'T NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME.

MR. KILLINGSWORTH HAS THOSE CONNECTIONS. YEAH, WE CAN CONNECT YOU.

YEAH. AND I WOULD SUGGEST IN YOUR INSTANCE, SPEAKING WITH FDOT JUST ABOUT YOUR CONCERNS ON MAYPORT AND THE.

NO, NO. YES, FDOT. WHAT I'M HEARING IS THERE THERE IS A WAY TO BRING THE TWO PARTIES TOGETHER.

THIS JUST SEEMS TO BE YES. CORRECT? CORRECT. AND I WOULD ALSO SAY GETTING WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD IS ANOTHER AGENCY YOU NEED TO REACH OUT TO.

OKAY. TO HELP WITH GETTING THE ZONING OR THE BUSSING FIGURED OUT BECAUSE YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

CHILDREN DON'T NEED TO BE CROSSING MAYPORT ROAD MID-BLOCK ON THEIR OWN.

OKAY. SO, YES WE PRIORITIZE INTERSECTIONS. AND WE DID BOTH STATE AND LOCAL, BUT REALLY FOCUSED ON LOCAL BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THESE IMPLEMENTATION FUNDS CAN BE USED TO HELP SUPPORT CHANGE IN THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH.

SO PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT I MENTIONED THAT'S A BIG COMPONENT OF A CSP.

AND THE REASON BEING IS WE CAN PULL FIVE YEARS OF CRASH DATA, AND WE CAN LOOK AT ALL THE CRASH ANALYSIS AND THE TRENDS AND THE HISTORIC THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED. BUT THERE'S ANOTHER COMPONENT THAT GOES ALONG WITH SAFETY.

AND THAT'S WHAT THIS ACTION PLAN IS HOPING TO FOCUS ON, IS THERE'S THOSE NEAR MISS INTERSECTIONS, RIGHT, WHERE MAYBE THERE WASN'T A CRASH THAT ACTUALLY OCCURRED, BUT IT WAS CLOSE, OR YOU DIDN'T FEEL SAFE, OR YOU MAYBE DON'T GO THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION BECAUSE THERE'S POOR VISIBILITY.

THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT IN REACHING OUT TO THE PUBLIC.

SO WE REACHED OUT. WE HAD TWO OPEN HOUSES. WE HAD TASK FORCE MEETINGS.

WE MET INDIVIDUALLY WITH FDOT, THE CITY OF JAX, JTA, THE TPO TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY HAVE PROPOSED ON THEIR ROADWAYS OR THEIR BUS ROUTES WITHIN YOUR CITY. WE WENT TO POP UP EVENTS TO TRY TO SOLICIT FEEDBACK.

WE WERE AT THE FAMILY FUN DAY, SOME FARMERS MARKETS, AND ULTIMATELY THE GRAPHIC THAT'S SHOWN THERE AT THE TOP.

WE USE THIS PROGRAM PUBLIC COORDINATE TO SOLICIT FEEDBACK, BASICALLY HAD A QR CODE THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT ANY OF THE EVENTS THEY CAME TO. THEY JUST SCANNED IT WITH THEIR PHONE. YOU COULD GO INTO THE GIS MAP, PICK AN INTERSECTION, AND THEN TYPE IN YOUR CONCERN OR YOUR ISSUE. WHICH WAS A GREAT WAY FOR US TO COLLECT THIS INFORMATION AND FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE WERE POSTING, WHERE THEIR CONCERNS WERE. AND WE ULTIMATELY GOT OVER 160 COMMENTS THAT WERE LOADED.

SO WE USE ALL THESE PIECES, THE SAFETY DATA, THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK.

WE LOOK AT EQUITY YOU KNOW, CONCENTRATIONS OF THOSE VULNERABLE ROAD USERS THE CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY.

AND WE LOOK AT CONNECTIVITY. HAVE THERE BEEN ANY PREVIOUS STUDIES DONE THAT IDENTIFIED OTHER IMPROVEMENTS, OR DOES THIS CONNECT TO A MULTIMODAL FACILITY? WE USED ALL THOSE FOUR COMPONENTS TO DEVELOP OUR PROJECT PRIORITIZATION LIST.

EACH PROJECT WAS WAS GIVEN A COUNTERMEASURE AND RESEARCHED WHAT, WHAT COULD IMPROVE THAT INTERSECTION.

AND IF AN INTERSECTION MAYBE HAD MULTIPLE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD BE MADE WE BROKE THOSE INDIVIDUALLY AND RANKED THEM SO THAT IF YOU MAYBE ONLY PURSUED ONE OF THEM YOU WOULD HAVE IT RANKED IN THE LIST AS TO WHICH WOULD BE THE BETTER IMPROVEMENT TO START WITH.

WE DID THIS FOR ALL THE SEGMENTS AND INTERSECTIONS, AND WE SEPARATED THEM INTO CATEGORIES BASED ON HOW YOU COULD IMPLEMENT A SHORT TERM, MID-TERM AND LONG TERM. SO JUST A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES.

I CAN'T SHARE ALL OF THEM. AND I STARTED WITH THE ONE HERE AT THE FIVE WAY.

AND WE ARE AWARE WE'VE TALKED WITH THE TPO AND KNOW THE THE ROUNDABOUT FEASIBILITY STUDY THAT THEY'RE COMPLETING RIGHT NOW.

BUT WE WANTED TO MAYBE PROVIDE SOME INTERIM IMPROVEMENT THAT COULD BE DONE LESS LONG TERM, EASIER THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE, MAYBE WHILE THE STUDY IS COMPLETED OR IF THE PROJECT ADVANCES TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SUCH AS ADDING SOME OF THE AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, FROM THE AERIAL VIEW, THE INTERSECTIONS, JUST A LOT OF ASPHALT.

SO A LOT OF I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHOSE LANE IS WHO.

WE JUST PROPOSE PUTTING SOME ADDITIONAL PAVEMENT MARKINGS THAT WOULD HELP DELINEATE THE INTERSECTION A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.

THIS WOULDN'T PROHIBIT SOMEBODY FROM ON CHERIE TURNING ONTO SEMINOLE.

BUT IT WOULD JUST HELP KEEP PEOPLE MORE IN THEIR OWN LANE AND MAKE IT LOOK A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE AN INTERSECTION.

AND I THINK THE, THE, THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT AND THE THING I HEARD MOST FROM ALL THE PUBLIC MEETINGS WAS THE PLAZA ROAD APPROACH FROM IF YOU'RE EASTBOUND ON PLAZA,

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APPROACHING THE FIVE WAY THE STOP BAR TODAY IS CURRENTLY MUCH FARTHER BACK, THE INTERSECTION.

AND IF YOU'RE A DRIVER WAITING AT SEMINOLE SOUTHBOUND IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE IF THERE'S A CAR OVER THERE.

AND IF, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S BEING POLITE AND FIRST ONE THAT ARRIVES IS THE FIRST ONE TO GO, AND YOU DON'T SEE ANYONE THERE, AND YOU GO, THEN IT GETS THEM FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THEY MISS THEIR TURN AND PEOPLE START TO GET AGGRESSIVE.

SO SIMPLE MEASURE OF MOVING THE STOP BAR UP, JUST MAKING THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE VISIBLE TO ALL THE OTHER ROADWAY APPROACHES.

AND DOING A LITTLE BIT OF TREE TRIMMING IN THE RIGHT OF WAY ON THIS CORNER WOULD HELP WITH VISIBILITY AND MAYBE CUT DOWN ON SOME OF THE, THE DRIVER FRUSTRATION AT THAT INTERSECTION. SO VERY LOW LEVEL HANGING FRUIT TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED VERY QUICKLY JUST TO THE WEST PLAZA PARKSIDE. ANOTHER EXAMPLE, I HEARD A LOT OF COMMENTS AND READ SOME CRASHES THAT HAPPENED HERE.

SO TODAY, CURRENTLY, YOU KNOW, THE CROSSWALK IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSECTION, WHICH IS A LITTLE UNCONVENTIONAL AND UNUSUAL.

AND IT HAS THE PEDESTRIANS BEING MORE VULNERABLE LONGER BECAUSE THEY'RE OUT IN THE ROADWAY.

NOT ONLY DO THEY HAVE TO CROSS PLAZA, BUT THEN THEY HAVE TO EITHER GO LEFT OR RIGHT TO CROSS PARKSIDE.

SO WHAT WE'VE PROPOSED IS RELOCATING THAT EXISTING CROSSING WITH THE RFP ALL TO THE EAST LEG OF THE INTERSECTION.

TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE TRADITIONAL. AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE CROSSING.

NOW FOR THE PEDESTRIANS. THEY'RE OUT IN THE ROADWAY MUCH SHORTER DISTANCE.

SO THEY'RE VULNERABLE, MUCH LESS. AND IF THEY'RE CROSSING A SHORTER DISTANCE, THEN VEHICLES ARE STOPPING LESS AND FOR SHORTER DURATIONS WHILE PEDESTRIANS CROSS. AND AS AN ADDED SAFETY FEATURE, WE PROPOSED THE POTENTIAL A RAISED CROSSWALK HERE.

SO IT WOULD HELP ELEVATE THE PEDESTRIANS, MAKE THEM MORE VISIBLE.

MAKE THEM FEEL A LITTLE BIT MORE SECURE THAT THEY HAVE THEIR OWN SPACE. AND IT ALSO WOULD HELP WITH TRAFFIC CALMING ALONG PLAZA.

AND THIS COULD BE IMPLEMENTED ALONG OTHER PLACES ALONG PLAZA.

ALSO, IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY LIKED THE IDEA OF AND IT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU FIND THAT IT WORKS WELL HERE COULD BE DONE FARTHER WEST ON PLAZA.

AND THEN THE LAST EXAMPLE PROJECT THAT I HAD TO SHARE WAS ON DUTTON ISLAND ROAD.

YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE EXISTING SIDEWALK ON THE NORTH SIDE SIDEWALK ON THE SOUTH SIDE.

YOU KNOW, JUST CONNECTIVITY AGAIN, THE TWO THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THERE.

IT'S JUST ADDING CROSSWALKS AND SIGNS. IF THE PEDESTRIAN VOLUMES WERE HEAVY ENOUGH, IT COULD BE UPGRADED TO AN RFB OR MAYBE EVEN A RAISED CROSSWALK AND TRAFFIC CALMING ON ON DUTTON ISLAND ROAD.

AND THESE ARE JUST SOME RENDERINGS OF WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE. SO I'LL WRAP UP WITH THE SS FOR FUNDING.

SO IT HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH 2026. THE THE GRANT OPENED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION APPLICATIONS AND IS DUE THE END OF JUNE, JUNE 26TH, THE DEADLINE.

SO IF, IF THIS CSA IS ADOPTED LATER NEXT MONTH ON YOUR ONE OF YOUR I GUESS WITH A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD MAKE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR APPLYING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION GRANT LATER IN JUNE, IT WOULD STILL REQUIRE 20, 20% LOCAL MATCH. BUT ANYTHING THAT IS DOCUMENTED WITHIN THE CSA WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR THOSE FUNDS TO BE USED ON IN THE FUTURE.

AND THAT GRANT WAS UP TO 200 OR I. THERE'S REALLY NO LIMIT.

OH I'VE SEEN THEM IN THE MILLIONS. THE IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS ARE VERY ARE A LOT HIGHER BECAUSE THEY INCLUDE THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPROVEMENT. YEAH. YEAH. AND YOU HAVE A GRANT COORDINATOR THAT IS CAN HELP ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.

THAT'S NOT REALLY MY AREA OF EXPERTISE. BUT.

IT WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR WHAT'S IN THERE. YES.

COULD YOU DO ANYTHING ON THE STATE ROADS? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? NO. YOU MADE YOURSELF PERFECTLY CLEAR. OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO SAY MY PEACE ABOUT IT.

OKAY. YEAH. REALLY? IT SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED IN THE CCSP.

IF YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE THE IMPLEMENTATION FUNDS.

I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF WE COULD STRETCH OUT PAST THE CCSP, OR IF WE HAD TO STICK TO WHATEVER THE CCSP HAD.

I THINK THAT IS THE INTENT, BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE IT HAS BEEN VETTED THROUGH THIS PROCESS THAT THEY DEVELOPED.

AND THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY WANT TO USE THEIR FUNDS FOR.

SO AND YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO BE PROVIDED A DRAFT COPY OF THE REPORT SO THAT YOU CAN REVIEW IT PRIOR TO IT BEING PROPOSED FOR RESOLUTION.

YES, WE ALL DID GET ONE LETTER FROM A CITIZEN WHO OBJECTED.

WHERE'D IT GO? SHE OBJECTED TO THE TRAFFIC CALMING BUMPS ON PARKSIDE.

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SHE SAID IT WASN'T A LONG ENOUGH ROAD TO TO JUSTIFY THOSE.

I DON'T TRAVEL THAT ROAD VERY MUCH. SO SHE. SHE WAS REFERRING TO WITHIN PARKSIDE.

THAT'S SO VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED ANY SPEED BUMPS OR TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES ON PARKSIDE DRIVE.

SO WE DID NOT RECOMMEND ANY. AND IT WAS AT THE LAST PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE.

IS THAT WHAT YOU SAW? THAT THE COMMUNITY WAS HERE AND WAS SPEAKING FOR THEM? AND MAYBE SHE CAME AND AND WANTED TO VOICE HER CONCERN THAT SHE'S AGAINST THEM.

BUT I BELIEVE THE CITY DID A STUDY, AND THEY THEY DID NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS.

GREAT. SO. YES. COMMISSIONER. YES. DID YOU GO BACK TO THE SLIDE THAT SHOWS A DIFFERENT PROJECT AND DIFFERENT AREAS OF CONCERN? YEAH. ROADWAY SEGMENTS OR INTERSECTIONS.

SO. OH, YEAH. JUST THE SNIPPET WE HAD. DID I ALREADY GO BY IT? YEAH. THAT ONE. CAN YOU EVEN READ IT? IT LOOKS LIKE SO.

OKAY, SO THESE ARE, THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THEM.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S, I THINK 110. FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE YOU HAVE, LIKE THE NATURE OF THE ACCIDENT, YOU KNOW, BROKEN DOWN IS IT. JUST HAVE WE DON'T LIKE FOR ATLANTIC BOULEVARD IS SHARING I ASSUME THAT'S PEOPLE TRYING TO GO LEFT ON ATLANTIC SHARING, BUT YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW.

WE DON'T DOCUMENT IT IN THIS SPREADSHEET. SO IN OUR APPENDIX WE WILL HAVE A SUMMARY OF ALL THE CRASHES.

BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE BROKEN DOWN WHERE YOU'LL KNOW THERE WERE FIVE OF THESE TYPE OF CRASHES AND EIGHT REAR ENDS AND THREE WIDE SIDE SWIPES.

WE WE DON'T HAVE THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL IN THERE, BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT I THINK IS THERE IF THERE'S AN INTERSECTION OR A SEGMENT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN. I'M JUST CURIOUS, LIKE EVEN THAT ONE, JUST THERE'S A LOT OF THE MEDIAN.

YOU DON'T SEE THE CARS COMING LEFT AND IT WAS THAT'S GOT THAT CLEARED OUT.

WE PROBABLY HAD TO GET RID OF HALF OF WHAT'S GOING ON THERE.

YEAH. SO I WILL SHARE THAT. YOU KNOW THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT AT BOTH THE OPEN HOUSES CONCERNS FROM THE PUBLIC.

AND WE SPOKE TO DOT ABOUT THAT INTERSECTION WHEN WE DID OUR INDIVIDUAL LOCAL.

YEAH, IT IS THEIR ROAD, THEIR RIGHT OF WAY. AND SO I SPOKE WITH THE SAFETY ENGINEER CODY KO, AND HE SHARED THAT A FEW YEARS AGO THEY HAD PLANNED TO MAKE THAT INTERSECTION A DIRECTIONAL MEDIAN OPENING.

SO THAT WOULD MEAN YOU COULD NOT MAKE A LEFT FROM SHERRY, BUT YOU COULD STILL MAKE THE LEFT OFF OF ATLANTIC.

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? BECAUSE THAT'S THE HARDER MOVEMENT TO MAKE RIGHT FROM SHERRY ONTO ATLANTIC.

AND THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON EAST WEST. BUT I THINK THERE WAS POTENTIALLY SOME, SOME OPPOSITION FROM THE CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH AND THEY DID NOT PURSUE THE PROJECT. THEY THEY DROPPED IT, BUT THEY DID ALL THE DATA COLLECTION.

THEY HAD DRAWN UP SOME CONCEPTS WHICH THEY SHARED WITH US.

SO THEY WERE CONSIDERING TRYING TO MAKE IT SAFER.

I, I FEEL LIKE, I GUESS THE WAY I LOOK AT THINGS, I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE STUDY THAT WAS DONE IN BATON ROUGE LONG TIME AGO.

OKAY, THEY GOT MORE STOPLIGHTS AFTER THAT CONSULTANT CAME IN AND SAID, THE PROBLEM IS YOU HAVE TO STOP EVERY BUSINESS, EVERY CORNER, EVERY COMMERCIAL DEVELOPER. ONE STOPLIGHT? YES. AT THEIR PROPERTY AND TAKE OUT STOPLIGHT.

NO ONE WANTS TO DO SO. I'M ABOVE THE PHILIP TO FIND A WAY.

YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WAY. RIGHT. YOU FEEL UNSAFE? YEAH. GO DOWN SEMINOLE, TAKE RIGHT. AND I DO IT ALL THE TIME.

IF I DON'T FEEL LIKE I CAN MAKE A LEFT COMFORTABLY, I MAKE A RIGHT AND GO MAKE A U-TURN.

IT'S MUCH SAFER. OR YOU TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE.

RIGHT. AND SO THAT THAT'S DOT'S CONCERN. IT'S SO CLOSE TO ATLANTIC AND THIRD STREET.

RIGHT. THAT SIGNAL, IT CAN'T BE SIGNALIZED. SO WHAT YOU START DOING IS YOU BEGIN LIMITING MOVEMENTS.

YOU START WITH A DIRECTIONAL, AND THEN EVENTUALLY YOU GO TO JUST CLOSING IT WITH A MEDIAN.

MAKES IT A RIGHT IN, RIGHT OUT. BUT YOU SOMETIMES HAVE TO TAKE THOSE DECISIONS AWAY FROM DRIVERS BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING POOR CHOICES.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO BE INJURED IN A CRASH.

OKAY. YES. KIND OF PIGGYBACKING ON COMMISSIONER GRANT, HAVE YOU GUYS DONE A STUDY? WHEN PEOPLE SAY WE HAVE ENOUGH PAIN, WE HAVE ENOUGH CROSSINGS.

WE HAVE ENOUGH LIGHTS. I MEAN, WE ON SEMINOLE ROAD DOWN HERE.

THERE WAS A BIG DISCUSSION ON THE CROSSWALKS AT SOME POINT.

I BET THEY BECOME COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. THEY DO.

DO YOU TAKE A LOOK AT YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IF YOU IMPLEMENTED EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST HERE, RIGHT.

YEAH, YOU WOULD BE, AS COMMISSIONER GRANT SAID.

SO I, I'D BE INTERESTED IN WHAT BECOMES I KNOW I ASKED A CHIEF ONE DAY, HOW MANY SIGNS DO WE HAVE IN.

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MIGHT BE SOME HORRENDOUS HUNDREDS. RIGHT. YOU DON'T WANT YOU DON'T WANT SIGN CLUTTER, RIGHT? PEOPLE CAN'T READ EVERYTHING I'M TALKING ABOUT. BUT, I MEAN, YOU GET SO MANY SIGNS ON ONE ROAD. YOU READ THE FIRST ONE, YOU READ THE SECOND ONE, THE THIRD ONE YOU KNOW YOU WANT THE MOST, I GUESS THE MOST EMPHASIS.

SO THERE'S GOT TO BE A PRIORITY RANKING. THERE'S SOME OF IT'S COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. AND AND SO WE WORK A LOT WITH DOT.

WE DO SAFETY STUDIES FOR THEM. AND IF YOU DRIVE A1A MORE IN THE SAINT JOHNS COUNTY SEGMENT WHERE IT'S TWO LANES AND THERE'S ALL THE BEACH ACCESS, AND THEY HAVE THE PARKING ON ONE SIDE, BUT EVERYBODY'S GOING TO THE BEACH.

AND THERE'S, YOU KNOW, NO SAFE WAY TO CROSS, RIGHT? IT'S 55 MILES AN HOUR. BUT THEY HAVE VERY STRICT GUIDELINES OF WHEN A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING IS WARRANTED, AND IT'S BASED ON PEDESTRIAN VOLUMES. AND YOU'VE GOT TO SOMEHOW COME UP WITH SOME BLACK AND WHITE GUIDELINES SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE JUST TEN MID-BLOCK CROSSINGS. BUT THE THE STRUGGLE IS WITH PEDESTRIANS.

IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT CONVENIENT, THEY WON'T USE IT.

RIGHT? I'M NOT GOING TO WALK HALF A MILE THAT WAY.

I REALLY JUST WANT TO GO RIGHT THERE. SO IT'S A THERE'S A LOT OF LIKE, FRICTION IN TRYING TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS AND MAKE IT SAFE FOR EVERYBODY.

SO WITHOUT GETTING TOO FAR IN THE WEEDS, IF YOU WERE TO CHANGE IT TO RIGHT TURN ONLY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIX AHERN.

SO IT'S A BETTER, SAFER ROUTE DOWN TO A SAFER LEFT TURN.

YEAH. AND AND THAT PORTION OF AHERN IS NOT ON OUR OUR HORIZON YET.

YEAH. WE'RE DOING THE EASTERNMOST PART OF THEY HEARD.

BUT THAT SECTION THAT TURNS INTO STURTEVANT IS IT'S A YUCKY PIECE OF ROAD.

YEAH, IT IS TOUGH WITH ALL THE BUSINESSES AND DRIVEWAYS AND ON STREET PARKING THERE.

YEAH, IT IS. IT IS A STRUGGLE. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WHEN YOU CHANGE ACCESS, YOU ARE GOING TO NOW REDISTRIBUTE TRAFFIC ELSEWHERE AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE THE SHORTEST, QUICKEST PATH. BUT IT'S ALSO FOR SAFETY. SO IT, YOU KNOW, DDOT HAS TO MAKE THESE KIND OF DECISIONS ALL THE TIME AND LIMIT THEIR ACCESS SO THAT IT CAN BE SAFE FOR EVERYBODY TRAVELING THE ROADWAYS.

OKAY. THANKS SO MUCH. WOW. PERFECT TIMING. YEAH, VERY GOOD TIMING.

THANK YOU GUYS. HAVE A GREAT NIGHT. OKAY, SO THIS MEETING IS OVER.

OKAY. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOU HAVE A THREE MINUTE RECESS.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.