City Council - July 28, 2026 - City of Berkeley Meetings

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the city council meeting. I'm.

in a while or it's your first

time to a meeting. This is a

reminder that if you have a

conversation, please take it

outside so that we can hear

everything that's going on.

There will be no booing and

hissing. I understand there are

a lot of strong feelings. And

I know that it's your first time

in a while or it's your first

time to a meeting. This is a

reminder that if you have a

conversation, please take it

outside so that we can hear

everything that's going on.

There will be no booing and

and we have a lot of young folks

that are gonna be here this evening

and so I really want us to set a good example for them.

So I ask folks to be respectful

as they're giving their comments and keep in mind

there are many things on the agenda this evening

so we have much to get through

before we even get to our action items.

So I will, we have no ceremonial matters this evening

so I will pass it over to our city manager

to see if he has any comments.

I don't have any comments tonight.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Okay, very good.

And is Mr. Alpert here?

Yes, do you wanna come up, Mr. Alpert?

So before we go to public comment on non-agenda matters,

I'm inviting Dr. Alpert to the podium

to redo his public comment from May 19th.

Mr. City Clerk, if you could please put two minutes

on the clock, or I guess Denise,

if you wouldn't mind putting two minutes on the clock, please.

Thank you.

I'm Dr. Steven Alpert.

Berkeley residents have reason to be disappointed

by the actions of this committee,

its commissions, and council.

We're here.

Sorry.

Shh folks, please.

There's a lot of whispering.

Shh.

Councillors have demonstrated pro-developer bias.

Local residents and business owners

were not consulted about the plans

to observe North Shattuck, Solano, or College Avenues.

In fact, the council met first with developers.

On February 24th, this council overturned

Berkeley's labor standards.

passed in 2023, which required developers and large projects

to provide contractors with fair pay, health insurance,

and funds for apprenticeship training.

During the planning commission meeting last fall,

over 30 attendees expressed concerns

that the proposed up-loading building heights were excessive.

Every commission member then stated

increased heights were not a problem.

Foremost, this council supports the false narrative

that building market rate housing

will readily produce affordable units.

Real world data contradict this.

A recent study by Buchholz

done to even under overly optimistic conditions

in our area, it takes over 20 years

for newly built market rate housing

to filter down and become affordable,

whereas with historical data, it takes over 100 years.

Evidently, these findings were troublesome

to Council Member Humbert,

who tried to discredit Buchholz

to showing him his composite screenshot from his website.

Please note the highlighted last sentence

with two underlying links.

As written, it clearly implies that Buckholtz

has received serious and swift

mythological criticism from other economists,

but neither link addresses the study.

Council members also assert

that building market rate departments

will invariably drive rents down.

Housing data from nearby Emory will refute this,

and the YIMBY Supply Site ideology they champion.

As reported in Emoryville Tatler,

Emoryville went the YIMBY way.

Now it has the most expensive rent in the East Bay.

Building more is supposed to bring cheaper rent.

What happened?

Our council's further to build bucket rate housing

may produce a similar outcome

without addressing housing affordability.

Thank you.

Okay, so we will now take public comment

on non-agenda matters.

There are multiple seats up in the front,

and if you have a seat next to you,

if you could make sure to wave your hand so folks can see.

There are folks, I just wanna make sure everyone

has a seat who wants one, especially if you are holding

a small child and need a seat, there's some seats up front.

Okay, all right, so if you have public comment

on non-agenda matters, we have the list right here, folks.

Okay, so we will have five in-person speakers

for items not on the agenda, and then we will go

to the first five hands raised on the Zoom.

Each speaker will have one minute each.

I'll pick the names for the five in-person speakers

and you can come up in any order.

And again, this is just for public comments

for items that are not on tonight's agenda.

So if your card was picked,

but you are speaking on an item on the agenda,

just let us know and I'll pick a new card.

Okay, the five non-agenda speakers for in-person

are Kara Houser, Juliet Leftwich,

Dennis Fanton, Maria Sol, and Derek Abasi.

You can come forward in any order.

Hi, good evening.

My name is Juliette Leftwich.

I'm a long-term Berkeley resident and an attorney.

I served on the Berkeley Police Accountability Board

and Police Review Commission for seven years.

I'm speaking out tonight to express my strong objection

to the incredibly aggressive new parking meter

rules that were adopted by council in June.

Under those rules, meters will operate until eight o'clock

and all day on Sundays.

Finds will increase from $43 to $64,

and new meters will be installed throughout the city,

including on Hopkins Street.

These rules were adopted hastily without public input

or input from small businesses,

many of which are already struggling to survive.

there was also no consideration of the impact

on churches throughout our city.

Oakland and San Francisco adopted similarly

egregious parking meter rules and reversed course

in response to public outcry.

Our hope is that you will, thank you,

be equally responsive to your constituents.

Thank you.

Okay, anyone else whose name was called?

Thank you.

Hi, John Caner, Downtown Berkeley Association.

I am so pleased to introduce-

which time are you?

What, Kara?

How's her?

We're together.

He's with me, Kara who's here.

Okay, Kara who's here?

Kara starts on Monday.

We're gonna have two months overlap.

I retire September 30th, Kara.

Hello, just wanna say hello and I'm delighted

to be here and join working with the city.

I'm very happy to meet each of you who I haven't met yet

and thank you.

Thank you so much, welcome.

And John, we will follow up with you later

to thank you for your service.

Good evening, my name is Derek Abasi

and I'm part of a neighborhood coalition

alerting this council that the developer

at 1130 Oxford Street is abusing state housing laws

to escape public discretionary review.

Streamlined by right approvals are meant

for small scale missing middle projects

that follow the letter and spirit of the law.

Instead, this developer is using aggressive,

bad faith tactics to claim the city is powerless.

But these laws have strict criteria.

To bypass SB 1123's hard 10 unit camp

and build 32 luxury homes,

The developer is illegally piecemealing a lot

into eight separate parcels.

Furthermore, SB 1123 applies exclusively to vacant lots

unless existing buildings are abandoned and uninhabitable.

Legally, the buildings are neither.

It also sits directly within the known landslide

and high fire hazard zone and the hillside overlay.

And it won't even address the housing crisis as intended.

As a result, will be $2 million homes

with zero affordable housing.

The city still retains oversight.

Do not treat this as a done deal, thank you.

Thank you.

You can begin your time whenever you're ready.

Okay, thank you.

My name is Dennis Fanton.

I'm talking about the project that is being proposed

for 1130 Oxford Street.

And I have really one major point.

At the May 28th meeting, the developer of this 32 row home

project on a steep hillside on Oxford Street

said that these 32 homes were level in and ADA accessible

and all that good stuff.

That was the exact comment.

What I want to say is that these homes are, in fact,

level in but if you're in a wheelchair you can't get into the living space of

the home I assume this is by design not necessarily to preclude people in

wheelchairs thank you that is that my time yes that's your time thank you very

much for your comment the fit card was for Maria soul no that's okay good thing

I can almost run. I just want to mention that I'm really happy that you all are going to

get to take a little break. I'm going to miss you, but I'm very glad you might get to rest

and play and do what serves you. But I want to also remind you most sincerely that most

of us won't get to, which is why we're all here, because all sorts of things matter to

each and every one of us. And again, I am trying to emphasize that if we stop and breathe

and remember it's not just me, it's we. We've got to figure out a way to get along because

because we can't help some people and hurt others.

We can do better.

So I hope again, you have a fine time.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mariah.

Okay, and we'll go to the first five hands raised on Zoom.

Again, this is for non-agenda public comments.

First is Sharon.

I think if I'm on agenda item 27,

Is this my time to speak or is it later?

It's later actually.

We are only addressing things

that are not in the agenda at this time.

I'll wait till then.

Thank you.

Next is, it says call in user.

Should be able to unmute for non-agenda public comments.

Hello, can you hear me?

My name is Gordon Alderson and I live in Modoc County.

I hate homeless people.

They are vermin.

They are destroying our communities

and destroying our small businesses.

I have to go out of business because of homeless people.

They're all vermin and they're all niggas, trannies.

Yeah.

OK.

Next.

Apologies, everyone.

When comments are going, there are only certain times

we're able to cut them off.

and so I apologize for that person's speech.

Next is Mackay Freeman, so two minutes.

Mackay, we'll put extra time on the clock for you.

You can speak when you're ready.

Oh, here she goes.

Go ahead, Mackay.

Yeah, can you hear me?

Yes, go ahead.

Yes.

So if you didn't see council members

and maybe she has called.

But literally, as seniors and sister-in-law

are in the grocery drive, senior and disabled children,

many disabled people and seniors are at virtually affected

by the facility's reduction in services,

but not that our community is not consulted beforehand.

There is a memo written by General Matthew Hagen suggesting fraud in the program.

Here I would like examples of fraud and how reduction in services was derived.

Many seniors cannot offer a smartphone or the wrist interface.

They are without transportation that is needed for them.

They cannot ask for treatment, community events, and worship.

Nothing about us without us and we ask for a meeting, which is there, and see that we're talking about reductions in this program.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Mackay. Okay, let's see, next is Michael Pierce.

would like to see my time to on item 27 to Aaron Friedman. I'm sorry you can't

you have to wait until the speaker is here just see the time at the time the

comments on that item are being held so you can stay on for that. Thank you.

Next is David.

Hello, I just wanted to well, I had a non agenda comment I was going to talk about how great the new Baywheels expansion is and how helpful it's been to me.

But unfortunately, I wasn't able to get into the meeting right now.

I mean, notice it's at capacity.

Folks are being turned away at the door,

and it's just a continuation of,

I think, a really consistent problem that we have around public comment and around

public feedback where people who have,

I just got off work and we just picked up the kids.

If I could have been here an hour ago,

I would have been here an hour ago.

And so I really hope that, you know, over time, we're able to find ways of including

people who have more obligations on their time because our voices matter too.

Thank you.

And I'm sorry that you and others were not able to get inside the meeting.

So as people exit the meeting, though additional people are allowed in, and of course people

can participate through audio, visual, platform, zoom, so after public comments and perhaps

after the consent calendar there may be some additional capacity in the board room.

Yes, thank you Mr. City Clerk.

I think that's correct that as folks are making their comments, they might also step out. So there's more room for others

Are you gonna say something? Yeah, may I ask a question? I the commenter referenced. I think he referenced the

Zoom meeting being that capacity is that possible or is there that's not okay. There's there's a limited capacity on zoom that well

There's I think up to a thousand people

I mean he was on this it right, but he okay. I just wanted to check that yeah

I think it's a room a physical room capacity issue. Thank you though for checking

So that is

There's no more hands

one

Hand rate. No, there's no more hands raised online. We could take two more cards

We have Alec and Jackie. Oh

It's for an item on the agenda, okay

Good evening mayor and council. Thank you so much for offering this opportunity for public comment

I would like to comment on the proposal for corridor up zoning in opposition to that plan on

The grounds of something that one of our previous speakers said we can't help some people and hurt others. I

Agree that the nimby yimby divide has come to define this discussion. I

Don't think that's a productive way to look for a solution. I

I have a different proposal that I think should appeal to all of you because it helps all

of you and your constituents in every district.

I call it E.B., I.E.B.Y., improve everyone's backyard.

Help all of the neighborhoods in the city become similar to these three places that

we agree make Berkeley wonderful.

Wouldn't each of you like to have a Solano or an Elmwood or a Shattuck in your district?

can do better you can make it happen. Thank you. Thank you. And we just have one we do have a hand

raised on the Zoom so this will be our final speaker. Andy. Thank you I'm curious on the Zoom

presentation is it possible for Brent Blackaby's video feed to be minimized until he is speaking?

thank you very much i'd be happy to minimize my video thank you thank you um i think that was our

final of agenda public comment so um all right we will um we will move on to our consent calendar

but first there is an urgent item that we need to vote on i will pass it over to council member

of Olenapara to introduce it.

Thank you.

This is an item showing our support and solidarity

with the workers at the Graduate Hotel in District 7,

which they will be voting to unionize

with Unite Here Local 2 this Friday.

So it's a resolution in support.

Second.

I guess I'll make a motion to accept this into the record.

Thank you.

And a second from Council Member Traitor.

part of the consent calendar. Yes, thank you. Um, any comments or questions before we vote?

Okay, go ahead, Mr. City Clerk. To accept the the urgent item, uh, to on the, uh, to the consent

calendar. Councilmember Kessarwani? Yes. Tapplin? Yes. Bartlett? Yes. Tragov? Aye. O'Keeffe? Yes.

Blackaby? Yes. Nopara? Yes. Humber? Yes. And Maryishi? Yes. Okay, motion carries.

Okay very good. Councilmember Tracob did you want to also make some comments as well before we start?

Yes thank you. I would like to see if we can move item 28 which is a referral to the city manager

to update definitions in the CGMU district and review restrictions related to the establishment

of adult-oriented businesses in the Berkeley Municipal Code

to consent for the purpose of sending it back

to the Land Use Housing and Economic Development Committee.

Thank you.

So Mr. City Clerk, could you just speak to?

Yeah, so if there's no objection,

that item can be moved to consent.

Thank you.

for the purposes of moving it to the land use committee?

Yeah, yes, that would be the action that would be recorded.

No, so there are no objections?

Okay, all right.

Then it will be, then it will be so, thank you.

All right, anything else?

I have comments on the consent calendar.

I guess this would be the time.

Great, thank you.

Sorry, and folks, because we know we're gonna have

quite a long agenda.

If I could ask that our folks keep their comments

to a minimum, that would be great.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

First of all, I would like to appreciate

my colleagues' collaboration on the urgency item

that we just moved to consent,

the resolution supporting the rights of workers

at the graduate hotel,

21. Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Vehicle Emission Standards

as well as to the mayor for item 21,

which is the rescission of the greenhouse gas

endangerment finding and modern vehicle greenhouse gas

emission standards under the Clean Air Act

to allow us to join Amicus Brief

in opposition to that rescission.

And also wanted to appreciate Council Member Bartlett's

22. Council Funds for School Supply Distribution and Resource Fair

authorship of item 22,

relinquishment of council office budget funds

to support the city-wide Berkeley School Supply

Distribution and Resource Fair.

And excited to sponsor all three of those items.

I would like to ask that we withdraw item 23

from the consent calendar and from this agenda.

Item 23 is the relinquishment

of Council Office Budget Funds

to the Downtown Berkeley Association

in support of the Social Service

Outreach Coordination position until further notice.

Thank you to Councilmember Humbert for sponsoring item 25.

I would like to donate $150 for my discretionary funds.

And last but not least,

24. RENAISSANCE Commercial District Revitalization Referral

I would like to express my sincere appreciation

to my co-authors, to city staff,

and to the many stakeholders who helped shape item 24,

which is our Renaissance item, revitalizing enterprise

and neighborhoods through activation, investment, safety,

streamlining, accessibility, networking, collaboration,

and equity, part one, performance standards

for commercial district activation and life mitigation.

This is the first of several items

we intend to bring to the council

to help continue to make our downtown

and all commercial spaces,

both those specifically named in the referral

and any that were not even more vibrant

and attractive for residents and visitors.

I can't wait to receive our staff's recommendations

back to the council for final adoption.

And thanks again to everyone

so generously devoted their time and knowledge to this item.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to Council Member Humbert.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'll try to be brief here.

Item 23, no, that's dropped.

I'm talking about item 22,

the relinquishment of council office budget funds

to support the citywide Berkeley school supply distribution

and resource fair.

I'd like to donate $150.

Thank you.

I think it's council member Bartlett for authoring that.

And then I brief comments about item 25,

which is the Russell Street Halloween festivities,

2026 through 2029 relinquishment of council office

budget funds to general fund and the grant of such funds.

And I authored that.

I know we have a long meeting ahead of us,

so I will be, thank you Eric Panzer, booreaf.

I just wanted to thank the Claremont Elmwood

Neighborhood Association and all the neighbors

who volunteer for this fang-tastic event each year

and make it possible.

I will always go to bat for neighborhood events like this

that are the lifeblood of our community.

And I'm pleased to be able to do

this monster-sized funding item

so that neighbors can keep working their magic

for at least another four years.

Thank you.

Thank you for that very punny, those very punny comments.

I'm gonna go online to Council Member Blackaby, please.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'll also be brief.

I wanted to thank Council Member Luna Parra

for bringing the urgent item

on the Graduate Hotel Labor Support

and for allowing me to join as a co-sponsor.

I was also proud to join with Council Member Luna Parra

and Council Member Tragob on Friday

to walk the picket line with workers

supporting their fight to form a union.

As we all know, Berkeley is a proud union town

And we strongly stand with workers

and fight for their right to self-organize.

So thank you, Council Member Luna Parr

for bringing the item.

3. Police Accountability Board – Appointment of New Member

On item three, I just wanted to thank Council Member Taplin

for making his nomination of an A-sharma

to join the Police Accountability Board.

With this nomination,

we have a full Police Accountability Board with an alternate.

That may be the first time in history

that we've actually had a full compliment plus alternate.

So I just wanted to thank everyone,

the Mayor and all colleagues

for getting the Board back on full footing.

On the couple of council relinquishment items, item 22,

thanks to Councilman Bartlett for bringing this.

Our office would like to relinquish $200

towards the citywide Berkeley School Supply distribution

and resource fair.

And on item 25, I don't have as many puns

as Council Member Humbert, I don't have any,

but we'd like to contribute $250 towards that.

And with that, I'm done, thank you.

There's a green Toyota Celica convertible that's parked outside here and it's leaking

quite a bit of oil into the curb, off the curb area.

So an engine company is coming to investigate that.

So if that's your car, please check in with the fire department staff at the front gate.

and I'm not going to be able to

do that. I'm not going to be

able to do that. And just for

everybody else, don't be alarmed.

That's what the fire engine is

here to look at. Thank you.

convertible. Thank you. So if

that is your car, please, please

move it or address it. Thank

you. All right. Moving on to

councilmember Luna Parra. Thank

you. Um, I want to thank the

I'd like to donate $200 for my discretionary fund to each.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Moving on to Council Member Kesser-Wunni.

Thank you very much, Madam Mayor.

13. Berkeley Food Network Contract for Food Assistance

I wanted to recognize item number 13.

This is awarding funds pursuant to the item

that I authored to the Berkeley Food Network

to address the issue of food insecurity.

I see Andrew Crispin is here, as are some board members,

so I'm really pleased that we can make that funding award.

I also want to thank Council Member Lunapada

for the item related to the workers at the Graduate Hotel.

And finally, I want to be recorded as donating $100

to the Berkeley School of Supply and Distribution

Resource Fair, item number 22,

as well as $100 for the Russell Street Halloween festivities,

item number 25.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, Council Member Tapuin.

Thank you, good evening.

I'd like to thank Council Member Lunapada

for the urgency item and items between two and 25,

I would like to have your record

as relinquishing 200 to each.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Council Member Bartlett.

Thank you, Madam Mayor.

I'd like to thank everyone

for helping to supply bank.

It's really crucial, crucial service

they provide for schools.

And item 13, I wanna congratulate

the Book of Food Network

and thank Council Member Casa-Ronni for your work

and City Manager for putting forward

this much needed food support.

As I said before, we're becoming more

are food stressed, so look out for food and help people eat. The Renaissance, good work

Councilmember, are you Vice Mayor? No? Okay, oh, sorry, I can't say that. Congratulations,

Councilmember Trigo, Renaissance, good work. This addresses blight in the community, basically.

The stores and buildings that are unbuilt. We've had to go through exorbitant lengths

to get people to build on fellow properties, where rats will come and people come to you

You have bad things.

It's just a good system that you designed here to help jumpstart the process.

Thank you for that.

I'd like to have $200 for the Russell Street Halloween party.

Coming up, I guess, kind of soon, huh?

Okay.

Kind of, right?

It's like July.

Okay.

And Councillor Loomapada, thank you so much for your resolution in support of the workers

at the Graduate Hotel.

Good, good people over there.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Keith.

Thank you, Mayor.

I would like to start by thanking Council Member

Luna Parra for bringing the urgent item.

I'm really happy for a chance to support my,

well, I was gonna say my union brothers and sisters,

but I guess my potential union brothers and sisters

in their fight, so thank you very much.

It's really, it's a great item.

I'd like to also thank Council Member Trigu

for his work on Renaissance

and for inviting me to co-sponsor,

and I'm very happy to be part of that work,

and I just wanna say that downtown has a lot of issues,

And I just want to really honor your work

in representing the downtown.

I think you're really taking that seriously

and taking it head on and doing an excellent job.

So I'm really happy to support you.

Thank you for the outcome.

Oh, yes, I helped him with the ridiculous acronym.

But I helped beyond that too.

So anyway, thank you for that.

And then regarding the relinquishment of funds items,

I will donate $200 to item 22 and $200 spooky dollars.

Should I do it right to item 25?

That's it.

Okay, thanks everyone.

I also wanna thank Council Member Leno-Pauro

for bringing the urgency item forward

and very proud to support the workers

in their union organizing campaign.

And I wish them luck on Friday when they have the vote.

Thank you so much.

We have a number of different grants that have come in.

So I really wanna thank city staff

for all of their hard work

to bring funding into our city.

Many folks don't know this,

but our city staff do a lot to leverage funding

and access other grants for us.

And I'd like to add Council Member Blackaby

to item number 21, which is the rescission

of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding

in motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards

under the Clean Air Act.

Basically, the EPA is saying that motor vehicles

do not cause greenhouse gases, which we know is not correct.

And we are signing on to the amicus brief

and really proud to be doing that.

and thank you so much to our city attorney's office

for assisting us by writing this item.

Excited to see item 24 moving forward.

Thank you very much for your leadership,

Council Member Tragob, and for item 25,

I will also give $100 for my discretionary count

for the Russell Street Halloween fair.

So thank you very much, Council Member Humbert, for that.

And with that, I will see if there is any public comment

on consent calendar and information items only.

Ooh, John is making his way up.

John Caner, downtown Berkeley Association.

I want to also thank Council Member Treggop

for his leadership on this Renaissance item.

I think we can all agree that the empty pit on Harold Way

and the boarded up Center Street across from Bama PFA

is not an ideal situation.

We have 17 stalled housing projects.

Actually, I think one's going forward.

We're hoping the course basis is gonna move forward

on the Center Street Project soon,

and as staff and council approach this,

is obviously making sure we don't have

unintended consequences that we're dealing with real issues

and also fixing them.

So for example, as we know, the Center Street Project,

it takes about nine months to get PG&E to decommission power.

So we're going to move ahead and decommissioning,

then the market turned, et cetera.

And then we had this vacant storefront.

So we want to be able to make sure

that we can bring back on pop-ups.

Thanks, John.

And one quick answer.

John, no, no, no, John, I'm sorry.

We've got a lot of comments tonight.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Okay, come on up, Andrew.

And Pam.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, City Manager.

I'm Andrew Crispin, the Executive Director

of Berkeley Food Network.

And I'm joined tonight by Pam Gray,

the Board Chair of Berkeley Food Network.

As many of us know, affordability is a crisis

facing so many community members,

especially here in Berkeley,

but we are so excited to be awarded this contract,

to be working with the city to address food insecurity

for our housing insecure community members.

We're really grateful on behalf of the community.

Thank you, and we're looking forward

to continued partnership with the city.

Thank you.

Thank you, and thank you all so much for your work.

Yes.

Thank you.

Sorry, come on up.

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para que entre la unión y en estamos de su ayuda

y teso pollo muchas gracias

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Rosada Rodriguez.

I've been working for two years at the Graduate Hotel.

Me and my coworkers are organizing the union

because of the excessive work that happens at that hotel.

I've had to clean 18 to 22 rooms.

I have proof right here.

We're tired of this, and we're getting together

because we deserve the union.

Thank you for your support.

Thank you.

The last time, I met Maricela Castro in the last few years,

who has been working with me in the event of this event,

I had no idea where I was going to work with him,

because there are many people working with him.

And we had no idea where I was going to work with him.

He had a beautiful future, and he had no idea where I was going to work.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Maricela Castro.

I've been working at the Graduate Hotel for the past 20 years.

I'm also joining the Union because there is an excessive load of work

at the hotel. Me and my coworkers, we deserve better, and that is why we're

formed the Union and we would love your support. Thank you.

Thank you.

Hi there, my name is Angelica Salinas Chicas.

I am here because I am asking for your support

in our fight for our union.

We deserve better respect

and also we're deserving better treatment in the hotel.

And that is why I'm here standing with my coworkers.

Thank you.

Muy buenas tardes a todos.

Abes es me dan este bente, o disiucho, dicise iscense, y cuantante eso, abes es no me dan tiempo de lonchar y un poquito tiempo de descansar y pues me guste ese trabajo lo que pasar el que esta en cargado sobre eso me poso una este un papel y ono sabia y tu beque viermar,

In medio opportunida de algo que mejor pero en estanto de algo que no ise.

Y entonces mejiva despéder pero le diejo por favor que me de este opportunida por qué yo quiero

esca trabajo.

Gracias adiós yo lucha por esse trabajo.

Gracias adiós que encontre, estoy muy felicines esca trabajo.

No más que yo beo el herente no tiene por quito de passiencia y la que está en cargado

sobre eso.

Pero espero?

I don't know if you know, I have a lot of problems, I don't know if you know or not.

I know I have a lot of problems, I know I have a lot of problems, I know I have a lot

of problems, I know I have a lot of problems, I know I have a lot of problems, but I don't

know if you know or not.

I'm not sure what's happening with the sound. I'm sorry about that. All right. My name is

I'm Lorentina Salas.

I've been working at the Graduate Hotel

for the past six months.

Reason why I'm fighting, it's because at work,

it's very excessive work.

I was recently given a warning for not completing some work

because I was not able to finish within the amount of time.

I felt that that was really disrespectful

and that is one of the reasons

why I'm fighting for the union.

I really enjoy working there

and I wanna continue working there,

but it is really the things I need to change

in the hotel is the workload.

Thank you.

Anyone else have public comment

on consent calendar information items only?

Muchas gracias.

Muchas gracias, porvenir.

Okay. Okay, so we now go to speakers on.

Oh, one more consent, okay.

I know we have so much to do,

but this is the general consent calendar.

Now, what does relinquish mean when you were?

We're happy to talk about that later.

We don't usually do the back and forth,

so if you have questions, you can ask them later.

All right, well I just want to remind us

that there's earthquakes everywhere, fires everywhere,

and we need to consider safety and response times.

I'm really in support of the child resources

and the police accountability and Berkeley Food Network

Oh my god, please, people are hungry.

How right, and anything to do with youth services,

dogs and playgrounds.

So yeah, and then I don't understand what's going on

with the social service outreach coordinator,

and I understand that this is a response,

but I'm really wanting us to choose wisely

what we invest in, thank you.

Thanks Maria, and relinquishment just means

we're giving it from our different accounts.

So, all right.

Okay, so now we'll go to public comments

on the consent calendar for those

with their hands raised on Zoom.

And the first is caller with a phone number ending in 211.

Hi, this is Ed.

So I have a very important comment about consent time,

item three, lease accountability board.

Very clearly always through the ages

as one of the best police department in all countries.

Second, I'd like to bring the memory of the great beef police of Berkeley that have dashed Butler.

He, we had a theft in our San Francisco store of embellishment to actually open a million dollars.

He was a great because I was threatened from the criminals from jail.

And he appointed two policemen in front of our house in Euclid.

We paid $6,000 a month which went to the city of Berkeley, not to the policemen.

We really have to look forward to saying the other thing I'd like to man the please everybody

walking downtown Berkeley see how many stores are closed you are sending all of the business

to the current and every well let's work together and please give me a call 5 1 0 8 4 8 5 0 0

0 52 years old phone number thank you I will call again thank you okay.

Next is Benito.

Yeah.

Hi.

Good evening.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay.

Very good.

Well, hi.

Good evening.

My name is Benito Delgado Olson.

I'm the ED of SupplyBank.org.

Really just calling in to say thank you to all of the council members who contributed

to the 16th annual resource fair and school supply distribution scheduled for August 8th.

It's San Pablo Park.

For 16 years, what began as a pilot

at the former South Berkeley YMCA,

it now serves about 1,300 BUSD students annually.

And we really appreciate council member Bartlett,

as well as the mayor and council member Traguib,

and all the council members who have contributed

and helped us seek funds to keep this important event going

for the Berkeley community.

I'm also happy to share

that before all of your contributions this evening,

We're at about $28,000 and our goal is $30,000.

So I'm very confident that this program

and event will move forward.

So just thank you all so much again.

Thank you so much.

Okay, next is former council member Cheryl Davila.

Oop, wait a second.

It jumped around.

Hold on.

Wait, all right.

Let's go ahead.

Hold on a second, James.

We'll come to you next.

former Councilmember Cheryl Dattler.

Um, yeah, so there's a lot of things on the consent calendar.

Um, I guess the food network is a good thing.

And honestly, I don't even know what's on the consent calendar because I really didn't look at it, but, um, I'm hoping y'all do the right thing.

And it's just, today I was listening to my friend talk about her trip back from Palestine,

and things are just so egregious over there.

And you all are just sitting there not doing anything about all the things that you could

be doing for this world and this country by passing a resolution in support of getting

a bit of apartheid and Palestine and freeing Palestine and but you're into surveillance

and control and domination. But I'm praying that you all change and things change for

everyone in the city of Berkeley. Thank you, thanks Cheryl.

is James White. Oh James James raise your hand if you there you are okay go ahead James.

I'd like to take kudos to Cheryl for calling in on that important topic and kudos to your

boards for allowing her to speak. This is Judy Stroyer city council desk squad we've been

challenging boards like yours for years as genocide's been continuing and you continue

to silence people. So in this case, I am happy that you're

Sorry, this is a public comment on consent calendar and

information items only. So

what I'd like to speak about the women trying to do the union.

And I'd like to give a thought that maybe if we could imagine a

situation where a group of white European men went to Honduras or

Guatemala, or anywhere this I have a free speech here. So

please do not jump down my throat with your liberal viewpoint

intolerance but imagine some white guys going to Guatemala and going to a city council speaking

English and one after another just like that telling people that work is so hard and you know

something we need more of this and like treat us like this come on man seriously there's a lot of

people in this country okay and next is Todd Andrew I just want to say I strongly disagree

with the comments and we welcome anyone who comes to speak in any language and we'll give them time

for translations so I wish those kinds of people would stay out of here I did

not raise my hand for comment right now all right I think that's our final

comment on the consent calendar so I will come back to see if we can approve

the consent calendar is there a motion to approve so moved second can we take the

on that please. To approve the consent calendar. Councilmember Kessarwani? Yes.

Kaplan? Yes. Bartlett? Yes. Tragedy? Aye. O'Keefe? Yes. Blackaby? Yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and Mary yes, okay.

Consent calendar has passed and then just as another quick note the TV has

been set up in the gymnasium for overflow for people to watch the meeting.

It's just the gymnasium is the building next to the parking lot right there on

of Browning Street.

So we'll let the people in line know

so they can participate from there as well.

And like I said earlier, as people exit the meeting,

additional people will be admitted into the boardroom.

Thank you very much, Mr. City Clerk.

And so just so folks know where we're at,

we've just finished the consent calendar,

we're moving on to the action calendar.

And we have item 26,

which we have our staff right in front of us.

And I believe you do not have a presentation,

but you're here for any questions, is that correct?

Okay thank you very much. Are there any questions? We are moving on to action

calendar item 26, referral response inclusionary housing in move fee

analysis and fee update for single-family residential units. I see no

hands raised for any questions. So is there any public comment for item number

26? Anybody online? So this is to raise your hand online if you wish to

give comments on the inclusionary housing in lieu fee analysis. Otherwise please lower

your hand. Okay to comment on item 26 we have former council member Cheryl Davila. I'm sorry

what's the name of this item? This is for item number 26 and if you don't have a comment

on 26 I'd like to ask that you put your hand down so we can hear comments on this item

Well, I'm going to make a comment.

I just you wouldn't tell me what it was.

So I'm going to look it up real quick.

And you took three seconds off my time last time,

which was not nice, but 26.

You could have just repeated it referral for response inclusionary housing.

Yeah, inclusionary housing.

We need to have inclusionary housing.

We need to have 100% affordable housing.

housing. We don't need to have market rate. A lot of those units are empty. People need

to be able to live and stay in Berkeley at an affordable rate. And the way things are

going, black and brown people are going to not be in Berkeley. So that's what you need

to make sure that you take the highest percentage,

charge them the highest amount not to include,

if they try to do the in-loofies,

they should be very expensive.

Thank you for your comment.

Next is Sarah Bell.

Hi, I assume you can hear me.

I am chair of the Housing Advisory Commission

And I wanted to give some color on the HAC recommendation

on the residential unit floor area deduction.

We voted to advance the 2,500 square foot exemption

because that was what was studied.

But a number of members of the commission

thought that reducing the in lieu fee by that much

for single family homes

was too much of an exemption for them.

A brand new 2,500 square foot single family home

in Berkeley is a luxury.

I'm getting into my personal opinion now.

Someone building one should contribute more

to our housing trust fund.

It is my personal opinion

that our housing trust fund monies build housing

for people at risk of experiencing displacement

or even homelessness.

And this exemption should be eliminated

for single-family homes, or at least greatly reduced.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Sarah.

All right, next is James White.

Yes, I want to say that I think the comments were pretty racist

that the geral woman was talking about.

And as a white man, take offense or black and brown comments,

I think that's pretty distasteful.

Excuse me, do you have a comment on item number 26?

We're taking public comment for item 26.

Yes, I do.

And please don't interrupt me.

I'm going to make my point, but you can't interrupt

when people are making their point.

The reason why we have this problem with the housing anyway

is because the Boomers printed money for 20 or 30 years.

We should be looking fundamentally

why our housing is unaffordable for our youth.

And it's not a black and brown thing.

It's a generational thing.

The Boomers sold us out to the Jews.

And since then, we've been basically eating crap

while we go to war for them over and over again.

Again, folks, I'm very sorry for these comments.

I apologize.

Okay, next is Seth.

Hello, people of Berkeley.

I'm sorry for the disgraceful act of our previous speaker.

I think it's really important

that we start looking towards a rent-to-own model.

We need some high rises built here in Berkeley.

We need 15, 20, 30 story high rises with rent to own public housing, and we also need any kind of job facilities and things like that in the lower level so that people can go and get services in the same building that they live in, as well as maybe a food distribution place.

So Canada's putting us to shame.

We have rampant homelessness, rampant poverty,

rampant crime, you know.

It's basically, you know,

I feel like I'm living in a fetid country

that is completely falling apart

and is not taking care of the poorest of the poor.

You judge a nation by how well it treats its poor people

and America is abysmal.

We need public housing for all

and we also need rent to own property

so that working class families can get microloans

either through the government or even through the landlord.

Thank you.

Next is Andrew Talbot.

Thank you for the chance to comment on this item.

I just wanted to mention the inclusionary fees,

if they're less they're funded as a subsidy,

are generally just a tax on new housing.

And I generally think we should be taxing existing housing

if you want to pay for new housing

rather than taxing new housing.

And we do want new housing.

We want a lot of it as much as we can.

And so as much as we can balance those fees, it makes sense.

And I agree that balancing those towards multifamily

versus single family is a way to go

if we're gonna have those fees at all.

So thank you for the comment and I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Okay, and we have one more commenter.

We have Virginia Browning.

Virginia should be able to unmute.

Last call, Virginia.

Let's see, let's try to see.

Okay, Virginia can you unmute?

Oh, it's okay.

Virginia, can you hear us?

You should be able to unmute.

No, no, okay.

No, it's not.

I don't think she's fully connected.

Okay, we'll have to move on.

Sorry. Okay.

I'm sorry, Virginia.

Send your comments in writing to the Council at Berkeley CA.gov and Council will receive

your comments.

Thank you very much.

Okay, we're coming back to Council for comments starting with Councilmember Humbert.

Thank you Madam Mayor.

I want to thank the staff in the Planning Department and the City Manager's Office

for their work on this item.

I think it's a sensible approach to ensure that the very largest single-family homes

are as well making a contribution to our affordable housing fund.

In my view, at least, there's very little reason

for most homes to be more than 2,500 square feet,

and with this approach, the size of the fee

will still scale with the amount

by which a single-family home exceeds that level,

exceeds 2,500 feet.

This seems square feet.

This seems to me very fair,

and I thank you again to all who worked on it.

I'm prepared to move it forward.

Thank you very much.

Councilmember Luna Parra, did you have comments?

I just really wanted to thank staff

I'm very thankful for the work.

the motion is seconded by the.

yes black be yes are yes number yes and thank you also to councilmember Luna

para and Mary yes thank you motion carries thank you very much to our

staff thank you for being here and for being available for questions in your

work okay great we are moving on to item 27 which is the referral to schedule

hopkin street for paving with enhanced safety improvements for all users so the

way that this is going to go, since I'm guessing all of the rest of you are here

for this item, is that we are going to have a presentation by the author of the

item, Council Member Keslewani, and then we will have presentations by the rest

of the council members who have supplementals, and then we are going to

take any questions from council members, and then we'll move to public comment. As

in the past, if you have a small child with you or a child with you, I will

that you may take them home for

dinner or bedtime, etc. And then likely at some point we will need to take a break and we will continue to do the comments. And then we will come back to do council comments and our votes.

So, and one thing else I want to say,

if you cannot stay and you still want to make sure that you give some kind of comment,

feel free to email it to us.

If you give your comment and you're thinking about maybe heading out and watching from home,

please do so so that way we can allow folks who are in the overflow room

to come in and be able to give their comment.

So, I just ask that when you've finished,

if you can watch at home,

that you allow others to give their comment here in person.

Okay, passing it on to Councilmember Kesirwani. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Madam Mayor. I want to begin by thanking Interim Public Works Director Wahid Amiri, who I know is online, and the Public Works team, Fire Chief Sprague and City Manager Paul Boudinhagen for their work in helping us get to this point tonight. I also want to thank my co-sponsors, Mayor Adina Ishii and Councilmember Mark Humbert on this item.

I also want to thank every member of the public who has engaged on this topic.

My office has received more than a hundred emails on Hopkins Street and I

want to say something that may surprise some people. The emails from District 1

and from across the city have actually been pretty evenly split between

support and opposition. That tells me this is a genuinely contested question

in our community and I have tried to take all

of those voices seriously.

I wanna acknowledge up front that this item

does represent an unprecedented change

in how the public right of way is used

in a residential neighborhood.

I do not take that lightly,

but I also want to explain why I believe

this action is necessary and overdue.

Hopkins Street has been recommended

as a low stress east-west connector route

in Berkeley's bicycle plan.

And it is a documented high injury corridor.

The proposed safety treatments in this item

are not arbitrary.

They are directly informed by where people have been killed

and severely injured on this street.

A pedestrian was killed at Hopkins and Monterey

in April 2017.

4 cyclists suffered severe injuries on Hopkins at Carlotta Monterey the Alameda and Albina between April 2016 and November 2023, a pedestrian suffered a severe injury at Hopkins and Peralta in June 2021.

The median age of those killed or severely injured on this corridor is 67 and a half years old. These are our neighbors, our seniors, our community members.

This is also a corridor home to King Middle School,

the North Branch Library, and multiple preschools.

It is a street that children walk and bike to every day.

All of us deserve a safer street.

To get into the details of this item,

this item asks the city manager to repave Hopkins Street

from Sutter Street to San Pablo Avenue

with enhanced safety features for all users.

Specifically, the item directs staff

to design one way class four separated bikeways

that is physically protected bike lanes

on each side of Hopkins from the Alameda to Peralta Avenue,

essentially the Ohlone Greenway.

This configuration was considered to be the safest

by our Public Works staff because it allows cyclists

to travel in the same direction as adjacent vehicle traffic,

reducing conflicts at intersections.

The item also calls for class two buffered green painted bike lanes from Sutter Street

to the Alameda, similar to what we have on Monterey Avenue.

Traffic calming features west of Peralta Avenue to Stanage Avenue, a raised intersection at

Hopkins and Monterey, California for pedestrian safety, bus boarding islands at AC transit

stops and a comprehensive curb management plan to address parking, loading zones, ADA

and waste collection needs.

Critically, the item also requires outreach to businesses,

schools, houses of worship, and residents

as staff develop the detailed engineering design

if this item is approved tonight,

because we want that design to be responsive

to the operational needs of everyone along this corridor.

I also want to note that three years ago,

Fire Department concerns were among the reasons

this project was paused.

At the April meeting of the Facilities,

Infrastructure, Transportation, Environment,

and Sustainability Council Policy Committee,

Fire Chief Sprague's department confirmed

that bike safety infrastructure on Hopkins

retains workable emergency access.

That is a significant development

that made this item possible.

Finally, the pavement condition of Hopkins Street

is unacceptable.

Two segments are rated failed.

eight more are rated poor.

The street has been waiting for repaving for years

and it is critical, I think,

that the council provide direction tonight

so that our public work staff can move forward.

The time to act is now while Hopkins is already scheduled

for repaving in fiscal year 2028.

I look forward to hearing from the public tonight

and I look forward to the discussion with my colleagues.

Before I fully wrap up,

I would like to share screen

and just show a couple of really minor amendments.

Sure, and just so you know,

you're on here twice if you wanna.

Oh, I'm on twice.

If you wanna turn off your video on your computer.

Okay, but I'm gonna need that to share, right?

You don't need to.

We'll see.

Have your video on if you wanna just.

Oh, okay, I see.

So let's just do that.

Okay, well, I like to be.

Just in case, up to you.

Okay, I'm gonna make this bigger.

I think this is the right version.

So, okay, so I understand there was a lot of,

I think, reasonable fear about this bullet

related to removal of trees.

And I just wanna be clear,

I think one of the most beautiful aspects

of Hopkins Street is the tree canopy,

from McGee to the Alameda.

And my co-sponsors, I don't think Council Member O'Keefe,

none of us ever had an intention of destroying that.

And so I was thinking of a different tree,

which is also a problem.

So in any case, we just wanna make this language

better aligned to what our expectation is.

So we're deleting that bullet

and we are suggesting the new language that you see here,

assess street trees along the corridor

with arborist input and determine minimally invasive

appropriate treatments if old street trees

are intruding into the usable street

with impacting storm drainage.

So, we can look at potentially trimming roots

and things like that.

So we just wanna make that clear.

And then in the past, when we have talked about Hopkins,

there has been a placemaking piece.

So we wanna make clear that placemaking can be considered

based on available funds after prioritizing paving

and safety infrastructure, so we've added that.

And then finally, just to be very clear,

we are stating that this referral supersedes

all other prior council action

related to the design of Hopkins Street.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I wanna pass it over to Vice Mayor O'Keefe

to give her presentation next

since your districts are both connected, so.

Thank you, and actually I don't have my screen sharing set up.

Council Member Casaroni, would you mind sharing your screen

with mine on it?

Would you do me that solid?

Thank you.

I can, I'm not gonna talk about the text of it just yet,

but I will get to that.

I just wanna make a brief statement

about where I'm coming from.

Well, I'll start by just summarizing.

My supplemental removes the,

it keeps almost all the elements in place,

that it removes the class for protected bike lane.

That's the primary change.

My reason for this is I do not believe

separated bike lane is necessary here.

There are other options for bicycle safety

and providing access for that area

that may not be as appealing.

We grant that as the protected bike lane for cyclists,

but given the trade-offs required,

it's more appropriate to have

different kinds of bike infrastructure.

I'm primarily concerned about the loss of parking spaces

required by their proposal,

namely 100% of the parking between McGee

and Peralta slash Eloni Greenway.

That's the projection.

And we'll hear from staff about that

to be able to comment on that more.

But that's the current projection.

And also approximately one third of the parking

east of McGee.

So that would be,

I think it would be the north side of Hopkins

would lose all of its parking as well.

I believe that this loss of parking

would have a severe detrimental impact to the merchants

as well as to the people who use cars, or many,

and who rely on this area, not just for shopping,

but also for exercise at the track and the pool

and the creation.

Many of the people who use these facilities

are older people, disabled people,

and people with small children.

and I have to speak up for those people

and I have to protect their access to these facilities.

My, nope.

I'd like to continue.

I appreciate it, but if we could hold that right now,

I do appreciate it, but it's better if we can,

if we could all just say our pieces,

I think that would be wonderful,

and then we're looking forward to hearing from everybody.

So my supplemental does keep the paving

and pedestrian improvements.

Paving is obviously necessary,

and I think that was very well laid out

by Council Member Kesser-Wani, so I won't repeat that.

I agree with that.

I want the street to be paved.

I want the pedestrian improvements.

It is a dangerous corridor for pedestrians.

Both of these are needed.

And so we keep that and we just make the major change

of changing the bicycle infrastructure so that the parking,

with the goal of the parking loss being minimized.

So just to get into some details,

thank you very much for sharing the screen.

So you can see this change here,

it just takes out the class four bike lane

it just says refer to pave the street.

And then as we go down, can you go down?

Thanks, appreciate it.

These changes just once again, they're enacting that.

And I do wanna read this paragraph here.

From McGee to San Pablo, so that's where the,

that's starting where the street narrows.

If you're heading west on the street, it narrows at McGee.

And so starting at that portion all the way down to,

to stanage, oh I'm sorry, this is just adjusting

her language.

Right, okay, so incorporate class three

bicycle infrastructure, which is a sharrow,

which I know is not very popular,

but that is the only real way to incorporate

bicycle infrastructure without losing parking.

However, I did include this language

that I wanted to provide flexibility.

So it says, and or alternative bicycle safety improvements

staff recommends that do not require

the removal of parking spaces.

There have been some designs floating around

by, not by city staff, but by other people

who have training in engineering,

where actually it's possible we could widen the street

or we can do different things.

And I really wanted to provide staff

with the flexibility to be more creative,

because I understand that sharrows are not popular.

And if we could do something better than that

without losing parking, I would be okay with that.

So we included that language to provide that flexibility.

And then if you could scroll down a bit more.

Thank you.

This is just, I don't think the bus boarding items

are necessary without the class four bike lane,

so I removed that.

And then if you scroll down just more,

there's two more things that I want to highlight.

Thank you.

I wanted to also pair this with a referral

to actually implement Rose Street as a bicycle boulevard.

It is marked as a bicycle boulevard on the bicycle plan.

It is not one right now.

but it's just a regular street if you drive it.

There's no bicycle Boulevard infrastructure on it.

But I do agree that we should have better bicycle access

to this area.

And I think we already have a plan in place to do that.

And so I would like to move forward with that.

Bicycle boulevards are a really under utilized way

of getting safe bicycle infrastructure.

We have a lot of streets in Berkeley.

A lot of them don't need high traffic

And we can take streets, and we can make them

into practically their own bike lane by just limiting traffic.

And you can limit traffic by putting up

very cheap, relatively concrete barriers and roundabouts.

There's a lot of relatively inexpensive interventions

that you can make on existing streets,

parallel to busy streets, that is such a better policy

that I want to pursue that instead of this.

So that's my proposal for addressing what I know

is not a satisfactory bike infrastructure for Benny.

So I think we should pursue a bicycle boulevard along rows,

which is once again already in the bike plan.

And then lastly, this is important,

I want everybody to understand this language

because I would hope that all of us

would be willing to incorporate this language

in our proposals.

We all saw the cost estimates which are huge

as much as $20 million, perhaps, for this project.

And our FF budget is only $15 million.

So when I saw that, I got very concerned that this project,

no matter what the outcome of this meeting tonight,

I got very concerned that it wouldn't be possible

to implement it at all because it's just too big.

So I wanted to add this language

that would give city staff the option

to break it up into pieces

and maybe do some of it one year and some of it another year.

Because the most important thing to me

is that the dang street gets paved.

It has been languishing for too long.

We have to, if we don't manage to pave the street

in the next five years, we have absolutely failed you all.

So I put in this language to maximize the chances

of actually getting done.

And I think that's it.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for your help.

Council Member Buenaventura.

I'm going to pass it over to councilmember Taplan to present his supplemental and then

we will go online to allow councilmember Blackaby to present.

Oh no, you can stop sharing.

Thank you Madam Mayor and good evening everybody.

I would like to thank my co-sponsor councilor Luna Pada as well as councilmember Casarrwani

and her co-sponsors Mayor Ishii and councilmember Humbert.

As I poured over the torrent of emails we received urging the repaving of popkins with

pedestrian bicycle and transit improvements. I was especially moved by

the testimony of West Berkeley families detailing the dangerous conditions they

risk on their commute to Ruth Actie Elementary, King Middle School, North

Branch Library and King Pool and shops on Hopkins. Given the collaborative effort

between the City of Berkeley and the Alameda County Transportation Commission

to add bicycle boulevard treatments on Standge Avenue as part of the St. Pablo

Corridor parallel bike improvements project, I am proposing that we extend

the one-way protected bike lanes from Peralta Avenue at the Elan Greenway to

to the city of Milwaukee.

The city of Milwaukee was

established by the city of

Milwaukee and the city of

Milwaukee.

The city of Milwaukee was

established by the city of

Milwaukee and the city of

Milwaukee.