* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. . [00:00:01] THANK YOU. HELLO, [1. Present walkability video, project status update, and conduct live polling exercise to receive feedback on Addison's vision story.] GOOD EVENING. I'M LESLIE N I'M THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING AS WE TALK ABOUT OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, ADVANCED ADDISON 2050. UM, WE ALSO HAVE THE PROJECT, UM, MANAGER. I THINK SHE'S AT THE SIGN IN TABLE, JADE BRONA AS WELL. SO, UM, YOU'VE PROBABLY, UM, IF YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH, THROUGH THIS PROCESS WITH US, UH, YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN HER AROUND AS WELL. WE ALSO HAVE OUR CONSULTANT WHO'S GONNA BE, UM, PRESENTING, UH, FOR US TONIGHT, AND THEN WE HAVE SOME INPUT ACTIVITIES FOR YOU AS WELL. SO I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO, UH, OUR CONSULTANT, KEVIN, THANK YOU, GOLF CLUB. GOOD EVENING, Y'ALL. I SEE, UH, SOME FAMILIAR FACES. I SEE A FEW NEW FACES. UM, WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO BACK THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS THAT WE'VE AGAIN, UH, GONE THROUGH, BUT I WILL START OUT WITH A RECAP. UM, MY NAME'S KEVIN SHEPHERD WITH VERITY. WE'RE THE PRIME CONSULTANT ON THIS PROJECT. UM, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS WHEN IT'S DONE, IS GOING TO BE A ROADMAP TO GUIDE FUTURE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN ADDISON. UM, AND IF YOU THINK BACK, OR IF YOU LOOK BACK AT PREVIOUS PLANS, ADDISON WAS MORE ABOUT GROWING AND, AND BUILDING THE COMMUNITY OUT. AND THE NEXT 20, 30, 40 YEARS IN ADDISON IS GONNA BE ABOUT, BE ABOUT REDEVELOPMENT, PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN PLACES, INCREMENTAL ENHA, ENHANCEMENT OF SOME DIFFERENT PLACES. UM, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, PROBABLY AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, THIS WHOLE PROCESS IS THINKING ABOUT THE COMMUNITIES OF THE FUTURE AND WHAT'S GONNA BE IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE OF ALL DIFFERENT AGES AND STAGES OF LIFE TO, TO LIVE IN AND GETTING AROUND WHAT THINGS COST TO DO, WHETHER IT'S WHERE YOU'RE LIVING OR HOW YOU'RE MOVING ABOUT IN A CAR OR VIA TRANSIT OR WHAT HAVE YOU. ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE EVERYWHERE. AND SO HOW CAN WE THINK ABOUT, UM, HOW CAN WE THINK ABOUT MAKING, YOU KNOW, KEEPING ADDISON, UM, YOU KNOW, SEMI AFFORDABLE, BUT STILL NOT COMPROMISING THAT QUALITY OF LIFE, UH, AND ENVIRONMENT THAT YOU ALL ARE, ARE BLESSED TO HAVE HERE, HERE IN ADDISON? SO, UM, TIMELINE WISE, UH, WE ARE RIGHT SMACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE, THE PROJECT. WE'RE AT THE TAIL END OF, OF PHASE FOUR, WHICH IS WHERE WE'RE STARTING TO EXPLORE ALL OF THE, THE STRATEGIES. SO WE'VE DONE VARIOUS ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS, IT'S BEEN SURVEYS, BOOTS ON THE GROUND, UH, POPUPS AT DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND TOWN. WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS LIKE THIS. UM, WE'VE HAD, UH, SEVEN OR EIGHT MEETINGS NOW WITH OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, OUR CPA GROUP. UM, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ON CPA, CAN YOU RAISE YOUR HAND FOR ME? OKAY. SO WE GOT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 OF Y'ALL HERE. THEY'VE, UH, THEY'VE BEEN ON QUITE THE JOURNEY WITH US, UH, LEARNING ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT ADDISON OF THE PAST AND, AND A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT WHERE, UM, WHERE ADDISON NEEDS TO GO IN THE FUTURE. SO IT'S BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH THEM. UH, WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS WITH, WITH PLAIN ZONING AND, AND COUNCIL AS WELL. UH, WE HAVE ANOTHER BIG JOINT WORKSHOP WITH THEM NEXT MONTH, UH, JULY 11TH, I BELIEVE, UM, WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE KIND OF RECAPPING EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE HEARD TO DATE, UM, AND GETTING, UM, KIND OF CALIBRATING A FEW OF, OF OUR STRATEGIES, WHICH I'LL, I'LL TALK ABOUT HERE, UH, IN A MINUTE. UM, BUT THE, THE POINT OF, OF TONIGHT IS TO TALK ABOUT, UM, THE VISION OF A WALKABLE CITY. UM, THREE MAIN THINGS WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. FIRST IS, WHAT IS A WALKABLE CITY? WHAT DOES A WALKABLE AND CONNECTED COMMUNITY LOOK LIKE? UH, WE'VE GOT ABOUT A 15 MINUTE MINUTE VIDEO, UH, FROM JEFF SPAC. HE'S A, AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN CONSULTANT AT THIS POINT. HE'S AUTHORED A COUPLE OF BOOKS, UM, IN THE PLANNING FIELD. HE'S KNOWN AS ONE OF THE, THE PREMIER EXPERTS ON WALKABLE CITIES AND, AND WALKABILITY. UM, SO THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER VIDEOS AND MATERIALS OF HIS THAT YOU COULD LOOK INTO. BUT THIS VIDEO WE PICKED IS A, A PRETTY GOOD KIND OF RECAP OR A, A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE, BASICALLY FOUR DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF, OF A WALKABLE CITY AND A, UM, SO WE'RE GONNA SHOW THAT VIDEO TO Y'ALL FIRST, UH, TO HELP YOU KIND OF EXPLAIN WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A WALKABLE AND CONNECTED PLACE. THE SECOND THING WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IS WHY DOES WALKABILITY MATTER TO ADDISON? UM, WE'VE, WE'VE BUILT, AND, AND YOU'LL SEE THE, THE VISION STORY, UM, HERE IN A BIT AS WELL. UM, THROUGH THE INPUT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED, WE'VE BUILT AND CONSTRUCTED A, A VISION STORY THAT, IF I HAD TO SUM IT UP IN A FEW WORDS, IT'S A WALKABLE AND CONNECTED COMMUNITY. THAT'S THE VISION FOR, FOR ADDISON. THERE. WE'VE GOTTEN INTO SOME DETAILS ABOUT WHAT DOES CONNECTED MEAN, CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITIES AROUND YOU. YOU'VE GOT ALL KINDS OF, OF ACCESS TO DIFFERENT MAJOR ROADWAYS AROUND YOU. YOU'VE GOT THE DARK CONNECTION, BUT INSIDE ADDISON ITSELF, YOU ALSO HAVE A LOT OF CONNECTIVITY WITHIN THE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, WITHIN THE PEOPLE, UM, OF ADDISON. BUT THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO, TO DO MORE. UM, ADDISON IS ONE OF THOSE FEW PLACES IN NORTH TEXAS, REALLY ALL OF TEXAS THAT HAS POTENTIAL [00:05:01] TO BE A TRULY WALKABLE PLACE WHERE IF YOU CHOSE TO MOVE AROUND AND DO EVERYTHING, LIVE, WORK, PLAY, RECREATE, WHATEVER, IF YOU CHOSE TO DO IT WITHOUT A CAR, YOU COULD, UM, MOST CITIES IN NORTH TEXAS, MOST CITIES IN TEXAS CANNOT SAY THAT. MOST CITIES IN THE US UM, CAN'T SAY THAT. THE FEW THAT CAN TEND TO BE BIGGER, MORE LARGER METRO CITIES. UM, AND SO ADDISON HAS THIS REALLY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO, BECAUSE OF THE TRAIN STATION, BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT YOU HAVE, BECAUSE OF PLACES LIKE ADDISON CIRCLE, AND HERE WHERE WE ARE TONIGHT, YOU'RE CLOSER TO BEING A TRULY WALKABLE COMMUNITY THAN THAN MOST PLACES, UM, REALLY COULD EVER BE, UM, IN NORTH TEXAS, BECAUSE THEY'VE BUILT OUT SO MUCH OF A, OF A SUBURBAN STYLE, UH, FOOTPRINT. SO, UM, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT VISION HERE, UH, IN A SECOND. UM, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, WHY THAT MATTERS TO ADDISON, BUT I, I WANT KIND OF TO GET A BASELINE FOR ALL OF YOU HERE TONIGHT AND ANYBODY WATCHING OF, WHEN WE SAY WALKABLE CITY AND WE TALK ABOUT WALKABILITY, WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE RECREATIONAL WALK AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. WE'RE, WE'RE WALKING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMFORTABLE, ACCESSIBLE, WALKS TO MEANINGFUL PLACES THAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY FEEL COMFORTABLE AND WANT TO DO WITHOUT YOUR CAR. UM, AND AGAIN, JEFF'S GONNA EXPAND ON THAT. AND THEN THE LAST PART IS REALLY WHAT THIS WHOLE PLAN IS ABOUT. IT IS TALKING ABOUT SETTING THAT VISION, BUT IT'S TALKING ABOUT HOW ARE WE ACTUALLY GOING TO ACCOMPLISH IT. AND THAT'S THE EXERCISES THAT WE HAVE HERE FOR, TO TONIGHT. I'M GONNA GO THROUGH EACH OF 'EM, BUT THERE'S 1, 2, 3, AND THEN FOUR IN THE BACK, UH, OR IN THAT, THE OUTSIDE THAT WE'RE GONNA ASK Y'ALL TO DO. I KNOW SEVERAL OF YOU WERE ALREADY KIND OF GETTING A SNEAK PEEK AT 'EM AND, AND SKIMMING, UH, WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON, BUT I'M GONNA EXPLAIN THOSE A LITTLE BIT, UM, AS WELL. SO, TO START US OFF, I DON'T HAVE THE MOUSE, SO YOU HAVE IT. SO ENJOY YOUR POPCORN. 15 MINUTES, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM JEFF SPECK ABOUT ELEMENTS OF A WALKABLE CITY. SO I'M HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE WALKABLE CITY. UM, WHAT IS THE WALKABLE CITY? WELL, FOR WANT OF A BETTER DEFINITION, IT'S A CITY IN WHICH THE CAR IS, UH, A OPTIONAL INSTRUMENT OF FREEDOM RATHER THAN A PROSTHETIC DEVICE. AND I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT WHY WE NEED THE WALKABLE CITY, AND I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT HOW TO DO THE WALKABLE CITY. MOST OF THE TALKS I GIVE THESE DAYS ARE ABOUT WHY WE NEED IT. UM, BUT YOU GUYS ARE SMART , AND ALSO I GAVE THAT TALK EXACTLY A MONTH AGO, AND YOU CAN SEE IT@TED.COM. SO TODAY I WANNA TALK ABOUT HOW TO DO IT. IN A LOT OF TIME THINKING ABOUT THIS, I'VE COME UP WITH WHAT I CALL THE GENERAL THEORY OF WALKABILITY, A BIT OF A PRETENTIOUS TERM. IT'S A LITTLE TONGUE IN CHEEK, BUT IT'S SOMETHING I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT FOR A LONG TIME. AND, UM, I LIKE TO SHARE WHAT I THINK I'VE FIGURED OUT IN THE AMERICAN CITY, THE TYPICAL AMERICAN CITY AND THE TYPICAL AMERICAN CITY IS NOT WASHINGTON DC OR NEW YORK OR SAN FRANCISCO. IT'S GRAND RAPIDS OR CEDAR RAPIDS OR MEMPHIS. BUT IN THE TYPICAL AMERICAN CITY IN WHICH MOST PEOPLE OWN CARS, AND THE TEMPTATION IS TO DRIVE THEM ALL THE TIME, IF YOU'RE GONNA GET THEM TO WALK, THEN YOU HAVE TO OFFER A WALK THAT'S AS GOOD AS A DRIVE OR BETTER. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS THAT YOU NEED TO OFFER FOUR THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY. THERE NEEDS TO BE A PROPER REASON TO WALK. THE WALK HAS TO BE SAFE AND FEEL SAFE. THE WALK HAS TO BE COMFORTABLE, AND THE WALK HAS TO BE INTERESTING. YOU NEED TO DO ALL FOUR OF THESE THINGS SIMULTANEOUSLY. AND THAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF MY TALK TODAY, TO TAKE YOU THROUGH EACH OF THOSE. THE REASON TO WALK IS A STORY I LEARNED FROM MY MENTORS, ANDRE SWANNI AND ELIZABETH PLA BERG, THE FOUNDERS OF THE NEW URBANISM MOVEMENT. AND I'M, I SHOULD SAY HALF THE SLIDES AND HALF OF MY TALK TODAY, I LEARNED FROM THEM. UH, IT'S THE STORY OF PLANNING, THE STORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE PLANNING PROFESSION WHEN, UH, IN THE, IN THE 19TH CENTURY, PEOPLE WERE, UM, CHOKING FROM THE SOOT OF THE DARK SATANIC MILLS, AND THE PLANTERS SAID, HEY, LET'S MOVE THE HOUSING AWAY FROM THE MILLS. AND LIFESPANS INCREASED IMMEDIATELY DRAMATICALLY. AND WE LIKE TO SAY THE PLANNERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REPEAT THAT EXPERIENCE EVER SINCE. SO THERE'S THE ONSET OF WHAT WE CALL EUCLIDEAN ZONING, THE SEPARATION OF THE LANDSCAPE INTO LARGE AREAS OF SINGLE USE. AND TYPICALLY, WHEN I ARRIVE IN A CITY TO DO A PLAN, UH, A PLAN LIKE THIS ALREADY AWAITS ME ON THE PROPERTY THAT I'M LOOKING AT. AND ALL A PLAN LIKE THIS GUARANTEES IS THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE A WALKABLE CITY BECAUSE NOTHING IS LOCATED NEAR ANYTHING ELSE. THE ALTERNATIVE, OF COURSE, IS OUR MOST WALKABLE CITY. AND I LIKE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A ROTHKO, AND THIS IS A SYRAH. IT'S JUST A DIFFERENT WAY. HE WAS THE POINT LIST, RIGHT? IT'S A DIFFERENT WAY OF MAKING PLACES. AND EVEN THIS MAP OF MANHATTAN IS A BIT MISLEADING BECAUSE THE RED COLOR IS USES THAT ARE MIXED VERTICALLY. [00:10:01] SO THIS IS THE BIG STORY OF THE NEW URBANISTS, IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO WAYS, TWO WAYS THAT HAVE BEEN TESTED BY THE THOUSANDS TO BUILD COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY. ONE IS THE TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU SEE HERE, SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOODS OF NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, UM, WHICH IS DEFINED AS BEING COMPACT AND BEING DIVERSE. PLACES TO LIVE, WORK, SHOP, RECREATE, GET EDUCATED ALL WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE. UM, AND IT'S DEFINED AS BEING WALKABLE. THERE ARE LOTS OF SMALL STREETS, EACH ONE IS COMFORTABLE TO WALK ON. AND WE CONTRAST THAT TO THE OTHER WAY, UH, AN INVENTION THAT HAPPENED AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, SUBURBAN SPRAWL, CLEARLY NOT COMPACT, UH, CLEARLY NOT DIVERSE, AND IT'S NOT WALKABLE BECAUSE SO FEW OF THE STREETS CONNECT THAT THOSE STREETS THAT DO CONNECT BECOME OVERBURDENED AND YOU WOULDN'T LET YOUR KID OUT ON THEM. AND I WANNA THANK, UH, ALEX MCLEAN, THE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHER FOR MANY OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES THAT I'M SHOWING YOU TODAY. SO IT'S FUN TO BREAK SPRAWL DOWN INTO ITS CONSTITUENTS PARTS. IT'S SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND THE PLACES WHERE YOU ONLY LIVE, THE PLACES WHERE YOU ONLY WORK, THE PLACES WHERE YOU ONLY SHOP. AND OUR SUPERSIZED PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, SCHOOLS GET BIGGER AND BIGGER AND THEREFORE FURTHER AND FURTHER FROM EACH OTHER. AND THE RATIO OF THE SIZE OF THE PARKING LOT OF THIS SCHOOL TO THE SIZE OF THE SCHOOL TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS SCHOOL, WHICH IS THAT NO CHILD HAS EVER WALKED TO THE SCHOOL. NO CHILD WILL EVER WALK TO THE SCHOOL. THE THE SENIORS AND JUNIORS ARE DRIVING THE FRESHMEN AND THE SOPHOMORES, AND OF COURSE WE HAVE THE CRASH STATISTICS TO PROVE IT. AND THEN THE SUPERSIZING OF OUR OTHER CIVIC INSTITUTIONS LIKE PLAYING FIELDS. AND IT'S WONDERFUL THAT, YOU KNOW, WESTIN IN, UH, FORT LAU IN THE FORT LAUDERDALE AREA HAS EIGHT SOCCER FIELDS AND EIGHT BASEBALL DIAMONDS, AND, YOU KNOW, 20 TENNIS COURTS. BUT LOOK AT THE ROAD THAT TAKES YOU TO THAT LOCATION, AND WOULD YOU LET YOUR CHILD BIKE ON IT? AND THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THE SOCCER MOM. NOW, WHEN I WAS YOUNG, I HAD ONE SOCCER FIELD AND ONE BASEBALL DIAMOND, AND ONE TENNIS COURT, BUT I COULD WALK TO IT BECAUSE IT WAS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. AND THEN THE FINAL PART OF SPRAWL THAT EVERYONE FORGOT TO COUNT, WHICH IS IF YOU'RE GONNA SEPARATE EVERYTHING FROM EVERYTHING ELSE AND RECONNECT, AND ONLY WITH AUTOMOTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE, THEN THIS IS WHAT YOUR LANDSCAPE BEGINS TO, TO LOOK LIKE. SO THE MAIN MESSAGE HERE IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A WALKABLE CITY, YOU CAN'T START WITH THE SPRAWL MODEL. YOU NEED THE BONES OF AN URBAN MODEL. YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE OUTCOME OF THAT FORM OF DESIGN, UH, AS IS THIS, UH, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF AMERICANS WANT, BUT WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IT'S A TWO PART AMERICAN DREAM. IF YOU'RE DREAMING FOR THIS, THEN YOU'RE ALSO GONNA BE DREAMING OF THIS OFTEN TO ABSURD EXTREMES WHEN WE BUILD OUR LANDSCAPE TO ACCOMMODATE CARS FIRST AND THEN THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING IN THESE PLACES. THIS IS NOT PHOTOSHOP. WALTER KULASH TOOK THIS SLIDE. IT'S A, IT'S IN PANAMA CITY. THIS IS, THIS IS A REAL PLACE. AND BEING A DRIVER CAN BE A BIT OF A NUISANCE. AND BEING A PEDESTRIAN CAN BE A BIT OF A NUISANCE IN THESE PLACES. UH, THIS IS A SLIDE THAT EPIDEMIOLOGISTS HAVE BEEN SHOWING FOR SOME TIME NOW. AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A SOCIETY WHERE YOU DRIVE TO THE PARKING LOT TO TAKE THE ESCALATOR TO THE TREADMILL SHOWS THAT WE'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG, BUT WE KNOW HOW TO DO IT BETTER. SO HERE, THE TWO MODELS CONTRASTED, AND I SHOW THIS SLIDE, WHICH HAS BEEN A FORMATIVE DOCUMENT OF THE NEW URBANISM NOW FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS, TO SHOW THAT THAT SPRAWL AND THE TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD CONTAIN THE SAME THINGS. IT'S JUST HOW BIG ARE THEY AND HOW CLOSE ARE THEY TO EACH OTHER, AND HOW ARE THEY INTERSPERSED TOGETHER? AND DO YOU HAVE A STREET NETWORK RATHER THAN A CUL-DE-SAC, UH, COLLECTOR SYSTEM OF STREETS? SO WHEN WE LOOK AT A DOWNTOWN AREA, AT A PLACE THAT HAS A HOPE OF BEING WALKABLE, AND MOSTLY THAT'S OUR DOWNTOWNS IN AMERICA'S CITIES AND NEIGHBOR AND TOWNS AND VILLAGES, WE LOOK AT THEM AND WE SAY, WE WANT THE PROPER BALANCE OF USES. SO WHAT IS MISSING OR UNDERREPRESENTED? AND AGAIN, IN THE TYPICAL AMERICAN CITIES IN WHICH MOST AMERICANS LIVE, IT IS HOUSING THAT IS LACKING. THE JOBS TO HOUSING BALANCE IS OFF. AND YOU FIND THAT WHEN YOU BRING HOUSING BACK, THESE OTHER THINGS START TO COME BACK TOO. AND HOUSING IS USUALLY FIRST AMONG THOSE THINGS. AND OF COURSE, FINALLY, THE THING THAT SHOWS UP LAST AND EVENTUALLY IS THE SCHOOLS. BECAUSE, UH, THE PEOPLE HAVE TO MOVE IN THE YOUNG, UM, YOU KNOW, PIONEERS HAVE TO MOVE IN, GET OLDER, HAVE KIDS AND FIGHT, AND THEN THE SCHOOLS GET PRETTY GOOD EVENTUALLY. THE OTHER PART OF THIS, OF THIS PART, THE USE, THE USEFUL CITY PART IS TRANSIT. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE A PERFECTLY WALKABLE NEIGHBORHOOD WITHOUT IT, BUT PERFECTLY WALKABLE. CITIES REQUIRE TRANSIT, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE WHOLE CITY AS A PEDESTRIAN, THEN YOU GET A CAR. AND IF YOU GET A CAR, THE CITY BEGINS TO RESHAPE ITSELF AROUND YOUR NEEDS, AND THE STREETS GET WIDER AND THE PARKING LOTS GET BIGGER, AND YOU NO LONGER HAVE A WALKABLE CITY. SO TRANSIT IS ESSENTIAL, BUT EVERY TRANSIT EXPERIENCE, EVERY TRANSIT TRIP BEGINS OR ENDS AS A WALK. AND SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER TO BUILD WALKABILITY AROUND OUR TRANSIT STATIONS. NEXT CATEGORY, THE BIGGEST ONE IS THE SAFE WALK. IT'S WHAT MOST WALKABILITY EXPERTS TALK ABOUT. IT IS ESSENTIAL, BUT, UH, ALONE, NOT ENOUGH TO GET PEOPLE TO WALK. AND THERE ARE SO MANY MOVING PARTS THAT ADD UP TO A WALKABLE CITY. THE FIRST IS BLOCK SIZE. THIS IS PORTLAND, OREGON, [00:15:01] FAMOUSLY, 200 FOOT BLOCKS FAMOUSLY WALKABLE. THIS IS SALT LAKE CITY, FAMOUSLY 600 FOOT BLOCKS FAMOUSLY UN WALKABLE. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE TWO, IT'S ALMOST LIKE TWO DIFFERENT PLANETS. BUT THESE PLACES WERE BOTH BUILT BY HUMANS. AND IN, IN FACT, THE, THE STORY IS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A 200 FOOT BLOCK CITY, YOU CAN HAVE A TWO LANE CITY OR A TWO TO FOUR LANE CITY, AND A 600 FOOT BLOCK CITY IS A SIX LANE CITY. AND THAT'S A PROBLEM. THESE ARE THE CRASH STATISTICS. WHEN YOU DOUBLE THE BLOCK SIZE, THIS WAS A STUDY OF 24 CALIFORNIA CITIES. WHEN YOU DOUBLED THE BLOCK SIZE, YOU QUADRUPLE, ALMOST QUADRUPLE THE NUMBER OF FATAL ACCIDENTS ON NON-HIGH STREETS. SO HOW MANY LANES DO WE HAVE? THIS IS WHERE I, I'M GONNA TELL YOU WHAT I TELL EVERY AUDIENCE I MEET, WHICH IS TO REMIND YOU ABOUT INDUCED DEMAND. AND INDUCED DEMAND APPLIES BOTH TO HIGHWAYS AND TO CITY STREETS. AND WHAT INDUCED DEMAND TELLS US IS THAT WHEN WE WIDEN THE STREETS TO ACCEPT THE CONGESTION THAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING, OR THE ADDITIONAL TRIPS THAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING IN CONGESTED SYSTEMS, IT IS PRINCIPALLY THAT CONGESTION THAT IS CONSTRAINING DEMAND. AND SO THAT THE WIDENING COMES, AND THERE ARE ALL THESE LATENT TRIPS THAT ARE READY TO HAPPEN. PEOPLE MOVE FURTHER FROM WORK, AND THEY MAKE OTHER CHOICES ABOUT WHEN THEY COMMUTE. AND THOSE LANES FILL UP VERY QUICKLY WITH TRAFFIC. SO WE WIDEN THE STREET AGAIN, AND THEY FILL UP AGAIN. AND WE'VE LEARNED THAT IN THE CONGESTED SYSTEMS, WE CANNOT SATISFY THE AUTOMOBILE. THIS IS FROM NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE. HARDLY AN ESOTERIC PUBLICATION. TODAY'S ENGINEERS ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BUILDING NEW ROADS USUALLY MAKES TRAFFIC WORSE. AND MY RESPONSE TO READING THIS WAS, MAY I PLEASE MEET SOME OF THESE ENGINEERS? BECAUSE THESE ARE NOT THE ONES THAT I TYPICALLY, THERE ARE GREAT EXCEPTIONS THAT I'M WORKING WITH NOW, BUT THESE ARE NOT THE ENGINEERS THAT ONE TYPICALLY MEETS WORKING IN A CITY WHERE THEY SAY, OH, THAT ROAD IS TOO CROWDED. WE NEED TO ADD A LANE. SO YOU ADD A LANE, AND THE TRAFFIC COMES AND THEY SAY, SEE, I TOLD YOU WE NEEDED THAT LANE. SO THIS APPLIES BOTH TO HIGHWAYS AND TO CITY STREETS OF THEIR CONGESTED. BUT THE AMAZING THING ABOUT MOST AMERICAN CITIES THAT I WORK IN, THE MORE TYPICAL CITIES, IS THEY HAVE A LOT OF STREETS THAT ARE ACTUALLY OVERSIZED FOR THE CONGESTION THEY'RE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING. THIS WAS THE CASE IN OKLAHOMA CITY WHEN THE MAYOR CAME RUNNING TO ME, UH, VERY UPSET BECAUSE THEY WERE NAMED IN PREVENTION MAGAZINE, THE WORST CITY FOR PEDESTRIANS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. NOW, THAT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE TRUE, BUT IT CERTAINLY IS ENOUGH TO MAKE A MAYOR, UH, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. AND WE DID A WALKABILITY STUDY, AND WHAT WE FOUND LOOKING AT THE CAR COUNTS ON THE STREET, THESE ARE 3000, 4,000, 7,000 CAR COUNTS. AND WE KNOW THAT TWO LANES CAN HANDLE 10,000 CARS PER DAY. SO LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS, RIGHT? THEY'RE ALL NEAR OR UNDER 10,000 CARS. AND THESE WERE THE, THESE WERE THE STREETS THAT WERE DESIGNATED IN THE NEW DOWNTOWN PLAN TO BE FOUR LANES TO SIX LANES WIDE. SO YOU HAD A FUNDAMENTAL DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF LANES AND THE NUMBER OF CARS THAT WANTED TO USE THEM. SO IT WAS MY JOB TO REDESIGN EVERY STREET IN THE DOWNTOWN FROM CURB FACE TO CURB FACE. AND WE DID IT FOR 50 BLOCKS OF STREETS, AND WE'RE REBUILDING IT NOW. SO A TYPICAL, YOU KNOW, OVERSIZED STREET TO, TO NOWHERE, UH, IS BEING NARROWED AND NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION. AND THE PROJECT IS HALF DONE. THE TYPICAL STREET LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU DO THAT, YOU FIND ROOM FOR MEDIANS, YOU FIND ROOM FOR BIKE LANES. WE'VE DOUBLED THE AMOUNT OF ON STREETE PARKING. WE'VE ADDED A FULL BIKE NETWORK WHERE ONE DIDN'T EXIST BEFORE. BUT NOT EVERYONE HAS THE MONEY THAT OKLAHOMA CITY HAS 'CAUSE THEY HAVE A EXTRACTION ECONOMY THAT'S DOING QUITE WELL. THE TYPICAL CITY IS MORE LIKE CEDAR RAPIDS, WHERE ALSO THEY HAVE A ALL FOUR LANE SYSTEM, HALF ONE WAY SYSTEM. AND IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO SEE. BUT WHAT WE'VE DONE, WHAT WE'RE DOING, IT'S IN PROCESS RIGHT NOW, IT'S IN ENGINEERING RIGHT NOW, IS TURNING A ALL FOUR LANE SYSTEM, HALF ONE WAY INTO A ALL TWO LANE SYSTEM, ALL TWO-WAY. AND IN SO DOING, WE'RE ADDING 70% MORE ON STREET PARKING, WHICH THE MERCHANTS LOVE, AND IT PROTECTS THE SIDEWALK THAT PARKING MAKES THE SIDEWALK SAFE, AND WE'RE ADDING A MUCH MORE ROBUST BICYCLE NETWORK. THEN THE, THE LANES THEMSELVES, HOW WIDE ARE THEY? THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. THE STANDARDS HAVE CHANGED SUCH THAT, AS ANDRES WANNI SAYS, THE TYPICAL ROAD TO A SUBDIVISION IN AMERICA ALLOWS YOU TO SEE THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH. , THIS IS A SUBDIVISION OUTSIDE OF WASHINGTON FROM THE 1960S, LOOKED VERY CAREFULLY AT THE WIDTH OF THE STREETS. THIS IS A SUBDIVISION FROM THE 1980S, 1960S, 1980S. THE STANDARDS HAVE CHANGED TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD OF SOUTH BEACH, WHEN IT WAS TIME TO FIX THE STREET THAT WASN'T DRAINING PROPERLY, THEY HAD TO WIDEN IT AND TAKE AWAY HALF OUR SIDEWALK BECAUSE THE STANDARDS WERE WIDER, RIGHT? PEOPLE GO FASTER ON WIDER STREETS. PEOPLE KNOW THIS, THE ENGINEERS DENY IT, BUT THE CITIZENS KNOW IT. SO THAT IN BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN, THEY FIGHT FOR, FOR NARROWER STREETS. UH, PORTLAND, OREGON, FAMOUSLY WALKABLE, INSTITUTED ITS SKINNY STREETS PROGRAM IN ITS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. WE KNOW THAT SKINNY STREETS ARE SAFER. THE DEVELOPER, VINCE GRAHAM, UH, IN HIS PROJECT ION, WHICH WE WORKED ON IN SOUTH CAROLINA, HE GOES TO CONFERENCES AND HE SHOWS HIS AMAZING 22 FOOT ROADS. [00:20:01] THESE ARE TWO-WAY ROADS, VERY NARROW RIGHTS OF WAY. AND HE SHOWS THIS WELL-KNOWN PHILOSOPHER WHO SAID, BROAD IS THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION. NARROW IS THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO LIFE, , AND THIS THIS PLAYS VERY WELL IN THE SOUTH. NOW, BICYCLES, BICYCLES AND BICYCLING ARE THE CURRENT REVOLUTION UNDERWAY IN ONLY SOME AMERICAN CITIES, BUT WHERE YOU BUILD IT, THEY COME. AND AS A PLANNER, I HATE TO SAY THAT, BUT THE ONE THING I CAN SAY IS THAT BICYCLE POPULATION IS A FUNCTION OF BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE. I ASKED MY FRIEND TOM BRENNAN FROM NELSON NYGARD IN PORTLAND TO SEND ME SOME PICTURES OF THE PORTLAND BIKE COMMUTE. AND HE SENT ME THIS AND I SAID, WAS THAT BIKE TO WORK DAY? AND HE SAID, NO, THAT WAS TUESDAY. WHEN YOU DO WHAT PORTLAND DID, AND YOU SPEND MONEY ON BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, NEW YORK CITY HAS DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF BIKERS IN IT SEVERAL TIMES NOW, BY PAINTING THESE BRIGHT GREEN LANES, EVEN AUTOMOTIVE CITIES LIKE LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, VAST UPTICK IN THE NUMBER OF BIKERS BASED ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE. AND OF COURSE, WHAT REALLY DOES IT, IF YOU KNOW 15TH STREET HERE IN WASHINGTON, DC PLEASE MEET ROM EMANUEL'S NEW BIKE LANES IN CHICAGO, THE BUFFERED LANE, THE PARALLEL PARKING PULLED OFF THE CURB, THE BIKES BETWEEN THE CARS AND THE, THE PARK CARS AND THE CURB, THESE MINT CYCLISTS. IF, HOWEVER, AS IN PASADENA, EVERY LANE IS A BIKE LANE, THEN NO LANE IS A BIKE LANE. AND THIS IS THE ONLY BICYCLIST THAT I MET IN PASADENA. SO , THE PARALLEL PARKING I MENTIONED, IT'S AN ESSENTIAL BARRIER OF STEEL THAT PROTECTS THE CURB, UH, AND PEDESTRIANS FROM MOVING VEHICLES. UM, THIS IS FORT LAUDERDALE, ONE SIDE OF THE STREET. YOU CAN PARK THE OTHER OF THE STREET SIDE OF THE STREET. YOU CAN'T, THIS IS HAPPY HOUR ON THE PARKING SIDE, THIS IS SAD HOUR ON THE OTHER SIDE. AND THEN THIS, THE TREES THEMSELVES, TREES SLOW CARS DOWN. THEY MOVE SLOWER WHEN TREES ARE NEXT TO THE ROAD. AND OF COURSE, SOMETIMES THEY SLOW DOWN VERY QUICKLY. ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS. THE CURB RETURN RADIUS, IS IT ONE FOOT OR IS IT 40 FEET? HOW SWOOPY IS THAT CURB TO DETERMINE HOW FAST THE CAR GOES AND HOW MUCH ROOM YOU HAVE TO CROSS. AND THEN I LOVE THIS BECAUSE THIS IS OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM. SOME SAY THE ENTRANCE TO CITY CENTER IS NOT INVITING TO PEDESTRIANS WHEN EVERY ASPECT OF THE LANDSCAPE IS SWOOPY, IS AERODYNAMIC, IS STREAM FORM GEOMETRICS. IT SAYS THIS IS A VEHICULAR PLACE. SO NO ONE DETAIL, NO ONE SPECIALTY CAN BE ALLOWED TO SET THE STAGE. AND HERE, YOU KNOW, THIS STREET, YES, IT WILL DRAIN WITHIN A MINUTE OF THE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM, BUT THIS POOR WOMAN HAS TO MOUNT THE CURB EVERY DAY. SO THEN QUICKLY, THE COMFORTABLE WALK HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT ALL ANIMALS SEEK SIMULTANEOUSLY PROSPECT AND REFUGE. WE WANNA BE ABLE TO SEE OUR PREDATORS, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO FEEL THAT OUR FLANKS ARE COVERED. AND SO WE'RE DRAWN TO PLACES THAT HAVE GOOD EDGES. AND IF YOU DON'T SUPPLY THE EDGES, PEOPLE WON'T WANT TO BE THERE. WHAT'S THE PROPER RATIO OF HEIGHT TO WIDTH? IS IT ONE TO ONE? THREE TO ONE? IF YOU GET BEYOND ONE TO SIX, YOU'RE NOT VERY COMFORTABLE ANYMORE. YOU DON'T FEEL ENCLOSED. NOW, SIX TO ONE IN SALZBURG CAN BE PERFECTLY DELIGHTFUL. THE OPPOSITE OF SALZBURG IS HOUSTON, RIGHT? THE POINT BEING THE PARKING LOT IS THE PRINCIPLE, UH, PROBLEM HERE. UH, HOWEVER, MISSING TEETH, THOSE EMPTY LOTS CAN BE ISSUES AS WELL. AND IF YOU HAVE A MISSING CORNER BECAUSE OF AN OUTDATED ZONING CODE, THEN YOU COULD HAVE A MISSING A NOSE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT'S WHAT WE HAD IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. UH, THIS WAS THE ZONING CODE THAT SAID I COULDN'T BUILD ON THAT SITE. AS YOU KNOW, DC IS NOW, OR YOU MAY KNOW, WASHINGTON DC IS NOW CHANGING ITS ZONING TO ALLOW SITES LIKE THIS TO BECOME SITES LIKE THIS. WE NEEDED A LOT OF VARIANCES TO DO THAT. TRIANGULAR HOUSES CAN BE INTERESTING TO BUILD, BUT IF YOU GET ONE BUILT, PEOPLE GENERALLY LIKE IT. SO GOTTA FILL THOSE MISSING NOSES. AND THEN FINALLY, THE INTERESTING WALK SIGNS OF HUMANITY. YOU KNOW, WE ARE AMONG THE SOCIAL PRIMATES. NOTHING INTERESTS US MORE THAN OTHER PEOPLE. UH, WE WANT SIGNS OF PEOPLE. SO THE PERFECT ONE-TO-ONE RATIO, IT'S A GREAT THING. THIS IS GRAND RAPIDS, A VERY WALKABLE CITY, BUT NOBODY WALKS ON THIS STREET THAT CONNECTS THE TWO BEST HOTELS TOGETHER BECAUSE ON THE LEFT, YOU KNOW, IF ON THE LEFT YOU HAVE A EXPOSED PARKING DECK, AND ON THE RIGHT YOU HAVE A CONFERENCE FACILITY THAT WAS APPARENTLY DESIGNED IN ADMIRATION FOR THAT PARKING DECK, THEN YOU DON'T ATTRACT THAT MANY PEOPLE. UH, MAYOR JOE RILEY IN HIS 10TH TERM MAYOR OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, TAUGHT US IT ONLY TAKES 25 FEET OF BUILDING TO HIDE 250 FEET OF GARAGE. THIS ONE I CALL THE CHIA PET GARAGE. IT'S IN SOUTH BEACH, THAT ACTIVE GROUND FLOOR. AND THEN THIS IS, I WANT TO END WITH THIS PROJECT THAT I LOVE TO SHOW. IT'S BY MALKA ARCHITECTS. IT'S IN COLUMBUS, OHIO. TO THE LEFT IS THE CONVENTION CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD FULL OF PEDESTRIANS. TO THE RIGHT IS THE SHORT NORTH NEIGHBORHOOD, ETHNIC GREAT RESTAURANTS, GREAT SHOPS STRUGGLING. AND IT WASN'T DOING VERY WELL BECAUSE THIS WAS THE BRIDGE AND NO ONE WAS WALKING FROM THE CONVENTION CENTER INTO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. WELL, WHEN THEY REBUILT THE HIGHWAY, THEY ADDED AN EXTRA 80 FEET TO THE BRIDGE. SORRY, THEY REBUILT THE BRIDGE OVER THE HIGHWAY. THE CITY PAID $1.9 MILLION. THEY GAVE THE SITE TO THE DEVELOP TO A [00:25:01] DEVELOPER. THE DEVELOPER BUILT THIS. AND NOW THE SHORT NORTH HAS COME BACK TO LIFE. AND EVERYONE SAYS THE NEWSPAPERS NOT THE PLANNING MAGAZINES, THE NEWSPAPERS SAY IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT BRIDGE. SO THAT'S IT, THAT'S THE GENERAL THEORY OF WALKABILITY. UH, THINK ABOUT YOUR OWN CITIES, THINK ABOUT HOW YOU CAN APPLY IT. YOU'VE GOTTA DO ALL FOUR THINGS AT ONCE. SO FIND THOSE PLACES WHERE YOU HAVE MOST OF THEM AND FIX WHAT YOU CAN, UH, FIX WHAT STILL NEEDS FIXING IN THOSE PLACES. UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENTION AND, UH, THANK, THANK YOU FOR, FOR COMING TODAY. OKAY, SO TO RECAP THERE, HE, HE TALKS ABOUT FOUR ELEMENTS, UH, OF, OF A WALK. IT NEEDS TO BE USEFUL, IT NEEDS TO BE SAFE, IT NEEDS TO BE COMFORTABLE. COMFORTABLE IS A REALLY BIG ONE HERE IN TEXAS. COMFORTABLE MEANS NOT 180 MILLION DEGREES. UM, AND THEN INTERESTING, RIGHT? UM, A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE SHOW THAT VIDEO, UM, HOW MANY OF YOU, AS YOU WATCH THAT YOU, YOU THOUGHT ABOUT MAYBE PARTS OF ADDISON THAT COULD BE A LITTLE MORE WALKABLE? RAISE, RAISE YOUR HAND FOR ME. OKAY. UM, DOES THAT, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT WALKABILITY IN THAT WAY, DOES THAT, DOES THAT FEEL LIKE SOMETHING TO, TO YOU ALL THAT, THAT ADDISON IS DOING FAIRLY WELL AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM DO, DO MORE OF JUST KIND OF GIVE ME A, GIMME A RAISE YOUR HANDS IF, IF YOU, IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU LIKE THAT, THAT KIND OF DIRECTION OF A WALKABLE OF A WALKABLE COMMUNITY. SOME PLACES YES, SOME PLACES KNOW SOME PLACES, YES, SOME PLACES, NO. GREAT FEEDBACK. SO, AND AT THE VERY END OF THIS, YOU PROBABLY HEARD JEFF SAY, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT PLACES AND, AND START WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, AND THEN LOOK FOR PLACES THAT MAYBE HAVE THREE OUTTA THE FOUR, AND HOW CAN YOU MAKE 'EM A LITTLE BIT BETTER, OR TWO OUT OF THE FOUR. UM, WHAT, WHAT HAS BEEN SO INTERESTING TO OUR TEAM FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS PROJECT, EVEN, UM, THOSE OF US, YOU KNOW, I'VE, I'VE KNOWN AND, AND BEEN A PART OF ADDISON ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE, THE EARLY NINETIES WHEN I GOT OUTTA SCHOOL, WHEN I USED TO COME HERE AS A YOUNG GRADUATE AND SPEND A LOT OF MONEY IN ADDISON. UM, BUT, BUT I'VE SEEN PLACES LIKE THIS EVOLVE AND I'VE BROUGHT MY FAMILY TO KABOOM TOWN BEFORE. AND, UM, ADDISON, LIKE I SAID AT THE, THE START OF THIS IS A VERY UNIQUE COMMUNITY IN, UM, IN NORTH TEXAS. AND WHEN YOU TALK, WHEN YOU LAYER THIS IN, I, I DON'T HAVE TIME TONIGHT TO GO INTO SOME OF THE DATA AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS, BUT I'LL JUST SAY MORE, MORE A BROADER SPECTRUM OF DEMOGRAPHICS. WHETHER THAT'S OLDER FOLKS, UM, THAT ARE LOOKING TO AGE IN PLACE AND NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET AROUND WITHOUT A CAR MORE, UM, WHETHER THAT'S WALKING OR TRANSIT. UM, IF IT'S YOUNG PROFESSIONALS COMING OUTTA SCHOOL, THEY WANT MORE WALKABLE PLACES. THERE'S A GROWING GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING FOR WALKABLE, WHAT WE'LL CALL COMPLETE NEIGHBORHOODS. UM, THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WANT THE SINGLE FAMILY TYPE OF, OF PLACES. THERE'S A LOT OF THAT IN NORTH TEXAS, AND THERE'S POCKETS OF IT HERE IN ADDISON THAT AREN'T GONNA CHANGE. THOSE ARE GONNA STAY THE WAY THE, THE WAY THAT THEY ARE. BUT ADDISON HAS, HAS GOTTEN TO A PLACE WITH LAND VALUES, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN THAT YOU HAVE, THAT IT IS MORE OF AN URBAN TYPE OF COMMUNITY. IT'S VERY, VERY WELL DESIGNED. THERE'S VERY HIGH QUALITY. AND SO THE OPPORTUNITY GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE HEARD, BOTH FROM THE DATA SIDE OF THE ANALYSIS OF DOING THE SURVEYS AND LOOKING AT JUST DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND THE AGE OF ADDISON AND WHO'S GONNA BE COMING HERE IN THE FUTURE FROM INTERVIEWS WITH DEVELOPERS, WITH DIFFERENT FOLKS AND RESIDENTS, UM, THERE IS GOING TO BE AN INCREASING INTEREST IN WALKABLE PLACES GOING FORWARD. ADDISON, IF YOU LOOK AT COMPETITIVENESS IN NORTH TEXAS, YOU'RE WELL AHEAD OF A LOT OF YOUR SURROUNDING PEERS IN THAT REGARD. AND YOU HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. YOU, YOU ARE WALKABLE, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE SOME OF THE BIGGER PROBLEMS THAT COME WITH THE, THE DALLASES OF THE WORLD THAT YOU CAN MAKE THE CLAIM THAT DALLAS IS WALKABLE TO, OR PARTS OF IT ARE. BUT THERE'S, THERE'S MORE OF THE BIG CITY STUFF THAT COMES WITH IT. SO THIS, UM, THERE'S A LONGER VERSION OF THIS THAT WE PUT PUT OUT, BUT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE CALLING THE VISION STATEMENT. AND, AND I'M GONNA READ THIS FOR YOU ALL, AND THEN I'M GONNA ASK Y'ALL TO DO A QUICK EXERCISE FOR US. IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND GRAB YOUR CELL PHONES, IF YOU HAVE THEM. THERE'S A REAL QUICK EXERCISE. I'M BASICALLY GONNA ASK YOU TO GIVE US, UH, ON THE SCALE OF ONE TO FIVE, HOW, HOW STRONGLY YOU FEEL, UM, THIS STATEMENT RESONATES FOR YOU FOR THE FUTURE OF ADDISON. UM, ADDISON IS AN URBAN TOWN IN THE HEART OF THE DFW METROPLEX. WE ARE THE PACESETTER FOR WALKABLE MIXED USE COMMUNITIES IN TEXAS AND BEYOND CREATING A TOWN WHICH IS FULLY CONNECTED TO ITSELF AND THE REGION, WE SET THE STANDARD BY PRIORITIZING MULTIMODAL MOBILITY OPTIONS FOR MOVING IN AND AROUND ADDISON, INCLUDING WALKING, BIKING, AND INTERNAL PUBLIC TRANSIT OPTIONS. CREATING A PEOPLE FIRST DESIGN TO FOSTER A DIVERSE AND THRIVING COMMUNITY [00:30:01] AND LOCAL ECONOMY IN A SAFE, VIBRANT, AND CONNECTED ENVIRONMENT. THAT'S A LOT OF WORDS. KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF OPINIONS AND A LOT OF TIME PUT INTO CRAFTING THOSE WORDS. UH, BUT WHAT YOU'LL SEE AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS IS A DOCUMENT THAT TIES BACK TO THIS. SO WHEN WE'RE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MOBILITY STRATEGIES, WHEN WE'RE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HOUSING IN NEIGHBORHOODS, WHEN WE'RE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THEY'RE GOING TO TIE BACK TO DIFFERENT PARTS, UM, OF THIS STATEMENT. SO DO THIS FOR ME. UM, YOU CAN SCAN THAT QR CODE, YOU CAN GO TO THAT WEBSITE AND ENTER IN THE CODE. EITHER ONE WILL WORK, I WOULD SUGGEST THE QR CODE, AND I'LL GIVE YOU GUYS A SECOND TO GET IN THERE. IT SHOULD PULL UP A SCREEN THAT JUST SAYS, THERE'S NO ACTIVE POLL RIGHT NOW WAITING FOR, I, I SEE A FEW MORE FOLKS STILL SCANNING. I DON'T WANNA, I DON'T WANNA GET OFF THE Q QR CODE TOO. HOW YOU DOING, LIZ? YOU GOT IT? NO. OKAY. 1, 2, 3, 4. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, SO THIS SHOULD POP UP FOR YOU. THIS IS ONE QUESTION. THIS IS ALL FOR THIS PART. THIS IS ALL WE'RE ASKING JUST ON A ONE TO FIVE THERE. UM, WITH FIVE BEING STRONGLY SUPPORTIVE, ONE BEING YOU DISAGREE COMPLETELY WITH IT, UM, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET A SENSE OF THE, THE PULSE OF THIS ROOM. WE'VE DONE A COUPLE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF, OF THIS EXERCISE TO JUST KIND OF FEEL, FEEL OUT WHERE FOLKS ARE AT. UM, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF GETTING TO THAT POINT. IF, IF WE'RE WAY OFF BASE HERE, THEN WE HAVE SOME RESETTING TO TO DO. SO, SO FAR WE'RE LOOKING GOOD. ANYBODY, ANYBODY ELSE STILL TRYING TO GET THEIR, I NEED THE, I NEED THE JEOPARDY MUSIC OR SOMETHING. I'M STILL, THERE'S A COUPLE PEOPLE STILL TRYING TO, SO JUST, SO WHILE WE'RE WAITING THERE, AS WE'VE DONE THIS, WE'VE DONE THIS ON THE PROJECT WEBSITE, WE'VE DONE THIS THROUGH A FEW IN-PERSON INTERVIEWS AS WELL. UM, THAT THREE TO FIVE RANGE IS WHERE, WHERE WE'RE LANDING. UM, THERE'S ALWAYS QUESTIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ARE YOU TRYING, ARE YOU TRYING TO TURN ALL OF ADDISON INTO, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY WALKABLE AND GET RID OF THE CAR? NOT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AT ALL. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW CAN WE MAKE THE, THE WALKS MORE SAFE, MORE COMFORTABLE, MORE IN INTERESTING, MORE USEFUL. YES, SIR. IN THE BACK. OKAY, SO WE GOT, WE GOT 36 RESPONSES SO FAR. I SEE LIZ, TRYING ONE MORE TIME. I'M GONNA, WE VALUE YOUR OPINION, LIZ , ALTHOUGH NOW EVERYBODY'S GONNA KNOW WHAT YOUR ANSWER IS, . OKAY. THIS, THIS IS GOOD FOR US, THIS IS GOOD FOR US FOR NOW. I I WANT TO BE RESPECTFUL OF, OF EVERYONE'S TIME. UM, OKAY, SO THE LAST PART OF TONIGHT IS TO TALK ABOUT IF WE HAVE THIS VISION OF A WALKABLE AND CONNECTED COMMUNITY FOR ADDISON. AND WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLACES THAT WE HAVE, UM, HERE INSIDE ADDISON. UM, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF, UM, COUPLE OF DIFFERENT EXERCISES TONIGHT. UM, AND, AND THEY RELATE TO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PARTS, UH, OF THE PLAN THAT, THAT I'M GONNA TALK THROUGH. THE FIRST PART OF THE PLAN IS LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT CHARACTER. THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE FIRST ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN. THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE, THE LOOK AND THE FEEL AND THE CHARACTER, UH, OF THE DIFFERENT, UM, PARTS OF THE, OF THE CITY THAT FUTURE LAND USE MAP IS MAYBE A, A PHRASE THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD. UM, BUT THIS IS IDEALLY WHAT, WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT DO YOU WANT TO GO WHERE, UM, IN ADDISON AS YOU START TO TO SEE NEW DEVELOPMENT OR REDEVELOPMENT HAPPEN. UM, THAT FIRST STATION BACK THERE TO THE LEFT WHERE MY COLLEAGUE CATHERINE IS WAVE, THAT'S CATHERINE. UM, ON THE FAR LEFT, THERE'S A MAP THAT SHOWS THE, THE MAP OF WHERE THESE DIFFERENT PLACE TYPES ARE LOCATED RIGHT NOW. THIS TOO HAS BEEN THROUGH A COUPLE OF ITERATIONS WITH INPUT WITH CPAC AND THE COMMUNITY. UM, BUT THEN WE HAVE A BOARD FOR EACH OF THE FIVE PLACE TYPES, AND WE'RE GONNA ASK FOR SOME INPUT, UM, HERE ON, THERE'S SOME IMAGES, SOME, UM, SOME IMAGES THAT YOU'LL SEE THERE [00:35:01] THAT, THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE REFLECTED, UH, IN THAT FINAL PLACE TYPE. SO WE JUST WANT SOME INPUT FROM YOU ON, DOES THIS LOOK LIKE SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL LIKE FITS IN, IN EACH OF THESE PLACE TYPES? UM, AND THEN THERE'S A STICKER FOR YOU TO PUT IN THE ONE COLUMN THAT YOU FEEL LIKE IS THE MOST REPRESENTATIVE, UH, OF THAT PLACE TYPE. THE SECOND STATION IS WHERE CATHERINE IS NOW IN THE BACK RIGHT CORNER BACK THERE. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE SPECTRUM OF CHANGE MAP. WHAT THIS IS GONNA SHOW IS A, A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE'RE DOING PLANS LIKE THIS, THERE, THERE'S A CONCERN THAT WHEN WE SHOW SOMETHING IN A FUTURE LAND USE MAP, SOMEONE MIGHT LOOK AT THAT AND SAY, OH MY GOSH, THAT'S GONNA COME TOMORROW. AND SO THERE'S PARTS OF THE CITY THAT ARE LIKE GREEN, OPEN, OPEN FIELD SITES RIGHT NOW THAT COULD COME IN AND, AND BE DEVELOPED RIGHT AWAY. THERE'S OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY, MOST OF THE CITY THAT'S GONNA BE MORE OF A REDEVELOPMENT KIND OF EFFORT. AND SO THERE'S PARTS OF THE CITY THAT MAKES SENSE TO DO WHAT WE CALL MORE INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT. SO YOU'RE NOT CHANGING THE WHOLE CHARACTER OF IT, YOU'RE JUST MAYBE ADDING A SMALL BUILDING OR YOU'RE ADDING A SMALL PARKING PAR POCKET PARK, OR MAYBE YOU'RE TAKING OUT A LITTLE BIT OF THE PARKING LOT AND PUTTING IN A, A, A PUBLIC, UH, PUBLIC PLACE. UM, UH, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S, THERE'S DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS OF, OF HOW FAST THAT GROWTH AND, AND CHANGE CAN HAPPEN. THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY WILL TELL YOU THAT EVERYWHERE IN ADDISON IS RIPE FOR REDEVELOPMENT. THE WAY LAND VALUES ARE GOING, THE WAY THE MARKET IS DRIVING MORE INFILL AND MORE REDEVELOPMENT. IT'S THE NEXT, IN PLANNING TERMS, WE WOULD SAY THE NEXT INTENSITY, THE NEXT LEVEL OF INTENSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT. BUT WHAT THE SPECTRUM OF CHANGE MAP CAN HELP DO IS KIND OF SCALE THAT BACK OF IF THERE'S PLACES THAT THE COMMUNITY SAYS WE DON'T WANT THIS TO REDEVELOP OR TO DEVELOP AS QUICKLY OR TO AS HIGH OF A SCALE, UM, WE CAN KIND OF SCALE SOME OF THAT, UH, THAT THAT BACK. SO THE PLACE TYPE GIVES YOU THE CHARACTER OF HERE'S WHAT WE ULTIMATELY WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE. THE SPECTRUM OF CHANGE MAP GIVES A MORE OF I OF AN IDEA OF IS THIS SOMETHING WE WANT TO PRESERVE AS IS AND NEVER HAVE IT CHANGE? IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO SEE INCREMENTALLY EVOLVE OVER TIME OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE, WE, WE WOULD BE OKAY WITH IT REDEVELOPING, UM, MORE QUICKLY? UH, SO THERE'S, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE SOME INPUT ON THAT MAP. UM, AND YOU CAN, UH, THERE'S POST-IT NOTES AS WELL, SO YOU CAN, ANY KIND OF COMMENTARY YOU WANNA GIVE US ON A NEIGHBORHOOD OR A STREET OR AN INTERSECTION OR PROPERTY, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO GIVE US THERE, UM, WOULD BE HELPFUL. UM, THE NEXT STATION WHERE CATHERINE IS NOW IS, UM, SOME PRELIMINARY RECOMMENDATIONS. SO WE TAKE A LOT OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE HEARD, ALL THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE HEARD, AND WE START TO ORGANIZE IT INTO SOME VERY BROAD BUT INTENTIONAL RECOMMENDATION STATEMENTS. UM, THESE ARE WHAT IN THE FINAL PLAN ARE GONNA HAVE A LONG LIST OF ACTION ITEMS BEHIND THEM. SO THESE ARE SOME BROAD STATEMENTS RELATED TO LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOODS, MOBILITY, AND SOME GENERAL, UH, GENERAL OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS. UM, AND SO THE NEXT STEP, THE NEXT MEETING, THE NEXT ACTIVITY YOU ALL ARE ASKED TO PARTICIPATE AFTER IN, AFTER TONIGHT IS GONNA BE WHAT ARE SOME SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT MIGHT COME UNDER THESE, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR SOME FEEDBACK ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS TO SEE, DO THEY, DO THEY GENERALLY FEEL GOOD TO YOU? DID WE TOTALLY LEAVE SOMETHING OUT? UM, AND IT'LL MAKE MORE SENSE WHEN YOU SEE THOSE, UM, OVER THERE. UM, COUPLE THINGS WE'RE ASKING HERE. PUT A DOT STICKER ON ANY RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU SUPPORT. SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET A, A LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR EACH OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AS AS THEY'RE WRITTEN. AND THEN WE WANNA KNOW WHAT'S THE ONE RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU FEEL LIKE IS THE, THE STRONGEST OR THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR YOU? AND THAT'S GONNA BE THE, THE STAR STICKER. UM, AND JUST LIKE WITH THE OTHER ONES, IF YOU HAVE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS OR OTHER COMMENTS YOU WANNA WRITE IN, PUT IT ON A POST-IT NOTE, STICK IT ON THE BOARD SOMEWHERE AND WE'LL MAKE SURE TO PICK IT UP. THE LAST ONE THAT'S OUTSIDE AND, AND I WOULD SAY WOULD TAKE THE MOST TIME, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO, TO PUT A, A LITTLE MORE TIME AND THOUGHT INTO NOT TRYING TO DISCOUNT ANYTHING ELSE BUT, UM, THE ONE OUTSIDE IS THAT THAT'S REALLY WHERE IT'S GONNA MATTER THE MOST TO, TO EACH OF Y'ALL INDIVIDUALLY. AND THAT'S THINKING ABOUT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, YOUR AREA. UM, AND GOING BACK TO JEFF SPEC'S TALK, UM, THERE'S SEVERAL DIFFERENT, I THINK WE HAVE EIGHT DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD MAPS OUT THERE. SO WE, WE'VE BROKEN THE, THE TOWN DOWN INTO SOME SMALLER AREAS. UM, THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO DO ON, ON THERE. YOU'RE GONNA SEE THERE'S, UH, DIRECTIONS ON THE LEFT SIDE OF EACH MAP, BUT THE FIRST THING WE WANT TO DO IS TAKE ONE OF THE, THE BLACK MARKERS OR ONE OF THE MARKERS THAT'S OUT, THAT'S OUT THERE, AND IF THERE ARE ANY ROUTES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WITHOUT A CAR, WHETHER THAT'S BIKING OR WALKING, UM, BUT YOU CAN'T RIGHT NOW FOR WHATEVER REASON. IF IT'S NOT SAFE, IF IT'S NOT THERE, , YOU KNOW, WHATEVER REASON. IF IT'S A ROUTE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THAT'S NOT THERE, WE WANT YOU TO DRAW THOSE ROUTES ON, UH, ON THERE. AND THEN THE SECOND PART, UM, IS AN EXERCISE WHERE WE HAVE A LIST OF SOME DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES, SOME DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CAN MAKE NEIGHBORHOODS MORE COMPLETE. SO IT [00:40:01] MIGHT BE THINGS LIKE A, A, A CLOSER GROCERY STORE, UH, A DRUG STORE, A PHARMACY, UM, PET STORE, WHAT, WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. THERE'S A LIST OF, THINK ABOUT 12, 15 THINGS ON THERE. UM, WE WANT YOU TO PUT STICKERS ON ANY OF THOSE THAT YOU FEEL LIKE ARE MISSING TO MAKE THAT COMMUNITY OR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD ON THAT MAP MORE COMPLETE. UM, SOME OF THESE, IT'S GONNA BE HARDER TO MAKE THEM MORE COMPLETE BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY, BY THE NATURE OF THEIR DESIGN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE SINGLE FAMILY CENTRIC. UM, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF COMMERCIAL ON THE EDGE, WE CAN STILL MAKE THOSE, UH, YOU KNOW, MORE WALKABLE. SOME OF 'EM ARE LIKE RIGHT WHERE WE ARE NOW, WHERE, UM, IT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MISSING USES THAT MIGHT MAKE THIS A EVEN BETTER VERSION OF WHAT IT IS. SO THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY THE, THE KIND OF MORE LOCAL FEEDBACK THAT WE'RE LOOKING FROM YOU ALL. I, I WOULD SAY START FIRST WITH WHEREVER YOU LIVE OR WHEREVER YOU WORK, WHEREVER, WHEREVER THE PLACE THAT MATTERS THE MOST TO YOU IS GO TO THAT ONE FIRST. AND THEN IF YOU WANT TO GO TO, TO THE OTHER MAPS AND GIVE SUGGESTIONS ON THE OTHER ONES, UH, YOU'RE WELCOME TO TO DO THAT AS WELL. AND ONCE YOU MAKE THE ROUNDS THROUGH THOSE STATIONS, YOU'RE, UH, YOU CAN, UH, TAKE OFF AND, AND HEAD HOME, CATHERINE, AND I'LL BE AROUND HELPING ANSWER QUESTIONS. I KNOW JADE'S OUT THERE IN THE BACK, SHE'S COME IN, SO JADE'S THERE. I KNOW LESLIE'S HERE AS WELL. SO WE'LL BE GOING AROUND TO HELP ANSWER QUESTIONS AND, UM, AND HELP YOU OUT AS YOU NEED IT. ANY ANY QUESTIONS TO ASK THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL, USEFUL FOR THE WHOLE GROUP BEFORE WE BREAK UP? YES MA'AM. HOW CONSISTENT IS THE ZONING IN PLACE NOW WITH THE DIRECTIONS YOU WANT TO GO? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I, I THINK THERE'S, UH, THERE'S SOME KNOWLEDGE IN EDUCATION BEHIND THAT QUESTION, I THINK. BUT, UM, SHE'S ASKING HOW CONSISTENT IS THE CURRENT ZONING WITH WHERE WE WANT TO TAKE THIS? WHERE I I WOULD SAY, UM, PARTS OF IT VERY CONSISTENT, PARTS OF IT, SOMEWHAT CONSISTENT AND A FEW PARTS, THERE'S SOME TWEAKS TO BE MADE, BUT I KNOW JADE, IN HER SPARE TIME , IN ADDITION TO WORKING ON THE COMP PLAN, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN EFFORTS, UH, BY JADE AND LESLIE AND THEIR TEAM WORKING ON SOME CODE UPDATES, UM, AS WELL. TYPICALLY WITH A PROCESS LIKE THIS WHERE THE COMP PLAN IS WHERE WE'RE LOOKING OUT MORE VISIONARY, MORE OUT INTO THE FUTURE, TRYING TO LOOK ACROSS ALL THINGS, TRANSPORTATION, LAND USE, HOUSING ZONING, ET CETERA. UM, AND THEN IF THERE'S ANY BIG DISCONNECTS THAT WE START TO SEE AS, AS WE GO TOWARD THE FINAL STRETCHES OF THIS PLAN, WE'LL POINT THOSE OUT AND, AND HIGHLIGHT, HEY, THESE ARE SOME AREAS THAT THE ZONING CODES GONNA NEED TO BE DISCUSSED AMENDED. UM, AND, AND I WOULD SAY IN ADDITION TO THE ZONING CODE, IT COULD BE DEVELOPMENT CODE AND ESPECIALLY STREET STANDARDS. BACK TO SOME OF WHAT JEFF WAS TALKING ABOUT. IF YOU LOOK AT NARROWING CERTAIN STREETS TO SLOW CARS DOWN, UM, I AM ONE OF THOSE PES THOSE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS THAT, UM, I GET IT. UH, THE NARROWER THE LANES, THE SLOWER THE, THE MORE WE DO 31 FOOT WIDE STREETS, THE MORE WE'RE GONNA BE, UH, SEEING ACCIDENTS AND, AND BAD THINGS HAPPEN. AND MOMS AND DADS AREN'T GONNA LET THEIR KIDS OUT ON THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS. SO THERE'S PLACES THAT I, I'VE ALREADY LOOKED AT AND I COULD SAY I WOULD RECOMMEND SOME STREETS IN ADDISON COULD BE NARROWED, YOU CAN STILL MOVE CARS, BUT THEY WOULD MOVE SLOWER AND IT WOULD MAKE THE NEIGHBORHOODS SAFER AND MORE WALKABLE. THERE'S OTHER PLACES THAT YOU STILL HAVE TO MOVE CARS. UM, YOU HAVE TO MOVE A LOT OF CAR, UH, THE HIGH VOLUME OF CARS, THEY MAYBE DON'T HAVE TO MOVE AS QUICKLY. UM, THE CPAC, UH, HAS SEEN A PREVIEW OF, OF SOMETHING THAT IS, IS A POTENTIAL SUGGESTION FOR, FOR BELTLINE, UM, THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN SOME OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THAT WOULD COMPLETELY REVAMP BELTLINE FROM AN AUTOCENTRIC CORRIDOR THAT'S MOVING A LOT OF CARS TO SOMETHING THAT REDUCES LANES, SLOWS CARS DOWN AND, AND ACTUALLY BRINGS THE DEVELOPMENT UP TO, TO FRONT ON BOTH SIDES OF IT. UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEING, IT'S, I'M NOT GONNA SAY IT'S A FOR SURE THING RIGHT NOW, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEING EXPLORED WITH, UM, WITH CPAC AND IT'S TIED TO THE EASTWEST CONNECTION OVER THE, UM, OVER THE TOLL ROAD THAT, THAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. UM, BUT THAT'S, WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT IN THIS, IN THIS PART OF THE PRESENTATION. THERE'S, THERE'S OTHER STUFF YOU CAN GO BACK AND, AND LOOK AT, BUT SOME OF THAT, WHAT HAPPENS WITH SOMEWHERE LIKE A BELT LINE IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE HOW FAR DO WE GO TOWARDS WALKABILITY, UM, IN ADDISON. AND SOME OF THOSE MORE SPECIFIC THINGS ARE WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DIGGING INTO WITH THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND P AND Z AND CPAC, UM, IN JULY. QUESTION IN THE BACK. I HAVE A QUESTION. HOW MM-HMM, , GREAT QUESTION. SO FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T HEAR, SHE'S ASKING HOW DO WE MARK ON THE MAPS WHERE WE NEED MORE TREES? UM, I, I WOULD SAY, I THINK, UM, IF YOU WANT TO NOTE SOME AREAS ON THE MAPS FOR THAT, FOR US FOR THAT, THAT THAT WOULD BE GREAT. UM, IF YOU JUST WANNA PUT A NOTE AND PUT A STICKY NOTE AND SAY MORE TREES. I THINK WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, I KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR RIGHT NOW IS MORE WHAT ARE THE ROUTES AND THEN, BECAUSE AS JEFF TALKED ABOUT, AND I KNOW HE TALKED REALLY FAST IN [00:45:01] THAT VIDEO AND WENT THROUGH, THERE ARE PLENTY OF, OF WAYS TO ACCOM TO MAKE ADDISON MORE WALKABLE. IF THE COMMUNITY SAYS, MAKING ADDISON MORE WALKABLE AND PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY AND GETTING PEOPLE AROUND WITHOUT CARS IS A PRIORITY. UM, YOU CAN TAKE A LITTLE MORE RIGHT AWAY. YOU CAN WIDEN SIDEWALKS, YOU CAN ADD BIKE LANES, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO NARROW THE AUTO, THE CAR LANES, YOU KNOW, YOU DEFINITELY TO MAKE IT MORE COMFORTABLE. IN TEXAS, SHADE IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL. UH, SHADE CAN, SHAME CAN MEAN A DIFFERENCE OF 20 TO 25 DEGREES IN TEMPERATURE. UM, SO, AND IF THE INVERSE HAPPENS AS WELL, THE MORE PAYMENT YOU BUILD, WHETHER IT'S SIDEWALKS, ROADS, OR PARKING LOTS, THE HOTTER IT'S GONNA GET. UM, SO WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING WITH THIS OF HOW INTENTIONAL DOES THE COMMUNITY OF ADDISON WANT TO BE ABOUT WALKABILITY? BECAUSE UNLIKE A LOT OF PLACES, YOU ALREADY HAVE REALLY GOOD BONES AND A REALLY GOOD STARTING POINT. UM, YOU ALSO HAVE THE RESOURCES TO INVEST IN SOME OF THESE THINGS. UM, IT'S JUST A MATTER, I THINK, OF GIVING COUNSEL SOME, SOME GUIDANCE AND SOME CONFIDENCE ON, ON HOW FAR DO WE GO TOWARD. AND, AND AGAIN, EVERY PART OF ADDISON HAS SOME DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO IT. SO I, IF WE KNOW THE ROUTES, IF WE SEE THE ROUTES FIRST, THEN WE'RE GONNA COME BACK AND SAY, WHAT, WHAT IS THE SHADE? WHAT'S THE SAFE, THE, THE USEFUL, COMFORTABLE, INTERESTING, ALL OF THOSE. WE'RE GONNA GO BACK AND LOOK AT THOSE DIFFERENT AND THOSE DIFFERENT PARTS. AND SOME OF IT'S, I WOULD, I WOULD GUESS WE'RE GONNA SEE A LOT OF TREES ARE MISSING. WE NEED MORE SHADE. WE'RE GONNA SEE THERE'S CONNECTIONS MISSING. SO THERE'S A SIDEWALK FOR A WHILE AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S A GAP. AND THEN SO FILLING SOME OF THOSE GAPS, THERE'S GONNA BE THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, AND THEN IN SOME OF THESE PLACES WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOODS, THERE'S GONNA BE LIKE, WELL, IF YOU REALLY WANT ME TO WALK TO MORE STUFF, YOU GOTTA PROVIDE MORE STUFF CLOSE ENOUGH TO WALK TO SO I DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE TO IT. UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A, THERE, THERE'S ONE LAST THING TO MENTION THAT, THAT HAS GOTTEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION SO FAR IS SOME KIND OF AN INTERNAL PUBLIC TRANSIT CIRCULATOR KIND OF THING. SO, UM, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE A CAR AND WANT TO GET AROUND TO SOME OF THE KEY DESTINATIONS OR GET BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS OF ADDISON, UM, LOOKING AT SOME KIND OF A CIRCULATOR AND, AND WHAT THAT MIGHT, UM, THAT MIGHT MEAN, AND THAT'S, THAT KIND OF GETS TO THE TRANSIT, THE, THE TRANSIT ELEMENT OF WHAT JEFF WAS TALKING ABOUT. NOT JUST THE INTERNAL PART, BUT ALSO GETTING FOLKS TO THE DART STATION. VERY. IS THAT A, IS THAT A STATEMENT OR A QUESTION OR ? YEAH, THERE'S AGAIN, THERE, THERE'S STRATEGIES, WHETHER THAT'S, AND A, AND NOW WITH SOME OF LIKE THE UBERS AND THE LYFTS AND SOME OF THOSE, THERE, THERE'S A LOT MORE WAYS WE CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, GET AT SOME OF THAT, BUT, BUT THERE'S STILL MORE OF THE KIND OF THE BASE FRAMEWORK OF, OF WALKABILITY FIRST THAT HAS TO BE IN, IN PLACE. BUT, UM, BUT THAT'S, THERE'S SOME DIFFERENT ROUTES AND DESTINATIONS THAT WE'VE STARTED TO LOOK AT FOR THAT CIRCULATOR. BUT YOU KNOW, THE, THE FRINGES, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO REFER TO 'EM AS PANHANDLES, THERE'S SOME SLIVERS THERE THAT WE'D HAVE TO THINK ABOUT HOW TO, YOU KNOW, GET THOSE CONNECTED INTO. ALL RIGHT GUYS. UM, I [2. Collect community input at individual engagement stations regarding complete neighborhoods, plan recommendations, type and rate of change in Addison's built environment.] , I, I'M BEING, SO I WANT TO GIVE EVERYBODY, I WANNA BE RESPECTFUL OF TIME. LET'S, LET'S GO AHEAD AND BREAK TO THE EXERCISES. IF YOU DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR ME, I'LL, I'M GLAD I'LL COME OVER THERE. I'M HAPPY TO TAKE THOSE, BUT YOU GUYS ARE FREE TO SPREAD OUT, DIVVY UP. THERE'S NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING IN A CERTAIN ORDER. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.