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SANIA ANA A{IM STEM can design the street as proposed in the active transportation plan, again that the city approved, with better infrastructure for cyclists, skaters, folks of all ages and diminish the long term impact on that roadway. I understand today's proposed project would adhere to OCTA's Master Plan of Arterial Highways, but no mention of the City's Active Transportation Plan is mentioned in the City staff report. When City Council voted for the Active Transportation Plan, it was incorporated into the City's Circulation Element, which we understand has not been fully updated. So the questions rests on whether the City chooses a project that adheres to an outdated general plan or our future general plan and circulation element we hope to be updated in the next year or so. We believe the most recent ideas put forward take precedence, and we support the Fairview project included in the Active Transportation Plan, not what is included in this agenda item today. If this item moves forward, studies have shown that increasing street widths and speeding up vehicle speeds are the leading contributors to dangerous road conditions. According to the City's Safe Mobility Plan, arterial streets, which Fairview Street is defined as, constitute only 20% of our roadway network, but 60% of all pedestrian -involved collisions and 68% of the collisions involving people on bicycles occur on them. The City's own study also states that the number of lanes in an intersection is associated with an increase in the number of pedestrian and bicycle collisions. If this project is truly about increasing safety we should acknowledge that large intersections and wide streets are and continue to be dangerous for our communities, especially youth, the disabled, and the elderly and we should create designs that put safety in a complete way, forward. And according to city documents like the active transportation plan, they have already been designed, and we hope they have just been overlooked. I ask the council to direct city staff to adopt what is in the active transportation plan and adhere to what is proposed in that document. We would like to thank the City, for being leaders in a safe active transportation movement in Santa Ana. We welcome a meeting to further discuss Complete Streets and alternative street designs to ensure the safety of all people. Sincerely, ;1z" Kristopher Fortin Project Director Santa Ana Active Streets 1450 W 4th St, I Santa Ana, CA 92701 I Tel. (657) 205-7306 1 www.saascoalition.ora I info@saascoalition.org