Item 32 - Santa Ana Vision Zero Plan

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY Stakeholder Advisory Group This project required multi -jurisdictional cooperation and feedback from City staff and other agencies to meet the goals of the period- ic project milestones. As part of this effort, the Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) was created to meet up to five times during the project, or about every other month. To expand the level of feedback collected, the SAG also included community representatives to bring alternative perspectives to the group. Stakeholder represented persons with dis- abilities, youth, neighborhood associations to name a few. The full list of organizations is listed below with names are listed in the Acknowl- edgments section. • Artesia Pilar Neighborhood Association • Caltrans • Com-Link • Dayle McIntosh Center • Environmental and Transportation Advisory Commission (ETAC) • KidsWork • Orange County Health Care (OCHC) • Santa Ana Active Streets Coalition (SAAS) • Santa Ana Unified School District • Santa Ana Police Department • Santa Ana Public Works • Santa Ana Planning • Willard Neighborhood Association • Resident, bus rider • Resident, graduate student The SAG meetings allowed routine discussion of the project's prog- ress and each meeting offered a portion of education, information, and feedback and suggestions. The meetings ranged between one hour and one hour and a half depending on participation and discussion of the following topics. • Project locations • Project prioritization • Numerous polls and surveys • Reviewing/feedback on draft maps and graphics • Process of data collection/analysis • Draft countermeasures Monitoring the progress of the Santa Ana Vision Zero will be through the City of Santa Ana Pubic Works Director to the City of Santa Ana En- vironmental and Transportation Advisory Commission (ETAC). Report- ing to the ETAC will take place at least once every two years. 4.4 Public Outreach Summary Numerous public events in Santa Ana were attended to share with the public and get direct feedback on improving safety for all modes of transportation including walking, bicycling and driving. The community outreach focused on considerations of equity using inclusive and rep- resentative processes, ensuring representation from all demographics of the community. A hard copy and online survey was distributed which collected 548 responses. As shown in the quoted comments above, opinions can be diverse on improving bicycle and pedestrian safety, but the overwhelming trend appears to be in favor of improving bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and safety to increase these modes of transport and increasing safety and ridership on public transit. Common threads for bicycle and pedestrian safety concerns, as shown in the previous set of bar charts and comments, tend to focus on re- ducing the danger that cars and trucks create for pedestrians and bi- cyclists. Slowing vehicle speeds down, improving street lighting, more traffic signals and signs, adding protected bike lanes, and improving traffic flow are the most frequent requests. SANTAANA VISION ZERO PLAN 75