Council Briefing Industrial Lands WS 2 Transportation WS 1

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Council BriefingIndustrial Lands WS
2Transportation WS 1
November 14, 2007
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This workshop series was completed endorsed by
City Council
The LUCE Process
Placemaking/ Boulevard Vision
Neighborhood Conservation
Workshopsproduce Principles
Industrial Lands WS 1
Opportunities/Challenges
Council endorsesPrinciples

• Existing Conditions
• Trends
• Historic/Bio Resources
• Population Trends
• Economic Trends
• Employment
• Real EstateMarket
• Budget

PUBLICREVIEW PlanningCommissionCity
CouncilAdoption
TransportationWorkshop
DraftLUCE Plan
EnvironmentalReview
Industrial Lands WS 2
Spring2008
Outreach to

• Hospitals
• College
• Commercial Neighborhoods

Principles shape the Plan
Transportation WS 1v Industrial Lands WS 2
reviewed tonight
Economic Analysis Housing
Boulevards
Boulevards
Transportation
Outreach will occur take place in
November/December
Community Based Workshop Process
Boulevards, Transportation Economic
Analysis/Housing will take place in December,
January and February 2008
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Future Change Must Result in a Community Benefit
STRENGTHEN and PROTECT Residential and
Neighborhood CharacterNo Pressure on
Neighborhoods
Create Strategically located WALKABLE centers to
Support Neighborhoods and Promote Transit
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The Communitys Vision of the Future Includes
Opportunities Tied to Transit Nodes Multimodal
Options (Pedestrians,Bicyclists, Limit
Cars) Great Neighborhoods Affordable/Workforce
Housing Creative Arts/Diversity of
Employment Neighborhood Services Open
Space/Greenery Jobs/Housing Balance Urban
Villages Preservation of Historical/Cultural
Resources
Santa Monicas Character Sustainable Compatible Li
vable
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Weve been told that the Plan that will Guide the
Citys Future Must Integrate a Range of Issues
and Interests
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Wilshire Montana Neighborhood Organization Pico
Improvement Organization Ocean Park
Association Friends of Sunset Park Neighborhood
Association Borderline Group Community
Corp./Affordable Housing Advocates Workforce
Housing Bicycle Advocates Crossroads
School Santa Monica High School Santa Monica
Community College Santa Monica Chamber of
Commerce Santa Monica Hospitals Bergamot
Station Museum of Art Architecture
Community Landmarks Commission Housing
Commission Arts Commission Sustainable City
Task Force
Council Review - Industrial Lands /
Transportation WS No. 1

• Property Owners
• Renters
• Business Owners
• Health Care Organizations
• Employees
• Neighborhood Civic Organizations

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INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP N0. 1

• Workshop 1 Explored the role of the industrial
  lands in Santa Monicas economy and introduced
  the transportation issues and opportunities
• Community undertook hands on planning exercise
  to Identify
• Stable Areas (Not likely to change in the next
  20 years
• Identify Areas with Change Potential
• Identify the Challenges and Opportunities

Workshop photos
Workshop photos
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Industrial Lands Workshop No. 1
Development Agreement Sites
18th Street Art Center
Crossroad School
Bergamot Art Center
Mobile Home Parks
Parks
Community Identified the Areas of Stability
Others Mentioned Cement Factory Tacos Por
Favor
Religious Institutions
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Industrial Lands Workshop No. 1
Papermate Site
Northside of Colorado
Fisher Lumber Site
In-Fill Development

• Include
• Vacant land or vacant buildings
• Areas with Redevelopment Potential
• Underdeveloped property value of the
  improvements is low compared to value of the
  land
• Improvements in state of disrepair or non code
  complying potential need for seismic retrofit
  built before 1970
• Generally one or two story industrial buildings
  qualify as underdeveloped if the area changes
• Buildings in disrepair in proximity to quality
  buildings
• High value land visibility, large site with
  potential to redevelop

City Yards
Community Identified the
Development Potential
Areas of Potential Change and Areas of Potential
Opportunity
Others Mentioned Residential at Edison Pioneer
Magnetics
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Colorado Avenue Alignment Alternative
AlternativeDowntown Stations at grade
Colorado Alignment
AlternativeBergamot Station Locations
PotentialMidtownStation
Downtown Station at grade
Colorado Avenue Alignment Alternative
OlympicAlignment
10 minute and 15 minute walking radius
The community and the Planning Commission was
very supportive of the Colorado Avenue Alignment
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INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP NO 2
CityGoals
Draft PLAN
The Factors that Shape the Plan
PropertyOwnershipPatterns
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PURPOSE OF INDUSTRIAL WORKSHOP NO 2

• Review Community Response from WS No. 1
• Areas of Stability
• Areas of Potential Change
• Opportunity Sites
• Review and Critique Industrial Lands Principles
• Review and Critique Proposed Land Use Districts
• Review and Critique Opportunity Site Concepts

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Reaffirm the Neighborhood / Placemaking Principles

• Protect / Enhance Residential Neighborhoods
• (The residential neighborhoods create Santa
  Monicas overall defining character)
• Provide neighborhood serving services _at_ boulevard
  transit nodes w/in walking distance
• Create active/vital mixed-use Places w/
  Neighborhood Services
• Enhance the pedestrian environment
• Walkway improvements
• Lighting

• Promote Safe Routes to School Program

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Industrial Land Use Principles

• Maintain support for Citys Industrial Lands as
  an important part of its economic and job base
• Preserve the opportunities for appropriate
  large/small employers
• Maintain the use, character and scale of the
  traditional M-1 zone for small and incubator
  businesses
• Limit housing in the industrial lands west of
  Memorial Park to ensure a future supply of
  industrial land
• Capitalize on Opportunities Adjacent to Transit
  Stations with focus of change on Opportunity
  Sites 1 - Memorial Park 2 Bergamot
• Require Mixed-Use Commercial / Residential _at_
  Transit Nodes to
• Support Jobs/Housing Balance
• Mix Direction of Peak Hour Travel
• Extend Hrs/Days of Transit Use
• Provide 18 hr/7 day activity.

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Industrial Land Use Principles

• Provide opportunities for automobile related
  industry
• Preserve/Enhance the Bergamot Arts Center Concept
  while maintaining existing
• Maintain the continued operation of the City
  Yards but dont preclude opportunity for
  long-term change
• Maintain the commitment to the City owned mobile
  home park housing
• Housing at strategic locations in the industrial
  areas should provide a for a range of housing
  types singles, families seniors. Strive for
  affordable workforce housing
• Ensure neighborhood business serving retail to
  promote walking
• Provide Opportunities for New Sustainable / Green
  Industries
• Provide for Street Front Commercial / Industrial
  Along LRT Alignment

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Urban Design Principles

• Maintain/create the fine-grained city urban
  designed streetscape fabric
• Assure that buildings are appropriately scaled to
  their surrounding the city.
• Assure that buildings are well designed
  contribute to the public benefit through the
  provision of open space, enhanced landscape
  and/or public art
• Assure that buildings face engage the street
  (the public realm) and are compatible with the
  pedestrian scaled streetscape
• Assure pedestrian scaled sidewalks
  streetscapes
• Adequate width
• Landscaped
• Lighting
• Ground level building activities
• Assure mixed-use development at or near transit
  nodes to assure a vital, 18 hr/7 day environment
  and transportation/parking diversification

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Urban Design Principles

• Create a pedestrian environment along Colorado
  Avenue and the LRT alignment
• Establish overlay zones to assure protection and
  compatibility of new construction w/ adjacent
  residential neighborhoods and historic building
  resources
• Provide retail or other active retail along the
  ground floor of primary pedestrian streets.

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Open Space / Park / Recreation Principles

• Provide Opportunities for New or Expansion of
  Public Open Space/Parks/Recreation space
• Consider Bridging I-10 to create new park space.
  Study environmental and health impacts due to
  auto emissions
• Require public access green or open space with
  new major development
• Connect parks and open space with pedestrian and
  bike routes
• Create a Freeway Forest by increasing the
  number of trees and the tree canopy along the
  I-10 embankment
• Create a Green Streets program to increase
  the amount and qualityof the landscaping on
  public streets

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Transportation Principles

• Focus change areas at strategic locations along
  transit routes and nodes
• Provide greater connectivity and continuity for
  vehicles and pedestrians through the large blocks
  reduce the size of the grid
• Break down the I-10 Freeway Barrier
• Provide goods/services w/in walking distance to
  reduce vehicle trips
• Move toward jobs housing balance in the corridor
  through mixed-use development
• Extends the hours of use of transit
• Mixes direction of peak hour travel
• Expand Transit Demand Management on all
  projects Consider TDM by district
• Enhance Big Blue Bus transit connections and
  frequency to transit hubs and activity centers
• Create new street priorities to assure vehicular,
  pedestrian bike continuity/connectivity
• Promote Concept of Flex Cars Flex Bikes   

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Parking Principles

• Consider shared parking facilities for commercial
  development through a parking district
• Capitalize upon the diversity of uses (fewer
  spaces required)
• Create centralized parking to eliminate on-grade
  parking lots
• Consider reducing parking requirements near
  transit stations
• Consider maximum parking requirements rather than
  minimum parking when development is supported by
  transit
• Potential to lower the cost of housing near
  transit centers
• Price parking to maximize efficiency and support
  land use goals

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Sustainable Principles

• Santa Monica is committed to meeting its existing
  needs without compromising the ability of future
  generations to meet their own needs
• Santa Monica is committed to protecting,
  preserving and restoring the natural environment
  and cultural resources
• Santa Monica is committed to providing equal
  opportunities for all citizens
• The City will lead by example and encourage other
  community stakeholders to use sustainable
  principles to guide their decisions and actions
• The City will act as a strong advocate for the
  development and implementation of model programs
  and innovative approaches by regional, state and
  federal government that embody the goals of
  sustainability
• Partnerships among the City government,
  businesses, residents and all community
  stakeholders will be utilized to achieve a
  sustainable community.

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Land Use Districts
Broadway
Colorado
Diagrammatic Conceptual Bonus e.g. Work Force
or Affordable Housing Artist Housing Public Open
Space/ Active Plaza Public Art Other?
Boulevard District
Mixed-Use Creative Arts
Traditional Industrial
OpportunitySite 1
TraditionalIndustrial
Olympic
OpportunitySite 2
Main StreetOverlay
17th
14th
20th
Lincoln
11th
Mixed-Use Creative Arts
TraditionalIndustrial w/ housing option
Cloverfield
Stewart
Boulevard District
Traditional Industrial w/Housing Option
Mixed-Use Creative Arts Industrial In-fill
Main Street Overlay
Traditional Industrial

• Primary Use - Light Industrial w/ focus on
  Creative Arts and, Entertainment Industry
• Secondary Use - Residential w/ below grade
  parking
• Base FAR 1.5 Bonus to FAR 2.5
• Height 3 Loft Flrs. - 45 or 4 stories 55 w/
  Bonus

• Light Industrial, Local Services, Auto related,
  Sustainable/greenindustries
• No Residential
• FAR 1.0 (existing)
• Height 2-Stories 30(existing)

• Neighborhood Retail, Commercial on ground floor,
• Office or Residential on upper floors
• FAR 2.0
• Height 3-Stories 40

• Primary Use same as Traditional Industrial
• Option for housing w/ further detailed study
• Base FAR 1.0 Bonus to FAR 2.0
• 3-stories-40 w/ Bonus

• Require ground floor retail to establish a
  pedestrian focused Main Street

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OPPORTUNITY SITE 1 MEMORIAL PARK
NEIGHBORHOODTHE PRINCIPLES

• Capitalize upon the potential Exposition LRT
  Midtown Station location (Olympic or Colorado)
• Create enhanced pedestrian environment connecting
  medical campuses and Santa Monica College
• Expand/enhance the park and open space
• Consider expansion south and over the I-10,
• Capitalize on joint-use potential with SMMUSD
  School District

• Create a mixed-use, vital, urban neighborhood
  surrounding the station and the expanded park
  facilities
• jobs housing balance-
• gathering places
• buildings at an appropriate that provide public
  benefit
• diversity of peak hour trips
• local serving retail and mid-day services to
  workers
• 18 hour/day 7 day/week
• workforce housing

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OPPORTUNITY SITE 1 MEMORIAL PARK NEIGHBORHOOD
1. Memorial Park Enlarge public park/open space
2. Fisher Lumber property has bought for City use
3. Jt. Venture with SMMSD per their MP

• parking district garage below grade

4. Incorporate Exposition LRT

• Support mixed-use development on parcels
  surrounding the park
• West of 14th up to 4 stories with upper floors
  residential
• North side of Colorado up to 3 stories w/ upper
  floors residential
• East side of 17th up to 3 stories w/ upper floors
  residential

6. Expand Park over I-10
7. Purchase parcels as they become available
integrate appropriate uses into the park
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Precedents
multi-use ground level retail
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Industrial Lands Workshop No. 2 OPPORTUNITY SITE
2 BERGAMOT STATION THE PRINCIPLES

• Maintain and enhance the Bergamot Station art
  cultural core
• Capitalize upon the Exposition LRT Station
• Enhance the park and open space
• Reduce the scale of the former railroad/agricultu
  ral roadway grid to
• Enhance the diversity of pedestrian routes
• Provide greater connectivity
• Require mixed-use creative arts development to
• Seek a jobs housing balance
• Provide diversity of peak hour trips
• Provide local serving retail to provide
  residential services within walking distance and
  to provide mid-day services to workers

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Industrial Lands Workshop No. 2 OPPORTUNITY SITE
2 BERGAMOT STATION PRINCIPLES

• Enhance the pedestrian environment and
  connections to the surrounding areas
• Require shared commercial parking through a
  parking district to
• Capitalize on diversity of uses,
• Maintain the public control of parking policy.
• Require Transit Demand Management on a district
  level to spread the peak hour demand

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Potential Additional Roadway and Pedestrian Way
Continuity in the Bergamot Area
Potential Roadway and Pedestrian Way Continuity
Connectivity in the Bergamot Area
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Opportunity Site 2 Bergamot Station
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Precedents
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Planning Commission recommended endorsement of
the Industrial Lands Principles

• Industrial Lands Principles
• Consider Limiting housing in the industrial
  lands west of Memorial Park to ensure a future
  supply of industrial land
• Consider opportunities for senior and
  convalescent housing
• Urban Design Principles
• Create a pedestrian and bicycle environment
  along Colorado Avenue and the LRT alignment
• Sustainability Principles
• Partnerships among the City government,
  businesses, resident and all community
  stakeholders will be utilized to achieve
  consistency with the Sustainable community City
  Plan
• Santa Monica is committed to providing equal
  opportunities for all citizens

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• Tonight's Actions
• Endorse the Industrial Workshop Principles
• Confirm Transportation direction

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• Next Steps
• Transportation Workshop No. 2 December 6
• Parking
• Begin Boulevard Planning
• Land Use Opportunities at Transit nodes
• Street Typologies
• Community Outreach
• Neighborhood Retail Main Street, Montana, Ocean
  Park
• Hospitals
• Santa Monica College
• Market Analysis/Feasibility
• Transportation Workshop No. 3

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Transportation Workshop No. 1 October 6,
2007
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WHAT WE LEARNED

• Change will happen Around Us!
• Any potential change in Santa Monica is minuscule
  compared to the growth happening on all sides of
  Santa Monica. 
• Even if we were to reduce development in Santa
  Monica - congestion would still increase!
• Traffic circulation is like a living organism -
  Regional traffic will fill any less traveled
  street

Santa Monica needs to explore proactive tools for
managing congestion.
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Three Primary Topics

• Traffic Congestion
• Great Streets
• Measuring Success

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Five Primary Types of Congestion

• Regional traffic primarily the freeway
• Shopping/employment primarily downtown and
  Cloverfield
• School
• Seasonal, especially beach
• Local residents
• Each has different causes and solutions

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Type 1 Freeway Congestion

• When the freeway is congested, cars queue back
  onto SM streets
• The manifold problem distributing freeway
  ramp traffic into fine city grid
• Cut-through traffic that bypasses freeway
  congestion on city streets
• Induced trips when freeway is free-flowing

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• The Manifold Problem
• Freeway capacity constrained by capacity of
  intersection at end of ramp.

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Existing Street Congestion
Congestion is focused along access to freeways
  I-10
On/Off Ramps filter traffic focus congestion
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Freeway Congestion - Recommendations

• Locate congestion where it has the least impact
  and keep it from spreading
• Identify local routes to avoid bottlenecks
• Smarter regional traffic management
• Create transportation alternatives that avoid
  congestion Expo Line, Subway-to-Sea,
  walking, biking
• Create and maintain local services to reduce
  Santa Monicans need to drive long distances

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Type 2 - Employment Congestion Solutions

• Trip reduction ordinance Require 30 fewer peak
  period auto trips (Water Garden produces 50
  fewer!)
• Require parking cash-out
• Universal transit passes
• Focus new employment near transit
• Parking management
• Personalized travel information
• Incentives for existing employers

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Type 3 School Congestion Solutions

• School related traffic is a significant
  contributor to AM congestion up to 25
• Develop Safe Routes to Schools Program
• Include traffic calming and other engineering
  investments
• Include classroom component
• Implement universal transit pass program for
  students
• Include elementary, middle, high schools and
  colleges
• Vancouver program increased transit ridership by
  46-63

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Type 4 Beach Congestion Solutions

• Install changeable message signs on major
  approaches to direct drivers to available
  parking
• Implement variable pricing at beach parking lots
  high enough in the summer so just a few spaces
  are usually available, lower cost or free when
  demand is low
• Access management at beach parking lots to reduce
  turning and queuing vehicles4545

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Type 5 Santa Monica Residents Solutions

• Support local retail Ensure compact neighborhood
  retail node within walking distance
• Focus any new development near transit
• Residential car-share program
• Unbundle parking costs from housing

Flickr photo by a_sorense
Greenlagirl flickr.com
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Type 5 Santa Monica Residents
40 to 50 drive alone to work
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25 - 40 of households dont own a vehicle
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Most households own 2 or more vehicles
Center city households own 1 or fewer vehicles
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2. Great Streets
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A. Pedestrian Recommendations

• Develop Quality of Service standards and map
• Complete missing sidewalk sections and widen
  where possible
• Prioritize major streetscape improvement projects

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B. Bike Recommendations

• Incremental implementation of bike network
• Bike Station at Expo Line terminus
• Bicycle Boulevards

Flickr photo by gholdie
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C. Transit Recommendations

• Support Expo Line and plan station locations at
  Bergamot Station, 17th St/SMC and Downtown
• Improve signal prioritization for buses on
  primary transit streets, especially Wilshire,
  Santa Monica, Pico, Main and Lincoln
• Provide more real-time bus arrival information at
  bus stops

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3. Measuring Success
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• Transportation is not an end in itself, it is
  merely a means by which we support larger goals.

Proposed Approach

• How do we want our streets to function
• Land use context
• Priority for each mode
• Set Quality of Service indicators for each mode
• Set minimum, maximum and preferred measures for
  each mode and vary according to context

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Street Types Start with Land Use Context

• Neighborhood Retail and Downtown streets
• Need very high quality pedestrian realm
  pedestrians are more important here than any
  other mode
• For cars, LOS A is worse than LOS F. LOS C or D
  are optimal, because slower auto traffic supports
  pedestrian quality and allows motorists to see
  storefronts
• Other streets have other needs

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Street Types Start with Land Use Context

• Residential Neighborhood Streets
• Most important function is to support a high
  quality living environment
• Need continuous sidewalks and landscape buffer
• Slow traffic speeds

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• Establish 1st, 2nd , 3rd Priority for Cars
• Transit
• Bikes
• Pedestrian

Bring all layers together to see land use context
and modal priority for all streets Then for each
context zone and mode network, think through the
absolute minimum , acceptable and preferred
Quality of Service for each mode
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Application

• Montana Ave Neighborhood retail context, 1st
  priority for pedestrians, 2nd priority for cars
  and transit
• Result OK to slightly degrade auto QOS to
  improve transit and pedestrian QOS. Signal
  prioritization OK, but not dedicated transit
  lane.
• Goal Bring all measures into balance

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Transportation Recommendations
Santa Monica should

• Develop street typologies that reflect the
  different land use contexts and modal priorities
  for its streets. 
• Neighborhood commercial street has different
  needs/priorities than a boulevard or neighborhood
  residential street.
• Develop transportation performance measures that
  reflect the larger City Goals. 
• Balance congestion management with other goals,
  e.g. quality of life and ecological
  sustainability.
• Create a comprehensive Transportation Demand
  Management program to significantly reduce
  new/existing auto trips

• Create smarter parking management to mitigate
  congestion and the amount of time motorists spend
  searching for a parking space
• Supplement the Citys excellent job in planning
  for bicycles, transit and pedestrians.

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• Tonight's Actions
• Confirm Transportation direction

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• Next Steps
• Transportation Workshop No. 2 December 6
• Parking
• Begin Boulevard Planning
• Land Use Opportunities at Transit nodes
• Street Typologies
• Community Outreach
• Neighborhood Retail Main Street, Montana, Ocean
  Park
• Hospitals
• Santa Monica College
• Market Analysis/Feasibility
• Transportation Workshop No. 3