January 2025 Bicyclist & Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) Meeting

Agenda

• January 2025 Bicyclist & Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) Meeting Agenda - 01/16/2025

Topics

1. Nominations & Elections for BPAC Chair and Vice Chair

   Staff will facilitate nominations and elections for 2025 BPAC Officers, following the process described in BPAC’s By-Laws (https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/BPAC-By-Laws.pdf.)   

2. Hegenberger to Estuary Bike and Pedestrian Improvements

   OakDOT staff from the Major Projects Division will share an overview of the Caltrans Sustainable Communities grant program and our project proposal for the January 22, 2025, application deadline. This will include a presentation from OakDOT on the Hegenberger to Estuary Bike and Pedestrian Improvements project that aims to address long-standing safety and accessibility challenges to key destinations in East Oakland and a request for a Letter of Support. Project info at: www.oaklandca.gov/projects/hegenberger-complete-streets-plan 

3. 2025 Bicyclist & Pedestrian Visioning and Goals Discussion

   2025 will be a big year for Oakland-wide infrastructure and planning advocacy. There are key opportunities to lift up our collective bike and ped visions for medium and long-term projects and programs (while we continue efforts to realize immediate needs). As the BPAC starts the year, as a kick-off to our strategic goal setting, Vice Chair Ralston will open with a facilitated “30,000-foot view” visioning discussion referencing the most recent citywide Bike Plan map. The goal for our visioning is to look at two scales of Oakland – that is, the viability, opportunity, and needs for overall citywide inter-connection networks (Hills to Bay and North-South via downtown and Lake) and the viability, opportunity, and needs for “fine-grained” neighborhood-scale safety, equity, and access for all. The conversation is not meant to be limited to bicycle infrastructure but to include walking and alternative transportation as well enhanced public transit. Inputs from this exercise can further help our efforts to integrate bike/ped planning visions into the City’s General Plan update process and can help provide context as the BPAC formulates our actions for the upcoming year.

4. Committee Overviews, Report Backs, and New Assignments

   Committees of the BPAC will provide brief updates to the Commission. All commissioners will be given the opportunity to volunteer for, switch, or remove themselves from the Commission’s committees and liaison positions. A list of active committees is included in the agenda packet and at www.oaklandca.gov/resources/bicyclist-and-pedestrian-advisory-commission-bpac-committees-and-liaisons.

   • Infrastructure Committee: The committee last met on November 7, 2024. Their next meeting is rescheduled from January 2, 2025, to Thursday, January 9, 2025, from 3:30-5:30 PM at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza in the Broadway Conference Room, Suite 4304. They will hear items on the  Embarcadero West Rail Safety and Access Improvements Project and  Bicycling and Pedestrian Infrastructure Design Details and Supplemental Guidance. More info at:  www.oaklandca.gov/meeting/january-2025-bpac-infrastructure-committee
   • Policy and Legislative Committee: The committee met on November 12th, 2024. Their next meeting is planned for February 10, 2025 at 5:30PM. More information at: www.oaklandca.gov/meeting/feb-2025-bpac-policy-and-legislative 

Accessibility and interpretation requests

Contact us to request disability-related accommodations, American Sign Language (ASL), Mandarin, Spanish or another language interpreter at least five (5) business days before the event.

All meetings held in-person are wheelchair accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products as a courtesy to attendees with chemical sensitivities.

To make a request contact bikeped@oaklandca.gov