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TRANSPORTATION, WATER & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

Meeting Date:	11/08/2021
Subject: ACCEPT Final Vision Zero Report draft dated 10/2021 & DIRECT Public Works staff on behalf of the County to incorporate comments & present to the Board
Submitted For:	TRANSPORTATION, WATER & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
Department:	Conservation & Development
Referral No.:	18
Referral Name:	Review transportation plans & svcs for specific populations, incl but not limited to County Low Income Transportation Action Plan, Coordinated Human Svcs Transportation Plan for Bay Area, Priorities for Senior Mobility, Bay Point, & CCCounty ATSP
Presenter:	Craig Standafer and Jerry Fahy, Department of Public Works	Contact:	Craig Standafer (925)313-2018

Information

Referral History:

Vision Zero was discussed at the October 9, 2017 TWIC meeting as part of a general legislative analysis. It was also discussed at the July 9, 2018 TWIC in the context of the County’s Complete Streets policy.

Referral Update:

Vision Zero is the mind-set that all fatal and serious injury collisions are preventable through a Safe Systems Approach. A Safe System approach addresses the five elements of a safe transportation system, which are safe road users, safe vehicles, safe speeds, safe roads, and post-crash care.

Many municipalities throughout the country, the world, and locally, such as San Francisco and City of Fremont have started a Vision Zero program. The County began this endeavor as a response to a high fatality rate between 2015 and 2017. The CCTA is also developing a Vision Zero program on a higher level program whereas the County’s Vision Zero program focuses on unincorporated roadways. The Vision Zero Program will qualify as the County’s requirement for the Local Road Safety Program that all municipalities in California are required to fulfill to receive Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) grant funding.

The Public Works Department launched a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), made up of representatives of County Public Health, the California Highway Patrol, the CCTA, 511.org, and bicycle advocates. Vision Zero is being managed by Transportation Engineering consultant, Fehr and Peers. This TAC met four times over the course of six months. The TAC produced two documents that are intended to be viewed as a single volume.

The Systemic Safety Analysis Report (also called the SSAR), laid out the framework for where, when, and how crashes were occurring on the unincorporated roadways. This document was finalized and accepted by Caltrans. The less “engineering-heavy” Final Vision Zero Report contains some of the same information as the SSAR, but it is expanded to include an action plan for County Public Health, law enforcement, as well as Public Works.

In August 2021, Public Works met with representatives of each supervisor district to introduce the Vision Zero project and to give notice that the public draft of the Final Vision Zero Report would soon be circulated. That draft was distributed in early October, and comments have been coming in.

The Public Works Department, on behalf of the agencies that assisted in developing the report, plans to give a presentation at the first Board of Supervisor’s meeting in the month of February (date to be announced). At that time, additional comments will be requested for a two-week period. The final report will be introduced for acceptance by the Board under a consent item at the last meeting in the month of March (date to be announced). County acceptance of the report will be required by Summer 2022 in order for Public Works staff to be eligible to submit HSIP grant applications next year.

Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):

ACCEPT the draft of the Final Vision Zero Report dated October 2021, and DIRECT Public Works staff, on behalf of the County, to incorporate comments and present to the full Board of Supervisors.

Fiscal Impact (if any):

There is no fiscal impact to adopting the report.

Attachments
Vision Zero Report