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8.A. - Page 3 of 6 to spread messages supporting the program. Staff has talked with the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission regarding support that they may be able to provide. ANALYSIS Staff took a data -driven approach to selecting the street segments for the program while considering their geographic distribution and how the program can promote the City's long-term sustainability and mobility goals. Evaluation factors: • Emergency response routes: to the extent possible, staff avoided primary response routes but some of the candidate streets are secondary fire response routes; emergency responders would still have access to all streets • SamTrans service: staff checked whether regular service SamTrans buses use the recommend street segments. Roads with active transit routes were avoided to the extent possible • Traffic volume: focused on streets with lower traffic volumes; some recommended streets have lower than usual volumes due to school closures and COVID-19 • Existing or planned bicycle facilities: selecting streets with existing or proposed bicycle routes would reinforce those streets as priority streets for people walking and riding bicycles • Communities of Concern: staff used the latest version of the Communities of Concern maps, generated by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), to evaluate if a street segment is within a Community of Concern. Communities of Concern are defined by factors such as income level, race, and zero -vehicle households (see Plan Bay Area 2040 for more detail) • Housing density: staff used Census population density data to identify where more people are living and by association, which street segments would benefit the most people • Air pollution: staff used CalEnviroScreen (the air quality index) published by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to identify neighborhoods most impacted by air pollution Suggestions were also provided by the public and feedback was solicited from members of the Transportation Advisory Committee. Candidate street segments were screened according to their emergency response route designation and whether they have regular transit service and were then scored and ranked using the remaining factors. Using these results and a desire to have streets spread throughout the city, Table 1 lists the streets proposed for the first phase of installation. The first phase includes eleven streets covering 6 miles (see Attachment A). This represents roughly 3% of the miles of streets under the City's jurisdiction. Page 3 of 5 City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.ore 241