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Let's continue with the law. In 2005 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an Executive Order (5-3-05) and followed it up with Assembly Bill 1358 to go towards GHG reductions and increasing Transportation Equity by using "Complete Streets" — the "Black Lives Matter" movement of the Transportation world. Gavin Newsom re -iterated this with his Executive Order (N-19-19) from just last year. California Law instructs California Cities — and that includes especially cities in San Mateo County, which have some of the highest GHG per capita in the state — to create equitable "Complete Streets". And here is your problem: your Transportation Director and your City Manager are not. According to the plans of Greystar and city staff, Lathrop and Beech Street are part of a transit oriented developed, but then they declare those streets "Class 3 Bicycle Boulevards" also knows as "streets" or "roads" with a sign and/or sharrows. Whenever you hear or see the words "Class 3 Bicycle Route" or "Class 3 Bicycle Boulevard" on a map or a plan, Mark Muenzer, Melissa Stevenson -Diaz and Jessica Manzi are violating the law — definitely the "Spirit of current California Law". Mark Muenzer, Melissa Stevenson Diaz and Jessica Manzi are purposefully and knowingly defying the idea of a transit oriented, low stress, open space, city block neighborhood, etc. modern city planners nowadays are striving towards. Here is what Class 3 Bike Facilities are not: - They are not real Bike Facilities: according to Caltrans, Aashto, Nacto that would require preferential treatment to bikes. But bicycles are just `guests' on bike routes and sharrowed streets like "Bicycle Boulevards". - Class 3 "bike boulevards" are not suitable to provide Equity in Transportation (according to Toole Design and others) - Class 3 "bike boulevards" cannot provide safety and cannot be used as Vision Zero tools (according to Aashto and others) - Class 3 "bike boulevards" are not low stress facilities and therefore not suitable for "All Ages or Abilities" (according to Fehr & Peers and others) - Class 3 "bike boulevards" are not 8-80s (years) facilities and cannot be used for Safe -Routes -To -School (according to SRTS and SR2S). What Melissa Stevenson -Diaz, Mark Muenzer and Jessica Manzi together with the developer are trying to sell here is a Woonerf, Home Street, Spielstrasse, Livable Street type of facility. But these facilities are currently not legally doable in California as that concept comes with some requirements, California law does not support yet. One example of what a "Shared Space" type Bicycle Boulevard would look like is Halifax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feW5RycrhbU - Average Speed <5-10 mph - Pedestrians can cross anywhere, anytime - No street parking allowed to improve visibility