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City Council Meeting Minutes August 7,2018 Dianne Wassenich,stated that citizens were told the Transportation Master Plan would be discussed at a later date. She asked that the Council remove the Craddock Street extension and that the Council protect the recharge zone. She encouraged council to look at the numbers regarding two loops together when you are looking at traffic in town. This was discussed by the Planning and Zoning Commission and they need to know the difference between traffic in town if you built Craddock Extension or both loops. Lisa Marie Coppoletta, is in agreement with Dianne Wassenich regarding the Craddock Extension and she asked that Council stop building over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Region. Carina Boston Pinales,stated that she is in agreement with other citizens that have spoken regarding the Transportation Plan. She feels this plan does not consider long term effects and is more reactive than proactive.More road equals more cars and the City needs to focus on other transportation methods. She also expressed her concern on air quality in the community. We have been warned,we need to plan for the future. John David Carson,submitted 10 sustainable transportation recommendations for incorporation into the new Transportation Master Plan (TMP).He spoke on a few of these, but first wanted to offer some praise.The proposed TMP is a major improvement over the one from 2004.There is now planning for travel modes other than the car, and the CIP program uses prioritization based on some multimodal outcomes. It adopts a new functional classification system for thoroughfares and the new cross-sections do add more bike and pedestrian facilities. These are all welcomed.Unfortunately, the majority of the detailed analysis and many aspects of the proposed crosssections still focus on driver convenience to great harm. There is effectively no analysis of the safety of San Marcos streets,and there are no performance measures given to assess the success of the Comp Plan's stated mode shift goals.The primary performance measure in the draft TMP remains vehicular Level of Service.This conventional metric from the Highway Capacity Manual measures driver delay. Some of the primary inputs are speed, freedom to maneuver,and capacity. While those may increase throughput and driving pleasure,we know they make streets less safe for all users, especially vulnerable ones such as bicyclists and pedestrians. Sadly,there is only a cursory report of the total number of crashes in the draft TMP. There is not even a summary of the number of incapacitating injuries and deaths. Where is the hotspot analysis of crashes by severity? What is the rate of incident per mile traveled for each mode? For bikes and peds,what is the frequency of City o/San Marcos Page a