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File Number: 20-532 the planning and coordinated development of Complete Street infrastructure provides benefits for the City in the areas of infrastructure cost savings, public health, environmental sustainability and meeting the City’s Climate Action Plan goals. Hesperian Boulevard is scheduled for pavement maintenance and thus a complete streets review was performed. Staff used the Central County Complete Streets Guidelines to evaluate and document potential improvements to make the street suitable for all users. Improvements to address identified needs will be included in the project to the extent that they overlap or closely align with the planned paving maintenance work. Any improvements that require widening the roadway, installation of landscaping, significant median or sidewalk modifications, and/or traffic signal replacement will be submitted for funding under a future separate capital improvement project and will not be included in the paving project. Hesperian Boulevard is currently configured with three travel lanes in each direction, a concrete median island, and Class II bicycle lanes from Fairmont Drive to approximately 235 feet north of the Union Pacific Railroad Niles Subdivision; much of this length also has parking lanes. Class II bicycle lanes are approximately five feet wide and are adjacent to the vehicle travel lanes with no physical separation, a common feature on many roads. South of Drew Street, the road narrows such that only the three travel lanes in each direction remain without parking lanes or bike lanes. Hesperian Boulevard has a speed limit of 40 mph and is a necessary route for both motorists and bicyclists who wish to cross the flood control canal, two Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and I-238. The closest alternative routes across these barriers is Washington Ave a half mile to the west and Ashland Ave a half mile to the east. Hesperian Boulevard is also frequently used to access the Bayfair BART station. ACTC designated transit as the highest priority user of Hesperian Boulevard followed by trucks, pedestrians, bicycles, and finally, autos. Hesperian Boulevard is also listed in the ACTC Congestion Management Plan (CMP), which states that the City must operate the road at a level of service (LOS) “E” or better. Failure to meet this LOS will result in a demand from ACTC that the City remedy the situation within 90 days or face a reduction in gas tax revenue delivered to the City. Hesperian Boulevard is listed in the City’s 2018 Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan as a study corridor for the implementation of Class IV protected bicycle lanes. Additionally, the Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) specific plan includes a vision for Hesperian Blvd with two travel lanes and class IV bike lanes in each direction. Reducing the road from three to two lanes in each direction is commonly referred to as a road diet. The EIR prepared for the specific plan evaluates the road diet only for the cumulative condition, which is traffic volume in the year 2035, and not the current condition. In the cumulative condition the EIR states that LOS with the road diet will be F. The Bay Fair TOD specific plan was adopted by the City Council in 2018 along with a statement of overriding considerations stating that the impact to traffic on Hesperian is significant and unavoidable and declaring that the benefits of the specific plan including the road diet outweigh the impacts. In 2018 the City hired a traffic consultant to study the impacts of a road diet on this segment of Hesperian Blvd. The consultant found that in the hypothetical ideal condition the existing LOS is Page 2 City of San Leandro Printed on 12/30/2020 470