Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Good evening. Welcome to the
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: probably caring for the transportation communications network. We'll get started in a few moments. We're gonna let folks file in this almost six o'clock. Thanks for joining us.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Great! Well, it is six o'clock.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: I want to thank everyone for joining us this evening for the transportation communication network. We've released the draft environmental document. And uh, this is tonight's public hearing
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: before we get started. Wanted to share some big news which hopefully you've heard, which is tomorrow.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The K line opens. The events uh started about ten o'clock in the morning, but the K line will be open for public noon tomorrow. We've got a
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: the whole weekend of events. Big parties tomorrow. Big party Saturday. Hope that you can join us all the information, everything that you need to know about where the stations are, at, what kind of music is being played, and where where the foods at um is going to be on the Metro website at Kayline Dot Metro dot net
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Hope to see you there.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All right.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Yeah.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The reason why you're here tonight. Let me just double check. Make sure, awesome.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The transportation communication
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: network public meeting just as a reminder uh your camera is off and um! The microphones are needed, so we can not hear our audience right now. During the meeting you can submit comments and questions using that Q. A. Feature,
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Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: just like during our scoping meeting, Metro is remains committed to ensuring that all participants can fairly and clearly share ideas, comments and concerns about this project to provide a safe environment and that equitable, equitable process. We are asking for your help. So during this meeting, please
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: the format of the meeting and allow for everyone to have an opportunity to comment and treat our fellow community members. Agency representatives, Metro Staff and others. With respect
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: presenting this aging as myself. My name is Jenny Prudeau, Community relations manager at Metro,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: John Potts, executive officer, with real estate at Metro and Ashley Wright, Principal planner with I stone environmental.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Let me just check, for one thing.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Great time for my mouse to have some problems. Okay, we'll go ahead and move on to the next slide.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So again, thanks for joining us this evening. We'll go over the project overview. Talk about the impact analysis. Some of the alternatives at that point we'll turn it over to our audience. Take your public comments, and then we'll offer up some closing remarks,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: going over again how to submit public comment after this evening.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: with the project overview Metro is looking, is proposing to implement the transportation Communications network. The Tcn program, which would provide a network of structures with digital displays, Pcn structures that would incorporate the following components: Intelligent technology, roadway efficiency,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: features to promote public safety and communication, revenue generation for transportation. Projects.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: What this means little bit more detail. Intelligent technology means that Tcn structures would incorporate Metro's regional integration of intelligent transportation systems, technology,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: those structures would provide real time information regarding freeway traffic transit and emergency systems. The structures would allow for communication and coordination across various agencies, such as La do T.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The Highway Patrol, Cal Trans District, seven and other agencies during emergency events and the implementation of roadway improvements.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The structures would provide real time data, collection to aid and traffic control, bus transit, signal priority and overall bus rail uh improved overall bus rail passenger experience.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The structures would broadcast public safety and metro messaging throughout the Tcn. To commuters,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Amber alerts
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Here earthquakes, early warning systems and fire alerts and promotion of Metro and city services to the traveling public.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: This also includes the revenue generation for transit transportation projects. So the Tcn structures would include outdoor advertising that would create revenue for Metro and the city to fund new and expanded transportation programs consistent with the goals of the metro vision. Two thousand and twenty-eight plan,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: the tcn would consist of thirty-four freeway facing structures and twenty-two non freeway facing structures in the city of Los Angeles, on Metro owned property,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Freeway structure. Aside freeway facing Tcn. Structures can be viewed from freeways and highways and non freeway facing structures would be viewed from major streets and boulevards. All structures would be located primarily on rail, bus parking and equipment, storage properties.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All tc and structure sites, locations are zoned industrial, manufacturing, commercial or public facilities. There are no Tcn structure, site, location site located in zones for residential use.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All Tcn structures would comply with State and Federal guidelines and regulations.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: I don't know if actually
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: um
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Ashley or um Kevin is available to answer or provide it overview on our site locations.
Ashley Wright: All right, Jenny. So there's um three. The following three maps right here show the freeway facing locations and non freeway facing location.
Ashley Wright: Um at a high level, and then within the eir the drop dir. There are also um tables within the project description that show exactly what cross streets where they're located, and also include the Apn.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So these are also part of the conversation that actually just mentioned.
Ashley Wright: Yeah. So there's three different slides here, and then also within the environmental setting and aesthetics
Ashley Wright: sections of the draft. Ir, there are aerials zoomed in of each location as well as straight view level
Ashley Wright: of each location.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Thank you,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: hey? So the free weight facing Tcn structures range in size from six hundred and seventy-two square feet to one thousand two hundred square feet per sign, with the majority being approximately six hundred and seventy-two square feet.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Freeway facing structures would be located adjacent to elevated freeways or freeway on and off ramps the freeway basing structures would be located up to fifty feet in height above finished grade of the adjacent highway.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Non freeway, facing Tcm structures would face
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: have have digital display faces that would range in proximate size from three hundred square feet to six hundred and seventy two square feet per sign, with the majority being approximately three hundred square feet. Non freeway facing structures would be located up to thirty feet in height above the finished grade.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So, in in compliance with metro systems, advertising, content, restrictions. There would be no advertising of alcohol, smoking, and cannabis, and any content containing violence, vicinities, or other related subject matters.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The tcms would use led lighting with the daytime maximum of up to six thousand maximum candleows and three hundred maximum candle is at night time. Each structure would include glovers to shade the led elimination and minimize light spill Over
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: we do skyl the sky, glow and improve. Nighttime visibility through glare, reduction,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: elimination from the tcm structures would be directed away from residential areas
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: to set to refresh every eight seconds, and would transition instantly,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: with no motion, moving parts, flashing or scrolling messages.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: And here is an example of a freeway-facing Tcn structure, conceptual design.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: We'll go ahead and move to the next slide.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: This is a non freeway facing Tcm structure conceptual design.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: There is also um removal of at least one hundred and ten thousand square feet, two to one square footage. Take down ratio of existing static displays
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: approximately two hundred static displays located within the city will be removed. These range inside from approximately eight foot by eight foot to approximately ten foot by thirty foot in size.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Removal of the existing static signage would occur. Concurrently with the installation of the Tcn structures.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Each Tcn is constructed on a ten
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: by ten foot area and installed in a phase approach with up to four signs installed at once. Installation would take approximately four weeks per Tc. In structure.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: The Overall Tcm Project construction is anticipated to begin in two thousand and twenty-three, and would be completed in two thousand and twenty-five
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: take down of existing static displays would take up to uh, it would take approximately half a day per sign,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: and at this point i'm going to go ahead and hand it over to Ashley
to talk about the Environmental review process.
Ashley Wright: Thanks, Jenny.
Ashley Wright: You can go to the next slide.
Ashley Wright: The California Environmental Quality Act requires government agencies to analyze and the environmental effects of a project before approval. The secret process is intended to inform the public and decision makers about the project's. Potential environmental effects,
Ashley Wright: encourage public participation in the environmental review process, identify mitigation measures or alternatives to avoid or minimize potential environmental impacts of the project and disclose
Ashley Wright: potentially significant impact on the environment and keep the public informed on how decisions are reached when a significant impact is identified.
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Ashley Wright: Earlier this year an initial study was prepared and determined that the project could result in potentially significant impacts for further study than an Eir.
Ashley Wright: They included the following aesthetics, air, quality, biological resources, cultural and historical resources, energy, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards, and hazardous materials. Land you some planning noise,
Ashley Wright: transportation, tribal cultural resources and electric electricity,
Ashley Wright: the draft dir sound that the project would have significant and unavoidable environmental impacts related to a subset of the Pcn structures for the following resource areas, aesthetics,
Ashley Wright: historical resources and land use. Specifically, the project would result in historical resources
Ashley Wright: and associated aesthetic impacts
Ashley Wright: related to visual character and setting at four of the non freeway facing site location
Ashley Wright: numbers two, three, sixteen, and twenty. One
Ashley Wright: Further, the project would be inconsistent with the goals and policies of the central city, North Central City and North Hollywood Valley Village community plans regarding historical resources as a result of the four previously mentioned site location.
Ashley Wright: Additionally, the project would be inconsistent with the palms. Mar Vista del Ray Community plan policies regarding placement of offsite premise
Ashley Wright: signs within the coastal area relative to site locations freeway facing twenty-nine and thirty
Ashley Wright: next slide
Ashley Wright: as part of the draft, three alternatives were analyzed.
Ashley Wright: Alternative. One assumes that the project would not be approved or would not be approved. No new permanent development would occur within the site, location, and the existing environment would be maintained. Thus the the physical conditions of the site locations would generally remain as they are today.
Ashley Wright: No new construction would occur, and no existing static signs would be removed.
Ashley Wright: Further, no revenue would be generated from the project to fund new and expanded transportation programs
Ashley Wright: alternative to would eliminate Tcn structures at Non three way facing site locations, two, three, sixteen, and twenty. One proposed by the project.
Ashley Wright: With the elimination of these four tcn structures
Ashley Wright: impacts the historical resources and the related aesthetic and land use impacts would be eliminated
Ashley Wright: the remaining fifty-two Pcm. Structures would be proposed under this alternative,
Ashley Wright: as with the project alternative to would provide for an overall reduction in static displays throughout the city,
Ashley Wright: as with the proposed project
Ashley Wright: under alternative to the city would establish a zoning ordinance that would provide a mechanism to review and approve the Pcm Structures City. Wide
Ashley Wright: alternative three assumes that the project would eliminate Tc. And structures at non freeway facing site locations,
Ashley Wright: two, three, sixteen, and twenty, one as well as eliminate or relocate freeway facing Tcm structures twenty-nine and thirty outside of the coastal area of the palm. Smart Vista del Ray community Plan.
Ashley Wright: Under this alternative all impacts to aesthetics, historical resources, and land use would be eliminated.
Ashley Wright: The remaining fifty Pcn structures would be proposed under this alternative,
Ashley Wright: as with the project, alternative, three would provide for an overall reduction in status displays
Ashley Wright: at least two to one square foot takes down ratio throughout the city.
Ashley Wright: As with the project under alternative three, the city would establish a zoning Gordon that would provide a mechanism to review and approve the Pcm. Structure of citywide,
Ashley Wright: the flow chart shown here. It takes the project Milestone.
Ashley Wright: The notice of availability of the draft. The Ir was published on September ninth,
Ashley Wright: two thousand and twenty-two, and the draft year. Common period will conclude on October the twenty fourth two thousand and twenty. Two
Ashley Wright: The dialogue icons indicate opportunities for public input
Ashley Wright: at the close of the comment period metro will evaluate all sequel-related comments received on the drop er and prepare the final er.
Ashley Wright: Towards the end of the year Metro will conduct a public hearing and issue a decision on the certification of the finally Ir,
Ashley Wright: with approval of the project and certification of the Eir, take down of the existing static displays and installation of the Tcn structures is proposed to begin in mid two thousand and twenty-three
Ashley Wright: next slide.
Ashley Wright: Metro will consider the project proposed, requested entitlements which are listed, and summarized on this slide
Ashley Wright: to follow project
Ashley Wright: to follow project milestones and updates. Information is available on the project website
Ashley Wright: shown here.
Ashley Wright: The drop by our comment period will end on October twenty, fourth, two thousand and twenty-two, and the public is encouraged to mail written comments to the address included below,
Ashley Wright: or submit electronically at Tcn at Metro dot net
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: all right,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: and with that Um, We do have some folks out in the audience, so um feel comfortable. Uh, if you want to go ahead and raise your hand if you'd like to submit a verbal comment. We do have a time limit of a
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: of a minute, and I just want to point out that we are accepting comments and questions.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: However, Staff not able to respond. They'll be responding in the environmental document when the final comes out.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So if you would like to speak. Go ahead and raise your hand.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: This with the raise hand function, and i'll go ahead and unmute you, and if you um
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: i'll just wait for any raised hands.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Awesome. Okay,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: we need to go ahead.
Wendy-Sue Rosen: I am Wendy. See Rosen, i'm with uh scenic Los Angeles, and my question is the city of Los Angeles um banned billboards in two thousand and two, and the courts have been very clear about the requirement that all billboards be um allowed only in commercial districts.
Wendy-Sue Rosen: Um, these are not in commercial districts uh not ones designated by C of La. So how do you defend uh this as not impacting the ban on billboards in the city of Los Angeles. And how, uh, can that be defended in court? Because the industry is incredibly vitigious?
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Thank you for your comment, and Wendy, I'm: sorry. Thank you for your comment, Wendy Su. We will be responding to that in the environmental document.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Okay,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: checking for raise hands again.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All right.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Go ahead.
Yeah,
Wendy-Sue Rosen: Wendy Su, go ahead. Oh, am I the only person raising my hand? Okay? Well, you are. I have another question for you, and that is um.
Wendy-Sue Rosen: The um city of la has a take down recommendation of ten to one, and yours is basically two to one. I I understand that square footage. Um, but that's quite a different. So I would just like that, responded to um. And then one more question that I have
Wendy-Sue Rosen: um, and i'll put my hand down, and hopefully other people will raise their hand hands. Um! Is that this? Uh this? The safety studies that you've relied on are uh have been debunked. They're out of date, and they've been debunked, and it's known
Wendy-Sue Rosen: um! The studies that are relied on. You have not not quoted or put in your um draft ir at all. So we'd like to see you do an update on the studies that have actually been used that are relied on by the industry and by experts, and also ask that um that you provide
Wendy-Sue Rosen: traffic data and all kinds of information about um accident rates, pedestrian deaths in those areas, and if that hasn't been done that a study be conducted.
Wendy-Sue Rosen: Thank you.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Thank you.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All right. Well, I will remain online uh for at least until seven o'clock, so that should additional folks show up for this evening Um! That they'll be available to take their comment,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: they'll be the recording on um. Just so folks know um. Our typical process for um after online meetings is to provide a copy of the Powerpoint along with the recording um that we'll be posting up on the project website uh, so that um folks who are unable to make
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: get this evening have a chance to watch the recording and view with the Powerpoint. In addition, the draft environmental document is up on the project website
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: at Metro Dot net forward slash. Tcn: If you are already receiving emails about this project. You don't need to ask to get listed on to the distribution list again. Um, But um!
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: We are encouraging folks to submit their comments in writing or attend
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: the the hearing. We have another one tomorrow afternoon and um the same information will be provided,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: so i'm gonna go ahead and and mute myself,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: and but i'll be here,
Wendy-Sue Rosen: Wendy, go ahead. Um! I just have a question. Does it? Does it show you how many people are on this call, and you could tell us how many people are on.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: It is a low number for for this evening.
Wendy-Sue Rosen: Okay, thanks.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Mhm
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: We'll say that the Rsvps that I got for for the hearings. The majority of folks did say that they would be attending tomorrow afternoon, and not this evening
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: alright, checking in. Let folks know that. Uh,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: we're going to remain online till seven o'clock. The chance that uh additional folks show up, and we need to accept any spoken comment
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: for those who may be joining us later in the evening. Uh, we did start at six o'clock, and um went through the presentation, have accepted some submit, submitted questions, using the Q. A. Feature, and also we took some verbal comments.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: But again we do have another hearing tomorrow in the afternoon.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So if you do uh show up late this evening it is okay.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: And then again, as a reminder, we'll be emailing out this presentation along with a link to the recording.
Uh and um
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: the Pdf. So that if uh folks want to take a look at it on their own time, it's available to them. The draft environmental document has been up on Project website
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: for a couple of weeks now.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Can't believe it's october already
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All right. We're coming up on six forty-five. We'll be here for about fifteen more minutes.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: So taking any more of the
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: typed in comments using the q A. Feature, or if you want to raise your hand. We'll go ahead and accept spoken comments this evening.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Do appreciate the fact that the project team has remain online this year.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Good evening.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: No. I told them that the
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: John had to stay behind, but the rest of them have stayed. So. Thanks, guys,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: all right. We're coming up on ten minutes to seven o'clock, gonna wrap up at seven o'clock, just to remind folks, especially for those who uh
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: watching the recording.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Please be sure to submit your written comment by October twenty fourth, two thousand and twenty-two.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: We are accepting written and electronic comments by email and I uh postal by sending in an envelope um either way, if you could uh email your comments to Tcn at Metro dot net
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: uh, you can
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: also review the environmental document and all of the materials for this project under Metro, dot net Pcn: Sorry Metro dot net forward slash Tcn.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: And again we're accepting comments until October twenty, fourth, twenty, twenty-two
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: all right We're coming up on five minutes till the top of the hour.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: We'll go through a little bit of this. One more time, which is right. Now we're accepting public comments until October twenty fourth,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: two thousand and twenty-two.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: At that point the project team will go back
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: and respond to those
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: comments and questions, and we'll include those in the final eir.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: When uh those next steps happen, we'll be sending out an email notice. So if you commented by email, we're gonna go ahead and get back to you by email with a link to the final document.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Let me go ahead and go down again to the next slide to showcase again. How can you submit public comment? You can do it uh by sending a letter in the mail to shine
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: at one gateway. Plaza.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: I'll stop twenty, two minus nine in Los Angeles. Zip code is nine zero zero,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: one, two.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: You can send us an email at Tcn. At Metro dot net.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: You can get to the project website by going to Metro Dot. Forward, slash! Tcn:
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: again. I will be get sending out a copy of uh the presentation this evening along with the link to the recording as well as the link to the draft environmental document That's currently. It posted on the Project website,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: so that you have access to all of the materials that have been made publicly available to date
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: as we come up at the top of the hour. Do you want to take a moment to say Thank you for coming out this evening to both our project staff
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: and our community members who participated in the meeting
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: me.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: I know that tonight is actually a very busy night. I see that there's a male world debate
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: on top of uh a lot of excitement for the K line opening tomorrow morning,
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: so just wanted to thank everyone for their time tonight.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Apparently there's a rotary meeting happening
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: in my living room. I was not aware of. So i'm gonna hide it here after seven o'clock
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: and again Thank you for coming out this evening.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: All right, Thank you again. Everyone for joining us this evening. This was the first of two public hearings for the transportation communication network.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: We will have another one tomorrow afternoon. Look forward to seeing everyone. Then, in the meantime, I will get to emailing.
Ginny Brideau, LA Metro: Take care.