Tactical Urban meeting report

[Zack Barowitz]

Greg wrote up a detailed summary of the tactical urbanism summit. 

Zack 

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From: GREGORY FARINO <caro...@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Subject: Thank you!
To: GREGORY FARINO <caro...@bellsouth.net>
CC: ja...@trails.org <ja...@trails.org>, philja...@gmail.com <philja...@gmail.com>, rgra...@gmail.com <rgra...@gmail.com>

Hello Attendees,

We want to thank you for participating in the January Workshop and helping make it a success! Your attendance and active participation are a reflection of your willingness to tackle community/neighborhood issues in the spirit of collaboration and volunteerism. It would not have been a success without you.

It is our hope that this is only the beginning.

Our goals for the workshop were to get all of the major players and interested neighborhood associations (NAs) together to meet, get to know one another, discuss traffic safety issues, share ideas and needs, and plan steps forward.  Those initial goals have been met. The immediate feedback has been positive. Already, resource sharing has begun (thank you Jacob, Jaime and Jill) We are now thinking about steps forward.

Take-aways

1. Follow-up workshops/meetings. Going into the workshop we had hoped that there would be follow-up meetings, which would depend on participants' receptivity. The positive response at the workshop made it clear that there was a concensus for ongoing meetings/collaboration. They could be just neighborhood group meetings or meetings with special interest partners: council members, city officials, etc. 

2. Expand the number, integration, and scope of interventions. With unique perspectives, creative ideas, evolving experience, 'traffic calming' needs to be addressed from various directions: such as joint projects, Information campaigns, bus stops, lighting, bike paths, posted speed changes.

3. Collaborate with more (all) neighborhoods to address related roadways, deepen impact, and not focus on one-size-fits-all. Each neighborhood may have unique risks and needs.

4. Focus on responding to residents' expressed needs and well as the need for on-going public service messaging to ensure public awareness, acceptance, and practice re traffic safety measures.

5. Address issues of project sustainability, funding, and hardening.

6. Similar to number 2, above, discussions with responsible officials to ensure Vision Zero penetration into various city policies: road construction, sidewalk lighting, bus-stops, etc. When a piece of infrasture is planned, ensuring that Vision Zero is taken into account.

7. Return of a city official dedicated to traffic calming advocacy and integration.

8. NAs and other groups discussions on sharing materials, loaning equipment, joint purchases and non-profit related discounts.

9. Further discussions on involving PTO and youth in understanding and implementing traffic calming and pedestrian safety.

If you had additional take-aways, or thought something after the meeting, please feel free to share. That is collaboration!

Google Docs

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11kTWw18xPfPjqPMWoj0QGeRP-Qgwo1XY?usp=drive_link

Jaime (Portland Trails), who coordinated Session 2, put together a Google Docs resource. The materials from Session 2 are there now. You should be able to access the documents/folders through the link. Feel free to add additional resources, or contact Jaime directly for guidance, assistance in doing so. Jaime is also creating a separate folder for each of the four NAs who are already working on traffic calming proposals. This site can be an ongoing resource for all of us, sharing and adding.

Session 1 Contact List

The contact list was shared by attachment (yesterday and here). Feel free to share your questions, suggestions, contacts for collaborations, and future meetings. (If you send a blanket message, I recommend you use Bcc unless you want everyone to receive everyone's response. Is anyone missing from the list?

Next Steps

1. What do you propose for next steps?

Another meeting, quarterly, semi-annually, or as needed? 

2. What to do about funding? 

3. Suggested topics and suggested participants: Clearly, to address numbers 5, 6, and 7, will require some level of city participation, including councilors.  

4. Location: For neighborhood ownership, I lean toward the idea of rotating the hosting among the NAs, where possible. Some NAs might partner with others, or area specialists, to facilitate a meeting. What do you think?

Thank you, again, for participating.

Gregory

(PS: Jacob is drafting a letter for group approval requesting the City to rehire the position, discussed at the workshop, of traffic calming facilitator.)

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