City Council

(4) 23-0935 CONTINUED CONSIDERATION OF TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT and AMENDING MOTION 22A (HERNANDEZ – PADILLA) relative to a Citywide equity framework for transportation project prioritization and resource allocation. A. TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT Recommendations for Council action: 1. INSTRUCT the Board of Public Works’ Bureaus to report to Council on the equity framework currently used for selection and implementation of services and their plan to incorporate the Department of City Planning (DCP) Community Health and Equity (CHE) Index into project prioritization and resource allocation. 2. DIRECT each of the Bureaus of the Department of Public Works, the DCP, and any other relevant agencies, to report on the programs they manage that achieve transportation outcomes, how those programs currently incorporate equity into their work plans, and how the CHE Index can be adopted into those programs, if they are not already, so that the City of Los Angeles is using one definition of areal equity measurement for achieving transportation goals. 3. DIRECT the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) to report to Council with an overview of additional criteria if uses to prioritize projects to achieve specific programmatic goals and understand travel patterns for communities of concern, including but not limited to how the (LADOT) incorporates transit ridership, boardings and alightings by line; crash data; prevailing speeds; density of jobs and proximity to job centers on specific corridors; and regional transportation gaps into its program and project planning. The report should include any data sets that would further allow the LADOT to consider and address the travel patterns of communities of concern in Los Angeles, as well as help close transportation gaps to regionally-important destinations and along regionally-important corridors. The report should propose how the LADOT could combine these data into an overlay that could be paired with the CHE Index and Priority Transportation Equity Areas to add holistic regional travel patterns as a consistent metric across work programs, and any resources needed to create that overlay and maintain it moving forward. B. AMENDING MOTION 22A (HERNANDEZ – PADILLA) Recommendation for Council action: AMEND the matter related to the Transportation Committee report relative to a Citywide equity framework for transportation project prioritization and resource allocation, Item No. 22 [Council file No. (CF) 23-0935] on the January 14, 2025 Council Agenda, to ADOPT the following additional language reflected in bold and delete the strikethrough language in Recommendation No. 1: INSTRUCT the Board of Public Works’ Bureaus to report to Council on the equity framework currently used for selection and implementation of services, consult with the City Administrative Officer (CAO), the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), and the Department of City Planning (DCP) on the equity indices used for projects, their plan to incorporate the Department of City Planning (DCP) Community Health and Equity (CHE) Index and provide recommendations on the adoption of an equity index that can be used in into project prioritization and resource allocation. Fiscal Impact Statement: The LADOT reports that there is no impact to the General Fund.