Bicycle Plan Update

At a glance

What: The 2026 Berkeley Bicycle Plan Update, approved with direction to the City Manager to pursue implementation as funding and staffing permit.
Where it stands: Adopted June 16, 2026 as Resolution No. 72,328-N.S. on the Consent Calendar (all ayes).
Next: Implementation as funding allows; related bikeway work is in Hopkins Street Bikeway Referral and Five-Year Street Rehabilitation Plan.

Consent item 29, from the City Manager; contact Wahid Amiri, Public Works. See report for financial implications.
Council received a large volume of supplemental letters on this item: about nine individual letters and 38 similarly worded form letters in one packet, and another nine individual letters, including one on behalf of the Berkeley FireSafe Council, in a later packet. The minutes list the senders but not their positions.
The item was adopted with the Consent Calendar (Humbert/Taplin, all ayes) and was not pulled for separate discussion.

Consent item 9, the 2026 Bicycle Plan Update, was removed from the agenda by the City Manager, who noted the Bike Plan would return on the June 9 agenda.
Consent item 13, from the Disaster and Fire Safety Commission: Council approved a recommendation directing staff to modify and revise the Draft Update to the Bike Plan dated July 29, 2025 to take into account the Commission's recommendations. Adopted in the single Consent Calendar motion (Taplin/Tregub, all ayes). Contact: Keith May, Commission Secretary. Contact for the plan: Wahid Amiri, Public Works.

City Council regular meeting minutes, May 19, 2026 (approved minutes batch): https://berkeleyca.gov/your-government/city-council/city-council-agendas
City Council regular meeting minutes, June 16, 2026 (Attachment 4 in the minutes-for-approval batch): https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/2026-06-30%20Item%2018%20Minutes%20for%20Approval.pdf

Resolution 72,328 approving the plan adopted on consent.

Plan item pulled from the agenda by the City Manager; Disaster and Fire Safety Commission recommendation to revise the draft approved on consent.