Item 12 - Select Locally Preferred Alternative for the First Street Multimodal Boulevard Study

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH SUMMARY APPENDIX E: Equity Framework Technical Memorandum Extract from pages 21-25 of the Technical Memorandum: Equity Assessment This section summarizes key equity findings from the demographics,transportation, and land use analyses within the study area and identify disparities in access and/or barriers to quality of life parity experienced by marginalized communities, compared to more resourced, abled, and affluent neighbors and communities. Key data sources for this analysis include Southern California Association of Governments(SCAG) and the United States Census Bureau. Marginalized Groups and Vulnerable Road Users Marginalized groups and vulnerable road users are among those at risk of being most adversely impacted by changes to infrastructure and operations of a public right-of-way.This risk is due to these populations being less likely to have additional mobility options, less likely to be included in public decision-making, and more likely to have other existing barriers and challenges to accessing resources or navigating changes to the local environment. The Equity Study prepared determined that the study area has a proportionately higher poverty rate than the City and Orange County as a whole, and especially high rates of seniors living in poverty, especially on the northwest side of the corridor(refer to Figure 9). This area of the study also overlaps with proportionally higher populations of residents that speak an Asian/Pacific Island language (likely Vietnamese) and English "less than well." The corridor study area also has proportionally higher populations of residents that speak Spanish as well as English"less than well" than other parts of the City and Orange County as a whole, primarily on the south side of the First Street corridor(refer to Figure 10). Over 40%of the City's residents identify as immigrants, and the study area reflects this trend. Notably, more than half of residents in Census block groups north of First Street identify as immigrants. These demographics demonstrate significant populations that are likely to have fewer mobility options and fewer opportunities to be civically engaged (in transportation investment decisions,for example) in a welcoming language or format compared to other residents in the City. First Street Multimodal Boulevard Study—90