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Using Cameras to measure traffic volume on W. Alisal Street and Central Street in Salinas

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:55 +0000

the Salinas roadway we took several factors into consideration when conducting a road diet and Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Daniel Fernandez Natural Sciences Professor, School of Natural Sciences dfernandez@csumb.edu Local Government / Community Contact James Serrano [...]

Predictors of Sidewalk Conditions in the City of Salinas

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:50 +0000

The primary objective of the data analysis was to identify statistically signicant predictors of the sidewalk conditions evaluated by the City of Salinas. In summary, we found that income and education are statistically signicant predictors. Because it was an observational study not an experimental study, the students and the instructor agreed that the data could not verify any causal relationship against social justice. The data suggest, however, the sidewalk condition tends to be worse in lower income areas.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Steven Kim
Mathematics and Statistics
Assistant Professor, Department of Math and Statistics
stkim@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
James Serrano

Tracking City of Salinas Sewer Lines and Manholes

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:37:25 +0000

The City of Salinas of has outdated vector and raster data. As a result of dated information, the City has not able to progress in terms of development. By allowing students at CSU Monterey Bay, the City of Salinas has been able to drastically update their data. The data that was edited in this case portrayed to the sewage systems of the city.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Bhupendra Patel
Social and Behavioral Sciences
lecturer, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
bpatel@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Randy Casey

Read to me in English and Spanish

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:40 +0000

Reading to children can benefit their development because exposing them to books appears to have the most impact on their early language, literacy, and cognitive development. There is evidence to support that “children who xperience shared-book reading… also demonstrated improvements in word reading” (Pillinger & Wood, 2014). The Read to me Project is great at helping pave the way for a bright future for those participating. It also bases itself on reading together with family and allowing the children to benefit from each other and grow a closer bond together. Since the RtMP is based in Monterey County where the majority of the population is Latino/a, it would be strongly beneficial for them to incorporate English and Spanish books.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Jennifer Dyer-Seymour
Psychology
Professor, Department of Psychology
jdyer-seymour@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Gary Petersen

Road Diet modelling and its effects on traffic and pedestrian counts on W. Alisal Street in Salinas

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:24 +0000

model we were able to pose recommendations best suited to support the road diet. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info University Faculty Contact Daniel Fernandez Natural Sciences Professor, School of Natural Sciences dfernandez@csumb.edu Local Government / Community Contact James Serrano [...]

Bilingual Community Outreach Plan

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:09 +0000

In the city of Salinas, where 32% of residents are children and youth, outreach strategies that embrace participatory practices can enlarge young people’s perceptions and contribute to a more socially and environmentally just community. They can also provide young people with skills and a sense of empowerment to effect change in their communities.
This plan lays a framework for short- and long-term strategies for outreach to accomplish this. Long-term outreach lays a foundation for a process of how to connect with community across projects and time frames. It includes a model for neighborhood networks that support youth allies as leaders of outreach efforts, with support from community organizations, the city and CSUMB. Short-term outreach draws from a rich and extensive participation toolbox and presents a few examples of ways to engage community members at existing places and events. These include art-based methods for engagement and youth radio. A central tenant of this plan is that in order for outreach to be effective, it needs to meet people where they are. This means going to the places where people already gather, such as the Constitution soccer fields or the Take it Outside event. It also means meeting people where they are in language and desired approaches to engagement. This plan reflects ideas and interests we heard from people within Salinas as well as best practices in participatory research and community engagement. This plan reflects only 6 weeks of research and work in a CSUMB Environmental Studies course. We hope it plants seeds that can grow into sustained outreach efforts that can support our vision for a thriving and inclusive community that draws from cultural assets and community strengths.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Victoria Derr
Natural Sciences
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
vderr@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Donald Reynolds

Effectiveness of Read-to-me Project

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:06 +0000

In Monterey County, the Read to Me Project’s main goal is to help English language learners accomplish English reading literacy (Read to Me Project, 2017). Fourth, fifth, and sixthborrow age appropriate books from their teachers and read to their younger siblings, cousins, or neighbors. The young children identified by the school-aged child is named “little one” to be inclusive of all relationships the children may have to each other. For the purposes of the project, little ones could be as young as 8 months of age up to Pre-K. In the classroom, the school-aged children receive instruction on the importance of early literacy and the benefits of reading to their little ones. In the 2015-2016 school year, this program was launched in 70 classrooms and this current year, 2016-2017, it was implemented in 96 classrooms.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Jennifer Dyer-Seymour
Psychology
Professor, Department of Psychology
jdyer-seymour@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Gary Petersen

Modeling and measured bicycle counts and bicycle safety on W. Alisal Road with respect to the West Alisal Road Diet

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:05 +0000

In analyzing the impacts of the road diet on West Alisal in Salinas, our group observed that there is variety in the stakeholder populations. Drivers, pedestrians, bus passengers, bicyclists, and others, are all stakeholders that will be impacted by the road diet. Our group decided to focus on the bicyclist population near the Hartnell College area of West Alisal. To determine whether or not the bicyclist population of West Alisal was great enough to initiate the road diet, our group developed the hypothesis: The number of bicyclists that use West Alisal, near Hartnell College, is great enough to consider a road diet. 5 bicycles per half hour period (on average) will represent a need for a road diet.
Our data shows that based on current bicycle ridership that there is not a sufficient enough need to represent the biking community in the future road diet. That being said, we believe it is important to include bike lanes on W. Alisal as our model shows that increased biking in the future will start a positive reinforcing loop further increasing bike ridership.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Daniel Fernandez
Natural Sciences
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
dfernandez@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
James Serrano

Transit Public Outreach Project

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:36:05 +0000

In fall of 2016 at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), the Environmental Studies undergraduate program began offering its first group-based capstone course that was based on its first Projects for Sustainable City Year course (ENSTU 471). Capstone projects are a senior-level, project based graduation requirement for an undergraduate degree. The Sustainable City Year projects focused on increasing sustainable transportation at two locations; one in the nearby city of Salinas, California, and one on the CSUMB campus. A majority of the community in Salinas drive which has limited the quality and effectiveness of the shuttle system provided by Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST). Our group seeks to help increase ridership and promote sustainable transportation in this region. At CSUMB, traffic congestion on campus is increasingly problematic as the student body continues to row. The majority of students drive to campus in single passenger vehicles which increases the traffic on campus. Sustainable transportation via buses, bicycling, and carpooling helps decrease traffic congestion. In the following paper, the CSUMB project covers a proposed freshman vehicle restriction policy to encourage sustainable modes of transportation and a bus-bicycle culture. For the Salinas project, we worked directly with MST to encourage common knowledge of bus usage by creating an informational and interactive booklet.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Daniel Fernandez
Natural Sciences
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
dfernandez@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
Jose Sauceda

West Alisal Road Diet and Business Survey

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:35:28 +0000

Currently West Alisal Street focuses on cars as the main means transportation. One of the of the main issues is that cars on West Alisal Street are regularly speeding until they the reach Downtown Salinas. At the moment the moment cyclists do not have their own designated bike lanes. Cyclists have to have to use the same lane as cars. Pedestrians safety is also an issue because of speeding cars. The City of Salinas does not have as much feedback from the downtown business owners as they would like. The group plans on surveying business owners to get their opinion on the road diet. We plan to ask what they know about the ‘road diet’ and if they have any designs in mind that would be best for the area. We also want to know what kind of transport most of the Costumers use and to better facilitate their journey to West Alisal.

Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner.

Sustainable City Years Program Contact Info

University Faculty Contact
Daniel Fernandez
Natural Sciences
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
dfernandez@csumb.edu

Local Government / Community Contact
James Serrano
Department of Public Works
Transportation Manager
jamess@ci.salinas.ca.us
831-758-7195