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With New E-Bike Law Allowing All Classes, Half Moon Bay City Council’s “No E-Bike” Position Forces Council to Send Issue Back to BPAC for Further Consideration

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VIDEO. From the Half Moon Bay City Council meeting on Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 at 7:00pm, as a hybrid meeting.

Stay tuned to the City of Half Moon Bay Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee (BPAC).

 

 

 

Half Moon Bay City Council Revisits Coastal Trail “No E-Bikes” Position as State AB 1909 Passes Opening Access for Class 3 E-Bikes

Tue. October 17th @ 7:00pm – 10:00pm

The City will be hosting another workshop for the City of Half Moon Bay’s e-bike ordinance is scheduled for the October 17, 2023 City Council Meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. at the Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Ave.

 

This workshop will include a staff update regarding AB 1909 and its implications for e-bikes along the coastal trail. Please check the City’s e-bike ordinance page for more information.

 

“This bill would remove the prohibition of class 3 electric bicycles on these facilities and would instead authorize a local authority to prohibit the operation of any electric bicycle or any class of electric bicycle on an equestrian trail, or hiking or recreational trail.”

 

The Council Agenda and supporting staff reports will be posted Friday, October 13, 2023.

 

For any additional questions, please contact Matt Nichols at [email protected].

 

 

 

More on E-Bikes on Coastside Buzz

 

 

 

Half Moon Bay City Council Takes 47 minutes to Direct Staff to Outlaw All E-bikes on the Coastal Trail from Kelly to Poplar, Ignoring Recommendations from BPAC, Staff and Public Survey

 

 

 

 

City Council of Half Moon Bay meets ~ 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 7:00pm

 

The City Council of Half Moon Bay is the City’s governing body, and consists of five elected members. The Council sets priorities and policies, makes final decisions on all major City matters, adopts ordinances and resolutions, appoints the City Manager and City Attorney, and approves the annual budget.

City Council members are elected at-large to four-year, overlapping terms. There are no term limits in Half Moon Bay. The City Council selects one of its members to serve as Mayor and one to serve as Vice Mayor, on an annual basis.

The Half Moon Bay City Council typically meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month starting at 7 pm at the Ted Adcock Community Center, 535 Kelly Avenue.

HMB City Council Agendas and Zoom Links

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Watch streaming, or the Pacifica Coast TV video, that we will post. Stay tuned!
The meeting will be held at the Adcock Community Center for any members of the public who wish to speak in person, though we do encourage all members to participate remotely.
The meeting will be:

Members or the public are welcome to submit comments (in accordance with the three-minute per speaker limit) via email

to [email protected] prior to or during the meeting, via Facebook live during the meeting, and via two phone lines during the meeting – (650) 477-4963 (English) and (650) 445-3090 (Spanish).
The City Clerk will read all comments into the record.

Half Moon Bay City Council member’s Contact

  1. Deborah Penrose

    Mayor
    [email protected]
    Phone: 650-726-8250 (leave message with Clerk’s office)

  2. Joaquin Jimenez

    Vice Mayor
    [email protected]
    Phone: 650-726-8250 (leave message with Clerk’s office)

  3. Debbie Ruddock

    Councilmember
    [email protected]
    Phone: 650-726-8250 (leave message with Clerk’s office)

  4. Robert Brownstone

    Councilmember
    [email protected]
    Phone: 650-726-8250 (leave message with Clerk’s office)

  5. Harvey Rarback

    Councilmember
    [email protected]
    Phone: 650-726-8250 (leave message with Clerk’s office)
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2 thoughts on “With New E-Bike Law Allowing All Classes, Half Moon Bay City Council’s “No E-Bike” Position Forces Council to Send Issue Back to BPAC for Further Consideration”

  1. E-bike bans are basically unenforceable because ADA laws would allow any person with disabilities to ride an e-bike where regular bicycles are allowed. ADA laws also prevent anybody including police to ask what the disability is. A disabled person can volunteer that information, but nobody can force them due to privacy laws – certainly not some public works employee, park ranger, and certainly not some other residents.
    What is enforceable however are speed limits.
    There is currently no ADA law that would allow a person with disabilities to speed. So even if a ADA relevant e-bike goes 20mph in a 15mph zone, that is enforceable without needing to verify any disability.
    This was always more about discrimination and anti-bicycle bias by various council members – some of whom happen to be on the Board of PCE where they put on a mask of being pro-electrification and pro-climate.

  2. I am pleased to see the HMB city council rethinking their ban on e-bikes on the coastal trails. I am nearly 80 years old, and have just passed over 10,000 miles riding e-bikes, almost all of which was on the Coastside, much of it on the trails. I am a cautious, considerate and lawful rider. I have been compelled to switch much of my transit to riding on the shoulders of highway one due to the new regulations, to the detriment of my own safety. Non powered bikes are mostly capable of traveling at unsafe speeds. Regulating prohibition of type 3 3bikes because they are CAPABLE of exceeding safe speeds makes no more sense than banning Ferraris from Main St. HMB because they are CAPABLE of approaching 200 mph. I am at risk from an irresponsible dog walker with an extendo-leash having their dog extend his cable in front of me, but their is zero prohibition of extendo leashes. Common sense should prevail.

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