Expanded Community Advisory Panel (XCAP)
The Expanded Community Advisory Panel, known as “XCAP,” was a group of Palo Altans and other stakeholders tasked with evaluating all the information related to the grade crossing alternatives for rail crossings. The group, a Brown Act body, could vote and make recommendations directly to the City Council. The Office of Transportation provided staffing to the XCAP.
Please visit the XCAP meetings web page to see meeting materials (agendas, reports, presentations, summaries, videos, etc).
XCAP held meetings between June 2019 and February 2021. The XCAP members included:
Gregory Brail
Phil Burton
Tony Carrasco
Inyoung Cho
Larry Klein
Nadia Naik
Keith Reckdahl
David Shen
Cari Templeton
XCAP Guiding Principles and Workplan:
The XCAP organized itself in October 2019 and adopted a set of Guiding Principles to direct how they do their work. Here are the XCAP Guiding Principles, Adopted. (Here are the XCAP Guiding Principles, Annotated.) They adopted an XCAP Conceptual Workplan as well.
XCAP List of Questions:
The XCAP generated a list of questions to be addressed during a design workshop in 2019. In January 2020, they reviewed and narrowed them down for revised list of questions. In April 2020, staff and consultants generated responses to the questions.
How does the XCAP differ from the former CAP?
Prior to the XCAP, there was a Community Advisory Panel (CAP) tasked with studying grade separation and providing feedback to City staff and consultants. The CAP concluded in March 2019, but many CAP members joined the XCAP. Visit the CAP web page for more information on the former panel.