Police shot a man on Friday who officials said had been holding scissors and a 12-inch kitchen knife outside of an assisted living facility in the Bronx.

Investigators say officers fired when the man came after them in a "full-fledged sprint." The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

It's a situation that city lawmakers, who released a Mental Health Roadmap policy proposal Monday, want to stop before it happens.

"The reason why we wanted to have this roadmap is to prevent situations like that," City Councilmember Linda Lee, the chair of the Council's Committee on Mental Health, Disability and Addiction, told NY1.

Under this roadmap, lawmakers vow to open more facilities treating New Yorkers with serious mental health issues, while spending tens of millions of dollars to fund more supportive housing and services in schools in the upcoming budget.

"It's really utilizing what's already in existence and the services that are already being provided on the ground," Lee said.

Councilmembers say their Mental Health Roadmap focuses on expanding support services before someone suffers a dangerous mental health episode, boosting the ranks of service providers and helping people avoid interactions with police that can turn violent and even deadly.

The roadmap includes five bills. One would add at least two Crisis Respite Centers in each borough. The centers give people in a mental health crisis an alternative to a hospital.

Another bill would add more community centers for people with severe mental illness, locating them in at least five of the highest-need areas.

"What they are attempting to do is really create centers and places where folks can go that's not necessarily in an inpatient setting, but can receive the care that they need that's not in a hospital setting," Lee said.

The other bills require reports on Mayor Eric Adams' directive to the NYPD that officers and emergency workers can send mentally ill people to hospitals involuntarily, public outreach and a dataset created of locations for outpatient mental health services.

The Council also proposes spending $28 million on mental health clinics in schools, with sites in all five boroughs and a goal of one social worker for every 250 students.

Plus, they propose putting $13 million towards the creation of 380 units of supportive housing for people who cycle between jail, prison, hospitals and shelters.