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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee - 02/14/2018BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN COMMITTEE MINUTES 02-14-2018 The Bicycle and Pedestrian Commiee held its regular monthly meeng on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 5:30 pm in the small conference room at the city office building. Members Present: Cathy Frank, Vice-Chair; Dana Farr, Chair; Jamieson Goodwin, Clerk; Amanda Holland; Bob Bri, Roy Neuer; Shawn Goddard; Donna Leban Members Absent: Jim Grossman, City Representave: Cathyann LaRose, City Planner Also Present: Nic Anderson; Jusn Rabidoux, South Burlington Department of Public Works, Mark Kane; SE Group Meeng began at 5:35 pm. 1. Welcome and emergency procedure review 2. Changes to the Agenda 3. Comments from public not related to Agenda – None 4. Approval of January 2018 minutes – Amanda moon to accept the minutes, Bob seconds. Passes. 5. Sewer Bond proposal review: DPW Staff - Jusn here to present on the Bond proposal for new Sewer treatment facilies that will be on the upcoming ballot. Though not directly related to SBBPC interests, he believes it’s worth the effort to inform the commiees as a means to inform and assist in drive conversaon with the public as a whole. The bond is a means of funding the creaon of a connecon to exisng SB treatment facilies to handle waste from area near Rice High School down to Shelburne road and Farrell St. The current arrangement has the city sending to Burlington treatment facilies and the tax base as a whole subsidizes the cost for a small poron of the city at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Review connued around the financials involved in this process and the overall net posive for doing this work if approved. 6. Planned Unit Development (PUD) project review – Mark Kane here to present on the current status of the project to review and update regulaons around PUDs. PUDs are currently primarily used as a “waiver tool,” or as a means to grant waivers easily for these types of projects. This discussion is primarily focused around the overall framework of this project to develop and showcase the standards being developed. As of this meeng, there are 4 specific PUD types of interest to B&P related topics: Tradional Neighborhood Development (TND), Neighborhood Commercial Development (NCD), Transit Oriented Design (TOD), Campus (CA). These types are subject to change or updates, so details are immaterial at this point. These definions and guidelines will help promote connecvity between neighborhoods, green-spaces, etc. Discussion connued around future consideraons for these guidelines and ways to modify language moving forward. The compleon of the inial dra is esmated to be in July. For B&P specifically, think about the definions, but especially as it relates to known gaps so that they can be used moving forward. 7. Bike Share program update - Nic Anderson is here to present on current status of the Bike Share project inializaon. Things are progressing steadily, agreement with vendor for bikes, two tle sponsors as well as other organizaons contribung and sponsoring. He is hoping to launch the program in early April with an event likely planned to be on Church St. Nic reviewed bike features, bike hubs (racks), tentave rates. The program is hub based, meaning that there are known locaons for bikes to be located, as opposed to free-roaming. Because the bikes are smart/powered and not the hubs, rack placement is flexible and easily updated via the app. Reviewed proposed placement and phase 2 and 3 placements as well. The commiee thanks Nic for stopping by and acvely seeking input from the commiee and other local stakeholders. 8. Penny For Paths – Next steps; Amanda reviewed updates to the tasks and responsibilies list which will help outline necessary steps and progression to be ready for this ballot iniave. a. Subcommiees signup and current status – Reviewed list of current task list and current subcommiee ownership, updang with commiee volunteers as needed. Discussion connued about individual task outputs necessary for other task inputs (i.e. what outputs are necessary from ballot development to feed into communicaon tasks). Each task reviewed and volunteers were compiled for each defined task. b. Current status report – Reviewed completed acon items and outcomes from efforts for the task list as it stands to date. Some posive progress and feedback across the board. Sll other steps need compleon, such as compleng the scope/definion of the ballot to help inform other tasks. Reviewed current status report format. The format is subject to change in the future depending on ease of updang/reporng as tasks progress and are completed. 9. Updates from the City: Cathyann - As presented previously by city staff (October 2017), changes and illustraons were developed for the new Bicycle Parking standards. The current revision of those standards and their changes were briefly reviewed. The updated standards were approved by the Planning Commission on 2/13/2018 and are being sent to City Council for consideraon and approval. Also addressed were some pre-exisng installaon consideraons or triggers for requirements in a site update/upgrade. 10. General Maers: a. Discussion: Talking Points b. Burlington Bike Walk event c. County Bike/Ped planning 11. The Bike Rack/Homework Report out 12. Confirmaon: Next meeng March 14 th at 5:30 Meeng ended at 8:25 pm. Respecully submied, Jamieson Goodwin, Clerk These meeng minutes were approved by the Commiee on March 21, 2018.