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Bike & Pedestrian Committee
Meeting minutes
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
5:30 p.m.
South Burlington City Hall, Champlain Room
575 Dorset Street
1. Welcome and directions on emergency evacuation procedures (5:30 p.m.)
a. Attendees: Shawn, Ashley, Cathy, Bob, Bill, Nick, Donna, Havaleh, Amanda; not
attending: Dana.
2. Changes or additions to the agenda (5:35 p.m.)
a. Shawn requested taking a group picture at this meeting.
3. Comments from the public not related to the agenda (5:40 p.m.)
a. No public attending.
4. Consideration of minutes from the previous meeting(s) (5:45 p.m.)
a. Cathy motioned to approve minutes from last month, Donna 2nd. All in favor. Bob,
Havaleh, Nick abstain.
5. Updates from the City - Ashley (5:50 p.m. - 20min)
a. General Updates
i. Underwood parcel
1. Working to formalize access to the park area for the public.
a. Need answer from committee if we can use P4P funds for rec
path through park.
i. Nick motions to approve to support using P4P funding
for the design and build of the shared use path at
Underwood property.
1. Havaleh 2nd.
a. All in favor, no oppose.
ii. Follow up on lane line width on Airport parkway
1. Nick concerned driving and bike lanes do not meet standards (12’
vehicle, 4’ bike - should be 10’ & 5’)
iii. Committee requests clarification from the city on road and path crack repair
requirements, how to categorize severity (visual guide, using pencil for scale,
etc.)
b. P4P Project Status Updates - see city notes documents.
i. South Dorset
1. Shawn suggested writing an article in The Other Paper about receiving
funds from State for project - how P4P and CIP impacted application
success.
ii. Jug Handle
iii. Upper Allen
iv. Airport Parkway
6. Major - September Symposium Discussion - All (6:10 p.m. - 15min)
a. Ashley will provide specific guidance from City
b. Objective: Committee definition of poster topics
i. Shawn to start compiling information for poster.
1. Current project: signage project
2. Highlights of year: P4P approval, Receiving state grant, ballards on
Dorset, safety update.
3. Plan for the year ahead: Use annual Report
4. Put P4P logo on Poster
5. Highlight projects which could partner with other committees
attending: i.e. - ride to schools with energy committee. Crossing lights
@ Swift/Spear with energy committee. Group projects: Community
related, safety, construction.
6. Funny moments: The escooter testing at city hall
ii. Cathy & Nick create presentation and presenting, Bob offered to help put report
together.
Objective: Committee definition of City Council Presentation
Shawn: may want to add a note that SB has higher speed limits than
surrounding areas. Get information infront of council, see what reaction is. Give
examples, if possible.
7. Major - Review new Google Drive & Laser Fiche repository - Shawn/Ashley (6:25 p.m. - 20min)
a. Objective: General committee awareness of the new repositories and how to use them.
b. Objective: Define questions or concerns for Coralee Holm (if necessary)
i. If committee members notice missing documents, members can add them
individually. If it is a larger amount of documents, contact Larry.
ii. Important to download and edit documents to prevent quorum.
1. Need procedure for naming files - downloading and uploading to drive.
a. Need guide lines from city - “Simple is better”.
b. Committee leader downloads documents, other members send
updates and comments to leader.
c. Use date or version to identify latest version of documents.
iii. Amanda to go through Google drive to see what needs to be transfered.
iv.
8. Major - Rec Path Signage - Donna or Bill (6:45 p.m. - 15min)
a. Objective: Working group to make initial recommendations on 1st-phase of signage.
i. Donna uploaded comments to points on Google map
ii. City needs to know where signs are need, what are not way finding package,
what they would look like, etc.
1. Committee to prioritize list of signs - committee to determine what
category of signs should be done in what order: safety? Way finding?
Informational? Make our needs fit within the Signage design
2. standards.
iii. Sub-group will provide recommendations for prioritizing list.
iv. No deadline from city
v. Would this be P4P money? Ashley to look into budget.
vi. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1_chQybbtCpL4vPZ1DoGJ2M0ezA
wmWglV&%3Bll=44.425963961789606%2C-
73.1035593974745&%3Bz=12&ll=44.443152649395785%2C-
73.17477770000005&z=13
9. Minor - SB Resident Education/Communication Discussion - Cathy (7:00 p.m. - 10min)
a. Objective: Discussion on how to educate the community on new stuff (like bike boxes).
i. Cathy wrote article for The Other Paper about bike boxes.
1. Need a way to communicate to community when there are new items,
such as bike boxes, about how to use them (both drivers and bikers).
ii. Amanda suggested a sub-group for “engagement” with the community.
Communication, interaction, education, etc.
10. Minor - Proposed Agenda Format Changes - Shawn (7:10 p.m. - 10min)
a. Note: Continuation of discussion from August Meeting. Need to define the standards
for the “Ongoing Committee Work” as well as discussion of any other questions or
concerns about the schedule/process for creating the agenda.
b. Objective: Define standards for “Ongoing Committee Work” updates.
c. Leave section of meeting for committee updates, round robin. Quick 2 minutes updates.
11. Minor - Bike/Ped Project Tracking - All (7:20 p.m. - 10min)
a. Objective: Finalize list of all major/active projects or efforts.
i. Amanda - add line for scoping, Engagement
ii. Nick - change ‘Communication’ to ‘Communication & Outreach’
1. Cathy primary, team members: Bob
iii. ‘Engagement’ - Havaleh to lead, Amanda as team member
iv. CIP: Add Amanda as team member
v. DPW: add Amanda, Dana as team member (?) - Shawn to confirm Dana
interested
vi. Scoping
1. Amanda primary, team member: Bob.
vii. Rec Path
1. Bill Primary, team members: Dana, Donna
viii. Mapping, remove CCRPC
1. Amanda primary, team member: Nick
ix. Remove Mapping - Open streets. Can be combined with Peole for Bikes ranking
x. People for Bikes ranking - change to Bicycle friendly Community
1. Nick primary, team members: Havaleh, shawn
xi. Ways to go to School
1. Donna Primary, team members: Havaleh, Nick
xii. Safety
1. Bob primary, team members: Cathy
xiii. DRB
1. Cathy primary, team members: Shawn, add Donna
xiv. Interim Zoning
1. Amanda primary, team members: remove Donna.
b. Primaries to determine when projects/tasks started, when/if they will be completed
12. Updates: Ongoing Committee Work (7:30 p.m. - 25min)
a. Monthly DPW meeting - Bob
i. Bob and Shawn wrote questions for Justin, submitted last week. No response
yet, will be on next months adgenda.
b. CCRPC Update - Amanda & Donna
c. Interim Zoning - Amanda & Donna
d. DRB Update - Cathy & Shawn
i. Kimball avenue intersection - ‘complicated’. Keeping in touch with planning.
Giving imput as we can. Developer will be presenting again next week. Need to
stay in the discussion during planning.
e. Communications - Cathy
f. Safety - Bob
g. Way to Go Schools - Donna
i. Meeting Thursday @ SB Police station, Energy committee will be discussing,
Donna to attend. 6:30pm.
h. City Bike/Ped Rankings (People for Bikes / League of American Cyclists) - Nic
i. E-bikes are delayed in shipment, stuck in China.
i. General Business - Shawn
13. Confirmation: Next meeting Wednesday, October 9, 2019 @ 5:30pm
14. Adjourn (8:00 p.m.) Adjourned at 8:04pm. Cathy motioned we adjourned.
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Park Signage
Design
Development
DRAFT
03.29.2017
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Drawing for design intent only; Not intended for construction.
Graphics on this design for demonstrative purposes only. Final layouts and messaging TBD.11 | Sign System Family3/8” = 1’- 0”
All Dogs Must Be On a Leash
Please clean up after your dog
No Jumping or Diving off Cliffs!
You map strike submerged ojects and be KILLED or SERIOUSLY INJURED.
DANGER
All Dogs Must Be On a Leash
Please clean up after your dog
Regulatory/Warning (R)Central AreaOuter LoopTrail Marker (T.s)
SECONDARY
Central Area0.2 mi.
West Loop0.6 mi.
Trail Marker (T.p)
PRIMARY
Int. Post (I)Kiosk (K.s)
SECONDARY
Kiosk (K.p)
PRIMARY
south burlingtonRECREATION PATH
Help clean the park clean. Please clean up after you dog.wetland
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gy
Bike Directional (BD)
Red Rocks Park2.0 mi.
Dorset St.
0.6 mi.
Veterans Memorial Park
1.5 mi.
To Exit
Additional Parking
Auto Directional (AD)
Closed at Sunset
Parking (P)Park ID (ID.u)
URBAN
Park ID (ID.n)
NEIGHBORHOOD
CITY PARK
Park ID (ID.s)
SECONDARY
CITY PARK
Park ID (ID.p)
PRIMARY
CITY PARK Sign System Family