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Bike & Pedestrian Committee
Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 @ 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.). Started at 5:32
a. Attendees: Ashley, Shawn, Donna, Bill, Bob, Nic, Havaleh, Amanda.
2. Changes or additions to the agenda (5:35 p.m.)
a. No changes
3. Comments from the public not related to the agenda (5:40 p.m.)
a. No public attendance
4. Consideration of minutes from the previous meeting(s) (5:45 p.m.)
a. Bob - update to January minutes to change “shared use” to “Sidewalk” (section 4-20-1-
a).
b. Donna motion to approve January minutes with Changes from Bob
i. Havaleh second
ii. Amanda obstain
5. Updates from the City - Ashley (5:50 p.m. - 15min)
a. Bob - Any updates on when Paul will be presenting the on scoping studies?
i. Ashley - she has no updates from Paul for this meeting.
ii. Shawn - fits in with last meetings discussion of having Amanda and Bob on
Scoping team.
6. Major - White Street Bike Lane Proposal Discussion - Group (6:05 p.m. - 20min)
a. Objective: Review & discuss feedback from public
i. Nic - For public engagement, had plan before public meeting. Provided summary
(found in minutes).
ii. Shawn - ratio of support versus opposition - similar to P4P, which had thousands
of participants and voters.
iii. Bob - how many voted for follow up questions?
1. Nic - 26
iv. Nic - For future: need to link people who live on the street or not, to follow up
questions.
1. Shawn - person who commented about White Street being too narrow,
can assume they drive regularly.
v. Nic - one person who lives on White Street had negative follow-up. Was
concerned about parking on side streets.
vi. Shawn - any further thoughts or comments?
1. Bob - sounds like we should move forward
2. Havaleh- one opposition public member asked how we knew what was
needed - was satisfied it was based on public research study completed
3 years earlier.
3. Nic - followed up on data about speed radar data, but no data was
available.
4. Shawn - collect traffic speed/use data before we make the line changes
to be able to compare to traffic speed/use patterns afterwards
a. Nic - Justin Rabidoux (DPW) said he can put out speed radars to
collect information. Put between intersection of Patchen and
school, at max speed location.
b. What is cost to city? See agenda.
i. From Justin - $250/sign to install including labor.
ii. Bob noted that labor is a fixed cost and not incremental
to DPW budget.
5. Donna - does bike lane signs include “bike lanes” and “bike lanes ends”?
a. Nic - should be followed up with “Bikes may use full lane”
b. Shawn - city should the standards - so bikers and drivers are
seeing consistent signals.
c. Nic - it is important to install bike lane signs. Stencils are
minimal size currently on Airport Parkway.
d. Nic - there are 9 cross streets for parking.
6. Amanda - what is standard for distance between no parking signs?
a. Nic - typically between 250’-300’, but no statutory requirement.
b. Nic can share map he created of signs layout.
7. Ashley - good to make map to show all street closures during
changeover.
8. Shawn - for city council proposal, they will want to see public feedback,
they will focus on negative. Should have committee response to those
topics ready.
9. Nic - want to wrap up as soon as possible, would like on next city council
agenda.
a. Ashley - any thing they need to review this request, should go
into submittal packet.
i. Nic - only want to go to them once.
ii. Ashley - SBBPC vote tonight to recommend. Then a
draft of the proposal can be made to present to city
council.
iii. Shawn - worth having a conversation with Justin.
Adding to meeting with him the 21st.
iv. Amanda - add that all work on White Street bike lanes
to be completed in “construction season of 2020”.
1. Donna - have Justin suggest a date when it is
possible to complete.
2. Amanda - just take the date out of the proposal
and put season.
v. Shawn - how much time will we get for a presentation?
a. Ashley - probably 20 minutes.
b. Objective: Determine next steps for White Street Bike Lane proposal.
i. Bob motions to proceed with proposal by Nic as presented, to send to city
council. Change date to “when practical”.
1. Amanda second
2. All in favor
ii. Nic & Ashley to create submittal packet to city council for January.
7. Major - Review status of 2019 Annual Goals - Shawn / Project Leads (6:40 p.m. - 20min)
a. Objective: Check-in on progress at midway point in the fiscal year
i. Shawn - we completed 2020 report
1. Only new item to add is White Street bike lane striping project..
ii. CIP input - Complete, no additional work in FY 2021
iii. DPW interface & maintenance
1. New plan to meet quarterly
a. Email between meetings, as needed
2. Bob - trying to figure out a way to get things done and work together
with Justin, to cross things off the list.
a. Bob has updated maintenance schedule workbook in Google
Docs, Shawn is updating line striping workbook.
b. Shawn - we will share meeting agenda and workbooks with rest
of SBBP committee.
i. Workbooks already within SBBPC Google docs folder.
3. P4P priority Projects
a. No updates at this time.
4. Scoping
a. No updates at this time.
5. P4P signs
a. No updates at this time.
6. Rec Path Signage
a. Sub-committee needs to schedule meeting. And then define
next priorities.
7. Communications & Outreach
a. Bob - no updates.
b. Have not published anything in paper
i. Ashley - Cathy working to create article “Share the
road”
8. Mapping
a. Amanda - nothing new to report
b. Amanda - Winter is a good time to review map for updates
needed.
i. Nic - has marked up map with changes.
ii. Donna - how much of existing signage is on map?
1. Amanda - map does not include signs. Map
includes crosswalks, easements, sidewalks.
2. Donna - having information for future
easements is hard to get and important to have.
3. Amanda - we do have history data of easement,
can look at with Paul.
4. Ashley - city is scanning old documents to
review for easements.
a. Question for Paul - how are they
making and recording those
requirements with developers?
9. Bicycle Friendly Community
a. Nic - at crossroads, time crunch for application submittal. Need
to submit in February, next opportunity is in August.
i. Shawn - missing data because need more from Justin,
Paul and schools.
ii. Shawn - Nic can leverage Shawn & Havelah’s help as
needed.
10. Way to Go Schools
a. Donna - We are going through channels to complete
background checks, to be able to volunteer in schools.
b. Meeting scheduled next week with Mary Catherine Graziano @
Local Motion, works with schools.
i. Mary suggested positive incentives for kids not driving
to school.
c. Havaleh - teenagers need prizes for incentive
i. Nic - to go with prizes, need punishment for people who
don’t respond to incentives.
d. Nic - Donna has reached outto see if there are sustainability
clubs, and the like, at schools.
11. Safety
a. Bob - list updated in December
i. Added speed limit information and White Street
ii. 7 items that are still on list, include RRFB on poles -
have funding but not the bandwidth to install.
iii. Working on timing for Swift and Spear lights.
iv. Need cooperation from city to get them implemented.
b. Donna - city provided temporary speed tracking to Brand farm
drive area. Who with the city does the evaluation to determine
proper speed?
i. Bob - adding on list to discuss for meeting with Justin on
January 21st.
c. Shawn - speed limits in city is new topic?
i. Bob - added in fall, Nic suggested.
ii. Shawn - want to develop speed limit project plan.
12. DRB Representative
a. Shawn - he hasn’t been to any meetings, asked Cathy for
updates.
b. Bob - Dorset meadows - coming in front of DRB this month.
i. Ashley - upcoming meeting is focused on talking to
applicant about riparian/maintaining wildlife
connectivity.
13. Interim Zoning
a. Amanda - coming to a close, drafting final report to present to
City Council. Targeting/hoping for February, within 1-2 months.
14. Engagement
a. Havaleh - going to sponsor rides at SOBU night out.
i. Ongoing - school events.
ii. Reach out to Rec Department and LocalMotion for
shared events.
b. Shawn - maybe meet/update quarterly?
c. Donna - name suggestion for bike ride events - “Pump it up” or
“Pump you up”, to get people (and tires) pumped up.
1. Nic - “Slow roll” has appeal.
8. Updates: Ongoing Committee Work (7:00 p.m. - 30min)
a. General updates from committee members (~3-5min per person)
b. See item 7 for sub-committee updates.
c. Donna - Vermont walk/bike summit.
i. Shawn - anyone want to go?
1. Nic - P4P pretty revolutionary and unique, worth sharing.
2. Amanda - worthwhile to present.
3. Shawn - Nic & Amanda to create presentation and submit to event.
d. Nic - now officially on LocalMotion Board of Directors - for 3 years.
9. Confirmation: Next meeting Wednesday, February 12, 2020 @ 5:30pm
10. Adjourn (by 8:00 p.m.)
a. Adjourned at 6:57pm.