HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee - 01/16/2019Bike & Pedestrian Committee - Meeting Minutes
Wednesday January 16, 2019 @ 5:45 pm
(Note: January 9, 2019 meeting postponed 1 week due to weather)
The Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee held a rescheduled monthly meeting on the above date/time at
the Police Station (2nd Floor Conference Room) at 19 Gregory Drive.
Members Present: Dana Farr (Chair), Cathy Frank (Vice Chair), Shawn Goddard (Clerk), Bob Britt, Donna
Leban, Amanda Holland
Members Absent: Bill Wooden (Co-Clerk), Katie Dolbec
City Representative: Ashley Parker, Project Manager (Absent)
Also Present: Allegra Williams (CCRPC/Local Motion)
Meeting documents can be found in the folder named: 1. January 2019 & updates can be found in the
document Talking Points
Note: Items requiring follow up listed in red.
Meeting began at: 5:45pm
1. Welcome and directions on emergency evacuation procedures - Dana
2. Changes or additions to the agenda
○ Amanda asked to discuss the format of the minutes.
i. She asked for the minutes to be ONLY the discussion of the topics in the
meeting, rather than including all of the updates (which are contained in the
Talking Points anyway).
ii. Minutes should also have not just the vote, but who made & seconded each
motion.
iii. All seemed comfortable with these changes so this will be the new standard for
our committees minutes.
1. Shawn owns the change & will convey to Bill.
3. Comments from the public not related to the agenda
○ None
4. Consideration of minutes from the previous meeting.
○ Amanda had some proposed changes to the meeting minutes from December.
○ This portion of our discussion was moved later to accommodate Amanda who was a few
minutes late.
○ Cathy moved to approve, second: Dana,
i. Amanda noticed that Bob, not Donna was nominated as her backup to CCRPC
ii. Amanda also said that she thought we documented the recommendation for
Fayette Dr incorrectly because Option #6 was only for a portion of the project.
But, this was intentional because we need more detail on the rest of the project.
iii. Item 8 - unfinished sentence
iv. Bob motioned to approve as amended, Dana seconded. Unanimously
approved. Amanda abstained.
1. Shawn will make these updates.
5. Discussion: Local Motion - Allegra Williams
○ CCRPC/Local Motion: Regional bike count program
i. Local Motion (LM) have been talking with CCRPC about developing a regional
bike count program using LM volunteers and CCRPC equipment.
ii. This is similar to the traffic studies that help to assess traffic flow & patterns to
assist in infrastructure planning.
iii. Planning to start in spring, 2019 and continue work through the biking season
this year.
iv. They’d love input on locations to sample from our committee.
v. Objective:
1. Show how much people are biking
2. Show before and after for infrastructure upgrades
vi. Committee would want to use this to collect data on areas that we think are
high priority - i.e. Spear St, Spear/Swift intersection, Dorset St/Cider Mill, and
Queen City Park Road / Shelburne Rd crossing.
vii. Allegra will inform our committee when they’re looking for volunteers.
○ Statewide bike-walk committee meet-up - Safe Routes Conference
i. Allegra notified the committee that the Safe Routes Conference will take place
April 11th at the Barre Granite Museum..
ii. Said that we have an opportunity to present on Penny For Paths, or anything
else that we might want to discuss from our committee work.
iii. They are working on the agenda, and will share once it gets more solidified.
iv. If the committee wants to propose topics we would have to submit by early
February. An official call for presentations will be sent soon.
6. Report & Discussion: Updates from the City - Ashley
○ Ashley was not in attendance, so we didn’t discuss her updates.
○ Bob said that he’s still working on the potential ROW issues at Allen Rd. Spear
7. Discussion: Planning & Zoning Street Types - Donna
○ Planning & Zoning Street Type Spreadsheet 2019
○ NACTO Urban Street Design Guide (National Association of City Transportation Officials)
○ Discussion:
i. Donna made comments on the “Clean” tab of the Google Sheets document.
ii. Paul Conner and the Planning & Zoning Commission want our input on these
proposed standards
iii. Discussed the city standards regarding curbs
1. Shawn mentioned that some towns don’t sweep streets without curbs,
so we’d want to understand if South Burlington (SB) DPW has similar
standards. We may not want to recommend eliminating curbs if it
meant eliminating street sweeping.
iv. Does SB have standards for different types of streets documented?
1. Committee was unclear on detailed standards, but think we designate
the roads by type (local, collector, arterial).
v. Many different types defined...maybe too many to be used effectively.
1. We all thought this should be simplified
vi. What will these standards be used for?
vii. Will all SB roads be assigned one of these designations?
viii. Is it only for new development, or will they be using this for redevelopment?
1. Could the city provide us with some examples of each type of street
designation?
ix. Donna has concerns about the bike facilities for support streets. If there won’t
be bike/ped facilities on these streets the city needs to ensure there are
alternate routes available on a case-by-case basis.
x. Committee would like Paul to come to the meeting next month to discuss this
topic with specific examples of each type.
xi. Bob asked Donna to update the NACTO pictures with the page # so it’s easier to
connect the image to the spreadsheet.
xii. Committee Homework on this:
1. Everyone should review the spreadsheet for Street Design grid (tab:
Clean) and add comments to the Bike/Ped comment section (row 31).
Need comments by January 23rd.
8. Discussion: Review Action Plan for Future Work
○ Need next steps from all of our sub-groups.
○ All of these topics will be stand-alone topics in the future. They will only show on the
agenda if requested.
○ Groups:
i. Monitoring our top projects - Ashley/Dana
1. Ashley created a spreadsheet to track P4P priority projects. See link
under P4P updates in Ongoing Committee Business.
ii. Strategic Plan for Funding - Bob, Dana & Shawn
iii. Bike/Ped Infrastructure Maintenance - Amanda, Bob & Shawn
iv. Infrastructure mapping - Amanda, Bill & Katie
v. Informing & engaging the public - Katie, Amanda, & Donna
vi. Striping Inventory - Shawn
vii. Monthly reporting and tracking of all recent scoping studies - Amanda
viii. Signage - Donna
9. Discussion: Review City Council Presentation - Bob
○ Draft Recommendations for City Council Adoption
i. Being presented, tentatively, at the Tuesday, February 19th meeting. We’d like
to have as many from the committee in attendance as possible.
○ Bob asked what we wanted to present and who would be presenting.
i. We’ll be reviewing the Safety/Policy recommendations - Bob
ii. Top priority projects we’re moving forward on in 2019 - Ashley
1. We’ll want to have a person familiar with the presentations as a backup
in case our primaries can’t attend last minute. Did not define who.
○ Cathy suggested that she write up a similar “update” in The Other Paper on the
topics/recommendations we make to the City Council. We agreed that this would be a
good idea.
○ Bob will show Justin our recommendations ahead of time so he’s aware of what will be
presented.
○ Tom Hubbard has asked for a spending plan, but we’re not ready to present that.
10. Updates: Ongoing Committee Work
○ Dana asked if anyone had any questions or comments on the ongoing committee work
updates listed below/on agenda.
i. Results of homework from last meeting - Dana
ii. P4P Project Updates - Ashley
iii. Policy and Safety Recommendations Update - Bob
iv. Monthly DPW meeting - Bob & Shawn
1. No meeting held
v. CCRPC Update - Amanda & Bob
vi. Interim Zoning - Amanda & Donna
vii. DRB Update - Cathy & Shawn
viii. SBBP Committee content on SB Website - Cathy
ix. General Business - Dana
○ Dana noted the unfinished December homework for sub-groups to detail next steps for
our priority list will need to carry forward to next month.
○ Cathy gave an additional follow up re DRB meeting, DRB is having discussions about
roundabouts and the safety of bicycle users. Cathy would like this on the March
agenda. Cathy is investigating if a roundabout is a better setup for bikes and peds for
safety purposes as well as automobiles. Allegra mentioned the Burlington group on
roundabouts that can provide resources.
○ Cathy asked that a discussion about ebikes and escooters on rec paths and sidewalks
also be added to the March agenda.
○ Dana reported that Nic Anderson has officially applied to be on the Bike/Ped
Committee, so we should anticipate a new member soon.
11. Review: Summarize new homework - Dana
○ Homework is what is carried over from Dec.
12. Confirmation: Next meeting Wednesday, February 13
13. Adjourned @ 7:51pm
○ Motion by Cathy to adjourn, second Donna