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HomeMy WebLinkAboutActive Modes Advisory Board - MINUTES - 10/21/2024 ACTIVE MODES ADVISORY BOARD TYPE OF MEETING –REGULAR October 21, 2024 6:00 p.m. Online via Zoom or In Person at 281 North College 10/21 /202 4 – MINUTES Page 1 FOR REFERENCE: 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair Henderson called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM. 2. ROLL CALL Bruce Henderson, Chair Kevin Krause, Vice Chair Jared Hanson Wallace Jacobson Cameron Phillips Kat Steele Kristina Vrouwenvelder CITY STAFF PRESENT: Lauren Nagle Rachel Ruhlen Cortney Geary ABSENT: Tim Han PUBLIC PRESENT: None 3. AGENDA REVIEW Chair Henderson outlined the published agenda. 4. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION None. ACTIVE MODES ADVISORY BOARD TYPE OF MEETING – REGULAR 10/21 /202 4 – MINUTES Page 2 5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – SEPTEMBER 2024 Chair Henderson stated he and Vice Chair Krause would be working on the parking minimums memo prior to the November meeting. Nagle noted the plan is for a joint meeting with the Transportation Board in January during which both Boards could consider the memo as part of the larger Land Use Code commercial updates topic. Vice Chair Krause suggested the Board move forward with the memo prior to January. Other members concurred. Krause made a motion, seconded by Jacobson, to approve the minutes of the September 2024 meeting. The motion was adopted unanimously. 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS a. 2025 Work Plan – Bruce Henderson Chair Henderson noted the Board previously drafted a Work Plan for this calendar year, but Work Plans are due in November, and the Board was new as of the spring. He provided the Board with a version of the 2024 Work Plan with some proposed revisions for 2025. Members discussed the rules for speaking at other Board meetings and discussed items that could be changed or considered as part of the 2025 Work Plan. Additionally, members discussed references to the Active Modes Plan in the Work Plan. Chair Henderson stated he would summarize the edits and provide them to members for final review. 7. NEW BUSINESS a. Vision Zero – Rachel Ruhlen and Lauren Nagle Rachel Ruhle, FC Moves, stated Council adopted the Vision Zero Action Plan last year with the goal of eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries by 2032. Ruhlen noted the current number is over 300 per year. Ruhlen stated the Plan has five goal areas with an overarching goal of a focus on vulnerable road users. Each goal area includes transformative and supporting actions, and the five goal areas include support mode shift, prioritize safer speeds in multi-modal places, promote a culture of traffic safety, increase data transparency and partnerships, and center equity. Ruhlen announced a Safe Streets for All grant recently received by the City which will fund the Lake Street demonstration project through campus, which will probably include separated bike lanes, will fund a study of seven intersections on Harmony Road, and will fund an audit of standards and policies. Ruhlen noted the Vision Zero Action Plan functions more to interface with things ACTIVE MODES ADVISORY BOARD TYPE OF MEETING – REGULAR 10/21 /202 4 – MINUTES Page 3 like the Active Modes Plan and the Transportation Capital Projects Prioritization Study which include more detail in terms of actual projects and identified locations for improvements. The Vision Zero Plan identified the top six severe crash types, and which countermeasures are most effective against them. Vrouwenvelder asked if the crash types indicate what the car was doing in the crash situation. Ruhlen replied that is a limitation of calling a pedestrian a crash type. It was noted that if all pedestrian crashes were analyzed, the vehicular movements could be determined. Jacobson asked about the obstacles identified in the Plan. Ruhlen replied the culture of traffic safety looks at certain obstacles and cited the example of Traffic Operations changing signal timing to allow more time for pedestrian crossing, which therefore took away time from another movement, frequently left turn movements, which has led to complaints about the number of cars that can make it through a light on a left arrow. Ruhlen showed the Vision Zero website and discussed the high injury network, which was identified using a five-year crash history, ending in 2021, and includes data from bicycle and pedestrian high injury networks as well as motor vehicle. Ruhlen noted all bicycle and pedestrian crash data also included a motor vehicle. Additionally, Ruhlen noted the vast majority of severe crashes occur at intersections. Vrouwenvelder asked if motorcycle crashes must also have involved a motor vehicle to be included. Ruhlen replied in the negative. Ruhlen showed the interactive map and crash database. Ruhlen also discussed the Safety in the City report which is formulated annually and includes items such as the top 50 intersections by excess crash costs. Ruhlen noted there were four Vision Zero site visits in 2023; however, there were no resources attached to them and therefore no action occurred immediately following those visits. Chair Henderson suggested accumulating site visit data in a resource to be utilized when small grants arise. Vice Chair Krause encouraged the idea of having some funding pool generically available for small improvements that could be made prior to full intersection redesign. He cited the Prospect and Riverside intersection as an example. Members discussed the importance of adding all types of active modes to the database for accurate data. It was noted there are state requirements for police report forms, which does not include ‘check boxes’ for various types of modes, though officers do attempt to include as much detail as possible in the narratives. Nagle stated the Board will be doing a walk audit of the intersection of Laporte and College and staff provided various measurement tools to members. ACTIVE MODES ADVISORY BOARD TYPE OF MEETING – REGULAR 10/21 /202 4 – MINUTES Page 4 (**Secretary’s Note: The Board made their site visit at this point in the meeting and that time was not recorded.) Members discussed reducing speeding at the intersection by including a bulb out which would make the channel through which vehicles must travel narrower. Members also discussed speeding being caused by individuals attempting to make it through intersections before a red light. Additionally, the need for pedestrian lighting and more visible U-turn signage was mentioned as was the unusual Pine and College intersection. 8. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS None. 9. OTHER BUSINESS Chair Henderson stated he received a request from Nancy Nichols, who runs the City’s Safe Routes to School program, to create a letter as part of a packet for a grant application for a project near Irish Elementary School. He noted the request was somewhat out of process, but stated he had drafted a letter, and he provided it to the Board. He outlined the contents of the letter and asked members whether they are comfortable with including it in the grant application packet. Steele asked what facilities are being proposed as per the letter. Cortney Geary, FC Moves, replied the facilities would be a wide two-way side path on the north side of Vine allowing for shared use by cyclists and pedestrians. Additionally, there would be a rectangular rapid flashing beacon crossing at Irish and it would allow better crossings from the school to get to Kestrel Fields Natural Area. Geary stated there is ultimately a recommendation for separated bike lanes on the rest of Vine. Chair Henderson noted Irish Elementary feeds into Lincoln Middle School which has similar facilities. Geary noted the plan for Irish would be a raised side path rather than the on-street side path near Lincoln. Vice Chair Krause asked if the project would be fully funded by the grant. Geary replied there would be a local match required. Members made a few wording changes to the letter. Vice Chair Krause made a motion, seconded by Vrouwenvelder to move forward with sending the amended letter as part of the grant application. The motion was adopted unanimously. 10. ADJOURNMENT ACTIVE MODES ADVISORY BOARD TYPE OF MEETING – REGULAR 10/21 /202 4 – MINUTES Page 5 The meeting was adjourned by unanimous consent at 8:04 p.m.