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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-01-17 BABAB MinutesBozeman Area Bicycle Advisory Board (BABAB) Meeting Notes for March 1, 2017 6-8 p.m. City Shops BABAB’s purpose is to recommend safe bicycle practices throughout Bozeman in regard to enhanced bicycle circulation and design, community-wide bicycle education and safety programs, and other matters relating to bicycling in the Bozeman area. A. Call Meeting to Order - Meeting called to order at 6:05. In attendance: Rachel Rockafellow, Jennifer Wirth, Jason Karp, Candace Taylor, Jason Delmue, James Lusby, John Vandelinder, Linda DuPriest, Dillon Warn, Lila Fleishman, Rebecca Gleason. B. Approve Previous Meeting Minutes: 5 minutes C. Public Comment: 5 minutes each speaker - None D. Northpark Development Bicycle Infrastructure (20 minutes) 1. Presentation by Linda DuPriest Linda is working on Transportation Demand Management, working with the city on bike implementation. She’s in the loop on new development projects, most of which are along new corridors anyways, but some have new roads. Developers ask for deviations on city code so Linda’s bringing it to us to review. Also, the Transportation Master Plan will be published soon, the Bike Board should know what’s what on it so we can make good recommendations. Each subdivision used to bring plans to BABAB to review, but there’s too much construction these days, so the TMP needs to set a solid framework. Development in question is North Park located behind Murdoch’s off of 7th. There is potential for lots of vehicular traffic. The 2007 plan calls it a collector road, but better bike facilities standards now call it inadequate. The plan calls for 8’ parking and 6’ bike lanes. Since there is also potential for separated path or bike lanes in the area, smaller bike lanes could be used. It could really look several different ways since we’re between TMPs. The State striping plan is unclear for how wide bike lanes should be. What is the current law? 2007 is a 5’ bike lane outside of an 8’ parking lane. There will also be a sports complex of some sort in the area. Mandeville Creek will have a path along it the entire way. Anyways, the developer is willing to consider our opinion, what should it be? NACTO standards, new TMP? Old TMP? NACTO is a relatively new organization for standardizing growth and roadway standards. NACTO guidelines are focused on urban traffic standards. This might be easier since it’s new road, as opposed to changing our old roads downtown. 2. Feedback from BABAB The developer only HAS to use 2007 TMP, but BABAB should recommend that they use wider NACTO lines, like South 8th. The tradeoff is that there’s more paving, which is more cost. There’s still a bit of question as to what exactly is going in in the development, and what might happen to Red Wing Drive. We don’t have a quorum this evening, so we can’t vote on a recommendation, but we can email Linda and talk with her about our desires. E. Bogert Farmer’s Market Bike Check – Dillon Warn (15 minutes) Dillon has been in contact with Bogert Famer’s Market People, and they really likes the idea of setting up a bike check to help with parking problems. There are a couple of different ideas for how it could work, either a staffed corral, or set of portable bike rack sections. Jason Delmue has an idea for a portable bike rack. There would be lots of opportunity for interface with the public. John Vandelinder would be interested in having the city own some racks that the streets department could require event planners to have available for farmer’s market, SLAM, Sweet Pea, Music on Main, and so on. Staffing a manned bike check station is the hardest part of the plan, though. Perhaps it would be better to start with one evening a month, but that inconsistency might negate the whole plan. It’s a lot of volunteering to ask for, so it will be hard to coordinate. Perhaps we can get GVBC involved. Bozeman Tritons also have bike racks that usually sit unused. Dillon will continue to investigate this development. F. New BABAB Members – Carson Taylor (20 minutes) 1. Appointment process and expectations All existing members have been reappointed, there are, 5-7 applications for 2 open spots. 2. Discussion of new members Jennifer Wirth introduced herself. She likes cycling with her family, spends lots of time biking, including triathlons. Also a coordinator with GVBC coordinating kids rides. Her main idea is that Bozeman is the perfect size for biking, but our infrastructure is sketchy. Lila Fleishman has attended a few meetings at BABAB, and had applied for each round of each of applications. She’s a geographer and studying sustainability and urban planning, with a side of getting people biking. She is passionate about bike commuting, and has studied european communities. She has lived and bike commuted in North Carolina and Washington DC. Her main idea is to get lights on bikes. Carson will forward the 5 applications, and BABAB members will review them for the 2 open positions. G. City of Bozeman’s TMP Bicycle Recommendations – Candace Mastel (15 minutes) 1. Discuss as board 2. Public Meeting on 3/2/17 at Bozeman High School at 6:30 p.m. <No notes for this item number> H. Old Business 1. Transportation Alternatives – Letter of Support (15 minutes) We were asked to draft up a letter of support for the Transportation Alternatives grants. Sam Haraldson was going to draft the letter, showing there is community support for the projects on TA Application. Sam was not in attendance. 2. Driver’s Education BABAB used to teach at Driver’s Education training, Rachel has contacted High school and left messages about coming in and start teaching bike safety again. Rebecca ran into Jen Peterson who is still kind of interested. Anna Price is trying to organise a League of American Cyclist training, to get someone to come and get the formal training. This training is formal riding in traffic, which would train people to train people to ride in traffic. I. New Business 1. MSU’s TMP Meet and Greet public meeting on March 9th at 5:00 p.m. at the Strand Union Building, Room 233 2. Jason Karp. Frontage Road corridor study meeting is coming in April. Path discussions dominated last public comment. Laundry list of recommended projects, includes B2B path. 3. Jason Karp was voted onto the board of Bike Walk Montana. It’s only $10, everyone should join. Bike Walk Montana has been hands-on for our Legislative session. Biking is getting lots of airtime this legislative session. 4. Rebecca Gleason - Kagy and 11th, the lights don't work. Vandelinder indicates it’s on their radar. 5. Winter Cycling Congress talking about year-round cycling opportunities. Keeping key bike routes cleared is what lets people ride. Montreal has different boroughs, one district has lowered level of service on streets to give money to clear bike and ped facilities. Oslo is investing in a big way in improving bike facilities. Calgary has full set of bike networks in a oil-town pickup truck conservative city. 6. Rachel - hospital has paid people to park farther away and walk in to the hospital, which is part of the TDM (Boeman Commuter Project). J. Adjourn 7:56.