Athens in Motion Commission
Regular MeetingAthens-Clarke County, GA · August 24, 2021
Minutes
Athens in Motion Commission
Tuesday, August 24, 2021 – 4:00‐6:00 pm
Online via ACC WebEx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amOZBvJIiKQ
PRESENT
Stephen Bailey
James Barlament
Lauren Blais
Mark Ebell
Teresa Friedlander
Randy Halstead
Todd Miller
Aaron Redman
Daniel Sizemore
Craig Topple
Blaine Van Note
ABSENT
Carly Evans
1. Call to Order
a. Meeting called to order at 4:10 pm
2. Agenda Additions and Approval
a. Agenda approved (Aaron moved; Randy seconded).
3. Public Comment
a. Comments were being sent to inactive email account.
4. Approval of Minutes
a. Teresa moved, James seconded. Minutes approved.
5. Lexington Road & Atlanta Highway (7:10)
a. Teresa mentioned, in chat box‐via Daniel, that we take a middle ground of supporting
the Athens in Motion plan as well as respecting the responses and requests of user
groups reflecting public response to story map surveys.
b. Daniel suggested drafting a statement or letter.
c. Lauren motions that we weigh on this issue in some way by drafting a statement. Aaron
second. Teresa opposed. (1:20:18)
d. Lauren suggested we draft a letter for review. Submit to group for review/edit.
e. Lauren suggested a Special Proposed Session for Wednesday, September 1st at 5:00 PM.
6. TSPLOST 2023 project proposals & presentations (1:32:45)
a. Submissions must be submitted by Monday, September 6th.
b. Lauren will begin PowerPoint templates to create presentation unity among our
projects.
7. Prince Ave Corridor Survey (1:42:30)
a. 6 tabling events set up to speak to community and receive user feedback (Mark).
b. On‐site discussions at Subway & Athentic (Daniel).
c. 124 survey responses to date.
8. Adjournment
a. Meeting adjourned at 6:00 pm.
Agenda
AthensinMotionCommission
Tuesday, August24,2021;4pm
Location:WebEx
Item/Activity Lead Time ActionRequired
Calltoorder,Welcome
Blais 10m
Agendaadditions&approval Vote
Blais
Approval
Publiccomments,ifany
Sizemore
Minutes Vote
VanNote
● Julymeeting Approval
4:10pm
MajorAgendaItems
60m
LexingtonRoadandAtlantaHighway
● AiMCResolutionandBylaws
○ Forreview:
■ LexingtonRoadCorridor
intheplan
■ AtlantaHighwayCorridor
intheplan
○ Forreference:
■ LexingtonRoadCorridor
UserGroupFinal
Recommendation
Blais <50m Nextsteps
● Lexington
TSPLOSTpage
■ AtlantaHighwayCorridor
UserGroupFinal
Recommendation
● AtlantaHighway
TSPLOSTpage
■ AiMMasterPlan
● AiMFullPlan
● AiMPlanProjects
andCost
1
Estimates
(Tiering)
■ ConnectAthensCorridor
Study:AtlantaHighway
andLexingtonRoad
● M&CmeetforavoteonSeptember7
TSPLOSTprojectproposalsandpresentations
● Presentationsduenolaterthanmidnight,
Monday,September6
● 2021.
● Statusupdates-allprojectssubmitted!
○ BigBucket-
EBell/Friedlander/Sizemore/Blais
○ AtlantaHighway-
Blais 10m
Friedlander/Carly/Sizemore
○ LexingtonHighway-
Blais/Maas/Sizemore
○ Smallsidewalks-
Halstead/Sizemore
○ ADAsidewalks-
Redman/Blais/Sizemore
5:10pm
Staffupdates
30mtotal
ParkPlanning
Miller 5m
● Updates
Projects
● Hawthorne Staff 25mtotal
● CherokeeRoad
5:40pm
REGULARUPDATES
20mtotal
Bike/PedCoordinatorupdates
● RAISE(formerlyBUILD)Grant-status
10m
● CompleteStreetspolicy-status Sizemore
● Otheritemsofnote
CommitteesandCommissions 10m
AtlantaHighwayCorridorCommittee
● [Discussionfront-loaded]
LexingtonHighwayCorridorCommittee
● [Discussionfront-loaded]
PrinceAvenueCorridorCommittee
EBell 5m
● SurveyactivethroughSeptember9
AIMCCommittees
● UGA-VanNote
● GrantsandDataCommittee
AiMC <2m None
○ Nextmeeting:adhoc
● PolicyCommittee
○ [SeeTSPLOST2023items]
2
● EducationandCommunications
○ OpenStreetsEvent-postponed
untilSpring
OtherCommissionsandCommittees
● TSPLOST-Augustupdate-Redman
● GreenwayCommission-Evans AiMC <2m
● FireflyTrailEastAthensLocalAction
Committee-Blais-noupdate
Adjourn
Blais 6pm None
● Nextmeeting,September28,4pm
Dates/ItemsofNote:
3
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