Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation

Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation December 14, 2016- 7:00 pm- 10:25 pm Draft Meeting Minutes Attendance CACT Members Member Present City Staff Paul Baldino (Chair) Yes 1. Stephanie Rogers 2. Paul Stoddard Hal Morgan (Vice-Chair) No 3. Jeff Sikes Bill Ackerman Yes 4. Jack Trainor Andrea Caumont Yes Doug Devereaux Yes Addison Heard No Steve Knight Yes Liaisons Liaison Present Karen Oliver No (City Council) Russ Wodiska No (Planning Commission) Bhaskar Singhvi Yes (Youth Representative) Agenda 1. Public Comment 2. Minutes Approval- Action to approve minutes of the November 2016 CACT meeting 3. Committee Members Reports 4. Staff Reports 5. Discussion Item: Falls Church 2040- Introduction and Vision Chapter of the City’s Comprehensive Plan 6. Discussion Item: CACT Annual Report to Council for 2016 7. Discussion Item: CACT Priority Tracking Sheet- Priorities for 2017 8. Action Item: Neighborhood Traffic Calming-Selection of Next NTC Project 9. Information Item: Walkability Survey-Presentation of Preliminary Results 10. Correspondence: Transportation Grant Applications and Schedule 1. Public Comment: There was no public comment. 2. Minutes Approval for the November 2016 Meeting: The minutes for the November 2016 CACT meeting were approved after a change to the statement concerning the CACT’s recommendation to the Streetscape Taskforce on raised vs flush planting beds for street trees. The reported vote was 4-1 to affirm the CACT’s recommendation for flush beds, but with taking into consideration “context sensitive” location of the site. 3. Committee Members Reports • Chairman Baldino reported that he attended a VDOT public meeting on the widening of I-66 Inside the Beltway on December 8th. He reported that as part of the project VDOT intends to construct pedestrian/bike bridge over Rt. 29 at Fairfax Drive in 2018. • Bill commented that the Streetscape Taskforce has completed its work and approved a plan to send forward to the City Council. It recommends the use of the Victor Stanley benches and the use of flush tree planting beds, but with the need to be open to raised beds if the particular site is more suited to this design. 4. Staff Report • Stephanie reported that traffic counts were completed for the Parker-Kent project and the data will be used to complete the “after study “ of the effectiveness of the project in terms of speed reduction. Staff will provide the results to the CACT when the report is completed. • Stephanie also reported that the Roosevelt Street sidewalk project is out for bids with construction anticipated in the spring of 2017. • Jeff reported that the City Council has scheduled a work session on the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program on January 17th. Jeff also reported that the Purchase Order for survey and preliminary engineering services for the N Maple Ave traffic calming project has been approved and surveying should be completed this month on the project, with final design this spring. 5. Discussion Item: Falls Church 2040 –Introduction and Vision Chapter of the City’s Comprehensive Paul Stoddard presented a Power Point presentation of the proposed Vision chapter of the Comprehensive Plan and told of the public meetings and outreach since last summer to involve  the community. Paul asked the Committee to focus on the Vision Statement and wanted to know if the statement as drafted is an accurate portrayal of what the City should be like in 2040. After some discussion it was decided that Doug Devereaux would draft a vision statement and present to the CACT meeting in January. CACT members were asked to have any comments to him by January 6th. 6. Discussion Item: CACT 2016 Annual Report to City Council: Chairman Baldino had prepared a draft of the CACT accomplishments for 2016 and priorities for 2017 that will be presented to the City Council in January. Staff has provided some missing information and he will have a completed draft for review by the CACT in January. 7. Discussion Item: CACT Priority Tracking Sheet: The CACT Priority Tracking sheet has been updated to reflect recent activity. 8. Action Item: Neighborhood Traffic Calming -Selection of Next NTC Project: Jeff had prepared a memo to the CACT with a recommendation for next NTC project. There are five street segments that have been ranked for traffic calming selection. Staff recommended that the next NTC project consist of 2 of the streets on the list since the streets intersect and one of the street segments in only one short block in length. The streets selected are Little Falls Street from Great Falls Street to W Columbia Street, and Great Falls Street from N Maple Ave to Little Falls Street. The CACT unanimously supported the staff recommendation. Staff will contact the community to begin work on this project in late January. 9. Information Item: Walkability Survey-Presentation of Preliminary Results- Jack Trainor provided a Power Point presentation on the preliminary results of the Walkability Survey. Jack indicated that there were over 220 responses to the survey which covered many blocks along Broad and Washington Streets. Chairman Baldino asked what do we do with these data at this point. Andrea Caumont volunteered to work with Jack to write a summary of the results of the survey.