Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Meeting

APPROVED 1 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) 2 Meeting Minutes 3 4 Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 5 Time: 7:00 p.m. 6 Place: City Council Chambers, 400 South Vine Street, Urbana, IL 7 Members Present: Bill Brown (Chair), Annie Adams, Leonardo Covis, Kara Dudek, Cynthia 8 Hoyle, Audrey Ishii, Susan Jones, Jeff Marino, Craig Shonkwiler, Nancy 9 Westcott, Morgan White 10 11 Staff Present: Lily Wilcock 12 13 Members Absent: 14 15 1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM 16 Bill Brown called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Roll call was taken. A quorum of members was 17 present. 18 19 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 20 Morgan White moved to approve the agenda. 21 22 Susan Jones seconded the motion. 23 24 The motion carried. 25 26 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING 27 The minutes from the August 20, 2019 meeting were presented. 28 29 Audrey Ishii moved to approve the minutes. 30 31 Susan Jones seconded the motion. 32 33 The Commission approved the minutes from the June meeting. 34 35 4. PUBLIC INPUT 36 Cynthia Hoyle asked staff about delivery trucks parking in bus and bike lanes while making deliveries 37 downtown. Craig Shonkwiler said he would look into it. 38 39 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 40 a. Vision Zero - Subcommittee 41 The Vision Zero subcommittee gave an update on their efforts to implement this program in the City of 42 Urbana. 43 44 Audrey Ishii shared the action plan from Charlotte, North Carolina for the commission to use as an 45 example. 46 Page 1  APPROVED 1 Cynthia Hoyle read a rough draft of the resolution recommending that the City of Urbana adopt a Vision 2 Zero Policy. Commission members discussed changes and alterations to the resolution. The subcommittee 3 will come back to the next meeting with an updated draft. 4 5 Commission members discussed creating a communications plan to spread the word about Vision Zero. 6 7 Bill Brown shared the open data page of the City’s website and statistics from it. 8 9 b. Background and Status of Complete Streets in Urbana – Bill Brown 10 Bill Brown shared background information on the complete streets ordinance and goals the City Council 11 had when it was passed in 2011. He included goals and amendments that were added to the comprehensive 12 plan. He said nothing has been done to accomplish those goals since then and would like to see things 13 resurface again and move forward. Mr. Brown mentioned a specific goal that was added to the plan to 14 include complete street concepts when designing, constructing, and maintaining roadways and public right- 15 of-ways. The implementation strategy listed in the plan was to update documents such as the Urbana 16 Subdivision and Land Development Code to reflect the complete streets policy. Cynthia Hoyle reinforced 17 those findings. She suggested staff keep this in mind when looking at updating this code. 18 19 Lily Wilcock gave insight on the status of amendments and updates to these documents and plans. Morgan 20 White asked if any of the big updates planned are related to bicycle and pedestrian safety. Ms. Wilcock said 21 she would need to consult with staff. She will return to a future meeting with more information. 22 23 Ms. Hoyle suggested including IDOT in future communications as well. Mr. Brown said he would like to 24 see staff get back to putting more effort into this cause. 25 26 6. NEW BUSINESS 27 There was no new business 28 29 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS 30  Morgan White asked everyone to fill out the University’s League of American Bicyclists 31 survey if they haven’t already. It can be found at bike.illinois.edu . 32  Cynthia Hoyle asked commission members to volunteer for Walk N Roll to School Day 33 October 2. 34  Audrey Ishii reviewed the Champaign Urbana Urban Safety Plan. 35  Light the Night will take place October 3. 36 37 8. FUTURE TOPICS 38 a. Vision Zero – Subcommittee 39 b. Bicycle Wayfinding Plan – Regional Planning Commission 40 c. Pedestrian Master Plan – Regional Planning Commission 41 d. Subdivision Development Requirements for the Installation of Bicycle and Pedestrian 42 Facilities 43 e. Bicycle Friendly Community Report Card – Craig Shonkwiler 44 f. Urbana Bike Racks – Annie Adams 45 g. BPAC Webpage Content – Subcommittee 46 h. Update on Bikeshare Program – Morgan White 47 i. Park District Strategic Plan – Kara Dudek Page 2  APPROVED 1 2 9. ADJOURNMENT 3 The meeting adjourned at 8:59 p.m. 4 5 *** 6 Respectfully submitted, 7 Tamra Jane Corbin 8 Recording Secretary 9 Page 3