Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Meeting

APPROVED 1 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) 2 Meeting Minutes 3 4 Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 5 Time: 7:00 p.m. 6 Place: City Council Chambers, 400 South Vine Street, Urbana, IL 7 Members Present: Bill Brown (Chair), Kara Dudek, Cynthia Hoyle, Susan Jones, Jeff Marino, 8 Craig Shonkwiler, Nancy Westcott, Morgan White 9 10 Late Arrival: Annie Adams, Leonardo Covis 11 12 Staff Present: Lily Wilcock, Shannon Beranek, Scott Tess, Marcus Ricci 13 14 Members Absent: Audrey Ishii 15 16 1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM 17 Bill Brown called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. Roll call was taken. A quorum of members was 18 present. 19 20 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 21 Susan Jones moved to approve the agenda. 22 23 Jeff Marino seconded the motion. 24 25 The motion carried. 26 27 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING 28 The minutes from the September 17, 2019 meeting were presented. There were two changes to the meeting 29 minutes. 30 31 Morgan White moved to approve the minutes with changes. 32 33 Cynthia Hoyle seconded the motion. 34 35 The Commission approved the minutes from the June meeting. 36 37 4. PUBLIC INPUT 38 Kelly Wegeng encouraged BPAC to think about how to restructure infrastructure so that there are not 39 unsafe conditions for bicyclists and pedestrians. 40 41 Jason Rock advocated for Vision Zero implementation. 42 43 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 44 a. Vision Zero - Subcommittee 45 Cynthia Hoyle read a rough draft of the Vision Zero resolution and reviewed changes the subcommittee 46 had made since the last meeting. Commission members discussed the resolution and made additional 47 changes. Page 1  APPROVED 1 2 Cynthia Hoyle made a motion to approve the Vision Zero resolution. 3 4 Susan Jones seconded the motion. 5 6 The motion carried. 7 8 Jeff Marino asked when this resolution would appear on City Council’s agenda. Jeff said approximately 4 9 weeks. 10 11 b. Update on the Status of Complete Streets in the Subdivision Code and Manual of 12 Practice – Marcus Ricci 13 Marcus Ricci gave an update on the complete streets policy and implementation. 14 15 Bill Brown asked if it as possible to change the initial statement in the subdivision code inclusions to give 16 priority to the most vulnerable users. Or, at least recognize that pedestrians and bicyclists are the most 17 vulnerable users and they should be given priority. Morgan White suggested saying they should be given 18 added protection. Cynthia Hoyle said they should be provided safe accommodation for mobility. 19 20 Jeff Marino requested pedestrian scale lighting in residential areas be a priority. 21 22 6. NEW BUSINESS 23 a. Urbana Park District Strategic Plan – Kara Dudek 24 Kara presented the Urbana Park District Strategic Plan 2020. 25 26 b. Website Subcommittee 27 Commission Members discussed creating a website subcommittee for the purpose of updating bicycle and 28 pedestrian information on UrbanaIllinois.us. 29 30 Susan Jones moved to create a website subcommittee comprised of Annie Adams, Nancy Westcott and 31 Susan Jones. 32 33 Morgan White seconded the motion. 34 35 The motion carried. 36 37 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS 38  Bill Brown announced that Craig Shonkwiler has accepted a position with the City of 39 Bloomington, Indiana and will be leaving Urbana soon. Craig introduced Shannon Beranek 40 as his proxy. 41  Craig announced that IDOT is looking to award the higher than expected bid for University 42 Avenue. They have decided not to put it out for rebid. The project would likely start in the 43 spring and be a two year project. 44  The Champaign County Sustainability Network in partnership with the City of Urbana and 45 Midwest Grows Green will hold a lunch-n-learn at the City building at Noon this Thursday. 46 About compost top dressing. There will also be a follow up green drinks at Broadway Food 47 Hall with a panel discussion Page 2  APPROVED 1  Cynthia Hoyle is teaching a land use planning workshop at the University of Illinois. Their 2 current project is the Kickapoo Rail Trail extension. They will host an open house Monday, 3 November 11 at 25 o lock brewery at 5:30p.m.to present the student’s proposed concepts and 4 get feedback on them. 5  Annie Adams said there will be a witch’s ride this Thursday evening. The group will meet in 6 the Coop parking lot. 7 8 8. FUTURE TOPICS 9 a. Vision Zero – Subcommittee 10 b. Bicycle Wayfinding Plan – Regional Planning Commission 11 c. Pedestrian Master Plan – Regional Planning Commission 12 d. Bicycle Friendly Community Report Card – Shannon Beranek 13 e. Urbana Bike Racks – Annie Adams 14 f. Update on Bike Share Program – VeoRide 15 g. Website Content - Subcommittee 16 h. IDOT University Avenue Plan – Shannon Beranek 17 i. Enforcement – Bill Brown/Urbana Police Department 18 19 9. ADJOURNMENT 20 The meeting adjourned at 9:08 p.m. 21 22 *** 23 Respectfully submitted, 24 Tamra Jane Corbin 25 Recording Secretary 26 Page 3