Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Meeting

APPROVED on April 21, 2020 1 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission (BPAC) 2 Meeting Minutes 3 4 Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 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, Shannon Beranek, Leonardo Covis, Kara 8 Dudek, Cynthia Hoyle, Audrey Ishii, Susan Jones, Jeff Marino, Sarthak Prasad, 9 Nancy Westcott 10 11 Late Arrival: None 12 13 Staff Present: None 14 15 Others Present: None 16 17 Members Absent: None 18 19 1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM 20 Bill Brown called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. Roll call was taken. All members were present. 21 22 Chair Brown introduced Sarthak Prasad as the new member. Mr. Prasad was chosen to represent the 23 University of Illinois on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission. Mr. Prasad will hold the seat 24 formerly held by Morgan White. 25 26 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 27 Audrey Ishii moved to approve the agenda. 28 Leonardo Covis seconded the motion. 29 The motion to approve the agenda carried. 30 31 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING 32 The minutes from the February 17, 2020 meeting were presented. 33 34 Kara Dudek explained that two projects for Crystal Lake Park were discussed in the announcements at the 35 February meeting. She said that the improvements on the lake’s edge and appurtenances would begin soon, 36 but the one-way road study would begin in a couple of years. 37 38 Nancy Westcott clarified that the commission recommended meeting every four months to discuss Vision 39 Zero instead of every three months. (Page 2, line 12 in the February 2020 meeting minutes) 40 41 Nancy Westcott moved to approve the minutes as amended. 42 Susan Jones seconded the motion. 43 The Commission approved the minutes from the February 2020 meeting. 44 45 4. PUBLIC INPUT 46 There was no public input. 47 Page 1  APPROVED on April 21, 2020 1 5. NEW BUSINESS 2 3 There is no new business. 4 5 6. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 6 a. Vision Zero – Bill Brown 7 Bill Brown stated that the Vision Zero plan was not coalescing. He recommended that the next step would be 8 to take a resolution to City Council and to begin work on a messaging and communications plan. Regarding 9 funding of the Vision Zero plan, Bill Brown explained that Audrey Ishii, Sarthak Prasad and he met with Dr. 10 Rahim Benekohal from the University of Illinois. Chair Brown explained Dr. Benekohal was working on a 11 survey to send to approximately 10,000 undergraduate students and graduate students, over 10,000 faculty and 12 staff members, and additional community members. He added that the results of the survey could be used to 13 define the focus of the messaging and communication plan and to apply for a Community Research Partner 14 Program grant. Chair Brown said that Dr. Benekohal thought a student might be available to work on the 15 communication plan if the grant was awarded to the City. Cynthia Hoyle suggested directing the focus to 16 University Avenue. Annie Adams said that from her experience in writing grant proposals it was important to 17 encourage a plan that included a cross-discipline program featuring creative place making that was 18 implementable and scalable for other communities. Audrey Ishii said that the program should encourage 19 partnerships among landlords, community members and university representatives. Bill Brown said that the 20 data would be derived from campus so he felt that area should be the focus of the project. He asked if Ms. 21 Hoyle could help with the grant if he prepared an outline. 22 23 Mr. Brown said that he would send a Vision Zero resolution to City Council within the next month or two. 24 He said that the frequency of Vision Zero meetings would need to be determined and the possibility of 25 funding could be discussed. 26 27 b. Annual Report – Bill Brown 28 Bill Brown reviewed the draft of the annual report. He asked for input from the commissioners and would 29 work with Ms. Jones to revise the draft. 30 31 7. ANNOUNCEMENTS 32  Plan Commission approved project that was north of Bradley Avenue and west of Goodwin 33 Avenue (extended). Chair Brown discussed the project. 34  Website edits were completed and will be sent to City staff 35  Parking restrictions were installed on the north side of Springfield Ave., east of Busey Ave. 36  March 11—Prairie Cycle Club Meeting at 5:30 p.m. at 25 O’clock Brewery, 208 W. Griggs St., 37 Urbana 38  March 13—Prairie Restoration Presentation at 6:30 p.m. at Attie’s, 2600 Stone Creek Boulevard, 39 Urbana 40  March 25—Urbana Park District Free Bicycle Tune-Up from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Phillips Rec 41 Center, 505 W. Stoughton St., Urbana 42  National Bike Conference was cancelled. 43  April 5 – 11 Representative from the Cycling Embassy of Denmark Visit 44  April 6—Discussion about Bicycle Education 45  April 8—Presentation from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 25 O’clock Brewery, 208 W. Griggs 46 St., Urbana 47  April 9—Workshop at YMCA from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Page 2  APPROVED on April 21, 2020 1  April 7—Prairie Cycle Club Pizza Party Kick-off from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Jupiter’s, 2511 2 Village Green Place, Champaign 3  May 1—Bike to Work Day 4  May 6—Bike to School Day 5  May 16—Bike Rodeo—Champaign Regional Safety Events 6  May 20—Ride of Silence 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. Truck Parking on Street 15 g. Website Content – Subcommittee 16 h. Regional Bicycle Registration 17 18 9. ADJOURNMENT 19 The meeting adjourned at 7:56 p.m. 20 21 *** 22 Respectfully submitted, 23 Barbara Stiehl 24 Recording Secretary Page 3