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Home My WebLink About2020-02-06 - BPAC Minutes 117 NW Lafayette Avenue, Bend, Oregon 97703 | P.O. Box 6005, Bend, OR 97708-6005 (541) 388-6575 bpac@deschutes .org www.deschutes.org/bpac MEETING MINUTES DESCHUTES COUNTY BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE Thursday, February 6, 2020, 12:00 to 1:30 pm Redmond City Hall, 411 SW 9th Street, Room 207, Redmond Members Present: Christopher Cassard, Ann Marland, David Roth, Katie Hammer, Katrina Langenderfer, Mark Smith, Rick Root, Sam Handelman, Scott Morgan, and Wendy Holzman. Agency/Organization: Tanya Saltzman (Deschutes County – CDD), Chris Cheng (ODOT), Robin Lewis (City of Bend), Mike Caccavano (City of Redmond), Scott Woodford (City of Redmond), Shaun Larson (Redmond BPAC), Emily Pedrazzi (Redmond BPAC), Kevin Brigg (Redmond BPAC). Call to Order Meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m. Introductions Attendees of the meeting introduced themselves and, if applicable, identified the organization they represent. Approval of Prior Minutes The January 2020 minutes were approved with no corrections. Public Comment There were no public comments. BPAC Administrative Update Morgan Crowell has resigned from BPAC, effective immediately. The committee will open the process to identify new members next month. ODOT Blueprint for Urban Design Overview – Chris Cheng Chris provided a brief overview of the new ODOT Blueprint for Urban Design and provided handouts. Next month, Salem staff will come to provide more information.  The old highway design manual offered very limited land use context; the new blueprint has six land use contexts (Chapter 2): Traditional Downtown/CBD, Urban Mix, Commercial Corridor, Residential Corridor, Suburban Fringe, and Rural Community. Page 2  Chapter 3 outlines the narrative approach, provides more options and flexibility for design elements (such as curb, buffer zones, bike lanes, travel lanes) within each cross section realm (pedestrian, transition, travelway, etc.)  Chapter 4 outlines the decision framework—how to make decisions on appropriate modal integration. Ideally, this should help bike-ped decisions and environments.  The Blueprint will be rolling out on new projects in urban areas  Should apply to North Corridor project Smith Rock trail and other Redmond updates – Scott Woodford Scott Woodford, along with Redmond BPAC members in attendance, provided an extensive update on initiatives that the City of Redmond and Redmond BPAC have been working on:  A lot of Redmond’s initiative have been based on the 2011 bicycle refinement plan, though they hope to update the plan soon.  Goal: get more people walking and biking, increase the network (some of this is done by the city, and some by developers)  The Quiet Street Network (4th st tk), uses existing streets to connect northern and southern trails. Feedback thus far has been good, and has provided an opportunity to support the next Quiet Street on 4th Street.  Quiet Streets incorporate wayfinding, stencils, and sidewalk decals where necessary.  Residents like the traffic calming, and not much has been done to adversely affect vehicle turns.  Trails Master Plan: the city is trying to fill in gaps of three major north-south trails: Homestead Trail, Dry Canyon, BPA Powerline Trail o Homestead Canal Trail: new signage, decals (thermoplastic). The City has engaged in partnerships with agencies/districts (Parks, Urban Renewal, etc.) to help fund adjacent areas of the trail.  Some Central Oregon Irrigation District (COID) canals are slated to be piped, which presents a potential opportunity for trails. The city has an agreement with COID, which stated they’d replace trails as the canal is piped, though it is a potentially complex project.  The city held its Open Streets day last June, which was combined with the Redmond street festival and was a great success  The city’s education initiatives include Quiet Streets signage, a paper bike map and digital maps  Redmond is teaching teachers how to conduct bike education classes for 3rd-5th grade, for which they have a dedicated bicycle fleet.  Annual bicycle and pedestrian count day is conducted by volunteers. Eventually they hope to install counters to generate additional data.  There is an interest in connecting the Redmond community with the river in some manner (this is a more regional scale), as well as with Smith Rock. The latter could be a potential conversation between Redmond BPAC and the Deschutes County BPAC subcommittee. Page 3 Committee Reports  COACT: Hasn’t met recently, will meet in March.  Bend MPO TAC: is developing a strategy to upgrade traffic signals in Bend (which have very old controllers), and are working with the state to do so. They’re also looking at converting to photo/video detection. o City council approved $190M transportation ballot measure which will include intersection and bike boulevard improvements Regional Updates  Bend – Robin shared the process of selecting neighborhood safety projects. Inititally, the city asked the community for ideas, working through neighborhood association. They received 362 ideas. These were narrowed to 200, then each neighborhood (13 total) picked their top 2. Most of the suggested improvements were crosswalk enhancements; the other half was to address speeding. Next, neighborhoods voted on the top 15, and ultimately ended up with list of 8 projects for $800k. The selected projects include two neighborhood greenways and lots of crosswalks.  Sisters – The City was potentially going to construct two multi-use paths, but no funding was available. Instead, the city will install two roundabouts at Routes 126/20 and by the turn to City Hall. The city will also create a Quiet Street on Washington.  Deschutes County – The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on February 27 to amend the Deschutes County TSP to add the Tumalo and Old Bend Redmond roundabouts on US 20.  ODOT – US 20 at Greenwood project is moving ahead. The multiuse path between Mount Washington and Division has been bumped to Phase 2 of the overall project.  COIC/CET – CET has added midday runs to Sisters and Redmond (double check) as well as Saturdays. Meeting Adjourned at 1:30 pm Next Meeting Thursday, March 5, 2020 – 12:00 to 1:30 pm ODOT, 63055 N Hwy 97, Building M, Baney Conference Room, Bend