Meeting Minutes for July 19, 2007
Franklinton Community Mobility Plan Project Management Meeting #5 Minutes
Attendees
- Nick Shultz - EMH&T
- Larry Creed - EMH&T
- Bernice Cage - MORPC
- Dilip Karpoor - MORPC
- Terry Stewart - City of Columbus
- Dan Burden – Walkable Communities (Teleconference)
Closing Workshop Format
- Presentation of possible solutions and open feedback on those suggestions
- Solutions will be grouped and presented in accordance with the 4 sub-areas established in the walk audit
- Land use/building codes will have minimal role and was used to set stage and introduce issues
- Room should be setup as it was for the Opening Workshop
- Schedule
- Terry will open the workshop and provide introduction
- Dan will deliver 30 to 40 minute PowerPoint presentation
- Community will provide feedback that will be recorded on 2 large tablets
- Community will prioritize the suggested improvements
Action Items
- Dan
- Prepare PowerPoint slideshow
- Prepare sketch of suggested improvements on base mapping
- Put a PowerPoint slideshow from recent closing workshop for Stanford on his ftp site
- Provide a rough draft copy of his mapped improvements late Friday afternoon
- MORPC
- Send Dan notes collected from the walking audit and workshop
- Prepare 3 maps showing comments received and send to Nick:
- June 19 Open House
- Individual Key Stakeholder Meetings
- July 13 Opening Workshop
- Prepare a table showing the prioritized list of issues collected from the Workshop
- Prepare educational material on roundabouts and traffic circles
- EMH&T
- Prepare laminated and mounted exhibit showing modern roundabouts at the Mound Street/Harrisburg Pike and Sullivant Avenue/Central Avenue intersections
- Forward Dan’s ftp site information to Terry and Dilip
- Prepare a traffic volume map that includes speeds and truck volumes and send to Dan in Illustrator compatible format
- Send email to Dan and Ken Owens with EMH&T ftp site information and project team email addresses for use as communication tool in preparation for the workshop. Only Dilip and Bernice from MORPC should be include
- Upload aerial base map to Dan’s ftp site
- Prepare a laminated and mounted exhibit showing the 3 comment maps from MORPC and a blank map to be used to document additional comments
- Send Terry a copy of bike image with man and helmet from MUTCD to be used in logo
- Terry
- Provide Nick with additional count information obtained by the City
Additional Items Discussed
- Planning process should not be rigid and should accommodate modifications throughout, even through construction
- A steering committee should be established where the members are available throughout the entire process
- A support staff should be established where the members can be called upon when needed
- Fire Department has “standard” routes
- Pilot Work
- Certain improvements should be field tested prior to implementation
- Need to inform blocks of people where improvements are suggested and receive a majority of their support.
- West Park Avenue may be an ideal place to begin, given current involvement in that area
- Mark Dravillas from the City is interested in the process
- Brick Streets
- Excellent traffic calming devices
- Approximate cost of one block of brand new brick street is $1 million (includes new base, utilities, etc.)
- Maintenance free for 80 to 100 years
- Dan considers Liberty Street in the Brewers Yard in Columbus, Ohio, as one of the best brick roads in the nation
- Westerville, Ohio, is in the process of replacing a brick street
- Traffic Volumes per MORPC
- Mound Street at Harrison Pike – 36,000 ADT
- Harrison Pike at Mound Street – 22,000 ADT
- Sullivant Avenue at Central Avenue – 20,000 ADT
- Central Avenue at Sullivant Avenue – 12,000 ADT
Upcoming Schedules
- Tuesday, July 24
- Monthly progress meeting – 11:00 AM, 109 N Front, Room 205
- Thursday, July 26
- Dan arrives – 1:05 PM, CMH
- Possible meeting at City Hall – 2:00 PM (or Friday morning)
- Setup for workshop – 4:00 PM, Gladden Community House
