City Council Study Session Summary 2011 12 13

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City Council Study Session Summary December 13, 2011 Page 3of 4 City Manager Fleming said Planning staff is a great team with huge experience and staff can come up with a great plan andhave an outside consultant review it.Doing the update in-house maycause the timeframe for the project to slip. Update/Discussion –Pedestrian/Bicycle Friendly Community Policy Planning Director Russ made a presentation to enlist discussion between City Council and City staff on the Pedestrian/Bicycle Friendly Community Policy. City staff will be integrating this policy into the 2012 Comprehensive Planning effort and the 2012 and 2013 work plan. A Pedestrian-Friendly policy is in place, but just not formalized. The intent of the policy is to highlight the importance of streets, trails and parking areas, and to ensure they are designed, constructed, operated and maintained to create a balanced transportation system for all users of all ages and ability levels. The design of streets should be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan; trails and streets should work together. Streets should provide safe routes. The Planning Department, Public Works Department and Parks and Recreation Department aredeveloping a Work Plan to collaborate on creating multi-modal transportation plans for neighborhoods and commercial areas of the City. These same departments will also th collaborate to generate multi-modal transportation corridor plans for Highway 42/96Street, McCaslin Boulevard, South Boulder Road and Dillon Road and create a City-wide Multi- Modal Transportation Plan that incorporates and consolidates the findings of each neighborhood, commercial area and corridor plan. Planning Commissioner Jeff Lipton would like to see the transit system hook up to the bicycle system. Need connections from US36. Council Member Sackett supports the project if it’s within budget. Council Member Loo inquired as to what makes a neighborhood? There are 16 neighborhoods in the City. Council Member Loo said neighborhoods are not the same. A neighborhood near Fireside Elementary is not the same as a neighborhood on Davidson Mesa. Louisville is a great community and she has a concern about splitting into neighborhood sections. Director Russ commented that he doesn’t want to divide the City. Neighborhoods are different from a transportation perspective. Is this policy incorporated into the PROST Master Plan?Director Russ said the PROST Master Plan is an important guide that is influential to the Comp Plan.