TO: Mayor Collins and Town Council Members
FROM: Brian Dalke, Interim Town Manager
Dawn-Marie Buckland, Deputy Town Manager
Paul Michaud, Interim Community Development Director
DATE: September 13, 2018
DEPARTMENT: Community Development
Staff Contact Paul Michaud, Senior Planner, 480-348-3574
End
AGENDA TITLE:
Title
Discussion of the Walk & Bike Plan
Body
TOWN VALUE(S):
? Primarily one-acre, residential community
? Limited government
? Creating a sense of community
? Partnerships with existing schools and resorts to enhance recreational opportunities
? Improving aesthetics/creating a brand
? Preserving natural open space
The Walk & Bike Plan meets the Town values of creating a sense of community by establishing a plan that aims to focus pedestrian and bicycle facilities onto collector and minor arterial streets. The plan seeks to have the Town do more outreach toward education and enforcement. This outreach specifically looks to improved partnerships with resorts and schools.
COUNCIL GOALS OR STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS:
Preparing the Walk & Bike Plan meets both an implementation measure of the Town's 2012 General Plan and a Town Council Quality of Life initiative.
RECOMMENDATION/TOWN COUNCIL DISCUSSION/UPDATES:
No action will be taken at this meeting. Review of the draft plan was postponed until fall 2018 to allow Council to work on other unrelated projects. As it is now fall 2018, the draft plan has been brought forward for continued Council discussion.
The Council last discussed the draft plan at the study session of March 22, 2018. Based on this prior discussion, staff would look to the Council to determine the best option in moving forward. Some possible options include the following:
* If the draft plan recommended by the Planning Commission is close to what Council envisions with possible minor edits, an option is to move forward with the Minor General Plan amendment of the 2012 General Plan. This option is the Planning Comm...
Click here for full text