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Minutes
Bicycle Advisory Committee: Special
Meeting
Council Hearing Room, City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis
Obispo
Thursday, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:30 pm
MISSION:
The purpose of the Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) is to provide oversight and policy
direction on matters related to bicycle transportation in San Luis Obispo and its relationship to
bicycling outside the City.
Chair Huddleston called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m.
ROLL CALL:
Present: Committee Members Lea Brooks, Paula Huddleston (Chair), Ken Kienow, Catherine Riedstra
(Vice Chair) (present at 5:41pm), Howard Weisenthal, and Jim Woolf
Absent: None
Staff Present: Transportation Manager Jake Hudson, Active Transportation Manager Adam Fukushima
PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA: None
ACTION ITEMS:
1. Bicycle Facilities in the Avila Ranch DRAFT EIR
Adam Fukushima gave a presentation on the Avila Ranch development project and its history
before the BAC. He described the phasing of the project and the corresponding bicycle facilities
that would be built as described in the Avila Ranch Development Plan. He then proceeded to
describe the role of the draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), the impacts and mitigations
it identified and how the mitigations corresponded to projects in the Bicycle Transportation
Plan.
Questions of staff included whether the proposed Class I bike path from Vachell Lane to the
Octagon Barn would include an entirely paved (dirt free) connection to Higuera Street; what
type of stop control would be at the Vachell Lane and Buckley Road intersection once the
Buckley Road extension is built; access to schools, and the relationship of the project to the
County Bikeways Plan.
Additional questions included whether the proposed bike lanes would be buffered, the age
distribution of residents in the development, and who would maintain the bike facilities in the
project.
Public Comment
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Myron Amerine commented that the Buckley Rd bridge should be widened to be consistent
with the County Bikeways Plan. He also stated that the Class II bike lanes should extent the full
length of Buckley Rd from Vachell to Broad Street and that the DEIR does not take into
account the need for city and county cooperation in making sure the proposed bikeways have
continuity.
Sarah Flickinger, Los Verdes resident, noted difficulties of the project in accessing C. L. Smith
and Los Ranchos schools by bike. She had concerns for the added vehicular traffic that the
project will create on existing arterial roads including Los Osos Valley Road, which she noted
will add more vehicular traffic and make it more difficult to bicycle the corridor.
Discussion
Committee discussion noted that the development was consistent with most of the projects in
the bicycle transportation plan but that the project still had a focus on automobiles. There was
discussion regarding whether the development fit the goals of the bike plan to reduce auto
usage. There was concern that more should be done to encourage active transportation usage
for the project. There were concerns about the multimodal LOS standards used to analyze the
project impacts to existing city streets.
Action
Motion 1: CM Brooks made a motion to find the project inconsistent with the Bike Plan
because the project will not widen the Buckley Road bridge across Tank Farm Creek so that
continuous Class II bike lanes can extend the length of Buckley road in the westbound
direction. The motion was seconded by CM Woolf and passed unanimously.
Motion 2: CM Brooks made a motion to find the project inconsistent with goals 1-3 of the
Bicycle Transportation Plan. This motion was retracted.
Motion 3: CM Wiesenthal made a motion to encourage the project applicant to extend the
Class II bike lanes on Buckley Road from the property line eastward to Broad Street to
reinforce the goals of the Bicycle Transportation Plan. The motion was seconded by CM
Brooks. The motion passed 4-2, with CM Woolf and Riedstra voting no.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 8:10 PM to the regular meeting of January 19, 2017.
Respectfully Submitted,
Adam Fukushima
Active Transportation Manager
APPROVED BY THE BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE: 1/19/2017