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<br />10. BIKE PATHS <br /> <br />IRC <br />NDIAN IVER OUNTY <br />Director Keating began his last PowerPoint of the day (copy on file in the backup in <br />the office of the Clerk to the Board) by advising that the MPO (Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization) has had a bicycle/pedestrian plan for the past 10 years. It was updated a couple of <br />years ago. The plan is essentially an “on-road-plan”. It does not sit on the shelf but is used by <br />County staff constantly as a basis for determining when developers need to put in sidewalks and <br />bike paths and when designing roadways and as a basis for submitting enhancement project <br />candidate applications. The plan is technically based and when first done it used some innovative <br />concepts in bicycle/pedestrian planning. There was extensive public involvement in the plan and <br />also emphasis on planning near schools, particularly within the 2-mile walking distance. In the <br />plan there is both a bicycle priorities map as well as a sidewalk priorities map. Ideally every road <br />would have 5’ wide sidewalks on each side of the road and have bike path lanes on the road. Since <br />it is not always possible to do this, there is a decision tree to identify what type of improvement <br />needs to be on what roadway. He advised of the greenways role in planning for off-road paths. <br />The MPO has the greenways plan as a task in its current unified planning work program. It has <br />been in place for the last few years. A scope of services was developed last year but unfortunately <br />the scope was greater than the budgeted dollars. MPO staff has been talking with Council Member <br />Solari regarding greenways. The current thinking is that instead of a countywide greenways plan, <br />maybe just a central county greenways plan would be better. That would limit the scope of the <br />greenways plan recognizing that there is a lot of work needed to identify a system of off-road <br />facilities. There are issues of dealing with other governmental entities but also opportunities as <br />well of using publicly-owned lands. <br />November 14, 2005 11 <br /> <br />