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Approved 2-20-2008 <br />7 <br />Sam Lasris: That is the only practical application the signs and the little booklets. <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: St. Mary’s Road is a Historic corridor. The scenic easements would protect smaller “viewshed” areas <br />from other uses. <br /> <br />Randy Marshall: Some of the scenic routes are heavily used by bicycles and we need to get the city to designate <br />bike lanes. <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: The scenic byways also have historic areas. Some bicycle projects or road improvements for better <br />safety are top priorities. We might want to study those areas a little bit more. <br /> <br />Nancy Baker: Could you bring in a map of the scenic byways? <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: Yes. (Pointing to map) You can see how it connects to Durham. This newest scenic corridor starts at <br />I-40 and it comes down to Arthur Minis and it forms a loop to Orange Grove Road and then Dairyland. The original <br />application was for a much larger area. <br /> <br />Alice Gordon: What was it called? <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: The Scots Welsh Heritage corridor. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: In order to be in the enhancement program, will it need to be part of a road structure? <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: No, it can be part of a greenway. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: Who manages or maintains ones that are not on roads? <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: The municipality that is providing the facility. <br /> <br />Paul Guthrie: I was curious about off road trails for bike transit. There are people that support this. At one time the <br />Land and Water conservation fund was active in bike transit and hiking/biking. The concept of a bike trail that has a <br />destination can be leisure or practical. There might be other sources of money that could be combined for projects. <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: We need to look at that. <br /> <br />Sam Lasris: Any more input? I think we would like to wait for a presentation from ERCD. <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: The next item feeds into this as well. <br /> <br />Alice Gordon: What is the action from this item? We said at the beginning of the session that these are projects for <br />the Transportation Enhancement Plan and we talked about general information. <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: Because there’s not a call for projects yet we have time to study the issues. A lot of our discussion <br />was about how to proceed doing this. <br /> <br />Alice Gordon: How are you going to come up with the actual projects? <br /> <br />Karen Lincoln: 1. We’ll see what comes out of the discussion of the next item and 2. we’re going to coordinate with <br />HPC and ERCD to see what possibilities there are to see how projects might be connected. <br /> <br />Sam Lasris: We’ll take a pragmatic approach.