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Approved 2/18/09 4 167 Sam Lasris noted that Safe Routes to School be addressed and Nancy Baker noted that it would include facilities like 168 bus stops. 169 170 Karen Lincoln would like the Board to look at projects that need to get done that have fallen through the cracks. 171 172 The members identified what groups would be formed and designated members as follows: 173 174 Bicycle Plan Jan Grossman 175 Future Strategies Paul Guthrie and Bryn Smith and Eric Tillman 176 TIP / All Projects Jan Grossman 177 Comprehensive Transportation Plan Sam Lasris and Randy Marshall 178 Pedestrian Connectivity Plan Nancy Cole Baker 179 General Assembly Representative Pat Strong and Eric Tillman 180 Review of Zoning Ordinances/EDD Sam Lasris and Randy Marshall 181 Public Transportation-Bus Bryn Smith and Al Terry 182 Safe Routes To School / Small Projects Nancy Cole Baker 183 184 Experts were determined to be: 185 186 Airport-Bryn Smith 187 Rail-Paul Guthrie 188 Bicycle-Jan Grossman 189 190 Karen Lincoln updated the members on the vacancies of the Board. 191 192 Sam Lasris reported on the Board of Commissioners meeting. The Board of Commissioners went through the whole 193 comprehensive plan and it was apparent that only two of the Commissioner had read it, that being Alice Gordon and 194 Barry Jacobs. It was a very quick run through and this Board had the least rewrites than anyone. The rewrite went 195 through with no problem, it was golden, the only question was the goals and objectives. Alice’s point was that 196 Chapel Hill’s MPO and RPO and all the other boards have the environmental elements in their plans and that we 197 need to have the environment as part of our goals and objectives even though they understand we are a 198 transportation board. Alice spent the better part of the weekend trying to combine ours goals and objectives with 199 what came from the consultant and what the Planning Board had commented on and she submitted these (revisions) 200 that went through without any comment. There will be one more meeting in November where they will finalize it. All 201 the other elements have to come back to them and then they will vote. If there is anything in here, language, not 202 tossing out any of these goals and objectives but if we want to clear up language or make any comments it would go 203 directly to Commissioner Gordon who said she would appreciate it because she did say she had a hard time doing it. 204 She added a goal about environment and she integrated Planning and OUTBoard comments. The Planning Board 205 voted to approve the plan without any real discussion. After the last OUTBoard meeting he met with Alice and 206 discussed it. An abbreviated comprehensive plan will be made for the public due to the sheer size. 207 208 The board agreed, although the revised goals and objectives were wordier and somewhat redundant than the 209 OUTBoard recommendation and did not follow the order established by the OUTBoard’s draft framework for the 210 Comprehensive Transportation Plan, Commissioner Gordon’s revisions did contain everything the OUTBoard had 211 wanted in the objectives. The board’s consensus was that the revisions were fine and did not diminish the intent. 212 213 MOTION by Paul Guthrie to thank Commissioner Gordon for her hard work in moving this through the planning 214 process. Seconded by Bryn Smith 215 Vote: Unanimous 216 217 MOTION by Sam Lasris to thank planning staff in particular Karen Lincoln. Seconded by Nancy Baker 218 Vote: Unanimous 219 220