The Committee met at the Mission Valley Inn. The August 7th meeting was cancelled.
Committee members turned their plan issues preferences into the Chair. Chad Meadows will notify every one of their sub-committee assignments via e-mail.
Chad will send out a link to either the Department of Transportation or to the City of Raleigh web site so every one can access the traffic calming information. He also requested that the link be put on the Neighborhood Association web site.
Benson Kirkman discussed traffic calming with the Committee. $450,000 is the compromise figure in the City budget for traffic calming. There are over 100 streets already in the "requests section" for traffic calming. The Mayor, Benson Kirkman, John Odom and Kiernan Shanahan make up the Traffic Calming Committee. They will be the people refining the process.
With regard to the Kimley-Horn, April 28, 2003, version of the traffic calming report, Benson focused on page 3, B. Speed and the measured 85% and page 4, Step 3: Selection Process and Criteria - Basis for Point Assignment, and Table 1. City of Raleigh Candidate Residential Area Traffic Calming Measures.
Funding will be the most limiting factor in traffic calming. The best way for us to proceed and get the most for our efforts would be to prioritize the streets in our area and determine the best treatment to calm each area. We need to ask ourselves where can we slow down traffic and get good results on secondary streets?
Chad Meadows called for all members to give him the names of any streets they wanted included in the "requests section" within the next 24 or so hours. Within the next 2 days Chad will try to get a letter off to Benson naming the streets we would like added to the traffic calming requests.
On September 4 we will have a speaker(s) on storm water and a speaker from the Transportation Department. On September 15 Captain Poteat is anticipated; Chad will confirm his coming. On October 3 Nina Szlosberg will talk with us.
Justis Peters has updated the Association's front page on the web page and has a link to the letter introducing the Committee/plan.
The September 27 pot luck is still on. The Avent West Neighborhood Association newsletter will be going out in the next couple of days.
The Sub-committees, individually, will set the final determination of issues in their area. Each Sub-committee will give progress reports to the Committee as a whole and/or invitte discussions, questions/answers.
Benson Kirkman has been able to get $8.5 Million of funding to work on Simmons Branch. That will help in repairing the White Oak Lake dam and spillway, cleaning up the lake and replacing the culverts, except the ones under 440.
On Wednesday August 20, at 5:30, Eric Kelley of Duncan and Associates will be at the Urban Design Center. He will be speaking about the residential rental problems Gainesville and other communities have weathered. A lot of effort was made to get Mr. Kelley here. We are welcome to attend.
Elizabeth Byrd will send his biography to the Committee .