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After
viewing the presentation, subcommittee members first responded that
the existing subcommittee name did not adequately express their role
so they decided to add ‘opportunity’ in order to focus on positive issues
rather than negatives. Comments on the presentation included 1)
Environmental issues are very important – and 2) the ‘fundamental issues’
listed in the presentation (these are described on page 11 of the JWP
Extension Task Force Report) refer to transportation issues. The group
also talked about how the community was to be defined, and wondered
if interests would overlap, conflict, or be in agreement. Councilman
Joe Hultquist noted that all the subcommittee would have their own Chairperson,
and access to staff resources. He announced that John Finger was willing
to be Chairperson.
Subcommittee
Chair John Finger led the group through a previously developed list
of suggested roles for the subcommittee. Staff noted that the roles
may need to expand given the size and scope of the project, since the
corridor study includes both Chapman Highway and the JWP. Additions
to the list of roles included 1) doing a visual preference study and
2) Identifying neighborhoods impacted by road improvements on a map
and 3) exploring environmental opportunities such as the cave system
and potential green ways.
The
following outlines general discussion, brainstorming and comments from
the meeting:
- What
needs to take place to conserve the impacted neighborhoods? Heavy
landscaping? Sound Barrier?
- Need
to get input from Lake Forest Neighborhood
- Public
involvement and sharing of information is important – should we interview
neighborhoods? Do questionnaires?
- Identification
of the community groups boundaries on a map would be useful
- Discussed
interaction with other subcommittees
- Talked
about the connectivity issue between JWP and Chapman, west Moody Ave
and Maryville Pike. During early Empowerment Zone discussions, making
Moody Ave one way had been mentioned – this is still an interesting
idea.
- Councilman
Hultquist pointed out that some areas adjacent to Chapman Highway
could begin to look very different if redevelopment takes place and
mixed use development, including vertical mixed use (for example,
retail or office on the street level, residential on the upper floors)
- Reconnecting
the streets that now deadend behind Chapman Highway may be possible
eventually.
- The
group talked about which blocks of Chapman have turn lanes and which
blocks do not have turn lanes, and wondered if they could link this
to safety and crash rates. Staff will prepare a map with ROW information,
etc.
Interest
areas of the group, for the purposes of additional research:
- Demographic
and Socio-economic data - Pat Harmon
- Pedestrian
Friendly designs –John Finger
- Environmental
- John Nolt
- Impacted
Neighborhoods -Liz Farr
- Historic
Neighborhoods – Whitney Stanley
(Other
topic areas will be looked at later)
Next
Steps -
- MPC
staff is getting the requested information to the participants for
further review.
- Also,
we are collecting the dates, times and location of the neighborhood
meetings to publish on our Task Force web site along with the dates,
times and locations of Task Force and Subcommittee meetings. We hope
this will encourage everyone to participate.
- Neighborhood
and Community Involvement will be an important part of this group’s
work and the subcommittee thinks it will be best to have a large scale,
heavily publicized meeting as the local residents once the alternatives
are more defined and ready to be evaluated.
- Working
with the other subcommittees is the suggested way to do this. Staff
shared with the group plans for a questionnaire and other special
efforts of the Economic Development subcommittee to involve Chapman
businesses in the process.
Meeting
summary prepared by Renee Davis, 4-22-04
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