City Council Special Work Session

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Meeting Date:	06/22/2021
From:	Rick Barrett, City Engineer
Department:	Engineering and Capital Improvements
Co-Submitter:

TITLE:

Petition - Lack of Safe and Accessible Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure in Flagstaff

DESIRED OUTCOME:

Receive direction from Council as to how they would like to address the three issues raised in the Petition including:

- Reallocate the $157 Million allocated to new streets and street widening in Proposition 419 to fund safe bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in the draft Active Transportation Management Plan.
- Install Protected Bike Lanes on Beaver St., San Francisco St., Butler Ave., and Fourth St. by December 2022 and Milton and West Route 66 by December 2023.
- Reduce the speed limit on Butler Ave. and Lone Tree to 25 miles per hour by August 2021.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Staff is prepared to be responsive to the request as follows:

- $6.8M budgeted in FY22 for Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure.
- Immediately begin design and in some cases construction of Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure in advance of Council's adoption of the Active Transportation Master Plan.
- Immediately begin an engineering and traffic investigation for speed limits on Butler and Lone Tree.
- Continue Legal research concerning the reallocation of the funding in Proposition 419.

INFORMATION:

Refer to the attached presentation.

Attachments
Petition
Overall Presentation
ATMP Presentation