Burlington Cycling Advisory Committee Meeting

Minutes

Meeting #:

Date:

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Time:

7:00 p.m.

Location:

Hybrid meeting- Virtual and Room 247 City Hall

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1.

Members Present:

Jon Millman, Randy Campbell, Vicki Trottier, Patrick Rea, Herb Lewington, Laura Fowlie, Ellie Castonguay, Murry Strum

2.

Member Regrets:

Pat Binnie, Katherine Dobson, Cory Finnigan, Dan Ozimkovic (Transportation Planning Technologist)

3.

Others Present:

Councillor Nisan, Karyn Poad (Supervisor, Community Initiatives), Suzanne Gillies (Clerk)

4.

Land Acknowledgement:

The Chair read the Land Acknowledgement.

5.

Declarations of Interest:

None

6.

Approval of Minutes:

6.1

Approve the minutes from the meeting held October 29, 2024

On motion the minutes from the meeting held October 29, 2024 were approved as presented.

7.

Delegation(s):

None

8.

Regular Items:

8.1

Major Transit Station Areas (MTSA) update - Karyn Poad - Supervisor, Community Initiatives

Karyn provided an update to the committee regarding the Major Transit Station Areas (MTSAs) specific planning and Community Permit Planning (CPP) By-law.

The information Karyn provided and complete project timelines and reports can be found on Get Involved Burlington at this link:

https://www.getinvolvedburlington.ca/mtsa 

The committee asked the following questions and had the following comments:

(Q) Can you please give an example of a complete street?  (A) It is a defined term in our Official Plan, a street that is designed, built and operated for safe access for all users, future work still needs to be done to establish guidelines.

(Q) Would complete streets typically include a dedicated bike lane?  (A) it could as part of the guideline work that needs to be done can be considered.

(Q) Has there been any push back from the province regarding the Official Plan Amendments?  (A) There have been some informal conversations working with ministry staff to help them understand all the background and why the OPA and CPP are so connected.

Comment regarding the need for secure bike storage/parking at Go Stations to influence using active transportation for the fist/last mile.

(Q) How can the Cycling Committee help and or be involved?  (A) Purpose of today was to provide an update of where we are at.  There will be future opportunities for the committee to provide input, of course one of which will be the complete streets guidelines.

 

8.2

Submission to the province

Dan was not in attendance to provide an update regarding the submission to the province regarding Bill 212.

Provided with this agenda is a link to the submission to the province from the City which includes the comments from this committee and ITAC.  Also a link to the resolution that was passed by Council.  

8.3

Integrated Transportation Advisory Committee update

Jon provided the following updates:

• Dawn Jarvis from Burlington Transit informed the committee about Fare Free transit study and what the impacts would be - going to Committee of the Whole on December 2, 2024 as an information report, no recommendation at this time
• ITAC subcommittee working with the school boards regarding interest in Bike Busses, survey is being distributed through the schools to the parents

8.4

2025 Workplan (draft attached)

Jon reminded members to let him or Suzanne know which initiatives they are interested in participating in on the workplan.

9.

Other Business:

9.1

Reminder of election of Chair and Vice Chair in January

9.2

Thank you to Vicki

Vicki informed the committee that her term is up so will not longer be on the committee.  

Councillor Nisan and Jon thanked her for all the work she has done with the committee over the years. 

10.

Adjournment:

Chair adjourned the meeting at 7:51 p.m.