Integrated Transportation Advisory Committee Meeting

Minutes

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1.
Members Present:

 

Nick Morrison (Chair), Thomas Hayes, Ian Catton, Andrea Grebenc, Irene MacDonald, Alex Andrenkov

2.
Member Regrets:

 

Jon Millman (BCC), Tim Park (SDC), Peter Buckley (BSAC)

3.
Others Present

 

Councillor Shawna Stolte, Craig Kummer (Director of Transportation Services), Kaylan Edgecumbe (Manager of Integrated Mobility), Becky Ellis (Landscape Architect), Ryan Stoneman (Project Manager), Lisa Palermo (Clerk)

4.
Land Acknowledgement:

 

5.
Declarations of Interest:

 

None.

6.
Approval of Minutes:

 

7.
Delegation(s):

 

8.
Regular Items:

 

8.1
Election of Chair and Vice Chair

 

Deferred to the next meeting.

8.2
Staff updates:

 

a.
Transportation planning

 

Kaylan provided an update:

  • Transportation planning team has grown and increased capacity as of February 2023
  • Continued processing of development applications – emphasis on meeting Bill 109 timelines
  • Integrated Mobility Plan is nearing completion
    • Currently developing monitoring plan
    • Engineering is estimating capital costs for projects recommended through the IMP
    • Council Workshop planned for June 2023 with recommendation report coming to Council in September 2023
    • Staff will present the workshop material to ITAC after workshop
    • Opportunity for ITAC to delegate regarding the Plan in September

b.
Active transportation

 

Kaylan provided an update:

  • City staff continue to collaborate with Halton Region on the Dundas Street design in hopes safe cycling facilities can be accommodated.
  • Construction of the Plains Road Protected Cycling Facilities will continue in 2023
  • Staff are currently working with Engineering to design the Prospect Street Cycling Facilities
  • In future, Burlington Cycling Committee member will be providing more detailed updates from BCC meetings

c.
Traffic operations and signals

 

Craig provided an update:

  • staff working on area wide decrease of speed limits to 40 km/h in subdivisions
  • staff is obtaining data and establishing criteria to identify locations for automated speed enforcement

Members enquired about street calming initiatives and whether there was staff follow up regarding the suitability of calming efforts that may have been put into place some time ago, and may no longer be effective and/or relevant. Members flagged the need for better enforcement measures, outside of automated speed enforcement.

Staff relayed that they do provide follow up reports to ward Councillors.

d.
Transit

 

None.

8.3
Open streets proposal

 

Nick reviewed ITAC's open streets presentation (created by members in 2022). This research and information will assist the committee's 2023 workplan goal to work with city staff on next steps to create a downtown pedestrian precinct.

8.4
Downtown streetscape project

 

Becky Ellis and Ryan Stoneman provided information to the committee about the downtown streetscape project and civic square renewal

  • early stages of this multi year, multi phased project. Details about engagement, design and construction tbd.
  • project focuses on creating welcoming, safe and accessible pedestrian spaces
  • civic square improvements to be accompanied by improvements on Locust  and Brant streets.
  • this project does not propose changes to the street lanes.

Members enquired about dedicated cycling lanes and parking.  The Cycling Plan does not identify cycling facilities for this project, and changes (if any) to parking have not been not determined. Staff look forward to ITAC's feedback as the project progresses over the next year.

8.5
2023 work plan and budget

 

Nick, Alex, Andrea, Ian and Irene will connect in the next week to create a draft workplan for circulation to the rest of the committee for review and approval.

9.
Other Business:

 

10.
Adjournment:

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:18 p.m.

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