HomeMy WebLinkAboutagenda.apz.20110526 AGENDA
ASPEN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
& PITKIN COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
SPECIAL MEETING
THURSDAY, May 26, 2011
4:30 p.m. Sister Cities
CITY HALL
I. ROLL CALL
II. COMMENTS
A. Commissioners
B. Planning Staff
C. Public
III. MINUTES
IV. DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST
V. PUBLIC HEARINGS —
A. Aspen Area Community Plan — Transportation
VI. OTHER BUSINESS
VII. BOARD REPORTS
VIII. ADJOURN
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MEMORANDUM
TO: City & County Planning & Zoning Commissions
FROM: Jessica Garrow, City Long Range Planner
Ben Gagnon, City Special Projects Planner
Ellen Sassano, County Long Range Planner
Chris Bendon, City Community Development Director
Cindy Houben, County Community Development Director
DATE OF MEMO: May 17, 2011
MEETING DATE: Thursday, May 26, 2011
4:30 — 7:30 pm, Sister Cities
RE: Joint Public Hearing on new draft of AACP
Transportation
BACKGROUND: The P &Zs agreed to review the document chapter -by- chapter. This memo
addresses the "Transportation" chapter. All P &Z members have been given a hard copy of the
plan, so an additional copy is not provided with this packet. A direct link to the chapter is at:
Transportation.
A quorum of each board is required for all public hearings. If a quorum is not present, the
meeting will need to be continued. Each meeting date has been scheduled based on chapter,
and members of the public are planning on attending meetings based on the publicized schedule.
Staff recommends that if a meeting is continued that the topic be moved to the end of the review
schedule.
TRANSPORTATION: The Transportation chapter is nearly identical to the September 2010
draft. The Vision section is unchanged. The Philosophy section was edited to reduce redundant
concepts and to improve the overall flow. While some of the text has changed, the concepts
have not changed. One example of this is on the bottom of page 38 where the plan includes a
more detailed explanation of why the plan contains no specific solution to the Entrance to Aspen.
The "What's Changed" section incorporates information that was previously in call -out boxes.
The "What's New "" section highlights the Primary Transportation Policy, which strives to
reduce not only Average Annual Daily Trips (AADT), but peak -hour trips to 1993 levels.
The Policies have not changed significantly. In the Bike and Pedestrian section (section 11),
Policy 1 combines old Policies 11.1 and I1.2. The September 30, 2010 draft included a Policy
section titled "Managing Growth" (old section V). In the revised draft, the policies from that
section have been added and incorporated into the "User Groups and Transportation Demand
Management" section (Section III). All other Policy statements remain unchanged.
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HOMEWORK PRIOR TO MEETING: In an effort to facilitate discussion at the meeting,
staff requests that the P &Zs please come to the meeting with a list of the items you would like to
"flag." It would be helpful if the commissioners who are unable to attend the meeting forward
their "flags" to the entire group prior to the meeting. This will allow the group to discuss the
feedback in the meeting.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION USED BY P &Z: There were a number of documents the
P &Z used in the initial drafting of this chapter. These include:
• State of the Aspen Area Report Transportation Chapter.
• State of the Aspen Area Report West of Castle Creek Corridor Chapter,
• Clicker Session data, and
• 2008 Survey data.
All are available at ww w.AspenCommunityVision.com. In addition, all the past P &Z packets
are available under the Adoption section of the website, or by clicking the links below:
Transportation Packets West of Castle Creek Corridor Packets
• March 23, 2010 • May 11, 2010
• March 30, 2010 • May 25, 2010
• April 27, 2010 • June 8, 2010
• May 6, 2010
The most recent clicker sessions (Nov 2010) and survey (March 2011) are also available
online. The September 30, 2010 preliminary draft Transportation Chapter is available on-
line.
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