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Recap of November 16, 2021 Neighborhood Meeting

Tue, March 29, 2022 12:35 PM | Anonymous member

THE CRESTWOOD ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT (SMD)

AND CRESTWOOD CITIZENS ASSOCIATION JOINT MEETING

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

7:00 PM by Zoom

Invited Guests:

  • Will Handsfield, Bicycle Program Specialist, Planning & Sustainability Division, District Department of Transportation

1. Welcome and Introductions

2. Presentation by DDOT on Upshur Bike Lane (Will Handsfield)

  • Reviewed goals to reduce car trips, and increase biking trips
  • Upshur is a collector road
  • Protected bike lane would require removing something
  • Designing for the new user, not cyclist
  • Want to make it primarily a biking corridor
  • Doesn’t have to be Upshur - could be a different street.
  • Why Upshur?
  • There is access to things. Want to create network.
  • Bikes offer more options than cars.
  • Feedback: it is a main road - people drive and if you close down even 1 block, it will make traffic worse.
  • Not supportive of this program. Crestwood is a quiet peaceful area, will create infusion form others areas. Unfair to this quiet neighborhood. Don’t want to see 25 people riding on my block.
  • Can ask people in neighborhood how they feel? Especially the seniors in the neighborhood.
  • Another Upshur resident agrees with above speaker.
  • Connectivity throughout Crestwood to other parts of the city needs to be better. 
  • Will says it’s not a squeeze to add a bike lane- but neighbors say it will just add to the number of cars on other streets.
  • More speed humps on Upshur
  • More Sidewalks
  • Paint on crosswalks
  • Lots of ideas / feedback submitted in zoom chat
3. Discussion - Traffic Safety Improvements
Neighbor Suggestions
  • 17th stop signs
  • Painted crosswalk with signage at Valley trail.
  • Initiative to change driving behaviors.
  • Ideas submitted in zoom chat
4. CCA Report (Hala)
  • Successful past events
  • Communications Director position
  • Treasurer’s Report
  • Upcoming Events            
  • Turkey Trot
  • E-cycling Update
5. Announcements (Pavan)
  • Roosevelt Pool
Pool now open to public M-F from 6-8am and 5-9pm. Entrance is on Upshur Street near 13th at Roosevelt High School.
  • Zion Baptist Church Construction
No official notification, but have heard that Zion Baptist Church wants to develop 4817 Blagden Avenue, NW into a 50 unit senior citizen housing development. This would require a zoning variance that has not been granted yet. The process is that the ANC gets a chance to review the zoning variance request and can take a position in favor or in opposition to the request.

Adjourn

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