Bicycle Board Members,

The MainStreet Morgantown Design Committee heartily supports the post-and-loop bicycle parking device plan the we defined for High and Spruce Streets.  Furthermore, they're developing a downtown design standard book and they are open to incorporating bicycle parking in the standard if we can give it to them.  Main Street Morgantown includes Spruce Street to the River; Falling Run to Deckers Creek and the Waterfront up to the 9/11 memorial.

On Thursday, March 12, Chip Wamsley delivered a very, very sharp presentation of the post-and-loop design and the locations to the design committee.  He stated that the goal of this project is to stimulate bicycle use downtown and to serve as a template for further installation of racks both downtown and around town.  The Design Committee:

• Unanimously stated, "This is something we really need!";
  
• Recommended that we make this presentation to the City Planning Commission so they can incorporate it in their nascent downtown re-plan;
  
• Asked if the posts could be 8 feet tall so that they could install way finding signs on them to avoid having two posts: one for bike parking and the other for signs.

The meeting was at Mills Design Group studio on High Street.  In attendance were Cara Hearst, Mike Mills, Michael Biafore, Barbara Watkins, Sean Matthis, and Robert Merrow (who is with WVU Planning and has worked with Hugh Kierig).

Frank
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