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RESOLUTION NO. R-1213-67: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, ADOPTING THE REVISED NORMAN BIKE ROUTE MAP RECOMMENDED BY THE NORMAN BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
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BACKGROUND: In 1996, the City Council adopted the Bicycle Transportation Development Plan with Initial Bikeway Routing. This plan addressed the need for bicyclists to be afforded the same rights and responsibilities as those driving motor vehicles. The plan was developed by consultants and a steering committee made up of citizens interested in and/or involved in bicycling. Part of their work was to create a map that represented the initial routes as laid out by the Bike Plan.
In 2006, an Ad-Hoc Bicycle Advisory Committee was created to review the Norman bike routes. From their work, a permanent Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) was created in April, 2007, as a sub-committee of the Transportation Committee. This committee is “charged with reviewing the Bicycle Transportation Development Plan on an ongoing basis; make and assist in implementation of recommendations to additionally encourage and support biking, both recreational and for transportation; and consult with and forward those recommendations to the Transportation Committee” (Resolution No. R-0607-58). James Briggs from the Parks and Recreation Department and Angelo Lombardo from the Public Works Department have served as staff liaisons to the Bicycle Advisory Committee since 2007.
DISCUSSION: A major update to the Norman Bike Route Map was approved by Council in 2009, which reflected all of the physical changes that have occurred in Norman since the initial routes were laid out in the 1990’s. In 2010, another major update showed the areas in town that were targeted as Phase I of the plan to re-introduce striped lanes in appropriate areas of town on several collector streets. Not long after that update and the striping of the new lanes, the City of Norman applied for recognition and was designated a...
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