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Minutes for the Master Street Plan Committee meeting on March 19, 2014
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Members present: Marvin Day, Ann Garner, Bill Smith, Paul Hoelscher and Mike Cameron
Members absent: Josh Brown, Ben Owens, John Street
Dr. Marsha Guffey, MPO Director, gave the background of the committee and discussed what has taken place at past meetings. She explained the Master Street Plan is a right-of-way document that will help the City reserve right-of-way for future use. The intent is to use the right-of-way in the future to build roads.
She presented a PowerPoint presentation discussing master street plans and considerations for those plans (see attached). She noted master street plans should accommodate future and present uses for everyone, but should not be tailored to any one use. She encouraged the committee to take into consideration all of the issues that are listed in her PowerPoint presentation. She also discussed how other cities plan their roadways to accommodate city’s uses.
Mayor Perrin questioned whether some of these issues were looked at when they devised the newly proposed master street plan. Dr. Guffey answered yes. She added that when she looked back at older master street plans, she noticed that some of the same recommendations they are making with the proposed plan are the same recommendations that were made with plans from the 1950s and 1960s. She encouraged the committee to look at spreading out patterns better in the future to help with traffic issues. Mayor Perrin agreed, noting Rains Street was supposed to be three-lanes to help connect Nettleton to Matthews, but nothing has really been done.
Dr. Guffey presented slides from Paul Knight’s presentation “The Master Street Plan: A Forgotten but Critical City Planning Tool.” (see attached)
Mayor Perrin discussed the eastern bypass. He explained they are looking at using either Commerce Drive or Nestle Road for the bypass. He asked the committee members to think about those two roads and let him ...
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