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2017 Budget Priority Submission Form <br />Finance Committee <br />Preferred due date: Thursday August 31st <br />Final Due date: Tuesday September 5th <br />Title of Project or Policy Priority: Implement Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan <br />Submitted by: Tom Bullock & Cindy Marx <br />City Departments to be involved: Planning, Public Works, Police <br />Potential community partners: Bike Lakewood, Lakewood City School District, <br />LakewoodAlive <br />Which of the Community Vision focus areas does your priority address? Check all that <br />apply: <br />El Commercial Development <br />❑Housing <br />OCommunity Wellness <br />0 Safety <br />OMobility <br />❑Education & Culture <br />Which of the following City goals does your priority address? Check all that apply: <br />OSafe & Secure N Vibrant Neighborhoods <br />❑Economic Development <br />❑ Other <br />❑ Sound Governance <br />1. Provide a narrative description of your idea in 250 words or less. Attach a separate sheet if necessary: <br />This proposal is to provide the first annual allocation to implement Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan and <br />thereby to steadily realize its stated goals year -by -year. The funding allocation would pay for three components <br />and exclude a fourth: <br />1. Planning: to pay for design of, collecting public input on, and application to grant funds for bike <br />plan implementation. <br />2. Implementation and Small -Scale Infrastructure: to pay for continued installment of small - <br />but- meaningful bike infrastructure items such as bike parking hitches, repair stations, signage, <br />and enhanced traffic markings (for example, green bike symbols at certain intersections). These <br />kinds of improvements can add up incrementally over time to make a big impact. <br />3. Education, Encouragement & Enforcement ( 'IEEE "): to pay for safety training and ridership <br />promotion activities. This could also pay for enforcement measures such as increased police <br />presence on bicycles. <br />4. Large -scale infrastructure would not be funded from this allocation, since those much larger <br />costs would need to be integrated into other road, striping, and park projects, and since project <br />funding is not allocated on an annual basis. Additional and different proposals would need to be <br />made to implement large -scale infrastructure. <br />2. Briefly explain how this will benefit the community: <br />As stated in the Bicycle Master Plan the benefits of a thoughtful bike network and plan are: <br />• Improved Quality of Life • Efficient and Sustainable Transportation <br />