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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-05-08-GCC-min Minutes of Greenways Corridor Committee Meeting 8 May 2025 Present in person: Keith Ohmart (chair) Alex Dohan, Peggy Enders, Eileen Entin, David Frohman, Bob Hausslein, Daisy Liu, Bobak Moshiri, Stephen Perkins, Millie Webster (nonvoting) Mike Tabaczynski (nonvoting) Present virtually: Susan Kenyon (nonvoting) Votes: 10 April 2025 minutes accepted Reports/Updates ● Confirmed 5 June date for next meeting. It will be held in the Select Board meeting thth room. Keith also noted the October meeting will be on the 16 rather than the 9. ● Keith, Peggy, Daisy, David and Bob will help out at the 16 May Bikeway Breakfast. Stephen will pick up the bagels. ● Bob, Eileen, Daisy and David will cover the table on Discovery Day (May 24) Ongoing Business ● Review of current routes in development: o Rte 3/Bowman Park: Mike reported that the details for the trail have been worked out and there is a “buy list” for the required materials. At this point we are waiting for the scout to complete the fund raising for his half of the project cost (approximately $1200.) Mike would like to see the project completed by early June. o Proposed Rte 22/Arlington’s Great Meadows/Lower Vine Brook Connector: Waiting on scheduling a site visit with Karen as the next step o Proposed Route 8/Concord Avenue East Loop – Waiting on Karen to discuss how to proceed with boundary surveying as the next step.  Connecting Trail Systems Information Peggy and Bob presented a list of trails in communities adjacent to Lexington that would connect to ACROSS trails. The discussion centered on how to alert people to these trails on the ACROSS map. Options discussed included thumbnail descriptions on the back of the map; QR codes that would link to information about the trail in the adjacent community’s web materials; brief text about the trail (e.g., continue to Bedford Reservoir Trail) on the relevant edge of the map with an arrow pointing in the appropriate direction, using a shadow color. Mike noted there’s a risk in the use of QR codes because they can be broken. Mike will work on drafts of the possible options.  Brochure Design Update Bobak explained that his motivation for the redesign of the brochure is to create more awareness about and usage of the ACROSS trails. He thinks that incorporating pictures into the brochure will help accomplish this. The pictures should have people in them, encompass all four seasons, and show different usages (e.g., walking, jogging, biking) and different compositions of people (e.g., solo, with dog, with kids, adult group). The pictures will help create awareness of how the trails are used. In addition, people will tell their friends that their pictures are on the brochure and this will generate interest. Also, the beauty of the scenery in some of the pictures will draw people to the trails. To make room for the pictures on the brochure, his suggestion is to leave the list but eliminate the descriptions of the POIs. The descriptions of the POIs would be available on the ACROSS website. The committee members generally concurred with Bobak’s suggestions. GCC members should send Bobak their favorite picture and he will review them and produce a set of candidates. We also discussed whether, and if so how, permission could be obtained from people who are pictured in the photos. Bobak will download a suitable permission form that is available on the web and send it to Keith, who, in turn, will review it with Carol Kowalski. The consent form(s) for a picture should be archived with the picture. A designer would be needed to integrate the pictures with text. We will likely need to print a new brochure in the fall, which means that this revisions to the current brochure need to be completed in the summer. The meeting was adjourned at 5: 10 pm. Next Meeting: 5 June, 4-6 pm in the Select Board meeting room.