Our first order of business was to approve the July 29 minutes.

We cannot do that without a quorum.

So our next order of business is Daniel who's got his presentation up, and he's gonna talk about the long awaited draft of the replacement of the 2014 to 2024 strategic plan that was to guide greenway development.

Daniel is all yours.

Alright, awesome.

Well, thank y'all for uh for being here and uh let me just scooch back on this other side.

I'm excited to catch this on humor too.

So uh this is all about movement and activation.

It is about movement and activation and things like that.

Okay.

Well, thank you for being here, and I feel like first and foremost, thanks to everyone for uh uh a number of people in this room who provide thoughts and comments.

Uh at this point, I believe that we received six like formal like comments, both like uh, and that's included via email, via phone, and via the actual document itself.

We've also received two other V groups that are going to be sending those comments.

Uh we've also received two comments from people that we recommended to join the committee, but uh they've just not been through the process, so at least we're already hearing people that are excited to be here uh being part of the plan and sharing their thoughts for your information.

So thank y'all for that.

Uh I'm gonna give y'all an update on the plan itself since y'all had a chance to look at the plan, and you've had a chance to review and provide comments.

I'm not gonna go in depth about what's in the plan this time because it's stuff that at this point we've talked about before, and you already have a bit of an idea of what's in there.

So I'm going to to give y'all kind of like a brief overview of some of the information that I will give to boards and people that we talk to.

Um, and then I'm just gonna start jumping into the questions that y'all have.

Give y'all an idea.

I try to, whenever I'm possible, I tried to tie together some common themes or some common ideas.

And also beyond that, there were some individual questions that I'm happy to like start diving into, kind of like very tactical.

Um, and if we have any other questions, I'm happy to answer those too.

So big picture, something I'm not sure what fully talked about before, but something that uh is is relatively important is that the Greenways for All, the relationship between Greenways for All and the Company's plan.

So the comprehensive plan is a long-term vision for how Indianapolis and Marion County grows and develops.

It's a healthy, inclusive, resilient, and competitive city.

And I don't know if y'all know this, but our comprehensive plan isn't like a single document.

It's a bunch of uh a variety of other documents, like smaller documents.

And so here, another plan that the city's working on right now is its land use plan, and we're gonna hopefully have that updated within the next month.

Uh another plan is the parks and recreation open space plan that was done a few years ago.

Uh we're shut the Department of Public Works is just starting to embark on the process of updating the transportation plan.

Um the Greenways Master Plan is actually part of comprehensive plan.

And that's important for a handful of reasons.

There's some very like tactical reasons about if you're applying for a grant or support, especially from the state or federal governments, being part of the comprehensive plan is either required or adds additional points for competitive scoring circumstances.

And it's also important just from like a very visionary standpoint.

And uh one of the things one of the questions that I hear most frequently is why don't why do we have so many trails in Greenways in Center Township, but we don't have as many in other places.

And one of the there are I could speak for an hour about this topic, and I don't think y'all maybe at some point we'd like to, but uh there's a lot of nuance to that topic, but I do feel like one thing that's important to think about is the plan of many of the trails and greenways that we have downtown are built off of plans that we had like over 100 years ago, the Casar Plan.

And so by have being part of a plan, being part of the conversation, being part of the development, our community hopefully puts us in a better position to be able to have more trails in the future.

So uh the ultimate goal for the Greenways Master Plan is to be part of that comprehensive plan for those reasons.

And you know, the Greenways for All Strategic Implementation Plan lays out a vision for expanding and improving Indianapolis' greenways network, so more people can have access to high quality trails.

And some important words here as y'all know is both expanding the system but also improving the system to make sure that we have access to things like water fountains and better access, like wayfinding and seating and benches and things like that, so people can have a great experience both on our new trails but also making sure that their existing troops get loved too.

This is a slide that I know many people have seen here a couple of times.

And I think Ephme maybe has another presentations, but just to give you all an idea.

This is basically where we are now.

These are either existing trails or trails that we currently have in construction.

And so right now we have the dark green lines roughly accounts for 120 miles of trails and variants.

And that number is good and one we're proud of, but I do feel like big picture, one of the things that I think is most important is the actual lighter green colors.

It's these are all the areas where people live within a mile's access of a greenway.

So there are roughly 370,000 people who can walk or bike or take a quick car ride from a greenway, currently, right now.

Or will in the next year once we open up interurban greenway and we finish Eagle Creek.

There are also 310,000 jobs that are within a mile of a greenway.

And big picture, the goal of the plan is to think through how do we get more people access to high quality greenways.

We've been thinking through what does that mean.

And so ultimately what we're looking to do in the plan is any lines that are blue here are proposed trails and greenways to add to the vision for the future.

And like by increasing the miles of pavement, we also increase the number of people who would be within a mile of a greenway.

This this map represents roughly 800,000 people who would be able to walk, bike or take a quick car ride to a greenway.

And that includes 115,000 seniors and 180,000 youths.

And there are over half of a million jobs that would be within a mile of a greenway.

So going back to this idea of having safe places where people can go from where they live, work, and play that we were just talking about them here.

You know, that puts roughly 80% of all Indian Marion County residents within a short walk or bike or car out of a greenway.