Like to call to order the uh Powell Development Committee meeting for April 7th.

Elaine, please call the roll.

Carlos Crawford is absent.

Herman is absent for our survey.

Present.

Kurt Ramsey.

Here.

And Sean Simpson is absent.

Thank you.

All right, the first order of business is to uh approval of the minutes from last time.

Has everyone had a chance to review the minutes from the packet?

I'd like to have a motion to approve the minutes.

So moved.

And I will second.

I'll ever say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

And then the move same time.

No birthview for that.

Alright, next on today's business is the Bennett Farms Path update.

So I will start that.

But we'll turn it over to Aaron here.

If you remember at our last meeting, we had a discussion about and there was a lot of discussion about kind of this initial project that Aaron has been working on.

So we thought it would be a good idea for continuity's sake to bring that back to you at this meeting and let you see kind of the work has been up to and uh give you kind of a time frame as to when all will be put in collection.

So with that being said, I'll turn it over again.

Thank you, Jeff.

Um and I did provide a hard copy of these slides just for you to use for notes.

And um, as I go through these slides, if there's any questions, please stop me.

Um, real quick, we just want to give you an update on kind of the first phase of what's going to become kind of a larger Bennett Farms experience.

Um late last year, we got the design contract approved for the engineering or the Bennett Parks shared use path.

Um, just a little bit of background.

Um, if you remember in May of 2025, although it feels like years ago, it hasn't even been a year since that master plan was adopted by council.

Quickly thereafter, um, council also approved um project funding for the design of the construction of this project.

Um this project was born out of that shared use path master plan.

If you remember when we went through that, um we studied not only the limits of our Shared Use Path Network in the city of Powell, but a half mile buffer outside of that.

And that exhibit that we have, let me get to that real quick.

There we go.

Um shows the limits of of what we studied in that area to look for gaps, improvements, um, identified projects and safety improvements that we could make.

Um, and and we even said back at that time what's exciting about it is that that study and that master plan would become the framework to um basically plan and program projects become reality, and here we are today already, which is was pretty amazing.

Um that path, uh Shared Use Path Master Plan, one of the things it looked at was not only the past system and identified gaps, but it also looked at um things that attracted um ice cream pedestrian uses, so like parks, points of interest, schools, um, also looked at business and residential and retail density, um, and then also look from a safety standpoint, looked at um crashes that involved bicyclists throughout our network.

And that's what you also see on this map.

And one of the things I wanted to highlight is if you look at the the cluster that we have with the arrow, um, that's right in this area that where we're we're bringing forward this project.

Um, one of the other things I wanted to point out is part of that Shario's path master plan.

There's a robust public input process, um, not only just within POW, but there were um basically uh the region uh online and then through public meetings we gathered public input on um kind of gaps, missing gaps in our system and then barriers to some of the writing network.

And again, if you look on this map there on the right, you can see a cluster of red dots where we receive survey feedback on you know desired routes for additional uh shared use pass.

Um, other than the area of the the crossing here on South Liberty, I would say this is probably the number two within the whole region when we came through that study.

You can see there highlighted there along Powell Road.

So out of that um study, one of the things that we got at the end of that um process was a list of project recommendations.

Um I believe there was over four along with each of those.

You can see there on the right side.

Um it listed not only it gave us an ID number to identify it, gave us um some limits, talked about um some funding sources, and then also gave us estimated costs of the project, but then in a most important way, we we had them go through and give a priority rank to this project so that it could help guide our program as we look out, you know, five years, ten years down the road.

And I want to point out if you look right there on the middle, um, it's 135 as I know it.

Uh that project was listed right there as a high priority project.

So we're again we're here today already, um, starting to address some of the things that came out of that study.

Um, you know, what one of the things I'd point out with this project not only does it provide that route that connection in that immediate area solving some connectivity issues, we've seen some safety issues, but it also provides a much larger connection to the community.

Um, if you look at that that path and kind of expand a little bit out and you look at that overall regional map, what you can see that it does pretty quickly is connects our bridge in that area further to the um to the east to downtown.

So once we get it connected to that the street there at Bartholomew, you'll be able to ride your bike basically from downtown and everything else that you know we're adding in that area.

So we were providing that connectivity so that you can experience the community through those other means of transportation.

So where we are today, um, as we mentioned, we have civil and environmental consultants, also known as CEC, as our design consultant.

Um survey's been completed, they've actually provided us uh a preliminary alignment, which we'll go through in a little bit of detail here in a second.