The Radnor Township Board of Commissioners convened on Monday, November 10, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Radnorshire Room. The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and notice of an executive session held immediately beforehand on real estate and legal issues. The chair announced at the outset that two business agenda items, Resolution 2025-121 and Resolution 2025-158, had been pulled from the agenda.
First, um, I'd like to call together, uh, call to order the Board of Commissioners meeting for Monday, November 10th, 2025. Um, if we could start with a Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance. Undergo individual liberty. All right, um, I want to give notice that we had an executive session immediately prior to this where we discussed real estate and legal issues. I also want to up front um let you know that on our business agenda, item 3B, um resolution 2025-121 and item 3C. Resolution 2025-158 have been pulled from the agenda. Um, tonight we're gonna start with a presentation by Kathy Sparr from the uh Delaware County Planning Commission. Uh, gonna talk about her uh the the county's vision zero delco. Good evening, everybody. I want to thank you for letting me come here and talk to you about Vision Zero Delco. My name is Kathy Sparr. I'm an infrastructure planner for the Delaware County Planning Department, and I'm also the project manager for this plan. So tonight we're gonna talk about what Vision Zero is, and it doesn't have anything to do with your eyesight. We're gonna talk about what we heard, um, the state of safety in Delaware County and Radner Township and what we're gonna do to address that via countermeasures and taking action. So, what is Vision Zero? Vision Zero is an approach to eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injury crashes on our roadways. Delaware County has made a commitment to uh have a goal of 2050 to accomplish that, which aligns with Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, also known as DVRPC, as well as Pendot. We are going to be using a lot of alphabet soup here tonight, so I will try and keep you on board with me. Um, really important to this approach is the idea that we understand humans make mistakes, we are not perfect, um, that we are also fragile, we are not iron men. Um when we get in a crash, we can be severely injured and killed. Um we want those mistakes to not be deadly. Roads should be safe for everybody, whether you're walking, biking, or driving, or using some other form of transportation. Um through all of this, it's really important that we engage the community as part of this process and try and be proactive with our safety versus reactive. So, what's Delaware County's place in Vision Zero? Because quite frankly, we don't own any roads, so why the heck are we doing this anyway, right? Um, well, we believe that we're here to facilitate this process. We're here to bring people together, collaborating with our partners, our municipal partners, D VRPC, and PEN DOT. Um, we are also a hub for data gathering and then sharing that data out through our GIS department and other methods. We're also a guide for funding. We like to know where the money is, and we like to share that with you guys. And we believe that traffic safety is the foundation of everything that we do, especially when it comes to other plans like active transportation and our walk-roll Delco plan. So, why should Radner consider adopting Vision Zero Delco? What's it do for you? Well, it unlocks federal dollars, and who doesn't want access to that money? Um, it's also an opportunity to use it as leverage. So when you're applying for grants, you can say, we believe in safety, and I can prove that to you because we adopted this plan. It helps you identify projects, it gives you an opportunity to collaborate with your neighbors. There's absolutely no cost to it, and it's an opportunity for Radner to say we believe in safety and tell that to your community by making this commitment. So, what did we hear throughout this process? Like I said, community engagement was integral to this. We had a task force that was comprised of all of the alphabet soups from AARP to DVRPC to the FHWA and DCTMA. So we also tried something new in Delaware County for our community engagement. We developed a safety task force through our safety ambassadors, which were everyday people from our community that went out and worked together to engage the community. And it was a new way to do it. We wanted to do that because neighbors know their neighbors best. Like I am from Bethel Township, so I know how to engage with Bethel. I don't really know what to do here in Ratner. So why not partner with somebody who lives here and and has a better framework for that? We wanted to make sure we are uplifting perspectives and experiences of people and with the road and safety.