CRESTWOOD CITIZENS ASSOCIATION

THE CRESTWOOD ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICT (SMD)

AND CRESTWOOD CITIZENS ASSOCIATION JOINT MEETING

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

7:00 PM by Zoom

Invited Guests:

• Will Handsfield, Bicycle Program Specialist, Planning & Sustainability Division, District Department of Transportation

1. Welcome and Introductions

2. Presentation by DDOT on Upshur Bike Lane (Will Handsfield)

• Reviewed goals to reduce car trips, and increase biking trips
• Upshur is a collector road
• Protected bike lane would require removing something
• Designing for the new user, not cyclist
• Want to make it primarily a biking corridor
• Doesn’t have to be Upshur - could be a different street.
• Why Upshur?
• There is access to things. Want to create network.
• Bikes offer more options than cars.
• Feedback: it is a main road - people drive and if you close down even 1 block, it will make traffic worse.
• Not supportive of this program. Crestwood is a quiet peaceful area, will create infusion form others areas. Unfair to this quiet neighborhood. Don’t want to see 25 people riding on my block.
• Can ask people in neighborhood how they feel? Especially the seniors in the neighborhood.
• Another Upshur resident agrees with above speaker.
• Connectivity throughout Crestwood to other parts of the city needs to be better. 
• Will says it’s not a squeeze to add a bike lane- but neighbors say it will just add to the number of cars on other streets.
• More speed humps on Upshur
• More Sidewalks
• Paint on crosswalks
• Lots of ideas / feedback submitted in zoom chat

3. Discussion - Traffic Safety Improvements
Neighbor Suggestions

• 17th stop signs
• Painted crosswalk with signage at Valley trail.
• Initiative to change driving behaviors.
• Ideas submitted in zoom chat

4. CCA Report (Hala)

• Successful past events
• Communications Director position
• Treasurer’s Report
• Upcoming Events            
• Turkey Trot
• E-cycling Update

5. Announcements (Pavan)

• Roosevelt Pool

Pool now open to public M-F from 6-8am and 5-9pm. Entrance is on Upshur Street near 13th at Roosevelt High School.

• Zion Baptist Church Construction

No official notification, but have heard that Zion Baptist Church wants to develop 4817 Blagden Avenue, NW into a 50 unit senior citizen housing development. This would require a zoning variance that has not been granted yet. The process is that the ANC gets a chance to review the zoning variance request and can take a position in favor or in opposition to the request.

Adjourn