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Yakima bike-ped committee seeks role in 2025 transportation plan update
Summary
The Yakima Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee agreed to coordinate with the Planning Commission and city staff to review and provide suggested updates to the 2017 Yakima Bicycle Master Plan as the city undertakes a larger transportation-plan update in 2025.
The Yakima Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee voted to begin coordinating with the Planning Commission and city staff to review the city’s 2017 Bicycle Master Plan and offer suggested updates to feed into the city’s 2025 transportation-plan rewrite.
Committee members said the 2017 master plan called for a 10-year review and that the city has since hired a transportation consultant (Transpo) to update the broader transportation plan. Members argued the committee should fold its review into Transpo’s multimodal work so the bicycle plan’s recommendations are considered as part of the city’s comprehensive planning process.
Committee members discussed options for public engagement, including reusing the 2017 survey as a base, posting an online survey on the city website, targeted mail or door-hanger outreach to affected blocks, and partnering with local groups such as Yakima Bikes and Walks and Safe Yakima to reach residents. The committee agreed Frank (committee member) will reach out to the Planning Commission first and copy city staff (including Trevor and Randy Beeler) to ask whether the Planning Commission will incorporate a bicycle master-plan review into the transportation-plan work and to invite guidance on timing.
Several members noted the original 2017 plan included a substantial public-survey component and that a redline review of the existing plan (committee suggestions, then engineering review and formal council agenda item) would likely be required if the committee wants to recommend specific text changes. Members discussed whether a consultant would be needed; the committee agreed much of the boilerplate in a consultant-produced plan could be retained and that committee-led redlines might reduce consultant costs.
The committee did not take a formal vote beyond assigning the outreach task to Frank; members asked that staff circulate the 2017 survey and related documents so committee members can review them before a future meeting.
