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Residents and students press planning commission to add bike parking, pedestrian priorities to transportation chapter
Summary
During a comprehensive‑plan transportation chapter review, residents and Washington and Lee students urged the Planning Commission to elevate bike parking, pedestrian safety and county connectivity; staff agreed to add or reframe language and consider a targeted bike‑parking study or project.
The Lexington Planning Commission spent the bulk of its March 26 meeting reviewing the transportation chapter of the draft comprehensive plan and heard several public commenters press for more visible bike‑parking commitments and pedestrian safety measures.
Jeremy Crute of the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission gave a high‑level presentation of the chapter’s themes and noted that stakeholder engagement and VDOT data generally aligned: pedestrian improvements and maintenance ranked high among respondents, downtown parking showed the greatest public concern, and the city’s roadway network broadly has capacity for projected traffic. Crute reported roughly 540 crashes over about nine years —…
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