Hello all!
I was recently informed by our grant administrator that we did not receive the grant. The five cities chosen are reportedly:
Hartford, CT - city population 123K; metro 1.2M Fort Lauderdale, FL - city population 183K; metro 6.2M Jersey City, NJ - population 265K; metro ~20M+ Chattanooga, TN - population 181K; metro 547K Richardson, TX - population 121K; metro 7.5M
The major difference between our community and these is likely in population size -- we applied as a county-city partnership to qualify for the population criteria, but each of these has 100K+ population in their actual municipality. Other observations: with the exception of Hartford, all of these cities are growing rapidly (5-10% over past 10 years), all are part of much larger metro areas than ours, and all are much more affluent than we are.
Perhaps we'll see programs geared towards smaller, poorer, and more rural areas soon. Hard to imagine a $100K grant making much of a difference in any of these types of places, but it will be interesting to follow their stories for sure!
Cheers, Drew ________________________________ From: Jesse Heady jesse@heady.name Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 1:12 PM To: (John)Drew Gatlin jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov Cc: John Whitmore jwhitmore@morgantownwv.gov; bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com Subject: Re: [Bikeboard] $100 grant funding opportunity
Awesome, thank you! I'll look forward to hearing more and good luck to us all the grant is accepted!
Jesse
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:54 PM (John)Drew Gatlin <jgatlin@morgantownwv.govmailto:jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov> wrote: Jesse, all,
We submitted this grant proposal but haven't heard back on it yet. The initial submission does not require us to select a final project, but it did provide space for us to indicate potential projects. The project we indicated as of most interest at the time of submission was regional bike/ped wayfinding. Open streets sounds like another great idea.
I'll keep you all informed if/when we hear back about the grant.
Cheers, Drew ________________________________ From: Bikeboard <bikeboard-bounces@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard-bounces@bikemorgantown.com> on behalf of Jesse Heady via Bikeboard <bikeboard@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 6:06 PM To: John Whitmore <jwhitmore@morgantownwv.govmailto:jwhitmore@morgantownwv.gov> Cc: bikeboard@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com <bikeboard@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com> Subject: Re: [Bikeboard] $100 grant funding opportunity
HI John,
Did this get any traction with the city? I'm not sure how I missed it but one thing, in particular, stood out to me as one of the funding options of the grant: open street events. I'm interested to hear more from the city on partnerships in this arena.
Sincerely, Jesse
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 9:35 AM John Whitmore via Bikeboard <bikeboard@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com> wrote:
I just shared it with the city’s grand coordination. We will see what we can do.
John Whitmore, AICP
Planner III
City of Morgantown
389 Spruce Street
Morgantown, WV 26505
Office: (304) 284-7431
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From: Bikeboard <bikeboard-bounces@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard-bounces@bikemorgantown.com> On Behalf Of Christiaan Abildso via Bikeboard Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 9:24 AM To: Bicycle Board <bikeboard@bikemorgantown.commailto:bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com> Subject: [Bikeboard] $100 grant funding opportunity
https://www.bluezones.com/made-to-move/
$100k for communities of 100-300k people. A county per the FAQ is considered a "community", thus Mon Co could apply. Planning, technical assistance, and implementation of the project.
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
• A pavement-to-parks project;
• Curb extensions and chicanes;
• Crosswalks and crossings;
• Gateway features;
• Protected bike lanes;
• Pocket parks and plazas;
• Roundabouts and mini-circles;
• Neighborhood traffic calming;
• First and last mile transit projects;
• Road rightsizing projects (lane reductions);
• Bike parking and street furniture;
• Bike and pedestrian-oriented signage and wayfinding;
• Non-motorized trail linkages.
An eligible policy effort can be:
• Development and adoption of a street design manual that localizes active transportation tools;
• An update of zoning ordinances to support healthy design;
• Updating a permitting process to allow interim design;
• Adoption of a Complete Streets policy and implementation plan;
• Revising Capital Improvement Plan project selection to support active transportation (e.g. this may include training of local or regional public works, planning, transportation, emergency responders and other staffs to implement innovative design features).
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