RESOURCES FOR CREATING PEDESTRIAN & BIKE FRIENDLY STREETS & NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE STEVENS POINT/PLOVER/WHITING/PARK RIDGE AREA
From Bike and Pedestrian Advocates Updated April 2001
cdugan@uwsp.edu
(Please let us know whether any of the following is inaccurate.)
MEETINGS & CONFERENCES
NEW For the Hwy 10 improvement project, Clark St. between Division and Minnesota:
Spring 2001:
Under construction:
Regularly scheduled meetings with the public take place in the P.J.
Jacobs cafeteria. Project Manager Ryan Schanhofer is on site and available
every day.
For the Hwy. 10 improvement project, Minnesota Ave. to Maple Bluff Road (through Park Ridge):
Spring 2001:
Second phase of planning (first phase was last summer & fall):
Fine-tuned design being presented to Park Ridge & Stevens Point
officials
Local officials & public meeting, April or May
Another one,
Sept. or Oct.
Construction begins, 2003
For the Downtown Renewal Project:
Spring 2001
Contact: John Gardner, Stevens Point Community Development Director
Committee is forming to work on the project:
2 members of Common Council, Portage Co. planning staff, M&I Bank, Bank One, Blue Cross, Noel Group, Sentry & other downtown business people, according to the Stevens Point Journal
MISSING: Residents of central city area, including elderly in the 2 high
rises, neighbors from the north side, south side, and neighbors east of
Division, as well as university students.
Conferences
1000 Friends of Wisconsin & The Land Use Institute, 5th Annual Conference: Cities & Our Environment, April 12, 2001, Marquette U, Milwaukee
Embracing Smart Growth for Wisconsin: Learning How to Make It Work for You. May 3-5, 2001, Inn on the Park, Madison
1000 Friends Visits Austria. 10 days in October. “…learn how
they keep their rural areas rural and their urban areas vibrant.”
CONTACTS
The DOT or their consultants:
For the Hwy. 10 Corridor Study:
Randall Fuchs, P.E.
Earth Tech, Inc.
1210 Fourier Drive, Suite
100
Madison, WI 53717
For the Hwy 10 segment, Minnesota to Maple Bluff Road (through Park Ridge):
DOT: Gary Metzer, Project mgr., 715-421-8381
Deb Webb-Franseen,
Co-project mgr., 715-421-8026
Consultants: SHE (Short, Elliiot, Hendrickson, Inc.) Brian Smits and
John Beckwith, engineers and design-phase project managers, 1-800-472-5881
James Hanson, Johanna Hildebrand, Patricia Van Gorp, engineers and project
managers, first-phase (planning)
For the Bus. 51 segment, south side, Dixon St. to Monroe St.:
DOT project manager ?
Consultants: Becher-Hoppe Assocs. (BHA), 330 4th St., Box 8000, Wausau, WIU 54402-8000. 715-845-8000
For DOT’s Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety Program, 608-267-3154
For WisDOT info on how to commute by bike and use the RIDESHARE program:
WisDOT, 2000 Pewaukee Rd., Suite A, Waukesha, WI 53187-0798,
1-800-455-POOL
1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Don Last, President, Stevens Point
City and County Officials
Gary Wescott, Mayor, Stevens Point
John Gardner, Community Development, Stevens Point
Chuck Kell, Planning & Zoning, Portage County
Clarence Hintz, County Board, Portage County
John Van Alstine, Public Works, Stevens Point.
Tom Schraeder, City Parks, Stevens Point
Gary Speckman, County Parks, Portage County
Board of Public Works
Planning Commission
Plover Board of Trustees; Ken Shibilski & Oliver Merriam
Park Ridge Village Board, Tom Gloudemans & Kristen Kleckner
Whiting Village Board; Chuck Kell
ORGANIZATIONS
HBNSC, Heartland Bike and Nordic Ski Club. hbnsc@gglbbs.comNEW
1000 Friends of Wisconsin, the people responsible for planning and lobbying for the Smart Growth legislation. 16 N. Carroll St., Suite 810, Madison, WI 53703. 608-259-1000
Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53701, 608-251-4456, bfw@mailbag.com
WEB SITES
www.cnu.org Congress of a New Urbanism’s site includes the theory and practice of Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND). Excellent. NEW
www.1kfriends.org 1000 Friends of Wisconsin is our state’s smart growth advocate, with an education branch and a legislative arm.
www.lcd.state.or.us/tgm/pub/pdfs/ResidDis.pdf State of Oregon’s detailed plans with colored illustrations and bird’s eye views of smart development of residential districts: PEOPLE-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS
www.lcd.state.or.us/tgm/smartdevelopment.htm Oregon’s Smart Development plans for using existing sites and buildings & providing full urban services near every existing or newly developed neighborhood.
www.lcd.state.or.us/tgm Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management Program (TGM) to “encourage development that results in compact, pedestrian-, bicycle-, and transit-friendly communities.”
www.bts.gov/ntl/DOCS/wbpg.html Wisconsin Bicycle Planning Guidance – Guidelines for Metropolitan…
www.bfw.org and http://danenet.wicip.org/bcp/bfw Bicycle Federation of WI
www.dot.state.wi.us/dtim/bop/bp-laws.htm WisDOT Programs & Services: Bicycle & Pedestrian Transportation
BOOKS
Traditional Neighborhood Development Street Design Guidelines: A Recommended Practice of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Chester E.Chellman. Institute of Transportation Engineers, 1999. NEW
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
“Whether America grows into a placeless collection of subdivisions, strip centers, and office parks, or a real town with real neighborhoods, will depend on whether its citizens understand the difference between theses two alternatives, and whether they can argue effectively for healthy growth” (Introduction, xii). The authors explain the philosophy behind Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) and describe the practical application of it to new development and to renewal of existing city neighborhoods.
“Anybody who travels back and forth across the Atlantic has to be impressed with the differences between European cities and ours, which make it appear as if World War Two actually took place in Detroit and Washington rather than Berlin and Rotterdam” (Kunstler quoted in Suburban Nation, page 153).
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century by James Howard Kunstler. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Also from Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere.
The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999 by Ray Suarez. Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 1999.
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz. McGraw-Hill, 1994.
PUBLICATIONS available from 1000 Friends of Wisconsin
In My Neighborhood: Celebrating Wisconsin Cities
Our second anthology, In My Neighborhood: Celebrating Wisconsin Cities, was written to change the dialogue about our cities and remind people of what cities have to offer that you can’t find in a suburb or rural area. The book also asks hard questions about the role of cities and about our responsibilities to them.
Writers include PBS "Lehrer News Hour" reporter Ray Suarez, screenwriter John Roach ("The Straight Story"), Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist, authors Paul Hayes, Dennis Boyer and Ben Logan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Whitney Gould, former Milwaukee Magazine editor Bruce Murphy and Posner Prize winning author and poet, Jim Hazard. Photographers include Zane Williams, Brent Nicastro and Tom Bamberger.
Read Jim Hazard's essay The Smelt God, from the book.
Book cost: $24.95 (plus s&h).
Proceeds from this book support the creative endeavors of the Land Use Institute. Order through our web site order form.
A Citizen’s Guide to Land Use in Wisconsin
This easy-to-read layperson guide to how land use decisions are made in Wisconsin is the most frequently requested document from 1000 Friends. It is in its second printing and now is the only layperson guide to Wisconsin’s new Smart Growth law, Wisconsin Act 9. Not only does it explain what the legislation says, it also describes how this legislation can be used to truly affect responsible land use decision making and planning in the state. Additionally, it describes how to organize a grassroots effort around a land use issue or comprehensive plan, how to work effectively with the media and how to use creative tools used in other parts of the country to address land use challenges.
Book cost: Members receive their first copy free. Each additional guide, and the price for non-members is $5.00 each or $2.50 for a bulk order of 10 or more guides. Order through our web site order form.
The 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Benchmarks Report
The Benchmarks Project is designed to help us take stock of the state of land use in Wisconsin, and then use that knowledge to plan for our future. Our report documents and evaluates land use trends for our farmland, our cities, our natural and historic resources, and our planning and land use infrastructure. We then set goals in each of these areas for the next twenty years. 1000 Friends will track our progress on each indicators on a bi-annual basis. This will provide us with the opportunity to evaluate how we are doing as a state — and how 1000 Friends is doing as an organization — in fighting the sprawl that threatens the beauty and the unique character of Wisconsin’s landscapes.
Book cost: This document is free! Order through our web site order form.
A Place to Which We Belong -- Wisconsin Writers on the Wisconsin Landscape
The book’s title is an adaptation of a famous Aldo Leopold quote, and aptly summarizes the theme of this anthology: that the land we live on shapes us as much as our choices and land use decisions shape it:
"We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we begin to see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
The authors, all of whom donated their essays to this anthology, each reflect on a Wisconsin place they love. Writers such as Ben Logan, Jerry Apps, Howard Mead, George Hesselberg, Bill Stokes, Susan Lampert Smith, Warren Nelson, John Gurda, among many others recount the wonders of the Wisconsin landscape in each of their distinct writing voices. The book’s editors are Dennis Boyer and Justin Isherwood. Senator Gaylord Nelson authored the book’s foreword. Illustrations found throughout the book were donated by Owen Coyle.
Book cost: $16.95 (plus s&h). Proceeds from this book support the creative endeavors of the Land Use Institute. Order through our web site order form.
Online reports
Closing the Camp Site Gap - creating more campsites in Wisconsin’s state parks to meet our growing demand for outdoor recreation.
Deer & Development – a report looking at the impact our land use patterns are having on the deer herd size, deer/car accidents, car insurance, etc.
Tax Incremental Financing – a report looking at the intent of the TIF law, how it is being abused, and statistics on those communities who have exceeded their legal limit for tax incremental financing
City Ethic, Urban Conservation and the New Environmentalism - by Dave Cieslewicz, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin. Dave suggests the environmental movement may need a transformation of values and approach to issues of land use.