Please join RENew Northfield the evening of Thursday the 6th for our July Transportation Committee meeting in the 2nd-floor conference room at 402 Washington Street. We will begin with an opportunity to share food and drink while chatting about whatever’s on your mind (the good, the bad, and the ugly, preferably energy-related, but hey, how ’bout those Twins? and who’s going to be left to ride in, let alone win, the Tour de France??) from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7:00.

6:30 Energizing conversation and happy half-hour

7:10 Event planning: Making the Northfield area more bicycle and pedestrian friendly (September or October ‘06)
Main speaker: Steve Clark (Transit for Livable Communities, Minneapolis, Walking and Bicycling Program Manager)
From the TLC website: “Steve started working for TLC in February, 2006, primarily to implement the federally funded Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Project. Steve brings a strong background in bicycling and walking to the organization. He was the first manager of the bicycling and walking program in Boulder Colorado, he is a past president of the League of American Bicyclists, and he oversaw development of the northern portion of the Ice Age trail in Wisconsin. Steve has also written bike/pedestrian plans for a number of US cities.”

7:40 Greenway Corridor/Northfield Transportation Planning
-brief update on process
-brainstorming specific bike/ped ideas to be presented to Planning Commission for Comprehensive Plan consideration

8:00 Brewster biodiesel plant tour/meeting
Interest? Date/time?

8:10 Car-sharing revisited (HOURCAR–St. Paul/Minneapolis nonprofit; Zipcar–for-profit now available at the University of Minnesota)

8:20 Other

8:30 Adjourn

The first of what will be quarterly RENews newsletters has been mailed out to members and is available here

for your perusal. Your feedback is welcome.