Pedestrian and Bikeway Advisory Committee - Oct. 7, 2025

Agenda

6:30 p.m. – Welcome: Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes and Public Comment

6:35 p.m. – PBAC Recruitment – Committee

6:50 p.m. – PGE Springwater Corridor Mitigation Project – Scott Hoelscher

7:10 p.m. – Cazadero Trail Update – Mya Ganzer

7:25 p.m. – Project Updates | Transportation Legislation | Hot Spots | Shared Streets | On-Line Bike Map | SRTS Walk Audit for Rock Creek Middle School | 82nd Ave Transit Project | Real-Time Transit Screens

8:00 p.m. - Adjourn

Staff Liaisons: Scott Hoelscher • Senior Transportation Planner • Dept. of Transportation & Development (503) 742-4533 • scotthoe@clackamas.us | Mya Ganzer • Planner 1• Dept. of Transportation & Development (503) 742-4520 • mganzer@clackamas.us

Minutes

October 7, 2025 Meeting Agenda

Attendees: Dale Guenther, Mindy Montenucco, Kelli Grover, Del Scharffenberg, Dave Weber,

Mya Ganzer, Nicole Perry

6:30 p.m. – Welcome: Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes and Public Comment

Quorum has not been reached.
Dale inquires if we can vote over email.
Scott will check if that is possible, but is concerned by public meeting laws.

6:38 p.m. – PGE Springwater Corridor Mitigation Project –  Scott Hoelscher

Scott: this is a potential ongoing committee project. PGE is replacing the transmission lines from Estacada and connects to the Springwater Corridor, first steel lattice, built in 1911. It needs to be replaced, and they are swapping out all the steel lattices with monopole structures. They reached out to us about mitigation on cultural and historic resources, environmental etc.
PGE under their federal permit required to mitigations and have a contract with the federal government, PGE will provide development of 1 public art piece that uses salvaged portions of the steel lattice towers in a design connected to the source material. The mitigation is a blank slate, could be used to provide an art piece, bicycle amenities etc. PGE will come to the November or December meeting. We could potentially do a bicycle art piece, bike racks, bike fix-a-station at Boring Station Trailhead Park. This seems like an opportunity to do something fun and creative for the community and the County. The budget is $120,000. Another idea is informational kiosk with bike resources and historic information (example Canby bike hub)
Boring Station Trailhead Park (end of Springwater) destination location. We could tie this to Mya’s work on the Cazadero Trail, the mitigation could potentially be a part of that mitigation. They are using the Cazadero trail to do the replacement work 
Dale: could this mitigation be a bridge constructed of the transmission lines?
Scott: that’s a great idea, it could be out of budget, but it is a multi-million dollar project.
Dale: they’ll need to have access
Del: they could access from Barton
Dale: 
Mya: they are adding gravel to one portion, potentially it could be paved as type of mitigation, which is better for cyclists and pedestrians. 
Scott: there are crossings needed at Deep Creek, Currin Creek, and Eagle Creek
Dale: reinforcing the existing Eagle Creek trail with the steel is one option.

6:55 p.m. – Cazadero Trail Update – Mya Ganzer

Scott: is there a gap that is highest priority for having a paved trail from Boring to Estacada?
Del: it dead ends at Deep Creek, and it’s be a very expensive crossing.
Kelli: quite a few people use that area, but with $120,000 budget, that may be difficult
Del: another difficult crossing is the Highway 212 crossing in Boring, it’s very high speed and dangerous. Multiple cars have run off the road into the stores there. We need to do some safety mitigation on the highway there. 
Kelli: some rapid flashing beacons would be great at this location.
Del: people don’t worry about right on red and the turn is basically blind. The building at the corner, a woman who works there is still in the hospital. 
Kelli: there were two separate incidences within a week.
Dale: are you suggesting the mitigation could be an RFB or is this a hot spot for the committee?
Del: both
Dale: with the budget being $120,000, could the County, City of Estacada, etc kick in more money?
Scott: The City recognized the benefit that would be for the City and connecting to the Springwater and Scenic Bikeway. There is not currently trail building funding, and may not work to pair the PGE funding with the trail building grant. We could look at Regional Travel options grant. OPRD doesn’t have capacity at this moment. 
Del: doesn’t the county maintain it?
Scott: the City owns the Springwater but the County maintains it.
Dale: is Metro a possibility?
Scott: they don’t typically do trail funding
Kelli: does PGE have a timeline?
Scott: estimated completion date of 2028 for mitigation clause in contract.

7:06 p.m. – PBAC Recruitment  – Committee 

Scott: I don’t think we have quorum so I don’t believe we can discuss membership this meeting.
Del: I think that all of the applicants would be good additions to the committee.
Dave: I have the same opinion, and think they’d all be good additions to the committee.
Scott: I will email Joseph to see if he can come to vote.

Scott: while we wait for Joseph, let me show a new feature of the online bike map.
There are different tabs up top, we have a submit comment tab in development. The idea is people can leave comments for infrastructure improvements. When you submit comments they go into a dataset. We are looking for feedback on it from the committee. 
Mindy: This looks great.  I very much like the Submit Comment.  Useful for basic maintenance issues too.  Info regarding basic path etiquette for all users to create friendly, caring culture would be great if it isn't already included.
Scott: We also have the explore featured ride tab and it will show you the route length and elevation profile as well as a photo tour, showing photos of the route. I will put the link in the chat so you are all able to provide feedback. We wanted to get your feedback first so it can be tweaked before we put it on social media.
Dale: I think the maps looks great, but there should be a download tab for a georeferenced map, so you can follow the route in real time. 
Scott: What is that program called?
Dale: Avenza

7:27 p.m. – Project Updates | Transportation Legislation | Hot Spots  | Shared Streets | On-Line Bike Map | SRTS Walk Audit for Rock Creek Middle School | 82nd Ave Transit Project | Real-Time Transit Screens

Scott: Dale and Nicole, we are doing a STRS Walk Audit for schools in the county, to see what infrastructure is needed, we doing one at the Rock Creek Middle School and there is jurisdictional overlap, I thought you might be interested as a traffic safety member for the committee. I was wondering if you would be interested in attending.
Dale: I am interested in attending and would want to bring it up to the committee.
Nicole: I will send the information so you or someone on the committee can attend.

Dale: NCPRD maintains a part of it?
Scott: County Parks maintains from the county line to Boring Station Trailhead Park. 
Dale: There are two candidates on the NCPRD advisory committee, and Sheila Shaw is the chair, they may be able to provide better coordination the NCPRD. 
Scott: there are doing a trails master plan in 2026, so there will be some great coordination. 
Scott: At the next meeting TriMet will be here is discuss so it would be nice to have the new committee members. Maybe we should have a special meeting to appoint the new members. 
Dale: I support that. 
Dave: Could we do 5 to 5:30 on October 14th?
Scott: That works
Kelli: That works
Mindy: I have Canby BikePed next week at 6:30.  I'll join via phone for the 14th.

Scott:  I’ll connect with Mya to figure that out.
Nicole: Alice Awards is Street Trust Fundraiser October 16th at 5:30 pm

7:35 p.m. - Adjourn

Staff Liaisons: Scott Hoelscher • Senior Transportation Planner • Dept. of Transportation & Development (503) 742-4533 • scotthoe@clackamas.us  | Mya Ganzer • Planner 1• Dept. of Transportation & Development (503) 742-4520 • mganzer@clackamas.us