It's upsetting to think that after over 20 years being a resident on Lombardi Street we could potentially lose access to park in front of our own house!

The idea of a bike lane is nice but, realistically, the only people biking on Lombardi are doing so recreationally, coming from Kenosha (usually) or Jay Road (occasionally). Kenosha Farm and the surrounding subdivisions (like Wild Rose and Erie Village) are all heavily car-based, as evident by, among other indicators, the fact that the homes are mostly designed with prominent garages that hold, at a minimum two, and very often three, or even more cars and trucks. The long distances between the rows and rows of single family houses, and to other parts of the town, and surrounding cities, makes cycling for commuting purposes, even to a relatively close area, like Gunbarrel, highly inconvenient. Also, while nearby roads, like Lookout, technically have shoulders that cyclists could use to commute, they are not protected and they are not very wide, and the large cars, trucks and SUVs driving on those roads are spanning long distances and the roads are wide, making high speeds the norm rather than the exception, and making cycling on those road inherently dangerous. Erie is a spread-out, sparsely populated town. Although it is growing (quickly) in terms of its absolute population, it is the opposite of the kind of densely-populated urban area for which cycling from place to place is a viable, desirable, and convenient option. Cycling has to be at least a convenient as driving for people to do it en masse, and a low-density approach to building creates such large distances between first, second and third spaces that the convince factor will most likely never be there for a town like Erie, even if the risk factor were reduced (which it certainly won't be if the bike lanes aren't protected). Building bike lanes, alone, will not encourage anyone who isn't already highly risk-tolerant, fit, and fairly adventurous, to cycle to work. The fundamentals simply aren't there right now. Unless there are other dramatic improvements to the safety and convenience of the cycling infrastructure that connects Erie with Boulder and other surrounding cities, the fact will remain that only the most daring will even consider the prospect of cycling to work.

We agree with the other comments.

The narrowing near the garden crosswalk needs to be marked with no parking on either side of where it starts converging. Instead of the brick, we’d recommend a raised crosswalk to slow people down and quiet things down.

If there’s only one lane of parking, it’s probably best to have it on the side by the park so kids don’t have to cross the street to go to the park and it alleviates congestion in front of residences. The same goes by the Kenosha garden, where we’d probably want to switch which side has parking.

I am glad you are working on this. Please provide an email which I can you to send you photos from today, which illustrate the issue I submitted earlier.

Tim Larsen

tim@tclarsen.com

303-898-2040

No parking in front of resident side for events at the park. (Marked in Red)

Have guest(s) park next to the sidewalk next to the park or along the community garden. (Marked in Yellow) and consider putting flashing cross walk where pedestrians walk. That is a blind spot for incoming traffic.

add speed bumps at both ends

1.
make both sides of the street where it narrows for a walkway no parking. Now during sports events in the park there are often 4 cars parked and sticking out in the street

2.
Mark as no parking on both sides of each driveway around the park to prevent illegal parking and partially blocking residents full access.

3.

If you close parking please close the resident side by the park, not the resident side which has been an ongoing problem

please advise if there will be a public input period or presentation to the trustees so we can attend

Parking on the street has been a problem with unlicensed vehicles and trailers left for months, parking into our driveway space, restricting our use of our driveway,