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The city of Virginia Beach is considering a municipally subsidized kingdom of terragnar. We met with the Parks and Rec dudes the other morning to scout the spot and bounce some ideas around. They pretty much gave the go ahead and left the ball in our court to take some initiative.  Here is the e-mail that the dude sent us after the meeting along with this official looking pdf attachment punch list thing.   REALLY COOL. Stay tuned for ways to get involved.     

Gentlemen,
This message is to follow-up on our meeting yesterday at Woodstock Community Park regarding the initial evaluation of trails there for BMX use. As we discussed yesterday, we’re proposing a multi-step process in evaluating the feasibility of improvement of the trails in the southwest, wooded area of the park for utilization by BMX riders.

For the purposes of this evaluation project, I will be the lead from Parks and Recreation/Planning, Design and Development (P & R/PDD) and you can be called the BMX Trail Committee, with Craig Welch as the current contact person. If he is ok with it, Shawn Hopson will be the initial lead with Parks and Recreation/Parks and Natural Areas Operations (P & R/P & NA).

I’ve attached proposed action items with target dates in order to keep this project moving.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggested changes to the attached information. Otherwise, I will be back in touch with you once we have the existing trail network mapped and have created a baseline map.

Thanks,
Brian


Brian S. Solis, AICP
Senior City Planner

EVALUATION OF WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY PARK FOR
POTENTAL BMX TRAIL NETWORK
October 3, 2008
This message to the file is a follow-up to a meeting held yesterday at Woodstock Community Park regarding the initial evaluation of trails there for BMX use.

Those in attendance include:
Craig Welch – Skate Park Planning Advisory Committee original member – BMX advocate
Kitt West – BMX advocate
Thomas Holman – BMX advocate
George Filomarino – Parks and Recreation/Parks and Natural Areas Operations
Shawn Hopson – Parks and Recreation/Parks and Natural Areas Operations
Greg Newman – Parks and Recreation/Planning, Design and Development
Brian Solis – Parks and Recreation/Planning, Design and Development

   As discussed yesterday, Parks and Recreation (P&R) staff is proposing a multi-step process in evaluating the feasibility of improvement of the trails in the southwest, wooded area of the park for utilization by BMX riders. For the purposes of this evaluation project, Brian Solis will be the lead from Parks and Recreation/Planning, Design and Development (P & R/PDD) and the BMX advocates can be called the BMX Trail Committee, with Craig Welch as the current contact person. Shawn Hopson will be the initial lead with Parks and Recreation/Parks and Natural Areas Operations (P & R/P & NA).

Here is the proposed action item list and target dates to initially guide this project:
1) Document the trails with GPS device and download to GIS in order to create a raw trail map as a baseline for trail planning purposes (lead: P & R/PDD)
Target Date: 10/10/08
2) Meet with BMX Trail Committee at Woodstock to walk the trail with the raw trail map to mark areas for potential improvements (i.e. banks, ramps, and hills) (lead: P& R/PDD and Committee)
Target Date: 10/15/08 - after the raw map is complete, we’ll contact you to meet on or about
10/15/08
3) Committee members will need to forward P & R/PDD images of each of the potential
improvements, with measurement estimates, that are agreed upon at the on-site meeting in order to incorporate into the final draft trail map. Committee should also forward P & R/PDD any BMX trail-riding etiquette and safety operating standards that can be considered in the City potentially managing the trails. (lead: BMX Trail Committee)
Target date: 10/21/08
4) Revise conceptual Woodstock BMX Trail Map to incorporate trail improvements onto map to create a final draft document for Parks and Recreation/Parks and Natural Areas Operations staff to review. (lead: P&R/PDD)
Target Date: 10/27/08
5) Internal review of draft Woodstock BMX Trail Map and associated operational issues between P& R/PDD and P & R/P & NA.
Target Date: 11/7/08 (lead: P & R/PDD will set up meeting which will be held the week of
11/3/08)
6) Milestone: Further action items to be determined after 11/3/08 depending on results of internal review of the final draft BMX trail map by P & R.