Standards Committee March 30, 2015

Committee: 
Standards
Meeting
Date: 
Mon, 03/30/2015 - 00:00
Location: 
Trail Conference Office
Agenda: 

First meeting 

Get organized.

Attendees: 

Walt, John, Bob, ChrisR, ChrisC, Erik, Kevin, Ama

Status of Minutes: 
Draft
Minutes: 

Next meeting is May 4th at 6pm

Meeting after that is June 4th at 4pm

(Ama will reserve the new board room for both of these dates and times)

 

John and Bob will be continuing to reach out to New Jersey representatives to join the committee

 

Walt will share with us the link on our website for Trail Resources – Please add to this and update as much as possible before May 4th so we can have a full bibliography of resources

 

We decided to start with design standards.

 

The questions that will form our design standards/guidelines are the following:

Can the trail follow ABA Standards

How much volume will the trail receive (heavy, moderate, light)

Type of use (walk, hike, bike, horse, mulituse, special event use, ski, access route, experience level of user)

Purpose (destination, connectivity, commuter, historic)

Character of existing trails in area

Character of area landscape

Land Manager expectations/requirements

Resources Available (money, volunteer labor, etc)

 

From these we will come up with our parameters for trail design standards, which will be discussed at our next meeting.

 

After design standards are finalized, the committee will move on to construction standards

That should be everything – let me know if I missed anything.

Thanks,

Ama

Comment: Please be relevant, civil, non-commercial.

ErikM's picture

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on Thu, 04/09/2015 - 10:45
The NY DEC cites "standards" in their "Region 7 Recreation Master Plan."   On page 19 they state: "7. Failure to construct trail(s) on the State Forest to Department standards will result in the closure of the trail(s)."   The NY DEC standards are on pages 121-23 of the 309 page Master Plan PDF: http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/regions_pdf/reg7recpln.pdf (linked from http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/28332.html)  
Walt Daniels's picture

Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on Thu, 04/09/2015 - 22:45
The p19 reference is in a subsection dealing with commercial use. I see no indication that it applies in general. The standards on p121-123 do not state that they are DEC in general, only region 7. It would be more useful to find a reference to DEC standards for all regions.