Documents

Here are links to several key documents supporting Sitka’s bid to be a Bicycle Friendly Community. Most of these links open up as Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files.

• Press release about Sitka earning a Silver Level Bicycle Friendly Community designation in 2020

• 2020 Report card from League of American Bicyclists on Bicycle Friendly Community application

• 2020 Sitka renewal application for Bicycle Friendly Community designation

• Link to Sitka bicycle parking map project by Joshua Houston

• 2020 No Name Mountain Master Plan (122 pages, includes section on recreational uses of area) 

• 2019 Sitka Commuter Cycling Brochure

• 2018 Sitka Comprehensive Plan 2030 (58 pages)

• 2018 Sitka Comprehensive Plan 2030 (Technical Plan, 245 pages)

• 2016 Update of Sitka, Alaska, Outdoor Recreation Guide Trail Map (opens as 11×17 PDF)

• League of American Bicyclists report card for Sitka’s 2016 Bicycle Friendly Community renewal application

• 2016 Sitka renewal application for Bicycle Friendly Community

• February 2016 City and Borough of Sitka proclamation in support of our Bicycle Friendly Community renewal application

• Alaska Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Assessment for Sitka (conducted May 7, 2015, Word document)

• Alaska Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Assessment for Sitka (conducted May 7, 2015, PowerPoint document)

• Feedback for Sitka’s 2012 Bicycle Friendly Community application

• 2012 National Bike to Work Month events in Sitka

• 2012 Sitka renewal application for Bicycle Friendly Community

• Link to January 2012 City and Borough of Sitka proclamation supporting Sitka’s efforts to renew its Bicycle Friendly Community status

• Bike commuter rankings of all Alaska places from the 2006-10 five-year American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (Sitka is the top bike commuting community of all places with more than 644 people; data released in January 2012).

• Current STIP (Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan) projects for Sitka (2011)

• Recent bicycle improvements in Sitka (list compiled in 2011 by Marie Heidemann, Alaska DOT&PF Southeast Region Non-Motorized Planner)

• Draft STIP (Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan) projects proposed for Sitka (2012-15)

• League of American Bicyclists feedback for 2011 SEARHC Bicycle Friendly Business application

• 2011 SEARHC Bicycle Friendly Business application (Sitka’s largest employer)

• Flier and raffle ticket from the 2011 Alice Machesney Triathlon and grand opening of the Alice Machesney Memorial Covered Bike Shelter

• National Bike Month and National Bike To Work Week/Day events in Sitka poster from May 2011

• Link to 2011 Sitka Sustainable Outdoor Recreation Action Plan website

• Bike commuter rankings of all Alaska places from the 2005-09 five-year American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (Sitka is the top bike commuting community of all places with more than 752 people, data released in January 2011).

• City of Sitka proclamation supporting the 2008 Bicycle Friendly Community application

• Sitka’s 2008 application for Bicycle Friendly Community

• League of American Bicyclists feedback to Sitka’s 2008 Bicycle Friendly Community application

• Program from Sitka’s Blessing of the Bikes on May 11, 2008

• Share the Road flier (two-page flier distributed in 2007 in the Daily Sitka Sentinel and still used at bicycle safety talks, has rules for motorists on one side, rules for cyclists on the other)

• 2007 Sitka Mountain Bike Association proposal to build some single-track mountain bike trails in the Sawmill Creek Industrial Park area

• 2007 Sitka Health Summit letter of support for Sitka’s pursuit of Bicycle Friendly Community status

• Personal Transportation In Sitka brochure from 2007 by the Sitka Conservation Society and City and Borough of Sitka

• 2007 City and Borough of Sitka Comprehensive Plan Update

• Parts of 2007 City and Borough of Sitka Comprehensive Plan that mention bikes

• Sitka Outdoor Recreation Guide 2006 downtown map

• Sitka Outdoor Recreation Guide 2006 outlying areas map

• Sitka Trail Plan 2003

• 2002 Sitka Non-Motorized Transportation Plan, Sections 1-10

• 2002 Sitka Non-Motorized Transportation Plan, Sections 11-47

• 2002 Sitka Non-Motorized Transportation Plan list of needs and deficiencies (compiled by Deborah Lyons of Sitka Trail Works)

• Alaska Bicycle And Pedestrian Plan (last updated in November 1994)

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