In the early 1960's, as Davis and UC Davis grew rapidly, conflicts between bicyclists and vehicles increased, and residents petitioned for bicycle lanes and bike parking. In 1965, local citizens Frank and Eve Child and Dale and Donna Lott proposed creating bicycle lanes like those in the Netherlands. In 1966, Norm Woodbury and Maynard Skinner were elected to the Davis City Council after supporting bicycle lanes, and by June 1967 they joined Mayor Kent Gill in approving the first Davis bicycle lanes. A subsequent bill affirming the right of California cities to install bike paths passed the state legislature and was signed by Governor Ronald Reagan. By late July 1967, the first official bike lane in Davis and in the United States was created on 8th Street between A Street and Sycamore Lane, marking the first designation of a lane within an existing vehicle roadway for the preferential use of bicyclists. Additional lanes soon followed on Sycamore Lane, J Street, and this section of 3rd Street after downtown drainage pipe work was completed. Although bicycle paths had existed in Brooklyn as early as 1895, no design standards for bike lanes on city streets had been developed, so through trial and error Davis's Public Works Department, bicycle advocates, and citizens created safety specifications and regulations later adopted by Caltrans and copied across California. In 2005, the League of American Bicyclists gave Davis its first Platinum Level Bicycle Friendly Community award, and within its eleven square miles the city has more than 100 miles of designated bike lanes and paths and more bike-commuting residents per capita than any other city in the U.S.