To

Mayor and Council

Subject

Complete Streets

Initiator

Planning Department

Recommendation

Approve Resolution

Approval

Pending

Background

All across the United States, citizens are asking their planners and engineers

to build roads that are safer, more accessible, and easier for everyone to

safely access. In the process, they are creating better communities for people

to live, play, work, and shop.

Currently over 610 jurisdictions nation-wide now have Complete Streets

Policies. This includes 30 states, 51 Regional Planning Organizations, 48

counties and 482 municipalities (in 48 different states).

Analysis

Complete Streets refers to the concept that a street is a transportation

facility that should support all users, whether traveling by personal

automobile, on a bicycle, in a wheelchair, by transit or on foot.

Adoption of this concept calls for consideration during the planning phase of

all new construction and reconstruction projects. Because the entire design

life of the project must be considered, it warrants that current design should

not preclude future accommodations for alternative forms of transportation

(those besides cars). Adopting this policy would not make it automatic that

every roadway be required to meet this criteria. Designing a Complete Street

project also requires weighing the costs and benefits of incorporating

accommodations for alternative transportation users in the actual design of the

roadway.

Financial Considerations

As future road projects are developed under this policy, needs for Complete

Streets roadway enhancements will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Projected Annual Fiscal Impact Statement

None at this time.

Legal Considerations

None at this time.

Recommendations/ Actions

Adopt the resolution in support of establishing a Complete Streets policy.

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