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Transportation Action Plan
A Green Community uses and encourages modes of travel other than the automobile. Streets and circulation patterns encourage pedestrian movement. Click here for Transportation Action Plan Indicators and Linkages
Goals and Objectives
Goals
Provide an efficient transportation system to maximize accessibility and the movement of people and goods.
Increase opportunities for pedestrian and bicycling facilities.
Objectives
- Design, develop, and improve the transportation system as a comprehensive network.
- Enable residents and employees to minimize vehicular miles traveled, as well as total travel time, in order to minimize air pollution and to conserve fuel.
- Stage the development of the transportation system to complement the overall development of the area.
- Encourage mixed uses to allow integration of residential, employment and commercial centers.
- Locate employment areas where adequate access exists or will exist for employees and for goods movement.
- Embrace the concept of transit oriented development.
- Use buffers between transportation facilities and incompatible adjacent land uses.
- Separate truck traffic from incompatible uses.
- Encourage a mass transit system which provides both an alternative to the automobile and desirable levels of service to its users.
- Integrate pedestrian and bicycle trails into development plans.
Recommendations and Guidelines for Action Plans
- Make recommendations to implement the concepts and achieve the goals and objectives for circulation and transportation.
- Encourage transit oriented development with the appropriate mix of land uses and density to support public transportation usage.
- Make mass transit improvements to improve utilization of facilities.
- Provide park and ride lots to allow for transfer to transit facilities or for carpooling opportunities.
- Coordinate staggered hours for businesses and schools to relieve traffic congestion.
- Require the development of pedestrian and bicycle trails to provide economical, non- congesting, and non-polluting means of travel.
- Propose a transportation system intended to provide service for the future population, employment and through traffic expected in the community.
- Acquire and/or protect rights-of-way to provide for the future extension or expansion of planned transportation facilities at reasonable costs, with minimum property displacement.
- Design transportation facilities to minimize their physical impact on the environment while providing the best possible opportunity for development of suitable sites.
- Locate and design intersections to facilitate safe vehicular and pedestrian access to employment sites, shopping facilities, multi-family developments, and other large traffic generators.
- Streets provided in connection with employment areas should avoid conflicting movement of cars with trucks. Industrial area access roads should be provided to and from major highways.
- Separate new development from visual intrusion by the use of reverse frontage, minimum setbacks, landscaping and fencing.
- Preserve and provide landscaped open space between structures and the highway.
- Reduce street width in mixed use and open space communities to reduce travel speeds, provide less impervious surface and be more aesthetically pleasing.
- Provide for sidewalks along community streets.
- Design parking lots that do not detract from the aesthetics and function of the land use.
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