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ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

Goal 8: Active Transportation
Create a built environment that encourages safe, comfortable and convenient active transpor-
tation options that are viable for all users.

Objective 8�1 Provide an integrated network of “complete streets” that safely and comfortably accommo-
date road users of all ages and abilities, including people walking, cycling, using mobility devices, taking
transit and driving�
• Strategy 8.1.1 Prioritize public active transportation projects that are effective at improving
connectivity, filling gaps, expanding coverage of the active transportation network and positively
influencing walk/bike/transit mode shares.
• Strategy 8.1.2 Early in the project development process, solicit and consider input from active
transportation advocates to help optimize the design of pedestrian, bicycle and access-to-transit
projects.

• Strategy 8.1.3 On existing substandard streets where the construction of full street improve-
ments is not practicable within the foreseeable future, consider the construction of interim
pedestrian and bicycle facilities, as available public funding allows.

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Objective 8�2 Provide a pedestrian network that is safe, comfortable and convenient for people of all ages

• Strategy 8.2.1 Prioritize pedestrian projects that are technically and financially feasible and that
also improve connectivity, fill gaps and/or provide safe routes to schools, community facilities,
commercial areas or transit stops.
• Strategy 8.2.2 Prioritize pedestrian projects based on need; factors to consider may include:
safety, density (residential and employment), access to essential destinations and transit and
environmental justice factors, among others.
• Strategy 8.2.3 Inside the Urban Growth Boundary, require that sidewalks are constructed along
new or improved streets and along street frontages of new developments.
• Strategy 8.2.4 Facilitate safe, convenient and comfortable pedestrian facilities through the pro-
vision of pedestrian scale amenities as deemed appropriate and in compliance with applicable
regulations.
• Strategy 8.2.5 Consider enhanced pedestrian crossings treatments at intersections and at
other appropriate locations, including school zones, commercial areas, transit stops, trail cross-
ings, Pedestrian Districts and warranted mid-block locations, using county-approved crossing
treatments.
• Strategy 8.2.6 In rural pedestrian activity areas, which includes recreational trail crossings, con-
sider improvements that enhance pedestrian safety.
• Strategy 8.2.7 On roadways designated on the Pedestrian System Map as “Pedestrian Park-
way” and/or “Streetscape Overlay” and on roadways within identified Pedestrian Districts,
enhanced pedestrian facility designs shall be considered based on applicable standards, land
use context and physical constraints.

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