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ELEMENTS OF PLANNING AND DESIGN
EVALUATION
Armed with the right data and a healthy dose of public input, the
planning and design phases will be successful if you continue to keep
stakeholders informed and if you tick these tasks off your checklist:
• Identify key design elements.
• Identify important nearby generators of pedestrian, bicycle,
and vehicular traffic (high-density housing, schools, workplaces,
recreational facilities). The first step to helping various flows
of drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists is to know where they
overlap and cross each other.
• Identify the need for connections to adjacent trails, bike lanes,
bike routes, transit routes, etc.
• Restore or replace flawed street pavement to allow for quality
pavement marking installation and safe pedestrian and bicycle
travel.
• Plan for pedestrian and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
accommodations, including sidewalk and curb ramps.
• Maximize pedestrian safety through the use of:
a. Curb bump-outs
b. Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFBs)
c. Wayfinding signage
• Maximize bicyclist safety with:
a. Bicycle lanes
b. Sharrow pavement markings
c. Bike boxes
• Preserve on-street parking where possible.
• Design for traffic safety and optimized traffic operation.
• Implement arterial traffic taming and speed control.
• Implement traffic calming and taming measures in a community
to reduce neighborhood traffic intrusion, such as cut-through
traffic where appropriate.
• Integrate stormwater management in your design.
4 | INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AND BIKE LANES
• Engage the services of a landscape architect to design state-of-
the-art sustainable green corridor enhancements for drainage
and landscaping. The landscape architect should exploit
opportunities to:
a. Increase green space.
b. Create social interaction spaces.
POTENTIAL PROJECT FUNDING SOURCES
Chances are, a community won’t be prepared to finance a quality
project without asking the right agencies for some help. Community
officials – or their consultant – should know the ins and outs of the
available transportation, stormwater, and landscape architecture grant
and loan programs, which helps determine whether to spend resources
pursuing them:
Transportation
• Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP)
• Surface Transportation Program Funds (STP-Urban)
• Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ)
• DNR Recreational Trail Program
• People for Bikes
• Bus and Bus Facilities Program
• State Infrastructure Bank Program
Stormwater Management
• Clean Water Fund
• Urban Nonpoint Source and Stormwater Grant Program
• Community Development Block Grant Program
Public Art and Culture
• Community National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• Our Town Placemaking Grants