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Pedestrian Streets & Shared Streets, Proposed MTP Amendments
July, 2016
MTP – Four Local Street Types • Urban Center Local – neighborhood streets located in medium or high‐ density residential, commercial or mixed‐use areas. Do not have the same level of pedestrian and vehicular activity as arterials. Provide for service, utility access and building loading • Neighborhood Principal – occur in lower‐density residential areas and provide for fronting properties and links to adjacent streets • Neighborhood Minor – occur in lower density residential areas. Nearly exclusive orientation to providing access to residences • Pedestrian & Bicycle Priority – a shared street where the needs of motor vehicles (generally less than 400 vpd) are secondary to the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists. Designed to discourage travel at more than 15 miles per hour. May have limited hours of motor vehicle access.
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Legal Definitions of Street & Trail Street is the right‐of‐way space or area of a way 30 feet or more in width abutting the front or side property lines of lots and providing a public thoroughfare for vehicles and pedestrians and adequately paved, drained, lighted, marked and maintained to do so. Multi‐use Trail is a path physically separated from motor vehicle traffic by an open space or barrier and within a public way or easement, which accommodates use by pedestrians and non‐motorized vehicles such as bicycles. 3
2015 Rosslyn Sector Plan
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Rosslyn Sector Plan Streets
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2015 Courthouse Square Sector Plan
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Courthouse Square Circulation Plan
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Promenade (N. Uhle St.) Plan
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14th & 15th Streets North Plan
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Pedestrian Street - Proposed Definition
Pedestrian Street – A car‐free, travel corridor that provides public pedestrian access to adjacent buildings and properties fronting the street and serves as a public meeting place and location for commerce, communication and other community activities.
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Pedestrian Street Description A pedestrian street predominantly has a hard‐paved surface suitable for walking and includes physical measures that prevent regular access by motor vehicles. Pedestrian streets are typically located in urban environments with a high density and mix of land uses and economic activities and high levels of pedestrian activity. Pedestrian streets often also permit bicycle riding and typically link to other streets that allow motor vehicle use. Unique paving surface treatments are typically used to help enforce the non‐vehicle nature of the street. A Pedestrian Street may also accommodate other public space amenities, such as seating and landscaping, provided that a travel corridor and direct visual access between adjacent streets is maintained. 11
Pedestrian Streets
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Shared Street – Proposed Definition Shared Street – A public travelway developed for mixed use by low volumes of slow‐moving vehicular traffic with high levels of walking and bicycling.
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Shared Streets
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Transportation Commission’s Input • Discussed at Transportation Commission meeting of June 30, • Support for creating new Pedestrian Street type, • Shared Streets as not significantly different from other streets with pedestrian priority and some motor vehicle traffic. 15
Staff’s Proposal 1. Amend the MTP Streets Element to add Pedestrian Street as a new type of local street, and 2. Amend the MTP’s definition of Pedestrian and Bicycle Oriented Street to encompass more forms of street, including shared types, wherein pedestrians and bicyclists have equal or greater access to the travel‐way as motor vehicles.
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Proposed Definition Amendment Pedestrian and Bicycle Priority or Shared Streets – A pedestrian and bicycle priority street is a shared street where the needs of motor vehicles, generally planned to be no more than 400 vehicles per day, are generally secondary to the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists and other roadway users playing children. In some European countries, these streets may be known as “Woonerven”, living streets”. “play streets” or “pedestrian zones”. These streets are designed and constructed to discourage travel at more than 15 miles per hour. Vehicular entrance to the street is typically via driveway-style curb ramps and the surface of the street may be of materials, colors and/or textures other than traditional asphalt. Linear curbs, landscaping strips, sidewalks, parking and travel lanes may not be provided; instead the various uses may be interspersed within the street area. Motor-vehicle access is generally may be limited to specific hours and or purposes (emergencies, trash collection, deliveries, etc.) so as to enhance the pedestrian experience. Shared streets allow people to comfortably walk within the roadway and implicitly slow traffic speeds through the mixing of travel paths, physical measures and visual cues. Shared streets typically use few traffic signs and markings and have a uniform surface height (limited use of curbs) to permit easier pedestrian and bicyclist travel along and across the street. 17
Considerations • Do the proposed amendment’s capture the County’s vision for street types? • Do the proposed amendments align with plans that have recently been adopted (i.e. Rosslyn and Courthouse Square)?
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Process & Schedule • MTP typology amendments to go forward on same schedule as Rosslyn sector plan related changes (GLUP, MTP & Zoning) • Transportation and Planning commissions to consider amendments • MTP & Rosslyn – October 2016 Adoption
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July, 2016
MTP – Four Local Street Types • Urban Center Local – neighborhood streets located in medium or high‐ density residential, commercial or mixed‐use areas. Do not have the same level of pedestrian and vehicular activity as arterials. Provide for service, utility access and building loading • Neighborhood Principal – occur in lower‐density residential areas and provide for fronting properties and links to adjacent streets • Neighborhood Minor – occur in lower density residential areas. Nearly exclusive orientation to providing access to residences • Pedestrian & Bicycle Priority – a shared street where the needs of motor vehicles (generally less than 400 vpd) are secondary to the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists. Designed to discourage travel at more than 15 miles per hour. May have limited hours of motor vehicle access.
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Legal Definitions of Street & Trail Street is the right‐of‐way space or area of a way 30 feet or more in width abutting the front or side property lines of lots and providing a public thoroughfare for vehicles and pedestrians and adequately paved, drained, lighted, marked and maintained to do so. Multi‐use Trail is a path physically separated from motor vehicle traffic by an open space or barrier and within a public way or easement, which accommodates use by pedestrians and non‐motorized vehicles such as bicycles. 3
2015 Rosslyn Sector Plan
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Rosslyn Sector Plan Streets
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2015 Courthouse Square Sector Plan
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Courthouse Square Circulation Plan
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Promenade (N. Uhle St.) Plan
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14th & 15th Streets North Plan
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Pedestrian Street - Proposed Definition
Pedestrian Street – A car‐free, travel corridor that provides public pedestrian access to adjacent buildings and properties fronting the street and serves as a public meeting place and location for commerce, communication and other community activities.
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Pedestrian Street Description A pedestrian street predominantly has a hard‐paved surface suitable for walking and includes physical measures that prevent regular access by motor vehicles. Pedestrian streets are typically located in urban environments with a high density and mix of land uses and economic activities and high levels of pedestrian activity. Pedestrian streets often also permit bicycle riding and typically link to other streets that allow motor vehicle use. Unique paving surface treatments are typically used to help enforce the non‐vehicle nature of the street. A Pedestrian Street may also accommodate other public space amenities, such as seating and landscaping, provided that a travel corridor and direct visual access between adjacent streets is maintained. 11
Pedestrian Streets
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Shared Street – Proposed Definition Shared Street – A public travelway developed for mixed use by low volumes of slow‐moving vehicular traffic with high levels of walking and bicycling.
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Shared Streets
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Transportation Commission’s Input • Discussed at Transportation Commission meeting of June 30, • Support for creating new Pedestrian Street type, • Shared Streets as not significantly different from other streets with pedestrian priority and some motor vehicle traffic. 15
Staff’s Proposal 1. Amend the MTP Streets Element to add Pedestrian Street as a new type of local street, and 2. Amend the MTP’s definition of Pedestrian and Bicycle Oriented Street to encompass more forms of street, including shared types, wherein pedestrians and bicyclists have equal or greater access to the travel‐way as motor vehicles.
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Proposed Definition Amendment Pedestrian and Bicycle Priority or Shared Streets – A pedestrian and bicycle priority street is a shared street where the needs of motor vehicles, generally planned to be no more than 400 vehicles per day, are generally secondary to the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists and other roadway users playing children. In some European countries, these streets may be known as “Woonerven”, living streets”. “play streets” or “pedestrian zones”. These streets are designed and constructed to discourage travel at more than 15 miles per hour. Vehicular entrance to the street is typically via driveway-style curb ramps and the surface of the street may be of materials, colors and/or textures other than traditional asphalt. Linear curbs, landscaping strips, sidewalks, parking and travel lanes may not be provided; instead the various uses may be interspersed within the street area. Motor-vehicle access is generally may be limited to specific hours and or purposes (emergencies, trash collection, deliveries, etc.) so as to enhance the pedestrian experience. Shared streets allow people to comfortably walk within the roadway and implicitly slow traffic speeds through the mixing of travel paths, physical measures and visual cues. Shared streets typically use few traffic signs and markings and have a uniform surface height (limited use of curbs) to permit easier pedestrian and bicyclist travel along and across the street. 17
Considerations • Do the proposed amendment’s capture the County’s vision for street types? • Do the proposed amendments align with plans that have recently been adopted (i.e. Rosslyn and Courthouse Square)?
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Process & Schedule • MTP typology amendments to go forward on same schedule as Rosslyn sector plan related changes (GLUP, MTP & Zoning) • Transportation and Planning commissions to consider amendments • MTP & Rosslyn – October 2016 Adoption
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