Chapter 12.32
COMPLETE STREETS POLICY

Sections:

12.32.010    Complete streets guiding principles.

12.32.010 Complete streets guiding principles.

A. The transportation network should be planned and built as a connected system that maximizes mobility and access for its users by providing multiple options to destinations.

B. Each phase of planning, design, funding, construction, and the ongoing operation, preservation and maintenance of new modified roadways provides an opportunity to improve the integration of all transportation modes into the transportation system.

C. Sound engineering, planning and landscape architecture judgment will produce roadway designs that account for the unique circumstances of different users, and the unique contexts of this small city.

D. City streets should be designed in a flexible and appropriate manner that supports the character of adjoining land uses, both existing and as planned for the future in adoption of the comprehensive plan and amendments thereto.

E. Applicability. The complete streets policy shall be applied to all projects involving roadway improvements and the movement of people when feasible. It is understood that there may be circumstances in which it may not be practical or feasible to apply the policy. Such circumstances include the following:

1. The scope of the relevant project is limited to maintenance activities intended to keep the roadway in a serviceable condition;

2. There is sufficient documentation that there is no feasible way to accommodate improvements for nonvehicular traffic within a project’s scope;

3. There is no documented current or anticipated need for accommodations of nonmotorized roadway uses or the road is not a current or planned transit route;

4. The cost for complete streets designs recommendations would be excessively disproportionate to the need of that improvement, with due consideration given to future users, latent demand, and the social and economic value of providing a safer and more convenient transportation system for all users; or

5. Documented environmental constraints or unsafe transportation issues. (Ord. 18-169 § 1 (Att. A)).