An official website of the POLICY 23: Complete Streets approach
This policy states:
Implement a Complete Streets approach in policy, planning, operations, and maintenance of roads.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 23A. Use a Complete Streets approach to transportation planning and project development. Prioritize roadway projects that include transit, bicycle, and/or pedestrian improvements for funding. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 23B. Include All Ages and Abilities multimodal improvements for traveling along and across roadways. Consider the safety and mobility of all users in the project area. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 23C. Implement speed management and traffic calming measures on roadways that have excessive lane capacity or in areas where there is high demand for nonmotorized travel. Action types: Investment Priority Local Planning |
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| 23D. Create a regional Complete Streets typology that is sensitive to land use context and supplements functional classification. Provide local assistance and workshops to aid in the implementation of Complete Streets policies and processes. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Local Planning Investment Priority Work Program |
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| 23E. Identify regional priorities for MnDOT’s new main streets/urban pavement funding program. Action types: Investment Priority Work Program |
