An official website of the POLICY 32: Impervious surfaces
This policy states:
Prioritize projects that reduce total impervious surface coverage or minimize right-of-way needs.
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 |
| 32A. Evaluate publicly owned parking systems for facility greening, downsizing, or closing. This would include opportunities at facilities such as park and rides, rest areas, or other publicly owned parking facilities. Action types: Local Planning Partner |
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| 32B. Prioritize projects that minimize roadway surface or impervious surface. (See 27C and 32D for related actions.) Action types: Local Planning Investment Priority |
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| 32C. Provide technical assistance and share research on permeable pavement construction, operations, and maintenance. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 32E. Provide training to local agencies and consultants on best practices in traffic forecasting, transportation impact studies, and parking generation to better understand how to right-size facilities and requirements to minimize paved surfaces. Action type: Technical Capacity Building |
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| 32F. Explore updating stormwater management requirements to increase opportunities to treat and discharge stormwater outside of the right-of-way (ROW) to limit excessive ROW needs, where possible. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
(MPCA) |
MPCA is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
