Town of Paradise Valley
Action Report
TO: Chair and Planning Commission
FROM: Eva Cutro, Community Development Director
Paul Michaud, Senior Planner
DATE: October 4, 2016
CONTACT:
Staff Contact
Paul Michaud, 480-348-3574
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AGENDA TITLE:
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Update on Town's Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan
Background
BACKGROUND
The Town is in the planning process of preparing its first Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. The impetus of this plan comes from the resident-initiated 2012 General Plan, Town Council's Quality of Life Initiatives, and budget in the Town's Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan is long-range like the Town's General Plan, meaning that it will evaluate present and known needs to establish a desired future condition for the Town's bicycle and pedestrian facilities that makes sense for Paradise Valley and its residents. This Plan will build off the existing goals and polices residents already adopted in the General Plan. It will take the General Plan a few steps further by refining and/or providing any additional goals or polices related to biking and walking, defining the type and location of such facilities, developing design standards, identifying potential projects with associated prioritization criteria and typical costs, and coming up with design guidelines to best address wayfinding and signage.
The planning process has five phases that will run from June 2016 to approximately April 2017. We are currently near the end of the second phase. The first two phases, Initiate and Analyze, are focused on collecting existing information and understanding issues and opportunities from the perspective of those persons who have an interest in the Town's bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This existing information covers items such as a site inventory that includes dimensional characteristics of the roadways such facilities are to be located, understanding of what projects are already in cue, loc...
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