Vision, Values and Goals Transportation Master Plan

http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/Trans.asp

http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/departments/Transportation/Transportation_Master_Planning.asp

Transportation Master Planning

GOALS
The Vision, Values and Goals component of the Transportation Master Plan identifies over-arching goals (based on the General Plan Community Mobility Element goals and additional goals regarding sustainability and regional coordination).
• Direct transportation policies, investments and decisions in ways which support the community’s adopted vision and values.
• Increase the range and convenience of transportation choices.
• Direct transportation policies, investments, and decisions to design contextsensitive responses.
• Coordinate transportation policies, investments and decisions with neighboring communities and the larger region, while effectively managing impacts of increasing demand for regional highway travel.
• Focus investments on improvements which add long-term value; and maintain the transportation system in ways which minimize life cycle cost. These goals reflect the goals of the General Plan Community Mobility Element, as well as a policy of sustainability. Further description of these goals can be found in the Vision, Values, and Goals section of the Master Plan. In addition, the following goals apply directly to the Streets Element:
• Maintain and improve citywide traffic circulation by widening roadways where appropriate and in concert with citywide goals of neighborhood protection; by using the ITS and access control to manage traffic flow; by identifying major intersections for improvements, and by continuing a program of capacity improvements as part of the Capital Improvement Plan to respond quickly to capacity restrictions.
• Provide a framework for the development of a transportation system for Scottsdale that is based on the complete streets concept, where streets are designed and constructed in a manner compatible with the surrounding land uses for use by all users.
• Encourage a mix of land uses that reduce overall auto use and are compatible with the function of the adjacent street network.
• Protect neighborhoods from negative impacts of traffic.
• Develop and manage the street network in a manner that places reliance on improving the efficiency of the existing system before expanding that system.
• Pursue development of a highly connected and continuous road system allowing for convenient and efficient travel by all modes.

Contacts:

Teresa Huish, Principal Transportation Planner
Phone: (480) 312-7829
Email: thuish@ScottsdaleAZ.gov

Reed Kempton, Principal Transportation Planner
Phone: (480) 312-7630
Email: rkempton@ScottsdaleAZ.gov

John Lynch, Senior Transportation Planner
Phone: (480) 312-7077
Email: jlynch@ScottsdaleAZ.gov

Dave Meinhart, Transit and Transportation Planning Director
Phone: (480) 312-7010
Email: dmeinhart@ScottsdaleAZ.gov

Evelyn Ng, Transportation Planner
Phone: (480) 312-7637
Email: eng@ScottsdaleAZ.gov

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A multi-modal approach includes all users (pedestrians, bicyclists, transit vehicles and users, equestrian users and motorists of all types) of all ages and abilities. This
approach aims to create a comprehensive, integrated, connected network. Understand that a universal “rule” on all streets cannot be applied – for example, pedestrian and
bicycle access on highways or freeways is not generally encouraged.? Provide facilities and amenities that are recognized as contributing to Complete Streets, including: roadway and pedestrian-level street lighting; pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements; access improvements in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; transit facilities accommodation, including but not limited to pedestrian access improvement to transit stops; street trees and landscaping; and street furnishings that are sensitive to the local context.

http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/traffic/alttransmethod/bikeways.asp

Indian Bend Wash
Scottsdale’s Indian Bend Wash is much more than just a few miles of path. This greenbelt is one of the nation's most well-known floodcontrol (water split)
projects. Seven and a half miles of parkland provide lakes, golf courses, many recreational facilities, and an extensive multiuse path system for skating, biking, walking, and jogging. The wash was once an eroded eyesore running through the center of the community.

The details of how this project was developed can be found on-line at Residential properties, attractive shopping centers, resorts, and schools now line the slopes
the wash. Scottsdale has made the Indian Bend Wash greenbelt an integral part of its outdoor lifestyle. Due to the City’s linear shape, about 80 percent of Scottsdales citizens are within walking distance of the Wash. Estimates are that one million people make use of the greenbelt annually. The Wash has attracted residential and commercial activity that thrive on the traffic generated around and through the area.

http://www.ci.scottsdale.az.us/Parks/docs/IndianBendWashBook.pdf
Reed Kempton, Transportation Planner (Bicycle)
Phone: (480) 312-7630
Email: rkempton@ScottsdaleAZ.gov