department of transportation street classification september 20, 2010
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Department of Transportation
Street Classification
September 20, 2010
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Department of Transportation
Mobility Goals
• Promote a livable community
• Encourage non-auto travel
• Protect neighborhoods
• Manage multimodal corridors
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Department of Transportation
• UN Urban Accords> Sustainability> Green City Action Plan
• State Mandates> Complete Streets> Community Sustainability> Reduce Greenhouse Gas
Changing Expectations
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Department of Transportation
Functional Classification
•CA Roadway System> Principal Arterial> Minor Arterial> Collector> Local
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Department of Transportation
How It’s Used
• Basis for previous funding of streets
• Warrants for traffic control devices• Limits where speed limits can be
enforced electronically• City policies for traffic calming
devices> Speed Hump Policy > Neighborhood Traffic Management
Program
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Department of Transportation
What’s the Issue?•The Functional Classification system:
> Focuses on vehicle volumes and congestion> Makes pedestrians, bikes, and transit a lesser
priority> Inconsistently connects land use and street function> Lacks the flexibility needed to most effectively
provide for today’s and future demands on streets in Pasadena
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Department of Transportation
Current System
•1994 and 2004 Mobility Elements recognized the issues
•Introduced an alternate system of street types
> Multimodal Corridors> De-emphasized Streets
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Department of Transportation
Why Change?
• The Current System:> Addresses portions of the street
system Issues of equity
> Has largely achieved the goals established at its creation Investment has been directed to
Multimodal Corridors Traffic growth has slowed on De-
emphasized streets> Is limited in its ability to address
Complete Streets and sustainability
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Department of Transportation
What is the Goal?
• Expand the concepts from the 2004 Mobility Element> More equitable allocation of street
classifications citywide• Address the need to incorporate
Complete Streets and sustainability• Provide a uniform basis for traffic
calming and neighborhood traffic management
• Establish a decision-making framework for future street design and development review decisions
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Department of Transportation
How to Change
• Look to national Best Practices and Peer Cities> Institute of Transportation Engineers
Recommended Practice for Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
> San Francisco – Better Streets Plan> Charlotte – Urban Street Design Guide> Minneapolis – Design Guidelines for
Streets and Sidewalks> New York – Street Design Manual> San Diego, Santa Monica, Sacramento
General Plans
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Proposed System
•Context> Urban form and
land use
•Function> Multi-modal &
primary trip type
•Overlays> Special
considerations that likely affect but do not predominate design
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Department of TransportationContext
•Developed from General Plan Land Use Categories•Mapped based on existing designations
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Department of Transportation
Context Types
• Freeway Frontage> dominated by road
function• Downtown
> high intensity uses require balancing of modes with emphasis on pedestrians
• Main Street> defined by storefronts,
pedestrian activity, and on-street parking
• City Mix> horizontal mixing of uses,
some storefronts, mix of auto & pedestrian emphasis
Downtown
Main Street
City Mix
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Department of Transportation
Context Types
• Commercial/Industrial> Defined by orientation of
buildings and emphasis on truck & vehicle access
• Park> Opportunity to emphasize
landscape> Need for pedestrian & bike
safety• Civic
> Schools, libraries, & civic center
> Pedestrian safety & ceremonial functions
Civic
Park
Commercial/Industrial
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Department of Transportation
Context Types
• Residentialvary by building height, massing, frontage, etc.
> City Multifamily Mid-rise building with
minimal setbacks> Garden Multifamily
Multistory with landscaped yards
> Single-family Landscaped front and
side yards with medium to deep setbacks
City
Garden
Single-family
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Department of TransportationFunction
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Function Types
• Freeway> Primarily serve regional
trips passing through or to Pasadena
> Only type with no bicycle or pedestrian access
> Only type in one context – Freeway Frontage
• Throughway> Primarily used by vehicles
moving between Pasadena & the region
> Context determines need to balance access & other modes
Arroyo Parkway
Sierra Madre
Fair Oaks
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Department of Transportation
Function Types
• Connectors> Focused on travel between
parts of Pasadena> Provide access to major
destinations> Context determines need to
balance access & other modes
> City Connectors Focused on “crosstown”
trips> Neighborhood Connectors
Focused on trips between adjacent neighborhoods & districts
Washington – City Connector
Glenarm – Neighborhood Connector
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Department of TransportationConnector Types
•Connector Streets
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Department of Transportation
Function Types
• Access –focus on access to context(mapped as one type)
> Street Majority of streets in Pasadena Typically 18 foot min. width for
two travel lanes> Yield
Narrower street where vehicles yield
> Alley Primarily access to rear of lots
> Shared Designed to mix bikes,
pedestrians, & vehicles across the right-of-way
> Private
Access - Alley
Access - Shared
Access - Street
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Department of Transportation
Overlays
• One Way• Truck Routes• Transit – 3 levels• Bicycle• Emergency Routes
• Pedestrian Emphasis
• Hillside• Landscape• Historic
Designations• Special Events
Hillside Landscape
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Department of Transportation
Transit Overlay
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Department of Transportation
Bike and Ped Emphasis
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Department of Transportation
What it Means for Streets• Building to Building Guidance• Visible criteria for all modes• Framework for deciding trade-
offs
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Pedestrian Realm
• Link between context & roadway
Landscape with no sidewalk
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Department of Transportation
Parking
• Buffer between pedestrians & roadway
Parking No Parking Curb extension into parking lane
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Department of Transportation
Downtown Streets
Downtown Throughway
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City Multifamily Streets
City Multifamily Residential Connector - Neighborhood
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Single Family Streets
Single Family Residential Access
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Department of Transportation
Process to Date
• Staff/Consultant developed Draft Street Classification System
• Concept presented to TAC and GPAUC
• Focus groups held with Residents and Businesses
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Department of Transportation
Next Steps
• Refine Street Types> Return to TAC with feedback from
Focus Groups> Further development through
General Plan – Mobility Element & Land Use Element process Fit with refined goals and
objectives Fit with refined land use &
transportation vision for Pasadena
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Department of Transportation
Next Steps
• Update Policies based on Street Types —> Neighborhood Traffic Management
Program> Traffic Calming Device Policies> Reshape design guidelines for
streets Rebalancing modal priorities Prioritizing improvements
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Department of Transportation
Questions
Full text of the Street Types System DRAFT Report is available online at
> the Transportation Advisory Committee page of the City website, as item 4a of the January 20, 2010 agenda
> or at:http://ww2.cityofpasadena.net/trans/TAC%20REPORTS/010810/ITEM_4A_010810_TAC.pdf