MORPC COMPLETE STREETS POLICY and ATP UPDATE Active Transportation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

MORPC COMPLETE STREETS POLICY and ATP UPDATE Active Transportation Working Group August 20, 2019

CURRENT COMPLETE STREETS POLICY • Calls for evaluating the policy associated documents on an annual basis • Recommends development of exemption guidance • Refers to outdated MORPC documents (i.e. Regional Connections)

MOTIVATION FOR UPDATING THE POLICY To better align with MORPC goals, policies, & initiatives

MOTIVATION FOR UPDATING THE POLICY • Align with current best practices • Evaluate the Complete Streets review process • Policy language • Design guidance and toolkits • Checklist • Sustainability and stormwater • Appeals process management – “Green Streets” • Exemptions

SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT “Green Streets” are a transportation policy and design approach that minimizes environmental impact by focusing on efforts to retain, treat, and eliminate runoff using GSI . GSI helps replicate natural hydrological functions like storage, detention, infiltration, filtration, evaporation, transpiration, and uptake by plants, and can improve water quality and reduce runoff volumes. Green Streets can foster unique and attractive streetscapes that protect and enhance neighborhood livability and integrate, rather than separate, the built and natural environments.

SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS RETURN ON INVESTMENT • Resilience & flooding • Construction vs retrofit • Water quality • Improving O&M costs • Air quality • Increasing federal & national standards • Energy use • Developable land • Social and economic benefits

TIMELINE Aug 1 g 19 Se Sep 1 19 Oct 1 19 Nov ov 1 19 De Dec 1 19 Jan 2 20 Fe Feb 2 20 Mar 2 20 Apr pr 2 20 May ay 2 20 Internal Development Project Scope Development Steering Committee Invites Presentation at Commission Steer eering C Committee ee Meeting 1 1 Draft Policy Steer eering C Committee ee Meeting 2 2 Final Draft Resolution Presentation at TAC and CAC Presen sentation a at C Commissi ssion for adop option on

NEXT STEPS Feedback from ATWG Develop Steering Committee

ATP Update Current ATP 2016-2040 • Developed using a Technical Committee • Considers current and future land use • Identifies 12 key Regional Corridors • Arterials and any roadways that crossed 2 or more jurisdictions • Incorporates a 1k foot buffer around each corridor • Identified by segments: • Urban • Compact • Standard • Rural • Divided Highway

ATP Update

ATP Update

ATP Update ATP 2020-2050 • Increase Plan applicability to regional goals and objectives • Insight2050 • Corridor Concepts • Local plans and initiatives • Expand Plan functionality for project development and funding decisions • Metropolitan Transportation Plan • Attributable funds • Local funding and policy decisions

STEPHEN PATCHAN Assistant Director of Planning & Sustainability Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission T : 614.233.4161 spatchan@morpc.org 111 Liberty Street, Suite 100 Columbus, OH 43215