Transportation Planning

The Transportation Planning Unit provides a variety of services related to the planning of safe, efficient, and sustainable accessibility for automobiles, transit, bicycles and pedestrians. The team is responsible for long-range transportation planning efforts such as planning transit-oriented development, coordination with the City Department of Transportation and external transportation agencies, and management of the Mobility Element in the current General Plan update.

Current Projects

Transit

Transit-oriented development (TOD) planning projects around Regional Transit light rail stations currently dominate much of the transportation planning unit's time. The stations undergoing urban design, land use, circulation study, traffic mitigation, park design, or other planning work include Florin, Meadowview, Swanston, Royal Oaks, Globe, Arden/Del Paso, and 65th/University.

Project-Specific Information

• 65th Street/University Transit Village Plan
• Swanston Station Transit Village Plan
• Northeast Line Light Rail Stations Plan
• South 65th Street Area Plan

Policies and Guidelines

• Light Rail Station Ordinance and General Plan Amendment
• Light Rail Transit Land Use Policies and Guidelines(PDF)
• Transit for Livable Communities (Regional Transit)

Other Projects

In addition to transit-oriented development, the team is leading the effort to craft the City's new Level-of-Service policy. Additional projects include work on the Mobility Element for the General Plan update; coordination of the R Street corridor development; assistance with SACOG's Metropolitan Transportation Program (MTP) update; long-range transportation advising to various departments, including planning, design and implementation of bicycle and pedestrian facility capital projects; and numerous other transportation- and land use-related projects.

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