19-3118 Approving and Adopting City of Casselberry Healthy Community Complete Streets Policy and Design Guidelines

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throughout the City of Casselberry, and will ensure that the safety and convenience of all users of the transportation system are accommodated. The City of Casselberry will fund and support the planning, design, and construction of complete streets as a fundamental component of its transportation program. This Policy ensures that officials, planners, engineers, developers, and other stakeholders working on projects and programs within the City of Casselberry plan and design roadways and other transportation -related improvements with consideration for all users. This Policy also helps ensure consistency among planned/future complete streets projects within the City of Casselberry. 9.3.2 Background Today's changing financial, environmental, social, and economic realities are requiring regions throughout the country to rethink the previous approach towards transportation planning and decision-making. Increasingly, communities are being asked to develop project solutions that address the multimodal mobility, economic development, health, and livability needs of a community. The City of Casselberry recognizes this new challenge and seeks to incorporate "complete streets" thinking throughout the City's transportation investments. Complete streets support vibrant, healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. Complete streets expand travel choices; increase safety and comfort for people walking, people biking, and people using transit; and introduce more community recreational opportunities. Consequently, complete streets can support economic growth by providing the multimodal and efficient connections that can strengthen the region's activity centers. Various case studies provide supporting evidence that complete streets can increase property values and have a positive economic impact on a community. Implementing complete streets supports the following overarching goals: • Safety • Balanced Multimodal System • Integrated Regional System • Quality of Life • Efficiency and Cost Effectiveness • Energy and Environmental Stewardship • Economic Vitality The Multimodal Transportation Element (MTE) within the City's Comprehensive Plan contains the following Complete Streets Policy: Policy MTE 1.2 Complete Streets. The City shall implement the "Complete Streets" policies and design guidelines outlined in the adopted MTMP to accommodate a range of travel modes as the City reviews its roadway network and future modifications. The City, through this Complete Streets policy, shall design, build, and maintain a safe, reliable, 16a