Traffic and Transportation
Master Plans and Policies

Master Plans guide land use and development for the future. While the Citywide master plan identifies large-scale priorities for the City as a whole, it also addresses transportation in a specific chapter to ensure that the City's transportation infrastructure is developed to enhance accessibility, support multi-modal uses and protect neighborhoods.

• Citywide Master Plan
• Transportation chapter of Citywide plan
• Comprehensive Transportation Review
• Department of Community Planning and Development Services
• Development Projects
• City and Neighborhood Plans
• Sidewalk Prioritization Policy
• Guidelines for Neighborhood Traffic Control
• Pedestrian Policies

Comprehensive Transportation Review
The Comprehensive Transportation Review (CTR) describes the transportation subset of the development review process.

The CTR is the City's Comprehensive Transportation Review Methodology and was adopted by the Mayor and Council in 2004. It replaced the City's Standard Traffic Methodology (STM).

The CTR is a multi-modal approach used during development review to alleviate negative impacts on the transportation system due to increased automobile traffic generated by new development. The CTR evaluates the efficiency of existing infrastructure near proposed developments and delineates improvements necessary to mitigate increased traffic generated from such developments.

Through the CTR, the City is able to meet transportation goals set forth in the City's Master Plan. These goals include enhanced mobility and accessibility; neighborhoods protected from regional and cut-through traffic; and increased safety for all transportation modes.

The CTR requires developers to address increased transportation demand on public infrastructure generated by their project. The CTR provides a fair and consistent standard by which new projects are assessed, based on the scope of their development's transportation impact. Mitigation measures identified by the CTR are implemented to ensure an efficient and sustainable community.

Traffic Impact Studies
When an inquiry for a development application is received, the Planning Division will give the applicant a Scoping Intake Form and a Comprehensive Transportation Review (CTR) guidelines sheet.

• Transportation Demand Management

Complete Streets
The City's Complete Streets policy is intended to provide streets that have facilities for all types of users, (pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users and motorists). Some characteristics of Complete Streets are features that create a multimodal-friendly environment, such as narrowing or removing traffic lanes ("lane diets" and "road diets"), adding median refuges, providing road re-striping to include bicycle lanes, reconfiguring parking, installing curb extensions ("bulb-outs"), and adding accessible pedestrian signals and countdown pedestrian signals.

Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
TDM is a general term for strategies that address the demand, rather than supply and capacity of, transportation resources. TDM programs aim to decrease traffic congestion and vehicle emissions through education, marketing, and outreach to employers and residents about the variety of commuting options available other than driving alone. TDM also seeks to improve use of the existing transportation infrastructure instead of building new transportation networks.

• Transportation Demand Management Plan