FYI in case you don't subscribe...great stuff on COMPLETE STREETS and the ongoing work in Boulder on multimodal corridors
Getting Smart! smartgrowth@icma.org 8/11/2008 12:28 AM >>>
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Getting Smart!, a quarterly newsletter for members of the Smart Growth Network, is published by the International City/County Management Association.
Vol. 11, No. 3 -- Sunday, August 10, 2008
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In This Issue: Complete Streets
This issue of Getting Smart! examines how the most public of places--our community's streets--can be transformed to serve not only vehicles but also pedestrians and cyclists.
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Complete Streets Deliver Complete Communities
The complete streets philosophy offers a number of important benefits for communities--not the least of which is the opportunity to end the costly cycle of road construction and maintenance--and enhances citizens' quality of life.
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Community-based Street Design
In the past 70 years citizens have essentially given up their historic right to streets as public property, our authors argue. This article offers guidelines for planning and designing great streets, and returning this vital space to the public.
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City of Decatur, Ga., Embraces Complete Streets Philosophy
Decatur has employed a variety of innovative transportation analysis techniques to form a plan to make every street in the city a complete street. By connecting the plan to broader community priorities, the city helped build consensus.
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Multimodal Corridors Accommodate Growth in Boulder, Co.
Boulder's road network is essentially built out--yet the city's continues to experience explosive growth. The city has directed its transportation investments to creating multimodal corridors to ensure mobility for all residents.
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Transportation Legislation Enables Communities to Move People--Not Just Cars
Federal legislation in the Senate and House may transform transportation funding in support of complete streets. These bills build on the successes of city and states across the country that have made complete streets "the law."
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EPA Honors Climate Protection Award Winners in ICMA Manager Jurisdictions
The city of Albuquerque, New Mexico (Bruce Perlman, city manager), and Arlington County, Virginia (Ron Carlee, county manager), received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Protection Award.
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