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Resolution No. 9562
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto
Adopting the Complete Streets Policy
RECITALS
A. The term "Complete Streets" describes a comprehensive, integrated
transportation network with infrastructure and design that allows safe and convenient
travel along and across streets for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, persons
with disabilities, motorists, movers of commercial goods, users and operators of public
transportation, emergency vehicles, seniors, children, youth, and families.
B. The Palo Alto City Council has long acknowledged the benefits and value for
the public health and welfare of reducing vehicle miles traveled and increasing
transportation by walking, bicycling, and public transportation.
C. The City Council also recognizes that the planning and coordinated
development of Complete Streets infrastructure provides benefits for local governments
in the areas of infrastructure cost savings; public health; and environmental
sustainability.
D. These concepts are inherent in the adopted Transportation Element of the
Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan, although not explicitly stated as desired by the regional
transportation agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
E. The State of California has emphasized the importance of Complete Streets by
enacting the California Complete Streets Act of 2008 (also known as AB 1358), which
requires that when cities or counties revise general plans, they identify how they will
provide for the mobility needs of all users of the roadways, as well as through Deputy
Directive 64, in which the California Department of Transportation explained that it
"views all transportation improvements as opportunities to improve safety, access, and
mobility for all travelers in California and recognizes bicycle, pedestrian, and transit
modes as integral elements of the transportation system".
F. The Californ ia Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (known as AB 32) sets a
mandate for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in California, and the
Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (known as SB 375) requires
emissions reductions through coordinated regional planning that integrates
transportation, housing, and land-use policy, and achieving the goals of these laws will
require significant increases in travel by public transit, bicycling, and walking.
G. Numerous California counties, cities, and agencies have adopted Complete
Streets policies and legislation in order to further the health, safety, welfare, economic
vitality, and environmental well-being of their communities.
H. The City Council therefore, in light of the foregoing benefits and
considerations, wishes to improve its commitment to Complete Streets in the ongoing
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Comprehensive Plan Update and desires that its streets form a comprehensive and
integrated transportation network promoting safe, equitable, and convenient travel for
all users while preserving flexibility, recognizing community context, and using the latest
and best design guidelines and standards.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto, State of California,
RESOLVES as follows:
SECTION 1. That the City of Palo Alto adopt the Complete Streets Policy
provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, attached hereto as Exhibit A,
and made part of this Resolution, and that said exhibit is hereby approved and adopted.
SECTION 2. That the ongoing Comprehensive Plan Update shall incorporate
Complete Streets policies and principles consistent with the California Complete Streets
Act of 2008 (AB 1358) and with the Complete Streets Policy adopted by this resolution.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: November 30, 2015
AYES: BERMAN, BURT, DUBOIS, FILSETH, HOLMAN, KNISS, SCHARFF, SCHMID,
WOLBACH
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City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Senior Assistant City Attorney
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Exhibit A
This Complete Streets Policy was adopted by Resolution No. 9562 by the City Council of
the City of Palo Alto on November 30, 2015.
COMPLETE STREETS POLICY OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
A. Complete Streets Principles
1. Complete Streets Serving All Users. Palo Alto expresses its commitment to
creating and maintaining Complete Streets that provide safe, comfortable, and
convenient travel along and across streets (including streets, roads, highways,
bridges, and other portions of the transportation system) through a
comprehensive, integrated transportation network that serves all categories of
users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, persons with disabilities, motorists,
movers of commercial goods, users and operators of public transportation,
seniors, children, youth, and families.
2. Context Sensitivity. In planning and implementing street projects, departments
and agencies of the City of Palo Alto shall maintain sensitivity to local conditions
in both residential and business districts as well as urban, suburban, and rural
areas, and shall work with residents, merchants, and other stakeholders to
ensure that a strong sense of place ensues. Improvements that will be
considered include sidewalks, shared use paths, bicycle lanes, bicycle routes,
paved shoulders, street trees and landscaping, planting strips, accessible curb
ramps, crosswalks, refuge islands, pedestrian signals, signs, street furniture,
bicycle parking facilities, public transportation stops and facilities, transit priority
signalization, and other features assisting in the provision of safe travel for all
users, such as traffic calming circles, transit bulb outs, and other similar features.
3. Complete Streets Routinely Addressed by All Departments. All relevant
departments and agencies of the City of Palo Alto shall work towards making
Complete Streets practices a routine part of everyday operations, approach
every relevant project, program, and practice as an opportunity to improve
streets and the transportation network for all categories of users, and work in
coordination with other departments, agencies, and jurisdictions to maximize
opportunities for Complete Streets, connectivity, and cooperation. The following
projects provide opportunities: pavement resurfacing, restriping, accessing
above and underground utilities, signalization operations or modifications, and
maintenance of landscaping/related features.
4. All Projects and Phases. Complete Streets infrastructure sufficient to enable
reasonably safe travel along and across the right of way for each category of
users shall be incorporated into all planning, funding, design, approval, and
implementation processes for any construction, reconstruction, retrofit,
maintenance, operations, alteration, or repair of streets (including streets, roads,
highways, bridges, and other portions of the transportation system), except that
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specific infrastructure for a given category of users may be excluded if an
exemption is approved via the process set forth in section C. lof this policy.
B. Implementation
1. Plan Consultation and Consistency. Maintenance, planning, and design of
projects affecting the transportation system shall be consistent with local
bicycle, pedestrian, transit, multimodal, and other relevant plans, except that
where such consistency cannot be achieved cost effectively without negative
consequences, consistency shall not be required if the head of the relevant
department provides written approval explaining the basis of such deviation.
Palo Alto's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee will be consulted early in
the planning and design stage of transportation projects to review deviations
from relevant plans.
2. Street Network/Connectivity. As feasible, the City of Palo Alto shall incorporate
Complete Streets infrastructure into existing streets to improve the safety and
convenience of users and to create employment, with the particular goal of
creating a connected network of facilities accommodating each category of
users, and increasing connectivity across jurisdictional boundaries and for
existing and anticipated future areas of travel origination or destination.
3. Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee Consultation. Palo Alto's Bicycle
and Pedestrian Advisory Committee will be consulted early in the planning and
design stage of transportation projects to provide comments and
recommendations regarding Complete Streets features to be incorporated into
the project.
4. Evaluation. All relevant agencies or departments shall perform evaluations of
how well the streets and transportation network of Palo Alto are serving each
category of users by collecting baseline data and collecting follow-up data on a
regular basis.
C. Exemptions
1. Leadership Approval for Exemptions. Projects that seek Complete Streets
exemptions must provide written finding of why accommodations for all modes
that were not included in the project and approved by City Council. Projects that
are granted exceptions must be made publically available for review. Federal
guidance on exceptions can be found from the Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA) Accommodating Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle pedestrian/guidance/design gu
idance/design.cfm
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