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Home My WebLink About2006 01 23 Reports McLemore Transportations's Role Date: January 23, 2006 The following Documents were referenced by City Manager Ronald W. McLemore on January 23, 2006 during his Report. Feb 10- Transportation's Role in Building Livable Communities 8:00 am: 8:30 am: 4:30 pm: Course registration Course Begins Course Ends 1. Introduction Introduction to team, course schedule and topics overview; facility logistics, program partnerships. 2. Land use and transportation elements Introduction to Complete Streets, Healthy Streets, land use, walkability, walkability elements, sustainability, safety, place making, connectivity, role of density, infill, security through design, village development, and redevelopment. 3. Healthy street making principles. traffic and transportation elements Context Sensitive Solutions, Transportation Design for Livable Communities, safety issues, street layout, low auto dependence patterns, appropriate speed, capacity, traffic volumes, flexibility in design. 4. Aesthetics, placemaking Gateways, transitions, streetscaping, trees and other landscape treatments. Lunch 5. Healthy Streets and Corridor Design Overview Healthy street making practices, design elements and features, and other tools for achieving safe and successful projects, tort liability for designers, introduction to FDOT LOS/ LOQ. 6. Traffic calming, parking and traffic management for roadways An introduction to the best tools and methods for improving safety by getting speeds, traffic management and circulation patterns in line with community needs. Traffic calming is no longer just for local streets. Emergency response needs. Parallel parking, angled parking, back-in angled parking, state road versus local road parking issues. 7. People and vehicle friendly intersections and crossings Pedestrian and bicycle-friendly features that also address vehicular demands. Intersection treatments such as roundabouts, bulbouts, mid-block crossings, pork chop islands, and other features for creating livable streets. Correcting existing intersections that were built for vehicle speed. 8. Main Streets, Historical Streets, Road Diets Keys to enlivening and enriching town centers, streetscapes, when to use road diets, lane width reductions, use of one-way versus two-way streets and other key town center redevelopment issues. 9. Summary Course summary of key issues and Question and Answer session. Transportation's Role in Building Livable Communities Florida Context Sensitive Design Approach Full Day Course Outline Statewide Training Sessions on Sustainable, Livable Communities and Transportation Course Description: This course offers technical knowledge which, used properlY, can create public and private decisions that will lead to healthy, active, livable communities. It offers principles, practices, and strategies and Florida based case studies, providing community planners, transportation officials, developers and elected leaders with information necessary to create visionary, workable and practical plans leading to more sustainable neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities and transportation projects and systems. Course Objective: To provide an understanding of the concepts, principles and practices involved in creating livable communities that are safe and promote healthy, active lifestyles through sustainable transportation and sustainable settlement patterns. The desired outcome of this course is to produce advocates and practitioners who intend to implement these practices. Course Outline: The morningfeatures an introduction; overview, introduction to presenters and facilitators, principles and practices with sustainable land use, sustainable transportation, Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) and Complete Streets. This is followed by a comprehensive look at basic town making, transit oriented design, connectivity, village style development, retrofitting, historical preservation, environmental preservation and related issues. Afternoon sessions focus on transportation, including Florida transportation best practices, transportation and traffic evaluation tools, techniques and tools for healthy, safe, interactive streets, improved intersection designs, new approaches to midblock crossings, streetscapes, use of trees in urban environments, gateways, parking and many other modern transportation tools. 8:00 am Course registration begins 8:30 am-4:30 pm Livable Communities Course Breaks: Each hour long module will have a 5-minute break 1. First Module - Leaming to work together (50-55 minutes) (Team) . Introduction to team, course and facility logistics and topics overview (Opportunity for District Secretary or other dignitary to introduce course and team) . Common institutional, legal, perceptual barriers to overcome . Quick quiz and interactive event to help all participants realize why they need one another to create common visions, positive local and press support, built projects and gain added pride . Why projects fail when communities lack clear and common visions for their neighborhoods, town centers and corridors . Why many of Florida's built designs are failing as safety, access, mobility, transportation choice models. (Note; Florida is estimated by the current administration to have a $35 Billion roadway deficit. Continued sprawl growth will increase this deficit) . What distinguishes low context sensitive from high Context Sensitive Solutions . Florida and regional case studies 1. Transit oriented design, (overview, principles, practices, examples) 2. Overview of Florida's newest, best walkable, livable, sustainable communities 3. Active living, active transportation, and Florida examples 4. Home-to-school journey . Traffic growth potential and safety problems with conventional planning approach . Traffic growth potential and safety solutions with sustainable, traditional planning approach I 2. Second Module - What land use and transponation elements are needed (40-50 minutes) (Dan Burden) . Walkability, walkable scale, sustainability, safety, security, place making principles . People and transit oriented design versus auto-oriented design . Sustainable land use and transportation case studies . Rebuilt streets and plazas, principles and practices . Healthy communities, active transportation principles . Land use, size, scale, density, mix of uses . Successful brown field, grey field conversions . Principles of infill, mixed use, mixed income . Principles of connectivity, reduced auto dependency . Security by design, safescaping principles . Adapted malls, shopping plazas and new villages . Affordable housing, mixed income housing, mixed use development 3. Third Module - Village Style Street Making Principles - Traffic and transponation elements (30 minutes) (Billy Hattaway, P.E.) . Designing by community needs rather than by functional street classification . Flexibility in street designs . Unlocking the tool box. Why and how AASHTO, ITE and other official guides support village street making principles . Successful land forms that minimize trip making. Why they work, how they work . Street layout, connectivity and low auto dependence patterns . Appropriate speeds, volumes and capacity for various land uses and locations 4. Fourth Module - Public Process, Best Practices- What is the public process role of engineers, planners, architects, landscape architects, transit providers, safety officials, emergency responders in building sustainable communities? (30 minutes) (Dan Burden) . Developing an effective public process . Interactive public involvement and implementation planning strategies . Informed consent, and consent building . Managing and delivering the charrette public process . Designing for Function and Place - Combining transportation and community development needs to create multi-purpose roads . Traffic volumes per lane, capacity, levels of service, and levels of quality 5. Healthy Streets and Corridor Design Overview (30 minutes) (Billy Hattaway) . Modern street making principles and practices - The Florida and National Experience . Using effective evaluation tools - When to use LOS (Levels of Service) versus LOQ (Levels of Quality) to measure performance. . Testing designs in early design process and reviews. . Street Design Overview. Guidelines, innovations and models that work for everyone, Healthy Streets & Circulation pattern alternatives 6. Luncheon Speaker Option: The Florida Experience (Charlie Pattison, 1000 Friends of Florida, or other featured host speaker) Florida's Sustainable Future (Topic may vary by region) 2 Box lunches to be provided by a local or regional sponsor, or paid for by participants 7. Aesthetics, placemaking, gateways, transitions and streetscaping (30 minutes) (Dan Burden) · Design Aesthetics and basic placemaking · Landscape architecture and streetscaping principles and practices · Effective night lighting designs enhancing safety and beauty · Public art, navigation, wayfinding · Overhangs, canopies and other potential street impacts · Ten point test for aesthetics and placemaking · Gateways and their abilities to transition speeds · Florida and best practices in gateway entries to town, neighborhoods and town centers · Effective placement and design of gateways 8. Intersections - Keeping the Flow (30 minutes) (Billy Hattaway) · Basic intersection design principles · Advanced geometric designs · Reducing conflicts at intersections · New operational tools and their uses · Pedestrian-friendly enhancements · Bicycle-friendly enhancements · Universal design (ADA) issues at intersections · Roundabouts and when to apply them · Ten point test for a successful intersection design 9. Midblock Designs - Maintaining the flow (30 minutes) (Billy Hattaway) · Basic rnidblock design principles · 2-lane designs · Multiple lane roadway designs · Advanced signing, operations techniques · Pedestrian and transit issues and needs · Bicycle-friendly issues · ADA issues rnidblock · Ten point test for a successful rnidblock designs 10. Traffic calming and traffic management; trees and other landscape materials (30 minutes) (Dan Burden) · Local versus state and regional trunk road issues · Basic intersection traffic calming solutions · Getting "running speeds" and "desired speeds" to match posted speeds · Needs of emergency responders · Avoiding the wrong tools · Bicycle-friendly issues · ADA issues · Ten point test for a successful traffic calming 3 . Growing need and demand for tree canopies and other uses for trees in urban roadway environments . Benefits and advantages of trees and landscaping . Disadvantages and cautions . Maintenance and safety issues . Basic sight triangles and maintaining sight lines . Basic and advanced principles for edge trees . Basic and advanced treatments for median trees and shrubs . Ten point test for a successful intersection design 11. Main Streets, Historical Streets, Road Diets (30 minutes) (Dan Burden) . Growing need and demand for main street, historical street conversions . Regional/ state street applications . Non-regional/ local main street applications . Key design principles, practices and issues . Operational and maintenance issues . Streetscaping . Ten point test for a successful main street, historical street design . Growing demand and need for road diets . Basic test for applying road diet or lane width reductions . Conditions needed for making conversions . Keeping and improving the flow with lane reduction and lane width changes . Ten point test for a successful lane/lane width change 12. On-Street and Off-Street Parking (30 minutes) (Dan Burden) . Basic use of curb extensions . Advanced use of curb extensions . On-street parking issues and needs, benefits and challenges . Parallel parking . Angled and back-in angled parking . When parking is appropriate for state highways . Ten point test for a successful parking application 13. Closing (Include District Secretary or other key local/regional host) Time and local resource planning allowing, a panel discussion and the host organization will close out the training event. Panels will include key district, regional and local staff, elected leaders and the training team. Topics that should be discussed in this module are likely to include . Case studies and success stories of local district/local community teams . Effective strategies of combining federal/state/local monies . Maintaining Flexibility and increasing productivity Course ends at 4:30 pm 4 Page 1 of 1 Eloise Sahlstrom From: Eloise Sahlstrom Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:56 PM To: Brian Fields; Randy Stevenson; John Baker; Scott Dye Cc: Chyrel Jackson; Kim Trench Link for Registering for Livable Communities Workshop- Feb 10 Orlando http://durp .ais. fsu .edu/DU RP /signu p. php 1/23/2006 Livable Communities Workshop Web Registration Welcome to the livable Communities Workshop Web Registration Please enter the requested information in the spaces provided. If you are a professional planner, engineer, or landscape architect (pending) and would like continuing education credits, please provide your certification number Which workshop would you (or those you are Please Choose... ." '* registering for) like to attend? 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