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•The project goals for GRIP led to an innovative planning and design process known as Context Sensitive Solutions. •Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities was published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) in 2006. •Members of the KHA team contributed to this recommended practice (Jim Daisa of KHA, Phil Erickson of CDA, and Steve Price of Urban Advantage)

•Fact sheets about CSS are available on the GRIP website (www.grantroad.info)

•CSS considers three contexts: Multi-modal transportation needs, Community values, Built and natural environment)

•CSS is process for making decisions by looking at these contexts in relation to each other

•Design flexibility (and design innovation) is a central theme of CSS

•There are many local examples of design innovation and flexibility

•Curb bump-outs and on-street parking recently introduced in downtown Tucson

•Back-in parallel parking on University Avenue near Main Gate

•CSS also means thinking outside of the box

•Local ordinances regarding sustainable design will be included in study process

•Visions and guiding principles based on a shared understanding of assets, needs, and deficiencies are under development. •These will be used in the development and evaluation of comprehensive concept alternatives for GR. •Trade-offs will be clearly discussed and informed decision making will lead to innovative solutions

•Traditional study approaches focus on the implementation of transportation infrastructure that is in accordance with City standards. •In CSS, we will achieve the intended outcomes of standards but may not in ever case, comply with standards. •A 28-member TAC has been organized to help us evaluate solutions that may not comply with city standards.

•Virginia project that used CSS principles to change the context of both the roadway and built environment •Existing roadway is designed to move traffic, no bike lanes, limited pedestrian features, land use has developed around the design of the roadway

•Through roadway design changes to accommodate pedestrians and bicycles, in addition to vehicles is expected to create investment opportunities for mixed use development.

•California example of improving alternate mode features to create opportunities land use connections on either side of the roadway.

•El Camino Real @ Los Robles – EXISTING CONDITIONS

•Intersections on GR will be a design challenge

•Many of the issues shown here exist on GR

•El Camino Real @ Los Robles – PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS

•Notice pedestrian refuge area, wider, colorized pedestrian cross-walk, and landscape buffers for sidewalks

•US29H250 Project – Charlottesville & Albemarle County, Virginia

•CSS was used to balance mobility and access to create incentives for land use development

•US29H250 Project – Charlottesville & Albemarle County, Virginia

•The multi-way boulevard concepts provides mobility for through traffic and transit AND access and parking to support development

•Another example of relationship between changes to roadway context and land use development

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