Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS)
•Involves the public early and often
•Incorporates community values
•Enhances the livability and environment of the area
•Improves safety and mobility for all transportation modes
•Encourages flexibility in design
•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