TEAM Transportation Fair

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• TEAM Transportation Fair
• October 13, 2006

Donna Day, East-West Gateway Council of
Governments
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University City, MO
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Mission

• EWGCOG Initiative to expand the way we think
  about our streets, and to empower local
  governments to be advocates for better street
  designs that will strengthen communities and spur
  healthy economic development
• With good planning and smart design, great
  streets can happen in urban and suburban
  communities and small towns through-out the St.
  Louis region

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Great Streets

• Address multiple community goals
• Efficiently and safely move vehicles,
  pedestrians, bicycles and transit
• Spur sustainable economic activity and support
  local businesses
• Establish a sense of place
• Create cohesive, interesting communities

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Project Overview

• One-year study
• Advisory Committee
• Local leaders, academics, practitioners
• Consultant Team
• CH2M Hill
• Charlier and Associates
• Freedman, Tung and Bottomley
• Vector Communications

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Project Scope

• Symposium (October 17, 2006)
• Digital Resource Guide
• Project Development Workshop
• Demonstration Projects

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Symposium

• One-day, kick-off event 10/17/06
• Inspire and educate community leaders
• Keynote speaker
• Roxanne Qualls, former Cincinnati Mayor
• National experts
• planning, engineering, urban design,
  development
• Interactive sessions

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Digital Resource Guide

• Web-based, visual reference tool
• Place-based approach
• Address a wide range of factors
• Interactive, learning environment
• Decision support
• Applicable for diverse audience
• Leaders, Staff, Consultants, Public

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St. Louis Great Streets Initiative
WHY Make Great Streets? -How Great Streets are
better -Barriers to making Great Streets
Home Page
Level
Contact, references, upcoming events
Places Relationship between corridor and place
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Dont know get help
Descriptions of each place type
Small Town Downtown
Downtown Main Street
Mixed Use District (including TOD)
Residential Neighborhood
Office Employment Complex
Community Shopping Ctr
Commercial, Service and Industrial Corridor
Civic, Educational, Institutional Corridor
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Process
Design
Brief explanation
Brief explanation
Design Tutorial Relationship between public
street and private property
Corridor and Project Plng
City Plng
Standards/ Guidelines
Funding/ Budgeting
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Choices Guidelines
Site Planning
Multimodal Corridor Planning
Fiscal Policy/ Local Economics
Plan Resolution
Dev. Review
Intergovernmental Coordination
ability of a community plan to persist through
approval process
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Density
FAR
Urban Scale
Height Limits
Solar Access/ Exposure
Performance
Network
Parking
Design Vehicle
Access
Signing
Street/ Pvmt Design
Utilities
Intersections
Capacity
Streets
Transit
Pathways
Drainage
Lighting
Setbacks
Building Articulation
Glazing
Frequency of Entry into Bldgs.
Sidewalk/ Pvmt Design
Etc.
Sidewalks
Bike Lanes
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LOS
Standard Navigation Bar (available on each page)
Design Speed
Safety
Functional Classification
Symposium
Case Studies
Great Street Examples
Search
Site Map
Print
Why Build Great Streets?
Contact
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Workshop

• Technical design assistance for community-led
  projects
• Application of digital resource guide
• Lead to selection of demonstration projects

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Demonstration Projects

• EWG Council will select three local projects and
  provide planning assistance
• Council may also provide funding towards
  implementation

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Project Timeline
Demonstration Project Planning
Study Begins
Digital Guide
Symposium
Workshops
Spring 2006
October 17, 2006
Winter 2006
Winter 2006
2007
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Boston, MA
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Theres more to life than increasing its speed.
- Gandhi
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Great Streets lead to GREAT COMMUNITIES

• East-West Gateway
• Council of Governments
• www.ewgateway.org