Active Living Leadership

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Active Living Leadership City of
Spokane Sub-Area Planning Planning Services
Department June 8, 2006
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2001 Comprehensive Plan Bikeways Map

• Every Street is a bikeway, unless prohibited.
• Three major trails
• Ben Burr
• Fish Lake
• Centennial

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Spokane Regional Transportation Council
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What Neighborhoods Want

• Safe bike and pedestrian pathways shared and
  separate.
• Paths that achieve neighborhood circulation.
• Paths that go somewhere, connection to work,
  recreation, points of interest.
• Multiple users ability, age, interests.
• Aesthetics

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Project PurposeCredit WSU Design Institute Bob
Scarfo. Professor, and Students

• The purpose of this project is to design a system
  of mixed use streets in the Manito / Cannon Hill
  neighborhoods which will facilitate the movement
  of alternative transportation throughout the area
  using the existing Parks as nodes of destination.
  The project was meant to both work in
  conjunction with neighborhood members as well as
  design with criteria based upon the topics of oil
  depletion, successful aging, and health.

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Project Objectives

• Create a system which contributes to
  accessibility and beautification of the park
  system.

• Produce an environment focused on the
  pedestrian.

• Connect neighborhood, community, and city
  parks systems.

• Design safe passage areas across arterials
  focused on pedestrians.

• Create an environment more conducive of social
  interaction.

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Design Solutions

• Woonerfs

Definition A street which is focused on the
pedestrian and promotes the suggestion that cars
will feel uncomfortable or out of place in the
street space.
Greenways
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Education Networking

• Administration, elected officials, city
  departments.
• Business groups,
• Citizen groups.
• Schools.
• Many others.

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What Planners Share

• Information from other jurisdictions, nationwide,
  internationally.
• Sustainability discussions human health,
  environmental health, smart growth.
• Integration other projects, other
  neighborhoods, multiple uses.
• Bringing engineers and Public Works to
  discussions reality checks.
• Financial possibilities and realities.
• Empowerment.

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A Thousand Words
High Drive Parkway Loop
Centennial Trail
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Reality Checks

• Often an afterthought in capital programming.
• Low priority. Lumped with other non-essentials
  like trees, benches, pedestrian refuges.
• Must be promoted as economic benefit instead of a
  cost, contributing to solutions in other areas
  social costs of crime, poor health, urban flight.
• Budget constraints.

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Active Living Leadership Thank you!
Melissa Wittstruck, AICP mwittstruck_at_spokanecity.o
rg City of Spokane Planning Services Department