City of Ashland Transportation System Plan Update

1. City of Ashland Transportation System Plan Update September 6th, 2012

2. Meeting Agenda 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. • Project Status • Review of Draft TSP Document • Next Steps and Discussion

3. Project Status • Draft Preferred Plan (Memo #9) – September 2011 • Monthly or more frequent meetings of the PC/TC and subcommittees • Draft TSP • TAC and PC/TC Provide Comments on Draft TSP by September 14th, 2012 • Next Steps • Council Briefing (October) • Town Hall (October 24th) • Planning Commission Hearing • City Council Hearing • TSDC Update Process

4. Draft TSP • Background Sections (1-4) • Existing Inventory • Goals and Objectives • Existing Conditions • Future Conditions • Plan Sections (5-12) • General Policies • Modal Plans (ped, bike, transit, roadway, other modes) • Pedestrian Places • Sustainability Plan • Funding and Implementation • Implementation Recommendations • Attachments • Project Prospectus Sheets • Bicycle and Pedestrian Facility Design Toolkit • Technical Appendix • All Tech Memos and their attachments

5. Draft TSP • Remaining Tasks • Implementing Ordinances and Findings • Finalize Draft TSP Document • Adoption Process • TSDC Update

6. TSP Goals • Create a “green” template for other communities to follow • Make safety a priority for all modes • Maintain small-town character, support economic prosperity, and accommodate future growth • Create a system-wide balance for serving and facilitating pedestrian, bicycle, rail, air, transit, and vehicular traffic in terms of mobility and access within and through the City of Ashland

7. Draft TSP • Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan Sections • Includes policies, programs, and projects focused on facilitating pedestrian and bicycle travel • Transit Plan • Includes policies and programs focused on improving transit service within and to/from Ashland • Heavy Rail Plan • Includes Freight by Rail Policy and set of railroad crossing projects • Intersection and Roadway Plan • Includes policies, studies and projects related to access management, intersection improvements, modifying existing roadway cross-sections or streetscapes, extending existing roadways, and constructing new roadways.

8. Draft TSP • Pedestrian Places • Concept Plans • Circulation Plans • Roadway Cross-sections • Modal Plans include streetscape and other projects to implement the Pedestrian Places • Other Modal Plans • Air • Water • Pipeline

9. Draft TSP • Sustainability Plan • Transportation demand management (TDM) strategies • Strategies for reduction of Ashland’s carbon footprint • Private sector sustainability solutions, and • Other relevant policies, goals, and objectives

10. Draft TSP • Future Funding Projections (p. 169) • Approximately $24 million over 25 years • Full Plan Costs • Approximately $74 million • Financially Constrained List • Majority of High and Medium Priority Projects - $28 million • Projects to be included in TSDC Update

11. Notable General Policies/Studies (p. 85) • Policy #1 – Functional Classifications – New Shared Street designation • Policy #2 – Multi-modal/Safety Based Development Review Process • Policy #27 – Fee In Lieu • Study #2 – Downtown Parking and Multi-Modal Circulation Study

12. Sidewalk Projects/Priorities/SRTS

13. Planned Bikeway Network

14. Notable Bicycle Policies/Programs (p. 103) • Program #1 – Create TravelSmart Educational Program • Invest in individualized, targeted marketing materials to be distributed to interested individuals for the purpose of informing and encouraging travel as a pedestrian or by bicycle.

15. Transit (p. 110) • Several policies to support transit access and transit friendly development • Transit Program Funding • Annual allocation budgeted for transit – increasing over time • Funds to be spent to achieve Ashland’s transit priorities (complimentary to RVTD’s Transit Service Enhancement Tiers) • 10 Transit Priorities related to fares, hours of service, service coverage • Desire future express service to Medford • Desire park-n-ride/Central Transit Hub facility • Desire additional local circulation route (Route 8) • Desire tourist/student oriented rubber-tire circulator

16. Existing and Planned Transit Service

17. Rubber Tire Trolley Route

18. Notable Roadway Policies (p. 129) • Policy #22 – Alternative Mobility Standards • Not needed for 2034 horizon • City will pursue in future for North Main and Ashland/Tolman Creek • Policy #23 – Transportation System Management • Tools and Strategies • Policy #24 – Traffic Calming • Tools and Strategies • Policy #26 – Eagle Mill Road • Support use as Alternative Bypass Route of downtown area • Encourages County to upgrade Eagle Mill Road on similar timeframe as Nevada Street Extension

19. Notable Refinement Studies (p. 136) • Study #10 – Siskiyou Boulevard Pedestrian Crossing Evaluation and Feasibility Study • Evaluate the feasibility and costs associated with providing enhanced pedestrian crossing treatments at the Wightman-Indiana/Siskiyou Boulevard intersection. • After study of the new crossing treatment • Review of pedestrian demands with new dormitory open

20. Roadway and Intersection Projects • Safety projects • Streetscape projects (implementing Pedestrian Places) • North Main Road Diet • New streets • Fixing existing connectivity gaps • Roads in new development areas • Railroad District • Croman Mill • New Railroad Crossings • Unable to identify/prioritize potential closures to allow new crossings at 4th Street and at Washington Street • Will pursue all possible alternatives to closure of existing crossings and will consider grade separation • No train volumes currently, low future projections

21. Roadway and Intersection Projects

22. Planned Street Network and Classifications

23. Access Spacing Standards and Jurisdiction

24. Next Steps and Discussion • Next Steps • September 14th - Provide Comments • October 24th – Town Hall • Initiate TSDC Update Process • November – December – TSP Adoption Process • Discussion - Questions or Comments?