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Context Sensitive Solutions

Context Sensitive Solutions. FHWA Env. Conference Harold Peaks June 28-30 , 2004. Vital Few Goal – CSS. CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOLUTIONS “Committed not Commanding”. What If In Your Back Yard?. Consider The Locality? Preserve Important Resources? Find Out What the Community Supports

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Context Sensitive Solutions

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  1. Context Sensitive Solutions FHWA Env. ConferenceHarold PeaksJune 28-30, 2004

  2. Vital Few Goal – CSS CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOLUTIONS “Committed not Commanding”

  3. What If In Your Back Yard? • Consider The Locality? • Preserve Important Resources? • Find Out What the Community Supports • Think Design First?? • Think Safety & Mobility Compromised?

  4. Why CSS? • Ensure transportation projects are in harmony with communities, • Preserve environmental, scenic, aesthetic, and historic resources while maintaining safety and mobility. • Focus on Interdisciplinary Decision Making • Save Time/ Reduce Costs/ Deliver Project

  5. WESTMINSTER, MD

  6. I-69 Extension Oak Park, Michigan

  7. CSS FACT OR FICTION???! • A Section in the EIS/EA? • A Separate Analysis? • Something Done Only at Design? • Action Without Considering Safety? • Aesthetics Only? • For Highway Projects Only?

  8. FHWA GAMEPLAN – Long Range • Encourage all States & Fed Lands – CSS • Support Training FHWA and State • Consultant Industry Trained/Certified • Curriculum for CSS at Universities • Public Interest Groups and Agencies Share CSS Principles (NACTO, etc.,)

  9. FHWA Gameplan - Ongoing • Funding Marketing Thru AASHTO CEE • Funding Training – CH2MHILL, Kentucky… • Support Federal Lands Course Develop. • Development of National Website- Cases • Funding Development of Guidance for Urban Environment • Work with FTA on NTI CSS Training

  10. Your CSS Role • Seek to Get Involved with Process • Encourage Interdisciplinary Teams • Seek to Develop Details • Help Define the Context • Help Identify Sensitive Resources • Focus on Integration and Outreach

  11. Your CSS Role • Be Proactive • Ask Questions as Part of Project Meetings • Serve as a Catalyst for Change • Peer to Peer Exchanges • Collect Good Examples to Share

  12. Implementation – Panel • What’s Going On – Examples • Resource Center Involvement • CSS Criteria • Federal Lands Approaches • Status of the Practice • Q & A

  13. Vital Few Goal – CSS CONTEXT SENSITIVE SOLUTIONS “Committed not Commanding”

  14. Training Agents by State Pilot States CH2MHill University of Kentucky CH2MMHill/University of Kentucky University of Delaware

  15. Context Sensitive Solutions/Design (CSS/D) States Pilot States (CT, KY, MD, MN, UT) Potential States identified for FY’04 (CA, CO, FL, ID, IL, IA, LA, ME, MS, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, VT, WA, WI, WY ) Potential States identified for FY’05 (AZ, DE, GA, IN, MA, MI, MT, NM, NDTN, TX, and WV ) May 2004

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