Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 04-10-12 cra — reading text

include other road improvement projects, such as capacity building, bicycle lanes, congestion management, and enhanced pedestrian features. 2. Continue adding sidewalks and improving existing sidewalks where needed. Develop a prioritized list of sidewalk improvement projects. Aging and failing water and sewer lines make the Fort Walton Beach CPA less attractive for redevelopment compared to newly built areas. Upgrade these lines to accommodate higher v density to attract more developers to the CRA. acry Q 1. Implement a yearly program to utilize CRA funds to complete needed underground v infrastructure in the CRA. N 0 2. Offer incentives to incoming developers, such as a Development Infrastructure grant program, that may provide up to 75% of qualifying expenses necessary to upgrade infrastructure for incoming commercial and residential projects in the CRA. Na NC In many locations, multifamily residents and businesses rely on individual garbage cans, primarily due to space limitations for dumpsters. For small businesses, even the smallest dumpster may be too large for the business needs. However, in areas with small lots, narrow sidewalks, or narrow streets, the proliferation of garbage cans, seen in the photograph below, is unsightly and strategy to coordinate with users to establish for dumpsters to serve multiple users, ie need for individual garbage cans. should be screened from view to the extent possible. f41 2012 Community Redevelopment Plan Packet Pg. 39  F8 Ca 1. Develop a program for establishing joint use dumpstcrs in areas now cluttered with individual garbage cans. 2. Provide financial incentives for installing screening or landscaping to buffer existing dumpsters to improve the appearance of these facilities throughout the CRA. m aa acN UNON nTb Page 26 of 4l 2012 Community Redevelopment Plan Packet Pg. 40  8. 1. a COMPONENT 3 - TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION GOAL: ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY OF AN ADEQUATE AND SAFE MIILTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THROUGHOUT THE CRA Objectives: Improve Safety Through installing Traffic Calming and Congestion Management Design Features em a Promote the Use of and Enhance the Availability of Transit Facilities Continue to Promote Walkable Areas Throughout the CRA Though the Installation of N Pedestrian- Friendly Features cN Ensure Adequate Bicycle Facilities ' Throughout the CRA N Ensure Adequate and Accessible Parking Throughout the CRA The transportation system within the Fort Walton Beach CRA is functional, but can be congested and unsafe at times. Major arterial roads such as Miracle Strip Parkway ( U. S. Highway 98), Eglin Parkway ( State Road 85), and Beal Parkway ( State Road 89) carry a capacity of up to 33, 500 AADT ( average annual daily traffic), 38, 000 AADT, and 15, 000 AADT, respectively. Due to the already built -out nature of the City, and the CRA specifically, most road widening projects to increase capacity through additional lanes on major roadways are not feasible. Therefore, it is important to focus on transportation improvements that can improve mobility in the CRA, such as enhanced pedestrian facilities, bikeways, and other congestion management and traffic calming techniques. Providing multimodal transportation options in the CRA is increasingly important in order to support the denser, mixed -use development pattern planned for the CRA. When traffic volumes approach or exceed capacity during peak hours or seasons, the resulting congestion reduces mobility. Congestion management can include roadway design practices such as limiting the number of driveways on arterials, installing needed turning lanes, intersection improvements, rerouting through -traffic, and traffic signal synchronization. Other congestion management strategies include ways to actually reduce capacity by encouraging other modes of Page 27 of 41 2012 Community Redevelopment Plan Packet Pg. 41  B. i. a transportation including transit service, walking, and bicycling. Traffic calming principally involves managing vehicle speed, modifying drivers' behaviors, and reducing traffic volume in order to increase the safety level for all modes of travel. The most common practices for traffic calming include installing speed tables, medians, street trees, pavement treatments, signage, and diverters. Existin Roadwa Anal sis: SR 85 ( Eglin Parkway) Undivided 6 -lane major arterial Median improvements, continuous surrounded by primarily strectscape/ improved sidewalks, sidewalks, underground commercial land uses, including wider Uptown Station utilities, improved pedestrian crossings, limit continuous curb cuts, improved internal circulation aNK0 US 98 ( Miracle Strip 4 -lane divided major arterial Improved pedestrian crossings; acm Parkway) carrying through traffic from enforced speed limit; Brooks Bridge rc Pensacola to Panama City; low improvements; wider and improved speed limit, new streetsrape sidewalks west of Brooks Street; UN downtown; tree -lined medians streetscaping west of Brooks Street ON Undivided 4 -lane minor arterial Improved sidewalks, additional SR 189 ( Beal Parkway) pedestrian crossings Brooks Street 2 -lane ' local" road with low Streetscaping and/ or underground volume traffic; streetseape north utilities south side; additional raised side only; low speeds, existing pedestrian crossings; well -marked raised pedestrian crossings parking, additional lighting wider Hollywood Boulevard Undivided" 2 -lauc minor Improved sidewalks ( collector with suicide lane and sidewalks, continuous sidewalks), landscape, street excess paved ROW principally streetscapc/ located in the light reconfiguration for marked bike lanes industrial /mixed use retail district and possibly 4 -lanes or landscaped medians with mm lanes, marked pedestrian crossings First Street, Second Street, Many " local" roads in the CRA Some of the local streets could be Third Street, Fourth Street, are set up fairly grid -like, improved through strectsceping, sidewalks, wider Bass Avenue, Shell Avenue, providing alternate routes through landscaping, Harbeson Avenue, Carson the main part of the CRA. sidewalks, continuous sidewalks, and Drive, Alder Avenue, pedestrian friendly crossings and Chicago Avenue, McGriff