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1 Project Advisory Committee March 1, 2006 Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

2 A Changing New Hampshire Source: Society for the Protection of NH Forests, Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

3 Demographic and Travel Trends VMT (Passenger) +3.0% VMT (Freight) +3.5% Jobs +2.0% Population +1.1% Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

4 Transportation Needs Differ Throughout State Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

5 A Changing New Hampshire More Congestion & Conflict Increased Traffic Generation Roadway Expansion Improved Access The Land Use Transportation Cycle Source: FHWA Additional Development Increased Land Value Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

6 Changing Land Use Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study Source: GRANIT

7 Changing Land Use Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study Source: GRANIT

8 Changing Land Use Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study Source: GRANIT

9 Needs Exceed Resources Annual Millions of Dollars Maintain Transportation System Status Quo $450 $400 $350 $300 Range of Revenues based upon Trends $250 $200 $150 $100 $50 Average over 25 Years $0 Status Quo Revenue Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

10 Transportation Vision & Goals NH Transportation Vision -- Draft In the year 2030, transportation in New Hampshire plays a critical role in preserving the state s unique character and quality of life, enhancing environmental quality, and promoting sustainable economic development and land use. Transportation in New Hampshire provides safe and secure mobility and travel options for all the state s residents, visitors and goods movement; is well maintained, efficient and reliable; and provides seamless interstate and intrastate connectivity. Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

11 Context Sensitive Solutions CSS is defined as a collaborative interdisciplinary approach, that involves all stakeholders to develop a transportation facility that fits its physical setting and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility. Formalize Focus on Communication Training Pilot Projects CSS Consultant Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

12 Context Sensitive Solutions Meredith US 3/25 Improvements Thomas R. Warne, PE Tom Warne and Associates Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

13 CSS Orientation Background and Origins CSS Defined CSS and Engineering Design CSS Examples CSS Myths Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

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17 2004 AASHTO Green Book Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

18 Safety Uniformity Mobility Historical and Community Values and Environment Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

19 Safety Uniformity Mobility Historical and Community Values and Environment CSS Defined Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

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21 AASHTO Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design, 2004 Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

22 Thinking Beyond the Pavement Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

23 Context Sensitive Design Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

24 Context Sensitive Solutions Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

25 Transportation Engineering And Context Sensitive Solutions Mobility Safety Preservation of Community Values Enhancement of the Natural Environment Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

26 Designing in a CSS Environment Incorporate community values Address safety Create efficient solutions No new standards Built on current laws Apply current regulations Understand guidelines Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

27 Context Sensitive Solutions relies on: Sound engineering and design Effective community outreach and stakeholder involvement Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

28 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Facilitation and engineering Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

29 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Public involvement Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

30 PUBLIC NOTICE Construction Alert Loudon Road Closures The New Hampshire Department of Transportation advises the public that periodic closures of Loudon Road will occur between I-93 and Hazen Drive for the period of June 1, 1991 through October 15, Motorists should use caution when traveling through this area. PUBLIC NOTICE Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

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38 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Stakeholder identification and collaboration Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

39 CSS Engages All Stakeholders FHWA Environmental Interests AASHTO Business Interests Community Interests Environmental Industry Groups Elected Officials Designers and Planners Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

40 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Addressing Risk and Litigation Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

41 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Educational requirements Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

42 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Policies and procedures Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

43 Transitioning to a CSS Organization Integrating it with the project development process Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

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61 A Rose by any other name Thinking Beyond the Pavement Context Sensitive Design Context Sensitive Solutions Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

62 CSS Myths It costs more It won t t be safe It will take longer It will raise our liability Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

63 Context Sensitive Solutions The Right Way to Do Business Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

64 Franconia Notch Parkway Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

65 Durham Oyster River Bridge Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

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67 Durham NH Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

68 Enfield Main Street Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

69 Enfield Main Street Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

70 Enfield Main Street Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

71 Greenfield Project Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

72 SOLUTIONS Context Sensitive How to Look at a Place: Seeing Context, Defining the Right Problem Project for Public Spaces

73 Two City Streets

74 We shape our transportation systems, and afterwards our transportation shapes us. Transportation and Livable Communities Consortium Laguna Beach, California Sydney, Australia

75 The erosion of cities by automobiles proceeds as a kind of nibbling. Small nibbles at first but eventually hefty bites. A street is widened here, another is straightened there, a wide avenue is converted to one way flow and more land goes into parking. No one step in this process is in itself crucial but cumulatively the effect is enormous. -- Jane Jacobs, 1963

76 Transportation Planning the old way

77 A Revolution in Transportation Planning

78 Transportation affects land use Source: FHWA land use changes transportation

79 If you don t link land use and transportation both will fail. Carol Murray NHDOT Commissioner

80 But, Transportation can BENEFIT Place Renews Downtowns and Neighborhoods Promotes Public Health Shapes growth and minimizes sprawl PLACE Enhances Access for All Improves Safety and Security Nurtures a Sense Of Community

82 Placemaking: a Tool for Transportation Professionals A different way of thinking and looking at transportation Facilitating an understanding with communities by identifying the right problems from the beginning

83 The Role of Transportation Engineers in Turning a Place Around: Leaving a Better Place Behind By Mobilizing community partnerships around place; Making sure that nontraditional activities take place; Constructing a catalytic process.

84 Campus Martius, Detroit, 1998

Campus Martius Concept 2001 Campus Martius Park will be: Detroit's Gathering Place The Crossroads of Downtown Detroit Our Town Square The City's

85 Campus Martius Concept 2001 Campus Martius Park will be: Detroit's Gathering Place The Crossroads of Downtown Detroit Our Town Square The City's Signature Landmark A Catalyst for Revitalization A Place Where the Community Celebrates Major Partners: City of Detroit Detroit 300 Conservancy Detroit DOT

86 Campus Martius the Reality, 2004 It changes the image of Detroit in everyone s mind. They see the square on TV, hear about what s happening there and they see Detroit differently. -Bob Gregory, Detroit 300

87 It took three years to work through issues about vehicular flow. But in the end, CSS was embraced by the traffic planners because It s just common sense.

88 Campus Martius has helped attract $500 million of new investment into the neighboring area, including Compuware which moved 4000 workers in from the suburbs

92 Initial definition of contexts Community Environment (Natural Scenic, Historic, Aesthetic) Transportation

93 Merging of contexts Community Environment Transportation

94 Community Environment Transportation The contextsensitive solution

95 When an arterial meets the community

99 The Traditional Project Delivery Process Now what? Redesign? Litigation? Abandon the project?

Add CSS to the Process STEP 1: PROBLEM / NEED Identify transportation issue * Identify stakeholders Outreach & preliminary partnership-building Products: * stakeholder lists *

100 Add CSS to the Process STEP 1: PROBLEM / NEED Identify transportation issue * Identify stakeholders Outreach & preliminary partnership-building Products: * stakeholder lists * preliminary lists of transportation issues Where Projects come from: RPC Long-range Plan DOT LRSTP Corridor Study Local Government Request Special Program Citizen Feedback through M & O

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102 Identify Partners Core team: Town manager s office PPS VHB PeopleGIS NH DOT Stakeholders: Town leaders Residents Merchants Partner communities

103 Evaluate the place Identify Problems & Opportunities; Listen...Communicate...Build the Partnership. Placemaking workshops Key person interviews

104 The Placemaking Workshop Evaluate Places

105 Isolated and Disconnected Places

STEP 2: PLANNING * Identify the context Bring in resource agencies as stakeholders Establish a multi-disciplinary team Discuss and develop consensus on a decisionmaking process, including plans for

106 STEP 2: PLANNING * Identify the context Bring in resource agencies as stakeholders Establish a multi-disciplinary team Discuss and develop consensus on a decisionmaking process, including plans for public involvement Develop and create consensus around a problem statement that includes community and environmental components Develop consensus on a project vision Agree on project limits Products: * Process Contract * Problem Statement * Vision Statement

107 What are the Problems & Needs? Seek input from project team, public officials, Citizen s Resource Team, others. Use Placemaking as a tool to identify problems and needs Seek consensus on problems and needs

108 Develop a Vision for the Project A statement of desired characteristics of a place at a specified future time, often 10 to 15 years. This statement should address transportation goals and may include other community and environmental goals related to the transportation corridor as well. Include Transportation needs Include Community Values or Aspirations Include Scenic, Aesthetic, Historic and Environmental Values and Goals

109 Consensus Consensus does not mean that everyone agrees, but that principal groups and individuals can live with a proposal.

110 Littleton Multi-Disciplinary Team Town: convener & project manager PPS, VHB, PeopleGIS: Place-based resource team DOT: resource & enabler Town, DOT co- manage implementation

111 Littleton Concept Development Initial concepts: PPS & Town: Placemaking concepts VHB, DOT: Traffic studies, alternatives

112 Main Street concepts...

113 Littleton, NH: Union and Reddington

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STEP 3: SCOPING Study the context Use the problem and vision statement to establish criteria for evaluating alternatives Establish a wide range of preliminary alternatives; narrow to a range of

117 STEP 3: SCOPING Study the context Use the problem and vision statement to establish criteria for evaluating alternatives Establish a wide range of preliminary alternatives; narrow to a range of reasonable alternatives Document environmental effects on the reasonable range of alternatives Apply evaluation criteria to alternatives * Select the preferred alternative Spin off related community development projects Products: * Evaluation criteria * Reasonable range of alternatives * Preferred alternative

118 Apply criteria to Alternatives

119 Team refines concepts, prepares draft plan for review Cottage Street

STEP 4: DESIGN Create conceptual design(s) Experiment Secure official local approval Preliminary engineering of the preferred alternative Final design of selected solution Purchase ROW Negotiate

120 STEP 4: DESIGN Create conceptual design(s) Experiment Secure official local approval Preliminary engineering of the preferred alternative Final design of selected solution Purchase ROW Negotiate community maintenance agreements Include in construction documents all agreements made during Planning, Scoping, and Design Prepare bid package Products: * Approved conceptual design * Final Design * Bid Package

121 Experiments Cottage Street

122 Engineers prepare design Main Street project approvals: 2005 Construction begins 2006

STEP 5: CONSTRUCTION Advertise & bid project Award contract MTP plan & schedule to minimize disruption to residents & businesses Perform construction

123 STEP 5: CONSTRUCTION Advertise & bid project Award contract MTP plan & schedule to minimize disruption to residents & businesses Perform construction Coordinate, communicate on change orders and design details Open project Products: * A completed project that addresses the problem and fulfills the vision

STEP 6: MAINTENANCE & OPERATIONS Provide feedback Make traffic adjustments Maintain community partnerships Monitor Negotiated maintenance agreements Routine M & O activities * Evaluate the project in

124 STEP 6: MAINTENANCE & OPERATIONS Provide feedback Make traffic adjustments Maintain community partnerships Monitor Negotiated maintenance agreements Routine M & O activities * Evaluate the project in terms of how well it solves the identified problem(s) and achieves the vision Capture lessons learned to improve the process Provide input to new problems and needs identification Products: * Adjusted facility * Captured lessons

125 In Conclusion. Good places breed healthy activity. People attract people attract people. When you focus on place, you do everything differently. It takes many disciplines and skills to create a place. Each place has its own identity. You can t know what you are going to end up with.

126 NH DOT Public Involvement NHDOT s goal is to foster a collaborative approach to our work which brings the public and other stakeholders into the planning and full project development process; which provides information, is responsive, and develops public support and confidence. Carol Murray NHDOT Commissioner

127 When you design your community around cars you get more cars.

128 When you design your community around people you get more people.

129 Project Development Process for Meredith Part A Planning ( ) Purpose and Need for Project Range of Reasonable Alternatives Part B Scoping (2008) Select Preferred Alternative Environmental Documentation Part C Design (2009) Detailed Design Purchase Right of Way Secure Permits Begin Construction (2010) Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

130 Project Development Process Environment for Meredith Community EPA Army Corp. of Engineers US Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Historical Society Lakes Region Conservation Trust NHDES NH State Historic Preservation Office NH Fish & Game Meredith Improvements Town of Meredith Town of Laconia Town of Holderness Town of Center Harbor Town of Moultonborough Town of New Hampton Greater Meredith Program Transportation FHWA NHDOT LRPC Town of Meredith Meredith Trans. Advisory Task Force NHDRED Travel & Tourism Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

131 Traditional Approach Meredith Demand Time Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

132 New Approach Demand Time NHDOT Project Town Project Private Sector Project Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

133 Part A Objectives Purpose and Need Develop a Range of Reasonable Alternatives Determine Level of Environmental Document Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

134 Part A Steps Screen Alternatives Determine Reasonable Range of Alternatives Placemaking Workshop Screening Criteria Brainstorm Alternatives Public Meeting Vision Statement Problem Statement Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

135 Next Meeting & Assignment Advisory Committee Meeting No. 2 April 18, 2006 Place to be Determined Meetings every 3 rd Tuesday? Assignment What are the problems along US 3 and NH 25 in Meredith? Meredith US 3/NH 25 Improvements Transportation Planning Study

ELK GROVE GENERAL PLAN VISION

ELK GROVE GENERAL PLAN VISION 2-1 CHAPTER 2: 2-2 CREATING OUR The Community Vision for Elk Grove, expressed through a Vision Statement and a series of Supporting Principles, is a declaration of the kind of community that Elk Grove