How city directors must carry out complete streets

(a) The directors shall, based on a context sensitive solution process, employ a multi-modal approach and incorporate complete streets features in the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of transportation facilities and projects, including but not limited to the reconstruction, rehabilitation, or resurfacing of any transportation facility under the jurisdiction of the directors. (b) Within six months of the enactment of this ordinance, the directors shall jointly create, adopt, and publish a single complete streets checklist and associated procedures to be used by the directors and their staffs when performing any one or more of the following: initiating, planning, designing, revising, implementing, or reviewing any transportation facility or project. The complete streets checklist shall be jointly updated from time to time by the directors as necessary to facilitate the implementation of complete streets. (c) As used in this section, “complete streets checklist” means a tool to collect data and information about the status of the roadway and the surrounding area, as well as the details of the transportation facility or project, with a goal of identifying specific elements that can be incorporated to support and balance the needs of all users. Such specific elements shall be part of an implementation procedure to be prepared in conjunction with compilation of a checklist. Data and information complied in the checklist include but are not limited to traffic volume, street classification, and type; an inventory of sidewalk condition, transit facilities, and parking restrictions; and recommendations from any existing neighborhood, bicycle, pedestrian, transit, or other plan. (d) Complete streets features shall be incorporated into transportation plans, projects, and programs following implementation procedures established by the complete streets checklist. (e) Within one year of the enactment of this ordinance, the directors shall evaluate and initiate updates of existing ordinances, codes, subdivision standards, rules, policies, plans, and design guidelines to ensure their consistency with the complete streets policy and principles. Design standards, guidelines, and manuals shall incorporate national industry best practice guidelines, and shall be updated from time to time by the directors as necessary to reflect current best practices.