Establish design goals for at least one highway/auto-oriented corridor/cluster.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Work with community members in establishing design goals or designs standards, publish the standards, and ensure that the standards are provided to everyone proposing development in the corridor/cluster; plan for at least 1 EV charging station. |
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Adopt an overlay district; in the public process to set design standards, use visual preference tools (such as a door-to-door iPad-enabled survey) to develop both goals and designs; zone residential beyond 300 meters of a corridor with annualized average daily traffic greater than 10,000 vehicles. |
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Require or provide incentives (design assistance, permit fee reductions, etc) for new development and redevelopment to adhere to the goals and designs. |
Resources
- Minnesota Design Team planning charrettes often address highway corridor design.
- Community engagement and visioning assistance is available from a number of organizations in Minnesota such as regional initiative foundations.
- Regional development commissions work with cities on transportation and economic issues common to multiple units of government, and are all linked to from the website of the Minnesota Association of Development Organizations.
- Training workshops, consultation and local assessments from U-Connect at the University of MN Extension.
- Health impact data show that air pollution from vehicle traffic is most intense within 300 meters (~1000 feet) of a busy road (defined as any road segment with annualized average daily traffic greater than 10,000 vehicles). See map estimates of the number and percent of Minnesota residents, within each Minnesota census tract (generally between 1,200 and 8,000 people), living within 300 meters of busy roads and consider design and mitigation measures along corridors such as pollutant-trapping trees and vegetation, minimized idling via roundabouts, building air filtration, and residential zoning beyond 300 meters.
Order Number
1
Action Type
Finite