Modify a street in compliance with the city's complete streets policy.
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- A Complete Streets reconstruction project improves safety, accessibility and mobility for all users - motorists, transit users, pedestrians, bicyclists.
- Grey infrastructure includes more traditional construction materials, systems, conveyance methods, and approaches, including utility work (sewer, water, electric, smart grid, telecommunications, district heating pipes: some or all of which can be done together at a cost savings over multiple street tear-ups).
- Green infrastructure includes strategically planned and managed networks of working landscapes and alternative approaches, focusing on stormwater and trees, that reduce the adverse impacts of development while providing a potentially wide array of ecological services and quality of life benefits.
- Social infrastructure is part of a living street and includes friendly storefronts in places like Hopkins.
- See Complete Streets: Guide to Answering the Costs Question to learn how in Richfield, MN, a road diet resulted in reconstruction cost savings of approximately $2 million, or one-third of the original cost estimated for reconstruction of 76th St.
- Simultaneous installation of smart grid electric wires and broadband wires is explored in Smart Grid, Smart Broadband, Smart Infrastructure (Center for American Progress: 2009).
- The Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System was used in a 2013 54th Street reconstruction effort that informed Edina's 2015 Living Streets Plan. Maplewood has budgeted rain gardens as part of all street reconstruction work since 1996. Since most cities schedule reconstruction of specific street segments years in advance, this affords a community the time to carefully plan integrated grey and green infrastructure projects.
- For actions and resources related to tree installation and to stormwater infrastructure, see GreenStep best practices #16 (Urban Forests) and #17 (Stormwater Management).
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Finite