Our Complete Streets campaign continued strong in 2010, built around the Complete Streets Coalition of Sacramento.
Major work included:
- Working for County General Plan and Transportation Plan updates to ensure that they did not encourage more sprawl and overly wide roads. This work continues into 2011.
- We successfully worked with the City of Sacramento to keep proposed speed limits as safe as possible within California statutory limits.
- Working with others, we are continuing to push to keep the AB 1358 – Complete Streets Act guidelines for local general plan updates as consistent with the Act’s goals as possible, and have sent detailed comments to the state agency drafting the guidelines.
- Walkable communities mean walking safely and conveniently to transit and WALKSacramento has worked with Sacramento Regional Transit to make proposed Green Line light rail stops and stations as pedestrian-friendly as possible.
- “What are Complete Streets?” one may ask. To answer that, WALKSacramento worked with coalition partner SACOG to develop a Complete Streets Resource Toolkit, now online for anyone looking for a comprehensive collection of policies, guidelines and technical resources.
- Local walkability is strongly affected by state policies. Perhaps no policy is as potentially far-reaching as SB 375, which requires greater coordination of land use and transportation plans. It also required regional target-setting for air quality and climate change benefits. WALKSacramento provided public comments, organized additional comments from partner organizations and testified before SACOG and the Air Resources Board in support of aggressive regional targets.
- In follow up, we organized support for the most ambitiously walkable, bikeable and transit-friendly scenarios in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan update undertaken by SACOG as part of the SB 375 process. This works continues under the title of our “Safe Routes for All” coalition and campaign.
