Manatee planners push 'context classification' and multimodal metrics in draft comp plan update
County planning staff and consultants outlined a transportation update that shifts road design to context classification (rural/suburban/urban), recommends multimodal performance measures and proposes tools to replace old concurrency rules, provoking questions about mobility fees, sidewalk gaps and data integration for land use and jobs.
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Manatee County planners and consultants told commissioners on April 1 that the transportation element of the county comprehensive plan needs a new, measurable approach that ties roadway design to adjacent land use, prioritizes walking, biking and transit and replaces the older concurrency framework with multimodal performance metrics.
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