Springdale Council adopts updated thoroughfare plan to guide multimodal street design

At its March 19 meeting the Springdale City Council adopted Resolution R8-2025, approving an updated thoroughfare plan that establishes context-sensitive classifications and design guidelines for the city’s streets, sidewalks and multimodal corridors.

The plan replaces guidance last updated in 1998 and is intended to align the city’s street standards with modern, multimodal design practices and regional funding requirements. City Engineer Riggs presented the plan to council, showing how the document ties Federal Highway functional classifications to local “contextual” classifications — boulevard, parkway, avenue, main street, neighborhood collector and street — and providing a menu of recommended cross sections and right-of-way zones for residential, mixed-use and industrial areas.

Riggs…