Woodland planning commission reviews transportation chapter of comprehensive plan; staff to deliver full draft

The Woodland Planning Commission met on May 15, 2025, to review the transportation chapter of the city’s comprehensive plan update and to discuss next steps for adoption.

For the record, my name is Travis Goddard, community development director for the city of Woodland, said the chapter — prepared for the city by SCJ Alliance — “is a significant number of pages, and it is probably the 1 section of the comprehensive plan that was completely rewritten.” The chapter includes traffic forecasting, level‑of‑service (LOS) standards, an inventory of existing facilities, ADA compatibility, multimodal and active‑transportation mapping, and a realistic financing approach tied to annual project programming.

Why it matters: the chapter provides the city’s first comprehensive traffic forecasting and project prioritization analysis in years, with both near‑term and 2045 projections that the commission and staff said will drive which intersections and corridors the city seeks funding to fix. Commissioners and members of the public raised concerns about congestion at I‑5 interchanges, pedestrian and bicycle connectivity, transit service continuity and evacuation routes.

Most important details

- Consultant and scope: SCJ Alliance prepared a rewritten Chapter 6 (transportation) that staff described as unusually detailed for a comprehensive plan, including PM peak‑hour counts and 2045 projections based on recent local traffic studies (Exit 21 and Exit 22 modeling and subdivision traffic data).

- Level‑of‑service and classifications: the chapter documents desired LOS…