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Denton mobility staff outline "boot camp" to align projects with comprehensive plan
Summary
Transportation staff presented a multi‑part "Mobility Plan Boot Camp" to the Mobility Committee, urging project alignment with the city—s comprehensive plan, greater use of demographic and travel‑demand data, and routine audits before field work. Councilmembers pressed for clearer timelines, destination planning and equity for older neighborhoods.
Farhan, Deputy Director of the Transportation Services Division, told the Mobility Committee on Sept. 24 that staff will deliver a multi‑session "Mobility Plan Boot Camp" to explain how the city—s mobility plan should be integrated with the comprehensive plan and used to guide project decisions.
Farhan said the training will be a short course in four parts covering an introduction to the mobility plan and its integration with the comprehensive plan; goals and the thoroughfare plan; bicycle and pedestrian planning; and stakeholder engagement and update processes. "I think that's what it is intended for," he said, describing the boot camp as a focused training rather than a broad policy change.
The presentation stressed that the comprehensive plan sets long‑range growth policies (typically a 20–30 year horizon with a recommended five‑year update cycle) and that the mobility plan translates those land‑use policies into…
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