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Committee debates 'strode' definition and urges mobility plan guidance and corridor audits
Summary
City staff presented a high-level briefing on so‑called 'strodes' (streets that function like roads with multiple access points), discussed risks and context‑sensitive treatments, and committee members asked staff to provide policy recommendations during the mobility plan update and to pursue corridor‑level audits.
City of Denton staff briefed the Mobility Committee on a memo describing "strodes," a term staff used to describe streets that provide both property access and through movement—places staff said can present safety and planning challenges if not designed to accommodate multimodal users.
Farhan ****, deputy director of Transportation Services, told the committee the memo provides a definition and high‑level considerations but not segment‑level recommendations. "They are combination of streets and roads, where they provide access to multi‑lane arterials ... multiple access points, and that makes them a bit risky from engineering standpoint," Farhan said. He emphasized that appropriate treatments must be context‑sensitive and depend on land‑use mix and corridor characteristics.
Committee members repeatedly asked for clearer next steps and policy guidance that could be used by other advisory bodies. One committee member asked for "recommendations from transportation experts ... to how do we mitigate a lot of the risks" so that boards such as planning and zoning or development review could adopt consistent policies. Farhan said staff can produce criteria and design-treatment examples for identified corridors, but that the specific combination of treatments depends on corridor context; he recommended first identifying candidate corridors for detailed audit.
Several members urged staff to fold the work into the upcoming mobility plan update; a staff member confirmed a mobility plan update is scheduled and said the active transportation and smart mobility elements would be updated. Resident commenters and council members flagged Razor Ranch, the US 380 area and portions of McKinney Street as locations where audits and near‑term fixes may be appropriate.
Farhan told the committee that piecemeal fixes risk being ineffective if problems originate outside a targeted segment, and he recommended regional or corridor‑level reviews before isolated interventions. He also described the city’s existing walking‑audit practice as a lower‑cost, rapid way to identify pedestrian problems pending a comprehensive audit.
The committee voted to keep the strode item active on the committee matrix for further updates and asked staff to return with design recommendations and corridor criteria as part of the mobility plan update and targeted audits.
Ending: Staff will incorporate strode guidance into the mobility plan update, continue corridor audits, and return with criteria and design examples for committee and council consideration.
