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Board reviews transit and multimodal language for comprehensive plan; staff to clarify funding and coverage
Summary
Consultants reorganized transit policies to emphasize transit-supportive development, multimodal connectivity and paratransit; commissioners sought clarification about scope, funding and whether objectives should be aspirational or mandatory.
Marion County planners and consultants reorganized the comprehensive plan—s transit section to group policies on future transit service, transit-supportive development patterns, and transit design standards, and the board discussed how those policies should be framed and implemented.
Amber Gardner and Blair Knight explained the restructuring: objective 6.1 addresses future transit service (including plan-service areas and FDOT—s urbanized-area map), 6.2 addresses transit-supportive development patterns (density, mixed-use, and connectivity to transit), and 6.3 covers design standards (on-road and site-level elements such as park-and-ride accommodations and bus-stop facilities). The consultants moved language about bicycle and pedestrian facilities into…
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