Mount Pleasant adopts Sunrise Engineering transportation master plan

Mount Pleasant's city council voted Oct. 28 to adopt a transportation master plan prepared by Sunrise Engineering that maps current roadway functional classifications, identifies future collector and arterial routes in the annexation buffer, and lays out phased capital and maintenance projects and cost estimates.

A Sunrise Engineering presenter (speaker S6) said the plan relied on data collection, traffic counts, crash-data analysis and the statewide travel-demand model. The plan includes level-of-service analyses for intersections and corridor segments, freight-route recommendations intended to divert truck traffic off 600 East, a pavement-management schedule, and an appendix with traffic-count and intersection-analysis details. The presentation noted the plan is intended to be representative rather than prescriptive for specific alignments.

Council members pressed on assumptions including growth projections derived from the statewide model and annexation-area scenarios. The presenter said projected population increases reflect statewide model allocations combined with the city's land-use inputs and annexation assumptions.

Councilmember Rodney moved to approve and adopt the Sunrise Engineering transportation master plan; the motion was seconded and passed on a recorded roll call. Members urged staff to keep the plan updated and to use the pavement-management tool and phased project lists when pursuing CID, state, and federal funding.

The adopted plan will be used to prioritize projects for grant applications (including Safe Routes to School) and to guide traffic-impact study requirements for future development. Staff committed to providing the latest corrected tables and maps to council members and to revisit the plan as conditions and funding opportunities evolve.