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Commissioners ask for bike lanes, trails and clarity on TIF use in transportation element
Summary
During the comp plan review commissioners pressed staff to clarify use of Transportation Impact Fees for trails, to consider Pioneer Street bike lanes and to include e-bike safety and golf-cart facility policy options in the transportation element.
Staff presented the draft transportation element, which ties land use to multimodal investment and anticipates new trips from projected growth; the Transportation Capital Facilities Plan (updated in 2024/2025) will provide a prioritized 6–10 year project list.
Commissioners asked whether Transportation Impact Fees (TIF) can fund trails and other multimodal facilities; staff confirmed recent state legislation allows TIFs to be used for trails and similar multimodal investments. "A couple of years ago, the state legislature passed a bill updating what traffic impact fees can be used for... they technically renamed them to transportation impact fees," staff said.
Members asked for more explicit bicycle and pedestrian direction, raising Pioneer Street as a candidate for consistent bike lanes and asking staff to clarify whether festival streets could be designated beyond Main Street. Commissioners also suggested adding e-bike safety and educational programs to trip-reduction and safety policies and discussed whether golf-cart facilities should be defined in parks planning.
Staff said engineering standards exist for certain corridor cross-sections and that trails and TIF use have been contemplated in recent capital planning; commissioners asked staff to insert clearer language on priorities and implementation in the draft.
