COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT: Briefing Regarding the Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan
SUMMARY: The Transportation and Capital Improvements (TCI) Department will provide a briefing on the Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City is about to embark on creation of a Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan. This Plan will articulate the City's transportation strategy and project prioritization method. The end product will be a document, similar to the Downtown Transportation Study. The Plan will serve as a tool that can be utilized in subsequent years by San Antonio departments and policy makers to analyze annual transportation priorities to best meet overall community short-term and long-term goals. The Plan will:
* Be a critical component of the San Antonio Comprehensive Plan
* Help implement SA 2020
* Complement the MPO 2040 Long Range Regional Transportation Plan
* Connect Land use, Development, Redevelopment, and Transportation
* Help accommodate projected growth of one million additional people by 2040
* Enable City to make data-driven proactive rather than reactive transportation decisions
* Maximizes infrastructure investments from local, state, and federal sources
* Reconcile existing plans, policies, and assumptions
The creation of Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan will begin in the Fall of 2014 and be complete by the Spring of 2016. The Strategic Multi-Modal Transportation Plan (SMMTP) will become a critical component of the Comprehensive Plan. The two plans efforts will be coordinated in terms of analysis and public outreach.
The City allocated $1 million for the Transportation Plan in FY 2014. An additional $2 million was awarded by the Metropolitan Planning Organization in March of 2014. A submittal to secure an additional $3 million to support the Transportation Plan and the Comprehensive Plan was submitted to the US Department of Transportatio...
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