Complete Streets is an approach to planning, designing, building, operating, and maintaining streets that enables safe access for all people who need to use them, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities.

ATC's policy focus is on updating our existing Complete Streets Policy. Our existing policy passed as a resolution in 2016. The policy is outdated and lacks in 10 key areas outlined by Smart Growth America's Complete Streets Policy Framework. 

The Complete Streets Policy Framework represents the current best practices for creating a strong policy that can be implemented at any level of governance. The 10 policy elements are based on decades of collective expertise in transportation planning and design, and created in consultation with National Complete Streets Coalition’s steering committee members and a group of national stakeholders consisting of engineers, planners, researchers, and advocates.

A strong Complete Streets Policy specifies how a community will plan, design, and maintain streets so they are safe for all users of all ages and abilities. A strong policy begins to transform a community’s practices, processes, and plans. 

Our goal is to reform our existing Complete Streets Policy Resolution and pass the policy as an ordinance.