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DRAFT November 21, 1995 In its designs the City should be conscious of transit and other modes of transportation. • As the City grows, transit in some form will become more appealing. Potential transit, truck and school bus routes should be considered when designing curb radii at intersections and other channelization features. When acquiring right-of-way, the City should examine its policy regarding sidewalks and bike paths, and provide adequate room for these facilities. IV. IMPLEMENTATION The City of Elk River, by commissioning this transportation plan, has made a commitment to the establishment and maintenance of a working transportation system well into the future. In doing so, it promotes an environment for organized growth. In many ways, putting this plan into effect is not a unilateral process, but rather a cooperative effort with other jurisdictions, particularly Sherburne County and MnDOT. This section outlines a recommended series of steps to implement the transportation plan. 1. Review and adopt the transportation plan. Adoption will establish guidelines for improving existing transportation facilities and adding new ones. It will provide City staff with an official reference to be used in review of development plans, to ensure that they are consistent with long-range City planning. Contingency should be made for changes to the plan resulting from a periodic review of assumptions, including estimates of future development locations and densities, modal split, • external growth factors, trip generation rates, etc. 2. Protect right-of-way. From the transportation plan, the City should identify those areas where right-of-way will need to be acquired. These corridors should be protected until acquisition takes place. 3. Initiate jurisdictional realignment process. The City should review jurisdictional responsibility of roads on the existing street network and identify those roads where responsibility should change hands. Very generally, we recommend that the State assume responsibility for major arterials, the County for minor arterials, and the City for collectors and local roads. Not all roads currently operate with the characteristics attributed to their functional classifications shown in Figure 8. For this reason, jurisdictional realignment should happen over time, as the functional balance of certain roads shifts between access and mobility. 4. Create a transportation improvement program. Begin by evaluating the existing system and determining structural and/or capacity deficiencies. Set up a five-year improvements program, to be updated each year, with an annual budget of City money and prioritization of improvements within budget constraints. Review funding sources for roadways with different jurisdictional responsibilities. Coordinate with the County and the State well in advance of anticipated • improvements on their roads. When improvements are made, they should generally be consistent with the transportation plan. However, one must remember that the forecasting horizon that led to the recommendations in the transportation CTP-230.156 -19- 230-156-80