CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FIFTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-22-63 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton
RESOLUTION
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Third Update To Attachment One To R-20-47 Appropriating Transportation Infrastructure Tax Funds To Expand The Scope Of The Rio Grande Complete Streets Project (Benton)
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WHEREAS, R-20-47 (Enactment R-2020-091) appropriated funds to implement the third phase of the Transportation Infrastructure Tax. The Resolution also funded a project list which included providing $1,000,000 for Implementation of the Rio Grande Complete Streets Project; and
WHEREAS, the implementation of a complete streets project transforms a street from a throughway for one or two modes of transportation into a corridor that transports multiple modes of travel including personal cars, transit vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, other new modes of transport; and integrates these modes with the adjoining and nearby land uses; and
WHEREAS, the intersecting streets to a complete street's corridor are often designed to quickly transport one or two modes of transport. Therefore. a transition zone is required to begin integrating the various modes of travel to be able to travel safely and comfortably together on the complete street's corridor. The transition zone is also required to enable pedestrians and cyclists who reside within the five-minute convenient walk zone of a complete streets corridor to safely and comfortably access the corridor; and
WHEREAS, these transition zones are located on the complete street corridor, along a quarter mile section (the five-minute pedestrian walk distance) of intersecting streets and on the approaches to the complete streets corridor from the roadway that comprises the corridor; and
WHEREAS, expanding the scope of the Rio Grande Complete Streets project in the Transportation Infrastructure Tax program to fund complete streets improvements, is an appropriate and eligible use of fundi...
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