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ATTACHMENT A Context Sensitive Design Process Conventional roadway design standards define features such as minimum lane Context Sensitive Design (CSD) is an widths, minimum degrees of horizontal emerging roadway design technique that and vertical curvature, design speed, and is flexible and sensitive to community design vehicle. They often reflect the values. CSD is a collaborative, assumption that wider, straighter and interdisciplinary methodology that flatter roadways are better, resulting in involves all stakeholders throughout the sleeker roadways and higher design project development process to design a speeds than what may be optimal in a transportation facility that fits its given situation. When applied rigidly, physical setting and preserves scenic, conventional standards can actually aesthetic, historic, and environmental hinder efforts to achieve various resources, while maintaining safety and community objectives. Context mobility. CSD is an approach that Sensitive Design has been termed by the considers the total context within which U.S. Department of Transportation as a transportation improvement project "thinking beyond the pavement" will exist. Public Involvement in Context CSD requires an early and continuous Sensitive Design commitment to public involvement, flexibility in exploring new solutions, Governmental actions that involve and an openness to new ideas, change to existing residential Community members and residents plan neighborhoods tend to be controversial. an important role in identifying local and The following strategies are aimed at regional concerns and solutions that may facilitating open communication with better meet and balance the needs of all affected parties and to ensure continuous stakeholders. Context Sensitive Design public involvement, up to and including promotes six key principles, including: the decision-making process, which will help minimize conflicts and foster public · Balance safety, mobility, trust. community and environmental goals in the project. 1. The process will be fair, · Involve the public and affected reasonable and open parties early and continuously. · Use an interdisciplinary team Citizens need to know that the decision- tailored to each projects needs, making process is fair and reasonable, · Address all modes of travel/ that they are being heard, and their transportation, concerns are being considered. · Apply flexibility inherent in Roadway projects or actions will not be design standards, developed or physical changes to existing roadways imposed upon · Incorporate aesthetics as an residents without early and continuous integral part of good design. public involvement. To initiate a project, city staff will conduct an open