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Citizen involvement Element !Il-ft <br />Policy !Il-K-3136: Improve and maintain local mechanisms that provide the opportunity for residents <br />and propertyowners in existing residential areas to participate in the implementation of policies <br />embodied in this Plan that may affect the character. of those areas. <br />Findings: <br />1 j The Gateway Refinement Plan process involved a substantial citizen involvement <br />process, which included: conducting two neighborhood informational forums; <br />compiling responses from questionnaires filled out by area residents; review and <br />development by a citizen Plan Advisory Committee tPACi; mailing meeting notices to <br />aver 224 interested parties; and publishing meeting notices in the focal newspapers. <br />TQen~cpi ens <br />Land Use Policies <br />Policy LU-~ : Encourage land development patterns which minimize direct access onto <br />collector and arterial roads. <br />Findings: <br />1~ Transportation Policy 4.4 encourages limitations on direct access to arterials and <br />collectors. <br />Policy LU-4: Develop an arterial street system which will attract through automobiles and <br />trucks off focal streets. <br />Findings: <br />~ ~ Transportation Policy 24.0 SAS RECOMMENDED IN THE SPRINGFIELD PLANNING <br />COMMISSION CHANGES} provides for construction of a limited access north-south <br />arterial in the eastern portion of the Refinementf Plan area, which will attract through <br />automob'ries and trucks off residential streets. <br />Policy LU-5: Minimize the adverse impact of the automobile on local residential streets <br />through the selective use of alternative street designs and application of traffic management <br />techniques. <br />Findings: <br />~) Transportation Policy ~ 2.0 provides for design and installation of traffic control devices <br />in order to minimize traffic on residential streets. <br />Zy .. Transportation Policy ~ 6.0 provides for evaluation of a "Transportation Demand <br />Management" program as a means of reducing demand on the transportation system. <br />Policy LU-fi: Provide paved bicyclefpedestrian connections between and vrithin adjacent <br />developments through capita! planning, refinement planning and fora! development review <br />processes. <br />12 <br />