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Collector designation was lower Lorane Highway, which recognized the pattern of travel between Storey and Madison or Washington, as a route to or from Jefferson Street (the most direct connection between the neighborhood and 1-105). Staff now recommends the elimination of that segment for NC designation, to simplify the selection of one primary north/south and one east/west collector route. iii. Context Sensitive Design While this work session is for the ordinance amending the Street Classification Map, the public has consistently raised concerns regarding the potential future design of the streets in the Crest Drive area. To that end, Staff has been working with the citizen committee on Context Sensitive Design (CSD) Standards for that area. Council will not be acting on these CSD Standards. (Staff previously believed that Council would be acting on these Standards; the City Attorney's office informed Staff that an amendment to the Design Standards and Guidelines is done administratively.) Staff will be preparing an administrative order for adopting the CSD Standards and will have a draft of that administrative order as background for the Council at the public hearing scheduled for the Street Classification Map amendments (may 10, 2004). At the Planning Commission public hearing, the Planning Commission requested that staff prepare additional information on Context Sensitive Design (CSD) Standards, including information on the nature of assurances that the City could provide to residents that their input and concerns would be taken into account when future projects are being developed. The Design Guidelines and Standards for Streets, Sidewalks, Bikeways, and Accessways provide for the safe and efficient operation of each facility type for all users, and to ensure that public space is used judiciously and appropriately. The Purpose section in the ACSP includes text noting: "Most situations involving street construction or improvements' will require a degree of JIexibility in applying the design standards'. For both new and existing streets, there may be trees, buildings, right-of-way limitations or other features which may cause a narrower street to be constructed or may require 'custom fitting' of certain design features. Public input from residents' along the street and users of the street will need to be coupled with technical expertise, to create a street design that is sensitive to the specific needs' and features of each situation." During development of the Crest Drive Area Transportation Study, several committee members raised concern about the feasibility of applying current design standards to future improvement projects on streets in the Crest Drive area. City staff and residents serving on the committee examined the Design Standards and Guidelines (Resolution No. 4608), which contains 13 alternatives for neighborhood collectors. We also examined two design alternates that were developed as a part of the Royal Nodal development plan that proposes the use of bioswales with intermittent curbs in place of traditional piped stormwater collection and conveyance systems. Also discussed was the sidewalk element, particularly as applied to streets in the south hills. Currently, the Design Standards and Guidelines require setback sidewalk on both sides of all neighborhood collector streets, unless they qualify for an exception. While setback sidewalk may be able to be constructed on at least one side of most roadways in the Crest Drive area, existing trees, terrain, and optional stormwater collection and conveyance techniques could create the need for more flexibility than current standards afford. The committee proposed to permit meandering concrete sidewalk wherever trees, steep slopes, swales or ditches can be protected and preserved by altering the location of the walk. We further proposed consideration of an alternative materials pedestrian path on the opposite side of the concrete Page 4 of 4