1. Community Based Transportation Plan
Presentation to
Redding Planning
Commission
November 09, 2016

2. Transportation Services Architecture & Urban Design
Team
SHASTA REGIONAL
TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
DIAZ ASSOCIATES
Transportation Services
Architecture & Urban Design
Website & Social Media
Editor

3. Study Area

4. Project Objectives CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT PROMENADE AREA
Plan for a more walkable and bikeable downtown and encourage transit use downtown.
Create opportunities for “Green Streets”.
Develop a parking strategy.
PROMENADE AREA
Explore reopening streets through the promenade.
IMPLEMENTATION
Identify funding and implementation strategies.
REGIONAL TRAIL CONNECTIONS & DESTINATIONS
Connect downtown to Diestelhorst Bridge & Turtle Bay

5. Stakeholder Outreach Healthy Shasta K2, Inc.
Trails/Bikeways Council of Greater Redding
Shasta Living Streets
Leadership Redding
RABA
Rowell Family Empowerment
Viva Downtown
SRTA
Redding Police Dept.
DRBA
County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council
Caltrans
Lorenz Hotel
Redding Community Services Department
Anderson Partnership for Healthy Children
County Health & Human Services
Shasta County Public Health
Bike Redding
College Options
Shasta Community Health Center
Redding Mall Properties
Downtown Collaborative
Empire Recovery Center
Shasta Driving School
Garden Track Society
Shasta Historical Society
Hotel Redding
Shasta Wheelmen

6. VISION for Downtown Redding Transportation
“Provide a transportation system that honors all modes of travel and supports a sustainable, livable and economically vibrant downtown”

7. Study Process and Steps
Study existing setting and future circulation needs.
Understand existing policies.
Outreach, synthesize and analyze.
Define action plans.
Propose policy updates.
Identify costs.
Identify funding options.

8. VEHICULAR Transportation Action Plan
GOAL 1:
Provide a safe and efficient transportation system that meets
the needs for local, regional
and interregional
travel for all
modes of travel
and encourages
a vibrant
Downtown.

9. VEHICULAR Transportation Action Plan
Calm Traffic
Diverse Use
Restore
Promenade Streets
Slow traffic on state highways

10. VEHICULAR Transportation Action Plan
(Further Studies Required)
Modernize Cypress/ Pine/Market intersection (Consider Modern Roundabout)
Convert 1-way to 2-way streets

11. Restore streets through The Promenade.
PROMENADE Action Plan
GOAL 2:
Restore streets through The Promenade.
PIX 4

12. PROMENADE Action Plan Prioritize pedestrian and business environments.
Provide:
Flexible spaces.
Shade.
Lighting.
Pedestrian amenities.

13. PARKING Action Plan GOAL 3:
Meet the needs for vehicular parking Downtown in support of business, recreational, and residential development.

14. PARKING Action Plan Replace with smaller footprint structures.
Approximately match current supply.
Provide:
Dynamic parking availability systems.
Electric vehicle charging.
Space for mixed-use.

15. PARKING Action Plan
(Further Studies Required)
Studies underway adjunct to the Specific Plan update.
Overall parking management plan:
Pay or free?
Time limits?
Special permits?
Financing plan:
$25,000 to $30,000 per space
in a parking garage.

16. TRANSIT Action Plan GOAL 4:
Encourage transit ridership by providing safe and effective service and real-time information.

17. TRANSIT Action Plan Real-time applications Comprehensive bus stops
Downtown / Turtle Bay “loop”

18. PEDESTRIAN Action Plan
GOAL 5:
Improve the pedestrian environment to encourage walking as the primary mode of travel in the Downtown core.

19. PEDESTRIAN Action Plan
Accessibility.
Seating.
High visibility crosswalks.
Plaza areas.
Café seating.
Intersection bulb outs.
Improved lighting.
Shade.

20. PEDESTRIAN Action Plan Pedestrian issues at Cypress/Market/Pine area
(Further Studies Required)
Pedestrian issues at Cypress/Market/Pine area

21. BICYCLE Action Plan GOAL 6:
Provide a transportation environment that encourages bicycle use.

22. BICYCLE Action Plan Paths and trails to connect downtown to
Diestelhorst Bridge and Turtle Bay
Mixed use path along Highway 44 to Turtle Bay.
Protected bike lanes on Riverside, Center, Trinity, California and Continental Streets.

23. BICYCLE Action Plan
Protected bike lanes
Green markings

24. BICYCLE Action Plan Two-way protected bike lanes along
(Further Studies Required)
Two-way protected bike lanes along
California Street (South of Placer Street).
PIX 12

25. GREEN STREETS Action Plan
GOAL 7:
Implement low impact development
practices to environmentally
“Green”
Downtown.

26. GREEN STREETS Action Plan
Bio-swales in “park” areas
Rain gardens (flow through planters)
Permeable paving

27. POLICY Action Recommendations
VMT vs. LOS.
Emphasize pedestrian oriented features.
Update parking garage recommendations.
25 MPH signal timing.
Parklet program.
City shouldn’t take over State highways.
Modernize parking management.
Comprehensive parking management program.
Parking garage financing plan.

28. COSTS $73.5 million in estimated costs!
FUNDING ALREADY SECURED since starting the transportation plan studies:
2015 Diestelhorst to Downtown ATP Grant ($2.6 million).
2016 City/K2 Development AHSC Grant ($20 million).

29. EDITS FOR FINAL REPORT TO COUNCIL
State highway relinquishment – add supporting discussion (Caltrans).
Add to the discussion regarding changing the traffic signal coordination, the fact that reduced vehicle speeds will reduce the severity of collision related injuries (Caltrans).
Indicate that additional studies to implement protected bike lane on Pine Street will be required (Caltrans).
A typo in the “Community Stakeholder Meetings” section will be corrected to list “Ride Redding” instead of “Bike Redding” (Ride Redding).
Add footnote to Figure 6 indicating that the figure does not show the protected bike lane recommended elsewhere in the report (Caltrans).
Add footnote to Figure 7 indicating that additional studies will be required to make changes to state highways (Caltrans).

30. QUESTIONS or
COMMENTS