Planning Commission 07/17/2024 - Jul 17, 2024

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Prince William County Planning Commission 5h 9m 2 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 1 day ago official recording ↗

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What new design standards are being introduced for streets, bike lanes, and transit?

Unknown 0:00

Only designed

Alex Venegas 0:00

neighborhoods.

Unknown 0:04

Our turn lane requirements are now better aligned with VDOT and AASHTO. As part of our update, we have new curb radius requirements and site distance requirements. Again, to enhance connectivity, we have included design guidelines for pedestrian infrastructure, such as mid-block crossings, pedestrian refuges, and markings. There's new language regarding roundabouts. They are not required. We're not going to have them everywhere in the county. but they are encouraged in certain contexts. And finally, we have new design criteria for sidewalks and shared use paths. So to align with the comprehensive plans mobility chapter and create a true multimodal network, we've really drilled down into the active modes of transportation.

Unknown 0:48

And I'll give you an example. In our current DCSM, the word bicycle can be found 21 times. In the update, it is found 198 times. We have bicycle facility design requirements and guidelines for bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, physically separated bike lanes, and even contraflow bike lanes in certain contexts. You can see in this graphic here, the entire section is new, and it goes into great detail about these types of infrastructure treatments for bike lanes and buffered bike lanes. We're really excited about this. This is something the public has wanted and aligns with the goals of the comprehensive plan. We've also done the same thing for transit. So the previous version, transit, the word transit was mentioned 21 times, and in this update it is mentioned 197 times.

Unknown 1:36

So this is an area we've never really covered in DCSM. And now we have guidelines for bus stop placement, bus stop dimensions, and design of bus stops. Even for enhanced transit, such as bus rapid transit, we don't have any in the county yet. But when and if the county is ready for it, we are going to have guidelines in this document for infrastructure, such as transit-only lanes and signal priority. We're also looking towards the future with regards to micromobility. There are guidelines for bike share, bicycle repair stations, and other micromobility options. We've also updated requirements for wayfinding signage, which will be very important for micromobility services, as well as requirements for unpaved streets in the county's more rural areas and retrofitting standards.

Unknown 2:27

For parking, we've revised our off-street parking requirements to respond to changing dynamics with multifamily housing, commercial uses, and other areas. We're responding to the Comprehensive Plan's call to create walkable, mixed use neighborhoods by adding by right parking reductions for development in areas such as small area plans, transit districts, et cetera. These are not the final numbers on this chart right here. This is just what we're working off of. They will be refined as we get closer to a final product. But we're going to really make it more transit and bicycle pedestrian friendly in these areas. There's also guidelines for parking lot siting and layout. to create more walkable and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes and site plans.

Unknown 3:14

We're also including requirements for bicycle parking, both short and long-term. And finally, we have updated our TIS requirements as well as TDM requirements. So that is what's in this update, and this is the timeline we are on right now. We initiated this process in June of last year. We've spent the past year building and refining this draft document And now we are presenting it to you for reviewing input along with other stakeholders such as DORAC, the CDC, VDOT, the Parks Department, Active Prince William, just to name a few. We're hoping to have comments back by sometime next month I think is what we're aiming for. We know VDOT's going to take about a month to review this and respond to us. And the goal is to come back to Planning Commission in late September to early October.

Unknown 4:05

with this for your consideration for actual adoption and approval. After that, it will go to the Board of Supervisors. So we're thinking about a month of having a clean final draft ready and out there before it's voted on.