Planning Commission 09/11/2024 - Sep 11, 2024

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Prince William County Planning Commission 8h 0m 7 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 9 hours ago official recording ↗

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What acknowledgments and project background are presented at the beginning?

Unknown 0:00

The other TLC grant that we were awarded is a green infrastructure grant, which we'll be presenting at a PERC session at the next Planning Commission meeting, so you'll learn a little bit more about that one in the future. So the second thing that we wanted to do at the beginning of this was to make some acknowledgements. This was such a collaborative process. Yorkshire is really unique in that it's located between Fairfax County City of Manassas Park, City of Manassas. There's OmniRide that's very active further to the south of this corridor. And there's a lot of moving parts. And so we were really excited to be able to bring everybody together in the stakeholder room and get their input. So we really want to thank Foursquare, obviously the consultant that was selected for this contract.

Unknown 0:48

City of Manassas, Manassas Park, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, TBB, Transportation Commission, and a really special shout out to OmniRide, because later on in the presentation we'll talk about the corridor audit that we did, and they actually provided us with one of their transit buses for us to tour the entire corridor and make stops. So that was completely pro bono on their part. So a little bit about Yorkshire, this is a census designated place bordering Fairfax County and Manassas. It's also an activity center in our regional activity center plan and in the comp plan. So this area has been identified multiple times as one of the gateways into Prince William County and also an area for a potential future small area plan.

Unknown 1:38

This small area plan was actually initiated with the other small area plans that we worked on with the comp plan update. However, this one has not been kicked off yet, and the planning office is currently working to kick off this project and use this TLC study as kind of a good springboard for the transportation component of it. So just giving a little bit of study background and purpose, there's a lot of existing studies that have happened along this corridor, specifically the V.STARS study. So that study primarily looked at increasing operational improvements in this corridor. We wanted this study to really address the multimodal component, so build upon those recommendations, but also address transit uses, address bike and pedestrian safety, and address connectivity.

Unknown 2:28

And so essentially that was our primary goal moving forward was how can we activate this to make better recommendations moving into the small area plan process. As far as our overall study process, this is fairly typical. We start with the assessment of the existing conditions. We analyze gaps in the existing network, engage stakeholders, develop the recommendations, help to frame those recommendations. We prioritized and created cost estimates to give staff something that we can really have a head start on implementing. And then one of the final products is our stylized cut sheets in the final report, which I have a copy and I can share with everybody after this work session if you'd be interested.

Unknown 3:21

So I think Yolanda's joined us, so she can take over for the what we learned summary of the existing conditions.

Bryce (Unknown) 3:37

Thank you, Bryce. Let me just catch up here. Thanks. Sorry for the delay. So the first step we did was a quick review of the existing literature. And of all the plans that we looked at, the VDOT STARS report had the most direct site-specific recommendations and would have the most immediate impact in this area. Yeah, that's this. Yes. Sorry about that. Um, I don't have sorry about that. I don't have control. Yes. So some of these fixes were pretty evident because a lot of it was just, you know, simple things like filling in the gaps in our like our sidewalk inventory. Um, and here's a map that shows some of our current sidewalks. We have we have in this area on the orange lines and it shows the lack of the connections to and along Route 28.

Bryce (Unknown) 4:32

Next slide. And here's another example, which is a deeper dive of the demand analysis. Using these census block groups data, we were able to evaluate where the current demand for active transportation happens.