Amats: complete street plan

This $166,051.44 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) will support the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) in developing a Complete Street Plan for the Anchorage Metropolitan Area Transportation Solutions (AMATS) region. The plan will provide planning guidance on street types, sidewalks, roadways, intersections, curbsides, and ADA accessibility, as well as a multi-modal street typologies map and recommendations for implementation. This local planning project will build on AMATS' existing Complete Streets Policy and is being executed through in-kind services match by DOT&PF.

Project description

This plan will build on the amats complete streets policy to provide planning guidance for street types, sidewalks, roadways, intersections, curbsides, and ADA accessibility as well as plan implementation. This plan will also develop multi-modal street typologies for the amats area and a coorespoding street typologies map. These typologies may include recommendations for development review, streetscape design, traffic signal upgrades, recommended road reclassificaitons, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This is a municipality of anchorage local match project. Match is provided through in kind services. In kind match is reflected as cash match in fhwa's fmis system, and local in kind match in alaska's iris accounting system.