§ 3.10. Transportation Goals and Objectives

Community goals are broad, value-based statements expressing public preferences for the long term (20 years or more). They specifically address key issues, opportunities, and problems that affect the community.

Objectives are more specific than goals and are measurable statements usually attainable through direct action and implementation of plan recommendations. The accomplishment of objectives contributes to fulfillment of the goal.

Goal: Develop and support a transportation system which, through its location, capacity, and design, will effectively serve the existing land use development pattern and meet anticipated transportation demand generated by existing and planned land uses.

Objectives

1. Reduce accident exposure by improving deficient roadways.

2. Direct future residential, commercial and industrial development to roadways capable of accommodating resulting traffic.

3. Maintain and/or expand current service agreements and consider alternative possibilities for providing local road maintenance.

4. Minimize the disturbance of environmental corridors, prime agricultural land and natural areas for the purpose of accommodating the location of transportation facilities.

5. Use the PASER evaluation rating system for road maintenance and project budgeting purposes.

6. Require safe access designs onto state and county highways.

7. Establish and administer minimum construction standards for local roads.

8. Establish and administer maintenance standards for local roads.

9. Maintain qualified and trained road maintenance personnel.

10. Provide educational materials to elderly or disabled individuals regarding transit opportunities.

11. Improve coordination of other services (i.e. telephone, cable TV, natural gas) within local road right-of-way.

12. Increase opportunities for multi-use trails where appropriate.

13. Weigh the cost and benefits of allowing development and providing needed transportation improvements in the future.

14. Review of rezoning requests must consider impacts on the existing road network.

15. Support Clark County in efforts to enhance airport facilities.

16. Identify truck routes on all roads and provide signage.

17. Provide accommodations on pedestrian facilities for people with disabilities such as curb cuts, minimizing inclines and slopes of sidewalks, ensuring sidewalk connectivity, and increasing signal times at crossings.

18. Adopt street design standards (intersection design, signal phasing, roadway width) that give priority to and enhance the safety of pedestrians and minimize conflict with motorists.

19. Consider requiring developers to bear an equitable share of the costs for improvement, extensions and new roads.

20. Guide new growth so as to develop a road system that does not financially burden the city or make inefficient use of public tax dollars.