02-17-11 Regular Meeting and Public Hearing of the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission

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1. Review available data, studies, and plans regarding the existing transportation system and specific facilities /services, current and projected roadway and traffic conditions and improvement needs, and associated capital improvements programming, particularly for the City's major transportation corridors. 2. Review, critique, and recommend warranted adjustments to the City's Thoroughfare Plan, consistent with the future land use and growth plans. Then update, as necessary, the Thoroughfare Plan map to ensure that it adequately depicts the general alignments of rights -of -way for future and /or improved thoroughfares throughout the City, in coordination with that of the adjacent jurisdictions. 3. Review the subdivision regulations and recommend necessary amendments to the thoroughfare development standards and requirements (e.g., cross sections, access standards, subdivision design, etc.). In particular, evaluate the standards that govern neighborhood design with regard to street continuity, traffic calming, pedestrian systems, and other applicable needs. 4. Identify strategies and regulatory approaches to manage property access more effectively along major roadways, with a particular focus on preserving roadway capacity and enhancing safety along the primary roads that are intended to carry significant traffic volumes but also are attractive for land development and /or redevelopment activity. 5. Assess the recently created bus circulator services and offer observations and recommendations. 6. Provide strategies for continued expansion of a community -wide greenways and trail network to enhance connectivity between neighborhoods, parks, schools, public facilities, commercial areas, downtown, and other key destinations. Subtask 3.5, Economic Development This chapter will complement the City's Strategic Economic Development Plan. It is a new chapter of the Comprehensive Plan. This subtask will summarize in the context of the Comprehensive Plan the analysis, findings, and strategy recommendations of the City's recently completed Strategic Economic Development Plan. Of relevance to the Comprehensive Plan is the physical planning components that contribute to the City's ability and readiness to accommodate new investment or reinvestment. The integration of the plan summary will focus only on the means for supporting the City's economic development objectives in a manner that is consistent with the other policies and plan objectives. This effort will not include any primary data collection or analysis independent of the strategic plan. Subtask 3.6, Implementation This chapter will complement and update that of Chapter 13, Implementation. The Implementation subtask will utilize the recommendations of the preceding plan elements to consolidate an overall strategy for executing the plan, particularly for the highest - priority initiatives that will be first on the community's action agenda following plan adoption. Subtask activities will include: 1. In conjunction with the Land Use and Character task, conduct a cursory review of the existing development regulations, including the City's zoning and subdivision regulations, to identify amendments necessary to implement the plan and address gaps in the current regulations. Exhibit "A" - Scope of Services (02/25/11) Page 7 of 8