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From YouTube: Close The Gap Overview
Description
Kristy Carter with Traffic Planning and Design gives a community update on the City of Asheville’s Close The Gap process.
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This
is
christy
carter,
with
traffic
planning
and
design.
We
are
the
lead
firm
working
with
the
city
on
the
close,
the
gap
process,
and
today
we
want
to
welcome
you
to
the
city
of
asheville's
close
the
gap
community
update
a
little
over
a
year
ago,
the
city
of
asheville
kicked
off
the
close
the
gap
planning
process.
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As
a
reminder,
close
the
gap
is
the
city's
effort
to
update
its
greenway
ada
transition
and
pedestrian
plans
to
improve
walking
conditions
across
the
city,
we'll
quickly
review
what
is
included
in
each
plan
before
we
provide
an
overview
of
what
we've
been
up
to
and
what
the
community
can
expect.
Next.
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First,
let's
talk
about
the
greenway
plan
update
our
primary
greenway
tasks
include
updating
the
planned
greenway
network,
prioritizing
projects
within
the
network
and
developing
design
standards
and
policy
recommendations,
as
well
as
creating
a
structure
for
natural
surface
trails.
The
resulting
plan
will
guide
the
city's
greenway
investments
in
the
coming
years.
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The
aim
of
the
ada
transition
plan,
which
is
required
by
federal
law,
is
to
develop
a
plan
to
fix
existing
sidewalks
and
crosswalks
that
do
not
meet
ada
accessibility
standards.
The
ada
transition
plan
will
be
delivered
in
two
components:
identification
of
what
needs
fixing
in
order
of
priority
and
strategies
to
make
the
needed
fixes.
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Some
of
our
key
milestones
include
a
wide
variety
of
data
analysis,
focus
group
interviews,
training
sessions,
crash
analysis
and
policy
review
are
a
few
of
the
tasks
we
have
completed
since
beginning
our
work.
We
also
launched
a
public
media
campaign
to
bring
attention
to
our
network
and
to
encourage
people
to
engage
in
our
public
survey.
A
We
had
two
surveys:
the
general
close
the
gap
survey
and
the
ada
transition
plan
survey,
which
was
geared
toward
those
with
disabilities.
Overall,
we
had
around
1800
participants.
The
demographics
of
the
survey.
Participants
generally
reflect
the
demographics
of
our
city
over
the
next
set
of
slides,
we'll
provide
you
with
some
key
survey
highlights
and
as
a
side
note,
this
presentation
will
be
available
for
download.
If
you
want
to
spend
more
time
reviewing
the
results.
A
First
I'll
mention
some
results
from
the
general
gaap
survey.
We
asked
people
what
they
would
do
if
they
were
in
charge
of
the
city's
greenway
and
pedestrian
programs.
Topped
ranked
responses
include
connecting
major
greenways,
adding
missing
sidewalks
and
creating
more
neighborhood
greenway
connections.
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Then
we
combined
destination
plus
equity,
to
identify
hot
spots
to
guide
our
prioritization
efforts,
which
is
the
next
phase
of
our
process.
I'll
share
an
example
of
how
we'll
use
the
scoring
and
other
factors
that
we'll
consider,
and
here
on
this
map,
you
can
see
that
the
brighter
areas
are
those
hot
spots
and
those
we
will
look
to
first
for
prioritization.
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For
example.
Let's
look
at
livingston
street
south
of
downtown
and
near
the
river
arts
district
from
our
analysis.
Livingston
street
shows
up
as
a
hot
spot
and
when
we
field
check
that
area,
we
notice
gaps
in
the
sidewalk
network,
as
shown
by
the
red
lines
on
the
map
pictured
at
the
bottom
on
the
left
side
of
the
picture
at
the
top
is
a
narrow
sidewalk
that
is
not
ada
accessible
on
the
right
side
of
the
picture
is
a
gap
in
the
sidewalk
network.
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We
also
know
that
the
area
has
a
troubling
bicycle
and
pedestrian
crash
history,
and
while
the
speed
limit
is
posted
at
25
miles
an
hour,
the
design
of
the
road
allows
cars
to
travel
much
faster
through
our
public
input
process.
We
learned
that
people
have
concerns
about
the
livingston
street
area
also
and
that
information
will
factor
into
our
analysis.