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FPC 23

Trails! Trails! And Did I

Mention Trails?

The Path to Building Trail Communities

OUR TEAM

Franco Saraceno Principal Planner Kittelson and Associates Corinne Arriaga Transportation Planner City of Sarasota Alvimarie Corales Chief Transportation Planner City of Sarasota Nina Venter Senior Planner Sarasota/Manatee MPO

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TABLE OF CONTENT Metropolitan Planning Organizations 1 Active Transportation Plan 2 Regional to Local 3 A Case Study 4

METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION

REGIONAL TRAIL DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF AN MPO?

Develop multi modal solutions to issues such as:

✓ Congestion

✓ Equity

✓ Healthy Streets

✓ Modal Choice

✓ Safety

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN

November 2019

US 41 MULTI MODAL EMPHASIS

CORRIDOR GAP & SAFETY ANALYSIS

February 2020

TRANSIT CHOICES STUDY

November 2021

SUN TRAIL ALIGNMENT STUDIES

May 2023

COMPLETE STREETS MOBILITY STUDY

March 2023 → Summer 2024

MULTI MODAL PLANNING

REGIONAL TRAIL DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF AN MPO?

Develop multi modal solutions to issues such as:

✓ Congestion

✓ Equity

✓ Healthy Streets

✓ Modal Choice

✓ Safety

PLANNING AREA

REGIONAL TRAIL DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF AN MPO?

Direct federal funding to regional priority projects.

Long Range

Transportation Plan

5-YEARS

Project Priorities

ANNUAL

E.g., Transportation Alternatives

(TA)

CARB Funds

■

REGIONAL TRAIL DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF AN MPO?

■ Direct federal funding to regional priority projects.

■ Align regional priorities with state funding opportunities.

Off-SIS Eligible

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

Objectives

Modal Options

•

• Connectivity • Accessibility •

Safety

Equity

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

• Systems Approach

– Connect activity centers

– Connectivity within activity centers

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

• Systems Approach

– Connect activity centers

– Connectivity within activity centers

– Connect to public transit

ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION

• Systems Approach

– Connect activity centers

– Connectivity within activity centers

– Connect to public transit

• Build System around SUN Trail spine

– Connect to existing and future SUN Trail system

• Resulting ATP Vision is a multimodal network

TRAIL STUDIES

SUN Trail Connectors

Alignment studies to identify best alignments

Data driven process

– origin/destination data

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Crashes involving pedestrians/bicyclists

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Walk/bike accessibility data

Public right-of-way

Disadvantaged areas

–

Transit ridership

Public input

•

TRAIL STUDIES

SUN Trail Connectors

Trails are multi-jurisdictional

Agency partners

–

Counties (5 departments)

Transit agencies

Cities –

–

FDOT

Private/Non-profit partners

–

Bicycle clubs

–

Trust for Public Land

Friends of the Legacy Trail

– Private developer

•

TRAIL STUDIES

SUN Trail Connectors

1 on 1 interviews with each identified stakeholder

Range of perspectives

–

Safety –

Leverage parks

–

Connect neighborhoods

–

Financial considerations

–

Variety of user groups

–

Economic development

–

Affordable housing

•

Recommended Alignments Manatee

Sarasota

MPO ACTION

OUTCOMES

Long Range Transportation Plan

REGIONAL PROJECT PRIORITIZATION

COORDINATION

JURISDICTIONS & FDOT

RESULT ADOPTED ALIGNMENTS ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL FUNDING

MPO ACTION

OUTCOMES

Greenways and Trails

System Plan and Maps

MODIFY PRIORITY CORRIDORS

COORDINATION

OFFICE OF GREENWAYS & TRAILS

RESULT ADOPTED ALIGNMENT ELIGIBLE FOR STATE FUNDING

R.O.W. (IF NEEDED) CONSTRUCTION

PD&E | DESIGN

VISIONING & PLANNING

REGIONAL TO LOCAL

SARASOTA IN MOTION

What is it?

Timeline

Priorities

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SARASOTA IN MOTION

• What is it? – City of Sarasota’s first transportation master plan, which serve as a playbook for how the City not only invests in transportation infrastructure, but also how it achieves the community’s larger quality of life goals.

SARASOTA IN MOTION

Began with an inventory of transportation projects

Over 100 projects were scored and analyzed

Only 50 made it in the plan

Accepted by City of Sarasota Commission on July 2020

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SARASOTA IN MOTION

THE LEGACY TRAIL

Photo Courtesy of The Friends of the Legacy Trail

• What

• Timeline • Friends

Trail

is it?

of The Legacy

THE LEGACY TRAIL

What is it?

– Is a 22.5 mile nature trail that links to the Venetian Waterway Park at the historic Venice Train Depot, where trail users can continue north to Payne Park in downtown Sarasota.

– It has over 500,000 trail users a year

•

• CSX Railroad was purchased after a decade of planning

LEGACY TRAIL TIMELINE

2008

• The Legacy Trail from the Venetian Waterway to Culverhouse Nature Park, Sarasota was completed

• Voters Bond Referendum approve –provided funding for the Legacy Trail to extend to the City of Sarasota

2022

• Legacy Trail extension from Palmer Ranch to City of Sarasota was completed

2004

2018

FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL

● Established on July 11, 2016 as an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

● FLT exists to support, promote, enhance and protect The Legacy Trail, a Sarasota County Park, and its trail connectors.

● Raise funds to aid in the development, operation, maintenance and improvement of The Legacy Trail, its trail connectors and related facilities within the guidelines established in the operating agreement with Sarasota County.