2. Comprehensive Plan/Ordinance - Laserfiche WebLink

Goal Three: To provide an efficient, safe, environmentally sensitive, and cost effective county transportation system to effectively meet citizen's current and future needs for personal mobility and movement of goods. Objective A. Prevent new development from placing an economic strain on the county to provide a safe and quality road network. Policy 1. Require those benefiting the most from roads to pay the cost for installation, upgrading, and repairing of subdivision roads and the public roads providing access to the development. Policy 2. Prevent development which will have an adverse effect on the public road network. Objective B. Require new developments roads to meet the transportation and safety needs of the county's citizens during the initial construction of the subdivisions. Policy 1. Require new development to provide roads meeting both the current and future needs of the county's citizens. Policy 2. Prevent development requiring the new land owners and residents of subdivisions from having to fund, plan, and organize upgrades to the subdivisions roads to meet their transportation needs or requirements after lots have been sold and homes built. Policy 3. Require new developments submit and fund a transportation plan to study the transportation and safety needs ofthe development and the surrounding area. Policy 4. Require developers to pay for and install any necessary street, traffic signs, or lighting features. Objective C. Encourage development creating pedestrian friendly design. Policy 1. Require the safety improvements needed for safe pedestrian interaction with the road network. Policy 2. Design roads so they compliment the neighborhood environment. Policy 3. Promote development providing walking and bike paths within the subdivision and connecting to existing or future walking or bike paths. Policy 4. Promote development using the corridor along the rivers as public greenway to allow for a future recreational trail system. 190