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Exhibit 1
<br />INITIATIVE 3: TRAIL CONNECTIVITY
<br />Create a walkable, bikeable, and interconnected
<br />city by providing a network of off-street bicycle
<br />and pedestrian trails.
<br />3.1 Collaborate with other agencies to provide
<br />an integrated trail system.
<br />a. Collaborate with other City agencies,
<br />partners, and regional entities to provide
<br />an interconnected system of regional
<br />and local trails, travelways, and access
<br />corridors to support recreation, active
<br />transportation, and park and program
<br />access. (GP)
<br />b. Work with the Public Works Agency to
<br />implement the Bicycle Master Plan and
<br />provide a system of Class I, 11, III, and IV
<br />trails.
<br />c. Coordinate with adjacent cities to
<br />connect existing and planned trail
<br />corridors to surrounding regional and
<br />local trail networks.
<br />3.2 Prioritize off-street trail connections to
<br />support park access, recreation, and active
<br />transportation.
<br />a. Increase pedestrian and bicycle
<br />connectivity to and between parks and
<br />recreation facilities as noted in the PMP
<br />to improve park access. Prioritize trail
<br />connections to citywide parks, community
<br />c. Focus off-street trail development on the
<br />"Key Connections" that provide internal
<br />trail loops and access to key destinations.
<br />d. Create, adopt, and implement a "Safe
<br />Routes to Parks" program that promotes
<br />walking and bicycling to parks through
<br />infrastructure improvements, enforcement,
<br />tools, and safety education, and improves
<br />accessibility to parks, facilities, trails, and
<br />open space. (GP)
<br />e. Develop park entries, trail access points,
<br />and trail rest stops to foster walking and
<br />bicycling to parks.
<br />f. Coordinate with Public Works to evaluate
<br />and improve pedestrian travel routes
<br />to parks, providing sidewalks, painted
<br />crosswalks, and signalized crossings where
<br />needed, while also removing barriers that
<br />impede park access.
<br />3.3 Provide greenspace, parks, and rest stops
<br />along trails to enhance trail experiences.
<br />a. Where feasible, create landscaped or
<br />natural buffers between trails and adjacent
<br />uses, including streets.
<br />b. Explore options to acquire linear pocket
<br />parks along trails, providing recreation
<br />activity stations and social gathering
<br />space, especially in park deficient and
<br />parks, major facilities, and regional parks environmental justice areas. a. Coordinate with Public Works to provide
<br />such as Mile Square Park. (See Chapter 4). a comprehensive wayfinding and signage
<br />c. Consider wider greenways along the Orange program along trails, at trail rest stops,
<br />b. Complete the City's "Golden Loop" Trail County Streetcar route, flood control and in parks that serve as trailheads.
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<br />d. Identify parks to serve as trailheads and
<br />b. Brand and market the "Golden Loop"
<br />provide trail rest stops along the corridor.
<br />through a public awareness campaign
<br />Provide bicycle racks, seating, shade,
<br />which highlights the route and trail
<br />trash receptacles, and self-service bicycle
<br />access points. (GP)
<br />repair stations where appropriate. Provide
<br />c. Publish a trail system map and post this
<br />restrooms and drinking fountains (or water
<br />on the City's website, in the recreation
<br />bottle filling stations) at citywide parks,
<br />program guide, and at trail rest stops.
<br />community parks, or special use parks
<br />with trail connections
<br />d. Enable and encourage children to walk
<br />3.4 Increase trail -related recreation
<br />and bicycle to school and parks by
<br />embracing "Safe Routes to Parks" and
<br />opportunities in parks.
<br />"Safe Routes to Schools" objectives.
<br />a. Provide looped internal trails or
<br />e. Implement bicycle safety programs to
<br />promenades of sufficient width to support
<br />educate children, youth and families
<br />multiple uses in parks (pedestrians,
<br />about trail etiquette and use.
<br />bicycles, scooters, strollers, skateboards)
<br />and space to pass each other comfortably.
<br />f. Develop a multi -modal "share the road"
<br />These looped trails should be wider than
<br />public awareness program.
<br />access paths to facilities.
<br />g. Develop a citywide database to monitor
<br />b. Establish a mix of soft -and hard -surfaced
<br />bicycle and pedestrian accidents.
<br />trails in parks that provide a variety of
<br />h. Coordinate trail programs, drop -in walks,
<br />recreational hiking and bicycling options,
<br />nature hikes, and community -wide trail
<br />such as nature trails, mountain biking
<br />events and bicycle rides to encourage
<br />trails, bicycle pump tracks, jogging trails,
<br />use of the pedestrian -bicycle network.
<br />big wheel and tricycle tracks, walking
<br />tracks, etc.
<br />i. Explore a trail sponsorship program that
<br />3.5 Foster walking and bicycling opportunities
<br />encourages or incentivizes businesses
<br />through signage, branding, education, and
<br />to sponsor the development and/or
<br />maintenance of trail links that provide
<br />programs.
<br />nearby bicycle and pedestrian access.
<br />Exhibit
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