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Understanding of Need geometry or street traffic patterns. A pattern of locations like mid - block versus intersection crashes can reveal localized problems with visibility, engineering or driver education.The results of our collision analyses often directly affect our design recommended bicycle and pedestrian treatments throughout the study area. KTU+A acknowledges that there is an on-going Safe Mobility Plan and will coordinate on the data collected in that effort to ensure consistency. Data analyzed such as collisions, demographics, safe routes and the level of traffic stress models will provide data driven metrics for identifying short and long-term projects for Implementation and grant writing purposes.This analysis can also provide the base Information that drives the recommendations through the public outreach and charrette process. Task 1.5: Prepare Base Maps KTU+A will coordinate with Santa Ana, SCAG, Orange County and other GIS organizations to collect data and prepare base maps for design and analysis work and for use at the pre-charrette visits, walking and biking tours, outreach materials and charrette design tables.These maps will include the most recently available high-resolution aerials, with added layers for street names, major community destinations, right-of-way characteristics and other pertinent data. KTU+A has the in-house capabilities to plot char- rette design table maps up to 30 -feet long. For the Downtown Complete Streets Plan, multiple six-foot maps were plotted to fit onto the tables to provide clean and usable maps for the differ- ent exercises. From our experience conducting workshops and charrettes, It's Important that both clarity and flexibility be part of the mapping process. We plot these large table maps for similar projects to allow the attendees a detailed view of the study area. These table maps will be developed in GIS for ease of data use, plotting and file transfer back to the city. KTU+A has recently developed a GIS -based Low Stress Rout - ng (LSR) tool to identify cycling and walking routes.This tool Incorporates bicycle boulevard and neighborhood greenway characteristics to identify non -motorized transportation routes. The Inputs will be similar to those of the five corridors, with 25 mph speed limits and activity centers such as schools, parks and transit The LSR is then run to connect these activity centers and other locations identified along the five corridors by city staff and Advisory Group input.Thls affords a cost-effective and data -driven analysis of existing and future bicycle and pedestrian routes that can be presented as connectors between the five main corridors and serve as safe routes to schools, parks and transit. As part of this analysis, the KTU+A team will include possible connections recommended by the on-going Bicycle Master Plan and Circula- tion Element to ensure consistency between efforts. Central Santa Ana Complete Streets Plan NFP No.: 15-067 To assist in the design development and future grant writing purposes, BOA will conduct AM and PM peak hour bike -pedestri- an counts at two locations per corridor for a total often counts. In addition, another set of counts will be conducted at two locations for up to five connecting corridors for another set of ten bike -pe- destrian counts. We intend to conduct up to a total of 20 bike -pe- destrian counts to get a baseline of non -motorized activities along the study area corridors.The locations of the five priority corridor counts will be determined by the KTU+A team and city staff with the connecting corridors either by the Advisory Group or through the community charrette. Task 1.6: Pre-Charrette Visit The KTU+A team will conduct a two-day pre-charrette visit to coincide with the first Advisory Group meeting (seeTask 2.1 ).The pre-charrette visit will Include a meeting with the project partners and selected stakeholders, and a tour to photograph the area to assess existing conditions. Another major component of this task, conducted prior to the pre-charrette visit, would be to provide a high level of GIS existing conditions mapping.This mapping will be used in the field to ver- ify the existing data. Some of the topics that will be analyzed early in the process (depending on data availability) could Include: Existing and proposed Average Daily Traffic (ADT) volumes • Existing and proposed Level of Service (LOS) and configura- tions including; existing street geometry, number of lanes, lane widths, medians, turn lanes and special facilities Existing intersection control devices such as signals, stop signs, uncontrolled intersections, special pedestrian crossings, marked and unmarked legal crossing points Existing and proposed land uses Existing and proposed housing densities Existing and proposed employment densities Existing major activity centers Existing and proposed transit stops (boardings and alightings) and special upgraded transit systems v. V li k w f �b Potential LL - l Low Stress connections � for Gen tral SantoAna t, a To assist in the design development and future grant writing purposes, BOA will conduct AM and PM peak hour bike -pedestri- an counts at two locations per corridor for a total often counts. In addition, another set of counts will be conducted at two locations for up to five connecting corridors for another set of ten bike -pe- destrian counts. We intend to conduct up to a total of 20 bike -pe- destrian counts to get a baseline of non -motorized activities along the study area corridors.The locations of the five priority corridor counts will be determined by the KTU+A team and city staff with the connecting corridors either by the Advisory Group or through the community charrette. Task 1.6: Pre-Charrette Visit The KTU+A team will conduct a two-day pre-charrette visit to coincide with the first Advisory Group meeting (seeTask 2.1 ).The pre-charrette visit will Include a meeting with the project partners and selected stakeholders, and a tour to photograph the area to assess existing conditions. Another major component of this task, conducted prior to the pre-charrette visit, would be to provide a high level of GIS existing conditions mapping.This mapping will be used in the field to ver- ify the existing data. Some of the topics that will be analyzed early in the process (depending on data availability) could Include: Existing and proposed Average Daily Traffic (ADT) volumes • Existing and proposed Level of Service (LOS) and configura- tions including; existing street geometry, number of lanes, lane widths, medians, turn lanes and special facilities Existing intersection control devices such as signals, stop signs, uncontrolled intersections, special pedestrian crossings, marked and unmarked legal crossing points Existing and proposed land uses Existing and proposed housing densities Existing and proposed employment densities Existing major activity centers Existing and proposed transit stops (boardings and alightings) and special upgraded transit systems