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Juneau Non‐Motorized Transportation Plan
Juneau Comprehensive Plan – 2008
The Comprehensive Plan guides residents and local officials as they decide the location,
intensity and timing of future public and private development and conservation measures. The
Plan chapter on transportation sets direction on the local transportation system, including
vehicle transport, non‐motorized means of transportation, transit policy and sub‐area
transportation needs.
The Comprehensive Plan includes a section on Non‐Motorized Transportation that reinforces
the importance of non‐motorized transportation and the role it can have in reducing traffic
congestion. Encouraging non‐motorized transportation is especially important in areas such as
Douglas Island and the Mendenhall Valley where many intersections are at capacity, limiting
residential development.
Comprehensive Plan Policy 8.2 sets out the specific position of the CBJ on non‐motorized
transportation.
CBJ POLICY 8.2 – It is the policy of the CBJ to promote and facilitate transportation
alternatives to private vehicles as a means of reducing traffic congestion, air pollution,
and the consumption of fossil fuels, and to provide safe and healthy means of
transportation to all people.
Development Guidelines for Policy 8.2
1. Require sidewalks and bicycle paths or lanes along newly constructed arterial and collector
streets where appropriate, and provide or work with Alaska DOT&PF to provide such
amenities along existing roads to provide safe and efficient access and recreation and to
reduce pedestrian/automobile conflicts.
2. Provide sidewalks and bicycle paths in and around the expanded campus of the University
of Alaska Southeast, particularly in conjunction with the construction of student housing in
the Auke Bay area.
3. Require sidewalks and bicycle paths along roadways where higher‐density housing is to be
provided as a condition of a rezoning application for higher densities.
4. Provide secure, weatherproof bike parking and storage facilities at public buildings and in
private developments, particularly developments located along transit corridors.
5. Require that cul‐de‐sacs and other dead‐end streets be connected to neighboring dead‐end
streets and through‐streets with pedestrian and bicycle paths wherever practical in new
developments in order to create non‐motorized transportation networks for neighborhood
residents.
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