Tulsa Comprehensive Plan - PLANiTULSA

Appendix
TrAnsporTATIon II: UrBAN COrrIDOrS
envIronmenTAL eFFeCTs: positive and negative
effects on the natural environment (air, water, and soil
quality, habitat areas and wildlife corridors, wetlands,
and floodplains).
CosT-eFFeCTIveness AnD AFForDABILITy: capital
costs, operations and maintenance costs, achievement
of benefits commensurate with resource commitment,
and suffciency of revenues.
oTHer FACTors: compatibility with local and
regional plans and policies, constructability, and
construction effects. The alternatives evaluation step
includes a comprehensive evaluation of applicable
issues and options using selected criteria such as those
described above, including modal capacity, alignment,
design concepts, costs, right-of-way, environmental,
social and economic impacts, operations, and
safety. Alternatives can be a combination of capital
improvements and management and operations
strategies.
The selection of a preferred alternative leads to either
the development of a detailed corridor plan, such as
a thoroughfare plan, access management plan, scenic
preservation plan, streetscape plan, or economic
vitalization plan, or it can lead to the preliminary
design of an individual thoroughfare, network of
thoroughfares, or multi-modal transportation corridor
with parallel thoroughfares, rail, transit, highway and
bikeway systems.
Corridor planning varies in level of effort ranging
from large-scale planning efforts for corridors in
newly developing areas to small-scale planning
of segments of individual thoroughfares within
constrained rights-of-way. The outcome of corridor
planning ranges from broad policies to citywide and
regional long-range transportation plans to multimodal
systems plans, and to local thoroughfare plans
and individual segment concepts and designs.
The outcome of this step is the clear communication
of trade-offs to the public, stakeholders and decisionmakers,
developed and discussed in a transparent and
participatory process.
selection of preferred Alternative
The selection of a preferred alternative is a consensus
based process. Consensus building in this step
engenders community ownership in the selected
alternative and helps achieve a commitment towards
implementation of the plan or project.
The CSS process uses an array of tools for selecting,
refining and building consensus on alternatives. A
successful selection of a preferred alternative is one
that is compatible with the context(s), reflects the
needs of all users, and best achieves the objectives and
vision established for the corridor.
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