Hillsborough Corridor Planning & Preservation Best Practices

of this approach is greater flexibility in determining the amount of land needed in relation to the existing centerline and other issues. Below are selected details of the county corridor right-of-way identification and preservation process. Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan The County has several policies and strategies in the currently adopted comprehensive plan for preservation of right-of-way needed for future transportation corridors. Objective 1.5 of the Hillsborough County Transportation Element calls for right of way protection and other measures to preserve corridors for transportation use, for the following stated public purposes: OBJECTIVE 1.5: Provide for and promote coordinated multimodal transportation planning, right of way protection, and project implementation across jurisdictional boundaries, to preserve the corridors for transportation use, to maintain transportation level of service, to improve coordination between land use and transportation facilities, and to minimize the adverse social, economic, and environmental impacts of transportation facilities on the community. The Transportation Element also states that (p. 169), “Right-of-way protection and preservation is necessary to ensure that adequate land is set aside to provide the necessary facilities, and to keep acquisition costs to a minimum.” Note: Although keeping right of way acquisition costs to a minimum is a benefit of such strategies it has not been considered a legitimate public purpose by the courts. Policy 1.5.1 references an adopted list of corridors (Appendix G of the plan, and Appendix J, which includes Map 25). Map 25 identifies general alignments, functional classification, and number of lanes planned for all transportation corridors needed to support development defined in the Future Land Use Element for a 30-year timeframe. Policy 1.5.2 indicates that this “corridor plan” will be reviewed and updated as necessary to address County growth and mobility needs by September 30th of each year following adoption. Policy 1.5.3 establishes that “all applications for development approval shall be reviewed for consistency with the adopted Corridor Plan and shall be approved only if they are consistent with the Corridor Plan.” Policy 1.5.11 calls for updating standards and guidelines for the context sensitive spacing of arterial, collector, and local roads to create a grid or network that supports the safety and mobility of expected users. Policy 1.1.7 also calls for prioritizing funding of parallel facilities to relieve pressure on constrained roads as the Capital Improvements Program (CIP) is updated and in coordination with FDOT on state- maintained roadways. Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan, Draft Mobility Section Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission (Planning Commission) staff are preparing a Draft Mobility Section to update the Transportation Element of the Hillsborough County Comprehensive Plan in coordination with County and HART staff. The update reflects a new emphasis on equity for underserved communities, context sensitive Complete Streets, Vision Zero, system maintenance and resilience, network connectivity, systems management and operations, curb management and other multimodal strategies to preserve existing system capacity and expand mode choice. The Draft Mobility

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