According to Documentation of the Broward County Trafficways Plan (1989, as amended), a thoroughfare may be designated as a Context Sensitive Corridor provided that the following conditions have been met: • The trafficway is included within an adopted municipal or Broward County redevelopment plan; or • The trafficway traverses an adopted BrowardNext – Broward County Land Use Plan “Activity Center”; and • The local government provides appropriate supporting information to identify the design/performance criteria for the subject corridor. If the trafficway is identified as a State Highway System and/or State Intermodal System facility or connector, prior written approval shall be obtained from the District Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation. If those conditions are met and approved by the Broward County Planning Council, rather than using Table VII from Sec. 5-195 from the Land Development Code which dictates Design Criteria for Construction of Streets Within Trafficway Corridors, Table XIII from Sec. 5- 195 can be utilized (Table 14). Table 14. Excerpt of Optional Trafficways Corridors Criteria
Source: Section 5-195(d) Table XIII of the Broward County Land Development Code. An example of this is the segment of Martin Luther King, Jr Boulevard / Hammondville Road from Dixie Highway to Interstate 95, which was designated as an 80’ “Context Sensitive Corridor – Urban Main Street” in 2012. The City of Pompano Beach (2012) in conjunction with the Pompano Beach Northwest Community Redevelopment Agency (NW CRA) requested the Trafficways Plan amendment to accomplish an Urban Main Street cross section in this area characterizes as having low traffic volumes and proposed for designation as a Transit Oriented Corridor. Prior to the amendment, the segment was classified as a 4-lane City Collector. The purpose for the amendment was to provide greater flexibility for reduction in design speed, on-street parking, elimination of right-turn lanes, wider sidewalks, and shared bike lanes. The Council approved the amendments and updated the Trafficways map to reflect the Context Sensitive Corridor (Figure 13) with adjusted design criteria for construction of streets within Trafficway Corridors (Table 15). Highlighted elements in Table 15 refer to elements involving adjustments from Context Sensitive Corridor design criteria as well as standard Trafficways Plan criteria.
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