Hello all,
After several positive experiences on this forum, I return with another question.
I am working on a project with internal streets. This project has a boundary, and that boundary is intersected every 240 ft or less by a right-of-way. 80% of these rights-of-way are streets that allow vehicle traffic, 20% are nonmotorized. Also, there are more than 140 intersections per square mile within the project boundary. So far, so good, right?
However, there may be extra nonmotorized rights-of-way that also intersect the boundary. Do I have to count those, and mess up my 80/20 ratio in the submittal? Or will these be considered as an extra bonus, enhancing overall connectivity, but not taking away from the fact that the basic technical requirement is met?
Thanks,
Daniel
Meghan Bogaerts
Manager, Neighborhood DevelopmentU.S. Green Building Council
50 thumbs up
March 21, 2012 - 9:06 am
Hi Daniel,
Consider the requirements separately.
For the through-connections at the boundary, stop counting the non-motorized ones once you reach the 20% cap. If you can meet the required interval without them (and it sounds like you can), that's fine.
For the intersection count, different rules apply (see definition of connectivity). You can count the non-motorized streets toward the intersection density regardless of what eventually happens with a given street at the boundary, as long as those streets meet all the rules of the connectivity definition.
Meghan
Daniel Costantino
Urban Planner, LEED AP NDEcology & Environment, Inc.
69 thumbs up
March 21, 2012 - 9:10 am
Thanks again, Meghan!
(Btw, this has no impact, but my boundary is intersected every 240 meters or less, i.e. 800 ft or less, not 240 ft. or less)