Complete Streets: Provide sufficient right-of-way and design, operate, and maintain Scottsdale's streets to promote safe and convenient access and travel for users of all types: pedestrians;
mobility assisted; bicyclists; transit vehicles and riders; equestrians; cars; and trucks. Provide facilities and amenities that are recognized as contributing to complete streets, including roadway and pedestrian
level street lighting; pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements; access improvements in accordance with ADA; transit facilities accommodation, including but not limited to pedestrian access improvement to transit
stops; street trees and landscaping; and street furnishings that are sensitive to the local context.
Traffic Safety: Collect, analyze and report on traffic collision data on a regular basis and develop remediation measures to address high frequency and high volume collision locations.
Roundabouts: Roundabouts shall be the first consideration for all intersections of one- or two-laneper-direction streets that require all-way stop control. Traffic signals should only be installed
or remain if a traffic or budget analysis justifies their advantage.
Roadway Restriping: Improve on-street bicycle accommodation and bicycling and pedestrian comfort through striping changes that consider historic and forecasted motor vehicle traffic, center turn
lane requirements, existing pavement width and existing lane widths. This restriping protocol will typically be applied when roadways are being treated through standard pavement preservation applications and will
incorporate buffered bike lanes where feasible.
Neighborhood Traffic Management: Protect Scottsdale’s residential neighborhoods from excessive vehicle travel speeds and cut-through traffic.
Truck Routes: All planned four lane or larger streets are considered truck routes, unless noted as an exception. Neighborhood/local system routes will not be considered for truck route
designations.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): Support the ITS strategic plan to coordinate signals; integrate freeway and arterial operations; improve traffic progression; reduce incident clearance
times; and enhance special event traffic management. Also recognize the need to balance traffic flow with improved pedestrian, bicycle and transit flow on some corridors.
Access Management: Define acceptable levels of access for each roadway classification to preserve its function, including criteria for the spacing of signalized and unsignalized access points.
Apply and enforce appropriate geometric design criteria and traffic engineering analysis to each allowable access point. Specific access management criteria shall be included in the City’s Design Standards &
Policies Manual (DS&PM), which is updated on a regular basis and approved by the city’s Design Review Board.
Roadway Character Types: Identify roadway corridors as either urban, suburban or rural. Urban street areas are located in Old Town Scottsdale, where pedestrian activity is likely to be the highest
and alternative modes of transportation are more likely. Suburban street areas often have separation between residential and commercial or employment uses. Generally, the suburban designation is for roadways south
of Pinnacle Peak Road. Rural street areas are desert or low-density land use areas here commercial and employment activities are more limited, and equestrian activity is greater. Generally, roadways north of
Pinnacle Peak Road are identified as rural.
Roadway Noise Abatement: Roadway noise levels considered for mitigation shall be consistent with the Arizona Department of Transportation’s 2017 Noise Abatement Requirements. The ADOT standards
are required by Federal law (Code of Federal Regulations – 23 CFR 772) to match the Federal Highway Administration’s noise standards. These standards consider noise abatement when there is an increase of 15
decibels (dBA) in the model-predicted roadway noise levels over existing noise levels occur and/or the predicted noise level is at or above 67 dBA.