City of Burbank
Citywide Complete Streets Plan
Establishing new policies, guidelines, and performance measures for street improvements Citywide, because everyone–people walking, taking transit, bicycling, driving, and all others–should be able to use streets safely.
Areas of Focus in the City are determined by nine distinct criteria. These criteria were aggregated and represented on a single map with all layers superimposed, calling out a hierarchy of zones that require attention: the darker the area, the greater the priority. While this is not an exact science, this method provides an effective tool to help prioritize limited resources for improvements.
The Citywide Complete Streets Plan developed a second analytical methodology that identifies Priority Streets, or streets where the need of a particular mode of travel should be prioritized based on individual criteria. Pedestrian Priority Streets are those that exhibit 200+ pedestrians per hour during peak periods and are within a ¼-mile walk to schools, libraries, parks, senior centers, and major transit stops. Transit Priority Streets are those with bus lines and stops that accommodate high daily ridership or high frequency service. Bicyclist Priority Streets are those with existing or planned bikeways, high bicycle ridership, and streets that close gaps and barriers to bicycle ridership. Motorist Priority Streets are high-speed and high-volume streets and streets with intersections at skewed angles.
Outdoor events and activities, such as walking and biking tours, pop-ups, open houses, and workshops, allowed for experiential community input from street experiences. Major themes heard throughout the project included a desire for universal accessibility and inclusivity, safe access to schools, improved pedestrian safety, conflicts between motorized mobility and pedestrians, better bike infrastructure, enhanced transit, accommodating equestrian uses, and improving the usability of rideshare.
The document provides policy recommendations for pedestrians, transit, bicyclists, motorists, green infrastructure, equestrians, and smart technology. Recommendations include, but are not limited to, curb improvements, traffic-calming measures, the design of sidewalks, bike lanes, bus stops, and bridle paths, lane width reduction, improved signage and signal lights, and bioswales.
Specific projects are highlighted at the end of the Complete Streets Plan for implementation, organized as short-term, mid-term, and long-term projects. All proposed projects require continued and focused community engagement in the future, if and when the project is funded. The projects would also need to return to City Council at a later date as each project progresses towards refining the scope, acquiring funds, design, and construction.