Goals & Objectives

Goal 1
Effectively manage the transportation needs of a vibrant, growing town
and the surrounding area for residents, businesses, and visitors.

Objective 1.1 – Develop and implement corridor design guidelines that enable safe and efficient travel for all modes of transportation within the context of the natural and developed environment.

Objective 1.2 – Ensure adequate access into the downtown area for vehicles, pedestrians, and bicycles to support public activities and events, private business uses, and residences.

Objective 1.3 – Maintain and where possible improve access to business concentrations that enable successful business practices while managing safe traffic operations.

Objective 1.4 – Promote multi-modal transportation uses and principles throughout the City.

Objective 1.5 – Establish bicycling as a sustainable, safe and convenient, year-round mode of transportation in Northfield.

Objective 1.6 – Enhance and expand public transit services to ensure mobility for all residents and visitors.

Objective 1.7 – Require local street and trail connectivity between adjacent residential neighborhoods and other land uses for newly developing areas.

Objective 1.8 – Create opportunities to improve existing local street and trail connectivity between adjacent residential neighborhoods and other land uses.

Goal 2
Facilitate the movement of people, goods, and services within
and through the City on a safe, convenient, coordinated, and fiscally-responsible network of routes using a variety of transportation modes.

Objective 2.1 – Provide a transportation system for vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians balancing safety and fiscal resources.

Objective 2.2 – Establish a balanced roadway network based on the principal of roadway functional classification.

Objective 2.3 – Provide adequate roadway and intersection capacity to accommodate anticipate growth of the community and resulting forecasted traffic volumes.

Objective 2.4 –Establish a pedestrian walkway system connecting residential, educational, commercial/retail, employment, and recreational destinations throughout the City.

Objective 2.5 – Establish trails and on-street for the use of bicycles as a year-round mode of transportation.

Objective 2.6 – Determine and enhance designated public service routes to provide priorities to emergency, civil, and transit services.

Goal 3
Balance transportation needs with the Land Use Principles identified in
the Comprehensive Plan.

Objective 3.1 – Establish a transportation system vision to provide the necessary transportation network to support the density and type of existing and future land uses.

Objective 3.2 – Enhance the small town character of the City through multi-modal transportation choice and context-sensitive corridor design.

Objective 3.3 – Balance the transportation system needs with the potential impacts and affects upon the natural features of the community.

Objective 3.4 – Enhance the community by providing convenient access to natural features and opportunities to support active and healthy lifestyles.

Objective 3.5 – Encourage interconnected development patterns to create more convenient travel options for residents, fosters a sense of neighborhood, and maintain acceptable traffic volume levels.

Goal 4
Implement the transportation vision through strategic funding, objective
and definitive decision making, with the collaboration of surrounding jurisdictions.

Objective 4.1 – Establish concentrated and consistent support for local and regional political leadership to achieve components of the transportation system vision.

Objective 4.2 – Empower city staff to pursue state and federal transportation funding and evaluate non-traditional transportation funding mechanisms.

Objective 4.3 – Establish an area transportation advisory committee with the state, Rice and Dakota counties, Dundas and surrounding townships to coordinate and strategize regional transportation planning initiatives. (TH 19 between Northfield and I-35, Cannon River Crossing/CSAH 1 Preservation, NW Corridor)

Objective 4.4 – Plan for and preserve opportunities for necessary transportation system improvements.

Objective 4.5 – Achieve necessary transportation system improvements in
a cost-effective, timely fashion.

Objective 4.6 – Establish momentum in the pursuit of the transportation system vision by periodic recognition of basic accomplishments and celebration of milestone achievements.

Objective 4.7 – Encourage business owners, residents and community groups to be active participants in seeking funding by contacting local, state and federal decision makers in support of transportation funding.

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