Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
One goal of the Columbus Covenant is to engage and promote strong, distinct and vibrant neighborhoods. The area represented by the Greater Hilltop Area Commission contains an urban street network with that largely serves the needs of vehicular, bicycle, pedestrian, and transit traffic, but which has not been fully integrated to provide safer walking routes, or more walkable streets. West Broad Street is difficult for pedestrians to cross thereby dividing the north and south areas of the Hilltop community. West Broad Street and Sullivant Avenue in the Hilltop area rank among the top ten worst pedestrian/bicycle crash corridors in Columbus.
The Hilltop business community has expressed upon the city their desire for improvements to West Broad Street to better promote economic development as part of a community mobility plan. Additionally, other arterial and residential streets within the neighborhood allow for aggressive driving behavior, which diminishes neighborhood livability and walkability. There has been identified a need to develop a comprehensive Hilltop Community Mobility Plan using professional consultant services in support of the pedestrian, traffic calming and neighborhood mobility programs to enhance pedestrian safety and neighborhood livability. The Hilltop Community Mobility Plan will complement and further detail the 2001 Greater Hilltop Area Plan, and the 2005 West Broad Street Economic Development Strategy.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into a contract with TranSystems Corporation for the development of a Hilltop Community Mobility Plan (HCMP) in the amount of $399,031.00. Services will include producing the HCMP to develop pedestrian safety and traffic calming strategies to enhance the livability, walkability and vitality of the Hilltop neighborhoods. The study area follows the boundaries of the Greater Hilltop Planning Area (Defined by I-270, I-70, and the railroad trac...
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