anchor Description
This project provides for planning-level evaluation of projects suggested for improving or rehabilitating capital facilities and other programmatic initiatives to support the County's pedestrian facility and bikeway program. The intention of the project is to develop a platform for informed decision-making regarding the merits of the project, the potential impacts of the project, and an order-of-magnitude cost estimate for the project. In many instances, a preferred project conceptual plan and cost estimate, or a recommendation not to advance the project will be the outcome of this effort. In other cases, preliminary engineering activities may be needed to inform decision-making. Principal activities in these project studies include establishing the project purpose and need; identifying reasonable alternatives that meet the project requirements; identifying community resources, environmental resources and other elements of context that will frame implementation of a project; evaluating and selecting an alternative, and developing a conceptual design cost estimate. Some projects may require site selection and other technical studies to inform decision-making.
anchorCost Change
Cost increase reflects minor annual funding adjustments and the addition of FY31 and FY32 to this level-of-effort project.
anchor Justification
There is a continuing need to define the scope and determine need, benefits, implementation feasibility, horizontal and vertical alignments, typical sections, impacts, community support/opposition, preliminary costs, and alternatives for master-planned bicycle and pedestrian transportation recommendations. Facility Planning provides decision makers with reliable information to determine if a master-planned transportation recommendation merits inclusion in the CIP as a stand-alone project. The sidewalk and bikeway projects in Facility Planning specifically address pedestrian needs.
anchorFiscal Note
Beginning in FY23, this project splits the original Facility Planning - Transportation (CIP No. 509337) into three separate facility planning projects by mode: Facility Planning - Roads (P509337), Facility Planning - Mass Transit ( CIP No. 502308), and Facility Planning - Pedestrian Facilities and Bikeways (CIP No. 502312).
anchorDisclosures
A pedestrian impact analysis will be performed during design or is in progress.
Expenditures will continue indefinitely.
anchorCoordination
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Maryland DOT State Highway Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Permitting Services, utilities, municipalities, affected communities, Commission on Aging, Commission on People with Disabilities, Montgomery County Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee