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Recent projects like the 86`h Street bikeway, American Boulevard Corridor, Hiawatha Light Rail Transit demonstrate the City's dedication to this vision. The City uses its Pavement Management Program (PMP) to move such projects from electronic plans to living streetscapes. The PMP is a street maintenance plan that implements the right maintenance at the right time in a road's lifecycle, reducing the overall cost of keeping the City's streets in good condition. The Public Works Department's annual roadway construction schedule is driven by data gathered through the PMP. Since the passage of the ATP, the Public Works Department also uses the PMP to incorporate Complete Street goals into existing construction budgets where possible. Along with the PMP, three additional Public Works policies support Bloomington's Complete Streets goals: • First, the Collector Streets Program evaluates the City's collector street striping configurations in order to improve safety for all users and neighborhood quality of life. Reconfiguring lane geometry by restriping is an inexpensive strategy that can quickly create bicycle facilities and routes and more friendly pedestrian environments. • Secondly, the Neighborhood Traffic Calming Policy and Procedure For Local Streets is a resident driven program that aims to reduce traffic speeds on local streets through the installation of traffic calming devices such as speed tables and traffic circles. Reducing traffic speed and volume in a neighborhood makes walking and biking more enjoyable and enhances the livability of the neighborhood. • Finally, the City's Traffic Demand Management (TDM) ordinance requires the owners of new, non-residential developments or additions over 1,000 square feet to develop a Traffic Demand Management Plan for their proposed development. The plans outline a combination of services, incentives, facilities and actions owners will use to reduce single occupancy vehicle trips. This program helps address traffic congestion and reduces air pollution. The City of Bloomington's Resolution No. 2010-7 recognizes the following benefits of Complete Streets: • Complete Streets improves safety by reducing crashes and injuries and their costs. • Complete Streets removes barriers to transportation facilities and services for seniors, children, and people with disabilities, allowing them to lead more active and independent lives. • Complete Streets promotes public health by supporting exercise as part of daily life. • Complete Streets helps avoid costly future retrofits by making sure that we build roads right the first time. • Complete Streets supports affordable transportation options for families. • Complete Streets reduces congestion by providing safe travel choices that encourage non - motorized transportation options, increasing the overall capacity of the transportation network. • Complete Streets supports more pedestrian, bicycle, and transit travel, which helps protect clean air and clean water and reduces our dependence on costly energy sources. • Complete Streets promotes economic growth and community stability by providing accessible and efficient connections between home, school, work, recreation, and retail destinations by improving the pedestrian and vehicular environments throughout communities. • Complete Streets supports vibrant and walkable neighborhoods that improve quality of life and help build community.