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4. Bicycle, pedestrian and transit facilities as shown in the City's Alternative Transportation Plan will be considered in street construction, re -construction, rehabilitation projects, and all other street improvement projects except under one or more of the following conditions: a. A project involves only ordinary maintenance activities designed to keep assets in serviceable condition, such as mowing, cleaning, sweeping, spot repair, seal coating, concrete joint repair, pothole filling, utility repair, or when interim measures are implemented on temporary detour or haul routes. b. The City Engineer determines there is an absence of need or insufficient space to safely accommodate new facilities. c. The City Engineer determines there are relatively high safety risks. d. The City Engineer determines that adding new facilities would unduly impair capacity and/or mobility for another user group. e. The City Council exempts a project due to the excessive and disproportionate cost of establishing a bikeway, walkway or transit enhancement as part of a project. f. The City Engineer and Planning Director jointly determine that the construction is not practically feasible or cost effective because of severe topographic, environmental, historic or natural resource constraints. 5. Complete Streets maybe achieved through single projects or incrementally through a series of smaller improvements or maintenance activities over time. 6. The City will generally follow accepted or the best available technology when implementing improvements intended to fulfill this Complete Streets Program, but will also consider innovative or non-traditional design options where a comparable level of safety for users is present. 7. The design of new or reconstructed facilities should anticipate likely future demand for bicycling, walking and transit facilities and should not preclude the provision of future improvements. 8. As noted in the ATP, to varying degrees, trail, sidewalk, and bikeway networks are either already in place or planned in the communities that adjoin the City. The City will work with these communities, as well as other authorities who have jurisdiction within Bloomington, such as the State of Minnesota, Hennepin County, Three Rivers Park District and the Metropolitan Council, to enhance the regional continuity of the City's multi -modal transportation network. At the date of adoption of this Bloomington internal procedure, Hennepin County and the State of Minnesota have adopted Complete Streets policies. As a result, any funding for projects passing through either of these agencies to the City should follow a Complete Streets approach. 9. The City shall encourage private developers to follow this document as the ATP instructs that designing both publically and privately built infrastructure for safe access and movement of all users is a major aspect of the Complete Streets Program. City Council Approved: February 27, 2012