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ION T A T TRANSPOR 12-209 City of Maplewood Adopted September 9, 2019 Chapter 12 TRANSPORTATION The 2040 Comprehensive Plan’s Transportation Chapter is meant as a framework to guide the maintenance and development of road, transit, pedestrian and bicycle facilities in the City of Maplewood. The Chapter is necessary to ensure that the City’s transportation system best accommodates the present and future mobility, access, and safety needs of Maplewood’s residents and visitors. The Chapter aims to position the City’s transportation system within a regional context, putting emphasis on the ability of neighborhoods to attract new families, the capacity of business districts to attract new companies, and the ability of residents to access employment centers through a variety of transportation options. Adopted September 9, 2019 2040 Comprehensive Plan 12-210 TRANSPORTATION Purpose This chapter is meant to While this plan is meant to guide transportation planning in the City of guide transportation planning Maplewood, it is also intended to fit strategically into the regional vision in the City of Maplewood laid out by the Metropolitan Council. Minnesota State law requires that the and fit strategically into the Council create regional plans and policies to guide growth and manage regional vision laid out by the regional systems for transportation, aviation, water resources, and regional Metropolitan Council. parks. The Metropolitan Council recently created the 2040 Transportation Policy Plan (TPP), which was adopted in January 2015. The TPP establishes a vision for the metro region over the next 20 years and provides detail about how this vision will be reached. As Maplewood looks into the future, public transit systems, such as METRO Gold Line and Rush Line1, and alternate modes of transportation, represent the biggest change to Maplewood’s transportation system. It will be critical that Maplewood’s transportation system evolves to incorporate and connect these new modes of travel to users, businesses, and the community. In order to accomplish this the City will need to evaluate all transportation projects through the lens of Maplewood’s Living Streets Policy. Ultimately, the content of the Maplewood Transportation Plan supports the policies and strategies outlined in the TPP that will help the region realize this vision in the coming decades. Future Land Use The City of Maplewood is projected to grow in employment, households, and Adopted in 2013, the City of Maplewood population over the coming decades. This growth shapes the City’s vision for Living Streets Policy serves as the guided future land use and assumptions about the nature and intensity of this City’s principal guide for evaluating and development. A detailed land use plan is presented in the Land Use Chapter implementing all multimodal transportation of the Comprehensive Plan update. improvement projects, including Forecast population, household, and employment growth for 2020, 2030, and reconstruction and new construction. The 2040 is shown in Table 12-1 on the next page. Forecast population for 2040 policy establishes the prominence of creating is shown in Figure 12-1 The City’s forecasted totals have been allocated by streets that are safe and accessible for traffic analysis zone (TAZ) based on this plan’s assumptions for guided future users of all ages, abilities, and modes of land use. All data is drawn from the Metropolitan Council. transportation, enhance natural resources, and promote livability and quality of life. Living Streets Policy goals include: » Encourage people to travel by walking or bicycling. » Enhance the safety and security of streets. » Create livable neighborhoods. » Maximize the infiltration of stormwater. » Improve the quality of stormwater runoff. » Enhance the urban forest. » Improve the aesthetics of streets within the community. 1 This plan refers to the planned transitway as Rush Line, but the name is anticipated » Reduce life cycle costs. to change to METRO Purple Line upon adoption into the Transportation Policy Plan. 12-211 City of Maplewood Adopted September 9, 2019 Figure 12-1. 2040 Forecasted Population for Maplewood by Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) TRANSPOR T A T ION Adopted September 9, 2019 2040 Comprehensive Plan 12-212 Table 12-1. Forecasted Population, Household, and Employment Growth for 2020, 2030, and 2040 Households Population Employment TAZ (map label) 2010 2010 2010 2020 2030 2040 2020 2030 2040 2020 2030 2040 (actual) (actual) (actual) 1802 205 227 250 270 612 587 629 682 4 1 0 0 1804 164 180 191 199 496 479 500 521 14 9 7 6 1805 148 154 154 148 367 342 332 327 87 112 128 146 1806 554 575 572 563 1,136 1,286 1,247 1,229 482 776 874 977 1807 0 38 101 142 0 83 212 293 1,592 2,276 2,808 3,317 1808 622 647 643 622 1,415 1,373 1,284 1,221 2,504 2,901 3,110 3,279 1809 384 418 447 462 985 941 985 1,030 682 782 820 847 1810 396 413 409 401 1,071 1,037 1,005 983 474 540 566 585 1815 311 339 360 376 803 892 936 989 157 163 190 220 1816 200 218 234 244 538 554 581 610 618 829 879 920 1817 575 628 672 631 1,165 1,208 1,276 1,343 670 774 1,050 1,328 1818 40 44 48 51 128 102 108 116 863 857 975 1,105 1823 821 919 943 802 2,148 2,315 2,262 2,200 202 252 273 292 1824 566 720 933 640 1,174 1,601 1,955 2,198 313 432 611 797 1825 35 37 38 37 302 310 317 323 759 744 790 827 1826 243 255 255 244 756 740 710 683 350 309 315 318 1827 174 185 191 188 438 465 458 454 490 587 742 879 1828 180 198 219 240 518 503 532 571 135 127 193 273 1829 219 292 370 445 575 740 894 1,059 74 83 110 137 1830 369 470 539 580 993 1,183 1,300 1,180 51 8 23 41 1831 383 409 427 438 981 1,029 1,026 1,036 221 231 323 420 1832 223 237 244 245 614 597 588 581 121 199 247 293 1833 124 166 217 245 261 416 520 577 288 334 388 443 1834 266 371 536 632 746 934 1,292 1,620 90 39 54 73 1835 355 457 536 593 847 1,151 1,292 1,407 18 81 94 104 1836 707 791 818 831 1,761 1,986 1,969 1,972 201 223 301 380 1837 369 406 437 458 1,070 1,050 1,074 1,105 60 95 149 207 1838 816 902 966 1,007 2,311 2,250 2,338 2,418 429 520 604 688 12-213 City of Maplewood Adopted September 9, 2019 Households Population Employment TAZ (map label) 2010 2010 2010 2020 2030 2040 2020 2030 2040 2020 2030 2040 (actual) (actual) (actual) 1885 137 155 169 173 344 366 366 353 670 891 927 952 1886 276 303 326 340 798 774 797 707 118 69 83 95 1887 107 118 129 294 290 309 324 336 231 239 280 320 1984 53 59 63 67 152 124 129 135 13 16 19 21 1985 1,373 1,507 1,581 1,624 2,727 2,906 2,954 3,034 329 279 320 357 1986 418 449 467 478 1,104 1,094 1,101 1,121 133 172 180 186 1987 197 210 217 219 435 513 512 516 59 87 95 20 1988 213 229 240 1,246 546 577 583 2,780 13,387 15,950 15,451 14,800 1989 16 17 17 17 23 43 42 41 3 7 6 5 2103 414 464 509 541 1,066 1,266 1,357 1,438 179 189 235 279 2104 2 2 2 50 439 465 504 100 254 259 280 311 2110 980 1,035 1,040 1,033 2,221 2,615 2,587 2,583 222 142 163 195 2111 182 193 194 193 464 486 482 482 17 46 51 55 2112 537 569 573 571 1,605 1,466 1,456 1,457 9 19 23 26 TRANSPOR 2113 37 65 91 32 102 197 267 100 26 25 28 29 2114 421 722 972 642 1,321 2,226 2,869 1,700 26 25 29 32 2115 70 205 562 1,046 170 625 1,648 2,989 8 3 7 15 Totals T TAZ A 14,882 16,998 18,902 20,300 38,018 42,206 45,600 48,600 27,633 32,702 34,801 36,600 Allocation T System ION 17,000 18,900 20,300 42,200 45,600 48,600 32,700 34,800 36,600 Statement Adopted September 9, 2019 2040 Comprehensive Plan 12-214 Thrive MSP 2040 Community Designation The City of Maplewood has a community designation of Urban in the Thrive MSP 2040. As stated in Thrive, community designations are used by the Council to: » Guide regional growth and development to areas that have urban infrastructure in place and the capacity to accommodate development and redevelopment. » Establish land use expectations, including overall densities and Walking on the Fish Creek trail system in development patterns, for different community designations. Maplewood. » Outline the respective roles of the Council and the individual communities and strategies for planning for forecasted growth. As described in Chapter 1, urban communities like Maplewood developed in the second half of the 20th century as centers of office, commercial, institutional, and industrial uses.