For the purpose of Ch. 6, Article 5, Part 6, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ARID ADAPTED GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE. A set of practices adapted to arid and semi-arid climates that mimic natural processes to retain and use stormwater. By promoting infiltration, evapotranspiration, and healthy soils throughout the landscape, green stormwater infrastructure preserves and restores the natural hydrologic cycle.
COMPLETE STREETS. A roadway with cross-sections (including public right of way and public or private easements abutting a public right of way that are designated for a roadway) built at a human scale, designed and operated for equal access by all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities, to allow comfortable and convenient street crossings, and pedestrian access to adjacent land uses. Complete streets components include, but are not limited to, sidewalks, bike lanes, dedicated bus lanes, comfortable and accessible public transportation stops, frequent and comfortable pedestrian crossing opportunities, median pedestrian islands, accessible pedestrian signals, curb extensions and pedestrian bulb-outs, reduced travel lane widths determined by the design speed of the roadway, context- appropriate curb return radii, roundabouts, or other features that accommodate efficient multimodal travel.
CONNECTIVITY. Frequency by which streets or roadways intersect, or how closely intersections are spaced.
CONTEXT SENSITIVE DESIGN. Design that seeks to balance the need to move vehicles efficiently with other outcomes specific to communities and
neighboring properties through which a street passes, such as placemaking, pedestrian-friendliness, historic preservation and economic development.
LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY. Any population census tract that meets one of the following criteria, as reported in the most recent decennial census published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census:
(1) The poverty rate for the census tract is at least 20 percent, or
(2) In the case of a low-income community located within a metropolitan area, the MFI for such tract does not exceed 80 percent of statewide MFI or metropolitan area MFI.
MODERATE-INCOME COMMUNITY: Any population whose incomes are between 81 percent and 95 percent of the median income for the area.
MULTIMODAL LEVEL OF SERVICE. A set of indicators published by the National Academy of Sciences, National Highway Cooperative Research Board through "Report 616 and any successor document" used to evaluate the convenience and comfort of facilities for transit users, pedestrians, bicyclists and other non-motorized users of the public right of way. These may include, but are not limited to: the connectivity of sidewalks and paths throughout an area, the availability and convenience of road crossings for pedestrians, the separation of non-motorized traffic from motorized traffic, (e.g. sidewalk widths and distance from traffic lanes, presences of separators like bollards or trees), motorized traffic speed control (e.g. traffic calming features), way finding, sense of security (e.g. visibility and lighting of sidewalks), transit stations, and weather protection.